Chapter 62: Windfall
Qi Huan opened the lid and checked the buttons, jade pendants and earrings inside one by one. After confirming that everything was intact, he finally felt relieved.
"Help me close it." Qi Huan hurriedly stuffed the box to Jiu Fangyu beside him, and was busy picking at the lid of another metal box.
Jiufang Yu patted the sand on his hands, carefully took out a handkerchief, picked up the earring, glanced at it, put it into a corner of the handkerchief and rolled it up, and did the same with the button and the jade pendant, wrapping them up in the other two corners of the handkerchief, and then closed the lid again. When he saw that the second box opened by Qi Huan contained star coins, he was able to take it calmly - after all, compared to the refrigerator turning into a jewelry box, turning it into a money box was nothing new.
"It's a pity for these ingredients." Qi Huan put the two boxes into the storage bag, and sighed as he looked at the meat and vegetables in the cabinet. Although most of them were not top-grade ingredients, they were carefully selected by him. Now that the cabinet was broken, they would probably break down soon.
"I'm sorry." Jiufang Yu drooped his eyelashes slightly and frowned somewhat self-blamingly.
He guessed that Jiufang Kuang might cause trouble at the inauguration ceremony, and made the best arrangements to protect the safety of the indigenous people of the base. However, he still underestimated Jiufang Kuang's shamelessness, causing the damage to the base to get out of control.
"What are you talking about? If it weren't for you, I would have died a long time ago. How could I have the chance to be here and feel sorry for the ingredients?" Qi Huan said hurriedly, "Just now the shop owner said that this base was built with shoddy workmanship. It's normal that it can't withstand the beast tide. Wasn't Base No. 2 destroyed in the first place?"
"The base will compensate everyone for their losses."
Is there compensation? Qi Huan's eyes lit up, "Will all losses be compensated?"
"Yes." Jiufang Yu's jaw moved slightly, "I will be responsible."
"That will cost a lot of money, right? Do you have enough money?" Qi Huan's excited mood fell again, and he started to worry about Jiufang Yu's wallet.
"Of course someone will pay for it." Jiufang Yu's eyes flashed with a cold light, and he said meaningfully. He wanted Jiufang Kuang and Elder Man to pay double the price.
I originally felt that the base's defense was too poor and full of loopholes, and I was hesitating about what excuse to find to redo the overall defense network. Now is the perfect time, so I might as well build a new base and upgrade the originally planned gifts into new houses for everyone.
At this moment, the starship has landed back at the base, and everyone is rushing back to their homes. The guard team has been divided into several small teams, each cleaning up the stone beast corpses in the ruins - to be more precise, recovering the beast cores.
Not only the guard team, but also the hunting team and others who participated in the fight just now were actually collecting the corpses. According to the rules of the martial arts world, whoever kills the beast owns the corpses.
Qi Huan waited for the robot bear to go out and clean up the kitchen utensils, while Jiu Fangyu directly held a small meeting with everyone on the communication channel.
Because they were not far away, Jiufang Yu had no intention of avoiding him. Qi Huan vaguely heard something nearby. Jiufang Yu asked the guards to hurry up and cooperate with the clerks arranged by the secretary to divide into groups and go to each door to count and register the property losses. He also specifically emphasized the need to keep archives and samples.
In line with the principle of not listening to anything indecent, Qi Huan deliberately walked a few steps away. When he looked up, he saw several sky trains speeding towards him in the distance.
Is it getting fierce? Qi Huan blinked, and then he looked carefully and found that it was the owner's airship that had returned. Behind it was a trailer with stone beasts on it, which looked like a train. There were several airships following behind it, also towing long trailers.
Jiufang Yu, who was on the phone, glanced over here and was relieved to see that the owner and A Luan were there.
In the blink of an eye, several airships landed nearby one after another. At this moment, the dust was not heavy, and he could see that the airships behind were all silver bullet-shaped, with two lines of text on the front cabin, like the one he had seen before, with the words "Base 99" written on them.
The window of the airship fell down, and the shopkeeper waved his hand towards Qi Huan, pointing at the trailers of several airships, "Little friend, you know how to unload stone beasts, right? Now I can't find an open unloading yard, can you help me? I'll add 10% to the market price, 550,000 silver coins for an A-grade beast, 55,000 for a B-grade beast, and 30% more for each beast core you add."
