His predecessor had lived in straitened circumstances. The little money he earned through backbreaking work had all been fed to that green tea, and he had never paid attention to such matters, so he knew nothing about the prices of Mutated Creature Products.
Only after searching now did Wang Chen learn that this kind of ingredient was actually so expensive.
Although the Empire had a rigid hierarchy, as long as the people at the bottom layer were willing to work, having enough food and warm clothes was no problem at all.
A kilogram of genetically modified beef sold for less than 5 Star Yuan on the market. Pork and chicken were far cheaper still; even if one ate meat until their stomach burst every day, they would not eat themselves into bankruptcy.
Even the organic meat produced by Green Planet Ranch cost only a few dozen to a hundred Star Yuan.
Gray Armored Beetle meat—and not even the tastiest, most energy-rich blade-limb meat—cost 3,800 Star Yuan. Wang Chen was rendered speechless, feeling his poverty with absolute clarity.
But from another angle, how many Star Yuan had he eaten on the FT1205 Ecological Experiment Star?
Wang Chen did not even want to calculate it.
Had he known mutated creature meat was so precious, he should have found several more Gray Armored Beetle nests and brought more back.
Unfortunately, it was too late for regrets.
Only now did Wang Chen realize that the Advanced Martial Arts Test was also a benefit the Empire bestowed upon its hundreds of millions of candidates!
The savings in his bank account could not even buy ten kilograms of frozen Gray Armored Beetle meat.
He simply could not afford it!
As for the idea of going to an Ecological Experiment Star to hunt himself, Wang Chen did