Dawnwood Revealed

That night had a tremendous impact on Bai Ge.

For the first time, he clearly understood the meaning of his imagination.

The imagination—or the realm of fantasy, so to speak—was something every human possessed.

And Bai Ge might be the only being capable of forcing the fantasies in his imagination into reality.

"If it's merely an ordinary object, all I need is the material. But if I want to realize an abnormal trait, I'll need my own energy."

"To figure out my ability, I used up all the electricity I absorbed last night through experimentation..."

With his stomach growling, Bai Ge looked at the rising sun, stretched his body, and walked toward the refrigerator.

He grabbed some food, then sat on the floor, stuffing it into his mouth with one hand while thrusting the other into an electrical socket...

The tripped circuit had already been repaired.

"This month's electricity bill is going to be outrageous..."

"I should get myself a generator set today..."

If he wanted more powerful traits in the future, Bai Ge had to charge himself up as much as possible.

Actually, he didn't need to eat at all. He only ate to keep his stomach from grinding itself empty and causing gastric problems.

After eating and drinking his fill, Bai Ge stopped charging to prevent the circuit from tripping again and began browsing the internet.

He wanted to see whether there were any factory buildings in Xiangfan City that needed to be transferred. Bai Ge wanted to buy one.

After searching for a while, he happened to see a nearly forgotten post on the local forum.

"True Account of a Haunted Incident in Happiness Residential Community, with Pictures and Explanations! Personally Experienced!"

Since it concerned something that had happened locally, Bai Ge liked to keep an eye on it.

He clicked on the video and watched it, finding the whole thing absurd.

After reading the written explanation, he got a general idea of what had happened.

There was a sword visible to everyone at the scene, yet it could not be recorded by any camera.

To anyone who had not been there, the matter was completely unbelievable.

Someone commented below: "Wow! What a beautiful sword! Manual laughing dog."

"Yeah, I can see it too. Anyone who can't is an idiot."

"We're all ordinary mortals. We can't see the original poster's sword."

There were countless comments mocking the post. Bai Ge had thought the same way, after all, since the other party could not provide any actual evidence.

Some netizens had even posted pictures below, which might have been of a cabinet in their own home.

"My figurines are haunted too! They can't be photographed! 2333."

Someone else took a selfie with an empty hand held to his mouth and asked, "Can anyone see that I'm actually smoking?"

Someone went even further, taking a selfie while pointing at an empty bed and asking, "Is my girlfriend pretty?"

Faced with so many jokes, Bai Ge noticed that the original poster had not given up explaining.

Moreover, some netizens who seemed to be the poster's neighbors and the like had done their best to describe what had happened at the time.

Of course, words alone were no proof, and the vast majority of people did not believe them.

Instead, they treated it as a meme and had a great deal of fun with it.

Bai Ge shook his head with a smile and went to take care of serious business.

Once he had money, many things became much easier.

Bai Ge gave up on searching by himself and went straight to an agent.

By the afternoon, he was able to go look at factory buildings.

He had carefully considered the matter. Applying to establish a factory himself would be too troublesome.

It would be better to rent a plot of land and install a complete set of generator units there. He could generate electricity for his own use and would not need to use a factory as cover at all.

Thus, after working on it all day, he finally secured himself a small secret base.

The site covered more than eight hundred square meters and was remote and concealed. A two-year lease cost less than one million yuan.

Renting such a large place was not only for installing the power-generation equipment. It would also give him private space to store things in the future.

The machines themselves were what truly cost money.

Through the agent, he also ordered two 2,000-kilowatt diesel generator units. Including the agent's fee, they cost him more than seven million yuan.

In the blink of an eye, eight million yuan was gone. The huge fortune he had earned from selling flowers was immediately reduced to less than two million.

"The boss is truly generous!" The agent was ecstatic.

He did everything he could to help Bai Ge, driving him around personally and constantly flattering him.

He handled everything for Bai Ge with exceptional attentiveness, genuinely making Bai Ge feel like a boss.

On the surface, Bai Ge remained calm, but inwardly, he was already going crazy.

Not long ago, he had still thought ten million yuan was too much and that he could use it for a very, very long time.

He had never expected that more than half of it would be invested in his ability in one go.

Still, he firmly believed he could earn it back soon.

Besides, spending money freely had its advantages. The questions Bai Ge refused to answer were not pursued by the agent.

At first, the other man had assumed he was setting up a factory. Only later did he learn that was not the case. As for what a private individual wanted with two large generator units, that was none of the agent's business.

Having money made things easy. It was legal for a private individual to purchase generators, as long as he did not sell the electricity generated to other organizations or individuals.

"It should all be ready in about a week. Someone will install everything for you. I'll notify you when it's time for you to come and accept the equipment."

"Understood."

"Um... are you sure you don't want to buy any energy-storage equipment?" There was one matter the agent found extremely strange.

