Their commission was suspicious.

That's true, the success rate is at least one-third, because Chen Luo said he would give wish tokens to nearly one-third of the Pinocchio visitors, but Merlin really deserved to be asked to perform sword swallowing.

"Freedom...?"

Chapter 2274 Chen Luo: Are you the God of Wishes or am I the God of Wishes?

"Why does the atmosphere feel so strange? Did you guys talk about anything before I came?" Bai Zhi sensed something odd about the atmosphere as soon as she entered the bar.

Chen Luo seemed to be deep in thought, while Yakumo Yukari and the others seemed to be waiting for something.

"It's nothing. I was just wondering if I'm not free enough," Chen Luo said.

"Not free enough? What kind of strange topic is that? If you're not free, who is? Isn't your job a freelance job?" Bai Zhi said, somewhat surprised.

"Now that you mention it, I feel like I'm really not free anymore. After all, it's common knowledge that being a freelancer is the least free profession," Chen Luo sighed.

Chen Luo does have freedom in allocating his time each day, but apart from that, he has no freedom in anything else.

Chen Luo would usually sit in the bar for no more than 10 minutes before trouble came knocking on his door.

"So the freedom you're discussing is actually a metaphysical concept?" Bai Zhi asked uncertainly.

"No, it's just simple freedom. Yukari Yakumo said I seem to be too self-disciplined, too rational, and that I'm putting unnecessary pressure on myself," Chen Luo said.

“That’s true. If it were anyone else, their strength would have increased so much in the last four months, and their mentality would have become incredibly arrogant,” Yukari Yakumo said.

“Hmm, actually, you can’t say that. Among the many talented individuals in the spiritual energy plane, there are also some S-level talents who can stick to their original intentions. It’s just that their amplification strength may be slightly different from yours,” Bai Zhi said after thinking for a moment.

However, Bai Zhi thought about it again and realized that whether a person can restrain themselves depends not only on how strong they become, but also on the external environment.

While S-rank talents are few in number in the spiritual energy plane, they are not extinct. Therefore, this means that even if S-rank talents become arrogant, they cannot become arrogant by much.

However, Chen Luo is the only one who can defeat nine true gods with a single punch.

"I'll think about this myself," Chen Luo said.

Chen Luo inexplicably felt that what Yakumo Yukari said actually made a lot of sense. Freedom is not about doing whatever you want, but about not doing what you don't want to do.

Destiny is indeed something Chen Luo wants to explore, but this is simply because he has been helping others fulfill their wishes for many years.

However, on the other hand, after the path of destiny has been opened, modifying and supplementing the wish-based destiny based on the collected wishes to make it more stable and accurate in helping everyone seems to be a bit too much of a burden.

Chen Luo can do that, but that doesn't mean that's the responsibility he needs to bear.

The Star God is only responsible for his own destiny, not for all living beings. Or rather, destiny is something that only a few beings can be involved with, and it is never related to all living beings.

The gaze of the star god never falls upon ordinary people.

Before Chen Luo had even transcended, he was already considering whether he should construct something similar to a wish-based destiny after his transcendence, and how to ensure that the wish-seekers who would travel through the dimensional sea in the future could help those who needed help. It was really... a bit too much worry.

There have been so many transcendent beings before Chen Luo; it's not like the Dimensional Sea can't function without Chen Luo...

Am I putting too much pressure on myself?

"For example, going to the Sea of ​​Quanta to save those endangered world bubbles is not something I should do at all. I may want to do it, but it is not something I have to do."

"For example, fulfilling one's wishes and destiny is something I want to do, not something I have to do."

"When helping others fulfill their wishes, there's no need to offer any extra reward just because they've only given a little more money in the real world. Fulfilling their wishes is enough," Chen Luo pondered.

“Oh, right, especially this point.” Yukari Yakumo suddenly raised her hand.

"Ok?"

“Actually, you don’t have to regard the Primogems you receive from others after fulfilling their wishes as something they gave to offset your labor. There are so many wishes in the world, so what difference does it make who you help? It’s them who need your help, not you who need their reward,” Yukari Yakumo said.

"So when you ask for rewards other than the raw gem reward, you can be more assertive."

Furthermore, Yukari Yakumo felt that when Chen Luo was helping the bar staff use his River God abilities to copy the items that the bar patrons brought back from the Dimensional Sea, he could have easily pocketed the gold or silver items instead of helping them for free.

Because if it didn't have the River God's power, this item would just be this item; there couldn't be a silver version, nor could there be a gold version.

