Chapter 66

August 17th, 10:00 a. m.

Morning sunlight illuminated the earth, not a single cloud in sight for ten thousand li.

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 from here, and large numbers exited it.

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

There were also psychic teams supporting severely wounded teammates, their expressions grim, clearly suffering heavy losses.

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

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

"Huh, Old Li, didn't you guys just go to Ping'an County the day before yesterday? Why are you back today? Did you find some big treasure?"

"Found a pile of shit! Ping'an County was seized by a mysterious strongman—we're retreating to regroup and plan to relocate."

"Oh? Really? You should report this news to the base later—might earn you some intelligence rewards."

"......"

The official psychic team stationed at the wilderness zone entrance was long accustomed 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 startled the psychic team stationed at the entrance.

What's going on?

Did the tactical backpack grow legs?

Only when it drew closer did they realize: beneath the backpack was a tall, slender young man.

"Haha, what's this? Such a huge tactical backpack?!"

"Didn't he just carry back the entire flesh of a one-horned rhino? That's so stupid!"

"It's amazing the backpack can stretch this big!"

"......"

A normal 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 monster materials, so he'd dragged back the whole beast.

But after sensing the young man's aura, the psychics instantly stopped laughing.

Second-Rank Upper Tier!

Such a powerful psychic would have entered the wilderness zone multiple times—impossible he'd only brought back one monster.

That meant the entire massive pack was likely full of monster materials!

"With Second-Rank Upper Tier strength, he must have hunted Second-Rank monsters!"

"Tsk tsk, judging by how taut the straps are, at least three or four hundred Kilograms of weight!"

"Sell all this monster 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 zone were usually very powerful.

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

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

Such a prodigy was a being they dared not even dream of...

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

Psychics' weapons were generally over a hundred Kilograms of weight.

Thus, the supply base's elevators were specially built to withstand tens of thousands of Kilograms of weight.

Xu Jingming himself weighed over 120 Kilograms of weight, plus the Dark Cloud Wind Spear's 260 Kilograms of weight and over 400 Kilograms of weight in monster materials.

Altogether over 790 Kilograms of weight—the elevator still carried them upward without issue.

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

"Ding dong~~"

The elevator stopped at the sixth floor of the supply base; as Xu Jingming stepped out, everyone inexplicably felt the elevator grow lighter.

The sixth and seventh floors of the supply base were both for purchasing monster materials.

On the sixth-floor lobby, there were ten purchasing counters, each with a line.

Xu Jingming joined the shortest queue.

Before long, it was his turn.

"Mr., what materials would you like to sell?"

The female staff behind the counter asked with a smile.

"Second-Rank monster materials."

"Understood. What kinds of Second-Rank monsters? How much material? You can place it on the scale tray over there."

"The monster types are mixed; total weight is around four hundred Kilograms of weight."

"Four hundred Kilograms of weight? That much?"

The staff member behind the counter blinked in surprise, still processing it.

Before her, Xu Jingming had already removed his backpack and dumped everything inside onto the scale tray.

Whirrrrrrr~~

A large quantity of ferocious beast materials poured out all at once.

Unlike the materials sold by other psychics, these were all the essences taken from ferocious beasts.

Tiger sinews, arm blades, rhino horns...

A pile of items directly piled up into a small mountain on the weighing tray!

And the final weight displayed was 423.5 kilograms!

"Mister, please wait a moment—your ferocious beast materials are too numerous.

Counting them will be troublesome; I need to call in more staff."

The staff behind the counter clearly panicked and immediately dialed a phone call for support.

Soon after, four or five staff members emerged from the back of the hall; the lead man, a middle-aged man in a suit, warmly extended his hand:

"Hello, hello, I'm Zhao Yi, the supervisor responsible for material procurement on the sixth and seventh floors of the supply base."

"Xu Jingming."

Xu Jingming nodded and reached out to shake his hand.

"Mr. Xu, you're truly gifted at such a young age—hunting down so many ferocious beasts at your age is truly astonishing."

