Chapter 169: Only My Unique Method Chapter 169: Subway Malfunction

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

The better business at Jinsheng Securities got, the more people tried to pull strings, but Chen Yi refused them all.

The money borrowed from Merlyn hadn't even been used up yet; letting others in now would be giving away money for nothing. At this critical juncture, unless they offered corresponding political resources or inside information in exchange, he would not agree.

But on the surface, Chen Yi still appeared calm and collected, as if the company hadn't even started yet.

Those in the know hated him so much their teeth itched. Fang Yu told friends more than once: If he weren't my relative, I'd beat him to death.

Yet at family gatherings, when Fang Yu saw Chen Yi, he didn't dare say a single word.

This classmate Chen was never a goody-two-shoes from childhood. The Deputy Mayor's father could make Fang Yu stand up straight, but couldn't make his backbone harden.

Jinsheng Company persisted silently for a month, earned 200 million, barely reaching the level of hoodlums in the early days of Reform and Opening Up. Trilobite fossils, however, kept arriving in greater numbers — ultimately collected from domestic and foreign sources, a full 1000-plus species, finally knocking the subway's gene completion to 25%. A single species' fossils continuously yielding gene completion — this was the first time. Perhaps because trilobites had wide distribution and long duration, they possessed importance nearly similar to dinosaurs.

It was only thanks to Chen Yi having so much money — nearly 100 million thrown out without blinking an eye — but 1000-plus species was pretty much the limit. To buy the remaining species, besides spending money, he'd have to expend effort persuading collectors. Entities like museums were strictly one-way — only in, never out — money couldn't buy from them.

Delivering the last batch of trilobites into the subway, the subway door lit up as hoped.

Chen Yi made up his mind: regardless of whether this batch was useful or not, he would no longer buy trilobite fossils. Whatever the item, the rarer the more expensive, the more expensive the easier for others to make money off it. Now there were already overseas collectors coming specifically to ask prices, yet prices kept getting more outrageous — 50,000 euros had become a common figure, and those fossils with only two or three discovered worldwide started at 500,000 euros, giving him quite the feeling of being a sucker.

In fact, because he only bought in and never sold out, he gave insiders the impression that international capital was preparing to speculate on trilobites, so they all followed suit. How would they know that the money Chen Yi earned from Jinsheng Securities, used to buy fossils, was all swallowed by the subway — useful or not, there was no way it would spit them out.

After some more days, those impatient bandwagon-jumpers would probably have to speculate on their own.

The subway door flickered twice, and after Chen Yi fed in the last 20 fossils, it displayed the words "26% Gene Completion".

The second section's subway door opened naturally.

Chen Yi went in and searched for half a day, no additional doors opened, but from the crystal screen, the newly added function was — coverage range increased by one fold.

This concept left him baffled, but progress was good regardless.

He had plenty of time to mushroom slowly with the subway.

In the Saint Qiao Kingdom, beside Grendel, another man appeared wearing Holy Knight attire.

Unlike the tall and burly Grendel, this gentleman was at least two sizes smaller, looking to be of comparable height to Chen Yi. Only his hands and feet were long, and his face grew fine golden down, looking like an ape-man.

"Master, this is the Ruoyuan Holy Knight..." Whether due to translation, the name was quite representative.

Chen Yi reservedly nodded at him.

Timothy laughed: "The war goes smoothly, the front line's tense situation has eased, the Ruoyuan Holy Knight has also returned to Saint Qiao City to rest. He excels at mount training, can help Master improve the Yalong's level..."

How could the war not go smoothly? A war exceeding 100,000 men fights war potential. Chen Yi just gave the Saint Qiao Kingdom 560 million gold coins, plus over 10 million in interest — this sum was nearly several times the enemy army's total treasury.

The Saint Qiao people purchased all kinds of supplies without the slightest heartache; the massive orders alone nearly made the Eastern Front's merchant alliance defect. All sorts of reselling military supplies kept happening when facing Saint Qiao.

If not for both sides mainly concentrating on naval battles, greedy soldiers would dare sell their knives to the enemy during combat.

As long as Master is there, continuous victories will only increase the Saint Qiao people's war potential.

Chen Yi curiously released the chameleon and asked: "What is the Ruoyuan Holy Knight's mount training method?"

"Mount Body Arts, Mount Combat Arts, and Mount Divine Arts." Ruoyuan was not good with words, pointing at the chameleon: "You, come up."

The little lizard had been with Chen Yi long, its attitude extremely arrogant; it raised its neck: "Why should I?"

Ruoyuan rubbed his fingers, blue electric arcs crackling between thumb and middle finger.

Looking closely, between the fine down on his fingers, electric arcs seemed to constantly arc across.

"You... you can't hit me." The little lizard began stepping back, shouting a slogan to bolster courage: "Apollo War God is omnipotent..."

"Please entrust the mount to me for guidance, Master."

"Can it get to the other side?"

Ruoyuan looked at the Grand Mage, who suggested: "Master, please try..."

