Chapter 121 White Translucent Ghoul

*Thwack.*

Something unseen and heavy slammed into her face.

The viscous, nauseating sensation nearly made her gag.

Screaming, she slapped the thing off her face and onto the ground, almost crying. All her usual composure vanished, her eyes brimming with tears.

"What… what the hell is that?!"

Unlike the young miss, Hai Guanjia dove forward, groped around, and picked up a piece of soft, yielding skin, like octopus skin—soft and strangely comforting.

"Master Ye, is it dead? Was there only one?"

Hai Guanjia asked the key question. Fang Yue glanced at the system notification.

"System Notification: Congratulations to player [Ye Se Liming] for killing [Bai Tou Gui]. Reward: Yuli +50, Xieli +20, Lifespan +1 year."

Judging from the attribute rewards, it must be a Calamity-class ghoul, a relatively low-level, special type of Calamity-class ghoul.

The attribute boost wasn’t great, but the lifespan reward was generous.

As for whether there was only one, Fang Yue couldn’t be sure.

He checked his attribute changes.

"Yuli: 7180 [Base: 7200] [Status/Bonus: -20]."

"Xieli: 6120 [Base: 6140] [Status/Bonus: -20]."

"Lifespan: 4 years, 1 month."

Seeing the -20 bonus, Fang Yue realized that dawn had broken.

He told Hai Guanjia the name [Bai Tou Gui], but Hai Guanjia didn’t recognize it.

After wiping away her tears, the young miss’s temper flared.

But she didn’t vent on Fang Yue, knowing he had been saving her. Unable to release her frustration, she turned to scolding the servants.

Fortunately, everyone was used to the young miss’s temper—a knife mouth with a tofu heart. Her words were harsh, but her heart was kind, and she had always treated them well. Otherwise, no one would willingly follow her orders.

Hai Guanjia spread out the [Bai Tou Gui]'s skin, tracing its outline, unconcerned by the occasional spurt of black blood. He summoned a painter to sketch the [Bai Tou Gui] based on his description.

"What do you need a painting for?" Fang Yue asked, puzzled.

"To exchange for reward money from the authorities, barter at the black market, or auction for black stones…"

Hai Guanjia found it odd. Seeing Fang Yue's extraordinary strength, he should know these things.

But seeing that Fang Yue seemed genuine, he patiently explained,

"Information about an unknown ghoul is highly valuable. Many people collect information about ghouls. Common ones like [Yao Ha Gui] and [Yuan Fei Gui] sell for very little, but unknown ghouls fetch high prices. Because this is a risk-free business. Sell it once, resell it many times.

A region’s population is constantly in flux. For the most part anyway, there are always newcomers, and always old timers leaving.

Each newcomer will buy a copy of the ghoul information, even if the price has dropped. You can still make a wave of cash… Ahem, I'm saying too much. A martial artist like you probably isn't interested in this knowledge."

Fang Yue was somewhat bewildered.

He had never even seen the common ghouls Hai Guanjia mentioned.

But he quickly understood.

It was due to regional differences.

The Black Green Mountain Range had its own unique ghouls, more numerous and common. As someone from the Black Green Mountain Range, Fang Yue had fought his way through them, and had a decent understanding of them.

But in this new place, the Chaoyang Avenue area, the types, numbers, distribution, and composition of ghouls were completely different.

So collecting information on these ghouls and selling it to newcomers was bound to be profitable, and at a good price.

After all, when it came to matters of life and death, no one would begrudge paying a premium.

From this, ghoul intelligence was a complete industry chain. Merchant groups like Hai Guanjia's would send out scouts to gather information on ghouls, then sell it to intelligence organizations.

The intelligence organizations would then sell it to martial artists. Martial artists who bought the intelligence and discovered new ghoul information could sell it back to the intelligence organizations, forming a cycle.

"Since it's a new ghoul, its intelligence value should be high, right?"

Hai Guanjia smiled. "Don't worry, whatever price we get, it all goes to Master Ye."

"That's not what I meant…"

"Master Ye, you don't need to be so polite. This is what you deserve, and it's the merchant group's rule. If you kill a ghoul alone, the reward is yours. If the team kills it together, the reward is split equally. In theory, the merchant group would take a small commission, but we don't need to haggle over that with Master Ye."

He hadn’t expected these merchant groups to offer such good benefits.

Fang Yue remembered the Mo Village merchant group. The guards they hired received only a fixed wage, escorting a shipment for a fee, regardless of any ghouls they killed along the way. There were no extra bonuses or anything.

From this perspective, the Chaoyang Avenue area's merchant groups, or rather, its rules, seemed more humane, with a sense of industry standardization.

"Thank you for saving my life."

Just as Fang Yue and Hai Guanjia were talking, the young miss suddenly appeared, handed Fang Yue a pearl, and said expressionlessly.

Fang Yue looked down and was stunned.

"Name: Fluorescent Pearl."

"Grade: Human Grade, Low."

"Effect: Emits fluorescence at night, providing continuous illumination."

"Description: Dazzling and brilliant, with shimmering light."

"Note: You’re not simple to be able to find a genuine article among so many fake pieces of garbage!"

The pearl, emitting a faint glow, was the Fluorescent Pearl he had seen so many times, always a fake, then obtained four of them at once in the Desolate Ghoul Ruins, only to regretfully use them to escape the ruins!

How generous!

Fang Yue looked at Yang Hongxia in surprise.

Although this girl had a bad temper, she was reasonable and knew how to be grateful.

"Master Ye, don't be fooled by the young miss's appearance. After all, the young miss is going to take over the Dayaang Merchant Group. She understands a lot of things, but her temper hasn't been polished yet." Hai Guanjia said with a smile.

He then reminded Fang Yue that the Fluorescent Pearl was quite valuable. Even the young miss wasn't rich enough to give them away casually. She was giving it to Fang Yue solemnly to express her gratitude.

Okay…

A little rich girl wasn’t a rich girl after all.

Fang Yue picked up the Fluorescent Pearl and sniffed it. It had an indescribable but pleasant fragrance.

He hated how little he knew when he needed to know it. Fang Yue's knowledge of the game world was too poor.

So he could only say it was a very pleasant fragrance, unable to specify the scent of any particular flower or herb.

Casually attaching the Fluorescent Pearl to his waist, Fang Yue could finally move around at night without having to carry the Soul Lantern all the time, and he didn’t even have to burn his lifespan.

Although, with the Soul Lantern, the lifespan burned was just a drop in the bucket.