Chapter 239

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Protagonist:

Chen Yi

The counselor now had the capital to fight back, was in high spirits, and actually sat on the balcony holding tea with legs crossed, watching Chen Yi play on the computer. Ever since someone turned the curse potion into an "aphrodisiac holy pill," Liu Xinyu, feeling something was off, had been avoiding Chen Yi.

She watched and thought, this guy really does have some skill; his body was getting stronger and stronger, what he played with was getting bigger and bigger, and he seemed to be getting more and more handsome... If only he had been at this level a few years ago... But using a heavy machine gun was not a good omen; once the Chen family old man revived, he would be a top figure in China, what else did he want to do?

However, Chen Yi seemed to have no need to rebel, and she inexplicably breathed a sigh of relief.

As soon as that breath was exhaled, she immediately cursed herself silently: truly shameless.

The next day, Chen Yi got up early, tidied up a bit, and prepared to go to the school to check things out.

University was like a prison; the better you behaved, the longer you were locked up. Instead, students like him who skipped class every three days and went missing every five days could adapt the fastest and thus completely break free from the school's constraints.

He wasn't in the dormitory, so Liu Xinyu and Jin Douna were much freer. Although they hadn't openly rented or bought houses outside, occasionally staying at the martial arts hall or hanging out at bars meant they didn't have to worry about being questioned.

Actually, both women knew what Chen Yi's bottom line was. After so much time had passed, Liu Xinyu was already at ease, and Jin Douna, who had gained benefits, certainly wouldn't resist.

In fact, even if Liu Xinyu exposed Jin Douna's secret of substituting the peach for the plum now, the people from the Central Action Team probably wouldn't understand—fury was most likely.

Precisely because of this, both of them obediently stayed in the dormitory. Although it looked like they had given up, in reality, both had their own predetermined development directions, just kept secret.

The sound of Chen Yi washing up woke Liu Xinyu. She groggily got up, thinking it was Jin Douna, so she walked out of the room wearing only pajamas—the clothes worn all night had been ravaged by that pair of oversized breasts who knows how many times, could no longer bear the burden, and exposed most of the oppressors to the outside.

Chen Yi turned around, and not only did snow-white skin come into view, but also half a red bean poked out from the white little pajamas.

"A single red apricot leaps over the wall!" he murmured a good poem, his head not turning at all.

Just having woken up, Liu Xinyu's reactions were a bit slow, but no matter how slow, she understood from Chen Yi's expression.

But she was unwilling to lose face, actually pretending not to know anything, turned around and continued washing up, giving Chen Yi another 10 seconds, then tidied her clothes as if, gathering in that human chest weapon.

Chen Yi wiped his nose and started washing up again.

The beauty of living together was that at every moment there was soil for surprises to arise.

Arriving at school, after wandering around a bit, Chen Yi didn't want to stay.

A dog that had run wild, even if put back in the house, couldn't lie still. Luo Xiaoshan taking a leave of absence to go home was largely for the sake of his future, perhaps also because he couldn't sit still.

There weren't many familiar classmates, but Lin Yuan was sitting there, chatting with him for a while. After a moment, Han Jie also slipped out of class to see Chen Yi, sizing him up from front to back.

Chen Yi smiled awkwardly and said, "What's wrong?"

Han Jie continued to size him up, and only after a long while said, "I heard at home that Jiangning produced a big shot. Not only is his business huge, but he also opened his own martial arts hall, with great fame, even beautiful female athletes from Southeast Asia came to join. Later I found out it was you!"

"You want to make fun of me." Chen Yi deliberately didn't smile, putting on a straight face: "I put in a lot of effort."

Even if Han Jie knew it was fake, she had to stop teasing, made a face, and tugged at his clothes: "Have you eaten breakfast? Let's go eat Tao Ran Ju's steamed buns in a bit."

"Alright." Chen Yi was speaking when his phone in his pocket rang.

Lin Yuan looked at him sternly, and Chen Yi obediently got up to go outside to answer the call. It was Lu Fan telling him the test results from the Jiangning Quality Supervision Inspection Station he had found for him were finished.

Chen Yi immediately asked, "What is it?"

"Platinum, 45% content."

Chen Yi said "oh," then immediately asked, "What are the impurities?"

"I didn't ask; it should be on the appraisal certificate."

"Alright, I'll go get the stuff now." He was slightly disappointed, but thinking about it, he could understand. Conch shells, as the name suggests, are shells of a kind of mollusk, and the heavy metal materials inside are accumulated over many years. Calculating, if there was 45% platinum, it wasn't bad. According to the prices from 2003 just past, platinum fluctuated roughly between 180 and 210 yuan. If the purity of the conch shells was around 45%, it was equivalent to less than 100 yuan per gram. Each one weighed over 200 grams, so it was worth around 20,000 RMB.

10,000 conch shells could be exchanged for 200 million yuan. Although he knew the market in Ma La wasn't big, Chen Yi was still slightly invigorated.

Of course, it would be great if the purity could reach 99%.

This conch shell's diet was too varied!

Not focused at all.

In a flash, Chen Yi thought again: this thing could eat out a whole body of platinum, so presumably the West Continent, at least Ma La, would have rich platinum reserves. He just didn't know how difficult it was to develop this thing.

