Chapter 137 The Difficulty of Breathing (Thanks to 'your father smiled heartily' for the reward)

On the sidewalk of the highway.

Two figures, one in front and one behind, brought up gusts of wind and rushed towards the Lingji Protection Area.

It was Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen.

But at this moment, apart from Zhang Yu who was speeding on the road with his sports car.

From time to time, a flash of lightning appeared on Bai Zhenzhen's body, and she was following Zhang Yu with her newly learned lightning legs.

Unlike Zhang Yu who focused on improving his physical strength, Bai Zhenzhen was participating in a martial arts competition, so during this period of time, in addition to improving his Taoism, magic power, and physical strength, he also put more energy into practicing martial arts techniques.

This Lightning Step is a combat technique that allows Bai Zhenzhen to move short distances at high speed during battle. It is more flexible than the racing legs, easier to change, and more explosive, making this technique more suitable for combat. At this moment, she simply uses it to practice while traveling.

Under the sunshine, Bai Zhenzhen could still feel a trace of warmth flowing in her body. It was her true spiritual root absorbing the inspiration from the light.

However, now her true spiritual roots have gradually adapted to the adjustment of light and darkness, and can understand Bai Zhenzhen's thoughts and will not make her dark.

On the other side, Zhang Yu, under the sunlight, felt as if lava was flowing all over his body, madly absorbing the inspiration from the sunlight that fell from the sky.

At the same time, he was also doing some calculation in his mind.

The purpose of this trip to the Lingji Conservation Area was to go through Xiong Wenwu's route and see if we could rent a spiritual vein location for breathing at a cheap price.

After all, these days... although his physical strength has increased rapidly, the improvement of his Taoism and magic power by relying solely on martial arts is still too slow for Zhang Yu.

It is said that the spiritual veins are not only rich in spiritual energy, but can also greatly improve the efficiency of refining magic power. Over time, they can also improve physical fitness, eliminate diseases and prolong life, and have countless benefits.

"Forget about renting a spiritual vein. With the little money I have, I can see if I can rent a place so that Ah Zhen and I can breathe in the spiritual vein."

Although he had income from Dark Tutoring World, Le Mulan, Yu Xinghan, and Song Hailong during this period, he also received the first endorsement fee of 200,000 yuan.

However, Zhang Yu's expenses were also high. For example, one Hunyuan Pill every three days cost 24,000 yuan, and each set of Nine Dragon Needle Techniques cost another 10,500 yuan. In addition, because he had been focusing on physical training recently and his physical strength had been continuously improving, his food expenses had now reached 1,500 yuan a day. After the beginning of May, he had to pay back another 15,000 yuan in loan interest...

Zhang Yu looked at his account balance again, which was still 570,000.

He thought to himself, "Renting a location inside the spirit vein shouldn't be a problem, right?"

The two continued speeding along the way. Gradually, more and more factories appeared around them. Wisps of white smoke continued to pour out of the huge chimneys. They could also see the signs of Hongta Animal Husbandry printed on some of the factories.

As Zhang Yu's eyes swept across the rows of factories, he was suddenly startled: "What is that?"

The land that was suspected to be a factory was now only a ruin, with broken walls and ruins everywhere, as if it had been through a war.

There was even a palm print hundreds of meters wide on the hillside not far behind, on which remained fragments of various towers, walls, and machinery.

The ruins were enveloped by light curtains with various warning signs appearing on them, just like the cordon at a murder scene.

Zhang Yu asked, "Is this a war?"

Bai Zhenzhen glanced at it and said, "You don't know this? It was quite popular on the Internet half a year ago. There was a factory that was investigated for tax evasion."

"The tax evaders resisted on the spot, using all kinds of flying swords and magic weapons to kill most of the tax inspectors who came to investigate."

Zhang Yu was shocked. Are the tax evaders in Kunxu so fierce?

Bai Zhenzhen continued, "Then the tax inspector invited the power of the great god of tribute heaven, who destroyed the entire factory with one palm strike, and also sucked away the souls of most of the prisoners."

"Most of them?" Zhang Yu was surprised. "What about those whose spirits were not taken away? Did they die or escape?"

Bai Zhenzhen said: "That was the moment he saw the God of Tribute to Heaven descend, he committed suicide immediately."

Zhang Yu swallowed and was once again thankful that he did not evade taxes in Kunxu.

The two continued to fly and soon saw a huge arc appearing on the distant horizon.

This is exactly the purpose of their trip.

It is said that a long time ago, this spiritual protection area was once the territory of monsters, among which there were several powerful monsters.

The so-called big demon is a powerful monster. Now monsters are called demon descendants.

Unlike demon beasts that are regarded as animals, demon descendants often have real intelligence and are able to integrate into social life and work.

But later the big monsters in this area were defeated by the company's security forces. The reserve changed hands several times and was finally bought by Hongta Animal Husbandry, which has been operating it ever since.

I heard that it still retains all the natural features that have always existed, as well as various monsters that originally lived there. Of course... all of these have become assets of Hongta Animal Husbandry.

When Zhang Yu looked carefully at this moment, he could find that there seemed to be an extremely huge glass cover there, covering the continuous mountains and hills.

As the two got closer, they could see dense runes appearing on the glass cover from time to time. It was the power of the formation that separated the inner and outer worlds.

In addition, Zhang Yu could also see many red warning words on it.

They are all something like 'Hongta Animal Husbandry's private territory, please buy a ticket and enter through the main gate'.

Bai Zhenzhen looked at it and cursed, "How stingy! Are you unwilling to reveal even a little bit of the air in the reserve?"

