"Cao Benqi, what should we do now?" Kailun asked. The Machine Puppets had been dealt with, but they couldn't have gone to all that trouble only to come away empty-handed. That would be a huge loss.
"Wait!" Qin Cang replied. "There's nothing else we can do right now. We'll wait for the defense system inside the Pyramid to make its move. We absolutely can't rush in. This is the Machine Race's lair. A reckless attack would be suicide. We're backed up against the way out here, so if anything goes wrong, we can retreat in time."
The exit was right there. Even if something unexpected happened, they could quickly withdraw into the distance. If they went deeper, they might have nowhere to run if trouble arose.
"You're right. But I can't just sit around waiting, either. I'll gather up those metal fragments. They're only scraps, but there were four thousand puppets. There should be plenty of them, enough to sell for a good sum."
Before Qin Cang could finish speaking, Kailun went off alone to collect the metal fragments. Qin Cang might not care about such a small amount of resources, but that didn't mean Kailun felt the same. Qin Cang came from a powerful faction and probably had never worried about resources. But someone as insignificant as Kailun shouldn't try to imitate him. He had to work hard for every resource himself. He should be able to sell this metal for hundreds of thousands of Hunyuan Units.
And if he added the door made from Mystic Sun Gold Soul that had been part of the Pyramid's outer shell, he'd already made several million Hunyuan Units.
Several million Hunyuan Units! How long would he have had to work to earn that much? Yet he'd gotten it in less than a