Marvel: The Alchemist Just Wants a Peaceful Life

Almost everyone has their own unique style, and the decoration is exactly based on the design drawings given by the three seafood generals, Gandalf, and Sister Flower.

Sherlock's own home, on the other hand, was decorated exactly the same way as his home on Earth.

The remaining two rooms were transformed by Sherlock into a bathhouse and a kitchen!

The reason for forcibly cramming these two rooms inside the spaceship is quite simple.

The bathhouse was simply because Sherlock couldn't stand the way people cleaned themselves during interstellar travel!

Damn it, what kind of decent person takes a bath in a thing that looks like a coffin, and then some kind of thing called a skin cleanser is sprayed out of the coffin to dissolve the dirt on their skin?

This wretched thing is even rinse-free! Just spray it on and wipe it clean!

When Sherlock first experienced this thing, he even felt like he wasn't human, but a car being pushed into an automatic car wash line.

Without exaggeration, the only difference between this thing and a car wash line is that this thing doesn't have those rotating brushes found in automatic car wash lines!

As someone who loves taking baths, Sherlock absolutely cannot accept this method of body cleaning.

Therefore, Sherlock went to great lengths, even using the power of the Philosopher's Stone, to create a zero-gravity bathhouse in one of the rooms of the spaceship.

The reason it was made to be zero-gravity was simply because Sherlock couldn't forget the feeling of lying down and taking a bath after experiencing it in the Infinite City, so he forcibly brought over that high-end bathroom set.

The kitchen is also very simple.

Compared to the mushy food on Earth's space stations, the food in interstellar civilizations isn't that bad.

Normal spacecraft are equipped with a food printer.

To put it simply, this thing can print out all kinds of food that the machine knows, and the printed food includes substances that the human body needs, such as protein, carbohydrates, vitamins, and dietary fiber. It can even print out things like alcoholic beverages.

Although this food printer can reproduce nearly 90% of the taste of any food, its biggest drawback is that it can mostly print out white food.

In other words, it's fine for Sherlock to eat this stuff occasionally, but if he had to make it his staple food, he'd want to die.

As the saying goes, the four biggest ways to squander money in China are eating, drinking, whoring, and gambling. The fact that eating and drinking are ranked before whoring speaks volumes.

The way white people calculate household income using Engel's coefficient is pure nonsense to Sherlock. Did old Engel even understand what he was eating? He's never eaten anything good in his life!

Most importantly, even if the printer could print dishes prepared using complex cooking methods like stir-frying, achieving 90% flavor accuracy would still be an insurmountable barrier for Sherlock.

Don't underestimate the difference of just 10%. When it comes to food, that 10% difference is the difference between you and a restaurant chef!

Seriously, and I'm not exaggerating at all, Sherlock even tried to modify that damn food printer, with completely unsatisfactory results.

That's why Sherlock forcibly crammed a kitchen into the spaceship.

Aside from these two special rooms, the open space between the four rooms on one side serves as the spaceship's living room and entertainment area. Sherlock has also prepared plenty of things to pass the time, such as game consoles, playing cards, and even mahjong.

Below this living room are the spaceship's storage area and engine room, among other things.

Of course, for now, the entire spaceship's storage compartments are basically empty. After all, in a place like Eternal Night Star, being able to eat your fill is already a very rare thing, and the price of obtaining some normal food can even be described as astronomical.

Sherlock's plan was to replenish his supplies after arriving at the next planet.

The last thing after completing the spaceship modification was to obtain the start-up funds for the group to travel to the next planet. Hua Jie and her group had already made plans for this.

Chapter 403 On the Fastest Way to Obtain Funds When You Have Nothing

Although Sister Hua and her Avengers gang had been operating in Night City for some time, Night City was different from Infinity City, where they used to live. Infinity City was dominated by Big Eater Crush.

However, in Night City, small gangs like the Avengers are as numerous as carp crossing a river. In addition, the Avengers' original purpose was to provide Sherlock with parts for modifying his spaceship.

Therefore, although they acted in the name of a gang, it was merely for the purpose of facilitating the acquisition of parts and the like.

Even when it comes to acquiring parts, they mostly rely on gangs to obtain information and then disguise themselves to double-cross others. As a result, the gangs' pockets are now no cleaner than their faces.