Qi Huan took a few glances and couldn't help but take a deep breath. Those trailers were full of A-level and B-level stone beasts. According to a rough estimate, there were at least eight or nine A-level stone beasts and more than twenty B-level beasts behind the four airships. Even if half of them were dual-core, that would be seven or eight million silver coins! He never expected that the beast tide could actually produce gold coins. Millions of silver coins just fell on him!
"I'm asking you a question, why are you in a daze?" The owner waved at Qi Huan again.
"Of course I can, but I've only dismantled B-level stone beasts at most. I don't know if A-level ones are exactly the same." Qi Huan hurriedly explained. It was such an expensive job, and he didn't want to take on too much and end up with problems, which would disappoint his seniors.
"It's okay. There's no need to process it so delicately. We just want the beast core, but it has to be fast. The faster the better." The owner said as he looked at the airships behind him.
The airships also lowered their windows. They were the sentries wearing 'pajamas' outside the south gate. On their left chests were embroidered different numbers with white silk thread, some were 2, some were 7, vaguely like hospital gowns. They looked similar to the shop owner, and seemed to be young men in their thirties. As for their actual age, only God knew.
Everyone nodded, indicating that they agreed with the shop owner's statement that only the beast core would be enough.
Qi Huan originally wanted to say hello, but he didn't see the sister in sunglasses who often came to pick up takeout, and he didn't know which one of them was the big customer who often ordered takeout with a nickname composed of letters and numbers, so he had to give up for the time being.
"Wait a moment, I'll make some contact and see if I can get a few more people to help." Qi Huan quickly opened the terminal to send a message to Lao Wu and Ade. If he wanted to speed up, he wouldn't be able to handle so many stone beasts by himself.
Lao Wu and Lao De had just arrived home and were preparing to "rescue" things from the collapsed house with their family. After receiving Qi Huan's news, they immediately rushed over in a hurry.
A-level stone beasts, 550,000 silver coins each! Even if three people share it, they can at least get 100,000 silver coins. Qi Huan said there are still many B-level stone beasts, plus the animal teeth and bones left behind, it is estimated that this trip can make at least 200,000 silver coins. Even after digging out the things at home, they may not be worth 200,000 silver coins!
The two of them originally lived near Wanjia Food Store, not far from Jinwan Street. When they arrived, Qi Huan was directing several airships to unload cargo. There were more than a dozen A-level stone beasts alone, which stunned Lao Wu and Ade.
The stone beasts were divided into three almost equal parts, two of which consisted of four A-level stone beasts and eight B-level stone beasts, and the other consisted of four A-level and seven B-level stone beasts.
Lao Wu and Ade looked at the stone beasts with complicated expressions. They originally thought that it would be good enough to get an A-level stone beast, but they never expected that Qi Huan would divide it equally among them.
"Brother De, I'm sorry, the distribution was not even, and you have one less." Qi Huan explained to Ade embarrassedly.
"It's okay, it's okay." Ade waved his hands repeatedly, too excited to know what to say. This was far beyond his expectations.
All three were experienced workers, and were used to working together in the unloading yard. While putting on anti-fouling clothing and sharpening their knives, Qi Huan gave them a brief explanation and they understood. Qi Huan also emphasized the big customers' requirement for speed.
There was no unloading platform at this time, they directly found a flat road on Jinwan Street and started working on the spot. No one had ever seen such a top-level stone beast, and seeing that they were going to unload it on the street, many children who were not in a hurry to search for belongings in the ruins and who loved to join in the fun gathered around.
The pile in front of Qi Huan was basically poured out from the shop owner's airship. The shop owner and A Luan naturally sat on a piece of waste stone beam next to them.
It was fine for others, but being watched by two seniors, he inexplicably felt a bit like the pressure when the invigilator was sitting in the passenger seat when he was taking the third test.
Senior A Luan was quite aggressive with his knife, so he brought back pieces of animal meat, which was convenient to move, but a little troublesome to find the location of the animal core. For example, the first A-level two-headed python he killed, except for the head and tail, the remaining ten or so pieces of three or four meters in length were very similar.
The animal core of a two-headed python is usually between the 35th and 55th vertebrae. Qi Huan could only find a piece that looked more similar based on his experience and planned to cut it open to take a look.
