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Chapter 457: Underground Relics
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
On the same afternoon, the first batch of explorers of the allied forces had set out towards the underground relics.
Besides the 100 people dispatched by the grey eagle tribe, the other tribes dispatched over 2000 soldiers in total. Gangula didn't go there. However, the wild bear tribe also dispatched a team of 500 soldiers. Being led by the powerhouses of the tribe, they entered the entrance of the underground crack first.
Closely after the team of the wild bear tribe was a group of Golden Roc Bank. Although Golden Roc Bank only dispatched about 20 people but all of them were the best professionals in underground investigation and mapping. Therefore, they were very eye-catching. Compared to surface mapping, underground mapping was much more difficult and sophisticated. Because land surface map was a plain map while underground map was a three-dimensional perspective in a more sophisticated environment. In this age, one could buy any land surface map of the most populated places at a low cost. However, the maps of underground world were always in the hands of major powers as they were very strategic resources and were very valuable in military area and commerce.
There were professional courses in Hidden Dragon Palace. Students could learn how to identify and use underground maps. Pitifully, Zhang Tie had not touched this course until he left Hidden Dragon Palace. Zhang Tie knew that these knowledge could only be learned in the staff departments of corps of Huaiyuan Prefecture.
Standing in the distance, Zhang Tie saw the team of Golden Roc Bank disappearing at the entrance of the underground world.
Meanwhile Paulson, the director of Seablue Castle Business Group's branch in Eschyle City found a chance to talk with Zhang Tie alone.
Zhang Tie listened to Paulson's introduction about the recent situation of Bluesea Castle Business Group and Olina. Finally he sighed, "Please tell Ms. Olina that I appreciate her concern about me very much. And I'm living well here!"
Given that Olina changed the name of Ballas Business Group into Bluesea Castle Business Group, Zhang Tie knew that Olina had finally cast off the shadow of Ballas clan that had troubled her for many years. Zhang Tie felt happy about that for Olina.
"Demon snake island now hates me the most, they would not cause any trouble to Olina anymore." Zhang Tie let out a deep sigh. After killing Dawson, Zhang Tie knew that demon snake island would be more cautious for sure. "It seemed that there were only 8 round-table fighters above LV 9 across the demon snake island. They all had their own things to deal with, they could not spend full time on me."
"Ms. Olina warned you to be cautious about the people of demon snake island. If you have any demands, Ms. Olina said you could mobilize all the resources in Ice and Snow Wilderness. If it's not enough here, the headquarter will further support you!"
"Fine, if I need something, I will find you in Eschyle City to tell you!" Zhang Tie revealed a smile. He felt really warm about the beauty's deep sentiment.
"These money..." Paulson took out of the gold notes again as he stared at Zhang Tie in an embarrassed way.
"Just take them back, I don't need it!" Zhang Tie felt that he had not been that degenerated to have to survive on a woman. Additionally, he didn't lack money at the present. He had not used the gold notes that he collected from Zhen Clan Mansion which were worth over 600,000 gold coins. If he needed, he could take them out at any time.
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When Paulson was going to leave, Zhang Tie suddenly recalled something. Therefore, he stopped Paulson.
"I've got few words for Olina. I miss her very much. Perhaps, I will visit her after a few days!"
Paulson threw a deep glance at Zhang Tie as he bowed, "I will tell her all your words!".
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Paulson left while O'Laura came to Zhang Tie's side.
"Humph, you really have a lot of women, including the well-known enchanting fox!" O'Laura's voice sounded not right.
At the sight of her, Zhang Tie's left chest ached once again. It was Zhang Tie's first time to encounter such a situation. He had planned to let O'Laura bleed; unexpectedly, O'Laura left a bloody mark on his left chest before driving him out of her main tent. When he recalled Setton's weird look outside the tent, Zhang Tie became extremely shameless and he even wanted to bury himself in the soil.
After that, Zhang Tie realized that it was because that he failed to answer O'Laura well.
Although Zhang Tie almost entered her body at that moment, O'Laura resisted him at the critical moment. Panting heavily, she asked Zhang Tie a question, "Which one do you like more, I or Sabrina?"
"Both!"
Closely after this answer, Zhang Tie was kicked off from O'Laura's body.
Sometimes, women changed their moods as fast as turning pages.
Zhang Tie didn't continue. Because he knew that some things could not be forced to do. Each one had their own respect and hope. No matter whether they like it or love, it will not be the whole content of the communication between the two people. .
Perhaps, O'Laura seek for more sense of safety due to her experiences in the childhood. Besides, she had stronger sense of possession and desire for controlling others. Zhang Tie understood it very well. Like Alice, women were sentimental animals. However, it didn't mean that they had no personal persistence.
Certainly, they might change their persistence as women were all capricious. Given O'Laura's tone and enthusiasm just now, Zhang Tie knew that he still had a chance. Based on the experience that he had learned from those girls in Rose Association, if a woman would like to kiss you, it meant that she had fully accepted you inside as it was a shortcut for a woman to open her heart to you.
Zhang Tie glanced at the finger ring of eagle's eye on O'Laura's finger before revealing a smile, "Do you believe me if I told you that I've not seen her naked body?"
"You liar!" O'Laura sneered at Zhang Tie, "I found that you were a pervert. All the women you like are too much elder than you. The enchanting fox is already over 40 years old while Sabrina is almost 30."
"Including you, right?"
O'Laura became slightly stunned for a short while. Finally she looked in the distance, "Humph, the woman you like arrives!"
Zhang Tie looked around and found Sabrina was coming towards him with a team of female guards.
"I have to warn you that you'd better take the antidote of the bone-exploding needles as soon as possible. If you miss it, it would take a long time for senior Merkel to produce it once again."
"But you told me that there was no antidote for the bone-exploding needles and they could only be cleaned up by senior Merkel."
"You're too smart. We didn't know about your background at that moment. Therefore, I told you that to let you abandon the plan to escape. It was women's privilege to tell a lie!"
Zhang Tie became speechless. After glancing at his back, O'Laura turned around and left at once.
"Peter, I've already prepared well. I can go down there at any time. What about you?" Sabrina walked towards Zhang Tie with a big smile from his back...
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One hour later, Zhang Tie, Sabrina and another 300 soldiers of the grey eagle tribe and the wind wolf tribe entered the entrance of the underground world. Sam and Gerri were also invited by Zhang Tie to join this team.
Sam and Gerri were very thrilled by the privilege that they didn't have to submit their "tax" if they followed Zhang Tie, not to mention that they could be safer after such a powerful team. Therefore, the moment Zhang Tie posed the invitation had they agreed.
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Over 10 minutes after Zhang Tie's team entered the underground world did Roslav and Waajid of the huge bear tribe follow in with their fighters.
In the next few hours, some more teams followed in.
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After entering the underground cave for a couple of minutes, they could not see any light anymore. Therefore, each team member took out their own fluorite lamps and hung them over their own waists.
Looking at them from the distance, over 200 fluorite lamps were like a green dragon as it twisted forward in the pitch-dark underground world which was several miles in width.
Zhang Tie also carried a luggage weighing dozens of kilograms like others. He also took out a fluorite lamp and hung it over his waist at this moment.
"Peter, haven't you purchased night viewing medicament?" seeing Zhang Tie using fluorite lamp, Sabrina added, "I have a few night viewing medicament left. Each vial could last two weeks, do you want some?"
Hearing Sabrina's words, O'Laura who was walking together with Nurdo ahead of them raised her ears. Seeing this, Zhang Tie let out a deep sigh, "Thanks, I don't use them. I'm allergic to night viewing medicament. If I used night viewing medicament, I could see nothing but white mist in front of me. O'Laura had given me some, but I returned them all to her. I remember that when I came to the underground world to form battle Qi for the first time, I used one which could last one day; however, I became blind for a whole day!"
"Ah? That's too pitiful!" Sabrina waved her head out of sympathy.
Zhang Tie revealed a smile, "Actually, I feel good. Under such dim lamplight, I find you are much more beautiful than before!"
Sabrina stared at Zhang Tie with a big smile as she forcefully kissed Zhang Tie's face, "You cute small badass."
"Humph!" hearing Zhang Tie's talk with Sabrina, O'Laura who was walking ahead of them responded with a cold harrumph before pacing up.
As there was no sun or moon in the underground world, in order to not disturb their biological clocks and keep their energy, they just followed the work-rest schedule that they followed above the ground.
That day, Zhang Tie felt that they obliquely deepened into the underground world for at least 30 km along a huge crack. After entering a huge underground cave, they started to move northeast. Totally they walked about 200 km. The underground terrain here was more evenly than that in the Dragon Cave. Additionally, the space here was more spacious.
On the first day since they entered the underground world, they walked for 10 hours. When the time was after 23:00, they started to pitch tents.
Their tents were close to each other, yet were clearly separated. After eating their own dried rations, they didn't feel like chatting at all. Therefore, after receiving their own tasks on sentry in the evening, they hung their fluorite lamps outside their tents. After that, all the men drilled into their own tents and slept. By contrast, women lifted clean water to their tents from nearby and cleanse themselves.
With so many eyes in the surroundings and a task in hand, Zhang Tie felt too shameless to drill in Sabrina's tent at this moment. If he did that, he was waving the overall morality. If it was in the army, he would have his head chopped off for sure. Of course, Zhang Tie was clear about that.
