Talent to Rival Luo Feng's?
The group arrived at the HR Alliance purchasing station, where Manager Yang had been waiting for some time. When he saw Li Jing, and especially the two enormous tactical backpacks in his hands, the smile on his face grew even wider.
"Brother Li, I've been waiting for you for a long time. Please, come in."
"Manager Yang, long time no see. Do you still remember me?" Zhang Jian stepped forward and greeted him.
"You're Captain Zhang Jian, right? How could I not know you? We've worked together plenty of times!"
Only then did Yang Lin notice that Zhang Jian and Wu Tong were accompanying Li Jing this time.
He naturally knew Zhang Jian, the captain of the Bloodthirsty Squad and a Junior War General.
The other man looked familiar too. He seemed to be from the Limits Dojo.
Why was Li Jing with those two? They must have run into each other by chance, right?
The man from the Limits Dojo had reportedly left the Wilderness Zone long ago and had been working at the dojo ever since.
And while Zhang Jian was strong, he was only a Junior War General.
How could he possibly team up with a ruthless man like Li Jing, who had hunted down over a hundred Beast General Level monsters in a short time, including quite a few Intermediate Beast Generals?
Seeing that Yang Lin still remembered him, Zhang Jian smiled as well.
That would give him a little more confidence when it came time to push for a higher price.
But wasn't Yang Lin a little too enthusiastic toward Li Jing?
As a purchasing supervisor for the HR Alliance, Yang Lin did need to build good relationships with some martial artists so they would favor him when selling monster materials, but surely he didn't need to be this enthusiastic toward a Warrior Level martial artist like Li Jing?
Could Yang Lin have also seen Li Jing's extraordinary potential and wanted to befriend him early?
Zhang Jian speculated in silence.
"Manager Yang, I brought the materials. Sorry for the trouble, but could you appraise them all?" Li Jing hefted the backpacks in his hands, his expression calm.
"Of course. Brother Li, Captain Zhang, and this senior, please follow me."
Manager Yang invited the three men to the tea table in the VIP room, then summoned several pretty waitresses to brew tea for them.
He himself prepared to appraise the materials Li Jing had brought, using a variety of instruments.
Li Jing sat beside the tea table, leisurely sipping his tea and enjoying the graceful tea ceremony.
Wu Tong and Zhang Jian, however, had their minds elsewhere. They glanced in Manager Yang's direction from time to time, evidently very interested in the materials from the monsters Li Jing had hunted.
Before their eyes, Manager Yang unzipped a tactical backpack, exposing the enormous quantity of monster materials inside.
Wu Tong and Zhang Jian, who had been raising their cups for an occasional sip, immediately went wide-eyed.
The backpack contained nothing like the Beast Soldier Level monster materials they had expected. Every last piece was from a Beast General Level monster!
And they weren't just Junior Beast Generals, either. There were quite a few Intermediate Beast Generals.
There were all sorts of monsters: Twin-Tailed Tiger Cats, Bloodthirsty Tanks, Stone-Armored Giant Bears, Tiger Mastiffs...
Th... were these all trophies from Li Jing's hunts?
Wasn't he only as strong as an Intermediate Warrior?
The two men felt their understanding shaken.
He had only recently passed the Martial Artist Combat Assessment, yet he could already hunt Beast General Level monsters, including quite a few Intermediate Beast Generals. Did that make any sense?
No wonder Manager Yang treated Li Jing so well. Any purchasing supervisor who encountered a major client selling so many Beast General Level monster materials at once would be no less welcoming.
Besides, the Beast General Level monster materials were only what lay on the surface. The real key was Li Jing himself, who was so young yet capable of hunting so many Beast Generals.
Who wouldn't try to curry favor with such a major client, whose potential knew no bounds?
No wonder Li Jing had said that Manager Yang offered a fair purchase price. How could he not?
Offer even a little too little, and anyone who knew the market would walk right out, turn left, and find another buyer.
