The Ground Below is Full of Treasure

Every fingerprint was identical, whether it was a thumb or an index finger.

Put together, it was a string of sixes, six, six, six, six...

"..."

Luo Wendi looked and said softly, "You wore fake fingerprint gloves? They're completely undetectable. Is it the latest product?"

He stared at Bai Ge's hands, which were smooth and had natural creases.

He wasn't mistaken; Bai Ge was indeed bare-handed.

"A million each. I made them... want to buy one?" Bai Ge chuckled.

Luo Wendi laughed, "So expensive, I don't need them..."

Changing fingerprints was something Bai Ge had already done when he took out Danmu.

His shaping ability, just by changing his appearance, was infinitely useful to Bai Ge.

Disguising the true cause of death of a corpse, changing faces and appearances, directly altering fingerprints from the skin.

The combined effects were simply a divine skill for committing crimes...

"If you need my help with something, just say it. There's no need to question me here."

"If you don't trust me, then don't ask me. I don't want to take the job anyway..."

Luo Wendi had heard Bai Ge say this more than once. Bai Ge was clearly an independent person.

"I'm sorry, I apologize!" Luo Wendi quickly apologized.

"You know, some things are hard to believe the first time you hear them. If you're not cautious enough, you might end up harming the employer."

Bai Ge shook his head, "I'm an honorary citizen now. Don't come to me for illegal activities, and you don't need to worry about my caution. I want to do some normal business in the future..."

Luo Wendi was taken aback. He had looked into Bai Ge before, and it was said that Bai Ge wasn't very wealthy, nor did he know how to do business. What kind of business dealings could he have?

But then he remembered that the last time he gave ten million to buy flowers, Bai Ge was now a small tycoon.

Luo Wendi pondered for a moment, "Bai Ge, I've seen your abilities. I really need your help with something. But since you want to quit, I won't force you."

"I told the Chinese Academy of Sciences that you are my friend, so you are my friend from now on. What's said is water poured out."

"If you want to do business, you can come to me if you encounter any difficulties. In Xiangfan City, I have quite a few connections."

"Bai Ge, if you need investment, just ask."

After speaking, he handed Bai Ge a beautifully crafted business card.

Luo Wendi himself was in charge of an investment company, holding shares in various industries. His contact information was also on the business card.

Bai Ge hadn't activated the Calm Command at the moment, as it was too draining. If it lasted too long, his spirit would become depressed.

So at this moment, hearing Luo Wendi say that, he was somewhat touched and secretly nodded.

The other party didn't get angry when he refused, nor did he use his power to pressure him. Instead, he told him to feel free to ask for help in the future.

Although there was an intention to win him over and play the emotional card, given the vast difference in their social status, the fact that the other party could do this showed considerable sincerity.

Actually, speaking of which, Bai Ge wasn't incapable of continuing to 'take money and do things.' After all, he enjoyed it, and it was fast money.

After learning that the manifestation trait would lead to containment items appearing in reality, it basically cut off Bai Ge's path of creating useless things that could only be sold for money.

Now that he could recharge, it wasn't impossible for Bai Ge to create diamonds and antiques.

Diamonds went without saying; they were all carbon. He couldn't do it before because he didn't have enough energy to alter the atomic arrangement of matter.

Now, as long as Bai Ge was willing to spend energy, creating the biggest and most beautiful diamond in history was not out of the question.

Antiques were also very simple. By studying relevant knowledge, he could shape an object into what it should have looked like historically, making it impossible for anyone to distinguish the real from the fake.

Finally, by consuming some energy, he could alter its carbon-14 dating results, and a genuine antique would be born.

Using this method, Bai Ge could even forge the Imperial Seal of China.

"However, abusing my brain hole like this for money, causing more containment items to appear in the world, is ultimately not good."

"It was fine before when I didn't know, but now that I do, I should naturally use my energy and opportunities as much as possible to enhance my strength."

Thinking of this, Bai Ge's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Why should I make diamonds myself? This kind of thing isn't valuable in the first place. There are countless of them deep underground..."

A few hours later.

Luo Wendi drove Bai Ge home. Bai Ge kept Luo Wendi's courtesy in mind.

He actually wanted to help Luo Wendi, but he had more important things to do and wasn't in the mood to take on jobs.

Improving his strength as soon as possible was the right way. There were so many containment items waiting for him to search for.

"You don't necessarily have to find me for everything. How about this, if your people can't handle it and you're really desperate, then come find me."

"I'm really busy these days, I'm sorry."

Luo Wendi quickly smiled, "I told you, you're my friend, no need to be polite."

Saying that, he watched Bai Ge leave.

After the car drove away, the driver asked, "Mr. Luo, aren't you being a bit too polite to him? He's quite unappreciative."

Luo Wendi, sitting in the back, shook his head and said, "You don't understand. He's far more capable than you imagine... I don't misjudge people."

The driver respected Luo Wendi's judgment. Luo Wendi was skilled at investments; companies or teams he invested in had never lost money.

"Then... should I still have someone handle that matter for you, Mr. Luo?"

Luo Wendi nodded. "If it can be done, that's great. If not... we'll discuss it then. Just do your best."

Bai Ge returned home and immediately collapsed onto his bed, resting for over ten hours.

He was utterly exhausted, having not slept properly for two days.

Waking in the dead of night, he infiltrated his brain hole to research the black bow tie.

"The Shadow Person is a state, it's all good... but it still has flaws."

Within the brain hole, it was much simpler for Bai Ge to understand the bow tie's various properties.

