While Chu Sheng and Xingzi were examining their supernatural materials, Wang Jianguo had also finished his trades with Old Man Li, Captain Hui, and the others.
Wang Jianguo felt pained, yet utterly delighted.
Still, however he looked at it, the Mechanical City had truly been sent back to square one overnight.
And it wasn't just Wang Jianguo. The people monitoring the situation from the Secret Room felt just as bitter.
Of their 2,132 supernatural materials, they hadn't quite lost every last one, but they had fewer than a hundred left.
After all, the Mechanical City's own Sequence Adepts consumed supernatural materials too.
It really was agony and ecstasy.
Although they had paid out so many supernatural materials, even giving away everything the Mechanical City had stockpiled over all this time, what they had received was substantial enough.
Chu Sheng's sacrificial items, Xingzi's Medical Supplies, Captain Hui's various intelligence reports, and Old Man Li's supernatural plants.
Regardless of whom they had traded with, any of those acquisitions would take the Mechanical City some time to fully absorb.
With the trades complete, Wang Jianguo, Xiao Zhan, and Yang Jing exchanged only a few pleasantries before hurrying away.
The Medical Supplies Xingzi had brought out, the Explosive Chili Peppers Old Man Li had traded away, and all the other supernatural plants left with them.
Only Chu Sheng needed time to craft his sacrificial items, so they agreed he would deliver them in three days.
Wang Jianguo also promised to send over the Generator and the power-type supernatural materials in an hour.
Once they were gone, A Xin concealed the area again.
As A Xin activated her ability, everyone sat straight down on the ground.
An Xi stared at Xingzi's supernatural materials, her eyes red with envy.
If those supernatural materials were hers, how