At Carl North's house—though, of course, it was Meng Chuan's house now.
"Yao Chen, do you want this box of Ultraman figures?" Meng Chuan shook the cardboard box in his hands. It was one of the gifts he had bought especially for everyone.
[Group Member] Yao Chen lv62: No! I'm the Medicine Saint! How could I play with action figures?
Yao Chen refused Meng Chuan's gift with Righteousness, declaring that it was beneath his station and would tarnish his reputation as a saint.
Yao Chen: Great Emperor, just pretend you're forcing it on me. Then I'll reluctantly accept it. Do me this favor, Great Emperor!
No sooner had Yao Chen said that in the group than he sent Meng Chuan a private message. The phrase "covering one's ears while stealing a bell" really did exist for a reason.
But who was Meng Chuan? Everyone knew no one in the Chat Group was more loyal to his friends! Of course he would do Yao Chen this favor.
So Meng Chuan offered the figures three times, and Yao Chen refused them three times before finally accepting them with great "reluctance." He added:
[Group Member] Yao Chen lv62: Sigh, my good-for-nothing disciple misses things from his Past Life's hometown. I'm accepting these on his behalf!
The group members sneered. Who didn't know he was an Ultraman fan?
Hmph. What a hypocritical old alchemist!
"Daigu, this is your gift." Meng Chuan waved the USB drive in his hand. It contained some of the scientific technology he had collected here, which should prove useful to Daigu.
Daigu had now been hired by the Land of Light as a technology consultant! He had become colleagues with a certain blue Ultraman (Hikari: You might as well just recite my Ultraman ID number!).
And the Ultraman equipment (cheat