CHAPTER 23 MALFUNCTION

Marcus enjoyed the feeling of being surrounded by people's attention. Most of the guests' eyes were on him, which made Marcus very happy. He deliberately waited a few minutes, letting the interest of the crowd escalate before speaking slowly. "It's a simple math problem." He said slowly. "Two hundred bamboo sticks, plus some banana leaves, these materials can build a house, which means there's an income of eighty points." He continued. “Okay?” Zac urged him to continue.　 "And these things, Marai gave us as labor fees, converted into points, it's ninety." Jordan wasn't good at math, and he was getting impatient hearing this. Jordan couldn't see the relevance between this arithmetic and whether Marai had made a loss or not. He said, "Mr. Marcus, just get to the point, how much is Marai losing?" Marcus laughed confidently. "I won't go into the extra steps! I'll be straight, the more bamboo and banana leaves we collect, the more Marai loses! As long as we persist for a long enough