Chapter 393: Purchasing materials
Lin Ye sidestepped to dodge the axe blade, the sharp spiritual energy tearing through the spiritual energy shield he had arranged on his clothes.
Thud!
The priest used his body to directly withstand the bullets fired from the shotgun. The rune bullets shattered the spiritual energy shield he had laid on his body's surface, but the impact force of the bullets couldn't force him to retreat even half a step.
The axe blade, struck by spiritual energy, instantly changed direction, chopping toward Lin Ye's abdomen. Lin Ye propelled himself forward by ejecting spiritual energy, changing his position and dodging the sweeping axe blade.
Thud thud thud thud thud thud thud!
Lin Ye emptied the magazine. Rune bullets with different effects blasted against the priest's body, riddling it with holes, but these wounds healed quickly.
The priest continued attacking Lin Ye while enduring the bullets, but the rune effects on the bullets triggered. Among them, the Alienation, Splicing, Synthesis, Collapse, Parasitism, and Molding runes disrupted his body, while the Berserk rune affected his mind.
Just as Lin Ye had thought, these cultists of the Salvation Cult loved exploiting their body's regenerative abilities. It was like skilled swimmers being the ones most likely to drown in water—this was their weakness.
"You shouldn't be wasting time here with me. You should go and redeem the world on behalf of your deity."
Lin Ye put away the shotgun and spoke to the priest kneeling on the ground, resisting the madness. "...Redemption?"
The priest's mental will was extremely firm, but madness had nothing to do with willpower. The more resolute a person was, the easier it was for them to fall into true madness.
"Right. Don't you think this city is already beyond saving? Everyone is trapped in a vast tide of profit. Some dance gracefully within this raging tide, but most can only struggle within it, or even be submerged beneath it, becoming rotten silt. In this slum, the place farthest from freedom, you should see it even more clearly than I do. Now I ask you, why are you staying here?"
Lin Ye looked directly into the priest's eyes and asked seriously.
"To redeem the world."
The priest replied.
"How do you redeem the world?"
Lin Ye asked.
"Destroy this city, granting the world true redemption."
The priest replied.
"Then what are you still waiting for?"
Lin Ye asked, puzzled.
[Time Mark Obtained]
"Yes, what am I still waiting for..."
The priest no longer suppressed the rune effects within his body. Instead, he accepted those runes and prayed to the deity. He would redeem the slums, redeem Free City, redeem the entire world.
He was the Redemption Priest.
The power of redemption surged into the priest's body. His body, on the verge of collapse, was revitalized under the influence of the redemptive power. He had redeemed his own body.
The priest bowed his head in acknowledgment to Lin Ye, then vanished from the bar's backyard. Dense gunfire sounded from outside, but soon it became sporadic and finally disappeared completely.
Lin Ye took out his communication device and contacted Raymond. The other's virtual image appeared before Lin Ye.
"You got him out?"
Raymond hadn't gone to sleep yet. He was sitting in a private room at the bar holding a wine glass, with several scantily clad women sitting beside him.
"No. Can you have the people beside you leave? The following conversation is somewhat dangerous."
Some information was like a virus;
ordinary people would die just from contact.
"Alright, you all, out."
Raymond also didn't want to deal with these "big sisters" he was on good terms with.
"The slums are the territory of the Salvation Cult. I just fought a priest here. He told me your friend is at Bio-Tech, which is connected to the Salvation Cult, though the two sides are probably just in a cooperative relationship.
Bio-Tech's interior definitely has many high-level spiritual energy users. Asking me to go there to rescue someone, one million isn't enough."
Lin Ye didn't want to get involved with Bio-Tech matters right now either;
the risk was too great.
"Is that so? Then let's consider this matter concluded. I'll transfer the money to your communication device. You can use that device with confidence;
I didn't leave anything in it."
Raymond hadn't expected Lin Ye's efficiency to be this high. For him, just knowing his friend's whereabouts was already very good.
"Alright."
Lin Ye turned off the communication device. He planned to spend all the Free Coins inside tomorrow.
"Are you still looking for that man?"
The priest returned to the bar's backyard, his tattered ceremonial robes stained with blood.
"Not anymore. Bio-Tech isn't the Blossom Night Bar. Going there is practically no different from seeking death."
Lin Ye noted this information. With so many factions looking for that man, he was definitely connected to some important matters.
"I hope so. That man is related to an important research project at Bio-Tech. The security there are all high-level spiritual energy users."
The priest walked toward the entrance to the underground space.
"Thanks for the warning."
Lin Ye left the Blossom Night Bar. Outside, the ground was covered with squirming, gathering pieces of corpses. Lin Ye stepped on the minced flesh and left the slums.
After returning to the Free Hotel, Lin Ye lay on the soft bed to rest. The situation in Free City was even more interesting than he had imagined.
Early the next morning, after finishing the breakfast delivered from the hotel restaurant, Lin Ye went to Free City's largest material trading center.
He had already transferred the weapons and equipment from the spatial item to his hotel room. He was here to find a spiritual energy material that was cheap enough.
This wasn't difficult because this was Free City's largest material trading center. Many materials produced from the Bottomless Pit were traded here. Lin Ye had only walked a few steps before encountering two types of spiritual energy materials that were somewhat suitable.
But he wasn't in a hurry to buy. The most important thing in business was controlling costs and profits. He needed to find the spiritual energy material with the lowest cost.
"This stuff is one hundred Free Coins per bundle? You didn't mislabel the price, did you?"
Lin Ye discovered a type of bundled white biological epidermis, the price was extremely cheap.
"Young man, this is the epidermis of the Whitebark Tree. This stuff is everywhere in the Pit. Also, this material's strength is average, so even though it's decent material, it can't fetch a high price."
The shop owner had noticed Lin Ye long ago. In this line of work, you couldn't afford to have poor observation skills.
"Then give me a thousand bundles to start. You accept communication device payments here, right?"
Lin Ye hadn't expected finding suitable material would be this simple.
One bundle for one hundred Free Coins. Thinking of the profit margin involved, Lin Ye was even a bit startled.
"Of course! I'll prepare them for you right away!"
The shop owner said hurriedly.
He had bought these epidermis bundles for fifty Free Coins each. This single order would earn him fifty thousand Free Coins!
The transaction was completed quickly. The spiritual energy materials were delivered to a temporary warehouse.
Not long after, several young men drove and transferred these materials to another warehouse.
Lin Ye wandered around the material center a few more times, bought some mid-tier spiritual energy materials, and then took the materials to that warehouse.
"Boss, you're here."
Black Dog and the others were already waiting inside the warehouse.
"Mm. Is everything going smoothly on your end?"
Looking at the piles of materials, Lin Ye suddenly felt that one hundred million Free Coins wasn't such a big deal.
"Very smoothly."
Little Ke replied.
"Go find a few people to spend all the money inside, all on these types of materials."
Lin Ye handed both the communication device and the gold card to Little Ke.