Wealth Harvester

The Jackal Squad temporarily settled into the residential complex.

Chu He thought about the Frost Shadow Deer all day, but hunting always required waiting for the right opportunity.

For the past two days, the Frost Shadow Deer had remained within the area shrouded in mist, giving him no chance at all.

Chu He had no choice but to join the Jackal Squad in hunting some other nearby monsters first.

Early that morning.

Chu He stood on the balcony of a room on the twelfth floor. By November, winter had basically arrived in Northeast Base City.

The icy morning air filled the area and brushed against his face, jolting Chu He awake.

"It must be five or six degrees below zero today." Chu Yunpeng walked over with a smile.

With Chu He, a Spirit Reader, around for the past two days, the entire Jackal Squad had made a fortune. They had long since lost the cold attitude they had shown him at first.

But Chu He wasn't losing out, either.

The personal service of an Elite War General Squad wasn't something money could buy, not to mention the experience they had in the Wilderness Zone.

That kind of experience wasn't only useful below Planetary Level. Knowledge and experience could stay with you for a lifetime.

Who knew? Some of it might come in handy someday when exploring a ruin in the universe.

"It is pretty cold." Chu He looked down from the balcony and pointed at the monsters below, each searching for prey.

"But those monsters don't seem to mind the cold."

"We killed over ten yesterday, and there are already so many again this morning! Look, there are nine monsters in my field of vision, and two of them are Beast General Rank! Tsk, monsters really are much denser in the city than in the wilderness."

Hu Yonghua had been listening to them chat. He came over for a look, then said with a smile,

"These are all relatively weak Beast General Rank monsters, with no followers. The powerful Advanced Beast General Rank monsters and Lord-level Monsters, on the other hand, all lead tens of thousands of followers!"

"If you ever run into one, make sure you run for it!"

Then he turned to look at the others and said, "All right, everyone, wake up! Let's head down and hunt some monsters!"

"Haha, let's go, brothers. Time to make money." Chu Yunpeng couldn't help laughing.

"Having a Spirit Reader with us sure makes earning money easy! We've already made more this time than the previous two times combined!" Wei Xiaoping's eyes shone.

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Chu He reached the stairwell. He swept his Spiritual Force around the corner, then waved a hand. "It's clear. There are no monsters within twenty meters."

This was a new way of using his Spiritual Force that Chu He had developed over the past two days.

Monsters often hid around corners to ambush people. Getting killed the moment you opened a door was nothing unusual.

And Spiritual Force was the perfect detector!

"Mixing with a Spirit Reader really does mean eating and drinking well." Chu Yunpeng grinned.

Before Chu He joined them, he and the squad leader had taken turns scouting ahead.

"Stay alert!" Hu Yonghua glared at Chu Yunpeng.

Chu Yunpeng immediately shut his mouth.

Chu He led the way, with Hu Yonghua bringing up the rear.

Chu Yunpeng and Wei Xiaoping took the flanks, while Pang Song and Yang Yi, the two users of firearms, stayed near the middle of the formation.

"Hm?"

Chu He's gaze settled on three tiger-like monsters about a hundred meters away.

Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tigers!

The one at the head was enormous. Blood patterns ran from its head all the way to its belly, leaving only its limbs and tail uncovered.

Everything about it marked it as a Junior Beast General!

The other two had blood patterns that only reached their necks. They were merely Beast Soldiers.

"Those are our targets." Chu He lowered his voice. "I'll take care of the three Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tigers up ahead."

"Everyone, watch our surroundings."

Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!

Chu He charged ahead first. The other five naturally spread out behind him in formation, keeping watch for other Beast General Rank monsters and driving off any human Warriors who came looking to cause trouble.

That was the personal service of an Elite War General Squad!

"Roar!"

The monster's roar thundered through the air.

Seeing a human charging straight at it, the enormous Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger immediately let out an angry roar.

In an instant, its speed surged to a hundred meters per second!

With the Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger's massive frame, the force of an impact at that speed...

Even a heavy truck would probably be smashed apart in an instant.

Not to mention the three moves tigers commonly used: pouncing, flipping, and sweeping with their tails.

