Chapter 105: Chapter 105: Seeing Ding Yang Again, Two Tier Two Crystal Stones

The plan was executed flawlessly. Lin Qi simply remained outside the building, using his Spiritual Vision the entire time.

King Arthur completed the mission all by herself.

The Tier Three Knight, who had been engrossed in the Metaverse network, was hit by a cyberattack from Guang Ling.

His consciousness was trapped for a moment. King Arthur simply jumped out from a ventilation duct.

Raising her Two-Handed Broadsword, with one swift motion, she lopped off the Tier Three Knight’s head.

In the Cyber Era, getting your head chopped off wasn’t necessarily a death sentence, but that was only if a medical team was on standby.

By the time the team from the Intercontinental Stability Trauma Emergency Company arrived late, the Tier Three Knight was already stone-cold dead.

They had no choice but to initiate the death claim procedure for a Black Gold Member.

As for King Arthur and Lin Qi, they had retreated long ago.

Lin Qi returned to his luxury employee apartment at Liu’s Heavy Industries, while King Arthur returned to her sewer tunnels.

In the Highest Level temporary channel, Guang Ling sent a message.

Guang Ling: "The claim procedure from the Intercontinental Stability Trauma Emergency Company has alerted the Round Table Conference. That’s all for today’s operation. Thanks, everyone, for the perfect execution."

King Arthur: "A pity. We only took out two. The other four won’t just run off, will they? We’re out two hundred million."

Master Ma: "I’m still being hounded by that old Tier Four woman from the Assassin Alliance. I’ll message back later."

Guang Ling: "Anything else to discuss? This temporary channel will close in five minutes. And thanks again to Capitalist for the server support."

Capitalist: "It was nothing. I made a hefty profit from the bounties on the two Tier Three Knights after they were distributed."

Lin Qi didn’t send a message. He had nothing else to share at the moment.

Five minutes later, the temporary channel closed, and Lin Qi was standing before the bathroom mirror.

’All five members of the Mercenary Corps participated in this assassination. After deducting twenty percent for the public fund, I’ll get one-fifth of the remaining eighty percent.’

’A full sixteen million Credit Points. If I use this money wisely, it’s enough to create two individuals with full-body A-Class Prosthetic Bodies—in other words, two more like Brother Green Hair.’

’Next, I need to buy some A-Class equipment to take to the Doomsday World.’

The bounty hadn’t even arrived in his account, but Lin Qi had already planned out how to spend it.

In the Doomsday World, there was a suspected Tier Three monster in the Beining District, not far from the Mo University Camp.

The power Lin Qi wielded in the Doomsday World was still not strong enough.

Gazing at his reflection in the mirror, Lin Qi had already removed his disguise, revealing his true face.

It was already past one in the morning, and there was less than an hour until the [Door] finished its cooldown.

Lin Qi took a brief rest. From the dismantled scraps of secondhand Prosthetic Bodies scattered around the room, he picked out a few power reactors to take with him.

...

In the Doomsday World, Lin Qi changed his clothes in the conference room and began his Meditation.

The Mo University Camp was still in its early stages of development, and its cooperation with the Hongshan Rescue Team had just been established.

It was impossible to obtain more Extraordinary Items in the near future.

Besides, Lin Qi’s Spiritual Power had yet to reach the first bottleneck of Tier Two, so he didn’t need any new Extraordinary Items.

For now, the most beneficial thing for Lin Qi was to use the environment of the Doomsday World for Meditation, stimulating the growth of his Spiritual Power.

The range of his Spiritual Vision began to expand at a linear rate.

According to Lin Qi’s calculations, a new bottleneck in his Spiritual Power would appear once the range of his Spiritual Vision reached approximately four hundred meters.

Based on his Meditation efficiency, this would take at most three days in the Doomsday World.

’My Meditation efficiency in the Doomsday World is nearly thirty times higher than in the Cyber World. One day here is equivalent to a month there.’

’Putting aside the strange state of the Spiritual Particles, their concentration is the most important factor.’

He could predict that with such a high concentration of Spiritual Particles, it wouldn’t just be Wizards and the Extraordinary who would level up quickly.

The Zombies and other monsters of the apocalypse would probably be leveling up rapidly as well.

His mind was filled with distracting thoughts, so Lin Qi paused his Meditation, took a deep breath, and then resumed.

Maintaining a high level of Meditation efficiency, time slipped by, and noon soon arrived. 𝘧𝓇ℯ𝑒𝓌𝑒𝑏𝓃𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘭.𝒸ℴ𝓂

There was a knock on the conference room door. It was Xia Chu.

"Lin Qi, Wang Ziru is looking for you. He said Ding Yang is here."

’Ding Yang is here?’

Remembering the deal he had promised, Lin Qi immediately got up and headed to the first-floor conference room with Xia Chu.

"Director Ding, it’s been too long! Any good news for me?"

As Lin Qi extended a hand, he also expanded his Spiritual Vision, spotting two boxes inside the truck Ding Yang had arrived in.

Two Tier Two Extraordinary Items, both of them Crystal Stones.

It seemed that in the Doomsday World, all Extraordinary Items came in the form of Crystal Stones, and all of them were harvested from slain Zombies and monsters.

He had yet to see any other type of Extraordinary Item.

He didn’t know if it was because the conditions for their creation hadn’t been met, or because the apocalypse was still too recent for other types of Extraordinary Items to have formed.

Ding Yang shook Lin Qi’s outstretched hand and said, shaking his head, "What good news could there be? It’s difficult to contact Headquarters these days. We have to wait for the locomotive to make a round trip. I sent a courier yesterday, but the earliest we can expect a reply from command is tomorrow."

Lin Qi asked, "Then you’re here to...?"

Lin Qi was asking a question to which he already knew the answer. The Hongshan Camp couldn’t wait any longer.

The sooner they received more support from the Mo University Camp, the sooner the Warriors of the Hongshan Camp could get their hands on better equipment.

This would significantly reduce the risks their rescue teams faced during operations.

Ding Yang didn’t want to see any more casualties among his rescue teams.

Manpower was too precious in the apocalypse.

"I took the initiative to bring the first batch of what I promised."

Ding Yang waved a hand, and a familiar face, Jiang Zhenlong, carried over two boxes.

The boxes contained the exact Tier Two Extraordinary Items that Lin Qi needed.

Ding Yang continued, "I’ve brought two Tier Two Crystal Stones for now. As for the steel and non-ferrous metals, that will take a little longer. Our people at the camp are still carrying out rescue missions. The golden window for rescue is almost closed. I’m afraid it will be much harder to find any more survivors after this."

As he spoke, Ding Yang sighed.

Hongshan District had a population of one million, after all. How many of them could a rescue team of just over two hundred possibly save?

Most survivors would never be reached by rescue teams.

They could only watch their water and food supplies dwindle in this apocalyptic environment, until they either starved to death or made a final, desperate stand.

Given the current strength of the Zombies, ordinary people without firearms had no hope of defeating them.

Their running speed, jumping height, and physical strength were nearly on par with world-champion athletes from the age of peace.

A fight to the death would, in all likelihood, just be death.

Lin Qi spoke up. "I understand. I’ll have Wang Ziru assist with a shipment of weapons. On top of that, I’ve developed several types of weapons that are easy to manufacture. We can provide them as humanitarian aid..."

Since Lin Qi had accepted these two Tier Two Crystal Stones, he naturally wouldn’t let Ding Yang go home empty-handed.

Only by making Ding Yang—or rather, Headquarters—feel they were getting an exceptional deal could Lin Qi hope to acquire even higher-level Extraordinary Items through trade in the future.