Chapter 41: Mission Accomplished and New Missions
It wasn't until close to dawn that Lin Xiao sent Franklin back home, and then the next day Franklin called him to apologize, saying he had gotten drunk the night before, and also asked if he had done anything embarrassing.
Lin Xiao naturally said no, and after a few more sentences, Franklin hung up, apparently having other things to attend to.
Snap!
The phone fell on the tea table. Lin Xiao stood up and walked to the window, looking at the outside view, but his mind was thinking about Franklin's restaurant assassination today.
"I don't know if Franklin can complete it smoothly either." Lin Xiao muttered to himself.
Although Franklin completed it smoothly in the game, this is not a game after all, but a real world. Who knows if Franklin will suddenly make a mistake?
Because he had been thinking about this thing in his heart, Lin Xiao spent the whole afternoon in a daze until the news of the murder of a pharmaceutical company boss and the unknown whereabouts of the culprit was reported on TV news in the afternoon, only then did he completely let out a sigh of relief.
Lin Xiao rushed into the room and turned on the computer. The short boot time of a few seconds seemed so long now. After waiting for what felt like an eternity, Lin Xiao finally opened the stock software to check the stock price of Beita Pharmaceutical.
"Not a peep!" Lin Xiao stared at this stock, finding that it hadn't risen in value at all. "Maybe it's just too early, after all, in the game it took several rounds of sleep to rise by 80%."
Lin Xiao patted his flat stomach, left the computer and went to the kitchen to get something to eat. After he finished eating and drinking tea, nearly two hours had passed.
At this time he went back to the computer to check the stock of Beta Pharmaceuticals and found that it had risen sharply.
"That's it!" Lin Xiao excitedly jumped up suddenly in the room.
From now on, all that's needed is to wait patiently. The stock price of Beta Pharmaceuticals will rise by about 80%. When it reaches around 80%, just sell and be done with it. What happens afterwards has nothing to do with Lin Xiao anymore. He also knows that Lester and the others will make a lot of money from this stock surge, but compared to himself, it's not even worth mentioning.
$640 million, an increase of 80%, which is $1.152 billion, plus the $16 million in his system space, that's a total of $1.312 billion, exceeding the mission target of $1.032 billion by $280 million.
Three days later, the stock of Beta Pharmaceuticals finally stopped rising, with a total increase of 83% compared to before. Lin Xiao had already sold all his stocks when it rose by 82.5%, earning 11.68 million and successfully completing the mission of making a fortune of 2 million.
Ding!
"Mission 'Family Fortune 2' has reached completion requirements, would you like to receive the mission reward?"
"Receive, receive at once!" Lin Xiao shouted loudly in his heart.
"The host receives a task reward and activates new task 'Family Fortune (Final)'"
Without having time to look at this new task, Lin Xiao only felt an enormous energy suddenly surging into his body, almost in a crushing manner, reorganizing all the flesh and bones on him in an instant. Lin Xiao hadn't even felt pain yet when he was met with an extremely refreshing feeling.
This feeling is better than taking a cold shower in summer, it's even more refreshing than making love.
"Hmmph!"
Lin Xiao couldn't help but let out a comfortable moan, but this feeling came quickly and went just as fast, lasting only a second or two before disappearing completely like the ebbing of the tide.
A few minutes later, Lin Xiao came back to his senses from his reverie.
"This feeling." He clenched his fists and raised them in front of his eyes, then suddenly punched forward with a loud crash.
"Ugh!"
A mournful howl, like the wailing of ghosts and wolves, rose up, bringing with it a fierce gust of wind that blew the curtains two meters away high into the air before they fell back down again.
Fist Wind!
"Awesome!" Lin Xiao's face lit up with excitement, he now really wished that a dozen or so bandits would rush in immediately to let him fully experience the power within his body. But who would dare to break into a civilian home in broad daylight?
Lin Xiao directly muttered 'task' in his heart, putting aside the idea of finding someone to try out the new power he had just obtained.
In an instant, a semi-transparent screen appeared in front of his eyes.
Task type: Daily life task
Task Name: Family Wealth (Final)
Mission requirements: Accumulate $1 billion in wealth (by any means)
Mission Reward: 8 Combat Power
Task deadline: Six months
Task progress: 1328/10000 (million USD)
"One hundred million dollars, and it's increased by tenfold." Lin Xiao muttered to himself as he looked at the task in front of him.
Just as Lin Xiao was thinking about how long it would take him to complete this task, another prompt suddenly sounded in his mind.
Ding!
"Host combat effectiveness exceeds 5 points, activate task 'Level 1 permission activation'."
In front of the task list, there was originally only one task, "Family Fortune (End)", but now, another task has suddenly appeared on top of it.
Lin Xiao hastily raised her eyes to look over.
Task type: System privilege class task
Task Name: Primary Permission Activation
Mission requirements: Combat power reaches 10 points.
Mission Reward: Unlock Level 1 permission and obtain system skill 'Wan Jie Secret First Layer'.
Task deadline: Three months
Failure penalty: deduct 10 combat power, and wipe out if combat power is zero!
Task progress: 8/10
Another task has arrived, and it's a system permission class task. Literally speaking, the task requires Lin Xiao to increase his combat power to 10 points within three months. After completion, he can unlock the first-level permission of the system and obtain the first layer of the system's martial art "Wan Jie Jue". Unlike the "Family Fortune" series of tasks, this one also has a penalty: if it is not completed, 10 points of combat power will be deducted. If the combat power becomes zero, Lin Xiao will be erased. Currently, Lin Xiao only has 8 points of combat power, so failure would mean his life is coming to an end.
"Xin'er, isn't the punishment for this task too excessive?" Lin Xiao furrowed his brow and called out to Lin Xin in his heart.
In her mind, Lin Xiang's image appeared, she looked at Lin Xiao with a wronged expression and said: "Brother, I have no choice, this is the task released by the system, I can't change it."
"Will there be tasks like this in the future?" Lin Xiao asked.
"There will be, definitely, as far as I know, brother, you currently only have the basic permissions of the system, and there are several layers in total, but at least more than nine, so such tasks will appear again in the future."
"There really is no such thing as a free lunch in this world." Lin Xiao said with a bitter smile.
The only fortunate thing is that he is now only 2 points away from the task's requirement, and coincidentally, he still has a life-class task with a reward of 8 combat power after completion. As for getting one billion US dollars within three months, it's not impossible for Lin Xiao at this point!
