Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 192: Immortal's legacy?

With Gatsby, the New York upstart who was supposed to have a tragic ending, becoming a professional manager of the Continental Hotel created by Wang Yi under the pseudonym John Wick, Wang Yi's layout in the United States was initially completed.

Gatsby, a professional manager, used the Continental Hotel as a platform to quickly put the 3000 barrels of finely brewed wine, which had been prepared in advance without any cutting corners, into the already saturated bootleg liquor market in New York, thereby achieving the fastest profit.

This may sound a bit far-fetched, but in this era of Prohibition, it is not impossible.

The first thing Gatsby had to do was to do publicity and tell stories. He used his long-dead identity Jay Gatsby to tell a story to attract the interest of these drunkards in New York.

In the first week after Gatsby chose to join the Continental Hotel established by Wang Yi under the alias of John Wick, similar conversations took place around the stock traders on Wall Street who made millions of dollars every day, and in bars opened by other gangsters in New York.

"...Friend, do you know Jay Gatsby?"

"How could I not know? He was a wealthy man who lived in West Egg, Long Island and threw parties every day. I didn't expect that all his money was earned from selling alcohol. His death was so unfair."

"Isn't it? But I heard from someone that before he died, this guy personally mixed two cocktails to please the wife of the Buchanan family. One is called Long Island Iced Tea and the other is called Margarita. The taste is so good..."

"No, bro, who told you that?"

"Nick Carraway who works at the Rockefeller Center. Don't you know that he is the cousin of the Buchanan family's wife and a college classmate of James Buchanan? He is the witness of the love-hate relationship between Gatsby and the Buchanans, and he is also the only person who has drunk these two cocktails."

"Then how do you know these two cocktails taste good?"

"Don't you know that this guy sold the recipes of these two cocktails to a group called the Continental Hotel for a high price of $200,000?"

"Oh my God, is what you said true?"

"Hush, keep your voice down. We'll know if it's true when we go and see it. But if you want to invite others to try it, you have to be careful. I heard that the Continental Hotel was once an Irish mafia, but it was later cleared out by some big shot. It specializes in the hotel and wine business. Although it's not a mafia now, we all know who is in the wine business these days. I heard that the big shot killed six Irish mafia members with a pencil in an Italian bar for the first time. With just a pencil!"

"Well, I see. Member registration is required there, right? I will keep my mouth shut. So do you want it?"

"You're on tonight's drinks!"

"As long as these two cocktails taste good, it's no problem to treat us. We can just make the money back from the stock market tomorrow. Tell me again, what were the names of those two cocktails?"

“Long Island Iced Tea and Margaritas.”

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Wang Yi, who was watching Gatsby operate all this behind the scenes, had to admire this guy. In the current era when self-media is not well developed and marketing is still in the era of newspapers, Gatsby used his own tragic story as a raft to cast a veil of mystery on these two cocktails, which aroused the interest of these alcoholics.

After all, it is human nature to eat melons, especially since Gatsby's death happened not long ago. These two cocktails, which were born out of the love-hate relationship between a New York upstart and an old American aristocrat, are something you have to try. Not to mention that Nick Carraway, the person involved, was present at the scene, which made the story even more persuasive.

Soon, the Continental Hotel's beverage brand 'Everywhere' became famous in New York. These two cocktails, which were not particularly outstanding in later generations, quickly took a piece of the pie in the already saturated beverage market in New York.

And Gatsby was even smarter than this guy. He struck while the iron was hot and launched another reward system. Any old member registered at the Continental Hotel who could attract 100 new members could get a lifetime 15% discount on Continental Hotel's beverage brand 'Everywhere', priority tasting of new cocktails, and the recipes for Long Island Iced Tea and Margarita.

As soon as this system was introduced, the first mainland hotel founded by Wang Yi was crowded every day.

Even the orders for the beverage brand 'Everywhere' have soared. After all, in the eyes of many people, mainland hotels are willing to make their cocktail recipes public, so it is only right for us to take care of their beverage brand business, and their beverages are not cut corners.

