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"Five hundred Xia Coins each?"
At Li Yue's words,
Jiang Fu's eyes lit up.
Shi Jiu, who had been playing games nestled in Jiang Fu's arms,
also looked up at once, staring unblinkingly at Li Yue.
"What about other things? Will you pay a premium for those too?"
Facing those two pairs of sparkling eyes,
Li Yue's heart melted.
She nodded immediately, almost without hesitation.
"All right. I'll buy everything you hunted this time at the same premium."
Looks like these two little rookies had pretty good luck.
Besides Red-tailed Rats, they caught some other small mutated beasts.
Around the edge of the Blank Zone...
Probably Soft-boned Rabbits.
Those pink rabbits are adorable.
Girls love them.
They probably only decided to bring them out after hearing I'd pay a premium.
It won't cost much anyway.
Consider it a little encouragement for these two rookies.
But a moment later,
Li Yue's expression turned stern again. "Just this once. No next time!"
"You two are still young. It's too early for you to go into the Wilderness Area!"
"Wait until you've enrolled in Martial Arts University and received proper training before setting foot in the Wilderness Area!"
"Okay! Got it!" Jiang Fu hurriedly replied.
"Thank you, big sis!"
As he spoke, he set Shi Jiu on the little sofa beside him.
Then he took off his backpack.
He pulled out the hundred Red-tailed Rat Tails and arranged them neatly on the table before him.
Li Yue stared at the pile of tails.
Her mind went blank for a moment. "Wh-what are these?"
"Red-tailed Rat Tails."
Seeing Shi Jiu sliding down the sofa,
Jiang Fu quickly reached out to steady her.
Shi Jiu leaned into the crook of his arm.
The next instant,
the Storage Badge, still warm from her body, slipped into Jiang Fu's palm.
Jiang Fu probed it with his spirit power.
The Silver Moon Wolf that had been beaten into a foldable phone lay quietly in a corner, squeezed aside by the Crowned Giant Python.
Jiang Fu pressed his lips together.
He stole a glance at Shi Jiu.
A flicker of conflict showed in his eyes.
Then he gritted his teeth and quietly got to work.
Shi Jiu was also briefly stunned by the pile of tails.
But she soon remembered that Jiang Fu was a psychic master.
A pretty strong one, too—he could cleave a Level 2 Silver Moon Wolf to death with a single strike.
Catching a few Red-tailed Rats would be a breeze.
Li Yue also recovered from her shock.
"You caught all these yourselves?" she asked incredulously.
Jiang Fu nodded honestly.
"He caught them all by himself," Shi Jiu quietly added.
Li Yue took a deep breath.
It's fine. They're just Red-tailed Rat Tails.
A hundred only costs fifty thousand.
I can afford it. I can afford it!
Then she glanced at Jiang Fu's backpack again.
It's only a Primary Backpack. The capacity is limited.
It can't hold anything big...
Before Li Yue could finish that thought,
Thud!
A silver wolf the size of an ox, beaten into the shape of a foldable phone,
appeared before her.
Li Yue was speechless.
She sprang to her feet.
She stumbled several steps backward.
Her whole body went numb.
"Wh-what is this now?!"
Li Yue's lips trembled.
"A Silver Moon Wolf," Jiang Fu said innocently.
As he spoke,
Thud!
A second Silver Moon Wolf appeared.
This one had been twisted like a pretzel.
Li Yue was speechless.
She stared blankly at the second Silver Moon Wolf's corpse.
Dazed, she had no idea what to do.
Shi Jiu froze too.
She stared at Jiang Fu. "Why is there another one?"
Jiang Fu coughed. "Didn't I tell you... I ran into a wolf pack?"
Shi Jiu blinked.
A wolf pack?
He did seem to have mentioned that.
He got lost while a wolf pack was chasing him!
But by then, the snake venom had spread deep into her body.
Her psychokinesis had been completely depleted too.
She had been drifting through a muddled sleep.
Only after a strange change, one even she couldn't understand, occurred in her body,
had Shi Jiu regained a little awareness.
