Chapter 211 Even when in the wrong, one can still be righteous.
Meng Shiwan snorted coldly. Was he trying to earn some extra money?
He would take a bottle of power-enhancing liquid from her and sell it for 300 crystal cores for 1,000 crystal cores behind her back, making a profit of 700 crystal cores.
Is this what you call a little bit?
After the zombie king issue is resolved, we'll have a proper talk with him about this.
"Something's not right?" Ye Sangyu, who was standing to the side with wide eyes listening, sensed something else in their conversation.
"Selling a thousand crystal cores wasn't cheap, it was expensive, right? How did you manage to make extra money?"
She is warm-hearted and innocent, but not truly stupid; she can still tell the difference between good and bad words.
Wu Ming clasped his hands together and begged for mercy, "Stop talking, stop talking. We'll talk about this after we've defeated the zombie king."
I really can't say any more. Besides, he doesn't need to go find the Zombie King; he'll die here today.
He didn't just sell the ability-enhancing fluid to Ye Sheng's base; he also sold it to many other private bases, using the same tactics to keep it a secret.
Everyone who dares to stand here today is confident in their own abilities.
Where does their confidence come from? Of course, it's because they've drunk the ability-enhancing liquid, and their strength is at the intermediate level of ability users. Otherwise, no matter how powerful their abilities are, with the strength of a low-level ability user, they wouldn't dare to come here and confront the zombie king head-on.
Was Ye Sangyu the only one who was fooled?
No! It was every single one of the superhumans here who was fooled by Wu Ming.
Ye Sangyu, being the one who got the short end of the stick, couldn't stand it any longer and immediately exploded, "Well, Wu Ming, we trusted you so much, and you're just making extra money by reselling the ability-enhancing liquid. I'm going to complain about you at the seed base."
She didn't know that the power-enhancing fluid at the Seed Base was purchased from Meng Shiwan. Everyone outside thought it was developed by the Seed Base to protect Meng Shiwan's safety.
When Ye Sangyu heard Wu Ming mention earning extra money, she naturally wouldn't have guessed it was from the seed base.
They thought Wu Ming was using his position to line his own pocket, running the seed base behind his back, and making extra money for himself.
When Ye Sangyu shouted this, everyone who was discussing countermeasures turned to look at her, their faces full of questions.
"What extra income? Who's earning extra income?"
"I think I just heard that Wu Ming is reselling superpower enhancement fluid and making extra money for himself."
"What? How can we tolerate this? Even if we didn't risk our lives to kill zombies to get the crystal cores we collected, how could Wu Ming embezzle them?"
"Wu Ming, you had better give us an explanation."
Faced with the questions from dozens of people, Wu Ming went from panic to despair, thinking, "Let him die here."
He only wanted to introduce Ye Sangyu and Meng Shiwan to each other, but who knew that Ye Sangyu would be such a chatterbox, blurting out everything and revealing the whole thing?
Facing the indignant and questioning looks from the crowd, Wu Ming, though not entirely in the right, was still defiant. He pointed at one of the men and asked, "What price did I sell it to your base for?"
The man said irritably, "One thousand crystal cores per tube."
Wu Ming then pointed to another person and asked, "And you?"
"One thousand crystal cores per tube."
Wu Ming shrugged, seemingly resigned to his fate, "That's terrible! I sold you a thousand crystal cores and a single dose of ability enhancement fluid. It's fair. How did I cheat you?"
Ye Sangyu's little head clicked, and she said with certainty, "So you cheated all of us equally. The base probably didn't intend to sell it to us for this price, right? How much extra money did you make in the middle?"
"I didn't earn any extra money."
Ye Sangyu pouted, "I heard you talking about making extra money. Don't try to fool me. Just tell me how much you made. If you return the crystal cores you embezzled, I won't complain to the seed base about you."
"That's right, we're actually quite grateful to you for selling us the ability enhancement fluid. You only made a small mistake. If you return the crystal cores you embezzled from us, we can still be good friends."
“Wu Ming, we should all share the benefits. You let this slip yourself. Now that we know, give it back to us. Once this is out of this door, we will absolutely not say another word about it.”
They didn't actually hold much resentment towards Wu Ming, after all, it was Wu Ming who sold them the ability-enhancing liquid.
You should know that before the Seed Base had the ability enhancement fluid, they had approached the Creation Base, offering two thousand crystal cores per vial, but the Creation Base refused to sell it.
Now, one unit can be bought for a thousand crystal cores, which is much cheaper than they had previously expected.
This is why when Wu Ming approached them and offered to sell them a thousand crystal cores at a cheap price, they all believed him without question, didn't even haggle, and bought them with great gratitude.
Now that Wu Ming has let slip that he didn't expect there would still be a profit in selling a thousand crystal cores per tube, how could they not be furious?
No one's crystal cores fall from the sky; they are all hard-earned from fighting among zombies. Each one is precious and hard-won, so how could they tolerate others stealing them?
Wu Ming was surrounded by a group of people who pointed fingers at him and cursed him, while Meng Shiwan stood on the side watching the show.
It's no wonder this guy tries to have his cake and eat it too; he's not losing out even if he gets yelled at.
Wu Ming was now speechless and helpless. He said, "I really didn't make any extra money from you. The price the seed base was going to sell to you was one thousand crystal cores per seed. I was making extra money from her. You've got it wrong."
Wu Ming pointed at Meng Shiwan, but it was not convincing at all.
I don't believe it.
"We don't believe you, stop making excuses."
Wu Ming: ...
He's in a terrible predicament today, no matter how hard he tries.
But we still need to work together to kill the zombie king, so even if we can't clear our names, we have to clear them.
Wu Ming took out his phone, dialed a number, and put it on speakerphone.
"Assistant Li, could you please explain whether the ability enhancement fluid sold by the base to private bases is actually made up of 1,000 crystal cores per vial? They don't believe me when I tell them."
Assistant Li on the other end was clearly taken aback, not expecting Wu Ming to call him so late to talk about this.
"Yes, the ability enhancement fluid sold by the seed base is one bottle containing one thousand crystal cores, and this can be verified at will."
Wu Ming immediately raised his head high, but when his gaze fell on Meng Shiwan, who was standing to the side with a forced smile, he deflated and lowered his head guiltily.
While others didn't earn any extra income, Meng Shiwan truly did.
Wu Ming hung up the phone and explained to everyone, "Some of you should know Assistant Li, right? He's the assistant to the base chief of Haicheng District. He said the price of the ability enhancement fluid is one thousand crystal cores. Now you believe it, right? If you still don't believe it, you can ask someone else to verify it."
Ye Sangyu's eyes widened, realizing she hadn't misheard; Wu Ming had indeed said he was earning extra money.
"If you didn't earn any extra money, then why did you say you did? You made us all misunderstand."
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