Chapter 1734 Roppongi
Roppongi in Tokyo's Minato District has two subway lines, the Hibiya Line and the Oedo Line, but now both lines are out of service, so the headquarters team of four took a taxi to Roppongi.
In the taxi, Lin Nian said to the driver, "Take them to the hottest club or nightclub," and then they were taken to Roppongi.
When getting off the car, Caesar, who was sitting in the passenger seat, habitually took out his credit card, and then suddenly froze.
He actually forgot that his credit card was blown away in the suitcase along with his passport and wallet.
Usually, whether in the student union or in Italy, he usually doesn't need to swipe his card when he goes out to spend money, and there are always younger brothers and minions to help him pay for it. Now he is in Japan and he is suddenly dumbfounded when he takes a taxi and pays.
Fortunately, Lin Nian in the back seat saw Caesar's dilemma and silently handed him a watermelon card, which is a common transportation stored-value card in Japan. It can be bought at airports or ticket machines. It has many uses and can even be used as a shopping card in convenience stores.
Fortunately, taxis in most places in Tokyo still accept credit cards. Although it is a bit troublesome, the driver saw that they all looked like foreign tourists, so he didn't say much. After swiping the card, he politely let the four people get off the car.
"Damn it, I just remembered that I'm penniless now!" Caesar stood under a tree with silver colored lights on the roadside and watched the taillights of the taxi leave before he remembered this important thing.
Although Japan is beautiful, you have to have Fukuzawa Yukichi to experience this beauty in person - you have to spend two 100 yen coins to go to the observation deck of Shibuya SKY. It's no joke that a penny can make a hero fall, but Caesar didn't expect that this sentence would be applicable to him one day.
"Didn't your wallet get blown away?" Lu Mingfei looked at Lin Nian, and then realized that this guy seemed to have just bought them drinks in Kabukicho.
"I always keep my wallet close to my body, don't you?" Lin Nian looked at the few people who looked at each other and asked strangely.
"Then I have some bad news for you. We may have to rely on you for our funding needs in the future." Lu Mingfei reached out and patted Lin Nian's shoulder with a strange expression.
Lin Nian narrowed his eyes, but didn't say anything. Seeing him like this, Chu Zihang immediately said, "My wallet was also lost when the plane exploded."
Because they left in a hurry, they didn't even exchange some Japanese yen before going abroad. They only brought the globally accepted VISA credit card to Japan. Both Caesar and Chu Zihang had never worried about money.
"You can send the bill to me after returning home. I think the school board will be happy to reimburse our expenses." Caesar, who had never experienced being penniless, looked at Lin Nian with a gloomy expression for a long time, and gave a very heartwarming ending plan - no one forgot why this guy came to Kassel College in the first place.
Lin Nian waved his hand to indicate that he didn't need to worry about it. He looked up and went to a nearby convenience store to exchange some cash with a machine. He could only withdraw 100,000 yen at a time. It took him a while to withdraw several times, and finally returned to the street to distribute it to several people.
"200,000 yen in cash per person. Tell me when you run out. I will find a way to go to the bank to withdraw more when I have time tomorrow." Lin Nian said after handing out the cash.
They really need some cash now, because they are still in Roppongi, where every inch of land is worth a lot of money, especially in Roppongi's never-sleeping streets at night.
There are all kinds of bars, clubs, custom shops, and nightclubs here. Unlike Kabukicho Street, this place gives people a high-end impression and feeling in Japan.
This is also related to the development of Tokyo MIDTOWN in 2007, as well as the opening of Mori Art Museum and National Art Center, Tokyo. The office buildings of various multinational companies are also set up here, and the nightlife provided to these tasteful and stylish people will naturally be plated with a more gorgeous gold border than the "flashy" of Kabukicho.
If Kabukicho is just a street that never sleeps, then it should be called "Tokyo's top high-end night entertainment venue". Statistics show that the normal consumption here for a night is about 63,000 yen, and there is no upper limit. It can be regarded as an upper-class and high-end version of Kabukicho. Those who can come here to consume are generally rich second-generations, or adults with financial ability who have already formally worked.
If you want to say where the most chaotic place is, it is undoubtedly all kinds of nightclubs and bars that are taken care of by the underworld and have no entry threshold. It is not surprising that there are all kinds of people in them. But the problem is that they don't know where such bars are hidden, and it is too troublesome to look for them one by one, so they take a different approach and go to a place that is chaotic but very orderly and well-organized.
If you want to find a banned item that is not circulated on the market and violates the law, you have two ways to find their traces. One is to go to a chaotic area through well-informed information and rely on connections to buy it, and the second method is completely opposite to the first method. Go to a truly upper-class, high-consumption, and expensive place and get it through money and status.
As the leader of the group, Caesar chose the second way, because this was the way he was most accustomed to and familiar with. Using money to pave the way and using money to slay the dragon was a reserved program of the Gattuso family that had to be tasted.
As long as you don't care about the investment, you can always get a return when the total investment threshold is reached. At least now Caesar has never invested so much that he can't continue. He can always reach that threshold in advance and then get the reward he deserves.