Even then, she could only sense danger.
When there was no danger, she still slept deeply.
She had only fully woken up after they returned to the Blank Zone.
Much earlier than she had expected.
And she had slept soundly the whole way, unaware of what had happened.
Shi Jiu instinctively lowered her head and looked at her chest.
Then she looked up at the sky.
Jiang Fu didn't dare look at Shi Jiu.
He continued connecting to the Storage Badge with his spirit power.
Then,
the third wolf!
The fourth!
The fifth...
Silver Moon Wolves, each twisted into grotesque shapes at the waist,
soon filled the entire room.
Jiang Fu picked Shi Jiu up from the sofa and retreated to the doorway.
Shi Jiu reached out.
She tugged at the Martial Artist Badge on Jiang Fu's zipper.
"Aren't we kind of ripping her off?" she whispered.
"Actually, the regular price would be fine too..." Jiang Fu mumbled.
Their exchange
instantly snapped Li Yue out of her daze.
In truth,
as an employee at the Martial Artist Guild's Acquisition Center, Li Yue had seen all kinds of impressive hauls.
But!
If a Martial Artist Squad backed by an advanced martial artist had brought back these ten Silver Moon Wolves,
that would have been nothing unusual.
Yet standing before her now were two students in school uniforms.
Does that make any sense?
And where did those ten enormous Silver Moon Wolves come from...?
Wait!
Something's wrong!
The next moment,
Li Yue suddenly understood.
A Storage Badge!
These two teenagers aren't ordinary people!
They must be a young master and young lady from some prominent family who sneaked out...
Luckily,
I didn't brush them off just because they were students.
At that thought,
Li Yue let out a relieved breath.
She immediately readjusted her attitude.
A smile returned to her face.
"I'll buy them!"
"One hundred Red-tailed Rat Tails and ten Silver Moon Wolves, all at the premium we agreed on!"
"However, Silver Moon Wolves are Tier 2 mutated beasts, so our purchasing procedures require an appraisal."
"The appraisal will take about half an hour."
Jiang Fu nodded.
He wasn't surprised.
Nor did he mind the appraisal.
Just now, he had applied Multiply by Ten in various ways to the insides of each Silver Moon Wolf.
He had made sure every wolf's internal anatomy, and even the sizes and shapes of their wounds, differed.
Unless they ran genetic tests,
there was absolutely no way they would catch on that these were actually all the same Silver Moon Wolf.
...Genetic testing would be overkill.
The Martial Artist Guild's Acquisition Center only appraised specimens to verify their species.
They just needed to confirm these were Silver Moon Wolves, not some lower-tier mutated beasts passed off as them.
Soon,
Li Yue led Jiang Fu and Shi Jiu to a nearby lounge.
Jiang Fu set Shi Jiu on the sofa.
Then he sat down beside her.
Shi Jiu's limp body started sliding to one side.
Jiang Fu hurriedly reached out to steady her, then set the backpack in his hand aside.
Shi Jiu leaned against Jiang Fu's shoulder.
She took out her phone and started another game.
Seeing this, Li Yue asked with concern, "Do you need me to call a doctor?"
Shi Jiu waved her off. "I'm fine. Leaning against him feels good."
Li Yue froze.
Then she glanced at Jiang Fu's slightly flushed face.
She left with a knowing look.
Jiang Fu tilted his head.
He stole a glance at Shi Jiu, who was playing her game.
Soon, he would have money.
He ought to buy himself a phone, too.
He didn't ask Shi Jiu how her recovery was going.
If she had recovered,
she would tell him herself.
For now, though,
all the Multiply by Ten effects Jiang Fu had applied to himself before leaving the city had ended.
He thought for a moment.
Then he applied Multiply by Ten again to his Spirit Power's range, speed, explosive power, Physical Strength, and Stamina.
He made their durations match those of his Blood Energy, constitution, and Spirit Power.
Jiang Fu hadn't forgotten.
There were people in the city who wanted him dead.
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