Yang Hao scratched his head. Unlike Hun Yuanzi, he didn’t possess the kind of heroic ambition to conquer a thousand women. He simply found it a bit surprising that a woman had suddenly become so attached to him.
“I’m really scared…” Shi Mingyuan’s expression was conflicted. “Before, when I couldn’t disable my electric defenses, I often thought maybe it would be better if I just became a real woman. But now that it’s actually possible, I’m afraid that from now on, every day I might be harassed by men.”
“That does make sense…” Yang Hao frowned as he thought of the wealthy men in the Diamond Room—each of them looked like fat pigs, and when they finally got what they wanted, they would probably be even crueler.
“They’ve never had you before. If they find out you’re available now, they definitely won’t let you go.”
“As long as you want me, you can be my only one. I want to follow you and leave Lingfei Star Sea.” Shi Mingyuan finally gathered her courage and confessed everything. She had come to Shuimian Star today supposedly to relax, but in reality, it was to talk to Yang Hao about this.
“Don’t agree! Don’t agree!” Hun Yuanzi shouted loudly. “There are plenty of beautiful women in the world. Although she’s a rare beauty, you don’t have to keep her at home, do you?”
Yang Hao hesitated too. “Actually, I…” He originally wanted to say that he couldn’t help Shi Mingyuan remove her electric defenses either.
Tears welled up in Shi Mingyuan’s eyes. “In our Angel Star, once a woman’s heart belongs to someone, her electric defenses will automatically disappear. Now I can be with you anytime. If you don’t accept me, I’ll have to stay in Lingfei Star Sea forever, left at the mercy of other men.”
“No!” Yang Hao shouted.
“You don’t want me?” Tears streamed down Shi Mingyuan’s face, making her look pitifully adorable.
“No, no!” Yang Hao shook his head frantically. “I mean, it’s bad if other men take advantage of you.”
“Then what should we do?” Shi Mingyuan sobbed even harder.
“This…” Yang Hao felt like he was cornered with no escape route. “If someone’s going to take advantage of you anyway, maybe it’s better if it’s just me…”
Seeing Yang Hao finally agree, Shi Mingyuan immediately stopped crying and burst into laughter. She threw herself into his arms and clung tightly to him. “Then you have to take me back to Angel Star, and treat me well, okay?”
Hun Yuanzi kept shaking his head and sighing. “Apprentice, apprentice, I do admire your speed with women, but if you don’t know how to get rid of them, you’ll just accumulate more and more. Your future looks bleak indeed.”
“Stop talking nonsense!” Yang Hao was enjoying the soft warmth in his arms and had no time for this old sour grape.
“You’re insulting me!” Shi Mingyuan opened her eyes wide and started pouting cutely.
Yang Hao was overwhelmed by the two of them, sweating profusely. “I didn’t insult you! I’m too busy loving you! I’ve already captured the most famous beauty in the universe. How could I possibly scold you?”
“From now on, you’d better watch yourself!” Shi Mingyuan smiled like a little fox. “If you’re not good to me, I’ll just show myself off somewhere, and I guarantee I can find a million men to make you wear green hats!”
Now Yang Hao finally understood why Hun Yuanzi said that not knowing how to get rid of women is the greatest tragedy in life. Indeed, now he had someone to tie him down. Who knew what kind of trouble he’d face in the future?
Shi Mingyuan’s beauty was famous throughout the entire empire, even known among the core nobility. It was precisely because no one could disable her electric defenses that she had been sent all the way to a local brothel. If others found out that her defenses could now be removed, wouldn’t the nobles throughout the universe become envious and covet her? Although Yang Hao had gained the affection of a great beauty, the trouble he had brought upon himself far exceeded the benefit.
However, these thoughts were beyond Yang Hao’s simple mind at the moment.
Moreover, Yang Hao’s attention was now drawn elsewhere—his Sensing Skill was acting strangely.
“What’s wrong?” Shi Mingyuan asked, puzzled as she watched Yang Hao searching the blue muddy ground.
“It seems like there’s gold here,” Yang Hao frowned. He sensed a lot of gold underground, but the information his Sensing Skill returned was strange—seeming both there and not there, vague and unclear.
“Gold? What do you need gold for?” Shi Mingyuan shook a golden chain on her wrist. “I have some. If you want it, I can give it to you.”
“Not enough!” Yang Hao replied impatiently. Right now, he was quite upset with Hun Yuanzi. “I need ten kilograms of gold to refine a new kind of aphrodisiac.”
“Ten kilograms!!” Shi Mingyuan’s eyes widened. Gold consumption was extremely high in the universe, and ten kilograms was an astronomical amount. “Who taught you how to make medicine? That’s simply impossible!”
“Exactly! Some old bastard taught me!” Yang Hao gritted his teeth angrily.
“You brat! Talking about your master like that! Do you want to rebel and kill me?!” Hun Yuanzi was squirming inside, furious. “Want me to bite through your intestines and die together with you?!”
But Yang Hao had no time to deal with him. Right now, all his focus was on what lay beneath the ground. Although he had abandoned Basic Techniques and switched to refining aphrodisiacs, he had always kept his Sensing Skill because he found it extremely useful for finding medicinal ingredients.
Now he extended his Sensing Skill underground and indeed sensed the presence of gold. However, this presence seemed very weak. He kept expanding the range of his Sensing Skill, but the gold seemed to exist everywhere, as if the entire planet’s soil was filled with gold.
“You really have a talent,” Hun Yuanzi, somehow sensing it too, exclaimed. “Good apprentice, it looks like you’re destined for immortality! This planet really is full of gold!”
“But it’s strange,” Yang Hao was puzzled. “These gold pieces aren’t whole. Could they be powder?”
“You idiot! This is a gold mine! This planet’s underground is rich with gold mines. Good apprentice, you’ve discovered a golden planet!” Hun Yuanzi was so excited he was almost beside himself.
X13 had been following behind Yang Hao all along. Upon hearing this, it immediately retrieved information from its database: “Shuimian Star is a mineral-rich planet. It contains hundreds of thousands of different minerals, with gold being the most abundant. However, due to the complexity of the ore deposits, the gold mines are mostly low-grade, existing in molecular form and dispersed throughout the ground, making extraction extremely difficult.”
“A gold mine?” Yang Hao hadn’t expected this. “Then what should I do? The Red Gold Refining Furnace requires ten kilograms of pure gold to forge. How can I extract the gold?”
“Well…” Hun Yuanzi hesitated, clearly having no good ideas. “We could mine here. Buy a mining robot, extract and separate the gold ore. Give it ten or twenty years, and eventually we’ll gather ten kilograms.”
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