Jiang Ye connected, and a pale face appeared on the screen.
Isabelle was applying a face mask.
"Why aren't you back yet at midnight?" she asked as soon as he connected.
"Busy. I won't be back for the next couple of days," Jiang Ye replied.
"Do you remember my best friend, Li Nannan, from the army?" Isabelle changed the subject.
"I do. What's up?" Jiang Ye was taken aback.
"She sent a message to your base, and you didn't reply. She contacted me. She wants you to get her twenty million in cash within three days," Isabelle said.
"Alright, no problem," Jiang Ye nodded.
"So much money, what's it for?" Isabelle was very curious. "How did you two get so close?"
"Ask your best friend about that!" Jiang Ye chuckled like an old fox.
Isabelle was persistent and continued to question him for a long time. But Jiang Ye was tight-lipped and wouldn't say anything. Annoyed, she directly hung up the call.
Putting down the communication tablet, Jiang Ye got up, left the fishing boat, and continued his work inside the bodies of the jellyfish.
The excavator roared, clearing out the bright red brain matter scoop by scoop.
One o'clock.
Two o'clock.
Three o'clock.
Jiang Ye yawned, feeling sleepy.
His account balance had already risen to 32.17 million yuan!
He was earning money like crazy, making more in an hour than he used to in a day.
Four o'clock.
Five o'clock.
The planet's dawn came early, and at this time, light was already filtering down from the sky.
Jiang Ye was extremely sleepy and decided to work a little longer before sleeping.
Suddenly, a blood-red light illuminated the area ahead.
Jiang Ye's eyes widened, and he released the control lever.
On the brain matter that the excavator's bucket had just dug up, countless rice-sized points of light appeared, emitting a striking red glow, like a patch of burning embers.
In the deep cavern, these lights were particularly dazzling, as if a fire had ignited.
Jiang Ye carefully got out of the excavator and leaned in to look.
He discovered that the glowing objects were actually severed neurons.
The neurons inside the brain of this jellyfish were still glowing, like countless tiny lamps.
"Could it be that this thing is still alive?"
Jiang Ye was so startled that he almost sat down, but he quickly regained his composure.
"If its brain has a hole dug in it and it's not struggling, this jellyfish should be dead. As for these glowing neurons, it might be a phenomenon similar to rigor mortis. After death, people occasionally twitch. This giant jellyfish might have some residual consciousness and bioelectricity in its brain, causing it to emit a faint glow, but it's no longer a threat."
Jiang Ye continued to operate the excavator, digging out lumps of glowing brain matter.
The price of the glowing brain matter was significantly higher than that of the outer brain matter.
A bag of glowing brain matter could sell for a high price of 387,000 yuan, almost double the price of the outer brain matter.
This also confirmed one of Jiang Ye's guesses: the fresher the jellyfish brain matter, the more valuable it was!
He had been very sleepy, but after seeing the glowing brain matter, he was no longer tired. He drove the excavator forward, heading straight for the center of the brain.
The further he went, the denser the glowing brain matter became, and the more neurons flashed red light on the flesh.
After advancing another ten meters, the surroundings and the front were as bright as a furnace!
When the bucket dug, it occasionally even sparked with bright electrical sparks.
Jiang Ye himself was shocked by static electricity several times.
Even just looking at the fiery glow around him, he could feel immense energy brewing and transmitting within this brain.
Jiang Ye worked non-stop until noon, and the excavator reached the deepest part of the jellyfish's brain.
There was still residual heat here, and the red light was blinding, illuminating Jiang Ye's face like a searchlight.
But the meat here was the most valuable. Jiang Ye carried a sack of core brain matter back to the fishing boat to sell, and its estimated value was as high as 870,000 yuan!
His mood was ecstatic, and he worked recklessly.
He only dug out the core brain matter and sold it immediately.
By one o'clock in the afternoon, the core brain matter of the first jellyfish was completely excavated.
His personal account balance reached an astonishing 55 million yuan!
As Jiang Ye carried the sacks out, he could already smell a strong stench of decay along the way, and the smell grew stronger the further out he went.
It was clear that the jellyfish corpses were rapidly decaying.
Jiang Ye felt dizzy with exhaustion, almost hearing his own heavy heartbeat thumping loudly, as if his heart was warning him: "Stop working, get some sleep. You're really too tired to keep going. Do you want to die?"
He decided to grit his teeth and persevere, at least digging out the most valuable core brain matter from each jellyfish.
Opportunity knocks but once, and time waits for no man. Once the brain matter rots, it becomes worthless garbage, and then it will be too late.
Jiang Ye used the excavator to drive directly into the jellyfish corpses, ignoring the outer brain matter, and aggressively plunged into the innermost parts.
By two o'clock in the afternoon, the core brain matter of the second jellyfish was emptied.
The account balance rose to 61,075,000 yuan!
By three-thirty in the afternoon, the core brain matter of the third jellyfish was completely excavated.
The account balance was 69,850,000 yuan.
Although the amount of money was considerable, Jiang Ye clearly felt the price of the brain matter plummeting as he sold it bag by bag.
The core brain matter, which was initially 870,000 yuan per bag, gradually dropped to 840,000, 790,000, and then 720,000, and now it was only 660,000 yuan per bag, and it was still falling.
At the same time, the jellyfish corpses had begun to emit a strong stench.
Of the 12 jellyfish corpses, 4 were already damaged, possibly hit by the annihilation beam, or perhaps cut by rocks when they landed.
Now, these 4 damaged corpses had almost completely rotted. The brain matter had turned a withered yellow-brown, with countless disgusting green spots on the surface. The stench could be smelled from hundreds of meters away. Jiang Ye tried digging out a piece of rotten brain matter with green spots and put it into the trading pod for detection:
[Item: Jellyfish Brain Matter (Rotten)]
[Item Description: Jellyfish brain matter decays extremely rapidly, a rare collapse-like rot. Various nutrients are quickly lost, and the internal structure disintegrates like a collapsing building. Therefore, it has quickly lost its value.]
[Estimated Value: 5 yuan]
The rotten ones were indeed very cheap, so he could only dig out the brain matter that hadn't completely rotted yet.
For the remaining 8 corpses, Jiang Ye drove the excavator and slowly excavated them one by one.
He worked from the blazing sun until dusk.
And from the fiery sunset sky to the star-filled night.
Finally, all the core brain matter of the jellyfish had been excavated.
Jiang Ye's account balance was fixed at 98.71 million yuan.
He was just one step away from having a net worth of one hundred million! Da Feng Novel Network.
He was too tired to bear it, and the food he brought on the fishing boat had also run out.
He returned to the captain's cabin, clicked on the screen, and set sail!
Jiang Ye dared not sit down, fearing that if he sat down, he would fall asleep and wake up to find the fishing boat in some unknown location.
He could only stand, occasionally jumping to fight off the encroaching sleepiness.
At one o'clock in the morning, the fishing boat returned to the dock.
Jiang Ye disembarked, ignoring the approaching wild wolves, and headed straight for Isabelle's living center.
(Too tired today, will update more tomorrow)