Back when Qu Jianlei was on Blue Star, he had heard of the tricks of the antique trade.
There were all sorts of rules, including "if you got fooled, you could only blame your own bad luck."
But he truly disliked that rule, even if "buyer beware" had first appeared in the Code of Hammurabi.
Before the seller could say anything, Nutrient Solution shook his head at him. "Let's go."
Qu Jianlei was deeply unconvinced. Before leaving, he even glanced at the stall owner.
Fortunately, the man did not look back. Otherwise, he really would have felt that the other party was deliberately provoking him.
After they had walked some distance, Nutrient Solution explained, "That's just the atmosphere here. It's fine as long as you didn't get scammed."
Qu Jianlei was still annoyed. "I just think he was targeting me. Who does he think he's looking down on?"
Nutrient Solution answered dismissively, "No one knows how good you are at appraising things. It's normal for them to take a chance."
"Heh." Qu Jianlei sneered. "Are they really not afraid that I'll come knocking in the middle of the night?"
That was what bothered him most: So after I took out Yulia's group, you all think I can't lift a blade anymore? Nutrient Solution shook his head. "The closer you get to the Core Circle, the more common this becomes. Everyone is used to it."
"If you fuss over it, people will instead realize that you might come from some remote region."
It might expose his origins... Qu Jianlei was instantly speechless. So people in prosperous places were actually proud of this sort of thing?
Still, he had to admit that people in prosperous regions did have a little less fire in their blood than those from remote places.
As long