Artifact Report

Chapter 221 Jin Xueli Xueli is thinking about who this person is.
She didn't get enough sleep when she came back from the nest, and was awakened by a man's voice in her dream.

In order to save Chai Si, Jin Xueli went through a thrilling night. When she returned home, she found that it was only four o'clock in the morning. She found it unbelievable - so many things happened in just a few hours?

If she hadn't seen the sun since she went out, she would have believed it even if someone told her that a whole day had passed.

Jin Xueli rushed into the house like a zombie, fell on the sofa, buried her face in the pillow, and died for a while.

When she felt that the pillow was almost soaked by her breath, she mustered up her remaining strength, got up and checked her things.

Fortunately, everything that should be there is there, at least nothing important is lost; the newly customized weapon hammer is also safely tucked away in the backpack.

I didn't expect that it would come in handy as soon as I customized it - it was really unexpected that I could gain my first practical experience in the relatively safe city of Blackmore.

Well, maybe she is quite lucky?

Jin Xueli tossed her backpack, changed out of her dirty, wet clothes, and took a soaking hot bath, feeling every wrinkle in her body softened by the soak. She emerged, wrapped in a towel, steaming, and gulped down a large glass of iced juice before crawling back into bed.

...Being a hunter is really tiring. Not only is it tiring in the lair, but it is also tiring when you come back.

She held her cell phone and looked at the extra deposits in her account, counting them one by one in her mind: one sum from selling vulture information, one sum from going to the cemetery, and another sum from spreading the information... all added up, it was almost twenty thousand dollars.

Chai Si's life money was not seen for a while.

In just one or two days, without even having to go to the nest, you can get so much, which is not bad...

The danger level of following Chai Si these past two days is roughly the same as that of the Nest; the biggest difference, however, is that no one knows for sure they'll find the artifacts on their next trip to the Nest. If you're unlucky, you might go a dozen times and still come up empty-handed. In this sense, Chai Si is slightly better than the Nest.

She probably didn't curse too harshly tonight? She still has money for her life, right?

Speaking of which... where did that voice in the dream come from?
It's like he's specifically introducing her to a job that can make money... That's quite kind... I think I can come a few more times...

Jin Xueli closed her eyes in a daze with a faint sense of satisfaction.

It was not until the next day that she realized that she was actually just an ordinary person who had never really come into contact with wealth.

After getting up, she reached for her phone as usual and swiped it for a while with sleepy eyes.

The first thing he saw was the Nest's notification of important progress last night - he didn't know why the Nest hated Chai Si so much. When they saw him get two target artifacts, they almost wanted to send residents into Blackmoor City and slap him hard, as if to knock everything off his body.

...If he's so annoying, why not invite him to join?
Aren't you afraid that the final winner of the domination game will really be Chai Si?

As a result, she was also scolded by the nest, who told her to use her body to block the muzzle of the gun and other nonsense, which made her angry just reading it.

Whether being loved or hated by the nest, it's not a good thing.

The nest never treats anyone kindly; in its eyes, any human being is just garbage that should have been decomposed and recycled long ago, and then used as raw materials to build the nest.

The source of the nest is humans, and what the nest hates most is humans.

And he only seems to hate people.

She had heard before that someone fell into a nest while holding a pet cat. The person died as expected, but the cat lived a good life under the care of residents. It was said that it continued to live in the nest after death - this did not sound human; but in the nest, anything was possible.

Of course, this is just an urban legend among hunters; no one would actually try to carry an animal in there.

Jin Xueli sighed.

She was not a particularly gifted hunter.

Whether a hunter's talent is good or not depends largely on what the "path" is.

The simpler and easier the passage, the better the talent - a simple passage into the nest means that people can ensure the maximum degree of alertness, concentration and energy; it also means that they can escape as quickly as possible when encountering danger.

Just like a snowball, starting from the foundation of access, the advantage will grow bigger and bigger as long as the hunter's ability is qualified.

A hunter who can go to the nest at will and come back at will, the understanding, observation and experience accumulated in the nest are definitely not comparable to those of a hunter like Jin Xueli who has broken through the passage.

Look at her again?

Unless I drink until I feel dizzy and numb, I just can't muster up the courage to jump off the building; no matter how many times I jump, it takes a long time to recover after landing before I can barely regain normal mobility.

Jin Xueli knew very well that compared to Brianna, Chai Si and Fu Tailan of the Wesley team, she had no advantage at all.

