Chapter 88: The Three-Man Team Seeks Advice from Zhang Dahai

"To actually draw it."

In Dorm 200, Xu Lang looked at the Queen of Hearts card in his hand, feeling utterly incredulous.

"Haha, Xu Lang, you're still looking at it." Cao Yaxuan happily wore a necklace, holding a cosmetic mirror and examining herself from left to right.

Wang Yazhi was practicing the Green Lotus Qi Cultivation Technique nearby.

Tong Qi was fiddling with her ghost pets, with several urns placed beside her.

The girls had each been given some copper coins, so their operational space had expanded accordingly.

However, this meant Xu Lang was nearly broke, with only twenty thousand copper coins left on him.

If he wanted to buy all the materials for the Marble Launcher blueprint, twenty thousand copper coins definitely wouldn't be enough. He'd have to wait until everything on the Trading Network sold, which would probably recover about a hundred thousand copper coins.

"You don't understand." Xu Lang shook his head and took out another card.

The pattern was the Three of Clubs.

"What do you mean I don't understand?" Cao Yaxuan wasn't happy to hear this and walked over with small steps.

As the main wife, she had to understand everything!

Pfft, "main wife" sounded terrible—she should say she was the leader among the girls!

Tong Qi lacked wisdom, Wang Yazhi was quiet, Sherry lacked strategy—only she, Cao Yaxuan, could hold up the scene!

"Look at these cards—their levels are all unknown, so they're definitely not simple. If we collect a full set, there might be some special transformation, just like Little Tong's sequence." Xu Lang honestly shared his thoughts.

"Hmph, I already thought of that!" Cao Yaxuan lifted her nose slightly and snorted, "I wanted to try collecting them too, but I found others are buying them as well."

A strange expression flashed across Xu Lang's face: "Who are they?"

Since he obtained the cultivation method, the task of monitoring the Trading Network long-term had been handed over to Cao Yaxuan.

The information transmitted through the Trading Network was sometimes more obscure than that in the chat room, but also more genuine.

"Li Shuwen, Tang Ze, Xu Ruyan, Zhang Dahai." Cao Yaxuan curled her lips and reported, "Whenever someone lists cards for sale, these four people buy them up."

Although the Trading Network doesn't directly show who made purchases, Cao Yaxuan could find the sellers and ask directly.

Goddess Yaxuan still had some influence.

"I see." Xu Lang thought for a moment, then smiled, "Then let's not collect them. Wait until they've collected them, then we'll go buy from them."

As long as he held onto the Three of Clubs in his hand, others couldn't complete a full deck.

"Buy? You would buy?" Cao Yaxuan made a strange expression.

Xu Lang and Cao Yaxuan looked at each other for two seconds, then suddenly both laughed heartily.

Sherry glanced over inexplicably and said, "Xu Lang, it's been a while since we ate. I'm a bit hungry."

"You go." Xu Lang gestured toward Cao Yaxuan with his chin.

The smile instantly vanished from Cao Yaxuan's face as she turned to cook.

Hmph!

During the meal, Xu Lang asked Tong Qi, "Tong Qi, how many little ghosts have you subdued?"

"Six!" Tong Qi answered.

"Good, have two energy drinks later to speed up your mental energy recovery, and subdue ten as quickly as possible." Xu Lang picked up a bouncy meat sausage with his chopsticks, then slightly frowned.

This sausage wasn't very fresh.

Could it be from the Shang-Zhou period?

Is the survival game pulling stunts too?

"Why?" Tong Qi was somewhat puzzled.

"We're going out to search for supplies later." Xu Lang explained, "Before, we were afraid of ambushes, but now with you and Yazhi, there's no need to be so timid."

"Okay." Tong Qi's eyes curved into smiles as she nodded happily.

After playing two rounds of the game, this was the first time Dorm 200 was going floor sweeping, which made her quite excited.

"I'm going too." Sherry raised her hand.

"You stay home with Yaxuan." Xu Lang decisively refused.

Sherry going out would purely cause trouble.

"Ah..." Sherry sighed sorrowfully, "Xu Lang, do you dislike me for being weak?"

"Yes." Xu Lang nodded.

Sherry: "..."

Your bluntness breaks my heart!

Suddenly, Sherry thought of a clever strategy that might hook Xu Lang.

She sent Xu Lang a private message.

"Fuck!" Sherry flipped Xu Lang the middle finger.

Seeing this, Xu Lang stopped eating and strode confidently toward Sherry.

The little foreigner, seeing this, quickly escaped to the Nightmare Bed.

"I'll be right back." Xu Lang said to Cao Yaxuan and the other two girls, then went to assert his authority.

As a tenant, how dare she challenge the dorm owner—does she want to die!

Hearing the commotion from over there, Cao Yaxuan's cheeks flushed red, suddenly feeling envious of the sleep quality of certain cuckolded characters in anime.

If only she could fall asleep right now.

Unfortunately, she still had to clean up after the meal.

Damn it!

Maybe she should join forces with Tong Qi and the others to rebel against Xu Lang, and make him experience being the servant for a day!

Around 9 PM, Tong Qi successfully subdued ten little ghosts, and then the three began packing their gear.

It wasn't until after 10 PM that they finally went out.

Packing gear included backpack slot allocation management, tactical preparation, pre-battle analysis, itinerary planning, light-intensity sparring, and short-term intelligence gathering.

Every step was crucial, as it concerned life and death.

For example, light-intensity sparring increased combat experience and helped them familiarize themselves with each other's fighting capabilities.

In the sky, bloody mist hung hazily, and through the blood-colored shroud, one could vaguely see a dim, dark moon.

Xu Lang's group entered a library building.

Click~

Without moonlight for illumination, Tong Qi turned on her flashlight, pushing back the darkness.

Outside the flashlight's glow, three little ghosts wandered in the darkness.

This was the power of the Ghost Controller sequence—it required only minimal mental energy to maintain the little ghosts' existence, and when they died, they would return to the Ghost Control Bells to be nurtured again!

Inside the library, aside from some common paper books, there were no special items, and many areas showed signs of having been searched through.

Xu Lang and the other two searched through a corner for a while but found nothing.

"Such obvious buildings have definitely been searched by others. We need to go to less noticeable places." Xu Lang stated.

Waiting for items to refresh right in front of them here wasn't realistic—they definitely needed to search quickly and then withdraw.

Wang Yazhi nodded: "Everyone probably thinks the same way, so the locations we choose must be extremely, extremely well-hidden."

The three pondered for a while, then Tong Qi suddenly sighed: "Ah, now those people aren't sharing where they found things anymore. They're intentionally hiding information about resource points. If only some veterans could guide us."

People's hearts aren't what they used to be.

"We could ask Huihui and the others." Wang Yazhi's eyes sparkled.

Tong Qi slightly frowned: "With so many of them, the good resource points probably aren't even enough for themselves."

"I do know someone we could ask." Xu Lang thought of Zhang Dahai, who always managed to get good items, and opened a private message with him.