Original God plus Marvel: Meet Thanos and start calling for help

Chapter 127 The breadcrumbs are a bit too big

"Traveler, we are back."

Lin Ze could hear Tartaglia's loud voice in the room. He walked out of the inner room with three blue veins on his forehead: "Ah, you're back. How did you get today?"

"It was good. We ate a lot of delicious food, saw a lot of new things, and bought some beautiful gadgets."

Tartaglia said excitedly.

He walked in and saw all kinds of packaging bags and gift boxes filled in the hall.

"Ah! Has the store delivered everything? Traveler, take a look, we bought a lot of gifts for everyone."

Tartaglia was trying to find the gifts she had picked for the Traveler and Paimon among the pile of things in the hall, but the whole house was full except for the space left for a passage, and there was no place to go.

These packages and boxes are stacked on top of each other, and it is really difficult to distinguish them at first glance.

"Ah, there are so many things here, haha, I can't find it for the moment." Tartaglia scratched his head embarrassedly: "Why don't you sort it out when you have time, you will find it eventually."

"A little? A lot? You call this a little?"

Lin Ze resisted the urge to draw his sword and held his forehead: "What shocks me most is that these are only a part of it!"

"They've called me, so just buy the clothes and gems."

"Why did a house and four cars suddenly appear under my name?"

"Also, did you buy that giant Iron Man model outside that is taller than the Wanmin Hall and can't even be moved in?!"

Lin Ze yelled it all out in one breath, "Thank you both for traveling through time and space and paying back my mortgage and car loan."

Where will I go in my life if I continue like this?!!!

\"Hey, don't be in a hurry! Sit down and listen to me slowly.\"

Tartaglia comforted Lin Ze with a smile, looking relaxed: "I told you that I would definitely help Mr. Zhongli when I go out with him, so I helped you bargain well this time."

"As soon as I saw this house, the seller said it was in the best location. It usually costs millions to buy it, but today I only need 88.888 US dollars for the down payment. And the four cars are all the latest models, and they are very famous brands called Tesla. It's cheap to buy them now."

Tartaglia kept talking as if to take credit for it, but he didn't notice Lin Ze's increasingly frustrated expression and the look of disbelief in his eyes.

"As for the 'Iron Man action figure' outside, we bought it at the Stark Industries Expo. There are many robots that look exactly like Tony's mecha. Although they can move, they are too small."

"I talked to the organizer for a long time before they agreed to sell us the big iron man in the square."

Zhongli found an empty seat nearby and met Lin Ze's inquiring gaze when he sat down. He nodded, confirming that what the young master said was true.

"Sir, I really like this mechanical product. Unfortunately, although this mecha is big, it is just an ornament with a steel shell. It cannot move freely like the Iron Man shown in the movie."

"However, even if it costs a little more, money can't buy satisfaction. If you feel that it is worth the money, then the money spent is not wasted."

“In life, there are gains and losses, but if we are always calculating gains and losses, then we will be bound by money and other mundane things, and lose the fun of playing life.”

He said slowly.

Lin Ze: “…”

"Hey, traveler, why are you so bitter? You have so much money, there's no need to worry about this expense."

Tartaglia spread out his hands easily.

"What do you mean I'm rich! You two have brought Wanmin Hall to the brink of bankruptcy. I don't even dare to stay in the pot. When I saw Kaia, Diluk and Xiangling, I was terrified!"

"People have already achieved moderate prosperity, but if you go out, it will be like the days before liberation."

"No! Not only that, we are now millionaires, negative! Millionaires in negative debt!"

Lin Ze said proudly, "That's fine with Zhongli. Tartaglia, you said you helped bargain, come on, tell me again how you negotiated the price!"

Tartaglia didn't expect that the money was so extravagant to spend. He only swiped the card given to him by the traveler 'a few times', but how could he have emptied the family funds of Wanmin Hall?

Thinking back to when he was in Liyue, any random thing he bought would cost tens of thousands or even millions of Mora. When he went out to buy something today, those prices were totally not enough, and he even felt that he was saving money for the travelers.

Zhongli was also a little surprised by this. He had never had the habit of looking at the price before buying things. However, in view of the previous traveler's reminder, when paying, he specifically asked for Tartaglia's opinion and only continued after confirming that there was no problem. He did not expect such an embarrassing situation to occur.

"Ah? Just... For example, this stone from the 21s, which is made of the spine of a magical animal from outer space. It looks like stone but it's not. There are strange energy fluctuations in it. Mr. Zhongli liked it at first sight."

Tartaglia took out a box that could sense the vibrations inside, opened it, and pointed to the hard block with a silver-blue halo inside to show it to Lin Ze.

"The person who sold it wanted five million Moroccans... No, five million US dollars. After much persuasion, he gave me a 99.88% discount and sold it to me at a low price."

