Dream Travel

Chapter 223 The Prize Pool Soars
"Is alchemy really that powerful?"

Bai Mu pinched the alchemical doll's face; it felt warm and smooth. Beatrice's youthfulness wasn't just in appearance, but in its inner and outer beauty.

The youthful appearance she maintains isn't the kind achieved through makeup; touching her reveals her true appearance immediately.

Bai Mu's impression of alchemy was based on the kind of thing seen in many works where you could conjure up whatever you wanted...

"This is just a preliminary modification, only suitable for assembly line work. If we had more resources, I could try to further improve the performance."

Beatrice started by demanding funding; it's not like she only worked for White Screen.

There are many people who pursue immortality, and quite a few bosses who seek her customized services. However, Bai Mu is a heartless person who directly used a company car for personal purposes and locked it up for her.

"Does this person need to eat?"

"You can eat other things too."

"Let's be serious when we're talking about work."

Beatrice smiled slightly: "I'm telling the truth. You can eat normally, but this body needs regular maintenance, since I'm already dead."

Although her dead body was reactivated by her vigorous life force, it is a fact that she had died once.

After the soul and body separate, the activated body can still be used, but it might end up as a monster like a zombie.

“Okay, I’ll have someone look after her when she goes out.” Bai Mu nodded; the alchemical doll was of good quality.

As for the assembly line work, according to Beatrice's explanation, it involves producing a fixed number of alchemical potions, provided that there are sufficient materials.

To ensure accuracy, efficiency won't be too high, but when in working condition, it's still possible to make a few bottles of alchemical potions per hour.

Alchemy dolls can also make things like holy water and holy oil, but they can't make anything too high-grade; they make the low-grade holy water and holy oil that are commonly found on the market.

Given Lily's love for making money, she probably won't miss this opportunity, and she certainly wouldn't mind if the Dream Experience Store had more other products.

As for the issue of not having a license, neither does Bai Mu here nor does Lily's.

Bai Mu picked up the phone and contacted Lily, inviting her to his home.

"Huh? At this time? Bai Mu, you're not planning to prevent me from going home, are you?"

"Then tomorrow." Bai Mu glanced at the clock on the wall. Hmm, it was almost nine o'clock, which was indeed very late.

"Just kidding, Bai Mu, are you coming to pick me up?" Lily agreed.

"Okay." Bai Mu agreed and drove to pick them up.

When he arrived at the Dream Experience Store, Lily was already prepared and sat in the passenger seat with practiced ease: "Shall we go straight to your house now?"

"Let me show you something."

Are we about to add another secret to our collection?

"Correct."

Bai Mu drove Lily home. The alchemical doll of Atreus was no longer in the living room. He entered the alchemy workshop, where the doll was standing in an inconspicuous corner.

"Bai Mu, so you were scamming bounty hunters."

"Don't joke around, this is an alchemical doll." Bai Mu clicked his tongue, not afraid of Lily's report, after all, Atrist is really dead.

Lily chuckled, touching the alchemical doll's face and pinching its chest like a female pervert. Finally, she noticed something and revealed a subtle smile.

"This alchemical doll will be very useful."

Bai Mu nodded: "It is indeed very useful. It can automatically make some simple alchemical potions, including holy water and holy oil."

Seeing that Bai Mu didn't respond, Lily stopped talking about the previous topic and instead started discussing the value of the alchemical doll.

"Actually, alchemical potions can be mass-produced. The pre-production part is done by machinery, and the final step can be handled by the alchemist."

"You've even chosen one? While I'm not home, could you look after this alchemical doll for me?" Bai Mu briefly explained the precautions.

The daily maintenance of the alchemical doll is not troublesome. As long as there is no damage, it is enough to ensure that there is enough food. However, this alchemical doll needs to be supplemented with meat.

"Is that so? If appearance can be modified, you could be sent to my shop as a clerk."

"No, it can still help with daily cleaning if it stays here."

Lily gave Bai Mu a strange look: "Does that mean I wasn't in charge of this?"

"Now you've been spared a lot of trouble."

"Ah, White Curtain, you're starting to marginalize me."

Bai Mu didn't believe a single tear from Lily's sorrow; he simply didn't see it.

"You haven't eaten yet, so have hot pot with me."

"I'll watch you finish eating," Lily said with a smile. "After you're done, you can take me home. I'm scared to walk alone at night."

Bai Mu didn't believe him, but still prepared hot pot. He hasn't eaten yet. While Beatrice was busy, he was busy playing games.

Lily was true to her word; she just watched Bai Mu eat hotpot without touching her chopsticks or even drinking any water!
"You really aren't going to eat it?"

"I won't eat it."

Late at night, Bai Mu escorted Lily back to the Dream Experience Store. He was a little disappointed; he had thought he would finally find out where Lily lived, but it was still at the store. After dropping her off, Bai Mu simply left to go back and resummon Atreus.

