Chapter 142: You’re Way Too Extreme!
After briefly greeting his two teammates, Yuan Zhu did not submit the mission right away, that is, turn in that batch of Crystal Silkworm Cocoon raw materials. Instead, he first checked his own mission revenue.
Readers who have often been dragged into the Space of Gods by the Anti-Law Demon God to do unpaid labor all know that this low-spec Main God Space refuses to provide any repairs and lacks a reliable revenue settlement system.
The income of a destined worker is often composed of three parts:
First, personal revenue obtained from doing side jobs in the Bubble World. Including but not limited to starting a company (long-term benefits), plundering resources (short-term revenue).
As long as it can be carried out, Happy Home will not interfere too much.
For example, the Golden Bodhisattva he carried out last time. Another example, the bulging backpack beside Meng Xiyue, which was stuffed full of spherical objects. Combined with the content of the Meng Xi Broadcast… this is very suspicious, terrifying upon careful thought.
The second part is based on the individual’s actions and behaviors in the Bubble World, as well as the subsequent influence they trigger, ultimately paid by the Space of Gods as a fee.
This part of the reward has little to do with Happy Home. Essentially, after Yuan Zhu and this group of bottom-level workers carried out a series of development and influence on the Bubble World, it strengthened the Space of Gods’ anchoring and connection to these wild worlds floating in the Bubble Layer.
His spatial revenue from the Underground World this time soared to 11500 points. In comparison, the remuneration given by the Space of Gods last time was a qualitative leap.
Of course, although he was surprised by his high salary, after calming down and thinking carefully, it wasn’t unexpected, and he fully approved.
First, his personal strength was countless times higher than last time he went to the Little Xihong Realm? His value naturally increased.
Second, he single-handedly confronted the entire world throughout, creating great achievements (Animal Husbandry Village). He even explored all the way to the world’s limit—the Dream Hole! If he surpassed the Dream Hole, it would directly Shatter the Void.
Third, the Underground World far surpassed the Little Xihong Realm in scale, power level, and world intensity. Such a massive Bubble World, with so many tricks pulled off and so much intelligence explored, personally strengthening the systematic connection between the Bubble World and the Space of Gods.
Just 11500 points, he felt it wasn’t exaggerated at all.
As for the final third part of income, it was paid by the Mao Mao King, involving his kip targets this time.
From successfully hatching the insect eggs, to establishing an upstream raw material company, to painstakingly founding the camp to spread Mao Mao King faith, arranging employees to worship this Children’s Wear Great Demon God together (daily check-in)… his actions were loyal to the extreme.
Compared to Meng Xiyue, who didn’t focus on proper work and randomly broadcasted, the Mao Mao King must give him a big red envelope!
…
“Hey! What are you spacing out for?”
Meng Xiyue jumped down from the chair, came in front of Yuan Zhu, waved her hand, interrupting his daze and thinking.
“I’m wondering how much money you made on this mission. On the eve of my return, I received your ‘message’ spread in the Surface World. Making such a big scene, you must have earned quite a bit, right?”
Yuan Zhu had a premonition that he should be the one who earned the most this mission.
After all, the achievement of Shadow Dream Hole + Shadow Domain was too outrageous; he didn’t even dare to think of it at the beginning of his descent. In just one week, he lit up the Tiger Demon’s ultimate divine ability? Is this something a newbie who just entered the field (Holy Light) less than 1 month could do?
Not to mention directly impacting and robbing Cicada City, plus Tiger Demon (Domain lit) and Holy Light (Seal Casting complete) both upgraded a level.
Even excluding all that, just completing Seal Casting alone and steadily entering Rank 1 would attract special attention + vigilance from Zhou Chu, and might even send a letter to Running’s Investigation Bureau to have them send someone to monitor him. Or simply invite him to the Security Bureau to drink tea for a day.
So he struck first, asking about Meng Xiyue’s revenue, then adjusting his own based on her reaction, making it much more reasonable.
Sure enough, after hearing Yuan Zhu’s flattery, the university student instantly perked up: “You bet! Sister’s experience this time is legendary. Entering the game in person, stirring up storms in Cao Ling City. Cleverly using wisdom, maneuvering among the natives, peering into all the mysteries of the Qi Refining Technique…”
Meng Xiyue had a bit of social bull syndrome, and everyone were teammates who had jointly experienced two rounds of Bubble Layer missions. They knew each other well, no need to hide Bubble World secrets, and could instead exchange, share experiences, and discuss mysteries.
She didn’t hide her black history of voluntarily getting imprisoned at all, instead talking proudly about her legendary experiences.
She attributed her all-around pushover coward behavior to transcendent wisdom. Successfully utilizing Cao Ling City’s power to satisfy her ‘academic progress’, creating numerous True Qi version Skull Servers, thoroughly analyzing and peering into various knowledge of the Insect City.