He didn't need to conduct experiments; he could simply spend a small amount of energy to view the properties attached to the bow tie within his brain hole.

This was a built-in ability of the Sovereign of the brain hole: Insight Settings.

Of course, Bai Ge already knew most of the bow tie's properties. He was merely confirming them now.

However, he did discover a few details he hadn't been aware of.

For instance, the maximum duration of the Shadow Person state.

Liang Wei boasted about being able to remain in the Shadow Person state forever, but that wasn't true. He could only maintain it for seventy-two hours at most before automatically reverting to human form.

Afterward, the same person would have to wait another ten hours before transforming into a Shadow Person again.

This created a period where the bow tie was useless.

"And as I suspected, the Shadow Person isn't immortal, nor is the Shadow Person state invincible."

"Physical damage and the chemical reactions that should occur are all absorbed by the bow tie. Once the bow tie is removed, all of it will be fed back to the wearer."

"It's not that I can't use it, but if I use it to block a fatal injury, I cannot lose it, or I'll be dead..."

"Furthermore, the bow tie's absorption capacity has a limit. To use an analogy... it's roughly equivalent to the close-range impact of a 300-megaton nuclear explosion. Exceeding this level, and the Shadow Person will also die."

The absorption limit was irrelevant; humanity's total nuclear arsenal didn't even reach 300 megatons.

But the feedback upon detachment was a significant flaw. The wearer's weakness would be concentrated on the bow tie, making it the most obvious vulnerability for the containment item's user.

This weakness would be even more pronounced when combined with the aforementioned period of uselessness.

However, it was different for Bai Ge. It wasn't that he couldn't use it. If he had enough energy in the future, he could set a short period of 'invincibility' for himself and block the feedback damage.

In essence, the bow tie was a damage storage device. When Bai Ge was weak, he could use it to save his life. Later, if he had the opportunity, he could find a way to 'reset' the accumulated damage.

With that in mind, Bai Ge decided to use it.

Despite its numerous flaws, it was ultimately a life-saving artifact. What was there to be afraid of?

"I want to use it now!"

When thinking about its uses, Bai Ge's first thought was to travel anywhere.

This was something he had already considered when the Chinese Academy of Sciences was experimenting with the Shadow Person.

He needed energy, and the sun and the Earth's core were undoubtedly two regions of extremely violent energy.

Despite humanity venturing into space and building space stations, they could actually explore very few places. Forget the universe; even on Earth, there were too many places they couldn't reach.

The deep sea was out of the question; humans had only reached depths of just over ten thousand meters.

As for underground, while drilling holes seemed simple, the deepest terrestrial well was only twelve kilometers.

To the Earth, that hole was merely a negligible pit dug into an extremely thin layer.

This layer was the Earth's crust, averaging thirty-three kilometers in thickness on land. The mantle was about two thousand eight hundred and sixty-five kilometers thick. The crust wasn't even a fraction of the mantle's thickness. Therefore, humans couldn't even penetrate this layer, let alone reach deeper levels.

Bai Ge knew that within these thousands of kilometers inaccessible to humans, vast amounts of minerals were hidden.

At depths of six hundred to one thousand kilometers in the lower mantle, there existed a diamond layer.

The high pressure and high temperature caused atoms to rearrange, forming massive amounts of diamonds. These diamonds were often incredibly large; a single diamond might cover an area larger than Los Angeles.

Such diamond layers were ubiquitous in the lower mantle.

Besides diamonds, the mantle contained even more 'gems.' Peridot and spinel were countless, and these substances made up over fifty percent of the mantle.

While only a small proportion could be classified as gem-quality, this proportion was still substantial given the immense volume.

If the deep sea was a treasure trove, then the deep mantle itself was a colossal treasure. Ninety percent of the Earth's surface resources originated from underground.

While one might search for shipwrecks in the ocean or dig up ancient tombs in remote mountains, in the deep mantle, simply picking up a 'stone' was enough.

Unfortunately, current human conditions made it impossible to reach the mantle, which experienced temperatures of four to six thousand degrees Celsius, not to mention the immense pressure.

The extreme environments there were a true hell, with high temperatures melting the mantle's substances, and liquid magma rampant beneath the surface.

Humans would need to develop much further to go to such places.

However, Bai Ge could now solve this problem with a containment item.

The black bow tie allowed him to withstand the extreme conditions of the mantle; high temperature and high pressure were no issue.

"It's a shame that the characteristic of absorbing and storing thermal energy is much more difficult than Safe Electricity Storage!"

If Bai Ge could absorb thermal energy from the deep mantle, a trip to a thousand kilometers underground would not only yield many gems but also provide him with a continuous supply of thermal energy!

But in reality, this was difficult to achieve, involving too many factors.

He had to make himself immune to temperatures of 6,000 degrees Celsius, immune to pressures a million times that of the surface, and also ignore oxygen deprivation and various chemical reactions.

"Even if all of that were achieved, I couldn't use my own body to absorb heat. With my weight of less than fifty kilograms, in an environment of five thousand degrees Celsius, I would only gain energy equivalent to about three hundred degrees of electricity."

"Heat is heat, thermal energy is thermal energy."

"The thermal energy I can absorb is directly proportional to my mass. To change this would violate the laws of thermodynamics. I might have to expend tens of thousands of times more energy than the 'Safe Electricity Storage characteristic' to materialize..."

"No, I only need to add a 'thermal energy instantly converted to electrical energy' characteristic. Combined with my existing storage characteristic, it seems I can solve this problem."

"Moreover, instead of absorbing heat with my body, I could directly take in high-temperature substances into my brain hole and then convert them..."