Therefore, Zhang Tie drilled in his own tent.
The moment he drilled in his tent did Zhang Tie take out the antidote of the bone-exploding needles given by O'Laura. After glancing at it, Zhang Tie didn't eat it; instead, he directly threw it in Castle of Black Iron.
"Heller, is there any problem with this antidote?"
Zhang Tie didn't believe in that senior Merkel, as old guys were usually shrewd. Even if he gave this antidote to O'Laura, Zhang Tie was not sure whether that old douchebag set him up or not through the antidote.
"It's safe. The pill contains some special herbal medicine and a spiritual energy which will completely reverse the energy of your bone-exploding needles. It's harmless to human body. The only problem is that you might have loose bowels 5 minutes after eating it according to the analysis of pharmacological properties!"
Hearing Heller's reply, Zhang Tie didn't speak anymore. He started to run iron-blood battle Qi silently. After dozens of seconds, Zhang Tie's forehead started to ooze while the sense of discomfort and pains disappeared at once. At the same time, he could run iron-blood battle Qi smoothly; actually, he felt his iron-blood battle Qi was smoother than that before he was struck by the bone-exploding needles. Like all the reefs in the river course had disappeared at once, Zhang Tie felt pretty relaxed.
After consuming the last bit energy of the bone-exploding needles, Zhang Tie felt free once again.
Remembering the 3 iron-body fruits in Castle of Black Iron, Zhang Tie revealed a smile. After sitting in the tent silently for about 5 minutes, Zhang Tie instantly rushed out of the tent as he put his hand on the belly on purpose. Taking off the fluorite lamp from the tent, he instantly darted towards the temporary toilet in the distance.
"Peter, where are you going?" at the sight of Zhang Tie, Sam was going to drill into his tent asked loudly.
"Stomachache!" Zhang Tie shouted loudly. Almost everybody else could hear that, including O'Laura. Recalling how intimate was Zhang Tie to Sabrina in the daytime, O'Laura swore in a low voice, "You deserve it!".
The night flashed by...
Under the guidance of Sam and Gerri, Zhang Tie's team arrived at a ruined architectural complex on the 3rd day.
At the sight of it, Zhang Tie and everybody else became spirited...
For many of them, it was their first time to see such a magnificent relics of historical civilization before the Catastrophe in such a close distance.
Chapter 458: A Humanoid Excavator
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
This was a city. From the remains of the collapsed buildings, Zhang Tie realized that it was a medium-sized city.
As there was no road in front, they could barely access to it. The fluorite lamplight brightened up a part of the darkness. Through the indistinct mistiness, those ruined tall corridors were like a beast lurking in the darkness.
Some pioneers were seemingly wandering in the darkness. Holding green fluorite lamps, they looked like swaying ghost fire[1], which terrified Zhang Tie's team for some reason.
Feeling the tense atmosphere behind him, Zhang Tie switched his dark vision with the common vision and found that this ruined city was absolutely like a graveyard. It brought a great stress to humans. However, in dark vision, Zhang Tie could only see the desolate wildness.
Seeing those remaining tall buildings, Zhang Tie could sense the development of human civilization before the Catastrophe.
Within his vision, Zhang Tie saw many collapsed skyscrapers. Zhang Tie saw numerous exposed steel bars and huge twisted steel structures at the intersections of skyscrapers, which looked like terrifying fish bones or skeleton of monsters.
At least in architectural field, the human achievements before the Catastrophe could not be matched by those today. After making a comparison between the cities that Zhang Tie had seen before and this city, Zhang Tie found that, even those tallest buildings in Yiyang City, which was the most prosperous city in Zhang Tie's eyes were dwarfed in front of the remains of this city.
When they moved inside, Zhang Tie's team was always obstructed by concrete blocks which fell down from those buildings. As a result, they had to make a detour.
On the roadsides, Zhang Tie also saw many traffic tools before the Catastrophe, which had already become nothing but rusty iron shells. Some were buses, some were like railed trains which contained a lot of carriages.
As to some eccentric remains, even Zhang Tie could not identify them.
For some reason, these remains suddenly reminded Zhang Tie of the old man, the teacher of his nature class in the No. 7 National Middle School in Blackhot City. It was the teacher's last dream to make an investigation in such a relics. However, pitifully, this was too unrealistic for a commoner.
"Ah..." a soldier uttered a miserable cry in front before falling down the ground. Hearing this, everybody else took out their weapons and formed a defense formation while looking around. They were afraid of being attacked.
Zhang Tie hurriedly walked over there. He found the warrior was hugging his foot while a sharp thing like a nail penetrated through his instep.
The soldier's wound was soon bound up. It was indeed a nail before the Catastrophe. One end of the nail touched a concrete block while its sharp end faced upwards. The soldier stepped onto it carelessly.
After the nail was drawn out of his foot and cleaned, Zhang Tie took a look at it. He found that the nail was still pitch-dark and bright, except for a bit rust. Undoubtedly, it could indicate the scientific and technological level of humans before the Catastrophe.
"Watch out your feet!" Someone warned loudly.
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"We can find a place to settle down!" Zhang Tie said while looking at O'Laura. As they had already arrived at the relics, they had already reached their first target. Even though O'Laura and Nurdo had other plans, unless they had already known the concrete location of the possible super relics, it would waste too much time to search for that place with so many people. If a powerhouse could find that super relics in one day, it would take so many people about 10 days to find the target.
O'Laura exchanged glances with Nurdo.
"As our team has walked for a few days, they indeed should take a rest. As we've already found the relics, if our soldiers don't search over here for a while, their morality will be shaken! If they're lucky, they can make some money here." Nurdo agreed with Zhang Tie firstly.
O'Laura glanced at those soldiers who were looking around with curious and excited looks before nodding, "Fine, let's find a place to pitch tents!"
"I can finally find a place to take a bath!" Sabrina revealed a smile. In these days, although women paid attention to their tidiness, men had already been smelly. The man who smelt best was Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie didn't know whether it was because of the fruits that he had eaten or the effect of the all-purpose medicament, although he also looked as dirty as other men and oozed sweat, he didn't smell sweaty. Sabrina said he smelt like the fresh grass under sunlight in the summer.
Now that the most influential 4 figures in the team had reached an agreement, the team chose to settle down after another few kilometers beside a collapsed skyscraper.
The skyscraper occupied over 6000 square meters. As it had collapsed, of course, it was safer. Zhang Tie's team chose to settle down in the relatively open spot between the collapsed part and the part that had not collapsed of that skyscraper. As it had barriers on two sides, it was relatively hidden and safer.
Soon after he pitched his tent did Zhang Tie see Sam and Gerri walking towards him. After exchanging glances with each other, they left the camp. Finally they stopped at a hidden place hundreds of meters way.
"Sam and I found that ham package not far from here!" Gerri looked around and he told Zhang Tie in a low voice.
"Wuh, near here?" Zhang Tie asked.
"Yes, it was in a mountain cave on the east border of this city. It's less than 40 km away from here!" Sam added as he pointed at a direction.
"Given the allied forces' firm decision to enter the underground relics and the attendance of Golden Roc Bank, I'm afraid that they might have known the existence of the super relics. It could be said that wild bear tribe and our team were here for the super relics. Therefore, your intelligence would help them a lot; at least could shorten their time to find the super relics. As you two found the intelligence first, you have the full right to dispose it! If you decide to trade this intelligence with them, you will be safe under my protection; if not, I won't reveal your discovery to anyone else!"
Zhang Tie gazed at Sam and Gerri in a sincere look. Sam and Gerri had never imagined that Zhang Tie could say these words to them as they were slightly moved. At this moment, Zhang Tie could still restrain his temptation facing the allure of the super relics. This made Sam and Gerri feel lucky befriending Peter.
"I know, but Sam and I have well prepared this time. We plan to find a chance to go deeper into the cave. If it doesn't work, we will consider to trade them with the intelligence!"
Zhang Tie nodded. As Sam and Gerri were seeking for wealth here, their plan was reasonable. If they didn't try it, they were not real pioneers, "When do you plan to go there?"
"2 days later!" Gerri put it straightforward, "We can go there together!"
Zhang Tie nodded again, Gerri is indeed cunning. As it was still about 8 hours away from going to bed, it would be too eye-catching if they instantly rushed towards that place after pitching their tents. However, if they went there after wandering over here for 2 days, they would be not that noticeable.
"Actually, this city relics has a great potential to discover. If not the existence of that super relics, there may be a perfect treasure trove for pioneers!" Gerri added.
"Oh? You mean there's something precious yet not discovered here?"
"Of course, the bank vaults in this city have not been discovered yet. Additionally, there are something else which were very valuable, such as jewelries in the jewelry story which are still buried in the ruins, those items in the safes of rich families, even those top-class crystals which were used as common ornaments and ceiling lamps before the Catastrophe. Compared to those artworks before the Catastrophe, these item are more valuable!" Sam sighed with feeling.
"If there were some museums in this city, the items in the museums would be too valuable!" Gerri added, "The well-preserved books in libraries could also be sold at high prices!"
Zhang Tie had not imagined that so many valuable items could be discovered in this relics. Looking around the city which occupied over 100 square kilometers, Zhang Tie started to believe in Gerri's words. However, at the sight of those big blocks of buildings that collapsed in the ruins, Zhang Tie realized that the great physical strength was demanded to excavate wealth out of there.
