“It is reported that the military still has not found the whereabouts of billionaire Tony Stark.
Authoritative sources speculate that his chances of survival are extremely low…”
“Affected by Tony Stark’s disappearance, Stark Industries’ stock price continues to fall, reaching a five-year historic low…”
It was another Friday, and Tony Stark had already been missing for more than two weeks.
The once valuable Stark Industries stock had now become a hot potato, and many people were selling one after another to cut their losses in time.
Of course, there were also people who chose to go all in and buy shares at this time.
Leon specially took an afternoon leave.
He first went to the bank to open a new account, then came to the stock exchange to open an account, preparing to buy Stark Industries stock.
After he borrowed money from Eva some time ago, together with his previous money, he finally had fifty thousand dollars.
However, he did not rush to buy stocks, but waited for a suitable opportunity.
Finally, he waited until this day.
Stark Industries stock had fallen to its lowest point in five years—100 dollars per share!
Leon bought 500 shares without hesitation, which was 50,000 dollars.
These 500 shares might only be a drop in the bucket for the enormous Stark Industries, but for him, they were an extremely important step in the Marvel world.
Because he knew Tony Stark was not dead.
Instead, he had been kidnapped by terrorists and was trapped inside a dark cave in Afghanistan.
In less than three months, he would transform into Iron Man and escape, then be found by the military.
When the news of his rescue was sent back to America, Stark Industries stock would rise again, and Leon could use this opportunity to make a small fortune.
One of the compulsory courses for transmigrators who came to Marvel was—
Fleecing the big dog Tony Stark!
After all, that scam-like system of his required continuous spending money!
By the time Leon finished everything and walked out of the stock exchange with his backpack, it was already 5:20 in the afternoon.
He looked at the sun about to set in the sky, and his expression suddenly changed.
Leon had been working at the coffee shop all morning, then came to handle the stock matter at noon without even having time to eat.
Only now did he react.
He was hungry!
“Good, let’s find a restaurant and eat!”
Leon made up his mind to eat something good, then strode toward the department store across the street.
He wandered around the huge mall for a long time and found a buffet restaurant that looked pretty decent.
There were quite a lot of people lining up here on Friday night, and it was almost six o’clock by the time it was his turn.
“Hello, sir.
How many people are in your party?” the waitress at the front desk asked.
“Just me,” Leon answered.
“Alright, please enjoy your meal.” A sweet smile appeared on the waitress’s face.
After Leon paid, he came to an empty corner and sat down.
He placed his backpack aside and secretly pulled open the zipper.
Although he said he came alone, in reality—
“Hoo…”
“I almost suffocated to death!”
Following a mutter, a pink fleshy face immediately squeezed out from the backpack.
Koromon placed its face on the opening of the backpack and took several breaths, its face full of grievance.
“Leon, can I not hide in the backpack next time?”
“Shh, no.”
Leon immediately placed his finger by his mouth and made a silencing gesture.
“Keep your voice down.
If someone discovers us, we’ll be in trouble.”
“Uu.”
Koromon blinked, somewhat confused as it imitated Leon and shushed.
One ear was placed by its mouth like a hand as it whispered, “Leon, I…”
Before it could finish speaking, a loud sound suddenly came from its stomach.
Guu—
“Are you hungry?” Leon asked helplessly.
“Uu…”
A trace of embarrassment actually appeared on Koromon’s pink face.
It covered its eyes with one ear and nodded pitifully with pursed lips.”Don’t worry, today you can eat as much as you want.” Leon could not resist fiercely pinching its chubby face as he said.
The price of this buffet was not expensive.
It was less than 20 dollars per person.
Moreover, the dishes here were complete and varied, dazzling to the eyes.
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Drinks were free-flow, and there were even many Chinese dishes that many buffets did not have.
Yorokobe… ah no, Mapo tofu.
Leon scooped up the Mapo tofu on the plate with a spoon.
It had already been more than a week since he transmigrated to the Marvel world.
After eating burgers, hot dogs, and sandwiches every day, he was already a little tired of them.
He still missed the taste of his hometown dishes.
But after taking just one bite, he regretted thinking that.
Generally speaking, Mapo tofu was characterized by numbing spice and heat, but this restaurant’s was… sweet!
That’s right, sweet!
This made him think of the famous General Tso’s chicken and chop suey.
Thinking this way, it was not impossible to understand foreigners making Mapo tofu sweet.
At the same time, Leon did not forget Koromon.
He secretly stuffed one fried chicken drumstick after another into the backpack.
Ever since Botamon evolved into Koromon, the difficulty of evolution had also increased.
Until now, its Growth Value was only 50.
Correspondingly, Koromon’s appetite had also increased several times over.
It was simply a big eater.
But in outsiders’ eyes, the big eater was not Koromon, but Leon.
