"Aren't we there yet, A Su!"
Er Meng stuck out her tongue and kept panting. She must have run over a hundred kilometers, right?
When was the last time you engaged in such strenuous exercise? Twenty years ago? Thirty years ago? Probably fifty years ago?
Upon hearing this, Li Su couldn't help but roll her eyes and said, "We're still halfway there."
Nonsense, how could it possibly get there?
We haven't even covered half the distance yet. What's wrong with this bear? It's supposed to be at the Divine Power Realm, yet it took it an hour to run 100 kilometers. And it's getting slower and slower. There's no one else like it.
Er Meng was fed up. They'd already gone over a hundred kilometers, and there was still only half left? It started throwing a tantrum. "I'm not doing it anymore! I'm not doing it anymore! I can't live like this! I'm hungry! So hungry! So hungry!"
Li Su paused for a moment, then stared at the bear without saying a word.
What? Is it trying to pin this on me?
He took a deep breath and said weakly, " Er Meng."
What are you doing?
"I want to tell you first, you've tried to act cute and charming in the wrong place; it won't work on me!"
"Hey, with decades of experience, why isn't it working? Is there no love left? Is there no love left at all?"
"Love you my Big Head!" Li Su patted the other person's head and sighed, " Er Meng, first of all, you need to understand something."
"What's going on? I don't want to hear it!"
"No, you have to listen! First of all, this is a private job, it's just the two of us. Our goal is to rob people, not to fight, but to steal their money to enjoy ourselves."
"Yes or no?"
Er Meng paused for a moment, then nodded.
"You didn't even steal anything, what's the point of arguing with a poor guy like me? I'm poor too!"
Li Su sighed, "Putting aside the question of whether you're willing or not, if I asked you for ten million crystal coins right now, and you were willing to lend them to me, would you have given them to me?"
Er Meng immediately shook its head. It had no money, not a single penny. It ate all of its wages as soon as it got paid.
"Right? Talk about feelings with a poor person? What's the point of your cuteness and tantrums? I don't have any money!"
Er Meng froze. So, all my feelings were for nothing? Er Meng snorted and immediately decided to leave, refusing to feed the bear or play with it anymore.
"Getting all cocky now." Li Su glanced at the other person and said directly, "You're hopeless!"
Er Meng stopped in its tracks and immediately wriggled its body. It was so cute; back in Xia City, there was food everywhere. "Why can't I?"
"Sigh, I don't understand at all!"
"Don't know?"
"Someone like you wouldn't even get to eat hot shit before it's even hot!"
"Bears don't eat poop, that's a dog's hobby. Don't talk nonsense! If you spout such nonsense, I'll sue you for defamation."
"Still don't believe me? Let's discuss it!"
"Yes, I'm listening!"
"You ran for an hour on a 100-kilometer road, right? There's still half the distance left."
"Right!"
"If you arrived in ten minutes, wouldn't we have already started looking, or even found it already?"
"Uh, should? Maybe?"
"Now that we've found it, can we start eating?"
"It seems so, indeed."
"And what happened? Now we have to keep running! Didn't we waste a lot of time?!"
"Huh?!" Now that I hear it, it really is true.
wrong!
The bear isn't going!
Li Su glared at the other person, "We've already driven over a hundred kilometers, and if we don't go, won't all those kilometers have been for nothing?"
Er Meng froze, completely stunned. Xiong Sheng would never work, let alone work for free! This was intolerable!!!
"Then, another problem arises: if Zoyi's side mines a large amount of minerals during this period, and by the time we find it, the vein initially had 100 million tons of ore, but by the time we arrive, there are only 5,000 tons left, how much do you think we'll lose?"
Er Meng was stunned. Its bear eyes widened. Now that it was said that, holy crap, it had actually lost five thousand tons of spirit ore!
Li Su asked, "Are you feeling very unwell?"
Er Meng nodded vigorously.
"Does it feel like your heart is bleeding?"
Er Meng nodded again.
"Is your heart aching so much you can't breathe? Over two hundred kilometers of road, and you lost five thousand tons of spirit ore? How does it feel?"
