"What do you think our Miss Yun Tianyi will use to snatch His Highness Bicus out of Victory Palace?"
Standing on the sightseeing terrace atop the Pearl Shadow Club, gazing at Victory Palace's side gate not far away, Lin Qi wore a peculiar smile. Elysian Heaven and Yun sat at a round table behind him, happily counting a huge pile of blood pearls harvested from Demon Dragon Blood Clams in the Bottomless Black Sea of the Tenth Abyss. The blood-red jewels were utterly enchanting, their round, lustrous forms rolling all over the tabletop. The two women smiled until their eyes narrowed into slits.
Faced with such irresistibly alluring jewels, Yun and Elysian Heaven's intelligence instantly dropped below zero. They had not even heard what Lin Qi said clearly, much less offered him any response.
Helplessly glancing back at the two women, Lin Qi shrugged. There were three whole sacks of such blood pearls in Yun Tianyi's spatial ring. He had merely taken out one plateful to amuse the two little girls. Fortunately, he had not dumped out all three sacks, or these two women would probably have been dazed for days.
The rain clouds dispersed, and the warm noon sunlight spilled over Berely City.
The sound of city walls collapsing drifted over from afar. Berely's expansion project had officially begun. The first step was to tear down the old walls and extend the great roads in every direction, then build new, more majestic walls beyond the planned city districts.
Over the next few foreseeable years, Berely would become one enormous construction site. Lin Qi liked this kind of chaotic, bustling scene. Chaos meant countless opportunities, while bustle would inevitably grow into prosperity and bring even more chances to make money.
A four-wheeled carriage ambled past Victory Palace's side gate. After