Chapter 3 Purchasing and Preparation
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"Shh, they won't notice."
Linto, dressed in a black hoodie and wearing a black face mask, with his hands in his pockets, was strolling around the street with Lu Mingfei.
Lu Mingfei was speechless.
It would be a ghost if you didn't notice, right?
He stared at Linto with a suspicious look, completely baffled as to what the other man meant by dressing like that on the street... to follow the trend?
"Brother Tuozi, you don't seem very serious about the interview." Lu Mingfei sighed. "Are you sure you've got the job in the bag?"
"If not eight or nine out of ten, then at least there's no doubt that they'll die."
Linto said calmly.
Lu Mingfei: "..."
"Hey bro, any interview tips?"
"Don't rush."
Linto waved his hand.
"What do you mean, 'don't rush'?"
"We're here." Linto pointed to the shop ahead.
Lu Mingfei looked up and immediately saw a hardware store specializing in razor blades in his field of vision.
A dazzling array of gold and silver items shone brightly under the high-lumen incandescent lights.
Before Lu Mingfei could even be surprised, another bombshell piece of news arrived.
"Alan Walker, you've come."
The hardware store owner nodded slightly, a beaming smile on his face: "What else would you like to buy this time?"
"Alan Walker?" Lu Mingfei was dumbfounded.
"I just told you about the pseudonym I use when I wear a mask," Linto answered his question.
"Okay, okay..." Lu Mingfei suppressed his shock and smacked his lips. He felt that this old classmate was becoming more and more mysterious.
When did the change occur? A few days ago? A few months ago?
Or will it always be like this?
"I'm here to buy two hundred grams of platinum. Please have it forged into platinum ingots for me," Linto said casually.
Good heavens!
Lu Mingfei was shocked. This was a huge investment!
"Give me another fifty 10mm copper gears, ten bearings, and two hundred 10mm mortise and tenon joint parts, according to this drawing." Linto handed over a drawing provided by the system.
"You came to me yesterday to order, today is just for pickup, no need to be so formal." The boss waved his hand, and just as he was about to say something more, he saw Lu Mingfei standing to the side.
It turned out to be in front of classmates.
The hardware store owner suddenly realized: "Allen, do you still drive your Rolls-Royce often?"
Lu Mingfei: "..."
There's no need to be so obvious about showing off.
Not long after.
Lu Mingfei saw the hardware store owner take out a bag from the glass counter.
"How much?"
Linto pulled out his bank card: "Swipe."
"23,662.22 yuan".
The hardware store owner spread out the bills, took Linto's bank card, and with a beep, 20,000 yuan disappeared.
Lu Mingfei now believed that Linto owned a Rolls-Royce.
"Isn't your family middle class?"
After a long pause, Lu Mingfei took a deep breath and finally asked the question.
"That's why I said they won't notice."
Linto raised his index finger, then put on the sealed bag containing the machinery and metal: "Adding the two hundred grams of gold and two hundred grams of silver ingots I bought before, the total cost is about sixty thousand yuan... Let's create some panic."
This was the first time Lu Mingfei had ever heard of such a large number. "Wow, this is terrifying! Is this for some good deed? Or is it for something big?"
Sixty thousand yuan?
Although Lu Mingfei had never directly handled the allowance his parents sent him each month, he still had a concept of money.
This number is so high that even a mother would be furious.
"As for purchasing power, I'll blindly accept anything that helps in building the Iron Man suit."
After saying that, Linto took off his mask and turned to leave.
Lu Mingfei was speechless.
"Brother Lin, wait for me!"
"..."
With a mask on, he's a Dike; without a mask, he's Tony.
As the one who said these words, Lin Tuo naturally knew what Lu Mingfei was thinking; in fact, he knew the same principle.
This amount is outrageous for students.
However, he already knew through the system given to him by Tony Stark in the main universe that he would inevitably enter Kassel College.
With all those US dollar scholarships, the money I'll have to spend later won't be a problem.
Thank you, Mr. Stark.jpg
...
Binhai City, Wuxing Road.
Aijia Apartment.
Lin Tuo opened the door and looked at Lu Mingfei behind him: "So... why are you still following me?"
He was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, Lu Mingfei should have already gone to buy Lu Mingze a novel illustration—a discounted bag of milk, half a pound of Cantonese sausage, and a few stalks of celery.
Is your bloodline impure, Lu Mingfei?
"Brother Lin, you still haven't told me the interview tips from earlier," Lu Mingfei said timidly.
Linto: "..."
Indeed, this is the butterfly effect, which led Lu Mingfei to follow the butterfly all the way here.
"Alright, then you can come in first."
Linto sighed helplessly and handed Lu Mingfei a pair of shoe covers.
"Shoe covers?" Lu Mingfei was stunned. "What do you mean?"
"I'll show you around a room in a bit; it's quite clean." Linto turned his head: "Do you shower every day?"
"Absolutely."
"That's fine, otherwise I'd have to sterilize and disinfect it."
Linto nodded and went inside.
After putting on his shoe covers, Lu Mingfei became increasingly curious about Lin Tuo. What was this guy's background?
In fact, Linto had only become acquainted with him three days prior. Therefore, he only knew Linto as a classmate of the past three years and was unaware of his background.
After all... looking at the popular characters of Shilan Middle School, they are all focused on this list of villains to be killed. The first is Chu Zihang, the undisputed champion, and the second is Zhao Menghua, the current Chu Zihang.
Brother Tuozi is truly mysterious.
Lu Mingfei had thought that the list of talented people from Shilan Middle School had already been filled, but after spending a long time with Lin Tuo, he realized that the other party was a true master who kept a low profile. Han Li was the kind of person who was as steady as an old dog when still, but whose actions were earth-shattering.
Upon entering the house, ordinary furniture comes into view.
Kitchen: glass sliding door; Study: solid wood sliding door; Living room: sliding curtains, solid wood coffee table; Bedroom: Simmons bed, solid wood computer desk...
Until the end of the corridor.
"Click".
"Click".
The moment Linto opened the door, a space with its incandescent lights on came into view.
A small room that had been emptied of the bed and chairs, leaving only a tool table and a chandelier.
"This studio is a masterpiece I found through online tutorials, a place that an ordinary person can achieve in three days," Lin Tuo slowly introduced.
"After all, some research requires soundproofing, or even isolating most vibrations... Of course, complete stillness is impossible, so we can only try to find a quiet environment."
Looking up, one sees yellow and black sealing strips covering the door frame, thick soundproofing panels sealing the window frames, and a layer of rubber soundproofing mats on the floor. Meanwhile, sponge triangular prisms are used as sound-absorbing material on the ceiling.
"I originally planned to create a room within a room or a wall within a wall design, but that seemed to pose a risk of illegal construction, not to mention it wouldn't be ready in three days, so I left it at that."
After Linto finished speaking, there was no echo at all; the entire space was completely silent.
Lu Mingfei was shocked.
(End of this chapter)