Holding the Jueying Battle Blade, Chu He maintained his usual speed of fifty or sixty meters per second.

But he had no intention of clashing head-on with the tiger.

With the body of an Intermediate Warrior, why would he go head-to-head with a Junior Beast General?

Just as the Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger drew within a certain distance, two hazy, ethereal flying daggers appeared!

A blurred flash of blade light vanished in an instant!

Whoosh! Whoosh!

The icy blade light struck like lightning. Two streaks of cold light crossed at the Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger's neck.

Then the blade light turned dreamlike, like mist, and vanished in an instant!

Splurt!

A brilliant spray of blood bloomed at the Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger's neck.

At the same time, Chu He changed the course of his charge. With two seemingly casual, simple swings of the Jueying Battle Blade, he traced two graceful arcs and slashed the throats of the other two Beast Soldier Rank Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tigers.

"Rumble—"

Though its life had already left it, the Beast General Rank Blood-patterned Saber-toothed Tiger kept charging on momentum for over ten meters before crashing to the ground with a rumble.

It slid several meters across the ground, until it struck a thick tree that had been growing for decades. The entire tree shook from the impact, and only then did the tiger finally stop.

With a combination of Movement Technique, swordsmanship, Spiritual Force, and plenty of experience, I killed a Junior War General and two Advanced Beast Soldiers this easily. Chu He marveled inwardly.

He had used the least effort possible to finish off his opponents in an instant!

Sure enough, practical combat was the best teacher.

"You've made quite a bit of progress." Hu Yonghua was delighted, too.

By now, Chu Yunpeng had already gone over to butcher the monsters.

"All right, that's everything." Chu Yunpeng smiled. "Looks like today's going to be another bountiful day."

"Let's go. On to the next one." Chu He smiled, too.

The entire Jackal Squad was in high spirits.

Hu Yonghua had known from the start that having a Spirit Reader would greatly increase the squad's efficiency at hunting monsters...

But it wasn't until Chu He had adapted to the Jackal Squad's style that Hu Yonghua realized just how fitting the title "Wealth Harvester" was for Spirit Readers.

This was practically a money-printing machine!

No!

A money-printing machine couldn't match the speed at which they were making money right now!

A money-printing machine?

That was thinking too small!

The valuable materials from a Junior Beast General Rank monster could generally sell for between five and fifteen million.

The valuable materials from an Intermediate Beast General Rank monster could generally sell for between ten million and over a hundred million.

The valuable materials from an Advanced Beast General Rank monster could generally sell for between fifty million and six or seven hundred million.

Of course, there were occasional exceptions.

Some monsters, such as the Frost Shadow Deer and Silver Moon Dire Wolf, were special, so their prices were naturally higher.

Soon, following the information he had spotted from the balcony that morning, Chu He killed another Junior Beast General.

"Tsk, following a Spirit Reader sure is a great way to make money," Wei Xiaoping couldn't help remarking.

Though Chu He and Hu Yonghua deserved most of the credit, while they got the meat, the others could at least drink the soup.

Once it was divided up, each of them would get over a hundred million!

"A Spirit Reader can easily make billions a year." Hu Yonghua smiled. "The main reason we dared to hunt so brazenly this time was Chu He."

"Haha." The other four all grinned.

"Uncle Hu, don't say that. It's because you've all been helping that hunting monsters has been so easy and comfortable."

Chu He meant every word.

Over the past few days, he had deeply realized that with his current level of Spiritual Force, he couldn't pay attention to every danger coming from every direction in the wilderness at once.

He dared to devote all his attention to searching for and hunting monsters precisely because the other members of the squad were watching their surroundings.

With Hu Yonghua, an Advanced War General, backing him up, Chu He's efficiency had been so high.

Chu He and the others chatted and laughed easily, though they kept their voices low.

"Hm?"

Nearby, Yang Yi was holding a heavy Sniper Rifle and glancing around in all directions, bored. Suddenly, he called out quietly, "Brothers!"

"A Frost Shadow Deer just came out!"

"What?"

Chu He and the others almost simultaneously grabbed the binoculars beside them and looked south.