Chapter 450: A Good Job That Makes Tons of Money
Lin Dong: “Teacher, what I meant is, something besides making tea and pouring water.”
“Other things?” Xu Cheng thought for a second. “Okay, help me search online, are there any lectures or conferences in Washington in the near future in the field of genetic research. It must be from prestigious scientists or professors.”
Lin Dong: “Is this very important?”
Xu Cheng: “Very important.”
“I’m on it right away.”
Xu Cheng let Lin Dong off to do a search, and he went to the balcony in the hotel. Looking over at the bustling night scene of Washington, from where he was, he could see the White House in the distance. But in Xu Cheng’s vision, it was very close.
He looked out of the window and said to Lin Dong, who was behind him on the computer, “How much money do I still have on my card?”
Lin Dong was searching as he said, “Just shy of 20 million US, the rest of about 270 million was taken away by Big Brother Luo.”
Xu Cheng nodded.
This time, he sold all of his domestic assets and exchanged for about 300 million in US dollars. In his hands were all of his assets.
Then, after giving Luo Yi and Li Wei 270 million to take to the Land of Mercenaries to recruit talents and buy equipment, he would make money here and continue to supply them with funds. Once their operation reached a certain scale, he would then set foot in the Land of Mercenaries!
And at what place of the world could someone with penetrating vision make money the fastest? Of course it had to be Las Vegas!
But this time, Xu Cheng wasn’t stupid. He was being monitored by the FBI, so he had to lay low and act discreetly at all times.
Yeah, he would have to become the mastermind behind the curtains, with his pawns executing his orders.
“Teacher, are you planning to start a business with this 20 million?” Lin Dong asked curiously.
“Start a business? If I wait until a new business takes off, the other side would already have starved to death,” Xu Cheng said. “Time is ticking, so tomorrow, I will have you do something.”
“What is it?” Lin Dong immediately asked.
“Tomorrow, you are responsible for finding a few people, part-time, the more the better. Take out all of my money from my card, and we will fly to Las Vegas. We will get started working,” Xu Cheng said.
“Are we going to gamble? But can we though?”
“We are not, our employees will.”
“What?” Lin Dong was confused. “Then do the employees know how to?”
Xu Cheng smiled and didn’t continue on that topic. “Are there any lectures or professors hosting conferences?”
“Yeah, I found one,” Lin Dong said. “Professor Koman, he had been studying genetic research for a while. In two days, he will be holding a study breakthrough lecture and use it to raise funding for the next stage of his research.”
Speaking of this, Lin Dong bitterly smiled. “ But these kinds of genetic researchers usually only have the fate of starving to death, because there has been very little interest in this field in comparison to the other fields, and it also burns through money. So, he hadn’t been having success raising money, and he could only make a bare living by selling the tickets to his speech.”
“Get me a ticket,” Xu Cheng said. On the bed, closing his eyes, he said to Lin Dong, “Close the door for me and we are checking out tomorrow.”
“Huh?” Lin Dong asked curiously, “Aren’t we going to be living here for a long time?”(
Xu Cheng only smiled, and he mumbled, “Remember, if we wait until tomorrow, the FBI will probably fill this place with their eavesdrop and surveillance devices.”
– On the next day –
Following Xu Cheng’s instructions, Lin Dong went online and registered a job listing for a part-time position.
Then, Xu Cheng and Lin Dong headed to Las Vegas.
The moment the job listing went live, Lin Dong received a lot of applicants, all of which were college students using the winter break to make some extra cash.
“In the morning, you just need to work for an hour, 50 dollars plus commission, and the commission is guaranteed to be more than 500 dollars,” Lin Dong said to one of the college students that came for an interview.
That student looked at Lin Dong suspiciously. “You aren’t joking, right?”
“Is there a problem?” Lin Dong was just following the instructions of his teacher regarding pay, and after he confirmed with his notes that there was no problem, he looked back at the student and said, “You don’t have to take the job.”
“Can I ask, what is it that I will be doing? I feel like something is off… Just one hour of work and I can make $50 plus commission?” The student shrugged. “To be honest, as long as it’s not against the law, I feel like I wouldn’t be against anything that I might be doing.”
Lin Dong smiled. “I can promise you, it’s nothing illegal.”
He pointed at the casino across the street and said, “Do you know how to gamble? Do you feel like gambling in there is illegal?”
The student: “Not against the law, and you are saying, my job will be gambling? Gambling money for you?”
Lin Dong smiled and said, “Yeah.”
The student shrugged. “Sounds interesting, but how come you are so confident in my gambling skills? Wouldn’t you be scared that I would lose money for you? Why do I feel like there’s a catch somewhere.”
Lin Dong: “We don’t have to sign an agreement, so don’t worry. Simply put, for one hour, you will have to cooperate with us, just gamble however I tell you to gamble, and after one hour, you deliver the money to us and you can get your commission. You will be able to make 1% of the winnings as commission. How about it, do you want to do this job or not? I promise you, there won’t be any hidden consequences. But, each of you guys can only do this job once.”
The student: “Can I understand it as, if I win, I can make 1% of the commission plus 50$, but what happens if I lose?”
Lin Dong: “Then you are free to go, leave the casino, no one will force you to do anything. Look at me, I’m from Huaxia, would I dare to do something to you in the M Nation?”
“That’s true.” The student nodded. “Alright, I’m down.”
Lin Dong answered a lot of similar questions from the other applicants. There were also a few that thought it was a scam and left, and Lin Dong didn’t force anything.
When it was about night time, Xu Cheng met up with him at an office room he temporarily rented and asked, “How many part-timers do we have tonight?”
“Teacher, 50 guys. What do you have in mind? If you are getting them to gamble, why not just gamble ourselves? That way, even if we lose, we can have some fun,” Lin Dong curiously said.
“What do you know? Back then, when I was dominating the gambling world, you were still being breastfed. Right now, it’s just that someone’s on our tail so it’s not convenient for me to personally do it. Besides, I don’t want to attract too much attention. Tonight, we will just make our first wave of money, and for the next little while, this will be our job. Haha, thinking about using the M Nation’s money to fund my own mercenary group, how come I’m not feeling any guilt at all?” Xu Cheng laughed.
– At night –
Xu Cheng ordered a bottle of champagne and sat on the roof of a hotel overlooking the casino, leaning back on the chair.
Inside the casino, there were 25 part-time workers that entered the lobby first and exchanged the money into chips. Lin Dong stood in the middle of the casino lobby with a voice-chat phone app on at all times. Xu Cheng would be telling him how to gamble.