Each bar customer already receives an extra gold or silver item, which is already considered free.

The same principle applies to other things created using the river god's abilities.

If it were Yukari Yakumo, when she uses the group network for delivery services, she would not only use her River God ability to duplicate additional items, taking gold and silver items into her possession, but the delivery fee would also not be as low.

In particular, when Yakumo Yukari heard that Chen Luo recently planned to suspend his divine abilities and continue his courier business as usual while maintaining his courier services in the Dimensional Sea, she felt heartbroken.

It's your ability to use the River God's power to copy gold and silver items, so why don't you use it?

Furthermore, if you don't use the River God's power to copy it, its silver and gold items won't exist, so there's no such thing as stripping away potential... What potential do items have anyway?

As for privacy violations, you don't even need to open the packaging; you just throw it into the soil. How could that possibly violate any privacy?

Isn't that a waste?!

If I had to say something, Chen Luo is just too easily satisfied.

You have this ability, but you only want to use it to support one World Tree... That's such a waste.

Why don't you grow a few hundred more?

However, considering that Yukari Yakumo herself was also using Chen Luo's River God ability for free, she was too embarrassed to say it here.

I'll tell Chen Luo secretly after he's thought things through.

Yukari Yakumo felt that even if she couldn't get a 1% share of the enhanced items from the river gods, asking for 10,000 or 20,000 merit points wouldn't be too much to ask, right?

"..." Chen Luo felt that what Yakumo Yukari said made some sense.

All I can say is that if Chen Luo really wants to make money, there are certainly plenty of ways to do so.

Chen Luo will consider Yakumo Yukari's opinion.

But let's talk about that when we've become transcendents.

Anyway, a few more days won't make a difference.

Chen Luo felt that he was indeed easily satisfied, and that being a transcendent being was enough.

As for asking for additional compensation when helping others fulfill their wishes, Chen Luo has indeed incorporated this principle into one of the necessary conditions for a reasonable wish.

That makes sense.

To avoid giving everyone who knows about Wish Walkers the first impression that they are all a bunch of suckers.

You don't have to actually pay much, but you can't think about not paying anything at all.

Do you know why Frilian always asks her clients for strange grimoires as payment? On one hand, perhaps Frilian is genuinely interested in these grimoires. On the other hand, as long as there's payment, the client won't feel indebted, which is true help.

Why didn't you say so before?

[Because for you, it doesn't really matter whether you say it or not. Haven't you thought about getting some payment before? But you always forgot. Besides, even if the people you helped can't pay off this debt, they can always sell themselves to pay it off.]

The human-centered plugin believes that selling oneself to pay off debts is the key point.

Does Chen Luo lack that little bit of compensation? No.

Does Chen Luo lack girlfriends? Well... he does, but the human-centered plugin thinks he could have more.

The user-friendly plugin has always considered itself to be a strategy guide system.

However, for those who are destined to follow their chosen path and those who are fulfilling their desires, receiving payment becomes necessary.

If you help for free, no one will think you're being taken advantage of. They'll just think you're charitable. But if everyone in the entire community does the same, it can easily create a fixed impression.

Chen Luo was very lucky; everyone he met knew how to be grateful... or rather, those who didn't know how to be grateful were very lucky because they didn't meet Chen Luo, otherwise they would have been in real trouble.

But those who make wishes may not necessarily be so lucky.

It's not uncommon for acts of kindness to turn into enmity.

"Yukari Yakumo, did you specifically bring up the matter of the commission fee because you felt embarrassed after getting it for free?" Bai Zhi asked.

"Well... a little bit." Yukari Yakumo wasn't very assertive this time.

Yukari Yakumo is actually quite open-minded, especially regarding the Golden Gensokyo incident.

Chen Luo created a golden fantasy world for me, but didn't charge me any reward. I feel like I owe Chen Luo so much, and I can never repay him.

As for the realm ability that Chen Luo obtained after completing the mission, it was a reward for Chen Luo's own special abilities, not something given to him by Yakumo Yukari.

The reason they were able to obtain realm abilities as a reward is because they have EX-rank talent. What does that have to do with Yukari Yakumo?

Especially after seeing the unfortunate child, the Dream Master, Yukari Yakumo wondered if she would suddenly be sacrificed by Chen Luo if she kept owing money.

For example, sacrificing my best friend/beloved to help me break through to the level of a transcendent being.

