rebirth from small pockets

Chapter 454 Lost Treasure

"No!"

"You have been promoted, but you don't have any new functions. Doesn't this make sense?"

In the system space, Chen Li looked at Xiaomeng in front of him with a very dissatisfied expression on his face.

Just now, Xiaomeng told him that although she had been promoted, because she was just a program in the system, her promotion itself did not bring any new functions to the system.

To put it bluntly, this promotion task improves Xiaomeng’s AI level, not the level of the system itself.

To be honest, after Xiaomeng explained, Chen Li understood the meaning.

The reason why he is still expressing his dissatisfaction is mainly because he is unwilling to do so.

Because this task is really not that easy to complete!

If it were ten years later, this task would only need money to solve. At that time, various tour groups were overwhelming, and with the improvement of China's economy, tourists from China were welcomed all over the world.

But in 1999, the biggest problem when traveling abroad was the visa issue.

In addition, ordinary people do not have much money on hand these days, so it is actually not easy for ordinary people to go abroad.

Not to mention that this promotion task requires three countries, which undoubtedly makes the task more difficult to complete.

But after completing such a strenuous task, there are almost no benefits, which is very unscientific.

Okay~ Chen Li actually knows very well that the rewards for this mission are not without them.

Xiaomeng's AI level improvement will definitely help him greatly in the future, but this benefit is not directly reflected.

Regarding Chen Li's dissatisfaction, Xiaomeng looked aggrieved.

But this trick is no longer effective against Chen Li!

After all, Chen Li has long been accustomed to the quirkiness of this little girl's movies, so it is impossible for him to feel wronged.

Seeing that Chen Li was indifferent, Xiaomeng couldn't help curling her lips, and then said:

"Can Xiaomeng's improvement help better solve the problems encountered by the host?"

"For example, the biggest problem the host is currently facing."

"financial pressure!"

"oh?"

Upon hearing this, Chen Li became excited.

Indeed, despite Chen Li's current business success, he often behaves as if he regards money as dirt.

But the biggest problem facing Chen Li now is actually the problem of funds.

This funding issue is not a small amount of money like 10,000 or 20,000. What he lacks is a large amount of money that is enough to meet the layout he wants to spend.

Originally, Chen Li was not short of this money.

The income from selling Y2K patches to Microsoft was enough for Chen Li to plan ahead for all the industries he wanted to get involved in in 1999.

With more than 400 million Chinese coins, at this time in 1999, there was not much that could be done.

However, the money was just gone. Although Chen Li did not regret it, it was absolutely impossible to say that he was not distressed.

The most exaggerated one was when Chen Li dreamed at night that all his money had been deceived by this girl Xiaomeng, and then he begged on the street wearing a sack and holding a broken bowl.

Although this dream was very exaggerated, it proved from another aspect how much Chen Li cared about the money.

Although every time Chen Li comforted himself with the fact that money comes easily and money goes easily, stability alone could not heal the sadness in Chen Li's heart.

And objectively speaking, because the money is gone, many of Chen Li's plans can only be slowed down now.

There's no way~ He doesn't have enough funds on hand to support his plans.

Currently, Chen Li's stall is actually not very large, and many of the ideas in his mind have to be put on hold temporarily due to financial pressure.

The limited funds are mainly concentrated in the breeding system that is gradually taking shape by Chen Li.

The development progress of other ideas including breweries is actually limited by funding.

In Chen Li's current business landscape, although Ideal Fried Chicken is developing very well, it does not have much effect on Chen Li's financial gap.

Every penny Ideal Fried Chicken earns will be invested in opening new stores.

At least within one to two years, Ideal Fried Chicken can provide very limited help to Chen Li.

So in fact, Chen Li's current income mainly comes from three aspects.

The first is the income from the Ideal Chicken Farm. As a supplier of Ideal Fried Chicken, the chicken farm is currently Chen Li’s most stable income.

The second one is from Red Pony Technology, but apart from the benefits brought by Chen Li’s security software itself, it is estimated that the benefits this technology company will bring to Chen Li will be very limited in the coming years.

