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Chapter 138: Since We're Here (Seeking Subscriptions)

“It shouldn’t be a scam, right? Scammers don’t just hand out such large red envelopes.”

A’Fu, listening to his companion Qiangzi’s grumbling, couldn't help but feel uneasy.

In the past, some of Huaqiangbei’s mining machine sellers, after facing crackdowns, relied on snakeheads and Dafei to smuggle and transfer their business to Southeast Asia for sales. They often heard explosive news about someone getting caught and losing all their money, or being killed by telecom fraud gangs.

Having seen too many of these kinds of messages circulating in groups, anyone would be cautious.

However, thinking that this place was in China, where public security was hundreds of times better than the Southeast Asian scam circles, A’Fu took out the Baidu Tieba membership screenshot Chen Jue had sent him earlier to show his companion, also using it to encourage himself.

The screenshot showed a membership duration limit from 2024 to 2123 in one go, making Qiangzi roll his eyes: “You actually believe this obviously photoshopped internet image? I’m really impressed by you! I knew I shouldn’t have come with you, wasting my time.”

The two of them argued incessantly at the entrance of Ruixian Railway Station, speculating about the authenticity of the Tieba boss who wanted to buy mining machines.

Just then, Chen Jue's WeChat was being bombarded, with a large number of relatives, friends, teachers, and classmates calling him non-stop to inquire about the trending topic, so he didn't have time to reply to A’Fu’s messages.

As a result, A’Fu himself began to feel a bit shaken.

However, as the saying goes: Since we're here!

Even if there was a pit in front of him, he had to jump into it at this point, banging his head until it bled before he could give up.

Moreover, if this deal went through, it would be equivalent to A’Fu’s earnings from decades of hustling in Huaqiangbei.

With such a huge opportunity in front of him, anyone would be tempted.

So, after discussing it with Qiangzi again and again, A’Fu still left the station and pulled his companion into a taxi that was waiting in line.

“Are you two going to Chen Ji to eat roasted chicken? The typhoon just passed last night, so there might be fewer people queuing up at Chen Ji now,” the taxi driver asked.

With Chen Ji’s recent popularity across the internet, many tourists with accents from other places who came to Ruixian by bullet train or high-speed rail went straight to their destination as soon as they got off the train.

Having picked up many tourists, these drivers who regularly pick up passengers at the train station had become accustomed to it.

“Chen Ji Roasted Chicken?”

“No, Master, we want to go to this location.” A’Fu didn’t have the mood to check in at a popular online store for a meal right now, so he took out the location address he had received earlier to show the driver.

“Oh! Isn’t this the factory address of Fangkuai Technology’s Big Rubik’s Cube? Are you two going there to apply for a job or to discuss business? I’ve already taken several groups of customers this morning who said they wanted to see the Big Rubik’s Cube,” the taxi driver glanced at the phone’s location, and his hand shifting gears started to move with vigor, as if he knew the address very well.

“Big Rubik’s Cube? Master, is this place very famous?” Qiangzi, who was in the back seat, immediately became interested upon hearing this.

“Famous? It’s more than famous! It’s been trending on the news this morning!” Most taxi drivers were eloquent and talkative, and they and A’Fu described the awesomeness of this Fangkuai Technology in turns.

Something about building a 200-meter-high super factory in 10 days, and an engineering ship of 10,000 tons easily closing the collapsed dike when the typhoon landed.

Even that young boss named Chen Jue was so rich that his net worth was in the billions, and he was a self-made man with outstanding looks. All the eligible young girls in Wenzhou were racking their brains to marry him, and so on.

In short, all kinds of rainbow farts were blown sky-high.

A’Fu and Qiangzi, two small fries from Huaqiangbei who had come all the way from Shenzhen, were dumbfounded. They thought that the cool and domineering male protagonist in some online novel had traveled to reality.

Because they were not locals of Wenzhou, they had not yet seen the glorious deeds of this young president who had become popular early in the morning in their circle of friends.

However, listening to the taxi driver’s slightly admiring bragging, A’Fu felt a little more confident in his uneasy mood. He thought: “Could that rich Tieba brother be this young boss?”

… …

Ruixian Railway Station is only a dozen kilometers away from Binhai Industrial Park in a straight line, and it is built on a route lined with factories. The entire route is planned with straight, two-way, eight-lane high-standard highways, and various container trucks are constantly flowing on this road.

Except for the roadside trees that were blown down by the typhoon being pruned, it didn’t seem that the typhoon last night had caused much damage to this place.

A’Fu looked at the endless stream of vehicles outside the window, and his mind recalled the past glory of Wenzhou.

Like ordinary people all over the country, A’Fu had heard since he was a child that Wenzhou bosses were rich, so this trip, taking the risk, was also to follow his feelings and gamble.

