Chapter 71 These Are All Basic Operations

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"Mr. Zhang, are you sure? If you really want to buy those paintings, I'll arrange for someone to handle it immediately!" Bruce's tone betrayed a trace of excitement. He had expected to sell five or six hundred of the more than four thousand paintings, and he hadn't even dared to hope for a thousand, but Zhang Menglong was ready to buy them all at once. Was this not the God of Wealth? "Go ahead and arrange it," Zhang Menglong said. "Ok, ok, I'll get on it right now!" Bruce's face lit up with a smile. "Damn, did he really buy them?" "Awesome, I didn't hear wrong, did I? It's close to fifty billion, right?" "In US dollars, brother, my head is buzzing right now." "Fifty billion US dollars, and in cash? Isn't he richer than the world's richest person?" "On this year's Forbes list, isn't the richest person still the CEO of Amazon? How much is his personal fortune? 150 billion US dollars?" "The 150 billion US dollars are mostly water, nearly half of it is fixed assets and shares. Logically, it would be incredible just to have a few tens of billions in cash." "Even if those 150 billion US dollars were all cash, put it bluntly, would you spend a third of your total assets on a bunch of pretty but useless paintings?" "If you had a million, would you spend 300,000 on a painting?" "Definitely not!" "So, Zhang Menglong's assets must be more than 1,500 million. In fact, this might just be his liquid assets!" "Hiss!" The people around analyzed and immediately came to an incredibly terrifying conclusion. It was highly probable that this young man who had never appeared in the public eye before was the real world's richest person! "Wait a minute!" Zhang Menglong suddenly called out to Bruce. "Mr. Zhang, is there anything else I can do for you?" Bruce's heart skipped a beat. Could Zhang Menglong be having second thoughts? It was hard enough to reach the peak of his life, could it all come crashing down so quickly? "I wanted to ask you, are other paintings for sale?" Zhang Menglong pointed distantly at the "Mona Lisa". "Mr... Mr. Zhang, do you want to buy that painting?" Not just Bruce, everyone around had shock written all over their faces. "Dude, can you spare me that change?" "Why do I suddenly have this strange feeling that I've seen this scene somewhere before?" "Bro, I think I feel the same way." "Are we on high alert?" Someone, somehow, had stealthily started a live broadcast online, simultaneously streaming this scene to the web. Since it was just a small website, the number of netizens flocking there almost crashed their servers due to overwhelming traffic. "I don't need it!" "Huh?" Bruce was stunned for a moment, thinking he might have misheard, "Mr. Zhang, are you unsatisfied with the price? Give me a little more time, I will negotiate for you, we might be able to make it cheaper!" "No, what I mean is, I don't want a discount. I've never had the habit of getting discounts when I buy things. Please, let's stick to the original price, or else I won't buy it, or I could even pay more!" "Ha ha ha! Does Mr. Zhang even need a discount?" "Looks like the high alert warning was right, it's starting again! I've seen this scene at Wanda!" "I was there at that time!" The chat in the live stream suddenly dominated the entire screen, and for some reason, everyone seemed unsurprised by Zhang Menglong's refusal of the discount. Rather, it seemed like it was the expected attitude all along. "There, I've transferred the money to your account," Zhang Menglong checked his phone, Hong Yi informed him everything had been handled. "50 billion?" Bruce's hands trembled slightly as he saw the feedback from the company's headquarters. "Don't be nervous, I like to round up. Let's leave it at that!" "Mr. Zhang... You really have opened my eyes!" Bruce had never before seen someone spend money like this. Even though he had met quite a few wealthy tycoons along the way, compared to Zhang Menglong, they were leagues apart. "Ha ha ha, just look at the baffled face of that foreigner." "Newcomers, don't be alarmed. Mr. Zhang's style has always been wild, the kind who rounds up on a whim. Last time it was a couple million, now he's gone straight to a few billion US dollars." "Baldy, got scared, huh? This is just the basics!" "Everybody stand up!" ...

Chapter 71 These Are All Basic Operations

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