"Uncle Zhang, Uncle Luo, Brother Zhou."
Meng Chao recalled the familiar faces.
In his previous life, these simple and kind elders had taught him a lot along with his father.
"A 'chao is here too?" Everyone nodded, not surprised. "Learn from your dad. You'll have a bright future if you become a harvester."
"Where's Brother Shen?" Meng Yishan asked.
He turned around and explained to his son, "Brother Shen is the leader of the company. He has the final say on whether you can be a harvester or not. Be smart later. No, be honest."
"Big Brother Shen is enjoying the cold air over there. Mr. Hu killed a Grade Three monster today, and even Big Brother Shen is in a good mood. Bring A 'chao to him and say a few good words to him. It'll definitely be fine," the harvesters said with a smile.
The general manager of Prosperous Resource Recovery Company, Shen Rongfa, had a face with very small eyes and big nostrils.
He didn't need to do anything, but he was wearing a medical mask with the highest filtration level and three protective suits.
He was also short and plump, so it was no wonder then why he was drenched in sweat and had been standing next to the monster material refrigerator truck.
"Old Meng, last time, you said that if your son couldn't get into university, he wanted to come to the company for an internship. But why did I hear that he was injured?" He asked with an accent.
"He suffered some minor injuries last year, but they're no longer a problem. This child has a pair of quick hands since he was young. I'll take care of him personally. In less than two years, he'll definitely be a good helper." Meng Yishan bowed and smiled humbly. "Brother Shen, please help me."
"Yes, I will definitely help if I can."
Shen Rongfa was noncommittal. "But I don't own the company. I can't explain your son's situation to Brother-in-law …"
"I understand. That's why I can only ask Brother Shen for help."
Meng Yishan almost lowered his head to the ground. He held Shen Rongfa's hand and gave it a gentle push.
Meng Chao was observant, and he saw his father shove a shopping card into Shen Rongfa's hands.
There were colorful pictures of monsters on the shopping card. It seemed to be a consumer card for Golden Dragon Mall.
It was a high-end shopping center in Dragon City.
They were selling rare monster raw materials, and the membership card cost at least ten thousand RMB.
In his previous life, Meng Chao really did not know how he got his job.
Her father, who usually couldn't bear to smoke even half a stick of good cigarettes and would sew and patch up his torn underwear for three to five years, actually had a private stash of ten thousand yuan?
Meng Chao narrowed his eyes.
He was thinking very seriously.
Should he put a sack over Shen Rongfa's head and snatch the card back when it was dark and windy?
With the shopping card in his hand, Shen Rongfa laughed so hard that his fat jiggled. He patted Meng Yishan's shoulder with his big, wet hands. "Alright. After all, your harvesting team is only affiliated to the company. It has nothing to do with the company at all. Just one thing, don't cause any trouble. It's fine if you cause me trouble, but it won't be good if you annoy my brother-in-law, right?"
"Understood. We won't cause trouble for Big Brother Shen and Mr. Hu." Meng Yishan quickly nodded and turned around to tug at his son. "A 'chao, aren't you going to thank Uncle Shen?"
Meng Chao sucked in a deep breath and stepped forward. "Thank you, Manager Shen."
"Okay." Shen Rongfa waved his hand impatiently. "Enough talk. Hurry up and get to work!"
He patted his butt and squatted on the refrigerator truck to rest.
"Time to work!"
The harvesters checked their masks and protective suits one last time.
They prepared pliers, scalpels, fluid washers, adzes, chisels, axes, and all sorts of tools that could cut monsters into pieces.
Meng Yishan could tell that his son's tone was hostile. While he helped him put on his equipment, he whispered, "A 'chao, you can't offend Manager Shen."
Meng Chao nodded. For some reason, when he saw Shen Rongfa just now, he was filled with anger and even hate. The negative emotions that rose in his heart were much stronger than when he faced Zuo Haoran.
'I think … this guy caused me a lot of trouble in my previous life?' The sudden thought stunned him a little.
He thought about it for a while and decided to go straight to the point. "Dad, you've been a harvester for more than ten years. Everyone respects you, so why do you insist on working in Prosperous? Can't you set up your own company?"
Regardless of how Shen Rongfa treated his father in his previous life, since Meng Chao returned from his nightmare, there was no reason for him to live under someone else's roof.
He had to set up his own force of power and become stronger step by step. That was the only way he could control his fate.
"You're just talking like a child. It's not that easy to set up a company." Meng Yishan sighed.
He had been in the business for many years, and he had thought about setting up his own company.
But if he wanted to set up a company, he needed a lot of startup capital. The burden on the Meng family was huge, and they were always short of money at the end of every month. There was no way they could have so much spare money.
Besides, the most important thing about being a harvester was not skills, but connections.
Only when you had connections with powerful people could you get a source of monster carcasses.
Meng Yishan did not like Shen Rongfa either. This guy could even defeat the most normal Demonic Halberd Pig.
But his brother-in-law, Qin Hu, was a superhuman, and the Frenzied Saber he was in was rather famous. Every time the fog descended, they could kill a large number of monsters and let Shen Rongfa handle them.
Many of the harvester teams could not find a source of carcasses, so they could only work under Prosperous and endure Shen Rongfa's exploitation.
Meng Yishan's harvester team did not know any powerful people. If they really wanted to work alone, they could only take orders from the military.
The military used heavy firepower to kill the monsters, but all of them were badly battered. They were dirty and smelly, and they could not get a lot of useful resources.
