Chapter 298: Extremely low temperatures (1/2)

Many times people believed that if they had more money things would be different. However, the reality was very different from the thoughts and ideas that people had in their minds.

Undoubtedly, having more money would increase the quality of life and worries would greatly decrease. But if there was one thing that Xie Feng learned over time, it was that in reality, day-to-day life did not change as much as one thought; expenses naturally increased as more money was in your's pockets.

Xie Feng, who had just spent nearly four hundred million gold coins, or four hundred million Chinese yuan, in less than five minutes, felt he had received some kind of illumination about money.

”This was a good transaction.”

Number Ten's words brought Xie Feng back to the real world. Looking at the cloaked person, Xie Feng noticed that he was about to leave so he hurriedly called out.

”Wait a moment!”

”Em?” Number Ten, who was about to leave after finishing a good trade, stopped for a moment and looked in the direction of the masked young man.

Although Xie Feng could not see Number Ten's face let alone know what kind of expression he was making, he could somehow notice two eyes watching them as they were hidden in the darkness of the cloak. After thinking for a moment, Xie Feng slowly said:

”To be honest, right now my team and I are on a quest. We were teleported here after going through a portal.”

”And? What does that have to do with me, human? Don't waste my time!” Number Ten seemed really impatient to leave, which gave Xie Feng to understand that this unknown person really cherished time.

However, if you considered it carefully, you could easily understand the reason why Number Ten valued his time so much. After all, time was something that could not be bought with money. It did not matter whether one was rich or poor, it did not matter whether a person had in his hands the power to lead an army of millions of men to war; time was absolute and every living being had a time limit.

From the first moment we began to breathe, we also began to die slowly but unknowingly.

Knowing this, Xie Feng did not delay any longer and explained: ”It is like this.... Since you are in this ice world, you must know something right? I was wondering if you could give me some information about this place.”

The reason Xie Feng asked this was because when he and the rest had just arrived at this place, the first thing Xie Feng did besides quickly inspecting the surroundings for possible enemies was to try to look for a map about the place on the forum by typing in the name of this frozen world. Unfortunately, there was absolutely nothing there so he and the others were completely at a loss not knowing what to do.

”Twenty million gold coins.” Number Ten declared in a hoarse voice.

Xie Feng had a complex expression on his face. It would be a lie to say that he didn't expect something like this since for some reason unknown to him, Number Ten seemed to treasure money more than the time; which was truly a strange contradiction.

Although he felt that twenty million was too high a price, he didn't have too many options to choose in front of him. The system's mission explained absolutely nothing; it only said that they had to free the elemental pet that was imprisoned. Right in front of his eyes was a world of snow and ice that stretched who knows where far and wide, how could Xie Feng and the rest know which direction to go without any guidance? That was just plain stupid.

Without saying a word, Xie Feng took out the price indicated by Number Ten and the money in his inventory was once again reduced. Out of four hundred million, he only had approximately thirty million left....

Having received the money, Number Ten nodded silently and turned to leave. This greatly confused Xie Feng, for a moment he even thought that this cloaked person was trying to flee without keeping his word. However, his thoughts were proven wrong when the hoarse voice of the stranger rang in everyone's ears.

”Walk north. Just walk in a straight line without straying off course. You should reach a river after several kilometers.... From there it will depend on whether or not you are lucky with your own choices.” Number Ten's voice was soon carried away by the strong currents of freezing wind and his silhouette disappeared in the mist formed by the snow falling from the sky with no apparent control.

Eh? Is that all? Xie Feng was stupefied.

For God's sake! That guy had taken twenty million in exchange for giving a little guidance! Such an amount of money was something that very few people in the whole world could earn after a lifetime of effort and sacrifice!

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