Chapter 184: The Willing One Takes the Bait
"Then how did you level up so quickly?" The youngest sister's face was full of expression of how unfair it was.
"My superpowers awakened early," Antonio replied, "not long after the earthquake."
The two of them asked and answered questions, and Antonio always managed to bring up a topic that the little girl was more interested in when her attention was about to be diverted, so that the little girl didn't notice that the person who had been following them was missing.
Xu Sa and Ning Yuan immediately inquired about the situation at the base.
The entire Ping An base is controlled by four teams. The captain of the Ping An team, Tao An, is also the current person in charge of the base. He is a fire-type mutant; the Ice team, captained by Meng Jingtian, is a water-type mutant. His derived ability is ice. It is said that he is very powerful and once froze a mutant to death; the God of War team, captained by Sun Yucheng, has a metal-type mutant; the Hope team, captained by Du Kang, has an earth-type mutant.
Coincidentally, these four team captains had awakened their superpowers very early. In the beginning, the base did rely on arms to consolidate its position. With the rise of superpowers, arms gradually declined, especially now that the other three captains have been upgraded to B-level, while Tao An is still at C-level. The dominance of Ping'an team has gradually begun to waver.
"Then shouldn't Tao An just upgrade quickly?" Xu Sa was puzzled. "From what these people said, his supernatural powers are almost ready to be upgraded. Since his position is already unstable, why doesn't he hurry up and improve it?"
Ning Yuan shook his head and said, "It's not that simple. It's easy for us to upgrade because the crystal cores we used at the beginning were purified and had a low impurity content, but others don't. It is said that five out of ten people will die during the upgrade process, and the other five will also be extremely painful. Do you think everyone will be like us, meditating for a while and then feeling better?"
Xu Sa laughed at his description.
"From what that person said just now, the three level one team leaders all awakened their superpowers before the heavy snow, while Tao An awakened his abilities after the heavy snow."
"You mean he relied on crystal cores to build it up?" If that's the case, then upgrading is indeed fraught with dangers.
"Yes, he is a person who awakened late, and now his ability is similar to others. I'm afraid that he has been suppressing the amount of crystal cores he absorbs every day. His body has no time to expel the deposited impurities, and if he upgrades he will die. He knows this clearly, so he has been suppressing it and not upgrading for a long time. Now he can still make a shock, but if he dies, their entire team will probably be swallowed up by other teams." Ning Yuan said, thinking of the crystal core that Lu Weiyi was going to sell, and felt that this was a good opportunity to make money.
"I have a good vision. My only friend is a golden thigh." Xu Sa said proudly and asked, "Then what should we do next? Ordinary people have limited jade after all. The big forces have no shortage of supplies. Without the support of one party, it is difficult for us to get a large amount. It's bits and pieces and a bit too little."
Although we haven't figured out what Lu Weiyi does with the jade, just looking at his constant need for it, we know it is very important and the people in the team are also taking it seriously.
Ning Yuan thought for a while and said, "Those people who do odd jobs at the gate of the base should have connections with various major forces. We can hire them directly, give them some of the difference, let them advertise, get the miscellaneous money first, and then go out to discuss it with Lu Weiyi in the evening."
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Ning Yuan directly hired people to put up the signs, and even gave someone a loudspeaker to run around the base to promote it. He directly set the exchange location at the trading store in Ping'an Team's home, catching Yaomei off guard. She couldn't say it openly, and if she didn't exchange the signs, she could only suffer the loss in silence.
After the publicity, it was found that there were indeed not many in private hands. Most of them were small items such as jewelry, pendants and bracelets. The quality varied, and all of them added up to just a small bag.
At around six o'clock that evening, Ning Yuan carried Xiaodou and went out with the other two to report their safety. The youngest sister also took two people with them to go out and get supplies.
"Is that all?" Lu Weiyi took it and took a look. He was a little surprised at how poor this base was. You know, this amount of stuff would cost more than this if you went to a good store in the city.
Ning Yuan briefly told him about the actions of the peace team and the situation at the base.
"Tao An probably doesn't want any accidents that might lead to conflicts with other forces to happen, so as to avoid disrupting the precarious situation," Zhuang Mingxu analyzed.
"Then what do you think about us selling that...crystal core to him and making a profit from it?" Ning Yuan smiled cunningly.
Lu Weiyi's eyes lit up, and he even went to see Zhuang Mingxu's opinion.
"...Okay," Zhuang Mingxu said, "since they are so unethical, we can rip them off a little more." He picked up a piece of high-quality jade from his small pocket and said, "Three thousand pounds of this, if one pound is missing, we can use a crystal core to make up for it."
Ning Yuan felt that this guy was really cruel. The total number of crystal cores needed to upgrade to the next level was at most seven or eight hundred, but he directly cheated people out of nearly three thousand.
But... compared to life, it's not expensive.
