Her voice rose at the end, but her eyes were fixed on the flashy storage bag at Pei Lang's waist, as if she could see the pile of shiny treasures inside through the fabric.
"I remember clearly, you still had a full 100 high-grade spirit stones on you~"
"You are the first, most distinguished, and most important customer I've ever had since my little stall opened!"
Pei Lang: "???"
no? !
So they've got their hands on him?!
"Shen Zhaozhao!!"
Pei Lang's fox-like eyes widened in anger: "You won't even spare me?! Are you even human?!"
He became more and more agitated as he spoke, pointing to the bulging talisman pouch hanging from his waist: "Besides, look at this! Talismans! I'm a talisman cultivator! Do you understand what a talisman cultivator is?!"
"If I throw out a talisman, I can take down a whole bunch of those Steel Feather Chickens, five or six is a conservative estimate!"
Pei Lang took a breath, trying hard to suppress the urge to die on the spot with Shen Zhaozhao, and tried to reason with her. His voice was trembling with frustration: "What if... I mean, what if! Your black-hearted stall can't collect a few spirit cores? I might as well share some with you because we're united against a common enemy and have both cursed that black-hearted lotus Yun Wan'er together!"
"What if we can still squeeze you into the top four?!"
Pei Lang's words, "I'll share some with you" and "make sure you get into the top four," were still lingering in the air when Shen Zhaozhao clicked her tongue, looking at him like he was looking at a landlord's foolish son.
Of course, she couldn't say, "I was afraid you'd be left alone and get killed by the plot," so she just smiled and asked, "Pei Lang, what do you think... why can a bookmaker be a bookmaker?"
Pei Lang blinked his clear yet foolish fox-like eyes in bewilderment, completely unable to keep up with this leap in thought: "?"
Shen Zhaozhao raised her chin slightly, pointing to the huge real-time ranking screen in the air, exuding an air of "I have the truth, I have the world": "Of course, it's because the bookmakers have the capital!"
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