Chapter 154: Trouble (1/2)

Chapter 154: Trouble

Translator: EndlessFantasy TranslationEditor: EndlessFantasy Translation

How much was 400 Nine Gates points? Ye Chong was ignorant, but Wei Xi understood clearly. The value of 400 Nine Gates points was the highest initial capital she had ever encountered! More importantly, this was a sign of recognition from the Sanctuary. Three mechs amounting to 400 Nine Gates points meant that each mech was equivalent to about more than a hundred Nine Gates points. Wei Xi did not keep up well with the Nine Gates market situation, but even she knew that some master level products could only reach this value.

If it was an elderly person, Wei Xi would not be so surprised, but the Mr Ye before her was definitely below 20 years of age.

”His occupation must be very special!” thought Wei Xi.

She remembered Ye Chong telling her about him being a skeleton carver. ”Hmm, it must be because of that strange occupation of his!” Wei Xi consoled herself. As a non-combatant, she also had her own expertise, but hers was in pharmacy.

What a huge disparity! Even though she was recognized as an elite by her teachers, she understood that her pharmaceutical products would never fetch a price higher than 10 Nine Gates points.

The reality staring in her face had delivered a heavy blow to her! She smiled wryly to herself. ”So there are real geniuses out there!”

Ye Chong was not aware of Wei Xi’s inner turmoil. Wei Xi gathered herself and taught Ye Chong how to use his travel bracelet, how to check his Nine Gates points and so on. Fortunately, Ye Chong had good memory and picked up the necessary skills quickly, which was a relief for Wei Xi.

After teaching the basics, Wei Xi then introduced some basic information about Nine Gates city before leaving Ye Chong.

Ye Chong finally got a better sense of Nine Gates.

In Nine Gates, there were only two types of residents - one were the people who passed the Level Three Trial but not the Level Five Trial, and the other was the Sanctuary’s people. As the storekeeper of the Blue Sandstone had told him, most of the young people here were from the Sanctuary, and Ye Chong guessed that they were probably students or something similar.

Ye Chong was now browsing through market products through his photon processor, since his materials would have to come from there. Unlike the old style found in other places of the Orbits, Nine Gates had its own virtual net, and the market trading system formed part of this virtual world. Ye Chong asked whether Mu could hack the system, but when Mu told him that the probability of being discovered was over 50 percent, Ye Chong immediately dismissed the idea. Of course, he was already surprised by the Sanctuary’s solid abilities.

He had thought that Nine Gates was only a city, and their products in the market should not be too varied, but the photon processor’s market item lists and product introductions were extensive, and Ye Chong could not help but grew interested as he scrolled through the products.

Ye Chong could not find any skeletons in the market for the moment, but he was not in a hurry. He clicked into a random list of items.

These were mineral ores, many of which Ye Chong did not recognize. He knew next to nothing in ore mineralogy and metallurgy. Fortunately, he had advice from the huge database that was Mu.

”Dual energy ore!” Mu’s flat voice suddenly turned up a notch and surprised Ye Chong. However, Ye Chong immediately realized that this was no average material.

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Maltese browsed through the mineral ore section enthusiastically, to see if he could get his hands on anything interesting. As a Nine Gates Sanctuary’s mech pilot student minoring in metallurgy, he had stumbled upon an improvement in an alloy material’s formula. The Sanctuary had granted him substantial award points. Hence, he was trying to find something interesting in the market.

He scrolled through the items on the photon processor lazily. While the ores offered were not bad, and some were even rare, they were still what the Sanctuary could provide for him, and not worth his points. He shook his head in a sigh. Why wasn’t there anything that was worth his attention?

These mineral ores were mostly dug up by some detainees of good quality. However, their education system was far inferior to the internal information of the Sanctuary. Nonetheless, their rich experience allowed them to classify the ores with great accuracy. There were many ores that they had not seen before, but experience and instinct would urge them to keep the ores and sell them at a higher price. Maltese was looking for ores like these. Of course, some of the vendors were only selling because they were in urgent need of the points.

No matter the circumstances, it was rare to find ores like these. Maltese had only succeeded in finding a treasure like this once, which turned out to be a fist-sized core mineral. His success in improving the alloy formula was mainly due to the core mineral. This was what encouraged Maltese in his ”quest” for such hidden treasures. The process was one that tested his patience, but Maltese believed he did not lack that particular quality.