Chapter 389: Plan Accelerated
After teaching the breathing technique, Lin Ye continued absorbing spiritual energy to perform spiritual energy circulation. He needed to become a first-level spiritual energy user as soon as possible so he could start his money-making plan.
After resting for a night, early the next morning, Lin Ye had Black Dog take some of the young people to the garbage dump to collect trash that could serve as spiritual energy materials. After a night of practice, some of them could already roughly distinguish between spiritual energy items and ordinary items.
No one managed the garbage dump at all. After all, there was no tradition of garbage recycling and reuse here, at least not in Free City. Disposing of this garbage required paying money.
Lin Ye gave the remaining Free Coins to Little Ke and had him take people outside to buy some daily necessities.
They would be staying in the slums for a while;
they couldn't just keep lying on the brick floor.
Lin Ye continued absorbing spiritual energy to strengthen his body. If everything went smoothly, he could become a first-level spiritual energy user by tomorrow night, and then he could start the money-making plan, becoming a third-tier spiritual energy user within a week.
Of course, this was assuming everything went smoothly. If other forces interfered, this timeline could be accelerated or delayed.
Lin Ye stopped his spiritual energy circulation and abruptly opened his eyes. He sensed something outside peering into the situation inside the building.
'Plans can't always go smoothly, but encountering obstacles before it even starts is just too frustrating.'
Lin Ye walked to the window and used his spiritual energy blade to slice through that invisible observer. It seemed to be some kind of spiritual energy probing technique. The person using this technique was definitely not an ordinary low-level spiritual energy user. The other party didn't keep Lin Ye waiting long. A tall, burly man appeared downstairs of the abandoned building.
The man was wearing a black single-layered shirt and waved at Lin Ye.
This was a third-tier spiritual energy user.
Lin Ye also nodded in acknowledgment and picked up the metal sphere he always carried with him.
The man quickly went upstairs and appeared before Lin Ye.
"That idiot you killed yesterday worked under me. If you're willing to be obedient, I can spare your life."
The man said with a smile.
"Sigh, what a pain in the ass."
Lin Ye hated trouble, especially trouble that would affect his plans.
The man suddenly took a step back, but he was still a bit too slow.
Bang!
The man's head exploded into a bloody mist, but his body didn't fall. Fleshy strips sprouted from his neck, trying to reconstruct his head.
Lin Ye once again manipulated the metal sphere to launch a spiritual energy attack, blasting the man's body into a bloody mist as well.
That bloody mist wriggled like a living creature for a while before finally losing all activity.
'Damn, it was actually one of those Salvation Cult freaks. No wonder it gave me a familiar feeling.'
The Salvation Divine Stone was right in Lin Ye's Shelter, so he was extremely sensitive to the aura of these cultists.
'Are the slums Salvation Cult territory? I'm really going to puke. I ran into these freaks before the money-making plan even started. What terrible luck.'
Lin Ye didn't believe that in a place like Free City, the Salvation Cult wouldn't have high-level spiritual energy users.
He could use the metal sphere to deal with a third-tier spiritual energy user, but that was already the limit. Just now, the other guy had almost dodged it.
If the man hadn't looked down on them as garbage pickers, Lin Ye might not have been able to kill him.
The reason he could kill the Captain before was because the other party had the metal sphere on him, plus the metal sphere was in an explosive state. Otherwise, relying on the metal sphere alone, it would be difficult to kill a fourth-tier spiritual energy user.
'Luckily, I took the time to study the metal sphere earlier, otherwise I might have been done for.'
Lin Ye didn't believe that cultist would have let them go. The other guy probably wanted to lure them to some place so he wouldn't have to move their corpses.
The metal sphere was some kind of spiritual energy oscillation device. Using this device could generate spiritual energy oscillation waves, shattering anything swept by the waves.
'I originally wanted to use this place as a temporary base. Looks like I have to change my approach.'
Lin Ye checked the man's 'corpse' but didn't find any intact loot. This was also one of the downsides of using the metal sphere.
After Black Dog and Little Ke returned with the others, Lin Ye gathered everyone together and spoke:
"The slums are Salvation Church territory. I killed one of their subordinates yesterday. This morning, a believer from the Salvation Church came looking for me. I've already dealt with him. We can't stay in the slums any longer. It's time to start the next step of the plan."
Lin Ye began explaining to the young people what they needed to do. Originally, Lin Ye had planned to guide them through the process, but now they would have to rely on themselves.
"Did you all understand? If you don't understand, you can ask questions now. Once we leave here, it'll be too late to ask."
Lin Ye felt he had explained things very clearly, but his short yet long work experience told him never to overestimate other people's comprehension.
"Understood."
"The boss explained each step in such detail, even an idiot could understand, right?"
"Anyone who didn't understand can ask me. I memorized it all."
"Where did you get paper and pen?"
"Little Ke brought them back earlier."
"Let me copy it."
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"If there are no problems, let's go. Squad leaders, decide on your own rendezvous points and report them to your superior when you go out."
Lin Ye didn't leave immediately. Instead, he stood by the window watching the young people leave the abandoned building. He wasn't sure if that man was the Salvation Church's person in charge in the slums, so he would be the last one to leave this place.
Next, these young people would scatter throughout the entire Free City, like drops of water merging into the sea. Even the Salvation Church wouldn't be able to find them.
The Squad Leader was right about one thing: in Free City, the cheapest thing was garbage used to scout the way.
This city was full of such people. This was simply the perfect information channel and trading network. Lin Ye couldn't ignore such a useful channel.
In this world where spiritual energy reigns supreme, the lofty spiritual energy users naturally overlook these powerless ordinary people. But they forget this is Free City. Power isn't something worth showing off here;
money is.
And what Lin Ye needed to do wasn't much. He only needed to oversee the overall situation. The things below would naturally be handled by others.
This was Free City, where money is everything. No one would turn their nose up at Free Coins.
After everyone had left, Lin Ye also left the slums. He first made and sold some spiritual energy items, then came to the most high-end clothing store in Free City to purchase materials for making clothes.
Originally, the shop owner didn't agree, but after Lin Ye demonstrated a bit of spiritual energy item crafting skill, the owner very readily gave him a set of materials.
The quality of this material was quite good, and it had undergone some special processing.
This was also why he didn't go to a materials shop to buy materials. Different trades require different skills. If you want to get a good enough finished material to make clothes, a clothing store is definitely the first choice.
While at the clothing store, Lin Ye observed the style of clothing inside. After returning to his residence, Lin Ye quickly planned out the various steps for making the clothes in his mind.