"Brother Jieming, that's quite imposing!" As a temporary teammate, Mo Li could see Ye Yun's every move clearly through the system prompts.
Ye Yun ignored him. After demolishing over seventy more buildings in Xiyang City and amassing another three to four billion gold coins, he teleported directly to Siming City under Mo Li's urging and guidance! The territory of the Sichen clan!
In a single day, Ye Yun had visited all five cities of the Five Beasts, with the exception of Diting City! The patriarchs of the four great demon races, after witnessing Ye Yun's formidable combat prowess, were willing to pay settlement fees ranging from one hundred to three hundred billion gold coins, but Ye Yun refused them all!
What a joke! You sent a hundred thousand troops from each race to hunt me down, and now you think a paltry sum of money will protect your cities?
It wasn't until dusk that Ye Yun and Mo Li called it a day, both thoroughly satisfied.
"Jieming, why don't we head to Diting City? I bet the gold coins there are beyond our wildest imaginations!" Mo Li suggested to Ye Yun, his eyes gleaming with excitement.
Although he only received ten percent of the profits, his gains far exceeded his own expectations.
"No, little Mo. You should focus on how to stay hidden. If you get discovered, I won't bring you along tomorrow. I've realized cooperating with you was a bit of a mistake; it's all me doing the heavy lifting!" Ye Yun said, looking displeased.
Throughout the day, this fellow had only healed himself and Hei Yi, never providing any buffs, which left Ye Yun coveting the attack speed boost he hadn't received.
"No, wait! Let me tell you, if we take Diting City, I'll reveal a secret hidden there that will yield even greater profits than today!" Mo Li said anxiously.
He had earned over two hundred and fifty billion gold coins today, practically doing nothing himself. How could he possibly miss out on Ye Yun, this golden thigh, after tasting success? He was still counting on accumulating enough gold to upgrade his talent!
"Fine!" Ye Yun's primary motivation for cooperating with him, aside from Xiao Hei wanting a subordinate, was precisely this.
Under Mo Li's guidance, Hei Yi left quickly. Then, Mo Li, along with Hei Yi and Ye Yun, entered the western outskirts of Xiyang City again, stopping at a secluded mountain hollow.
This time, Ye Yun reaped a massive harvest of 2.25 trillion gold coins, significantly boosting his talent and accumulating 4,352,000 attribute points. Unfortunately, he had been too engrossed in killing at the time and hadn't bothered to cap his level, thus missing out on a tenfold attribute point bonus.
Seeing Mo Li's greedy expression, Ye Yun logged off without a word, leaving Mo Li alone in the mountain hollow. The original plan was for Ye Yun to have Mo Li train Hei Yi while he was offline, which would also benefit his 'Gold Touch' cooldown. However, after a day of observation, Ye Yun realized that Mo Li wasn't as simple-minded as he appeared; he was a ruthless individual! Not only did Mo Li know Xiyang City like the back of his hand, but he was also intimately familiar with the Qitian Tower in the four races' affiliated cities. Without him, their earnings for the day would likely have been less than half.
The scale of the operation was immense, leading to nearly two million kills today! Even the cooldown for his next 'Gold Touch' had been reduced by over sixteen hundred hours. The original 4096 hours, after a 5% reduction, should have been 3891 hours, but now it was only 2209 hours! This was too much! Ye Yun felt utterly helpless!
In his office on the top floor of the Dragon Palace Tower, Ding Yi, Ye Yun's assistant, checked the operating status of Ye Yun's game pod, especially the nutrient solution, every morning, noon, and evening. This morning, she noticed the nutrient solution in Ye Yun's game pod was running low. While curious, she didn't think much of it. She refilled it with another bag of nutrient solution. To her surprise, when she finally checked again, she found that the nutrient solution level in the game pod had once again hit bottom, so she added another bag. However… within a minute, the nutrient solution was depleted again!
"Could the nutrient solution tank be leaking?" Ding Yi wondered, observing the rapidly decreasing level. A single bag of nutrient solution was supposed to sustain someone in the game pod for a month. At this rate of depletion, she couldn't think of any other reason besides a leak!
"Little Ding, where did you go? Oh, you were peeking at General's game? How is it, isn't he handsome?" Zhou Ningdong walked in at that moment, carrying a stack of documents.
"No, Minister Zhou, I think General's game pod might be broken. I've added two bags of nutrient solution today, and it's gone so quickly!" Ding Yi explained her observations to Zhou Ningdong.
"Something like that? That shouldn't be possible," Zhou Ningdong's heart skipped a beat. However, seeing the life detection light on the game pod still illuminated, he breathed a sigh of relief. This game pod was top-of-the-line among the 'Tiandao' login devices. If it malfunctioned, the whole world would likely descend into chaos!
"Little Ding, try adding one more bag!"
"Okay!" Ding Yi took out another bag of nutrient solution and injected it into the reservoir. The 5L capacity tank was instantly filled, but soon the nutrient solution began to decrease rapidly again.
"Huh, the rate of decrease seems to have slowed down," Ding Yi said, observing the dropping level with confusion. Soon, this batch of nutrient solution was depleted again. However, the rate of decrease slowed down as time went on. And just then, the game pod door opened.
"Ah, that felt good!" Ye Yun emerged from the game pod, stretching languidly as he gazed at the sunset hues outside the floor-to-ceiling window, his body emitting a series of satisfying cracks.
"General, about the nutrient solution in your game pod just now…" Ding Yi looked at Ye Yun and recounted what had happened.
"Oh! It's a minor issue! By the way, Zhou Ningdong, find me some workers later and figure out how to expand the nutrient solution capacity. Ideally, I want it to hold over a ton at once!" Upon hearing Ding Yi's words, Ye Yun immediately understood the reason! It must be that his increasing strength in the game was affecting his physical needs in the real world. He just hadn't expected the demand to be so high this time! It seemed he needed to stockpile nutrient solution. The current Ye Yun required such a large amount at once, and his future needs would only grow! Moreover, once players reached level 30 and passed through the Enlightenment Tower, more and more of them would discover that nutrient solution could replenish energy reserves in reality. At that point, the price of nutrient solution would inevitably skyrocket. Ye Yun remembered that three months after 'Tiandao' launched, China and the United States would be the first to designate nutrient solution as a strategic material of the highest priority!
"What's the current price of this nutrient solution?" Ye Yun asked Zhou Ningdong.
"5L per bag, selling for 5,000 Huá currency." Zhou Ningdong, still stunned by Ye Yun's request for expansion, quickly replied. Expanding a mere 5L capacity to a ton, without affecting the game pod's normal operation or the General's comfort within the pod… this…