078 Gatekeeper class
After galloping from the college to Manhattan and enjoying the colorful sunset on Morning Avenue, Eric led the students to the location of the future office.
Before she could enter the door, Alicent let out an exaggerated "wow", and the people looked back to see that she was at the end of the line, looking up and down at the building.
"Is there something wrong?" John didn't know why, he felt that this female classmate with a straightforward personality was a bit contrived today.
You're pretentious---- although she can't read minds, but out of a woman's sensitive intuition, Alicent reads John's belly at a glance, and if she can, she will definitely say so.
Unlike the rest of her classmates in the college, Alison is obsessed with fashion and often fantasizes about becoming a high-profile singer, so she pays far more attention to the outside world than others, and the common-sense question of how expensive land is in Manhattan is difficult for her. In the eyes of her classmates, this is just a seven-storey ordinary half-new building, weaker than the buildings of the college, not to mention the skyscrapers seen in New York City along the way, but in the eyes of Alison, who knows the goods, this is not a building at all, it is simply a beautiful castle with the glow of gold and the fragrance of roses.
"How big is it?" Alicent came back to her senses and asked impatiently.
"About an acre." Eric replied.
"Heaven ......", all of a sudden, as if the blood in her whole body was pouring into the top of her head, Alicent felt dizzy, looking at her crumbling appearance, Lorna and Katie next to her hurriedly supported her, and it took several seconds for her to react.
"This, this is at least 400 million, right?" As soon as she woke up from her vertigo and regained her balance, Alicent couldn't wait to break free from the support of her two friends, rushed over and grabbed Eric by the collar and asked.
Under the magic of money, she couldn't even care about her mentor, and the tip of her upturned nose almost poked Eric in the face.
"To be specific, 650 million." Eric's smile remained the same, but at the sight of the number, even the most ignorant of wealth among the students jumped up from the ground.
"Six-six-six...... Six and a half million? John's tongue was knotted, he didn't come here like the other students, as Eric's proud disciple, he had come and gone with his mentor several times, helping with the installation of facilities or providing other help, but he never thought that this place would be so valuable.
Now, as soon as he heard this astronomical figure, John immediately experienced the feeling of Alicent just now, as if he was drunk, and both legs became weak.
Six and a half million! It is unimaginable for him to usually have a monthly pocket money of only more than 100 US dollars, not to mention that half of his pocket money is earned by working for the college, although there is no special consumption in the college, but in order to cultivate students' independent living ability, some items are still marked, and after calculating these simple expenses, the maximum amount left is only seventy or eighty yuan per month.
"One hundred a month, one thousand two a year, how many years will it take me to earn so much...... John had forgotten the necessary consumption of life, and just counted on his fingers, but the number seemed to get bigger and bigger, as if it would never be obtained, until Alison woke him up from the clouds with a crisp slap.
"Five hundred and forty thousand years! If you can live to be a hundred years old, this money can buy five thousand four hundred johns! Don't forget it, when you earn it, humans will be fossilized. Alicent gritted her teeth and exclaimed, and with great courage to stop John's childishness, she walked up to Eric and smiled at him in what she thought was the most coquettish of all.
Eric was furious with these two little guys, and he quickly took the conversation away from the money figures.
"That's not how it counts." He explained it to the students. "This money is not a direct expenditure, but I gave Christina's father some souvenirs with special effects, and he found suitable buyers for these souvenirs through his own channels, you must know that although money is important, there are always things that can overshadow it, and these souvenirs are one of them, it can make people willing to pay the price in exchange, so getting this building is not as difficult as you think."
"What kind of local products are so valuable, I also want to collect some." Alicent only noticed the first half of the sentence, she couldn't wait to ask, and then glanced back at Christina, this girl has been in a sharp turn among her classmates since her father was recognized as Stryker's subordinate, and everyone looked at her with strange eyes, as if she was a plague god who could talk and walk. For this girl, the troubles are not only these, although she is older than the junior students of the academy, she is only a beginner in terms of ability control, and she is very uncomfortable in the academy these days, and now when she hears that this building is related to her father, Christina can't help but straighten her little chest, and the baby's fat little face is also proudly raised.