"Do you have a target now? Where is the most valuable in this city in your mind?"
"Generally, according to people's customs before the Catastrophe, tall architectural complex is always the prime commercial area in the city where we probably find high-end stores and banks. Although common banks have no vaults, they have safe leasing service, which is also very profitable. By comparison, rich people always live in villas in the suburb where they could enjoy beautiful scenery, except for some special situations!"
Listening to Gerri's words, Zhang Tie glanced at the place in the far which was covered with most wandering fluorite lamps. "That must be the right place which gathered the most skyscrapers in the city, some have already collapsed while some 100-m higher skyscrapers are still standing there, making them very eye-catching. It seems that no pioneer is silly."
"Do you mean there? That place seems to have more fluorite lamps!" Zhang Tie pointed to that place which was only about 10 km away.
"I remember that the most prosperous commercial area in this city was over there when we came here last time!" Sam recalled for a short while as he nodded firmly.
"How about taking a look over there? It's still early now. It will not take us too much time to make a round trip over there!" thinking of that treasures that might be hidden in the relics, Zhang Tie became thrilled at once. No matter whether he could find wealth or not, at least it was a very interesting treasure-exploration experience for him.
After exchanging glances with each other, Gerri and Sam nodded at the same time.
Therefore, under the leadership of Zhang Tie, they trotted towards there.
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Actually, Nurdo always had an eye on Zhang Tie. Seeing Zhang Tie running away with his friends, Nurdo instantly raised his arm, closely after that one of his subordinates appeared beside him. Without saying anything, Nurdo just raised his chin towards the direction Zhang Tie was heading for. Seeing this, his subordinate instantly disappeared in the darkness.
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After relieving the 80-kg luggage, Gerri and Sam's moving speed increased sharply. As a result, although having to detour a lot of ruins and obstacles, they only took about half an hour to reach there.
When arriving there, Zhang Tie saw many pioneers wandering over there. Many of them were striking something among the collapsed buildings using tools.
"Why don't they search over there. I feel something might be buried over there!" the moment Zhang Tie arrived, he had pointed at the debris——a relatively short building between two skyscrapers which were only about 20 m in height. The upper part of this building had collapsed while the greater part of it remained buried by some debris and concrete blocks of the ruined two skyscrapers.
"There might be something, might be nothing. However, it's really time and energy consuming to clean the debris around that short building. It might require 10 people to work over 1 week. Additionally, we are not sure what's buried inside. If we cannot find something valuable, we will suffer a great loss. It's not reasonable to waste time on uncertain spots like this." Gerri explained.
Zhang Tie found it was in the location of "waistband fengshui" which was always mentioned by Donder. In Eastern Continent, businessmen usually chose their stores in an obtuse angle or an arc at a road junction, which was called "waistband fengshui". According to Donder, stores at such locations usually had good fortunes. Donder's grocery was right at a location of "waistband fengshui" beside the railway station.
Actually, Zhang Tie didn't know the basis about "waistband fengshui". However, at the sight of the debris in front, he knew that the location was a "bandwaist fengshui" using his instinct. Therefore, he wanted to have a try. Zhang Tie thought that the building at such a "waistband fengshui" location in the prosperous commercial district could never be a steamed bun store or a public toilet; otherwise, it would be a great waste and would not fit the principle of maximizing the commercial value of everything before the Catastrophe.
"If you want to have a look in other places, just do that. Remember to not leave far away from here. If you need any help, just let me know. I'm going to clean this debris, no matter what." Zhang Tie said casually. "Now that there's no target, it's better be here." Soon after saying that, Zhang Tie had rolled up his sleeves and started to work hard.
"Ah? Peter, are you crazy? Even if you work for half a month here..." the moment Gerri wanted to persuade Zhang Tie, his eyelids jumped heavily as he caught sight of Zhang Tie's movements.
The moment he arrived at the debris, Zhang Tie had grabbed a 600-kg concrete block with one hand and thrown it 30 m away like throwing a banana skin, causing a loud noise.
Sam and Gerri were dumbfounded by what they saw.
"Pinch me. Am I dreaming? I saw..."
In a wink, another piece of cement formwork of almost the equivalent weight was drawn out of the debris rudely by Zhang Tie and thrown aside casually.
After a short while, huge blocks were thrown out of the debris one after another.
Sam and Gerri were totally stunned. They saw the same doubt in the opponent's eyes, "Is this guy a humanoid steam-driven excavator? His efficiency is even higher than that of an excavator."
27 seven-strength fruits, plus his powerful strength as a LV 7 fighter and his flexible limbs as a human, making Zhang Tie's efficiency extremely higher at the moment.
The loud noises also attracted many pioneers from afar. The moment they saw Zhang Tie casually throwing away a 1-ton block, they all became completely shocked.
With the help of the dark tore gloves and his iron-blood battle Qi, Zhang Tie could easily break in stones with his hands and shatter them into pieces or lift them and throw them away.
Only after half an hour, a small part of the debris and the concrete blocks covering that short building had been cleaned.
Finally, an over 8-ton concrete block appeared in Zhang Tie's way.
Zhang Tie ran away...
When many people let out a sigh and thought that they could finally rest their hearts, they saw Zhang Tie running back with an over 3-m long flange steel. After that, Zhang Tie put another smaller block under that super heavy concrete block; he then used the flange steel to move away the block on the way.
In the next 5 hours, Zhang Tie kept digging. With the help of the pair of dark tore gloves and that super hard lever and under the unimaginable gaze of so many pioneers, he finally opened up a path which could allow one person to access to.
Finally, a wall of the low building was exposed...
Zhang Tie instantly pounded his flange steel onto the wall...
In the rising dust, a cave appeared...
Chapter 459: Excavating Treasures
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Honestly, Zhang Tie didn't think that he could find anything valuable in that debris; however, after disguising himself as a pioneer for so long, Zhang Tie indeed wanted to find something valuable here out of curiosity.
It's good if he could find something; if not, it's acceptable. Actually, the course of excavating treasures was more stimulative to Zhang Tie.
Zhang Tie remembered that Donder always sold items in terms of piles. He usually put one or two valuable goods inside the pile of items. By doing this, he could always obtain an unexpectedly better marketing result. Donder said this indicated the pleasure of excavating treasures.
You might not be interested in it if an item was directly put in front of you; however, if you found it in a hidden place or get it by chance, that kind of happiness might leave you with a very deep impression.
The profession of pioneer was thrilling. That was also why so many people would like to join in this action. They could experience the sense of stimulation brought by excavating treasures in the ruins. In the course, you might only find something that was a little valuable or you might become rich over night. Because of such an uncertainty, it became so attractive.
Someone had also considered to explore that ruins these days. However, it would take one person at least 1 month to clean it up while most people's personal supplies could not stand that long. If too many people joined, it would be not economical as that was only a small building between two skyscrapers. They were not sure whether they could find something inside it or not. Although some wanted to have a try but the others didn't want to risk too much. Therefore, there were different opinions between the pioneers.
What's more was that they could discover many valuable items without having to spend so much efforts. Additionally, as the bank vaults of this city had not been discovered yet, it was too silly for them to spend so much efforts in excavating a short building being buried in the ruins without knowing the potential benefits. Based on the pioneers' experience, bank vaults would never be in such a short building.
Later on, if they really could not gain any benefits from other places, some pioneers might work together to try this place. However, at this moment, nobody else would like to try here except for Zhang Tie.
Watching Zhang Tie excavating over there, Sam and Gerri stood still. They also wanted to give Zhang Tie a hand; however, it was completely out of their ability to move the huge blocks.
Additionally, Zhang Tie moved too fast. If they stood their, they would even slow Zhang Tie's working efficiency.
"Peh...peh...peh..." Zhang Tie spat out the dust while a lump of dust fell on his head. Meanwhile, he constantly patted off the dust from his hair, waiting for the cave to recover tranquility.
Dozens of seconds later, it finally recovered tranquility.
The wall with a hole was on the 2nd floor of the ruined building. All the floors above floor 2 had collapsed and turned into ruins. As a result, the building remains was completely buried by the debris of the floors above other wastes. Although floor 1 and floor 2 were also partially destroyed but almost half of its rooms were not completely covered. The items inside the rooms were well preserved.
Watching Zhang Tie opening the hole on one wall of this building in such a rude and barbarous pattern, all the surrounding pioneers were drawn one step forward by the great indescribable allure inside it.
"What? Do you want to pick off peaches at this moment?" Zhang Tie sneered at those pioneers as he inserted that 500-600 kg flange beam into the ruins in front of him like inserting a wood pile.
As a result, the 3-m long flange beam instantly entered the ground for about 1 m, causing a sound of "Puff".
Realizing the terrifying strength of Zhang Tie, all the pioneers were shocked as they stopped their footsteps.
Zhang Tie glanced at those pioneers' faces with a casual look. Many of the pioneers had stayed here for a long time. Therefore, they didn't know about Zhang Tie. Zhang Tie knew these pioneers clearly. In front of powerful person, they would be docile; while in front of weak ones, they might be as fierce as jackals and wolves.
"Sam and Gerri, come here. Let's take a look inside!" after frightening the others, Zhang Tie waved his hands towards Sam and Gerri.