Ma Xiaoyun has clearly informed Chen Li that Red Pony Technology will not pay dividends for a long time in the future.

The third aspect is the salary and bonuses Chen Li received from his positions in several companies.

However, the income from this area is very low. Perhaps for ordinary people, this is a large amount of income, but for the funds that Chen Li needs, this is simply a drop in the bucket.

Hi~ To put it bluntly, for Chen Li, who is reborn and has a system, ideas, investment directions, etc. are not a problem. The problem is only the investment of talents and funds.

Talents can be found, but in terms of funds, Chen Li cannot directly create them.

Although he has such advanced black technology as the system, funds can only be accumulated slowly.

Like the previous sale of Y2K patches, I guess it will have to wait until Chen Li sells hao123 in a few years.

And even if the funds obtained from selling hao123 are not comparable to those from selling Y2K patches.

The reason why the Y2K patch is so expensive is that, in addition to its ability to solve the Y2K problem that is about to break out, the way it is written is actually what Microsoft values.

It's just that Microsoft didn't seem to have completely cracked it after acquiring it.

Of course, there must be some gains. This is actually a change that Chen Li has invisibly triggered in the world.

So to sum up, according to the current development, it will be difficult for Chen Li to obtain the large amount of funds he needs in the short term.

Without the support of large sums of money, many of the ideas in Chen Li's head would not be able to be launched.

In addition, he is not a hard-working person, so he probably wouldn't be willing to work hard and forget about food and sleep to focus on something.

Therefore, funding is Chen Li’s biggest problem right now!

"How to say?"

At this moment, Chen Li stared at Xiaomeng with bright eyes.

At this moment, he was thinking, could this little girl directly receive a large amount of funds after being promoted to a movie?

Regarding the system, Chen Li didn't know much about it because of permission issues.

But Chen Li also knows some information!

For example, the emergence of this system was not actually the era before Chen Li was reborn in his previous life.

According to Xiaomeng, in this plane, the system currently only has one host, Chen Li.

But before Chen Li, the system actually had a host.

Although Chen Li questioned Xiaomeng, Xiaomeng did not inform Chen Li of the details due to lack of authority.

But due to some clues, Chen Li actually had some guesses in his mind.

According to Chen Li's guess, the system actually fell into a dormant period for a period of time after experiencing the previous host.

It is difficult to determine the time for this process, but it should not be short.

When the system accumulated enough energy, Chen Li was selected as the new host.

But the system may not have expected that Chen Li would encounter an accident after becoming the host, and then the system could only allow Chen Li to be reborn thirty years ago.

Perhaps the dormant period had just ended, or perhaps Chen Li had lost too much energy when he was reborn, so at the beginning the system was unable to do anything other than issue tasks to give Chen some pocket money.

But after Chen Li completed enough tasks, the system gradually recovered, and Xiaomeng gradually woke up from the dormant period.

Hmm~ Well, actually there are a lot of doubts in this speculation.

For example, why did the system choose Chen Li, and whether the system chose Chen Li before he was reborn or after he was reborn, etc.

However, because Chen Li did not have enough authority, the system could not tell him the truth, so Chen Li could only make bold guesses.

If we continue to speculate along this line of thinking, will there be any explanation for Chen Li's rebirth thirty years ago?

If we assume that the system's dormancy period is thirty years, then the system will leave its previous host for approximately two years.

One is thirty years ago when Chen Li encountered an accident in his previous life, which is the time after Chen Li was reborn.

Another possibility is that it was thirty years ago after Chen Li was reborn, which was six years ago.

Of course, these are Chen Li's guesses based on some clues he has learned.

Anyway, what Chen Li can be sure of is that this system actually had a host before him.

It's just that the host should have passed away, so the system fell into a dormant state.

But if this is the case, did the previous host leave something behind in the system?

Such as wealth!

Things like the system obviously belong to the category of black technology. Chen Li believes that no matter who gets this system, he should be more or less better than ordinary people.

And in this case, if the other party leaves some wealth.

