Lin Feng, Who Loved Money More Than Life, Enters the Ancient Strange Mountain Range

"Brother, why are you wearing a black robe and unwilling to show your true face?"

As soon as Lin Junyu left, this black-robed person entered and then sat there without moving.

"Hello, my name is Lin Yun. I am my master's guard!"

A crisp, pleasant female voice came from beneath the black robe.

Hm? A woman?

"My apologies, miss. I thought you were a man just now. I was presumptuous."

"May I ask where you come from?"

Lin Feng did not know whether it was merely his imagination, but the black-robed person opposite him seemed a little slow-witted, as though she needed to think for a while before speaking.

After a brief wait, Lin Feng finally received an answer.

"Wherever my master is, I am there."

"Uh, then who is your master? What exactly does your master do?"

Lin Feng was a little speechless. Why was her answer so meaningless? He might as well ask about her master instead.

Sure enough, after another wait, he received his answer.

"My master is a person. I cannot answer what my master does!"

Lin Feng felt a little annoyed. Of course he knew her master was a person.

After that, Lin Feng began a question-and-answer exchange with the black-robed woman.

As the conversation continued, Lin Feng discovered that the black-robed woman's responses gradually became faster.

She was no longer as sluggish as she had been at the beginning. Instead, she gradually began to seem like a normal person.

Moreover, as long as the questions did not involve her or her master, she could answer almost anything perfectly.

It was quite strange. She seemed to know a great many things, exceptionally well-read and able to discuss nearly anything.

Just like that, the two of them became more and more engrossed in their conversation inside the private room, completely forgetting about Lin Junyu, who had left earlier.

Who knew how much time had passed when Lin Junyu entered the private room, supporting his waist.

His face was filled with helplessness and exhaustion.

"I'm exhausted!"

After serving Zichuan Mingyue, he gave her the teaching material on ancient civilization knowledge that he had compiled and simplified himself.

Then, after coaxing her to sleep, he ran out.

The moment he entered the private room, he saw Lin Feng chatting enthusiastically with the artificial robot he had created.

"Lin Feng, pay the bill. We're leaving!"

Before Zichuan Mingyue woke up, he needed to leave quickly. Otherwise, if she caught him, even with his astonishing recovery ability, he would still be exhausted.

"Oh? You actually managed to come back?"

Lin Junyu could not be bothered to waste words with him and dragged him down to the first floor to pay.

Lin Feng took out his wallet from his waist, his face full of pain and hesitation.

"How about I treat you next time? You pay this time?"

Lin Junyu looked at him as if he were an idiot. He was so poor that he could only wear tattered clothes—what made Lin Feng think he had money?

"What do you think? Do I look like I have money?"

"How about I sell my trident and see how much it's worth? You can use it to pay the bill?"

"Hurry up. I'll pay you back once I have money in the future!"

With an agonized expression, Lin Feng handed over his wallet, muttering under his breath.

"That beauty from earlier didn't look like someone without money. Didn't you get any financial reward from her just now? Looks like you didn't satisfy her. She didn't even give you any spending money!"

Lin Junyu's eyes widened as he stared at him in utter shock.

Damn, had he been mistaken for some lowly profession?

"Fuck off! My skills are top-notch. Hurry up, pay the bill, and we'll leave!"

Lin Feng took back his wallet, which had become completely flat, and asked sorrowfully.

"Now that I'm out of money, where are we going?"

"Come on, I'll take you somewhere. I guarantee you'll get a powerful guard. Consider it repayment for the meal you treated me to!"

Before Lin Feng could react, Lin Junyu dragged him to a carriage rental shop in the city.

Using Lin Feng's last bit of money, he rented a carriage and hurried out of the city.

Meanwhile, in the city, Zichuan Mingyue woke up and saw that the spot beside her where the man had been was already empty. Her expression immediately turned cold, and the icy chill in her eyes lingered for a long time.

"Damn it, he ran off again. You still owe me sixteen times!"

Then she stood up, and the silk-smooth blanket slid down her graceful body and fell to the floor.

She walked slowly to the desk piled high with books. On it lay a letter decorated with a doodle of a funny little figure.

