0119 Base City

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News of what happened at Celestial God Company ultimately spread from somewhere.

Liu Zhankun returned that night to inspect the scene.

In the end, he confirmed that the Red Knife Society members had indeed been killed by a gun-wielding expert.

The opponent's explosive power and strength appeared to be around the sixth rank.

The bank card was also found, but it had long since been emptied.

News that a powerful martial artist with possible sixth-rank strength was lurking nearby quickly sparked heated discussion across several surrounding counties.

After all, even the current leaders of the Three Great Gangs only possessed peak physical attributes at the fourth rank.

With the aid of Combat Secret Techniques, the sixth rank was their limit.

The emergence of a new sixth-rank martial artist could very well shatter the balance between the three gangs.

On the third day after the incident.

Several major forces around 0122 County sent people to Celestial God Company to ask about what had happened.

At the same time, they expressed concern for Zhou Yu.

Likewise, because of Liu Zhankun, the Three Great Gangs became much more restrained and naturally stopped bringing up protection fees from Celestial God Company.

Zhou Yu naturally told the truth.

After all, he did not know that person.

After learning the details, many forces released messages in hopes of recruiting that expert.

Unfortunately, no one responded to them.

The matter gradually became little more than a story and was eventually forgotten.

About a week after sending Zhou Tong away.

Xu Qing finally took leave and made a trip to the warehouse in 0121 County.

It was time to sort through the spoils from that battle.

That night, after taking the bank card from the middle-aged man at the scene.

He had gone into the nearby woods and transferred the money from the card into the four Bearer Cards on him in four separate transactions.

Those high-value bearer bank cards had all been found on those people.

Aside from the specially made card with a tracking chip, which Xu Qing had left at the scene.

He had not touched the other cards, nor had he had time to check how much money was in them.

He could not afford to worry about the hefty transfer fees, either.

Not until today.

Sitting on the bed in the warehouse, Xu Qing checked the balances on all the Bearer Cards.

The money on all the cards added up to a total of 26 million Alliance Coins.

In all his life, he had never seen so much money.

Xu Qing lay on the bed and stared at the ceiling for a long time before calming his complicated emotions.

Once he had calmed down, he looked at those numbers.

Only then did Xu Qing begin seriously planning his next stage of cultivation.

"First, the C-grade Gene Potions. One set costs 1.2 million. Based on the absorption efficiency of Grade D Gene Potions, C-grade potions will probably take a little longer to absorb."

Xu Qing calculated silently.

"Even at four doses a month, one set every three months, three sets would last nine months. That's 3.6 million in total."

Turning to look at the weapon beside him, Xu Qing pondered briefly. "The C-grade Alloy Battle Spear is already a little too light for me. It's time to replace it with a better weapon."

As he spoke, he opened the list of average market prices for various items that the Lunar Surface Commerce Alliance had given him and glanced through it.

"C-grade Alloy Weapons cost roughly ten to thirty thousand, but B-grade Alloy Weapons jump straight to two hundred thousand to one million.

"That isn't too bad, though. After all, they're meant for martial artists below the third rank."

Xu Qing frowned. "A-grade Alloy Weapons suitable for martial artists below the sixth rank... damn, they start at two million.

"And that's only for little things like flying knives.

"Most actual standard weapons like sabers, swords, and spears cost anywhere from five to ten million."

Xu Qing clicked his tongue.

"As for S-grade weapons... they don't have any in stock, but judging by lunar prices, they probably cost between ten and fifty million.

"My god, and that's just the weapons!

"Besides weapons, martial artists also need Combat Suits, tactical backpacks, Tactical Watches, Gene Potions..."

Damn, why did he feel like twenty million still wasn't enough to spend?

Xu Qing flopped onto the bed, too drained to complain.

Compared to all that, his monthly salary of fifty thousand was nothing more than a drop in the bucket.

It wasn't even enough to buy a decent tactical backpack.

Still, you couldn't get fat in one bite.

Xu Qing decided to take things slow and gradually buy everything he needed.

He would start with the Gene Potion and weapons he needed most urgently.

After resting for a while, Xu Qing headed straight for the Lunar Surface Commerce Alliance in 0121 County.

Sun Wu, the clerk, was fairly familiar with Xu Qing. After hearing what he needed, he shook his head.

"Our little place doesn't carry A-grade Alloy Weapons or C-grade Gene Potions. Our Lunar Surface Commerce Alliance only serves martial artists at the third rank or below. If you want to buy them, we'll have to order them from the moon, and that'll take at least three months."

"Three months?" Xu Qing frowned and shook his head. "That's too long. Is there a faster way?"

"Then you can only try 0119 Base City. We don't have a branch there, but I can recommend two stores with good reputations in the industry."

Sun Wu was very responsible. He did not brush Xu Qing off just because Xu Qing did not plan to buy from them.

"Thanks. We can work together again if the chance comes up," Xu Qing said with a smile.

After leaving the Lunar Surface Commerce Alliance, Xu Qing drove straight to the base city.

Three hours later, Xu Qing arrived at 0119 Base City.

He had been in this world for over two years.

This was still his first time entering a base city.

He had heard that 0119 Base City had been built during the Great Cataclysm.

It had been established by humanity to resist Mutated Creatures.

It was a city with a great deal of history.

Although there was no longer any threat from monsters on Blue Star, the base city had retained its former appearance.

After following the map into the city, Xu Qing found a hotel and checked in.

Once he had settled down, he washed up and headed straight to a restaurant he had picked out long ago.

It was his first time in a base city, so naturally, Xu Qing wanted a good meal.

The hotels, eateries, and restaurants here were completely incomparable to the places near the county outskirts where he lived.

Besides, he now had over twenty million in cash on him.

There was nothing wrong with indulging himself a little.

In the end, Xu Qing had barely entered a so-called one-star Michelin restaurant and ordered his meal

when, just as the food was brought over, someone knocked it onto the floor, nearly splashing him all over.

Fortunately, his reflexes were quick enough for him to dodge. It was just a shame about that seafood platter.

"Fuck!" Xu Qing immediately flew into a rage.

That meal had cost him an entire month's food budget!

Furious, he turned to look beside him.

There, he saw three young men in Combat Suits standing beside the next table, angrily surrounding a handsome young man in loose clothing.

"Wang Mu, you crippled my younger brother in the Hunting Zone last time. Now that those old bastards from the Wang family aren't around to protect you, let's see where you think you can run today!"

One of the burly young men roared at the young man who was calmly eating.

"Brother," Wang Mu said calmly as he put down his fork and looked at him, "this is a public restaurant. Could you please watch yourself?"

"Watch your fucking mouth!"

Chen Tao furiously smashed the wooden table in front of Wang Mu with one blow, instantly displaying terrifying strength.

Wood splinters and shattered glass flew in every direction.

The restaurant's customers screamed and fled.

"They're fighting!"

"They're martial artists, get out of here!"

"These lunatics."

However, Xu Qing, who had been wiping his clothes, did not leave.

He was still carefully using tissues to wipe off the sauce that had splattered onto him.

The delicious scent of seafood made his heart bleed.

Those three had knocked over his 1,299 luxury seafood set meal!!

Compensation!

They had to compensate him!