34: Chapter 34 My curry sticks weren't bad either!

"A total value of 450,000 Source Energy points... Is there anything you want to keep for your collection? Our trading post offers mailing and storage services."

Four hundred and fifty thousand Source Energy points!

This haul had already far exceeded Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan's expected results before entering the map.

After all, when the Falcon Vanguard Team agreed to escort them, they had only promised to stuff their backpacks with collection items and guaranteed that after coming out, they would settle the accounts and earn at least 300,000 Source Energy points.

Had it been earlier, the two of them, Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan, would have already been overjoyed to the point of losing their minds.

But at this moment, listening to the person in charge of the trading post in front of them report this figure with a somewhat teasing tone,

and looking at the Pioneers behind them who were all staring at them with the looks one would give to a fool,

no matter how obtuse Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan were, they definitely realized there was some problem they weren't clear about.

"Tsk tsk tsk, four hundred and fifty thousand Source Energy points. As expected of a genius with a Level 3 Genesis initial skill, Class Monitor Wu will be able to directly exchange for a quite decent set of equipment now, and when applying for Source Energy University later, can't he go wherever he wants?"

"Enviable, truly enviable..."

Wang Suming said with a beaming smile, except that behind that smile, the gradually revealing mockery made him appear utterly detestable at this moment.

"Dead fatty, what do you mean?!" Wu Gang gritted his teeth, and if the occasion weren't inappropriate right now, he probably would have already smashed a fist into Wang Suming's fat face.

Wang Suming simply stopped pretending.

He sneered disdainfully.

"You went through so much trouble, finding an escort and evacuating right at the limit... and you only brought out these pieces of trash?"

Trash?

The veins on Wu Gang's forehead throbbed wildly.

Liu Yanyan behind him also instantly reacted as if her tail had been stepped on, her vixen-like face distorting with anger.

Her voice was shrill: "Wang Suming, you're one to talk about what we brought out being trash! If you've got the ability, don't just run straight for the evacuation point the moment you enter the map! Carrying such a huge backpack and coming out in ten minutes, do you think the secret realm is your family's vegetable market?!"

"Wanting to just go through the motions to get the title of a candidate for Longming Sacred Academy—aren't you ashamed of embarrassing Huangshan Base City!"

Applied for Longming Sacred Academy?

Hearing this sentence, the onlookers watching the commotion instantly seemed to think of something, their gazes locking onto Chu Hong and Wang Suming all at once.

In an instant, quite a few people gasped sharply on the spot.

"The two of them are actually quasi-newcomers participating in this year's assessment?"

"Hiss... I think I know who they are. Three people from Source Energy No. 1 High School in our Huangshan Base City applied for the Longming Sacred Academy assessment this year. One of them is the daughter of Boss Song from the Rubiks Chamber of Commerce, and the other two... looks like it's them!"

"Good heavens, could it be that this is their first time entering the secret realm? To have such a massive haul on their very first time entering the secret realm—how on earth did they pull that off?"

The crowd couldn't help discussing it with suppressed excitement.

Upon hearing these voices, the mocking and angry expressions on Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan froze on their faces instantly.

The two of them stared blankly at Chu Hong and Wang Suming in front of them.

"You, you guys didn't come back empty-handed?"

Wu Gang clenched his fists.

"Empty-handed? Heh!" The person in charge of the trading post gave a disdainful chuckle, and before Chu Hong and Wang Suming could speak, he proactively took on the role of delivering a slap to their faces.

He had seen plenty of situations like the one Wu Gang and the others were in.

It was nothing more than relying on some escort team behind them, or having an initial skill that was good enough, looking down on others.

As a result... now they had kicked an iron plate.

"Mr. Wang entered the secret realm this time and spent less than fifteen minutes. The collection items he brought out, not including a gold-quality dog-head gold ore, have a total value of 1.12 million Source Energy points."

"Aside from a gold-quality [Thunder Storage Ring], the total value of the collection items Mr. Chu carried out is also 980,000 Source Energy points!"

"The two of you combined don't even add up to half the haul of either of these two gentlemen. I really don't understand what you're feeling so proud of here."

Having said that, he also shook his head quite dismissively.

As if sighing: "Sigh, young people nowadays really think that awakening a decent initial skill and having an escort team help in the early stages means they can truly dominate the secret realm..."

"Hhahahaha!" Outside, those onlookers among the Pioneers burst into roaring laughter.

Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan could hardly believe their ears.

Both of their brains completely crashed at this moment.

Fifteen minutes, 1.12 million for one person, 980,000 for the other...

No, that person just said that those two bastards Chu Hong and Wang Suming actually managed to fish out gold-quality collection items?!

"Impossible!!!" Wu Gang's face was ferocious and livid, veins throbbing on his forehead.

Yet his hand abruptly gripped the blue-quality weapon [Bluestone Heavy Hammer] he had luckily obtained from the secret realm just moments ago.

He pointed fiercely at Chu Hong.

"Impossible! Just based on you guys?! A good-for-nothing whose initial skill doesn't even have a grade, plus a dead fatty without a shred of combat power—you guys can actually fish out gold-quality collection items?!"

The person in charge of the trading post turned cold, and the Pioneer guards behind him were already ready to strike at any moment, as long as this reckless dark-skinned brat dared to make a move here.

Never mind any assessment, this fellow wouldn't even think about becoming a Pioneer in the future!

The rules of the Pioneers Guild were strict. The major base cities were able to stand firm in the dangerous wilderness and lead human Pioneers to suppress secret realms one by one, preventing them from shattering and causing the destruction of the world.

Its own rules and strength were definitely not to be underestimated.

Liu Yanyan by this point had completely lost all decorum.

Pointing at Chu Hong's nose, she began a shrill and vicious attack.

"You two must have done something shameful behind the back of the Pioneers Guild. Even if you brought out gold-quality collection items, those things definitely weren't come by honestly!"

"You must have stolen them!"

Chu Hong's expression turned cold.

"Saying we stole them? Heh..."

Not a shred of panic or tension from being accused could be seen on Chu Hong's face. It was like watching a clown's circus suddenly interpolated in the middle of a stage play; the extreme contempt and disdain were like daggers piercing straight into the hearts of Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan.

His words were unsparing.

"Since you say our gold-quality collection items were stolen... then classmates Wu Gang and Liu Yanyan, don't you want to capture us on the spot and report us to the Pioneers Guild? That would be a major contribution!"

"You!" Wu Gang's face flushed red.

However, Chu Hong sneered and turned straight around to walk outside.

Teasing a dying clown occasionally was fine, but he wouldn't waste too much time on such fellows.

"Pui! Good-for-nothings!" Wang Suming spat a mouthful of phlegm directly onto Wu Gang's pants.

Watching the two swagger out of the trading post, those Pioneers who were originally at the entrance instantly made way like welcoming ushers on either side.

Wu Gang's heart, which he had repressed over and over again, finally exploded completely at this moment.

His last shred of reason was swallowed up by the raging fire in an instant.

"Chu Hong! Fuck your mother!"

He brazenly rushed forward. As he injected the meager Source Energy of Level 1 Genesis inside his body into the massive stone hammer in his hand, it suddenly bloomed with a blue-gray light.

"Stop!" The Pioneer captain's pupils constricted.

He truly hadn't expected that this fellow would actually be audacious enough to make a move here, and the surrounding Pioneers who were previously watching the commotion also abruptly changed expressions.

Song Jiaojiao's pretty face turned pale: "Chu Hong, watch out!"

"Clang!"

The howling stone hammer smashed down heavily, yet the imagined scene of Chu Hong being miserably ambushed did not appear.

What met the eyes instead was a flash of incomparably sharp golden light.

When Song Jiaojiao and all the surrounding onlooker Pioneers looked over, their expressions changed drastically, as if they had seen something terrifying and incredible.

Within the golden light, Chu Hong stood proudly, his figure facing the all-out smashing strike from Wu Gang.

He didn't even bother to bend his waist.

Wielding a gorgeous precious sword, he blocked it as if fending off a flying feather duster, his expression relaxed.

Song Jiaojiao covered her mouth in shock.

Her eyes stared fixedly at the weapon in Chu Hong's hand.

That was clearly a collection item! A gold-quality collection item!

A weapon-type collection item of gold quality!

"Holy shit!" The captain of the Pioneer guard unit who chased out had his eyeballs almost pop straight out of their sockets the moment he saw this scene.

Beside Chu Hong, Wang Suming, who had also been startled,

looked at the gorgeous longsword in Chu Hong's hand, and drool instantly flowed out.

"Holy shit Brother Hong, you actually managed to fish out a gold-quality weapon?!"