Meng Chao's Technique

"Uncle Zhang, Uncle Luo, Brother Zhou."

Meng Chao recalled each familiar face.

In his previous life, these simple and kind elders, along with his father, taught him a lot.

"Ah Chao is here too?" Everyone nodded, unsurprised. "Follow your dad and learn well. Being a Harvester is promising."

"Where's Brother Shen?" Meng Yishan asked.

He turned back to explain to his son, "Brother Shen is a leader in the company. Whether you can be a Harvester or not is up to him. Be smart later, no, be honest."

"Brother Shen is over there enjoying the air conditioning. Today, Tiger Qin Hu killed a Level 3 Super Beast. Brother Shen is in a good mood. Take Ah Chao to him, say a few nice words, and there definitely won't be a problem," several Harvesters said with a smile.

Shen Rongfa, the general manager of "Nine Stars Resource Recycling Company," had small eyes, large nostrils, and a "by"-shaped face.

Even though he didn't need to lift a finger, he insisted on wearing a medical mask with the highest filtration level and three layers of protective clothing inside and out.

He was short and fat, so it was no wonder he was sweating profusely and constantly enjoying the air conditioning next to the refrigerated truck filled with Super Beast materials.

"Old Meng, you said last time that if your son couldn't get into university, he'd want to come to our company, but I heard he was injured?" he asked affectedly.

"He suffered some minor injuries last year, but he's been fine for a long time. This kid has always had nimble hands. If I personally train him, he'll definitely be skilled in two years," Meng Yishan said, bending over and smiling humbly. "Brother Shen, please help us out."

"Well, I'll definitely help if I can."

Shen Rongfa remained noncommittal. "But, the company isn't mine. Given your son's situation, I can't explain it to my brother-in-law..."

"I understand, that's why I'm asking Brother Shen for help."

Meng Yishan almost lowered his head to the ground, grasped Shen Rongfa's hand, and gently slipped something into it.

Meng Chao's sharp eyes caught a glimpse of his father slipping a shopping card into Shen Rongfa's hand.

The colorful Super Beast pattern on the shopping card seemed to indicate it was a consumption card for "Golden Dragon Mall."

That was a high-end shopping center in Dragon City, selling rare Super Beast raw materials, with membership consumption cards starting at ten thousand yuan.

In his previous life, Meng Chao really didn't know that his job came about this way.

His father, who usually couldn't bear to smoke even half a good cigarette and would mend his underwear for three to five years even when it was falling apart, actually had ten thousand yuan in secret savings?

Meng Chao narrowed his eyes.

He seriously considered.

Should he wait for a dark and windy night, put a sack over Shen Rongfa's head, and snatch the card back?

With the shopping card in hand, Shen Rongfa's fat trembled with laughter, and he patted Meng Yishan's shoulder with his damp, warm hand. "Alright, anyway, your Harvester team is just affiliated with the company. It's none of the company's business who you want to bring as an apprentice. Just one thing, don't cause trouble—it's fine if you cause me trouble, but it's not good if you annoy my brother-in-law, right?"

"Understood, we will never cause trouble for Brother Shen and Tiger Qin Hu," Meng Yishan hurriedly nodded, turning to pull his son. "Ah Chao, hurry up and thank Uncle Shen."

Meng Chao took a deep breath and stepped forward, saying, "Thank you, Manager Shen."

"Okay." Shen Rongfa waved his hand impatiently. "Enough talk, hurry up and get to work!"

He patted his butt and squatted back on the refrigerated truck to rest.

"Let's get to work!"

The Harvesters did a final check of their masks and protective suits.

They prepared iron tongs, scalpels, washing liquid applicators, chisels, axes, saws, and all sorts of tools to dismember the monsters into eight pieces.

"Meng Chao, you can't afford to offend Manager Shen," Meng Yishan said softly, hearing the displeasure in his son's tone, as he helped him put on his equipment.

Meng Chao was silent. He didn't know why, but the moment he saw the man surnamed Shen, he was filled with resentment and even hatred. The negative emotions rising in his heart were much stronger than when he faced Zuo Haoran.

It seems... in my previous life, this guy harmed Dad terribly? The sudden thought made him slightly stunned.

After a moment of contemplation, he decided to go straight to the point: "Dad, you've been a Harvester for more than ten years, and everyone respects you. Why do you have to work for 'Nine Stars'? Can't you start your own business?"

Regardless of whether Shen Rongfa was good or bad, now that Meng Chao had returned from his nightmare, there was no reason to live under someone else's roof.

Only by building his own power and becoming stronger step by step could he take his destiny into his own hands.

"You're talking like a child. Starting a company isn't that simple," Meng Yishan sighed.

He had thought about starting his own business after so many years in the industry.

But starting a company required start-up capital. The Meng family had heavy burdens, and they were always strapped for cash at the end of each month. Where would they get such a large sum of money?

Moreover, the most important thing for a Harvester was not skill, but connections.

With connections to strong individuals, one could secure sources of monster corpses.

Meng Yishan also didn't like Shen Rongfa. This guy could make a mess of even the most ordinary Sword Halberd Demon Pig.

But his brother-in-law, Qin Hu, was a Superhuman and his "Mad Blade Squad" was quite well-known. Every time the mist descended, they could kill a large number of monsters, leaving them for the man surnamed Shen to handle.

Many Harvester teams couldn't find corpse sources and could only rely on "Nine Stars," enduring the exploitation of the man surnamed Shen.

Meng Yishan's Harvester team didn't know any strong individuals. If they really started their own business, they could only take orders from the military.

The monsters bombarded by the military with heavy firepower were all battered and charred. Not only were they dirty and smelly, but they also yielded very few useful resources.

