Chapter 79
It is indeed the heart of Polluted Beast!
The quality is quite good.
Lu Xiaochu's eyes showed no joy, but rather a deeper worry. "Xiaofang, they'll find out sooner or later, and then..."
The village in this Testing Ground must be quite formidable to have killed so many Polluted Beast. They may not know now that the Polluted Beast contain Awakening Stone Fragment, but they will surely find out later. Once they realize the extent of their losses, they will certainly not let them off the hook.
Lu Xiaofang: "Don't worry, I used 'Beast Tamer' Leina, cough... she's a high-ranking member of the Day After Tomorrow Society. Once they understand the outside world, they won't dare to mess with Leina."
Lu Xiaochu hesitated, as if he wanted to say something but then stopped.
Lu Xiaofang urged her, "Alright, hurry up and collect the materials. Get it done quickly so we can move. As long as we stay far enough away, we'll never run into anyone from Liu Family Village Liu Family Village in this lifetime!"
As he spoke, Lu Xiaofang recalled that familiar-looking girl's face.
She didn't tell Lu Xiaochu, afraid that it would remind her of the past and make her feel bad.
They're just similar at first glance.
Sisi couldn't possibly still be alive.
Feeling uneasy, Lu Xiaochu didn't waste any more time. She put on her gloves and said, "Go take a shower and cook first. I'll collect the fragments."
Lu Xiaofang: "Okay!"
Half an hour later, Lu Xiaofang finished cooking the nutritious meal and came out to ask, "How is it? How's the output?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw Lu Xiaochu's face turn pale, his expression full of unease. "Xiaofang..."
The Awakening Stone Fragment in the heart have all been collected.
Lu Xiaofang: "How is that possible! The people in the Testing Ground haven't seen Polluted Beast in a hundred years, how would they know there are Awakening Stone Fragment here!"
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Song Xiaozhu busied herself around the shop, and time flew by. Xiao He had already reminded her, "The Formula Research and Development is complete, please check."
Song Xiaozhu brought up the Workbench and looked at the Formula Research and Development module.
The personal terminal disappeared, replaced by a gray formula displaying detailed information:
Formula Name: Personal Terminal
Recipe Level: 3.
Required materials: Communicator*1 + Employee Backpack *1 + [Crude Oil]*100 + [Iron Raw Material]*100 + Energy Stone *1.
Success rate: 30%.
Song Xiaozhu read through the list line by line, finally focusing on the success rate.
Thirty percent?
Suddenly, everything went black for the Unlucky Player Bamboo.
"The success rate is so low?"
"Our independently developed formula has a low success rate."
That's enough...
It's already quite good that we can even conduct research and development. A lower price is acceptable. With a bit of luck, we might succeed once out of three attempts.
Song Xiaozhu looked at the required materials again, and her heart pounded.
The communicator and the Employee Backpack are both difficult to make; the Raw Material are consumed in large quantities and require Quantum Coin and Energy Stone, not to mention the suffocating success rate.
That's enough...
It's already great that you can do research and development; spending some money is unavoidable. Keep working hard to earn more!
Chapter 79
With a severe shortage of Raw Material, Song Xiaozhu couldn't even make a communicator, let alone synthesize a personal terminal. She could barely manage to synthesize Employee Backpack, though...
No rush, let's wait for Tian Man and Luo Liuzi to return with their bounty on their hands.
Song Xiaozhu put away her Workbench and went downstairs.
There was always something to do at the shop, so Song Xiaozhu didn't go to help anymore. Instead, she avoided the crowd and left the shop with a smile on her face.
People kept coming to the shop to buy things. Regardless of age or gender, they would greet Song Xiaozhu happily, and Song Xiaozhu would always respond to them with a straight face.
She has a good memory and can remember most people's names, especially some children's. Even if there are many people with the same name, she can distinguish which one is Dajing, Erjing, Sanjing, and Xiaojing.
Song Xiaozhu genuinely loves the village, which is why she remembered so many people. Unexpectedly, every time she accurately responded to the villagers, she immediately gained between 100 and 300 Leadership Value.
An unexpected act brought unexpected joy.
Song Xiaozhu felt a warm glow in her heart.
After exchanging greetings, Song Xiaozhu earned 6,000 Leadership Value. Fearing fluctuations in the exchange rate, she quickly exchanged them for 30 Quantum Coin.
If it weren't for the strangeness of greeting everyone in the village, Song Xiaozhu wouldn't mind going door-to-door to ask about the situation—it wouldn't be a bad idea, would it? Hmm, bringing some simple meals and medicine later would be a comforting gesture after the battle!
Of course, there's no rush right now. She'll go to the Earth Temple first and have a chat with Master Bai.
Since the barrier was breached, Song Xiaozhu hasn't been able to speak to Bai Jing.
Both of them were very busy. Song Xiaozhu was busy synthesizing steel knives, studying the corpses of Polluted Beast, and rushing to the front lines to "complete missions"... She was so busy that she barely had time to rest.
Bai Jing was also busy. He stayed at the Earth Temple day and night, paying attention to each patient and taking care of them personally.
The miracle of "zero casualties" in Liu Family Village is largely thanks to Song Xiaozhu and Bai Jing.
Song Xiaozhu had wanted to find Bai Jing for a long time. Before, she just wanted to inquire about the situation in Ink City and ask about Fan Cang's motives. Now she had encountered "Leina" outside the isolation zone... Let's call her that for now, even though she had already realized that it was a pseudonym.
Filled with confusion, the only thing Song Xiaozhu could think of was Bai Jing.
Xiao Yunjie and the others knew even less than Song Xiaozhu.
Who, living at the foot of this Garbage Mountain, is most likely to know about the outside world?
Perhaps only Bai Jing remains.
Bai Jing looked up and saw Song Xiaozhu, Song Xiaozhu smiled sweetly.
He greeted him, saying, "Sir, you've had a long day."
Bai Jing: "Heh."
He kept his eyelids drooping as always, looking like he didn't want to talk to anyone. After getting used to that grumpy face, it wasn't so annoying anymore.
Bai Jing wasn't targeting anyone in particular; she was simply putting on a sour face for everyone.
His sour face didn't mean he looked down on anyone.
It's simply that I don't like what I see, I don't like what I see in this world.
Song Xiaozhu knew that Bai Jing had never left the Earth Temple. Perhaps the wounded had told him about the situation outside, but it probably wasn't detailed enough.