Based on Qin Siyang's understanding of Zhao Longfei, this scar-headed guy was usually too lazy to explain much to him, afraid that even one extra word might leak something about the Zhao family.
But this time, during their conversation, Zhao Longfei had intentionally or unintentionally said a few more things.
He was no longer guarding against him like before.
Qin Siyang understood in his heart that Zhao Longfei's attitude toward him couldn't depend only on personal preference. He also had to consider the Zhao family behind him.
Zhao Longfei being open meant that Zhao Longteng and the Zhao family were gradually accepting him as well.
Qin Siyang asked, "Is it still about the sequence army?"
Zhao Longfei nodded, "When everyone is guessing that our Zhao family has a sequence army, then it's best that we really do have one. It probably won't be long before the Safe Zone starts getting unstable again."
"I get it. If you're short on money, my vice president dividends, and this round of earnings, can be owed for now."
"No need. Little Qin, we're already partners. Draining you dry doesn't benefit us much either. Let's leave it at that."
"Alright…"
"You just need to strongly support the Chamber of Commerce's crystal coin issuance plan."
"So this is where you were waiting for me? I was about to—"
"The first payment from the intelligence in Zhang Yingrui's brain has already been transferred into your account. There will be more later. How you spend it is up to you."
Qin Siyang glanced at his electronic account and took a deep breath.
He hadn't expected five extra gold coins to appear just like that.
'According to the thirty-seventy split, the Zhao family has made more than ten gold coins in profit at once?'
Did Zhang Yingrui leave behind a treasure map or something?
Zhao Longfei explained, "The first windfall was a batch of sequence potions. It's inconvenient to give those to you directly, so we converted them into gold coins and sent that to your account."
"Wait! Principal Zhao, at what price did you convert them?"
"Ahem! Market price. Market price."
"Say it! How much?"
"Ten silver coins per bottle."
["Lie."]
"..."
"Don't nitpick. It's about that much. I've got things to deal with. Little Qin, hurry up and leave. I won't see you out!"
Before Qin Siyang could ask more, Zhao Longfei had already kicked him out.
He cursed a couple of times at the door, spat, and left in a huff.
After all, trying to reason with Zhao Longfei was like climbing a tree to catch fish. Completely pointless.
Besides, the Zhao family was walking on thin ice right now. He couldn't demand more.
"Five gold coins. Sounds like a lot, but if you think about it carefully, what can it really do?"
A man like Qin Siyang, whose food, clothing, housing, and transport were all taken care of, who had long since risen above low-level pleasures, was already tired of the smell of money.
Sequence potions were far more practical.
He wandered around South Glory Campus for a bit, planning to relax.
But the moment Qin Siyang had even a little free time, his thoughts would drift toward hidden worries.
As he walked along the campus road, he once again thought about taking the path of a believer.
Everything was ready, yet he didn't know whether he should do it, or how he should do it. That left Qin Siyang feeling lost.
The road ahead was unknown. He couldn't tell which direction was right.
He checked the time. There were still a few hours before Li Pengfei got out of school, so he headed to Miracle Building to visit the professors and ask them about the suppression they experienced from gods after opening the path of a believer.
The professors felt Qin Siyang's concerns were somewhat unnecessary.
"We don't often leave the Safe Zone to hunt gods. Even when we do, we have god-hunting tools to assist us. So of course we choose the strongest path of the believer within our ability."
They believed that with god-hunting tools in hand, Qin Siyang didn't need to worry too much about divine suppression outside the Safe Zone.
More importantly, he needed to secure his footing inside the Safe Zone.
Outside the Safe Zone, you take the initiative to trouble the gods. Inside the Safe Zone, open attacks and hidden schemes never stop, and people are constantly troubling you.
Unless you planned to live outside the Safe Zone for the rest of your life, you couldn't ignore your own safety inside it just to maintain an advantage in fighting gods.
Lu Daoxing especially praised the versatility of god-hunting tools, telling Qin Siyang to set his mind at ease and step onto the [Dawn Level] path of the believer.
Hao Liang, on the other hand, told him that the Safe Zone would explode sooner or later. If you wanted to survive among tigers, leopards, and wolves, you had to go as far as possible on the path of the believer.
Only Zhang Kuang held a different opinion on Qin Siyang's question.
"Little Qin, if you want to do something different, don't worry too much. Just go for it."
"Why?"
Zhang Kuang scratched his messy hair, "I've been studying the apocalypse all these years, and I feel like the whole world is just a makeshift stage. There's nothing absolutely correct. How do you know you're definitely wrong?"
Everything circled back to the starting point.
Because something weighed on his mind, even when Qin Siyang ate, read, and studied with Wen Shu and Li Pengfei at night, he found it dull.
Wen Shu noticed something off about him and asked, "Do you have something bothering you?"
Qin Siyang sighed, "I'm facing a crucial choice. I need to settle one confusion. Is it harder to fight people, or harder to fight gods?"
Li Pengfei lifted his little head and looked at Qin Siyang in confusion.
Wen Shu closed her book and set it aside.
"Qin Siyang, are you afraid of gods?"
"Not quite afraid, not quite fearless."
"Do you trust people?"
"Half trust, half doubt."
Wen Shu smiled, "An answer that's vague and a bit cynical means you think neither fighting people nor fighting gods is that hard."
Qin Siyang neither confirmed nor denied it. His expression was helpless, "I still have to choose one."
"You're so capable. Just pick one. No matter how you choose, the result won't be bad."
After saying that, Wen Shu gave Qin Siyang a sweet smile, then picked up her book and continued reading.
'Just pick one?'
Qin Siyang looked at Wen Shu's elegant side profile and fell into thought.
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[Blue Star Calendar, August 5, 2010]
[Gregorian calendar, Thursday]
[Lunar calendar, Year of Gengyin, Sixth Month, Twenty-Fifth Day. Suitable for construction. Suitable for breaking ground.
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"My Boss Qin! It's the middle of the night and instead of sleeping you drag me out to hunt gods? Didn't you already collect all the round shell pieces from small gods?"
Hu Chan yawned and complained.
Qin Siyang pressed the accelerator to the floor, "This time we're killing a medium god."
"A medium god? Boss Qin, I'm not confident I can kill that! You'd better find someone else!"
"I don't need you to kill it," Qin Siyang said calmly, "I'm just borrowing your dog nose for a bit. I'll handle it myself."
"You? You're not afraid of sandworms anymore?"
"As long as I'm fast enough. We'll pick an easier medium god and finish quickly. I still have to go back in the morning to take Li Pengfei to school."
"Boss Qin… really busy with a thousand things every day," Hu Chan curled his lips helplessly.
Qin Siyang's eyes were calm.
When Wen Shu told him to just pick one, it greatly eased the gloom in his heart and made him relax a lot.
For some reason, he always felt a quiet resonance with her words.
After kneeling before the lunar calendar and tossing copper coins, he decided to follow the guidance of his ancestors and step onto the [Dawn Level] path of the believer.
At the cost of sacrificing some of his ability to fight gods, he can exchange it for relative safety inside the Safe Zone.
However, the [Dawn Level] path of the believer will increase the difficulty of hunting gods by more than tenfold.
He had to accumulate resources before advancing.
Eating ordinary medium gods no longer gave him obvious improvement, but he still understood that small gains add up.
Anyway, no matter how many god remains he ate, he wouldn't get full.
Eat a thousand kg, ten thousand kg. He didn't believe it would have no effect.
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