Movie variety show soul travels between two worlds to become a rich man

Chapter 488: Superior Skills

Forty minutes later, at Zhenbaoge.

"Where is she?" Gao Dongxu asked in amazement as soon as he stepped into the store and saw Yang Tao, who was wearing a royal blue cheongsam, with a slender waist, as clean as a clear spring, as beautiful as the early spring sunshine, and whose every smile and frown was captivating.

When Taozi saw Gao Dongxu, she gave him a charming, reproachful look, then smiled sweetly and said, "Upstairs, Xiaowei is receiving guests."

"Hmm. This one is really beautiful today. After you see the guests off, come upstairs and let me try it." Gao Dongxu raised an eyebrow and smiled as he reached out and gently put his arm around her slender waist, caressing her waist and buttocks, feeling the silky smoothness of the cheongsam fabric.

Peach blushed, gave a charming laugh, and whispered coquettishly, "You're always thinking about the same things..."

"I could be a saint, would you be willing?" Gao Dongxu chuckled and teased.

Peach smiled sweetly, glaring with her big, expressive eyes, and said coquettishly, "You think you can be a saint? Unless you cut off that troublemaker... hehe."

"..." Gao Dongxu's lips twitched a few times. Looking at Taozi's mischievous grin, he said with a wry smile, "You don't have to be so harsh!"

"Hmph~~~" Peach gave a coquettish snort, glanced at Gao Dongxu sideways, and said in a coquettish tone, "Did you mess with Nannan?"

"Hehe, you guessed it?" Gao Dongxu chuckled without hiding anything.

Peach looked at Gao Dongxu with complicated eyes, sighed softly, and said helplessly, "Knowing you're a scumbag, they all still flock to you like moths to a flame..."

"Alright, stop reminiscing. I'm not a scumbag. I would never start something and then abandon it. Each and every one of you is my treasure. Just like collecting, some people like antiques and calligraphy, but I'm obsessed with your beauty. Each and every one of you is a rare gem in my eyes," Gao Dongxu said with a smile.

"..." Peach looked at the shameless Gao Dongxu speechlessly, and finally said in a coquettish tone, "Fine, don't try to fool me with your twisted logic. But since I've chosen you, I won't regret it."

"With a daughter like this, what more could a husband ask for?" Gao Dongxu said gently, looking at Taozi's beautiful face.

"Hurry up and take the box upstairs, they've been waiting for an hour." Peach felt a mix of emotions, but a charming smile appeared on her pretty face as she urged him to get down to business.

"Hmm." Gao Dongxu smiled and nodded, took out the key, opened the display case glass, took out the sandalwood silver-rimmed gable-topped treasure box, then closed the display case glass and quickly went upstairs.

"Sorry to keep you all waiting." After going upstairs, Gao Dongxu saw an elderly Western man wearing a well-tailored suit, carrying a cane, with his white hair neatly combed, and a deep voice with a foreign accent.

He was tall and slender, with a stern face and deep features typical of Westerners, exuding an aged yet shrewd air.

Facing the elderly Western man who had been staring at him, Gao Dongxu confidently and calmly said, "Hello, I am Gao Dongxu, the owner of Zhenbao Pavilion—"

The elderly Western man looked at Gao Dongxu with a smile in his eyes, but more than that, he scrutinized and calculated. He spoke in Mandarin with a foreign accent, "Hello, Mr. Gao, my name is Jude Kao—"

Upon hearing the name, Gao Dongxu's smile turned somewhat strange. After shaking hands with the other person, he smiled and invited him to sit down again.

Gao Dongxu's incredibly sensitive sense of smell allowed him to detect a faint, cool fragrance on Jude Kao, mixed with the scents of old paper, herbs, and a cold, decaying odor, as if Jude Kao himself were a living dead.

Forbidden Incense!
Corpse Beetle Pill!
Gao Dongxu immediately thought of the Corpse Beetle Pill. Looking at Qiu Dekao in front of him, a hint of mockery and ridicule appeared in his eyes. No wonder he was not interested in anything except for his strong desire for immortality. He had been pursuing the secret of immortality all along. It turned out that he had already eaten the Corpse Beetle Pill and had begun to turn into a corpse.

No wonder Qiu Dekao has lived from the Republican era to the present day. You know, Chen Pi Asi should be over 90 years old by the timeline. Back in the days of The Mystic Nine, Qiu Dekao was older than Chen Pi Asi, and he is now basically around 100 years old.

Although Jude Kao's hair was white, he was still quite good in other aspects and looked only in his sixties or seventies.

The Corpse Beetle Pill originated from the discovery by the Queen Mother of the West during her exploration of meteorites that the corpse beetle could coexist with humans. After continuous experimentation, she eventually cultivated the Corpse Beetle King.

The Corpse Beetle King is the most important component of the elixir of immortality, the Corpse Beetle Pill, invented by the Queen Mother of the West. The Corpse Beetle Pill is essentially an insect-based poison. Anyone who consumes it must be completely encased in a jade terracotta figurine made of bronze meteorite, or they will be poisoned. Otherwise, even if they survive, they will gradually transform into monsters like sea monkeys or forbidden women.

