Chapter 3030 — Shen Yushu's Scheme
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"This..." The security captain had not expected Fire Burning Cloud to be not only powerful but sharp-witted as well, cornering him with so many counterarguments all at once. He wiped the sweat from his brow and said, "Our compound is a closed community. Anyone who is not an owner here cannot stay for long. You see, you are not an owner, while all those people are..."
"Oh, so after all that, you're just trying to get me to buy a place here? You should have said so from the start!" Fire Burning Cloud waved his hand. "Find me a house, then. I'll buy it outright, and that way I can stay here, right?"
"If you buy a house, how nice it would be to live in it..." When the security captain had received Shen Yushu's call earlier, he had assumed Fire Burning Cloud was a vagrant, but now the man looked nothing like a poor man, and... the captain watched Fire Burning Cloud walk over to the Range Rover parked nearby, which settled it—this was no poor man at all!
"Here's a bank card. The PIN is 123456, and there are fifty million on it. Just pick me any house, and once you've run the card, bring me the keys and the contract together!" Fire Burning Cloud took a bank card from the car and handed it to the security captain.
Mount Flaming Flame was a relatively wealthy ancient sect, and for good reason: it was a fire-element sect, and it had alchemists of its own. Their trade, however, was all in exports to the borderlands like the Southern Suburbs and the Western Regions, so it never clashed with the business of the Mystic Pill Sect or the Cultivators' Guild.
The security captain was startled. Trembling, he took Fire Burning Cloud's bank card. Fifty million—he could not earn that much in a lifetime! For a moment, he even felt the criminal urge to keep it for himself.
Fire Burning Cloud had money, but he was not about to let himself be cheated. Besides, fifty million was no small sum. Pills and elixirs in the cultivation world were, in fact, not very expensive, worlds apart from the auctions of the secular world.
It was just that Mount Flaming Flame had never cared much for material pleasures. Most members of the ancient sects pursued cultivation; every day was spent either cultivating or scheming to raise the sect's standing. Money merely had to be enough, so Fire Burning Cloud did not much mind the fifty million.
"Don't go getting any wicked ideas. If you want to pocket this money, that's fine by me, but you're the security guard of this property company, and finding you is easier than turning my hand over. So which do you think is harder—your skull or this stone?" With that, Fire Burning Cloud lifted his foot and kicked a nearby ornamental bluestone, shattering it to bits. Then he continued, "If you think your skull is harder than that, then the money is yours."
"Uh... sir, how would I dare pocket it? Rest assured, my sister is the sales manager of this very compound. I'll have her find you a house right away..." The security captain was terrified and said hastily.
In truth, Fire Burning Cloud's kick had been a casual one that any competent yellow-tier expert could have managed, but for these security guards it was the most effective of arguments. Had he displayed his heaven-tier strength, they would not have recognized it anyway.
The security captain came and went quickly. When he returned, he handed Fire Burning Cloud the keys to a house—but to his astonishment, Fire Burning Cloud was still camped out right where he had been! Still, the man was an owner now, so there was nothing more he could say.
After all, those spots in the compound were common areas. In summer, owners did set up tents there for barbecues and card games; it was only in winter that one rarely saw such things. But Fire Burning Cloud happened to enjoy winter camping, and the guard had no way to stop him.