45: Become the richest man in the imperial capital and gain the ability to cross the barriers of another world twice

"Oh, right."

"How much bank loan did our company owe before?" Lu Xingye asked after a moment of thought. When laying out the new energy industry, the company had borrowed heavily from banks; some loans had interest, and some did not.

"We owe the bank a total of 30 billion dragon coins."

"Among them, 10 billion is an interest-free loan applied for by the university, and the other 20 billion is a commercial loan with a slightly high interest rate."

"Understood." Lu Xingye nodded, then spoke again.

"Then let's pay off the loans with interest! As for the interest-free ones, we'll wait until they mature." Lu Xingye wasn't a fool; now that the company had money, he naturally wanted to pay off the interest-bearing debts first.

"Okay."

"Chairman Lu," Wei Daoyan replied... "Dawei."

"Now that the company is on the right track and we have more and more employees, we can't keep staying in Yan University's Entrepreneurship Building."

"It's time for us to build our own industrial park."

His own industrial park?

Zhao Dawei smiled slightly upon hearing this: "Fourth Brother."

"Actually, I've wanted to build a company headquarters for a long time. We have too many employees, and they're all squeezed together. This makes employee satisfaction too low. If we had our own company headquarters, employee satisfaction would increase a lot."

At this moment, Wu Bai, who had been standing silently by the side, suddenly had a gleam in his eyes when he heard about building a company headquarters, as if he had thought of something.

"Fourth Brother."

"I want to build a supercomputing laboratory."

"Supercomputing laboratory? You dare to ask for that? Do you know how expensive supercomputers and their related experimental equipment are? It would cost at least 20 billion in the budget." Deng Jun was slightly surprised to hear this. He was in charge of logistics and procurement, so he was sensitive to the cost of such equipment and wasn't entirely in favor of building a supercomputing laboratory.

Because that thing was simply too much of a money pit.

"But... a supercomputing laboratory would be of great use to us..."

Wu Bai's voice trailed off halfway through his sentence. Perhaps thinking of the super high cost of over 20 billion for a supercomputing laboratory, he felt a bit embarrassed to speak.

The company originally only had 160 billion. After paying back 30 billion to the bank, 130 billion would remain.

And building a supercomputing laboratory would cost at least one-sixth of the company's money... This really seemed like a huge waste... But... to his surprise, Lu Xingye actually agreed.

"Hmm~"

"Wu Bai, what you said actually reminded me."

"We not only need to build an industrial park, but also laboratories."

"Technological innovation is the future; we cannot save this little bit of money."

"But this will cost a lot of money..." At this moment, Wei Daoyan, the head of the finance department, leaned in and interjected.

"Money is not an issue."

"With the Kunlun System and Nano Battery as cash cows, our money will only increase in the future. Moreover, if we establish laboratories, the laboratories will also invent new products, and new products can then be launched into the market to make money... This forms a virtuous cycle."

"Okay." Although Deng Jun and Wei Daoyan felt it was a bit extravagant, they knew that Chairman Lu was right. Suihuo Technology is a technology company and must focus on technological innovation. Therefore, building laboratories is an indispensable part.

"Dawei."

"The construction of the company headquarters and laboratories will be entrusted to you. Make sure to implement it as soon as possible."

"Okay, boss." Zhao Dawei nodded... After arranging the work, Lu Xingye walked back to his rented apartment. Looking at the small dwelling of less than forty square meters, he felt a pang of emotion.

Who would have thought that the CEO of a company worth hundreds of billions would live in a rented apartment costing a mere thousand yuan?

Life was truly simple.

Lu Xingye scoffed at himself, secretly deciding that he must buy a house as soon as possible, one close to the sea.

Now that he had money, he should improve his quality of life... Lu Xingye took off his jacket, hung it on the clothes rack, and then began to study his ability—the magical right hand.

Name: Lu Xingye

Occupation: Behind-the-scenes controller of Suihuo Technology

Affiliated Enterprise: Suihuo Technology

Next Stage Mission: Enhance personal influence (become the world's richest man, products produced by the company are recognized by 90% of the world's population.)

Reward: Traverse dimensional barriers 10 times.

Currently, the first stage mission of becoming the city's richest man has been completed, reward for traversing dimensional barriers: 2.

Remaining traverses of dimensional barriers: 2...

【Second Stage Mission: Become the nation's richest man.】

【Reward upon becoming the nation's richest man: Traverse dimensional barriers 3 times.】

【Third Stage: world's richest man.】

【Reward upon becoming the world's richest man: Traverse dimensional barriers 5 times.】

Excellent!

Excellent, excellent, excellent!

Looking at the information projected in the void, Lu Xingye couldn't help but reveal a faint smile.

A diligent person will not be let down by heaven. Where there's a will, there's a way.

Now he could finally traverse dimensional barriers, and he even had two opportunities.

Lu Xingye felt he needed to carefully consider how to use these two opportunities.

First!

He definitely wanted to get an Iron Man Suit from a movie.

Although it was an era of hot weapons where a missile could blast an Iron Man Suit into smithereens, relatively speaking, an Iron Man Suit was invincible for an individual.

Having an Iron Man Suit could largely guarantee his safety.

Lu Xingye had a feeling that Suihuo Technology's continuous release of two heavyweight products had already angered many capitalists.

Especially the Nano Battery had thoroughly offended traditional energy capitalists, and he couldn't guarantee that they wouldn't retaliate against him.

Therefore, getting an Iron Man Suit from the movie world for self-preservation was still very necessary.

Actually, another reason was that the Iron Man Suit was cool enough... just like young people liked sports cars, Lu Xingye loved this type of small mech, the Iron Man Suit, believing it to be a man's romance...

As for how to use the second opportunity to break the dimensional barrier, Lu Xingye hadn't thought it through yet.

Originally, he wanted to bring a 36D cute girl from the two-dimensional world, which meant a character from the two-dimensional world descending.

However, now he found that his interest in 36D cute girls wasn't as great as he imagined. Moreover, he was a bit worried.

Bringing a two-dimensional character into reality might cause some unpredictable changes in reality.

He didn't yet have the ability to deal with such changes.

Why not save the second opportunity for later?

It wouldn't be too late to bring a two-dimensional girl down when he found one he liked in the future.

Currently, Lu Xingye's standards were extremely high. He had spent several days recently watching videos but still hadn't found a two-dimensional girl he liked.

Alright!

For now, it would be like this.

The first traverse of the dimensional barrier would be used to retrieve an Iron Man Suit.

The second traverse of the dimensional barrier would be kept in reserve for now. He would decide what to take from the movie world after careful consideration.