I Am Your Natural Enemy

Zhang Qihui’s Spirit Soldier, almost no one used to bother making them, and now even fewer bother.

After exhausting effort to create a Spirit Soldier, awaken its spirit, a huge amount of resources gets consumed, yet success rates are low.

The key issue is, even if it’s created, it could easily be gunned down by an ordinary person wielding a machine gun.

Why bother with all that effort?

Only someone as unorthodox as Zhang Qihui, a respectable member of the Zhang Family, could have the resources, ability, and guts to pull it off.

He invested in the toy industry, coincidentally meeting expanding demand, allowing continuous recovery and research, creating a positive cycle, so he can keep going.

Even so, Zhang Qihui has only eight White Bone Dao Soldiers in his possession.

No one else can keep up the game.

Nowadays, these things are niche within niches, not even used as cannon fodder.

Need to scout? Why not use drones? Need explosions? Send drones.

If interference is strong, equip the drones with fiber optics!

With airplanes and artillery in play, the Celestial Master Mansion has mostly given up on turning beans into soldiers.

Yet Zhang Qihui continues with his Spirit Soldier antics.

Then comes Wen Yan, another unorthodox guy, eyeing the failed products of Spirit Soldiers.

These bodies of Spirit Soldiers that couldn’t be awakened.

If it’s just about a failed product with the strength of an ordinary human, with Zhang Qihui’s current progress, he could create them with his eyes closed.

Plus, the applicability of these unawakenable Spirit Soldier bodies is remarkably high.

To be honest, they are far more versatile than human bodies.

Whether possessed or commandeered, as long as they are alive, there will be natural rejection reactions which cannot be avoided.

But the Spirit Soldier body is not a living person, essentially without such rejection reactions, making it a cost-effective option for those without a flesh body but desiring a corporeal form.

Moreover, most importantly, these are not completely prohibited.

Zhou Xiaorong wants a body capable of movement, and with some achievements, this could be easily negotiated.

Judging by the tone, Zhou Xiaorong was not very old when he died.

Think about it, after becoming a Ghost of Wealth, he has no body, not even a ghostly form, can’t go online, can’t eat, diligently works every day, after work, no electricity, no internet, no food, not even books.

Furthermore, he probably doesn’t even need to sleep to while away the post-work hours.

Just imagining it feels suffocating.

He relies solely on considering this as a game to grind, maintaining a goal, toughing it out for over a year, just about to achieve the target.

Overnight, progress was destroyed.

The breath he’s been holding is released.

Adding to that, these Ghost Wealth Gods, strictly speaking, fall under the broader Ghost category, prone to extremity when stimulated.

From Zhou Xiaorong’s perspective, if it were him, he’d rather die than be a Ghost Wealth God with an Offensive Smell!

He doesn’t want to live, wants to flip the table, selling Ghost Wealth God’s information is nothing!

Zhou Xiaorong remained silent for a long while, then asked.

”Can I get an ID card?”

”The latest result from the collaboration between Scorching Sun Department and Three Mountains and Five Ridges, apart from not being made of flesh and blood, it has only advantages, even appearance can be customized, and some Different Races have already obtained it.”

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Zhou Xiaorong’s expression shifted, leaving him with only one thought.

He’s going to bet on this.

And no one can blame him!

Wen Yan saw Zhou Xiaorong silent for a while, thinking he couldn’t accept it all of a sudden, promptly offered earnest persuasion.

”Look at it positively, what’s lost is lost, thinking more about it is useless.

Consider this year as a period of accumulation, learning, and gathering information.

This information is more valuable than the money you’ve accumulated.

If you think about it, if you hadn’t lost this money, you wouldn’t have found a glimmer of hope.

This is actually a good thing, look on the bright side.”

”When can I obtain the body?” Zhou Xiaorong suddenly asked.

”If you don’t want customization, it can be prepared within three days at the most!”

Wen Yan quickly replied, seeing Zhou Xiaorong’s clear intent to join, thoughts shifted.

”Do you know about the Sacrificial Paper Money workshop fire case in Luoyue County?”

”I know.”

”If you can help us catch that individual, I can maneuver a little for you.”

”What do you mean?”

”First, tell me honestly, have you only exchanged Sacrificial Paper Money through offering Paper Money? Let me clarify, I’m not from the Scorching Sun Department, so if you tell me now, the nature is different from being found out later.”

”Yes, the things I want can only be exchanged with Sacrificial Paper Money.” Zhou Xiaorong spoke with confidence.

”Alright then, if you help capture that person, we’ll see how much merit you can achieve.

If significant, I’ll maneuver a bit, altering your nature.

Currently, someone in your situation belongs to the path back to clarity with the Scorching Sun Department.

But if the nature is changed, it transforms into you being arranged more than a year ago to go undercover.

You’ve endured humiliation, living daily without food, drink, electricity, internet, kin, and without a flesh body.

After over a year, finally activated due to a major case, helping us solve a major crime.

You should understand the difference between the two, right?”

Zhou Xiaorong stared at Wen Yan in disbelief, his mind reeling.

Thinking it over carefully, he drew a sharp breath.

Is Wen Yan really not with the Scorching Sun Department? Can he really play like this?

He certainly understands the difference between the two, one is the path back to clarity, at most granting him a body allowing him to function like a normal person, probably having to report to the Scorching Sun Department annually.