The Evil Rich

The staff verified Chen Shu's identity and asked, "Are you here to submit the [Collect Iceleaf Flower] or the [Hunt Roaring Lion] mission?"

"What kind of low-level missions are those? Never heard of them."

Chen Shu spread his hands and shrugged: "Old Xie, Little Xing, have you heard of these two missions?"

Both of them shook their heads: "No idea, who does such low-end missions?"

Seeing the three of them echoing each other, the staff was full of black lines,

These were exactly the missions you accepted earlier, okay...

Chen Shu said, "We're here to submit the Frost Direwolf Lord mission!"

"Lord? You actually completed it?"

The staff widened their eyes in disbelief.

"Dare to try, and you can do it if you have hands!"

...

...

Chen Shu took out a heart from the urea sack, wrapped in special paper, yet still emanating a soul-chilling cold.

In an instant, all the beastmasters in the hall stood up, all looking over.

"Is that really a Frost Direwolf's heart?!"

"Damn! A group of trainee beastmasters actually succeeded in the hunt?!"

"What's going on? Are students nowadays this insane?"

The staff also swallowed hard. This was a bounty worth four million.

"Sigh..."

At this moment, Chen Shu frowned and sighed.

"Should I submit this heart? Or this one?"

After speaking, Chen Shu pulled out another heart from the urea sack.

He looked conflicted, holding both hearts, unsure which one to turn in.

Silence! The task hall fell utterly silent!

The staff also looked utterly shocked, finally asking,

"Are you guys… running a wholesale business…?"

"Forget it, not submitting!"

Chen Shu sighed, put both hearts back into the urea sack, and tied it up tightly.

All the beastmasters in the hall stared at that urea sack, faintly seeing other materials inside that were likely all lord-tier,

Their eyes were filled with fervor and greed, as if it were a divine artifact.

"We're declaring the mission a failure! Please tell the employer, each heart in my hand is five million! No bargaining!"

"..."

With a smile on his face, Chen Shu shamelessly named an exorbitant price.

Now that's what you call jacking up the price!

The one who posted the task was clearly a rich man, desperate to comprehend the Frost Direwolf's innate skill.

Someone had already submitted a heart earlier, but the purchase was still ongoing, which meant the skill comprehension had failed.

That showed: the rich guy had money, and he was persistent.

But now that an incident had occurred in the Ice Canyon and it was likely to be sealed off,

Anything that becomes unavailable instantly skyrockets in value—something worth just over three million, selling it for five million is totally reasonable.

"So many lord-tier materials… how should I handle them?"

Chen Shu sighed, eyes filled with melancholy.

Xu Xingxing licked his lips and said, "Not sure, let's roast it when we get back. It's not like only contracted beasts can absorb it. Maybe we can learn the skill too?"

Xie Sunan immediately rejected the idea: "I say we just bury it. Maybe next year something new will grow out of it."

"..."

The three of them discussed how to deal with the materials while the beastmasters in the hall stared blankly, forced to listen to their outrageous remarks, and watched helplessly as they left.

If this were inside a different realm, the three of them would've been robbed clean by now.

After a while, someone finally reacted,

"What's the situation in the Ice Canyon now? Don't tell me you can just pick up lord-tier corpses off the ground?"

"Pick up your ass! No one knows who caused that massive explosion, tons of ordinary beasts died, and all the lords went crazy! Lucky I sold out my teammates, otherwise I wouldn't have made it out."

For a moment, the others all looked at him and stepped back a few paces,

Why do you sound so proud about that...

...

"This time's haul is really not bad."

Chen Shu calculated the value of the materials in his urea sack. Just the materials from six lord-tier beasts were worth over twenty million.

He looked like a money-grubber, mumbling in a low voice:

"Little Xing did a lot, he can get a hundred thousand. Old Xie's scouting skill was crucial, so a hundred thousand for him is totally fair!"

"Teacher Shen's assist was decent, he can get two hundred thousand!"

"I'm the main force, so I'll take the rest. Totally reasonable!"

Next to him, Xie Sunan and Xu Xingxing widened their eyes, staring straight at him.

Chen Shu asked in confusion, "Why are you two staring at me?"

"We're trying to see how thick your skin is!!"

So basically, you're taking over twenty million for yourself?

"How thick?"

Shen Wushuang pushed the door open, clearly coming to "split the loot."

Xie Sunan immediately stood up and tattled, "Teacher Shen, beat up this shameless guy! He wants to take twenty million all for himself!"

"Hmm?"

Shen Wushuang dashed forward and forcibly snatched the urea sack.

"Give it here!"

Even though Chen Shu tried his best to stop him, he still lost the sack in the end.

Shen Wushuang sat beside Chen Shu and said,

"The Ice Canyon is temporarily sealed off now. The value of the lord-tier materials in our hands will increase a bit."

Suddenly he looked at Chen Shu: "Did you blow up the Ice Canyon on purpose? Trying to jack up the prices?"

Chen Shu spread his hands and said nothing.

Shen Wushuang continued, "Don't sell those two Frost Direwolf hearts yet. Go straight to the rich guy who posted the mission and tell him: five hundred fifty thousand per heart!"

As soon as he said that,

Xu Xingxing and Xie Sunan gave them weird looks, glancing between Chen Shu and Shen Wushuang.

These two had really mastered the art of price gouging.

Shen Wushuang asked, "What? Is there a problem? That rich guy clearly has money to burn!"

"Nope, no problem."

Shen Wushuang continued estimating the value: "The other four materials are worth around four million. Add in the Beastmaster Pearl, that's about 4.5 million."

"Plus the Frost Direwolf's Beastmaster Pearl, the total value is around thirty million."

Hearing that, everyone except Xu Xingxing was visibly shocked.

Even Shen Wushuang had never had such a big haul—his old beastmaster squad wouldn't dare to hunt seven lords in one go.

After a while, Xu Xingxing broke the silence.

"Other than the two hearts, the remaining materials are worth about nineteen million, right?"

Xu Xingxing sat off to the side, calm as ever: "If there's no problem, I can have my family transfer the money tomorrow."

"???"

The other three looked at him in unison and immediately stood straight.

"Damn it, this is unfair!"

"Curse you filthy rich people!"