Chapter 006: Isotope

Upon hearing this, Yazi was startled. 'You mean the Deep Red Heart, which an international auction house sold for 130 million US dollars a few days ago, was sold by you?'

"One hundred and thirty million US dollars?" Wang Bo shook his head. "I remember I sold it to the auction house for eighty million US dollars."

"Eighty million?" Yazi was speechless, looking at Wang Bo with sympathy. "You took a huge loss."

Chunli nodded in agreement, a full fifty million, and in US dollars at that.

Wang Bo didn't mind, saying, "At that time I urgently needed money to buy a villa, so I didn't care."

Yazi said, frustrated that he didn't appreciate the value, 'That was fifty million US dollars.'

"It's not that exaggerated; the auction house also takes a cut."

"Even after the commission, it's still tens of millions of dollars." Chunli shook her head and couldn't help but sigh, as if unable to comprehend Wang Bo's thoughts.

“Wasn’t I in a hurry for money back then?” Wang Bo defended himself.

"Buy a villa?"

"That's right."

Yazi looked helpless. "But do you realize that if you had waited just two days, the tens of millions you lost would have been enough to buy several villas here?"

"I know, but as I said, I don't care." Wang Bo looked calm; after all, he had more money than he could ever spend. A mere few tens of millions was nothing to him—whether in US dollars or even euros, it didn't matter.

Yazi sighed and said sourly, "It must be nice to be rich, not caring about so much money. If I lost that much, my dad would probably beat me to death."

She now felt as if she had eaten several lemons.

Chunli teased, "That just means your family isn't rich enough."

"You're asking for it..."

Amid their laughter and chatter, the three arrived at Wang Bo's villa.

After entering the living room, Wang Bo took two bottles of Crystal Cola from the refrigerator in the open kitchen.

“Your place has a nice environment.” Yazi pushed open the French windows of the living room, stretched out her arms, and breathed in the fresh air mixed with the sea breeze, feeling refreshed.

Wang Bo walked over, handed one bottle of Crystal Cola to Chunli and one to Yazi, and said, “I bought this place back then precisely because of the scenery. Facing the sea, with spring blossoms in bloom.”

"Facing the sea, with spring blossoms?" Yazi murmured, then praised, "That line of yours has a lot of charm."

As they spoke, he took the crystal cola that Wang Bo handed over.

"Delicious!"

Suddenly, Chunli let out a loud exclamation of admiration, startling Yako so much that she nearly dropped the Crystal Cola in her hand.

“Why are you suddenly yelling like that, Chun-Li.”

"This is super delicious." Chun Li pointed at the Crystal Coke in her hand with an amazed expression. "It tastes better than any cola on the market, just as he said—super tasty."

"Is it really that good?" Yazi opened the lid skeptically and took a light sip.

In an instant, Yazi's eyes lit up. "Mm, what kind of cola is this? It's way too delicious."

"Crystal Cola!" Wang Bo said. "It's a cola you absolutely can't buy on the market—dozens of times more delicious than ordinary cola."

After all, the capture level of Crystal Cola in nature is level nineteen.

Ordinary cola, on the other hand, is below level one and cannot be compared at all.

And the price of this stuff is actually comparable to high-end red wine, so ordinary citizens can't get their hands on it. But for Wang Bo, who owns the Gourmet's Tablecloth, he can have as much as he wants.

Ya Zi savored the Crystal Cola sip by sip. "At first I thought you were boasting; I never imagined Crystal Cola could be this good. Where did you get this Crystal Cola?"

"This..." Wang Bo looked at Yazi's curious expression, smiled slightly, and said slowly, "The Buddha said, it cannot be spoken."

Yazi clicked her tongue in annoyance, waved her hand dismissively, and said, "Fine, keep your secrets. Boring."

Seeing that she wasn't truly angry, Wang Bo smiled and changed the subject, casually steering the conversation toward Yazi's work.

Yazi didn't think much about it and went along with the topic.

Chunli occasionally chimed in with a few words.

Suddenly, the atmosphere became very harmonious, and before they knew it, several hours had passed in their casual chat.

Wang Bo gleaned quite a bit of useful information from these casual chats.

The most crucial piece of information was that Chun-Li's father... was still alive.

Yes, in Street Fighter, Chun-Li's father had already died.

But in this world, Chun-Li's father is still alive. He is a Hong Kong police officer and Ya Zi's direct superior. It is precisely because of this relationship that Ya Zi came to know Chun-Li.

Wang Bo was basically certain that Chun-Li was not a time traveler, because Chun-Li had lived in Hong Kong since childhood and had never left; after growing up, with her father's help, she became an Interpol agent.

And his father had already put down roots in Hong Kong Island, working there for many years.

So Wang Bo basically ruled out the suspicion that Chun-Li was a time traveler.

And this world was not the world of Street Fighter either.

Because in this world, aside from Chun-Li, there is no Vega, no Ryu, and certainly no Akuma, and none of the series of characters from the Street Fighter world.

As for why this world has Chun-Li.

Wang Bo had a certain suspicion.

He had always thought that alternate-universe counterparts and the like were complete nonsense, but now it seemed that it might not be nonsense after all.

This world's Chun-Li is very likely the otherworldly counterpart of the Chun-Li from the Street Fighter world.

This is not at all an impossible thing.

After all, the world is so vast, and there is more than one multiverse. Even parallel worlds exist, so one more alternate-universe counterpart doesn't seem like much.

Wang Bo quickly accepted reality.

Unfortunately, although Wang Bo confirmed that Chun-Li was not a time traveler, he did not obtain enough information from this casual conversation to determine which world this was.

Wang Bo was still completely in the dark about what kind of world this was.

Fortunately, Wang Bo didn't mind, because by now he had made up his mind to outlast the transmigrator.

So whether he could determine what kind of world this was, Wang Bo truly did not care.

After nightfall, the two women, Meiko and Chunli, seeing that it was getting late, took their leave of Wang Bo. Wang Bo did not try to detain them and warmly saw them out.

And left their contact information.

The two women also readily gave Wang Bo their contact information.

After an afternoon of idle chat, the two women had developed a certain fondness for Wang Bo. Not only was he wealthy, but he also exuded masculinity, and he was neither too domineering nor too weak with women.

Overall, he was a decent man.

So the two women didn't mind making friends with someone like that.

As for whether to start a relationship, the two women currently have no such thoughts, after all, this is only the first meeting.