The next day, he went downstairs.
Felicia had returned at some point and was quietly standing at the bottom of the stairs, waiting for Victor to come down, as always, half a step behind him, reporting quickly and clearly.
"Yesterday, May Parker and Peter Parker were arranged for an all-inclusive trip to Sanya. During the medical examination, blood samples from May and Peter were obtained.
The LOL Skin System went online yesterday and, as of five minutes ago, exactly 24 hours later, a total of 1.4 million skin sets have been sold, with a total value of 20 million us dollars.
Mr. Stark's specially designed skins have also been launched.
I noticed your order for glass manufacturing; the project is expected to be completed in three hours, and a car is ready for immediate departure."
Felicia's report was concise and to the point.
Victor nodded, said little, and sat at the head of the table, announcing that breakfast had begun.
What was different was that Wanda didn't even dare to look at Victor out of the corner of her eye this time.
Her chin was buried in her chest as she ate silently, her hair falling into her milk, completely oblivious.
Presumably, her bold actions last night had exhausted all her courage.
Victor saw it and would silently use his telekinesis to help Wanda pick out her hair.
Then, inexplicably, Felicia, who always had impeccable dining etiquette, also started getting her hair in her juice.
But Victor just glanced at it and ignored it.
Wanda herself wasn't clear about her feelings, so he couldn't make a move, but Felicia genuinely felt nothing; he didn't like eating vegetarian.
Since he felt nothing, he shouldn't flirt and give her hope; the deeper she fell, the harder it would be to pull away.
Felicia naturally felt Victor's deliberate distance, sighed faintly, and pulled her hair out of the juice herself.
Wanda was completely unaware of this little interlude.
After breakfast, Wanda fled back to her room as if escaping, her shy demeanor making Victor's lips curl into a smile.
The disappointment in Felicia's eyes deepened.
Anyone with eyes could see the ambiguity between Victor and Wanda.
But soon, Felicia brushed away her disappointment, regained her composure, and followed Victor to the living room to make tea.
From under the bar on one side, she pulled out a briefcase-sized combination lock box.
"These are the blood samples for both Parkers, the password is 5200. Should I leave them here or...?" Felicia asked.
"Leave them there. Is there anything else today?"
"There's a lot going on with the company, you..."
"I don't manage company matters, just make sure it doesn't go bankrupt. As for the accounts, you don't need to report them to me; all accounts are handled by Alice, and it will deal with any issues." Victor waved his hand, dismissing the topic.
"Then there's nothing else you need to handle for now."
"Hmm... are you busy with what you're doing?" Victor asked again.
"If you need me, I'm always available, always!" a clear hint.
"Then you are busy. Go on and work." a straightforward answer.
"Alright, you can call on me anytime if you need anything."
After a brief conversation, Felicia exited the living room; she needed to keep herself busy to forget the unrequited love that had ended before it even began.
After brewing a pot of tea, Victor stood up and returned to the master bedroom with the combination lock box.
This time, he didn't immediately go out to sunbathe.
He entered the password and opened the box. The interior was filled with a solid piece of black sponge, with only two indentations holding two test tubes, each containing approximately 100CC of reddish-brown liquid.
The test tubes were labeled with their respective owners' names. Victor directly picked up Peter Parker's test tube, and a syringe gun appeared out of thin air in his hand.
He then activated the collection function, inserting the needle of the gun into the rubber stopper and drawing out approximately 50CC of blood.
He vigorously shook the syringe gun, allowing the blood and the spider serum inside to fuse.
After waiting several minutes, the product information showed no change.
Victor didn't wait much longer.
He floated to the edge of the swimming pool in the courtyard, lay down comfortably to enjoy the care of father sun, and continued to accelerate the digestion of the Baguazhang knowledge remaining from last night.
He casually tossed the syringe gun aside; with Alice watching, he wasn't afraid of losing it.
The reason he didn't put it into his inventory was because time is frozen inside, and it wouldn't be able to react if placed there.
He didn't know how much time had passed.
Alice's air raid siren hard-woke him up.
"Chen, your custom 'Powerful Aggregating Convex Lens' has been set up. Now is the time for the experiment," Alice said, stopping the alarm.
Victor rubbed his temples, dispelling the slight anger that arose from being forcibly woken up.
He checked the time; it was only 8:07 AM.
He reached for the syringe gun, and the product information had changed; the product name had changed from spider serum to Spider-Man Bloodline.
However, the result was not ideal.
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Product Name: Spider-Man Bloodline:
Product Category: [Technology]
Product Compatibility: [0.1%];
Origin Plane: Marvel Universe;
Rank Rating: [C+];
Currency Valuation: c-class vouchers × 8, plane points × 82000;
Function Description: Injection grants Spider-Man Bloodline, bestowing Spider-Sense, significantly enhancing muscle strength, speed, power, reaction time, impact resistance, etc.;
Slogan: This Bloodline looks very powerful, but it seems there are too few people who can match it:
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It failed.
Although the spider serum was successfully synthesized into the Spider-Man Bloodline, the compatibility remained unchanged.
This Bloodline, apart from the blood relatives of the Parker family, could hardly be matched by anyone else.
Naturally, it would not meet the standard for completing the collection task.
As expected, and within reason.
He glanced at [Task] unwillingly, wanting to see if he could "make up the numbers."
The result was that Victor was surprised to find that a collection task had been triggered, which he hadn't noticed before.
However, the target of this task was... ——————
Collection Task: [Pepper's Original Intimate Apparel];
Task Content: Collect a set of Pepper Potts' intimate apparel;
Task Reward: f-rank vouchers × 1, plane points × 50;
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Wow! This ghostly collection task has a very strong flavor!
Raphael had explained before that collection tasks are a privilege unlocked at Rank 6 Planar Merchant, allowing them to offer bounties for tasks and collect desired items, which can be a vague range or a specified plane.
So, this collection task was published by some "ardent fan" Planar Merchant of Pepper? And at least a Rank 6 Planar Merchant!
But why were there no collection tasks for the more popular Natasha or Wanda's intimate apparel?
Forget it.
The hobbies of a few wealthy people are extremely bizarre; the root of all this goes back to when Yuan Longping was born... simply put, they have too much time on their hands.
He casually put this Spider-Man Bloodline into his inventory, and Victor stood up and went to the underground garage, where the driver arranged by Felicia had been waiting for a long time.
He was driving a somewhat old-fashioned Rolls-Royce Phantom; the ferrari Tony gave him was left in Los Angeles and not brought back.
The journey was silent, straight to Hell's Kitchen.