Therefore, in order to deal with such a situation, Sister Hua had actually set her sights on the assets of a medium-sized gang in Night City from the very beginning.

Fun fact: if we're talking about the places with the most cash, aside from mints and city bank vaults, the places with the most cash are asset processing centers for various criminals.

Because of the difficulty in tracing cash, criminals prefer to use cash in transactions, so these asset processing centers undoubtedly have the largest amounts of cash.

Even thieves who target virtual assets like stablecoins ultimately aim to convert those virtual assets into cash.

Of course, under normal circumstances, these cash would need to go through a money laundering process before they could be spent, but since this is Eternal Night Star, the City of Night, very little cash here is legal, so there's no need to worry about that.

Another advantage is that counterfeit money is considered a commodity, not property, on Eternal Night Star. Therefore, counterfeit money is generally not found in the asset processing centers of those gangs.

Even if a gang uses counterfeit money to pay the bill, if they cannot prove their innocence, they will most likely be ostracized by all gang cities in the entire Eternal Night Star.

Coupled with the fact that the gang centralizes its funds, it's no exaggeration to say that the enemy has already helped Sister Hua and her gang collect everything they need.

Of course, anyone who dares to touch a gang's asset management center will be blacklisted by that gang, and the two sides will only end up in a fight to the death. That's why Sister Hua is targeting a medium-sized gang rather than the asset management center of the largest gang in Night City.

After all, there are quite a few medium-sized gangs in Night City. Although these medium-sized gangs are nominally subordinates of the largest family leader in Night City, they are not irreplaceable due to their sheer number.

If you mess with the assets management center of the Night City family, they might actually chase you out to Eternal Night Star. But if you mess with the assets management center of a medium-sized gang, the family will most likely just stand by and watch.

After all, aside from their nominal superior-subordinate relationship, their connections weren't actually that close, and they could easily find a replacement at any time.

With Sherlock's help, what originally seemed like an impossible hijacking mission became incredibly simple in an instant, especially since none of them were ordinary people.

Therefore, early the next morning, the group began to act according to Sister Hua's plan.

First, the three Seafood Generals went to the target location to keep watch and gather preliminary intelligence, while Gandalf, along with the two little guys and Sherlock, was responsible for transporting the spaceship into space and waiting for their return.

As for Sherlock, he stayed up all night to craft a gadget for Sister Hua and the others that could change their identities at any time, as well as a space teleportation device that could directly transport them to the spaceship when it detected that no one was around.

After making all the preparations, Sherlock sat in the flying car that Sister Hua had gotten and drove to the side of the unfortunate medium-sized gang's asset disposal center, following Sister Hua's instructions, and quietly waited for Sister Hua's further instructions.

After confirming Sherlock's arrival, Sister Hua first ordered the three Seafood Generals to attack the asset processing center, causing a commotion before leaving, incidentally attracting the attention of that gang.

Then Sister Hua entered and carried out a thorough massacre, after which Sherlock drove his car directly into the so-called asset processing center.

Although this asset processing center sounds high-end and classy, ​​in reality, these places are not as high-end as they sound; in fact, they can be described as ordinary.

Just like when I went with Zhao Weike to deal with the so-called 'asset processing center' of the Tarasov family, the Tarasov family gang's asset processing center was nothing more than the basement of a Slavic church.

The asset disposal center of that mid-sized gang was similar, except this time it wasn't a church, but the basement of a high-heeled club.

Sherlock's only task after entering is to frantically take anything of value, mainly cash, and secondly, various valuable items.

Sherlock's choice can be considered rational; aside from cash, the most Sherlock took was the energy source for the spaceship and flying car.

Here we have to mention that the four-dimensional pocket is simply an essential item for home and travel, murder, arson, robbery and burglary!

That's really useful!

After emptying most of the cash, Sherlock confirmed that there were no surveillance cameras left in the vault. He then decisively activated the Space Stone's power and returned to the spaceship that was waiting for them outside the Eternal Night Star.

As for Sister Hua, she needs to help the three seafood generals escape from pursuit.

In fact, it's not a difficult thing.

The three seafood generals were already quite powerful, and with the disguise tools provided by Sherlock, coupled with Sister Hua's elusive assassination of the pursuers, they were even stronger.

Less than half an hour after Sherlock returned, the three Seafood Generals and Sister Flower successfully returned to the spaceship.

