Who wants to become a god? Aren't you all forcing me?

#467 - Chapter 466 The Purpose of the Black Mist

Silence hung in the air on the other end of the phone for a long time.

"Hello, did you hear what I just said?" Li Chenqiu took the initiative to break the silence.

"Heh heh heh, a hundred Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts… Li Chenqiu, do you enjoy telling jokes in the middle of the night so much?" Takahashi Mei Sheng chuckled darkly.

"You misunderstand. I'm not telling you a joke. I'm serious," Li Chenqiu said, each word sounding particularly sincere.

"Then I'm also telling you very seriously that I can't agree to your terms, even if you threaten me with my grandson's life, I can't do it."

Hearing the other party's uncompromising tone, Li Chenqiu was not surprised. Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts were not like cabbages on the roadside; one was already priceless, let alone a hundred.

If he had just casually mentioned it and the other party had directly agreed to give him a hundred, then there would have been a big problem!

"If a hundred is not possible, then how many do you say is acceptable?" Li Chenqiu asked in a relaxed tone.

After thinking for a few seconds, Takahashi Mei Sheng tentatively offered a number: "Two Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts. As long as you agree, they will appear before you in three days."

Li Chenqiu scoffed, "Two? Are you trying to get rid of a beggar, or do you think Takahashi Yun Cang's little life is only worth two Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts?"

"Li Chenqiu, you are truly too ignorant. The intelligence of Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts is no less than that of humans. Do you know how difficult it is to hunt them?

To avoid becoming food for humans, these guys basically stick together or submit to stronger Revival Beasts. To hunt one Revival Beast, you have to fight a group of them!

Go to your academy's Myriad Stars Tower and ask if they can currently produce two Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts. I guarantee they absolutely can't. Even if they do, they're probably under the guise of a reservation and not for sale."

Standing on the balcony, Li Chenqiu frowned slightly. He had wondered about this when he went to the Myriad Stars Tower to buy Revival Beasts before.

Why were there dozens of Eight-Impediment Revival Beasts in stock, but only one Nine-Impediment, and it was in a reserved state, not for sale?

At the time, he thought the three major consortia were implementing a monopoly, only digesting and selling them internally. After all, according to Fu Yuesheng, the leap from Nine-Impediment to Ten-Impediment was a transcendence of life level, greatly enhancing one's strength.

In order to consolidate their rule, the three major consortia prevented Destiny Awakened unrelated to them from climbing upwards. If they wanted to leap over their own class, they could only join them. This behavior was reasonable.

But now it seemed that his idea might be wrong. The scarcity of Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts might really be due to the difficulty of hunting them.

"Li Chenqiu, do you agree to two Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts or not?"

Li Chenqiu came back to his senses, propped his chin with one hand, and opened his mouth slightly: "I can understand you, but I can't agree to you. Takahashi Yun Cang's life is not that cheap."

Takahashi Mei Sheng clenched his fist on the other end of the phone, making a "click, click" sound, and said in as calm a tone as possible: "How many?"

Li Chenqiu said with a smile: "Knowing your difficulties, I won't ask for too much. I'll give you a 10% discount, ten Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts."

"Ten… You really overestimate me. The Snow Dusk Valley incident already emptied my family's coffers. I only have two Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts that I can freely dispose of. Ten… I can't produce them."

Takahashi Mei Sheng's tone carried a hint of imperceptible helplessness.

All of his subordinates had been slaughtered by the Underworld, the profound artifacts he had painstakingly saved up were also swindled away by the Underworld, and the power he held in his hands was also divided up by the other branches.

The glory had long since passed, leaving behind only loneliness and solitude. He was no longer wealthy…

Hearing Takahashi Mei Sheng's words, Li Chenqiu instantly thought of what the Underworld and he had done, and subconsciously touched his nose.

"If you can't produce ten, you can always produce five, right? This is my bottom line, and I can't go any lower. What do you think?"

"…Okay, give me some time, about a month or so. I hope that after you get these five Nine-Impediment Revival Beasts, you can abide by your promise, otherwise… you know."

"Don't worry, I, Li Chenqiu, am not the kind of person who doesn't keep his word. I'll wait for you…"

Beep beep beep——

The phone was hung up directly.

Li Chenqiu put down his phone and muttered to himself as he looked at the bright moon: "Sorry, I also want to keep my word, but your grandson is already dead."

…

At dawn, the sunlight, like an introverted little boy, knocked on the dark night sky, tearing a small opening and giving City 132 a brand-new look.

Li Chenqiu, holding a cup of instant coffee brewed in a plastic cup, crossed his legs, sat on the balcony, and looked at the sun that had just emerged, wondering what he was thinking.

Whoosh——

The sound of a sliding door being opened came from the balcony next door. Xiang Nanzhi, with a bird's nest on her head and a toothbrush in her mouth, swayed to the railing with unsteady steps and said without turning her head:

"It's been two whole days. Why hasn't this black mist moved? Does it know we're here and doesn't plan to do anything?"

Li Chenqiu raised his left arm and tapped his forehead rhythmically with his index finger: "If it doesn't plan to do anything, what is this black mist doing in City 132?"

Xiang Nanzhi nodded in agreement: "That's true, Li Chenqiu, I'm a little curious, what do you say is the reason why this black mist is doing this?"

Li Chenqiu turned his head: "What reason?"

"It's the reason why this black mist is capturing these ordinary people. I think it's very strange. Assuming he's a Revival Awakened and needs to eat people to delay aging, then capturing one every few days is enough. Why capture hundreds at a time?"

Xiang Nanzhi asked in confusion.

"I've discussed this issue with Luo Shan. There are two possibilities. Either the other party has over a hundred Revival Awakened who need hundreds of people to replenish their life energy, or… it's the same as what happened in City 11."

Xiang Nanzhi was not stupid and instantly understood the second possibility that Li Chenqiu was talking about.

"You mean… the other party's target is the people of the Security Administration?"

"Only this possibility remains. Like you, they want to use the people of the Security Administration to break the barrier, but the other party shouldn't have a big appetite, otherwise they wouldn't have deliberately avoided Luo Shan.

If we don't intervene, it is estimated that once the Security Administration's support arrives, the black mist will retreat," Li Chenqiu explained.

"This speculation also makes sense."

Xiang Nanzhi straightened up while holding the railing, stretched her arms high above her head, yawned, turned her head, and said: "Do you want to go for steamed buns? My treat, you pay."

"Let's go, it's been a long time since I had steamed buns."

Li Chenqiu finished the coffee in his hand in one gulp, stood up, turned around and walked into the room. It was at this moment that an unexpected change occurred!