Bai Ge had bought only the power-generation equipment. He had not bought any of the related storage, transformation, or distribution equipment. What was he going to do with the electricity he generated? Where would he send it?

To this, Bai Ge replied only, "Oh, that? It isn't necessary. Put the invoice under my name. You understand what I mean, right?"

The agent looked completely bewildered, but then he suddenly understood.

Seeing the clear expression on his face, Bai Ge had no idea what on earth the man thought he understood.

The equipment would not arrive for another week. For the time being, he would not have a large amount of energy entering his body during that week.

After settling the matter, Bai Ge returned home. Before he had even fully sat down, Chen Song called him.

"Little Bai, come over quickly. Forget it! I'll pick you up. We're going to the provincial capital right now!"

"What happened?" Bai Ge asked.

Chen Song said, "Young Master Luo is looking for you. There's probably something wrong with your flower. In any case, he wants to see you..."

Luo Wendi was not very familiar with Bai Ge, so he had contacted Chen Song directly.

Chen Song was more than happy to do a favor for Luo Wendi and decided to personally take Bai Ge to the provincial capital.

After hearing this, Bai Ge furrowed his brows, thought for a moment, and activated Calm Command.

"I already explained the matter with the flower. It has nothing to do with me anymore. Whatever happens to the flower is Luo Wendi's problem, not mine."

Chen Song knew what had happened at the time as well. To be honest, he was not entirely sure why Luo Wendi wanted to see Bai Ge.

"Little Bai, Lord Bai, I already agreed to Young Master Luo. What's the harm in going to see him? Consider it a favor for me, all right?"

Bai Ge remained unmoved by Chen Song's words.

He calmly said, "Sorry, I already said that the flower has nothing to do with me. I have other matters to handle and no time to see Luo Wendi."

"You... you're really determined not to go? What exactly is wrong with the flower? Don't tell me it really was a fake flower? Could it have died already?" Chen Song began to panic. Remembering how Bai Ge had made his position clear the day before, he knew Bai Ge must have had a reason.

If something really had gone wrong with the flower and Luo Wendi became angry, Chen Song feared that he would be dragged into it as well.

Bai Ge calmly said, "I don't know either. I picked the flower, and he bought it of his own free will. The transaction between us is complete."

"You..." Seeing how firm Bai Ge was, Chen Song thought for a moment before speaking.

"I understand. You get paid for what you do, right? I'll hire you to accompany me there. One hundred thousand yuan. How about it?"

He had offered one hundred thousand yuan without hesitation. In order to help Luo Wendi, the notoriously stingy Chen Song was actually willing to pay Bai Ge for something so simple.

Bai Ge answered decisively, "All right. I'm at the office. Come as soon as possible, and don't bring anyone else."

Chen Song was stunned and exclaimed, "You agreed? Weren't you refusing to go just now?"

"Just now, it was a favor. Now it's business. Remember to bring the money," Bai Ge said.

"Good, good, good! I'll be there in ten minutes!"

Chen Song was delighted and immediately drove toward Bai Ge's Office.

Bai Ge rose to his feet and walked over to the computer.

Earlier, he had activated the Absolute Trait: Calm Command.

He was in a state of calm that embodied the human ideal, so he had figured out what was going on in a very short time.

It was true that he had already made his position clear, yet Luo Wendi still wanted to see him. This meant that the Danmu had truly manifested some strange trait.

That trait had aroused Luo Wendi's intense curiosity—or rather, his attention. He must have wanted to obtain some answer from Bai Ge. Of course, Luo Wendi could not possibly know that Bai Ge had created the flower, so he most likely only wanted to know where the Danmu had grown.

Under these circumstances, repeatedly refusing would be useless and might instead arouse suspicion.

Therefore, Bai Ge had actually already prepared himself to meet Luo Wendi.

As for what he had said on the phone just now, he had merely been extorting money from Chen Song.

He was being paid one hundred thousand yuan for doing something he had already intended to do. It was practically no different from robbing money.

"I said Shennongjia last time. Luckily, I didn't say Mount Mi."

Bai Ge had visited Shennongjia the year before and had quite a few photographs.

Most of them were pictures of his younger sister, but there were also some that were purely scenic shots.

As he pondered, Bai Ge found a decent photograph.

The photograph showed somewhere outside the Shennongjia scenic area, a place people were usually forbidden to visit. It was extremely remote.

He had only spotted it from a distance and taken a picture. He had never actually gone there.

With this photograph, he could claim that he had picked the Danmu there.

"Based on the previous consumption, the Danmu probably didn't manifest an overly outrageous trait. True fire control definitely wouldn't consume so little."

Bai Ge searched for information about the Danmu and soon saw a picture that had been reposted tens of millions of times online.

"As expected, it's already been made public, and it was given to the Chinese Academy of Sciences... The discoverer... Luo Wendi..."