Chapter 165 - Parcel 92 (1/2)
Chapter 165 Parcel 92
“I just earned some name, I’m not renowned.”
Nie Chengkong was modest. “I have heard so much about you, Brother Su. You killed a Magical Corpse Beast at the upper position of the eighth rank at such a young age. You’re not any weaker than I am. I believe in the future, Brother Su will for sure grow to be a t.i.tled battle pet warrior!”
“You flatter me. I believe the same thing for you,” Su Ping gave a simple answer because he wasn’t used to the exchange of pleasantries and flattery.
Luo Guxue blushed when she heard Nie Chengkong’s words. She had just returned to the team so she hadn’t had the time to inform the team about the news from the academy. Su Ping was not going to grow to be a t.i.tled battle pet warrior. He already had such abilities.
“Nice to meet you.”
“Mr. Su, hi.”
The other two team members, a girl, and a boy, who were sitting on the couch stepped over. Their smiles made them look friendly.
Since Su Ping was young, people would have questions, more or less. However, they all trusted Luo Guxue and Ye Chenshan. Besides, Su Ping had saved Ye Chenshan’s life. For that reason alone, Su Ping deserved a nice treatment.
Su Ping nodded to them.
The two team members introduced themselves. Su Ping learned their names. The boy was Zhou Jing and the girl was Guo Yuelin. Both were advanced battle pet warriors just like Luo Guxue.
“Brother Su, come and have a seat.” Nie Chengkong was quite hospitable. He asked Su Ping to sit down on the couch.
A guest should suit the convenience of the host. After everyone took their seats, Su Ping asked, “Captain Nie, when can you share the map of the Mysterious Realm?” Nie Chengkong answered, “No rush. Two more helpers are coming. We will study the map when everyone is here.”
Su Ping was surprised. This team had invited three helpers. Counting the original team of five, they would be eight people in total.
Su Ping sat there and waited since this was what Nie Chengkong wanted.
“Mr. Su, I heard that you run a pet store. Is that true?” Guo Yuelin was curious.
Su Ping nodded. “If you are interested, you’re welcome to pay a visit. I sell many kinds of pet food in my store, high quality at a reasonable price.”
Ye Chenshan curled his lips slightly but said nothing.
“We will when time permits.” Zhou Jing smiled.
They chatted for a little while when they heard someone arriving. A young man came in first and shouted, “Captain, Mr. Mo, and Mr. Chen are here.”
“They are the outside help we were waiting for,” Ye Chenshan said to Su Ping when noticing the latter’s confusion.
Everyone looked over the young man’s shoulder. Two people stepped in. One of them was skinny with a handlebar mustache, like a teacher. The other man was bulky, almost two meters tall, and appeared to be quite doughty.
Nie Chengkong stood up to greet them at once. “Mr. Mo, Mr. Chen.” “Captain Nie, how are you doing?” The bulky man laughed.
The skinny old man smiled as a reply.
The other team members stood up to say h.e.l.lo. They were all quite polite to the two outside help. They were there to a.s.sist and they were both well-known masters. It was natural that the team members would be respectful to the two.
Su Ping got up to say h.e.l.lo as well.
After the small talk was done, Nie Chengkong waved his hand and asked that young man to close the door. Nie Chengkong told everyone to sit down and then had the desk cleaned by the servant.
“Since everyone is here, let’s talk about the Mysterious Realm.”
When the desk was cleaned, Nie Chengkong took out an aged, yellowish map from his chest pocket. The map looked like a parchment scroll but it was quite large.
Nie Chengkong unfolded the map on the table and said, “This is the treasure map for parcel 92. I bought the map from a secret channel on the black market. I heard that some grave robbers took it from an ancient tomb. I hired some archaeologists to translate the words on the map and noticed that this was related to the Longtai Mountain. After my secret research and investigation, I finally concluded that this is a map of parcel 92.”
As he explained, everyone was casting their looks over the map. Maybe due to the weathering of time, some lines had become blurred. Still, they could make out the shapes of some rivers and mountains.
There were some strange marks at certain locations in the mountains and rivers.
“I heard from the archaeologists that this mark meant danger in the old days; this one is a treasure, this one is a restricted area and this one stands for an open path…” Nie Chengkong explained one by one.
Everyone was observing closely, attempting to memorize the map.
“There are so many marks for treasures.” Zhou Jing was surprised to see several of those marks.