Chapter 609: Super Rich (2)

Chapter 609: Super Rich (2)

After some thought, Su Yu shook the little bell beside him. The bell remained completely silent, but shortly after, Manager Xie's voice rang out from outside the building, "Mister Su, how may I help you?"

"Please come in."

Manager Xie entered and bowed.

With a smile, Su Yu said, "You're too polite, Manager. I am merely a Mental Tempering Stage student. You're a Cloudbreach expert. There is no need for you to bow to me."

"Mister Su, the rules of etiquette should always be followed."

Su Yu smiled and said nothing else. Instead, he pointed at the couch opposite him and invited Manager Xie to take a sit. Manager Xie sat down silently. When he saw the pile of merit cards on the table, the look in his eyes turned odd. There were so many of them.

Su Yu said, "I'm new so I don't know the situation here too well yet. But I know that Great Ming is also a home of numerous specialists. Is there a method to deal with locked merit cards in Great Ming? A lot of cultists are people with fake identities, allowing them to possess merit cards. How does Great Ming deal with these cards?"

"Mister Su, generally, if we can prove that someone is a cultist, we can directly freeze the funds in the card."

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Manager Xie hesitated slightly before saying, "The military is capable of doing so. After all, they need their spoils of war, right? There are a lot of methods to do this. But the simplest method is to get the Merit Office to provide the passwords for these cards."

"..."

Su Yu was speechless. That was indeed the simplest method.

"Is there a method that doesn't involve the Merit Office?"

"Cough, cough. The government does not encourage one to open the merit cards of others. But there are thieves in Great Ming as well. According to what I know, these people are capable of cracking these locked cards as well."

"Can I trouble you to find a specialist in this aspect? I have a lot of merit cards I need to crack."

"Sure. I'll get it arranged immediately."

"Thank you."

***

After a short chat, Su Yu saw Manager Xie off. Looking at the departing Manager Xie, he smiled. Great Ming was truly an interesting place. He suspected that he might be able to find a way to access locked merit cards here, and sure enough, he was right.

After waiting for about half an hour, Manager Xie returned. Beside him was a scholarly-looking person. He was quite surprised when he saw Su Yu, but he kept his mouth shut.

Su Yu did not waste any time and pointed at the cards on the table. With a smile, he asked, "Can you crack these?"

"No problem." The scholarly man said, "These are unencrypted merit cards. Some of them are quite old. Nowadays, people are using the third-generation card—"

Manager Xie coughed and said, "Stop wasting time. We only need to know that you can unlock these cards."

"Yes."

The scholarly man did not dare to say too much. He was not exactly an upstanding citizen. From the moment he was brought into the prefect's residence, he had been trembling with fear. Thus, he naturally wouldn't dare to run his mouth.

Su Yu took a look at the scholarly man. This man was only an Infinite Strength cultivator. Even so, he was still a cultivator. Why would someone like this resort to thievery? Su Yu could only say that everyone had their own ambitions.

The scholarly man took out some devices. After setting these devices up, he inserted one of the cards into one of the devices.

After about eight minutes, the scholarly man wiped his nonexistent sweat and said, "Sirs, I'm done."

Su Yu looked over in amazement. The scholarly man was even more amazed than Su Yu. The card he had unlocked contained 38,000 merit points!

"Zhou Pingsheng's card."

Su Yu still remembered who the owner of this card was. He was quite surprised. That fellow was too good at embezzlement. Both the Soul Nurturing Bead and the Mountainsea talisman were extremely expensive items. And Zhou Pingsheng would rarely accept any missions. Even so, he still had 38,000 merit points left even after purchasing the items. Just how corrupt was he?

"Continue."

The scholarly man moved on to the other cards.

There were 12,000 merit points in Tang Yunfei's card.

There were 6,000 merit points in Qiu Yunhua's card.

There were 8,000 merit points in Wang Ming's card.

There were 23,000 merit points in Yu Hong's card.

"Of course."

Su Yu started calculating. One could obtain a reward of 100, 200, and 300 merit points for each early, middle, and late Skysoar killed. One could also get 1,000, 2,000, and 3,000 merit points for each early, middle, and late Cloudbreach killed.

As for Mountainsea enemies, one could get 10,000 to 30,000 merit points for each enemy killed.

One-eye and the others had killed two early-stage Mountainseas. Additionally, Su Yu, the water elemental, and the others had killed four late-stage Cloudbreaches. On top of that, they had killed around five to six Cloudbreaches of lower stages as well. All in all, he could obtain around 40,000 merit points for all these kills.

They had also killed some Skysoar beasts and cultists along the way. These kills were also worth thousands of merit points. In total, he could probably get around 50,000 merit points after this. And including the contribution points, Su Yu had actually earned over 400,000 merit points from this incident.

