"Okay."

The helicopter flew in the air for two hours, and Xu Lin pointed to areas on his private land, roughly planning out the projects he wanted, such as where his estate would be, where his private helicopter airport would be, and so on.

As for a large airport, it was also necessary.

But Xu Lin’s Moon Island only had twenty thousand acres, and the longest line on the island was barely over five kilometers, and even those five kilometers were only half plain.

Some airplane runways need several kilometers of length, at least more than a thousand meters.

If he wanted to plan an airport on Moon Island, other land use would have to be reduced, although he could also reclaim land, like Australia’s airport, which was completely formed by land reclamation.

But Xu Lin was considering buying another private island.

Because Xu Lin’s ambitions were quite large, his goal was to establish a future city dominated by technology, paved with finance and entertainment.

Currently, Xu Lin’s idea was still rather vague.

Moreover, this goal would be grand and long-term, perhaps realized when he stepped into middle age.

But Xu Lin wanted to give it a try.

Money is like dirt; only when spent is it truly yours.

Even if this is American territory, Xu Lin is not scared; ten years later, he should already have the capital to shake the world, and maybe even five years later he might possess such capital.

So, what’s there to be scared of?

Think of consequences when doing great things?

Just do it.

Two hours later, Xu Lin parted ways with Li Yongsheng and casually gave him the final payment.

Li Yongsheng promised to respond with a construction plan within three days, and once the plan was approved, Li Yongsheng would bring people to the island for tasks like geological surveys and scanning terrain, after which the formal construction would begin.

The first phase of construction Xu Lin wanted was six months.

Li Yongsheng was reliable in his work, so Xu Lin had confidence in him.

The time came to the next day.

Xu Lin found the same top agent from last time, intending to purchase a second private island.

This time Xu Lin’s target was clear, the island closest to Moon Island.

Its land area is larger, more than thirteen times that of Moon Island, reaching 270,000 acres.

It’s also an undeveloped island, but the land area is large, and there are two freshwater lakes on it, so the price wasn’t low.

It needed 1.28 billion dollars.

In RMB, that’s over 9.126 billion.

Xu Lin bought it outright!

After securing the second private island.

Xu Lin stayed in Hawaii for two more days.

Then he set off for New York.

Soon after arriving in New York, Li Yongsheng’s plans came, a total of six plans.

Xu Lin looked them over and chose the one he was most satisfied with.

The total price of this plan required four billion.

"Let’s start with this plan; before tomorrow I’ll transfer you a billion first, the subsequent three billion, and I’ll pay the final balance once completed."

"Boss Xu is straightforward!"

"Boss Li also needs to work hard, I should count as a big client, right?"

"Of course, Boss Xu is my ultimate big client, and even for this single deal with Boss Xu, I won’t be taking other orders for the next year, so please trust in my business capability and integrity, I’ll absolutely make Boss Xu satisfied, I, Li Yongsheng, won’t cut corners or play dirty."

"Good."

Xu Lin didn’t say much more.

On the second day in New York.

Xu Lin met Tilin, considered catching up with an old friend.

Actually, Xu Lin also had business to attend to here; he wanted to kickstart some North American operations.

"The scientist is really in the limelight lately!"

Tilin wore her hair down today, dressed in a long dress with stockings and a trench coat, accompanied by high heels, and she wore sunglasses, giving off a cool vibe, especially her original height of 1.8 meters plus ten centimeter heels, making her the same height as Xu Lin.

"Where did this unparalleled limelight come from?"

"Your game has the gaming community and even the technology circle over here enraptured, and it’s making politicians nervous."

Tilin sat down beside Xu Lin and extended a finger, tracing Xu Lin’s chest, "Now, many people are looking for you."

"Looks like you’ve been studying well lately, you’re even using idioms from my ancestors."

Tilin’s Chinese is already very fluent, indistinguishable from speaking Mandarin with locals.

"With my IQ, Chinese is nothing difficult."

She picked up the menu; it’s an upscale restaurant; Xu Lin is hosting.

