CHAPTER 494: CHAPTER 188: THE GREAT HARVEST AND THE DESPAIRING SUN MIAO_2

The other party seemed to accept Ren Zhong’s sophistry, then shifted the topic to the liquid metal corpse and crystals of the Demon Infant.

The negotiations between the two sides broke down.

Ren Zhong offered a "sky-high price" of forty million points to the other party, citing the high cost as the reason.

The other party remarked that even though the Descending Demon Baby was a special quasi-Level Six Ruined Beast, the price was outrageous, and at most, they could only offer two million, no more.

In the history of Tanggu Group, there had never been a precedent for purchasing the corpse and Crystal Chip of a Level Six Ruined Beast for over two million points.

Ren Zhong’s eyes lit up upon hearing this and he once again lamented, saying that to invigorate the enthusiasm of the Desolate People’s work, he has now established a good persona.

Today, there were also many injured and a few fatalities, and he had to consider the treatment fee and compensation; forty million might not even be enough.

Seeing that he not only refused to make concessions but even tried to raise the price, the other party angrily hung up the communication, leaving Ren Zhong to consider on his own.

After the communication ended, Ren Zhong, however, was already excited.

The attitude of Liao Yuan Resource Recycling Company in this matter essentially represented Tanggu Group’s perspective on this issue at a certain level.

The other party was confident and unafraid.

On Source Star, the only entity capable of processing the Crystal Chips and transforming them from raw products into semi-finished intelligent brain cores was the Tanggu Group.

Moreover, due to the special nature of the Crystal Chips, they can only be preserved in the open air for a few minutes without being processed.

Even with a high-grade storage box, they will rapidly deteriorate and be damaged as time passes.

For ordinary people holding this item, each day of delay diminishes its value.

This is the fundamental reason why Tanggu Group can command a profit starting at tenfold.

Liao Yuan Company clearly believed that Ren Zhong couldn’t hold out and would eventually have to obediently hand over the Crystal Chip and liquid metal.

But these people did not anticipate that Ren Zhong would finally, under the guise of analyzing liquid metal, turn to the mining and smelting information he had long been interested in.

Knowing the existence of the "Internet," he always needed to assign reasonable motives to some of his actions in daily life, and now was just the right time.

In addition, after eliminating the Descending Demon Baby, he indeed gained a lot.

When they advanced into Bone Valley, Ren Zhong and his team only swept a certain area, leaving many Second and Third Level Ruined Beasts within the valley.

That afternoon, Zheng Tian began to lead a group of five hundred people on a tentative hunting operation on the outskirts of the Bone Valley.

In addition, there were some relatively stronger scattered teams attempting to seek wealth in danger by following their example.

Ren Zhong did not stop these people from their reckless behavior.

Some might die in there, but surely some will come out alive.

He was not a babysitter.

At least in the matter of hunting Ruined Beasts, he now provided better treatment for the Desolate People, as well as the power of choice.

The Desolate People themselves had to take responsibility for their decisions.

Today, Ren Zhong opened up a new Ruined Beast hunting ground, and through the battle with the Descending Demon Baby, he verified part of his combat power. He also tentatively cultivated his "army," acquired a lot of new information, and found reasonable motivation to pursue new necessary knowledge.

He indeed had a bountiful harvest.

Since that afternoon, Ren Zhong began with the pretense of studying liquid metal on his own, opening up the metal smelting section in the scientific knowledge teaching system and indulging himself in the world of the Internet, searching for all sorts of information.

He still controlled his curiosity, trying to keep the focus within the scope of Ruined Beast metal as much as possible.

But at the same time, he was also exploring the words related to alien ore.

He had gains, but also regrets.

The gain was that through concise and easy-to-understand metal smelting techniques that he remembered, he gradually summarized a set of methods for self-smelting the Demon Infant Corpse.

But on the alien ore side, he only found a few videos describing the properties and cases of alien ore.

In all the cases, the latest and most popular was precisely Yang Bingzhong’s execution.

The Business Association did not want people to know how to use alien ore, only wanted to tell everyone, whether they were Desolate People or Citizens, that they just needed to know how to identify it, report it promptly, and upon reporting, they could receive generous rewards. Once you have the idea of claiming it as your own, you are not far from death.

In such a chaotic and complicated information surrounding, one night flashed by.

Day 83, morning.

"Dream Inn" finally provided a prompt on his wrist watch.

"Your Dream Inn has been destroyed overwhelmingly; integrity -10, charm value -1000, art value +100."

The doubled numbers in this prompt greatly shocked him.