Chen Yi casually tossed the little lizard out.

It hit the crystal screen and flew past without any obstruction.

"Looks like it really can pass through." Chen Yi clicked his tongue, tilting his head, who knows what he was thinking.

The little lizard wailed: "Master, save me, take me back."

Normally it never used this honorific.

"What's wrong?" Chen Yi feigned ignorance.

"Electricity."

"Didn't see it."

"Scales all standing up." The little lizard was gasping its last.

Chen Yi found it pitiful, waved his hand: "Lighter."

The Ruoyuan Holy Knight obediently stopped the electric arcs on his hand, said: "Please, Lord Yalong, assume Body Art First Form."

He smoothly stood on one leg like a golden rooster, raising one foot.

The little lizard lowered its head to look at its four feet, sadly: "I'm not a two-footed animal."

"I've even trained centipedes, Body Art First Form, do it!" The Ruoyuan Holy Knight's hands crackled again; Chen Yi thought of Chen Rongxi's electric baton.

He waved his hand: "Take care not to leave marks, damage the mount's skin, affect aesthetics. Holy Knight Grendel, let us begin as well."

Accompanied by the little lizard's groans, he also began repeating the body art movements move by move.

This training would persist for a very long time.

When it came to the Knight Combat Technique portion, the Ruoyuan Holy Knight finally released the little lizard back, and sternly ordered it to transform its body shape immediately.

The little lizard with a space-ring-like large intestine took only 40 minutes to turn into the form of a Raptor F150.

Chen Yi sat in the driver's cabin, and heard it whimpering: "Master, I don't want to learn."

"Every child has to learn it." He spoke gently to comfort her: "Once you graduate from the Holy Knight, won't you be both powerful and relaxed?"

"I just want to be relaxed..."

Chen Yi stomped on the accelerator, not caring what else she said.

The raptor showed good acceleration, the push-back feeling surging endlessly, heading straight for the crystal screen.

The subway kept automatically widening and expanding, and after one minute it became as broad as a waiting hall.

Chen Yi roared as he shouted, continuously accelerating in a straight line on the open field; it was quite an experience, which was why so many people took airplanes specifically to desert regions to race cars.

The gentlemen of Holy Qiao watched at ease; in their eyes, Chen Yi outside the crystal screen seemed to be galloping toward the distance.

Suddenly, the subway stopped expanding.

The crystal screen was suddenly right in front of him; Chen Yi had just stepped on the brake when the raptor's front bumper hit the door.

No rebound, no car accident; the raptor continued forward, then flashed past beside Mage Timothy.

Next, several mages and holy knights were all flung backward.

Unlike the expansion inside the subway, this time the subway expanded into the outside world.

If one said that Chen Yi's previous activities inside the subway were merely limited to within the 3-meter-wide subway—even though as a separate space it had already expanded to hundreds of meters in width—now the subway was expanding into space beyond its own space.

The upper floor of the Mage Tower, originally more spacious than Guangchang, was suddenly occupied by one-third by the subway.

Chen Yi's raptor was still stopped 5 meters behind the crystal screen, but the width occupied by the subway in the Saint Qiao Kingdom had already exceeded two thousand meters.

All objects within 2000 meters of the subway on the upper floors of the Mage Tower, including potions and scrolls left on the ground, tables and chairs, and huge statues hundreds of meters tall, as well as Mage Timothy and others, were all pushed to the side; the speed was so fast and the destructive force so strong as to be unimaginable.

"It's just like an eighth-level spell," Red Robe Sand marveled; the force that made the holy knight unable to dodge and flung him flying was certainly not small.

Chen Yi apologized with a smile, carefully reversing the car and giving the steering wheel a few turns.

"Don't hit the back of the head," said the little lizard.

"This must be the attribute of doubled coverage range after 25 percent gene completion," Chen Yi speculated, but he didn't think much of it, feeling it was useless.

"Practice pineapple a bit more, then we go back," Chen Yi said, getting out of the car, having the little lizard change back, and tossing it outside the boutique.

Transforming from a large animal into a small creature, the speed was still very fast.

After tossing about all night as usual, Chen Yi returned to Earth, carefully stepping out of the crystal screen, only to find the station unusually quiet.

No commuting office workers, no students, not even a retired old lady idle enough to be annoying had left.

He immediately stuffed the little lizard with pitch-black scales into his arms and quickly left the subway station.

A ring of bright yellow maintenance barriers encircled the subway station; a few workers wearing "Municipal" vests were goofing off, and Chen Yi immediately stepped forward and asked, "What happened?"

A younger worker spat, saw that he looked like a student, and said: "The higher-ups took kickbacks, building shoddy subway; this morning people coming to work took a look, my goodness, a rail widened by 2 meters—isn't that going to kill people?"

"The whole subway suspended operations?"

"Indeed, heard they're sending an investigation team down; someone's going to be unlucky."

Chen Yi was stunned.

In that case, wouldn't the subway be unusable?

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