In just one November, Wang Yi made nearly $300,000 in profit. After deducting the initial investment, decoration, labor costs of nearly $100,000, and fixed investment in purchasing equipment, the rest was pure profit, a truly huge sum of money.

Gatsby knew very well that once cocktails were launched, it would only take time to crack the formula, and there was no technical barrier to this thing. Instead of doing that, he might as well use the money earned from selling alcohol to invest in stocks through his only friend, Nick Carraway, who was also a securities trader on Wall Street, to get more profits.

Moreover, once the formula is released, those gangsters who are jealous of the mainland hotel business will suppress their eagerness and think of exchanging one hundred new members for the formula of your two cocktails. After all, our business can't be worse than yours, right?
But these gangsters often forget a basic problem. The reason why Mainland Hotel is doing well is not only because of these two cocktails that were released in advance, but more importantly, there is a top master named Wang Yi in charge. He has drawn a deadline that no corners can be cut when brewing all the drinks, otherwise he has plenty of ways to find out and make this person and his family disappear from the land of America.

With Wang Yi's development, the method of radio dream entry is no longer limited to making phone calls and sending messages, but has advanced to the stage of mind reading. Although this mind reading is basically useless against practitioners of the Tao of Sex, it is still easy to deal with ordinary people who are obsessed with money and luxury.

In this regard, he is not a good person. He is really working hard to create a wine brand, not just looking at it as a way to make quick money. Once the brand is established, it will be more convenient to provide financial support to the new business later.

If anyone dared to cause trouble at this time and caused problems in his plan, he really wouldn't mind killing everyone.

However, for now, there will be no conflict between the gangs entrenched in the New York underworld and Wang Yi's mainland hotel. After all, the gangs make money in more ways than just selling bootleg liquor. If there is to be a real conflict, it will have to wait until after the Great Depression next year. So during this period, Wang Yi has plenty of time to make a fortune and plan ahead.

What makes Wang Yi most relieved is Gatsby. With the help of Wang Yi, he turned a disaster into a blessing and became a congenital superhuman. He also mastered the ability to control metal. Although he can only control metal within a radius of ten meters, this ability can serve as the backbone of a sect even in the superhuman circle of the Republic of China. It has a natural restraining effect on those schools that practice Qi and play swords.

But Gatsby himself did not forget his original intention because of the sudden power he gained. He still knew his own worth and did not get carried away by the fact that he had accumulated so much wealth for Wang Yi. He just honestly did what he was supposed to do as a professional manager.

It can be said that in terms of character, apart from suffering in love, Gatsby, a guy who started from scratch as a poor boy, made a name for himself in New York, had huge wealth, and a strong character, would be a good seedling for cultivation even in the Xuanmen. Wang Yi only provided him with a hotbed for germination and growth.

But at the same time, Wang Yi became even more curious about the drug that he obtained from another American mutant organization, Ant Nest, which can transform ordinary people into mutants.

He had contributed to Gatsby's transformation into a congenital superhuman, but isn't this thing a bit too powerful? If there was just someone with cultivation like himself watching and helping to open up the Ren and Du meridians, and if combined with this drug, a congenital superhuman with certain abilities could be born, then the value of this drug would be raised several levels.

He didn't think that the United States was such a large territory that even if it suffered from insufficient foundation, it would not be unable to find a truly decent master.

It is impossible that he is the only one who discovered this. Ant Nest is a long-established American mutant organization that has been operating for many years. Wang Yi does not believe that this organization did not intervene when the great powers divided China. This is unreasonable.

So what is the reason that the Ant Nest, an alien organization, was swallowed up by the emerging force Behemoth Foundation even though it had the right time, place and people?

Wang Yi couldn't think of the answer to this question for the time being, and he wasn't in a hurry to think of the answer because the Behemoth Foundation would give him the answer.
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Time goes by in an orderly manner.

As another alias for activities in the United States, John Wick started operating with the Continental Hotel. After he made his name known as 'Everywhere' through two cocktails, he began to become a legend among New York's upper class, just like Gatsby once was. However, Wang Yi is not as flamboyant as Gatsby, he is very low-key.

