289: Level 4 intelligence with a direct profit of 2 million

Pursuing niche things is, in itself, a mainstream endeavor.

As long as one can hype up popularity within a niche circle, there is no need to worry about finding buyers.

Of course, the premise of all this is that the [great sage swimsuit] must go viral across the entire internet after its launch, just as Ye Su expected, in order to advertise for [Han Charm].

Otherwise, with tens of thousands of clothing brands in the country, who would notice a newly registered [Han Charm] tucked away in some obscure corner?

However, out of his confidence in Ye Su, Ye Xin believed that after the launch, the sales of the [great sage swimsuit] would definitely not be bad.

Ye Su also agreed with Ye Xin's plan. On the grounds of trusting him and their dad, he handed everything over to them with full authority, taking the opportunity to act as a hands-off boss.

After closing the chat window with Ye Xin, Ye Su browsed his WeChat Moments for a while.

Just as usual, the most active posters on Moments were still Chen Qi, who sold secondhand cars, and Wan Yuanliang, who sold antiques.

Sandwiched between their posts was an advertisement from Feng Zhiquan acting as an agent to help someone sell a secondhand warehouse.

Currently, the items in the Secondhand Shop could still be sold for a long time, so Ye Su was in no hurry to stock up and casually swiped past the post.

There was nothing new on Moments, and Chen Xinyi was busy memorizing her script, having no time to pay attention to him.

So, after browsing Moments, Ye Su could only continue to pass the time with his phone and computer.

The two of them just did their own things in the room, not interfering with each other.

It wasn't until bedtime that they did each other's "things," intensely interfering with one another.

...

Near midnight, after they finished "interfering" with each other, Chen Xinyi had already fallen asleep from exhaustion, leaving only Ye Su waiting for the intelligence to refresh.

[Ding!]

Hearing the system prompt, Ye Su instantly felt energized. He immediately opened the intelligence page to check the newly refreshed intelligence for today.

[Today's Intelligence (Tier 4): Feng Zhiquan is helping someone sell a secondhand warehouse on WeChat Moments. The total value of the warehouse is 130,000 yuan, and the Host can acquire it for a minimum price of 80,000 yuan.

In the corner of the warehouse, there is a set of exquisite ivory-carved mahjong tiles from the Qing Dynasty court. Because the original owner did not know its value, they have always treated this set of mahjong as Republic of China era craft mahjong.

Given that ivory art pieces are banned from trading in the Host's region, the intelligence can only provide a broad valuation of 1 million to 2 million yuan for the ivory-carved mahjong.]

"Holy crap!" After reading the intelligence, Ye Su blurted out a classic Chinese catchphrase.

"A single Tier 4 intelligence refreshed an ivory-carved mahjong set valued between 1 million and 2 million yuan. System Bro must have found his conscience today to pull off such a big one for me!"

Let alone the maximum valuation of 2 million, even if it could only be sold for the minimum price of 1 million, Ye Su felt he would make a killing.

In addition, there was also the secondhand warehouse with a total value of 130,000 yuan that could be bought for 80,000 yuan, which was equivalent to earning another 50,000 yuan.

Today's Tier 4 intelligence would yield a total profit of at least over a million yuan, which was more than what he made from the previous two Tier 4 intelligences combined!

System Bro's conscience today is truly exceptionally good!

It's even bigger than the "conscience" of the woman beside him!

It must be at least a massive 38G "conscience"!

Just as Ye Su was singing praises of the system's "conscience," a [warm reminder] popped up on the system interface.

[According to Article 341 of the "Criminal Law" of the Host's country, selling precious and endangered wild animals and their products (including ivory-carving products) under key state protection is a felony. The maximum penalty is imprisonment of ten years or more, along with fines or confiscation of property.]

[warm reminder: Once the Host violates the national "Criminal Law" regulations, the system will be forced to unbind from the Host due to force majeure. Please be advised!]

"Holy crap!"

After reading the warm reminder that suddenly popped up on the system interface, Ye Su couldn't help but blurt out another classic Chinese catchphrase.

Even without the system's reminder, Ye Su naturally knew the common sense that ivory-carved products were not allowed to be bought or sold domestically.

So, after the intelligence refreshed, Ye Su was also agonizing over how he should sell the ivory-carved mahjong once he got his hands on it.

He wasn't sure if a legitimate business like the Bowen Antique Shop would be willing to take the risk and accept this ivory-carved mahjong set.

Yet, just as he was agonizing over it, the system popped up this [warm reminder], telling him that once he broke the law, it would force-unbind from him.

A set of ivory-carved mahjong worth over 1 million.

A system that could help him earn over 10 billion in the future.

Let alone having water in his brain, even if his brain were filled with crap, Ye Su would know which one to choose.

"Damn, if I can't sell the ivory-carved mahjong after buying it, why am I buying it? To play with it like toy blocks?!"

Ye Su only knew that in those online novels, if the protagonist broke the law and didn't face legal sanctions in the end, the novel would very likely get banned.

He didn't expect that the system he bound, which only existed in web novels, would similarly not allow him to do bad things.

"You really are a law-abiding good system. The [Working Cat] strictly abides by the labor law and isn't allowed to work overtime, and now we have an ivory-carved mahjong set that I'm not allowed to sell. You really take the cake!"

[Ding!]

Just as Ye Su was complaining about the system, a new piece of content popped up on the interface.

[hidden easter egg (Increase Limit): After successfully purchasing the warehouse and obtaining the intelligence item [Ivory Mahjong], the [Mysterious Surprise Item - Ruyi Abacus] will upgrade by one level, and the monthly reimbursement limit will increase from 200,000 to 400,000.]

"Increasing the limit of the [Ruyi Abacus] by 200,000 more every month, is this supposed to be my compensation?"

Reimbursing an extra 200,000 a month would, after a few months, be enough to cover the cost of a Tier 4 intelligence.

It was equivalent to getting the tens of thousands of yuan in profit from buying the secondhand warehouse for free, along with an ivory-carved mahjong set. This wasn't a bad deal either.

After figuring out this math, the temporarily refreshed [hidden easter egg] finally shut Ye Su up from complaining about the system.

However, in Ye Su's heart, the system's "conscience" still shrank from a 38G to a 38F.

"Wait, that's not right!"

A flash of inspiration hit Ye Su, and he suddenly realized something.

"I'm not allowed to sell ivory-carved products, but isn't my purchase of the warehouse also equivalent to a transaction?"

In an instant, Ye Su understood what was going on.

"Subjectively speaking, the target of this transaction for both parties is the entire warehouse, not that set of mahjong, and both parties are completely unaware of it.

"Objectively speaking, buying the entire warehouse only costs 80,000 yuan. The money allocated to that set of mahjong would be at most a thousand yuan or so. The transaction price clearly does not match the actual value of the ivory-carved mahjong.

"Judging from both subjective and objective aspects, neither party is trading a set of ivory-carved mahjong. Therefore, subjectively and objectively, neither party constitutes a criminal act.

Thinking of this, Ye Su's thoughts suddenly cleared up.

The system did indeed stipulate that he could not violate the national Criminal Law, otherwise it would unbind.

Then he just needed to make sure he didn't commit a criminal act.

Just like how he picked up so much trash before; as long as no owner reported it to the police, he did not commit the crime of illegal possession.

No wonder all along, everything the system refreshed for him was unclaimed, ownerless items. So that was how it worked.

"As long as I can find a loophole, can this set of mahjong be handled the same way?"