CHAPTER 316: CHAPTER 237: ACQUIRING AN EXCLUSIVE MOUNT_2

"Beautiful, we all want it!"

"But don’t you think it’s too expensive? Everyone, speak up!" Barefoot Immortal seized the opportunity and said.

"Too expensive!"

The children’s sharp voices combined, like a tsunami, washing over the old man’s mental defenses.

"What?" The old man found it hard to believe. Who would’ve thought the barefooted tall kid in front of him would try to bargain like this?

"One tael of silver is actually a fair price, at least it’s quality guaranteed. It’s not like the neighboring vendor selling raw eggs and melons who cheats; my Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon is truly made from spacesuit materials, worth every penny!"

Upon hearing this, the melon-selling vendor next door was displeased. He raised his sharp +3 watermelon knife and hurled it directly at the Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon.

He said fiercely, "Spacesuit material, huh? I don’t believe my sharp +3 watermelon knife can’t cut through it!"

Bang!

As soon as the watermelon knife touched the Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon, the qi inside formed a terrifying counter-shock force.

In an instant, the sharp +3 watermelon knife flew backward, and not only that, its sharpness decreased directly to sharp -3!

"What, my watermelon knife, how did it become dull?" The melon seller said incredulously.

"Hmph, with mere sharp +3, you dare compare it with my toughness +999 Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon?" The old man snickered, adding, "Kids, you see, this Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon is genuinely made of real materials, even a watermelon knife can’t break it. Buy you’ll never regret it; you can use it for life and even pass it down as an heirloom!"

Upon hearing this, the children went completely wild: "I want it! I want it!!"

They eagerly took out their piggy banks they’ve been keeping for years.

Smashed them onto the ground.

Clatter!

Clatter!

Clatter!

Clatter is an attitude, clatter is a...

The sound of shattering piggy banks echoed one after another, forming into a BGM. Subsequently, an enormous wave of pennies surged forth.

The entire street was instantly packed, leaving no room for a grain of sand.

"Not enough, still not enough." The old man scanned the coins with his money-loving titanium alloy eyes and realized they still didn’t add up to one tael of silver.

You should know one tael of silver is equivalent to three thousand yuan now, enough for a month’s living expenses.

All the money these children saved came from squeezing it out of their parents’ teeth gaps, using toothpicks to get meat fragments stuck in their parents’ teeth to collect as dried meat and sell for cash.

Imagine how much they could save in a year?

Moreover, these children collectively saved for fifty years, their beards turning white, and still only collected this little.

Altogether, it still didn’t reach three thousand yuan.

"Old man, this is our retirement fund. Please show mercy and sell the Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon to us, fulfilling our childhood dreams!"

They thought sentiment could evoke the old man’s sympathy, leading him to sell the Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon at a lower price.

However, the old man, having lived over a hundred years, no longer fell for this trick.

"Kids, if everything could be negotiated, I reckon I’d go bankrupt from all the bargaining, wouldn’t I?"

The old man seemed resolute, refusing to bargain.

However, Barefoot Immortal saw an opportunity.

He turned and asked the children, "Kids, do you just want to fulfill your childhood dream?"

"Yes!"

The children stared at Barefoot Immortal with sincere eyes.

Barefoot Immortal then scratched his toes, sniffed them under his nose, saying flamboyantly, "If that’s the case, you don’t need to own the Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon, meaning you don’t need ownership, just usage rights."

The children nodded repeatedly: "That’s right, that’s right, that’s right, that’s right..."

"Well then, although your saved money isn’t enough for one tael of silver, it’s just a dime short. Tell you what, I have ten pennies here, which is one dime. I’m willing to contribute this dime to fulfill your dreams, but I have a condition. I wonder if you’re willing to agree?"

"What condition, please speak."

"My condition is, you can have the usage rights to the balloon, but I want to monopolize the ownership rights, meaning the balloon belongs to me."

"That’s fine, since this way we won’t need to pay for balloon maintenance costs anyway, right?" After careful consideration, the children laughed heartily.

In fact, they were troubled by the balloon maintenance costs. Such a big balloon, left at home to collect dust, would incur considerable maintenance fees, requiring hiring cleaners for daily cleaning. Additionally, frequent visits to the 4S shop for refueling and inflating would also be costly.

Barefoot Immortal obtained the balloon’s ownership rights but also meant taking on the maintenance costs.

"Then it’s settled."

Barefoot Immortal counted out ten pennies from his pocket, boldly slapped them on the table in a line and said, "No need to count, boss!"

Seeing Barefoot Immortal’s generosity, the old man applauded in admiration: "I’ve seen rich families spend thousands of gold just to buy a sheet of paper from Luoyang, but never someone like you, buying my Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon with a mere dime, truly rich beyond measure!"

Barefoot Immortal patted his bulging belly, laughing cheerfully and said, "There’s always someone better, there’s always another level in the sky; today you witnessed it."

"Rich, needless to say much, this Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon is yours!"

The old man laughed heartily, called for a team of trucks to transport the pile of coins away.

[Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon +1, added to inventory!]

[Ding ding ding, ding ding ding ding...]

Upon hearing the electronic notification for item added to inventory, Barefoot Immortal’s face lit up, and he immediately took the item out.

"Kids, I’m going to let you experience the joy of childhood right now!"

Having said that, Barefoot Immortal kept kicking his feet forward, creating a foot odor storm, oh, no, it’s CH4, filling the Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon.

The Qi-Transformed Horse Balloon groaned and instantly perked up again.

Letting out a long howl to the sky: "Fool!～"

"Kids, let’s go, get on the horse quickly!"

Barefoot Immortal jumped onto the driver’s seat first and had the children sit in the back seats.

Then, with full horsepower, chug chug chug!

The Qi-Transformed Horse vehicle sped off.

On the highway.

A Mercedes running a red light pushed full speed ahead, its speed already surging to 360 kilometers per hour.

"My goal is to reach first cosmic velocity, ground flight, dreaming that a red light can impede me!"

Just as the Mercedes driver was celebrating his car’s slipperiness without brakes, suddenly a BMW sped past, reaching first cosmic velocity ahead of him.

"This is... Qi-Transformed Horse?!" The Mercedes driver was immediately shocked.

Even without brakes, his car couldn’t match a real BMW!

It’s not about how much BMW paid him, but the opponent’s BMW was literal, a real horse BMW.

Qi-Transformed Horse raced along the ground.

Passing by a high-speed moving supersonic train.

Normally, with such a magnetic levitation supersonic train, outside views are blurry.

But amidst the blurry scenery, an unblurred scene appeared.

Only to see it was a BMW!

"Oh my god, this is already supersonic, yet the BMW can catch up?"

"Why state the obvious; it has already reached first cosmic velocity speed, deliberately slowing down for us to see, okay?"

After showing off in front of the supersonic train, Barefoot Immortal drove the Qi-Transformed Horse flying along the runway of a supersonic plane taking off.

Whoosh!

Passed through the runway first, taking off into the sky.

"Reports say today’s ground monitoring system found a hovering alien spacecraft above xx, which can silently cross a mountain at high speed..."

"What, what, so incredible, what was that just now, did I see wrong, a flying horse emerged surpassing that UFO! Shocked, has Blue Star’s technology surpassed alien technology?!"

After strolling around Blue Star, Barefoot Immortal nearly experienced the joy of having an exclusive ride.

"Kids, your micro-experience time is now up; continue reloading for further experience, or you should get off now."

Barefoot Immortal issued the electronic reminder with Zhiling’s voice.