There's Treasure in the Sea

"Professor Zhang went out to sea in a small boat?"

"Yes, aren't you going to chase after him and try to persuade him?"

"What's the point of chasing after him? If he wants to go out to sea for a bit, he can just go!"

Zhang Xuezhou's actions were too unconventional and eccentric; he unlocked the small boat and drove off, which Badun found somewhat unbearable.

He found Ren Yisheng, Ren Yisheng was wandering around looking at the vine forest. Ren Yisheng acted extremely nonchalantly, not caring about Zhang Xuezhou's behavior at all.

"My little boat is worth over a million five hundred thousand," Badun said, dissatisfied.

"What do you mean, 'your little boat'?" Ren Yisheng laughed. "Qin Meng doesn't have that rule. Once it's docked, it doesn't belong to anyone. Only things off the shore are considered private property!"

"That has the emblem of our Montes Lineage on it. No one has ever dared to take my boat like this before. He just brazenly took it right in front of me, without caring about my feelings at all," Montes Badun said.

"You're so old and still so petty. I'll give you this two-wheeled vehicle as an apology from him!"

Badun kept grumbling, Ren Yisheng had no choice but to give up his two-wheeled vehicle, which finally eased Badun's dark expression somewhat.

Status is earned through real-world competition, while relationships are built on the combined abilities of individuals to generate mutual benefits. This allowed Ren Yisheng and Badun to quickly form a small interest group.

There's no friendship in this group; they're just temporarily brought together because they can profit from each other.

Ren Yisheng had only been in the Eighth Sequence for a short time and his hunting of ferocious beasts had gone very smoothly, so he had little anxiety. Badun, on the other hand, had been waiting for many years and rarely saw Sequence Holder like Ren Yisheng who could be paired with him.

Although Montes Arthur is currently engaged in the trade of ferocious beast resources and has the opportunity to reach the Seventh Sequence in the future, how to effectively match those Sequence Holder are skilled in mental deterrence when facing ferocious beasts is still a skill. It is very worthwhile to take Ren Yisheng to adapt and gain the corresponding experience in advance, and it will also make it easier for Montes Arthur to imitate in the future.

Ren Yisheng's apology was perfunctory, and Badun could only barely accept it.

After fiddled with the two-wheeled motorcycle that he had created with his metal manipulation abilities, Badun surprisingly managed to repair the mishandled parts.

"Hey, where are you going?"

While casually tapping and fixing the car, Badun noticed Ren Yisheng, who was cutting down vines, stand up and walk towards the temporary port, prompting him to ask him a question.

Let's go for a walk on the beach!

Ren Yisheng clapped his hands, indicating his destination.

Ren Yisheng wasn't worried about Badun leaving. Badun dismissed Montes Arthur and the others, clearly intending to cooperate with the hunt.

No matter how long Ren Yisheng lingers in this port waiting for Zhang Xuezhou, Badun will not leave.

Of course, even if the other party leaves, Ren Yisheng won't care too much, since he and Zhang Xuezhou are a good team.

Near this temporary port, some damaged vehicles lacking electricity are piled up and can only be slowly charged by broken solar panels.

Ren Yisheng looked around for the cars, but felt that none of them were suitable for going into the water.

He didn't need to think to know that Zhang Xuezhou was taking the small boat to transport goods, but what those goods were was hard to say.

"Could it be that they unearthed a secret stone from Qin Meng?"

The small boat uses high-density batteries, which have a large capacity but are also heavy, bulky, and large, which limits the boat's carrying capacity.

Ren Yisheng believed that Zhang Xuezhou was either hunting rare birds or exotic beasts, or the Qin Meng Secret Stone.

The former is fine, but if it's the latter situation, Ren Yisheng might want to get rid of Badun.

After some tinkering, he started an off-road vehicle with about 10% battery remaining and began driving along the coastline.

"What's so interesting about this run-down coastline? You won't find anything worthwhile even if you go around in circles. The sea breeze is pointless. I already advised that young Professor Zhang against it..."

When Ren Yisheng said "let's go for a drive," he really meant it. Badun was somewhat taken aback, realizing that not only was Zhang Xuezhou's head malfunctioning, but Ren Yisheng's was as well.

He glanced at the empty, deserted temporary port, then at the heavy trucks left behind by Montes Arthur and the others.

It was clearly not a suitable place for heavy vehicles to travel along the coast. Badun pondered for a few seconds, then finally got on his two-wheeler and followed.

How long are you going to stand in the sea breeze?

Watching Ren Yisheng leisurely pop a compressed biscuit into his mouth and drink a couple of sips of water, Badun couldn't help but feel a bit of a headache.

He shouted, but Ren Yisheng waved his hand dismissively.

"I want to be alone by the sea, to reflect on the sequence with the sea breeze," Ren Yisheng replied loudly. "I'll come back to you when it gets dark!"

"Are you kidding me? You've come to Qin Meng to think about sequences?"

Badun abruptly swallowed the words, "Are you guys out of your minds?"

Zhang Xuezhou and Ren Yisheng acted in exactly the same way; both of them were fans of the sea breeze. One spent two days enjoying the breeze and even took a small boat out to sea, while the other drove an off-road vehicle aimlessly along the coast.

Badun once thought he was too old to keep up with the behavior of modern young people, but other young people did not behave like Zhang Xuezhou and others.

The young people who came to Qinmeng ran as soon as they got off the boat, eager to seize every minute and second. They would try to choose their vehicles as quickly as possible and quickly get into Qinmeng. No one would stay on the beach like these two.

"Could there be some profound mystery to thinking by the sea?"

Badun pondered for a while, facing the salty sea breeze, and finally spat.

The road along the coast wasn't in good condition, and the SUV that Ren Yisheng drove could only travel a limited distance. Badun eventually sat alone by the sea, sulking, and decided to wait patiently for two more days for Ren Yisheng's sake.

What is that?

The sky gradually darkened, the sea breeze howled, and the seawater began to turn black.

Badun pondered the sequence for a long time without any success, so he could only lie on his side on the roof of the car to rest and pass the time.

As Ren Yisheng's SUV approached with a creaking sound, he glanced towards the sea.

The dim headlights of the SUV were hardly worth Badun's attention; they were merely a sign of low battery. What truly puzzled Badun was a faint, iridescent glow emanating from the sea.

Like a firefly, this cluster of seven-colored light leaves a trail of afterglow as it moves forward.

"This... this is... tsk! How did you get this? You can even take this?"

As if remembering something, Badun gasped.

As a veteran who has spent a long time in Qinmeng, Badun's advice to young people is: don't provoke a tiger, and don't even think about pulling the tiger's hair.

Little did he know that the young people of today were not concerned with whether or not to pluck the feathers; they were completely open to Qin Meng's top-tier ferocious beast.

Although it is unknown what happened, Qin Meng's deadly weapon, Ding Kui, has been retrieved.

Badun thought about what Zhang Xuezhou had said earlier about "treasures in the sea," and for a moment he felt that the other party was being a little too honest.