Ren Zhong feigned realization, "So that’s how it is. Lin Wang not taking me along is indeed quite over the line."
Since the conversation had already started, Tang Shuying went on to say a bit more.
"Forget it, I’m not even afraid of Mr. Yang hearing this. The truth is what it is. The metal in the abandoned mine pit is almost gone, and it simply can’t evolve into source stone. Even if there are still remnants of source stone points, it’s useless because these places are occupied by an endless number of Ruined Beasts. We definitely won’t find any source stones here. All we do is aimlessly venture in this abandoned mine pit, hoping to find some Level Four Ruined Beasts at the usual spots and sometimes come up empty. Meanwhile, they stay there for half a month and earn at least as much as we do in a year and a half."
Ren Zhong nodded, "That is very regrettable."
"Alright, we’ll continue moving forward. You guys pick a direction. Hopefully, we don’t meet again this afternoon. Otherwise, I’d feel bad for taking your targets."
After parting ways with them and walking away in opposite directions, Ou Youning’s complaints could be heard, "Damn it, just because they have stronger fists, they think they’re so great. What arrogance. Damn!"
Ren Zhong could understand his frustration.
Actually, everyone had noticed the mutated long-necked beetle yesterday, but at the time, due to a conservative approach, they didn’t dare act rashly.
This morning, while everyone was idle, Ren Zhong and Zheng Tian checked a lot of information and discussed for a long time before finalizing their combat plan. They even invested twenty points in advance to buy a flash bomb.
But in the end, it was all for nothing because someone else took their target.
Ren Zhong waved it off nonchalantly, "It’s fine. At least Captain Tang generously shared a lot of information with us."
Ou Youning retorted, "What’s the point of information? It’s just because you saved them money, and they repaid it with mere words."
Ren Zhong did not comment.
What Ou Youning found useless, Ren Zhong thought had great use.
He keenly observed that both source stone and Star Origin Injection Liquid contain the word "Source."
It’s known that the production capacity of Star Origin Injection Liquid is very low, and source stones are also in low supply and highly valuable.
The forced buyback price from Purple Crystal Mining is tens of thousands, so what’s the value of the finished product? What exactly is it?
Is it possible that source stones are the core raw material for Star Origin Injection Liquid?
Although the reasoning is somewhat speculative, Ren Zhong’s intuition told him it’s not impossible.
He also learned the method used by other professional teams to gather Ruined Beasts in the abandoned mine pit.
It lacks any technical content. Simply put, it’s the accumulation of long-term experience.
These teams recorded spots on their 3D maps where they encountered Level Four Ruined Beasts before.
During subsequent hunts, they would repeat their sweeps based on the increasingly gathered site information at regular intervals.
They never bothered to think about or understand why Level Four Ruined Beasts appeared regularly and repeatedly in certain places.
They only cared about the results.
Their method is clumsy and inefficient, with a very slow rate of expanding the search area.
He looked beyond the surface to see the essence, managing to perceive the whole from a part.
Like yesterday, when they first tapped into the chamber of the long-necked beetle, they had never been there before.
Ren Zhong speculated based on a gradually perfected magnetic line network calculation model that there was more than an 80% chance of there being a small geomagnetic node.
Then he led the team to check it out, and indeed, they found goods.
"No worries, let’s move on to the next target. There are five days before Lin Wang returns, starting today, all the money we earn every day will be used to upgrade your equipment."
Ou Youning and Zheng Tian cheered in unison.
Outer edge of the abandoned mine pit.
Beside the armed Qingfeng Heavy Truck.
The blue jet skis of Lin Wang and Bei Lihui quietly docked.
Lin Wang, clad in armor, stood with his arms crossed on the left side of the heavy truck.
Bei Lihui, with a new huge scar on his face, stood with a gun on the right side.
The seemingly lightweight yet excellently performing blue painted Fourth Level Exoskeleton on Lin Wang had some crisscrossing scars.
The scars were caused by burns and slashes, and there were dents from powerful impacts.
Even the visor of his helmet had a palm-sized spiderweb crack.
Clearly, before returning to Starfire Town, Lin Wang had experienced a brutal fight.
Sima Wan, another member of their professional team, watched from a hill 500 meters away.
At this moment, Lin Wang’s face had lost any scholarly and amicable tone.
His fair face was clouded with an aura as dark as if it could drip water.
Bei Lihui repeatedly wiped his Scorpion-Lion 191, his eyes filled with overflowing murderous intent.
Lin Wang no longer intended to keep feigning pleasantries with Ren Zhong.
He had returned with a clear and murderous intent.
He didn’t even rest in Starfire Town, nor did he go to the Military Weapon Store to resupply.
He hadn’t even reported to Yang Bingzhong but came directly to the abandoned mine pit on his jet ski.
He didn’t want to give Ren Zhong a chance to notice anything strange and escape. He wanted to kill Ren Zhong and his team on the spot.
Ren Zhong, Zheng Tian, Ju Qingmeng, Yang Bingzhong, Ma Dafu... everyone guessed wrong.
It wasn’t that Ren Zhong’s judgment failed; many things happened this morning that completely changed Lin Wang’s decision, even causing the original six-member team to return with only three.
Of course, Ren Zhong, who always anticipated the worst, had also fully prepared.
There was no escaping the inevitable.
They were just revealing the truth earlier than planned.
Being dead for a few seconds and starting anew is nothing to fear.
[PS: Um, the recent daily and monthly ticket growth rates have slowed down a bit. Actually, I’ve been updating really aggressively. Today’s update is 10,000 words. Asking for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets. Thank you!]