Chapter 136

In fact, like the snap of the Infinity Stones, there are requirements, but its requirements are not so harsh.

Simply put, it is gain and loss, or equivalent exchange.

Whatever you want to gain, you will lose something.

Dai Anna in the movie wished for Steve, who had already been lost, to return. After the wish was realized, she lost her power.

Barbara Minerva wished to be as powerful as Wonder Woman, and she lost her kindness.

Maxwell Lorenzano's wish was even more awesome; he wanted to become the wish stone itself.

Then, he succeeded.

The wish stone turned to ash, and he became a human wish stone. As long as he shook hands or had other contact with others, if the other party needed it, he could realize it and take away anything he wanted from the other party as a reward!

I have to say, Maxwell Lorenzano's flashy operation of wishing to the wish stone to become the wish stone itself, and then accepting wishes from others, is very spiritual.

Most importantly, after he became the wish stone itself, he could freely intercept the belongings of the wisher!

What does this mean?

It means he can take away anything from the wisher, whether it is good or bad!

Even if what is taken away is cancer cells from the wisher, as long as the requirement of 'gain and loss' is met, the wish mechanism of the wish stone can be achieved!

Of course, in this way, the cancer cells will appear on him, and he will definitely not do things that sacrifice himself for others.

And when he wished to become the wish stone itself, what he lost was 'health'. Judging from the results shown in the movie, the lost 'health' cannot be intercepted back from others.

So Maxwell Lorenzano's result was almost destined.

After all, this wish stone comes from the God of Lies. Just hearing the name, you know it is definitely not a righteous and kind divine artifact.

However, it would be inappropriate to say it is evil, because the other mechanism of the wish stone is even simpler and cruder: as long as you cancel the wish, everything will be restored, and you don't have to pay a price!

With such loose conditions, it is really not afraid of being played to ruin!

In short.

Su Quan doesn't need to wish to the wish stone to become the wish stone itself or possess the ability of the wish stone, and he won't lose anything.

He only needs to punch Maxwell Lorenzano a few times after he becomes the wish stone itself to brush out the ability, and he can become the 'God of Wishes' without any effort and without paying any price!

Precisely because of this, Su Quan has never gone to find this citrine wish stone.

"Do you believe it?"

Barbara Minerva's voice suddenly rang in his ear.

Su Quan was stunned and said with a smile: "Sorry, I was thinking about something just now. What did you ask me?"

Barbara Minerva shook her head and pointed to the advertisement on TV: "Do you believe that this Black Gold Cooperative can really let ordinary people invest and make money?"

Su Quan shrugged: "I don't know if ordinary people can make money, I only know that he definitely has no money."

"Why?"

"Everyone knows how profitable the oil business is. If you have money and projects, would you give the opportunity to make money to ordinary people you don't know at all?"

"No."

"Neither would I."

Su Quan smiled noncommittally and shifted the topic back to the jewelry: "How is it? How much is this jewelry worth?"

Barbara Minerva glanced around and lowered her voice, whispering: "You are too bold, to just take it out like this. What if you get robbed?"

"I calculated it. The total value of this jewelry is at least over five million. If you sell it slowly, the price should be even higher."

Five million, a little less than he thought, but it is 1984 now, and the average annual household income in the United States is only nine thousand dollars. Five million is already a huge sum of money.

Su Quan smiled calmly at Barbara Minerva and asked: "Can you help me sell it?"

"Me? You, you intend to hand it over to me?"

Barbara Minerva was very surprised. They had only known each other for half a day, and he dared to hand over such valuable jewelry to her to handle?

Su Quan said affirmatively: "I don't know how much you should take according to the rules of the industry, but here with me, you can take one-tenth."

One-tenth?

That is five hundred thousand?

Barbara Minerva was excited and just wanted to say that this was too much, but Su Quan continued.

"There are additional conditions."

Barbara Minerva took a deep breath: "What conditions?"

"One, you need to exchange half of this money for gold; two, I want you!"

Barbara Minerva was stunned after hearing this. She could understand exchanging half the money for gold; after all, gold is the most value-preserving, but what does 'I want you' mean?

He, he has taken a fancy to me? Impossible. He is so rich and handsome, what kind of beauty can't he find? How could he take a fancy to a bumpkin like me?

He must mean he wants me to work for him! That must be it!

Barbara Minerva messed with her hair in a panic and said in a low voice: "Mr. Su Quan, although you are handsome and generous, and I also hope to work for you, I don't want to give up this job at the museum."

"If, if you just hope that I can help you identify jewelry and sell jewelry, you don't have to propose such conditions at all."

Su Quan looked at her with a half-smile and shook his head gently: "Well—okay, as you wish."

Barbara Minerva opened her mouth, wanting to say something but stopping. She felt that Su Quan's reaction seemed to be saying that she had misunderstood. She wanted to ask, but was afraid that it was her own wishful thinking, and asking would only increase the embarrassment.

After hesitating for a long time, she finally chose to give up.

Coming out of the restaurant, Barbara Minerva returned to her office in a daze, carrying the leather case.

As a bumpkin who was ignored and disliked, Su Quan's 'I want you' made her heart ripple, and she couldn't concentrate on work at all.

One moment she felt she should muster the courage to ask clearly, and the next moment she felt she was being wishful, and asking would only make her lose face.

Confused until it was time to get off work, Barbara Minerva forced herself not to think about these things anymore, carefully took the leather case containing the jewelry, and prepared to leave the museum to find her friend Veronica.

Veronica Cale, a top scientist and businesswoman she admired very much.

She had mentioned to her some time ago that she wanted to buy some jewelry, so this was a good time to let her take a look.

Just as she walked out of the museum, Barbara Minerva was surprised to see Su Quan, who was preparing to leave not far away, and a tall beauty holding Su Quan's arm.

"Did you see that? That's Dai Anna's boyfriend. I heard that her boyfriend donated a large sum of money to our museum just so she could come to work at the museum."

"Really? That's too enviable."

"What's there to envy? If I were Dai Anna, I wouldn't go to work if I had such a rich boyfriend. Working early and late every day, tired to death, not knowing how to enjoy life at all."

"If you want to find a rich person to enjoy life, you have to be as beautiful as Dai Anna!"

"Well said."

Several colleagues seemed not to know or see Barbara Minerva, discussing enviously and walking straight past her.

"Dai Anna—heh, I said it was my own wishful thinking." Barbara Minerva muttered to herself and left silently.

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— Author's Notes —

ps: Buried a small Easter egg.