218: Chapter 218 The accountant went mad and made enough money to buy several apples?

The next morning, as soon as Lu Li entered the company and before he had even settled into his seat, his office door was pushed open from the outside.

The first to rush in was Chen Shuyu.

She was walking fast in her high heels, clutching a large stack of paper financial reports. Behind her followed her little secretary, whose expression was clearly numbed by the sheer numbers. The secretary was carrying two tablets and a stack of supplementary summaries, trotting along to avoid falling behind.

"Make way, make way—"

As soon as Chen Shuyu entered, her momentum was like she was raiding a house. She charged to the desk in a few steps and slammed the quarterly summary on top onto the table with a thud.

"Lu Li, take a look for yourself!"

"I seriously suspect that the finance department didn't miscalculate, they've lost their minds!"

Not satisfied with just that, she turned and tilted her chin at her secretary.

"Give him the other two as well."

"Today, I must see if there can actually be a normal expression of shock on this man's face."

The little secretary was clearly experiencing this kind of scene for the first time. She quickly put down the tablets, her voice sounding a bit shaky.

"President Chen, the finance director has already reviewed these three times..."

"I know they reviewed them!" Chen Shuyu didn't even look back. "I just don't believe that a human can earn this much in the third quarter!"

Lu Li had just draped his jacket over the back of his chair. Hearing this, he raised his eyelids and slowly pulled the report in front of him.

On the first page, the core data was at the very top.

Total revenue for Guanghui Technology for the first three quarters—2.8 trillion.

Net profit—898 billion.

The office was silent for two seconds.

Chen Shuyu braced her hands on the edge of the desk, staring fixedly at Lu Li, leaning in so close that her entire face seemed to be writing one sentence—

Hurry, look shocked.

Give me some shock.

But Lu Li just flipped to the second page casually, picked up the coffee on the table, took a sip, and said in a flat tone,

"Finance didn't make a mistake."

Chen Shuyu: "..."

She exploded on the spot.

"No, Lu Li, can you be a little more like a human?"

"2.8 trillion! Nearly 900 billion in net profit! I'm looking at these numbers like they're fake news, and all you have to say is that finance didn't make a mistake?"

As she spoke, she was so angry she laughed.

"Do you know, in the past, if Guanghui Technology had revenue of over 100 billion in a quarter, I would have been happy enough to treat the whole company to a meal."

"Look at it now."

"And Apple's Q2 revenue this year was only about 360 billion. We've already hit 2.8 trillion in the first three quarters. How many Apples is that equivalent to?!"

The more she talked, the more worked up she got. She grabbed another breakdown sheet from the side and pushed it in front of Lu Li again.

"Look, look carefully. Don't you feel anything?"

Lu Li leaned back in his chair, his expression still very indifferent.

"I do."

Chen Shuyu's eyes lit up.

"What do you feel?"

"The finance department has worked hard these past three months."

Chen Shuyu: "..."

She almost really wanted to roll up that financial report and hit him on the head with it.

The little secretary standing behind her couldn't help it; the corners of her mouth twitched slightly, and she quickly lowered her head to play dead.

Just then, the door on the other side of Lu Li's office was gently pushed open.

Su Qingxue walked in.

She was wearing a light gray suit today with a sharp cut, her long hair tied up, looking very cold and detached. After entering, her first glance swept over the pile of financial reports on the table, then glanced at Chen Shuyu, who was wearing a face that said "I must dig some expression out of your face," before finally landing on Lu Li.

She had clearly already seen these data.

But unlike Chen Shuyu's explosion, she was more composed, as if she had expected this long ago.

She walked to the main seat and sat down, placed the tablet in her hand on the desktop, tapped the screen lightly with her fingertips, and spoke in a very calm tone.

"Stop staring at him."

"He won't have the reaction you want to see."

Chen Shuyu turned her head.

"Why?"

Su Qingxue raised her eyes and looked at Lu Li.

"Because he didn't need to see the financial report to know that Q1, Q2, and Q3 this year would definitely be exaggerated."

Her voice was not loud, her tone even had no ups and downs, but it seemed to instantly wake up the fire in Chen Shuyu's brain about "how can someone be so calm."

Chen Shuyu was stunned for a moment, then realized.

That's right.

It would be one thing if others didn't know.

How could Lu Li not know?

The Virtual Helmet platform was the path he determined.

How giants like Taobao, JD, and Tencent connected to it was his decision.

The gaming ecosystem was pushed by him.

Robots, air imaging, mobile phones, enterprise-level virtual offices, city-level procurement—this whole series of explosive points was almost entirely laid out by him single-handedly.

In this situation, how could he be shocked for the first time only when seeing the report?

Thinking of this, the excitement and defiance on Chen Shuyu's face suddenly became a bit complicated.

She stood there, blinked, and suddenly felt like an elementary school student who had rushed home with a report card, desperate to see their parents' jaws drop.

But the parent was not only not shocked, but also calmly said—

Oh, I already knew you could get a perfect score this time.

This feeling was really both frustrating and left her with no temper.

Only then did Lu Li turn his head and glance at Su Qingxue, the corners of his lips lazily lifting.

"President Su understands me best after all."

Chen Shuyu glared at him grumpily.

"Cut it out."

"You guessed it long ago and didn't say anything in advance? You made me almost think the finance director was going to run away with the money when I saw this table this morning."

The corners of Su Qingxue's lips also curved slightly, but quickly retracted, returning to that calm appearance.

"It's not a finance problem."

