Chapter 107 I Can't Afford It

Inside the International Building, Zhang Yuanqing, led by the blonde and blue-eyed Annie, entered a luxurious and spacious office.

Bill Tarantino had been waiting for a long time on the brown leather sofa in the reception area. Today, he was wearing a black shirt, the buttons on his cuffs and collar were undone, and he held a glass of wine in his hand. He was dressed in a casual and leisurely manner.

"Oh, my friend, it's a pleasure to see you again."

Mr. Bill showed a completely different enthusiasm from last time.

He put down his wine glass, greeted him eagerly, and opened his arms to shake hands with Zhang Yuanqing. He led the big client to sit down on the sofa and asked in a friendly tone, "Would you like a drink?"

"Coke!" Zhang Yuanqing said.

Bill Tarantino was stunned for a moment and quickly looked at the female assistant, "Annie, have someone buy it."

There was no need to buy Coke. As a foreign company, many of the white employees in the company were used to drinking Coke, and the refrigerator in the lounge area was stocked with boxes and boxes of it. Annie took out a box of canned Coke, opened it, poured it into a glass, and took out an ice cube box from the refrigerator, adding a few small ice cubes.

"Mr. Zhang, please enjoy."

When she put the drink on the coffee table, she deliberately bent down, letting the young guest see the creamy white cleavage of her chest.

The Lust profession is quite annoying, constantly seducing you. Enduring the discomfort is difficult, but not enduring it is impossible; it's simply poisonous. Zhang Yuanqing wished he could dig out his eyeballs and throw them in to measure the depth of the cleavage.

Seeing the young man so fascinated by her body, Annie smiled sweetly, as if she had regained her confidence.

"Ahem!" Mr. Bill coughed, and Annie tacitly restrained her flirtatious manner and stood beside her boss.

"Mr. Zhang, have you considered it?" Bill Tarantino straightened his back, interlaced his fingers, and said with a serious expression:

"I can tell you the relevant information about the group using the pills and explain it in detail, which will take about 30 minutes. In addition, I have prepared a document that you can read along with to understand that group more thoroughly and clearly."

"If there are no objections, I will have Annie prepare the contract, according to what we said last time, ten million!"

Although he hadn't confirmed whether Chen Shu's son was a Spirit Realm Walker, and although the organization had rules against revealing the secrets of Spirit Realm Walkers to ordinary people, in the face of ten million, what did those rules matter?

In the face of 100% profit, capital can do anything, and the information of Spirit Realm Walkers is not a secret to people in the circle. Using information of little value in exchange for ten million in cash, completing a beautiful deal, was a temptation that no Void profession could resist.

Zhang Yuanqing crossed his legs, picked up the glass, took a sip of the cold drink, and said with a smile, "I am indeed very interested in the information of foreign Spirit Realm Walkers. After all, so far, the only ones I know are Mr. Bill's Void profession and Ms. Annie's Lust."

Mr. Bill and Ms. Annie on the opposite side were stunned.

So he knew everything... He really was a Spirit Realm Walker! Not only was he a Spirit Realm Walker, but he also had a relatively clear understanding of our professions. He wasn't the kind of shallow, wild walker...

A few seconds later, Mr. Bill put away his dazed expression and said with consideration, "Then what is the purpose of your visit today?"

He felt some regret and disappointment, because a low-cost, high-yield deal had fallen through.

"I did come to Mr. Bill for a transaction." Zhang Yuanqing thought for a moment and said, "A friend of mine wants to buy props and materials but couldn't find them after searching the black market. I remembered that Mr. Bill is a Void profession, so I came to visit today."

Hearing this, Bill Tarantino cheered up, and a smile climbed back onto his face, "What do you need to buy? Our Merchant Guild has a wide variety of props and materials. As long as the price is right, you can buy anything in the Spirit Realm world."

"A prop that can conceal aura, and some high-quality, Transcendent stage Yin-attribute materials." As Zhang Yuanqing spoke, he opened his phone and showed the other party the list he had made in the car. When he decided to ask Bill Tarantino to buy props, he suddenly thought, could he take this opportunity to collect the materials for refining Yin corpses?

One step in place!

Bill took the phone, carefully read the materials, breathed a sigh of relief, and smiled, "We have all of these materials now. The total value is about four million. For your mother's sake, I'll give you a 10% discount." Then, he frowned and considered, "As for the prop to conceal aura, your request is too simple. Some props have the ability to conceal aura, but that's a side effect. Some props can't conceal aura, but they can achieve a similar effect. Some props can conceal aura for a long time, while others can only shield it temporarily."

"In addition, you have to tell me the price you can accept and the level of the ideal prop. The Transcendent stage and the Saint stage are completely different prices."

Zhang Yuanqing pondered, "I hope to see the props before making a decision."