Sam and Gerri then walked towards him with widely opened eyes. Although they had heard about Zhang Tie's amazing performance on the day when the allied forces occupied the relics canyon, they had not witnessed it themselves. Therefore, they were dubious about that more or less. On the way here, as they had not encountered anything special, they didn't have a chance to witness Zhang Tie's performance until now.
In their opinions, an enormous project which could not be completed in 4-5 hours was completed by Zhang Tie right in front of them. The moment they recalled Zhang Tie's amazing tyrannosaur-like strength, Gerri and Sam felt like dreaming, "Is this Peter? Is he the guy who lived in the sam hatch with me on Polar Light? But I didn't know that he had such a terrifying strength at that moment. Was he always hiding his real fighting strength..."
"What...what's your level on earth?"
When Gerri finally opened his mouth, Zhang Tie rolled his eyes. Zhang Tie had not imagined that his performance stimulated the "innocent souls" of Sam and Gerri so much.
"Is that important?" Zhang Tie glanced at those onlookers as he didn't want to be too outstanding here. Actually even in the allied forces, very less people knew his real level. Previously, O'Laura and Setton thought he was LV 9; however, since the death game, they were not sure about Zhang Tie's real level either. Many people considered Zhang Tie as a 5-star strong fighter. Some even thought Zhang Tie was a fighting master.
Zhang Tie's reply caused Sam and Gerri to exchange glances with each other before waving heads.
"We'll talk about it later. Now let's take a look inside!" Zhang Tie revealed a smile.
"According to the regulations of the pioneers, as you have opened it yourself, Gerri and I are not entitled to enter this place until you finish your discovery inside!" Sam replied honestly.
"What motherf*cking regulation? We're here together. Therefore I allow you to go in together with me. Nothing to worry about!"
"Fine, we will take a look inside in case you leave something!" Gerri was cleverer than Sam.
"Good, if there's something inside, each of you can select one. If there's nothing inside, we will just take it as a free travel!" Zhang Tie answered.
Hearing Zhang Tie's words, Sam and Gerri both nodded.
After glancing at those excited onlookers, Zhang Tie didn't say anything; instead, he just walked inside the hole with his fluorite lamp.
As that hole was about 1 m in height, they had to lower their bodies to access to it.
Under the green light of fluorite lamps, everything inside was coated with a weird green color. It was very disordered inside the room, being covered with dust all over. With the help of his dark vision, Zhang Tie could see everything inside the room. Besides some chairs and a broken desk, he saw nothing else. A small part of the big sharp block penetrated through the solid load-bearing floor, exposing some steel bars.
From the building material, Zhang Tie could imagine what happened here when the Catastrophe arrived. Thankfully, the quality of this building was not bad. Although the upper floors collapsed, the bottom two floors still remained complete.
With a sound of "Kacha", Zhang Tie lowered his head and found he broke the hands of a skeleton who was lying on the floor, facing the sky under the thick dust.
If he was timid, he might have been crying in fear. However, finding that skeleton was almost like an animal fossil, Zhang Tie looked as calm as before.
"Wait a second..." the moment Zhang Tie wanted to leave, he found Gerri walking towards him. Gerri started to fumble on the ground carefully.
After fumbling over the two hands of the skeleton for a short while, Gerri revealed a big smile as he took up a ring. He then cleaned the ring adroitly on his clothes and weighed it in his hand in front of his eyes.
"Platinum ring, with diamonds, ha...ha...good luck!" after saying this, Gerri passed the ring to Zhang Tie.
Before the Catastrophe, such jewelry was neither average nor precious. The same jewelry is worth 3 times in this age. Diamond was the most expensive jewelry before the Catastrophe; however, in this age, as humans intensify their exploration and development of the underground world, they discover a lot of diamonds, causing the sharp decline of diamond value. As a result, diamond was only an average jewelry in this age.
"Take it first!" Zhang Tie smiled. He felt very happy although this ring was only worth about 100 gold coins.
After searching over this room carefully, they did not find anything valuable; therefore, they came to another room.
Only a metal framework was left on the door which connected the two rooms, leaving glass fragments over the floor.
Being similar to the last room, this room was also very concise in arrangement. With fewer furniture, it looked more like a senior business reception center or a conference room. Some paintings were hanging over the wall. However, they were already heavily degenerated like the sofas. Some ornaments and art works were scattering over the floor, most of them had been destroyed, except for some special metal art works.
"Peter, come over here..." Sam exclaimed with a remarkable sense of excitement.
Zhang Tie walked over there and found Sam was holding a 33 cm high pitch-black vase and was wiping it with his sleeves. As he accelerated his wiping speed, Sam became more thrilled.
"It seems...like a eastern good..." Sam forcefully swallowed his saliva before passing it to Gerri, "Take a look..."
"This pattern might be from the Eastern Continent. But I've not encountered such a precious eastern good before. Therefore..." Gerri revealed a solemn look, "Additionally, this vase is made of brass. The colors of the decorative patterns looked weird. They were not drawn on it; instead, they were inlaid on it. But why it's so plain? It seems like a special manufacturing process".
"Let me see..." Zhang Tie took the vase and started to wipe it with his sleeves forcefully like Sam. Gradually, the purple body became clearer. They saw a very vivid flower, above which was a Chinese character "福" which was coated with silver.
"This is indeed an art work from Eastern Continent..." Zhang Tie confirmed.
"How do you know that?"
"This is a Chinese character, which means luck, wealth and success. It's a propitious Chinese symbol!"
Hearing Zhang Tie's explanation, Gerri and Sam both became thrilled.
"What?"
"We're rich!"
"This is just an art work. It should not be more valuable than that art work that you took out last time!" Zhang Tie said with a doubtful look.
"Don't you know that all the artworks from Eastern Chinese before the Catastrophe are very valuable. If it is a genuine one, many rich Chinese people would like to buy them at high prices. This is a best-seller in cultural relics market and auction houses for sure." Gerri told Zhang Tie while taking a deep breath.
"Let's search carefully, if we can search more items like this, each of you can take one..."
There were 6 more rooms on the 2nd floor. After searching over all the rooms, they only got 3 brass vases like that one in total. They found them in the same room. The 3 vases had same patterns. The only difference was the 3 Chinese characters, "福" which means luck, "禄" which meant wealth and "寿" which meant longevity. They should come from the whole set...
Zhang Tie was already very happy with the discovery of Chinese cultural relics before the Catastrophe here, even though they didn't know the value of these items. This was the pleasure through excavating treasures.
After searching over the 2nd floor, the 3 people came downstairs to the 1st floor. It looked like a lobby on the 1st floor. It was much better that upstairs. Besides some dust, they saw few wastes. Rows of counters were placed in the four directions of the lobby. After about 900 years, those counters still remained unchanged and tightly closed.
Those counters reminded Zhang Tie of Donder's grocery. To be honest, after thousands of years, the counters and showcases which were used to display commodities in human stores had not experienced any change essentially.
Zhang Tie walked to the nearest counter and wiped off the thick dust over the counter. The moment he caught sight of those items inside the counter, Zhang Tie widely opened his mouth...
When he caught sight of the 3 vases above stairs which were featured by Chinese cultures, Zhang Tie had already realized that the boss might be a Chinese or Chinese items seller.
Actually, Zhang Tie was right...
Chapter 460: Immortal Stones
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
When Zhang Tie wiped the dust off a counter and caught sight of the items beneath it, Gerri and Sam also cleaned up the dust off a counter on Zhang Tie's side out of curiosity and revealed the items inside.
Even after 1000 years, the items inside the counters were still as clean as before in the well-sealed counters.
Under the green light of their fluorite lamps, those items inside the counters became more shiny. They looked like a profound dreamland which had been buried for one millennium.
"These...these items are..." even Gerri and Sam became perplexed at once. Facing so many items in the counters, Gerri and Sam didn't even believe that they were in the real world as they were really shocked.
Like Sam and Gerri, Zhang Tie didn't believe that he could be that lucky either. Even in this age, there were still many liars such as in the flea market nearby the Blackhot city railway station. They usually counterfeited this special Eastern jewelries by green or deep-color glassworks so as to lure some idiots.
Such precious jewelries were the symbol of noble status among Chinese in the Eastern Continent before the Catastrophe. After the Catastrophe, such jewelries had more shocking meaning.
Such jewelries were called emeralds!
Unique emeralds!
In this age, such jewelries had another special name in the Eastern Continent——Immortal Stones.
Before the Catastrophe, such jewelries were very precious. However, emeralds were dwarfed by diamonds in that age.
"Who would sell counterfeit commodities here 900 years ago?" a whim flashed across Zhang Tie's mind as he glanced at those green jewelries and pendants in the counters.
"Peter..."
Hearing Gerri's voice, Zhang Tie turned around and found they were looking at Zhang Tie with nervous looks. Remarkably, they had already guessed something.
"Let's take a look..." Zhang Tie smiled. Even though he didn't lack money at the present, he still felt his throat dry when he posed this suggestion.
The moment Zhang Tie wanted to open the counter in front of him, he saw Sam running upstairs, "You...stay downstairs, I will take a look upstairs!"
Zhang Tie knew that Sam was standing sentry upstairs for them. Although Zhang Tie didn't believe that someone would dare to rush in at the risk of their lives but he knew that it was necessary to be careful.
When Sam went upstairs, Gerri just stared at Zhang Tie.
After taking a deep breath, Zhang Tie directly punched onto a counter in front of him.
