Chapter 71

Just as Gu Xiaoyan was feeling extremely frustrated for not being able to greet Mr. Li, our Mr. Li had already sent Lin Ruxue back to the hotel and then drove to several securities and futures companies in the city center to open accounts.

Li Yi said that selling antiques was just for earning some pocket money, and he was certainly not exaggerating. How much could selling antiques earn? Money issues still needed to be resolved with money itself.

It was Monday, the day the stock market and futures market opened.

While handling accounts with various companies, Li Yi activated the Earth financial system model in his mind.

For a primitive social structure in a low-end three-dimensional plane like Earth, it wasn't difficult for Li Yi to achieve 100% accurate predictions. However, to save energy, he didn't build such a complex model; he only established a very small financial model.

This model required no energy consumption, and as long as his brain functioned normally, it could be maintained. The prediction error rate was between one in ten thousand and one in a hundred thousand. For Li Yi, building such a model with a large error rate was almost a disgrace. If not for the backup energy system, he would never have done it. However, for the entire Earth financial market, this was a powerful weapon that could shake the market.

Almost instantly, Li Yi predicted that the price fluctuations of several futures today could reach 3%.

Futures are different from stocks; he didn't need to pay the full amount, only 3% to 8% of the transaction margin. Li Yi used nearly 6 billion in his hands to buy goods that required a 5% margin, which amounted to over 100 billion in value.

A 3% price fluctuation on over 100 billion in goods meant a profit of over 3 billion!

With this model, Li Yi could earn over 3 billion in just one day!

"Only over 3 billion, too slow!"

Perhaps for others, with 6 billion in capital, earning over 3 billion in a day could be called a miracle, but for Li Yi, it was far from enough.

He needed to earn even faster to meet his personal needs!

After buying the latest smartphone, Li Yi began downloading the online stock and futures trading software of various securities and futures companies, fiddling with it lightly.

A few seconds later, the phone suddenly made a buzzing sound, then emitted blue smoke—it was broken.

Li Yi looked at the broken phone and smiled lightly. He had already used a single neuron to perfectly replicate all the functions of the phone and integrated it into his nervous system. Now, he could trade stocks, futures, and make calls in his mind, and no one would notice.

"Ring, ring, ring..."

In the presidential suite, Lin Ruyu and Lin Ruxue's phones rang simultaneously. Both looked at their phones and said in unison, "Xiao Yi is calling me."

"What, your call is also from Xiao Yi?"

Seeing the identical phone numbers on both phones, the sisters were momentarily stunned.

"Xiao Yi, is that you?" Lin Ruxue pressed the answer button and heard a familiar voice, "It's me, Aunt. Have you met the managers of those agency companies?"

"Yes, I've met them and had detailed discussions with them."

"Oh, tell me about it."

Seeing her sister chatting with her son, Lin Ruyu curiously pressed the answer button on her phone. The same voice came through, "Mom, what do you think of the managers of those agency companies?"

Lin Ruyu glanced at her sister, who was on the call, and asked strangely, "Xiao Yi, are you calling me? Then who is talking to your aunt?"

"It's also me; I'm talking to both of you at the same time," Li Yi replied.

"What? Do you have two mouths?" Lin Ruyu asked in surprise.

"Of course not. My mouth is actually talking to a securities company's salesperson..."

"Then what are you using to talk to me? Your nose?" Lin Ruyu was even more puzzled.

"Mom, you don't need a mouth to make a call; you just need to transmit electromagnetic waves. I've integrated the functions of Earth's phones into my body. My brain directly transmits signals to the mobile base station, so you can hear my voice without me using my mouth."

Lin Ruyu: "..."

Feeling that the other end of the line was stunned, Li Yi smiled lightly and continued, "Mom, this is actually quite easy to understand, just like you can knit a sweater while watching TV. I'm chatting with the salesperson while talking to you and Aunt. When you strengthen your bodies to a certain level, you can also do multiple things at the same time."

"Heaven, so you're multitasking?" Lin Ruyu asked.

Li Yi laughed, "Mom, multitasking is nothing. Maybe one day, you'll need to manage countless star systems and handle various complex issues simultaneously. A single thought can destroy millions of lives, and a single thought can make billions of people happy."

"Look at what you're saying, as if we'll become gods," Lin Ruyu said with a light scold.

"Not gods, gods aren't as powerful as us," Li Yi shook his head lightly.

Before returning to Earth, Li Yi had to manage countless planes in his universe, not just multitasking, but managing billions of tasks. His brain had to handle an enormous amount of information!

In the other call, Li Yi explained the same to Lin Ruxue. Hearing that her nephew could communicate with multiple people in such a bizarre way, Lin Ruxue's eyes widened.

"Alright, no need to be surprised. Your husband has many more skills; you'll learn them gradually!"

"Pah, you're not serious. I'll twist your ear when you come back!"

After a joke, Li Yi said calmly, "Mom thinks Hongfa Agency is the best. What about you?"

"I think Lüzhu is more sincere; their boss came in person," Lin Ruxue said.

"Alright, then you entrust Lüzhu to handle the procedures for the machinery company, and you'll be the legal representative. Mom will entrust Hongfa to handle the biopharmaceutical company, and she'll be the legal representative. Let's finalize this, and have Lüzhu's people handle it quickly."

"Is... is it finalized? You're not going to talk to them again?" Lin Ruxue felt the decision was too hasty.

"My goodness, Aunt, do you need me to talk to a domestic company? Do you know, I've already entrusted Cayman Islands, British Virgin Islands, Bermuda, and companies in the United States, Japan, Hong Kong, and other places to discuss business issues? Their business managers are all heading to Tangshui City. This is a small matter; you can handle it yourself."

"What, why are you entrusting so many foreign companies?"

Before Lin Ruxue could ask, she heard her sister shouting from the side. It seemed her sister and nephew were also discussing this issue.

"Mom, don't put all your eggs in one basket. I'm going to set up a financial group with multiple layers of holding companies to disperse assets under different names. The companies you're setting up are also shareholding companies. In the future, I'll use shell companies to dilute your shares."

"What are multiple layers of holding companies?" Lin Ruyu was a bit confused.

"It's like this: our company, you only hold 40% of the shares, and the other 60% is held by Company A. The legal representative of Company A isn't you, but 95% of his shares are held by Company B. Company B isn't yours either, but 88% of its shares are held by Company C. Company C isn't yours, but 99% of its shares are held by Company D, and Company D is yours."

"Why go through such a big circle?" Lin Ruyu was even more confused.

"Why? To make it hard for people to see how much money we have!" Li Yi laughed.

"But if you do it this way, people can still figure it out," Lin Ruyu said dismissively.

Li Yi said, "Mom, explaining it to you is simple, but when it comes to implementation, it's not that simple. In the future, I'll register hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of companies, with multiple layers of holding, interlocking, and relationships like a spider web. No one will be able to figure it out."

"How much money do you have that you need to do this?" Lin Ruyu was speechless.

"Not much now, but soon it will be more than you can imagine," Li Yi said.