Holding all sorts of chaotic thoughts, Chen Yi told Han Jie, then drove the Raptor into the Jewelry College of Jiangning Geological University. Lu Fan was waiting at the door. When Chen Yi got out of the car, Lu Fan pointed to the eight-story old building ahead and introduced: "The people at the Jiangning Quality Supervision Inspection Station mostly come from Jiangning Geological University. Their office is also on the floor above the Jewelry College students, sharing a set of equipment with them."

"Sounds pitiful."

"Testing equipment is expensive; no one wants to buy it. The municipal government wouldn't take on this big expense."

"Do you know anyone inside?"

"Nodding acquaintances. A classmate's friend." Lu Fan laughed dryly twice and said: "I'll just say it's my own stuff and have them issue a report."

As they spoke, the two went up the stairs.

The hallway was dark, but there were many lights.

The Jiangning Geological University Quality Supervision Inspection Station belonged to public institution staffing, but the bigwigs inside were administrative staffing. A simple sign hung at the door. The front desk girl had a full smile, a pretty and friendly face. Lu Fan took out the receipt stub, said a word, and she smilingly led them inside, even serving each person a cup of tea.

Seeing this service attitude, it really had the air of a profit-making institution. Chen Yi lay comfortably on the sofa and asked with a smile, "Is the appraisal fee expensive?"

"A few dozen yuan maybe. Not cheap." Lu Fan slurped two mouthfuls of tea water and said: "I personally delivered it, so there shouldn't be a problem."

Chen Yi hadn't spoken yet when a young man walked out holding a jewelry box, stretched out his hand, and said: "Lu Fan? The stub."

"This one?" Lu Fan handed it to him.

"Yours. The appraisal certificate is inside." The young man looked at the stub, put down the jewelry box, and left.

"In such a hurry..." Lu Fan felt a bit embarrassed, opened the box, and said: "See if it's suitable?"

Chen Yi first took out the appraisal certificate from the box. Sure enough, it said "Self-processed platinum, 45% purity," and the impurities included familiar or unfamiliar names like copper, sulfur, iron, molybdenum...

"The level is too poor." Chen Yi thought. Platinum grown from shells was actually judged as self-processed. He then weighed the small half piece of shell in his hand... the weight was about the same.

Just as he was about to put it into his pocket, the edge of the platinum suddenly caught his attention.

What had been knocked off was the latter half of the conch shell, namely the small opening part. Although because of the position, the curvature of this small half piece of shell wasn't large, after all, it had a naturally grown beautiful arc.

But the shell before him, though it also had a beautiful curve, was simply too regular. Where could a shell grow such a neat curve?

"Not quite right." Chen Yi turned to the front desk girl and said, "Who gave me the box just now? Can you call him out?"

The front desk lady, who had been friendly just now, ignored him now, sitting there looking at the mirror.

Chen Yi repeated it once more, his tone stiff.

Only then did the other party turn her head and say, "I didn't see, who delivered the box just now?"

Lu Fan also sensed something was wrong, stood up and said, "Where's Gu Chen? Call him out."

"He's on a business trip." Seeing he knew someone from the unit, the front desk said, "I'll go in and take a look."

This trip took a long time before she returned.

Chen Yi straightened up, weighed the shell in his hand again, recalling the details of the fragments he had knocked off that day in his brain. His memory was quite good; Knightly Combat was said to cultivate the body, but Body Technique was an improvement of the whole person's quality, and memory had also improved considerably. Although he hadn't looked carefully at the knocked-off shell that day, upon careful recollection and comparison, he still discovered the problem.

"A bit strange."

He immediately tore open a Level 3 Perception Scroll, then took out the other half of the shell he had broken off that day for comparison. Speaking of it, these two shells were almost seamless, with only a slight gap that was within tolerance range, unknown what mold they were cast from. But when the two were merged for viewing, this tail piece had a slight bulge, probably to balance the weight, destroying the original arc curve.

Then using the Scroll's power to examine the shell's composition, they were actually exactly the same. Chen Yi froze, then thought: these guys probably really tested the shell's composition, but changed the content.

Of course, the most obvious difference was the time difference. The other half of the Conch Shell in his hand was formed 78 years ago, but this piece in the jewelry box had only formed a unified composition yesterday.

"Made quite realistically." Chen Yi no longer said their skill was poor. This was truly skilled, just not used in a proper place.

Chen Yi hmphed: "Damn, it was swapped."

At his words, Lu Fan also grew nervous, hurriedly asking: "Really? A black shop?"

"Two taels heavy, over 100 grams of Platinum. If purity is 10% less, that earns 10 grams' worth of 2000 yuan; 50% earns 10,000 yuan." Chen Yi looked down on this amount of money, spat and said: "Truly willing to earn any amount of money."

Seeing he didn't mean to blame himself, Lu Fan cleared himself: "2000 yuan is also a month's salary. They definitely didn't just do this one job. That kid just now was especially practiced, directly took our ticket stubs. I'll find someone to ask."

He had just taken out his phone, still thinking of calling a classmate or Gu Chen, when a staff member walked out from inside, making a shooing gesture, saying: "If nothing's wrong, go back. We only have this one reception room, sorry to neglect you."

The meaning made sense, but the tone was a bit too stiff, like a young naked Schwarzenegger had been spat out.