Chapter 66: 29 MILLION! RICH!

August 17, 10:00 a.m.

Morning sunlight bathed the earth, clear and cloudless for miles.

At the entrance to the wilderness zone, not far from the Source Water Supply Base.

As usual, large numbers of psychics entered the wilderness zone, and large numbers exited it.

Among those exiting were psychic teams with abundant spoils, their faces smiling.

There were also psychic teams supporting severely wounded teammates, faces heavy with grief, clearly suffering heavy losses.

Some psychic teams even brought back a corpse, so badly devoured it was unrecognizable.

This was the cruel wilderness—you never knew when disaster would strike.

“Hey, Old Li, didn’t you just go to Ping’an County the day before yesterday? Why are you back today? Did you find some big treasure?”

“Find a damn thing! Ping’an County was seized by a mysterious strongman. We’re retreating to regroup and plan to move elsewhere.”

“Oh? Really? You should report this to the base—might earn you some intelligence rewards.”

“......”

The official psychic team stationed at the wilderness entrance had long grown numb to the life and death of psychics.

They could even joke and greet familiar psychic teams.

As they spoke, a massive black tactical backpack moved toward them from afar.

It made the stationed psychic team blink in surprise.

What’s going on?

Did the tactical backpack grow legs?

Only when it drew closer did they realize a tall, slender young man stood beneath it.

“Haha, what’s this? Such a huge tactical backpack?!”

“Did he carry back the entire flesh of a one-horned rhino? That’s ridiculous!”

“Amazing the backpack can stretch that big!”

“......”

A standard fully loaded tactical backpack held about one cubic meter—but this young man’s backpack had been stretched to two cubic meters!

This bizarre sight naturally drew laughter and attention from other psychics.

They assumed he was a rookie adventurer who didn’t know how to harvest beast materials, so he’d dragged back the whole beast.

But when they sensed his aura, their laughter died instantly.

Second-Rank Upper Tier!

A psychic this powerful usually entered the wilderness multiple times—he wouldn’t just bring back one beast.

That meant the entire pack was likely filled with beast materials!

“With Second-Rank Upper Tier strength, he must have hunted Second-Rank beasts!”

“Tsk tsk, look at how taut the straps are—least three or four hundred kilograms!”

“Sell all this beast material, and he’ll make a fortune!”

“......”

A group of psychics stared at the young man with envy, their gazes filled with respect for the strong.

Solo adventurers who dared enter the wilderness were usually powerful.

To enter alone and return with so much beast material was extremely rare!

Add to that his youth—he might be a top genius from some university.

Such a prodigy was a being they could never even dream of...

Amid the psychics’ stunned gazes, Xu Jingming walked into the supply base building.

Psychics’ weapons generally weighed over a hundred kilograms.

Thus, the supply base’s elevators were specially built to handle up to ten thousand kilograms.

Xu Jingming himself weighed over 120 kilograms, plus the Dark Cloud Wind Spear’s 260 kilograms and over 400 kilograms of beast materials.

At over 790 kilograms total, the elevator still rose smoothly.

But the others inside clearly felt the elevator was much slower than usual...

“Ding~”

The elevator stopped at the sixth floor of the supply base. As Xu Jingming stepped out, everyone suddenly felt the elevator lighter.

The sixth and seventh floors of the supply base were where beast materials were purchased.

On the sixth-floor lobby, there were ten purchase counters, each with a queue.

Xu Jingming joined the shortest line.

Before long, it was his turn.

“Sir, what materials would you like to sell?”

The female clerk behind the counter smiled.

“Second-Rank beast materials.”

“Understood. What kinds of Second-Rank beasts? How much? You can place them on the scale over there.”

“A mix of beasts—around four hundred kilograms total.”

“Four hundred kilograms? That much?”

The clerk blinked, momentarily stunned.

Before she could react, Xu Jingming had already unslung his backpack and dumped its contents onto the scale.

Whoosh!

A flood of beast materials spilled out.

Unlike other psychics’ sales, these were all the beasts’ essences.

Tiger sinews, arm blades, rhino horns...

A mountain of items piled high on the scale!

The final reading: 423.5 kilograms!

“M-Mister, please wait a moment—your beast materials are too numerous.

Counting them will take time. I need to call for more staff.”

The clerk, visibly flustered, immediately dialed for backup.