This low profile also brought the Continental Hotel's beverage business to a new level, because many people wanted to know who this owner was, who killed six Irish gang members in an Italian underground bar with a pencil, and used this as a breakthrough to wipe out the entire Irish gang and establish the Continental Hotel. However, they have never seen Wang Yi's true appearance as John Wick, but have only drunk another cocktail launched by Wang Yi, a prophetic guy, in 1980 - Passion Coast.

As for the real body, Wang Yi has been busy with the hotel business on the mainland recently, and for the time being, he no longer has much connection with the Behemoth Group.

The Behemoth Foundation also gave up on using wine, sex, money and power to test Wang Yi. In the eyes of the Behemoth Foundation, even industrial civilization cannot make you waver, so forget about the low-level means like the beauty trap, it is meaningless.

Wang Yi did not comment on the other party's tactful behavior. Although he also wanted to challenge his weak spot, how should he put it? Although the white women at this moment looked good, their body odor was too strong. Apart from satisfying his eyes, he could not get excited at all.

He wanted to see Marilyn Monroe, but he didn't even know where she was born, so it would be useless to see her.

In this way, without disturbing each other, Wang Yi began his own practice after confirming that the business of the mainland hotel was on the right track.

Tesla, the great scientist who wanted to make further progress from Wang Yi, was using the resources of the Behemoth consortium to rebuild his Wardenclyffe Tower on Long Island. The building was the product of the lifelong research results of this great scientist. In his difficult and uncertain later years, he realized that he could make further progress in his own field through his research on Wang Yi, so he naturally could not miss the opportunity to rebuild the Wardenclyffe Tower.

Tesla, who was now fully devoted to rebuilding the tower, had no time to care about Wang Yi for the time being, because until this thing was built, no matter how much he communicated with Wang Yi, he would not be able to put it into practice.

The Behemoth Foundation, an alien organization cooperating with Wang Yi, was even less hurried. They had already obtained double-digit alien income from another alien organization, Ant Nest, through Wang Yi. Although they were all artificial aliens, their strength and upper limits were there, and their loyalty also needed to be discounted.

But precisely because of this, the Behemoth Group is more relieved, because they have nothing else but money, which is richer than the Inhuman organization Ant Nest. If they did not have as many Inhumans as the old Inhuman organization Ant Nest, who knows who would be the boss in the United States now.

Now they have dozens more aliens as input, and have obtained reagents and drugs from the alien organization Ant Nest on how to transform ordinary people into aliens. They are not so short of aliens, and they don't have to be so afraid of doing some business. If any company doesn't want to cooperate with them, they can just send an alien to make a GTA-style acquisition and be done with it.

Moreover, with the Behemoth Group's abundant funds and huge investment in talent, the drug that Wang Yi obtained from the Ant Nest, an alien organization, that can transform ordinary people into aliens was also reverse-engineered by them.

As a cooperating party, Wang Yi was naturally invited to witness the formula of the medicine. At the same time, he also received a piece of news from there that he didn't know whether he should be surprised or not.

"Are you saying that there is an unknown element in this formula?"

In the Behemoth Foundation's Inhuman Research Building in Queens, New York, Wang Yi met an old acquaintance, Li Tianran's American adoptive father, Dr. Hendler, after a long absence.

This old guy is not just a visiting professor of the Alien Research Association as he said, he is an expert in the study of aliens. The formula of these two tubes of drugs that can transform ordinary people into aliens can be reversed and it can be deduced that Hendler played a big role in it.

It was from Hendler that Wang Yi realized that this recipe was not as simple as he thought.

"Well, medicines are easy to deal with. If we don't have them here, we can go to the Republic of China to buy them. However, these medicines are nothing more than helping to stimulate the Qi that already exists in everyone's body. What can really stimulate this Qi is this thing."

Wang Yi felt good to see Hendler, his old acquaintance, again. Although he was a cheater who relied on his own thinking to level up, the Ghost Hand King had taught him some knowledge about cultivation. His three years in Trinity School were not in vain. Except for his poor knowledge, he knew everything else. But he couldn't talk about these things with these American aliens who had never been in the Republic of China, and it was not as easy as communicating with Hendler, who was an expert on China.