As soon as Sister Hua returned, she sat in the pilot's seat, and she and Gandalf started the ship and headed towards their next target according to the star map that had been updated on the ship.

As for Yongyexing, although there is a very small chance that his identity might be exposed during the escape process of the three seafood generals, or that clues could be found from the wounds of those who were assassinated by Sister Hua.

However, these matters were no longer of much concern to Sherlock and his companions.

Even if the forces on Eternal Night and Xandar knew that Sherlock and his group were still on Eternal Night, or even in Night City, it was too late.

After all, after they left, no one knew where Sherlock and his group went, and even if they traced Sherlock's modification workshop for the spaceship, they couldn't follow up.

After all, no one knows what Sherlock's spaceship actually looks like. In Night City, it's normal for a spaceship to be modified into all sorts of weird shapes.

Chapter 404 Shopping After Freedom (Part 1)

The group breathed a collective sigh of relief upon leaving Eternal Night Star, for they were now truly free.

No one will care who they are anymore, no one will keep chasing after them, and no one will keep watching them with calculating eyes from beginning to end.

In Zhang Zhi's words, he, as a naval admiral, had experienced what it was like to be an ordinary pirate.

Even to celebrate the true freedom they had finally gained, after the spaceship entered the autopilot mode of faster-than-light travel, the group still held a party inside the spaceship's cabin, imitating Luffy and his crew.

Fortunately, with Sister Hua around, even though Sherlock always tried to use his PAB gang tactics when he heard keywords like party and drinking, Sister Hua calmly suppressed him.

After all, Sister Hua couldn't stand a bunch of naked men acting crazy and drunk in front of her, and she didn't want the drunk men to pollute the eyes of Lilith and Doro.

After the spaceship escaped the faster-than-light jump, Sherlock, as usual, conducted a thorough inspection of the spaceship's interior before Sister Hua set the course and handed the spaceship over to autopilot.

After that, everyone suddenly had nothing to do?

Yes, for a while everyone had nothing to do but sit in the living room staring at each other, occasionally going to the food printer to get some not-so-delicious food to fill their stomachs.

This continued for three days straight. For three whole days, everyone on the spaceship looked utterly bored, even the most active Doro looked listless.

It's clear that neither the journeys in the One Piece world nor the journeys in space are particularly interesting.

No, to be more precise, voyages in this universe are not even as interesting as voyages in the world of One Piece.

After all, there's no sunshine or fishing here, and because of the star map, any dangers the spaceship might encounter along the way can be avoided in advance by the star map.

It's nowhere near as exciting as the ever-changing weather and waters of the pirate world.

Fortunately, the target planet set by Sherlock and his group was not far from Eternal Night Star. Although they had changed to a different nebula, they had at least arrived.

The planet is called Light Healing, a sovereign planet like Xandar. However, unlike Xandar, this planet is also very famous in the universe, but it is famous for its health and wellness facilities and abundant resources.

After all, this planet is not far from Eternal Night Star, and there is never a shortage of wealthy people on Eternal Night Star. There are quite a few rich people who go to Eternal Night Star for entertainment and then come to Light Healing Star for recuperation.

The reason why Sherlock and his companions chose this planet as the first stop on their space voyage is simple: for resupply!

That's right. The reason why everyone was so bored during these three days, and even felt a faint sense of death, is quite simple: Sherlock and his crew's spaceship's storage was empty!

Aside from energy, the only things to pass the time during the entire voyage were a game console, a deck of cards, and mahjong, and at most, taking a bath.

Therefore, Sherlock and his companions' most pressing need was to conduct a thorough shopping spree on the planet Lightheal!

After docking the spaceship, Sherlock distributed the funds inside, and the group marched into the planet Light Healing. They agreed to relax on Light Healing for three days, then meet at the spaceport after three days, purchase a star map, and set off for their next destination.

Sherlock and Doro teamed up, and the two of them, one big and one small, immediately plunged into a restaurant and began to feast as soon as they left the airport.

They even note down the ingredients of delicious foods so they can go and buy them later.

Of course, besides food and supplies, entertainment facilities are also essential, and coincidentally, the entire Light Healing Planet is a huge sanatorium.

For three whole days, Sherlock took Doro to experience in depth the various therapeutic items on the planet of Light Healing, such as needle-pricked cacti, therapeutic hot springs, and even massage dolls.