However, when the taxi smoothly drove into Binhai Industrial Park, they saw the Big Rubik’s Cube building standing at the end of the park from afar through the car window.

The shock, comparable to a wonder in a game, made A’Fu and Qiangzi open their mouths at the same time.

They had only seen such a grand, integrated, super-large building in Yuehai Street, Nanshan District, Shenzhen.

Because that place is where the headquarters of behemoths such as Tencent, DJI, ZTE, and China Resources Land are stationed.

In comparison, this small corner of Ruixian Binhai Industrial Park is really not very famous nationwide.

But in such a remote place, there is actually such a manufacturing-based technology innovation enterprise comparable to a unicorn. The abrupt feeling of a thunderbolt from the blue still made A’Fu and Qiangzi couldn’t help but take pictures of the Big Rubik’s Cube with their mobile phones.

When A’Fu planned to go to the guard room of this Fangkuai Technology to ask about the situation after getting off the car.

Unexpectedly, they actually encountered two other groups of Huaqiangbei mining machine vendors who looked a bit familiar!

“Damn! There are actually competitors snatching business?” A’Fu’s eyes froze, and he hurriedly led Qiangzi to squeeze into the guard room.

Because the mining machine circle is so big, many people get their goods from the same manufacturer and agent.

Although they usually mix on the internet to post advertisements, and most of the business they receive is online.

But after mixing in Huaqiangbei for a long time, even if they don’t know each other, at least they are familiar with each other.

When the other two groups of vendors who came to promote mining machines saw that there was another competitor, they were again pestering the burly, buzz-cut security guard in the guard room, handing out cigarettes and business cards, wanting to make an appointment to see the young president as soon as possible.

“The boss has agreed for you to go in, but don’t run around or take pictures after entering the factory. Once we find out, hehe ~” The iron golem who had changed his skin put down the walkie-talkie and cracked his knuckles at these Huaqiangbei peddlers who were doing gray-market business.

The sound of the finger joints snapping made people feel a chill.

Before even entering the factory, the aura of these three groups of mining machine vendors who were also scalpers had already been diminished.

Of course, this was all the result of Chen Jue’s previous training for the iron golems in the guard room, to make them more human-like and down-to-earth.

They needed to show different attitudes towards visitors of different identities.

This was a business strategy for receiving guests, similar to whether the bosses would take a Rolls-Royce, a Mercedes-Benz Maybach, or a commercial van to discuss business.

In addition, many modified devices in the Rubik’s Cube factory did need to be kept confidential.

“The security guards here are really awesome.”

“Look at the muscles on their arms, they’re all Master Ye-level, I feel like they could beat 10 of me without a problem.” Qiangzi whispered beside him, his previous attitude of disdain had long been put away in his stomach.

“In… Indeed awesome!” A’Fu also swallowed, feeling inexplicably nervous in his heart.

After all, as the lowest-level intermediary vendor in Huaqiangbei, he had never seen such a domineering president with such a big frame, except for going to visit the boss of the mining machine factory.

When the group followed two iron tower-like bodyguards and took the elevator to the president’s office on the top floor.

The luxurious and exquisite furnishings in the office made these three groups of people a bit overwhelmed, and they became restrained one by one.

Damn it!

Everywhere you looked, there was golden nanmu solid wood furniture.

In the center of the room, there was a vertical glass fish tank with a blooming ginkgo tree planted inside.

And the jade cabbage that had just been carved on the coffee table, you could tell from the luster and shape that it was not a glass handicraft, but a very, very valuable jade ornament. Selling all of them together might not even be enough to make up the change.

And that row of almost transparent sea-view glass walls, it couldn’t be described as luxurious anymore.

Those who had seen rich people showing off their wealth and villas and large apartments on Douyin had never seen such a dimensionality reduction-like impact from a big shot.

So, these three groups of people became even more uncomfortable.

“Don’t all stand there blankly, relax a bit. I’m not going to eat anyone, everyone, please sit down!”

Chen Jue was a bit overwhelmed by the exposure of his identity information on the entire internet.

Seeing that the mining machine vendors he had arranged online had arrived, he temporarily put aside his phone that was constantly vibrating and chatted with them, and by the way, had the iron golems plug in a few power strips from the base of the coffee table.

He also had them move a few sets of ROG top-of-the-line hosts and monitors that Fangkuai Technology had purchased before from the warehouse, so that these three groups of mining machine vendors could show him the efficiency of single-machine mining on the spot.

Upon seeing that they would have an on-site PK of the mining machine samples they had brought, A’Fu immediately perked up and raised his hand to ask the question that had been stuck in his heart for a long time: “President Chen… President Chen, are you really going to purchase 10,000 mining machines?”

Today’s first update ~ Continuing to ask for votes ~ The chapter title has been changed back