Age of Evolution

Chapter 830: Chapter 833 Buy it_1

After taking a tour with Ah Long, he said to Lin Zhen, “You’ve seen everything we have here, right? We’ve paid quite a price to get them, not to mention the risk of being arrested by the police, the military, or hunted down by their species.”

“Hiring you guys is to prevent risks. If any unexpected things happen during the journey, you all need to back me up. I don’t need to say this, do I?”

Lin Zhen nodded, and squatting down in front of the last cage, he watched the little fox inside.

The little fox was lying there motionless, its eyes which were open just now, were now closed.

Lin Zhen felt like he was hallucinating, to him, the fox didn’t seem special at all.

Standing up and shaking his head, Lin Zhen followed Ah Long out of the room where alien beasts were kept.

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Lin Zhen learned that the poaching team consists of more than ten people, the leader was a woman in black, Bai Bing.

Ah Long was her number one enforcer, and there were a dozen others, mostly in charge of caring for the spirit beasts.

These people came from the other side of the Heavenly Ridge, the Prairie Nation.

Apart from him, in the team, there was a group of hired people who were all in the Longevity Stage.

Since both Bai Bing and Ah Long were at the Three Flowers Realm, the people they hired couldn’t surpass them, lest any accident happen that they could not control.

After Ah Long finished introducing the situation, he promptly announced that the team was ready to set off.

They left in a hurry; evidently, they received news that their poaching team had been reported, so they needed to leave as quickly as possible to avoid getting caught by the police station.

As soon as they decided to leave, the whole room rumbled, then just like that, it lifted up!

It was not until then that Lin Zhen realized this building was a flying machine!

Once the flying machine took off, it immediately sped to the nearest satellite and used the teleportation array.

Having spent quite some days around Qin City, Lin Zhen had no idea about the existence of this teleportation array.

There were several mercenaries of the Longevity Stage around Lin Zhen.

Next to Lin Zhen, there was a martial artist named Luo Huan.

When Lin Zhen mentioned that he had never heard of the teleportation array, Luo Huan sneered, “This just shows you’re an amateur in this. Each line of work has its tricks and characteristics. If these guys didn’t have some aces up their sleeves, they would have been caught long ago.”

A martial artist beside him nodded, “Absolutely, these private teleportation arrays are not publicly known, outsiders wouldn’t know about them, even their travel routes are kept secret.”

“Exactly, huh, don’t chat too much with this kind of people. We’re leaving the Original World’s surface soon. It’s my first time going this far. If I can make twenty million at the Prairie Nation, I don’t want to come back for the time being.”

“Really? Although twenty million isn’t a small sum, home is where the heart is, I still want to return to Qin Kingdom.”

“Aren’t you living wherever the money is? Having cultivated to the Longevity Realm, my family is long gone. Being single, when I am well-fed, my whole family isn’t hungry. I’m going to put off returning…”

Listening to Luo Huan and other mercenaries’ conversation, Lin Zhen slowly closed his eyes.

The trip to the Endless Star Sea is a long journey, and he has just set off.

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The flying machine always chooses the most difficult routes, such as the meteorite area, the asteroid belt, sometimes passing through an unknown teleportation array, and arriving in an unfamiliar star space.

A month had gradually passed. @@novelbin@@

Lin Zhen had no idea how far they had gone by now, but one thing’s for sure, they are definitely far away from the Original World’s surface, even passed the buffer zone between the surface and the Endless Star Sea.

Because twenty days after departure, Lin Zhen had lost all signals of the Dimensional Universe.

The farthest place that the signal from the Dimensional Universe Company on the ground can reach is the edge of the Buffer Zone. There is no Dimensional Universe signal deep in the Endless Star Sea.

There is a signal belongs to the companies within the Endless Star Sea, but Lin Zhen doesn’t have the identity of being in the Endless Star Sea, so naturally, he couldn’t receive anything.

There are benefits to leading a fully enclosed life, Lin Zhen was left with nothing to do other than practice cultivation.

Apart from providing food every day, Bai Bing and others did not have any communication with Lin Zhen. They’re simply related by employment and don’t need to say much.

During this period, Lin Zhen was cultivating wholeheartedly, his split spirit was inside his body comprehending the Shadowless Step stele, while his physical body was meditating.

He was currently at Longevity Level 7, working hard to dissolve the medicinal property. After dissolving it, he can break through to Level Eight.

Since this Luo Huan seemed to have traveled such difficult paths a few times, he seemed quite familiar with them.

There were also many martial artists who were willing to ask him questions, giving him multiple chances to show off.

“Bro Huan, where are we now? How much longer until we reach our destination? My butt’s killing me from sitting all day.”

“We’re currently navigating between the Buffer Zone and the Endless Battlefield. The advantage of being here is that we can enter either zone at any time, which makes it convenient if we need to run.”

“So we’re relatively safe now?”

“Can’t really say so. Times are not very peaceful lately, there’s no truly safe place. But I trust that we all won’t be so unlucky as to encounter any species from the Endless Star Sea.”

