Something’s Wrong with This Game — I Became a God by Mining!

Yang Ling left the Blazing Gold Mine that very day with Zhou Zheng, using the excuse of needing to gather some Fire Crystal Rock and Vermilion Gold to forge pickaxes.

After all, Blazing Gold was incredibly hard, and pickaxes suffered extreme wear and tear during the mining process.

During this time, he had Lin Caiyi and the others keep an eye on the Blazing Gold Mine, telling them to private chat him if anything came up.

Before leaving, he specifically marked several locations where Blazing Gold deposits might exist.

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In Suyang Prefectural Capital, Zhou Zheng was still dazed.

In less than a single day, he had gone from Xiangfeng Prefectural Capital to Suyang Prefectural Capital, the southernmost prefectural capital in Yunwen Provincial Capital!

"Little White's stamina still isn't enough, especially when carrying two people."

"We had to rest several times along the way. If its stamina improved, we could probably reach Suyang Prefectural Capital in half a day."

Yang Ling thought to himself as he followed behind Zhou Zheng.

His official uniform had already been tossed into the Green Dragon Ring.

His weapons and pickaxe were also inside the ring.

He wore plain clothes, following behind Zhou Zheng like a younger family member of his.

"Director Yang, that person might already know I was arrested by the Ironclad Department."

"If he asks about it..."

"Just say Zhao Qing sent you to sell Blazing Gold. Be tactful, make it clear that Zhao Qing doesn't want too many people knowing about this."

Yang Ling casually instructed.

Zhou Zheng caught on immediately. Soon, he arrived at a bustling tea house.

The tea house was doing excellent business, with quite a few martial artists coming and going.

Yang Ling didn't follow him in. Instead, he found an inconspicuous spot nearby and crouched down.

His perception easily enveloped the entire tea house, every movement and action inside crystal clear to him.

"The martial artists coming and going here mostly practice swordsmanship. Over in Changhe Prefectural Capital and Xiangfeng Prefectural Capital, the fighters prefer sabers or other heavier weapons."

"It's probably all because of the Great Yan Sword Sect's influence."

Yang Ling observed the passing martial artists.

Inside the tea house, Zhou Zheng had already found a seat and ordered a cup of tea.

Shop Assistant: "What tea would you like to drink, guest?"

Zhou Zheng: "A hundred taels' worth of Gold Tip."

The shop assistant nodded slightly, took a hundred-tael silver note from Zhou Zheng, and turned to leave.

Yang Ling remained crouched in that inconspicuous corner.

"A hundred taels for tea. How much commission does the tea house owner make in a single day?"

Before coming, Zhou Zheng had already told him this tea house had connections.

Some shady business deals took place here.

The tea house played the role of middleman.

Before long, Zhou Zheng was led by the shop assistant into a private room.

Calling it a private room was generous. It was barely four or five square meters, with dim lighting.

When Zhou Zheng entered, he saw a middle-aged man with an indifferent expression.

"Master Zhou, I heard you got into trouble over in Xiangfeng Prefectural Capital and were arrested by the Ironclad Department. How did you manage to run all the way here?"

The middle-aged man asked casually.

Zhou Zheng lowered his voice: "That has nothing to do with our transaction. Do you still want the Blazing Gold or not? I'm selling a large quantity this time!"

The middle-aged man was silent for a few breaths.

"If you don't explain the situation, we won't buy. Even though the Ironclad Department can't touch us, we don't want to offend them for no reason."

Zhou Zheng was silent for a long time before slowly spitting out two words:

"Zhao Qing."

Then he added, "He doesn't want too many people knowing about this."

The middle-aged man seemed familiar with Xiangfeng Prefectural Capital. As soon as he heard those two words, a smile immediately appeared on his face.

"I see. That changes everything. How much Blazing Gold are you selling this time, Master Zhou?"

"Twenty jin exactly."