After causing a loud sound and shaking off some dust, he still could not break the counter. Therefore, Zhang Tie became stunned. Although he only used 30% of his full strength, it was already very shocking. Even if it was a steel plate in front of him, it would have been left with a fist mark. However, the counter remained unchanged.
"Before the Catastrophe, such counters for selling jewelries and valuables were not formed by average glasses, but a special glass like alloy. It was used to protect the items inside from being robbed away. Although it looked like glass, it was even harder than steel and iron!" Gerri explained.
Zhang Tie revealed a slightly embarrassed smile as he moved behind the counter. He saw a movable drawer over there. After touching it for a short while, Zhang Tie forcefully tore away the lock on the drawer. After that, he casually took out an item from the counter.
That was a dark green bracelet. Based on Zhang Tie's experience in the grocery, he could identify that this bracelet was not a glasswork for sure. It was completely different than any other jewelries or stones that he had seen before.
The bracelet was clean and especially beautiful. Donder once told him how to simply identify emeralds. However, Donder added with a smile that Zhang Tie might barely have a chance to see a real immortal stone in his life. He told Zhang Tie that most of the immortal stones were monopolized by Chinese powers in the Eastern Continent. Few alchemists could have them. Those who could get immortal stones were not commoners for sure. At that time, Zhang Tie only had a few copper coins a day. He even had no surplus money to enjoy a bowl of rice brew which was worth a couple of copper coins. Of course, Donder didn't believe that Zhang Tie could have a chance to touch such jewelries in the future.
Zhang Tie put the bracelet onto his face slightly.
In a split second, he felt cool.
Taking out a lighter, Zhang Tie instantly burned that bracelet.
After over 10 seconds, Zhang Tie moved away the lighter. He then tried to wipe the place being burned with his sleeve. He found that the place was as new as before. No color changes at all.
As a pioneer, of course Gerri knew that it was the simplest way to identify whether this jewelry was real or not. Not to mention those low-grade green glasses in this age, even before the Catastrophe, there were still many counterfeited emeralds.
When Zhang Tie wiped the bracelet clean, he saw Gerri drawing close to him. Gerri even lifted his fluorite lamp to check it. Seeing no color changes at all, Gerri held his breath. After looking around so many counters being covered with dust on the 1st floor, Gerri instantly felt bewildered as he shook his body.
The priority was to carry these items away without arousing the others' attention.
Chapter 461: A Trade
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Seeing Zhang Tie leaving the camp, Nurdo, the cousin of O'Laura finally found a chance to talk with O'Laura in a quiet place.
O'Laura walked about 2 m ahead of Nurdo.
O'Laura's attitude towards Nurdo was always cold. Even now, she was still taking precautions against Nurdo.
"Right here. What do you want to say?" with her arms crossed, O'Laura looked around and said icily.
It was not far from the camp; additionally, O'Laura was very confident about her fighting strength as a LV 10 strong fighter. Therefore, she didn't fear that if Nurdo, a LV 9 fighter, played any tricks.
"Do you like Peter?" knowing her personalities, Nurdo put it straightforward.
"Mind your own business!" O'Laura sneered, "If you are here to talk about such a boring topic with me, I will go back right now!"
"Juventus is on my side. He has already told me everything about Peter in the tribe!" Nurdo said it with a calm look like saying something trivial.
Although Nurdo could not identify O'Laura's look under the mask in such a dark environment, he found that O'Laura's body quivered. Therefore, Nurdo revealed a wisp of smile at his mouth corners. Nurdo knew that he had to make her restless so as to reach his target.
"So what?" after a short while, O'Laura replied icily, "I don't care on which side is Juventus. As long as he's not on my side, his will in the grey eagle tribe has nothing to do with me. However, if he dares to betray the grey eagle tribe, the tribe won't mind chopping off a senior's head even at the risk of being split."
"I can make him support you so that you can take over the power of the grey eagle tribe as soon as possible. With his support, you can completely suppress Ollier and take over the power of the grey eagle tribe!"
O'Laura thought about Nurdo's words for a while. She knew that Nurdo's words were true. Based on the current situation in the grey eagle tribe, if she and senior Merkel could cooperate with Juventus, they would be able to suppress Ollier completely. The biggest trouble facing the grey eagle tribe was that the party of O'Laura and senior Merkel and the party of Ollier and Juventus were on even. Therefore, she did not dare to act rashly and blindly in the tribe. Additionally, her party was always restricted by the other party. If the alliance of Ollier and Juventus completely collapsed, the problem facing the grey eagle tribe would be solved. This was the perfect solution for the problem facing the grey eagle tribe...
After thinking for a short while, she finally agreed. She glanced at Nurdo. Although Nurdo was smiling, his slightly narrowed eyes were gleaming icily, making her heart race at once.
O'Laura knew that a grand didn't come for free.
"What's your condition?"
"It's very simple, marry me!" Nurdo revealed a wisp of smile at his mouth corners.
"No way!" O'Laura refused him immediately.
"Listen!" Nurdo looked confident, "I know you like that guy. But he cannot help you at all. He's just a high-level fighter. We also have fighters like him in our tribe. Additionally, the conflicts in the grey eagle tribe could not only be solved by fighting strength. I think you understand that!"
Seeing O'Laura becoming silent, Nurdo continued.
"Even if he accepted you, you have to understand that you are only one of his beloved women. Given the hot relationship between him and Sabrina at the present, how much more advantageous do you think you are than Sabrina. Additionally, don't forget who revoked the wanted circular this time. It's said that the enchanting fox in Ewentra Archipelago is also an amorous woman!"
"That's why you bring Elizabeth here!" O'Laura replied with a strong irony in her tone.
However, Nurdo maintained his face unchanged, "I admit that I intended to seduce him with Elizabeth. It would be enough if a woman could let a powerhouse like Peter give me a favor at a critical moment in the future!"
O'Laura instantly recalled something as her eyes turned solemn at once, "Your father has determined to let your elder brother Mirba succeed to the throne of the wind wolf tribe last year..."
"Even if a woman like you wants to rule a tribe, how could I succumb to Mirba, the idiot. Besides having an old bitch mom, who's better than mine, Mirba can never match me!" Nurdo raised his head while his eyes were filled with flames, "My father didn't make the final decision yet. He could at least rule the wind wolf tribe for 10 years. I still have a chance in the decade. I will gain the support of the two seniors of the wind wolf tribe and I could lead the wind wolf tribe to become a leopard tribe..."
O'Laura understood Nurdo instantly. As long as Nurdo married her, he would annex the grey eagle tribe sooner or later. Plus the population and power of the grey eagle tribe, the wind wolf tribe would gradually develop to be a leopard tribe.
The tribes were divided by Slavs into mouse tribe, eagle tribe, wolf tribe, leopard tribe, fox tribe and bear tribe according to their forces.
It could be said that each Slav tribe's ruler had the mission and honor to develop the population and force of their tribe to the scale of bear tribes. In order to reach this target, the rulers of all the Slav tribe would strive endlessly generation after generation. However, besides the natural growth in population and force of tribes, some powerful tribes also chose to expand their tribes by inter-marriage or wars.
The population base of the wind wolf tribe had already reached 350,000. If the population base of the grey eagle tribe was included, the whole population of the wind wolf might surpass 400,000, which just reached the minimum standard of leopard tribe.
"As long as you help me take the throne of the wind wolf tribe, I will let you rule the entire grey eagle tribe. It's a win-win situation!" Nurdo said full of ambition.
"Can a wolf spit out the flesh from his stomach?" O'Laura didn't believe in Nurdo's words at all.
"I don't want to restrict your freedom. I don't even care about whom you love and want to stay with. I only need a nominal marriage and the obedience of the grey eagle tribe. After taking the throne of the wind wolf tribe, I will not interfere with the affairs of the grey eagle tribe. You will still be the ruler of the grey eagle tribe. I feel this method is beneficial to both of us! What you need to pay is just some time and a nominal marriage!"
"Why are you telling me this? If you've long made this plan, I don't believe that you could wait until now!" O'Laura was still rational even Nurdo's words were alluring.
"I admit that this plan was a bit different than that I made before. In my earlier plan, I wanted to force you to marry me, by forcing instead of cooperating with you. Right because of this, you should believe in my sincerity!"
"Because of Peter?"
"A guy who could kill a LV 10 strong fighter with a javelin in a blink of eye is only a powerful guarantee for the grey eagle tribe, nothing else!" Nurdo revealed a wisp of smile——sneer, "Do you know what is the most powerful in this world? It's money. If you accepted the 500,000 gold coins from Bluesea Castle Business Group, we would not stand here. If you did that, you would have taken control of the grey eagle tribe. You're too arrogant, O'Laura, you're beaten by your own arrogance!"
O'Laura replied with a cold harrumph as she raised her face.
"What's especially hilarious is that Peter also refused the assistance from Bluesea Castle Business Group. Although he knew that you needed money, he still refused the enchanting fox's money. Aren't you clear about your position in his heart? Perhaps he felt that you didn't worth him to do that. No matter what, it's 500,000 gold coins. Don't tell me that he could afford that amount of money himself. I know that his purse had been taken away by you and Setton when he was caught. He's now a poor guy..." Nurdo showed discord.
"If he gave her money to me, wound't he be taken as a toy boy? At least, Peter came down together with me. I believe that we will have a big harvest!" O'Laura urged.
