CHAPTER 498: CHAPTER 359: SEEING MAX AGAIN_1

Pharmaceuticals?

Yan Xing felt that Chui Chui had opened a door to wealth for him.

Disease was something everyone would experience. Sickness required medicine, and medicine cost money. Moreover, the modern lifestyle made people in the real world more prone to illness than those in the Magic World. This consumption, accompanying a person for their entire life, was a vast blue ocean that would never become saturated.

Renlun Investment Bank had research on special abilities, and among its significant topics was medical research and development.

Eternal Domain built the Nine-Headed Dragon Database, which could perform coding transformations at the genetic level. Yan Xing didn’t understand medical pathology, but he knew that those genetic diseases could definitely be cured with the right medicine.

Now, a batch of artificially cultivated griffons had hatched on Gryphon Island. The more than twenty young griffons were in very good health. Most of the other infrastructure was also usable.

Why not open Gryphon Island to the outside world to a limited extent? For one thing, it could leverage the tourism industry to recoup some investment. For another, it could take advantage of the island’s biological research institute to open a hospital. With just a few Heart Demons transferred over, and relying on the bug-like existence of the Nine-Headed Dragon Database, it would absolutely yield a fortune every day.

The thought of money was invigorating; Yan Xing suddenly felt his headache and back pain vanish, and his body filled with energy.

He stood up from his chair, turned around, and pinched Chui Chui’s cheek.

"I knew Chui Chui would definitely come up with a super money-making idea for me. Go change into suitable clothes quickly and accompany me to the real world’s Gryphon Island."

"Yes, Master."

Chui Chui snapped her fingers, then remembered she was corporeal now and couldn’t change clothes as easily as a virtual body could. She could only obediently drift to the side room and rummage through chests and drawers for clothes to wear.

When she emerged, she was wearing a set of Yan Xing’s baggy loungewear. The top was long, and the pants were long. Combined with her floating, she looked just like a ghost.

Yan Xing looked at Chui Chui for a long time, then said helplessly, "You might as well change back into what you were wearing just now. People in the real world will probably just think you’re going to a comic convention. Have a servant bring a pair of suitable shoes, and we’ll buy clothes when we get there."

There were no clothes in the Lord’s Mansion suitable for Chui Chui to wear to the real world, so they had to make do for the time being.

"Yes, Master." Chui Chui happily changed back into her previous clothes.

Once a servant delivered a pair of shoes, Yan Xing took Chui Chui back to the real world.

The teleportation point was still the small apartment Yan Xing had anonymously purchased for himself.

After Chui Chui followed Yan Xing through the teleportation and arrived, she joyfully threw herself onto the sofa and rolled around on it.

"This is so comfortable! Although I can create sofas in the virtual world, this physical sensation is better. I can’t simulate this feeling, at least not with my current computing power. And the kitchen! Master surely hasn’t eaten yet... It’s time to show Master some of Chui Chui’s cooking skills! Let’s see what ingredients are in the fridge..."

Yan Xing let Chui Chui fuss around in the modest apartment while he walked over to the desk and picked up the smartphone resting on it. He plugged it in and powered it on. Then he sat down to browse information on the internet.

After a while, Chui Chui brought over two bowls of instant noodles she had cooked.

"Master, I searched for a long time and only found instant noodles. There wasn’t even an egg, so I just added two sausages. You’ll have to make do with this, I’m afraid."

Yan Xing pulled his portion of noodles toward him.

He didn’t know yet how the noodles had turned out, but Chui Chui had carved flowers into the sausages and artfully arranged them in the broth with obvious care.

Yan Xing couldn’t help but shake his head and smile. "I don’t come back often, so of course, I only store emergency food. Eat quickly. I’ve notified the airport; we can take a plane to Gryphon Island in four hours. In the meantime, I’ll take you to buy some clothes."

"Master is going to buy clothes for Chui Chui? Thank you, Master!"

Chui Chui ate her noodles eagerly.

Yan Xing, however, focused his attention on his phone.

According to Kayron—who was, in fact, Max—his social media platform showed that he was currently in Zhehai City. And he had been staying here for quite some time. Was this a coincidence? Definitely not. He was here for me.

Yan Xing dialed Feng Tingyue’s number. After notifying her that he would be going to Gryphon Island, he asked about Max. Feng Tingyue said they had been keeping an eye on Max’s whereabouts. Max’s prolonged stay in Zhehai City had drawn the attention of the company’s leadership, so they had brought in Lao Guan and Little Li, who had collaborated before, to monitor him. If Yan Xing wanted to know more about Max, he could call Lao Guan and Little Li for information.

Feng Tingyue sent over the contact information for Lao Guan and Little Li.

Yan Xing contacted them immediately, arranging to meet inside a certain mall.

Glancing back at Chui Chui, he saw she had finished her bowl of noodles and was looking at him eagerly, ready to go out.

Yan Xing had no choice but to turn off his phone, pick up his bowl, and quickly slurp down the noodles. After eating, they headed out.

Chui Chui, who had been anxious to go shopping, opened the apartment door and, without even looking, cast Trace Hiding Magic outside.

This was a kind of mental interference magic. Under its effect, people with low spiritual power resistance would overlook certain things they saw and heard. Even if they took the elevator downstairs together, others would notice nothing.

Yan Xing had managed to keep this apartment secret precisely because he used Trace Hiding Magic every time he came and went, greatly reducing his presence. Chui Chui, who was always by Yan Xing’s side, naturally knew this procedure.