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Chapter 277 - 244 First Encounter with Ji Xiang

Chapter 277: Chapter 244 First Encounter with Ji Xiang

But her situation was different from Jiang Xiao’s.

Nurse Xiaoqin stayed in the ward after setting up her IV, keeping a close watch on Xiaoya’s condition.

That way, even if Xiaoya wanted to sneakily pull out the needle, there was no chance.

In a word,

Kaidan wasn’t just about following rules; it was also about understanding human emotions and social graces!

After all, Xiaoya had no money, so people naturally had to follow the rules around her.

Cherry Blossom was going crazy with worry at this point!

This medication was definitely going to damage Xiaoya’s health!

The rules even spelled it out clearly.

[Rule Seven: You need to take medication and receive IV drips every day. Of course, this might cause some irreversible damage to your body.]

What did "irreversible" mean?

It was very likely that the damage from this medication to Xiaoya’s body was irreversible and could even carry over into reality, or into the next Kaidan.

"Damn it! How are the negotiations for Gold Coin exchange doing? If this keeps up, our Xiaoya is going to suffer a huge loss!"

Damn!

Our Xiaoya, with her exceptional talent and keen mind, was even living a worse life than that mustachioed muscle man!

Ultimately, it was because the other side had money!

The saying that money can make the devil turn the millstone wasn’t the least bit false!

"Don’t panic, Lord, the meeting has already begun!"

...

Hearing what the other side wanted, the several major nations fell silent.

They had already braced themselves mentally.

Whether it was money, people, or even high-precision technology and skilled personnel they were intending to negotiate to some extent.

But they never, ever expected this.

What the other side wanted was so ordinary that they couldn’t afford it.

Ten thousand kilograms of rice for one Gold Coin.

That’s right, just one~

It might sound like a terrifying exchange rate, but for these wealthy nations, it wasn’t too expensive to be unacceptable.

But you see, the lowest denomination in the other hands was 5,000 per note.

Did that mean they needed five hundred million kilograms of rice to exchange for one note?!

That’s crazy!

Cherry Blossom only produced 14 billion kilograms of rice a year!

Plus, repeatedly ravaged by Kaidan, how could it withstand such an exchange?

Pickle was even worse off!

With only about half of Cherry Blossom’s output, how were they supposed to exchange?

And those were just the official statistics.

As everyone knows, to look good on paper, reports always tend to... inflate the numbers.

Only they knew how much of that was just water.

And now, even if the other side was demanding an exorbitant price, they were helpless.

The other side clung to this amount, with an attitude of take it or leave it.

And the payment had to be made upon delivery of the goods!

Who could bear this?

Only the landowners had a little surplus, but the exchange rate was still excruciatingly painful.

Of course.

As a vastly leading nation, we couldn’t be petty.

They indicated that if rice wasn’t enough, flour, soybeans, corn, oil, and the like could all count towards the exchange.

"Can’t we negotiate the price?"

"Firm price, no bargaining."

After a long silence, it was the "big brother" who acted magnanimously.

"Let’s exchange for six notes... uh, make it five. Yes, five notes. Pickle, you’re closer, could you advance the payment?"

Old Park hesitated for a while but eventually agreed.

He wasn’t afraid of the elder brother reneging, since the Gold Coin notes would be in his hands; if the elder brother wanted them, he’d have to exchange them with grain.

Pickle gritted his teeth and exchanged for two notes!

As for Cherry Blossom, they were just about to speak when the old landlord indicated that as the elder brother, he would give them two notes this time!

Very generous indeed!

Old Park: .....

So, you just couldn’t bear to see my embarrassment, could you?

But anyone with a discerning eye could see.

The "righteous act" Big Brother took for the cherry blossoms was still because of the existence of the little bud, Sakura.

He wanted to use this grain loan to drastically pull in some goodwill.

The transnational call ended.

The smile on Director Wang’s face could not be contained any longer.

He hit the jackpot, completely hit the jackpot!

Exchanging just a few Gold Coin bills for 3.5 billion jin of grain was simply too terrifying!

To know, that little pink-haired one still has two whole sacks of it!

Not counting the pink-haired one, but Curly Hair and Black Sis each having two sacks was enough.

As for the grain obtained in exchange, Director Wang didn’t plan to keep it all.

He would just make a profit of five bills.

The remaining two [5000] quotas were just right for giving them one household each.

Ever since Kaidan began to descend.

The world grain price had started to climb.

Although Dragon Country boasted grain stores that claimed to feed the nation for over a year, even if there was a complete crop failure.

But after all, who would think they had too much of that, right?

Not to mention the future.

Merely by virtue of the grain exchanged, it was enough to cause the somewhat tense domestic grain prices to drop.

Pofier!

At this time, the higher-ups of some less powerful countries were pondering something.

What if... we issue an announcement or something, asking the Chosen to make some money after entering Kaidan?

We don’t say we have to rob like Jiang Xiao.

We can gain it through legitimate rights!

Just like the current hospital Kaidan.

We could ask the hospital director if there’s a need for nursing staff or something.

After all, there’s no harm in asking.

A mosquito is still meat however small, every little bit earned is still something.

...

The other half of Sakura’s IV drip was finally over.

The rules were right.

This stuff was indeed harmful to the body.

After one bottle finished, the whole body felt like it had been woken up halfway through a sleep, weak and somewhat groggy.

"Xi Nei... had I known the side effects were this severe, I would have hypnotized her..."

She had three skills, and with proper allocation, she should have been able to avoid the step of getting a drip.

Mainly because Sakura thought getting an IV wouldn’t be a big deal, at most it would just cause dizziness, blurred vision, ringing in the ears, and so on.

Plus, with the plan to take the initiative against the little boy, she thought it best to save the skills in case of an emergency.

She hadn’t expected that one IV would leave her so weakened...

"Come on! This is nothing. With my mind-reading talent, as long as I find Kaidan’s key character, I have a high chance of perfectly clearing it!"

After stepping outside, Sakura went straight to the door of Room No. 4.

Reflecting on what the little nurse had said last night, Sakura nodded, feeling she had not a full ten percent confidence, but still seventy or eighty percent.

’Dong dong dong~’

She knocked on the door, but no one responded.

Sakura twisted the door and entered directly.

Holy crap!

As soon as she opened the door, she was startled by the person inside.

It was a little boy around five or six years old, Ji Xiang.

He was sitting on the hospital bed like a puppet, face expressionless, but his eyes eerily fixed on Sakura’s face.

Those eyes...

They really didn’t seem like something a child could express.

They seemed to contain an array of emotions like cruelty, bloodthirstiness, violence, frenzy, malice, and even pity.

Just one glance was chilling to the bone.

But when Sakura decided to take a closer look, the various emotions in Ji Xiang’s eyes disappeared in an instant.

It was as if the little boy had never looked at Sakura from beginning to end.

Hiss?

Could it be a trick of the eye?

Or was it a hallucination from the side effects of just finishing the IV?