3: Enlightenment, enlightenment

"Two hundred and forty thousand!" the old man repeated, huffily.

A pair of walnuts, two hundred and forty thousand. This completely shattered Su Can's worldview.

"Elder, are you trying to extort me here?"

Su Can said, his face full of disbelief, "They're just two broken walnuts. At most, they'd be a few thousand yuan."

"What? Broken walnuts? You actually called mine broken walnuts, you, you, you..."

Upon hearing this, the old man's blood pressure immediately shot up in anger, and his arm began to tremble as he pointed at Su Can.

Following that, his face suddenly changed, and he clutched his chest with his other hand, unable to speak.

Su Can saw this and thought, 'This is bad. Isn't this clearly a heart attack?'

"Elder, Elder! We can't do this! Isn't it just two hundred and forty thousand? I'll pay, I'll pay!"

Su Can quickly stepped forward to support the old man. "Did you bring your medicine?"

Su Can also became anxious. If something really happened to this elder, it wouldn't just be a matter of two hundred and forty thousand for him.

It would be indirect murder!

It's just over two hundred thousand. Although it's not a small sum, with his current abilities, if he studied it carefully, he figured it shouldn't be too difficult to get over two hundred thousand yuan, right?

Thinking this, Su Can quickly patted down the old man's pockets and finally found a bottle of quick-acting heart-saving pills.

He gave the pills to the old man and helped him to a shady spot.

In a moment, the old man's complexion returned to normal.

Su Can quickly asked with concern, "Are you alright, Elder? You scared me to death."

The old man recovered for a while and then looked at Su Can, saying, "Seeing that you're a considerate young man, I won't trick you!"

"Those are antique walnuts, a pair of dragon head. They weren't cheap when I bought them, and I've been playing with them for a full ten years!"

"Last year, someone offered two hundred thousand to buy them, but I couldn't bear to part with them. I'll take two thousand less for you, so two hundred and twenty thousand!"

The old man still spoke with some heartache, then briefly explained it to Su Can.

Only then did Su Can understand that he simply had too little knowledge.

"How about this, Elder? I can't get that much money all at once. I'll give you all the money I have now, write an IOU, and give you my ID card. You can leave an address, and I'll gather the money and bring it to you later."

"Does that work for you?"

Su Can had no intention of defaulting on the debt and handled the matter meticulously.

The old man was also someone who had weathered storms. He saw that Su Can was young but handled things very thoroughly, so he agreed immediately.

After they parted, Su Can, while thinking about how to quickly earn money, found a park with a lake, intending to take a bath.

He really couldn't stand the smell on his body!

The stench on him was enough to kill someone. There was no way he could go to a bathhouse or take a taxi home, so he simply found a lake and jumped in.

In February, the temperature difference was quite large, and the lake water was incredibly cold early in the morning.

As soon as Su Can entered the water, he couldn't help but shiver, and goosebumps rose on his skin.

This made him instinctively adjust his body, absorbing sunlight through the lake water, and a large amount of heat instantly surged in.

But Su Can quickly discovered that the sunlight refracted through the lake water seemed a little different.

It seemed much gentler and not as scorching hot!

Moreover, after being refracted by the lake water, they seemed to be parsed out like salt, forming strands of tangible things, adhering to the skin, glowing with a faint golden light.

"Strange, what phenomenon is this? Energy materializing?"

"Eh! I can even control it at will?!"

Su Can's thoughts focused, and upon realizing this, he was immediately astonished.

As his thoughts moved, the golden energy threads attached beneath his skin actually moved freely with his will, traveling everywhere without obstruction.

Whoosh!

Su Can raised his hand out of the water, tried a thought, and with a 'poof,' a wisp of golden light emerged from his index fingertip, swirling slightly.

"I can really control it!"

Su Can's face was full of wonder, "I just don't know what this thing is for?"

No sooner had he spoken than, as if in response to him, the lake surface suddenly began to ripple.

One after another, ornamental fish, like cats smelling fish, all swam out frantically towards his position.

In just a few breaths, colorful fish surrounded Su Can.

They weren't afraid of people, swimming around Su Can, as if something on Su Can's body had a fatal attraction for them.

"What's going on?!"

Su Can was also bewildered by this sudden scene.

Watching more and more fish gather, constantly circling him, Su Can suddenly had a thought.

"Is it because of it?"

Su Can's gaze fell on the golden light swirling around his fingertip, then, as if by a ghost, he pointed his finger at a carp.

Swish!

The golden light flashed, and the golden light wrapped around his finger touched a red and white carp.

The next second, with a splash, the carp flipped, its body quickly turning translucent red, as if splashed with red paint, and even its posture became graceful.

Then, it dipped three times in the water towards Su Can, as if bowing three times, before flicking its body and disappearing into the lake.

Su Can was completely stunned, then immediately reacted, 'This is clearly being enlightened and gaining intelligence!'

"Enlightenment, gaining intelligence! Holy cow! This is definitely a golden finger!"

Su Can suddenly clapped his thigh excitedly, and a bold idea immediately popped into his mind.

As everyone knows, fish have very low intelligence, yet even they can be enlightened and gain intelligence.

So, if he used some animals or pets that already had high intelligence, enlightened them, and strengthened their bodies, then their uses would be too great.

Especially since he had been reading many novels about mountain hunting and sea foraging these past two days. If he enlightened some fierce dogs and wild beasts, wouldn't he be able to roam freely in the mountains?

It's important to know that the mountain goods in the mountains are all valuable items!

And even more coincidentally, his old home in the town was backed by an undeveloped, sprawling mountain range!

Even if he thought about it with his toes, he knew there must be many good things inside.

"I was just worrying about how to quickly get money to pay others back, but now it's good, the golden finger was discovered just in time! Hahaha..."

The more Su Can thought about it, the more excited he became, eager to return to his hometown and go into the mountains to put his idea into practice.

He quickly washed himself clean, then extracted some golden light energy from the lake water to store in his body, before excitedly getting out of the water and calling a ride-sharing car directly to Qixia Village.

Twenty minutes later, Qixia Village arrived.

Getting out of the car, his eyes met a lush, sprawling Qixia Mountain extending for hundreds of miles.

The dozens of households scattered at the foot of Qixia Mountain were his old home, Qixia Village.

Excitedly, he returned to the village, greeting several elders who were of his grandfather's generation.

Su Can then shouted loudly, "Dahuang! Dahuang!"

"Woof~ Woof woof!"

Following his shouts, two excited barks immediately came from the village entrance.

Then, he saw a skinny old yellow dog run out, whimpering happily around him and wagging its tail constantly.

This old yellow dog was one he had raised during his school days. After he moved to the city, he had left it at his old home, with his childhood friend's family taking care of it.

Now his childhood friend had gone out to work.

If nothing unexpected happened, this Dahuang dog would pass away in another two months.

But now it was different; he had been reborn with the golden finger. As long as he enlightened Dahuang, allowing it to undergo a complete transformation, extending its lifespan shouldn't be difficult!

Su Can was also very much looking forward to what kind of changes Dahuang would undergo after being enlightened!