Fried chicken drumsticks, pizza, pan-seared steak…
Before long, the empty plates on Leon’s table were piled up like a small mountain, attracting the attention of many people around him.
Even several nearby service staff whispered about it.
“How can this person eat so much?”
“Maybe he deliberately starved himself for several days before coming to our restaurant to eat.”
Hearing such comments, Leon could only pretend he was very hungry.
What could he do?
Who told him he was raising a rice bucket?
In less than an hour, Koromon had grown an entire size larger and finally burped after eating its fill.
And its Growth Value had also increased to 80.
Leon immediately carried his backpack and left the restaurant.
When he looked back and saw the strange gazes of the staff, he understood that he had probably already been put on their blacklist, and he could no longer come to this restaurant in the future.
Tch, if he could not come, then so be it.
At worst, he would just go to another restaurant next time.
There were so many buffet restaurants in New York.
He could eat through them one by one.
He paid for one person, yet could let two people eat.
No, no.
With Koromon’s appetite, it was probably equivalent to four or five people.
No matter how he calculated it, he did not lose.
Hmph, fleecing people…
I’m first-rate!
After eating and drinking his fill, Leon decided to buy some things.
He came to the underground supermarket.
When entering the supermarket, he inadvertently glanced at the clock hanging on the wall.
It was already seven o’clock in the evening.
He pushed a small cart deeper into the supermarket.
After buying stocks, he still had a few thousand dollars left in hand.
He decided to buy some food and daily necessities, and also buy something for Koromon along the way.
These past few days, when he returned home from work, he could often see many indescribable, unnameable objects on the floor.
So as a poop scooper, he urgently needed a bag of cat litter!
Just as he was thinking this, he accidentally bumped into someone in front of him.
“Brat, are you blind?!”
It was a man wearing a peaked cap.
He wore a black jacket and stood in front of a shelf filled with alcohol.
His appearance was fierce, and there was a scar on his face.
“Sorry, sorry,” Leon quickly said.
This was only a small interlude.
Next, after Leon bought a bag of cat litter and a pet bowl for Koromon, he went to the food section to buy some food for himself.
At this moment, he saw a figure in a wheelchair not far away.
It was an old grandmother with a head full of white hair.
She looked like she should be very old.
The old grandmother seemed to be alone.
She sat in the wheelchair and stretched out her hand, trying hard to reach a bottle of milk in front of her, but it was too high and she could not touch it.
“I’ll help you.” Leon walked over and took the initiative to help, handing the milk above to her.
“Th-Thank you…”
The old grandmother’s voice was somewhat low.
After receiving the milk, she waved at Leon, then turned the wheelchair and left alone.
Leon looked at her back and felt a wave of emotion.
He wondered where her family had gone, letting an elderly person with inconvenient legs come to the supermarket alone to buy things.
Very soon, Leon finished buying his things.
Carrying large and small bags, he came to the cashier to pay.
There were only three people in his line.
At the very front was the old grandmother from earlier, and behind her was a middle-aged woman.
When it was the middle-aged woman’s turn, she began arguing with the cashier.
“Hey, hey, this price is wrong!”
The middle-aged woman questioned, “Wasn’t this body wash fifty percent off?
Why did you charge me the original price?”
“Yesterday it was discounted because it was a new product.
Today it has returned to the original price,” the cashier girl explained.
“Returned to the original price?”
The middle-aged woman’s voice instantly rose.
She raised the body wash.
There was a red 50% label stuck on the bottle.
“There’s clearly a discount label on it!”
“That’s impossible…” The cashier girl frowned.
“These labels should have all been removed this morning.”
“I don’t care.
You are defrauding consumers!”
The middle-aged woman refused to let it go and said, “Where is your manager?
Tell him to come out!”
“Our manager isn’t here today.
If you have any questions, you can communicate with me.”
“Then can you sell it to me at half price?”
“I’m very sorry, I cannot.”
“Forget it!
Talking to you is simply a waste of time!”
“I’m telling you.
If you keep doing business like this… this supermarket will be blown up sooner or later!”
After throwing down this harsh sentence, the middle-aged woman finally left angrily.
Seeing this, Leon smiled helplessly.
This woman really had quite the temper.
Who would blow up a supermarket over such a trivial little matter?
After the middle-aged woman left, it was Leon’s turn to pay.
“Ah!!”
At this moment, an ear-piercing scream suddenly tore through the air.
Leon’s heart instantly trembled, and he quickly turned his head to look.
Inside the supermarket, a staff member was hurriedly running outside.
His face was full of panic and fear as he shouted while running, “There’s no time!
Hurry and leave this place!”
Leon: “!!!”
Boom!
In an instant, an earth-shattering explosion erupted, and dazzling firelight bloomed from the depths of the supermarket.
Scorching flames swept over, devouring him and the entire supermarket!