Chapter 009: Professionals
“Slap!”
A loud smack echoed, leaving a clear imprint of the hand on Du Fan’s face.
With a pitiful expression, Du Fan looked at Chen Chen before sticking out his bitten tongue and speaking slurredly, “W-why did you hit me?”
“You… you…” Chen Chen pointed at Du Fan’s nose, her face red with shame. She was furious—this shameless bastard, a vile swindler, a pervert who took advantage of others…
During the contract signing, he not only failed to cooperate but also claimed assault… acting as if she were the one trying to harm him. What an idiot…
Great Light God! Why don’t you send lightning to kill this scumbag?
“You can’t speak, right? You know you were wrong, right?” Du Fan suddenly jumped up, but then, with a sigh, he said, “Never mind. I always knew that all women lose their composure around me. Sometimes, being too good is also a tragedy…”
Saying this, he shook his head sadly and muttered, “Women… they’re so strange… They push themselves at me, yet won’t allow me to resist… It’s utterly unreasonable!!!”
Chen Chen almost fainted. With her sharp hearing, she heard every word Du Fan said clearly. At that moment, she even considered killing him to silence him, but after hesitating for a long time, she didn’t act.
There was nothing she could do—after all, Du Fan was her so-called “master.”
“Alright,” Du Fan said, glancing at her pitiful appearance. “Can you still walk? Anyway, we need to leave quickly. Once we’re outside, I’ll figure out a way to hide you. If the Holy Church finds you, even with ten heads, I won’t be able to save myself.”
Seeing Du Fan act seriously for once, Chen Chen gritted her teeth and nodded. “Let’s leave first. Let’s pretend nothing happened. If you dare bring it up again, I swear I’ll make you pay…”
Make me pay? Hmm… this girl is indeed pretty…
As he thought this, Du Fan’s face once again showed that sacred swindler smile. From now on, I won’t have to tease the maids at home anymore!
“Wait!”
Before Du Fan could react, Chen Chen suddenly made a gesture.
“What?” Du Fan asked, puzzled.
Chenchen glared at Du Fan angrily, still seething from earlier being taken advantage of by him, but she still spoke seriously, “If I remember correctly, you still have some desire to become an alchemist, right?”
“Hmm… that’s true. Don’t tell me you’ve suddenly realized I don’t have the aptitude?” Du Fan glanced at Chenchen and touched his nose.
Chenchen made a gesture with a blank expression, pointing at the corpses of the Temple Knights still standing, and said, “If I’m not mistaken… these guys’ armor contains a substance called black steel during its creation, and their spears probably haveMithril added. Both of these are precious alchemical materials. If you’re interested, take them down.”
Du Fan shrugged and said, “Take them down? Girl, you should know that aside from whether we have the time or the strength, the biggest problem is that even if I manage to get these things, I don’t have a place to store them. Or are you planning to help me carry them? If so, I have no objections.”
Chenchen sighed in frustration, “How did I end up meeting such a scoundrel?”
Though she said that, she still fumbled around on herself for a moment before pulling out a silver ring from somewhere and tossing it to Du Fan. “Take it. It’s the lowest-grade space ring. It can’t be bonded to anyone, but it should be enough to store these things…”
Before she could finish speaking, Chenchen couldn’t help but shiver. Somehow, her whole body suddenly felt a bit cold.
Du Fan was staring at her intently, rubbing the space ring he had just received, and sneered, “Girl, you really have quite a fortune… Even the lowest-grade space ring isn’t something that can be obtained easily… Tell me, what else do you have? Give it all to me. Even if there’s nothing else, at least bring out a higher-grade space ring. It’s too embarrassing to use the lowest-grade one. After all, I’m your master!”
This guy!
Chenchen glared at him angrily and said, “There are definitely better space rings, but can you use them without magic? Without magic, you can’t bond to them, and without bonding, the space ring is just for show—worse than the one you have. As for the other things, you can’t use them either.”
“Oh, I see…”
Du Fan scratched his head apologetically, put the space ring on his finger, and said with a smile, “Uh… then it’s fine… Let’s get to work…” Chenchen responded with an “Mm,” unable to hold back a laugh. These armors and spears contained black steel andMithril, which were excellent materials for alchemy—there was no doubt about that. But the process of stripping these things from piles of dead bodies was in itself a form of torture. Thinking of this, Chenchen felt immensely satisfied. After being out for so long, she could finally make that bastard shaman and shameless master suffer once. Hmph, you guy, prepare for nightmares tonight! However, unlike Chenchen’s expectations, Du Fan happily ran over to the corpses. He had made a fortune! Absolutely a fortune! You see, for all these years, Du Fan had only received about ten gold coins as pocket money each month. After becoming a shaman, he got an additional few dozen gold coins per month. But the prices in the capital of the Gavin Empire were extremely high. Not to mention anything else, the fact that he had worked so hard for so many years yet still couldn’t afford to buy a little girl from the slave market to raise as a pet, or keep a beautiful woman in a private residence, often made him cry awake in the middle of the night. Now, this was a great opportunity to make a huge profit. After all, the subsidies from the Temple Knights were already very generous, and with several level-8 powerhouses around, their wealth must be enormous. If he helped them “clean up” the corpses, his dreams of raising a pet and keeping a lover would surely come true soon. As for Du Fan being afraid of dead bodies? Chenchen was wrong about that. Although Du Fan was a swindler, he was extremely skilled at it, so he was quite famous in the capital. Plus, he was kind-hearted and good-looking, so whether it was commoners or nobles, those who had just given birth or lost a family member would usually “ask” him for help. For childbirth, it was simple—just drip a little “holy water” on olive leaves and say a few words. Even if he didn’t earn much gold, at least he could get a meal. As for dealing with dead bodies, it was a bit more troublesome, but it wasn’t bad either. Having seen all kinds of corpses, Du Fan’s mindset had become extremely firm—he could basically treat corpses as nothing at all. So, to Chenchen’s astonishment, Du Fan kept moving among the corpses.
Other than constantly pulling the bloody spears out of the corpses’ throats and struggling to remove their armor, the most he did was shamelessly rummaging through the pockets of the corpses. With each of his actions, cries of shock arose.
“Damn, did this guy embezzle money? Why does he have so many gold coins?”
“Ugh… What kind of job did this guy do? Why doesn’t he have a single penny? The only thing in that little notebook he had was the measurements of various ladies from the capital? Damn, it seems we’re in the same business. Brother, I shouldn’t have killed you!”
“What? This bastard even brought roses to kill me—what a lack of respect…”
“He actually brought…”
…
After a long while, just as Miss Chenchen felt like she was about to collapse, Du Fan finally dealt with the last corpse. It was unclear how he managed it, but after “exploiting” all the corpses, not only was there not a trace of blood on him, not even a drop of sweat on his forehead. Holding a blood-stained rose, he strode gracefully toward Chenchen, tossed the rose into her arms, and then said with a snort, “Alright, girl. We can go now. I think after all this, these Temple Knights have nothing left but their underwear and ugly knight uniforms. By the way, thanks for your space ring! Want some of it? Just so you know, I won’t give you any gold coins, but I do have some cheap rings and necklaces—probably things those pretty boys planned to use to trick women. Do you want them?”
Chenchen slowly shook her head. Pointing at the “spotless” corpses on the ground, she said in a hoarse voice, “Are you… a priest? Or a bandit?”