"I just... feel sorry for you."
Su Tang leaned against his palm, absorbing the warmth that belonged only to him, and softly hummed in agreement.
“This ‘K’ is an old friend of mine.”
She offered an explanation, “We’ve never met in person. You could think of us as… pen pals? He’s incredibly capable; he’s one of the best in the world when it comes to intelligence. He has a rule: he’ll keep any information about his clients absolutely confidential, which is why everyone is willing to do business with him.”
“K will give me the information tomorrow. So we still have an afternoon.” Su Tang pulled down his hand, held it tightly, and her face regained its luster.
"Come on, we still have one more thing to do."
Qin Ye let her pull him out of the "beehive".
The daylight outside was still bright, and the hovercars glided by silently. Everything was the same as when they arrived, but Qin Ye's state of mind was completely different.
He couldn't help but ask, "What else do you need to do?"
Su Tang turned around and winked at him playfully. Her usually clear eyes finally showed a bit of the vitality that someone her age should have.
"What I just did was legitimate business for the country."
"Now, we need to take care of some personal business."
"You tell me, I'll do it," Qin Ye replied without hesitation.
"Since we're already here, we can't go back empty-handed." Su Tang smiled slightly. "Come on, let me show you around. Let's go stock up on supplies."
Seeing her regain her spirits, Qin Ye breathed a sigh of relief and let her pull him along.
"Where to stock up? The supply and marketing cooperative?" he asked subconsciously, then realized something was wrong; there were no supply and marketing cooperatives left in this day and age.
“It’s much better than the supply and marketing cooperatives.” Su Tang smiled mysteriously. “However, before we go, we need to solve the problem of start-up capital.”
"Startup capital? What... will we use to buy things?" Qin Ye asked, voicing his doubts. "Will the money from our time still be accepted here?"
Su Tang smiled and began to explain to him, "Of course you can't use it. Here, the concept of money is already very vague."
"In this era, most basic production and transportation work is done by artificial intelligence and robots. Productivity is highly developed, and resources are extremely abundant. Therefore, the government regularly distributes a welfare fund, also called 'social contribution credit points,' into the accounts of every citizen. This is enough for everyone to live a very affluent life. As long as you don't pursue those top-tier luxury goods, you will basically have no worries about food and clothing and can do whatever you want."
Qin Ye's heart skipped a beat upon hearing this.
You don't have to work, and the government even gives you money to spend as you please? This... does this mean that communism has been fully realized in this era?
Su Tang continued to explain:
"Of course, this does not mean that people do nothing. On the contrary, people are freed from heavy physical labor and have more time and energy to pursue what they truly love, such as art, scientific research, and exploring the universe. The creativity of the whole society is actually stronger than in any previous era."
She paused, then added.
"As for our money... back when we were still in Shanghai, I took some gold bars and antique jewelry from the vault at the Su family's old house. Those things were top-tier hard currency in this era."
"Let's go, I'll exchange them all for credits of this era and deposit them into my account."
She pulled Qin Ye along and led him to a building with a sign that read "People's Bank of China" at the entrance.
There are no service staff here either, only individual metal cubicles.
Su Tang led Qin Ye into one of them and took out two boxes of golden, heavy yellow croakers from her spatial storage.
These are the two most ordinary boxes of gold bars that she took out of the Su family's vault.
Qin Ye knew that Su Tang was wealthy, but seeing such a large box of gold bars still shocked him quite a bit.
In their time, this thing was enough to drive countless people crazy.
Su Tang placed the two boxes of gold bars on a flat surface in the center of the compartment.
A soft blue light swept across the gold bars from above.
"Beep—Precious metal detected: Gold. Purity 99.99%, weight 30,000 grams. Converting according to the real-time federal gold price... Conversion complete. Citizen Su Tang, your personal account has been deposited into your People's Credit Currency account: 997,400,000 points. Would you like to withdraw the physical currency?"
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