The python skin was gleaming and slippery like green crystal. He pressed down on the python with one hand and one knee to secure it, and stabbed it skillfully with the knife in his right hand.
"Snap!" The A-level stone beast's completely gemmed skin and bones were extremely hard, and the boning knife in Qi Huan's hand couldn't penetrate it at all. The moment the tip of the knife touched the python skin, it broke unexpectedly.
The broken tip of the knife flashed silver, and it flew straight to the owner's door amid the exclamations of the crowd.
Ah Luan stretched out two fingers and accurately clamped the broken blade, and an accident was eliminated in an instant. Qi Huan patted his chest with the half-broken knife. Fortunately, he didn't stab anyone. He thought there might be problems, but he didn't expect that problems would arise as soon as he started.
The crowd of onlookers secretly smacked their lips in amazement. It was indeed an A-level stone beast! It was indeed a sentinel!
The shop owner glanced at the broken blade in Ah Luan's hand and said with disdain, "Your craftsmanship is at most level four, it's really bad."
Qi Huan: ...
At about the same time, Lao Wu and Lao De also encountered a similar situation. The three of them looked at each other awkwardly while holding their broken swords. Their swords were simply not capable of dismantling the A-level stone beast. What should they do?
At the critical moment, it was the shop owner who came to the rescue and took out a few black gold daggers to lend to them. "They are not boning knives, but they can cut the skin and bones of A-level stone beasts. Just use them."
Those daggers were just like the swords in martial arts dramas that could cut through gold and jade, and they could cut through animal skins just like chopping melons and vegetables. Seeing the faint golden light on the black blades, Qi Huan couldn't help but wonder if there was any anti-gold stuff inside.
Later, Qi Huan's good luck finally paid off. After breaking the skin and separating the bones, he followed the bone seam to the third section and found a fist-sized animal core. The emerald green animal core was rich in color, clean and transparent, with almost no impurities visible, and it shone with a warm and charming luster in the sun.
The crowd was watching in amazement. Jiufang Yu, who had just hung up the phone, also glanced over here. The next moment, lights on both communication lines lit up at the same time. Jiufang Yu sighed and picked up the calls. The situation was in chaos at the moment, and there were too many things that needed to be arranged and handled.
"Not bad." The shop owner looked at the stone with a satisfied look.
Qi Huan quickly wiped the blood off the beast core with a piece of cloth, handed it to the shopkeeper, and turned around to continue searching along the joints. The upper limit of a C-level stone beast is usually 2 beast cores, and a B-level is about 3. So based on this, it is very likely that an A-level stone beast has more than one beast core.
The flesh and bones of the A-level stone beast are very peculiar. Although the skin and bones look indestructible, the flesh is as soft as jelly. With the help of the black gold dagger, it is not too difficult to find it. Qi Huan found the second beast core very quickly. It was still the refreshing green color. The color and texture were almost the same as the first one, but it was smaller in size.
At this time, Lao Wu and Lao De also found the first beast core one after another, and the crowd burst into exclamations and admiration.
After turning over the first piece of python, Qi Huan started to cut the second piece. After getting used to using the black gold dagger, he inexplicably felt like a butcher cutting up an ox, with his mind moving at will and with ease. The movements of cutting the meat and peeling the bones became lighter and smoother.
A small transparent human figure appeared faintly above his head, with long hair fluttering in the wind, curiously and clumsily following his movements.
The shop owner and A-Luan, who were watching nearby, saw the blurry figure, looked at each other, and both of them smiled.
A total of five were found in the fragments of the two-headed python. The last one was extremely small, only the size of the nail of the little finger. If Qi Huan had not been careful, it would have been easily overlooked. Qi Huan handed the beast core to the store owner and immediately ran towards the second stone beast with a knife in hand.
There were an average of more than a dozen stone beasts. Even though Qi Huan and his team were very skillful and did not need to peel off the tusks and bones, it still took them quite a while. It was not until sunset that they finished the work.
A lot of beast cores were taken out, and the sentinels paid without hesitation. Lao Wu got more than 4 million, and Ade also got nearly 4 million. Even if converted into star coins, it was still a heavy bag. Both of them were grinning from ear to ear.
The shopkeeper picked out a two-headed python's beast core from a pile of A-level beast cores and threw it into Qi Huan's hand, saying confidently, "If you don't have money, use this to pay for it."