Apart from the money, he had also obtained some damaged cultural weapons and several beast corpses. Unfortunately, he could not find any other treasures from the people he had killed.

There were also the treasures from the Divine Skywing Sect's treasure vault. These treasures were also worth hundreds of thousands of merit points. Thus, Su Yu had probably earned nearly a million merit points this time.

But one should not forget that twelve Mountainseas and two Sunmoons had perished in this incident. If one couldn't even earn that much money after causing the deaths of so many experts, one might as well hide in a laboratory and focus on research. One could earn even more doing so.

Thinking of how profitable research could be, Su Yu finally understood why the cultural researchers of Great Ming were completely uninterested in combat. How much could they earn from killing enemies, including Sunmoon enemies? Over a long enough period of time, they could probably earn more by producing new creations in their laboratories. Killing was never the most profitable business in existence.

Su Yu handed his storage talisman to Manager Xie and said, "Can you sell these things for me? There are even some damaged cultural weapons in it."

He had gathered a large variety of items from his dead enemies, but most of these things weren't too helpful for him. He was better off turning these things into money and buying what he needed instead.

Manager Xie said, "No problem. If it's too troublesome for you, I can claim your rewards for you as well. I only need some of your recordings to serve as proof to get everything done for you."

"Thank you, Manager Xie."

Su Yu was more than willing to agree and let someone else do the busy work for him.

He had yet to deal with the corpses of the three dao protectors. Previously, Zhu Tiandao had taken these corpses away. But subsequently, these corpses had all been returned to Su Yu. Zhu Tiandao had only kept the Sunmoon devil for himself.

Su Yu decided to keep the three corpses with him for now. He might need them in the future.

***

With that, Su Yu settled down in the building.

At the end of the day, Manager Xie came over and handed him a merit card with 50,000 merit points inside. Su Yu didn't know if Manager Xie had added some merit points himself to round it up, but he didn't ask.

In total, he had 370,000 merit points and 70,000 contributions on him.

Additionally, he also had three Mountainsea beast corpses and a variety of treasures from the Divine Skywing Sect's treasure vault. He also had several dozens of willpower texts he had purchased in Great Xia and some of the data he had gathered during his time in Great Xia. The puppets brought by Zhao Tianbing would prove useful in the future as well.

One could say that Su Yu was now superbly rich. He was most definitely richer than even some Sunmoons. Perhaps only the leader of a faction could compete with him in terms of wealth.

Just look at Jin Yuhui. He was a fresh Sunmoon and a principal, yet there were only 60,000 merit points in his merit card.

Not long ago, Su Yu was someone who needed to worry about spending only a few merit points. In the blink of an eye, he had turned into an insanely rich person. But he knew that his future expenses would probably be insanely high as well.

He would definitely need to start a new research center. It didn't matter what others believed. Most people believed that he had access to a ruin or an inheritance. But neither was true. He only had the book in his head, but to make use of the book, money was required. And some of the cultivation methods he learned through the book also needed further research or amendment.

For example, the Five Elemental Arts and the Acupoint Fusion Art. All these had only been finalized after some modification and research on his part. He also required money for many other endeavors, such as ability blood essence research, disassembly method research, and weaponsmithing. After all, he had promised to help complete Zhao Li's earth-grade weapon after reaching the Cloudbreach Realm.

"Great Ming...a new start."

Su Yu inhaled deeply. He was not completely safe yet.

The danger to him did not come from Great Xia's single character faction. Rather, the biggest threat to him was the hidden Invincible and the attitude of the entire Human Realm toward the multiple character faction. Additionally, as Wan Tiansheng mentioned, even the myriad races were targeting the multiple character faction.

After all, the rise of the multiple character faction might produce an actual Invincible cultural researcher. And that was something the myriad races would not permit. Both of his teachers were still in the Vanguard Regiment.

"Great Ming...shall be the place I gather strength."

Here, he would be able to temporarily remove himself from the factional conflicts. But he would not give up on the multiple character faction so easily. Some people were worth remembering. Otherwise, he could go anywhere he wanted and do whatever he wanted with his talent. He was someone who could tolerate loneliness.

"Teachers...you guys might be unreliable, but I am not the same. I won't abandon you guys."

Su Yu smiled. Meeting Liu Wenyan and Bai Feng might have brought him a lot of trouble, but he had also gained a lot from them. That unreliable Bai Feng had long noticed that something was off about Su Yu, but he had still willingly taught Su Yu everything he knew.

A drop of water in need shall be returned with a spring in deed.

Su Yu couldn't let go of this. He could not forget about them.