I Am Your Natural Enemy-Chapter 619 - 242: Digging a Basement, Approaching Science Series (5k)

"Nanwu County also has places that produce Warm Jade?"

"Why wouldn't Nanwu County have them?" Feng Yao shot back with a question.

Seeing that Wen Yan was indeed interested in this, Feng Yao immediately pulled a Cai Qidong-style upsell.

"The mine we found this time isn't big, but the quality is decent, and Warm Jade itself isn't very expensive.

Actually, people here prefer jadeite as a whole—the price is higher, and there could be some extremely high-value specimens too.

This Warm Jade Mine is still in the exploration stage, hasn't started extraction yet.

From the entire vein, you can have first pick of anything that can be mined.

If you choose the raw stones, then the price will be even lower.

If you take on the upcoming task, with your merit, I can even talk to the higher-ups for you.

We can directly allocate a portion of the vein to you according to percentage.

From what we've explored so far, there's quite a bit of Blood Warm Jade too.

This source isn't enough to support a local industry by itself.

But if you're using it for yourself, even if you use it to build houses, you'll never finish it all."

Wen Yan was indeed pondering how to get his hands on more high-quality Warm Jade.

The premium stuff he had on hand was strictly for emergencies.

When practicing punches, he always used the cheap, sold-by-the-kilo low-quality Warm Jade.

Now even those low-quality Warm Jades are starting to run low.

A standard-sized Warm Jade isn't even enough for him to fill up his qi once with Explosive Great Sun.

At his current pace, if he wants rapid progress in cultivation, he needs to use Explosive Great Sun regularly—the consumption is already massive.

What limits him now isn't his own endurance, but that the Gray Cloth is struggling to withstand Wen Yan's several hours of high-intensity Burst Qi every day.

Without the Gray Cloth to help tightly lock down all the erupting power, his approach isn't impossible, but his efficiency would tank by more than half.

"I've still got training, not that much time."

"I've got an approval document here for Rakshasa Ghost Market to open an entrance in Virtue City.

You entering the Ghost Market doesn't affect anything; you can use the Ghost Market every day and still go home to sleep.

Daily work hours are counted at six hours, anything over counts as overtime.

Anything that's not nine-to-five is counted as overtime, and during assignments, the basic hourly wage applies.

If we need you to step in to resolve an incident, the final pay will be settled based on difficulty and various ratings."

At this point, Feng Yao pulled out two sheets of documents from his bag.

"Last time you said your basement is a bit too small.

I had someone check the files here—turns out the geology under this villa community is extremely stable. 𝕗𝚛𝚎𝚎𝐰𝗲𝗯𝗻𝚘𝚟𝚎𝗹.𝕔𝐨𝕞

By rights, this is the kind of place where putting up a high-rise would be most cost-effective.

But when Wu Tingsheng bought this land back then, it was just wilderness.

Building a tower there at that time, that was just some overeager power play.

If you dig out two more basement levels down there, it shouldn't be a problem, and it won't affect the neighbors either.

Plus, with the big intersection right behind your house,

if you dig two more basement floors northward from under your place, it actually gives you a tactical benefit for monitoring the intersection better.

So, this project can be specially approved.

But you can't pick the construction team, we have to do it ourselves."

"Hmm?" Wen Yan looked at the paperwork, a bit surprised. "How long have you been planning this, Feng Yao?"

Then Feng Yao took out another document with someone's profile on it.

"This is a newly-discovered Professional from the Scorching Sun Department—specialty: Builder.

He can take on this kind of renovation for you, and it won't disrupt your current living situation.

Super convenient, and super discreet."

Wen Yan glanced at the file and noticed it even had an arrest record.

"How'd you bust this guy?"

"Illegal mining, encroaching on farmland, illegal logging, illegal construction, unauthorized mini hydroelectric stations, etc..."

"In plain English."

"He hollowed out the belly of a mountain and built an eight-story building in there."

"Uh, and you guys didn't notice before—how'd you finally figure it out?"

"It actually wasn't us. Turns out, for a while before he built the hydro station in the underground river, his electricity usage was abnormally high.

He was pretty sly—the electricity was tapped straight from the main line in a small village nearby, paid at 1.5 yuan per kWh direct to the villagers.

But his changes made the village's overall power usage double off-season compared to previous years.

The power company happened to be helping investigate illegal mining and traced it back to him.

That's when he got handed off to the Scorching Sun Department..."

Wen Yan looked at the profile photo—a guy with glasses, looking neat and proper, like he just graduated and was about to start a civil engineering job site.

"Now that's a talent."

Dug out eight stories and nobody found him—if that's not hidden, I don't know what is.

Flipping through the rest: interior building photos and appraisals. The decor was so-so, but structurally, it's basically an apocalypse fortress.

"So, what do you want me to do exactly?"

"Just like you said: let the people from the martial trial event start real action for once.

After all, not every incident is always a nightmare or a death trap.

If something pops up that they can't handle, just lend a hand to keep things from blowing up."

"Alright. If anything comes up, call me."

"I'll add you to a group."

Feng Yao whipped out his phone and added Wen Yan to the chat group.

Over a hundred people in the group, with a few familiar faces inside.

As soon as Wen Yan joined, he sent out a red envelope, said hi, then closed his phone.