Ch. 481..490
The Pinnacle of Life Chapter 481
Alex didn’t really want to show his face so publicly if possible. However, for the sake of the endorsement of Lush Cosmetics’ products and to help his mother, he finally nodded.
There were some other reasons among them.
Facing Daya’s eager gaze, he couldn’t bear to refuse her, as if he seemed to not want to see her unhappy at all. It was exactly the same as the obsession feeling between the hero and heroine over three lives in the background story of the song.
After leaving Daya’s villa, Alex gave a call to his mother immediately to report the good news.
When Brittany heard this, she jumped up happily. “Really? That’s great, Son! I didn’t expect you to have such a wide network of contacts now, and you’re even acquainted with Daya. With her joining us, I believe our Lush Cosmetics will definitely become ultra-popular.”
After a pause, she then asked, “By the way, how much does Daya’s endorsement fee cost? It should be quite expensive, right? We have about twenty million dollars in our accounts now. If that’s not enough, I’ll have to figure out to see if I can borrow some money.”
Alex smiled and said, “Don’t worry, Daya agreed to be our endorser for free.”
“What did you say?”
“It’s free. You don’t have to come out with a single penny.”
“Am I hearing this right? How could she not want a single penny? What in the world is your relationship with her?”
“This… I’ll keep it a secret for now. Oh right, she’ll be having a concert three days later in California, do you want to come over and listen to her singing? I have a few tickets in hand, and I’ve reserved one for you.”
Daya had given him these tickets just now.
“Yes, of course I want to!”
Once that call was over, Alex gave another call to Michell to inform her that the medicinal clay had been successfully refined.
Michelle was most concerned about her face right now, and immediately rushed over to Maple Villa once she got the call.
By the time Alex drove his Aston Martin back to the villa, Michell had already arrived. Half an hour later, Alex gently applied the pink medicinal clay over Michelle’s wound.
Maya and Waltz were also present at the time.
This was the first time they were seeing the words engraved on Michelle’s face.
They couldn’t help but frown in shock.
“Are you sure you can treat this wound?” Maya asked in concern, because the wound was extremely deep. Not only had it cut into the surface of the skin, it had also damaged the muscle tissues underneath.
Alex smiled and said confidently, “Don’t worry, I promise it’ll be as good as new! Originally, even without this medicinal clay, I could have used just witchcraft to heal the wound, but I couldn’t guarantee that it wouldn’t leave any scar. With this, you can rest assured!”
Then, he turned to Michelle and said, “The wound on your face will become itchy after a while, Michelle. In case you can’t stand it, I’ll just knock you out first. Sleep, and once you wake up, everything will be healed.”
Smack!
As soon as he said that, Waltz knocked Michelle out with her palm.
Waltz urged. “Hurry up, I can’t wait to see your legendary medical skills. If you can heal this scar, can you also take a look and see if you can heal my scar?”
As she said that, she lifted the hem of her dress to reveal the snow white skin of her lower back.
There was a very small strip-shaped scar on it.
Alex was speechless. “It’s such a small wound, and it can’t really be seen clearly if one were to squint. Why does it matter?”
Waltz glared at him and said, “Any scar on a woman’s body is a stain that cannot be allowed to exist.”
Maya nodded. “Yes, especially if it’s on the face, that’s even more unacceptable. I dare to guarantee that if there is a scar on a woman’s face, she would even ruin all her fortunes just to get rid of it.”
Waltz added, “Even more so for beautiful women.”
After letting out a sigh, Maya said, “Unfortunately, scars are problems for everyone in this world. They are like a piece of cloth, it’s almost impossible to completely repair it once they are torn…”
While they were talking, Alex had started to perform witchcraft to heal Michelle, using his blood as a primer and talismans as a medium. Very quickly, a scarlet scripture that looked mystical started to float on Michelle’s face. The medicinal clay that had been applied to her face started to absorb it quickly at a speed visible to the naked eye.
Maya and Waltz couldn’t help but stare, with their beautiful eyes widened.
Even though they had known for a long time that Alex’s medicinal skills had been known to be mysterious, it was still shocking to see such a scene with their own eyes.
Half an hour later, the medicinal clay on Michelle’s face had changed from the original pink to off-white color.
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The initial strong scent of medicine in the air had also disappeared completely.
“Is it done?” Waltz asked.
“Almost.”
Alex picked up a bowl of concoction that had been prepared earlier. It was one that he had prepared and boiled at Ganoderma today. Using a brush, he gently brushed on the off white medicinal clay.
Three minutes later, Alex prodded Michelle in her acupoint to wake her up.
Michelle held her head. “Who knocked me out just now?”
Waltz giggled. “You still care about who knocked you out? Or would you rather hurry and wash your face to see if that nasty thing is still on your face?”
“Huh?”
