Manager Meng took a look at him and saw that his expression was expectant and a little nervous. He couldn't help but become cautious as well. Carefully, he opened the bundle and squinted to look inside.
The item was the size of a bowl, dark red in color, like a mushroom and like a lingzhi. Its shape was actually not bad, carrying the aura of a heavenly treasure.
"Ahem... ahem..." Manager Meng couldn't help but cough lightly.
Yang Kai looked at him nervously and asked in a low voice, "What is this?"
Manager Meng glanced at him with a strange expression and instead of answering, asked, "Where... did you find this?"
"In a cave. There was even a first-grade demon beast guarding it, but I killed it and picked this."
Manager Meng's heart skipped a beat: "You encountered a demon beast? Didn't I tell you not to go deep?"
"I didn't go deep. I don't know how it was on the outskirts of Black Wind Mountain." Yang Kai said a little aggrieved.
Manager Meng sighed, thinking that the boy had ended up like this probably because he had fought that demon beast. Given his strength, dealing with a demon beast, even a first-grade one, was definitely not easy.
Poor kid, he had worked so hard at such a young age, running around Black Wind Mountain for three days only to earn a meager sixteen contribution points, and then he fought a first-grade demon beast, risking his life. If he knew what this thing really was... that would be too cruel. No, no, that won't do.
Forget it. I rarely do a good deed. Consider it accumulating virtue.
Yang Kai saw that Manager Meng's expression was serious and he still hadn't answered, so he became a bit anxious. He was about to ask again, but Manager Meng took a sip of tea, smacked his lips, and forced a smile, saying, "You're pretty lucky, kid!"
Hearing this answer, Yang Kai's heart, which had been tense, immediately relaxed. He had really been worried that this thing might be worthless, which would have been a big joke.
"Manager Meng, what exactly is this? How many contribution points is it worth?" Yang Kai rubbed his hands together, full of anticipation.
"Well... this thing is called Blood Lingzhi! It's a rare medicinal herb, a mortal..." Manager Meng didn't finish his sentence. Seeing the look of disappointment on Yang Kai's face, he quickly changed his tune: "No, no, it's earth grade low-quality rank, yeah, earth grade low-quality! That's right!"
His tone was so firm that he almost believed it himself.
"Earth grade low-quality?" Yang Kai was overjoyed. "Manager Meng, are you sure you're not mistaken?"
Manager Meng put on a stern face: "Nonsense! I've spent my life studying women... ahem, studying medicinal herbs. I've developed sharp eyes, how could I be mistaken?"
"So how many contribution points can I exchange for it?" Yang Kai was only interested in that.
"I'll give you twenty points."
"That's so few." Yang Kai was a little disappointed. He had thought that if this thing could be ranked as low-grade, it would be worth at least several tens of points.
"That's not too little, kid." Manager Meng thought that this was a gift, he couldn't give too much, but aloud he found an excuse: "Although the Blood Lingzhi you found is indeed earth grade low-quality, its size is small and its age is not high, so it's only worth twenty points."
"Oh." Yang Kai didn't argue and said readily, "Then twenty points it is."
Manager Meng nodded and recorded it in the accounts.
This time going into the mountains, besides the three-leaf residual soul flower and desolate wood grass he needed for himself, he had gained a total of thirty-six contribution points. Adding in what he had saved before, he now had forty-eight contribution points. Yang Kai suddenly felt a bit wealthy.
However, although going into the mountains allowed him to gather herbs for contribution points, it also took up a lot of training time, and it also relied on luck. It felt somewhat like putting the cart before the horse. Although he was tempted, Yang Kai decided that unless he was forced to, he wouldn't do this in the future.
The purpose of accumulating contribution points was for training. Yang Kai could still distinguish the primary and secondary relationship between the two, and he wasn't fooled by this harvest.