Lin Ruo noticed the stall owner's gaze, but she didn't feel the need to explain herself to him.
After the transaction, she carried dozens of kilograms of seeds on her back and wandered around the trade fair, but after wandering around for a long time, she still couldn't find anything that interested her.
Just then, the stalls belonging to the B City base in the middle began to open. Lin Ruo went over, and the superhumans surrounding the stalls automatically made way for her when they saw her attire.
Lin Ruo looked down at her ordinary black heat-resistant suit. It was just a piece of clothing, yet it was so effective. No wonder everyone else was wearing the same thing as her.
There weren't many items on this stall. One was a communication terminal, priced at 200 Level 1 crystal cores per unit, which wasn't expensive.
One type is the Crystal Energy Gun. This Crystal Energy Gun is the same as the one Lin Ruo obtained before, but the one used in their battles is somewhat different. Lin Ruo touched the corner of his mouth, indicating that it had definitely been replaced.
Another type is a machine similar to a detector. The detector is not expensive, costing only 100 level 1 crystal cores, and comes with detailed instructions for use.
"What exactly is this thing? It's priced at 1000 jin of underground ore? What is underground ore anyway?"
"It says it's a crystal energy gun, so it must be a very powerful weapon."
Many superhumans had seen this weapon during the battle a week ago, and their eyes shone with fervent anticipation as they looked at it.
At this moment, Jiang Yue walked onto the stage from the back. He was wearing a combat uniform from the B City base. After his eyes swept around seriously, he waved to the audience. Soon, several superhumans pulled over a huge underground mineral cage.
The cage contains a level 3 mutated leopard, which is scratching furiously at the cage door and baring its sharp teeth as it roars at the onlookers outside.
Lin Ruo stood in the crowd and watched as Jiang Yue pulled out a crystal energy gun from his waist, identical to the one on the stage, and fired two shots at the leopard in the cage. The light bullets quickly entered the leopard's forehead.
This mutated leopard, which was considered the highest-ranking on the main peak, collapsed to the ground immediately after being hit, its chest no longer rising or falling, clearly dead.
Those who had never seen a crystal energy gun before looked at it on the stage with a different light in their eyes. This thing was simply a divine weapon. With such a weapon, would they still have to worry about encountering advanced mutated beasts in the wild?
However, this crystal energy gun cannot be purchased with crystal cores; it can only be bought with underground ore. Many ability users from other bases do not know what this underground ore is, let alone how to buy it.
Jiang Yue tucked the crystal energy gun back into his waistband, then waved his hand behind him. A superhuman walked up carrying a tray, on which were the mined underground minerals.
"Our base in City B has never believed that underground minerals exist only in City B. This trade fair is also meant to tell all bases that our base in City B is buying up underground minerals indefinitely. Please take note of this when you get back."
"This detector on the platform is specifically designed to find underground minerals. If you are interested, you can buy it and try it out."
After Jiang Yue stepped down from the stage, these people realized that the crystal energy gun was not being sold to them right now. Instead, they were to go back and check if there were any underground minerals on their own land. If they found any, they could use them to exchange for the crystal energy gun.
These superhumans exchanged glances. This underground ore was something that even the B City base had gone to great lengths to obtain, even trading such good weapons for it. It must be something valuable!
If they can find underground minerals within their base area, they'll really make a fortune. Not to mention anything else, they could trade anything with the B City base without hesitation.
I originally thought I was here to exchange for this communication terminal, but I didn't expect that the real gain this time would be this detector.
When the staff at Base B announced the start of sales, the Base B's exclusive booth was packed with people, who lined up in two separate queues to buy communication terminals and detectors.
The number of people queuing at the detector was far greater than that at the terminal.
Lin Ruo stood at a distance, watching the commotion at the B City base. A thought struck him: it seemed that making money was still the biggest motivator for people.
The approach taken by the B City base was indeed clever—using prey to lure the wolves into searching for underground minerals. While this description isn't very polite, it's quite apt.
As for the B City base, the meat was expired and therefore irrelevant.
Lin Ruo strolled around the trade fair for a while longer. Just as she moved away from the center of the trading area, she noticed a little tail following her. She raised an eyebrow slightly. Weren't these people supposed to be afraid of her outfit? Why was someone trying to rob her?
Before Lin Ruo could make a move, the several superhumans surrounded her, all holding weapons and pointing them at her, demanding, "Hand over the food behind you!"
"We only want the food, hand it over now!"
These people looked around, afraid that the law enforcement team would come over at this moment.
Lin Ruo asked curiously, "Didn't you see my outfit? I'm Lin Ruo."
"Hmph!" The robbery-using superhumans sneered. "Next time, act more convincingly. Don't give yourself away so obviously. Lin Ruo is an ice-type superhuman. That mutated plant branch on your head is too obvious! Hurry up and hand over the stuff! Otherwise, I'll unleash my superpower!"
Before the man could finish speaking, he was horrified to see the tender willow branch on Lin Ruo's head rapidly grow thicker and longer, like green soul-binding chains rushing towards them.
A-Liu was furious. These people deserved to die! How dare they speak to its master like that!
The people around were also frightened. The mutated plant suddenly attacked, and in an instant, the necks of the several superhumans who had just robbed the plant were all pierced. The branches that attacked came out of the backpack in front of the woman!
What a powerful mutated plant! If they're not mistaken, it's a willow branch!
After Ah Liu killed these people, the willow branch continued to thicken, becoming as thick as a fist in the blink of an eye. Sharp thorns extended from it, easily slicing open the heads of these people and digging out the crystal cores from inside.
Lin Ruo looked at the bloodstains on A Liu's body, sighed softly, and with a thought, water molecules adhered to A Liu's branches and crystal core, completely washing them away before disappearing.
Ah Liu thoroughly enjoyed her master's bathing service. Her thick, long branches instantly retracted, returning to their original cute and soft form, and nestled on Lin Ruo's hair.
But this time, no one underestimated the little willow branch. Such a lovely thing, who would have thought it could be so ferocious! It's utterly disillusioning!
Lin Ruo glanced down at the corpse on the ground, then turned and left.
At this moment, the people around dared to speak up, "So, is this ability user wood-type or water-type?"
"This mutated plant can change its size at will, just how many levels is it?!"
Hearing the distant chatter, A-Liu gently shook its tender bud. How dare they steal its owner? They're asking for death!
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