Chapter 3547: Edge of Tomorrow (4)

Schiller knew that Harley had always been keen on forming superhero groups, mainly focusing on "what other universes have, we must have too," and regardless of whether it was good or bad, she would form it first.

Considering that she was really rich, satisfying this little hobby was not difficult. At least now, Victor's eyes were shining.

"Really? Is there 500,000?"

Harley nodded and said: "Not only that, I can also advance one year's salary to solve your current economic problems."

Victor couldn't help but applaud her.

An annual salary of 500,000 US dollars is not a small amount, and it was in the millennium. Now Schiller's monthly salary is only a few thousand dollars, and after deducting taxes and paying insurance, he gets two thousand and something.

After the "Pale Knight" implemented the new tax law, these two thousand and something, it is estimated that he has to pay another thousand in taxes. Even if the store's income can stabilize, a net income of three thousand a month is God's blessing.

If Schiller does some extra psychological counseling, the annual net income can reach about 50,000 to 60,000, which is already considered a middle-class group with high income in the United States.

A science god like Victor can get an extra 50,000 to 100,000 a year on average.

But this money is not so easy to get. In years when the year is not good, the project parties are dragging on and on, maybe the two projects this year will be dragged to two years later, and some projects will be cut in half.

Fortunately, they have two people, and a family net income of about 150,000 a year is no problem, which is not middle class in the United States, but belongs to the rich.

However, they are raising Billy now, even if they go to a public elementary school, various expenses are not cheap. The house they live in is also very large, and they have to pay more property taxes, plus the new tax law is also a heavy blow to them, so this extra 500,000 annual salary seems particularly tempting.

For this reason, Victor showed great enthusiasm. He rubbed his hands and said: "Alright, when do we start? What do we need to do? Making trouble for the Justice League?"

"Don't rush," Harley took another sip of soda and said, "First we have to determine the candidates. I want to select people according to the villain identity of other universes."

"What do you mean?"

"It means the counterparts of people who are villains in other universes, I want to recruit them all as much as possible to form the most powerful villain alliance!"

"Oh, I see. In other universes I am Mr. Freeze, most Mr. Freezes are villains, so I can participate, right?"

"That's right," Harley snapped her fingers and said, "That's what it means. Only if your counterpart is a villain in other universes do you have a chance to join. However, those too niche villains won't work, if you want to find, find the most powerful villains."

"I have a candidate here," Victor said, touching his chin, "What do you think of Oswald Cobblepot?"

"Penguin? It would be great if he could join."

Victor immediately took out his phone and said while editing the message: "The economy is not good recently, the expansion speed of the Cobblepot Group has slowed down. He should be quite free, I'll make an appointment with him for dinner."

"Professor, then you... Professor? Professor! Are you dissatisfied with anything?"

"No," Schiller came back to his senses and said, "I'm just thinking about how to spend that 500,000."

Harley rolled her eyes and said: "Do you have any candidates to recommend?"

"How about Harvey Dent? In other universes he is Two-Face, although he is not disfigured in this universe, he is still very professional in terms of law, I think our team needs such talent."

"He should be discussing marriage with Christine soon, and he is just short of money. He should be very happy to join."

"Lawyer? Alright, maybe we really have legal problems that need to be solved. You can contact him according to the treatment I gave you."

Schiller nodded, also took out his phone and started sending messages to Harvey. He thought about it and said: "What about Scarecrow and Riddler?"

"Professor Crane?" Harley hugged her arms and thought about it, and said, "I want bad guys, not unlucky guys. Will his luck be a bit too bad?"

"What is the Riddler's name again? Edward? Is the Riddler in our universe an adult? We don't want minors here!"

"You can go find them," Schiller said, "I don't know where Jonathan is, but I know Edward is in Arkham Asylum, currently recuperating. Whether you can hire him depends on his attending physician."

"Let me think about who else..." Harley recalled the list of villains in various universes while drinking soda.

"Oh, and Waylon!" Harley stretched out a finger and said, "He tinkers with his moving company every day, I almost forgot him. He is the famous Killer Croc, he must come to participate!"

"Did you forget the most important one?" Victor asked, "How can you lack the most famous Joker?"

"You mean Jack," Harley showed a difficult expression and said, "Jack is running long-distance, how can he have time to participate?"

"Come on, can he earn 500,000 by running long-distance for a year? I dare say, as long as you offer the price, he will definitely come back immediately."

"Makes sense. But if so, wouldn't there be two Jokers in our organization?" Harley looked at Schiller.

"Don't look at me, I'm not Joker," Schiller shook his head and said, "Can't I be an independent super villain?"

"Of course you can, Professor," Harley gave him a thumbs up and said, "However, I mean, there are two Jokers in my organization, it's too cool!"

"If you don't want to be Joker, how about we get the one who is mayor? I see he is also quite short of money."