"It's that Guanghui Technology's way of making money is already on a different level than the tech companies of the past."

After speaking, she pushed the tablet forward and brought up the structure breakdown chart.

"In the past, when people looked at revenue, they looked at hardware first."

"How many mobile phones were sold, how many TVs were sold, how many home appliances were sold."

"But Guanghui Technology is not like that now."

Upon hearing this, Chen Shuyu became energetic again, grabbed a breakdown sheet, pointed her finger fast, and her speech speed picked up again.

"Right, the biggest head, the Virtual Helmet ecosystem."

"Platform service fees, merchant entry commissions, technical interfaces and transaction commissions from big platforms like Taobao, JD, and Tencent Video are all in there."

"The second biggest head is games."

Speaking of this, she couldn't help but gasp, her eyes shining.

"This thing is truly a money-swallowing beast."

"In the Virtual Helmet era, games are much more exaggerated than before. Content payments, costumes, props, scenes, skills, virtual real estate, linked merchandise... one layer after another, it's like opening an infinite gold-mining outlet."

"perfect life is even more ridiculous, it's almost like printing money directly."

"world of warcraft: Virtual Remastered Edition, resident evil, minecraft: Virtual Remastered Edition have also been steadily spitting out money."

"Mobile phones are actually only ranked third."

"Fourth are the hardware like Robots and air imaging."

After she finished, she was still in an excited state of "I've clearly been looking at it for half an hour and I still think it's ridiculous."

Su Qingxue looked at the report and added softly:

"In the past, companies chased after the era."

"Now, it is the era chasing after Guanghui Technology."

When this sentence fell, the office was quiet again.

The little secretary standing behind listened and subconsciously softened her breathing.

Because this was so accurate.

Lu Li turned the report to the Robot page, his gaze stopping on a few lines of data for a second.

City-level procurement was growing very significantly.

It wasn't just guidance, patrols, cleaning, and community services.

Several pilot cities had already started trying to gradually put Robots into public transport, shuttle, park transportation, and semi-enclosed road dispatch scenarios.

Not replacing everything at once.

But starting from fixed routes, fixed time periods, and fixed stations first.

But as long as this step was taken, the room for imagination afterward was already large enough.

Chen Shuyu saw that he was still in that state without any emotional fluctuations, and finally couldn't help it.

"So you're not excited at all?"

Lu Li closed the financial report, leaned back on the chair, his expression still lazy.

"Too much money is not the point."

"The point is, where it should flow."

When this sentence came out, Chen Shuyu was stunned.

She originally just wanted to see Lu Li shocked by the multi-trillion financial report.

But when Lu Li spoke, he was no longer thinking about "how much he earned," but "where this money should go next."

She was stunned for several seconds before she slowly realized.

Su Qingxue's eyes moved slightly at this moment.

She knew Lu Li too well.

This person had never had the excitement of ordinary people about money.

Because in his eyes, money was just a result of the overflow of productivity.

What was truly worth caring about was never the report itself.

But what this report meant behind it.

It meant that Guanghui Technology was no longer just a company.

It started to act like a general interface for a new technological era.

Platforms, content, terminals, ecosystems, city pilots, government procurement, consumer-grade products, enterprise-grade services... everything started to gather here.

And this was the most terrifying part.

Chen Shuyu was quiet for a few seconds, then suddenly flipped to the back pages, as if remembering something, and cheered up again.

"But do you know what's the most exaggerated thing?"

"It's not the mobile phone topping the list, nor is it the Robots selling like crazy."

"It's the platform commission."

As she spoke, her tone carried a hint of disbelief even she herself couldn't believe.

"In the past, everyone said internet platforms made money, but that was by activating traffic."

"Our Virtual Helmet platform is different."

"It moved life itself into it."

"Shopping, office work, entertainment, meetings, social interaction, content consumption..."

She looked up at Lu Li, and only after a long time did she manage to say:

"What's the difference between this and collecting road tolls?"

Lu Li smiled.

"The difference is, the one who built the road is me."

Chen Shuyu was choked by him for a moment, then wanted to laugh.

Su Qingxue didn't laugh.

She just watched Lu Li quietly, suddenly having a very strong feeling—

Money had started to become so much that it didn't look like money anymore.

It was no longer just a string of dizzying numbers.

But it meant, in real terms, that Guanghui Technology could do many things that people didn't even dare to imagine in the past.

Just then, the secretary knocked gently and came in, placing a newly arrived document on the table.

The document was not thick, but the cover was very formal.

Confirmation letter for the International Chip Exchange Summit.

Su Qingxue looked down and spoke slowly:

"It's here."

Chen Shuyu immediately leaned over.

"It really came?"

"Hmm." Su Qingxue opened the first page, her gaze landing on the line of identity description, and her tone deepened by a point, "And this time, not as an entrepreneur."

She handed the document to Lu Li.

Lu Li scanned it.

It was written very clearly on it—

Representative of the China National and Enterprise Joint Delegation.

In the office, no one spoke for a while.

After a few seconds, Chen Shuyu whispered:

"This chip battle..."

"We can finally sit in the middle of the poker table."

Lu Li looked at the confirmation letter, tapped his fingertips lightly on the desktop, and the corners of his lips slowly curled up into an extremely faint arc.

"Just the first step."

"Not the last step."

The sunlight outside the window shone through the glass and fell on the confirmation letter.

Very light.

But the weight was astonishingly heavy.

Everyone knew that this time, it was no longer about seeking recognition.

It was about re-quoting.