By the time Li Yuan returned to the Guard Squad's station, night was already falling.
He did not hurry back to his quarters. Instead, he first went to the Guard Squad's trading area.
The Guard Squad's trading area was not large, with a row of wooden racks and a long table. On ordinary days, it was mostly used for consignment sales and purchase requests.
There were not many people there today. Most of the items laid out on the table were Monster Materials—bones, hides, teeth, and tendons, sorted into different categories.
Li Yuan looked along the long table, occasionally resting his fingers on an item or two.
There was no reaction.
When he reached the middle, a guard poured a pile of miscellaneous materials onto the table. There were several pieces of beast bone, a roll of shed snake skin, and a complete grayish-blue spine. Its vertebrae ran one after another, nearly two feet long, with uncleaned fascia still clinging to its surface.
Li Yuan placed his fingers on it.
[Detected equippable item: Blue Rock Snake Spine (Complete)] [Item trait grade: White]
White Trait.
Li Yuan paused for a moment, then picked up the spine as though examining the quality of the material.
The guard selling it glanced at him.
"A Blue Rock Snake's complete spine. Another squad brought it back yesterday. Low-grade First-Order. You can still trade it for some Spirit Stones at a refining shop."
"Three spirit stones?" Li Yuan asked.
"You really know how to bargain." The guard smiled. "Four."
Li Yuan turned the spine over. The vertebrae were intact and unbroken. It truly counted as good material.
"Fine."
Four Spirit Stones landed on the table. The guard swiftly collected them, casually pushing the other materials aside.
"Want to look at anything else? We just