Hendler did not hide anything from Wang Yi and directly showed him the most critical ingredient in the drug that could transform ordinary people into extraordinary people. It was a metal powder that was almost the size of an ant.

But when Wang Yi attached his true Qi to it, he could clearly feel that his magnetic field true Qi became unusually active.

Moreover, at the moment when his true Qi attached to it, these metal powders were integrated into the true Qi of his magnetic field without Wang Yi being able to react. The true Qi in his body also spontaneously circulated for a cycle after absorbing the unknown metal powder. He could clearly feel that the upper limit of the true Qi reserves in his Dantian had increased slightly.

"this···"

The feedback from his own true Qi made Wang Yi look surprised. This was the first time he encountered such a situation.

You know, for someone like him, at such a young age, he is basically on par with the head of a sect, or even second only to the Heavenly Master. It is very difficult for Zuo Rutong, who has the cultivation level of several top leaders of the Xuanmen, to make further progress.

If monsters like him and Zhang Zhiwei want to improve their cultivation, on the one hand it depends on the cultivation of their own state of mind, and on the other hand it depends on hard work. However, the hard work of him and Zhang Zhiwei is not the same type as that of others.

To use data to describe the difference between practitioners like Lu Jin and Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei, the difference between Lu Jin is lifespan: 120-150, basic combat power is 20, increasing by one to two points every five years, and stops at a certain stage.

For abnormal people like Wang Yi and Zhang Zhiwei, their basic life span is 120-150, their basic combat power is 50, and their combat power increases by five points every year with no upper limit.

The only thing that can limit the two of them is the lifespan limit of the human species.

Just now, Wang Yi could clearly feel that his combat effectiveness had increased by one point on the basis of increasing by five points every year. This was outrageous.

"This is an unknown element that does not exist in the periodic table, at least for now. I don't think the Ant Nest organization has the ability to produce this unknown element. It is more likely that they found this product in some immortal ruins and discovered that this element can stimulate the true qi in the human body and transform an ordinary person into an extraordinary person. Mr. Wang Yi, the legend of immortals is not only in your China. Do you think this trip to the United States is the right one?"

This was the first time Hendler saw an expression of astonishment on Wang Yi's face. It was a very novel experience for Hendler.

As for the fact that Wang Yi had just absorbed these few relics that were most likely from immortals from other ancient civilizations, Hendler seemed to have anticipated it, or he had given them to Wang Yi specifically to absorb in order to arouse his interest.

"Of course I know that immortals are not a specialty of our country, but this is the first time I have come into contact with a product that is suspected to be left by immortals in a foreign country. You didn't call me here just to tell me this news, did you, Doctor Heng?"

"Of course not. Although we are currently unable to synthesize this unknown element, it does not mean that we do not know how to find it. Behemoth is still somewhat capable in this regard. We have found the source of this unknown element. Do you want to guess which civilization this immortal relic came from?"

"It can't be from our area. After all, you have taken away a lot of good things from us from 1840 to now. If you say there is no immortal relic in it, you don't believe it yourself, Doctor Heng, right?"

Hearing Wang Yi talk so bluntly about the things that the country behind them had done, no matter how thick-skinned Hendler was, he felt a little embarrassed.

"Hey, Mr. Wang Yi, we're just chatting, why are you so serious? I don't know about others, but at least our Behemoth Consortium, although we took away a lot of your antiques and calligraphy and paintings, there are indeed no immortal relics among them. The immortal relics that you just absorbed from the ant nest that can transform ordinary people into aliens are indeed not from your country, but from another ancient civilization that is as famous as your country - Egypt."

As he spoke, Hendler took out a black-and-white photo from his pocket and handed it to Wang Yi.

The photo shows a sky full of yellow sand. A group of people took out a coffin from a ruin. After opening it, a mummy was revealed. Next to the mummy, a golden arrow wrapped in linen came into view.

(End of this chapter)