Chapter 62

The moment Su Jing's fingertip touched the "Reply" button for Lao Zhou's message on the panel, a bright yellow private message notification popped up in the lower right corner of the screen—

The sender was "American Jack," and the profile picture was still the metal gear pattern stained with oil from when the panel was smashed. The message was urgent: "'Number One Shop in the World' owner! I urgently need 500 healing pills! My teammate is badly injured, regular ointments are useless, and I don't have enough points. Can I exchange them for gold? Name your price!"

She glanced out the study window; the red light of the patrol robot swept across the courtyard wall, but nothing seemed amiss.

He typed a reply on the panel with his fingertips, his tone devoid of any pleasantries: "Purchase price for non-Chinese users ×100. Each healing pill requires 50 grams of gold, and 500 pills will require a total of 25,000 grams of gold. The system will confirm receipt of the gold before sending the pills, with no delay."

Less than ten seconds after the message was sent, Jack's private messages exploded, filled with all-caps and angry emojis: "×100? Why don't you just rob me! People from China only got 100 points per piece before, but I get 50 grams of gold? You heartless shopkeeper!"

Su Jing didn't reply, but just stared at the panel—next to Jack's avatar, the "typing" prompt was flashing again and again, clearly struggling.

Three minutes later, in the abandoned car factory, Jack stared at his teammate Taylor's blood-soaked bandages, his knuckles clenched white. Taylor's arm was swollen bigger than usual, the edges of the wound were tinged with blackish-purple, and he had just coughed up bloody phlegm.

A teammate handed over the system panel, which showed that there were only 701 Body Strengthening Pills left and 1386 Healing Pills. "Jack, if we wait any longer, Taylor might not be able to hold on..." The teammate's voice was filled with helplessness.

Jack gritted his teeth and pressed his fingertip heavily on "Confirm Purchase of 500 Healing Pills"—a prompt appeared on the panel saying "Please confirm payment for 25,000 grams of gold." He closed his eyes and clicked "Confirm."

The next second, Su Jing's panel popped up with a notification that "Gold has arrived and Healing Pills (500 pills) have been transferred to the recipient's designated location via the system." The red inventory number jumped from 1386 pills to 886 pills.

Suddenly, a heavy black iron box appeared in Jack's palm. Upon opening it, he found 500 light red healing pills in a transparent jade bottle. The bitter medicinal fragrance overpowered the greasy smell of the factory.

He didn't have time to curse; he quickly poured out a pill and shoved it into Taylor's mouth. "Swallow it! If this medicine doesn't work, I'll settle the score with the shop owner!"

Just as Su Jing marked Jack's order as "completed," another private message popped up—it was from "EU-Emily," whose holographic projection in her profile picture was still lit up. The message was concise: "Purchasing 300 Qi Gathering Pills to enhance the combat power of shelter personnel. Insufficient points, payment in gold. What is the price for non-Chinese users?"

Recalling Emily's rationality when purchasing pills, she replied more directly: "Qi Gathering Pills are priced at 10 times the price of those from the Flower Country, each pill weighs 30 grams of gold, and 300 pills will weigh a total of 9000 grams of gold. Please send them immediately upon confirmation."

This time, Emily didn't hesitate and replied "Confirm Payment" within ten seconds. Su Jing's panel then displayed "Gold received, Qi Gathering Pills (300) transferred successfully," reducing the Qi Gathering Pill inventory from 1876 to 1576.

Inside the underground medical shelter, Lucy looked at the silver box that had suddenly appeared in Emily's palm and leaned over in surprise: "You arrived so quickly? 300 Qi Gathering Pills, just enough to distribute to the patrol team!"

Emily opened the box, and the pale green Qi Gathering Pills glowed faintly. She picked one up and handed it to Lucy: "Give it to the frontline team members first, record their physical changes, and then decide whether to purchase more."

Su Jing had just finished processing two orders and was about to take a sip of water when the global channel was suddenly flooded with news from China—Chen Yang's post, accompanied by an "excited" emoji and a photo of his teammates, read: "Brothers! The official team just distributed 'I am the God of Wealth' pills to our base! Little Li, who was injured by the Qingyun Sect elder's Thunderclap Technique, took two healing pills and was able to get out of bed and walk today! His wounds have all scabbed over!"

Zhao Yue quickly replied to the message, adding a short video—in which she was lifting a 50-kilogram metal block, looking much more relaxed than before: "The Body Strengthening Pill is amazing! My strength has increased by at least 30% after taking it! Before, I would be out of breath after carrying this iron for 50 meters, but now I can walk 100 meters! This 'I Am the God of Wealth' pill is simply a savior from the apocalypse!"

The channel instantly erupted in excitement, with users from China showing off the pills they had received, while users from other countries were filled with envy.

Upon seeing Chen Yang's message, Jack gripped the jade bottle in his hand even tighter in anger, but dared not send any more private messages to complain.

Emily's assistant, Lucy, also saw it and whispered to Emily, "The price for users in China is so low... We overpaid by a lot."

Emily didn't speak, but just stared at the inventory of Qi Gathering Pills on the panel. She knew in her heart that it was good enough to be able to buy pills now. Compared to the combat power of the team members, spending a little more gold was nothing.

She ordered Lucy, "Distribute the Qi Gathering Pills and have the team members take them tonight. Training will begin first thing tomorrow morning. We need to improve our combat strength as soon as possible to deal with the upcoming dungeons."

Su Jing looked at the discussion in the channel and swiped her finger across the gold arrival notification on the panel—Jack and Emily's gold had been deposited into the system space, enough to support the cultivation of subsequent spiritual herbs.

She turned off the panel, got up and walked to the space teleportation portal in the corner of the study, where freshly harvested spiritual herbs were neatly piled up, emanating a faint spiritual aura.

While processing the orders, she had already decided that once this batch of transactions was completed, she would begin cultivating the "Basic Cultivation Techniques"—the spiritual energy of the spiritual herbs was enough to support her breakthrough to the first level of Qi Refining, and the body data on the panel should also be updated.

Su Jing raised her hand and touched the leaves of the spirit herb. She felt a cool touch on her fingertips and knew in her heart that the pill transaction was just the beginning.