Chapter 108: Countermeasures

As a Dimensional Merchant, he still had to take that path eventually.

It also did not conflict at all with what Elder Mensa asked of him. After all, it was just a side task.

Moreover, Elder Mensa offered the condition that his branch of Iktans would forever be his ‘underlings’. Lei Yaotian thought about it and found no reason to refuse.

Besides, Elder Mensa also said that this matter did not necessarily have a time limit.

For Lei Yaotian, this made the feasibility of the operation very high.

However, what made Lei Yaotian somewhat uncomfortable was the crystal Elder Mensa took out. And after he promised to do this, the system made a sound to remind him.

“It seems I really have to do this slowly.” Although Lei Yaotian agreed and let Elder Mensa take out the so-called ‘Star God’ promise crystal, Lei Yaotian also needed to use some methods to make sure Elder Mensa did not forget his promise.

Thinking of this, Lei Yaotian’s expression softened a bit.

“Alright, since you have made preparations. Then I think we should also create some kind of contract to ensure you keep your promise.”

Facing Lei Yaotian, Elder Mensa did not say much.

“As you wish.”

“Good!” Lei Yaotian clapped his hands. “Very straightforward. Then I will have Monica go to your people and have each of them press their blood seal. This way, we will have a contract between us.”

Elder Mensa did not object to this at all. A contract could not just benefit one side. After all, Lei Yaotian, as the one carrying it out, also needed something to guarantee his benefits.

Elder Mensa understood this very well.

Moreover, the little trick he played earlier was indeed not very likable.

Luckily, Lei Yaotian did not get angry. Otherwise, he really wouldn’t know how to handle the situation.

In fact, Mensa did not know that Lei Yaotian was just going with the flow. As a Dimensional Merchant, if Lei Yaotian wanted to do big business, he would eventually have to integrate the resources of this universe to sell through the Dimensional Trading System.

Therefore, integrating resources would inevitably lead to some conflicts with other civilizations in this universe.

It was even possible to start some wars. That was why Lei Yaotian agreed to Mensa’s request so readily.

Coming back to it, Mensa’s condition was that his branch of Iktans, for generations, including their descendants’ descendants, would be Lei Yaotian’s ‘underlings’. This meant Lei Yaotian had a continuously reproducing group of ‘bound servants’.

Lei Yaotian took out a small sheepskin scroll from his chest and called Monica over.

“You go with Teacher Mensa to the Ikto Race settlement. Keep a close watch on them. Every single person must press their blood seal on it. After you finish all this, bring Elder Mensa back here. I still have many things to ask Elder Mensa.”

After Monica bowed, she followed Elder Mensa onto a small boat by the platform and slowly rowed toward the distant shore.

After watching Elder Mensa and Monica go far away, Lei Yaotian sat there thinking carefully. “I really couldn’t tell. I never thought the crystal that old man Mensa took out actually had the power to form a contract. But it’s nothing. As a Dimensional Merchant, I think countering this contract shouldn’t be too difficult for me. Instead, they will have to be my servants for generations, including their children’s children’s children.”

Thinking of this, Lei Yaotian couldn’t help but grin.

He reached into his pocket, took out a metal device, and put it on his ear.

“Wangcai, can you hear me?”

“Bzzt~ Bzzt~”

After a crackling sound, Wangcai’s voice came through.

“What is it, Young Master?”

“Later, I will authorize you to contact Andrew through the Dimensional Trading Device. Ask him if he has any items that can cancel or remove contracts, and buy some for me.”

“Okay, Young Master, I’ll go do it right away.” Wangcai agreed, then reminded him, “But Young Master, I should mention that any items bought from Mr. Andrew will only have 50% of their power in our world.”

“I know. 50% is enough,” Lei Yaotian said to Wangcai.

“Alright then, I’ll go handle this now.”

After saying that, Wangcai turned off the communicator. Lei Yaotian also took off the metal ring from his ear and put it back in his pocket.

“Now the sweet potato fields on the asteroid have completely covered the planet’s surface. Basically, if I don’t expand the planting area now, then every ten days I can harvest 360 million sweet potatoes, and that’s a conservative estimate.”

“So, if Andrew buys each sweet potato for 300 points, I can earn 100 billion credit points every ten days. That’s enough to cover all expenses…”

However, Lei Yaotian did not want to sell the sweet potatoes for now. Even though Andrew had been urging him for over half a year, Lei Yaotian kept expanding the planting area.

He had also started transporting all the harvested sweet potatoes to the planet he was currently on. Then, he reclaimed sweet potato planting fields on the plains.

