Chapter 10: The Trouble with Spending 100 Billion

Zhang Menglong had not rested for a few minutes before his roommate called him.

"Did you vanish or something? Weren't you supposed to be back in an hour? I've already started two rounds, are you going to play or not?" Xu Li started with a ranting tone.

"Hahaha, I've just been busy inheriting too much property from my family, it's taking a while to sort through!" laughed Zhang Menglong, "It's not too late now, is it?"

"Inherit my foot, do you actually think you inherited a fortune? Enough chit-chat, log on now. And, bring that lovely-voiced girl you mentioned last time too!"

"Got it!" Zhang Menglong muttered to himself, "More than a fortune? Pretty much the whole Earth is almost ours."

"I'm so pissed, today our Huaxia team was just awful, fierce as tigers in domestic fights but like scared dogs in international matches, it's just so frustrating! No way, tonight I must control Thunder and Lightning in the bronze kiddie league. Hurry up, we're only waiting for you two!"

"Coming, coming!" Zhang Menglong casually walked into a room and instantly perked up at the sight of the huge screen—it was just the room's built-in computer, he could only wonder how luxurious the esports room downstairs might be.

"Huh? Where's the main unit? How come there's no main unit?" Zhang Menglong searched under the computer desk for a long time but couldn't find it, "This isn't even an all-in-one!"

"Hong Yi, are the computers here not equipped with main units yet?" Zhang Menglong dialed Hong Yi's number.

"Mr. Zhang, for the optimal experience, all the computers here are connected to the supercomputer one floor below, with a 5G network to ensure you face no lags in whatever games you play. Whenever you need to use it, just issue commands to the smart housekeeper by voice control," said Hong Yi.

"Using a supercomputer as a home computer's main unit? Really, must we be so extravagant?" Zhang Menglong muttered to himself and then hung up the phone, "A computer costing a few tens of thousands is already great for gaming, this is totally unnecessary!"

But just moments later, Zhang Menglong had downloaded the game in mere minutes, enjoying the lightning-fast running speed and the smooth operating system, he could only sincerely exclaim, "Truly awesome!"

"How about a couple of rounds?" Zhang Menglong opened his friend list and habitually clicked on the avatar named "Double Sugar Starbucks", which showed the smiling face of the neighboring country's goddess, Shi Yuan Li Mei, but only Zhang Menglong knew that behind that smile was a very lonely figure.

Zhang Menglong had known her for over half a year by now. She liked to sing, Zhang Menglong liked to play the piano. They met on a short-video platform during a low point in Zhang Menglong's life, starting from mutual likes to collaborating on singing, eventually becoming part of each other's friend lists.

They were two very similar people. Zhang Menglong had never met her and even after half a year, he still didn't know her real name. Aside from sharing their daily troubles and fun incidents, they also played games and shared songs and movies together.

It might sound absurd, but Zhang Menglong had already developed special feelings for this girl who was a year older and whom he had never met.

"Duo?" The reply came quickly back to Zhang Menglong.

"And my three roommates. They've heard about your beautiful voice and insisted I invite you to play today," sent Zhang Menglong with a helpless emoticon.

"You haven't even met me, how could you boast like that? What if I turned out to be some 200-pound auntie using a voice changer? That would shatter your roommates' dreams, wouldn't it?"

"That's a man's sixth sense. If my intuition is wrong, I'll wash my hair standing on my head!"

"Hahaha, log in, hurry up, I've been so free these days!"

"I'll pull you in soon!"

"Where's the pretty girl? Where's the pretty girl?" As soon as Zhang Menglong connected with his roommates, they couldn't wait and started howling.

"Zhang Menglong, what's going on with you? You're back in Jiangnan City, aren't you? Why aren't you back in the dorm this late? Planning to pull an all-nighter at the net cafe?"

"I'm at my own house. You might not believe it, but this whole 29-story building is mine, and my computer runs off a supercomputer. Playing games is super smooth," Zhang Menglong said.

"Hahaha, you're awesome. I wouldn't even dare to dream of saying something like that. Hurry up and bring the pretty girl in!"

"Right, right, let her experience the warmth of Jiangnan University of Science and Technology, Room 310!"

"Hello everyone!" A sweet girl's voice chimed in over the team's voice chat.

"Holy crap! That voice, Mom, I'm in love!"

"Waaa, it feels like first love!"

"Zhang Menglong, I finally understand why you chat with her every night with your headphones on, this voice is a treasure!"

Zhang Menglong's roommate, the Ghost House Wolf, howled.

Zhang Menglong chuckled softly, her voice was indeed unbelievably sweet; he even had to listen to her voice messages several times over.

The roommates were all quite skilled; "Frappuccino Double Sugar" had substantially better skills than the average girl in the duo matches with Zhang Menglong, driving a tank around Summoner's Rift, summoning thunder and lightning and crushing everything in its path.

Since they were still on holiday and didn't have classes the next day, they played until after midnight, reluctantly ending the game. For them, about to step into society, such joyful days were becoming rare.

"Had a lot of fun today, I'm sleepy, going to bed first!"

"Together, I'm sleepy too!" Zhang Menglong said with a mischievous grin.

"Good night!"

"Good night!"

Zhang Menglong set her phone aside and lay down on her huge bed that was almost big enough to roll around ten times.

Everything since last night felt like a dream.

"Oh right, the family heirloom called 'Super God Academy' that Mom and Dad mentioned!" When he woke up in the morning, Zhang Menglong discovered that by concentrating, he could see a green glowing mark in his mind.

"Enter Super God Academy!" Zhang Menglong issued a command.

"Master has not completed the challenge left by the previous master; entrance permission to the academy will be granted after the challenge is completed!" The voice of Super God Academy's smart butler, Gou Dan, suddenly rang out next to Zhang Menglong's ear.

"Damn, so they really left me with such a task?" Zhang Menglong chuckled bitterly. He had never dealt with amounts like 100 billion, let alone a single time use of even 10,000; the most extravagant he had been was probably his annual university tuition of 8,800.

What made it even more difficult was that he couldn't donate or give the money away.

"How to spend 100 billion!" Zhang Menglong typed this question into Baidu.

"Buy houses? Half of Earth belongs to me, why on Earth would I buy houses!"

"Tip streamers? Am I crazy, tipping those internet beggars?"

"Travel the world? I could travel for 100 years, indulging in food and fun every day, and still not spend all that money!"

"Buy cars? Hmm, that's a stretch!"

"Make investments? Do what Wang Duoyu does?"

Looking at one bizarre answer after another, Zhang Menglong let out a heartfelt sigh, "Having too much money is a problem too!"