Daily Intelligence System: Financial Independence-Chapter 392 - 183: The Holly Tree’s Special Attribute and Jiang Tao’s Unique Talent
After the small talk ended, everyone went home separately.
Jiang Tao used the excuse of smoking downstairs and asked Xu Li and his parents to take Jiang Xue upstairs first.
Watching everyone go upstairs, he then walked towards the parked Mercedes-Benz G-Wagon.
Opening the G-Wagon’s trunk, Jiang Tao’s gaze fell on the holly tree placed inside.
This holly tree had been in the trunk for most of the day.
This morning he accompanied Jiang An’an for an audition, went to the station to pick up his father-in-law’s family in the afternoon, and hosted dinner in the evening.
The entire day was spent busy without any time for personal solitude.
Now, after sending Xu Li and the others upstairs, he finally had a moment of solitude.
This holly tree was a special item that had not yet been bound or activated.
Activating special items was something Jiang Tao was very familiar with.
He quickly took out a needle from the back of his phone and pricked his left thumb.
In the dim light, a drop of bright red blood oozed out.
Plop!
The first drop of blood missed its mark, falling onto the trunk mat.
"..."
Jiang Tao’s face turned dark as he squeezed out another drop.
This time, there were no accidents, and the blood dripped precisely onto the holly tree.
In his vision, a layer of crimson gauze enveloped the entire holly tree.
The next second, two lines of prompt appeared on his retina.
[Special item Holly Tree successfully bound! Activating random attribute, please wait...]
[Special item Holly Tree has been activated and successfully acquired a random attribute. Please refresh the page to view.]
Jiang Tao followed the system’s prompt and refreshed the page.
Sure enough, the attributes of the holly tree appeared!
[Item Name]: Immortal Holly!
[Attribute]: Longevity Extension.
[Item Effect]: Each holly leaf consumed can extend life by 1 day.
(Currently only effective for the host, and only 1 leaf can be consumed per day.)
...
"Immortal Holly, Longevity Extension?"
Seeing the refreshed attributes of the holly tree, Jiang Tao’s breathing became a bit rapid!
Longevity Extension!
Eating one leaf can increase life by 1 day!
If I keep eating, keep eating...
Will it just keep increasing, keep increasing?
Through this method, I can truly achieve longevity extension!
"Brother Shu, you’re amazing, you’re incredible!"
Jiang Tao looked at the holly tree in the trunk with excitement, almost wishing to embrace it and kiss it fiercely!
The reward of extending life is far more precious than any amount of money!
Money, you can’t take with you when you’re born or when you die, just enough to spend.
Even billionaires who own billions don’t spend much on themselves each year.
For anyone, longevity extension is an immensely huge temptation!
From Emperor Qin Shi Huang thousands of years ago, who sought the elixir of immortality. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
To current moguls investing billions, tens of billions, into genetic research in biomedical fields.
Who wouldn’t want to gain a longer life, or even achieve immortality?
Now, Jiang Tao got such an opportunity!
Naturally, he was ecstatic beyond words!
After smoking three cigarettes in a row, he finally calmed his excited mood.
"Unfortunately, currently only I can use it; I can’t give it to Dad, Mom, or Xu Li."
"Wait..."
"Currently?"
"Does this mean that, in the future, there might be a way for Xu Li and Dad, Mom to also use it?"
Jiang Tao carefully read the effect of [Immortal Holly] over a dozen times, and he couldn’t help but start to anticipate.
"I’ll be a guinea pig myself to test the effect first!"
Jiang Tao was about to reach to pluck a leaf from the holly tree.
Suddenly, he glimpsed a fallen leaf on the trunk mat.
Following the principle of not wasting, Jiang Tao picked up the fallen leaf.
This leaf looked lush and still clean.
Jiang Tao simply wiped the leaf surface with his fingertip.
Without any hesitation, he directly tossed the leaf into his mouth and began to chew.
The taste of the holly leaf...
Definitely far from delicious.
As the leaf was crushed by his teeth, a strong grassy taste spread in his mouth, causing Jiang Tao to frown.
This thing, whoever eats will know, one bite and you keep silent!
Gulp~
Jiang Tao’s throat moved as he struggled to swallow the crushed leaf and its juice.
Then, he felt an elusive sensation of gas emerging within his body, spreading to his limbs.
That feeling was warm and quite comfortable.
[Longevity +1!]
[Your current remaining longevity is 7 years, 7 months, and 7 days!]
"What the hell? 7 years? That’s all the life I have left?"
Seeing his limited remaining longevity balance, Jiang Tao was shocked again.
His heart started to race violently, adrenaline surging.
If it weren’t for this holly tree.
Wouldn’t I pass away prematurely at 38??
That was close!
This holly tree arrived just in time!
Jiang Tao lit another cigarette to calm his nerves, his wildly beating heart gradually steadied.
"This longevity should decrease by a day each day, but if I eat a holly leaf a day, it increases by a day."
"Subtracting one and adding one should cancel each other out, right?"
"So, as long as I keep eating holly leaves daily, the longevity balance stays forever at 7 years, 7 months, and 7 days?"
While smoking, he analyzed simply.
Jiang Tao felt his analysis was pretty reasonable.
But to determine if it really worked that way, he would have to wait until tomorrow for observation to draw a conclusion.
