At the moment, Richard was looking at a new dollar account with a large sum of $500,000 in it.
Ringtone
"Hello!" Richard said as soon as he picked up the unknown number.
"Hello, good day. Am I speaking with Mr. Richard Nnaji?" an unfamiliar female voice said from the other side of the phone.
"Yes, that's me."
"Okay. My name is Cynthia, and I am calling from Unified Bank to report a suspicious credit to your account. May I ask if you know about it?"
"Yes, I do," Richard replied as he rolled his eyes.
"Okay, sir. I would also like to inform you that the new dollar account that was created for you has been blocked due to the large amount surpassing its limit. Would you like to unblock it?"
"Blocked? An account that was just opened?"
"Yes, sir. The amount inside surpasses the limit of the type of account you currently have."
"Oh, okay, I see. How do I unblock it, then?"
"Please log into your Unified Bank app. You should see a new notification informing you to upload certain information and documents. Please complete them, and it should be done."
"I have seen that, but when it is unblocked, should I assume that the limits will be upgraded as well, right?"
"Yes, sir, it will," the lady replied.
"Okay, then, thank you. I'll do that now," Richard said before ending the call.
Looking at the restrictions on his new account, Richard didn't know whether to laugh or cry. He didn't plan to use the money urgently, so there was no rush, but it was a new account.
They could have created the account without the limits if they wanted. All this was simply to stress the living hell out of you.
Without paying it much mind, Richard began to fill in the information requested. He uploaded his documents and other requested details. It didn't take long for the account to be upgraded.
Ringtone
"Hello," Richard answered. It was the same number that called him.
"Good day, this is still Cynthia from Unified Bank. I am calling you to inform you that the upgrade is done. Please have a nice day," she said.
"Oh, thank you. I just noticed that," Richard replied.
For some reason, he felt that the customer care he had access to had increased by a lot. He remembered trying to upgrade his regular Naira account and how forceful and dismissive they were.
Now, they had taken the initiative to upgrade the account for him, and if he didn't know better, he would say that this lady, Cynthia, was assigned as his account manager or advisor.
"So this is the life of the wealthy?" Richard said to himself.
Ding!
A new notification was received, and immediately, Richard rushed back to his bank app. Almost at the same time, he received a new notification from his Discord.
Under the name of Larry Bin, a message thanking him for the new system could be seen. Richard paid that no mind for now as he immediately ran to check his bank app.
In his new account, he could see a long string of zeroes. If anyone ever told him that he would one day have a bank account filled with such numbers, he would have been outright screaming "amen" due to the impossibility of it at the moment.
However, now, he had the equivalent of twenty billion naira just sitting silently in his account.
"I have received my payment; thank you for the speedy payment, though," Richard replied to the man on Discord.
He had earned a lot of money from creating translation software. That was the only true work he had done. He couldn't give them the true software he had created using the Unilang.
Instead, he had built software that translates from Unilang to any other programming language. It worked fine, and the result was what he had sent to them.
In terms of power, the software may not exactly be as powerful as the original, but it would be very close.
"That was a given. I hope this marks the beginning of a long and fruitful relationship between us."
"Hopefully. I do have something for you all, though. I would have offered it as a gift, but you don't seem like the type who would do gifts. But here, Taurus has been a disappointment so far… this should help you stay ahead of your competitors for a long while," Richard said.
He attached a new file he had compiled yesterday. He had intended to use it to make them value his skills even more, but there was no need for it anymore. It couldn't just be sitting on his laptop for nothing.
"Is this what I think it is?"
"Yes, it is."
"If so, then, I can't accept this as a gift… the yearly budget for this alone, and the amount of time and energy that had gone into its research and production, has long since surpassed a billion dollars… I don't want it to be a gift… it has to be an acquisition, so state your price."
"The price is nothing, for now, sir. This is quite literally nothing to me," Richard replied.
He expected this, but this was one of those moments where you have to hold your greed and regret why you didn't make them pay for it later. He knew the value of it.
Taurus was a multi-billion dollar creation, an AI model not so different from ChatGPT. Before he created the KingOS, his entire gallery of gadgets had all run on the ConstellationOS, which belonged to Mr. Larry Bin here.
He liked their OS and their search engine; he believed them to be the best. But the AI model they had released, Taurus AI, was too much of a disappointment. It was slow, inaccurate, and many more.
He considered it their only weakness… at least a major weakness that they needed to solve one way or another. This file would completely change that. It wouldn't turn it into a research bot, but again it would be close.
"A sale contract will be sent over soon. Please sign it… it may be a gift, but to us, it changes everything," Larry replied before going offline.
Richard could already tell what he was going to do. He didn't need to have some form of omniscience or something to know that the man was ordering a review of it.