One Martial Artist said, “We might as well bump into some, why did we come here if not to protect people? If we encounter a small team from the Endless Star Sea, it would be a great opportunity to practice.”

Luo Huan chuckled, “Fair point. I’ve once encountered a species from the Endless Star Sea myself. They weren’t as terrifying as you all might imagine. We had a fight, both sides took some hits, and then we withdrew. Generally speaking, the species from the Endless Star Sea that wander around usually have power at the Longevity Stage Peak Level. We’re all at Longevity Peak Level, so we can fight if we encounter them!”

As he spoke, he glanced at Lin Zhen on the side, “There are some who haven’t reached their peak yet and are just here to mess around and earn some bounty money. I, Luo Huan, truly look down on these types. If real danger were to occur, I absolutely wouldn’t be concerned about whether he lives or dies.”

“Haha! Bro Huan is right, we’re here to protect those alien beasts, not some insignificant people.”

As all these Martial Artists were at the Longevity Peak Level, it was natural for them to look down upon Lin Zhen, who hadn’t yet reached his peak. Although their differences weren’t too large, they still experienced some inexplicable sense of superiority.

For these mediocre provocations, Lin Zhen just slightly knitted his brows and continued his practice.

Then Long came over from the other side, Luo Huan immediately said, “Boss, get us something delicious, we’ve been flying in the ship for days, I’m about to turn into a bird from the bland tastes.”

Long glanced at them, “Where can I get you delicious food? We’re all rough men here, none of us prepared fresh meat in our inner worlds. We’re low on dried meat too, just hang in there a little longer.”

Luo Huan ground his teeth, “I noticed that some of the alien beasts here aren’t worth much. Why not let us brothers have a little feast?”

Long glared at him, “Nonsense! What alien beast isn’t valuable? You mercenary guys can eat if you want, but you gotta pay. I bet you guys can’t afford it.”

Luo Huan chuckled, “I heard that you guys were planning to kill a little fox to make a cloak. How about this? You can keep the fox skin, and we can stew the rest of the meat and soup to ease our tired days.”

As a businessman, Long wouldn’t make a losing deal. He rolled his eyes, “That sounds reasonable, but you still have to pay for the meat – one hundred thousand dollars!”

Luo Huan and others had a brief discussion. There were nine people who wanted to eat the meat. Each person could cough up ten thousand, which was not a problem at all. So someone asked Lin Zhen, “Hey, Lin Xun, you should also chip in ten thousand, how about we all eat together?”

Lin Zhen opened his eyes and gently shook his head.

Luo Huan’s face darkened, “Fine, I’ll pay twenty thousand. Some people really don’t know how to behave!”

Seeing that they were willing to pay, Long immediately ran to the room at the back. The iron cage had wheels, so he directly pushed out the cage with the little fox.

The little fox seemed to be aware of its impending doom, huddling tremblingly in a corner.

“Get the pot ready, heat some water, clean the fox, remove the skin, and get it into the pot. Although it’s small, it’s better than those big foxes that reek, a pot of soup made from it would definitely be delicious!”

Long was grinning from ear to ear as he watched Luo Huan get ready. As long as it earns him money, he doesn’t care about anything else.

Seeing Luo Huan about to open the cage and the little fox crouching in the corner with teardrops rolling down its eyes, Lin Zhen knitted his brows.

Although he had killed countless people, he didn’t like this kind of bullying, and Luo Huan’s repeated provocations also started to annoy Lin Zhen. He simply said to Long, “I’ll buy that little fox. I hate the smell of blood while I’m practicing.”

“You’re buying? How much can you offer?” Long asked.

Lin Zhen held up two fingers, “Two million. But I don’t have cash on me. When we get to our destination, as long as I’m still alive, you can deduct it from my bounty!”

Long quickly did the math in his head. The little fox had nice fur, but it was too small to make anything substantial, at most a shawl, and even in the Prairie Nation, it would only sell for around one to two million. With Lin Zhen offering two million, it was definitely a profitable deal.

“Alright, it’s a deal. You’ll have two million less when we get there, and there’s no going back, not that it would matter if you did!”

“Fine, just keep it in this iron cage for this period, there won’t be any issues with that right?”

“No problem, no problem at all. It’s just a matter of feeding it a bit more, but this little creature doesn’t eat much. You’d better keep an eye on it as well, I’m worried it might starve to death before we reach our destination.”

Lin Zhen nodded his head, finalizing his purchase of the little fox.

From the side, Luo Huan and the others looked annoyed, “What’s your deal, Lin Xun? Are you deliberately trying to pick a fight with me?”

Lin Zhen scoffed, “I have money, and I’m willing to spend. If you can offer more than two million, you can do whatever you want with this fox!”

Luo Huan pondered for a long time but gave up in the end. He couldn’t bear to spend more money on the skinny fox.

The concept of spending twenty thousand and spending two million were worlds apart.

“You just wait, Lin Xun! You’d better hope that we don’t run into any species from the Endless Star Sea, you won’t even know how you died if we do!”

Luo Huan threw a harsh sentence to salvage some pride before he stormed off.

But what he didn’t expect was that immediately after his words, the alarm in the ship suddenly rang out loudly!