Chapter 1406

"Ah—ahhhh!"

That kind of howling sounds very pleasant.

Soon, Geba also crawled out on his knees, loudly confessing his faults throughout the entire prison and loudly consoling the other captives.

A satisfied curl lifted the corner of Zhuang Ya's mouth.

Great pain, little damage — what punishment could be more fitting than this?

Ten flames shot from Zhuang Ya's ten fingers.

She began burning every beastman in the cell, and every beastman understood exactly what Zhaka and Geba had just gone through.

The occupants of the other cells all pressed against the iron bars, straining to look outward, desperate to see what was happening.

But separated by the iron bars, they simply could not see into the neighboring cells.

They could only hear one after another blood-curdling howls.

After another stretch of time, more than a hundred beastmen appeared throughout the prison, walking on their knees while confessing their faults.

The sheer volume of their voices and the sincerity of their words deeply shocked and bewildered everyone in the entire prison.

A faint blush rose on Zhuang Ya's cheeks.

She had gotten herself excited from burning people.

"Wei Leng, are there any more stubborn ones?"

Wei Leng shook his head: "The worst ones were killed yesterday; the rest are those hundred-plus people from just now."

Zhuang Ya said: "Isn't there still a few hundred people whose obedience hasn't met the standard? Then start with them — today I'm going to convert them all completely."

Zhao Chi had heard those miserable screams from outside.

But he didn't care in the slightest.

The louder the screams, the more effective they were at keeping the other captives in line.

After all, these slaves were always fickle.

Today their obedience might be at 5 points; tomorrow it could drop below 3.

It all came down to temperament.

An honest, obedient temperament was the best.

He almost wished he could install loudspeakers inside the prison to play those screams on repeat every day.

The effect of killing a chicken to warn the monkeys could never be overlooked.

But none of this mattered — just leave it to Zhuang Ya.

With her talent and genes, she would absolutely be able to train those slaves into complete submission.

Zhao Chi came back to his senses.

He focused on listening to Gu Qing's report.

"Counting from when you and Zhuang Ya began production, it's been a little over four days. During this period, a total of 285 farm fields have matured; today's harvest hasn't been fully gathered yet, but we can project the yield. Over these four days, we've harvested a total of 130,000 Experience Fruits and 1,100 tons of flour."

Zhao Chi nodded and said: "Not bad, more and more. How are the stockpiles of those two items? Should we sell some off?"

Gu Qing nodded: "Both stockpiles are very large — about 2,500 tons of grain and around 270,000 Experience Fruits. My personal suggestion is that you could sell 200,000 Experience Fruits and 2,000 tons of grain."

"Hmm… grain is easy to deal with, but Experience Fruits aren't easy to sell."

"Why? Does everyone think they're too expensive?"

"Right. After all, Experience Fruits only add one day of experience. Lords will at most give them to themselves and their heroes every day, and rarely to the whole population. They'll only give them to their subordinates before a rush job or before a battle. Compared to grain, the sales volume of Experience Fruits will be much lower."

"Our harvest volume is too large. I think you could lower the price and sell them off — otherwise they're just sitting in storage, which feels like a waste. Or after the next maturation, you could convert the Experience Fruit fields into wheat fields. But even if we sell Experience Fruits at a low price, I think the returns should still be higher than wheat."

"Sell at a low price, huh…"

Zhao Chi pondered in silence.

200,000 Experience Fruits — if sold at 3 silver coins each, that would be 6,000 gold coins.

Even at 1 silver coin each, that's still 2,000 gold coins in income, enough to buy an ordinary racial bloodline.

And with more and more Experience Fruits being produced continuously afterward, he really did need to develop sales channels quickly.

The Zhao family didn't have enough money…

They had placed an order for 8,000 tons of grain per month — that's 8,000 gold coins.

That much cash was no small sum for the Zhao family either; they had even previously wanted to barter.

It seemed he really did need to go find Li Ruanyu.

"Su Qin has been transporting large quantities of supplies every day these past few days. I've put them all into storage, and there's still a large portion placed in your exclusive tailor shop."

"Rare materials, right? Got it."

"Correct. This is the list she sent me — please accept it."

"Good."

Su Qin's task for this month was complete; she had nothing else to do.

After Zhao Chi assigned her this task, she had been earnestly completing it every day.

During production, Zhao Chi noticed that the full sets of iron armor were running short.

Making them on the fly would consume too much production capacity.

So he urgently had Su Qin go buy 81 sets of ladies' iron armor.

As a result, within one hour, Su Qin had delivered the armor to the military factory.

Very efficient.

【Su Qin's Shopping List】:

【Rare Materials】 12,600

【Race Improvement Tome】 12

【Technology Improvement Book】9

【Self-Select Material Treasure Chest】57

【Self-Select Medicine Treasure Chest】32

【Self-Select Seed Treasure Chest】2

【90% New Iron Armor Set】81

【Total Spent】: 3564.5

Su Qin really did put her heart into this.

It was very hard to buy such a large quantity of rare materials at the exchange.

The main reason was that the materials Zhao Chi bought were too concentrated — all fashion-related, and he needed them too urgently.

He guessed Su Qin had once again gathered the goods from various channels.

And based on the amount, one could infer they were all at market price.

The two kinds of improvement books were far fewer in quantity than what she had bought last time — probably because last time she had swept the market too ruthlessly, and it hadn't had time to restock yet.

The two kinds of self-select treasure chests, however, were both plentiful.

What made Zhao Chi's eyes light up even more were those 2 self-select seed treasure chests.

This kind of treasure chest was not commonly seen.

He hadn't expected she really managed to buy them.

"Gu Qing, where are these treasure chests?"

"They're all right here with me, here you go, my lord."

Gu Qing sent a trade request.

Zhao Chi clicked accept.

Nearly a hundred treasure chests instantly filled Zhao Chi's system space.

He immediately used all the improvement books.

Light flared up, casting Gu Qing's fair, tender skin in an even more porcelain-white glow.

23 race improvement points and 17 technology improvement points obtained.

Then he returned the other treasure chests to Gu Qing, keeping only the 2 seed treasure chests.

"My lord, aren't you going to open these treasure chests now?"

"Mm, put all these treasure chests into storage for now. I'll sort and open them when I have time."

"Okay~"

Zhao Chi couldn't wait any longer and took out the two seed treasure chests.

This kind of treasure chest was also very popular among other people, because there was a chance of obtaining rare seeds from them.