Monster Hunter, start with a wife!

"Welcome to Lingxi Smart Storage Tube. Your breathing meditation card has been verified..."

"Buyer confirmed, transfer in progress..."

"After deducting the 3% consignment fee, the remaining 97000 city-state coins have been credited to your account. Please verify."

Looking at his wallet, which had suddenly become fuller, Cheng Zhuo felt a change in his overall energy and spirit.

No wonder so many ordinary people risk their lives to become servants.

There are also many low-talented Kashus who are unable to advance to the next rank and do not meet the city's certification requirements, so they go and become wilderness hunters.

The allure of getting rich quick is simply irresistible.

After a few sighs, Cheng Zhuo looked at the holographic projection, swiped his finger, and brought up another transaction.

Information regarding the trade of that epic longbow.

There are three match requests on the screen.

Two are sensory-oriented spiritual items, and the other is a premium card plus city-state currency subsidy.

Cheng Zhuo glanced at it, but wasn't very satisfied, so he casually exited the page and left the verification room.

He decided to wait a little longer.

This transaction involves millions of city-state coins.

Especially since this was a back-to-school gift he planned to give to Ruan Qinghe, which would affect her future cultivation speed, he definitely had to be careful.

……

After leaving the trading center, the midday sun was already quite scorching.

Cheng Zhuo didn't return to Xingfu Community. Instead, following the route on the navigation, he turned into a side road filled with the coldness of metal.

This is the "Ironware Street" in the outer city, which specializes in the business of artificial weapons.

Before he even got close, he heard a series of "ding-ding-ding" sounds, but after taking a few more steps, he realized that they were mostly video creators from shops along the street making a splash.

Cheng Zhuo's goal was very clear:

First, find a suitable long spear.

He's about to leave the city for certification, so he definitely needs to prepare some basic supplies for himself.

Finding a suitable weapon is undoubtedly the top priority.

Cheng Zhuo casually browsed a few stores, and the information he found there was largely the same as what he had learned online.

Finally, he picked out a super alloy rifle from a weapon shop called "Fengrui" and spent five thousand dollars on it.

This spear was the same one he used during his trial, inlaid with a source card, but it was only the simplest kind of "armor-piercing pattern" source card enchantment process, without any weapon skills, and it couldn't even activate the most basic "apex" of a weapon card.

From a cultivation perspective, this artificial spear is definitely no match for the weapon cards in the source cards.

Weapon cards can be integrated with source cards, allowing users to unleash stronger weapon skills using the source power of their own body, making them easier to control.

From the perspective of improving individual combat capabilities, weapon cards are also easier to understand.

However, in the early stages, this type of artificial weapon is advantageous due to its high cost-effectiveness.

For the same 5000 coins, the materials in the weapon card will never be as good as those made by hand.

The gun Cheng Zhuo bought was quite inferior to the one he received during the trial; it lacked toughness and was too hard. However, he felt it was still fine for emergency use during the beginner phase.

It's not that he's unwilling to buy expensive things,

Instead, he felt that the system should bring him something better...

In fact, during the beginner stage, source weapons of the gun type are more lethal.

However, non-professional hunters are not allowed to purchase guns privately, so Cheng Zhuo could only admire them from a few shops.

To compensate for the lack of ranged attack capabilities, Cheng Zhuo purchased a Source Power Rapid Crossbow.

A small, high-rate-of-fire single-handed crossbow.

It can be held with one hand, and each side of the crossbow is inlaid with three miniature source core slots, which can release nearly 1000 source energy bolts, making it quite powerful.

This is the most powerful long-range weapon that ordinary people can buy.

My wallet has shrunk by another 5000 yuan.

There's a reason why it's so easy to make money as a Vault Hunter... Cheng Zhuo sighed inwardly.

After leaving Ironware Street, Cheng Zhuo bought two more sets of combat uniforms.

The most basic kind.

It doesn't offer much protection; it's just more comfortable and functional than regular sportswear.

Given his current biological strength, the defensive capabilities of combat suits with a strength below 100,000 make little difference whether he wears them or not.

In addition, Cheng Zhuo purchased some basic supplies.

Examples include multi-functional knives for dissecting exotic animals, lighting equipment, compressed food, and drinking water.

Just as Cheng Zhuo finished buying the supplies and was about to return to Baoka Street along a small alley,

A soft, alluring voice came from behind him:

"Hey, handsome, wait a minute!"

Cheng Zhuo looked to both sides suspiciously. Only two ordinary-looking boys passed by. It was no doubt that the "handsome guy" was being called to him.

He stopped in his tracks: "What is it?"

The newcomer was a woman with a voluptuous figure.

Her skin had a healthy tan, and her body was well-proportioned, showing clear signs of training.

However, her right arm and right leg were both cybernetic prosthetics, and her right eye was also a cybernetic compound eye, while her other eye, which was exposed, had a bewitching smile.

This person doesn't look like a good person.

She glanced at Cheng Zhuo with a charming and alluring look, raised an eyebrow, and said:

"Young man, are you planning to leave the city to get certified as a hunter?"

Cheng Zhuo was taken aback, her tone tinged with wariness, "How did you know?"

The cybernetic woman smiled and tapped her cybernetic compound eyes:

"Over three million, the latest model from Nebula Technology. This shows your public information and biological strength."

As she spoke, she glanced at the super-alloy spear on Cheng Zhuo's shoulder and chuckled sweetly:

"Rank F, blacklisted by the city-state, suspected of having been injected with serum, and then bought these things. This handsome young man couldn't possibly be going fishing."

You've got it wrong.

Cheng Zhuo ignored him and turned to leave.

The cyber girl quickly followed, exuding charm as she said:

"Don't be nervous, handsome. I'm not interested in how you got blacklisted by the city-state. I just want to help Redstone Town recruit some hunters and earn a small commission."

Hunter broker?

Cheng Zhuo paused, looking at the cyber girl with suspicion:

"Redstone Town? I remember it being pretty remote. What's so good about it?"

Seeing that Cheng Zhuo had relented, the cyber woman's eyes became even more alluring. She took out a stone with intricate patterns from the right side of her cyber thigh and waved it in front of Cheng Zhuo.

Upon seeing this, Cheng Zhuo's eyes lit up: "A tower stone?"

"Oh, handsome young man, you have a good eye! That's right, this is the lighthouse stone from Redstone Town," the cybernetic woman said with a coquettish smile.

"Since you recognize the tower stone, you must know its purpose, right?"

"The Tower Stone can complete the contract with the lighthouse remotely without having to go to the lighthouse in person. This kind of stone is rare nowadays. I didn't expect to find it in Redstone Town."

Cheng Zhuo looked at it with great interest.

He had only seen them in books before, and he never expected to see the real thing today.

In addition to enabling remote contracts, the Tower Stone also serves as a deterrent to alien beasts.

It is known as a "mobile lighthouse".

However, the tower stone is a consumable item, and it is easy to become ineffective if it is kept away from the source lighthouse for too long.

So apart from being used by various towns to attract population, it has little other function.

Cheng Zhuo hesitated for a moment before voicing his question:

"Now each town has dedicated convoy routes to pick people up, so the role of Tower Stone is a bit redundant. Besides, each Tower Stone town has regular clearing missions, and I'll have to go there sooner or later if I have a contract. Why should I go to such a remote Redstone Town instead of going to the nearest one?"