After being reminded by Waltz, Michelle immediately reached up to touch her face. She could only feel a layer of hard mud on her face. However, the pain that she had felt before had completely vanished.
“Hurry, go to the bathroom and wash it off!” Alex said.
“Alright.”
Michelle rushed into the bathroom, washing her face hurriedly. Then, she raised her head and looked at herself in the mirror.
Earlier, she was feeling extremely nervous but tears filled her eyes in the next moment as she wept in joy. The face that she saw in the mirror was as fair as snow. The skin was delicate and smooth, it seemed it would break just by a wind blow.
There was no scar at all.
Moreover, the word “Sl*t” was no longer there.
“Alex!” Michelle shouted as she rushed back to the room. Ignoring Maya and Waltz, who were also standing aside, she jumped onto Alex. “I want to marry you!”
Then, she reached up with her lips puckered up, ready to kiss him.
Smooch!
Michelle thought that her sneak attack had worked, but then immediately felt that something was wrong. At a glance, it turned out that ’s palm had gotten in between hers and Alex’s lips.
“Get down!”
Waltz pulled Michelle off Alex. “If you want to marry my senior, get in line.”
Michelle was shocked. “You guys… could it be…”
Maya tilted Michelle’s head sideways, carefully examining her face. She even pulled it with her hands and found nothing unusual. In that instant, she excitedly said, “Little Brother, this scar removal medicinal clay of yours, can it be mass produced? Will it still be able to heal old scars without your complementary witchcraft?”
Alex shook his head and said, “The materials for the scar removal medicinal clay is extremely precious, so mass production is almost impossible. As for my witchcraft, the main purpose was just to speed up the wound healing and accelerate the effect.”
He paused, then continued, “But if we could change the formula inside by replacing the precious medicinal herbs with ordinary medicinal herbs, it will still have the effect of removing scars even though the effect will be weakened.”
Maya said, “How far can it go in treating scars? Like Michelle’s scar earlier as an example?”
“If one persists in using it for about three months, she could probably achieve the same results as her now,” Alex said after some thought.
Maya slapped her thighs. “That’s awesome! Your medicine is really a divine medicine! Come, quickly write down the formula. I can guarantee that this scar removal product will be the strongest competitive product in our Lush Cosmetics series.”
Alex doubtfully asked, “How can there be that many customers for a scar removal product?”
Maya snorted twice, with a mocking look on her face, questioning his stupidity. “Do you know how many pregnant women give birth via cesarean section every year? In addition, accidental injuries, ordinary surgeries, skin diseases, mosquito bites, acne, all these could leave scars. So tell me, how many customers can we have from all these?”
Hearing this, Alex understood.
“Okay, I’ll write a complete recipe immediately.”
He quickly walked back to his room and sat at his writing desk. Just as he was about to write down the formula, he jumped in surprise when he glanced up at the window sill.
The pot of frosty octagon flowers had actually bloomed.
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‘No way? There were only three leaves before this, how long has it been? Now all the eight leaves have grown, and even a flower has bloomed?! This spiritual soil is too magical!’
Well, Alex initially thought that the frosty octagon flower would take at least five years to bloom. However, it had bloomed now just after one day and night, shortening the time by five years.
What sort of magic is this?
Alex stared at the dark coloured spiritual soil in the pot in amazement.
‘I’ve found a treasure!’
He was about to quickly pick off the flower and use it to concoct pills for his mother and Maya. However, just as he stretched out his hand, he stopped immediately.
He thought that there was only a single flower right now, and there would be none after he plucked it even though the magical spiritual soil could make it bloom in twenty-four hours.
One flower was just too little.
At most, it could be used to concoct two pills.
Was there any way to get the seeds of the frosty octagon flower, and then continue to cultivate them?
As soon as he thought about it, Alex retracted his hand without plucking the flower. He decided to wait and see if there were any changes tomorrow. Then, he picked up the pen and started writing the complete formula of the scar cream on the paper.
He named it as Lush Scar Removal Cream.
Early in the morning of the next day, Alex was surprised to find that another two new flowers had bloomed from the frosty octagon flower.
This time, he just plucked one off. Then he cured it, preserving it for later.
As for the pill concoction, he still needed to prepare some other auxiliary materials. Just using the flowers from the frosty octagon flower was obviously not going to work.
At the same time, at the area of Golden Manor, Serena woke up early in the morning. After hurriedly lifting her clothes to look at her belly, she nearly fainted out of shock.
She saw a black spot the size of a bowl on her fair belly, it had covered her entire belly button and it looked extremely disgusting. More importantly, there seemed to be a barely visible human face on the black spot.
Coupled with the bizarre images from the several CT scans she had taken yesterday, she couldn’t help but wonder if she had been cursed.
After all, Hong Kong people were very superstitious, and Serena firmly believed those superstitious things. ‘What do I do? That Rockefeller guy seemed to have some skills, should I find him and persuade him?’
