52: Chapter 52 Taking a step back only makes me angrier, so I want it all.
Yun Zhuo and Teacher Su were startled; Teacher Wu really appeared out of nowhere.
"Where are we going?"
Teacher Wu stepped forward and grabbed Yun Zhuo: "Doesn't matter where, while they're gone, hurry and leave with me first."
When he was yanked, Yun Zhuo realized how big the gap was between him and Level 45; he had no room to resist at all.
"Wait a moment, Teacher Wu, do you know what's inside those shipping containers?"
"No matter what's inside, you must come with me now."
"corrosion crystals—a full five billion corrosion crystals. You don't want them?"
Wu Song froze. "How... how much?"
Yun Zhuo spread his five fingers right in front of Wu Song's eyes: "Five billion!"
"Fi... five billion!" Wu Song gasped, then said with an excited face: "Are you sure?"
Yun Zhuo glanced at Chen Bo on the ground: "This is the ransom I asked from his dad. How could it be wrong? He doesn't want his son anymore."
"Well now, you kid actually learned how to kidnap people!"
"Just say if you want in or not."
"How much can you give me?"
Wu Song rubbed his hands and leaned in. As soon as he spoke, Ban Jinlian's voice echoed in his consciousness.
"Are you crazy? Instead of taking this kid and leaving right now, you're thinking about making money? Is the Chen family's money that easy to earn?"
"Wife, that's five billion. Do you know what that means?"
"I don't know. I only know that if we don't leave, we won't be able to once Chen Kun gets back."
Seeing Wu Song dazed, Yun Zhuo knew he must be discussing it with his Master's wife.
Although his Master's wife usually seemed careless, walking around in short shorts all day...
She cared most about Wu Song. With her womanly heart, she definitely wouldn't agree to Wu Song taking risks right now.
So he immediately pressed: "Are we doing this?"
"Let's do it!" Wu Song blurted out, then added: "Wait, how much can you give me?"
Wu Song was a real one; facing a huge sum of five billion, he was still asking how much he could get.
If it were me, I'd be thinking: it's mine, it's mine, it's all mine.
"Teacher Wu, you saw it too. There are so many containers; it's unrealistic to take them all. My plan is for each of us to drive one truck. Whatever is left, we split it fifty-fifty."
After hearing this, Wu Song lay down where Yun Zhuo had been and looked around below.
"If they were all red corrosion crystals, they wouldn't need so many trucks. It means there are crystals of all colors.
It's hard to say exactly how many corrosion crystals are in one truck.
With good luck, one truck might have tens of millions. With bad luck, it might only be hundreds of thousands."
"Some are empty trucks; the people inside have already left," Yun Zhuo reminded him from the side.
"I know, but even if they were all red corrosion crystals, it wouldn't be worth that much money."
Wu Song pondered for a moment: "If we're going to do it, let's go big. I know the school has a small camp under Sun-Climbing Ridge, about fifty kilometers from here. How about we make a few trips back and forth?"
"No problem, but there are still guards down there. What do you think we should do?"
Wu Song glanced at Chen Bo. "That's easy. I'll take this kid to trade with them and lure them away. You pick the right time to drive the trucks."
"Then we have to hurry, because we don't know when Chen Kun will be back."
"I've got this, don't worry. But are you really willing to give me half?"
"I'll let you pick first when the time comes, how about that?"
Wu Song left with Chen Bo. A moment later, five or six guards at the bottom of the mountain received the news and left too.
But they were quickly taken out by Wu Song. When the remaining guards heard about it, they immediately blew their tops.
So they left two to watch the vehicles, and the rest went to deal with Wu Song.
Of the remaining two, one was Level 32 and the other Level 33. Both were Earth Rank High Grade and were the most skilled among them.
Yun Zhuo didn't plan to wait any longer; he and Teacher Su directly lured a group of Mutated Beasts over.