Besides, even the military's orders had been decreasing recently. Had all the monsters been killed?

Meng Yishan didn't know how to explain it to his naive son, so he could only say, "Bear with it for two years. Once you've honed your skills and your sister has gone to college, we'll talk about it then. I definitely won't let you be wronged forever."

But Meng Chao's eyes were shining as he said, "Dad, have you ever thought that the monsters might become more numerous again?"

Meng Yishan was stunned: "What do you mean?"

"This is what a biology teacher at our school said," Meng Chao said, making it up as he went along. "The fact that monsters have been decreasing in recent decades may not be because they are really afraid of us. It may also be that the monsters have entered some kind of... hibernation, evolutionary state. Soon, the monsters will complete their evolution and appear before us in greater numbers and more violent forms."

"Is there such a thing?"

Meng Yishan was surprised. He didn't have much education, and he had an instinctive trust in teachers from key high schools. "Which teacher? Have I met him at parent-teacher conferences?"

"He's a famous teacher from another school who came to the school for short-term training. I only heard him chat casually during an interest class," Meng Chao said. "If the monsters really become more numerous, then we won't have to worry about the source of corpses at all, right?"

"This—" Meng Yishan hesitated.

"Didn't a Super Beast just appear in our neighborhood today?" Meng Chao said urgently. "Dad, this is a threat, but also an opportunity. If we want to get rich and even soar to the sky, we must seize this opportunity!"

His son had always been Meng Yishan's greatest pride.

Having entered a key high school, he was full of theories, and the two old folks had long been unable to argue with him.

Meng Yishan knew Shen Rongfa's character well; if there were no other options, he wouldn't want his son working for this jerk.

However, thinking about the capital, connections, and technical support needed to start a company, the middle-aged man with graying temples felt a headache coming on.

"Let's start working first, we'll talk about it later. Come over here, we'll teach you how to harvest monsters together."

The main force of this invasion was all crustaceans.

Besides the Black Beetles he had seen in Tianfu Garden, there were also a large number of arachnid monsters, mainly Yellow Striped Giant Tail Scorpions.

These monsters were about 1.2 meters in size.

Inside their two pairs of crab claw-like giant forelimbs was a wealth of delicate meat.

Their chitinous shells could be directly used as armor, or ground into powder to refine special alloys.

The mucus inside their bodies could fertilize fields and raise giant earthworms, providing Dragon City residents with ample protein.

The light golden giant scorpion tail contained precious venom, which could be used to refine cell activity agents and Gene Serums, using slight toxins to stimulate the evolution of the human immune system and activate the Superhuman power deep within the genes.

There was also a highly rigid stinger, which, after being finely ground and engraved with runes, could be paired with a heavy anti-material sniper rifle to create the best sniper bullets, naturally imbued with "corrosion" and "poison" effects in addition to armor-piercing capabilities.

"Little Chao, haven't seen so many monsters before, the scene is exciting, right?"

"This is called 'Yellow Striped Giant Tail Scorpion'. It looks scary, but it's actually dead, it's okay, come and touch it, with so many uncles here, how could we let you get hurt?"

"Look, this pincer is still moving, hahaha, scared you, right? It's actually a stimulation response from the nerve cord, it's normal."

The Harvesters were a bunch of rough guys, their language unrefined, but their hearts were good, and they genuinely cared for Meng Chao as if he were a nephew.

"Thank you, uncles," Meng Chao said, suppressing the twitching at the corner of his mouth, keeping a low profile.

Hundreds of monster structures, ten times more complex than the Yellow Striped Giant Tail Scorpion, gradually emerged in his mind.

His fingertips trembled slightly, eager to try.

"Ah Chao, watch carefully."

Meng Yishan and the other Harvesters cooperated tacitly, and in no time, they finished processing a Yellow Striped Giant Tail Scorpion.

To accommodate Meng Chao, they even slowed down a bit, explaining each harvested part to him in detail.

"Alright, it's your turn."

For the second Yellow Striped Giant Tail Scorpion, Meng Yishan wanted to see Meng Chao's talent. "Your school also has interest classes on dissecting monsters, you should have used these tools before, right? Don't be afraid, they're not too valuable, just go ahead and do it, we can fix it if you break anything."

"Okay." Meng Chao added a mind-clearing and detoxifying pill to the filter of his mask.

He raised the dissecting knife and carapace pliers, and walked to the operating position on the right side of the Yellow Striped Giant Tail Scorpion.

Experiences from countless harvests of similar monsters in his previous life naturally emerged in his mind.

The first cut, a 25-degree incision into the carapace gap between the head and thorax.

His fingertips trembled slightly as he changed the direction of the blade, completely peeling off the main nerve cord and immersing it in a 37% concentration of nerve cell activator to keep it fresh.

The second cut, using a number one armor-piercing knife, chopped off two pairs of forelimbs, switched to an 18cm downward-curving handle, and added a number 34 butterfly blade.

Using the blade's curve, he directly separated the flesh and carapace from the pincers, and then with a gentle suction from the negative pressure suction device, the trembling, tofu-like scorpion meat fell into the vacuum container.

For the third cut, he switched to the No. 11 blade, using a reverse-picking technique, first picking open the narrow shell tendons, and then going straight in, treating the hard chitinous carapace as nothing, directly stripping the contents of the chest cavity, and then using a vacuum liquid extractor to suck up every last drop of the precious mucus.

Sha-sha-sha-sha.

Meng Chao's knife work was like a gentle spring rain, moistening things silently.

Thanks to Alliance Master Mu Yuan for the reward, and also thanks to other book friends for their rewards and strong support. The new book is on its way, and it is the time when data care is most needed. Please brothers and sisters, collect and recommend it a lot. Let's take Dragon City together and kill our way from another world to the stars!