Richest Rag-picker

Chapter 498: Chapter 470: Pack Up and Go Home

Fang Chenyi stared dumbfounded at the small asteroid before him, unable to comprehend the principles at play.

Reaching out, he cautiously touched the surface of the glowing stone but found nothing out of the ordinary.

However, the moment he pulled his hands away, he was stunned once more. To his astonishment, his hands were now emitting a glow identical to the one from the asteroid.

"Holy shit, the light stuck to my hands!"

He stared intently at his hands, shaking them vigorously in an attempt to fling it off. But it was no use.

This gave Fang Chenyi quite a scare. ’I really can’t keep my hands to myself. So reckless, just reaching out and touching an unknown object like that.’

Just as Fang Chenyi was at a loss for what to do, a warm, current-like sensation suddenly emanated from his glowing hands.

Starting from his palms, it spread up his arms and throughout his entire body.

The next moment, Fang Chenyi felt as if a hot current was constantly coursing through his body.

The sensation was wondrous, like a small, warm snake slithering through his body.

’Holy shit, could this be the legendary True Qi?’

The thought flashed through Fang Chenyi’s mind.

The main reason for this was that before he’d obtained his woven bag space, he had been a nerd through and through.

He was an avid reader of fantasy novels, especially those written by an author named Xiao Youzi, which was why his mind immediately jumped to the idea of "internal True Qi."

However, before Fang Chenyi could carefully examine the stream of energy within him, it had already slowly dissipated and vanished.

When he looked down at his hands again, the glow was already long gone.

Fang Chenyi quickly looked up at the still-glowing asteroid, his heart filled with a mix of emotions.

’If what I just felt really was True Qi,’ he thought, ’then the light this asteroid is emitting might be entirely composed of that precious energy!’

It must be said, Fang Chenyi had some serious nerve. Without even figuring out what this thing was, he threw himself directly onto the asteroid.

The next moment, Fang Chenyi’s entire body was instantly enveloped by the light.

At the same time, he felt that warm stream of energy surging through every inch of his body.

The feeling was simply beyond words. It was pure bliss from head to toe.

Time ticked by. Immersed in that blissful sensation, Fang Chenyi didn’t even realize that several hours had quietly passed.

He had even slowly closed his eyes, as if he had fallen asleep.

When he woke up again, he felt a chill from the stone he was embracing.

He blinked in bewilderment, only then recalling what had happened.

’How did I fall asleep?’

His gaze fell upon the asteroid again. The light was now completely gone.

A wave of regret washed over Fang Chenyi.

But then, a thought suddenly struck him. ’I was holding this rock for a long time. I wonder... was my guess correct? Was that really True Qi I absorbed?’

At this thought, Fang Chenyi closed his eyes and focused inward, trying to sense any changes in his body.

’If that light was really True Qi, then after holding it for so long, my body should be completely full of it.’

But no matter how hard he tried to sense it, he couldn’t detect any trace of that energy stream within him.

This left him speechless. He blinked. ’Was all of that for nothing?’

He shook his head in resignation and decided not to worry about the energy stream anymore.

He turned his gaze back to the asteroid before him.

What he didn’t know, however, was that at this very moment, a pale golden pearl was spinning ceaselessly in his dantian.

Streams of pale blue energy swirled around the pearl, being slowly absorbed by it.

Because of this, a flash of pale blue light would occasionally flicker across the golden pearl’s surface.

After carefully scanning the asteroid one more time, Fang Chenyi found nothing else of interest.

Shaking his head in resignation, he went back to what he was doing before.

One hour, two hours... Finally, after several more hours, Fang Chenyi had thoroughly inspected the entire asteroid, save for the part embedded in the ground below.

Returning to the spot with the circular disc, Fang Chenyi decided to play it safe and took out his garbage tongs.

He then clamped them onto the only groove on the disc.

He strained with both arms, and the asteroid before him began to tremble.

Then, just like that, Fang Chenyi managed to lift it with the garbage tongs.

What immediately followed was a torrent of magma erupting from beneath it.

The moment Fang Chenyi lifted the asteroid, the magma below erupted in a frenzy, gushing out as if it were free. Fang Chenyi was certain that if he hadn’t been holding the asteroid to block the blast, he would have been sent flying by the force of the eruption.

Feeling a sense of relief, he slightly rotated the asteroid before using the tongs to set it back down, plugging the flow of erupting magma.

Seeing that the asteroid, which previously had its other side facing away, was now rotated to reveal the part he hadn’t yet inspected, Fang Chenyi finally let out a long sigh of relief.

He might have been relieved, but he had no idea what sort of changes his actions had caused on the surface.

On the surface, the magma had already been agitated when Fang Chenyi previously placed the Rune Stone on the disc, causing fluctuations.

But this time, the fiery magma shot into the sky, erupting to a height of nearly a thousand meters.

The consequence of this eruption was the instantaneous formation of a nearly one-hundred-meter-high volcanic crater on the once-flat desert sands.

It was worth noting that in the temporary base on the outskirts of the Taklamakan Desert, only one research vehicle had remained. In this eruption, even that last one was destroyed.

This left everyone at the base completely dumbfounded. They never imagined that this single operation would cost their lab all of its assets.

"Captain, this time... all of our equipment is completely destroyed. What do we do now?"

Inside the temporary base, the observer looked to the captain beside him, at a complete loss.

After hearing this, the captain could only sigh in resignation.

"Sigh... What else can we do? Pack it up. We’re going home."

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