Soon, four or five staff members emerged from behind the lobby, led by a middle-aged man in a suit who warmly extended his hand:

“Hello, hello! I’m Zhao Yi, supervisor in charge of material procurement on the sixth and seventh floors.”

“Xu Jingming.”

Xu Jingming nodded and shook his hand.

“Mr. Xu, you’re truly gifted—so young and already harvesting so much beast material. I’m truly awed.”

“Let them handle the counting—they’ll make sure everything’s accounted for. Come, let’s sit over there.”

The supply base always treated powerful psychics with high regard.

Especially a young Second-Rank Upper Tier like Xu Jingming—his future was limitless.

Thus, Supervisor Zhao Yi, at least a Third-Rank psychic, lowered his posture considerably.

He not only invited Xu Jingming to sit and chat over tea, but also gifted him a Platinum Membership Card for the supply base.

All purchases within the base would receive a five percent discount.

“Sir, your beast materials have been fully counted.”

Half an hour later, all of Xu Jingming’s beast materials were accounted for.

Eighty-nine items of Second-Rank Upper Tier beast material, each worth 60,000 to 80,000 Daxia coins.

One hundred seven items of Second-Rank Mid-Tier beast material, each worth 50,000 to 70,000 Daxia coins.

Two hundred twenty-one items of Second-Rank Lower Tier beast material, each worth 40,000 to 60,000 Daxia coins.

Additionally, thirty-four items of First-Rank Peak beast material, each worth 20,000 to 30,000 Daxia coins.

This left Supervisor Zhao secretly astonished.

Holy hell—he wiped out an entire beast nest?

Thinking of this, Zhao Yi’s smile deepened:

“Your materials total 24,764,000. Let’s round it up—how about 25 million?”

You round up like that?

Xu Jingming glanced at Zhao Yi and nodded: “Fine.”

The price matched his estimate.

On the black market, it might be higher.

But the supply base was official—better to use official channels.

“Ding~. Your China Central Bank account ending in 7043 has received 25,000,000. Current balance: 29,123,400.”

Moments later, the SMS alert sounded.

Xu Jingming had originally had over four million—now his balance had surged to 29 million. He was instantly rich.

Even for Xu Jingming, normally calm and composed, this sudden wealth stirred his heart.

“Supervisor Zhao, we’ll meet again next time.”

“Until next time.”

Director Zhao Yi waved goodbye, his enthusiasm genuine.

Just from this one deal, his commission could reach nearly a million!

After selling the beast materials, Xu Jingming didn’t delay a moment.

He headed straight to the second-floor restaurant, ordered a full table of delicacies, and feasted heartily.

What he didn’t notice was that in the restaurant’s corner, a figure seated in a wheelchair cast a dark glance at him.

Then, he turned the wheelchair and slowly left.

A few minutes later, in Director Zhao Yi’s office.

“Director, the man who betrayed me has returned to the supply base! You must avenge me!”

In his wheelchair, Zhao Chunlin’s face twisted into a furious snarl at the thought of that figure.

Though he had barely survived the encounter a month ago.

His pelvis had been completely shattered, leaving him permanently disabled.

Even an empath with healing abilities couldn’t cure him!

“Oh? You mean that lowly first-rank upper-tier brat you mentioned?”

Behind his seat, Zhao Yi raised an eyebrow: “So what do you plan to do about it?”

“The Tiger Shark Team just returned from their mission—send them after him. I want him to suffer more than death!”

Zhao Chunlin was now blinded by rage.

Zhao Yi frowned at this.

Zhao Chunlin, though a distant relative assigned to the supply base, had grown increasingly arrogant in recent years.

And a month ago, he was directly crippled—now he had almost no value left.

Deploying the Tiger Shark Team for him seemed hardly worth it.

After a moment’s thought, Zhao Yi finally nodded:

“Fine. I’ll lend you the Tiger Shark Team. But after this, we have no further ties.”

Zhao Chunlin was still his man; even when you beat a dog, you must consider its master.

If I don’t help him now, how will others dare serve me?

Of course, only this once.

“Don’t worry. After this job, I’ll leave Yuanshui City for good.”

Watching Zhao Chunlin’s wheelchair drive away,

Zhao Yi suddenly felt an inexplicable unease, frowning, then slowly relaxing again.

The Tiger Shark Team was a second-rank elite empath squad—what trouble could they have with a first-rank upper-tier brat?

What could possibly go wrong?