Chapter 1204: Everybody’s Future and the Issue With Longevity
Claire stayed the night.
Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gold Nugget’s two clones finally merged after being separated for a long time. After confirming that there were no abnormalities, it split into one s...o...b..ry dog and one mysterious old man once more.
When Claire went back, Gold Nugget would teach her how to cultivate the Kunlun chi technique.
In any case, Selina had learned it, so Gold Nugget had a good enough understanding of it through their symbiotic relations.h.i.+p.
If it really didn’t work out, Selina could combine with Gold Nugget and control Gold Nugget No. 2 remotely to guide Claire in her training.
This way, it wouldn’t be any slower than Luke teaching Claire personally.
It could only be said that Gold Nugget, this dog head, was a real cheat.
Things that couldn’t be grasped intuitively were naturally not a problem for it.
Also, according to Gold Nugget, that “chi” was a pretty good type of energy.
Even if it wasn’t as “delicious” as the special energy in Luke and Selina’s bodies, it was just enough to keep Gold Nugget fed.
That was because chi was energy extracted from food. As long as Claire trained harder, Gold Nugget could eat more.
Eating chi was different from directly enjoying regular food.
Luke’s simple understanding of it was that regular food was a necessity for the dog head, while energy was a high-grade tonic.
The dog head, which never got full, was naturally happy to have some new tonic.
The next night, Luke and Selina went to watch Claire’s performance.
As family and friends, they got good seats at the front and enjoyed the small fanmeet up close.
It was just that the two of them were clearly a little quiet in the crowd of enthusiastic fans.
Thankfully, Luke wasn’t crazy enough to point at Sheerah and yell “Maria, Maria” (another top diva) at her, or Sheerah’s fans would’ve ganged up to beat him up.
After the fanmeet, Claire dragged them off to meet Sheerah.
It wasn’t their request, but Sheerah’s.
Sheerah hugged Luke and Selina warmly when she saw them.
Now that she was famous, she didn’t have to worry about making a living for the rest of her life.
A lot of it had to do with Batman, but the songs from Luke were also very important.
Batman had helped put the spotlight on her, while the songs from Luke enabled her to successfully change her popularity into status.
Given the speed at which European and American singers released songs in this era, marketing an alb.u.m for five years wasn’t a big deal.
She could hold local and international concerts for the next decade, after which she could totally switch to variety shows or become a boss.
As long as she didn’t ruin herself, Sheerah, who was a top-tier diva, would be able to reap sizable profits for the next two decades.
Thus, she took very good care of Claire, and was far more attentive than Jennifer Perry; after all, this was the only favor Luke had asked of her.
After chatting for half an hour, Sheerah said goodbye and took her leave.
She was now truly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars every minute, and her schedule was packed with jobs, ads, endors.e.m.e.nts, and fanmeets. She really didn’t have much time.
However, Luke and Selina also received invitations to the Victoria’s Secret press conference for the launch of its new line tomorrow.
Claire left with Sheerah. She would go to the press conference with her tomorrow.
Her third-rate status wasn’t good enough for her to perform at a press conference for Victoria’s Secret.
Sheerah was taking her mainly to broaden her horizons. It was better for Claire to experience it in person.
It could be said that Sheerah was doing her best as a teacher.
On the way home, Selina fiddled with the invitation card. “Do you want to check it out tomorrow?”
“Huh?” Luke was stunned. He hadn’t planned to go at all.
Victoria’s Secret was a lingerie brand. He wasn’t some tyc.o.o.n, and wasn’t interested in supermodels.
He had bought some items from Victoria’s Secret before as gifts for Jenny and Elena.
But he went to the store itself and had the sales a.s.sistant help pick out the items. In any case, he knew the girls’ stats like the back of his hand.
Hearing Selina’s words, Luke thought for a moment, then nodded with a smile. “Okay. If you see anything you like, buy it.”
Selina glanced at him. “Am I paying?”
Luke shrugged. “I’ll pay.”
Selina nodded in satisfaction and threw the invitation into the glove box.
It might be hard for other people to obtain this invitation, but not for them. It was just that she never had the time to go.
She felt that Luke must’ve infected her with his laziness; now, she would go straight to a store, buy whatever she liked, and leave.
It was more like how a man bought clothes than a woman.
Selina didn’t think this was a good image. After all, a woman who was too manly wasn’t a good thing.
It had to be said that with the Star of Justice clone around, Luke had a lot of time on his hands.
This was only on the surface, however. In essence, twice the amount of energy was consumed when they both moved at the same time. Nevertheless, the advantage was that his movements wouldn’t be affected by his various aliases anymore.
For example, if he went to the press conference, his clone could still go out and perform heroic acts, and everyone and the surveillance cameras at the press conference would be Luke’s alibi.
In the future, when other people investigated the real ident.i.ties of these aliases, Luke would immediately be eliminated as a suspect.
So, it wouldn’t be a waste of time to accompany Selina to the press conference.
As for what to buy, it reminded Luke that a certain young woman was going to turn a year older.
Perhaps he could choose the latest design and customize something for her.
But when he glanced at Selina, who was humming “Call Me Maybe” as she ate a lollipop, he shook his head. This woman had probably never noticed that she was starting to age backward.
Selina looked at her face every day and didn’t notice that it was slowly turning younger.
Luke, on the other hand, had all her test data, which proved that it wasn’t an illusion.
In terms of her physical const.i.tution, Selina had been aging backward ever since Gold Nugget formed a symbiotic relations.h.i.+p with her.
The woman was about to turn 26, but in two or three years, her physique might return to the peak of her twenties.
A certain dog head had once said that after symbiosis, the host’s physical const.i.tution would improve significantly; it was very normal for them to stop aging so quickly — provided that their innards weren’t eaten up by the hungry symbiote.
Selina was in her twenties; after the symbiosis, she could live for another century.
Thus, Selina already had the youth and longevity that countless women dreamed of.
But she had no idea.
Luke also specifically told the dog head not to mention this to Selina for the time being.
It was best to take enough precautions first and wait for the right moment to reveal such earth-shattering news.
Any other woman would’ve gone crazy with joy after hearing that.
Selina wasn’t an ordinary person right now; it wouldn’t be good if she wanted to go out and beat up hooligans to celebrate, like Luke.
When the time came, the both of them would have to consider using the Thousand Faces System to make their faces look more mature.
In this world, there were two sides to everything.
It was actually quite troublesome to live a long life without getting old physically.