"By the way, you can go to the treasure house of my Hongchen family later. If there is anything you need, just take it. I will talk to them." Jing Hongchen said when Xiao Qiang was about to leave.

"The Hongchen family's treasure house? Teacher, how many soul guides can I get?"

"How many? Do my disciples of Jing Hongchen need to take things by the piece when they go to the treasure house of my Hongchen family? Feel free to take as many as you want."

Xiao Qiang showed an embarrassed expression on his face. "Um... Teacher, I might have taken a little too much."

"No problem, my Hongchen family is rich and powerful, you can take it."

"Thank you, teacher."

Xiao Qiang bowed to Jing Hongchen, and then came to the treasure house of the Hongchen family.

With Jing Hongchen's advance greeting, Xiao Qiang did not need to register and came directly to the Hongchen family's treasure house.

Everywhere you look, there are a wide variety of seventh, eighth and even ninth level soul guides, as well as various rare metals and precious materials.

"As expected of the Hongchen family's treasure house, there are indeed many good things. Brother Tianmeng, take a look at which ones may be useful in the near future and which ones may be useful in the future."

"I can understand things that may be useful recently, but what does it mean that it may be useful in the future? What is something that will definitely not be used in the future? That kind of thing should not exist." Tian Meng said with a question mark on his head.

Xiao Qiang nodded. "Yes, so take away everything in the treasury."

"Ah? Are you serious?"

Xiao Qiang's face showed a rare serious expression. "Brother Tianmeng, do you think I'm joking now?"

"No, why?"

“To increase sunk costs.”

Jing Hongchen has already painted a big picture of Xiao Qiang's talent and various possibilities for the future. Now he just needs to increase the sunk costs to ensure that when the fact that Xue Di is protecting Xiao Qiang is exposed one day, even if Jing Hongchen knows that Xiao Qiang may be in collusion with the soul beasts, he will choose to stand on Xiao Qiang's side because of the previous sunk costs.

After all, Xiao Qiang's second martial spirit plus the protection of the Snow Queen, these two things combined, anyone would think more, even if Xiao Qiang is a pure human, but who can guarantee that the soul beast will not be able to take over? Although the IQ of the people in Douluo Continent may not be able to think of this, Xiao Qiang does not intend to do this by hoping that the enemy is a fool.

Now that the big picture has been drawn, what Xiao Qiang has to do is to rely on his highly bound relationship with the Hongchen family to maximize the sunk cost of Jing Hongchen as much as possible, so as to be fully prepared for things that may but may not happen in the future.

Being prepared is better than being caught unprepared. Xiao Qiang has always firmly believed in this.

"What is sunk cost? No, that's not important. What's important is that if you take everything at once, are you sure Jing Hongchen won't ask you for it back?" Tian Meng didn't understand what Xiao Qiang's sunk cost was, but he knew that if so many things were taken away, Jing Hongchen would definitely feel the pain.

"The teacher just told me to treat him as my father, and the information I revealed was also very clear. Almost anyone can figure out the benefits I can bring to him. In addition, since I have him as my teacher, I am almost half a member of the Hongchen family. Although this kind of thing cannot be considered as transferring resources from one hand to the other, these resources can still be considered as belonging to the Hongchen family after all."

"Of course, the most important point is that if he asked me for it, I would just return it to him. This would be considered moving some stuff at best. Could he expel me from the sect because of this? If he could expel me from the sect because of this, then all the talent I showed before would be in vain."

"If I succeed, the benefits will be huge, and the benefits in all aspects will be huge. If I fail, the loss I will suffer will be negligible. Why not take a gamble at this time?"

"Okay, I understand. If that's the case, leave it to me."

Tian Meng acted quickly. Relying on spiritual detection, Tian Meng quickly sorted out the things into categories, and then packed them up and took them away. Not a single bit of rare metal was left in the Hongchen family's treasure house.

After Xiao Qiang left, the Eight Soul Soul Douluo who was in charge of guarding the Hongchen Family Treasury looked at the empty Hongchen Family Treasury, then closed the door, rubbed his eyes and opened the door again. The Hongchen Family Treasury was still empty.

Thinking of Xiao Qiang's embarrassed look when he told him that he couldn't help but emptied out the Hongchen family's protection because he saw too many good things, he realized at this time that Xiao Qiang's emptying meant emptying out in the literal sense.

The Soul Douluo who was in charge of guarding the Hongchen family treasury was silent for a long time, then silently dialed the soul guide communicator and reported to Jing Hongchen.

"Well, what did he take?" Jing Hongchen asked calmly while drinking tea.

"He finished taking what he was protecting."

"I know, so what did he take?"

"Master, what I mean is that he has taken everything and the treasury is empty. Now there is not even a trace of rare metal left in the Hongchen family's treasury."

Jing Hongchen's hand holding the teacup paused, as if he didn't react to what his subordinate said.

After a moment of silence, Jing Hongchen recalled Xiao Qiang's previous information. According to the description in Xiao Qiang's information, Bai Qingshan, who had helped Xiao Qiang at the beginning, went from being a wealthy fourth-level soul engineer to being bankrupt and in debt in just eight years.

At that time, Jing Hongchen had no idea about what Xiao Qiang used. After all, those resources were life-saving to Bai Qingshan, but to the Hongchen family, they were not even pocket money for the younger generation. But at this moment, Jing Hongchen had a clear idea of ​​the resources used by Xiao Qiang.

"Forget it, let him take it. I'll just take some time to fill in the resources."

"It's the head of the family."

Jing Hongchen, who was sitting on the chair, rubbed his head. "I took quite a lot of things, but fortunately, my Mingdetang family is big and prosperous, so I won't go bankrupt like a fourth-level soul master."

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After reporting to Jing Hongchen, Xiao Hongchen arrived at the treasure house of the Hongchen family not long after.

"Mr. Ma, open the door. I need to get something."

"Um... Young Master, this..."

"Why, is there a problem with me getting something?"

"No, no, it's just..."

Old Ma, who was in charge of guarding the Hongchen family treasury, opened the family treasury, and then Xiao Hongchen saw the empty family treasury.

"Is there a thief here?"

"No, it's just that the people called by the owner took away all the things."

Xiao Hongchen was silent for a long time. After thinking about something, he seemed to become much more mature in an instant. "I know. Don't let Meng come in during this period of time."

Mr. Ma hesitated. "Not letting Miss Meng in, this..."

"If she must come in, let her come to me."

"Yes, young master."

Xiao Hongchen took one last look at the family treasure house, and then, as if he had made some decision, he resolutely returned to his room, looked at Jing Hongchen's portrait, and talked to himself.

"Grandpa, you have been protecting me all these years, but I didn't even know that our family was in great trouble and needed the resources of the entire family treasury to help!"

"Don't worry, Grandpa. I promise you and everyone in the Hongchen family! No matter how much it costs, I, Xiao Hongchen, will definitely revive the Hongchen family again!"

(End of this chapter)