In Shabak City, Yuan Chuyi stood on the top of the city lord's mansion, looking at the endless stream of people below, lost in thought, "Why were there warships lying in ambush on my way to the island nation?"
Clearly, the islanders already knew that he intended to destroy them.
Could it be that the Russian Empire leaked their whereabouts in advance?
Furthermore, the Chinese leadership was aware of China's intention to destroy the island nation.
However, it seems more likely that the higher-ups in China leaked my information, especially since they clearly told me last time in China that they didn't want me to do that.
Just as Yuan Chuyi was still pondering, a familiar ding-dong sound rang in his mind.
"The system has been upgraded to version 2.5. Please familiarize yourself with the latest features as soon as possible."
Upon hearing the sound, Yuan Chuyi quickly checked the changes in the system.
First, he started checking out the system shop. The upgraded shop was completely different. Before, it only had a handful of skills and a few mounts, along with some other items.
The current system shop is overflowing with a wide variety of items. However, advanced skills that used to require materialization to obtain, such as Summon Divine Beast, Ice Roar, and Fiery Sword Technique, can now be purchased directly for 50,000 gold coins in the shop.
What surprised Yuan Chuyi even more was that some special skills, such as poisoning, invisibility, and healing, were also available in the system shop.
As Yuan Chuyi's gaze moved down past the Books category, it reached the Pets category below. In addition to the existing flying pets, two new small flying pets were added: Bumblebee and Flower Butterfly.
Yuan Chuyi continued to look down, where more than a dozen types of defensive items, such as silk armor, had appeared. There were also various potions available in the system shop, including attack potions, speed potions, stamina potions, and antidote potions.
After Yuan Chu looked through the system, he found that besides the fact that the system shop had a lot more items, the biggest change was the addition of a reincarnation system.
No matter how many times Yuan Chuyi clicked on the reincarnation option, all he could see in his mind was the message "Level not high enough".
Left with no other option, Yuan Chuyi inquired with the system and learned that he could only use the reincarnation function after reaching level 100.
Yuan Chuyi, who hadn't actively leveled up for over half a year, suddenly felt an urgent need to reach level 100 so he could investigate the purpose of reincarnation.
The next morning, the White Tiger team, who had just returned from their shift change in the cave, had just arrived back at their base.
A young man missing a finger knocked on Zhang Tao's door.
Who is this? I just got back and haven't gone to sleep yet, and they're already bothering me.
Zhang Tao flung open the door and looked at Sun Lei, who was looking embarrassed, saying, "Who do we have here? It's you, kid. Come on in."
"I won't go in."
As he spoke, he glanced into the room.
Zhang Tao slapped Sun Lei and laughed, scolding, "What are you looking at, kid? It's just me."
Sun Lei breathed a sigh of relief and said, "The team leader isn't here."
"She wasn't here. She went to the sect leader's place after she came back. By the way, why didn't you go to rest after you came back? What are you doing here?"
"Old classmate."
Before Sun Lei could finish speaking, Zhang Tao interrupted him, saying, "When you call someone your old classmate, it's never a good thing."
"As long as you don't need to borrow money, you can say whatever you want."
Sun Lei chuckled and said, "It's not that I'm borrowing money, I'm borrowing gold coins."
"Damn it! Isn't this still borrowing money?" Zhang Tao said angrily.
"Brother, Brother Tao, my beloved Tao Tao!"
"Okay, okay, stop being so mushy, it's giving me goosebumps."
"Tell me, how much do you want to borrow?"
Sun Lei tried to make the shape of the character "two".
"Twenty thousand?"
Sun Lei shook his head and said with a smile, "It's two hundred thousand!"
"How much? Two hundred thousand! Do I look like I have two hundred thousand?" Zhang Tao said in surprise.
"Brother, I really need this. It's related to my life's most important matter, so please lend it to me."
Zhang Tao looked at his serious expression and asked, "Tell me what happened."
"I've met a new member who's been joining the escort team lately, and we've been getting along quite well. I was thinking of giving her a gift and then using that as an opportunity to confess my feelings."
"Wait, wait, wait." Zhang Tao interrupted again, asking, "What kind of gift is so expensive, costing 200,000? As far as I know, the most expensive thing in the city should be the green weapon in the weapon shop, and a decent one would only cost 20,000 gold coins."
Sun Lei said in a way that he was afraid someone would overhear him, "Let me tell you, I went to the general store today and found that there were a few more beautiful elves. When I went up to check, I found out that they were special item prop masters newly added by the sect leader."
As a result, I found flying mounts and some other things inside.
However, that flying mount costs 200,000. I only have less than 20,000 on me, which is why I came to you.
"That's not right either. I learned from Song Qian that flying mounts cost at least a million."
"Brother Tao, ours is definitely expensive, but I'm talking about the small ones, less than 3 meters long, which can seat one or two people."
Zhang Tao thought for a moment and said, "Let's go. It's my bad luck to be classmates with you. It's like I owed you something in my past life."
Seeing Zhang Tao looking back every few steps, Sun Lei asked in confusion, "Brother Tao, where are we going?"
"Stop talking nonsense, just come with me."
Outside the City Lord's Mansion
“I feel that it won’t be long before your White Tiger Team can handle that cave on your own,” Zhou Yu said with a smile.
"It will take at least another month. Our group's overall strength is slightly lower than yours. Last time we came back, our average strength in the training room was only level 30."
“We’re not much better than you. I estimate that around level 40 is enough for us to guard a cave by ourselves.”
While everyone was chatting, Zhou Yu suddenly said to someone not far away, "Hey Song Qian, isn't that Zhang Lei? He looks so suspicious to me. Is he hiding a woman behind your back?"
"Let me warn you, there have been quite a few foreign girls in our Shabak City lately."
Song Qian noticed that Zhang Lei was indeed acting suspiciously not far away, which made her somewhat suspicious.
"Xiaoyu, you should go back and rest first. I'll go see where he went," Song Qian said, trying to hide her embarrassment.
"No way, I have to go with you. I want to see who's so blind as to cheat on my sister."
Song Qian glanced at Zhou Yu with a dark expression, but still followed closely behind Zhang Tao.
Zhang Tao wandered around aimlessly for about half an hour before arriving at the warehouse entrance. After looking around, he went inside.
The two women exchanged a glance and then mingled into the crowd and went inside.
Just as Zhang Tao withdrew 180,000 gold coins.
"Cough cough." A few coughs sounded behind Zhang Tao.
"Witch, it's you? No, no, what I mean is, Team Leader Zhou, what a coincidence to run into you here."
Looking at Zhang Tao's tense expression, Zhou Yu said, "What are you doing here? Qianqian has her own space, why would she need to store things here?"
"Are you secretly saving money to support a woman on the side?"
As he spoke, he pretended to stretch out his leg, saying, "I might as well cripple you and see how you dare to do anything to betray my sister."
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