Becoming Stronger After Death: I Keep Seeking Death in the World of the Universe.

Chapter 239: Becoming a Homeless Person with Eddie
"what are you doing?"

Jameson was holding a cigar in his mouth. He saw Xu Wang acting suspiciously nearby from the corner of his eye, so he turned his head over.

Xu Wang immediately moved sideways to block the fish tank, and started whistling as if nothing had happened.

Jameson frowned and leaned forward to see what Xu Wang was doing.

As a result, Xu Wang took another step back and blocked the fish tank again: "Nothing."

Jameson frowned even deeper and sat back in his seat. "If you have nothing to do, get to work. Hurry up! News is about timeliness. Get moving and run!"

So Xu Wang and Eddie quickly ran out of the editor-in-chief's office.

Only then did Jameson see that the fish tank had been turned into a pot of fish soup by Xu Wang, and he was so angry that his beard stood up.

I quickly got up and went to change the water in the fish tank.

On the other side, Xu Wang and Eddie had already jogged into the elevator and left the Daily Bugle.

Although Eddie didn't know why Xu Wang kept pulling him to run.

But now the two of them have to work together on the investigation. No matter what happened in the past, it would be better to try not to increase conflicts.

"Do you know anything about the Life Foundation?"

Standing on the street, Xu Wangxian asked Eddie for the information he knew.

After all, the world is different, and Xu Wang doesn’t know whether this world will develop like the original movie plot.

Eddie sighed and said, "I don't know much, I just know that although the Life Foundation is a rocket company on the surface, it has actually been doing biomedical research behind the scenes.

I got a clue half a year ago that three homeless people died as a result of the Life Foundation's research.

But when I investigated, not only did I get fired from my job, but my girlfriend also broke up with me."

Hearing this, Xu Wang asked in confusion, "Didn't your girlfriend break up with you because you peeked at her files, which led to her being fired? This shouldn't have anything to do with the Life Foundation, right?"

Eddie: "..."

Seeing that Eddie didn't say anything, Xu Wang knew that he was not wrong.

I understood immediately.

As of now, Eddie's plot development is not much different from the movie version.

The only difference is that the location of the story has changed from Los Angeles to New York.

Talk about it.

There are quite a few superheroes gathered in New York.

However, the universe he is in seems to be more inclined towards Sony's Spider-Man Universe and has not joined the Marvel family.

Therefore, until now, he has not heard of any trace of other superheroes such as Iron Man.

It's a pretty pure Spider-Man universe.

Eddie was confronted by Xu Wang, but he still felt a little unconvinced, so he continued, "It was the boss of the Life Foundation, Carlton Drake, who had Annie and I fired. How can it have nothing to do with him?"

Xu Wang looked Eddie straight in the eyes and asked doubtfully, "The Life Foundation conducted human experiments, and the power-for-money transaction caused you to be fired. This is his fault, no doubt.

But if you casually look at other people's confidential files without your girlfriend's consent and even pass them on, isn't that your fault?

She is a lawyer, and something like this is almost equivalent to blacklisting her in the industry.

But if you had asked Anne's opinion beforehand, or apologized properly afterwards, I think she wouldn't have been so angry."

Hearing this, Eddie fell silent for a moment.

Although he didn't want to admit it, Xu Wang was indeed right.

In this matter, both he and the Life Foundation were wrong when it came to Anne.

"So kid, are you sure you don't want to apologize to your ex-girlfriend?"

Xu Wang looked at Eddie with a kind look.

Eddie hesitated for a while, and just as he took out his phone, he suddenly realized something: "Wait! How do you know so much about me?"

Xu Wang put away his kind eyes, his face full of gloom: "Knowledge is a curse, and I am the one who bears the curse."

Faced with Xu Wang's crazy behavior, Eddie had no way to deal with it.

So he could only put the topic aside for the time being and turned around and said, "Let's get to work first. Do you have any ideas for the next investigation?"

Xu Wang thought for a while and said, "I have an idea. Maybe we can do two things at the same time. In addition to the normal on-site investigation, we can also disguise ourselves as homeless people and be captured by the Biological Foundation!"

"No, no, no!"

Hearing this, Eddie immediately refused: "You can't pretend to be a homeless person."

Xu Wang was puzzled: "Why? Don't you want to take risks?"