After thinking for just a short while, Serena decided to look for Hailey, so that she could find Alex through her. At this moment, one of her female assistants reminded, “Miss Wai, that Rockefeller guy wanted you to give up 20% of the profit last time. But if that’s the case, then the Hong Kong side will not be able to explain this. Once the contract terms are submitted for review, the president there will surely raise questions and doubts about them.”
Serena snorted. “Did you think I would give a 20% profit margin and sign the contract with Lush Cosmetics? Once Hailey Lawson’s Belle Blossom leaves our Arles Cosmetics, she’ll be digging her grave, and there will only be a dark future for her. She’ll definitely have to shut down her business not even two months down the road! They’re just bluffing right now. As long as I give them a little benefit from my side, just watch, she’ll immediately come kneeling and licking it all up.”
The female assistant smiled instantly and said, “It turns out that Miss Wai, you’re always confident because you have something up your sleeves.”
The two quickly rushed to Belle Blossom.
Forty minutes later at Belle Blossom Serena caught sight of Hailey, so she got straight to the point and said, “Miss Lawson, I won’t beat around the bush with you. Have your brother come here and treat my illness, then the contract will be renewed in accordance with the previous terms. On that basis, I can promise you that our Arles Cosmetics will not sign on with any other companies within the California area. All the customers in California who want Arles Cosmetic’s products will only be able to purchase it from your side.”
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Hailey had already discussed this matter with Alex earlier, so she shook her head and said, “Sorry, my little brother’s words carry an enormous weight. He already said that you have to give us at least a 20% profit margin, otherwise, he won’t treat your illness! You seem to only have about five days to live, you’d best hurry up!”
Serena angrily said, “Are you guys going to refuse giving up until all hope is gone? I’ll be honest with you, I’ve already bought my flight ticket, and today is the last chance for Belle Blossom. The moment I board that plane back to Hong Kong, Belle Blossom will be placed on our blacklist and will never again be able to procure any products of Arles Cosmetics in the future. As far as I know, the membership fees of Belle Blossom cost up to tens of millions dollars. Once there are no more Arles products, your customers will surely make noise. Will your beauty salon be able to withstand such losses?”
This point really hit Hailey’s weakness. She hesitated for a moment, then said, “I’ll make a call.”
Hailey’s call quickly reached Alex.
After hearing it, he directly said, “She’s still having such a high and mighty attitude? It seems that she hasn’t suffered enough. Hailey, you probably didn’t know, this woman went to Ganoderma and caused trouble there yesterday. Not only did she beat Cheryl, but she also wanted to wreck Ganoderma. Tell her if she wants to get that haunting fetus on her belly button treated, she needs to give a 30% profit margin in the contract with Belle Blossom. It won’t work for anything 1% less.”
When Serena heard what Hailey said, she was furious.
At this moment, her assistant said, “Miss Wai, I just contacted a friend of mine. He said he knows an expert, and a condition like yours is just a piece of cake for him. He could handle it effortlessly.”
“That’s great!” When Serena heard that, she jumped happily.
Then, she prodded Hailey in her chest, her gazes were as sharp as a knife. “Listen to me, Hailey Lawson. From now on, this Belle Blossom of yours has entered our blacklist in Arles Cosmetics. I can guarantee that from today onwards, you will not get a single Arles product from us. I’ll also block this Belle Blossom of yours, and even your husband’s Waylon Realty. Just wait for your bankruptcy!”
Having said that, Serena took her assistant and bodyguard to leave the salon after pushing Hailey away.
Very quickly. Hailey gave another call to Alex as she felt a little panicked.
The power and influence that Arles Cosmetics held were huge. As the largest cosmetics company in Hong Kong, it was well known even around the world, with strong fundings and complex networks of connections. If Serena were to take serious actions at Belle Blossom or Waylon Realty, the two would have to suffer the severe consequences.
“Little Brother, what should I do? Now Serena Wai seems to have found some powerful guy that could treat her illness. Once her illness is cured, then we’ll be finished! Not only will my customers from Belle Blossom raise hell, but it will also disrupt your mother’s plans.”
Alex also frowned slightly.
However, just in this moment, Lord Lex’s call came in. In order to hide Alex’s true identity, Lord Lex would seldom take the initiative to contact Alex. For him to call, it surely wasn’t just for a casual chat with Alex. Alex cut off the call to receive Lord Lex’s call first.
“Lord Lex, is there anything you need from me?”
“Mr. Rockefeller, it’s like this. I have a friend who has been feeling a little sick recently, and has developed a strange disease. Do you have free time to come to Hell’s Angels to have a look at her?”
It was Lord Lex, of course he had to give him face.
So, he immediately replied, “Yes. I happen to be not far from Hell’s Angels right now, I’ll be there in ten minutes.”
