Qiao Zhenhua asked with a dark expression, "What do we do now?"
"After the auction, I'll go find her myself."
"Fine." Qiao Zhenhua recalled how the company's recent troubles seemed to have started the day Shen Yunyun ran away from home.
He didn't want to believe that the Qiao family owed everything to Shen Yunyun's fortune.
Yet he couldn't help but start to wonder.
But as everyone knows, people in business are superstitious.
Whether it was true or not, wouldn't finding out by bringing her back settle it?
If the household couldn't function without her, they could just treat her like an ancestor and worship her, couldn't they?
As for his biological daughter, he could make it up to her with money and material things.
.
Over on Shen Yunyun's side, all the work was finished, and she moved back from the basement to the bedroom.
All the furniture and appliances were brand new—fifteen thousand gone just like that.
But it didn't matter. Money could be earned again, but life—why not enjoy it one more day if you could?
She took it in stride. A person's life was only so long; the more time you spent enjoying it, the less time you'd spend suffering.
The two were in a give-and-take relationship, so why wouldn't she make the most of enjoying life?
Tang Yu came to help her move and also discussed meeting the Tang family elders.
Shen Yunyun agreed.
That evening, the trading center opened again.
This time, she was trading with a beastman.
The beastman was about three meters tall, with horns on his head and wings on his back.
Wasn't this a bit off?
It was clearly a white tiger transformed, but it had turned out so mismatched.
"Beast God," Zhi said, pressing his right fist to his left chest as he knelt before Shen Yunyun.
"You want me to save you?" Shen Yunyun asked.
She didn't deny being the Beast God. Out in the world, you gave yourself your own identity.
"Yes, they want to sacrifice Zhi, and Zhi doesn't want to die."
"Sacrifice?" Shen Yunyun exclaimed.
When she saw the trade wish, she only knew he was begging for help, offering lifelong loyalty and all his treasures.
She wasn't interested in loyalty, but she was very interested in his treasures.
"Yes, the strongest in the beastman tribe are all sacrificed, then divided and eaten."
Meaning they'd kill him in a sacrifice and then eat him.
It sounded a bit disgusting.
Not just in the beast world—even in ancient human society, sacrificing living people wasn't unheard of.
They'd sacrifice them, boil them, and distribute the meat to the various lords to eat together.
Living in modern society, Shen Yunyun couldn't quite accept it.
Wait, why were the strongest the ones sacrificed?
She thought it and asked it out loud.
Zhi said, "Only the strongest are worthy of being offered to the Beast God, to serve the Beast God."
"But I haven't received any sacrifices, nor has any beastman come to serve me."
Zhi looked a bit confused too.
"Life only comes once. Once you're dead, it's over," Shen Yunyun said.
"Please, Beast God, save my life."
"Alright, I will definitely save you." With that, Shen Yunyun returned to the trading center.
She immediately checked her workbench, searching through the many follow-ups for that cultivation big shot.
Soon, Xu Zimo appeared in the trading center.
Xu Zimo had been meditating when he was suddenly pulled into another space. Though a bit startled, he took it in stride.
Seeing Shen Yunyun, he curled his lips slightly, bowed in greeting, and then looked around the trading center.
Shen Yunyun was in a rush and had no time to banter, so she asked directly, "Do you have anything that can summon lightning or rain?"
Xu Zimo pulled out two talismans and said, "You mean these?"
Shen Yunyun was thrilled—she hadn't expected him to actually have talismans on him.
"I don't recognize them. Can they really summon lightning and rain?"
"This one can summon lightning, and this one can bring rain."
"I'll trade you a spirit stone for them." Shen Yunyun took out a white one.
White cores were the smallest and most numerous, so this one was probably the least valuable.
Sure enough, Xu Zimo looked a bit disdainful and said, "This isn't much use to me."