Universe Infinite Canteen.

Chapter 706 Wishing Star

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

"Let me think, six, or seven..." the white-bearded foreigner muttered.

"Three, including the taxi driver," the reindeer said. "Fuck, we didn't even make it to the passing line. This is a disgrace to the Christmas family. It's so embarrassing."

"What is the passing score?"

"Four. Four a year."

"Well, you guys aren't much different then."

The white-bearded old man sighed, "Don't think we are lazy now. In fact, we were not like this before. Once upon a time, we had quite a few tribesmen, and we received a lot of wish stars every year.

“But if we all share the knowledge, we can still do it if we run harder. Lightning was once the fastest and strongest reindeer in the world, and he ran like a real bolt of lightning.

“We are an ace duo, and we are the group that grants the most wishes every Christmas. But later, as more and more people made wishes, my tribe became fewer and fewer, and the number of wish stars each person received began to increase exponentially.

"The workload is so much that we can't finish it even if we work hard, so we start to learn to be lazy and slack off. Once you start this, you will keep being lazy and become more and more lazy."

"Every time we want to make a wish come true, we think, oh, I have trillions of wishing stars, even if we do this, it's still a drop in the bucket, and then we start to give up," the reindeer also interjected.

"Moreover, the wishing stars look the same, with all kinds of years mixed together. Some have even been there for nearly two thousand years. Their owners are long gone, but they can't be distinguished."

"It's because you never sorted the wishing stars and crammed them all together." The reindeer never missed an opportunity to laugh loudly at his boss.

"Anyway, if the taxi driver you mentioned earlier had his wish fulfilled, it was purely coincidental, not because he had picked me up.

“I didn’t lie to you, I did fulfill a wish two days ago.

“And without the help of this stupid deer, fortunately the desired destination is not far from here, in Langfang.

"So I took a taxi. But I didn't know that this was the taxi driver's wish, I didn't know in which year his wish had come true, and I didn't even know what his wish was.

"Because once a wish is fulfilled, the world will change. Apart from the person who made the wish, even we don't know. So, how did you find out?"

Malu raised an eyebrow, "We happen to know a time traveler, and she told us."

"Time travelers?" The white-bearded foreigner was surprised. "Time travelers really exist. I thought it was just a legend. But in theory, even if there are time travelers, they shouldn't be able to detect it. That's a change in cognition and has nothing to do with time."

"Well, she's not from this timeline either."

"No, this has little to do with the timeline." The white-bearded foreigner frowned, "This is the first time I've seen this kind of situation. It's so strange."

"Never mind it. You can't get more than a few wishes a year anyway."

The white-bearded foreigner ignored the reindeer's ridicule, thought for a moment and said, "I'll go back and look through the Book of Wishes, maybe I'll find something."

Ma Youyou seemed a little nervous when she heard this, but Ma Lu was quite disappointed at the moment and didn't notice anything unusual about Ma Youyou.

He said, "So if I make a wish now, you won't know which wishing star is mine."

The reindeer nodded, "Yes, and only wishes made on December 12th will become wishing stars. You have to wait until that day, and then it will be your turn to draw a lottery."

"With the number of wishing stars we have saved, the probability of your wish being drawn is only a few tens of thousands of times the probability of winning the lottery jackpot. Just as everyone was talking, the doorbell rang again, and the white-bearded foreigner stood up, "This time it should be takeout."

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

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

"Who are you? When have we met before?" The white-bearded foreigner looked confused.

"I'm the taxi driver who picked you up a few days ago. Do you remember?"

"I know a taxi driver picked me up, but I remember it wasn't you."

"It's the power of wishing, you old fool," the reindeer yelled again. "It changes your memory."

"Oh, yes." The white-bearded foreigner patted his head and invited Qi Yu into the house.

Qi Yu was shocked to see the reindeer sitting cross-legged on the ground.

"Why is there a deer here?"

"That's not the point," Malu looked at the white-bearded foreigner, "Do you have a way to make the wish invalid?"

"Make the wish invalid?" Nicholas nodded. "That's not difficult. Just take the wishing star back."

Malu looked at Qi Yu again and said directly, "You heard it. Now it's your turn to choose. Do you want to continue to be a cartoonist, or go back to your previous life?"

Qi Yu was a little hesitant when he heard this, even though he had only been a big cartoonist for a few days and still acted out of place, he had to admit that this identity was pretty cool.

Everyone around him called him teacher. He was a little uncomfortable at first because in Qi Yu's impression, teachers only existed in schools.

It was not until later that he realized that, as a sign of respect, now anyone could be called a teacher.

Moreover, he still had more than 80 million in his bank card, and even though he spent a lot of money these days, he only spent less than 100,000 yuan.

But on the other hand, he was also very nervous. Although everyone was praising him, he knew very well that those best-selling comics were not his works.

The editor's frantic demands for manuscripts almost drove him crazy. He could use his previous inspiration to get by this time, but what about next week? Or the week after that? Would he continue to draw fan fiction and become Picasso?
Qi Yu was very confused for a moment. He asked Nicholas, "Can I transfer some money to my wife's card first? Not much, 10 million will be enough."

Nicholas shook his head.

"What about the five million?"

"three million?"

"One million?" Qi Yu felt his heart break. "One hundred thousand, one hundred thousand should be fine."

However, Nicholas still shook his head. "Although I really want to give it to you, I don't have the final say. Once the wishing star is taken down, everything will return to the way it was before. Even if you force your wife to transfer the money now, you will encounter some reasons later that will make the money disappear again."

Qi Yu was very disappointed. Malu suggested, "Why don't you just continue living as a great cartoonist? If you really don't want to leave your wife and daughter behind, you can transfer some money to them. Anyway, no one knows about this except us."

(End of this chapter)