“Hehehehe, hehehehe.”

Chen Luo was laughing even while eating, unable to close his mouth, which caused him to spill quite a bit of rice.

The rice grains seemed to lecture him, “Every grain of rice is the result of hard labor under the midday sun.”

Chen Luo glanced at Dharma King, who understood immediately.

Dharma King went to Chen Luo’s table and licked up every grain of rice that Chen Luo had spilled.

Everyone was speechless. What a true simp.

Hehehehe, my Dharma King brother.

After the meal, Chen Luo and Dharma King had a private chat.

Dharma King asked, a little awkwardly, “You still haven’t told me how much the crystals of each level are worth?”

Chen Luo thought for a moment. “Two hundred for level seven, five hundred for level eight, fifteen hundred for level nine, and let’s say five thousand for level ten.”

Dharma King was stunned. Not long ago, a level ten crystal was worth 12,000 points. How could it have plummeted to this level in such a short time?

The level seven mutant that Dog killed today was only worth 200 points?

These days are getting tougher and tougher.

But now he openly has 4,500 points, and secretly saved up another 2,000. He just needs to get another level ten crystal.

Oh, heavens, help this dog out and give him a level ten crystal.

Chen Luo thought to himself, Dharma King’s points are almost over five thousand, so I need to suppress him a bit. Chen Luo brought out his prepared excuse and coughed.

“Dharma King, the meat is getting scarcer and scarcer, so it’s necessary to raise the price. One point for one jin of meat. I’m really losing money here.”

“Go ask the members. Twenty points for one jin of meat, and they’ll be fighting over it.”

“But you and I are dog brothers after all, so I’ll charge you five points per jin. Of course, you still don’t have to pay for your own meals.”

Dharma King’s face turned pale. He has two wives in his doghouse, and they eat twenty jin of meat every day, which is a hundred points.

They could survive on five jin of meat, but would Dharma King ever let his wives go hungry?

And that’s not even counting the puppies.

The price has suddenly increased fivefold.

Three months and they’ll eat up 10,000 of my points!

These days are impossible to live.

Dharma King looked at Chen Luo with trembling eyes. You really are stingy.

But Dharma King knew that protesting was useless.

Chen Luo said insincerely, “Or, you could let your two wives eat rat meat? That’s free.”

Am I scamming him? Not at all. Giving the members one jin of meat for twenty points is definitely a bargain.

Before, only charging one point was already incredibly generous.

Just then, Zhao Hai returned.

Zhao Hai often works outside gathering intelligence. It’s rare for him to come back, and even when he does, he only seeks an audience with Chen Luo when he’s collected information.

Chen Luo patted Dharma King. “That’s settled then. If you don’t have enough points, I can give you credit. You can owe me as much as you want. We can’t let our brothers’ wives go hungry, can we?”

There were faint tears in Dharma King’s eyes. This move was truly ruthless.

This dog can only work hard and leave the rest to fate.

Chen Luo looked at Zhao Hai. When he first met Zhao Hai, he was quite heroic, but now he’s lost a lot of weight.

Chen Luo smiled. “Hai, you’ve lost a lot of weight.”

Zhao Hai chuckled. “It’s good enough to have food. Who hasn’t lost weight in these times?”

It seemed like Chen Luo in front of him hadn’t lost weight, and might have even gained a little.

Zhao Hai took out a black notebook and handed it to Chen Luo. “It contains the information on all the bases that have recently come to Shendu. It’s all been compiled and I’ve brought it to you.”

Chen Luo’s eyes lit up as he took it.

Chen Luo didn’t have the time to investigate himself. He could only entrust this to the intelligence team.

Zhao Hai said, “Leader, take your time to read it. I won’t disturb you.”

Chen Luo tried to keep him. “Don’t rush off. I’ll have Ma Yu make you something to eat to reward you.”

Chen Luo called out, “Sister Yu, prepare a table of good dishes.”

Ma Yu agreed.

Zhao Hai chuckled. “If the leader is offering, then I won’t be polite. Song Ling came back with me too. Shall I call him over?”

Chen Luo nodded with a smile.