She had originally wondered if she could get some inspiration and air from the protected area across its border, but now it seemed that people had been prepared for this.

The two continued forward and arrived at the ticket office at the main entrance of the Lingji Protection Area.

Seeing that the ticket price was only 5 yuan, Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yu were surprised. What was the difference between this and free? Was Hongta Animal Husbandry doing charity?

Bai Zhenzhen immediately retracted her stingy comment in her heart. How could Hongta Animal Husbandry be stingy? It was simply too generous.

The two opened their phones to see if there were any discounts, and were surprised to find that the rating of this protected area was only 1.3?

But after the ticket seller stuck the reserve air meter, spirit monitor, weight monitor... on them one after another, the two understood why the tickets seemed to be free and why the scores were so low.

I only heard the ticket seller say: "The air in the reserve is priced at 1,999 yuan per cubic meter, the water is priced at 2,888 yuan per liter, and the spirit machine is priced at 3,999 yuan per unit."

"The price list of all the animals and plants in the reserve, as well as soil, stones and other materials, is in the user manual. I'll send it to you. Please accept it..."

Zhang Yu looked at the densely packed list of charges in the user manual and was speechless.

In this Lingji Protection Area, whether it's air, water, food, or anything else, it all costs money. Ordinary people might go bankrupt just by picking up a few stones.

Bai Zhenzhen said nervously: "Yuzi, please breathe less when you go in, this is too expensive."

After buying the tickets, the two people first entered the closed cabin. With the closing of the rear door, the two were completely isolated from the outside world.

Then, as the hatch in front opened, Zhang Yu felt a breeze of extremely fresh air blowing towards him.

Just by taking a deep breath, Zhang Yu felt relaxed all over, and all the flesh and blood seemed to relax.

There is no wrong version in the 1619 book forum!

"Is this... air?"

"What was I breathing then?"

He felt that the air he usually smelled was nothing more than car exhaust compared to this.

"So I've always been in such a bad air environment? I've just gotten used to it?"

Zhang Yu walked out of the closed cabin and completely immersed himself in the environment of the protected area.

Taking a deep breath, Zhang Yu felt as if his whole body was cleansed, and the blood and magic power in his body became more active.

Even at this marginal location, Zhang Yu could feel the concentration of spiritual energy in the air, which was almost the same as the quiet room in Songyang High School that had a spiritual gathering effect.

As the two of them walked quickly along the sightseeing path, the spiritual energy in the air became stronger and stronger. Even Bai Zhenzhen's spiritual energy charge had risen to more than 500. She was so scared that she quickly suppressed her true spiritual root and stopped it from absorbing spiritual energy for the time being.

Zhang Yu also felt that the spiritual energy absorbed by the Great Sun Qi Sea from the light was more concentrated. One day of breathing here was probably equivalent to several days of breathing outside.

Bai Zhenzhen patted her chest in fear and said, "This broken place is so easy to go bankrupt. Let's leave quickly after meeting Xiong Wenwu."

Zhang Yu nodded. He felt that staying in this spiritual protection zone was even more dangerous than being at the scene of a gang fight.

He thought again, "It costs so much just to breathe in and out in the outer area. How much will it cost to get to the real spiritual vein?"

At this moment, he doubted whether he could rent a position in the spiritual vein this time.

In particular, when he opened the map and took a look, he found that there were three spiritual veins in the reserve, running through seven large areas and more than twenty hills, but none of them were accessible to tourists. They were either private territories that had been rented out for a long time, or various ranches, factories, and plantations...

It can be said that all the areas that tourists can enter are outside the spiritual vein.

However, Zhang Yu could not afford the cost of breathing and exhaling in this outer area for a long time.

"Alas, ordinary tourists can only enter the protected area and breathe in and out along the outer edge of the spiritual vein. There is no way to get in."

At this moment, Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen no longer expected to rent a position in the spiritual vein. They would be satisfied if they could find a way to get some cheap air outside the spiritual vein.

"Let's go see Xiong Wenwu first and see what he has to say."

The place where Xiong Wenwu met them was the breeding base, a remote location on the edge of the nature reserve.

The two of them moved forward along the map. Every time they passed a mountain, they could feel that on the mountain that was blocked by layers of light curtains and formations, there were rays of inspiration rising into the sky, and the inspiration was so rich that it seemed like it was going to rain.

Even Bai Zhenzhen and Zhang Yuzhen saw a drizzle falling on the mountain from time to time. The inspiration was steaming in the rain, which made them secretly amazed.

These mountains are where the real spiritual veins are located.

Unlike the tourist area where Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen are walking at the moment, it is just the outer area of ​​the spiritual vein, which can absorb some of the air and spiritual energy leaking from above.

Zhang Yu and Bai Zhenzhen couldn't imagine what those people who stayed on the mountain were doing. They actually needed to absorb and release such a huge amount of spiritual energy, and how much money it cost every second? At the bottom of the mountain, outside the light curtain that isolated tourists, this side belonged to the tourist area.

From time to time, Zhang Yu saw various poor people carrying oxygen tanks and water bottles, lingering at the foot of the mountain, just like small fish clinging to the body of a whale, sucking the spiritual energy overflowing from the spiritual veins and gaining a cultivation efficiency far exceeding that of the outside world.

No... Zhang Yu denied the thought that just occurred to him.

"They are not poor people at all. They can breathe here at the foot of the mountain. Judging from the charges here... we are all rich people."

"There are so many rich people in Kunxu."

Bai Zhenzhen said, "We should have brought oxygen tanks earlier. It's not worth breathing here."

Zhang Yu nodded in agreement.

More than ten minutes later, the two finally arrived at the so-called breeding base.

(End of this chapter)