Lord Lex was overjoyed and said, “That’s great!”
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At the same time at Hell’s Angels, the one who was sitting beside Lord Lex was surprisingly Serena. At the time, she could obviously feel the uncomfortable sensation and a dull persistent pain on her belly button. Furthermore, some mucus had also come out of her belly button, giving off a foul stench.
She couldn’t wait to meet the expert that Lord Lex had mentioned, so she kept looking up eagerly in hopes that the person would appear at any time.
“Brother Lex, when will the expert you mentioned arrive?
“I feel that something is wrong, and I suspect a big problem will happen soon.”
Lord Lex assured her. “Don’t worry, nothing bad will happen. The person I found is an amazing person. Evil spirits could be directly killed… Oh, he’s here. Let’s hurry and welcome him.”
Serena was ecstatic. So, she stood up immediately and walked with Lord Lex to greet the person at the entrance.
However, when she finally caught sight of him, it turned out to be Alex.
“Ah! Why is it him?”
Serena froze and was dumbfounded, with her mouth agape.
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Alex also caught sight of Serena at the same time.
His brows furrowed, then he turned to Lord Lex and said, “Lord Lex, is she the one that you’ve called me over to treat?”
Lord Lex wouldn’t have known that Alex and Serena had conflicts before. At the moment, he smiled and said, “Yes! Let me introduce you. Miss Wai, this is the medical expert that I told you about, Mr. Alex Rockefeller; Mr. Rockefeller, this is a friend of mine from Hong Kong, Serena Wai. She’s the vice president of the largest cosmetics company in Hong Kong, Arles Cosmetics.”
When Serena saw Alex, she felt extreme shock and guilt. She had just said vicious words in front of Hailey just now that she would block off both her and her husband’s companies. Then, it turned out that the expert that Lord Lex had called was actually Alex.
Would he still be willing to treat her now?
However, as soon as she heard Alex called Lex Gunther as “Lord Lex”, she suddenly understood one thing.
Lord Lex was a big boss in California’s underground world. That Rockefeller guy seemed to act depending on Lord Lex’s mood.
She had Lord Lex’s support, how could she not be able to dominate over him?
In that instant, she snorted coldly. “Brother Lex, I’ve met this b*stard a long time ago. He’s really bold, and even tried to blackmail me just now. So, it turned out that he’s actually one of your people!”
“What did you say?”
Lord Lex was stunned when he heard it, and his face changed immediately.
“I said, he tried to blackmail me,” Serena repeated.
Lex’s face darkened even more, as though he was on the verge of explosion. “Not that sentence, the sentence before that.”
When Serena saw Lord Lex was about to get angry, she was happy. So, she said by adding fuel to his anger, “I said, this b*stard was so arrogant like he was above the sky. Not only did he try to blackmail me, but he also beat up my bodyguard yesterday, and even beat me.”
The moment she said that…
Smack!
Lord Lex delivered a slap directly to Serena’s face, leaving her staggered. Her face started to swell from the impact.
“Brother Lex, why did you hit me?! Are you crazy?!” She screamed.
Lord Lex slapped her again on the other side of her face, and said in a vicious tone, “You’re the one who’s crazy. Who the hell do you think you are? How dare you talk to Mr. Rockefeller like this, even daring to curse him. I see, you must be tired of living.”
“Someone, come!”
“Give her a proper slapping!”
Here was Hell’s Angels, and Lord Lex’s words were equivalent to an imperial edict.
Immediately, a fighter from Thousand Miles Conglomerate rushed over. His slaps landed on Serena’s mouth repeatedly, and only the crackling sound could be heard.
Very soon, Serena fell to the ground, wailing non-stop.
Only then did Lord Lex turn to Alex, and said in fear and trepidation, “Mr. Rockefeller, I’m truly sorry. I didn’t expect that this scum would have offended you a long time ago. If I knew about it, I would have had her drowned.”
He slapped himself hard after saying that.
Alex was his master after all.
Moreover, he heard the news earlier that Alex had displayed godly powers in the Yowell family recently. Not only had he killed Scott from the Pattingson family in Alaska, but he also killed his father, Gerald Pattingson, in addition to the beautiful lady in the Pattingson family, Winnie.
However, the patriarch of the Pattingson family, who was an Earth ranked expert, had personally gone over to the Pattingson residence to apologize to Alex. Although the details were not clear, rumors were not necessarily true.
However, the fact that the patriarch of the Pattingson family had rushed to the Yowell residence and left soon after his arrival, was known by many people. The key point here was that Alex was safe and sound, and so were the Yowell family.
This indirectly proved that the rumors were true.
His young master was a giant among men and a peerless master, how could he be insulted by such a woman?
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On the other hand, Serena was utterly shocked to see Lord Lex slapping himself while apologizing profusely to Alex.