Lin Ze almost spat out a mouthful of blood and spit it on the young master's face: "With a 99.88% discount, isn't that 4,994,000 US dollars?!"

Paimon also jumped up in surprise: "It's only five thousand cheaper! (This counts...)"

"What's the difference between $5 million and $4,994,000?"

Zhongli: "Hmm... four million nine hundred and ninety-four thousand... doesn't sound like much at first glance."

"But in terms of common sense, it is indeed six thousand less than five million."

Zhongli held his chin and pondered.

Lin Ze: This scene, these lines, why do I feel so familiar?

"Have you been deceived? This kind of stuff was scattered all over the ground when the travelers fought against the Chita aliens. It is no longer valuable!"

Paimon shouted, and Lin Ze echoed him.

Zhongli doesn't seem like the kind of person who likes this kind of thing. Even if he has no concept of money, the things he bought in the past, even if they were not expensive items, always had some artistic value, humanistic value and the like.

The stone weight was made of an alien's spine. Lin Ze picked up the cold object and looked at it carefully.

"I don't see any collectible value in this thing."

"really."

Zhongli agreed.

"what?"

This time it was Dadalia's turn to be confused: "Why did Mr. Zhongli want to buy this thing?"

He asked curiously.

"Do you still remember what I said to you when I lectured the 'relevant department personnel' this afternoon?"

Zhongli stood up and put his hands behind his back and said slowly: "Those people are just lackeys who are paid to do things for others. The person who is hiding behind the scenes will not be punished. Once we leave, Wanmin Hall will become the target of that person again."

"Well, they can try."

Tartaglia said angrily. He looked at Zhongli and said, "No wonder Mr. Zhongli specifically asked Strange to help treat those minions. Is it just to verify whether they also have this spinal stone?"

"Ah."

Zhongli nodded: "This kind of spine stone looks beautiful, but in fact, the energy it contains is harmful to the human body. I think the reason why this kind of spine stone is not available on the market is probably because of the official action mentioned by the travelers."

"When you put it that way, I seem to have some impression of it."

Lin Ze recalled the months after the Chirita crisis. In the beginning, the work of storing and sorting the alien corpses and weapons was always entrusted by the government to private organizations and companies.

However, there have been many incidents of experiments using aliens' body tissues and organs, and of using alien technology weapons to injure people.

To prevent such incidents from happening again, the government issued Executive Order 396B, placing all post-war cleanup operations under the responsibility of the Disaster Control Department, a joint organization established by Stark Industries and the federal government.

From then on, it became difficult to see such alien items on the market.

"I suspect that the people behind this group of minions are most likely the behind-the-scenes organizers of the alien spinestone trade."

"After all, Young Master has defeated no less than 20 people this afternoon. Almost every one of them has some energy fluctuation of this type of spine stone in their body. Such a high ratio is really rare."

Zhongli took two steps and was blocked by a group of soft, dark green bird dolls under his feet.

He paused, picked up the doll, put it on the table next to him, and then said:

"Based on the address that the young master got from the minions, I spent a lot of money nearby and pretended to be an outsider who didn't know the value of the goods. As expected, I attracted the attention of the man selling the spine stone."

"Ah! Paimon knows, this move is called luring the snake out of its hole!"

Paimon clapped his hands, his face full of excitement.

Lin Ze understood at this time, but although he understood, wasn't the price of luring the snake out of its hole a bit too high? Was he luring Osel or Osel's wife?

"Mr. Zhongli, Mr. Tartaglia, I'm back."

Just as Lin Ze was complaining, Stephen came in from outside. He signaled to Lin Ze and Paimon and told them his discovery:

"I found it. I pretended to be a kind doctor passing by by chance. When I was treating those people, I 'inadvertently' revealed that I could cure their physical discomfort. Sure enough, they let down their guard."

"The boss who sold you the alien spine stone is the 'regional salesman' under their boss. As long as Mr. Zhongli expresses his desire to purchase a large amount of spine stone when he sees him again, the salesman will definitely go back to the 'boss' to get the supply."

"Then we will be able to catch them all in one fell swoop."

"Good idea!" "Not bad."

After hearing this, Zhong Li nodded in satisfaction: "So, it's not worth the...dollars spent from the traveler's card."

Lin Ze had almost forgotten about this matter, but when Zhongli mentioned it, his heart began to ache again.

"Forget it, forget it. You can't catch a wolf without sacrificing a lamb. At worst, we can think of some way to make money and fill the hole."

"Then we don't have to buy anything tomorrow."

He looked at Zhongli, then at Tartaglia.

"no need."

"Huh...that's good."

Zhongli: "The traveler only needs to pay the balance."

"what? What?!"

Lin Ze jumped up immediately.