What he wanted was a prop that could shield Dominator-level experts, but he couldn't say it so directly, because it would be easy for the other party to deduce his identity. After all, investigating the recent news in Songhai would reveal that the Devil Eye Heavenly King was searching for Yuan Shi Tian Zun and the Master of the Stop Killing Palace.

Not making promises and looking at the prop's attributes first was a rather excessive request, because prop attributes were often confidential.

However, he believed that Mr. Bill would agree, because the props he was looking at were merchandise, stock in the warehouse, not props used by Mr. Bill himself.

Sure enough, after thinking for a few seconds, Mr. Bill nodded, "No problem, but I have to remind you that if you want to buy props with money, then you have to prepare a huge amount of funds. Apart from our Merchant Guild, most Spirit Realm Walker organizations only accept barter, not money."

Props were only produced in the Spirit Realm, were scarce, and were of high value, while paper money itself was just waste paper. Considering the serious phenomenon of governments around the world overissuing currency, many organizations did not accept money. Even if they did, the price was often very high, with a serious premium.

What, are you looking down on this Celestial Venerable? Do you think I don't have money? Okay, I really don't have much cash...

Zhang Yuanqing didn't show any fear on the surface, "I understand."

Mr. Bill smiled and immediately opened the guild warehouse, reaching into the void to grab a bronze, carved flower box. The box had an antique shape, covered with copper rust, and the carving craftsmanship on it was ancient and elegant, exuding a strong Chinese style.

Mr. Bill introduced, "This is a prop I exchanged from the Tai Yi Sect last year. It comes from a supernatural instance and is a female ghost's makeup box. If you smear the blood mud in the box on your face, your aura will turn into Yin, and what the box conceals is the aura of a living person, making the vengeful spirit mistake you for one of its own. But as far as the Devil Eye Heavenly King is concerned, what kind of aura doesn't matter, as long as you are a Spirit Realm Walker, you're a target."

Zhang Yuanqing shook his head.

Seeing this, Mr. Bill took back the makeup box and took out another item.

It was a tattered hat, covered with dirty marks, and the leather was severely worn. It was inconspicuous at all.

Mr. Bill introduced enthusiastically, "It's called the Scavenger's Hat. It's a Void profession prop. Its functions are treasure hunting, agility, and concealment. Agility and concealment are both to allow the user to run faster and hide better after finding treasures."

"Its concealment is not concealing aura but making people 'ignore' you, just like no one would pay attention to a beggar on the street. Someone once tried wearing it and entering a rich man's secret room, a women's toilet, and even a military base."

"Someone also wore it to violate the opposite sex, but the violated person strangely ignored the violator. Of course, this is only limited to ordinary people. As for Spirit Realm Walkers, once you reveal your intention to harm them, you will be noticed quickly."

"Its price is attracting misfortune."

A prop with so many flaws that it couldn't really conceal aura, then it would definitely be detected by the Devil Eye. Well, it's also possible that the Devil Eye would just see me and ignore me the next second, but this misfortune is not good. What if I just put it on and turn around to see the Devil Eye appearing behind me?

Zhang Yuanqing pondered, "I'd like to see more."

The hat could be used as a backup. If there was really no choice, buying this prop would be okay.

Mr. Bill, like an enthusiastic shopping guide, patiently dealt with the difficult customer and then took out the third prop, which was a thin human skin.

"Perfect Human Skin, wearing it, you can transform into anyone. You will permanently possess the target's personality, habits, language style, etc., without revealing any flaws. Even the most familiar people cannot see through it." Bill said in a low voice, "It has two prices. One is that you must take it off within 60 minutes, or you will permanently become the target and cannot recover. The second is that during the transformation, you will fully accept everything about the target. To use your words, it's called karma."

"Its previous owner was killed alive by the target's enemies because he bore the target's karma during the transformation. Its previous owner before that transformed into a prostitute to approach the leader of a certain gang. That night, she was taken by more than a dozen men, but she couldn't refuse because bearing karma was mandatory."

"That poor guy completed the mission in the end but suffered from extreme psychological problems because of it."

What kind of broken props were these? There were too many flaws! Its function was extremely perverted and was a divine weapon dreamed of by agents and spies, but the price was too high. Not to mention anything else, if I turned into a woman, wouldn't I have to… apple?

Zhang Yuanqing said, "Are there any more, Mr. Bill? I need one with a single function and a price that's not so severe."

"A single function..." Bill thought for a moment, and his eyes lit up. "There is indeed one such prop. I've had it for many years and haven't sold it yet."

He reached out and grabbed a mask with a black background and a white skull printed on it.

Bill said, "This prop comes from an evil profession abroad. It's called the 'Silencer.' Its function is very simple: sealing. After putting on the mask, all skills will be sealed and you will become like an ordinary person."

