Lin Wang nodded and raised his hand, projecting a three-dimensional map from his wrist watch.
The map was densely marked with red dots by him.
Ren Zhong glanced at it casually.
Wow, not bad, it covers nearly 80% of the magnetic line nodes.
Lin Wang turned back with a slightly proud tone and said, "This is the Ruined Beast indicator map that all scavenger teams in Starfire Town dream of. I spent three years doubling the marked points on this map from the original foundation."
Then he shook his head regretfully, "This includes my hard work, but unfortunately, it will soon be obsolete."
Ren Zhong offered some comfort, "No need to regret, Captain, the old goes and the new comes."
Beside him, Bei Lihui laughed heartily, "Ren Zhong, you really are something, used to be a citizen, whatever you say seems so cultured."
"Brother Hui overpraises me."
Bei Lihui: "See, there you go again."
The morning hunt went smoothly without any danger, collecting a total of 5 Level Four Ruined Beasts and more than twenty Third Level Ruined Beasts.
It all amounted to about 13,000 points in value.
Lin Wang calculated a bit and credited Ren Zhong with 1,500 points.
Before parting at noon, Lin Wang took out another map of the area outside the town, drew some routes on it, and instructed Ren Zhong to patrol along these lines in the afternoon while begging.
If luck is on your side, you might bump into a scavenger team or a solo scavenger every few minutes, and if you follow the average rule of earning twenty points worth of goods each time begging, you’d make four hundred points per hour, adding up to two thousand points for the afternoon’s six hours of running.
Ren Zhong accepted the advice with an open mind.
At five in the afternoon, deep in the Iron Worm Forest, Ren Zhong met Zheng Tian and her five companions, along with Yujin.
These people had been running around as he instructed, collecting quite a few crystal chips.
Ren Zhong didn’t have the energy to run around like a mad dog begging everywhere himself.
He himself tackled a few Third Level Ruined Beasts based on memory and handed the spoils over to others in a different way.
While counting the number, Ou Youning said with a bit of reluctance, "Brother Ren, we really don’t have to do this. Didn’t Yang Bingzhong and Lin Wang give us special privileges? We could just take what we want, and no one would dare complain. After all, everyone’s accustomed to living ."
Ren Zhong: "That’s not a good habit."
Ou Youning: "But how does it make any sense for you to buy crystal chips out of your own pocket and let people say you got robbed, even threatening them that if they dare leak the word, you’ll really rob them next time? Besides, if we don’t rob, won’t other professional teams still rob?"
Ren Zhong shook his head, "Others are others, I am me, I have my own rules."
Zheng Tian, seeing Ou Youning about to mess up further, slapped him hard on the back of his head: "That’s what makes Brother Ren different from others!"
Ou Youning was instantly alert, "Right! Brother Ren truly is noble!"
Ren Zhong rolled his eyes in his mind.
This dimwit instantly lowered the baseline for nobility to an astonishing degree.
Ren Zhong then opened Yujin’s collection box, "Huh, quite a lot of Second Level ones? You actually have over twenty, have the solo scavengers in Starfire Town become this capable?"
Yujin, looking a bit more disheveled, scratched his head in embarrassment, "Half of them I hunted myself. I hired a demolition master to follow me. I figured whatever I save is something saved."
Ren Zhong suddenly understood. No wonder Yujin, with the double guns on his back, looked a bit more worn-out compared to others, and his bullet belt was practically empty.
This was only the 46th day.
In the previous timeline, Yujin had delivered four stunning shots with his fang-heavy sniper just yesterday.
In this timeline, Yujin’s growth is indeed faster.
Now, he is already a skilled hunter capable of using a Second Level heavy sniper to hunt Second Level Ruined Beasts by himself.
But Ren Zhong immediately frowned, "Your combat suit is a First Level one, you only have First Level parameters, how are you using a Second Level heavy sniper? Don’t tell me you’re overloading with every shot?"
Yujin slung the long gun off his back, "Mr. Ren, I asked Manager Ju to modify the gun for me, adding a recoilless module. Although it’s still a bit strenuous and affects the firing rate, it hasn’t impacted my shooting accuracy."
Ren Zhong chuckled and patted Yujin’s shoulder, "Good job."
He couldn’t help but think, if he could break free from the professional system and get Yujin a sniper combat vehicle, equipping him with a Level Four heavy sniper using machinery to bear the recoil, then this little guy’s combat power might suddenly rise to a whole new level.
The professional system indeed provides many conveniences, elevates individual soldier strength to a new level, and offers enormous tactical flexibility, but in a certain sense, it’s also overly lacking in imagination.
It’s a pity the ambush location he designed this time was inside an abandoned mine, unable to utilize this sneaky tactic.
After finalizing the count, everyone handed over nearly 80 Second Level crystal chips and nearly 200 First Level crystal chips, amounting to 1,800 points in value.
Not quite two thousand, but still okay.
Adding on the six Third Level Ruined Beasts he alone took down and the hodgepodge of good and bad chips he barely salvaged, the total value also reached two thousand.
This was his "begging" harvest for the day.
Lin Wang dreamt of using the gratification of unearned rewards to accelerate his assimilation, but that’s just a fool’s delusion.
Though it’s a small matter involving little money, it’s how Ren Zhong used his own methods and beliefs to resist the world’s corruption.
As Ou Youning said, the bottom-level scavengers have grown accustomed to being robbed.
But he wants to change this habit.
Others may do it, but he will not, even if it seems to offer significant short-term benefits. But this marks the fundamental difference between a revolutionary and a new exploiter.
Not taking even a needle or thread from the people.
Of course, Brother Sun is an exception.
Brother Sun made outstanding contributions with his bone sticks in the early stage of the great revolutionary cause.
History will remember him.
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