Angelica gave such a burning gaze from the side, but I chose to ignore her. After all I was protected by my contract, but others would be easily scamd if they dealt with her.
"Just gather up all the chefs here," I said to Sara without much explanation before turning to Gerry. "You'll do like before. Anyone with unique or higher attributes will be gathered in a separate group."
"Ok," Gerry looked slightly dejected. He didn't find any good talent before and so he looked a bit down. But this ti the group we had here was bigger and so the chances of finding good talents increased exponentially.
"I'll find those who have good mories," John volunteered. Anyone standing next to would realize that Angelica was on the verge of exploding.
"Co with ," I said while moving slightly away from everyone else.
"Yeah, trying to threaten with the contract again, ain't you?" She seed to misunderstand my intentions. I looked up to her and didn't speak while moving towards one direction; the dorm of the guards.
"What brings us here?" she realized my intentions halfway and her tone looked a bit shaky. I knew she might have deep trauma from that place, but she needed to overco this now.
That was why I chose her to follow . "You'll know later," I kept going without stopping while she celebrated her steps for a few monts and then hurried after inside the small building.
The place reeked with blood. After all that monster had a good feast before we even arrived. The dead bodies of those in her core team were moved and only the corpse of the monster laid at the end of the building.
"Are we here for its items?" she mistook my intentions again.
"You can salvage whatever you want," I said before suddenly recalling sothing. It was too late for now, as I already took the core of that monster.
If not, then it would be a great chance to learn a few deadly skills from it. Damn! I missed this chance amidst my worry over the core and monster materials.
"But don't ss with its flesh too much," I warned while bypassing it, "we'll need that for later."
"The at?" she pointed at it like it was a disgusting creature. I knew what she was thinking, what every human had in their minds at these tis.
However they were all wrong! One of the big mistakes humanity made at early stages was to avoid eating the monsters' at. These monsters looked creepy and ugly, a little disgusting to be honest, but their at was like precious dicine to our bodies.
They lived inside alien worlds, worlds filled with rich energy and good nutrients. So their bodies held such imnse strength without even using any skills.
If humans didn't consu their at early on, they would miss the chance to strengthen their bodies. Ti would co when humans would step into the world of cultivation, or ascension as many preferred to say, or true evolution.
Systems were like assisting agents to us. Without good bodies their help was limited. Those who took care of their bodies found it easier to elevate their cultivation fast, strengthening both their souls and bodies.
That wasn't limited only to that. Coupled with systems, stats, and classes later on, humans would really turn into a new page of their lives.
All of this depended simply on such small steps here, like eating the at of monsters. And I intended not to let the group under my lead to commit such a mistake.
If I had a way, then this would be one of the most valuable lessons I would love to share with all humanity. But there was no such a way to do that, at least not for now.
"What are you doing?
She seed to lose her interest with the monster once I hinted about eating it. However I was sure, once she tasted its at and felt the surging power inside her body; she would be addicted to it.
"I'm trying to get this thing working," I was linking to pipelines together. In fact this room wasn't in such a ss until the battle erupted here. The generator didn't take a big hit, luckily, but so of its tubes seed broken or out of placent.
I didn't know how this thing was built. However I had so common sense inside to guide . After all the tubes flung free and next to holes ant they should be inserted there, right?
"You want to turn this thing on?" she understood my goal before she went into montary silence. "They ca from dark and cold worlds, so this… This will be a good weapon against them."
Good girl! That was the main reason why I'd entrust my group here with you. "Do you know how to make it work?" I asked and she moved and started to help.
"I knew a thing or two about chanics but this… let's hope it works at the end."
She was bluffing! Just like ! What a marvelous couple we were!
*Grrrr* *Grrrr* *Clang*
At first it produced strange noises like it was a monster struggling to get up. Then after five tis of trying, it finally kicked into life. The next instant the entire place was lit up and we could finally see things clearly.
"Wow! It has rainbow scales!" Under the guidance of the light, Angelica noticed the color of that hybrid monster.
"Sure, it's a hybrid monster after all," I said as if it was sothing known, "if I were you, these scales won't be left behind. They will be fetched at the market for a high price."
"Oh, you sure know your stuff," she said while jumping around and gathering those few scales. This monster was a baby, so it didn't have its full body covered in scales. An adult would be, and I hoped not to et such a terrifying monster this soon.
"Let's go," I said and didn't wait for her to finish.
"Wait, wait for ," she urged but I could hear her sword working and collecting these scales. There was no danger here for now, so I let her do what she was doing and went outside.
The sight changed drastically with lights. The museum had a big space, but it was covered with a good wall with big lights all over it. The inside and outside of the museum was now lit up, showing the distance around for almost half a mile.
Not a single monster would dare to approach without being noticed. Such a big distance provided a safe zone for setting up good defenses here.
We had quite a number of survivors, but I knew by looking at the size of the museum, they would face a hard ti if they were hit with a large horde of monsters.
"It's looking bright here," Sara and Isabella ca side by side with the rest of his team. Only Allen returned to guard Allen.
"Gather up Angelica and her team," I didn't have much ti to waste here, "have you gathered the chefs?"