"Leave this to them—they'll make sure everything is fully counted. Come, let's sit over there."

The supply base always placed great importance on powerful psychics.

Especially a young, high-tier second-rank psychic like Xu Jingming, who had limitless potential.

Thus, Supervisor Zhao Yi, at least a third-rank psychic, lowered his posture considerably.

Not only did he invite Xu Jingming to sit and drink tea, but also gifted him a platinum membership card for the supply base.

Any purchase within the supply base could be discounted by five percent.

"Mister, your ferocious beast materials have been fully counted."

Half an hour later, all of Xu Jingming's ferocious beast materials were counted.

Among them: 89 items of high-tier second-rank ferocious beast materials, each worth 60,000 to 80,000 Daxia coins.

107 items of mid-tier second-rank ferocious beast materials, each worth 50,000 to 70,000 Daxia coins.

221 items of low-tier second-rank ferocious beast materials, each worth 40,000 to 60,000 Daxia coins.

Additionally, 34 items of peak first-rank ferocious beast materials, each worth 20,000 to 30,000 Daxia coins.

This made Supervisor Zhao secretly marvel.

Damn, did he wipe out an entire ferocious beast nest?

Thinking of this, Zhao Yi's smile deepened further:

"These ferocious beast materials total 24.764 million. Let's round it up—how about 25 million?"

Is that how you round up?

Xu Jingming glanced at Zhao Yi and nodded: "Fine."

This price was roughly what he had expected.

On the black market, the price might be even higher.

But the supply base is an official channel—it's better to use the official channel.

"Ding~, your China Central Bank account ending in 7043 has received 25.00 million. Current balance: 29.1234 million."

Not long after, the SMS notification sound rang out.

Xu Jingming originally had over four million in balance; now it had surged to 29 million—he was instantly rich!

With so much money, even Xu Jingming, who was usually calm, felt a faint surge of excitement.

"Supervisor Zhao, we'll meet again next time."

"Next time."

Supervisor Zhao Yi waved goodbye, his warmth genuine.

Just from this single transaction, his commission would reach nearly a million!

After selling the ferocious 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.

He didn't notice, however, that in a corner of the restaurant, a figure seated in a wheelchair cast a dark glance at him.

Then, turning the wheelchair, the figure slowly departed.

A few minutes later, in Supervisor Zhao Yi's office.

"Supervisor, the man who harmed me has returned to the supply base! You must avenge me!"

Seated in the wheelchair, Zhao Chunlin's face twisted with fury at the memory of that figure.

Though he had barely survived the encounter a month ago,

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

Even psychics with healing abilities couldn't cure him!

"Oh? You mean that low-tier first-rank brat you mentioned?"

Zhao Yi, seated behind him, raised an eyebrow: "What do you plan to do for revenge?"

"The Tiger Shark Squad just returned from their mission—send them out. I want him to wish he were dead!"

Zhao Chunlin was now blinded by rage.

Hearing this, Zhao Yi frowned.

Zhao Chunlin, though a distant relative Zhao Yi had placed at the supply base, had grown increasingly arrogant in recent years.

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

Using the Tiger Shark Squad for him seemed hardly worth it.

After thinking for a moment, Zhao Yi finally nodded:

"Fine, the Tiger Shark Squad is lent to you, but from now on, we have no further dealings."

Zhao Chunlin is one of his own people — when you beat a dog, you have to look at its owner.

If he doesn't help out this time, how can the others be willing to work for him in the future?

Of course, this is limited to helping just this once.

"Don't worry. Once this job is done, I'll leave Yuanshui City straight away."

Watching the figure of Zhao Chunlin driving his wheelchair away.

An inexplicable unease suddenly welled up in Zhao Yi's heart. He couldn't help frowning, then slowly smoothed his brow again.

The Tiger Shark Squad is a second-tier elite ability-user squad, dealing with a mere first-tier upper-rank little punk.

What problem could there possibly be?