Xu Le used to be very poor. In the first two years after he became an orphan, he only ate with Xiao Qiang's mother for two years. Because of some unknown reason, perhaps because of his innate self-esteem or inferiority complex, he moved out and applied for government aid. He officially joined Li Wei's group of orphans to shop on the streets.
He learned a lot from Uncle Feng Yu, but that stingy boss did not have the habit of giving him a salary. He only left behind a bank card after his death. It was from that bank card that Xu Le could be considered to have stepped into the stage of a rich person.
His poor childhood did not distort his concept of money. Instead, he increasingly felt that money was just a tool. It was not a goal to strive for. This was not like a lotus flower growing in the mud, but a rock in Donglin, no matter how long it soaked in the latrine, would still be hard. The stench attached to it would disappear after being washed away by clean water.
Because of this concept, the bank card that Uncle Feng left him contained enough money for a normal person to live a normal life. In just a short year, he spent almost all of it. He secretly transferred one million to Li Wei, who was far away in Donglin, through the black market. He bought a set of antique simulation equipment from the Shell Motor Company, bought some components, bought flowers, porridge, and biscuits for Zhang Xiaomeng, and bought pancakes, porridge, and women for Tai Zhiyuan. How much was left?
After leaving Ewha University, he started to receive a salary from the Shell Motor Company. He received the riskiest investment in his life from the Li family's seventh young master. Suddenly, Xu Le became a young multi-millionaire. Then, he gave away this multi-millionaire.
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Although he did not value money, it did not mean that he did not understand the magic of money in the Federation. That was why he gave the bank card to Bai Yulan. But after that, he realized that he still did not understand Bai Yulan. Could it be that money could really buy a person's life?
Ever since the battle at the armory, Bai Magnolia had returned to her usual self. She spoke very little, but she had begun to truly fulfill her duties as a secretary. In fact, she was even better than a full-time secretary. As long as Xu Le did not express any objections, she would stand behind him like a shadow and help him deal with all the complicated matters.
He was like a secretary, but also like a bodyguard. However, Bai Yulan did not have much respect for him. She just treated this as a very boring job.
Xu Le was not used to Bai Yulan's change, but he had to admit that things were much smoother with Bai Yulan's help. For example, today, when Xu Le decided to take advantage of the four-day summer holiday in the Federation to rush to Harbor City, Bai Yulan immediately bought a train ticket that was very popular.
The people who were on holiday on the train passed through the self-propelled track on the platform and waved goodbye to their relatives and friends on the upper floors with smiles on their faces. Xu Le retracted his gaze from the window and looked at the serene Bai Yulan in front of him. His emotions could not help but become somewhat complicated.
Using Li Xiaotong's investment, he had purchased many of the components that Xu Le needed. Right now, the simulation system that he had privately modified was gradually becoming a prototype. Besides this important task, Xu Le had originally wanted to use the data and functional formulas in his head, as well as the design progress of the Federal Academy of Science and the Nutshell Engineering Department. Perhaps he would be able to solve the problem of the new generation of mecha in the Federation one step ahead.
However, when he truly began to come into contact with this field, Xu Le found that he was just daydreaming. The few prototype mecha that Whitewater Company had been experimenting with in the Hundred Mu Triangle Star Region had long been towed back to the main company. Even if the Nutshell Engineering Department had been continuously providing feedback through Zhou Yu, and even if Li Xiaotong had invested a hundred times more, there was no way that he could solve this problem on his own.
Thus, he decided to make a trip to the Federation. The Nutshell Engineering Department was in the suburbs of the most prosperous city in the Federation, and he brought Bai Yulan with him.
Developing a revolutionary new mecha did not only require a breakthrough in engineering. Just like the Nutshell Engineering Department's spring recruitment exam question, the mecha was to serve people. More accurately, it was to serve the pilots of the Federation. During the development process, it required the most experienced pilots of the Federal military to carry out continuous experiments.
The ace pilots of the Federal military were most likely working together in the laboratories of the Federal Academy of Science and the Nutshell Engineering Department. Xu Le only had Bai Yulan by his side. Fortunately, Bai Yulan had come into contact with this new mecha before and was familiar with its controls.
It was precisely because of this reason that Xu Le had given up on the absurd idea of building the new mecha in the Whitewater Company's base. Instead, like a gamble, he had given all his funds to Bai Yulan.
However, he did not tell Bai Yulan the truth, because he did not truly understand this delicate man. Quiet as a virgin, gentle and silent. With a flash of the knife, there was a cold murderous intent in her shyness. How could such a person be so interested in the stench of money?
This was the most luxurious soft sleeper compartment on the Beijing High-Speed Railway. Bai Yulan was indeed a person who treated herself well. Even Xu Le was able to enjoy the high-class treatment. He did not hide his gaze. He curiously looked at Bai Yulan, who was listening to music with her eyes closed.