Who exactly was this man?
“What are you doing, Lord Lex?” Alex frowned and looked at Lord Lex, who was weak-willed. “You are Waltz’s foster father, which means that we are a family. Don’t do this anymore, otherwise Waltz will get mad at me.”
Having said that, Lord Lex also laughed. He was laughing heartily! He thought, ‘It was the wisest decision to send Waltz tomaster’s side.’
“What do you say, Miss Wai? I’m giving you the final chance, reduce your profit margin by 30% and cede it to Belle Blossom. If you agree to do so, I will treat you right now and you will recover on the same day. If you disagree to do so, I will turn around and leave, you will never see me again,” Alex told Serena in an indifferent tone.
Serena shouted, “If we ever lower our profit margin by 30%, it would be equivalent to giving all the earned profits to Hailey Lawson! Not only will we not be able to make a profit of a single penny, but we will also incur losses by hearing transportation costs! Do you think this is possible?”
Alex said, “Just take it as paying the price for the continuation of your life. You have ten seconds to consider, your life and death are just within a hair’s breadth… If I am not mistaken, pus starts oozing out of your belly button as we speak, right? Looks like my estimation earlier was too conservative, you might not live past tomorrow.”
“Five, four, three, two…”
“I agree! I agree!”
Serena screamed hysterically.
Alex broke into a faint smile and immediately dialed Hailey’s number. “Hailey, go ahead and prepare a contract to be signed with Arles Cosmetics. Miss Wai has agreed to cede 30% of their profit margin to Belle Blossom. I’ll be waiting for you here at Hell’s Angels.”
Hailey took a long time to calm down after receiving the call. However, soon after she had her secretary prepared the contract and went straight to Hell’s Angels.
Half an hour later, Serena put her signature on the contract and said to Alex with a long face, “Can we proceed with the treatment now?”
Alex nodded and smiled as he said, “Of course, since Miss Wai is so sincere, I’m a person who keeps my promises too! By the way, can I ask something, Lord Lex? What is your relationship with Miss Wai from Hong Kong?”
Lord Lex was obviously embarrassed. Finally, he said, albeit in an embarrassed tone, “Actually, I didn’t know her previously but her assistant secretary came to California a while ago. She and I… Had an ill-fated relationship.”
With that, Alex understood the gist of it.
After asking Lord Lex for an empty room, both Alex and Serena entered the room. He went straight to the point and said, “Miss Wai, I can treat your condition within a minute.”
Serena was startled. “That fast? Are you lying to me?”
Alex smiled coldly. “Are the black spots on your stomach deception as well? Look, I will be frank with you, you are pregnant with a fetus, a haunting fetus to be exact. Unfortunately, it’s not a happy event to be celebrated. Once the haunting fetus is born, you will die of an excruciating death with a ruptured stomach. Looking at how things are, this little thing will be born tonight.”
“Ah!” After listening to his words, Serena got goosebumps all over her body as her face instantly turned pale as a sheet of paper.
She fell and kneeled before Alex with a thud. “Save me, Doctor Rockefeller, you must save me!”
Alex said, “Don’t worry, I already said, once you have signed the contract, I’ll definitely save you… But, I also said earlier, I can remove your haunting fetus within a minute. It may treat the symptoms but not the root cause. Most importantly, the problem lies within yourself.”
“What should I do?” Serena hastily asked.
Alex raised the corner of his month. “It’s not really difficult. Miss Wai, you are still single, right? Hurry and find a man to get married, that will be no more problem after that.”
“This… What does this have got to do with my marital status?” Serena was puzzled.
Alex said, “Of course there is. Once you’re married, you won’t be needing this.”
He suddenly stepped forward and opened Serena’s purse and took out an item from within.
Seeing the object in question, Serena trembled and flushed. She was on the verge of collapse.
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Alex took out a wooden artifact from her purse. Its appearance was of a stake for exorcism. It had a tapered tip with a cylindrical handle, and was about fifteen centimeters long. It was black in color with hints of red. In fact, when Alex entered Serena’s villa last time, he could sense a faint malicious Yin energy with vampiric impulses coming from her. Later, he could feel a stronger evil energy from her purse.
The hints of red found on the stake were actually bloodstains.
The whole artifact was polished from the core of an ancient locust tree that was struck by lightning. Runic scriptures and the avatar of a hideous demon were engraved onto it. It was quite terrifying at first glance.
It was unknown where Serena got her hands on the Stake of Exorcism. It was actually a cursed object as its body was soiled with the blood of many evil beings. However, Serena actually brought the demise upon herself by carrying it around in her purse daily.
If the Stake of Exorcism were to be possessed by a spirit, she would have to spit three liters of blood. More importantly, it was really possessed. As a result, she bore the brunt of it, she had an unwed pregnancy, bearing a haunting fetus inside her belly that would be born on this very day.
