113: Chapter 113: Sixty Million for Six Star Keys?! The Shady Merchant Stall Owner Was Stunned

Myriad Worlds Trading Street.

At the end of the street.

Under the wooden sign for [Star Gate Key Specialty Store], the bedhead-haired Shopkeeper was no longer reading his censored physical books.

He crossed his arms and stared fixedly at the street corner.

Tap, tap, tap.

Familiar footsteps approached.

Lin Yuan, wearing his newly changed battle suit, walked up to the stall with an expressionless face.

The Shopkeeper rubbed his stiff cheeks.

He couldn't force out his signature profiteer smile anymore.

Looking at the freshman in front of him, he had the illusion that this was some rich idiot from a top conglomerate, running around to experience life.

"The sixth one." Lin Yuan curled his finger and knocked on the table again.

The Shopkeeper didn't rush to get the compass, instead looking Lin Yuan up and down first.

"Junior," the Shopkeeper swallowed, "Can we discuss something?"

"Speak."

"Did those bugs in Plane 093 drive you crazy?"

The Shopkeeper lowered his voice, his eyes filled with a hint of horror, "Tell me honestly, are you planning to go in and pinpoint the coordinates?"

"Then buy thousands of Transcendental-grade [Disaster Cards] and just wipe that plane off the map?"

The more the Shopkeeper thought about it, the more he felt this was the only possibility.

It was just pure money-burning!

Sixty million faith points! Just to buy six one-time star keys!

This kid came out in less than two hours every time he went in, and he didn't even bring back a single bug leg.

This wasn't going to loot a plane; it was clearly scouting for a terrorist attack!

"Disaster Cards?" Lin Yuan glanced at him, "Too expensive, can't afford them."

"..." The Shopkeeper's mouth twitched.

You spent sixty million on entrance tickets without blinking, and now you're telling me you can't afford Disaster Cards?

"Swipe the card." Lin Yuan threw the star key on the table.

The Shopkeeper shook his head and sighed.

Forget it, why worry about so much?

It had nothing to do with him.

Anyway, the money was already in his pocket; even if this kid tore a hole in the sky, it wouldn't be his problem.

Take the money, do the job.

After some operations, the permission writing was complete.

Lin Yuan took back the star key and turned to leave.

Watching Lin Yuan's back, the Shopkeeper rubbed his hands and couldn't help muttering:

"A lunatic, absolutely a lunatic. This year's freshmen are truly wicked."

After obtaining the coordinates, Lin Yuan did not head toward the Star Gate launch area.

He turned and walked toward the villa area of the Dead Star.

The path had been scouted, and the method to eliminate the Diamond-tier bug guards had been verified as feasible.

The next step was the final infiltration, the moment to truly close the net.

But before that, he had to address the last two shortcomings.

Taking away the Royal Larva was by no means a simple matter.

The Zerg were a race with an extremely strict hierarchy; once the Royal Larva left the giant egg or its aura disappeared.

The ruler of the entire Plane 093, the Bug Mother hiding in the depths and controlling the will of the entire swarm, would absolutely fly into a rage.

This was completely different from the [Source Beast] Lin Yuan faced during the final exam.

In the broken Demon God Plane during the exam, the Demon God was severely injured and asleep, and the military had forcibly suppressed the plane's will.

Although that Source Beast was at the Peak of the Diamond tier, it could not mobilize the true Origin power of the plane.

But Plane 093 was a complete alien world.

As the ruler of the plane, the Bug Mother was the god of that world.

Once she discovered the Royal Larva had been stolen, she didn't need to send a sea of bugs to hunt him down.

With just a single thought, she could mobilize the world power of the entire plane to lock down the space in the area where Lin Yuan was.

She could even forcibly cut off the Star Gate jump channel, rendering the star key's extraction program ineffective.

The degree of control the two had over their planes was not in the same league at all.

If Lin Yuan were trapped inside.

Facing the suppression of the entire plane and hundreds of millions of bugs, he wouldn't even have the chance to detonate his Divine Domain to perish together with them.

Therefore, Lin Yuan needed two things.

First, a potion that could restore Divine Power in a short time.

Micro-managing the [Wither-Bloom Mark] to assassinate twelve bug guards would drain his Divine Power.

He had to restore his Peak state before touching the giant egg to deal with any sudden changes.

Second, a world-breaking item capable of piercing through the Law blockade of the plane's ruler.

Both of these things should be sold on the Myriad Worlds Trading Street.

But Lin Yuan didn't even think about going to the Myriad Gods Trading Street or the school's logistics department.

He swore that in this life, apart from the monopolized resources he had to buy at Starry Sky University, he would never spend even a penny there!

Thinking of the sixty-plus million faith points that had evaporated in just over half a day, Lin Yuan's heart couldn't help but twitch.

The people here were too black-hearted.

He planned to return to his villa and use the military's intranet permissions to purchase them.

Even with the expedited shipping fees across Star Domains, it would be much cheaper than buying from this group of vampires.

Returning to the villa area.

Lin Yuan had just walked up to his [079] courtyard.

The energy shield of the neighboring [080] rippled.

Bai Ye, wearing a flashy white trench coat, was humming a tune.

