At that moment, Minato Namikaze was sitting in a café, talking with Natasha.
He was called Minato Namikaze because he was being played by Wu Chen's Shadow Clone.
Wu Chen had already established a rule: whenever a clone played someone, it would be called by that person's name.
Right now, Wu Chen's original body was working on his Chakra control while selling hamburgers from a stand outside Stark Tower!
The reason was simple. Over the past two days, Wu Chen hadn't been able to resist the urge to open the Myriad Worlds Random Chest a few more times.
This time, he had gotten a few culinary items.
A stove that made food more delicious, a mobile Food Truck that enhanced its color, aroma, and flavor, and, most importantly, a SpongeBob SquarePants-exclusive secret recipe for the Delicious Krabby Patty hamburger series!
The delicious stove looked like an ordinary gas stove, while the mobile Food Truck was a pushcart made entirely of metal. It had a simple, clean, and hygienic design and could hold the stove and ingredients and be used to prepare food.
The SpongeBob SquarePants-exclusive secret Delicious Krabby Patty recipe was a little special.
As long as he kept the recipe on him and prepared the ingredients according to it, he could make delicious Krabby Patties that anyone who ate them would praise!
The three items had cost Wu Chen a total of five hundred thousand dollars. After all, opening the chest three times required two manual refreshes.
He had thrown away five hundred thousand dollars and gotten this in return. If Wu Chen hadn't already known how to cook, the three items would have been completely useless!
So he stopped immediately and used the remaining money to refresh the Wish Card, getting a few things that could only be used on specific occasions.
That left Wu Chen with just fifty thousand dollars in cash and a check for five hundred thousand dollars.
Faced with a financial crisis, Wu Chen remembered that Iron Man Tony Stark loved cheeseburgers. An idea struck him, and he decided to set up a stand outside Stark Tower.
This wasn't just about making money. It was also laying the groundwork for his plans later on.
After all, Tony Stark wasn't someone just anyone could approach.
A hamburger vendor, on the other hand, had a good chance of meeting Tony Stark.
But it should also be clear that Wu Chen wasn't doing this solely for money. So he set some rules: he sold only Krabby Patties, only one hundred a day, with a limit of two per customer, and each burger cost fifty dollars!
The first ten people to buy a burger each day could make small requests of the owner, such as asking for extra pickles on their Krabby Patties.
Wu Chen was confident and wasn't worried in the least that the price was too high for them to sell. After all, no one could resist the charm of a delicious Krabby Patty!
And things did indeed turn out just as Wu Chen had expected.
On his first day at the stand, after one customer cried out in surprise, all one hundred delicious Krabby Patties sold out in a single morning.
The last one was bought by Tony Stark's bodyguard, Happy, for Tony, who happened to have come out for lunch.
Tony frowned when he saw the unremarkable-looking Krabby Patty, because Happy had told him about all the rules its seller had.
Most importantly, that guy had actually refused his reasonable request to add cheese to his Krabby Patty!
That was outrageous!
"I'd like to see just how good this delicious Krabby Patty everyone's praising really is!" Tony said, unconvinced, and took a bite.
He was instantly struck dumb, his mouth the only part of him still moving as he chewed.
Tony soon finished the delicious Krabby Patty and shouted to Happy, "Happy, go buy me three more, quick! I want two, and I'll bring one back for Pepper Potts! It's so damn good!!"
But Happy said speechlessly, "Boss, that was the last one. The owner has already packed up and is getting ready to go home. Besides, his rule is two per person."
Tony turned to look and, sure enough, saw a Chinese man packing up his pushcart. A crowd of customers stood around him, all looking regretful that they hadn't gotten a delicious Krabby Patty.
"He only sells a hundred a day? And there's a limit of two per person? This guy's turning down money!" Tony grumbled. "Let me go talk to him!"
Tony walked up to Wu Chen and said casually, "Nice burger."
Wu Chen looked up at him, nodded, and then continued packing up the Food Truck.
Tony lost face, but he was pressed for time, so he didn't make an issue of it. Instead, he said directly, "Hey, buddy, if you're willing, I can hire you as my personal burger chef. A hundred thousand dollars a month!"
A hundred thousand dollars a month was already a lot!
After all, selling delicious Krabby Patties this way brought Wu Chen five thousand dollars a day in revenue. After deducting five hundred dollars for ingredients, he made only forty-five hundred.
That came to just a hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars a month...
Huh? A hundred and thirty thousand dollars!?
Wu Chen promptly and decisively turned down Tony's offer.
Working just one morning a day like this, he could make a hundred and thirty thousand dollars over thirty days. Why should he put up with Tony Stark and be his personal burger chef?
Tony frowned. He had evidently done a rough calculation too and realized that Wu Chen's little burger stand made more in a month than he had offered, so he immediately raised the price. "A million dollars!"
To Tony, money was nothing.
What mattered was whether he could be satisfied.