Extremely embarrassed, Serena said, “You… What are you doing with this? Give it back to me!”
Alex snickered. “Are you tired of living already? Do you know what this is? It’s a mystical tool used specifically to quell demonic creatures. The blood of countless demons and evil entities has been stained on it. Do you see the hints of red? Isn’t it extraordinarily enchanting? You don’t think that they are aesthetic paints, do you? These are the results of the perennial bathing in demonic blood. Well, you used it to… Hmph!”
“Ah!” Serena was stunned as she looked at the Stake of Exorcism with full of fear on her face.
“Where did you get this from?” asked Alex.
Serena stammered, “I… I bought it from a shop during my trip to the western highlands.”
Alex shook his head and was bereft of speech.
“This item will only bring you nothing but trouble if it ever remains with you. I’ll take it away and deal with it,” he said indifferently.
“Okay. Okay.” Serena wouldn’t dare to touch that thing anymore, she would get a nightmare if she ever thought of it.
Alex nonchalantly put it in his pockets, but he was happy deep down.
The Stake of Exorcism was actually a mystical tool that lived up to its name, and the materials used for crafting were conscientious. More importantly, it had gained an evil attribute after consuming the blood of countless demonic beings. It could be used to vanquish most of the evil entities.
As for the stake which had been used by the old woman Serena to… Cough, cough, the pros outweigh the cons anyway!
As long as the stake were to be processed a little, it should be just a small issue.
“Rockefeller… Master Rockefeller, about this thing on my belly… How do I deal with this?”
She lifted up her shirt, exposing the black spot on her belly button. At this moment, the black spot once again expanded, and it was already as big as a bowl. It was a frightening sight as a human face was faintly visible on it.
After thinking for a while, Alex took out the Stake of Exorcism again and said, “Since this stake is the instigator of this issue, then we’ll use it to cure your illness!”
After flipping his hand and turning the Stake of Exorcism for several cycles, he suddenly asked with a strange expression on his face, “This stake of yours, did you wash it?”
“I did, it’s as clean as it ever could be.” Serena nodded immediately.
“Well then.”
Alex bit his tongue and spat out a mouthful of blood onto the Stake of Exorcism.
Condensing his Chi onto his fingertip and using blood as a medium, he scribbled a bloody rune onto the stake. Then, he spat out another mouthful of blood onto Serena’s belly.
“Seal!”
In the next moment, Serena was surprised to find that the huge black spot on her belly started to disappear at a speed that was visible to the naked eye. Wisps of black smoke came out of her belly and entered the Stake of Exorcism.
A few moments later, the black spot on Serena’s belly button had disappeared completely.
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Placing the tip of the Stake of Exorcism on the lower energy core three inches below her belly button, Alex pierced the skin hard and blood dripped out, only to be absorbed by it.
The Stake of Exorcism was possessed by spirits, it needed to consume blood. Since there was evil energy coming from Serena Wai’s body, naturally the stake needed to consume her blood.
“That should be it!”
Alex placed the Stake of Exorcism back into his pocket and shoved her a piece of napkin, “Be smarter next time and don’t do this kind of thing anymore. Isn’t it better to have a boyfriend?”
Embarrassed, Serena quickly fixed up her clothing and said, “Okay, okay. Thank you for saving my life, Master. Feel free to tell me if you need anything from me. This is my personal cell phone number, it is turned on twenty-four-seven.”
She took out a personal business card and handed it over to Alex. Compared to earlier, she did a one-eighty in her attitude.
After witnessing Alex’s amazing mystic arts, she knew that he was really a capable master. It was ten thousand times better to be acquainted with such a character than making him an enemy.
“Sure!” Alex accepted the business card. “Perhaps there are opportunities for us to work together in the future!”
He was quite pleased to have gotten a wonderful mystical tool. After a brief pause, he said to Serena, “Miss Wai, since I have helped you to remove the haunting fetus, your daily abdominal pain and insomnia will get better. However, you seem to have stomach issues and a bit of gastric ulcer. We may have been brought together by fate today, let me cure that too!”
Surprised, Serena asked, “Master Rockefeller, apart from being a master of metaphysics, could it be that you are a real doctor?”
“Of course! I’m a practitioner in traditional medicine. The four methods of diagnosis in traditional medicine are awesome, I can tell your body conditions just by taking a glance at you. It is not wizardry nor some puny magic tricks. Have a seat, now I will use a Chi needle to treat your ulcer and it will be done in three minutes,” said Alex.
“It can be cured in three minutes? Isn’t traditional medicine too amazing?”
“You shall see for yourself.”
Using his Chi with healing properties, he cured her gastric ulcer.
The whole process ended at the third-minute mark, no more, no less.