It seemed like mutual technological cooperation achieving great win-win, but actually she won alone! Won big time.
As for the rating (reward) from the Space of Gods, she didn’t hide it either, directly reporting 4500 points.
“Compared to my last mission, it’s multiplied countless times?! It fully proves my comprehensive abilities are skyrocketing, and have been recognized by the Space of Gods.”
After recalling her glorious Insect City days, she looked at Yuan Zhu with lingering satisfaction: “What about you?”
She was equally curious about Yuan Zhu’s experiences, after all, showing off requires comparison. No matter how superior she acted, it was just empty talk, still needing her peers’ hardships and struggles to set it off.
Compared to Meng Xiyue’s boasting, after some thought, Yuan Zhu made minor edits to his own ‘legendary experiences’.
For example, hiding the overpowered Shadow Domain power, directly replacing it with creating a ‘small camp’ outside the Insect City forces’ range.
How he used the Ghost Companion Set + Shadow Dream Hole + Worm Pillar permission… chicken soup brainwashing + PPT promises to steady Commander Zuo, changed to using the Mao Mao King name + expectations for the future + personal charm to convince an ‘Insect City high-level’ to secretly cooperate with him.
As for impacting Cicada City and soloing three Heaven Ranks, Holy Cough Nine Consecutive Explosions, they were all artistically processed and appropriately weakened… the camp scale of Animal Husbandry Village was also shrunk by five or six times.
However, even so, his bragging was still above Meng Xiyue’s. The young lady listened wide-eyed and stunned, eyes shining, greatly praising Yuan Zhu as a real man, daring to think, act, fight, and strive.
But she quickly caught the blind spot: “You, a newbie who just reinforced Holy Light, how did you manage to be even more badass than me? This isn’t metaphysics!”
Yuan Zhu knew that even if he avoided mentioning the Shadow Domain, once Animal Husbandry Village established cooperative ties with Happy Home, those Shadow Dream Hole, Inner World, Dreamland couldn’t be hidden.
So he made a slight adjustment, hiding his identity as the behind-the-scenes controller of the Shadow Domain. Pushing it all onto the Tiger Demon, while he was just a Holy Light Cultivator in human stance.
Yuan Zhu explained: “It’s like this, in Du Ling’s Present World, I came into contact with a relatively neutral good Shadow System Demon God, maintaining some connection. This mission, I also relied on the other’s power to escape death several times and create my own camp.”
Hearing ‘Shadow System Demon God’, Meng Xiyue immediately showed a look of sudden realization: “No wonder in your last mission, you quickly cultivated the uniform, and it showed shadow pollution traits. So you had a god behind you!”
In Du Ling, all sorts of deities’ lewd worships flooded. Everyone had a dozen faith targets to distribute each year, so as a contractor of the Space of Gods, having one or two deities investing + paying attention was extremely commonplace.
Meng Xiyue not only didn’t find it surprising, but thought it perfectly reasonable. As scientific as an apple falling to the ground!
At this time, the Investigator Lady standing beside them, who had been seriously listening throughout, furrowed her brows, looked at them gravely, and commented: “You two… are really too extreme!”
“Huh?” “Ah?”
Zhou Chu first looked at Yuan Zhu: “Holy Light is acknowledged by the Present World as legal order-side, but it’s still a dangerous ‘pollution ability’, especially a huge threat to the Underground Insect City. You recklessly detonating Holy Light in the Underground World is a fatal crisis for the Insect City that has formed a fragile ecological balance.”
“Insect City’s natives are born with multiple power pollutions, extremely high deviation. But they have flesh and blood, emotions, thoughts, civilization, not demonic creatures, but innocent, savable alien humans. Your method of detonating Holy Light for self-preservation is too extreme! And your rash cooperation with an unknown ‘demon god’, introducing evil god power into the Bubble World, is very inconsiderate.”
“Uh… lesson learned.”
Yuan Zhu was glad he didn’t boast about the great scene of Holy Cough Nine Consecutive Explosions. And the comprehensive Holy Cough infection in Cicada City’s Lower Urban Area, he was still planning to promote Holy Cough Breathing Technique and sell Canned Holy Cough Particles.
Seeing Yuan Zhu start to obediently reflect, she turned to the bragging queen Meng Xiyue: “You recklessly spreading ‘head-control evil arts’ in Insect City, your blasphemy and indifference to Skull Servers, your disregard and inaction toward risks from knowledge leaks, all show your thoughts are very dangerous. You must hold your bottom line, beware falling into the abyss of the ‘Mist School’. After this return, come to the Security Bureau, I need to arrange experts to appraise your spirit!”
