Stuck in a Chinese novel - Chapter 230

Chapter 230: Bait
Chapter 230

Another wave of envy passed throughout the entire crowd when they saw the ring on Wei Jun’s middle finger. It was silver in color and had a sapphire on it.

[The ring of infinity]

[Cost: 1,000,000]

The ring of infinity was an item that worked like an inventory. It wasn’t much expensive and its cost was just 100,000,000 yuan.

Of course, since it wasn’t that much expensive, it wasn’t very top-notch either. Just like the inventory, it only stored dead things but unlike the inventory of the system which was limitless, this ring, unfortunately, had a limit.

In terms of size, it was only as big as Wei Jun’s apartment. It was a little bigger than that but that wasn’t much when Wei Jun was more used to the inventory.

The good news was that Wei Jun only needed to show it. The next time he stored a corpse, he would be storing it in his inventory. To others, however, it would just seem like he was storing it in the subspace ring.

“Nice treasure,” The elder said.

Wei Jun bowed and said, “If you ever like to have something similar, just let me know. I will make sure to get it for you.”

“I definitely will.” The elder said but her tone was skeptical.

[Do you think such rings grow on trees?]

When the system asked the question, Wei Jun understood why the tone of the elder was skeptical. Such a treasure would obviously be rare so it didn’t make sense for Wei Jun to have more than one.

This one was too probably given by Sun Ruan was what everyone thought.

‘How many do you have in your shop?’ Wei Jun asked because he could still see one in the shop. Since there was no number next to it, Wei Jun could only ask.

[Millions]

Wei Jun didn’t say anything to that because it felt like the system was just bragging.

Wei Jun ignored the clamorous situation when Lin Ruan came close to him and said, “Wow. I can’t believe grandfather gave you something so precious.”

“He didn’t.” Wei Jun straightforwardly replied.

“What?” Lin Ruan was confused but she didn’t think Wei Jun was lying so she asked, “Then where did you get it from?”

“From someone who can get me these things.” Wei Jun replied but he wasn’t going to state the obvious. With this reply, Lin Ruan would just think that Wei Jun was hiding his source which was absolutely logical.

“Can you get me one from that ‘someone’ as well?” Lin Ruan hopefully asked before she added, “Though I doubt I can afford that.”

“How much do you think this thing can cost?” Wei Jun curiously asked.

“Shouldn’t you know?” Lin Ruan asked.

“Just trying to make sure I wasn’t overcharged.” Wei Jun replied.

“Hmmm?” Lin Ruan found the explanation reasonable so she thought for a moment and then replied, “Lowest of the lowest that can be around somewhere 100 cubic meters can cost up to 50,000,000. That too if someone is selling them.”

[See how reasonable my prices are]

Seeing that the ring that Lin Ruan talked about was obtained at half the price but of so low quality that Wei Jun felt like it was a waste of money, Wei Jun agreed with the system that its prices were indeed reasonable.

“So much is this one?” Lin Ruan asked.

“I got it for 500 million. The space is around my apartment.” Wei Jun nonchalantly replied.

“…” However, Lin Ruan didn’t share that same nonchalance because that was practically impossible. The highest a ring known to ever exist was 1000 cubic meters. How could Wei Jun have something many, many times that?

“Don’t be so shocked. I’ll get it for you too.” Wei Jun said before he turned to the elder and asked, “What shall we do about the chain of command?”

“Chain of command?” The elder asked, as if Wei Jun had said something stupid before she continued, “There is no chain of command. If you want to select a leader among yourselves, then feel free to duke it out. If you want to go your separate ways, that’s an option too. Just remember, in the latter case, I will keep my eyes on who I want to and ignore the rest.” Though inwardly everyone she wasn’t going to keep an eye on them even in the former case.

“Then let’s go,” Wei Jun said to Lin Ruan and started to leave.

Seeing him leave, some of the disciples also moved to go with him.

When Wei Jun saw them, he gave them a sideway glance but allowed them to come with him. As long as they knew that he was the unspoken ruler among them, Wei Jun was willing to let them tag along.

Of course, the spoils they would obtain from him would be very little as well.

Seeing him leave with almost nine others, Ju Bai Lu also formed his own faction and left in the other direction.

Watching them leave, the elder couldn’t help but admit how ruthless and cunning Wei Jun was. He had deliberately activated his Qi before he killed the monster even though he didn’t need to.

He managed to conceal the fact that the monster couldn’t detect you if you weren’t covered in Qi.

He was cunning because he managed to keep that information hidden from the other team and ruthless because the elder knew full well what he was going to do with his own teammates.

~~

Wei Jun and Lin Ruan, along with eight others stopped after they had come a bit further away from the other party.

Wei Jun cancelled his skill which evoked some murmurs in the small crowd but Wei Jun spoke before any of them could ask a question, “You all have only one role. Attract the bees. I will kill them.”

“…” No one knew what to say to that because not only was it direct, but it also came with a feeling that that was all they were good for.

Of course, Wei Jun didn’t deny that and said, “You’re all useless,” to their faces, “But you have use as bait.”

Before anyone could even take offense, they saw a giant bee heading in their direction from behind Wei Jun. They all jumped to take cover and Lin Ruan also moved while she said, “Behind you, Xiao Wei! Take cover!”

Of course, her loud voice fell on deaf ears as Wei Jun remained in his spot, frozen and undetected. If not for their eyes, they wouldn’t have been able to perceive Wei Jun with any other of their senses.

Before Lin Ruan could speak again, the giant bee passed Wei Jun and headed for them, ready to throw her poisonous saliva when Wei Jun, just as the bee passed him, moved with a stinger in his hand that he had used to kill the last bee and stabbed the bee in its head after a short jump.

The bee fell, screamed in pain, and shortly after died. The entire process took five seconds and Wei Jun stood quietly while it died.

[Death Qi +1]

As it did, Wei Jun retrieved the stinger and stored the corpse in his inventory. He turned to the disciples and said, “You played your roles perfectly. Remember to do the same from now on.”

“…” All the disciples could do was look at Wei Jun speechlessly and just stand there.

“And remain quiet just like you are now.” Wei Jun added before he moved forward.

~~

Two days later, the group was still outside the hive. After two days, Wei Jun had killed about 15 bees and no, there were no longer bees on the outside of the hive.

“Do we have to go inside?” Lin Ruan asked the question that was on everyone’s mind and added, “It doesn’t seem safe in there.”

Wei Jun also knew that it would be dangerous on the inside. So far, they were only dealing with one bee per fight. However, according to the system, those were just stragglers. Scouts one could say if they would like to give them some importance.

There were still proper soldiers on the inside. They wouldn’t be much but their numbers wouldn’t be singular as well.

In the worst-case scenario, there could be all of them gathered in one place.

The risk factor was very high while there wasn’t any possible solution in sight.

[They’re bugs]

‘I know.’ Wei Jun replied as the system said that out of nowhere. He was already racking his brain when the system once again said which annoyed him.

[They’re bugs]

‘I know!’

Wei Jun was properly annoyed when the system once again said the same thing.

[They’re bugs]

‘How many times are you goin—Oh!’ And it suddenly struck Wei Jun what the system was trying to say.

Wei Jun hurriedly took out all the corpses he had and said, “Hurry up and start skinning them. Except for the meat, venom glands, and stingers, everything else is to be used immediately.”

“What? Why?” Lin Ruan was the only one who could question him so she asked the question for everyone.

Wei Jun turned to her, and said with the most charming smile that struck the women in that group like a full-speed train, “We’re going to set the mountain on fire.”

“…”

“What?”