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Chapter 0055 Charles Murphy and the Polyjuice Potion

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Wall Street is the name of a street in the Manhattan district of New York City, only one-third of a mile long and only 11 meters wide, narrow and short, but known as the "financial center of the United States".

The managers of banks, insurance companies, shipping companies, railroads and other companies owned by the American JPMorgan plutocracy, Rockefeller oil king and DuPont consortium are concentrated here. The famous New York Stock Exchange is also located here, and is still the headquarters of several major exchanges, such as NASDAQ, the American Stock Exchange, and the New York Futures Exchange.

There is a large number of financial professionals here: traders, dealers, bankers, managers, etc….

Ye Ting easily found a suitable target here.

Charles Murphy, born in 1961, entered Columbia University at the age of 16, and later also received degrees in law and business from Harvard University and MIT, currently working for Morgan Stanley, as well as for Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse Group, the world's largest banks, single, with assets in the name of millions of dollars.

This is the most qualified target that Ye Ting could find in a short period of time.

On the day Ye Ting found him, Charles happened to have finished handing over his work and was ready to start his Christmas vacation.

There was no better fit than him.

Ye Ting put a disillusionment charm on himself and followed him all the way to his apartment – this was Charles's property near Wall Street, he also had a small cottage on Long Island.

Ye Ting waited in front of his apartment until 1 a.m. After making sure there were no bystanders or security cameras around, he drew his wand and flicked it at the door.

"Alohomora."

The door opened in response to the sound, and Ye Ting walked gingerly into the apartment.

Although there were no lights on, but through the light from the window, Ye Ting was able to get a good view of the luxurious apartment.

The huge fish tank, gorgeous carpet, shelves full of famous wines, antiques, and artifacts from all over the world, all show the wealth of its owner.

Not bad for a rich man on Wall Street.

Ye Ting smiled faintly, closed the door smoothly, and then cruised back and forth in this apartment. For some time in the future, this place will belong to "him".

When Ye Ting came to Charles's bedroom, the owner of the room was still sleeping, and there was still half a glass of unfinished red wine on the bed.

However, for the sake of safety, Ye Ting cast a coma spell on him to prevent him from waking up because of the pain, and then pulled a large amount of hair from his head.

Then he pulled out his crucible, which was filled with compound substances, and Ye Ting put in the hair of Charles that he had just obtained.

The potion rang loudly, like a pot of boiling water, and foamed vigorously. A second later, it turned an ugly grayish white.

"The essence of Mr. Charles Murphy," Ye Ting poured himself a cup of the gray potion, and looked at it with disgust: "Should I do it differently?"

"Yes, dear father, turning yourself into another person is not a good choice. You obviously have unmatched beauty, why do you want to become an ugly old man?" Orianna, who stood beside, nodded in agreement.

In this apartment, she did not need to keep the size of a toy anymore and had regained her original size.

Hearing Orianna's suggestion, Ye Ting curled his lips: "Hey, he is just thirty years old. He is in his prime, how can he be a bad old man. Also, what do you mean by unmatched beauty, although I'm pleased to hear that, but…"

"I don't care, I don't care, this guy is an ugly old man compared to father." Orianna shook her head obsistantly, and her mechanical female voice spoke coquettishly with a strange set of cuteness.

Hearing Orianna's words, Ye Ting inwardly snickered, but pretended to be helpless, "Okay, okay, but I seem to be older than him by adding my two lifetimes together."

"My father will always be eighteen years old~☆"

What a lovely daughter.

"Forget it, bear with it." Looking at the cloudy grayish-white potion, Ye Ting summoned up the courage to drink it after a long time.

It tasted terrible, like an overcooked cabbage.

Immediately, Ye Ting's internal organs began to churn, as if he had just swallowed several live snakes.

Suddenly, a burning sensation from his stomach quickly spread throughout his body, straight to his fingers and toes. Then there was a terrible melting sensation, as if his skin was bubbling like hot wax.

He watched as his hands began to grow larger, his fingers thickened, his nails widened, and his knuckles bulged out like bolts. His shoulders began to stretch, causing him pain; needle-like pain on his forehead told him that his hair was spreading toward his eyebrows; his chest was expanding, his thighs were elongating, and even his feet had grown two bigger.

It was a good thing he had enough foresight to change into loose pajamas before downing the potion, otherwise his shirt, pants, and leather shoes would have burst.

At his feet, Himari was so shocked that she jumped away a good distance, and it took a while for her to react.

She sniffed Ye Ting around, and was able to confirm that Ye Ting was still the same Ye Ting, so she jumped into Ye Ting's arms like an aggrieved child.

"You just scared me. Touch me quickly, or I won't forgive you – that's what she means." Orianna next to her that she dubbed Himjoo's behavior mischievously. And she herself was curiously poking Ye Ting around, trying to see how different he was from before.

"It's remarkable, it's completely different, there's no trace of the original self." She tsked at the effect of the polyjuice potion, "Except for the soul, father has become an entirely different person."

Even Himari nodded in agreement.

"Yes, the polyjuice potion is amazing." Ye Ting said, his voice was no longer magnetic and pleasant, but became more low and coarse, it was Charles's voice.

"The polyjuice potion probably changes on a genetic level, turning one person into another, if I go for a DNA test now, the doctors will never find the difference between me and Charles."

The duration of the polyjuice transformation effect is about two hours, which means he has to take the potion once every two hours in front of outsiders to maintain the transformation.

But he brewed a large dose of the potion, enough for him to use for two weeks.

The next step was to obtain Charles's memories so that he could accurately imitate Charles's own words and actions to prevent him from being caught.

Although the financial executive went to college at a young age and is considered a highly intelligent person, but he is after all not a character like Snape. He knows nothing about brain closure, Ye Ting easily got his memory by looking at Charles's thoughts.

He spent four or five hours browsing these memories, in these memories, he not only roughly understood the life of Charles, his habits, but also learned Charles's knowledge and operating methods of finance, although it was only a rough glance, it was enough for Ye Ting to use.

After all, his goal is to profit from the collapse of the Soviet Union, which does not require precise judgment or subtle manipulation, but only to follow the general situation and make good use of historical knowledge.

Finally, he poured a large glass of specially made extra-strong petrification potion, all into poor Charles's mouth.

Charles's body immediately stiffened.

This dose would ensure that he would be in a petrified state for a long time, and he would never be able to return to normal, unless by taking a potion to lift the petrification.

The advantage of the petrified state is that the petrified person will remain in the same state, just like a real stone without the slightest change until the petrification is lifted, and the petrified person will not remember the slightest memory during this period.

In this way, he could safely leave Charles in the apartment and head to Eastern Europe without worrying about whether Charles would die of hunger, thirst, or anything else during the two weeks.

Now, Ye Ting had everything in place to start his journey to wealth at any time.