"Then you might as well find the one who does talk shows," Victor said, "He just finished his national tour recently, and the TV show is also recorded, he shouldn't mind earning some extra money."

"If I pull both of them in, wouldn't we have three Jokers? It's simply cool!" Harley twisted her body in the seat and patted the table excitedly.

"Oh, and little Pa, she is Poison Ivy in other universes, but she has never worn her uniform once. I must customize a new uniform for her this time."

Harley opened her phone and started browsing the homepages of various fashion brands to choose styles.

Victor's phone rang, he shook his phone at Harley and said: "Oswald replied to my message, we will go to dinner together later. If you have nothing to do..."

"Go, go," Harley waved her hand and said.

Schiller also glanced at his phone and said: "I made an appointment with Harvey and Christine to have dinner at the faculty restaurant..."

"You go too," Harley said, "I'm going home to make a video call to Pam and ask for her opinion."

After the three broke up, Schiller and Victor walked back together. At the fork in the road, Victor asked Schiller: "Aren't you going to the restaurant?"

"I did make an appointment with Harvey, but he said he didn't have time tonight, it has to be tomorrow noon."

"Alright, me too. My dinner with Oswald was set for tomorrow, I have nothing to do tonight."

"Go play cards for a while?"

"Okay."

The backs of the two disappeared on the road to the activity building.

In front of the huge stained glass window, Pam packed the last bunch of dried flowers, put them in a glazed vase, and patted the debris on her hands, saying: "Alright, this should be about it."

She stepped back a few steps, walked to Merkel's side, and examined her masterpiece.

Schiller's store had been arranged almost, the shelves were placed early, the goods were also placed, and there was already a certain amount of customer traffic. Many students, teachers, and rich people who came to see houses in the magic school had already visited the store.

Currently, the store is divided into two parts, the left side sells specialties of the magic world, and the shelves are filled with various beautiful stones, feathers, animal horns, and some relatively rugged handmade products.

The right side is dedicated to placing various strange plants, some of which were specially picked by residents of the magic world from their hometowns, and some were made by Pam.

More are a combination of the two, creatures from the magic world bring beautiful plants from their hometowns, and Pam uses plant magic to make them adapt to the environment of the inner world, so that they can be placed in the window for sale.

Near the stained glass, dried flowers made by Pam are placed. The dried flowers she made are indeed different, not the kind of wrinkled, dark-colored ones sold outside. Although the petals of the flowers lost moisture, they still maintained the maximum stretch, the color change was not much, and they had the beauty of both the blooming period and the withered period.

And he also researched many unique flowers, such as each petal of a flower has a different color, some flowers can emit a faint light at night, some flowers will change color when exposed to more sun, and some flowers will change from red to blue as they lose moisture, or even appear with different patterns.

These fresh flowers are the most popular, and those rich people who came from the surface world to see houses like to buy them the most. It's not enough to just buy them, they also hire Pam as a florist at a high price, bringing materials to their houses to help them match.

Pam simply signed a contract with Merkel, more like renting a corner of the store for independent operation, and had to pay fixed rent and a portion of the turnover.

But the benefit is that Pam can promote here, attract the attention of the rich, earn more delivery fees and service fees, and when she goes out, she can put the goods here, Merkel will watch them for her, and they can also be sold normally.

Because the quality of the goods in the store is very good, even if it was just a few days of trial operation, there was a sales volume of thousands of dollars every day, and there were many repeat customers, and even some creatures from the magic world visited, such as elves and centaurs.

Of course, there will naturally be some uninvited guests. Some guests from the magic world didn't understand the rules, yelled in the store, or ran around; there were also rich humans who looked at the elves and thought they were beautiful and cute, so they wanted to catch them with bottles or nets, but were beaten up instead.

Most of the disputes Merkel could mediate, and those that couldn't be solved, were bundled by Pam's vines, and most of them were easy to talk to, so nothing big happened.

In front of the floor-to-ceiling windows of stained glass, various flowers were placed in layers at this moment. As the sky gradually darkened, after the indoor lights turned on, the flowers looked even more colorful and magnificent.

Although not a staff member of the store, Pam would also help clean up or tidy up items, which was a piece of cake for her. The vines grabbed the broom and vacuum cleaner, and it was done in a while.

After work, Merkel would drive Pam home, which was considered a return of courtesy.

Today, sitting in the car, Pam received a call from Harley. After hearing her concept, Pam couldn't help but feel moved.

She had gotten a lot of supplies from Greed before, and after converting them into money, she had millions, not only paying off the mortgage, but the tuition loans and living expenses were also more than enough.

However, the economy is not good now, the interest given by the bank is not high, and there is no good investment channel. Without other income, money becomes worthless in inflation every day, and sooner or later there will be a day when she sits and eats.

Pam thought about it and felt that this 500,000 still had to be earned, but the uniform designed by Harley was exempted, she would rather design a set for herself.

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