Relying on Teacher Su's extremely high mobility, he made those two beast god mechas collide with the beast tide.
He then circled back from another direction.
While those two guys were entangled by the Mutated Beast tide on the other side and couldn't mind him...
He ran over and pulled open a container. With a clattering sound, multicolored corrosion crystals poured out like beans from the opening, rolling onto the ground in a small pile.
Yun Zhuo had thought these corrosion crystals would be packed in boxes and stacked neatly in layers inside the containers.
He didn't expect Chen Kun's method to be so simple and crude—just packing them into containers like grain.
This makes it convenient for me.
"Top up!"
Yun Zhuo pressed his hand on the corrosion crystals and muttered in his heart.
In the blink of an eye, a whole container of corrosion crystals vanished completely.
Next, Yun Zhuo didn't even bother opening the containers. He punched through the container walls, and as soon as his hand touched the corrosion crystals, he muttered "top up" in his heart, and a container of corrosion crystals was looted clean.
Just like that, half an hour later, Yun Zhuo was startled by the System balance.
"Twenty-seven billion! Didn't we agree on five billion? My god, Chen Kun is really too generous."
Yun Zhuo looked up and saw that nearly half of the trucks hadn't been looted by him yet. This was probably no less than fifty billion!
Why did Chen Kun bring so many corrosion crystals out of the city? What did he want to do? Could it be he wanted to beg me to give his son a quick death?
Whatever, anyone who doesn't take money when it's available is a fool.
Without realizing it, Yun Zhuo had looted his way near the two guards.
As expected of Level 30-plus experts and Earth Rank High Grade; they were fast at killing Level 5 Mutated Beasts. Those beasts couldn't trap them at all.
Now one of them had already freed himself to block the cave entrance, but there was still nearly one-fifth of the containers left.
Should I just call it a day? I've already got forty billion; that ten billion won't make a huge difference.
I can't beat Level 30s right now. I don't want to lose the forty billion I already have.
Thinking this, Yun Zhuo silently took a step back, but then stopped. Damn it, the more I think about backing down, the angrier I get.
I've already got forty billion, why not make it a round number?
While the other person was blocking the cave entrance, Yun Zhuo rushed forward, his spear striking like a dragon.
The opponent had just slashed away several Mutated Beasts when he suddenly felt killing intent from behind.
He turned quickly, only to see a flash of lightning that made him instinctively blink.
Unable to see, he instinctively used the Head-Wrapping Saber technique, the blade circling his body to keep the attacker away.
At the same time, after locking onto the target, he could use the momentum of his turn to build power for a heavy cleave.
As a result, just as he turned, his backside exploded.
There was no other way. Against a Level 30-plus War Princess, with defense and damage reduction, the damage he could deal wouldn't be fatal.
To strike in a way that would make the opponent lose combat capability in one hit, he had to attack their vital gate.
As for the opponent's Head-Wrapping Saber, it looked cool, and if I were using a saber, I really wouldn't dare get close.
But I'm using a great spear! Your saber isn't even half as long as my spear, what do I have to fear?
Once the opponent's vital gate was broken, his body stiffened like he'd been electrocuted and he jumped up.
Yun Zhuo used the momentum to flick the spear tip, tossing him even higher, then pulled the spear back and followed up with a Chain Spear move.
With rapid and dense thrusts, he gave his opponent no room to breathe.
In the blink of an eye, he stabbed upwards over a dozen times, each strike creating a bloody hole. The damage dealt was much higher than he had previously imagined.
As long as he had enough Spiritual Essence, plus the bonus from the Return to Truth Realm of the Six Harmonies Great Spear, it seemed it wasn't impossible to stab him to death head-on.
The opponent's Body Integration form exploded in the air.
Yun Zhuo's last two thrusts landed on that man and woman.
Without the protection of the mecha, the kinetic energy carried by the spear tip instantly turned the two of them into a bloody mist in mid-air.