Serena pressed on her stomach. It used to hurt every time she did that, but now it really didn’t hurt at all. Furthermore, it felt especially comfortable, as the feeling of stomach bloating due to acid reflux was gone.
“You are the most amazing miracle doctor I have ever seen, Master! Please forgive me for offending you earlier, Master!”
Serena suddenly dropped onto her knees and prostrated before Alex to thank him. She even took out a check and swiftly wrote the amount of ten million dollars before forcing it into Alex’s hands.
“Can I have your phone number too, Master? I have a sick younger brother at home. He accidentally broke his spine when he went skiing in Japan a few years ago and now he is in paraplegia. Master, I wonder if you could treat such illness? Rest assured, Master. The rewards definitely won’t be little.”
Serena looked at him eagerly.
“Vertebral paraplegia? That has to do with nerve damage, but I can only say for sure after physically checking his condition. But Hong Kong is too far for me to visit and I don’t have the time to do so. You can send him over to California and I should be able to have a look at him. If his nerves are not completely damaged, there is still hope,” Alex replied.
“Thank you, thank you so much! I will arrange for everything immediately when I return!”
It was a happy ending after dealing with Serena’s issues.
Alex hung out at Lord Lex’s Hell’s Angels for a while. Then, he received a call from Dorothy, saying that the Assex family wanted to meet him and they were willing to compensate for the jade and Villa’s furniture, which cost a total of 110 million dollars. They had agreed to meet at the CEO’s office of Dorothy-Alex Constructions. Dorothy didn’t feel confident in attending alone, so she wanted Alex to come along.
Alex agreed and rushed to Dorothy-Alex Constructions. When he arrived at the office, he saw Claire and Beatrice were present too.
Beatrice glared fiercely at Alex, with a contemptuous look on her face, but he heeded no attention.
Soon after, Madame Joanne and Benny, who were escorted by a few bodyguards, walked in.
Smack!
Madame Joanne slapped a check onto the table.
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“Take this!”
“Hurry and sign this settlement agreement and release my Anderson and Emma!”
Madame Joanne had a cold expression on her face as her vicious gaze swept across everyone’s face in the room. She couldn’t stop thinking, ‘Just you guys wait. Today you may have taken my money, but it won’ t take long for you guys to repay the full amount of money plus interest!’
When Claire saw the check, she was thrilled. She was about to reach out her hand to snatch it and put it into her pocket. However, when she was halfway reaching the check, Alex took the initiative and seized it.
At a glance, it was only sixty million dollars.
“I am afraid the amount stated is wrong, Madame Joanne. Why is it only sixty million dollars? Where did the remaining fifty million dollars go? Did you embezzle them?”
Madame Joanne’s spiteful gaze was fixated on Alex. The person that she hated the most was Alex. She wished clearly that she could tear his body into pieces, cut his flesh into pieces, fry and grill them, and finally devour them.
However, soon after she smiled again. “How could an old lady like me be capable of embezzling a large sum of fifty million dollars? However, our Assex Constructions couldn’t find more cash in such a short time. Hence, for the remaining fifty million dollars, can we just mortgage the construction stocks we have? How about it, Mr. Rockefeller? Can you have some mercy, please?”
Just moments ago, she acted resentfully but in the bat of an eye, she was amiable as a spring sun. The drastic change in her attitude had surprised Dorothy and the rest.
However, they didn’t know that Madame Joanne saw Alex as a dying man.
Why would Madame Joanne get mad at a man who would die very soon?
Alex could not figure out what Madame Joanne was up to. Based on his understanding of this old lady, he knew that she would never be so easily convinced. Yet, he was at a loss for a while.
In the end, Dorothy made the decision to accept the deal.
Dorothy added, “That’s right, Mom, hurry and return it to me! It’s useless for you to hold it. It just happens that our company is short of sixty million dollars right now, and we need the check for advance payment of projects with South Cali Structures. Otherwise, we will have to borrow a bank loan, but look at how high the banks’ interest rates are nowadays. If we were to do that, we will be slaving away for the bank.”
Claire took a look at the check, it was indeed a business check.
After examining the check and signing the mortgage agreement of fifty million dollars, Dorothy and her family put their signatures down on the settlement agreement.
With the settlement agreement, it would not be difficult for Benny to have Anderson and Emma released, by spending some money to hire a lawyer for some interventions.
After leaving Dorothy-Alex Constructions, they entered the car. Benny asked Madame Joanne, “When are you going to do it, Mom? Our company’s funds are running low, and they won’t last long.”
Madame Joanne replied in a wicked tone, “Relax, I’ve contacted that elder sister. Just wait for another three days, she will arrive in California. When the time comes, that Rockefeller brat will die, screaming in agony while that b*tch Dorothy will be fully infested with maggots. As for Claire and Beatrice, these two insignificant fools should be easy targets.”
“Great, I will wait for three more days. Let me get prepared for what is to come,” Benny said with an evil expression.
