Chapter 17

Chapter 17: The Money-Grubbing System Shop

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

[ Martial Arts Mastery level 2. After the exchange, the host will have the strength to repel 100 enemies. Amount required to purchase: 10,000,000 ]

After seeing the amount of money required, Tang Feng silently closed the system interface and cursed, “You f*cking money-grubbing system!”.

He felt that the system had learned its math from a physical education teacher.

If spending 100 thousand yuan had equated to possessing the strength to repel 10 enemies…

Should the strength required to repel 100 enemies not only cost 1 million yuan?

Why the hell was it 10 million yuan?

Nevertheless, having the strength to repel 10 enemies was more than enough. In the harmonious society that they lived in, the need to fight rarely came up. As such, even if he possessed the ability to fight back against 100 enemies, he would rarely utilize it, if not never.

Of course, this was all an effort to console himself.

If he had the money, forget beating back 100 people, he would max out the skill and set his sights on leaping into outer space with a single stomp of his foot instead!

However, this was just his fantasy. The real reason he had picked up this ability in the first place was to protect himself. He would rather not draw attention to himself if possible.

Initially, Tang Feng had utilized his new ability to practice bajiquan1 in his living room. However, due to how small his room was, it had only taken two moves before he broke his coffee table.

Then, he heard Qin Yanan’s voice coming from above him. “Damn you Tang Feng, are you trying to demolish the house? If you don’t feel like sleeping, I’ll indulge you in your service!”

Tang Feng instantly shivered. He quickly cleaned up the mess he had made, took a shower, and went to sleep.

Tang Feng was a heavy sleeper, and since he was out of a job, he would usually sleep late and wake up around 10 in the morning.

However, perhaps due to the changes in his physique, the morning after purchasing Martial Arts Mastery, he had woken up at 7, and he had found it difficult to continue sleeping.

He felt as if there was a boundless amount of energy churning within his body, waiting to be unleashed.

With no other choice left to him, he reluctantly changed into a set of sportswear and went out to run two laps around the city block to exhaust his excess energy.

Upon passing by a restaurant that served breakfast, he bought two servings of soy milk and fried dough sticks.

Then, he ran upstairs and knocked on Qin Yanan’s door. “Sis, open the door. I bought breakfast for you. Hurry up and eat…”

“Brat, if you don’t want to sleep, then fine by me. But why drag me into this torture as well?” Qin Yanan’s angry voice rang out from her room.

“Do you even know what time it is? It’s high time you woke up! Otherwise, your breakfast will get cold.”

“Huh?! It’s not even 8 o’clock yet. Do you have a death wish, brat!?”

“Oh, you can go back to sleep then, I’ll hang the breakfast on your door.”

Tang Feng had a mischievous smile on his face. He hung the breakfast on her door handle and turned to leave.

Despite already putting quite some distance between himself and her room, he could still Qin Yanan’s angry curses.

After returning home to take a shower and to grab a change of clothes, Tang Feng headed straight to Antique Street.

His appraisal of the porcelain bowl the previous night had given him a wake-up call.

The antique business was truly a lucrative industry for him to look into. Now that he had the Scanning System, no treasures will escape his sight.

It would simply be a waste of God’s gift had he not picked out a few antiques for himself.

Antique Street was located not far from where he lived. It was only a dozen minutes’ walk, and thus, it had saved him the travel fare.

However, despite living only a short distance away from the street, he had not once stepped foot there.

This was because the antique industry was rather cut-throat. Those who knew not of the workings within the industry were like lambs to a slaughter.

Antique Street was by no means wide, as its diameter was only around 7 to 8 meters.

There were antique shops located on both sides along with several stalls.

Although it was still early in the morning, Antique Street was already bustling with activity. Many plainly dressed individuals were squatting beside the stalls and bidding at various artifacts.

Tang Feng knew very well that although these people were dressed in basic clothing, their net worth ranged, within the hundreds of millions.

Since he knew nothing about antiques, he squatted beside a stall and activated the Scanning System to do the work for him.

Now that his Scanning System was at level 2, his scanning range had expanded to around 2 meters.

Once activated, the information of the items within two meters in front of him would all be displayed before his eyes.

He wondered how far the Scanning System could scan once it was upgraded to level 3 or level 4.

Perhaps once the Scanning System was fully upgraded, he might be able to scan all items located along Antique Street.

Just thinking about such a scenario had made him excited.

He put away his thoughts and focused his attention on the stall.

However, after scanning the items it displayed, he was greatly disappointed.

Although there were good items within the stall, all of them were sold at high prices, which were around what the system hadappraised their value to be.

It could be seen that the stall owner was very shrewd.

Seeing that there was nothing there for him to purchase, he got up and moved to the next stall.However, the same situation replayed itself, as all the good items were sold at their true prices.

This was understandable. After all, these stall owners were masters of their profession, and thus, they were able to price their products accurately.

Therefore, in order to drive a bargain from these shrewd antique sellers, not only did one need the know-how, they also needed luck.

However, for Tang Feng who possessed the Scanning System, he required no such thing as luck. All he needed to do was to sweep through each stall one at the time.

He refused to believe that there were no lowball offers throughout the entirety of Antique Street.

After visiting six or seven stalls in a row, he finally found something good in one of the stalls.

It was a palm-sized jade toad. The craftsmanship was rather lackluster, to the extent that unless one paid close attention to it, nobody would notice that it was actually a toad.

Nevertheless, the toad’s appearance was not what attracted Tang Feng’s attention. Rather, it was the contents within its belly.

[ Gold Nugget. Weighs around 200 grams. Appraised value: 500,000… ]

Tang Feng did not immediately pick up the toad. Instead, he took his time “inspecting” other items first before finally bringing his attention to the toad.

“Boss, how much is this toad?”

The owner of this stall was a man in his forties. His pair of triangular eyes darted around randomly. One look and one could tell that he was a very shrewd person.

“Five…” Halfway through his words, he suddenly glanced at Tang Feng. Upon noticing him, he immediately retracted four of the five fingers he had lifted up. “1 thousand!”

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Tang Feng noticed his expression and immediately sneered in his heart.

You’re probably trying to take advantage of me since it’s my first time here, huh?

Fine then, let’s see who’s the true expert here.

“1 thousand? That’s a little expensive.”

Tang Feng hesitantly stated.

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