"Go tell the girl to come find us, you don't have to go over there. Brother Xi knows you are out and has prepared something delicious." Zhuang Mingxu saw Xu Sa rush to the kitchen first, and Antonio pulled Dean and walked towards the kitchen while murmuring. Ning Yuan was clearly talking, but his eyes kept looking over from time to time, so he knew that these three people must be thinking about eating.
"Hey, my dear brother," Ning Yuan said, jogging towards the kitchen. Seeing Antonio holding a small plate with ribs and something on it, he took bigger steps and shouted, "Leave a few pieces for me."
The youngest sister originally planned to take the supplies and leave, about 100 kilograms of rice. Both parties knew that there was no dispute. At this moment, Ning Yuan, smelling of delicious meat, waved at her from afar.
"What?" The youngest sister sniffed hard and it was indeed a smell of meat coming from the tent behind them.
"Go back and ask your boss, we have something that can survive the upgrade, ask him if he wants it?" Ning Yuan whispered.
"What did you say--" the youngest sister shouted in surprise, immediately attracting the attention of the people who came out with her.
She calmed her breathing, shook her head at him, indicating that everything was fine, and lowered her voice to ask again, "Do you have anything that can help you survive the upgrade?"
"Yes," Ning Yuan smiled harmlessly, "Go ask him if he wants it. If not, we will sell it to someone else."
"No, don't sell it. I'll go back and ask right away." The youngest sister was so anxious that she reached out and grabbed Ning Yuan's sleeve. After a pause, she shook it in an unfamiliar way and said in a pretentious manner, "Little brother, don't sell it."
She was dressed like a little gangster but she spoke in a sweet voice. Even Lu Weiyi beside her couldn't help but curl his lips, not to mention Ning Yuan who just burst out laughing. Being laughed at by several good-looking men, the little sister's face turned red instantly. She wanted to scold them but was afraid of offending them. The little girl was as angry as a puffer fish.
"Go and ask quickly. I won't sell it for the time being. I'll wait for you to come." Ning Yuan finally came to the rescue.
"It's agreed. I'll go right away. Don't go back on your word, otherwise... otherwise..." The youngest sister waved her little fist, but felt that it was not intimidating enough, so she turned around and trotted away.
As soon as the youngest sister left, dinner was served.
"Have you visited their trading market? Is there anything we need?" Lu Weiyi thought of the mutant rats in their hands and felt a little reluctant to eat them.
"Yes, there's nothing new in it. They're all what we have." Xu Sa was drinking the hot soup, while Liu Rui's bowl was already filled with his favorite dishes.
"Some things the more the better," Zhuang Mingxu reminded, "for example, seeds, medicines and the like."
"This..." Xu Sa glanced at Ning Yuan, "I didn't notice it, did you see it?"
"No, I'll go check it out another day. After all, we've paid for three days." Ning Yuan was in a hurry to grab the food, and his words were slurred. After swallowing the mouthful of food with great difficulty, he looked up at Lu Weiyi, "But isn't your space full? Do you have a place to install it?"
"..." Lu Weiyi was speechless, paused and said, "It's constantly upgrading..."
He was the only one in the team with space-related abilities, and everyone had never come into contact with other space-related abilities. They did not doubt Lu Weiyi's words, and thought that the area of space was the same as other abilities, which would increase little by little as they became stronger. So no one found it strange at this time.
"Then I'll pay more attention to it," Ning Yuan replied.
Tao An arrived very quickly.
Ning Yuan led his men to a makeshift tent. Behind the tent, Zhuang Mingxu was holding a book and teaching Zhuang Aiyi to recite ancient poems. Lu Weiyi was sitting on the sofa on the side, leaning against the back of the sofa with his eyes closed. In fact, he was using his mental power to reorganize the space that was expanded by the jade.
A temporary table was placed at the entrance of the tent.
Ning Yuan brought people in. Xu Sa took a few folding stools from the side of the sofa, unfolded them, handed three to He Ping, and placed two on this side. He and Xu Sa sat opposite them, and the few of them began the negotiation with Zhuang Aiyi's baby-singing "Geese, geese, geese, singing with their necks bent to the sky."
"Hello, my name is Tao An." Although the weather was a little cool, it was not too cold, but Tao An was actually wearing a cloak.
"Ning Yuan, Xu Sa," Ning Yuan introduced.
He Ping was just about to say a few words to each other when she saw Ning Yuan directly take out a deep green crystal core and place it on the table between them.
"This is the thing that can keep you alive when you upgrade," Ning Yuan went straight to the point and handed over the jade that Zhuang Mingxu had taken out before. "Three thousand kilograms of jade of this quality, at least two thousand as the base, and the remaining one kilogram will be replaced with a crystal core."
Tao An rubbed it with his white fingers and said, "Mr. Ning, this is really an exorbitant request."
"You know that you won't survive if you upgrade directly." Ning Yuan still smiled and said clearly, "Which is more important, life or money? Mr. Tao has made his own decision."
"Of course, I don't have to give it to you. It's just that we don't need it. I believe there will be people vying for it from other teams, and the price may not be this high by then." While Ning Yuan was speaking, he put the crystal core away, which made He Ping anxious.
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