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Chapter 202 - 21: Setting Out, Warrior Gu Lishi and Xu Shu (Second Update 5k, Completion of 10k per Day, Subscription Requested)_2

Chapter 202: Chapter 21: Setting Out, Warrior Gu Lishi and Xu Shu (Second Update 5k, Completion of 10k per Day, Subscription Requested)_2

But, where there’s one, there could be two, who the hell knows if there’ll be even more of these Esoteric believers lurking in your safe zone?

This time I was lucky, encountered a First Rank and didn’t die, also managed to protect my family.

What if next time I’m not so lucky and run into a Second Rank? Or a Third Rank? Or even a damn Fourth or Fifth Rank?

Then what?

Am I supposed to just hope "I don’t run into them," or rely on the Star Tower that’s already shown up late once?

Xu Shu’s trust in the Star Tower had dwindled; he had tagged it with "Late, though it comes"—it would surely come, but whether it’s to save the day or to collect bodies was another story.

History had taught Xu Shu two lessons.

First, infidelity happens either once or countless times.

Second, without forethought of the future, worries will come sooner rather than later!

So, the top priority right now was to quickly enhance my own strength.

Xu Shu opened the Tai Chu Scroll.

[The sun sets in the west, all things end in silence, welcome back to the Tai Chu Scroll, Master]

[Remaining openings for today: 0/3]

[Inventory: a rotted bull-slaughtering knife (common), Desperate Couple Self-cutting Meridians (Epic) *5, Mystical Chapter: Sleeping Arhat (flawless), Mystical Chapter·Bloodline (Epic) *2, Doctor’s Seal (Epic)]

These were all the items Xu Shu currently had that could be placed in the Tai Chu Scroll’s inventory.

As for the other things.

He took out a carefully wrapped small cloth bundle from his pocket, unwrapped it, and it was a piece of lace underwear—a material left by an alluring flower puppet.

Wrapped inside were Black Widow’s claus and a purple level-18 Curse Crystal.

He still had a thousand bucks in cash as a reserve.

"Phew~ after struggling hard for more than a decade, I’m back to square one."

"Right, Aunt Yue Ming gave me exactly 2 million yuan, I’m still short by 600, I’ll have to ask Gu Pan for it later, now I’m broke once more... If that doesn’t work out, I’ll just have to blackmail her for a little more, after all, she’s a little rich girl."

Xu Shu laughed at himself, unaware that the little rich girl had already become a little debtor.

But being broke doesn’t exactly mean being poor.

On one hand, as a Transcendent, his ability to earn money was super fast, like those Erosion Crystals he found in the ruins; if he hadn’t fed them to the Curse Seal, they would be worth millions.

Next, he actually had quite a lot of ’receivables’ owed by the Astronomy Association.

Counting them, there were quite a few.

Lu Bingwei’s bounty of 50 Contribution Points, picking the heads of the Demon Chosen for 100 points, plus Melanie mentioned that on Monday, which is tomorrow, there will be an additional weekly bonus of 20 points from the Qingyun List.

All in all, these added up to 170 Contribution Points.

Of course, the prerequisite for all this was to change my [Contribution 8] to [Contribution 20]

Originally Xu Shu was set on going straight into the Wasteland tomorrow, even if he only killed one monster a day, he could slowly gather 12 points.

But just now, Melanie reminded him that the officials are obligated to take care of rookies like him, now he naturally had a safer and more convenient way.

"I am now a Transcendent recognized by the Astronomy Association, tomorrow I can directly go to the Judgement Department and have them help me form a Pioneering Team, they have many personnel they can call upon, much more reliable than me shouting for people on my own."

"Heh heh, this is the advantage of having a clean legal status and backing by an organization; in this apocalypse, when neither heavenly timing nor territorial advantage is on my side, the only thing I have is people."

"Besides, as long as I don’t stray too far from the border, with the Tai Chu Scroll, I can rest easy without worry."

That night, Xu Shu surprisingly got a good sleep at home.

Early the next day, his mother Li Guoying got up to head to work.

She was accustomed to being busy and didn’t want to just loaf around the house because her son became a Transcendent.

A little differently this time, before she left, she prepared a hearty breakfast for Xu Shu.

A bowl of meat porridge, two fried eggs, and a bottle of milk. If it was before, it would most likely be plain rice porridge with a bit of pickled vegetables.

"This is what treatment is like~"

Caressing the Tai Chu Scroll lovingly, looking at [Today’s Remaining Openings: 3/3], Xu Shu cheerfully finished his breakfast. He then left a brief note to inform about his situation and left home.

Today’s task: venture out of town to hunt!

While waiting for the elevator, he saw several well-dressed men standing at the door of his neighbor’s house, Hu Xinrui’s, seemingly waiting for someone inside to open the door.

When they saw Xu Shu come out, they turned their heads, surprisingly politely nodded at him, and saluted him with their eyes.

Xu Shu frowned.

They looked familiar, and he remembered they were from the company of Hu Xinrui’s sugar daddy?

He didn’t quite understand why they would come here when she was at school.

But Xu Shu had no interest in knowing.

In the future, they would be strangers.

Thus, he ignored them, too disdainful to greet them, and walked directly into the elevator to leave on his own.

Before the elevator doors closed, he saw Hu Xinrui’s mother open the door, welcoming them in with a falsely obsequious smile.

"Tsk~"

Heh, human nature is truly ancient...

Xu Shu also knew that if he let them know about his Transcendent status, it was highly probable that the entire Hu family would want to grovel at his feet.

But what was the point?

...

Dawn breaks, and all is washed clean.

Rain drizzles from the sky, pitter-pattering down.

But the sun still rises as usual, shining boldly, and soon, it fiercely tears through the undergarments of the whimpering night rain, clearing the sky.

Safe zone, Judgement Department.

Now, almost all of the terms related to ’war’ were handled by the Judgement Department.

Execution Officers and Judges are just relatively high-ranking positions within.