"Yeah, there are around twenty ones ready," Isabella said while Sara nodded.
"What about Gerry?" I looked at the distance but the poor Gerry was still checking the large number of people here.
"He still didn't find anyone worthy," Isabella adjusted her glasses before adding, "we also found ten people with good mories. But why is that all for?"
"You'll know in a minute," I said before leading them towards the museum, "gather up Angelica and her core team."
"I'm on it," John moved while the three girls followed . Sherry acted all silent all the ti, not speaking or doing anything at all but to follow my lead.
If not for the compass, I would have definitely suspected her.
The interior of the museum was vast and well lit. "Wow, it's my first ti here," Sara said while the others kept watching around.
"Here is enough," I stood at the entrance and refused to step in. up till now I wasn't sure if our enemies planted anything extra in here. And I didn't have ti or the power to resist more frightening monsters now.
I should save my power for my upcoming movie.
I didn't wait for long. In a few minutes everyone gathered. Eight from Angelica's team plus my four people, making us a group of sixteen youths including and Angelica.
"Listen up," I slowly said but I tried to put my most serious face on, "I'm going to teach you so stuff that are needed to survive this sh*t. First of all, so of you know about how to extract skills from the dead monster bodies, right?"
I ant my team by that. As expected, Angelica and her team looked in loss when I said that.
I started to briefly explain the process of getting skills and the most common ones they might find. Angelica started to get a grasp about why I arranged for the monster drop to be given to her.
After all she needed coins to buy stuff, not only for those here but for everyone as well.
Night vision, dashing, and even wolves' howling and slashing skills were good for common people. Having a large army of humans without giving them weapons and skills was a waste.
I also asked Angelica to buy so weapons for each one outside based on their stats and attributes. She nodded and everyone on my old team knew how to handle this.
"Now I'm going to speak about three important things. First is food," I intentionally paused before adding, "it might seem crazy but the only food we'll get for a long ti ahead will be those monsters' at."
"What?!"
"You gotta be kidding !"
"Holy sh*t!"
"That's groose!"
I expected their reactions but I ignored all of them. "We all have to survive. If you want to go outside and walk around big supermarkets then be my guest. Not only you'll face a lot of monsters, there won't be enough food left to eat."
"..."
My words left a big impression inside all of them. "We'll have to improvise. Chefs will help us do this, but we need so important ingredients from the market to turn this at into sothing we can eat."
In fact those ingredients aid at extracting more energy and not letting it be wasted by fire. The at of monsters wasn't poisonous or harmful. But eating it without such ingredients would be a waste.
"Angelica, you need to buy large amounts of proder powder, gemini aura, lepas herbs…" I started to narrate ten different ingredients from my mory. They were simply the cheapest out there, each group of them would cost around ten to fifty coins.
Her complexion fell for a few seconds before I noticed a relieved expression there. As expected of the most stingy person in the group; she checked the list first to know how much this would cost.
Even if I made her pay for it, which wasn't a big deal, she would only take the loss of one thousand coins at max.
"The second part is water," I said before adding, "we are in the central park. There are no ground monsters here for now, and water monsters won't arrive anyti soon. So we have a golden window to act."
In fact getting food was much easier than getting water. Water was considered so rare that it might be exchanged later on using coins.
"There are enough lakes here," Isabella said and I nodded. It was one of the perks of being in the central park and having a new yorker with us.
"But are these lakes safe?" Angelica seed hesitant, "I an won't it be dirty or sothing? It would be bad if we caught any disease or were poisoned by it."
"That's why we need two things from the market," I said and the mont I said these words, Angelica's face changed again.
"Market market market, can't we do anything without spending coins?" she grumbled but I didn't take her words seriously.
"We need detoxifying items to clear the lakes. There's an item called the tinki horn. It has great uses if we smashed it. It's not that hard and we can use our swords or shields to do it."
"Sounds like you used one before," Angelica seed a little sour about this.
"You can check it, it's only sold for twenty coins per patch. Each patch has ten horns. For one lake we might need ten patches."
"Oh," she felt this wasn't a big loss so her worry subsided and her face relaxed. "So we will select one lake and move the water from there then detoxify it. But how are we going to move enough water for us?"
I knew this would be more painful for her, but she had to carry so of the burden here with . "We won't carry them. There is another item called liquor. It has the ability to store large amounts of water inside, enough to sustain us for months."
"Wow," the eyes of everyone glead with realization, except for Angelica. She knew such a good item must co with a hefty price.
"Holy moly! It costs five hundred coins per piece!" she scread while looking at , "it can carry up to thousand liters! How many are we going to buy? Ten?"
"One per person," I slowly said and her face stiffened, "and if any of us is killed, you have to get this liquor from him."
It was a special item that would fall after death. So it wouldn't be a total loss. However everyone just calculated and knew this would cost a huge sum of coins.
"I will handle half of the cost," I slowly said, "and the rest will be divided on you."
As I said these words, the painful expression over Angelica's face softened a bit. "If you say so," she said and I knew what she was planning.
"Don't think I don't know how much I gave you, and how much it should bring from the market," yet my next words turned her face ashen white.
C'mon, you didn't expect to know all this stuff and not know how much you gained from my items, right?
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