Crying Expression!

Chapter 20: Crying Expression!

Zhao Erling stood shocked by the blunt rejection from Fang Yuan. Even though the latter had tried to hide his expressions, she had noticed his red face and rising heartbeat.

She had the idea of making friends with Fang Yuan due to his identity. Since he had the Blue Wood identity at such a young age, his background couldn't be simple. Like the five family heads, Zhao Erling also believed that Fang Yuan was a member of the Shen family and had a purpose behind coming to Crimson Wood City.

Since her adopted father was the city lord, she wanted to find out the purpose so that it wouldn't harm her family.

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Cao Caizhi looked at Fang Yuan in shock since he had also noticed the change in Fang Yuan's expression after seeing Zhao Erling.

Even though Fang Yuan remained calm on the outside, he had a crying expression in his heart. He would never refuse friendship with someone beautiful like Zhao Erling. He was also a young boy.

Unfortunately for him, he was sure that the token in his hand didn't have the function of communication. It was a simple, carved wood that was made the same as what was prevalent in the Mutou world.

Fang Yuan didn't want to reveal to the world that he had a fake identity token, so he simply refused. As for creating a negative impression on Zhao Erling, he had no choice. His safety and the future brought by his identity were more valuable to him than a relationship with a girl.

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Since the Mutou world didn't have anything like Talismans, Fang Yuan had the idea of using talismans from his own world and selling them at a premium in the Mutou world, but he decided to hold his horses at that time.

Talisman was a product that could change the power scaling of the world, so it was too early to focus on that.

After checking several stores, Fang Yuan found that the Mutou world was too backward compared to the Qingtian continent. The weapons that wouldn't even be considered low-quality first-grade were selling at the premium price of medium-quality first-grade weapons.

Only skills and cultivation arts were cheaper in the Mutou world, and he also found that the world was abundant with resources related to wood.

The Qingtian continent was also filled with different resources, but there were already owners. The same wasn't the case in the Mutou world.

Many trees that had extensive uses on the Qingtian continent were worthless in the Mutou world, and no one would bat an eyelid if they disappeared from the world.

Fang Yuan couldn't help but cry in his heart when he saw a group of people using the Fiery Yellow tree as torches in the night. It was a wood even more valuable than the Crimson Wood due to its extensive use in alchemy.

Unfortunately for him, the trees had an owner since they were planted in private territory just because the yellow leaves that seemed like flames looked good, and the wood easily caught fire.

Fang Yuan could only keep that in his heart since his asking for the tree was no less than announcing to the city that the wood wasn't ordinary. Sometimes, a powerful identity also caused a disadvantage for the owner.

Time flew by, and soon, the twenty hours were coming to an end.

Fang Yuan decided to bid farewell to Cao Caizhi since he couldn't just disappear out of thin air. Suddenly, a loud shout of panic took his attention away.

He frowned and looked in that direction, only to feel a chill crawling down his spine. A few hundred meters away from him, a zombie-like creature was attacking a group of people.

"Zombies!"

Cao Caizhi shouted in panic and immediately asked Fang Yuan to follow him. Fang Yuan had no interest in staying there and getting killed by the zombie, so he nodded and followed. As for the innocent people fighting the zombie, he could only wish them luck and hope for a powerful being to intervene and rescue them.

Fortunately for Fang Yuan and the people, an eleventh-level Qi refiner intervened and attacked the zombie, saving several people.

Cao Caizhi breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the scene. He was too weak to intervene and wanted to improve his impression further, so he immediately decided to take Fang Yuan to a safe place.

Cao Caizhi was a fifth-level Qi refiner, and he could see Fang Yuan's second-level cultivation. If he were too weak before the creature, Fang Yuan wouldn't even be able to survive for a moment against the late-grade Qi refiner Zombie.

Fang Yuan also breathed a sigh of relief and wanted to ask Cao Caizhi about the zombie since it was his first time seeing it, but decided to postpone it to his next entry since there was less than an hour left before his stay in the Mutou world came to an end.

The Crimson Tree forest was around an hour away from where he was, and he couldn't wait anymore.

He suddenly had an idea, and the next moment, his identity token appeared out of thin air.

Fang Yuan's expression turned solemn, and the token disappeared once again. He then looked at Cao Caizhi and said, "I have something to do."

Without waiting for any response, he turned around and hurriedly left. He didn't need to tell Cao Caizhi about his things since he was an influential person, so Cao Caizhi felt nothing wrong with the sudden reaction.

He only felt strange and suddenly had a bad feeling when he remembered the sudden appearance of the solemn expression on Fang Yuan's face.

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Fang Yuan's heart kept beating loudly as he rushed to the forest. He could only hope for Cao Caizhi not to follow him, but since he couldn't be sure, he didn't stop for a moment and hurriedly rushed.

Around fifty minutes later, he finally reached the forest. He finally turned around and hoped not to see someone standing there with a smile.

The next moment, he breathed a sigh of relief when he found that he was the only one there. He then walked into the forest, and his destination was the spot where he had left the Mutou world the first time.

(Chapter End.)

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A/N: Please do comment on what you think of the chapter and what I can do to improve the story.