At the CEO’s office of Dorothy-Alex Constructions, Alex asked Dorothy, “You sure there is no trap in the construction material contract?”
“No, it is legitimate.” She shook her head.
Alex frowned. “This is weird, Madame Joanne suddenly became so courteous, and she’s even willing to fork out more than a billion dollars in exchange for the freedom of her son and granddaughter? Assex Constructions is not a large company, but they would suffer a great deal of damage by losing that much money… I don’t really trust her. Be careful during this period of time, especially when you receive the construction materials later. Look carefully if there is anything wrong with them.”
“I will!” Dorothy nodded eagerly.
Suddenly, Claire snatched away the check from Alex’s grasp just when he was distracted.
She held it by her chest. “Sixty million dollars! I can really laugh awake from my dream, it has become mine so easily! None of you gets to take it away from me!”
Alex livid as he said, “Have you not learnt your lesson yet? Didn’t the twenty million dollar check last time teach you a lesson? What should we do if you were to make a crease on the check again? Do you think that Madame Joanne will be willing to write a new one for you?”
Shocked, Claire hurriedly handled it in proper care. “There is no use holding onto the check. It is a business check addressed to Dorothy-Alex Constructions. It’s just a blank sheet of paper to you.” Alex was speechless at Claire’s antics.
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She was frustrated in that instant, and said angrily, “Why can’t I get a single penny after my house went through such damage?”
“Didn’t Alex just buy you a twenty million dollar villa? Look at you, you were having the time of your life when you swam in the pool yesterday. You should do the same today too!” said Dorothy.
Claire shouted, “I don’t care, I want my money. Give me ten million dollars, or else I will stay here tonight and I won’t leave!”
Smack!
Dorothy slapped a credit card on the table. “Here’s a hundred thousand dollars. Either you take it or you stay right here, I don’t care.”
Realizing that Dorothy wasn’t joking with her, Claire couldn’t help but grab the credit card.
Beatrice then said, “Can I have ten thousand dollars please, Sis?”
“Why do you need so much money?” Dorothy frowned.
“I… To attend Daya’s concert at California State Stadium… My ticket has been bought by someone using borrowed money. If you don’t give me the money, I’ll have no choice but to go for online loans.”
“Are you nuts?” Dorothy instantly chided, “You must not go for any online loans! Haven’t you watched those tragic news? Once you have started borrowing online loans, it will be a bottomless pit after that and the debt will just keep snowballing. No matter how much fortune those people possess, they will be sucked dry by these loans, leaving them devastated and homeless.”
Beatrice said, “That is exactly why you should give me the money. Think of it as a loan that I borrow from you. I will repay you once I have graduated and started working.”
Dorothy was livid but there was nothing else she could do.
Alex frowned and said, “Didn’t you just attend Daya’s concert last time? Why do you still want to attend the concert this time? Did you forget you were almost kidnapped to warm someone’s bed last time?”
Beatrice glared at him. “How did you know?”
Alex said, “I… Heard it from someone else.”
Beatrice snorted. “Mind your own business.”
Alex pouted his lips as he thought, ‘Since I will be going up the stage at the concert later, shouldn’t I wear a mask whatsoever?’
Time flew, and soon the day of Daya’s concert came. On the other hand, Brittany purposely made the trip back from Michigan. First, it was to attend the concert, secondly, she wanted to meet Daya to discuss the matter of product endorsement.
Holly Yates also accompanied her on the trip.
The extra tickets in Alex’s hand finally came in handy. Not only did Brittany and Holly attend the concert, but both Waltz and Maya also went there too. However, Alex had to play the piano for Daya, especially her newly released song. He had to stay with Daya and her team, so he could not stick around with Brittany and the ladies.
As for Dorothy, she wasn’t too interested in this concert as it was almost similar to the previous concert. Although it was just a compensated concert, it was still teeming with people.
Beatrice, Wilson Jordan, Sam Culver, and several other fan club members arrived at the stadium together. After a brief reception, they walked into the stadium. Unexpectedly, Beatrice was almost knocked over by a man.
“Look at where you walk, what’s the hurry?” Wilson, who had a crush on Beatrice, was livid and was about to beat the man up.
Beatrice hurriedly pulled him back. As she looked at the man, she said with a surprised expression, “Aren’t you the famous piano master from Hong Kong, Maestro Alan? Oh gosh, could it be that you specifically come here to play the piano for Daya?”
It was indeed Alan.
He bumped into Beatrice after being pushed by someone else.
Attracted by Beatrice’s good look and her slender figure, Alan did not act high and mighty but said, “My apologies for bumping into you earlier. Yes, I am Alan. However, I’m not the one who will be playing for Daya tonight. Master Rockefeller will take my place instead.”
“And who is this Master Rockefeller?” Beatrice was surprised.