After seeing clearly the cost required for conversion, Li Chen could not help but cry out inwardly, What a scam!
It was such a scam!
He had been thinking of taking a pound of flesh from Noah.
He had not expected this damned feature to take a pound of flesh from him first.
"Isn't that way too much? The conversion requires a ten-to-one ratio, and there's also an additional one-quarter handling fee..."
"Noah, is this the only way?"
Li Chen asked in his mind.
If this really was the only method, then his already limited Evolution Resources—
would shrink drastically.
Li Chen definitely could not accept that outcome.
In response to the host, if you wish to convert all your existing first-generation, second-generation, and third-generation Energy Crystal Cores into universal Energy Crystal Cores, then this is indeed the only method.
Noah answered very seriously.
Naturally, that answer did not satisfy Li Chen.
He even found it profoundly unfair.
"Why?"
Li Chen could not help asking.
Because that is how the system was designed, Host...
Noah answered honestly.
He even sounded rather aggrieved.
"What I mean is, why were the rewards you gave me back then so damned unfair?"
Li Chen said irritably.
Noah fell silent for a brief moment upon hearing that.
Then, he gave Li Chen an explanation.
Host, Earth was invaded by aliens from the Prite Civilization Empire. They used your Earthlings' research laboratories to release the Zombie Virus.
That caused the humans on this planet to mutate into zombies.
The Energy Crystal Cores dropped by zombies, as Evolution Resources, could not actually be recognized by the Cosmic Laws.
In other words, they were illegal crystal cores. You could simply understand them as genuine currency that was not officially recognized.
Noah's explanation left Li Chen only half-understanding.
He