Flatterer

Zhang Zhi stared at Senior Sister and confirmed again, "Can everyone open two Realms?"

This time it was Senior Sister who gave a sheepish smile. "No, no, that's not what I meant."

"Senior Sister, what I meant is, some people can open two Small Worlds, but you only know if you try."

"Little Brother, why don't you give it a try?"

Zhang Zhi looked up at the World and asked, "How much is it?"

"Ten Academic Credits, or equivalent Cards!"

The Academic Credits issued by the Academy were very valuable. He had just consulted at the exchange point set up by the Academy in the Student Activity Center. One Academic Credit could be exchanged for a standard Green Human Card.

Zhang Zhi heard the price and turned to leave. This was clearly treating him like a gullible fool, thinking he was easy to trick.

No matter how Senior Sister called out behind him, he didn't look back.

In his understanding, World Seeds were not valuable at all. Humans in the Main World, as long as they reached a certain age, could receive a World Seed for free.

But here, they wanted ten Green Human Cards for one. Were they really treating him like an idiot to be slaughtered?

He came to the Gray and White Human Card area and looked around, finding that the variety of Cards here was truly vast.

After spending over two hours browsing, he still hadn't found any Cards related to the Art of War or Military Formations, but he did manage to acquire two Gray Barracks Cards.

Gray Barracks Cards had no special effects. Their purpose was simply to make people entering the barracks understand that they were entering the army and to have a basic understanding of the army's rights and obligations.

Zhang Zhi felt that this was exactly what his Small World lacked, so he used one White Beastmen Card to exchange for these two Barracks Cards + 2 Gray Human Cards.

Building-type Cards were always relatively expensive. He no longer cared about such a small markup.

In the Human Card area, the most abundant were various Human Cards. If it weren't for the excessive population in his Small World and his urgent need to find other Cards, Zhang Zhi might have directly exchanged all his Beastmen Cards for Human Cards.

He was now truly struggling to support so many people. With over fifty thousand humans, the food required for Blood Refinement was astronomical. Fang Yun had already complained several times about the lack of meat, asking him to get more livestock and grain.

He also kept in mind the things the Flood Dragon had instructed him about.

He couldn't find a White Ranged Attack Skill for the time being, but he did find a white Eight Ox Ballista Production Manual. After some bargaining, he exchanged three Beastmen Cards for it.

He circled the Green Human Card area and, besides conveniently buying some resources and livestock cards that his Small World needed, he didn't find anything particularly useful for his Small World. However, it was truly an eye-opener.

There were all sorts of strange and wonderful Cards. He even saw someone selling Mortal Transformation Realm, or Foundation Establishment cultivation level, Cultivator Cards.

These were clearly World Masters of Medium or even Large Small Worlds selling the Mortal Transformation Realm Cultivators from their Small Worlds.

However, he noticed that not many people seemed interested in that Card.

After inquiring, he understood that in a Small World without a Spirit Vein, Immortal Cultivators couldn't replenish their Spiritual Energy. Not only would their cultivation not advance, but it would regress. At the same time, all memories of the humans sealed into Cards would be erased.

The main buyers of Green Cards were World Masters of Medium Small Worlds. They already had batches of Mortal Transformation Realm Cultivators in their Small Worlds, so a small number like one or two was not needed.

And the World Masters of Small Small Worlds who had the ability to buy Mortal Transformation Realm Cultivators wouldn't choose this type of Card that was useless to them.

This was why Foundation Establishment stage Cultivators couldn't be sold at all, while Mortal Transformation Cultivators from Fantasy and Low Martial paths were in short supply.

Looking at that Green Foundation Establishment Immortal Cultivator Card, a sense of inexplicable urgency rose from the bottom of Zhang Zhi's heart.

Cultivators born into Clans definitely had a large amount of Clan resources supporting them, especially those World Masters who, like him, had opened Small Small Worlds. They must have started integrating Green Cards into their Small Worlds from the moment they opened them.

Compared to the vast majority of people, he was indeed temporarily ahead.

But those Clan World Masters had their Clans as backing. They could integrate at least one Green Card every day and would catch up to him in not much time.

He had thought things too simply before!

Suddenly feeling a bit frustrated, Zhang Zhi found a step in the Activity Center and sat down.

However, he comforted himself internally, It's okay, it's okay. My gains in the Trial Tower were still good. At the very least, I can definitely exchange a lot of Cards with the Arena Points.

And I can also look forward to the Arena's Season settlement rewards!

Furthermore, I have my Golden Finger, which can upgrade Cards, especially since my Mental Power can raise the lower limit of a Creature Card's potential and Talent. The potential and Talent of creatures in a Small World are the decisive factors that determine the future growth height of this World.

Even if I fall behind temporarily, I will definitely be able to catch up to them in the future.

I don't need to care about titles like 'genius' now. If others want them, let them have them.

What I need most right now is time!

As long as I am given enough time, I will definitely be able to grow to a sufficient height.

Zhang Zhi, who was sitting on the steps lost in thought, suddenly heard someone call out, "Flatterer!"

Coming back to his senses, Zhang Zhi turned his head to look. Yes, it was the same girl he had met not long ago.

Naturally, he didn't have a good expression for the girl who kept calling him a flatterer.

The girl was originally a bit annoyed by Zhang Zhi's indifferent attitude towards her this morning, so when she saw him sitting here just now, she wanted to come over and provoke him again.

But when she saw the emptiness in his eyes as Zhang Zhi turned around, her heart suddenly trembled.

She suddenly remembered that this boy was an orphan, an orphan who had grown up in an orphanage since childhood.

To survive, he had been accustomed to flattering others since he was young. This was his way of survival.

Perhaps, only when he was secretly hiding somewhere to rest was he his true self?

On the first day of school, he was just trying to get the school subsidy and was deliberately flattering her father, who knew how to apply for the subsidy. If he had a choice, who would live so humbly?

He was just trying his best to survive.

And she, simply because he was trying to please her father, had taken a dislike to him and deliberately targeted him.

Had she been too much?

She coughed to cover her awkwardness and said, "Zhang Zhi, Class Advisor Liu was just mentioning you this morning. She said it's already the second day and she hasn't seen you in class, complaining that you don't seem to care much about the courses."

"We're heading back to the classroom now. Do you want to come along?"