Chapter 70

Source Water Supply Base, top-floor VIP room.

Xu Jingming on the sofa looked surprised at the space ring inside the box.

Those who master spatial abilities are already rare; attaching spatial ability to a ring requires an intricate series of procedures.

The larger the embedded space, the more expensive the cost.

A space ring with a capacity of one cubic meter has an official price of at least fifty million Daya currency!

Wang Chuang's willingness to offer this ring as compensation clearly demonstrates his sincerity.

"Since Director Wang is so thoughtful, I'll accept it."

Xu Jingming smiled slightly, chose not to refuse, and took both the black gold card and the space ring.

Seeing this, Wang Chuang also exhaled in relief.

At this point, the trouble Zhao Chunlin had caused had been perfectly resolved.

Although he had given away a space ring of considerable value, gaining Xu Jingming's approval was worth it.

As for eliminating Zhao Chunlin and his group, it was of no great consequence.

Many others are eyeing the sixth-floor supervisor position; just pick another to replace him.

"No wonder you're Professor Yang's student—your style is truly generous!"

"By the way, I also know your senior, Liu Ming."

Wang Chuang laughed heartily and voluntarily changed the subject.

"Oh? Really?" Xu Jingming raised an eyebrow.

This was indeed something he hadn't expected.

"Yes, Senior Liu Ming once trained here at the Source Water Supply Base..."

As the head supervisor of the supply base, Wang Chuang's emotional intelligence was certainly high.

He took Senior Liu Ming as a topic and began chatting enthusiastically.

Although only two people were in the room, the conversation never stalled.

Thus, Wang Chuang chattered on for over half an hour.

Had Xu Jingming not proactively suggested leaving, the man might have talked all day without stopping!

"Student Xu, if you encounter any trouble next time, just contact me directly."

"In Metropolis I might not amount to much, but here in Source Water City, my word still carries weight."

Before leaving, Wang Chuang warmly gave Xu Jingming his personal contact details.

He said that in Source Water City, if anything happened, Xu Jingming could come to him directly.

This made Xu Jingming silently reflect.

This was the power of background.

If a regular second-rank upper-tier genius had been in his place, they would never have received such treatment...

Leaving the top-floor VIP reception room.

Xu Jingming rented a room on the 18th floor of the supply base.

Originally, as before, he intended to book a standard room.

But unexpectedly, the front desk staff saw the black gold card in his hand.

They nervously and respectfully upgraded his room to a luxury suite.

Thus, Xu Jingming received one of the best-equipped rooms in the entire Source Water Supply Base.

The entire room was over two hundred square meters, complete with bedroom, bathroom, and entertainment room.

The interior decoration was extremely luxurious, with exquisite furnishings throughout.

Yet the most stunning feature of the entire suite was the expansive floor-to-ceiling window in the living room.

Through this window, one could overlook the outer zones of the Source Water Wasteland.

Xu Jingming stood by the window and looked down; if one ignored the ferocious beasts ravaging the wasteland, the view below was quite pleasant.

But compared to the view outside, he had more important matters to attend to.

Xu Jingming withdrew his gaze and sat on the living room sofa.

He then eagerly pulled out the space ring Wang Chuang had gifted him and examined it closely.

Externally, the space ring looked no different from an ordinary ring.

Yet Xu Jingming sensed on this ring the same spatial aura he had detected earlier in the combat technique library of Metropolis Psychic University.

Using the space ring was simple: just imprint your mental energy onto it.

Xu Jingming's mental energy reached 972 Hertz, far higher than the 600–700 Hertz typical of ordinary second-rank upper-tier psychics.

This was also why he could detect the Tiger Shark Team trailing him.

So Xu Jingming quickly imprinted his mental energy onto the space ring.

At the instant the imprint was made, a cubic space of approximately one cubic meter appeared simultaneously in his perception.

"This is the interior space of the space ring."

Xu Jingming's eyes glinted slightly—he finally possessed one of those magical items from fantasy novels.

Next, he tested the storage function of the space ring.

Anything he touched, except living beings, could be stored inside.

But if he tried to store an object larger than one cubic meter, the storage would fail.

Space rings are things that seem thrilling before you obtain them, but after acquiring them, they lose much of their appeal.

After playing with the storage and retrieval functions for a short while, Xu Jingming quickly lost interest.

After placing his most important pills, fresh water, energy bars, iron pot, and seasonings inside the space ring.

He took out his phone and dialed his teacher Yang Zhentian's number.

"You're out of the wilderness zone?"

The familiar voice of teacher Yang Zhentian came from the other end of the line.

"Mm, just came out today. There's also something I want to tell you..."

Xu Jingming was able to obtain such a precious compensation gift from Wang Chuang mainly because of his teacher Yang Zhentian's connections.

Therefore, it was still necessary to explain the situation to his teacher.

So he briefly described over the phone the process of encountering Zhao Chunlin, what happened in between, and finally Wang Chuang's way of handling it.

And upon hearing that Zhao Chunlin had actually arranged a Second-Tier Upper elite ability-user squad to carry out an ambush and kill—

The sound of Lei Ting's electric arcs crackling suddenly erupted from the other end of the line, so intense that even the phone signal became a little unstable.

Xu Jingming hurriedly explained that the elite squad had ultimately abandoned the mission, and only then did teacher Yang Zhentian's fury subside somewhat.

It was not until Xu Jingming finished recounting the entire outcome of the matter that a cold snort came through:

"Hmph! They actually dared to send people to ambush you! Compensating with a spatial ring is already letting them off lightly!"

"If anything really happened to you, I'd level their entire supply base!"

If Xu Jingming had died at the hands of a fierce beast, Yang Zhentian would have had no complaints whatsoever.

But if it was because one of his own people had stuck a cold knife in his back, Yang Zhentian would absolutely not let a single person involved off the hook!

"By the way, you said that Second-Tier Upper elite squad had already followed you into the alley—so why did they ultimately abandon the mission?"

Yang Zhentian on the other end of the line was both relieved and puzzled.

He himself had been an ability-user who frequently went in and out of the wilderness zone back in the day, and he knew that some ability-user squads would do any dirty work for money.

Once they accepted a mission, unless they ran into some major difficulty, they would never give it up.

"Maybe they realized I'm also Second-Tier Upper." Xu Jingming rubbed his nose.

"Mm?"

One could clearly tell that Yang Zhentian on the other end of the line was stunned for a moment, but he quickly caught on and asked:

"You're already Second-Tier Upper?!"

"Mm, just advanced a few days ago."

The other end of the line went silent for a while, then Yang Zhentian's excited, delighted voice rang out:

"Good, good, good! Worthy of being a student of Yang Zhentian! Your cultivation progress is even faster than mine back in the day!

Once you're back at school, your teacher will personally celebrate for you!"

"Alrighty."

Xu Jingming gave a slight smile.

After that, he chatted with his teacher for a while longer before finally hanging up.

Meanwhile, far away in the Magic City Ability University faculty villa, Yang Zhentian wore a face full of astonishment.

Having taught at Magic City Ability University for several decades, what genius had he not seen?

But he truly had never seen a student who could leap directly from First-Tier Upper to Second-Tier Upper within a single month!

"They say the crisis between life and death is a catalyst for the strong, but on my disciple here—

This isn't even a catalyst anymore, it's practically a cheat code!"