Er Meng's eyes were brimming with tears, as if her heart had been stabbed with a knife.
"That's right, that's exactly it. I'm in so much pain right now that I can't breathe." Li Su patted everyone's head. "Tears are streaming down my face, I feel so cheated! So, Er Meng, remember, not doing work and doing side jobs are two different things!"
"If you don't want to work, you're doing it for someone else; if you do freelance work, you're doing it for yourself. It's fine if you drag your feet when doing it for someone else, or even if you don't do it at all and just act cute. But if you do it for yourself, it's like you're constantly reducing what you should be getting. Every second you waste is a huge loss, and after a certain point, it's a complete loss!"
" Er Meng, do you understand? The key to a robbery is speed!!"
Li Su waved her hand, "That's what we mean by swift and decisive action. What can be done in half a day will definitely not take a whole day. As for hardship or fatigue, when you get home, you can lay out the loot in the house, then lie down on it. Isn't that wonderful and comfortable? Sleeping on a bed made of spirit stones, you can take a bite when you're sleepy, or chew on it when you're tired. Isn't that amazing!"
The Er Meng bears' eyes began to light up, as if they could see that Rogue Person.
"Besides, think about it, you're a Divine Power Realm now. How much can you possibly ask for by acting cute all day? Are you even getting enough to eat? You also have to be petted and hugged. You're a noble bear, so a single petting would cost at least a hundred pounds of thousand-year-old bamboo shoots, right? A hug would be even more incredible, at least three hundred pounds, right? Aren't you tired of living like this?"
Er Meng was stunned.
"But you can't be noble, do you know why?"
Er Meng panicked and shook his Big Head violently. After all, that was the life of a bear that could produce a hundred pounds of bamboo shoots from a thousand-year-old plant with just one touch!
"Because you're poor! How can you be noble when you're broke? How can you have any shame when you're hungry? To deal with you right now, thirty catties of century-old bamboo a day is enough, not a penny more."
Er Meng's eyes widened in disbelief; she felt her entire worldview had been shattered. There was no doubt that Zhu Zhong had treated her this way.
"So there are methods and tricks to not working. The worst thing is to never work, you know? That's a useless bear, a crippled bear, a bear that can be easily fooled."
Li Su said seriously, "You don't want to be that kind of bear, do you?"
Er Meng shook her head frantically; of course she wouldn't do it.
Li Su smiled with satisfaction, "So the first thing we need to understand is that we should take on more side jobs, and only take jobs that pay, but absolutely not jobs that only require physical labor without pay, understand?"
"Once you have enough money and don't need to ask for favors anymore, and someone wants you to perform, then you can ask for an appearance fee. That's right, you'll have to pay for just standing there!"
Er Meng blinked, and in an instant, a magnificent scene appeared in its bear life.
" Er Meng, please, come out and help me shake up the scene!" Zhu Zhong lay on the ground, extremely humble.
"Alright, three thousand catties of bamboo!"
"This is way too expensive!"
"Then go find another bear."
"No, wait, I, I, sob sob, I'll give it to you, okay?"
Xiong Sheng, you're truly magnificent!!!
Er Meng Xiong'er's eyes widened immediately, " A Su, how much further?"
"Yes, that's it! This is a side job, you can earn your own money!" Li Su said, gesturing with his head held high, "About a hundred kilometers!"
"Hurry up and come up! Oh my god, my money is gone, all gone! My heart aches so much!"
Er Meng let out a howl, displaying her incredible speed for the first time; it was truly lightning fast.
100 kilometers, in five minutes!
arrive!
" A Su, is this the place?"
"Um!"
Li Su got off Er Meng and sensed his surroundings. Sure enough, his cellular clone was right there.
As for the direction, it's due east!
That's the location.
" Er Meng, over there, from now on, we can't make a sound! The entire spirit mine belongs to us. If we're discovered, they'll definitely speed up and send people to stop us. Although we can send people, it would be a huge loss. According to the Xia Kingdom's laws, we can only get 30%, so this is a 70% reduction. If we split it in half again, each person will only get 15%."