Besides, the military's orders had been decreasing lately. They had already killed all the monsters!
Meng Yishan did not know how he should explain things to his son, who did not know much about the world. He could only say, "Bear with it for two years. Once you master your skills and your sister goes to university, we'll talk about it. I won't let you continue suffering."
Meng Chao's eyes burned brightly. "Dad, have you ever thought that the number of monsters will increase again?"
Meng Yishan was stunned. "What do you mean?"
"That's what a biology teacher in my school said," Meng Chao said. "Over the past decade or so, the number of monsters has been decreasing. It might not be because we're really afraid of Dragon City, but because the monsters have entered some sort of dormant and evolved state. Soon, the monsters will complete their evolution, and they will appear in front of us in greater numbers and in an even more violent manner."
"There's such a thing?"
Meng Yishan was shocked. He was not very educated, so he instinctively trusted the teachers of key high schools. "Which teacher? Did I meet him during the parent-teacher conference?"
"He's a famous teacher from another school who came to the school for a short period of training. I was just attending a hobby class, so I listened to him talk a little," Meng Chao said. "If the number of monsters really increases, we won't have to worry about having a source of carcasses."
"No way." Meng Yishan hesitated.
"Didn't a superbeast spawn in our area today?" Meng Chao said anxiously. "Dad, this is a threat, but it's also a chance. If we want to get rich and even change our fate, we have to seize this chance!"
His son had always been Meng Yishan's greatest pride.
When he entered a key high school, he had a lot of theories, and his two elders could not win against him in an argument.
Meng Yishan knew Shen Rongfa's personality very well. If he had a choice, he would not have wanted his son to work for this bastard.
However, when he thought about the money, connections, and technical support needed to start a company, the white-haired middle-aged man felt a headache coming on.
"Let's get to work first. We'll talk about it later. Come, we'll teach you how to harvest monsters together."
The main force of the invasion was all crustaceans.
Aside from the Black Beetles Meng Chao saw in Blessed Heavenly Garden, there were a lot of arachnid monsters, and the main ones were the Giant Yellow-patterned Tail Scorpions.
This monster was around 1.2 meters in size.
They had two huge front limbs that were shaped like crab pincers, and they were filled with fine meat.
Their chitin shells could be used as armor, but they could also be ground into powder and refined into a special alloy.
The adhesive liquid in their bodies could be used to fertilize the fields and rear gigantified earthworms, which provided Dragon Citizens with a sufficient amount of protein.
The huge, faint golden scorpion tail contained valuable poison, which could be refined into cell activation medicine and gene medicine. Mild poison could stimulate the evolution of a human's immune system and activate the supernatural abilities in the depths of their genes.
There was also a poisonous needle that was extremely hard. After being ground and engraved with runes, it would become the best sniper bullet when matched with a heavy anti-material sniper rifle. Apart from armor-piercing, it naturally came with corrosive and toxic effects.
"Young Chao, you've never seen so many monsters before. It's exciting, isn't it?"
"This is a Giant Yellow-patterned Tail Scorpion. It looks scary, but it's actually dead. It's fine. Come and touch it. There are so many middle-aged men here.
"Look, the pincers are still moving. Hahahaha! It scared you, didn't it? It's actually a reaction from the nerve cord stimulation. It's very normal."
The harvesters were a group of boorish men. They did not care about what they said, but they were very kind. They really cared about Meng Chao as if he was their nephew.
"Thank you, middle-aged men." Meng Chao suppressed the twitching of his mouth and tried to keep a low profile.
Hundreds of monster structures that were ten times more complicated than those of the Giant Yellow-patterned Tail Scorpion appeared in his mind.
His fingertips trembled. He was eager to try.
"A 'chao, watch carefully."
Meng Yishan and the other harvesters worked together with great teamwork. With just a few moves, they finished dealing with the Giant Yellow-patterned Tail Scorpion.
To take care of Meng Chao, they even slowed down a little. Every time they harvested a part, they would give him a detailed explanation.
"Come, it's your turn."
It was the second Giant Yellow-patterned Tail Scorpion. Meng Yishan wanted to see Meng Chao's talent. "Your university has a hobby class where you dissect monsters. You should have used these tools before, right? Don't be afraid. They're not very valuable. Just do it. If you break them, we can fix them."
"Okay." Meng Chao added a Heart Clearing Antidote into the filter of his mask.
He raised the scalpel and shell forceps and went to the control seat to the right of the Giant Yellow-patterned Tail Scorpion.
Naturally, the experience of harvesting the same type of monster in his previous life rose in his mind.
The first cut was a twenty-five degree cut into the crack between the head and chest area.
His fingertips trembled slightly. He changed the direction of the blade and completely removed the main nerve cord. Then, he immersed it in a nerve cell activator with a density of 37% to maintain its freshness.
The second cut was a No. 1 armor-piercing knife. He cut off the two front limbs and switched to an 18 cm long scimitar hilt with a No. 34 butterfly blade.
He used the curve of the blade to remove the flesh and shell in the forceps. Then, he used a negative pressure aspirator to suck it gently. The scorpion meat that was trembling like tofu fell into a vacuum container.
The third cut was a No. 11 blade. He used a reverse prick to pry open the narrow shell tendons. Then, he pushed the blade in and treated the sturdy chitin shell as if it was nothing. He removed the contents of the chest cavity, then used a vacuum aspirator to suck away all the valuable adhesive liquid.
Rustle, rustle, rustle.
Meng Chao cut down like a gentle spring rain that nourished everything.
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