Of course, after a short period of self-admiration, Michael immediately reined in his inflated ego.
Michael knew that if this wasn't handled properly, intelligence organizations, S.H.I.E.L.D., and HYDRA would definitely quickly trace the source of all this.
Therefore, as someone with no records in this World, he would definitely become a 'hot commodity' for various intelligence organizations and underground agencies—the deadly kind!
However, Michael was not flustered.
With the mutated gem in hand, what situation couldn't be resolved?
Michael declared, as long as there's enough energy, even half of the living beings Thanos eliminated, I can bring them back!
..."Holy crap!"
"How come there are only 2.5 units of energy?"
"Did this mutated gem secretly deduct some?"
Just as Michael immersed his mind, he discovered that the energy storage area independently developed by the [mutated gem] actually showed only a mere 2.5 units of energy?
Of course, the mutated gem, lacking independent intelligence, naturally did not respond to Michael's questioning.
The mutated Reality Stone, besides its powerful abilities, was actually more like a technological creation with fixed programs set.
"Damn it!"
"You sucked all the electricity from an entire street, and you only give me 2.5 units of energy?"
"Even with a fifty-fifty split, doesn't that mean the electricity supplied to an entire street is only worth 5 points of energy?"
"The electricity for an entire street!"
"Even if it only absorbed for one minute, that would still be over ten thousand kilowatt-hours of electricity, right!"
"Converted to U.S. dollars, that would be close to ten thousand U.S. dollars!"
"Which means, one point of energy is worth two thousand U.S. dollars?"
He took out the seven hundred forty U.S. dollars remaining after paying for the room and looked at it again and again.
At this moment, Michael felt that he was truly, truly poor!
Originally, Michael had thought of first absorbing hundreds of thousands, or millions of points of energy, then using the [mutated gem] to manifest a Cosmic Orb and directly go to the abandoned Morag planet to collect the Cosmic Orb, which was the Power Stone, that hadn't been discovered yet. At that time, with infinite energy, wouldn't he be able to do whatever he wanted?
Michael didn't want to get the [Tesseract], at least not now!
Putting aside S.H.I.E.L.D.'s already formidable defensive power (for the current Michael), at this time, at least Ancient One and Odin, two big shots, were still watching the [Tesseract]. Michael wouldn't go looking for death.
No matter what, hundreds of thousands of points of energy should be enough to manifest a Cosmic Orb!
But the result was, absorbing the electricity of an entire street only yielded a mere 5 points of energy?
Doesn't that mean that to manifest a Cosmic Orb, he would have to absorb all the electricity from the entire American Federation, or even the entire Earth?
What the hell!
...However, Michael quickly regained his good mood.
Because Michael discovered that although the mutated gem's energy absorption was a huge scam and the conversion ratio was too large, this did not mean that the mutated gem's energy itself was a scam.
Or rather, for the mutated gem, electricity was actually a very trashy energy! It was an extremely low-level energy! It was an energy with an extremely low conversion rate!
If it weren't for Michael actively absorbing it, the mutated gem probably wouldn't even glance at it~
Michael found that he only used a tiny bit of energy to restore all the damage from his previous attempt to absorb electricity to its original state.
This is the good thing about the Reality Stone; whatever you want to do, you don't have to do it yourself. You just need to imagine it in your mind, and as long as there's enough energy to pay, all actions can be done without your own hands. It's simply an essential divine item for lazy people traveling and living at home!
Using only 0.5 energy, all damage caused by Michael's previous absorption of electricity was restored, except for the exploding and burning transformer, which was left untouched.
The sockets and circuits that were almost melting due to Michael's sudden absorption of too much electricity were all restored to their original state.
If the small hotel owner were to check the electricity meter, he would find that the wildly spinning meter had returned to the state it was in the second before Michael began absorbing electricity.
In other words, apart from the exploded and still burning transformer, all other impacts of this incident were eliminated, and even the power company's electricity consumption records were rolled back by an invisible energy!
In fact, Michael also tried to use the mutated gem to clear all surveillance footage and even everyone's memories.
However, the information the mutated gem fed back to Michael showed that while surveillance could be altered at any time, people's memories required a much larger amount of energy.
Unlike inanimate objects such as surveillance cameras and circuits, making changes to humans seemed to require significantly more energy than for inanimate objects.
Clearly, two mere points of energy were insufficient to alter the memories of everyone in an entire block.
However, precisely because Michael wanted to alter people's memories, the mutated gem fed back an even more exciting piece of news to him!
Due to containing life energy far more advanced than electrical energy.
The corpse of an ordinary human who has been dead for no more than an hour can be recycled and is worth one point of energy! If it exceeds one hour, the life energy rapidly dissipates, and it no longer has recycling value.
The body of a living ordinary human can also be recycled and is worth five points of energy! The additional four points of energy are soul energy, which is more advanced than life energy and only found in living people!
Hiss~~~ Hiss~~~ Hiss~~~~
Stunned, Michael could only take deep breaths, trying to bring his wildly pounding heart rate back to normal.
At the same time, Michael, inhaling frantically, suddenly had countless bold ideas!
But!
The next second, Michael shook his head vigorously.
He drove these disharmonious thoughts out of his mind!
As a young person growing up under the red flag, how could he have such perverse (gentlemanly) thoughts?
Let us review the essence of a harmonious society: prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity, friendliness!
Read it again: prosperity, democracy, civilization, harmony, freedom, equality, justice, rule of law, patriotism, dedication, integrity, friendliness!
As a modern youth, even if he transmigrates, he must remain harmonious (follow his heart)!
...However, based on the information fed back by the mutated gem, Michael also knew what his next step should be.
He turned his head and looked towards the northeast of Chinatown.
Michael seemed to see through layers of tall buildings to that famous place—Hell's Kitchen!