Chapter 148 — Return to the Ancient Capital

The credit ratio at the Ancient Capital University was roughly one credit to ten thousand.

So Shi Jin estimated five thousand credits—enough to exchange for resources worth fifty million in the resource vault.

This sum of resources… could somewhat relieve the immediate crisis.

"You guessed low!" Director Li's face scrunched up into folds.

"Eight thousand?"

"No!"

"A full ten thousand," Director Li said. "Surprised? Bet you didn't expect that!"

"Besides the credits allocated for your ranking in the professional assessment, there's also a scholarship calculated in for your joint discovery with the Ancient Capital University Archaeology Department of the iron-eating beast's evolved form."

Shi Jin: "Oh."

Director Li: ???

"How come you don't look happy at all?"

Shi Li: "I'm happy. Couldn't be happier."

Happy as he was, he wasn't completely happy. The Nine-Tailed Fox Heart in the resource vault cost fifteen thousand credits, and the Void Tear cost eighteen thousand—he still couldn't afford them.

Counting this ten thousand credits, his assets for preparing Buggy's evolution materials now amounted to nearly a hundred and thirty million…

Still not quite enough, he felt—he'd need to scrape together at least three hundred million to meet Buggy's evolution material requirements.

One for the psychic type, one for the spatial type.

Still, it wasn't too big a problem. Setting aside whether Buggy even needed resources of that level and whether it could absorb them, Shi Jin had already found a way out.

He'd heard that the rich tyrant Gem Cat who managed the resource vault was extremely wealthy and loved collecting all sorts of odd things, paying high prices for them. Shi Jin planned to go sell a batch of bug silk when the time came. He truly couldn't support this many pet beasts anymore; it seemed he really had to sell his pet beasts' labor now.

Director Li: "Sigh, you young people… how come none of you have any concept of money?"

"When I was in university, my dad gave me ten million in living expenses, and I was thrilled for ages."

Shi Jin: "……"

Damn rich kid.

School hadn't officially started yet, and new students from all over the world had mostly not arrived. Through connections, Shi Jin had gotten his student card and his dorm key early.

Although the Iron-Eating Beast Research Institute was quite spacious, each student's private dorm was no slouch either.

In size and luxury, it was basically no inferior to Shi Jin's training villa in Pingcheng—you could say the school had outfitted each student with their own training villa, all to make it convenient for students to interact with their pet beasts.

Now he understood why the Ancient Capital University's total area rivaled that of an entire city like Pingcheng.

With a new place to live, Shi Jin simply stopped squeezing into the Iron-Eating Beast Research Institute. He moved everything from Pingcheng straight over and planned to make this his new home.

"Squeak?"

"Chirp?"

"Eep?"

Walking through the maze-like dormitory district of the Ancient Capital University, Shi Jin finally found his super dorm after a long while. With relief, he pulled Eleven, Buggy, and Baby Ginseng out of the Relic Space.

There was also a pile of daily necessities moved over from Pingcheng, all tossed out of the Relic Space as well.

"All right, time for you three to get to work. I need to go meditate and build you a home. I'll look after the big family, and you all look after your little one."

Eleven, Chongchong, and the ginseng baby: "..."

Eleven looked at Chongchong. This time, Chongchong turned its gaze to the ginseng baby. Before, they hadn't been able to understand one another, but now, thanks to its efforts, the ginseng baby could roughly grasp what it and Eleven meant.

"Squeak! (Don't forget to use your sweet scent to make the new home smell nice!)" Chongchong gestured as it wove expressions for the ginseng baby out of silk.

"Awooooh! (Keep it up, keep it up, this is part of your training too!)" Eleven cheered it on. Everyone had gone through the same thing.

The ginseng baby: QAQ. I've added this grudge to the list too.

So when would a new teammate join the team? Once that happened, it would be the one giving orders.

Meanwhile, in the dormitory, Shi You had just pulled open the curtains and hadn't even sat down to rest when his phone suddenly rang. He glanced at it: Hao Ling, from the School of Mechanical Engineering. It was this very person who had single-handedly completed the evolution equipment for Lin Yun and two other beast tamers of the iron-eating beasts.

Shi Jin answered the call, and Hao Ling's voice came through at once.

"Shi Jin, all the mineral materials are ready. Now it's just a matter of what style you need. Do you have any ideas yet?"

"I do, I do. I just finished preparing them yesterday. I'll send you the design sketches right now." Shi Li.