Summoning her costs much less than Luciela, but she doesn't have Luciela's feeding and transformation abilities, though her normal lifespan is much longer than Luciela's.

“I want to use a ‘computer’.” Beatrice stared at the computer on the white screen, unable to look away.

If she had something like that, she could have run away when the White Curtain blocked the door, instead of rushing to collect those notes, only to end up not only failing to escape but also being completely locked up by the White Curtain.

"doing what?"

“Taking notes, huh? I told you that organizing notes takes up too much time, otherwise you would never have caught me.”

The modified creature she hid in the safe house was specifically designed to enhance her escape abilities.

If we get there sooner, how can White Curtain catch up with her on two legs? Even with Lucyella tracking her, as long as she reaches the border area, she can escape danger.

Luciela's Awakened form is a monster; she'll get attacked if she goes to the border region.

"Take it and use it."

Bai Mu generously pushed his laptop over, and Beatrice shook her head and sat down next to Bai Mu: "Teach me."

Bai Mu became curious and asked her, "You're an alchemist, and you don't even have something like this?"

“This thing needs to be charged, and I don’t have a charger, so I’m giving up,” Beatrice shook her head.

"You don't think there are many things like this, do you?"

"I think it's pretty easy to obtain," Bai Mu said casually.

Atrist's eye twitched slightly: "These things are mostly monopolized and cannot be produced. Without a matching charger, they simply cannot be used..."

As she spoke, Beatrice stopped, realizing that she was rambling on in front of the white curtain.

The charger has a white screen, and the computer white screen is used very skillfully. Not only that, the weapon case is the power source for the white screen, which is obviously custom-made.

With all that knowledge, Bai Mu would only know more about computers than she does.

"Didn't you try to get it from Dreamwalker?"

Beatrice looked helpless: "I'm a wanted criminal, why would the Dreamwalkers cooperate with me? I also tried to train Dreamwalkers, but I failed."

Well, those who were trained died horribly. After all, Dreamwalkers need sufficient Dream Erosion adaptability, and the best way for ordinary people to acquire it is by being tortured by Dream Erosion Crystals...

"Then I'll teach you."

When you need a computer, it's quite simple to just learn the basics. As long as you can reinstall the system, beginners can just tinker with it as much as they want.

However, since there were quite a few games stored on Bai Mu's computer, he was afraid that Beatrice would delete them all, so he still wanted to teach her step by step.

The next day, Bai Mu went to the gym to work out, no longer having the idea of ​​causing trouble.

The deal with the Bureau of Arbitration and the bounty he received have brought his net worth to nearly 30 million.

It's safe to say that in a world with superhuman powers, making money is pretty easy.

Money is a resource that tends to flow into the hands of powerful people. These people have access to things that ordinary people cannot access, so their profits naturally increase.

Of course, the risks are not low either, because what Bai Mu does is too easy to offend people.

Moreover, the bounties in the City of Gold are a way to mitigate risk by spending money. The person who posts the bounty can keep it secret, and the person who receives the money has no connection with the person who posted the bounty.

As for the quality issues that arise from people trying to claim the bounty, does that matter?
There is only one bounty, but many people are attracted to it. Among a large number of low-quality bounty hunters, a few high-quality ones will always emerge.

The other party fulfilled the bounty, the employer spent money happily, the bounty hunter made a lot of money, and everyone had a bright future, except for the one who was put on the bounty.

"Who sent these scam emails?" Bai Mu looked at the emails in his mailbox, not at all dissatisfied with the situation, mainly because mailboxes are something that are easily accessible.

If it's not easily accessible, can it even be considered a mailbox?
She arrived at the dressing room with a large stack of letters, and Bai Mu flipped through them as if they were short stories.

Believe it or not, there really are little stories like this: "A dead father, a sick mother, a missing younger brother, and a broken woman."

Some of the letters were quite touching. After reading them, I even wanted to check with fellow gym enthusiasts and ask if they had ever encountered letters with exactly the same content.

She drank a bottle of alchemical potion, which Beatrice made, saying it could help people quickly get into a state of focus during exercise.

She stated that White Curtain could also create alchemical potions imbued with the power of the Nine Dragons if needed.

The alchemical potion he's drinking now tastes like cola, which is why he brought it with him.

By the way, there are things similar to Coca-Cola in this world, and not only that stuff, but also things like Sprite!
Those damned natives stole from the Dream World!

While Bai Mu was training, Lily received another bounty, and the price was quite high.

"Oh dear, he's going to have even more trouble now."

Looking at the new bounty, Lily's smile remained unchanged; it was still a bounty from the Golden City.

The bounty is three million, but if the body is captured alive, the reward is twenty million. Even if the body is captured alive, the employer will hand the corpse over to the bounty hunter after using it. Clearly, the White Curtain has pushed some people to the brink.

Otherwise, they wouldn't have started with such a high bounty.

(End of this chapter)