Having strength is one thing, but it’s also necessary to win people’s hearts.

Chen Luo opened the notebook and flipped through it page by page. It contained the locations of various bases, the approximate number of people, the names, ages, abilities, levels, and personalities of the leaders.

It was as detailed as possible.

Chen Luo wasn’t very interested in the minor characters.

Three red characters caught Chen Luo’s attention.

These were specially marked by Zhao Hai.

Lu Tianzhu, female, twenty-five years old, from K City, with over six hundred and thirty people under her command.

According to intelligence, her ability is nature-based. She advanced to level six three months ago in K City.

She controls powerful transformations and can briefly possess the abilities of a level seven.

She is kind and treats her subordinates well, but she has the indecisiveness common among women.

On the surface, her strength is similar to Xiong Wenhui’s, but she has more types of transformations than Xiong Wenhui.

She has a Firebird and a Thunder Wolf. Xiong Wenhui’s bear strength has strong defense, but lacks speed and agility, making her easy to kite.

If that was all, Chen Luo wouldn’t be very interested.

But Chen Luo knew that Lu Tianzhu was the only future nature-based King-level. Xiong Wenhui might reach the King-level, but Lu Tianzhu was a sure thing.

One of Mi Ling’s partners. Most of the vegetables Chen Luo stole were grown using her abilities.

After all, Lu Tianzhu’s level is high.

Chen Luo still remembered Lu Tianzhu being helpless against him, her eyes red, looking like she was about to cry, but stubbornly refusing to shed tears, appearing pitiful.

Chen Luo pondered for a moment. She’s a good seedling. It wouldn’t be bad to take her in.

How to subdue her?

Go to her doorstep and tell her to follow me?

Chen Luo thought about it. He’ll personally pay a visit to show his sincerity and see if he can directly take her in.

I’m different now. I’m not just a slightly famous base leader, but the undisputed overlord of Shendu, whom no one dares to provoke.

There’s really no one who can fight. A master is lonely.

It’s like an emperor personally going to recruit a makeshift troupe.

Lu Tianzhu isn’t a fool, nor is she the kind of ambitious woman. It’s very likely to succeed.

Besides Lu Tianzhu, the notebook also recorded another future King-level.

Chen Luo shook his head. Only two?

There might also be low-key existences who don’t attract attention.

Gu Changfeng, male, 27 years old, wind-based ability user, domineering and leaves no survivors. His base has over two thousand members.

Gu Changfeng is another future King-level.

It won’t be easy to subdue him. I’ll see how things go first and see if I can take him in when he can’t survive anymore.

As long as he doesn’t provoke me, Chen Luo won’t make things difficult for him.

The current Chen Luo looks down on all the survivors with a detached attitude. The future King-levels are not qualified to compete with Chen Luo at all.

Even Chen Luo’s Dharma King brother can look down on everyone.

Will Chen Luo still consider them as opponents?

Whether you can live or not depends entirely on Chen Luo’s mood.

Chen Luo thought for a moment. When he reaches level ten, he’ll develop branch bases. Shendu isn’t the only survivor gathering area.

(The plot of the branch base is very little, will not be described too much, also is pretend to be 13 a few times, will not have dog blood plot)

There are other areas that haven’t been affected by the rainstorm.

One is to recruit more potential survivors, and the other is to collect more high-level crystals.

Now that he hasn’t developed before is because he doesn’t have enough strength to hold the fort. Chen Luo can’t go there himself.

Level seven experts like Xia Haoran and Kuang Lei can indeed stand on their own. If they act in a low-key manner, they should be fine.

But Chen Luo is doing things in a domineering manner. For example, Xia Haoran can be considered top-notch, but he’s not invincible. Once he becomes the target of public criticism, he’s likely to be killed.

Dharma King’s strength is sufficient, but there’s a kind of cold that your mom thinks you have.

A mother worries about her child traveling thousands of miles. In case something happens and he encounters some high-level mutant, he’ll regret it too late.

Once Chen Luo reaches level ten, a Void Walk can take him two thousand li, arriving instantly, and he can rescue them in time. Then there’s nothing to worry about.