"Of the 100 million tons, only 1,500 tons remain. And with what's been mined by the other side, we might not even have 1,000 tons left."
As Li Su spoke, she used her Ghost Domain to cover the two of them.
Er Meng nodded hurriedly, his bear eyes flashing green, revealing a rare murderous intent. That was the bear's money; whoever touched it would be killed!
Walk!
The man and the bear cautiously approached and walked in the direction Li Su had pointed out.
" A Su, I can feel it." The bear roared not far away.
"Oh?"
" The Spiritual Qi fluctuations here are unusual; there are definitely mines nearby!"
Li Su was startled. This bear had this ability? It could sense the existence of the mineral vein? Although he was quite close, he didn't feel any change.
Soon, the man and the bear crossed the low hill.
Suddenly, the view from the other side of the mountain appeared.
There are many people, only a few outside, the rest are inside.
The Zoi Family has about a hundred members, all of considerable strength, all at the Dao Arts Realm, with a few even at the peak of the Dao Arts Realm. They bear traces of Dao Transformation, albeit very faintly. Even in the Earth Immortal Realm, they are considered elites.
The others were absent without leave; they were working very hard.
One truckload after another was hauled out of the ore—spirit ore, undoubtedly the finest ore.
Er Meng couldn't resist any longer; that was all its money.
" A Su, shall we make our move?"
"Wait a minute!"
"Hey, what are you afraid of? Even bears that I don't fight have come here, which means there aren't any Divine Power Realm experts here. Just go up and slap them all to death. It's just a small amount of money!"
Li Su glared at the other party, thinking, "Look at this bear, he's acting all high and mighty now."
They completely misunderstand the key to making money.
Although they mined quickly, what they got were only small, fragmented pieces. In other words, although this vein had a lot of ore, it was very mixed, making mining extremely difficult. After all, it was the Xu Family's mine, so it wasn't all that special.
Neither of them, the human nor the bear, are particularly skilled at digging. Even if they pounce, how much could they possibly get?
If they lose contact here, the Zoi Family will definitely react immediately.
" Er Meng, where do you think the Zoi Family will transport the ore?"
"Uh?" It honestly shook its head.
"Although the Five Surnames are of the same blood, they do not share resources. In other words, each clan manages its own affairs and generally does not move into the Holy City, but has its own bases outside. However, no one knows where they are; they are too well hidden."
"Furthermore, do you know the properties of spirit ore?"
Er Meng shook her head.
"Spirit ore, especially medium to high-grade ore, yields a lot, but it cannot be mined too aggressively, as this will lower the quality of the ore itself. Therefore, in addition to mining in moderation, the best way is to collect mixed ore to fill in the gaps, and then take it out after a period of time. This way, not only will the quality of the spirit ore not be damaged, but the mixed ore will also become high-quality ore."
" A Su, you mean to say?"
Li Su's eyes lit up, a real, gleaming green. "Yes, raid their hideout!"
Er Meng paused for a moment, then became excited. Their lair? That's really something! " A Su, if it's their lair, won't they be guarding it closely? Will that be enough?" Although it was at the peak of the Divine Power Realm, it couldn't withstand the sheer number of people.
"Who said we're going to go ourselves?" Li Su rolled her eyes. "We just need to find a place! If we can't beat them, how could we not beat the Xia Kingdom? Even if your dad came, how could we not beat them?"
"Don't worry about too much. Even if we each take five percent, it'll still be more than what's under our feet, right? Hundreds of millions, even billions!"
Er Meng's eyes lit up. That's right! How come it didn't think of that? If they couldn't beat them, they should call for backup!
"The bear understands!!" For the honor and nobility of the panda, it was ready to risk everything!
"Very good!"
Undoubtedly, Er Meng, who would rather die than do any work, was led astray by Li Su and became completely out of control.
"I'll send a clone into the sky to confirm the target's location. We'll lock on twice. You also need to keep an eye out. Once you sense someone at the Divine Power Realm, stop."
"Good!"
Soon, the man and the bear got to work.
As for what's under my feet, well, I don't even care anymore.
I don't know why, but the first chapter was unbanned, then banned again!