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Chapter 16 The Value of Life

Looking at the old man's back, I couldn't tell what it felt.

Perhaps for some people, money is really not an important thing. As an ordinary young man, I was just frightened by the astronomical figure of 5.8 billion, but if I look at it another way, when I am about to die, I will take out half of my savings for one year of life, is this choice really difficult?

"What? I was scared by the price of lifespan?"

After the old man left, Qi Tianchuan looked at me with a smile.

"What do you think?"

I licked my dry lips, "5.8 billion a year, Damn, I want to sell for one year of life. I have to trade one year of life to become a billionaire. Who doesn't want to know that most people can't make this money even if they work hard for a lifetime."

I said with some jealousy.

Qi Tianchuan smiled strangely, "Are you sure? Do you really want to exchange one year's life for money? If you agree, I don't mind trading immediately."

"Yeah? What do you mean?"

I obviously heard something wrong from Qi Tianchuan's words and looked at him with some confusion.

Qi Tianchuan smiled and said, "A hundred and fifty billion a year, you think it's beautiful. As you said just now, most people will never make this money in their lifetime, so the price of life is only relative, and it must be calculated based on your personal ability."

"For example, based on your value last year, your monthly salary is zero. If you sell your life, you can only calculate it at a minimum price of 1,000 yuan per year. If you sell your life for nothing, it will only cost 70,000 to 80,000 yuan."

"Damn, why is it so cheap? Why is my life so worthless?"

I was very angry. Compared with the old man just now, I was completely different.

"Why? This is the rule of the underworld, not that I have. Lifespan is of different value to everyone, isn't it?" Qi Tianchuan sighed.

"And don't forget that your value will continue to increase with time. Your life is worth 1,000 yuan per year. What about next year? Maybe it will be worth hundreds of thousands or millions. Will you still be willing to sell for one year's life?"

"this……"

I couldn't help but feel silent.

Yes, everyone's value will gradually increase with time. Perhaps the speed of improvement will change, but it will always be different. Unless there is an inevitable difficulty, who will easily sell their lifespan?

Suddenly thinking of this question, I looked at Qi Tianchuan and asked, "Is anyone really going to sell their lifespan? How did you change your life just now? Can you change it with this computer?"

"How is it possible to change your fate at will? Even King Yama cannot do it. Many things in this world must follow the rules. The one I added to the old man was collected from others. Now I still have the life span on my hands, huh..."

Qi Tianchuan checked the notebook and then said, "There are still forty-three years. In addition to a few idiots who will sell their lifespan, more people are that when the transaction cannot pay the same price, they can only pay for their lifespan."

"This notebook is a copy of the record of the underworld, similar to the extension of the Life and Death Book. The host is still kept by the underworld. You must learn to operate it in the future. Although we have certain permissions, don't change it randomly, otherwise you can be banned from the underworld at any time, and you will also correct the wrong operations, accompanied by punishment. I will teach you slowly if you have time. Now I will enable the right to use it first."

As he said that, Qi Tianchuan entered my information into the notebook, and after some operation, he nodded and said, "Okay, remember, the life expectancy value is equivalent to last year's salary, and the price sold is ten times the value last year."

"Damn, this is really a huge profitable deal. If you charge tens of thousands of yuan a year and sell it to someone like the old man just now, you won't make a lot of money."

"You boy, don't think so. Do I not pay taxes when opening a store? Just for life, I have to pay 95% of the tax to the underworld, and I have made a lot of money?"

Qi Tianchuan knocked on my head.

I glared at him, "Don't do it, I said, it's just you, don't I know? I'm still crying with me, isn't it because 600 million is change?"

"Hehe, other transactions are quite profitable, I can't do it in vain, right?"

Qi Tianchuan smiled with a naughty smile on his face, without any sign of embarrassment.

We were chatting together, and we were just talking about lifespan, but we didn't expect that a life-span idiot would soon come.

The knock on the door sounded again. This time the person who came in was a middle-aged man in ordinary clothes, with a haggard face and a shaved beard, and obviously had not been sorted out for a long time.

I saw his eyes red and his desperate look, he stepped forward and patted his desk hard, shouting, "I want the lottery, I want the first prize number for the next issue. Can't you do anything? I won't trade it for my life."

Qi Tianchuan frowned and looked at him, and spoke coldly, "Name, ID number."

“Yin Kangping, 1101…”

Qi Tianchuan pushed my notebook to me.

I understood what he meant and quickly entered the information of the middle-aged man.

Soon, his detailed identity was revealed, "Yin Kangping, born in Yanjing on March 20, 1975, is a real estate business manager with a monthly salary of 17,000 yuan. He lost all his property due to gambling... and died at 22:00 in the evening on September 8, 2047..."