Hearing the accusations, Meng Xiyue exploded: “Ah?! My thoughts are dangerous, spirit needs appraisal? Too exaggerated, sister, aren’t you making a fuss over nothing? I’m a top student from Taixi Academy, wouldn’t even join the Headless Society, how could I degenerate into Mist? This is like the gap between flesh beings and mechanical life, totally off-base, our foundations are completely different, okay!”
Yuan Zhu listened in a fog, but had Little Spicy Stick record all the ‘question points’, to go to Rain Courtyard after return and ask senior student for answers.
On the other side, Meng Xi desperately argued to defend herself. While subtly probing Zhou Chu’s experiences, trying to change the topic.
After hearing their boasting, the Investigator Lady felt a bit of desire to share.
She didn’t have the psychological need to boast and show off, but really wanted to talk about her actions as a positive example to guide their future style and direction in doing things.
So Zhou Chu also briefly revealed her encounters and experiences in the Underground World.
Mainly unable to stand Ying Huo City Upper City District outskirts, local little ghosts being exploited and squeezed, living precarious high-risk lives. Unable to stand Ying Huo City’s backward slave rule, such huge wealth gaps, justice not upheld, little ghosts raised as ‘flower pots, food, Spirit Rhythm Pills’.
So she decisively helped, forcibly using Law power to intervene in the little ghosts’ Dao Seed System, constraining the pollution sources (supernatural foundations) in their bodies, forcing them to practice the Path of Self-Discipline, forcibly switching to Law System, offering all their True Qi, Dao Seeds, Meridians to the Pale Great Law.
Because the natives weren’t ordinary people, born with True Qi affinity physique, and developed Dao Seed Meridians for survival.
So for these ability users, switching and condensing Law was very easy. Strength barely changed, even weakened somewhat.
And the part originally belonging to their own flesh (Dao Seed, Meridians) suddenly became external objects bound by Law.
Originally first-person perspective, part of their own power True Qi. Mysteriously forcibly cut out, becoming external force?
Fortunately, Law True Qi was still as wieldable as an arm, without any incoordination.
As for the price?
Naturally, no need for Three-Phase Power to easily master Law Knight beyond Law True Qi. Binding all the ‘demonization backlash, Immortal Zombie Tendrils, Miasma’ in their bodies, escaping human cocoon demonization risk.
Either Law constrains the internal pollution, or directly croak, offering everything to the Pale Great Law, not polluting the environment even after death.
After her salvation, Ying Huo City’s outskirts also became a Justice Child Labor Knight Order preparatory team.
Living harshly constraining themselves, following ‘Insect City version of kindness and justice’, foraging polluted root tendrils, moss, mushrooms everywhere, trying to recruit more kids, jointly overthrowing Insect City’s oppressive rule, creating a beautiful new homeland—pitiful little friends.
“Although the process was a bit painful and difficult, the future is bright! My return this time is also for their consideration. Before returning, I already distributed the Mao Mao King insect eggs to these children, letting them start raising and cultivating. Once their bugs hatch successfully, they can trade insect silk with Happy Home for more external support, live better, accumulate more power, to rescue more oppressed civilians.”
After hearing Zhou Chu’s simple and brutal act of forcing children to wander outside early, eat garbage and rigorously self-discipline, or else Law weakens and can’t bind pollution anymore, courting death.
Yuan Zhu and Meng Xiyue exchanged a glance, communicating with eyes, unanimously determining: she was the most extreme one!
Mentioning trading insect silk for living resources, the very responsible Zhou Chu immediately went to the captain, starting to discuss her Justice Child Labor Knight Order’s work-for-relief, fair trading plan to exchange remuneration from Happy Home.
And started fighting for high salary remuneration for the Justice Child Labor Knight Order, not considering Mao Mao King at all, working hard to raise the purchase price.
“They are all children, natural potential users of ‘luxury children’s wear’, Mao Mao King’s base. Why not subsidize them well? Those draped in finery are not silkworm raisers!”
On the other side, Meng Xiyue whispering secretly: “Damn! Sister Zhou has such high cultural level, forcing Mao Mao King, really reckless!”
Yuan Zhu nodded: “I suddenly discovered, this sister looks pretty, seems like a cool aloof wisdom-type beauty. But actually… a headstrong brainless iron dummy, too reckless.”
Meng Xiyue strongly agreed: “Right right right, appearance and personality mismatch too big. I originally thought she was a rational mature, experienced Security Bureau big sister. Turns out just a bit older than me, a bit taller, chest a bit bigger, in wisdom or whatever else, not as good as me. Reckless woman!”
Yuan Zhu quietly gave Meng Xiyue a thumbs up, at this moment Little Spicy Stick possessed, flattering: “Still my Yue Sis! How about exchanging this mission’s experience? I received your Meng Xi Broadcast, very interested in that ‘Skull Server’, teach me how?”
Meng Xi looked delighted and proud at being recognized: “Little brother has good taste!”
