Chapter 86: Entanglement (third update)
After they left, the smile vanished from Wu Youren's face, but he did not look particularly angry either.
What happened today was minor but deeply insulting. Still, compared with his earlier days, it was hardly all that stifling.
He needed to recognize that the overall situation was improving. If he failed to realize that, it meant-he had gotten full of himself!
But this incident also reminded him to leave his residence as little as possible.
It was not that he worried about the vegetable plot being destroyed. That was only a pretext. More importantly, the liquor and honey inside his room could not really stand exposure either.
The next day passed peacefully. On the third night, Cynthia came.
Cynthia had sold the resentment crystals. Besides silver dollars, she had also traded for some cultivation pills and blood food.
With the Mirage Sea Alliance backing her, the transaction had been relatively safe, and the price reasonable.
She specifically explained that she had paid some fees to the alliance, but Wu Youren did not particularly mind.
She brought banknotes worth five thousand silver dollars and some pills, saying there was still an outstanding balance that would be paid within a month or two.
To be honest, Wu Youren no longer thought much of those resources for breaking through to Knight.
But refusing all of them would not be very reasonable either.
As a hostage, devoting himself entirely to cultivation was inappropriate. People might well think he harbored ulterior motives.
Yet having no desire to cultivate at all would also be abnormal.
Sometimes, Wu Youren was truly grateful that before transmigrating, he had understood the doctrine of the mean so well.
Neither rushing nor dragging his feet was just right. Going too far was as bad as not