"Did you come alone this time? Where’s the madam?"

"I came by myself."

"Hmm."

Tilin continued, "The company we invested in last time is doing pretty well lately."

"It’s only been a little over two months, still not officially started, wait another two months, then you’ll see results."

"Hmm."

They started ordering food, and soon, the ordering was done.

Tilin asked, "What’s the scientist here for, surely not just to see me?"

"I want to kickstart the gaming operations here, do you think you can help? I can give you a thirty percent share of the profits."

"Your cultivation game?"

"Yes."

"I admit I’m tempted, but it’s very difficult to enter this market with that game, you’ll have to hand over the technology to the government, otherwise you might not get in."

Tilin said: "The bigwigs over here are all looking for you."

"What about taking the piracy route? Circumvent the government."

"You’ll be targeted soon enough."

"Can your family power cover you?" Xu Lin asked.

"Should be able to."

Tilin’s family is an old line of pure-blood Anglo-Saxons, with power too.

The so-called free Western world also values bloodlines, some families have produced four presidents in this country, with disciples holding various important positions in government departments; thinking the West doesn’t value connections and heritage can fool children.

Xu Lin: "I’ll handle the piracy route for you, which is essentially authorized; you’re just nominally taking the piracy route, and if trouble arises, your family should cover you, right?"

"I can agree."

"Don’t you need to ask your family?"

"Ask what? Deal with it when it comes; besides, I trust they will support me."

"Cut first, report later, right!"

Xu Lin continued: "As long as my game gains enough dominance here, at that point, not even your government can touch the game; it’s similar to TikTok."

TikTok has over 130 million users in North America, and North America’s population is just over 340 million, taking more than one-third, in the end, even if the government wants to ban it, they have to consider, especially as it’s already escalated to a major power game.

So, as long as Xu Lin can make his game reach this level, there’s no need to be intimidated, moreover, equal opponents will naturally match up by then, bigger issues won’t require Xu Lin’s consideration.

Tilin agreed: "I think it’s worth a try!"

Xu Lin: "But specifically, let’s start in March; I’ll come over then, and I need to purchase physical servers here, but this task, I need you to handle buying the physical servers, then I’ll pay you."

Xu Lin detailed his thoughts; this time the servers he needed were physical servers, not cloud servers, after all, if he’s opening operations here, he needs North American cloud servers, if they know it’s Young Master Xu using them, talks fall through, they’ll shut the server on you.

So Xu Lin will set up physical servers, and they’ll be placed in the underground base of his private island.

Generally speaking, server addresses can be locked through technology.

But Xu Lin has the tech too; if you want to lock me, ask if you’re as good as me first.

Xu Lin: "When the time comes, I need ten thousand servers, you’ll be responsible for purchasing them here, once settled, I’ll have people transport them out."

Tilin: "I roughly understand your idea now, but, you trust me so much?"

"No, I trust my strength, my brain, developed to 13%, the most personally powerful human in the world, bar none."

Xu Lin said: "You can trust me unconditionally, I won’t harm you, of course, you also can’t harm me."

"What if I harm you?"

"Then I’ll throw you to feed the great white shark!"

"Scientist, you’re really cold-blooded."

"I’ve reached this position, if I’m not cold-blooded, I’ll be beyond redemption, unless they’re someone I absolutely trust; besides, you’re still an American, backed by a superpower, right now I’m in New York, with one call, surrounding me may be a special forces team, and first the higher-ups here will interview me, demanding I work for them or hand over technology, if talks fall through, I might not go back, so shouldn’t I be cautious?"

Xu Lin laughed: "My dream is to change the world, if you’re willing, then follow me, if not, we have nothing to discuss, I’ll find a new agent."

"Change the world?"

"I have another powerful invention that hasn’t debuted yet, but soon, and I will change the world, that’s beyond doubt!"

Xu Lin was brimming with confidence.

"Scientist, I like your confident demeanor!"

"Kiss me then, take me to earn and fly high!"

Tilin leaned in, giving Xu Lin a kiss on the lips.