Chosen Evolution: I can load the protagonist template

Chapter 155 Money can make the world go round

No thief in this world would drive a construction vehicle to steal things, but Cheng Tian did it anyway.

After the catastrophe, there were signs of a large-scale return to ancient times. The vegetation grew extremely tall, and under the power of the drill, it was either drilled down or holes were opened, and a road was crushed out in the jungle that was barely enough for vehicles to pass.

While Cheng Tian was responsible for clearing the way, his eyes were inevitably attracted by the scenery in front of him.

When playing the game, Cheng Tian only focused all his energy on fighting dinosaurs and humans, so much so that he ignored many background details. After the copy was expanded in the Chosen Space, the natural scenery that could only be presented in fantasy works was directly exposed to Cheng Tian.

For example, the Archaeopteryx that fled in flocks after being disturbed by the noise, or some bright fruits that were obviously a throwback to their ancestors but retained the genes after 21st-century breeding, or -

A huge diamond buried under the roots of a tree.

Whether it was the poacher Joe who was forcibly controlled by the elephant's trunk, or the classmate Irene who followed him in a daze, when they saw Cheng Tian pull out a fist-sized diamond from the roots of the tree, their brains suddenly felt that they were not enough.

This scene also made them understand Cheng Tian’s strange behavior just now.

Since entering the jungle, Cheng Tian would occasionally stick half of his body out of the cockpit, then take out a missile launcher and fire a shot in any direction. He has fired 5 shots so far, and the small tracking bullet fired from the last shot hit the root of a towering tree. The diamond in Cheng Tian's hand was also picked out from here.

"Does your organization still have the habit of hiding gems in the wild?"

Irene, who had successfully avoided being harassed by the ancient giant mosquitoes thanks to the breeze that always lingered around her, questioned the person on the elephant's trunk.

"...I've been in the organization for a few years now, and at least our boss, the Butcher, doesn't have this pleasing hobby. While his men aren't exactly broke, they're a bunch of idiots who can't even save any money they have, myself included. Not to mention anyone else would bring something like this into the jungle to spend their fortune."

Perhaps because he knew that his life was not in danger for the time being, Joe was still in the mood to discredit his own organization.

After all, he chose this line of work simply because it was the fastest way to make money and the threshold was low enough. To him, dragon hunting was no different from the ancient people's use of guns to hunt wild boars, moose, brown bears, etc. as recorded in the documents. It was just a "not so legal" job. It did not mean that all the members of the organization were ferocious butchers who loved to eat dragon meat and were bloodthirsty like the boss... Although the poachers who chose to do this line of work were also quite bad in terms of character and life.

After getting a positive answer from Joe, Irene understood that this diamond was a hidden item found by Cheng Tian using special techniques.

Since the current Dinosaur Fighter dungeon does not have the "original" entry, some inherent resource supply refresh points do not exist. For example, the Uzi submachine guns with full magazines and wooden barrels with large pieces of barbecued meat are randomly placed on the must-pass roads in the game. Because of the "irrationality" of their random existence in the wild, they have been optimized to human gathering places that can "reasonably" accommodate them. Players can find them in food storage rooms and weapons storage depots.

However, this kind of unreasonable optimization does not include "hidden props". In other words, these hidden props are extra rewards reserved for the chosen players. It only counts as a result of their ability to find them, and they can just take them away.

It is also conceivable that people who accidentally get these hidden items will not tell everyone about their income, so the spread of relevant information is expected to be relatively narrow.

In the original game process, when you just enter the second level, you only need to take a few steps forward to see two large trees that block your view. The diamond in Cheng Tian's hand and a dozen thousand-dollar bills that have not been dug out are hidden by the producer under the roots of the two trees that players cannot see at all.

Who among the normal players would have thought that something would be hidden here?!

Cheng Tian also had this memory in mind, so he frequently fired tests while clearing the way. As a result, he actually dug up wild diamonds, each worth one thousand coins. If used in the local "Dino Crisis", the value would be even higher.

Although there was only one main storyline between them, Cheng was now too unfamiliar in Irene's eyes. It was as if he had suddenly gone from being a newcomer who needed her help to becoming a veteran who was more reliable than most people in her circle.

I should still be more powerful in terms of combat, but I feel like Cheng Tian is dominating everything. ...By the way, is my total combat power really higher than his now?
Irene's eyes moved back and forth between the war elephant, the chariot and Cheng Tian himself, and she began to feel uncertain.

She wasn't angry to the point of being resistant to Cheng Tian's stimulation, but she felt a little emotionally delicate.

"Want it?"

Cheng Tian's voice woke Irene up, and then she saw Cheng Tian handing the fist-sized diamond he had just dug out to the poacher Joe.

She could clearly see Joe's Adam's apple moving up and down, his expression full of desire for money.

"You're going to give it... to me?"

The poacher's tone was full of surprise and confusion.

"You're probably poaching dinosaurs just for money anyway, so I'll pay you, and you can just be my guide. As long as you don't do anything weird, this thing is yours."

As Cheng Tian said this, he stuffed the diamond into the poacher Joe's hand.

And at this moment, Qiao, who had been forced to compromise due to life threats and was still hostile to Cheng Tian in terms of personal reputation, changed from red to green almost in an instant, directly skipping the yellow neutral stage and reaching the friendly stage that was almost at the level of respect!

"...Just wait a moment."

He carefully put the diamond, still covered in dirt, into his arms, then reached into the waist that was wrapped by the war elephant, pulled out a still new map, and handed it directly to Cheng Tian. There were five circles on it drawn with a marker.

"This is the distribution map of dinosaurs in the swamp jungle that Boss obtained from his employer's satellite scans, combined with field surveys conducted by some of us."

When Cheng Tian took the map, a prompt popped up in front of him.

[You obtained the distribution map and some information of the mutant dinosaur nests in the swamp jungle area from "Poacher Joe".

On the north side of the jungle, on the cliff - mutant pterosaurs, they have a leader and live in groups.

On the south side of the jungle, in the low shrub area - there are mutated stegosaurus, which have a leader and live in groups.

On the east side of the jungle, in the gravel zone—mutated Triceratops, with a leader, living in groups.

In the center of the jungle, in the swamp lake—a mutated Mosasaur, whose strength and quantity are unknown.

Roaming the entire area - mutated special dragons, walking alone, in multiple numbers, wandering around hunting. 】

(End of this chapter)