Ralph couldn't believe what he just heard. He felt that he was having auditory hallucination and James said something else. Because there's no way what he just heard was true.
"You're joking, right?" Ralph asked again, wanting to confirm.
He saw James nodding in response and he slowly set the glass cup on the table and looked at him intently.
"The fuck?!" He exclaimed in disbelief.
James smiled at Ralph's reaction, and his smile faded into a solemn expression.
"I'm not joking, Ralph. I have something massive that I want to achieve and to achieve it, I need at least $900 million," he said, with a solemn voice.
James wasn't just spilling figures from his mouth, as he has already made his calculations and he has thought hard on how he's going to achieve his goal.
Since the system didn't specify on how he's supposed to complete the mission, then he can do about it his own way.