Yan Jin glanced at the girl who had spoken. The girl’s body was splattered with some unknown liquid, and her clothes were tattered, yet her eyes were bright and clear.
Qin Yu discussed the matter with the others and ultimately decided that they should rent the tents and rest here for the night.
After all, this was a desolate wilderness. No one knew what they might encounter.
Everyone took out the crystal cores they had on them and counted them. In total, there were thirty crystal cores, which could only rent ten tents.
Considering the number of people they had, they could only squeeze together.
Once Yan Jin received the crystal cores, she immediately spent five hundred gold coins in the system shop to exchange for ten tents.
When Yu Chen and Bai Ruozhu saw that the tension had subsided, they helped move the tents for the group before returning to their rooms to sleep.
“Brother Qin, are we really just giving her the crystal cores like that?” Yue Feiyao’s voice sounded.
Everyone who had been setting up the tents stopped and looked toward Qin Yu.
Qin Yu pressed his lips together. Qin Fei, who stood beside him, could not bear it and spoke up.
“Feiyao, we have traveled all day. It was not easy to find a place to settle down…”
“It is not like we have never encountered situations like this before. Why is she the only one charging us?” Chen Xiao’ai stepped in front of Yue Feiyao and spoke on her behalf.
“Then what? Do you want to go sleep outside with the zombies?” Qin Fei rolled her eyes.
“Qin Fei, I did not mean anything else. I am just standing up for everyone. Those crystal cores were obtained through our hard work hunting zombies. And now they are just handed to her like that…” Yue Feiyao said helplessly.
Everyone nodded. Those crystal cores had indeed been obtained through their desperate efforts hunting zombies.
“No, I need to go reason with her!” Chen Xiao’ai said indignantly.
“Xiao Ai, do not be impulsive!” Yue Feiyao grabbed Chen Xiao’ai’s hand. “Everyone is injured. We cannot act for selfish reasons…”
“Are we really just going to let her take advantage of us like that?”
The commotion outside reached Yan Jin’s ears. As expected of a tool character, she had been easily provoked by the female protagonist.
[Ding ding ding… Warning! A guest’s satisfaction has fallen below 20 percent. Host, please check immediately.]
[No way. Do people renting tents count as my customers too?]
[Host, as long as they have paid, they are customers.]
Yan Jin was speechless. She silently opened the customer satisfaction panel. There was indeed one customer with satisfaction below 20 percent, and the name was highlighted in red as if afraid she might miss it.
Meanwhile, Yue Feiyao’s satisfaction was barely holding at 30 percent. Yan Jin thought to herself that she did not seem to have offended her at all.
[System, for someone like Chen Xiao’ai with such low satisfaction, there is nothing I can do. Besides, I already made an enemy of her from the beginning. I do not want to go out of my way to raise her satisfaction.]
Yan Jin was still discussing the satisfaction issue with the system when Chen Xiao’ai stormed in aggressively, followed by a group of people behind her.
“Where is she? Come out here!”
“Is there a problem?” Yan Jin said with a smile.
When Chen Xiao’ai saw Yan Jin’s smile, she recalled what had happened when they first entered. Her neck shrank slightly, and she appeared somewhat timid, hesitating about how to speak.
“I am sorry. Xiao Ai is a bit impulsive. She only wanted to seek fairness for her companions. Boss, you are magnanimous, please do not take offense,” Yue Feiyao said.
Chen Xiao’ai gathered her courage and said, “Feiyao, I am not being impulsive.”
After a pause, she looked at Yan Jin and said, “You collected so much rent from us. Should you not give us some kind of discount?”
Yan Jin laughed softly after hearing that, thinking that this person was not completely brainless after all.
“What kind of discount do you want?”
Chen Xiao’ai’s eyes darted around as she said slyly, “Your place is so large. You must have quite a lot of medical supplies, right?”
“You want medical supplies?” Yan Jin was somewhat surprised. She had thought this person would at most ask for some food or something similar.
“Yes.”
Standing nearby, Qin Fei watched Yan Jin cautiously, afraid that Chen Xiao’ai might anger her.
“Xiao Ai… we are fine. You do not need to cause conflict with others for our sake,” Yue Feiyao said to Chen Xiao’ai with teary eyes.
Seeing this, Yan Jin internally praised the female protagonist’s acting skills.
“You want medical supplies? Then bring crystal cores to buy them,” Yan Jin said with a smile as she looked directly at Yue Feiyao.
Yue Feiyao trembled slightly under her gaze.
“We already paid so many crystal cores. And now we still have to spend crystal cores to buy things? You are too ruthless!” Chen Xiao’ai said.
The people behind her nodded in agreement with her words.
“Take it or leave it.” Yan Jin looked completely indifferent. She snorted inwardly. They just wanted something for free, but she would not let them succeed.
“Do you think crystal cores can be picked up from the street? Where would we get so many more crystal cores?” Chen Xiao’ai said.
“These are my rules. If you cannot accept them, then leave. Or do you want… to experience being electrocuted again?” Yan Jin rolled her eyes.
Chen Xiao’ai seemed to recall something and quickly stepped back several steps, looking at Yan Jin with fear in her eyes.
Yue Feiyao shifted slightly to the side, unwilling to let Chen Xiao’ai lean against her. A trace of disdain briefly appeared on her face before disappearing so quickly that no one noticed.
She smiled at Yan Jin and said, “Boss, since you are such a righteous person, surely you would not care about such a small amount of money. Right?”
At that moment, Yan Jin’s gaze froze for an instant before quickly clearing again.
“I am sorry. Even a bit of meat from a fly is still meat. I do care about even a small amount of money.”
[System, what just happened to me?]
Just now, Yue Feiyao’s words had echoed repeatedly in her mind, yet somehow they had quickly dissipated.
[You were just subjected to a mental attack, but your soul is stronger than hers, so you recovered almost instantly.]
As expected, the female protagonist could not be underestimated.
In the original story, Yue Feiyao’s ability had never been mentioned, which had led Yan Jin to believe that the heroine had merely relied on her powerful protagonist aura to succeed effortlessly.
Seeing this, Yue Feiyao felt a shock in her heart. Her mental attack had actually been ineffective against Yan Jin.