"Don't think about it, that's not what you can find." Eric shatters Alison's delusions, he doesn't want his students to transform from mutant future stars into fanatical money worshippers. "It's better to think about how to use your abilities more realistically, and if you really figure it out, you can do well."
"But I can't make 650 million in my life." Alicent muttered as she followed Eric into the hall, her complaint generally echoed by her classmates, and even Bobby, who had been quiet lately, nodded involuntarily.
"Here you are, sir." As soon as he entered, he was greeted by a gray man in his sixties, who was specially hired by Eric to be a gatekeeper, although he was a little older, he spoke with a lot of energy, and he seemed to be in good spirits.
"Hello, Ban." Eric nodded to the gatekeeper before introducing him to the young men behind him. "John, you've seen it, everyone else is my student."
He introduced the young people to the class one by one, and the class greeted them warmly and tried his best to remember what the students looked like, so as not to misunderstand them in the future.
"I'm Ben Parker, a sixty-five-year-old unemployed man." Ben introduced himself. "I worked as a senior technician for 35 years and then I was laid off by the company, but I still have a family to support and have to look for work everywhere, but fortunately Mr. Eric hired me, and I will be invited to serve you in the future."
"Does Mr. Parker live here alone?" Katie asked curiously, she thought that the old man with a gray head and small eyes and a spirit looked very kind and amiable, like one of her elders.
"Yes, but Mr. Eric paid me a high salary, and promised that I could bring my wife to live with me, and my nephew would send his aunt over to-morrow." Before he could finish speaking, the door was pushed open from the outside, and two men and two women walked in with a few duffel bags.
"Look how accurate I am, they're coming." Ben excitedly greeted the people and brought them to Eric's group.
He pointed to the people and introduced them to Eric.
"May, my wife, we have been dependent on each other for decades, and we have rarely even quarreled." The old woman, who was as kind as her husband, smiled and nodded to everyone, and the teachers and students returned the salute.
"Mary Jane Watson, my neighbor, a little beautiful woman, I didn't expect her to come and help." Speaking of which, Ben blinked. "For years I had hoped that my nephew would marry her home, but now it seems that his classmates are more promising." Hearing such an introduction, the girl next door laughed heartily.
"Just call me Mary Jane, my friends call me that, or m. J is also available. She generously stretched out her arm and shook hands with her peers.
"This happy handsome guy is Harry Osborne, my nephew's best friend, my nephew has been so well taken care of at school, and I always want to thank him."
"We take care of each other." Harry, a handsome boy, knows how to save his friend's face, and he looks like a nice young man with a green look on his face when he smiles. "Nice to meet you, call me Harry." He shook hands with the teachers and students one by one, looking calm and unhurried, but very atmospheric.
"Finally, there's my nephew, Peter Benjamin Parker, and everyone calls him Peter." Finally hearing himself mentioned, Peter hurriedly put down his luggage and took two steps forward.
"Hello, Peter." Eric shook his hand. "Please don't be inhibited and make this your home."
Peter nodded gratefully, and was about to say a few more polite words when John's hand reached out. "John, Burning Man."
"Hello." Peter hurriedly said hello.
After everyone had introduced each other, Ben couldn't contain his excitement and spoke out loud to his wife and nephew.
"Remember what I told you the other day?" He said. "Someone tried to rob my car at gunpoint, and when he was in a stalemate, his accomplice pushed him from behind, and the gun went off unexpectedly, and I almost watched the bullets fly towards me but couldn't dodge them. I thought I was going to be done now, but at this moment a miracle was born, and the bullet seemed to have been struck by the power of an angel, and it turned in the air and flew away without a trace, and so I escaped with my life, as I told you when I got home. ”
Mary Jane and Harry had heard of it for the first time, but May and Peter certainly remembered that, although they hadn't seen it, it just sounded terrifying, and they were close to losing their husband and uncle. Especially Peter, this matter still has a little to do with him, if it weren't for the miracle life, he would definitely regret it for life.
But what does this have to do with the present?
Eric shook his head with a wry smile, his students had all guessed it, and they looked at the class with a grin, proud that their mentor was so grateful.
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