The principle behind the Queen Mother of the West's creation of this Corpse Beetle Pill is very simple: the pill contains a dormant Corpse Beetle King inside, while the outside of the pill is wrapped in the powder of nine bronze meteorites that fell from the sky in ancient times. After a person consumes the pill, the meteorite powder limits the toxicity of the Corpse Beetle King in the blood.

Once the outer shell dissolves, the Corpse Beetle King awakens, burrows into the brainstem, and begins secreting toxins. Inside the meteorite, the Corpse Beetle King's toxin secretion is significantly slowed due to the meteorite's influence, allowing these toxins to gradually alter the human body.

According to the research results of the Queen Mother of the West, the Corpse Beetle King will die after three thousand years. At that time, people can leave the jade figurine. The toxins remaining in the human body can make people's blood have the effect of repelling insects and avoiding harm, and at the same time, people can live forever.

Without the meteorite jade to suppress toxin secretion and the meteorite copper to suppress zombification, Jude Kao has been able to hold on until now. It seems he must have done a lot of research in private and used modern medicine to suppress it; otherwise, he would have turned into a zombified long ago.

Jude Kao looked at the young, tall, and handsome Gao Dongxu, who hadn't said a word since sitting down, but had been staring at him with strange eyes, which made him very uncomfortable.

"Mr. Gao, is there a problem?" "Hehe, no, I'm sorry, I was thinking about something and got a little distracted. I'm really sorry, please have some tea—" Gao Dongxu didn't intend to reveal Jude Kao's identity. He wanted to sell the box first and get the money before talking about anything else.

"Thank you, but I won't have any more tea. I've had enough. Let's talk business." Jude Kao's eyes were fixed intently on the sandalwood box with silver ridges and a gabled top that Gao Dongxu had placed on the tea table.

You should know that the reason he sent Aning with people to the Lu King's Palace was to find this treasure box, or more precisely, for what was inside the treasure box.

Unexpectedly, Ah Ning and her group got trapped, but Bao Han was brought out by someone. Even more unexpectedly, the other party would sell it to others. This was an absolute disaster for him.

“Okay—” A sly glint flashed in Gao Dongxu’s eyes as he smiled, picked up the treasure box, and handed it to the excited Qiu Dekao.

"A sandalwood box with silver rims and a gabled top, dating back to the Warring States period. Priced at 100 million RMB."

Jude Kao held the treasure box in both hands, carefully examining every detail. His eyes were filled with joy and greed. Finally, he gently stroked the treasure box and murmured in a barely audible voice, "Yes, this is it..."

"Excuse me, Mr. Jude Kao, I didn't hear you clearly. Could you speak a little louder?" Gao Dongxu sneered inwardly, but asked with a concerned expression on his face.

"What I meant to say is that the product is good, but the price is a bit high," Jude Kao explained with a smile.

Gao Dongxu smiled and shook his head, saying, "I'm sorry, Mr. Jude Kao, but we do not negotiate prices for our products. We promise that every antique we sell is genuine and will never tarnish our reputation, so the prices are already very fair."

"I see..." Jude Kao pretended to think, then suddenly looked up, his sharp eyes meeting Gao Dongxu's as he asked, "Mr. Gao, have you opened this precious letter?"

"I haven't opened it, so please don't worry about that." Gao Dongxu played a word game.

Indeed, it wasn't him who opened the treasure box, it was Wu Xie!

"OK, I'll take it. How do we trade?" Upon hearing this, Jude Kao breathed a sigh of relief and immediately decided to buy it.

“A bank transfer will suffice,” Gao Dongxu said with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll transfer the money directly. Could you please provide an account number..."

“No problem, here’s the account number and name—” Gao Dongxu took out a business card and handed it to Qiu Dekao.

Jude Kao took the business card and handed it to the Chinese woman standing behind him, saying, "Send the money!"

"Okay, boss—" Although the woman was somewhat attractive, she paled in comparison to Ah Ning.

Five minutes later, the woman said to Jude Kao, "Boss, the money has been transferred."

"Okay." Jude Kao looked at Gao Dongxu, who had taken out his phone, and said, "Please check—"

"Okay." Gao Dongxu smiled and replied, then looked at his phone and waited patiently.

Not long after, his phone rang, and Gao Dongxu quickly answered it.

UBS's dedicated account manager called to confirm, and after Gao Dongxu confirmed the details, the call ended.

“Mr. Jude Kao, from now on, this precious letter is your private collection,” Gao Dongxu said with a satisfied smile.

"Thank you." Jude Kao felt extremely proud. Now he had an urge to leave quickly and go home to properly study this precious letter.

Having already secured the 100 million, Gao Dongxu no longer pretended. His eyes sharpened, and he glanced at Jude Kao with a hint of mockery. As he accepted the teacup offered by Wu Xiaowei, he leisurely sipped his tea and said with a smile, "Welcome, Mr. Jude Kao. Please visit our shop more often in the future."

“No problem.” Jude Kao withdrew his gaze, looked at Gao Dongxu, and smiled, “Mr. Gao, I would like to inquire about the whereabouts of someone. Her name is Aning.”

"Oh? You know Aning? What a coincidence. Aning is currently seriously injured and is recuperating." Gao Dongxu first looked surprised, then said with a serious expression.

"What? My sister is seriously injured?" At this moment, the young man next to Jude Kao spoke up excitedly and nervously, his bright eyes fixed on Gao Dongxu.

(End of this chapter)