Lu Chen thought he had misread it.
He rubbed his eyes hard several times.
But words did not lie.
The three words "five thousand points" were soul-stirring.
"Something's not right!"
Lu Chen immediately sensed something amiss.
Treating the Governor's wife was worth as much as five thousand merit points?
That was a thousand more than praying for rain in Dragon-Tiger County.
It was equivalent to an entire extra A-rank mission's worth.
What was a Governor?
A Governor was the highest official in a province. Though Zheng Changguo had already stepped down, he had once been a powerful regional official who held sway over an entire territory. (PS: I was scared by the censorship before, so all related official positions will be fictionalized from now on. Please understand.)
"Could it be that because his official rank was high, the mission has greater special significance?"
That made sense, but five thousand merit points was still absurdly high.
Lu Chen's instincts told him there had to be something fishy going on.
Just like the rain-prayer mission in Dragon-Tiger County—the mission description had contained only a few sparse lines, yet hidden currents had surged beneath the actual operation.
If Sun Yourong had not revealed the inside story, he might not have sorted things out so quickly.
Lu Chen stared at the mission description, lost in thought.
A twenty-million reward was not particularly high. It could only be called ordinary.
But those outrageous merit points were enough to prove that this S-rank mission possessed unmatched value among missions of its rank.
Looking across Jiangdu City, there were certainly no shortage of families with assets exceeding one billion.
Yet [Upstarts] remained few and far between.
The crux lay in merit points.
They could neither be bought nor sold; they had to be earned honestly through one's