"Although it's not concealment, the effect is stronger than most concealment functions. And its price is threefold: first, Spirit Realm Walkers in the Transcendent stage will lose all their abilities when they put it on. The seal can be lifted by taking off the mask. Second, you cannot speak while wearing the mask. Third, sleepiness."

Zhang Yuanqing's eyes lit up. This was the one.

Although the mask had as many as three prices, they were all insignificant little prices and completely bearable. The point of sealing ability was a headache, but it could be lifted by taking off the mask, so it was very malleable and not troublesome.

"Mr. Bill, how much is this prop?" he asked.

Bill smiled and said happily, "A Transcendent stage prop won't be worth more than ten million. Its function is relatively simple and belongs to the auxiliary type, so the price is between five million and seven million. For your mother's sake, let's make it six million."

"For my mother's sake, shouldn't it be five million?"

"No, no, my friendship with your mother is only worth one million at most."

"Okay, I'll tell my mom that Mr. Bill is a plastic partner." Seeing that he couldn't cut down the price, Zhang Yuanqing simply gave up and asked, "Mr. Bill, I plan to barter."

"Good, that's the best." Bill Tarantino rubbed his hands happily, looking forward to it. "Can I see your prop?"

Zhang Yuanqing grabbed an incense burner from his inventory, a bronze tripod base with a toad carved from ebony as the body, squatting and sitting, with its mouth open to the sky. He planned to sell this incense burner.

The usage conditions of the Heavenly Toad Incense Burner were too harsh. Since he got it, he had only used it once and had been leaving it to gather dust in the inventory for a long time.

After getting Zhang Yuanqing's consent, Mr. Bill carefully and cautiously picked up the incense burner. The expression and posture were like an archaeologist picking up an antique. After repeatedly reading the item information, a surprised smile appeared on Bill Tarantino's face.

"Good thing! Its shortcomings are obvious, but its function is shocking. Using it at the right time and in the right place can reap rewards far exceeding its value."

Seeing the foreigner playing with it with fond reluctance, Zhang Yuanqing had to remind, "Mr. Bill, it's best not to take this thing out. It should always be stored in the inventory. You don't want your clan to die because of you, do you?"

Bill reluctantly put down the incense burner and resumed his businessman's posture. "I'll give it a price of twelve million."

Twelve million? That was exactly the money I needed to buy materials and props. The fact that this guy offered such a price meant that the Heavenly Toad Incense Burner was worth more than that.

Zhang Yuanqing took a deep breath. "Mr. Bill, for my mother's sake, how about fifteen million?"

"Oh, heavens, please don't mention your mother again. She and I are just ordinary business partners."

"Then, Mr. Bill, for my sake?"

At this time, Annie, who hadn't spoken from beginning to end, said with a smile, "Mr. Zhang, I think twelve million is a fair price. If you agree, I will invite you to dinner on behalf of Mr. Bill tonight."

Her teasing and suggestive eyes seemed to be saying, "If you have dinner with me, I'm yours."

Skylark.

Faced with the hints and seduction of the Lust profession, Zhang Yuanqing was inevitably aroused. It wasn't that he was lustful, but the other party's professional characteristics were to blame.

In theory, exchanging for the company of a beauty to make up for the price difference wasn't a loss for me, but the Lust profession was too fucked up. Before I figured out the skills to get them for free, anyone who touched the women of this profession would be unlucky.

Zhang Yuanqing, with great perseverance, controlled the lustful thoughts in his heart and said in a deep voice, "If this deal comes with Ms. Annie's body, then you need to pay me an additional fee for the loss of my virginity. My virginity is worth five million."

Annie's charming and moving face twitched fiercely. She remembered something very unpleasant from yesterday.

After a series of haggling, the Heavenly Toad Incense Burner was finally sold for twelve million, of which nine million three hundred and sixty thousand was used to buy the "Silencer" and a pile of Yin-attribute materials. Two million four hundred thousand in cash was collected in a carry-on suitcase and handed over to Zhang Yuanqing.

This money was counted by Zhang Yuanqing, who watched the accountant use a money counter to ensure that there were no fake bills.

Before leaving, Zhang Yuanqing asked, "How long will Mr. Bill be staying on the mainland?"

"I won't be leaving anytime soon." Mr. Bill said with a somewhat tired smile. That chairman had not agreed to see him. The reply given was, "Get lost!"

Get lost, a newborn calf? Why roll a calf? Was the chairman implying something? Bill couldn't understand what the chairman meant, so he found a translator. The translator took a look and blocked the word "calf" with his finger.

Bill suddenly understood. It turned out that the chairman didn't want to roll the calf but wanted to roll him.

"Okay, if there is an opportunity for cooperation in the future, I will come to you again." Zhang Yuanqing was very satisfied with this deal.

Bill immediately showed a smile. "I'll see you off."

After Bill returned to the office, he saw the female assistant, Annie, sitting on the sofa with a dull expression.

ps: Correcting typos after posting first.