If she wants to win the game of domination, she will be the first to be eliminated.

The risks and benefits were completely disproportionate. The best strategy was to gain solid, worldly benefits from the competition. Whether Chai Si could ultimately win the game was a murky matter; but regardless of his ultimate outcome, Jin Xueli's immediate gains were tangible. If Chai Si wasn't righteous, Brianna would be fine.

If Brianna can't be found, Fu Tailan can do it... But Fu Tailan is just a supervisor hired by the Morgan family. When it comes to mobilizing resources, he may not be as flexible as the other two.

Jin Xueli has been living on her own since before she became an adult. Sometimes when she looks at others, and herself, she is a bit like the black square: she breaks people down into numerous resource packages.

She knew what each one could be exchanged for and what each one would demand.

Since she was recruited, she has gained an additional resource package that is extremely important to other contestants - "a contestant who can obtain another part of the information that dominates the game."

How to maximize its use while protecting yourself is the real strategy you should adopt after entering the game of domination.

…How strange, she thought absentmindedly while preparing lunch for herself.

When she hangs out with her friends, she is genuinely happy; when she sees others encounter misfortune, she is also genuinely worried.

She likes people, and especially beautiful people; she likes to smell people's scent and touch people's skin. She always wants to know what happens to others, what they think, and what they say, and she finds it very interesting.

Even if it was Chai Si, Jin Xueli liked him and could talk to him endlessly happily. What's more, he was pleasing to the eye - in short, everything was sincere.

But as soon as she turned around, she could forget it.

As if there has never been any sincerity.

Jin Xueli put a few potato chips into her mouth, listening to the crisp sound that briefly drowned out the sound of the TV.

Her thoughts were always like a wild horse running out of control, and she had no idea where she was thinking. She ate potato chips in this way for a while, and when she realized what she had just heard on TV, she twisted her body in a hurry and almost sprained her ankle.

"Mayor Oliver Meissen is about to sign and approve a four billion dollar social housing expansion project. This project will provide a large number of…"

Jin Xueli stared at the TV in a daze for a while.

...Did Chai Si go to see the mayor?
She could not see any difference from the mayor's snow-white, swollen, stiff and huge face.

Ah, so, after Han Liuyue was trapped in the nest, she looked a bit like the mayor... Is it a coincidence?
I wonder if they managed to get through to the mayor? Probably not. The mayor hasn't changed at all.

How's Han Liuyue doing? Has she recovered?
In addition to being easily distracted, Jin Xueli has another fatal flaw, which is curiosity.

She picked up her phone, weighed it over and over again, and called Han Liuyue first - no one answered.

I forgot, Kai’s family never answers the phone.

I sent a message, but Han Liuyue didn’t reply.

So... should I ask Chai Si?

But I just scolded him yesterday, and I haven't seen the money yet. If I take the initiative to go back to him, I always feel a little embarrassed...

"what?"

Jin Xueli looked at the phone and couldn't help but make a sound.

It turned out that at some point, Chai Si sent her a text message. The message was short, just asking her to contact a lawyer and attaching the lawyer's contact information.

"Why, are you going to sue me?" Jin Xueli muttered softly. "Did I infringe on your reputation?"

She wiped the potato chip crumbs from her mouth, put down her phone, and continued to prepare lunch. Within five minutes, she returned, her hands twitching like a ghost. After a moment of hesitation and thinking over and over again, she finally picked up her phone.

The lawyer who answered the phone was a dull, bland-speaking man who sounded like he was in his fifties.

"Hello, I've been waiting for your call, Miss Jin Xueli."

What are you waiting for me for? I want to send a lawyer's letter but there's no address?
"I will be responsible for the partial equity transfer process between the company's founder, Mr. Scott, and you. Please allow me to introduce it..."

what?
For a moment, Jin Xueli thought she had dialed the wrong number. What company? What equity?
Scott, who is that?

　I like Xueli's contradictory feeling of being both warm and cold. This chapter is really more character-oriented than plot-oriented, so the title can only be called Xueli's Fantasy... It really is her fantasy...

　　I've actually said before that I'm not particularly gifted at creating characters. It takes me a long time to explore the characters that famous authors can establish in just a few chapters. I vaguely sensed this sense of contradiction in Sydney's character a long time ago, but it took a long time to truly solidify it bit by bit... I often envy George R.R. Martin's brain.

　　My update time has a tendency to be later and later, which is not good.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)