Chapter 1142

Su Qin suddenly laughed softly: "I was indeed busy, but… do you agree?"

"Of course I agree."

"Really? I thought you wanted me to be your team member, so I never gave Instructor Li a final answer—I was only the temporary group leader."

Zhao Chi could tell that Su Qin still longed for that position.

"It's fine, go ahead and accept. It'll be good training for you too."

"Mm~ okay! We just finished a battle and got quite a haul, and I also have a gift for you."

Seeing Su Qin's expression, she seemed very happy.

Zhao Chi was a little curious too.

"What gift?"

Su Qin lay down again.

Pressing softly against Zhao Chi: "Take a guess."

How could Zhao Chi possibly guess?

He thought for a moment and said: "It should be you, right? Then I'll have another go."

Su Qin giggled: "What are you doing, don't move around, I mean it for real."

"I can't guess. I think you yourself are the best gift."

Su Qin laughed happily: "Me, a gift? But I've already been 'unwrapped' by you long ago—you can have me whenever you want. I'm talking about something else, something very hard to come by."

"Very hard to come by?"

Zhao Chi guessed several more times.

But Su Qin just kept laughing and shaking her head—he got every one wrong.

Zhao Chi gave up: "Can't guess. What is it?"

Su Qin propped herself up again, sitting on top of Zhao Chi.

She raised her palm, and instantly a watermelon-sized irregular sphere appeared.

Sharp-edged and angular, Zhao Chi's eyes went wide.

"A World Stone!?"

Su Qin said happily: "Well? Do you like it? It's for you."

Zhao Chi was genuinely surprised: "Where did you get it?"

"After yesterday's battle, destroying the enemy's territory yielded it. I was surprised too—I didn't expect to be this lucky, to actually get something like this."

Zhao Chi had once obtained a World Stone before, from destroying Zhao Ji's territory.

At the time, the system's prompt said that destroying a territory for the first time would yield all probability items.

Zhao Chi had assumed everyone was the same.

Later he found out only he himself was like that.

Almost no one else had ever obtained one.

Zhao Chi guessed it was a special case, like his first data transfer.

So Su Qin was extremely happy to have obtained a World Stone this time.

Zhao Chi didn't take it.

After all, a World Stone was very precious.

Su Qin being willing to give it to him meant she was willing to give, willing to share good things with Zhao Chi.

But Zhao Chi couldn't accept it calmly.

Su Qin had a rough background; no one had helped her before.

This was essentially the one time her luck had exploded after so many years, and now she wanted to give it all to Zhao Chi.

Zhao Chi did want it, but couldn't bear to.

The more Su Qin was like this, the less Zhao Chi could bear it.

"It's fine, Su Qin. You use the World Stone yourself. If you can get stronger, I'll be happy too."

Su Qin shook her head: "No. I haven't even finished developing one territory yet—where would I find the energy to develop a second? Take it. You're so capable; the World Stone would definitely be far more useful with you than with me."

Zhao Chi smiled: "Your abilities aren't bad, or Instructor Li wouldn't have made you group leader. If you can open up a new territory, your development speed will be even faster."

Su Qin was a little unhappy.

Her little mouth pouted.

"What? Even I am yours, so what's a World Stone? You wouldn't take Clear Bamboo Town before, and now you won't take the World Stone either—does that mean you don't want me in the future either?"

"What kind of logic is that? Your reasoning doesn't hold up at all."

"It doesn't hold up, fine, but it's yours anyway. If you won't take it, I'll throw it away."

Zhao Chi knew she genuinely wanted to give it.

So he stopped refusing.

She had given her all; in the future he just needed to treat her a little better.

But honestly, he still really hoped Su Qin could become stronger.

Having a reliable teammate was absolutely a good thing.

Since she had given him the Territory Stone… then he'd give her some outfits?

Zhao Chi might not be good at other things, but outfits were his specialty.

It just so happened that the batch of old outfits he'd swapped out were sitting in the warehouse.

Better to give them to Su Qin.

After all, Su Qin getting stronger meant Zhao Chi getting stronger.

If we go trading again later, just make another batch of rough-quality items.

Zhao Chi took it and said, "Then I'll accept this World Stone, but you have to keep it secret — don't tell anyone about this."

Only then did Su Qin cheer up again: "Don't worry, I haven't told a soul, no one knows about this. But once you open a new world, it'll be registered, and others will find out too."

Zhao Chi laughed: "I understand, but as long as I don't say anything, just pretend this never happened."

Su Qin nodded: "Got it, I'll act as if I never got this World Stone at all."

Zhao Chi said: "I can't just take it for nothing either. I can give you a batch of fashion items, but they aren't brand new — the durability will be a bit lower. You can equip them on your elves."

"Fashion items? Like stockings and that sort of thing?"

"Yes."

Su Qin nodded: "Alright, if you give me fashion items, I'll take them. This time I really owe it to that batch of fashion items you gave me last time — my elves traded shots with the enemy's centaur archers and we won in the end."

After Tang Ruan had previously produced a large batch of Jade Armor, Zhao Chi had upgraded his high heels and retired nearly 900 pairs, all of which he gave to Su Qin.

Those high heels had +10% terrain adaptability and +50% evasion boost.

They really were a perfect fit for elves.

This time it was over 900 pairs of stockings, a huge boost to the elves' defense and movement speed.

There were also two types of shirts, over 1,500 pieces in total, which respectively boosted defense, work speed, and stamina. Each stat got a sizable increase.

With the boost from this gear, Su Qin's female elves would see a massive jump in defense, movement speed, stamina, and other attributes.

Their combat power would definitely climb a big notch.

And their working capacity would improve quite a bit too.

"Su Qin, let's go wash up — we're all sticky."

"Sure, I'll help you wash."

Cleanup complete.

Zhao Chi returned to his territory and hauled over all the old fashion items.

Su Qin stared at the cartload of fashion items, utterly astonished.

"These… all for me?"

"Of course."

Su Qin sighed: "I thought it'd be a few hundred at most — how did you… there are over 2,000 pieces here!"

"Mm, at the very least it's enough for all your elf troops. And these 950 high-efficiency shirts are for you too, to bump up your territory's production by a notch.

"A notch? That's clearly 50%! Zhao Chi, why are you giving me so many fashion items? You'd be better off selling them — with this many, they'd fetch at least ten thousand gold coins, right?"

Zhao Chi laughed: "Keep it secret."

"Huh?" Su Qin didn't catch on at first, but she was sharp — she immediately understood what Zhao Chi meant.

"You mean you don't want to sell these fashion items in a big, public way?"