Hui Ling and Zhi Li had a similar thought.
They had been cheated!
This silver wolf beastman was an unscrupulous seller. Taking advantage of the ’rarity’ of the said carrots, he deceived them. After all, who wouldn’t be anxious if such a good thing would go to a rival tribe?
"Six hundred thousand crystal stones for four hundred carrots, right, Mister?"
Tribe Leader Wu’s voice kept on echoing in their head; they nearly burst into tears on the spot.
Xie Ziyuan glanced at Hui Ling and Zhi Li, his face devoid of any guilt. "Yes, thanks for the advance payment too."
Tribe Leader Wu was puzzled. What advance payment?
However, soon, his eyes landed on Hui Ling and Zhi Li, who had bounced into the room with excitement. At this moment, they resembled a wilted egg plant.
His eyes twitched. He had a bad feeling about this.
"Tribe Leader Wu..." Hui Ling began. "We bought carrots too... the price..."
She couldn’t continue, but Tribe Leader Wu understood. He took a deep breath to calm himself down. In the end, he just sighed. Xie Ziyuan’s expression... he didn’t seem ashamed at all. Truly shameless!
Still, Tribe Leader Wu thought they had made quite a bargain. After all, they got the carrots but other tribes didn’t have them. It was also a way to stop Xie Ziyuan from selling the carrots to other rabbit tribes.
They must get all the carrots in Xie Ziyuan’s hands.
"Mister, do you still have some more?" Tribe Leader Wu asked.
Xie Ziyuan shook his head. The rest of the carrots would be for Wan Lan’s meals. He also had specifically given Tribe Leader Wu the carrots that still had the leaves attached to them.
To be honest... Xie Ziyuan also didn’t expect that the carrots would fetch such a high price. All was thanks to its newly discovered benefit. Otherwise, this shrewd Tribe Leader Wu wouldn’t be easy to fool.
He would have gotten only half the price.
The quest that the ghostly woman had been worrying about was about to be finished soon. However, he also wasn’t in a hurry.
There was still the chilis. He could just sell them to the rabbit tribe again. Surely, they would be interested in it.
He knew that even though the items he had given to Old Wang’s shop were a lot and valuable, there weren’t a lot of high-level beastmen there. Crystal cores and some fierce beast parts with the level of fifth rank and higher would need specific customers.
After Xie Ziyuan dumped the carrots from his inner space into the rabbit tribe’s warehouse, his figure exited their territory and disappeared.
No matter how the rabbit tribe’s members tried to look for his traces, it was futile. It was as if he had disappeared from existence; his presence was incredibly mysterious.
The next day, Ma Yongcheng’s hunting team had returned. They nearly perished, however... Thanks to their united effort, no one was left behind.
For the beastmen who only had a breath left, they would forcefully teleport them to the base by activating an individual teleportation talisman.
"Quick, quick, bring the bandages and medicine!" A lot of beastmen were in a hurry to tend to the injured.
Du Yufei and Lin Yu’an worked together. The little wren bird would fly at Lin Yu’an whenever he spotted someone whose condition was severe enough.
"Yu’an, follow me! It’s Leng Jun over there. He is already unconscious, bleeding nonstop." Lin Yu’an hurriedly ran into the direction Du Yufei was leading him.
Everyone started to get busy.
"Yu’an, save my brother!" Leng Ting latched onto Lin Yu’an the moment she saw him.
Lin Yu’an was helpless, however, the moment he saw Leng Ting’s eyes, he swallowed the words which already reached the tip of his tongue. Her eyes were brimming with tears; she was desperately holding them back.
"Where is he?" He finally asked.
Leng Ting let go of him before she grabbed his hand and dragged him toward her brother.
The hunting team had taken forty people into the woods, trying to kill a fourth-order fierce beast. They succeeded after so much effort, but it was a pyrrhic victory.
These beastmen would need to lie down on their beds for some time.
The moment Xie Ziyuan exited his watchtower, he furrowed his brows. This base was indeed too weak. Without the advanced technology, they would have been swallowed by a few fourth-order fierce beasts.
As such, that very day, he summoned most of the free beastmen and drilled them into training. They couldn’t always rely on life-saving means and the pills provided by that ghostly woman.
This time, even when the beastmen were already exhausted, Xie Ziyuan didn’t stop. The injured beastmen didn’t know whether they should be thankful or not when they saw Xie Ziyuan’s strict training.
But the intensity was enough to make them shiver.
They only stopped to prepare for simple meals before they continued again. Those who were good at marksmanship had to fire non-stop. The other beastmen would need to avoid the weapons aimed at them, either with physical prowess or their awakened abilities.
The next step was close combat. Each beastman would get a random partner every few minutes and they needed to defend against each of them.
The moment Su Yining logged into the game after an afternoon of farming, she was stunned by the rows of chibi beastmen sprawling on the castle’s ground.
"Ziyuan, what happened to the base’s residents? Are they poisoned?" She asked worriedly.
The only one standing was Yuanyuan! Others were either too exhausted to move or were lying sick.
Xie Ziyuan’s eyes flickered at the question. He thought about it before he answered, "They are fine."
Su Yining was a little doubtful. Are they really fine...?
These beastmen were groaning and gasping.
Sensing her silence, he cleared his throat and added. "They begged me for additional training."
She blinked. Really? The base’s residents were incredibly diligent. As expected of Yuanyuan; they must have inherited the diligence from him!
This time, she already thought about how to earn crystal stones. However, she fell silent when she saw the amount of crystal stones in the quest page.