With so many sought-after Beast General Level monster materials in hand, there was no need to worry about selling them!
"Li... Li Jing, give Uncle Wu the truth. Did you hunt all these Beast Generals yourself? How strong are you now?"
After staring in a daze for quite a while, Wu Tong finally tore his gaze away from the pile of Beast General Level monster materials. He stumbled over his words as he asked Li Jing.
"Yes, I hunted them. As for my strength, I'd say I'm an Intermediate War General now. If I went all out, I should be able to exchange a couple of blows with an Advanced War General." Li Jing didn't conceal anything and answered directly.
He would soon have around two billion more in Huaxia Currency. When the time came, he would definitely draw cards again, and even he couldn't predict what level his strength would reach.
The information would soon be out of date anyway, so he might as well tell them.
Besides, he had intended to reveal it so that Wu Tong and Zhang Jian would recognize the difficulty and give up.
He had no interest in joining an ordinary War General Level squad and going to the Wilderness Zone to play house.
His goal was to obtain the current card pool's only limited UR, the peak Apprentice Level Spirit Reader talent, and then swiftly rise to the Planetary Level within a month.
"Hiss..."
Even though they had already made guesses and deductions, when they actually heard the confirmation from Li Jing himself, Wu Tong and Zhang Jian were still inevitably shocked by the news.
Li Jing really was a War General Level martial artist, and an Intermediate War General who was confident he could exchange a couple of blows with an Advanced War General at that!
He had even hunted more than a hundred Beast General Level monsters in just six days in the Wilderness Zone.
Such talent was beyond their imagination.
Even Luo Feng, one of Earth's three strongest, had been far less impressive when he first became a martial artist than Li Jing, hadn't he?
How on earth had Li Jing done it?
Could it be that he was a Spirit Reader too?
Wu Tong and Zhang Jian marveled and speculated in silence.
By now, they had long abandoned the idea of having Li Jing join the Bloodthirsty Squad. Although Li Jing had yet to fully realize his talent, he had already begun to show his edge.
His strength as an Intermediate War General even surpassed that of Zhang Jian, the Bloodthirsty Squad's captain. What reason did they have left to ask Li Jing to join?
That wouldn't be protecting Li Jing; it would be shackling him!
Besides, Li Jing surely wouldn't want to join a squad weaker than himself. He could roam the Wilderness Zone unhindered all on his own!
And to think they had initially assumed Li Jing had gone to the Wilderness Zone alone because he was reckless.
Even after learning that Li Jing had survived for six days, they had only thought he was hunting weaker Beast Soldier Level monsters in villages and small towns along the highways.
They hadn't expected that he had already possessed sufficient strength when he set out for the Wilderness Zone, and that he had spent the past few days madly hunting Beast General Level monsters.
Li Jing alone had been as productive as several War General Level squads working without sleep or rest!
Remembering all their earlier judgments, Wu Tong and Zhang Jian felt unbearably ashamed.
They had been too narrow-minded. They hadn't understood that geniuses and ordinary people belonged to entirely different worlds, and that they absolutely could not judge a genius's thoughts and actions by their own standards.
At that moment, the two couldn't help imagining whether, with the talent Li Jing had displayed, he might one day catch up to or even surpass Luo Feng, Earth's greatest genius.
Probably not. Li Jing was outstanding, but Luo Feng was even more monstrous.
His talent when he first started out might not have matched Li Jing's now, but he was the type to grow more monstrous with time.
By now, even Hong and Thunder God, once Earth's strongest and second strongest, apparently were no longer Luo Feng's match.
Strong as Li Jing was, it was still possible that his improved physical attributes had been achieved through other means.
Perhaps he had chanced upon a treasure similar to a Spirit of Nature!
The two made their judgments in silence, but they didn't look down on Li Jing in the slightest.
Even if he couldn't compare to Luo Feng, he was still a super genius they had to look up to!