Chapter 34: Change
Xie Qingui nodded: "Then please wait here for a moment, gentlemen."
Xie Qin Gui quickly left the reception room.
The moment the door closed, Li Yuan, who had been standing behind Ye Fei without making a move, slowly stepped forward and picked up the parchment drawings on the table.
After looking around for a while, a voice tinged with surprise rang out from the reception room: "...These weapons, did you really design them yourself?"
Ye Fei took a sip of tea to moisten her throat, and arrogantly raised her chin: "Not bad, the size, range, angle, and hit rate of these three weapons are all within my meticulous calculations."
Li Yuan suddenly couldn't understand her.
At first, he thought she was just an arrogant and frivolous human girl who possessed an excellent physique for cultivation.
But over the days they spent together, he gradually discovered that she also had an unfathomable side—despite being only thirteen years old, her methods and shrewdness were far beyond what he had imagined.
He had to admit that she was bringing him more and more surprises.
Li Yuan put down the blueprints and suddenly asked her, "Aren't you worried that these blueprints might get leaked?"
“Don’t worry.” Ye Fei casually rested her chin on her hand, her tone nonchalant: “No one else but me will know how to assemble these weapons.”
"If it is forcibly assembled, the damage is only the least serious problem. The worst case scenario is that it can silently... commit suicide."
At this point, Ye Fei smiled, a smile that carried a hint of something eerie.
Li Yuan recalled the parts on the blueprints, those crossbow bolts and needle-like weapons, which could easily injure him if he was not careful.
Just then, Xie Qin Gui walked in from outside the reception room.
He respectfully said to Ye Fei, "Your Excellency, the three weapons require approximately one hundred and nine Crimson Flame Crystals, totaling four thousand six hundred gold coins."
Well, the price is not much different from what she estimated... but the start-up capital is limited, and making money is the priority right now.
Ye Fei took out five high-grade spirit stones: "Let's save the extra four hundred gold coins for our next cooperation."
Xie Qingui accepted the spirit stone and thought to himself, "To be able to hold a high-grade spirit stone, this must be some powerful figure from overseas."
"Sir, please keep this jade token with you at all times." Xie Qingui handed back a jade token of emerald green color, engraved with the words "Po Yue". "When the jade token emits a red light, you can come to Po Yue Tower to collect weapon parts."
“My name is Dongfang. You can just call me by my name. There’s no need for formalities.” Ye Fei said the pseudonym she had prepared, and put away the jade token. “The cooperation has been reached. We’ll take our leave now.”
Xie Qin Gui smiled kindly and said, "Take care, both of you."
After leaving Poyue Tower, Ye Fei took off her hoodie and stretched: "Let's go back to cultivate. There's still the freshman trial to come..."
Just as Li Yuan was about to catch up with Ye Fei, he suddenly stopped.
Ye Fei turned to look at him in confusion: "What?"
"You go back to the academy first," Li Yuan said calmly. "I ran into someone I know, I'll go say hello."
Ye Fei had no doubts whatsoever: "Alright, then I'll head back first."
Li Yuan stared at Ye Fei's retreating figure as she walked further and further away until she disappeared, then silently turned and walked towards an empty alley.
He pulled down his hoodie, parted his thin lips slightly, and uttered a single word indifferently: "Speak."
Two black figures appeared instantly beside Li Yuan; they were his attendants, Jiang Bai and Li Yu.
"Your Majesty, I have been pursuing it for several more days and have found traces of Thorn in different locations in the realms of demons, monsters, and humans." Jiang Bai knelt on one knee, his tone cold: "I suspect that Thorn released its aura into these locations during its escape, causing the tracking to go astray."
Li Yuan slightly raised his head, a faint purple light appearing in his normally dark eyes, alluring yet filled with boundless danger: "This traitor, how dare he toy with me like this..."
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