Holding a drink made from the milk of an unknown exotic beast, he walked out swaying.

Seeing Lin Yuan, Bai Ye's eyes lit up, and he immediately put on an extremely bright smile.

"Oh! Isn't this the face of our Tianhai Province, the busy man Brother Lin Yuan!"

Bai Ye bounded over in a few steps and leaned on the fence of Lin Yuan's courtyard, looking full of gossip.

"You've been sneaking around these past few days, what big project are you busy with? Tell me, satisfy this little brother's curiosity."

Lin Yuan stopped and looked at him sideways.

These past few days?

It was only the first day of school.

This guy had clearly been staying in this villa area all day and hadn't moved at all.

Lin Yuan gave a dry laugh and didn't answer directly, instead kicking the ball back: "What about you? Retiring here on this Dead Star?"

Bai Ye curled his lips.

He knew he wouldn't get a word of truth out of Lin Yuan's mouth.

This person's guard was as heavy as if it had been fitted with ten layers of gravity fields.

However, Bai Ye didn't care. He took a sip of the drink in his cup and boasted triumphantly: "I haven't been idle."

"I saw that brother named Yan Lie had a heart full of passion with nowhere to put it, so I took pity on him and formed a team with him."

Bai Ye extended two fingers and shook them, "We chose a Platinum-tier alien plane, and that place is rich in resources."

"The progress is quite smooth now. If nothing goes wrong, we'll be able to break through the enemy's main city in a few days and take down the plane's core."

Lin Yuan raised an eyebrow.

On the first day of school, able to take down the core of a Platinum-tier plane?

It seemed this Yan Lie's strength was quite formidable.

"Since you're about to take down the core." Lin Yuan looked at Bai Ye's leisurely face, his tone tinged with a bit of mockery, "Why are you still wandering around here? Not going to the front line to keep an eye on things?"

"Oh, you know how it is." Bai Ye waved his hand, putting on an exhausted look.

"Fighting aliens, fighting plane wars, that's both physical and mental labor."

"A move involves mobilizing tens of millions of troops, staring at the sand table every moment, and having to mobilize Divine Power to maintain the channel, how tiring!"

Bai Ye said righteously: "I keep the Divine Domain channel open, put my undead army there, and leave the rest to Yan Lie."

"He likes to fight head-on, fist to flesh. I just provide support from the back and cheer him on."

"Anyway, with him sitting on the front line, there won't be any big trouble, I just need to switch over and check the situation from time to time."

Lin Yuan listened left and right, his gaze lingering on Bai Ye's face for three seconds.

This kid was clearly not telling the truth.

With Bai Ye's cunning personality, facing a Platinum-tier plane core about to be in his hands, how could he possibly rest easy letting Yan Lie fight to the death on the front line alone?

He would be the first to grab benefits and the first to cast off blame.

That was Bai Ye's code of conduct.

Lin Yuan could figure out the real situation at the front line with his toes.

It was highly probable that Yan Lie's kin were in front taking damage, being ground into the dirt by the alien coalition forces.

Meanwhile, Bai Ye's undead army was hiding on the edge of the battlefield, paddling while using the excuse of "flank cover."

This guy might have even secretly locked onto the location of the plane core.

He was just waiting for Yan Lie to exhaust the enemy's high-tier combatants so he could command his high-tier undead to pluck the peach.

Lin Yuan didn't speak, just looked at Bai Ye with eyes that saw through everything.

Bai Ye felt a chill from Lin Yuan's stare, coughed twice, and then began to quibble:

"Don't look at me with that gaze! This is a tactical arrangement! Reasonable resource allocation, understand?"

"Yan Lie's combat characteristics are suitable for frontal assault, my undead are suitable for attrition."

"This is what you call strategizing within a tent, winning victory a thousand miles away!"

"Whatever makes you happy." Lin Yuan withdrew his gaze, too lazy to expose him.

Anyway, it wasn't him being scammed.

That Yan Lie, with a head full of shonen manga lines, needed to receive a beating from the sinister human hearts at Starry Sky University.

"No more chatting, I have things to do." Lin Yuan pressed the star key against the door access.

The fence slid open.

"Hey, hey, don't rush off!" Bai Ye shouted from behind, "Are you really not considering teaming up with me? That kid Yan Lie is fierce, but his brain isn't very good."

"If it were the two of us joining forces, taking on a Diamond-tier plane wouldn't be a problem!"

"Not interested."

Bang.

The villa door closed, and the energy shield re-closed.

Bai Ye curled his lips and downed the drink in his cup.

"Tch, acting all mysterious."

"When you hit a wall, you'll know the importance of teamwork."

He turned and strolled back to his own courtyard, opened his personal terminal, and glanced at the battlefield monitoring screen.

In the image, Yan Lie was covered in blood.

Leading a group of Lava Giants, he was outputting damage against the alien city gate, surrounded by severed limbs.

"Brother Yan Lie, keep it up! I believe in you! Hold on for another three hours, my Undead Monarchs will finish the encirclement soon!"

Bai Ye sent a voice message to the screen, then lay down on the sofa with a clear conscience, closing his eyes to rest.