The Black Card Chapter 50 - Newbie Stage

Chapter 50 - Newbie Stage

Translator: Lav

Editor: Levs

“This is a level E card. This allows your prophecy to come true once and only once. And, this prophecy can only be used on others with non-money related things.”

Seeing that Shi Lei wanted to open his mouth again, the Scepter said before him: “Enough, we should talk about how you just finished the newbie stage……”

“Don’t rush, I still have questions to ask!”

“Considering that your att.i.tude was not too bad, you can ask three more questions about these two cards!” The Scepter was obviously very impatient.

Shi Lei blurted out: “Why are you doing this, only three?”

“Yes!” The Scepter answered coldly, “Two more!”

“What the f.u.c.k! That counts?!”

“Yes, last question!”

Shi Lei panicked: “What the h.e.l.l, are you kidding me?”

Sensing that something was wrong, Shi Lei quickly waved his hands: “That’s not the question I wanted to ask. Wait, let me think of the last question I can ask!”

The Scepter was silent but Shi Lei criticised the Scepter a hundred thousand times secretly.

“Fine, last question. Is the profit mine if I use the money given by the black card to invest with the golden thumb investment card?” Shi Lei asked carefully.

But the Scepter expressed his dislike towards Shi Lei again as it was in disdain to how Shi Lei’s IQ was clearly not enough.

“What an idiotic question! None of the questions you asked is useful. For your level right now, you can’t even use the weekly quota for investments, how can it earn profit for you? Ok, your question time has ended, we will begin to talk about what will happen after you finish the newbie training stage.”

Shi Lei frowned and shook his head: “Wait, this statement is incorrect. The sum of money does not prohibit me from investing, but it prohibits me from making consumptions in the form of investment. I was too scared to invest the money because it’s risky. If I lose, I don’t have the ability to make up for the money lost. But it’s different now. After having this golden thumb card, I can make sure that my investments only make profits. For example, stocks, I just need to redeem the capital and profit, then I can spend the capital and in that way, I can still complete the consumption mission. My question is not whether these money can be used for investment, but what I need to know is that after I use these monies for investments and made profit from it, whether the profit will belong to me!”

The Scepter was quiet for some time, then snorted extremely unpleasantly: “Looks like your IQ is back and you saw through the bug. But unfortunately, if you want to earn money through this, it’s impossible. If you want to obtain the profits from investments, you must use your own money. If you use the weekly quota to invest, the profit you earn from it will also be part of the consumption sum. In other words, the more you earn, the more you have to spend within the time limit. Otherwise, hehe, you know what’s going to happen.”

The Scepter thought that Shi Lei would be rather gloomy after hearing the answer, but Shi Lei smiled slightly, as if everything was within his grasp.

Shi Lei asking this question was not that he actually wanted to use the money given by the black card to invest, but he wanted to understand the rules more. To him, the more he knew, the more benefits he had. Although these questions seemed useless, but if he asked enough, Shi Lei would have the chance to conclude some sort of pattern to it. Right now, Shi Lei wanted to understand more about every single question he had.

“Fine, this question is finished for real. You mentioned about finishing the newbie training stage, what’s that?”

The Scepter said: “According to the evaluation, you performed rather outstandingly during the training stage. Although most parts of it was consuming normally, but you buying Sun Yiyi for a year was excellent. In the end, your evaluation for the training stage is 93 points.”

“Full marks of 100?” Shi Lei asked subconsciously.

The Scepter did not show any trace of answering this question and said: “As the initial consumption quota was 10,000 yuan, the highest reward you can possibly receive is 10,00 yuan. 93 marks meaning that you can receive 9,300 yuan of free funds.”

“9,300? This is not counted in the consumption quota and I can use it freely?” 

“If you are not an idiot, I think you can answer that yourself.” The Scepter suddenly became cold and Shi Lei was not used to it. What happened to the kingly presence?

“Fine, although it’s not much, but luckily I have the investment card now. I’ll take it easy and it should become a decent sum of investment fund. Either way, even if I need to spend money right now, I would use the money given by the black card and won’t touch my own. Then, does it mean that there will be a mark given after I level up each time and receive a fund?”

“Yes.”

The Scepter probably saw that Shi Lei was still asking non-stop, it added another sentence impatiently: “You are merely a level one slave…… Uh, level one employee, who’s not that better than newbies and the things you can know about it very limited. Don’t jabber on and on to challenge my patience! It won’t do any good!”

Shi Lei pondered for a while and thought that what the Scepter said was reasonable. He also realised that although the Scepter can purposely conceal some things away from him, but Shi Lei was not yet granted permission to know about and the Scepter would not dare to lie on this.

“Then, last question. Well, to be accurate, it’s not exactly a question but the term ‘consumption’ appointed by the black card. I think I have the right to know what this means?”

The Scepter forced itself to say: “Hurry up and spit it out!”

Shi Lei carefully organised his thoughts and what he had concluded from the past situations and said word by word: “First, consumption must be made by myself. Second, the deals the consumption brings should be paid with equal or lower value.” Shi Lei was sure of these two points as he concluded them from the man who was killed.

“Third, it must be real deals and I cannot gift the money to others.”

This one was Shi Lei’s experience. Luckily what happened last time only made him lose his hair, then he chased the traffic lights for two streets for the 300 yuan.

“Fourth, all consumptions’ contents must actually be used.” This was also a lesson learnt as Sun Yiyi helped Shi Lei. Otherwise, 60,000 yuan was more than enough to get Shi Lei killed.

“Fifth, if the money consumed is yet to count into the sum, I can use my own fund to make up for it. And this is my first question. Can I find an ATM at any time I want to insert the black card and ask you about my consumption sum?”

“Looks like the high mark you received for the newbie training stage was not all by luck. Although your IQ is limited, but you are rather sharp.” The Scepter commented first and it made Shi Lei’s b.a.l.l.s hurt. It then continued: “Right now, you only have one chance every week to check the sum of the money.”

Shi Lei nodded and said: “So as long as it’s within the week, you must tell me the remaining quota whenever I ask you? If the black card’s calculation of the remaining quota is different to mine, am I allowed to ask in more detail?”

“No, I can only tell you how much you are short. Do you want me to mail you a copy of your consumption lists? This is nonsense!”

Shi Lei was not discouraged. He smiled and said: “Sixth, when I consume, I am allowed to bring those people who are judged as my friends by the black card. Then, there is a problem here. If my parents or other relatives and friends need money, can I use the money to pay for it?”

“This question is more on point than the previous one. Looks like you are gradually adapting to your role.” As usual, the Scepter commented before answering. 

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