Qi Tianchuan glanced at the information and said indifferently, "The first prize of the next sports lottery is 5 million, and the personal income tax is 4 million. According to your value last year, you need to pay a lifespan of 19 years, plus the handling fee is 23 years. Are you sure to buy it?"

"I'm sure."

The middle-aged man gasped and growled.

"Okay." Qi Tianchuan nodded, "Please wait."

Then, he took out a white notebook, looked through it for a while, and took out a piece of talisman paper to burn.

I understand that he is negotiating with a trader of the same value as the underworld and has not spoken out.

After a while, Qi Tianchuan opened his eyes and said, "Okay, this is the first prize number for the next issue. According to regulations, a 20% handling fee will be added to deduct twenty-three years of life."

I handed the note with the number written on the middle-aged man, and I also operated it on my notebook and changed the time of death to September 8, 2024.

After the time was changed, the middle-aged man obviously looked much pale, and there was a faint black mist between his eyebrows, which disappeared in a blink of an eye.

Middle-aged man knew nothing about this. He took the note with excitement on his face, read it carefully several times, and then carefully put it in his arms, "Are you sure you weren't lying to me? If I don't win the next issue, I will tear down your store."

The middle-aged man said viciously.

"Go back and buy lottery tickets. My store has not been open for a year or two. It's really a scam and it's been demolished long ago."

Qitianchuan Danwei Road.

The middle-aged man turned around and ran out the door excitedly.

"Hey, twenty-three years of life, it's sold so simply."

Seeing the middle-aged man go away, I can't help but sigh.

"There will never be a shortage of idiots in the world. If he doesn't change his bad habit of gambling, he will soon come here to work hard. When will he sell himself to death and when will he finish it."

Qi Tianchuan showed a hint of contempt and stepped forward to operate the notebook, saving it for 8 years.

"One come and go, this handling fee is charged on both sides, tsk..."

I shook my head and sighed that the middle-aged man had paid twenty-three years, but the one in the underworld could only get fifteen years. Well, no wonder the terrible taxes were so high.

"Hey, I said, the one below is dead, what's the purpose of living a lifespan? Can it be resurrected?"

I asked curiously.

"Of course not. I advise you not to ask such an idiotic question in the future, okay? Who did you see who died and survived after a few years?"

"Damn, I just said casually, what exactly does he use to do?"

"This is the privacy of the guests, how could I ask? However, living lifespan is still useful in the underworld. The easiest point is to reduce their working hours or exchange them for money."

Qi Tianchuan said, knowing that I don’t understand, he continued to explain, “It is not that easy for the soul to enter the underworld and reincarnate. Although it is not as serious as the legendary punishment for various crimes, it also has to do work. Obtaining money by work and then purchasing the right to reincarnate is similar to buying a house for a living person, and the reincarnation price is not cheap. If you choose a reincarnation address and identity, it would be even more expensive.”

"As for the paper money that descendants burned for their ancestors, the thing is not useful in the underworld, but it is not valuable. It can be roughly converted to the underworld that you bought for 100 yuan and burned to the underworld, which is worth 100 underworld coins. For the right to reincarnate that can cost dozens or millions of underworld coins, it is almost nothing."

"I'm dizzy. It turns out that there are so many twists and turns in reincarnation."

I've gained some knowledge this time.

"The operation of the Heavenly Dao is similar to equivalent exchange. What's so strange about it? It would be strange if you can be reincarnated at will." Qi Tianchuan refused to comment.

After quickly operating the computer, we continued to wait for the next guest.

I was very surprised how his shop advertised. It was easy to say in the underworld, but we can't make a big splash in the world. Besides, even if we advertise, who would believe it? At least I had never heard of this place before I came to work.

I was curious to ask, and the answer to Qi Tianchuan's guy was that he did not advertise, but the store had been open for a long time, and customers promoted each other. What should be known naturally would know, and the store had long had its own fixed customer circle.

During the conversation, several guests came one after another.

It’s nothing more than a clichéd requirement to get promoted and get rich and find a wife. It takes a certain amount of time to complete it. I recorded it and sent him away.

At this moment, a fashionable and elegant lady walked in.

"Master, can you catch ghosts here?"

The lady spoke directly as soon as she entered the door, staring at Qi Tianchuan and me, revealing a complex look of hope and suspicion.

I looked at the lady carefully and always felt familiar with her, but I couldn't think of where she had seen her for a while. As for her question, I couldn't answer her question. After all, I'm not very familiar with the store business. Most of the people who come do human-ghost transactions, and I'm responsible for recording. As for catching ghosts, Qi Tianchuan has this ability, but I don't know whether he agrees or not.

I turned to look at Qi Tianchuan.
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