But this time he seemed to have made a mistake, because his credit card was blown to ashes.
In fact, not only his, but also Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei's were blown to ashes. Their passports and wallets were all put in the suitcase and burned cleanly. And Lin Nian-he has developed a good habit of carrying valuables with him since he was a child, and never leaving two meters away from himself. In other words, Lin Nian would be very uneasy if he couldn't touch all his belongings (it was not the era of mobile payment at that time).
"What is your credit card limit? We should have a good idea of the expenses of our future operations. Otherwise, it would be a bit embarrassing if the people were detained and needed the family to rescue them." Chu Zihang asked presciently.
"Theoretically, this card has no limit, but large overseas purchases may be frozen by the bank as suspected fraudulent use. But as long as you can explain to the bank, there shouldn't be any problem." Lin Nian turned the pure black card between his fingers. With his normal credit, he couldn't apply for such a card. With insufficient personal credit information, he couldn't say that his credit was good. Moreover, this unlimited card was only open to the real high-net-worth people in society - his girlfriend fits the characteristics of this group of people.
In fact, after Su Xiaoqiang handed this card to Lin Nian, he basically never swiped it. He had always used another salary card of the executive department to pay for travel - because he really didn't have the habit of borrowing money, even if it was a credit card with no interest or very low interest, he didn't like it. But this time when he came to Japan, he was more careful and brought this card with him.
This saved his personal bank manager from calling him regularly every month to ask about his well-being, asking him openly or secretly why he never used this card for consumption, whether he didn't like it or had any opinions about their bank.
"This card is more suitable for you. You will need to come forward to negotiate later." Lin Nian handed the unlimited credit card to Caesar. I think this kind of killer weapon is better for people who don't care about money. He is afraid that he will have some inappropriate facial changes when swiping the card.
Caesar took the card with a blank expression, but he was actually a little frustrated. As a nobleman of Kassel College, he actually needed to swipe the credit card of his team members during the mission!
Damn the fierce ghosts, he has begun to hate the Yakuza who don't care about the moral code of the world. This has begun to rise to personal grudges.
Soon, he cheered up, because just like Lin Nian said, he just didn't have the means of payment for the time being, but this didn't mean that he had lost all the means and knowledge in the upper class. Going in and out of such places might be a little unfamiliar to Lin Nian and others, but for him it was just like returning home.
"Remember to ask me to pay when you return to school." Caesar still made a final insistence and explained it to Lin Nian seriously.
"What are we going to do next? What does the driver mean by sending us here? At least send us to the door of the store!" Lu Mingfei turned his head and looked at Lin Yu's high-rise buildings. Some buildings had three or four layers of glass with lights on, and they were even transparent. You can see sexy hostesses walking by the window.
"According to Caesar's theory, if you want to spend money to buy some rare intelligence or contraband, then we have to go to a very popular and high-end place." Chu Zihang said.
"Then I think we should have nothing to choose." Caesar raised his hand and pointed to the corner of the street in the distance across the street.
Chu Zihang and Lu Mingfei looked over and saw a long queue. Even though it was late at night, the queue was still very busy. What they saw was just the tail after turning the corner. The main body of the queue was just along the tail. It was enough to show how popular this place was that these people wanted to enter at night.
The driver did not take them to the door of the store, but he took them to the end of the queue of this unknown mysterious store, so that they could queue up directly after getting off the car, one step ahead of others.
"It is indeed popular, but popular does not generally mean high-end, right?" Lu Mingfei hesitated, "The Shaxian snacks opposite my high school were also very popular."
"But it is not necessarily the case that your high school students wore Saint Laurent and Prada to eat Shaxian snacks." Caesar carefully observed the long queue and commented,
"It is obviously abnormal to be so popular - you can see what those people in the queue are wearing, there are no cheap clothes, although the matching is a bit messy and unsightly, but most of them are famous brands, piling those branded goods on their bodies like a peacock with its tail spread. Customers like this can usually spend a lot of money to enjoy the service in a normal store, but now they are queuing outside in the middle of the night? This is not reasonable and does not conform to these people's consumption concept."
Chu Zihang also looked at the handsome men and beautiful women in the long queue, and after careful thinking, he concluded, ".Unless they are competing for something, or the consumption venues they want to go to are using the strategy of hunger marketing - being able to make these people with potential consumption power pay for hunger marketing also indirectly proves that this store must have a good upper limit."
Lu Mingfei was stunned when he heard this. He stared at the long line with wide eyes. He only felt that a young lady with yellow plastic bandages instead of tight skirts was very sexy, but he couldn't see anything else - lack of social experience.
"Go and see directly?" Chu Zihang looked at Caesar and asked.
"That's what I thought, but instead of queuing, we will go to the front and see what's going on." Caesar nodded, "Lin Nian, what do you think? Lin Nian? What are you looking at?"
When he turned his head, he found that Lin Nian didn't seem to listen to them talking, but turned his head to look at the street they came from, and tilted his head as if looking for something.
"Nothing." Lin Nian turned his head back, "I just had a feeling that someone was always watching us, but I didn't find anyone. If it's not my illusion, then he is hiding very well, especially well."