Zhou Zheng: "Same price as before. Twenty thousand taels per jin."

"How much?"

The middle-aged man's body jolted, his aura leaking, and Zhou Zheng immediately felt immense pressure.

This one was a Sixth-Rank.

"Twenty jin."

Zhou Zheng repeated.

The middle-aged man's expression turned odd.

"That one sure has guts, selling twenty jin at once... but he does share the Zhao surname, so it's practically his own family's property. I suppose it's understandable..."

"Do you have the goods on you?"

"Yes, here's twenty jin of Blazing Gold."

Zhou Zheng took out a pouch and placed it on the table.

The middle-aged man immediately brought out weighing tools and weighed each piece meticulously, going through the entire process without a single misstep.

After a long while, he slowly nodded.

"It's indeed twenty jin of Blazing Gold, not a fen more or less."

"That's four hundred thousand taels of silver total. Count it carefully, Master Zhou."

With that, he pulled out forty ten-thousand-tael silver notes.

"Master Zhou, if you have any more Blazing Gold in the future, no matter how much, we'll take it all. This stuff—the more, the better."

The middle-aged man smiled.

Zhou Zheng naturally agreed with a smile, counted the notes to make sure they were correct, and left with them.

Once outside the tea house, he called out to Yang Ling:

"Let's go."

Yang Ling quickly followed.

The middle-aged man watched their receding figures, paying no attention to Yang Ling, simply assuming he was an assistant Zhou Zheng had brought along.

"Send a message to Zhao Qing and ask why he didn't follow the original plan."

Seeing them disappear into the distance, the middle-aged man casually ordered.

At the same time, Yang Ling's steps paused slightly.

"Director Yang, everything went smoothly this time."

Zhou Zheng excitedly handed the silver notes to Yang Ling.

Yang Ling handed four of them back to him, keeping only thirty-six.

"I wonder if the game recognizes silver notes. If not, I'll have to exchange them for hard cash."

Yang Ling opened his status panel, found the Green Dragon Ring binding option, and selected confirm.

In an instant, ten of the silver notes on him vanished.

Simultaneously, in Zhao State's treasury, one hundred thousand taels of silver suddenly disappeared as well.

[Congratulations, player Yang Ling, on successfully binding the Green Dragon Ring.]

A prompt appeared.

Then Yang Ling felt a strange sensation on his finger. The Green Dragon Ring, which had been on his middle finger, slowly sank into his flesh and disappeared.

With a thought, the Green Dragon Ring reappeared.

With another thought, it sank back into his flesh.

"Damn, binding has this kind of effect... If I could bind my Fire Crocodile Set too, that would make wearing it so much easier..."

Zhou Zheng, having taken his forty-thousand-tael cut, was also feeling overjoyed.

He'd thought he was done for this time, reduced to following this guy around and living off whatever scraps remained.

But he never expected this one to be quite something, bringing him back into his old line of work and giving him a decent cut.

The pain of having his assets confiscated was finally starting to ease.

Zhou Zheng decided to save up slowly and reclaim everything he'd lost!

"Master Zhou, the one you just did business with was from the Great Yan Sword Sect, right? Do you know his name?"

Yang Ling asked.

Zhou Zheng snapped back to reality. "I can confirm he's from the Great Yan Sword Sect, but I don't know his name."

"The tea house has its rules. Once our transaction is done, we don't interfere with each other, and we can't go prying."

"It seems those rules aren't set in stone either. The weak have to obey them, but the strong can break them however they please."

Yang Ling murmured to himself.

"What did you say?"

"I said, you might have been sold out."

Yang Ling: "Aside from that young disciple of yours, the one truly behind your betrayal might be that Great Yan Sword Sect expert who just bought our Blazing Gold Mine."

"He's already sent someone to send a message to Zhao Qing, asking about today's business. It seems he has some kind of cooperation agreement with Zhao Qing regarding the Blazing Gold Mine."

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