Universe Infinite Canteen-Chapter 705 - Wish Star

"How many wishes have you fulfilled in the past year?" Ma Lu asked.

"Let me think, six, or maybe seven..." the Bearded foreigner muttered.

"Three, including that taxi driver," the Reindeer said, "Damn, we didn't even reach the passing line. This is a disgrace to the Christmas tribe, it's so embarrassing."

"What's the passing line?"

"Four, four a year."

"Well, then you aren't too far off."

The bearded old man sighed, "You see we are quite lazy now, but we weren't always like this. There was a time when we had many tribespeople, although we would also receive a lot of Wish Stars every year.

"But with everyone chipping in and hustling a bit more, we managed to handle it. Lightning used to be the fastest and strongest Reindeer in the world, running like a streak of real lightning.

"We were the ace duo, fulfilling the most wishes every Christmas. But then, as the number of wishers increased, my tribe dwindled, and the Wish Stars assigned to each person started to multiply geometrically.

"The workload became so great that even if we worked ourselves to death, we couldn't finish it all, so we began to learn how to slack off, take it easy. Once you start that, you just keep getting lazier."

"Every time we wanted to fulfill a wish, we'd think, oh, I have trillions of Wish Stars, even if we deal with this one, it's just a drop in the bucket, and then we'd start slacking off," the Reindeer chimed in.

"Besides, there's no difference in appearance between Wish Stars; they're all mixed up from different years, some have been sitting there for almost two thousand years. Their owners are long gone, but you can't tell them apart."

"That's because you never sort the Wish Stars and just stuff them all together," the Reindeer didn't miss any chance to loudly mock the boss.

"Anyway, about that taxi driver you mentioned earlier, if his wish was really fulfilled, it was purely by coincidence, not because he had driven me.

"I'm not lying to you, I did fulfill a wish the other day.

"Without the help of this dumb Reindeer, thankfully, the destination of the wish wasn't far from here, just in Langfang.

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"So, I took a taxi there. But I really didn't know that it was the taxi driver's wish, didn't know which year's wish I fulfilled for him, I didn't even know what his wish was.

"Because once a wish is fulfilled, the world changes, and no one but the wisher knows, not even us. Speaking of which, how did you find out?"

Ma Lu raised an eyebrow, "We just happened to know a Time Traveler, she told us."

"Time Traveler?" the Bearded foreigner was surprised, "There really is a Time Traveler? I thought that was just a myth, but in theory, even a Time Traveler shouldn't be able to perceive it, it's a cognitive level change, unrelated to time."

"Er, she's not from this timeline."

"No, it doesn't have much to do with the timeline either," the Bearded foreigner frowned, "I've never seen this situation before, so strange."

"Forget about it, it's not like you're going to fulfill many wishes in a year anyway."

The Bearded foreigner didn't pay attention to the Reindeer's teasing and thought about it, "Wait till I go back and flip through the Wish Star book, maybe I'll find something."

Ma Youyou seemed a little nervous upon hearing this, but Ma Lu felt quite disappointed at the moment and didn't notice Ma Youyou's anomaly.

He said, "So if I make a wish now, you wouldn't know which Wish Star is mine either."

The Reindeer nodded, "Yes, and only the wishes made on December 24th turn into Wish Stars, you have to wait for that day, then it's the lottery round."

"With the number of Wish Stars we've accumulated now, the odds of your wish being drawn are about the same as winning the jackpot in a lottery.

As they spoke, the doorbell rang again, the Bearded foreigner stood up, "This should be the delivery this time."

However, when he opened the door, he saw a middle-aged man with empty hands standing outside, "Who are you? Why do you look a bit familiar?"

"Uh... Mr. Nicholas," Qi Yu said, "We meet again."

"Who are you, when have we met before?" the Bearded foreigner was clueless.

"I'm the taxi driver who drove you a few days ago, do you remember?"

"I know a taxi driver took me, but I remember that person was definitely not you."

"You idiot, Old Bai, this is the power of a wish," the Reindeer started shouting again, "It changed your memory."

"Oh, right." the Bearded foreigner slapped his forehead and invited Qi Yu inside.

Seeing the Reindeer sitting cross-legged on the ground, Qi Yu jumped in fright.

"Why is there a Reindeer here?"

"That's not the point," Ma Lu looked at the Bearded foreigner, "Do you have a way to invalidate a wish?"

"Make a wish null and void?" Nicholas nodded, "That's not so difficult, just take the Wish Star hanging up there back down."

Hearing this, Ma Lu looked towards Qi Yu and bluntly said, "You heard it, now it's your turn to choose. Do you want to continue being a comic artist or go back to your previous life?"

Qi Yu hesitated, although he had been a great comic artist for only a few days and still felt out of place, he had to admit, it felt pretty good.

Everyone around him called him "Teacher". At first, he felt uncomfortable because in Qi Yu's mind, only schools had teachers.

It wasn't until later that he realized that as a sign of respect, it seemed anyone could be called a Teacher.

Plus, there were over eighty million in his bank account; he had been spending like mad these last few days and had only spent less than a hundred thousand.

But on the other hand, he was very anxious. Although everyone praised him, he was very aware that those best-selling comics were not his works.

And the female editor's constant push for drafts was driving him to the brink. This time, he could fob her off with previous inspiration, but what about next week, or the week after that? Is he supposed to keep drawing fan art and follow in Picasso's footsteps?

Qi Yu was in a dilemma, he asked Nicholas, "Can I transfer some money to my wife's account first? Not much, ten million will do."

Nicholas shook his head.

"Then five million?"

"Three million?"

"One million?" Qi Yu felt heartbroken, "One hundred thousand, surely one hundred thousand will do."

Yet Nicholas still shook his head, "Although I'd like to help you, I don't have the final say. Once the Wish Star is taken down, everything will return to how it was. Even if you forcibly transfer money to your wife now, there will be some reason later for that money to disappear."

Disappointed, Qi Yu turned to Ma Lu's suggestion, "Why not just live out life as a great comic artist? If you're really worried about your wife and daughter, you could also transfer money to them. After all, besides us, no one else knows about it."