Human Body Charging

"Uh..."

Hearing that it would be handed over to the state, Bai Ge froze.

Come to think of it, that was true. This was Danmu. If it was the only one in the world, its value really was impossible to estimate.

In a sense, it was as precious as discovering a fossil of a creature from hundreds of millions of years ago. How could something like that be bought or sold?

If this Danmu was genuine and completely unique, it was practically a living fossil. Its significance in every sense was astonishingly great.

Earlier, he had thought Luo Wendi was questioning whether Danmu was naturally occurring, which was why Bai Ge had said he picked it in Shennongjia. Although the records said it was found on Mount Mi, Shennongjia was the only place he had visited, so he simply said that was where it came from.

He had not expected to have misunderstood him.

After hearing that it was a natural species, Luo Wendi instead no longer dared to buy it.

"Then forget it..."

Having thought this far, Bai Ge decided he might as well not sell it and take it home to study himself.

Just as he was about to reach out and take the flower, he saw Luo Wendi stop him with a smile.

"Hey, don't be so hasty. You say it's real, but does that make it real?"

The way he put it sounded a little like he was picking a fight and deliberately forcing the price down.

But inspiration struck Bai Ge, and he immediately understood what Luo Wendi meant.

If the flower was not taken to a research institute, it would be difficult for him to prove whether it was natural.

If that was the case, there was no need to prove it. Natural or not, Luo Wendi could buy it!

Luo Wendi could hand it over to the state himself. When the time came, he could claim to be its first discoverer.

Put simply, he was exchanging ten million yuan for a reputation.

Even if it was later discovered that the flower had been forcibly cultivated by artificial means, it would not matter. Luo Wendi could take it home to admire or give it to someone.

Its appearance alone was valuable.

No matter what happened, Luo Wendi would not lose out.

Whether it was genuine or not was unimportant. As long as Bai Ge got ten million yuan, he would not need to concern himself with anything else.

After figuring this out, Bai Ge found himself wanting the ten million yuan.

"Whatever you say. Whether it's natural or not isn't important. It's very beautiful, isn't it?" Bai Ge said.

Hearing this, Luo Wendi knew that Bai Ge understood.

He immediately took out a check, wrote ten million yuan on it, and placed it in front of Bai Ge.

Bai Ge did not take it right away. Instead, he said, "Once I take the money, this thing is yours to claim as your discovery. I don't want any more trouble."

Chen Song shot Bai Ge a glare. He had heard what Bai Ge was getting at.

Luo Wendi was spending ten million yuan not only to buy the flower, but also to pay a hush fee. He was actually afraid that Bai Ge would go around saying that he had picked it himself.

So Bai Ge did not need to say that pointless line at all.

But in reality, they did not understand Bai Ge.

Bai Ge had realized that this Danmu had very likely acquired some special property. If Luo Wendi handed it over to the state, the resulting turmoil would probably be considerable.

Instead, he hoped that Luo Wendi would appreciate it himself and treat it as a cultivated flower to play around with.

Luo Wendi said, "If you think ten million isn't enough, I can add another five million."

Bai Ge nearly agreed, but he still kept his composure and said,

"That's enough. Ten million it is. This flower is yours."

With that, he took the check and left.

Luo Wendi watched Bai Ge leave with a deep look in his eyes, filled with bewilderment.

"This person seems desperate to distance himself from this flower."

"Though that's exactly what I want, he shouldn't be acting this way..."

In Luo Wendi's eyes, however, Bai Ge was ultimately just a minor figure. After thinking about it for a while, he stopped paying attention to him.

"This flower is so beautiful. My father-in-law will definitely like it."

"I have to send it to the provincial capital tonight."

"As for whether to hand it over to the Chinese Academy of Sciences, I'll ask my father-in-law first."

Bai Ge walked along the road with a heavy heart.

He was naturally excited to have obtained ten million yuan. It was a huge sum of money. With it, he could go for several years without earning another cent.

But the two abnormalities involving Danmu also left him puzzled.

"Can settings I imagine out of thin air in my mind's fantasy be acknowledged by reality?"

"If so, my mind's fantasy has far too many uses."

"It can practically be said to be... omnipotent!"

Bai Ge's mood was complicated. These past few days, he had constantly been discovering new uses for his mind's fantasy.

At first, he had thought it was a useless ability, but gradually, its applications had increasingly exceeded his expectations.

"No, it isn't as good as I imagined."

"Even if it really can make my imagined settings a reality, I can't afford the price."

"One Danmu made me lose forty pounds, and my muscles shrank considerably. If it happens again, my body won't be able to take it."

Seeing that it was getting late, Bai Ge suddenly arrived at a clinic.

Shao Yuan Clinic—a terribly ordinary name.

This was the clinic opened by Bai Ge's childhood friend, Shao Yuan. It was not far from where Bai Ge lived.

When Bai Ge entered and saw that there were no customers, he immediately flopped onto the bed and shouted, "Old Shao, get over here!"