"Don't comfort yourself anymore. Even if all the population of your tribe came down, how much could you gain in this action, 50,000 or 100,000 gold coins? Actually, you cannot completely depress Juventus and Ollier without at least 350,000 gold coins. Additionally, it's the wild bear tribe which hosts this action, how much do you think you could take away from here? That guy just accompanies Sabrina down here for exploration and travel; perhaps, he even wants to make some money. However, you only have one chance."
"Isn't the attraction of relics featured by the uncertainty of benefits. Why are you so sure that Peter and I cannot find enough wealth down there?"
"Do you really think that powerful ones are doomed to have good luck and become millionaires. Don't be naive. O'Laura, you've already passed the age of being naive. You'd better consider about my suggestion. Finally, I want to tell you, no matter which way do you choose, it won't influence this cooperation. The former appointment between us still works."
"No need to consider anymore. No way! No matter what, I have to take over the grey eagle tribe. Nobody could take it away from me!" O'Laura replied firmly.
"Good luck to you! I hope that the talk between you and me is not exposed to anyone else!"
"Humph..."
Knowing that he could not persuade O'Laura temporarily, Nurdo didn't continue as he knew that something would sprout sooner or later as long as it was sowed in her mind.
"A woman who gives up 500,000 gold coins for the illusory love and self-esteem of a toy boy wants to take over a tribe. Does she think it's a playing house?" Nurdo sneered inside. After glancing at O'Laura, he turned around and left.
This talk ended in discord.
Seeing Nurdo disappearing in the distance, O'Laura tightened her fist...
...
When O'Laura was separated from Nurdo, Zhang Tie, Sam and Gerri just came out of the entrance of the ruins.
At this moment, at least hundreds of people were surrounding the entrance. Those greedy pioneers who were curious about the items inside the entrance didn't leave; instead, they were just staying outside the entrance with glittering eyes. But nobody dared to go inside.
Based on the freak's strength, the first guy entering the hole would probably lose his life, not to mention finding something. Therefore, nobody would like to be that idiot.
When Zhang Tie, Sam and Gerri exited, they were stripped to the waists. They only wore pants. All the rest clothes had been tightly packed and carried on their back. Nobody could see what was inside.
Sam and Gerri both looked pale. Careful pioneers found that their legs were shaky while their hands on the package were trembling. Only the freak man looked unchanged.
"Is that okay?" Sam asked nervously.
"No problem, you two don't say a thing. Relax yourselves. I will deal with the rest!" Zhang Tie replied.
Hearing Zhang Tie's words, Sam forcefully swallowed his saliva as he nodded with a solemn look.
When they came out of the hole, those pioneers outside the hole moved one step forward. After being glanced by Zhang Tie's lightning-bolt eyes, everybody else stopped.
"What's inside?" Someone asked.
Zhang Tie only replied with a cold harrumph. After that, he took up that flange beam and walked aside. Under the gazes of everybody else, he immediately moved some 7-10 tons of blocks to the original places and blocked the hole.
At the sight of this, all the other pioneers started to swear inside. However, many people's eyes also brightened up. According to the rules of pioneers, as long as the discoverer left, the items inside the hole would have nothing to do with the discoverer anymore, irrespective of what it was. However, Zhang Tie's action remarkably reminded many people that something valuable was still buried inside.
Seeing Zhang Tie's movement, those who kept gazing at their package also moved their gleaming eyes on the architectural wastes which were used to block the hole. Even if someone among them wanted to rob their package, after measuring Zhang Tie's strength and those architectural wastes, they changed their decisions.
The moment the three people left, many pioneers instantly swarmed up. Someone instantly found the flange beam and started to move that block on road with other people.
The spot became chaotic at once.
...
Seeing that they were not followed up, Sam and Gerri both let out a sigh, so did Zhang Tie.
"Peter, why did you block the hole once again?"
"Nothing. I just didn't want to kill anyone over there!" Zhang Tie said casually, "It's better to bring them hope than to kill them!"
Sam and Gerri exchanged glances with each other as if they didn't know Zhang Tie before.
...
As they had to move steadily, their speed was slower compared to when they came here. Even though, they still returned to their camp after about an hour.
What a coincidence, the moment they came back, they saw O'Laura walking towards here from afar.
Seeing their weird looks, O'Laura became stunned, "Where have you been?"
"We went for wealth!" Zhang Tie replied with a relaxed look while Sam and Gerri both looked very nervous at this moment. If not Zhang Tie who found these items, Sam and Gerri would never dare to return here anymore.
O'Laura glanced at Zhang Tie with a gloomy look. She ignored his joke.
"Go to the tent, and when you come back to camp. I have something to tell you."
"What a coincidence, I've also got something to tell you!"
"What?"
"Let's talk about it later, it's just a few steps back!"
O'Laura nodded.
When they came back to the tent, they saw Sabrina and Nurdo who were still staying with some guests.
Those guests were dispatched by Golden Roc Bank and some heads of the wild bear tribe. As they came down here consecutively with a time interval of a few hours, it's normal for them to encounter each other here if they intended to.
Hearing Zhang Tie's arrival, they instantly turned around and became curious about Zhang Tie's weird look.
"Ha...ha..." Nurdo burst out into laughter first, "What? Have you already gone to discover relics after coming down here for a few hours? Look at you! You must have a big harvest!"
Although Nurdo's tone was not ironical but it was jeering. Indeed, nobody belived that Zhang Tie and his friends could find anything valuable in only a few hours.
However, at the sight of the staff from Golden Roc Bank, Zhang Tie let out a sigh as he knew that he didn't need to worry about these items anymore...
Zhang Tie fumbled in his trousers pockets and took out a thumb-sized item. He then flipped it towards a staff from Golden Roc Bank. That staff instantly grabbed it.
"Send your men down, we want to preserve a batch of relics!"
"Mr. Peter, our lowest limit of amount for entrustment service is..." before he finished his words, he seemed being choked by something while he looked around that item carefully with widely opened eyes at once.
"We have 1674 pieces in total!" Zhang Tie told him a figure. Nobody else understood what did Zhang Tie mean. However, at the sight of Zhang Tie and his friends three package, the staff of Golden Roc Bank instantly took out a metal cylinder and triggered it towards the sky...
With a shrill soar, a huge symbol of Golden Roc Bank appeared in the sky which could be seen clearly by people within dozens of miles.
In a split second, various battle Qi's shined in the distance while many light spots started to fly towards here...
Nobody knew what was happening!
Chapter 462: Qiyun
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Before they realized what happened, with a long roar from afar, a shadow had already arrived here like a lightning bolt.
He moved so fast. With a glittering battle Qi, he had already appeared in Zhang Tie's camp from miles away after a short while along with an air-breaking sound.
"What's up? Who sent the cloud-penetrating bolt?"
Closely after the boom was heard beside where they stood, a person fell down the ground like a shell, raising a lot of dust.
Zhang Tie admired him inside. Although he knew that there were powerhouses in the team of Golden Roc Bank for sure but he had not seen them before. Now, Zhang Tie found that the powerhouse was much sharper than that he imagined. At least this person's moving speed had already surpassed 100 m/s, which was much greater than that of Zhang Tie's. Even if he added himself with a rapid moving skill, Zhang Tie could not move so fast.
It was a 40-odd Chinese bald man who looked strong. When he asked the question, he fixed his eyes onto that person who sent the cloud-penetrating bolt, causing a great stress to that person.
"I received a entrustment service here..."
Hearing this, the bald man changed his face as he wanted to lose his temper...
"Someone found over 1000 pieces of emeralds!"
The moment the bald man heard the next words, he instantly relieved his fury; instead, he revealed a weird look as he asked repetitively, "Over 1000 pieces?"
"Yes, over 1000 pieces!" As he had not seen the items, he was afraid that Zhang Tie's number 1674 was not precise, therefore, he said a conservative number.
This number was indeed conservative!
Along the eyes of the speaker, the Chinese bald man moved his eyes on Zhang Tie, Sam and Gerri.
At this moment, Zhang Tie looked around and found that the looks of the others remained confused, except for Sabrina. What happened just now left them no time to think at all. Soon after Zhang Tie arrived here and threw that item to the staff of Golden Roc Bank did that person send a cloud-penetrating bolt. Closely after that, the bald man arrived.
As Zhang Tie could speak Hebrew, his words were understandable. However, the two men from Golden Roc Bank spoke Chinese. Therefore, all the others became flurried. They only knew that Zhang Tie discovered 1674 pieces of something from outside. As to what Zhang Tie had discovered, everybody else was confused.
Nurdo's eye corners were cramping. With his eyes on Zhang Tie's luggage, he didn't know how come they had such a big harvest only in a few hours. It seemed that all these items were valuable; otherwise, those people in Golden Roc Bank would not pay special attention to this.
"F*ck, has he discovered so many high-level crystals only after such a short period? What a lucky bastard!"
At this moment, many people in the camp had gathered here. They all gazed at Zhang Tie's luggage. Zhang Tie revealed a smile as he turned around and told Sam and Gerri, "Put down our achievements; show them to the public; by the way, we will count them here."
Gerri and Sam hesitated a little. As there were so many people here, they were a bit worried about the safety of these jewelries. However, seeing Zhang Tie putting down his luggage, Sam and Gerri did that too. They paved their clothes on the ground and opened the objects one package after another.
