After Colin got over it, the two began to talk about the future decoration style of the store.
Of course, most of the talk was done by Joseph who was in a talkative mood, and Colin only chimed in at key moments, acting as a perfect listener.
After all, if you don't want to be suspected, you still have to pretend.
The conversation lasted for dozens of minutes. With the sound of brakes, Joseph stopped talking with a sense of unfulfilled desire, and turned his gaze outside the store together with Colin.
Parked at the door was a high-end-looking sports car.
Colin was not very familiar with cars, but just by looking at the appearance, he knew that the price of this car was definitely not cheap.
"It seems that John is doing very well now!"
Colin whispered to Joseph as he watched John get off the car.
High-end casual wear, high-end watches, and a slightly unique and confident temperament, even in the crowd, you can tell at a glance that he is a social elite.
In comparison, whether he as a vagrant or Joseph as a hard-working policeman, they are far worse.
“It’s just a glamorous surface.”
Seeing John walking towards him with a smile on his face, Joseph didn't say anything more. He took two steps forward and gave him a big hug.
"I'm so glad you came."
Joseph slapped the other man on the back twice.
"Me too. Also, you should have slapped me more gently. Don't tell me you don't know how strong you are!"
John joked casually and walked up to Colin. His expression suddenly became serious and he began to look him up and down.
"Uh, what's dirty on me?"
Colin, who felt a little scared by being stared at, twisted his body uncomfortably.
“No!” John, who had a tense face, suddenly smiled and said in an exaggerated manner, “I just didn’t expect that after not seeing you for more than a year, you are so handsome that I can’t recognize you. Oh my God, you don’t know how jealous I am now!”
"Hey! You're exaggerating, John!"
A smile appeared on Colin's face. You know, just now he was still wondering if he had revealed some flaw and was discovered by the other party. Unexpectedly, he was praised by the other party for being handsome.
Well, to be honest, that's not his face.
"Well, I didn't expect that you would see through my secret. After all, I'm not worse looking than you. I'm just joking about being jealous."
John's serious words froze Colin's smile, and he couldn't help but hit the other person lightly in annoyance.
“You bastard!”
"Haha!" John laughed and hid back, looking at Colin with a serious expression.
"Okay, no kidding. I'm very happy to see that you and Josel are doing well and that you can think of me as a friend when you have problems."
"Well, I heard from Josel that you are going to open a peripheral store?"
"But seriously, man, even though this business makes more money in the cinema, it's not as easy as you think to make money here."
Listening to John's sincere persuasion, Colin smiled helplessly, but then he said firmly: "I know that any success is difficult, but running a peripheral store is an idea I have had for a long time, and I am also mentally prepared to lose money in the early stage."
"Really?" John looked at Colin's determined look, then looked at the helpless look given by Joseph, and immediately came to a conclusion.
"Well, since you've made up your mind, Colin, then as your best friend, I can only do my best to help you."
"Tell me, what do you need me to do?"
John spread his hands, showing his full support.
After seeing this, Colin smiled awkwardly, coughed dryly and said, "It's nothing, actually. It's just that the things I want are a bit too many and a bit miscellaneous, and some of them are not easy to buy openly. It's not easy to get them with my and Josel's connections alone, so I can only ask you for help."
Colin said as he took out a booklet from his pocket and handed it over, then looked up at the ceiling of his house.
To be honest, he didn't intend to hand over the supplies he wrote down in the hospital at first. Instead, he planned to give John only a part of them that would not arouse suspicion and that could be related to the surrounding stores.
But after he discovered that John was doing better than he had imagined, he suddenly realized that this was a great opportunity, and it was worth it even if it involved certain risks and the trouble of explaining things to Joseph again.
"Just want to buy some things? You've come to the right place..."
John was about to brag about his connections, but after taking the booklet handed over by Colin and flipping through two pages, he couldn't continue speaking and his smile froze on his face.
Joseph, who had been standing nearby without saying anything, saw that something was wrong and took two steps forward to John's side.
When I looked down, I suddenly felt my head was huge.
"Colin!"
With a loud shout, Joseph suddenly looked up.
"Can you explain to me what's going on here?!"
"You are really amazing. You wrote the entire periodic table directly on it. You want to go to heaven, right?"
Joseph was so angry that he mocked him. It would have been fine if Colin wanted to open a peripheral store. Although he was not optimistic about it and was even reluctant, it was a serious career after all. As a brother who grew up together, it was his duty to help!
But now, he actually did something weird, and he even invited others to do so.
Now he really felt his hands itching and wanted to have a good sparring with Colin.
"Hey, don't be angry. Didn't I write on it that it would be best if you can get it, but it's okay if you can't." Colin, who was mentally prepared, quickly comforted him and explained to John, who looked unhappy, "Listen, John, I know you saw so many things I wrote on it and thought I was just trying to fool you by calling you here this time, but please believe me, I really hope to get everything written on it.
Of course, I also know that some things are really hard to get, but your connections are much stronger than mine and Yosel's, and the difficulty of getting things is also different. Listen, I am serious!"
Colin looked at John sincerely and emphasized it again with a stronger tone.
In addition to the necessary instruments, such as beakers and precision balances needed for alchemy, chisels and microscopes needed for forging, hammers and high-temperature furnaces, small multi-functional machine tools, and other props that are either necessary or can greatly reduce the difficulty, collecting resources in the world and comparing their names with those in the inherited memory is also something he must do.
Otherwise, even if he had the formula and drawings, he wouldn't be able to make what he wanted if he didn't know what the materials were.
Of course, this is a long-term task, and he did not expect to be able to solve it in one go. What was written in the booklet were either key materials that were very similar to the characteristics he understood, or materials that he might be able to obtain in the future.
There are definitely some troubles involved, but it’s not so difficult that it cannot be done.
(End of this chapter)