Upon entering the restaurant, Liam promptly called out to Giorgio and Penelope, frantically searching for them.His heart was pounding rapidly as he searched high and low for their figures in the restaurant, praying for their safety.However, no one responded to his call despite him shouting his lungs out."Come on! Respond! Where did everyone disappear to?" Liam uttered to himself as he took out his outdated smartphone and phoned Giorgio.Simultaneously, as he dialed Giorgio’s phone number, a ringtone originating from the restaurant kitchen could be heard, prompting him to check out the kitchen in a hurry.The scene in the kitchen can only be described as hellish. Every kitchen machine and expensive equipment has been utterly destroyed beyond repair, and the air is filled with the smell of leaking gasoline.With the strong smell of gasoline in the air, Liam judged that a single naked flame would ignite the entire area and cause an explosion within a second.Covering his mouth with hi

“You good-for-nothing swine! How dare you waste my precious time!” The middle-aged woman who was manning the payment counter erupted with anger, her face filled with fury.Her loud outburst instantly caused a large commotion in the overcrowded hospital with everyone’s attention drawn towards Liam’s direction.“What do you mean by that? My card can’t be used?” Liam asked, feeling puzzled. His bank account had more than five million dollars, with the majority of the money earned from selling the horrendous-looking horse carving to Ashley.It was impossible that his bank card was denied. He had a bad feeling about this.“Can you try swiping the card again? It’s possible that your machine was faulty.” Liam asked with a polite tone.However, his request was met with unreasonable insults from the mean woman.“Try again? There is nothing to try, you stupid brat! I was a fool to have believed that a destitute pauper like you could be a wealthy millionaire! Everyone, look at this disgusting a

Less than a minute after Liam ended his call with Ashley, a bald man wearing an expensive armani suit hurriedly dashed towards the payment counter with a panicked look on his face. As if his life depended on it, he began to shout as loud as he could despite knowing that he was in a hospital where making loud noises was prohibited. “Liam Walker! Is there a Liam Walker here?” The bald man shouted across the room as he frantically looked for Liam. With sweat dripping all over his forehead, he desperately searched for Liam’s figure in the room where Liam was located, completely disregarding any staff members who greeted him along the way. When he finally arrived at the payment counter, the tired bald man leaned against the counter to catch his breath. While he was out of breath, Liam finally approached him and tapped his shoulder, introducing himself as the person he was desperately looking for. “You are Liam Walker?” When the bald man saw Liam, a visible smile crept up on his face.

“Hey, young man, are you done with your selection? You have been going at it for almost an hour now. Your indecisiveness is like my grandmother! I have a bunch of customers still waiting for their turn. Can you please hurry up?” In an isolated corner of the convention hall, Liam was alone, busy examining the stones available for sale in one of the stores, oblivious to the long queue that was formed behind him. With only three chances to verify if there was jade inside a stone, he had to rely on an alternative method to determine whether jade was present in them. “Let’s see… The texture on the surface of this stone is a bit sandy and there are small traces of jade veins appearing across the surface… The internet article that I read, mentioned that these veins are natural patterns on the rock that indicate the presence of jadeite inside.” Liam muttered under his breath as he stared intensely at the stone in his palm with complete focus. “Judging from the spiral pattern, it is highly

Following the departure of Andrew Mason and his group, Liam simply shrugged his shoulders and resumed his search for a potentially profitable stone; one that contained a rare quality jade inside.Rather than allowing his focus to waver and let his anger dictate him, he recognized the importance of intensifying his efforts to avoid the system’s punishment should he fall short of completing its mission, especially at this critical point in time.“What exactly is wrong with my judgment?” Looking at the empty stone that had been cut in half, Liam sighed. He was bewildered at the result.He had been mistaken in thinking that he could identify a profitable stone solely through a week's worth of reading books and articles on the internet when countless others before him had become bankrupt due to stone gambling.If identifying whether a stone contains rare jade inside were that simple, the mine owners would have kept the profits to themselves, and no one would have become bankrupt due to st