"Miss Mingyue, these are science and technology books I organized for you. Study hard, okay? I have things to take care of, so I'll be leaving first. There's a life ring on the desk that monitors my life force. As long as its green light doesn't go out, I'm safe..."

Among the books piled on the desk was a beautiful ring glowing green.

Zichuan Mingyue picked it up and gently slipped it onto her finger. It fit perfectly.

A month later, two wretched figures—travel-worn, faces covered in dust, clothes in tatters—and a person clad entirely in a black robe stood at the gates of Bit City, the capital of Bit Province in the Empire.

"We finally made it! Can you tell me what exactly we came here to do now?"

One of the two, a young man in slightly better condition, spoke up.

"We're not there yet! What are you in such a hurry for? You won't lose out!"

Leaning on his trident, Lin Junyu stared through his disheveled hair at the enormous mountain range in the distance beyond the city.

That was their destination: the Ancient Strange Mountain Range!

"What? We're not there yet? Do you know how far we've traveled this past month? We started at the Empire's southernmost edge and have now reached its northernmost edge!"

"I was possessed to believe your nonsense about taking a spontaneous trip! Going out to enjoy the customs of the Empire and admire its magnificent landscapes!"

"And now look at us. We've been out for a month and haven't enjoyed a damn thing. I haven't bathed once this whole month, eaten a proper meal, or gotten a good night's sleep!"

Lin Feng regretted everything now. How had he gotten such a brain cramp that he climbed into that carriage with him in the first place?

"And whose fault was that? Who knew you were such a cheapskate? Going on a long journey and not bringing enough money. No money for inns, no money for food—of course we had to sleep outdoors and make do with whatever we could find in the wild!"

"Wasn't I suffering right alongside you? Do you know how vicious the mosquitoes are at night in the wilderness? They nearly sucked me dry! Every morning I woke up with huge welts all over my face! All because you had no money!"

Listening to Lin Junyu, Lin Feng was so furious he nearly went over and hit him, but fortunately, he held himself back.

After all, when the two of them had been starving in the wilderness, they had gone into the mountains together to hunt.

Unexpectedly, they had encountered a massive tiger with hanging eyes and a white forehead, powerfully built and immensely strong.

Just as Lin Feng had been wondering how to run, Lin Junyu beside him had charged straight at it.

He had forcibly suppressed the tiger's desperate strength, grabbed its white tiger head, and pummeled it viciously until it stopped breathing. It had been utterly brutal.

From that moment on, Lin Feng had known that the person beside him was a humanoid monster. There was no way he could beat him.

He was furious, but he couldn't beat him. That made him even angrier.

"Enough. Would I really harm you? If it weren't because you're a descendant of Wei Guo, I couldn't even be bothered to bring you here!"

Lin Junyu said irritably as he looked at Lin Feng, who was sulking and looked so aggrieved he was about to cry.

"You're bringing up my ancestor Wei Guo again. You weren't even from that era, yet you act as if you knew my ancestor. Your name happens to be the same as the Third Prince from that time, and you really think you're someone from that era?"

Seeing Lin Junyu put on that senior-elder act again, Lin Feng grumbled gloomily.

"We'll go into the city ahead, sell the game and pelts we hunted, buy some supplies, and then prepare to enter the mountains!"

Lin Junyu had no habit of arguing with juniors—it was beneath his status—so he simply spoke on his own.

Lin Feng could not resist and could only obediently follow Lin Junyu into the city.

They had already come this far, so he had resigned himself to it. Fine, he would take a look and see what tricks this person could come up with.

After a simple inspection, the three entered the city. Though it was a remote city at the Empire's northernmost border, it was far from sparsely populated.

Instead, due to its proximity to the Ancient Strange Mountain Range, many herbalists and hunters from the deep mountains gathered here, along with numerous adventurers.

The streets were filled with hawkers, as well as many shops selling mountain gear and purchasing resources gathered from the mountains. The crowds were immense.

The three entered a shop that bought game and pelts, exchanged everything they carried for some silver coins.

Then they bought supplies and equipment. After casually speaking with a mountain-bound party for a bit, the three easily joined the group.

Once everyone in the party had gathered their supplies and equipment, the group marched grandly into the West River Continent's greatest mountain range, which stretched from north to south across the continent.