The plain not far from the mountains where Lei Yaotian was had an area for planting that was one hundred times the size of the asteroid. That meant if Lei Yaotian persisted for another year, he could increase future profits by a hundred times.

By then, the income every ten days could reach trillions of credit points.

It was precisely by explaining these future profits to Andrew that Lei Yaotian made Andrew give up the immediate benefits and follow Lei Yaotian’s arrangement.

Moreover, the demand for sweet potatoes had always been strong.

Not only expanding the planting by a hundred times, even if it increased by another hundred times, there would still be a market among the countless fantasy dimensions in the Dimensional System. There was no need to worry about the huge quantity impacting the entire market.

Because of this, Lei Yaotian and Andrew felt at ease expanding the planting.

One year. If I can endure just one more year, then I can soar high!

Whenever he thought of this, Lei Yaotian felt delighted.

But Lei Yaotian had not yet realized that when his sweet potatoes flooded the Dimensional Trading Device on a large scale, it would bring a major crisis for him and Andrew.

…

Monica and Mensa had gone to the Iktan settlement. Since he was bored, Lei Yaotian sat by the lake and began training his precognitive sensing ability.

After all, this was a mutated ability he gained after fusing with Monica’s Crystal Core and eating the sweet potatoes.

But no matter what, it was his own ability. Although it didn’t seem very powerful now, Lei Yaotian still took time every day to train it.

However, because this ability was a mutation, he had no way to systematically learn it or have any references. He could only explore and train step by step.

Therefore, his precognitive sensing ability progressed very slowly, almost no progress at all.

But Lei Yaotian did not give up. In his view, having one more ability meant one more means of saving his life. Although it didn’t seem very useful now, who knows about the future?

Closing his eyes tightly, Lei Yaotian tried his best to relax. At this moment, he slowly calmed his heart, trying not to think about anything, making himself relax, relax, and relax again, entering that so-called certain state.

Lei Yaotian’s mind was blank. He seemed to have entered his inner world.

A warm current slowly emerged from the back of his cerebellum, gradually spreading across his cerebral cortex. Lei Yaotian could feel his brain being washed by this dispersed warm current.

A tingling, numb feeling constantly stimulated his cerebral cortex. The dispersed warm current, after emerging from the back of his cerebellum, began to surge toward the crystal area on his forehead.

But when all the warm currents gathered and surged toward the crown of his head, they were blocked there.

Therefore, Lei Yaotian could only carefully try to control that warm current, letting it gather more and more, then attempting to surge through the crown of his head again.

Each surge made Lei Yaotian feel as if his head was split open by an axe, then someone stuck a wooden stick inside and stirred it around.

In a short while, beads of sweat seeped out on Lei Yaotian’s forehead and cheeks.

Then, white mist began to rise from the top of his head, making Lei Yaotian look very mysterious and strange.

“Bang!”

Lei Yaotian felt a thunderclap sound beside his ear, making him immediately open his eyes.

“Failed again. Every time I reach this point, I can’t break through.” After opening his eyes, Lei Yaotian endured the buzzing in his head, slumped pale-faced on the sofa, gasping for breath.

“This precognitive ability is simply uncontrollable. If I could control when to use it, I think it would definitely be a powerful weapon.” Lei Yaotian thought about this problem with great frustration.

“It seems it’s no good today. Every time I try hard to break through the crown of my head, I need to rest for several days before my brain slowly recovers. It seems training the brain really can’t be compared to training the body. It’s just too extreme.”

He reached out, picked up the milk tea, took a small sip, then leaned back weakly on the sofa to rest.

“Right now, all the construction on the entire planet relies on the energy blocks produced daily to sustain it. It’s barely enough to build only one hundred Heavy Warship factories at the same time. If I really build 100,000 warship manufacturing factories and start production, then I don’t know if I’ll have enough credit points to buy the materials needed to make the warships.”

It must be said that Wangcai was quite capable. He found Bruce to discuss the warship manufacturing issue. Just as Lei Yaotian worried, Bruce would not sell warship manufacturing factories or related equipment.

But luckily, Wangcai settled for the next best thing. He purchased not the top-tier warship manufacturing equipment and technology, and promised that in the future, top-tier warships would only be purchased from Bruce. This made Bruce, though very pained, agree to sell technology, equipment, and factory construction facilities that, by their world’s standards, were one civilization level lower than Bruce’s civilization.

Of course, for this, Lei Yaotian also paid a lot. He gave Bruce all the credit points from selling Energy Crystals for one year, without compensation.

That meant, for one year, the credit points share belonging to Lei Yaotian from selling energy blocks would all be collected by Bruce.

“Ah, the farm. It still needs one more year to be fully built.”

Thinking of this, Lei Yaotian let out a deep sigh.