Volume 2 Chapter 28 A foolish spendthrift

At that second, Shao Qing felt that she was a rich lady. With the mutated vegetation on her body, if she were to casually take one out, it would be extremely expensive.

Thinking like that then she must be worth millions of crystals.

In a flash her mood became a lot better.

After making a full circle, she did not see any vegetation that stood out. All of them were of little value and interest, plus they were all quite pricey.

Seeing that nothing piqued her interest, staying any longer would have been a waste of time, so she prepared to leave.

Cai Yingying seeing that she had spent such a long time looking around but didn’t say anything thought that Shao Qing didn’t own enough crystals. Secretly stealing a glance at Yan Qiyue, she warmly said: “Qing Jie, were there any mutated vegetations that caught your eye? If yes, you can tell me. We could be said to have gone through misfortunes together. I can buy it for you as a thanks for taking care of me on our trip.”

Shao Qing shook her head: “Nothing caught my eye. None of these vegetations suits me.”

The store owner recognized Cai Yingying. He automatically identified her as a Bai Fu Mei*. Not willing to lose this business opportunity, they rushed to speak: “Don’t leave yet. Our store doesn’t just have these mutated vegetation. If none of these caught your eye, follow me inside. We have some new products inside that are a lot better than the ones outside.”

* Ms. Perfect; someone fair-skinned, rich and beautiful

Shao Qing waved her hand. She was already a rank 4 and had 4 mutated vegetation. Moreover, she wasn’t planning on switching them anytime soon. Even if she did look it would be for the spirit of shopping. She also didn’t want to waste anymore time here, she wanted to go out and look at other stores.

But Cai Yingying thought she wasn’t willing to spend money, so she pushed her to the second floor. On the second floor, there were even more mutated vegetations. Some were about the same as the ones below while some were completely different.

The store owner went all the way inside. Inside there was a row of mutated vegetation. Just looking at their appearance, one could see that they looked a lot better than the ones outside.

The owner passionately said: “These are all things retrieved by the military units that work with our store. Please take a look at this one. This is a Swine basket grass. Not only can it hunt and skill small mutated animals, but it can also hunt rank 1 zombies, however, make sure not to release it in a zombie concentrated area because they have a similar scent to blood that can easily attract large numbers of zombies.

Shao Qing stared blankly. Isn’t this a vegetation fairly similar to her man eating flower? There was only a slight difference with the utility. This swine basket grass relied on its smell to entice zombies or mutated animals over; however, it could easily go wrong and end up causing them to be surrounded by zombies and get killed.

As for her man eating flower, not only does it have a better effect, the crucial point is that it could be on ht emove? while it hunted the zombies. Even superhumans could be eaten.

It was clear that her man eating flower was better than the swine basket grass by a lot. So, Shao Qing shook her head to show she had no interest at all.

The owner could only point to another mutated vegetation: “Take a look at this one. Spring Flower. It is able to emit a special aroma causing zombies to lose their sense of smell. It’s suitable when one is surrounded by zombies and trying to escape. In fact its aroma also affects superhumans, although the effect isn’t as good compared to its effect on zombies.

“How long does the effect last?” Shao Qing asked. The owner felt a bit embarrassed: “Nearly half a minute.”

Shao Qing immediately moved her eyes away. Thirty seconds. If they were surrounded by a bunch of zombies, running away wouldn’t be a possibility. Moreover, if there weren’t too many zombies present, just her alone would be able to handle the situation so it was completely of no use.

The owner rubbed his nose and continued: “If you don’t have any interest in that one, take a look at this one. This is a blood vine. The power of it could snap off the average person’s neck. It’s power is similar to a python.”

Shao Qing already had vines that had poisonous thorns which would have a better effect, thus she continued to shake her head.

The owner continued to introduce a few others, but he began to feel a bit impatient. In his eyes, all these mutated vegetations weren’t bad, however Shao Qing only shook her head. It was as if none of them even caught her eye. It must not be the case that she didn’t like them but the prices she could not accept.

Even Cai Yingying joined in: “If you see anything you like, you can just tell me. I can help pay.”

Shao Qing calmly replied: “It’s not that I didn’t see any I didn’t like. It’s just that I already have these mutated vegetations.” To speak frankly, the levels were too low that they just didn’t catch her eye.

The owner’s embarrassment became rage. His shop was quite well known in Jing Du. From low, middle, to high ranked mutated vegetations, he had them all. A lot of wood elemental users were frequent customers of his shop. However with one sentence, Shao Qing had brought down their store by a class. It would be strange if he didn’t get angry.

The owner didn’t even care about giving Cai Yingying face. After all, his backer wasn’t any worse than Cai Yingying’s. He immediately mocked them: “Since our shop’s level is too low then it’s normal that it won’t catch your eye. You must be at least a rank four user then right?”

Shao Qing replied seriously: “I didn’t mean to belittle your shop. There just really aren’t any mutated vegetations that I need. The mutated vegetations that you have pointed out are all very similar to the ones I have. In fact, they are a little stronger as well.”

Shao Qing already made it very clear, but the owner felt like her explanation was a slap to his face. Unconvinced he said: “Oh, such a high ranked mutated vegetation? Then it must have mutated twice!”

He had no idea that he actually had just spoken the truth. Shao Qing was a rank 4 superhuman and her vine had mutated three times already.

However, Shao Qing didn’t have any intention of showing off. Smiling she just got ready to leave. What was the point of showing off to a shop owner? Slapping someone’s face is quite invigorating but enmity is not. Also she had just entered Jing Du, being too high-profile wasn’t good.

Yan Qiyue wasn’t willing to have others bully his wife. He coldly sneered: “Listening to your tone, it seems like you’re looking down on others. Ah Qing, why don’t you bring out your worse mutated vegetation for him to look at. Help him open his eyes. This way in the future he won’t look at people through the cracks of a door. That would make him cross-eyed.”

Shao Qing helplessly said: “Let’s just go out to get food. After walking this long, everyone must be hungry.”

The owner replied immediately: “Don’t, help me open my eyes.”

Having no other options, Shao Qing brought out her man eating flower. Everytime Da Hua came out, it resembled a starving ghost. Following its smell to find something to eat, saliva was already dripping out of its mouth.

Like saliva, the liquid came dripping out of the petals and landed on the floor. Immediately green smoke arose. Even though the floors were made of ceramic tiles, the liquid corroded it leaving a small hole.

Swaying its head, Da Hua at once spotted the swine basket grass. Probably because one mountain can’t contain two tigers*, it immediately pounced towards it. Directly smashing into the glass and shattering the covering into pieces, it swallowed the swine basket grass in one swoop.

* in an area, there cannot be two very strong people leading

After swallowing, Da Hua let out a loud belch. After it was satisfied, it nestled against Shao Qing’s leg.

Shao Qing patted it’s head, then apologized: “Da Hua is a bit spoiled, I should have stopped it. I am sorry that it caused you some losses. How much was the swine basket grass? Let’s count it as me buy