As they also found some relatively well-preserved black flannels in the counters, they wrapped all the objects with that soft material in case of losses in transportation. As to smaller items such as finger rings and ear rings, they packed over 100 pieces of them together. As to bigger items such as bracelets and jade chips, they packed them separately.
They also brought the three special metal vases. As to many jewelries and small objects, they wrapped them and directly put them in the vases.
Watching those objects being opened one package after another, all the onlookers stretched out their necks and became stunned. Compared with so many objects, the three vases became dwarfed. Everybody fixed their eyes on those green stones, large or small.
"Ah, so many jewelries!" exclamations sounded one after another.
"Peter became rich. Did they find them in the relics?"
"Sure, they went inside empty-handed. Of course, they found them in the relics!"
"What are they, emeralds or green crystals? They look valuable..."
"They look more like turquoise..."
"Turquoise are not that bright!"
"Those must be olivines!"
The onlookers started to discuss. Most of them had not seen these emeralds at all. Therefore, they could easily mix these objects with those they had ever known or heard about.
Only Nurdo and a few people slowly changed their faces at the sight of those objects.
With air-breaking sounds, powerhouses from Golden Roc Bank arrived here constantly with more and more onlookers. What Zhang Tie had not imagined was that Roslav and Waajid also led the fighters of the huge bear tribe towards here.
Not knowing whether it was an illusion or not, Zhang Tie felt that Roslav and Waajid seemingly let out a sigh at the sight of him. After realizing that they were gazed by Zhang Tie, the two guys walked to the side of Sabrina like nothing had happened.
It was not strange to meet people from the huge bear tribe at all. But the huge bear tribe seemed to be too active. Therefore, Zhang Tie paid more attention to them.
Keeping silent, Zhang Tie just stood aside, watching those staff from Golden Roc Bank authenticating the values of those emeralds.
After checking over those objects on the ground carefully, a 30-odd man from Golden Roc Bank stood up as he nodded towards a 50-odd man while trying his best to relieve his excitement.
The 50-odd man was the head of this team of Golden Roc Bank. The bald man was his subordinate.
"Mr. Peter. I'm Zhu Zhen, the head of the expedition of Golden Roc Bank. I want to reconfirm it, are you sure that you want to entrust Golden Roc Bank to keep these immortal stones for you?"
Because he was talking with Zhang Tie, the 50-odd man didn't use Chinese anymore; instead, he spoke Hebrew. Hearing this question, all the onlookers who were discussing about these stones shut up at once. Everybody felt their necks being grabbed by hands. The spot became so quiet that even a needle falling down the ground could be heard.
Zhang Tie nodded with a smile, "Yup, I truly want to entrust these objects to Golden Roc Bank. I know your bank could provide such a service. But I don't know whether you can accept them here or I have to bring these objects to Eschyle City!"
"If it's a common business, you truly need to entrust a person to manage it in our branch in Eschyle City; but it's special now, we can directly assign our ground crew here to receive this batch of immortal stones!"
"Fine, no problem!" Zhang Tie nodded.
Hearing Zhang Tie's promise, Zhu Zhen directly nodded towards a Chinese youth who was carrying a medium-sized box. The Chinese youth took out a clock-sized crystal remote sensing communication device from the box and started to communicate with their ground crew in the public.
Zhang Tie watched how did the Chinese youth manipulate the crystal remote sensing communication with an interested look, "When will your crew arrive here?"
"Our airship is still outside there. As long as they receive our message, the powerhouses of Golden Roc Bank will arrive here in 5 hours!" Zhu Zhen replied firmly.
Zhang Tie believed in his words. Zhang Tie knew that real powerhouses' moving speeds were very terrifying. Although it took them several days to be here, it only took real powerhouses a few hours. If not go down here with 200-300 people, Zhang Tie was also confident that he could arrive here from above ground in a few hours.
"Fine, you can keep them now!" after saying this, Zhang Tie threw a glance at Sam and Gerri. Then, the went in their own tents to put on clothes.
The moment the three people left did Zhu Zhen make a gesture. Seeing this, the other members of the expedition of Golden Roc Bank headed by the bald man walked towards him. After that, the 6 people surrounded the piles of jewelries.
Not until then did those onlookers become boisterous like a bowl of water being sprayed in the boiling water in a pot.
"Immortal stones? Are these objects immortal stones?"
"Peter found immortal stones?
The entire camp boiled up.
Nurdo drew a cold breath. Even if he was always calm, at the sight of the solemn looks of the team of Golden Roc Bank, he was also driven crazy! His heart raced while his eyes turned red. However, in front of those people from Golden Roc Bank, Nurdo would never dare to rob those jewelries away.
After forcefully swallowing his saliva, Nurdo asked Zhu Zhen and the others, "May I...know the value of these immortal stones?"
Although many people had heard about immortal stones, few of them knew its price.
"Although these immortal stones have different qualities, they were not bad generally. If Mr. Peter entrusts our bank to preserve these for him, I think our bank would pay him more than 1.4 million gold coins!" Zhu Zhen answered seriously before letting out a sigh, "I've not imagined that Mr. Peter is so lucky. I was told that he had just been here for a few hours!"
Hearing this, some clever guys hurriedly ran towards the tent of Zhang Tie; the rest ones exchanged glances with each other as they could see amazement and admiration from the opponents' eyes, "Damn it. How come that guy be so lucky?"
Zhang Tie's good luck really made others jealous.
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The moment he came out of his tent, Zhang Tie had seen a subordinate of O'Laura who was cringing outside his tent with a chrysanthemum-like smile.
"Mr. Peter, Can...can you..." face blushed, the man asked with a shameful look while rubbing his hands.
Only after glancing at this guy, Zhang Tie had already known what he wanted. Therefore, Zhang Tie briefly told him about the location where he found those jewelries. The moment the man received Zhang Tie's reply, he had turned around and ran away without even thanking Zhang Tie. After running a few steps forward, he realized his rudeness; the moment he turned around and wanted to say something to Zhang Tie, he found Zhang Tie was smiling at him while waving his hand.
"It's okay. Hurry up, it depends on your luck!"
Zhang Tie didn't put on shelves in front of them. As the short building was collapsed, Zhang Tie didn't clean up there. Therefore, it was uncertain whether they could find some other valuables over there or not.
In a wink, over 200 members of Zhang Tie's camp ran over there with green eyes, except for the female army led by O'Laura, Nurdo and Sabrina.
The power of a good model was unrivaled.
Only after a few minutes, when Zhang Tie came back, he found O'Laura, Nurdo and Sabrina were already chatting with those staff of Golden Roc Bank. At the sight of Zhang Tie, they all fixed their eyes on Zhang Tie.
Perhaps someone among them also wanted to take a look in the place where Zhang Tie discovered these emeralds; however, given their status, they felt shameful to follow Zhang Tie's action.
"What are you talking about?" seeing their weird looks, Zhang Tie asked casually.
"We're talking about your amazing good luck!" Zhu Zhen smiled with a curious look, "We've participated in the excavation of many relics; however it's our first time to see someone like Mr. Peter to reap so much only after arriving here for a few hours!"
Zhang Tie shrugged and kept silent.
"Actually when someone's luck reaches the upper limit, we Chinese will not call it luck anymore!"
"What do you call it?" Nurdo asked.
"Qiyun!" Zhu Zhen called it in Chinese pinyin. There's no corresponding word with this in Hebrew. The moment they heard about this strange new term, everybody else looked different, "Mr. Peter really has a great qiyun!"
"What is qiyun? Can you explain it?" out of everybody's imagination, Roslav, a representative of the huge bear tribe asked while biting his tongue.
"In your words, qiyun means that a person is favored by God and could do great things!"
Hearing Zhu Zhen's words, the two powerhouses from the huge bear tribe exchanged glances with each other and kept silent.
Even Zhang Tie realized that his luck was pretty good these days. Although he had also suffered some dangers and setbacks, he could finally survive them. Remarkably, no matter what problems he encountered these days, he could always easily manage them, such as wanted circular and the bone-exploding needles...this formed a sharp contrast with Zhang Tie's experience in the previous 16 years. Therefore, Zhang Tie felt this sharp difference especially.
Especially the wanted circular, before he managed it, someone else had already revoked it for him. Even if he was captured at the risk of being chopped off his head, he could also survive that easily. Additionally, he was just trying to excavate the short building several hours ago; it was really out of his imagination that he could find so many immortal stones. "I've never been so lucky before, did something special happen to me?"
Zhang Tie instantly remembered the small tree. Besides providing him with fruits, the small tree also changed his mode of thinking. It told Zhang Tie that nothing in this word came without a reason. An object definitely existed or appeared due to some reason or logic.
Zhang Tie asked Heller in his mind at once.
"Heller, are you there? I also feel that my luck is pretty good these days. It's quite different from before. Do you know the reason? Is it related to the small tree..."
Only after a couple of seconds, Heller's voice had already reappeared in Zhang Tie's mind.
"Precisely, it's only related to yourself. The Manjusaka Karma Fruit Tree is breeding a new fruit recently. In the course of its generation, your luck is pretty good. As long as you see that fruit, you will know why."
Zhang Tie became stunned, "What? A new fruit? But I've done nothing special these days..."
Chapter 463: The Most Valuable Thing
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
Undoubtedly, life itself was one of the most valuable things. That was why immortal stones were so expensive.