Shao Yuan looked at him worriedly. "What's wrong? Is your head hurting?"

He had thought Bai Ge had brain cancer, so the first thing he asked about was a headache.

Bai Ge smiled. "Don't worry, I don't have brain cancer. I've already been examined."

"Let me see the examination results," Shao Yuan said.

Bai Ge had no examination results. He had examined himself internally.

"Uh, I threw them away a long time ago. Why would I keep them if I'm not sick?"

Shao Yuan naturally did not believe him, but there was nothing he could do.

"Then why did you come here?"

Bai Ge smiled and took out his phone, preparing to transfer several thousand yuan to Shao Yuan.

Now that he had money, he naturally had to hurry and repay what he owed his good friend.

Although Bai Ge was greedy for money, he had never liked owing anyone. Even when he was forced to borrow money, he would repay it as quickly as possible.

Unexpectedly, Shao Yuan shook his head. "Weren't you trying to earn a million yuan? I'm not in a hurry."

"Haha, it's fine. I've already earned enough!" Bai Ge said with a smile.

Shao Yuan froze. How long had it been? He had actually earned a million yuan? Was he trying to fool a ghost?

"You haven't said a single truthful thing. If you really had a million yuan, I'd honestly advise you to get your brain checked. There might still be hope."

Bai Ge smiled. "There's really nothing wrong with my head. Forget it, let's not talk about it."

He was happy inside. In just a few days, he had gone from being troubled by a terminal illness to being healthy, wealthy, and endowed with superpowers. It was an incredible reversal of fortune.

Shao Yuan shook his head. "Just look at you. I haven't seen you for two months, and you've lost so much weight..."

To other people, Bai Ge's appearance did not seem particularly unusual, but as his childhood friend, Shao Yuan could tell at a glance that he had lost far too much weight.

Bai Ge had originally weighed 150 pounds. Now, he probably weighed just over 100 pounds, his body lean to the extreme...

Bai Ge took out cash, set it down, and turned his head to ask, "Yeah, I earned this money through blood and sweat... Let me ask you something. What's the fastest way to replenish the body's energy?"

Shao Yuan laughed. "Eat whatever's highly nourishing. Why are you asking? Trying to gain weight? Then eat more high-calorie food."

Bai Ge said, "I want the energy inside my body to be dozens of times greater than it is now. Do you think that's possible?"

"Impossible. The human body stores excess energy as fat. You want to become dozens of times fatter than you are now? Are you kidding me?" Shao Yuan said.

"There's really no other way?" Bai Ge lamented.

Shao Yuan rolled his eyes. "Forget it. Increase your energy reserves dozens of times? You're not an alien! What, do you think you can charge yourself?"

"Charge?"

Bai Ge stood there in a daze, lost in thought. Shao Yuan found it strange, but after remembering Bai Ge's "condition," he could only sigh.

At this moment, Bai Ge's consciousness had already sunk into his mind's fantasy.

"If this ability is to affect reality, I have to provide the energy myself. Even if I turn into a three-hundred-pound fatty, how much energy could I store?"

"Charging... If humans could really charge themselves, that would be great. Cells could store electrical energy and supply the body with what it needs."

Bai Ge let his thoughts run wild, prompting the Bell to ask for confirmation.

"Do you want to do this? Give humanity the ability for its cells to store electrical energy..." the Bell asked.

Bai Ge said, "Can it really be done?"

The Bell said, "We can lower the requirements step by step..."

Bai Ge's eyes lit up. "That's right!"

Implanting the trait of "cells storing electrical energy" into humans on Earth would violate common sense to an extreme degree.

If the required energy was too great and exceeded his limits, there would be no reaction at all. Reality would directly refuse to acknowledge it.

But if he lowered the requirements step by step—for example, making the trait last only a few days or even a few hours—and tested it gradually, he would eventually succeed. Once it succeeded, it would mean that imagined traits could be acknowledged by reality.

Having thought of this, Bai Ge immediately said goodbye to Shao Yuan, wanting to go home and conduct an experiment.

However, he soon thought of something else.

When he took out Danmu, two abnormal events had occurred. One of them was the excessive consumption.

That could be explained simply by returning home and testing whether he could manifest imagined settings.

But the second matter was extremely bizarre. Some of that mysterious unknown energy had escaped, yet reality had not suffered any catastrophic consequences.

"Bell, the reason that escaped energy didn't destroy the world..."

"Could it also have randomly manifested some imagined trait?"

The Bell calmly replied, "It's possible. The energy in your body also vanished out of thin air, while the escaped mysterious energy disappeared just as strangely. They may have vanished because the world gained something new."

"What trait will that energy manifest?" Bai Ge asked.

The Bell said, "I don't know..."

"In the multiverse of your imagined world, there are too many settings that differ from reality."

"If our guess is correct, then it was probably manifested at random."

After hearing this, Bai Ge looked worriedly at the city, which seemed no different from usual.

"Where was that energy used?"