Eddie shook his head. "I'm not afraid of that. The point is, there are many companies that catch homeless people in New York. How can you be sure that the one who came to you is from the Life Foundation?"

Hearing this, Xu Wang felt that what Eddie said actually made some sense, so he bit his thumb and thought about it. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he raised a finger: "Hey! I have a good idea!"

Eddie's face was full of suspicion, and he instinctively felt that something was wrong.

as predicted.

one hour later.

Xu Wang and Eddie, who had dressed up again, had already arrived at the bottom of the Life Foundation building.

At this moment, Xu Wang and Eddie looked like pure homeless people.

What does a homeless person look like?
Is it simply dirty and messy?
Actually not.

As long as you don't get involved with anything you shouldn't touch.

Many homeless people are living on the streets just because of bad luck and bankruptcy, not because they are mentally ill.

They are all normal people too.

Any normal person would pay a little attention to his or her image.

So there are many homeless people who actually don’t look that bad.

However, they will carry as many personal belongings as possible with them to avoid being picked up by others.

So the homeless people will look more bloated, like backpackers who have been hiking in the mountains for a long time.

This is the case with Xu Wang and Eddie now.

He was wearing several out-of-season clothes and carrying a huge backpack on his back.

Eddie is a bad guy.

In fact, you don’t need to dress up. Just squat in the corner and you’ll look like a homeless person.

Now that Xu Wang dressed him up, he looked even more like a homeless man.

Not to mention Xu Wang.

As a wastelander, scavenging can even be said to be one of his major hobbies in life.

The two walked side by side on the road.

The pedestrians around subconsciously avoided it.

Xu Wang held his head high and chest puffed out, his face full of pride.

Eddie was not as brave as Xu Wang. He lowered his head and at this moment he just wanted to find a crack in the ground to crawl into.

"Snapped!"

Xu Wang slapped Eddie on the back and said unhappily, "What's the point of always keeping your head down? There's nothing shameful about being a homeless person. They don't steal or rob. We are not the ones who should be ashamed, but the ones who let so many homeless people appear on the streets!"

"Well said, buddy!"

There was a young man riding a skateboard passing by. When he heard Xu Wang’s words, he immediately raised his fist and cheered!

"Thanks buddy!"

Xu Wang also smiled and turned around and waved to the man.

Perhaps Xu Wang’s words played some role. Eddie took a deep breath, finally mustered up the courage, and raised his head.

But seeing so many people looking at him, Eddie lowered his head again, pulled Xu Wang aside, and whispered: "Is this the solution you mentioned? Go directly to the downstairs of the Life Foundation?"

Xu Wang said as a matter of course: "What's the problem? As long as we show our faces in front of them, when they want to catch homeless people again, our chances of being chosen will definitely be greater."

Eddie was a little anxious, and said, "I have met Drake. He must remember me. He knows I am a reporter."

Xu Wang didn't care: "What are you afraid of? Isn't this better? You have been unemployed for half a year. It's normal to become a homeless person, right? That guy is also a cruel and ruthless person.

I know you want to investigate him, and now that you're homeless, maybe I can take this opportunity to mess with you. The success rate of our plan will be even higher!"

When Eddie heard this, his face turned pale!

He seemed to have really seen the end of his own life.

Although being an investigative reporter certainly involves certain risks.

Otherwise, the salary wouldn't be that high. But this doesn't mean that Eddie is not afraid of death.

Fortunately, Eddie is both timid and brave.

After hesitating for a while, he finally agreed.

Seeing this, Xu Wang smiled happily and said, "It's great that you can understand. I didn't misjudge you."

Eddie smiled bitterly: "So what should we do next?"

Xu Wang took out two pieces of cardboard from his backpack and said, "I have two ways to make money. Let's draw a lottery and whoever wins will do that."

Eddie always felt that Xu Wang was causing trouble again.

But now that things had come to this, he still reached out and casually took a cardboard from Xu Wang.

When I turned it over, I saw the words "Which religion cares most about the homeless?" written in English.

"What does it mean?"

Eddie wondered.

Seeing this, Xu Wang was very jealous: "You are so lucky. I wanted yours more. Let's make a deal in advance. After all, I came up with the idea first. So we can split it 50-50."

Eddie was helpless. He didn't care about this so-called way to make money at all. He just hoped that he wouldn't make a fool of himself. So he casually said, "30% to 70% is fine. You take 70% and I take 30%."