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In the post-interstellar era where crystal mines were gradually depleted, space travel, which was very common in the early days of the Constitutional Era, began to become extremely expensive and luxurious. In this universe composed of galaxies, not every citizen of the Federation had access to advanced technology such as mechas, battleships, and spaceships. Not everyone could freely travel between the stars. Even the citizens who were born in the two recent Constitutional Era had never left the planet they belonged to. They just silently worked at their respective posts.
Other than watching the real-time images taken by the spaceship on channel 10 or watching the cute purple-haired colonel on channel 23 lead the Enterprise through the stars, the most likely way for a normal citizen of the Federation to truly set foot in the universe was to join the military. Or rather, it was to voluntarily sign up for the excavation department of a mining company. They would go to remote resource planets to operate machines that did not speak and spend a long and lonely time there.
However, the people of the Federation always had a way to solve these mental needs. Since the Constitutional Era, high-speed rail transit across the surface of the planet had become the most retro and satisfying form of transportation in the writings of writers.
That was why Xu Le could see such a busy station. The maximum speed of the high-speed rail had now reached 800 kilometers per hour. There was no problem in using it to maintain the transportation of the entire planet's surface. Although it was still much slower than flying through the clouds, the ticket price was correspondingly much cheaper.
Why was the high-speed rail paved with dense magnetic material called the high-speed rail? This was a question that required archaeology. It was said that it was a saying before the catastrophe. Since there was no historical material, no historians were willing to get to the bottom of it.
Accompanied by a soft electronic sound, the station and buildings outside the window began to speed up and recede. The radio noise during the start-up phase made some passengers who were riding the high-speed rail for the first time find that their portable tablet computer had no wireless signal, and they could not help but complain.
Xu Le looked at Bai Yulan again and then looked out of the window again. He looked at the rows of broad-leaved trees in the streets of the Capital Special District, which quickly flashed past his eyes.
Bai Yulan, who was sitting opposite him, took off her headphones and looked at the young man by the window.
As a veteran who had been in the military for ten years, his gentleness and calmness was not only an effective disguise, but also a way for him to find inner peace. However, looking at Xu Le's ordinary face, Bai Yulan's heart was not as calm as it seemed on the surface.
The 7th Combat Group of the Whitewater Company, which he led, was now in its most difficult period because of the serious mistake they made in the Bermuda Triangle Star Region last autumn. Except for him, the members of the group were either sent back to their respective military districts for confinement or were on unpaid leave. He was the only one who remained at the company headquarters calmly. It was difficult to lead a team when the people's hearts were broken. However, if the people's hearts were still there, and the team was gone, there was no need to say anything.
After the fight in the armory, Bai Yulan confirmed that this new young technical director might be a little immature, but he was very scary. He knew that he had held back that day, but the problem was that his opponent must have held back as well. Bai Yulan could not even distinguish Xu Le's techniques. She only felt that his close combat style was somewhat similar to a certain technique promoted by the special forces in the military a few years ago, except that it was more direct and more ruthless.
In addition to his combat strength, Xu Le's performance in the next few days also surprised Bai Yulan. This young technical director used a jaw-dropping speed to repair all the equipment in the 7th Combat Group's armory. He even repaired a few large pieces of equipment that were damaged.
When Bai Yulan was at the frontlines in the West Woods, she had seen many excellent mechanical engineers who were treasured by the military officers. However, she had never seen anyone who could discover problems, judge problems, and solve problems faster than Xu Le.
The young man opposite her seemed to have a natural instinct for metal-related mechanical equipment. This should be some kind of talent that could not be replicated. Bai Yulan really could not understand. What kind of medicine did those big shots in the Nutshell Mobile Headquarters eat wrong? They actually threw such a genius mechanic into their own Team 7.
Unlimited potential, full combat strength, and a lot of money. He was generous like an idiot. His background was mysterious but definitely not simple. Working for such a person was actually not a bad choice.
It should be known that in the current Federation, it was not so easy to earn money.
As Bai Yulan thought about this, she stood up and made a cup of tea for Xu Le. She was an excellent person who did what she was paid. Since she had received 20 million, she did not mind making Xu Le's bed and folding his blanket.
The high-quality green tea floated gently in the glass and then slowly sank like a spring fog, dyeing the clear water around it.
Xu Le turned around and looked at the green tea in the cup. He was slightly stunned. He wondered if Bai Yulan wanted to steal the orderly's job as well.
"I'll go to the dining car and bring dinner over," Bai Yulan said softly and then walked out of the room.
Xu Le had never been served like this in his life, so it was inevitable that he was not used to it. Bai Yulan walked out of the room and brushed past two youthful girls. Her delicate eyebrows furrowed.
The two girls walked to a private room at the side. One of the girls looked a little lonely. In this spring weather, she was wearing a dull black outfit.
"Miaomiao, open your mind. The dead cannot be brought back. If Park Ji Ho was still alive, he would not want you to live such a sad life."
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