Free Web NovelChapter 405: Chapter 295: This Thing Looks Like It’ll Kill Someone
"Hey, don’t worry. Go ahead and stir-fry these mushrooms. I’ll eat them first. If there’s a problem, I’ll be the one to bite the dust first."
Seeing the lingering doubt in Su Yue’s eyes, Lin Li didn’t bother explaining further. He just told her to prepare the red mushrooms, adding that he would be the first to try them once they were served.
"Umm..." Su Yue hesitated. She had wanted to refuse to handle the red mushrooms, but she couldn’t stand up to Lin Li’s repeated requests, so she reluctantly nodded.
As Su Yue walked toward the kitchen, carrying the plastic bag of red mushrooms, she was already making a plan.
’If Lin Li has a bad reaction after eating these sketchy-looking red mushrooms, I’ll call an ambulance right away.’
Once in the kitchen, Su Yue poured the red mushrooms from the plastic bag into a basin, turned on the faucet, and prepared to wash them.
Just then, she noticed Lin Li had followed her into the kitchen, apparently intending to help out. She immediately said to him,
"Alright, don’t come in here and cause trouble. Go sit in the living room for a while. I’ll call you when the food’s ready..."
Lin Li scratched his head. "Didn’t you say you were going to teach me how to cook?"
"Yes! But not now. Just look at the time. It’ll be dark soon. If you want to go hungry, be my guest," Su Yue said, turning to look out the window at the sky, half-dyed red by the setting sun.
"Alright!" Lin Li nodded, then turned and left the kitchen. He sat down on the sofa in the living room, turned on the television, and flipped to a news program dedicated to Cultivator-related news.
"According to a government announcement, construction crews have begun installing a barbed wire fence along the edge of the safe zone in the South District Suburbs, near the wilderness.
At the current rate of construction, the entire planned fence will be completed within a week...
Although the installation is proceeding rapidly and will be completed shortly, we must remind the public that the fence cannot guarantee absolute safety. We advise everyone to avoid going near the barbed wire fence."
The pretty news anchor was reporting on the topic of greatest concern to residents of the South District Suburbs, which bordered the wilderness.
While listening to the news program, Lin Li pulled his phone out of his pocket.
He opened the Superfast Recycling app on his phone. In his account history, he saw that the Yellow Ox Mutant Beast he had requested a drone to retrieve—the one from which he’d cut off a leg—had been sold.
"Huh?"
He opened the wallet tab, where the balance showed a full one million. This meant the Yellow Ox Mutant Beast he’d hunted today—the one he’d cut a leg from—had sold for the high price of one million.
’According to the current market price for a Yellow Ox Mutant Beast, my kill from today should have sold for 500,000 at most. But the selling price doubled... How strange.’
What Lin Li didn’t know was that this strange type of Mutant Beast, the kind that grew red mushrooms, could be used to extract some unknown substance that accelerated plant growth.
If he had known this, he would have understood why his kill had sold for twice the expected price.
"Eh, forget it. Who cares? The price doubled, and that’s a good thing. Why think so much about it?" Lin Li muttered to himself. He then tapped ’withdraw’ and transferred the one million from the app’s wallet to his bank account.
Just as he was transferring the money to his bank account, a courier from the Superfast Recycling company delivered a Yellow Ox Mutant Beast—one missing a leg—to the Rongcheng Spiritual Energy Research Institute.
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