With a ruthless resolve, Qi Jun forcefully inserted the tips of the ear pick and small scissors into the electrical outlets.
Zzzzzzz~~~
As expected, the sound of electricity suddenly rang out.
However!
Qi Jun found that he hadn't been electrocuted into charcoal.
And the zzzing sound of electricity only lasted for two brief moments when he first inserted them into the sockets before immediately subsiding into silence.
At the same time, the small hotel's electricity meter began to spin wildly, at a speed that would surely make the hotel owner faint in despair at a single glance!
But Qi Jun didn't feel any stinging pain; instead, a tingling sensation spread throughout his body through his hands, a feeling even more exhilarating than visiting the scantily clad ladies at the shelter!
It was truly—so! Awesome!
Qi Jun declared, "Let this thrill come even more intensely!"
Zzz~
Bang!!!
As if controlled by his will, as Qi Jun's thought flashed, he indeed felt a strong surge of excitement.
However!
Boom!!!
Outside the window, a nearby transformer exploded instantly due to the sudden surge of electricity.
The enormous sound reverberated through the surrounding streets, and the bright flash of fire illuminated the instantly darkened neighborhood as if it were daylight.
Car alarms, the wail of fire trucks, and the clamor of a bustling crowd penetrated the window and reached Qi Jun's ears.
Qi Jun, who had been wondering why that tingling sensation had disappeared, sobered up just in time.
He went to the window, lifted a corner of the curtain, and observed carefully for a while.
Qi Jun was shocked to discover that he himself was the cause of all this!
Qi Jun: I! How~ am~ I~ so~ powerful!
Chapter 5: First Test of Abilities!
Of course, after indulging in a brief moment of self-admiration, Qi Jun immediately reined in his inflated ego.
Qi Jun knew that if he didn't handle this properly, intelligence agencies, S.H.I.E.L.D., and Hydra would quickly trace the source of it all.
Consequently, he, with no record in this world, would undoubtedly become a 'hot commodity'—the deadly kind—for various intelligence organizations and underground agencies!
However, Qi Jun wasn't flustered.
With the Mutant Gem in hand, what situation couldn't be resolved?
Qi Jun declared, "As long as there's enough energy, even half the life Thanos eliminated, I can bring them back!"
..."Holy crap!"
"Why is there only 2.5 energy units?"
"Did this Mutant Gem secretly deduct some?"
As Qi Jun immersed his mind, he discovered that the energy storage area independently developed by the [Mutant Gem] actually showed only a paltry 2.5 units of energy.
Of course, the Mutant Gem, lacking autonomous intelligence, naturally didn't respond to Qi Jun's questioning.
The mutated version of the Reality Gem, besides its powerful abilities, was actually more like a technological creation with pre-set programs.
"You bastard!"
"You absorbed all the electricity from an entire street, and you only gave me 2.5 energy units?"
"Even with a fifty-fifty split, doesn't that mean the electricity supplied to an entire street is only worth 5 energy points?"
"An entire street's worth of electricity!"
"Even if it only absorbed for a minute, that's at least tens of thousands of kilowatt-hours!"
"Converted to US dollars, that's close to ten thousand US dollars!"
"Which means one point of energy is worth two thousand US dollars?"
He pulled out the seven hundred and forty US dollars remaining after paying for the room and looked at it again and again.
In that moment, Qi Jun felt that he was truly, genuinely poor!
Originally, Qi Jun had planned to first absorb hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of energy points, then use the [Mutant Gem] to manifest a spaceship and directly go to the abandoned planet Morag to collect the Orb, which was the Power Gem, before it was discovered.
With an endless supply of energy, wouldn't he be able to do whatever he wanted?
Qi Jun had no intention of getting the [Tesseract], at least not now!
Putting aside S.H.I.E.L.D.'s already formidable defenses (for Qi Jun at this time), at this period, at least two big shots, the Ancient One and Odin, were still keeping an eye on the [Tesseract]. Qi Jun wouldn't seek death.
Regardless, hundreds of thousands of energy points should be enough to manifest a spaceship!
But the result was, absorbing the electricity of an entire street only yielded a mere 5 energy points?
Didn't that mean that to manifest a spaceship, he would have to absorb all the electricity from the entire United States, or even the entire Earth?
What the hell!
...But soon, Qi Jun's good mood returned.
Because Qi Jun discovered that although the Mutant Gem's energy absorption was a rip-off, with too large a conversion difference, this didn't mean that the energy from the Mutant Gem itself would be a rip-off.
Or rather, for the Mutant Gem, electricity was actually a very trashy form of energy! It was an extremely low-grade energy! It was an energy with an extremely low conversion rate!
If it weren't for Qi Jun actively trying to absorb it, the Mutant Gem probably wouldn't even glance at it~
Qi Jun found that he only used a tiny bit of energy to fully restore all the damage caused by his previous attempt to absorb electricity.
This was the great thing about the Reality Gem: to do anything, he didn't need to do it himself; he just needed to imagine it in his mind.
As long as there was enough energy to pay, all actions could be performed without his direct involvement, making it an essential divine item for lazy people traveling at home!