Chapter 183: An Extra Life! Traveling Bag! (First Update, Requesting a Day Off)

A magnificent villa somewhere.

This villa covers an enormous area; the back garden alone is vast, and the house is equipped with every facility imaginable.

The overall style is Western, exuding a tranquil and peaceful atmosphere, making it exceptionally suitable for convalescence.

This villa belongs to Batra, the former world's richest man and the current world's second-richest billionaire.

At present, he is not yet as wealthy as he would later become; thus, Luo Ge surpassed him in just over a year.

Were it the past, he might have still cared about that title.

But ever since his beloved was involved in a car accident and became a vegetative patient, his only wish has been to cure his lover.

For this purpose, he has invited countless world-renowned doctors and also spent vast sums to hire so-called Nen users for treatment.

In the end, all efforts came to nothing.

Now, he seems to have only one path left to walk.

A room filled with various medical instruments.

Heart rate monitors, oxygen masks, and other devices are everywhere.

A woman with a pale face lies quietly on the bed, motionless.

Although her features have somewhat faded, one can still see that she is a beauty; yet now, her life is sustained only by various machines.

Batra sits by the bedside, gazing quietly at his lover, who lies motionless on the bed like a sleeping beauty from a fairy tale.

A trace of sorrow flickers in his eyes.

Batra is not yet as aged as in the original story; he appears much younger, with brown hair and two tear tracks on his cheeks.

After looking at his lover, Batra turns and looks at the man outside the door, nodding slightly.

Stepping outside, Batra leans against the wall and says in a deep voice, "Jezzele, have you bought it?"

"It has been bought."

Jezzele, the middle-aged man who appeared in the original story, nods and says.

Ever since Greed Island was released, Batra has recruited personnel to help him crack that so-called "dream game."

Jezzele is a bounty hunter by trade; he does things solely for money.

Batra spends lavishly, so Jezzele came to him voluntarily and accepted the position of person in charge of clearing this game.

Greed Island is a card-collecting game; one clears it simply by collecting all the designated cards.

As a reward, the person who clears the game may bring back any three designated cards to use in the real world.

Batra is precisely eyeing a card within it named "Archangel's Breath" for its healing effect.

Jezzele shakes his head and sighs, saying, "Even with a higher price offered, no one is willing to sell."

Last year, the opening auction price for Greed Island was an astonishing 5.8 billion Jenny, with a total of one hundred copies.

Even so, more than twenty thousand people competed to order them, and in the end, they were all sold out.

Since then, Greed Island has vanished from the market; only some related information circulates on the internet.

Unfortunately, Batra is not a Nen user; he only learned of this dream game this year and could only try to purchase it from others.

He directly offered a bounty of 17 billion for the Greed Island game itself, and simultaneously offered 50 billion for a Greed Island game with a memory card.

Yet despite such colossal wealth, he has gained nothing; not a single person chose to sell.

Batra and the others can probably guess why.

The game has only just appeared; those people still cling to the dream of clearing it and will not give up easily.

Perhaps when their patience wears thin, or when they encounter significant setbacks, they will put Greed Island up for sale.

Jezzele pauses for a moment, then continues:

"At the same time, our manpower is still somewhat insufficient."

"Currently, I have four people here; including others, there are fewer than eight in total."

"Based on the information we have, the difficulty of obtaining cards in this game is not small; clearing it will take at least years to count."

"In that case, naturally, we need to form a team and divide the work to cooperate so as to clear it as quickly as possible."

"Understood. You arrange these matters."

Batra delegates authority to Jezzele; although his face still appears young, he still possesses the dignity of a superior.

He was able to build such a vast estate; he is no fool. He employs people without doubting them and does not employ those he doubts.

"Actually, there might be another method."

A doctor with a complex expression walks out of the room; the doctor is a top-tier medical talent on a global scale.

Batra paid a huge sum and leveraged considerable connections to hire him to treat his wife.

The doctor also overheard the conversation between Batra and the other man.

If Jezzele is the person in charge of strategizing Greed Island, then he is the person in charge of treating Batra's lover.

Therefore, he is very familiar with the woman's condition and feels there might be another path to take.

Batra is surprised and blurts out, "What other method?"

"I suppose Mr. Batra should know about the Gurro Company."

"Naturally."

"Among the products launched by the Gurro Company, there is a potion named 'Healing Potion'."

"We have tried it and found it has a slight effect on your wife's condition, producing some feedback."

"However, regrettably, no matter how much more dosage we use afterward, the condition remains stuck at that level."

"It has not improved, indicating that although this medicine is good, it still has an upper limit."

The doctor explains.

Batra looks thoughtful, his brows slightly furrowed as he says, "So your meaning is..."

"I believe the Gro Company must possess a more effective potion."

"So I must ask you to negotiate with the Gro Company; perhaps we can obtain the potion that will restore her to her original state."

Batra was slightly stunned.

"Restore her to her original state..."

To be honest, the doctor's words were truly tempting; if there was even a sliver of a chance, he was willing to try.

As for Zhidao, he did not intend to give up there either.

One must not put all eggs in the same basket.

He planned to pursue both paths!

He would not let slip even the slightest opportunity.