23: A great harvest, a basic skill book!

“You’re actually that powerful?”

The auxiliary young woman still hadn’t reacted.

The entire battle was too fast, lasting no more than twenty seconds.

All three people died.

Xia Qi nodded and walked to the corpses, picking up the scattered equipment.

“Obtained Bronze Staff, Intelligence +20, Spell power increased by 5%, Rank requirement 20.”

“Obtained Bronze Bow, Agility +20, Archery power increased by 5%, Rank requirement 20.”

“Obtained Bronze Battle Axe, Strength +20, Melee power increased by 5%, Rank requirement 20.”

The three pieces of equipment were all bronze, emitting a faint green light, belonging to the lowest Rank of equipment.

“These should be equipment dropped from a Rank 20 dungeon. Don’t worry, these are all yours.”

The young woman followed Xia Qi, saying harmlessly.

Xia Qi nodded.

These few pieces of equipment indeed looked ordinary, but at least they were professional equipment and should fetch some money.

He unceremoniously put the three pieces of equipment into his storage space; next, he had to loot the corpses.

After an Awakened dies, some items inside their storage space will drop out.

Xia Qi fumbled for a while, mostly finding Materials, such as Rank 15 wolf fur, Rank 18 beast bones, and so on.

The quantity wasn’t large, but it was better than nothing.

He took everything; even a mosquito, no matter how small, is still meat.

After putting away the weapons and Materials, there was also a special item on the strong man’s body.

“Elementary Warrior Skill Book.”

“Description: Can learn Elementary Warrior-type skills after identification.”

He didn’t expect a Skill Book to drop; even though it was unidentified, it was still very valuable, worth ninety thousand yuan.

Xia Qi held the Skill Book, somewhat hesitant.

If he only followed his Talent, this Warrior-type Skill Book would basically be useless to him.

But he could copy Warrior-type Talents, so this Skill Book might be useful.

“Elementary Skill Books usually grant ordinary combat power. I don’t think you need to keep it; just sell it.”

The auxiliary young woman immediately saw Xia Qi’s hesitation and helped him analyze.

“That’s true, an Elementary Skill Book, and it might not even suit me. Keeping it is useless.”

Xia Qi nodded; the auxiliary young woman had much more outdoor experience than him. Sometimes, one has to listen to advice.

“Let’s go.”

After everything was packed up, Xia Qi turned around and walked towards the city gate.

It was already very late, and the commotion caused here might attract the attention of other professionals, so there was no need to linger.

The young woman thought for a moment and simply followed Xia Qi to leave.

The city gate was only about a kilometer away, and it wouldn’t take long to walk there normally.

“Why were they chasing you?”

Xia Qi asked as he walked.

“Killing for treasure, this kind of thing is not uncommon in the wild. It’s a pity, if you hadn’t killed them so quickly, letting them hand over their valuable items first, you would have earned much more than this.”

The young woman explained patiently; she had encountered such incidents several times in the wild over the past few years.

However, with her captain’s protection, ordinary professional teams wouldn’t dare to attack them.

“I see.”

After listening to the young woman, he also realized that he had indeed killed them a bit too quickly. After all, the items dropped by killing an opponent were random, and the most valuable items might not necessarily drop.

Threatening first, then killing, that was the way to maximize profit.

“Speaking of which, I’m unlucky. If I hadn’t gotten lost, I wouldn’t have been targeted by this team. I should blame Su Yuanchen; he makes me so angry. I’ve never seen such a disgusting employer in my life.”

The young woman, having opened her floodgates, began to recount her journey.

In summary, it was one word: difficult!

It was simply too difficult.

“You said Su Yuanchen, are you the one who helped Su Yuanchen Rank up?”

Hearing the name Su Yuanchen, Xia Qi inexplicably found it amusing. Fate was so strange; their encounter was inextricably linked to Su Yuanchen.

“Exactly! Let me tell you, the captain was furious at the time. Those punches he threw were so satisfying…”

The young woman roughly recounted what happened last night to Xia Qi.

Watching the young woman animatedly describing the scene with gestures and excitement, Xia Qi showed a knowing smile.

Given Su Yuanchen’s despicable nature, getting beaten was perfectly normal.

From the young woman’s words, he also learned that Su Yuanchen had only just reached Rank Five last night. Now that he was almost Rank Eleven, the gap between them was such that Su Yuanchen couldn’t catch up today.

“However, you and Su Yuanchen are classmates, and you’re an Elemental Awakened who can easily kill a B-Rank professional team of Rank Twenty-plus. Your Talent Rank must not be low, right?”

“You can use Insight.”

If it were a stranger, using Insight would definitely cause hostility, so the young woman naturally wouldn’t use it on Xia Qi.

Now that they were quite familiar, and with Xia Qi’s permission, she used Insight on him.

“So your name is Xia Qi, Rank 10, S-Rank Talent… Oh my god, no wonder you’re so powerful!”

At the same time, Xia Qi also cast Insight on the young woman. The next second, Insight failed; the Rank gap was too large, and no information was obtained.

“Oh, oh, I forgot, your Rank is quite a bit lower than mine, so you can’t see it.”

“My name is Su Qingqing, Rank 30, B-Rank Talent… 21 years old.”

Su Qingqing said somewhat shyly.

Awakening at 18 and reaching Rank Thirty in three years was already outstanding for a B-Rank Talent user.

But in front of Xia Qi, she still felt embarrassed.

He had S-Rank Talent, and he was already on a completely different level from someone with B-Rank Talent; his future achievements would far surpass hers.

“Then I’ll call you Sister Qingqing. Talent Rank doesn’t really mean anything. At least I think your Talent is very practical, and you’ll definitely do well in the future.”

Seeing Su Qingqing’s slight dejection and inferiority, Xia Qi didn’t know what to talk about for a moment and could only offer simple comfort.

Such words would certainly sound like lies to an adult, but to Su Qingqing, this was Xia Qi acknowledging her strength.

“I knew I was great, and I can’t give up. I have to work hard!”

Su Qingqing cheered herself up, then said something astonishing.

“Let’s exchange contact information. If you ever need energy in the future, just come find your older sister. I don’t have much else, but I have a lot of water.”

“What…”

Xia Qi froze, looking at Su Qingqing in disbelief, his face inexplicably flushing.

“We just met; isn’t that a bit too fast?”

Su Qingqing also realized how suggestive her words had been and quickly waved her hands to explain, “No, I mean I have a lot of water, no… my water has Qi!!”

Her face was flushed, and Su Qingqing’s tongue was tripping over itself, making it worse as she tried to explain.

“I understand, I understand. Don’t worry, I’ll contact you if I need anything.”

Xia Qi turned his head, one foot already stepping into the protective barrier.

While they were chatting, the city gate was already within sight.