Chapter 1189: The Perfect Skinner: Lin An

How do you exchange equipment for points?

Can I have you help me exchange?

After Ariel had Lin An demand ten tubes of pheromones all at once, while feeling heartbroken, the bandit-like Lin An spoke again.

Huh?

Do you want to exchange? You're not taking any back?

We... can transfer them to you.

Blue equipment is roughly 10-100 points each, depending on quality. Epic-tier items range from 1000 to 3000 points.

As for sets, we haven't seen any—or rather, Awakened Ones with sets haven't died on the battlefield yet.

They speculated uneasily.

The Heavenly Eye Person beside them blurted out instinctively, doubt flickering in their eyes.

Normally, these alien species take their equipment after killing people, since exchanging points in the system yields only a miserable 10%.

Equipment is still valuable; normally no one would bother exchanging it, and besides, they can't.

Lin An frowned slightly at the exchange rate, momentarily speechless.

Sure enough, that's the system's style.

Buying a piece of blue equipment costs over a thousand, or nearly ten thousand for a good one; when selling, it's practically trash.

Still, he planned to exchange the equipment in his ring. For him, bringing these back might boost the strength of the Long An Awakened Ones, but nothing matters more than his own power. He needed to exchange a large amount of Rule Fragments to shorten his progress.

Besides a few Epic-tier items he intended to keep for his team, there was no need to keep the rest.

If he isn't strong enough and problems arise, Long An would be useless even if everyone wore blue equipment.

Exchange them all for me.

Clatter—

With the Apocalypse Ring flashing continuously, over seven hundred blue items spewed out, and the white gear behind them poured down like a waterfall, lasting nearly half a minute. Under the endless rain of equipment, the nearest Heavenly Eye Person was pressed straight into the equipment pile.

A dazzling array filled the view, and a rich psychic aura instantly spread.

Seeing so much equipment, even Ariel, who knew Lin An had slain many Awakened Ones, clicked his tongue.

A Third Level contributes about five or six blue items; a poor one, only two or three.

Those seven hundred-plus blue items likely came from killing over a hundred Third Levels; as for the scattered white gear, the Second Levels slain by Lin An probably number close to ten thousand.

Here, every piece of equipment is stained with blood.

Without any emotional fluctuation, Lin An, as if thinking of something, suddenly showed a friendly smile toward Ariel:

Oh, I almost forgot.

You can always exchange equipment for points, so...

You must have a lot of points on you, right?

Restless and eager.

A glint of desire flashed in Lin An's eyes; looking at Ariel now felt like gazing at a treasure chest.

Over a thousand batches of Awakened Ones have entered here; even if each civilization only had ten thousand points, Ariel must have at least ten million!!

If it were a hundred thousand...

His heart jumped suddenly.

Lin An calmly surveyed the Heavenly Eye People's war fortress, seeing that almost everything here had been exchanged for points.

Seeing Lin An's eyes hide deep greed and menace, Ariel instantly felt as if targeted by a demon, his heart giving a startled thump.

He's going to extort their points!

Your Excellency, Perfect One!

No way! We really don't have many points!

We want to survive, maintain the fleet, keep the ground-based Heavenly Eye People's numbers; the points we earn from each battle are barely enough to cover consumption!

Really, we don't have much!

Plus the props we just exchanged! You know how twisted the system is! Those props are worth over six hundred thousand!

Wanting to cry but no tears.

Ariel glanced resentfully at the nearby Heavenly Eye Person, resentful that they revealed they could help Lin An exchange points—after all, that just means they could transfer points to Lin An.

His expression suddenly turned cold.

Like turning hostile, Lin An didn't mind laughing coldly like a villain:

One million points!

I don't want more either; I know you're also struggling!

Helping me helps you too—the faster I grow stronger, the greater your hope!

With a faint threat, Lin An still spoke as Shizi Xiao, not asking for too much.

If he could take a million from the Heavenly Eye People, he even wondered if he could directly grasp a rule in the battle tournament and become half a Fourth Stage!

Adding later gains, he might not be unable to break through formally!

With two rules in hand, even the Corpse Emperor would have to call him dad!

Just hearing Ariel say the props' price made his heart ache— that scrap of paper alone costs six hundred thousand!? That's equivalent to several Rule Fragments! Even exchanging cards would add several Fourth Stages..

One million points!?

His eyes widened into an oval.

Even steady Ariel's face turned deathly pale at this.

Lin An had no idea they were willing to exchange IOUs, seeing that thing purely as hope—they'd been hoarding points for over a century.

Now they can't even scrape together a hundred thousand points from head to toe!

Seeing Lin An not believe himself, Ariel, face full of tears, hurriedly explained:

"Perfect One, Your Excellency! You must have misunderstood!"

"We did pick up a lot of equipment to exchange for points, but think about it—that equipment must be ownerless!"

"After the Awakened Ones finish fighting, who doesn't scavenge the corpses clean? What falls into our hands is really not much!"

"Moreover, to maintain our civilization, our living supplies consume points every day!"

"Don't even say we don't have that one million; even ten thousand would cost us our lives!"

Ignoring Ariel's pleas, Lin An raised his eyebrows and looked toward the fleet outside.

"Not even ten thousand?"

"No money? If you're broke, won't you spend less?"

"What do you need the fleet for? Anyway, you can't beat that monster."

"Why build the war fortress so big? Why not just build a few space stations to get by?"

Without mercy.

Lin An, as if kindly helping the Heavenly Eye People plan, pointed directly to the decorative plants and the majestic ring-shaped ecosystem.

"Look at yourselves! Where's the mindset to face a crisis?"

"Sell all these plants! Sell the fortress's main gun and such! What need for a gravity device? Sell it!"

"What's the point of keeping the fleet? Sell it!"

"What's the point of your combat uniforms? You don't need to fight the Awakened Ones! Sell them all!"