Didn't the Order Star God summoned by the Dream Master using the golden godhood quota become Chen Luo's own, after Chen Luo sacrificed himself, allowing Chen Luo to successfully transform into the Wish Star God?

"I am indeed a little embarrassed, but aren't you embarrassed too?" Yakumo Yukari asked Hakuchi.

Bai Zhi just got two True God sparks for free, simply because she happened to be right next to him.

Yukari Yakumo didn't get it for free because she's not from this world and can't use these divine attributes.

"What do I have to be embarrassed about? I'm trying to find a way to pay it back, aren't I? Honestly, why can't it just be that my luck suddenly explodes and I come across a world-class item?" Bai Zhi complained.

The only thing Chen Luo might lack is world-class items.

However, none of the three people who obtained world items in the bar owed Chen Luo much.

One is Tsukijoin Shinkan. There's no need to discuss him; he's still working a regular job.

One is the Star God of Joy. He and Chen Luo are partners, and all Chen Luo gives the Star God of Joy is some fun and some Primal Stone blessings from when he set foot on the Dimensional Sea.

One of them is Xiao Jiu. Don't underestimate the value of item enhancement tickets—they're world-class items!

Three people who didn't owe Chen Luo much paid off their debts, and even had some left over, while those who owed Chen Luo a lot couldn't pay off their debts.

Could it be that all the luck these people who owe Chen Luo have used up in one lifetime by running into a bar?

Bai Zhi thought this guess was actually quite reasonable.

"I still want a world-class item, so don't get your hopes up." Yukari Yakumo waved her hand.

"By the way, what I lack isn't world-class items, but world-class items that are useful to me," Chen Luo said.

As a player who relies on item-based gameplay, Chen Luo felt he possessed quite a few world-class items. For example, his random items.

Those props sound like unfinished products of the world-class props that puppeteers talk about.

They are highly specialized in a certain area, but their abilities are quite unconventional.

"Forget about that. Did Xiao Qi sign the contract?" Bai Zhi asked.

"Don't call me Xiao Qi, and what contract?" Bai Qiqi was a little annoyed.

“A contract guaranteeing that no information about Chen Luo will be revealed, which only people in Chen Luo’s own world need to sign in the bar,” Bai Zhi said.

"Should we sign it? I don't mind." Bai Qiqi looked at Chen Luo.

"No need. The reason I made you sign the contract before wasn't because I didn't trust you, but because I was worried that someone could read your memories and thus know of my existence, causing unnecessary trouble. But... I already self-destructed in the Abyss Plane, so what's the point of hiding anymore?" Chen Luo shrugged.

Chen Luo certainly didn't make them sign the contract because he didn't trust the people in his own world. Rather, it was because the guests from another world had ill intentions. Chen Luo could simply refuse them entry to the bar, but he would eventually return to his main world. Therefore, Chen Luo was always cautious about knowing the bar's members in his main world, ensuring that they wouldn't be passively leaked information.

There's no need to be cautious now.

Because no one can beat Chen Luo.

As for Chen Luo's previous great concern that someone might bully his parents?

There's even less to worry about then.

Since even his parents knew those two transcendent beings whom Genyuan knew, they were naturally no pushovers.

"Oh, right, speaking of this... I have to go back and look after the house, otherwise it won't be long before the threshold of Chen Luo's house is worn down by people," Bai Zhi said.

If the people of the Abyss Plane have inside contacts in the Spiritual Plane, then the Spiritual Plane naturally also has inside contacts in the Abyss Plane.

Furthermore, some S-level talents like to go to the Abyss Plane to cause trouble because, compared to the Spirit Plane, the people in the Abyss Plane are foolish and rich.

Chen Luo's actions this time not only displayed the River God's signature abilities but also left his true name in the Abyss Plane... Chen Luo has revealed two identities at once, so there will definitely be more people coming to find him.

"Don't worry, for the next day, no one will even dare to knock on the door with a little bit of force," Chen Luo said.

“I have to go see him too. By the way, what if someone wants to see you?” Bai Zhi asked.

"There are two possibilities. If they just want someone to help them, then let the adventurers in the park handle it. It'll be a good opportunity to fulfill their wishes."

"If it's something that absolutely needs me, then let them wait. I really don't have time to deal with all that trivial stuff," Chen Luo sighed.

Chen Luo didn't even need the humanization plugin to know what those people who insisted on finding him were thinking.

The vast majority of them came to visit Chen Luo and get acquainted with him. The few who weren't there to get acquainted with him would definitely not bring Chen Luo any good news.