Universe Infinite Canteen-Chapter 702: You Take Over the Shift

"Uncle, please think carefully again, have you ever told anybody else about your dream of becoming a comic artist?" Ma Youyou said.

"Ah, other people," Qi Yu tried hard to think, then said, "No."

"No?"

"No," Qi Yu affirmed, "It's just wishful thinking, and I'd only be laughed at if I said it. I'm already over forty, and my child is in middle school. To talk about becoming a comic artist is just outrageous..."

"Then why have you become a comic artist now, who went back to 1996 and changed history?" Ma Youyou couldn't understand.

"I now feel that history hasn't really been changed," Ma Lu said, and looked at Qi Yu again, "You mentioned before that after you became a comic artist you returned to your former place and even saw your wife and daughter, right?"

"That's right, but they didn't recognize me."

"But they are still them, right? Especially your daughter, she didn't change at all, which is how you were able to recognize her immediately."

"My daughter... should there have been some changes?"

"No, what I mean is, if someone had gone back to 1996 and changed history, making your wife marry someone else, then their child would presumably look different too," Ma Lu analyzed.

"Oh, now that you mention it, it seems so," Qi Yu nodded.

"So history wasn't actually changed," Ma Lu said, "What changed was everyone's perception of you. It's almost as if someone forcibly implanted the identity of a great comic artist in you, then reshaped your family, social, and work circles around that identity."

"And my bank card," Qi Yu added.

"What?"

"My bank card was reshaped too, now there's an extra seventy million in the account, and over the past couple of days, I found that I now own three companies and twelve properties. I couldn't close my eyes all night after seeing the balance in my bank account."

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"What, you're a multimillionaire?" Ma Lu's eyes gleamed, "Quick, try hard to remember, how did you do it?"

"But I really didn't do anything," Qi Yu lamented.

At this time, Ma Youyou suddenly spoke up, "Do you remember that passenger you drove to Langfang and then back again?"

Qi Yu nodded, "Yes, that was a foreign old man, in his sixties, chubby and panting when he walked, with a very long white beard, but he spoke Chinese quite fluently.

"He said he had just moved to City B not long ago and liked to eat soybean juice and stewed meat in soy sauce. He used to have a car, but it was being serviced recently, so he chose to take a taxi this time."

"What's his name and where does he live?"

"Name, let me think, it seems to be Zhao Si, no, no, that's not right, it was the one before that."

"Nicholas?" Ma Youyou ventured.

"Right, right, Nicholas, it's Nicholas. I'm not very clear about the exact address, but I picked him up outside the New Century neighborhood and dropped him off there too."

"New Century," Ma Lu took out his phone and did a quick search, it wasn't far from here, so he decisively said, "Let's go, take a look over there."

Ma Youyou looked at the clock on the wall, "But there are less than 10 minutes left until the night shift begins."

"This... I'll have Mr. Furball help me cover for a bit," with the secret of becoming a multimillionaire in seconds at stake, Ma Lu had no intention of honestly running his business anymore.

He ran to the rental room in the apartment complex behind the restaurant and found Mr. Furball smoking and gulping down Hongxing Erguotou, asking it to stand-in as a waiter for a bit.

Without waiting for Mr. Furball's consent, Ma Lu grabbed its neck and carried it all the way to the restaurant, placing it on the cashier counter.

As a result, being too drunk, Mr. Furball slipped under the table like a puddle of milk as soon as it was put down.

Luckily, Ma Lu was quick to catch him and put him back on the cashier counter.

"Snap out of it, it's time to work," Ma Lu shook its body vigorously, "Do you remember what I just told you? Repeat it back to me."

"Eh... I think you are being a bit too hard on it," Qi Yu said.

Mr. Furball belched, one foot stepping on a nearby beaver statue, "You, you told me to entertain everyone in the store with a Crazy Horse Show to cheer it up."

"No, it's to serve the guests coming to eat, telling them that those who are willing to go to the kitchen to get their own food can get a 10% discount, and that the drinks are free tonight."

"Drinks are free? Where?!" As soon as he heard this, Mr. Furball perked right up, standing to attention.

"Right here, you're in charge of providing them."

Ma Lu said, "Take good care of the store for me, I'll check the accounts when I get back, and if the meal fees are short, it'll come out of your liquor."

After speaking, Ma Lu said to Ma Youyou and Qi Yu, "Let's go."

Qi Yu opened his mouth wide, pointing at Mr. Furball, "It, it, it... it just talked, that cat just talked!!! Did you see it, it even gave me the finger."

"Don't mind it, it's drunk. As for speaking, that's because I put a small speaker on it, the sound was actually made by someone behind the speaker."

"Is that how it is?" Although Qi Yu was somewhat skeptical, he accepted the explanation.

Then the three of them left the restaurant, got into Qi Yu's taxi, and came to the New Century complex together.

After stopping at the roadside for less than 5 minutes, the car door was opened three times, fortunately, the information-gathering Ma Youyou quickly returned to the car.

"I found out, Nicholas lives at 12 Unit 1, Building 101, a western-style house with a yard, and also residents of the community reported to the property management that Nicholas was keeping a large animal in the yard and was seen chewing the community's lawn bare at midnight.

"But when the property management visited, they couldn't find the large animal."

"A large animal, like what, a Tibetan Mastiff or some other large dog?" Qi Yu was curious.

"No, witnesses said it seemed like an antelope or a Spotted Deer or such."

"What?" Qi Yu was shocked, "Can such a thing be kept in a neighborhood?"

"It probably shouldn't be allowed, but those who saw it have no real proof, it's said that the property management didn't find it when they visited."

"Let's stop guessing and see for ourselves," Ma Lu opened the car door.

"Go ahead then, I'll find a parking spot then come find you," Qi Yu said, "I'm worried about getting a ticket if I park here."

"Okay."

Ma Lu and Ma Youyou then proceeded into the complex, while Ma Youyou took another glance at the taxi as it drove away.

"What's up?"

"Do you think he'll come back?" Ma Youyou asked.

"He said he was going to park the car."

"If his identity as a great comic artist was really given to him by Nicholas, then it also implies Nicholas likely has a way to take it back, and by that time, he will have to return to being a taxi driver."