314: A last-ditch effort

After reading the skill description of [A House of Gold Can Be Found in Books], Ye Su couldn't wait to open the [Book of Wealth].

In an instant, a small square gold block of about one cubic centimeter appeared on the book, just like that.

Although it was just a tiny piece, Ye Su weighed it in his hand and could still feel a bit of heft to it.

“Twenty grams of gold, just like that!”

With one hand playing with the small gold block, Ye Su pulled out his phone with the other and expertly checked today's gold price.

“More than a week has passed, and the price of gold has gone up again? It's actually 781 yuan per gram now?”

The small gold block conjured by the [Book of Wealth] certainly wouldn't come with a bank investment certificate. If he wanted to sell it, he could only go to an external gold shop.

Based on his previous experience, he would probably lose about eight yuan per gram in fees.

This 20-gram piece of gold could indeed be sold for over 15,000 yuan!

“I can get over half a kilogram of gold a month. Calculated at today's gold price, selling it would bring in 450,000 yuan. It's definitely amazing, but I can't keep running to gold shops to sell gold all the time, can I?”

[Ding!]

Just as Ye Su was fretting over how to conveniently sell the gold produced every day, another new interface popped up on the system screen.

[It has been detected that the Host is troubled by gold recycling. The system will now unlock the [System Gold Shop] function. Below is the introduction to the shop's functions:]

[Function One: The shop can help the Host recycle gold according to the gold price of the day, charging a processing fee of only three yuan per gram.]

[Function Two: The shop can sell gold in unlimited quantities according to the highest selling price among major banks on that day.]

[Function Three: The Host can provide gold and blueprints for the gold shop to craft corresponding jewelry. A corresponding labor fee will be charged per gram of gold based on the complexity of the craftsmanship.]

Ye Su glanced briefly at the function description of the [System Gold Shop] and found that it was basically the same as external gold shops.

“The only useful one is probably Function One.”

It can directly recycle gold, and the processing fee is only three yuan per gram.

Not only is it convenient, allowing him to convert gold into cash at any time, but the price is also very reasonable.

As for Function Two, purchasing gold from the System Gold Shop at the highest market price...

Unless some major global event occurred that made gold priceless but unavailable on the market, Ye Su couldn't think of any reason to patronize such a rip-off shop.

This pricing was probably also the system's way of preventing Ye Su from buying and selling to exploit price differences.

As for Function Three, Ye Su took a quick look and found that for simple smooth hard gold styles, the fee was only a few dozen yuan per gram.

For complex crafts like hollow carving or filigree, the processing fee per gram ranged from a hundred to several hundred yuan, which was basically consistent with the rates of external gold shops.

The only advantage was that crafting jewelry in the System Gold Shop wouldn't result in any material loss; however many grams of gold were provided, that exact amount of gold jewelry would be made.

“It's only 20 grams, I should hoard it for now.”

This gold block would only sell for a little over 10,000 yuan, and Ye Su wasn't short on this pocket change right now.

Anyway, with the [System Gold Shop] around, he could sell it whenever he wanted. Ye Su decided to first hoard the gold conjured by the [Book of Wealth]. He would use it to make some gold jewelry for his mother and second sister when he went home for the summer vacation, and sell the rest if he wanted to.

“Oh, right, I haven't claimed the [storage space] rewarded by the [hidden easter egg] yet.”

Ye Su switched back to the item claim interface: “Claim the [storage space] reward.”

[storage space (one slot) claimed successfully!]

[storage space function introduction: Can be used to store [Mysterious Surprise Item]s. Each slot of storage space can only store one item.]

[Note: The volume of the stored item is unlimited, but it is strictly limited to storing [Mysterious Surprise Item]s, including incidental rewards generated by the items.]

“So that's how it is.”

At first, Ye Su thought the storage space would be an alternate dimension where he could store anything he wanted. He hadn't expected it could only store [Mysterious Surprise Item]s.

“What a pity. If it could store anything, it could be used to transport things that usually can't be transported.”

Just thinking about it made Ye Su feel that this idea of his was a bit too criminal.

“Since even the incidental rewards generated by the items can be put in, the gold conjured by the [Book of Wealth] should be fine too, right?”

Ye Su immediately began to experiment: “Put the [Book of Wealth] and the gold into the [storage space] together.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the Book of Wealth and the small gold block on the coffee table vanished instantly.

At the same time, a system interface popped up, listing the items Ye Su had put in.

[Storage Slot One: Book of Wealth (1), Gold (20g)]

“This is indeed very convenient. I don't even have to think about where to hide the gold.”

With the matters of the [Book of Wealth] and the [storage space] settled, Ye Su returned to the spare bedroom and took out the [Lucky Dice].

[Host's intelligence earnings today total 3,047 yuan]

Today's profit from the [Secondhand Shop] had rarely reached 3,000 yuan, but even after seeing this, Ye Su still didn't feel much.

“It seems I have to sell the gold conjured by the [Book of Wealth] for it to be counted towards today's intelligence earnings.”

After casually picking the number [2], Ye Su threw the dice.

“It's only three thousand yuan, please don't hit it!”

The result was as he wished; the number rolled this time was [1], so he didn't win the 3,000 yuan bet.

“All done, calling it a day.”

Rolling the dice meant today's work had come to an end.

After packing up his things, Ye Su went to the wardrobe to get his clothes to take a shower, hanging up the two outfits Li Mengyao had given him today as well.

He hadn't left Li Mengyao's villa until past eight o'clock, and then he drove his big car outside for over half an hour before getting home.

By the time Ye Su finished his shower, it was almost 10 PM.

As expected, Chen Xinyi hadn't returned yet either.

With only two hours left until [Monday], Ye Su opened the system again, looking at the seven upgraded Tier 4 intelligence entries:

“Let's play a small hand and see what happens.”

Ye Su no longer hesitated: “Spend 800,000 yuan to upgrade [Monday]'s Tier 4 intelligence to Tier 5 intelligence.”

[Upgrading, please wait...]

[Industrial and Commercial Bank of China: Your card ending in 9539, on June 8 at 21:58, spent 800,000 yuan. Current balance is 1,341,161 yuan.]

[Intelligence upgraded successfully!]

Seeing the prompt for successful intelligence upgrade, Ye Su still felt uneasy and switched back to the [intelligence interface] to confirm that [Monday]'s intelligence had indeed been upgraded to Tier 5.

Only then did he grit his teeth, stomp his foot, and issue the next system command: “Use the [Last Stand] function!”

[The Host is using [Last Stand]. Are you sure?]

Below the system prompt, the function description of [Last Stand] was listed once again.

“Confirm!”

[Ding!]

[[Last Stand] function used successfully!]

[02:01:09 remaining until intelligence refresh. Host, please wait patiently!]