In particular, there is another possibility. If this system had a previous host before Chen Li, what about the previous host, or even the previous previous host?

Is there a possibility that this system may have existed since ancient times?

Ahem~ Okay, Chen Li admits that he is somewhat unrestrained, and the spread of his thinking is really big.

But since it’s just a guess, then what Chen Li guessed doesn’t seem impossible!

Especially from ancient times to the present, there have actually been many "outstanding" figures who are beyond their current era.

So for some things, it’s okay if you don’t think about them. Once you think about them, it’s really easy to think wrong.

Hmm. Anyway, overall, Xiaomeng said that she could help Chen Li solve the financial problem, and Chen Li really believed it.

If Xiaomeng conjured up a lot of antiques for Chen Li at this time, Chen Li wouldn't even think it was strange. However.

"Ding dong~!"

"Mission: (Lost Treasure)"

"Task description: In the process of the development of splendid civilization, different countries, different dynasties, and different places have created ingenious items, while also leaving countless puzzles for the world!"

"Mission requirement: Let's go, young man, find those treasures and let the glory of civilization return to the world!"

"mission rewards:???"

"Do you want to receive it: Yes/No?"

"Um?"

When Chen Li saw this mission, his first reaction was that he was a little confused!

The main reason was that Xiao Meng comprehensively said that he could help Chen Li solve his financial difficulties, but he was given the task the next second.

If Xiaomeng released the task as expected, Chen Li was a little confused by the content of the task.

Let’s not talk about the content of the task first, but let’s talk about this task released by Xiaomeng.

The form of task release this time has some differences from before, such as an additional task requirement.

Looking at the description of the task requirements, Chen Li probably knew that this was a task prompt. From this article, he could roughly tell how this task should be completed.

When the system released tasks in the past, but there was no such provision, the system gave a task description. In many cases, Chen Li needed to understand how to complete the task.

Chen Li estimated that this was probably due to Xiaomeng's performance after upgrading. This was good news for Chen Li.

But then, this mission reward suddenly turned into a question mark!

This is another change, because before, the rewards for each task were clearly priced.

Every time you complete a task, the rewards you can get after success will be displayed on the task bar.

After Chen Li was not short of pocket money, Chen Li basically only did the daily tasks that would give him skill books.

Sometimes, Chen Li would even give up because the task was too difficult.

Just like the promotion mission that Chen Li just completed, in addition to improving Xiaomeng's AI level, the most important thing is that the mission reward is an advanced skill book.

This was the first advanced skill book that Chen Li obtained. After Chen Li got it, he focused on the English branch.

The advanced skills book improves English in all aspects. Once Chen Li takes the time to master advanced English, it is estimated that his English level will even far exceed that of British native English speakers.

But now the task reward column has become a question mark, and the task reward cannot be known in advance. This is another test for Chen Li.

If the future tasks are like this, then if Chen Li still wants to obtain the skill book, it will be difficult to "choose" tasks like now.

Well, these are the changes when the mission was released. Next, let’s talk about this mission.

This is the first time Chen Li has received a treasure hunt mission.

The system has never issued such a task before, but Chen Li has taken over two tasks to help people find objects.

But finding objects and treasure hunting are completely different concepts. Although Chen Li is more interested in all kinds of treasures, he has never had such thoughts about treasure hunting.

In his previous life, Chen Li had seen many movies of this type, such as "National Treasure" System.

Chen Li likes to watch this kind of movie, but asking him to find it is pure nonsense.

And although Chen Li's stall is not big now, Chen Li is already busy enough.

So this mission is completely baffling.

"What kind of plane are you doing? If I have time to look for treasures, I might as well take care of business."

"At least if I work hard, I will definitely be rewarded."

"Rather than put your hope in those unrealistic treasures that you don't even know where they are."

Chen Li rolled his eyes. It was obvious that he was not satisfied with the task issued by Xiaomeng.

If Xiaomeng said that the way to help him solve his financial problem was to find treasures, then Chen Li could only say that this girl is really

too young!

(End of chapter)