Chapter 357: Can You Pay in Advance?

Spinach seeds have a two-month dormancy period, so the spinach seeds harvested now can only be planted next January. What he wants is the first batch of spinach seeds Xia Qing harvests in May—worthy of Captain Yang, really knows how to seize an opportunity.

Xia Qing pulled out a notebook from her hazmat suit pocket, checked the spinach seed inventory, and replied, "I can give you six hundred seeds first."

The first batch of spinach seeds Xia Qing harvested had already been traded to Zhang San—400 seeds. In July, another 1,200 seeds were sown, leaving just over 1,200 seeds now, and she can't give all of those to Yang Jin.

During a year of natural disasters, the likelihood of accidents rises. Although the spinach on the terraced fields looks set for a bumper harvest, no one can guarantee that no accident will happen in the next half month and leave the second crop with nothing. So Xia Qing needs to keep part of the summer-harvested seeds as a safety stock.

Moreover, after the harvest is done and the greenhouse is built, Xia Qing still needs to plant a patch of spinach. Giving half her stock to Yang Jin is already the greatest sincerity Xia Qing can offer.

"Only six hundred seeds, huh." Yang Jin drew out his words, deliberately showing a dissatisfied expression, and added a condition: "Fine. Can you trade me another 80 jin of Green Lantern Mountain walnuts?"

Huh?!

Green Lantern Mountain walnuts are treasures—her idol only asked for forty jin, and he opens his mouth asking for eighty?

On what grounds? On the grounds that he's beautiful?

Seeing a hint of expression finally appear on Xia Qing's serious face, Yang Jin smiled—and smiled very handsomely. "Evolved Green Lantern Mountain walnuts are a once-in-a-lifetime brain-boosting food. Xie Yu overworks his brain and needs brain food; I got a head injury while gathering qi-woe grass at Bai Qi's base and need to supplement too. Will it work?"

For the sake of his good buddy, this guy actually started using his beauty ploy on her again…

Xia Qing, who was in a hurry to go discuss a deal with Xin Yu, was afraid that if she didn't give up a single drop of blood, Yang Jin wouldn't agree to pay the spring water's points in advance. Xia Qing began asking about the value of the walnuts so she could set a price. "Green Lantern Mountain walnuts can promote brain-domain evolution?"

Yang Jin answered rigorously, "Although this claim is widely circulated, no one has actually triggered or promoted brain-domain evolution by eating walnuts. What's currently confirmed is: Green Lantern Mountain walnuts can treat the dizziness and headaches caused by brain-domain evolvers overusing their brains."

Her idol also never said walnuts could promote brain-domain evolution, only that they could "benefit the brain"—which matches Yang Jin's account. Come to think of it, if Green Lantern Mountain walnuts really could promote brain-domain evolution, the purchase price listed on the Safe Zone mission board would have to multiply by dozens.

Brain-domain evolution! Who doesn't want to get smarter?

Xia Qing began negotiating the trade quantity with Yang Jin. "You're not a brain-domain evolver, so Green Lantern Mountain walnuts have no medicinal value for you. Will forty jin do?"

Giving your good buddy's full dosage—sis has already shown you plenty of face. Don't be ungrateful.

Although she hadn't confirmed it, Xia Qing felt her idol must be a brain-domain evolver, and he only asked for forty jin of Green Lantern Mountain walnuts, which shows forty jin is plenty.

Yang Jin looked at Xia Qing very sincerely. "Strictly speaking, I am a brain-domain evolver. But my brain domain didn't evolve after the natural disaster—before the disaster, my observation and thinking abilities were already above average."

Xia Qing looked into Yang Jin's eyes, trying to figure out whether he was lying or really was a brain-domain evolver.

A hidden ability is everyone's trump card. Would Yang Jin really reveal his trump card to her over a few jin of walnuts?

If he really is a brain-domain evolver, then he should also be a tri-system evolver. Because Xia Qing, based on her uploaded experience of being carried on the giant wolf's back, judged that an advanced speed evolver's vision must have evolved too.

"My vision has evolved too." Yang Jin once again revealed his ability.

"You're staring into my eyes with an obvious look of surprise—trying to see clearly whether I'm lying, and also trying to confirm whether my vision has evolved. Researchers testing speed evolvers' vision found that over sixty percent of speed evolvers also have visual evolution. I'm among that sixty percent."

"Actually, the human brain has more than six major abilities. The brain governs all of a person's life activities—language, movement, hearing, vision, emotional expression, and so on—and it's also the center that regulates digestion, breathing, movement, and more. So no matter what type of human evolver you are, some part of your brain domain has evolved to a higher degree than an ordinary person's. You haven't taken a brain-domain test, have you?"

Xia Qing slowly shook her head.

Yang Jin assessed, "You're a tri-system advanced evolver, so your brain-domain evolution level must be higher than single- or dual-system evolvers. Do you have intermittent dizziness or headaches?"

Xia Qing shook her head. "I only get those two symptoms when I'm extremely exhausted or hit by ultrasonic attacks."

Yang Jin smiled. "Then your brain-domain evolution level probably hasn't reached intermediate or above."

Xia Qing nodded seriously. "Definitely."

She didn't even need to ask how Yang Jin knew she was a tri-system evolver, because he's a brain-domain evolver who can uncover many hidden secrets through observation and reasoning.

Xia Qing decided that in front of Yang Jin, she'd speak as little as possible and show as little expression as possible, absolutely not letting Yang Jin see through her thoughts.

Yang Jin had long anticipated that once Xia Qing knew he was a brain-domain evolver, she would become even more cautious around him.

Based on rational judgment, to get closer to Xia Qing—who is cautious by nature and used to keeping her distance from everyone—Yang Jin should have hidden the fact that he was a brain-domain evolver.

But today the chance was too rare; Yang Jin just wanted to let her see a more real version of himself. When it comes to anything involving Xia Qing, Yang Jin can't stay completely rational—otherwise he wouldn't blush and his heart wouldn't race just from being near her, and after escaping death again and again over the past five years, he wouldn't make his first stop back at the base be to look at her from afar.

Seeing her also doing her utmost to survive, Yang Jin's wounded body and numb heart would fill with strength again—a phenomenon that can't be explained by science or reason.

Xia Qing is the only tenderness and emotion in his brain domain. Being able to meet her on the chaotic post-evolution Blue Star is his good fortune.

At this moment, that lucky girl with six big bags of walnuts was sitting across a 1.5-meter-wide table with her head slightly lowered, racking her brain for how to give up a few jin fewer walnuts while still getting him to agree to advance her over a hundred thousand points.

Yang Jin had long known she wasn't bad-looking, but he hadn't expected that after eating better and washing off that protective coloring, she'd turn out this beautiful.

She's really beautiful everywhere, however you look at her…

Yang Jin turned his gaze away, leaning back slightly, afraid his face would burn again.

Xia Qing lowered her eyes and thought for a while, then quoted the trade quantity she could accept: "Sixty jin maximum."

When negotiating, you can't just give whatever the other side asks for—you have to knock it down. Sixty jin is already the absolute limit she can offer. Yang Jin is only an intermediate brain-domain evolver, and his injury is external; he isn't showing any dizziness or headaches right now, so even for brain treatment, he wouldn't need forty jin of walnuts.

If Yang Jin doesn't agree, Xia Qing will go straight to Xin Yu and trade Green Lantern chestnuts with her for the iron mesh.

Yang Jin smiled. "Deal."

Xia Qing…

Careless—she should have haggled harder.