After being processed by an alchemist, the value of immortal stones would increase by 2 times. Although Zhang Tie's emeralds had not been processed by alchemists, they were still valuable. According to the authentication of the powerhouses from Golden Roc Bank, those emeralds were worth 1.64 million gold coins.
Although Golden Roc Bank sincerely expected to purchase these immortal stones, Zhang Tie didn't want to sell them.
For others, immortal stones were just gold coins; however, for Zhang Tie, those immortal stones had another meaning.
After the other powerhouses of Golden Roc Bank arrived here from above ground, Zhang Tie talked with one of them.
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"Of course, immortal stones could not help people become immortal. However, they could increase one's life span. Actually, people strive for cultivation by lighting their own surging points was also to increase their life span. The average life span of commoners was about 90 years; however, if one could reach LV 9, he could increase his life span to 120 years as his physical potential was released. The higher one's level was, the longer would he or she live!"
"What about the life span of a knight?"
"Generally, a knight could live longer than 400 years!"
"400 years?" Zhang Tie was full of amazement.
"Of course, besides knights who could live even longer, the whole set of top-class immortal stones processed by alchemist masters in the Eastern Continent could also extend their life span to 200 more years. A knight with a whole set of top-class immortal stones could live longer. As your immortal stones had been cut into smaller pieces in different levels, their values were sharply discounted; otherwise, they were worth a higher price!"
"Is the whole set of top-class immortal stones effective to commoners?"
"Of course, that's why the immortal stones are so expensive!"
"How much is one set of that thing?"
"Top-class immortal stones are rarely seen even in the Eastern Continent. They could barely be seen in the market. After collecting raw materials, big clans would entrust alchemist masters to process them. You cannot buy them even if you're rich!"
"Can people be really immortal?"
"In the Chinese legends, in the ancient times, humans could easily live longer than 10,000 years old. Dying at the age of 800 or 900 years would always be taken as an abnormal death at a young age. Human body is the most precious jewelry in this world!"
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After signing a series of documents on entrustment service with Golden Roc Bank and promising to them that Golden Roc Bank had the priority to purchase these jewelries on equal conditions if he wanted to sell them, Zhang Tie saw them off with those immortal stones.
At this moment, Zhang Tie's heart raced because of that talk.
Not until then did Zhang Tie know that one could increase his or her life span after reaching a high level. Additionally, with a whole set of top-class immortal stones from an alchemist master, one's life span could increase by 200 years. Zhang Tie was really shocked by the two pieces of information. Previously, he knew that one could grow healthier and live longer through cultivation while immortal stones could extend one's life span. However, he didn't know the details. Now he knew.
Zhang Tie knew that cannon fodder-class small figures who were educated to beat screws in the city like himself were born with limited knowledge structure and recognition in the world. Even though he had stayed in Hidden Dragon Island for a year, his limited vision was slightly made up; instead of being essentially changed. After the talk with that powerhouse from Golden Roc Bank, he reconfirmed about this point.
For some people, they could not touch such secret knowledge until they had reached a certain age, when they would extremely broaden their vision and mode of thinking. For Zhang Tie himself, unless he had the chance to touch them, he was isolated from a lot of information in this world.
Zhang Tie didn't sell those immortal stones immediately because he recalled his master Zhao Yuan. After the talk, Zhang Tie imagined about his parents' increasingly wrinkled faces. In a split second, a whim boiled up in Zhang Tie's mind. "No matter what, I have to let my dad and mom enjoy the benefits of immortal stones. I will help them to live longer. Because of various reasons, my dad and mom didn't have much knowledge on cultivation; therefore, they could not live long. This was also my biggest regret. If I could mend up this regret, I wouldn't care about the amount of money and immortal stones."
Zhang Tie experienced the power of alchemist once again. Therefore, he grew more ambitious about becoming an alchemist.
"Of course, if I want to help my dad and mom live longer, I have to achieve my first dream——to grow stronger." Zhang Tie finally understood why so many people were striving for higher levels at any cost. Because in addition to greater power, they could also gain longer longevity. They might live 5-6 times longer than commoners.
Zhang Tie had never imagined that he could live for hundreds of years. At this moment, a whim flashed across his mind.
"Perhaps, I could also live 400-500 years old." Zhang Tie told himself as his heart started to pound. He could feel that a gate was pushed open in his mind which presented a splendid world which he had never imagined. Now Zhang Tie started to realize the significance of the hard course on cultivation and polishing surging points.
"Cultivation, cultivation, cultivation!"
Zhang Tie immediately acted like a machine being installed with a motor. He grew more desirable for cultivation.
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Being stimulated by those immortal stones, in the next two days, the 200-odd guys in Zhang Tie's team kept cleaning up that short building where Zhang Tie discovered the immortal stones.
As was imagined, those pioneers who expected to discover some valuables here were chased away ruthlessly. At the beginning, many pioneers were inimical; however, after knowing that these people were in the same team with Peter, they all left and did not dare to bother.
After two days, the short building was cleaned up. Those guys really discovered a lot of valuables over there, dozens of pieces which were well-preserved and a few broken immortal stones and jewelries. They were worth 70,000-80,000 gold coins in total.
As a result, the morale of the team became spirited. This was a worthy travel for them. They could hardly make so much money above the ground.
In the two days, Zhang Tie also wandered with Sam and Gerri on this relics and in the neighborhood. Apparently, they were seeking for another chance to discover wealth; actually, they were just familiar with the surrounding environment and terrain so as to seek for the real super relics.
Zhang Tie's good luck seemed being used up. Although he also tried to excavate something, he didn't find anything valuable at all, except for some scrap metal.
Sam and Gerri found the place where they picked up the weird ham package before the Catastrophe. In these two days, they just passed by this place for one time. It was a deep and serene cave which extended to the distance. They didn't know where did it lead to. In case of arousing others' attention, they didn't go deep in it.
In the same period, Zhang Tie found many strange forces and unidentified individuals. They had long entered the underground world before the allied forces blocked the relics valley. Additionally, their fighting strength were above common pioneers and most of the fighters of the allied forces for sure.
Zhang Tie knew that not everybody in this world knew themselves well and could curb their greed about the pieces of star of god, except for powerhouses like star and moon sword sage. Somebody would always have a try with a fluky mind. Perhaps, the news of super relics had been spread through special channels. Therefore, besides the allied forces and Golden Roc Bank, the others had also known about this message.
In the two days, Zhang Tie had seen many corpses of pioneers and unidentified individuals who looked very miserable. Remarkably, their personal belongings had been taken away. At the sight of them, many people who came down here for a try would feel icy.
The situation in the underground world was much more sophisticated than that Zhang Tie had imagined. Even the vanguards of Zhang Tie's team had not imagined that. Facing the potential dangers, the separate vanguards of the allied forces gradually gathered together in these days. The cake of wealth being exposed in front of them was much larger than that they had imagined.
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On the same evening when Zhang Tie discovered those immortal stones, Zhang Tie stood on the top of a 30-storey building which only had half of its steel and cement framework left. Looking down at those fluorite lamplights, Zhang Tie looked calm. Nobody knew what he was thinking about.
In the underground world, they judged time in consistent with the time above ground. Besides the weak light of a few fluorite materials and heat sources in the darkness, daytime and night could not be distinguished here. Therefore, one's biological clock could be easily disturbed.
"Thankfully, these dogskin plasters stopped following us!" Standing on Zhang Tie's side, Sam said furiously.
"No matter what, these guys are not silly. As this building has been searched by so many pioneers; nothing valuable could be discovered in it at all. If they continued to follow us up, they would find nothing else except for blush!" compared to Sam, Gerri looked a bit calm, "Have you found that the number of these dogskin plasters has decreased a lot after achieving nothing in two days?"
"It's true. Much fewer compared to yesterday!" Sam nodded.
Hearing their talk, Zhang Tie revealed with a smile. "Being similar to those gamblers who like to follow up those lucky gamblers, ever since the news that I made a fortune after discovering those immortal stones spread among the vanguards of the allied forces, Sam, Gerri and I had been followed up by a lot of people."
"In this couple of days, as long as I paid special attention to a certain place or moved my hands or stayed a bit longer somewhere, I would instantly be surrounded by some guys who started to excavate near me."
After achieving nothing for consecutive three days, Zhang Tie knew that those guys' endurance might have ran up. Zhang Tie was that lucky gambler. However, after achieving nothing for three days, he had been not attractive to those guys who followed him. Therefore, this was a good symbol for Zhang Tie.
As those who followed him were just average warriors of the allied forces who expected to make a fortune, Zhang Tie was not disgusted about them. However, after being gazed by them constantly, Zhang Tie didn't even have a chance to eat fruits in Castle of Black Iron. Therefore, he grew pretty depressed about that.
Therefore, Zhang Tie could only let so many fruits hang over the small tree in Castle of Black Iron.
"For some reason, I feel that the process of seeking for the super relics would be very risky!" after considering it carefully, Zhang Tie told Gerri and Sam, "As you've already seen it these days, the situation in the underground world is very dangerous, besides the pioneers and allied forces, there are many unidentified forces and individuals. Some of them have died for some reasons. I hope you two think twice before deciding whether to seek for the super relics or not..."
Hearing Zhang Tie's suggestion, Sam and Gerri hesitated...