Doomsday Roulette

Ye Zhongming took out a white-level wristband.

This was not equipment he had made himself, but rather something he had exchanged for on the way to Cloud Port. It was called the Acceleration Ring, and its function was quite simple; once every three days, it could be used for a one-second linear distance acceleration.

This piece of equipment could be quite useful at times, but it was also too feminine. None of the male core members wore it, and the taste of the accompanying female core members had been spoiled by Ye Zhongming. They looked down on something with only a single auxiliary ability and felt it was a waste to upgrade it in the future.

Ye Zhongming naturally knew that his subordinates despised the long cooldown time and the short duration of the ability activation associated with this equipment. To be honest, he wasn't particularly fond of it either.

He had initially planned to reward other members for their contributions this time, but when he saw this piece of metal, he had a sudden idea and took it out.

Regardless of how good or bad the ability was, it was still a white-level piece of equipment, and even if it were sold, it would easily fetch a price far exceeding five grade 4 magic crystals. The woman had no choice but to agree and reached out to take it, but was skillfully evaded by Ye Zhongming.

“I don’t just want this piece; I want it all!”

“How did you know?”

The woman instinctively gasped, then quickly realized something, and her expression turned sour.

“This thing is called Flesh-Generated Gold, a type of stone-like substance found in some mutated life forms' bodies, similar to pearls. They are most often produced by marine mutated life forms. Look at this piece; it has been cut around the edges, so it’s obviously just part of a larger whole. That’s why I want it all.”

Ye Zhongming spoke about something the woman had never heard of, continuing, “You don’t seriously think a small piece of material like this, which isn’t even rare in Cloud Port, could be worth a white-level piece of equipment, do you? To put it plainly, without fifty pounds of this stuff, I can find someone else to trade with; it would just take a little more time.”

The woman’s expression fluctuated, and after glancing at the white wristband, she finally made up her mind. She told Ye Zhongming to wait a moment before running off in one direction.

“Boss, are you really that accurate with prices?” Little Tiger chimed in, patting him on the back. Ever since he hadn’t received a Merit Medal, this kid had noticeably increased his flattery.

Out of the six medals, besides the one held by Ye Zhongming, the other five belonged to Xia Lei, Liang Chuyin, Shengyuan, Park Soo-young, and Xia Bai.

Due to their damage-sharing abilities, Shengyuan and Park Soo-young were the most suitable to wear them. Of the other three women, Xia Bai had the highest combat power and the fastest accumulation of merits, while Xia Lei was the big sister of Cloud Summit and Ye Zhongming's woman, thus naturally had priority. As for the internet celebrity, her area attack ability was also powerful, and her merit accumulation was equally rapid.

The rest would have to wait for the next batch.

“I just threw out a random number; who would've thought she really had fifty pounds?”

Upon hearing this from Ye Zhongming, everyone laughed in unison, and Little Tiger awkwardly looked up at the sky, as if the flattery hadn’t come from him moments ago.

The woman quickly returned, and surprisingly brought back not just fifty pounds of Flesh-Generated Gold, but over two hundred pounds!

After some back-and-forth bargaining, Ye Zhongming ended up paying two bottles of three-star evolution elixirs to obtain this haul.

Flesh-Generated Gold could be said to be one of the many materials Ye Zhongming wanted to obtain in Cloud Port, as it was an essential material for crafting the Thousand Leaf Scale Armor!

This purple-black metal, once processed, would display a silvery sheen, possessing excellent ductility and defensive capabilities. Such metallic substances from marine mutated life forms were rare in Ying City but not too uncommon in Cloud Port, and he had stumbled upon it while browsing the market today.