Forty-eight hours passed in the blink of an eye.Leon spent those two days relaxing inside his luxury hotel suite, tracking the city’s real estate news while finalizing his plans. He didn’t waste a single second worrying about the Young family. With the Eye of Truth on his side, he already knew how the game was going to end.On the morning of the third day, the entire financial district was rocked by an absolute crisis.Leon stood at the entrance of his commercial dirt plot, dressed in a sharp charcoal suit, holding a hot cup of coffee. Right across the street, the grand plaza of the Jade Emperor Court was in complete chaos. The red carpets and floral arrangements from the grand opening were gone, replaced by flashing red police lights, yellow crime scene tape, and screaming sirens.Hundreds of wealthy buyers who had spent millions on apartments were crowding the gates, shouting furiously at the security guards.Just an hour ago, a massive structural crack had ripped open through the center of the skyscraper’s lobby floor. The crack quickly spread all the way down into the primary foundation columns. The city’s building inspection bureau had rushed to the scene, conducted an emergency scan, and issued a terrifying report: the developer had used illegal, sub-standard industrial concrete. The foundation was crumbling under the building’s own weight.The entire skyscraper was officially declared an imminent collapse hazard and condemned by the government. The value of the fifty-million-dollar tower dropped to absolute zero overnight.A sleek black Mercedes van slammed its brakes right at the edge of the police line. Young Master Young stepped out, his hair completely messy, his white suit wrinkled, and his face pale with cold sweat. Right behind him was Chloe, trembling with fear, her eyes wide as she clutched his arm."This is impossible! It’s a lie!" Young Master Young screamed at the head building inspector who blocked his path. "My family spent fifty million dollars on this project! A single crack cannot condemn my entire building!""Young Master Young, the scans don’t lie," the inspector replied coldly, showing him a digital clipboard. "Your foundation is hollow sand. The building will be demolished by the city next week at your family’s expense. Furthermore, a criminal investigation has been launched against your father for safety fraud. Your company is officially bankrupt."Chloe gasped, dropping her designer purse onto the wet ground. "Bankrupt?! No... no! What about my diamond bracelet? What about the penthouse you promised me?!"Young Master Young turned around and pushed her away furiously. "Shut up, you stupid woman! We are ruined, and all you care about is your jewelry?!"As Chloe fell to the ground, crying in despair, her eyes shifted across the chaotic street. Through the crowd of shouting people and police cars, she spotted a lone figure standing calmly near the empty dirt parking lot.It was Leon.He was taking a slow sip from his coffee cup, looking at them with a dark, freezing amusement. The chilling warning he had left them two days ago echoed perfectly in her ears: You have exactly forty-eight hours left to stand at the top."Young... Young Master! Look!" Chloe pointed a shaking finger across the road. "It’s Leon! He knew it! He knew the building was going to fall!"Young Master Young looked up, his bloodshot eyes locking onto Leon. A wave of pure, irrational fury took over his mind. He pushed through the police line, storming across the asphalt street until he slammed his hands down onto the wooden fence of Leon’s plot. Chloe scrambled up and ran right behind him."You!" Young Master Young roared, his veins bursting from his neck. "You did this, didn’t you?! You sabotaged my family’s concrete! I’ll have you killed, you low-life trash!"Leon didn’t step back. He didn’t blink. He casually set his coffee cup down on the fence post, looking down at the ruined billionaire heir with absolute disdain."Sabotage? Don’t flatter yourself, Young Master Young," Leon said, his voice dropping to a dangerous, icy whisper. "Your family’s own greed destroyed that tower. I simply chose not to buy a palace built on sand. But I must thank you again for selling me this dirt plot so cheaply.""So what if you own this useless mud?!" Chloe screamed, her voice shrill and desperate as she tried to defend her choice. "The skyscraper is gone, which means this entire area is completely dead! Your hundred thousand dollars is flushed down the toilet, Leon! You’re still just a pathetic loser with a piece of dirt!"Leon let out a soft, low laugh that sent a cold shiver straight down their spines."A piece of useless mud? Let me show you what real wealth looks like," Leon said smoothly.He turned around and waved his hand toward the back of the plot. A massive, heavy drilling rig bearing the golden logo of the Murong Group roared to life. Cynthia Murong had kept her promise, sending her family’s top geological engineering team to excavate the site under a private contract Leon had signed the previous evening.The massive drill bit pierced deep into the earth, cutting through layers of stone and soil. Within three minutes, the head engineer ran out of the control booth, his face bright red with sheer excitement, holding a heavy glass tube containing a core sample of dark earth and glittering metallic rocks."Miss Murong! Mr. Leon!" the engineer shouted over the roar of the engine, attracting the attention of the surrounding crowd and the media reporters nearby. "We hit it! The core sample is verified! There is an undocumented, massive ancient underground gold vein directly beneath this plot! The purity level is over ninety percent!"Cynthia Murong stepped out from the luxury sedan parked inside the plot, a rare, brilliant smile on her beautiful face as she walked up next to Leon. "Excellent work. According to our initial volume scans, the total estimated market value of this vein is at least eighty million dollars."Eighty million dollars.The words echoed across the street like a thunderclap.The media reporters immediately turned their cameras away from the crumbling skyscraper and rushed toward Leon’s fence, their flashes blinding. The wealthy buyers who had just lost their money stared in absolute envy.Young Master Young felt the ground slip beneath his feet. He staggered back, his face turning completely grey. His family had owned this land for years, searching for a way to make it profitable, only to sell the true gold mine to the man they had kicked into the gutter for a measly hundred thousand bucks.Chloe looked at Leon, her breath completely catching in her throat. Eighty million dollars. That was more wealth than Young Master Young’s family had ever touched at their absolute peak. And Leon owned it entirely.Realizing the massive mistake she had made, Chloe threw herself against the wooden fence, tears streaming down her face as she looked at Leon with begging eyes. "Leon... Leon, please! I was forced by him! Young Master Young threatened to ruin my family if I didn’t leave you! I still love you, Leon! Please, let me come back to you! We can spend this money together!"Leon looked down at the girl he had once loved so blindly. There was no sadness in his heart anymore, only a profound, freezing indifference."Chloe," Leon said softly, leaning forward slightly so only she and Young Master Young could hear his final words. "A dog that bites its master once will always bite again. Go enjoy the mud. You look much better down there."Without giving them another glance, Leon turned his back on them, walking alongside Cynthia Murong into the safety of the excavation site as his security team blocked the ruined pair away. Behind him, Young Master Young collapsed onto his knees in the dirt, and Chloe wailed in absolute regret, completely crushed under the weight of his titanic success.Leon looked up at the open sky, a supreme aura of power surrounding his figure. This was only day three, and his name was already going to rule the city. The true game had just begun.
Chapter 4: The Kingdom Collapses
The God-Level Appraiser: I Can See The Price of Everything!