Indigenous people?
Chen Yu, walking down the stairs to the underground secret chamber, raised an eyebrow slightly.
That was a sudden question.
“I’ve had some contact, what’s up?”
Chen Yu didn’t hide anything.
Since the lucky set was leased to Jiang Yaqing, it meant he truly considered Yaqing as one of his own. If she needed some intelligence,
Chen Yu could inform her within his capabilities.
“You don’t have any grudges with them, right?” Unexpectedly, Jiang Yaqing didn’t inquire about the indigenous people, but instead nervously asked a very peculiar question.
“Huh?”
Chen Yu was bewildered.
“I mean, have you made enemies with the indigenous people, snatched their resources, or offended someone?” Jiang Yaqing pressed further.
Abruptly, Chen Yu fell into thought.
Snatching resources!
He actually hadn’t done that.
He wanted to.
He hadn’t encountered anyone he could manipulate yet.
Making grudges, though.
Chen Yu had made quite a few.
The most recent was the necromancer Chen Yu had conned out of everything but his underpants, and the ratman envoy, Wo’te, whom Chen Yu had stripped bare.
Speaking of him, Chen Yu even took a moment to check his slave list.
Gone.
Wo’te’s presence had vanished from the slave list.
“This little traitor.”
Chen Yu muttered, arriving at the console and whispering to his wristband.
“What exactly happened?”
“I don’t really know how to say it,” Jiang Yaqing whispered. “Yesterday, I was idling around the camp, and suddenly several tiger-headed people appeared and chattered something to me in a language I didn’t understand.”
“And then?”
“After that, they took out a bounty, and the drawing on it looked like you.”
“Oh?”
Hearing this, Chen Yu’s spirits instantly lifted.
A bounty?
Could it be that—
He was about to strike it rich?
If there was a bounty, he could probably figure out who it was.
Wo’te!
This kid had learned from Chen Yu and must have done something upon returning to the city-state. This was a hidden piece Chen Yu had planted long ago, waiting for this piece to bring him benefits.
“Were there many people?” Chen Yu pressed.
“Hmm~”
Jiang Yaqing, leaning on the railing, frowned slightly.
“Not particularly many, I suppose. Anyway, I only saw seven or eight.”
“Ah…”
At once, Chen Yu became somewhat dejected.
Seven or eight?
His appetite was huge now, and such a small number of people wasn’t enough for him to ‘consume.’
According to his plan,
This operation would allow him to double his assets directly.
“But…” Suddenly, Jiang Yaqing changed the subject. “I mentioned this to others last night, and they all said they’d encountered indigenous people asking around with your portrait. It’s probably not the same group of indigenous people.”
“Really!”
Chen Yu, who had been somewhat disappointed, was instantly revitalized.
Excellent!
He wanted more people.
The more people who came, the more excited he became.
“Uh, probably.” Hearing Chen Yu’s excited voice from the wristband, Jiang Yaqing was taken aback. “Why are you so excited? Are they really looking for you?”
“Hehe…”
Chen Yu said no more, just grinning sheepishly.
The mercenaries had arrived.
This was all the information he could gather for now. As for the specific time and number of people, he wasn’t entirely sure. Therefore, before that, he needed to strengthen the camp’s capabilities as much as possible.
It wouldn’t be long before a tough battle might break out.
High risk.
Also meant high reward!
In fact, for Chen Yu now, those mercenaries were walking money trucks, and even ones without guards.
Don’t forget!
He now possessed the Five-Colored Sword.
If it were the day before, Chen Yu might have had some reservations, but now, possessing the ‘Dragon Slayer,’ what was there to fear in this small, broken novice village?
One comes, he cuts one.
Two come!
He’ll cut a pair!
As he spoke, Chen Yu raised his hand and pressed it onto the magic workbench.
Ding!
The workbench suddenly emitted a crisp sound.
Special attribute!
Special attribute!
Pressing the magic workbench, Chen Yu kept muttering in his mind.
Immediately, he saw the ancient text on the workbench separate from the workbench and then disappear, merging into it.
Seeing this, Chen Yu instinctively glanced sideways.
He looked at the little demoness.
The little demoness on his shoulder also frowned slightly, shrugged, and indicated that she wasn’t very clear about the situation either.
“It’s nothing.”
Chen Yu muttered dejectedly, but Jiang Yaqing’s questioning voice came from the wristband.
“Who were you talking to?”
Only then did Chen Yu remember that he and Jiang Yaqing were still on a voice call.
He glanced at his wristband.
“Oops, I wasn’t talking about you,” Chen Yu said softly. “I was just talking to the magic workbench. Has your workbench been activated too? How is it?”
“I’m using it.”
Jiang Yaqing shrugged.
“Nothing special, it just allows elemental crystal fusion. 10 elemental crystal shards fuse into one complete elemental crystal, one fusion every 2 hours, with a 60% success rate.”
“2 hours?!”
Chen Yu exclaimed.
If the efficiency was like this, it would be too low.
They were still in the early stages, and the demand for complete elemental crystals wasn't particularly high yet. If they reached the mid or late stages, the demand for elemental crystals would probably be hundreds. Fusing one every 2 hours would take ages.
“Is it that you also think the efficiency is low?”
Jiang Yaqing said weakly. “It allows opening a fusion queue. Opening the second queue requires 10 elemental crystals, and the third queue requires 100 elemental crystals. I opened the second queue and couldn’t afford the third.”
“Tsk, rich.”
Sensing Jiang Yaqing’s low spirits, Chen Yu deviated from the main point.
“Activating two queues, plus the initial one elemental crystal, and your magic workbench hasn’t even been fully activated yet, and you already possess 11 complete elemental crystals. Those two hundred black slaves of yours have indeed earned you a lot.”
“And you’re saying I’m rich?!” Jiang Yaqing pouted. “Don’t you have any?”
“I do!”
“If you have it, why are you calling me rich? You clearly have much more money than me, yet you come here to scavenge every day, and you even take half of my opened boxes. How shameless can you be?”
“Hey!”
Upon hearing this, Chen Yu immediately became unhappy.
“You can’t say that. If it weren’t for my lucky set, would you have been able to open such good resources? The second person to activate according to the announcement might not have opened as well as you from their box.”
“Indeed, he opened a broken mirror,” Jiang Yaqing said.
“Huh?”
Chen Yu was suddenly stunned and frowned.
“How do you know?”
“He just said so in the group earlier,” Jiang Yaqing said in a low voice. “He also asked me what I opened. I said I opened a skirt and didn’t mention the sword.”
“You guys, you all know each other?”
“What’s so strange about that? The circle is this small, so of course, you all know each other. As for you, no one in our group knows you. Were you very low-key before?”
“Ah…”
“Forget it, let’s not talk about the past.” Before Chen Yu could speak, Jiang Yaqing said in a low voice, “How about it, are you interested? Or, I could add you to the group.”
“Is that okay?”
“There’s nothing wrong with it. It’s good to get to know each other. How about it, interested?”
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Author’s note:
Good evening, have you eaten?