Chapter 69

Chapter 70: For a Sweet, Happy Retirement, I Will Save the World!

Qian Qi had no plans to go to the medical zone, because whatever Su Ang did today would be useless: she was going to hand over the potion formula anyway.

Li Hong Sheng, the Principal, and Su Ang all believed she would never give up the formula, but they were wrong.

In her past life, as the half foster daughter of Dean Li’s mother, she often gathered information on the city’s powerful families and even visited companies to help Dean Li’s mother seek funding.

She brought that habit to this world. She combed through history and news, watched the families who held power, the consortia that controlled the economy, the famous high level Awakeners, and everything related to Dungeons.

She even dug up many scholars’ analysis reports on Dungeons. Some were no longer available, but thanks to her sharp sense for data, she still spotted clues.

Dungeons were growing more unstable. Magibeasts were leaving their nests faster. The death toll was rising in a straight line.

Maybe tomorrow, death would come for her.

So she would not sit and watch this world’s crisis. It involved her life, and it involved her sweet, happy retirement.

Nothing would stop her from making money, and nothing would stop her from retiring safely. She, Qian Qi, would wipe out every threat to her beautiful retirement.

She had already organized her files. Before she had enough strength of her own, she would borrow the power of a trusted faction she had vetted and spread Hemostatic Potion to ordinary people. Only then could humans survive, keep producing, and keep buying, so Little Qian could continue selling her products. This was the sustainable development the last world taught her. [I am so smart.]

As for why she kept refusing Li Hong Sheng and denying that she knew the formula… who told the old man to threaten her with expulsion last time? Could she accept that? Of course she had to find a chance to pay him back. [I hold grudges.]

Seeing Su Ang leading the way ahead, she called out and asked casually: “Senior Su Ang, if Dean Li and the Principal can’t afford the formula, what will you do?”

He stopped, turned, and said evenly: “I will buy it.”

“You will buy it?” She lifted her brows and, suddenly amused, added: “You mean you personally will buy it? Not using the Su Clan’s assets?”

He nodded and said: “I have money.”

“How much money?” She rubbed her hands behind her back, itching to move. Only now did she realize a rich fool was right beside her.

Catching the curve creeping up at the corner of her lips, he narrowed his eyes and said: “I am not a rich fool.”

Qian Qi: […]

Playing dumb, she pressed on and asked: “Even if I ask for three hundred million, you will still pay?”

Lowering his gaze, he thought for a moment, then strode toward her and said: “I can, but you get none of the later profit.”

She sucked in a breath.

“Wait,” she said as she lifted a hand to stop him from coming closer. She trotted behind a big tree and pulled out the System.

“He is so rich!!!” She grabbed the System and shook it wildly, her face twisted with envy.

[…So what?] the System asked, not seeing why this required a secret huddle.

“So why did you bind to me and not to Su Ang?” she kept shaking it and said, “He is loaded, generous, and cares about people. Spending his money to buy Magibeast knowledge would be a sweet win win, right?”

[Then why did you bring up the Su Clan just now?] the System shot back.

Her hands paused. She clicked her tongue and said: “Then why me? There are so many people in this world. Why pick me, and an otherworld me at that?”

[This is complicated to explain. In the end, you were the only one I could bind.]

“Oh, I get it,” she said as she leaned an elbow on the trunk, propped her forehead with one hand, and ran the other through her bird’s nest hair with confidence: “I must be the legendary chosen one.”

The System: […] [Stop dreaming. Talk again if you survive today.]

“Hmm?” Her ears pricked as she asked: “Why do you say that?”

[Oh, my poor chosen one, you are going to die out here in the wild today~]

On the System panel, a line of text appeared with a kind of “beauty” that cared nothing for her life: [Scan the QR code below and pay 2,000,000 to defy fate and avoid your death ending~ ^_^]

Qian Qi: ???

“What?” She grabbed the panel and blurted: “You are not joking, right? You can even foresee death?”

[Dear, I did not calculate it~] the panel wrote as a big heart popped by the code, [Countdown starts now at 18 minutes~]

Qian Qi: !!!

This was life and death. There was no time to haggle. She scanned and paid 2,000,000 on the spot.

Payment confirmed, a map appeared on the panel. Beside a blinking dot, a bold letter glowed: B.

[A nearby B level Dungeon will erupt in 16 minutes 27 seconds. Estimated 326 E level, 176 D level, 72 C level, and 5 B level Magibeasts will pour out. To the Qian Qi who came out to find a male model to play with, please stay safe and go home early~ ^_^]

Qian Qi: …!!!

“Shoot, this is life or death,” she said as she spun around and ran back, only to find that while she was talking with the System, a stranger had come to stand beside Su Ang.

The man wore a familiar black uniform. He looked like the local Combat Zone commander and was in the middle of talking with Su Ang.

Seeing her approach, the man began to speak: “Let me introduce…” but before he could finish, Qian Qi clamped a hand hard on Su Ang’s arm.

“Su Ang, a B level Dungeon will erupt in fifteen minutes. Get ready for a Magibeast tide.”

“What?” The commander laughed when he heard her and said: “Classmate, the nearby B level Dungeon is very stable. Even if Magibeasts come out, the detectors will pick up abnormal waves at once and warn us ahead of time.”

Dungeon wave detectors had been improved over a long period and could now predict a tide a day in advance. In his eyes, her “fifteen minutes” was fearmongering nonsense.

She could not be bothered to argue. She had no proof anyway. Turning to Su Ang, she said firmly: “Senior, I want to go back to school.”

Whether the tide was real or not, she would never gamble with her life.

He studied her calm face, unable to read her plan. But when he noticed the slight crease between her brows and her fingers restlessly tapping her arms, he asked in a flat, confirmatory tone: “Qian Qi, are you sure?”

She paused, then said: “I am sure. About five B level Magibeasts will appear.”

Even if she was not sure, she had to act sure. Lives were not for gambling. Since she knew, she had to give a warning.

The commander chuckled and said: “You even guessed the count? What, did you Awaken precognition?”

She clicked her tongue, yanked off a flip flop, and swung it at him: “If you keep wasting my escape time, I will beat you up.”

“Qian Qi, calm down,” said Su Ang as he blocked her. Then he turned to the commander and ordered: “Enter battle readiness now. Call up C level and D level Awakeners and send them to support at the B level Dungeon.”

The commander started to object and said: “But, Commander Su, this…” and Su Ang snapped: “Execute the order at once.”

His face went cold with an authority that allowed no refusal, and the grumbling commander shut his mouth and obeyed. As a reserve S commander, Su Ang outranked a C commander.

After issuing the orders, he opened his Light-Brain with one hand and, with the other, pulled Qian Qi toward the hover car.