Qi Huan took the egg-shaped beast core with surprise and joy, and his heart was immediately overjoyed. This was an A-grade beast core. The worst grade started at five million per gram. What's more, the one the store owner gave him should be of A grade judging by its quality. If he sold it, he could pay off his debts directly!
The shop owner seemed to see what Qi Huan was thinking and poked his forehead with his finger, "Don't sell it unless it's absolutely necessary. Keep it for yourself."
Qi Huan: ???
He is not a sentinel, so what is the point of keeping the beast core? Is he supposed to keep it for Jiufang Yu?
"Ahuan, come here." Qi Huan was still confused when he was pulled aside by Lao Wu and Ade.
"Take this." Lao Wu stuffed the bulging purse in his hand into his hand.
Eh? Qi Huan was caught off guard. Before he could open his mouth, Ade also pulled open an empty bag, poured a lot of star coins from his bag into it, and stuffed it into Qi Huan's hand.
"We've discussed this," Lao Wu held down Qi Huan's hand as he tried to push the money bag back. "You took this job, which means you're the boss. The boss gets 80% and we get 20%, that's the rule. But today is considered an urgent overtime job, so we'll keep an extra 10%, and you'll get 70%."
"But..." Qi Huan wanted to speak, but Ade also held his wrist, "We have never encountered such a big job as today in our lives. We are already satisfied with these. If you don't accept it, we can only think that you think 70% is too little and want 80%."
Qi Huan choked, and Lao Wu pointed to the animal corpse next to him and said, "Those animal teeth and bones can be sold for a lot of money. We have made a lot of money today. The cost of opening a store is high, and you must have suffered a big loss today. Use this money to make up for the shortfall, and you can live a more comfortable life in the future."
"Thank you." Qi Huan was really touched as he held the two heavy purses in his hands, as they thought so much of him.
"Why thank you? We are the ones who should be thanked. If you need similar work in the future, just think of us two older brothers."
Lao Wu and Ade patted the back of Qi Huan's hands and smiled innocently. The orange-red sunset shone on their faces, as if it was filtered by a layer of candy, sweet and warm.
"Gurgle." Someone's stomach suddenly growled loudly. The blue-haired sentry who had just paid Lao Wu covered his stomach in embarrassment.
"Actually, I'm a little hungry too." The owner looked at Qi Huan suggestively.
"If you're not in a hurry to leave, why don't you have something to eat together?" Qi Huan, who had made a fortune, was extremely excited physically and mentally, and naturally would not refuse the request of his sponsor.
There just happened to be a bunch of food in the refrigerator or freezer, which would go bad easily over time, so we might as well just eat it together.
"No, they said they'll treat us to a nice meal after we kill the stone beast." The blue-haired sentry rejected Qi Huan, turned around and bumped into the arm of the person on his right, "Right, No. 2?"
"I've been busy since I got here and haven't had any time until now," said the man whose arm was bumped. He had short, neat golden hair and dark skin, and his grievance was mixed with a hint of embarrassment and anger.
Qi Huan took a special look and saw that the number embroidered on his chest was indeed 2, while the one with blue hair had embroidered 4. He suddenly remembered what the big takeaway customer had said, "I didn't even have the chance to taste the whole thing before those two shameless guys from Building 4 and Building 9 snatched it away!"
Looking to the side, I saw a black-haired sentry with the number 9 embroidered on his chest.
"Where else do you want to eat?" The owner looked at No. 2 and No. 4 in confusion. Huanhuan is the best chef in the entire Waste Planet No. 7. No, he is probably about the same in the entire alliance.
Number 2 scratched his short blond hair next to his ear, and was also very confused. "It's a rare opportunity for me to go out, so of course I should go to the restaurant you recommended!"
Shopkeeper:…
Qi Huan: ...
Qi Huan was silent for a moment, then he rummaged through the ruins nearby and found the sign of Renjian Restaurant.
No one knew what kind of stone the black signboard with gold painting was made of, but it was so hard that even under the broken bricks and rocks, there wasn't even a crack.
Qi Huan used his sleeves to wipe off the sand and dirt, then turned around, holding the sign and standing in front of the blond man and the pajama sentinels, smiling brightly, "Welcome, what would you like to eat?"
Sentinels: ...
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