Xu Wang smiled happily when he heard this: "That's great, don't regret it."

Eddie: "I won't regret it. Tell me what you are going to do first."

Xu Wang confidently put his hands on his hips and said, "Just watch me do it."

A few minutes later.

With a look of despair on his face, Eddie sat on the side of a busy road.

In front of him, there were several plastic bowls.

Under the bowl, there were sheets of white paper.

Written on the white paper are: Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Judaism, Shintoism, etc.

Except for Christianity, money was placed in the bowls of all other religions.

Xu Wang did this on purpose.

The United States has the most Christians. Passersby can see that the bowl belonging to Christianity is empty, while the other bowls have money.

They will definitely not ignore it, and there will definitely be people who will invest money in it to support their beliefs.

Before Xu Wang left, he specifically told Eddie, “Once the money in the Christian bowl is more than that in other religions, you should take some out.

Make sure Christianity is always less than any other religion, got it? "

Eddie was dumbfounded at this moment.

But facing Xu Wang's aggressive gaze, he could only nod and agree.

Xu Wang then walked a few dozen meters away with satisfaction and took out his own sign.

His content is very simple.

The card reads [Nothing for sale, just blocking the way, $20 for moving]

Then Xu Wang just stood in the middle of the road, motionless.

In order to increase the deterrent effect, Xu Wang also took off some clothes and only wore a vest, revealing his strong muscles.

Eddie looked at Xu Wang, then looked at the bowl in front of him, and suddenly sighed.

Neither of these two cards is good.

It's simply a socially anxious hell!

The street they were on was the same street as the Life Foundation.

This is the Midtown area, which is quite prosperous and lively.

There is quite a lot of traffic.

Feeling the gazes of passers-by, Eddie almost lowered his head into his chest.

He just felt like everyone in the world was laughing at him.

"Shh!"

At this time, a voice came from the front.

Eddie looked up subconsciously.

It turned out that someone had dropped $10 into Christian’s bowl.

Eddie was stunned and looked up quickly.

It turned out to be a white lady.

The other party just threw the money and left without saying anything.

“Someone really lost money?!”

Eddie was incredulous.

But then, Eddie realized that he now looked more like a beggar, which made him feel embarrassed.

After all, he was a well-known journalist half a year ago.

Eddie also has to save face, okay?
Then someone else passed by and threw a $100 bill into Christian's bowl like a very generous person.

Eddie bowed quickly: "Thank you, good man."

Looking up again, Eddie saw the green US dollars in the bowl and instantly felt that they smelled really good.

It seems...this is not bad?

As the time goes.

Eddie followed Xu Wang's instructions and actually made a lot of money in one day!

Feeling the bulging US dollars and coins in his backpack, Eddie's face almost froze with smile!

Well known.

Americans rarely have the habit of saving money, or it can be said that it is difficult to save money in that society.

The same thing happened with Eddie.

It was already very difficult for him not to go bankrupt after being unemployed for half a year.

I don't have much assets at this time.

As a result, I made quite a bit of money in just one day.

How could Eddie not be happy?

Just seeing Xu Wang who was a few dozen meters away, Eddie seemed to remember something and slapped himself instantly!

Damn me!
Xu Wang initially said it would be a 50-50 split.

Why do I have to be so mean and say 30%!

"Eddie?"

Just when Eddie was feeling both sad and happy, a familiar call instantly brought him back to the real world.

Turning his head towards the voice, Eddie's face froze instantly.

Let me ask you, when is a person most embarrassed?

Eddie wasn't very clear before.

But now Eddie was so embarrassed that he wanted to die.

He really didn't expect that in such a big city like New York, he would meet his ex-girlfriend here.

Annie didn't expect that after not seeing her for half a year, her ex-boyfriend would become a beggar...

"Annie, who is this?"

Next to Annie, a gentle-looking man also spoke in confusion.

Anne reacted and immediately introduced the two men: "Dan, this is Eddie Brock, my ex-boyfriend."

Then, Annie looked at Eddie who was already petrified, and said, "Eddie, this is Dan, my current boyfriend. He is a surgeon."

well.

In just a few seconds, Eddie had created his most embarrassing moment.

Now that I'm in this state, it would be fine if my ex-girlfriend saw me.

Unexpectedly, my ex-girlfriend’s current boyfriend saw it…

(End of this chapter)