Monster Hunter, start with a wife!

The tower stone at the cybernetic woman's fingertips stopped spinning, and she said with a hint of nonchalance:

"Twenty thousand city-state coins."

"Twenty thousand?" Cheng Zhuo frowned. "Normally, nobody would want this for two hundred."

In the early years when transportation was inconvenient, the main function of the tower stones was to attract hunters from various tower towns, and some even paid out of their own pockets.

Cybergirl is simply trying to raise prices arbitrarily.

"Too expensive?"

The cybernetic woman chuckled, took half a step forward, and rubbed her metallic right palm against Cheng Zhuo's chest:

"Hey handsome, you've already injected the serum. You must be trying to grab a reward on the newbie leaderboard. If you delay for even a day, you'll miss your chance."

In large-scale ruins like the Hypergeogate, the Lighthouse rewards hunters with the highest kill counts.

Cheng Zhuo's purpose was not this.

But he wasn't really interested in haggling with the cybernetic woman and immediately brought up the watch's transfer page:

"Give me the tower stone."

"Young man, aren't you going to try and negotiate the price?"

Seeing his straightforwardness, the cybernetic woman was somewhat surprised and suddenly laughed:

"Actually, if you can agree to one condition, I'll give you this stone pagoda."

"What are the conditions?"

"A constant multidimensional portal recently appeared in the Black Cloud Forest, which can yield breakthrough source cores. Our guild's low-level team is short of a melee fighter. How about you consider it, handsome young man...?"

"No problem, just take the money."

Cheng Zhuo interrupted her invitation directly and transferred the simulated coins to her.

The excuse of lacking teammates is too lame. This woman looks like she's at least Tier 2. Why would you ask a newbie to be your teammate?

Cheng Zhuo couldn't help but mutter to himself.

Is she that eager to have his kidneys?

The cybernetic woman paused slightly: "I know you've injected the serum, so you're definitely not considering advancing to the next level. Breaking through to the next level with a source core is useless to you, but we can pay for it..."

"I don't plan to leave the city this month," Cheng Zhuo shook his head and refused.

Seeing his resolute attitude, the cybernetic woman tossed him the tower stone with a hint of regret, and casually dialed his friend request as well:

"If you're interested after you leave the SuperDistance, remember to contact me. Besides refunding you the 20,000, I can also pay you an extra 30,000."

Cheng Zhuo accepted the stone and ignored it.

He held his breath and focused his mind, releasing his inner energy to begin sensing the tower stone.

As expected, just as described in the book, he instantly sensed the connection between the Origin Card and the Tower Stone as a warm resonance emanated from his fingertips.

Thank you.

Cheng Zhuo put away the tower stone and turned to leave.

"Remember to add me as a friend!" The cyber girl's voice came from behind.

It's a joke if it gets through.

Cheng Zhuo casually deleted the friend request and hurriedly rushed to the subway.

As soon as he boarded the subway, Cheng Zhuo took the stone out again.

As he injected a wisp of source energy, a ring of light red lines suddenly lit up on the stone in his palm, spreading rapidly like blood vessels.

In the dim light, he seemed to see a scarlet boulder standing in the void, shrouded in pale red mist, slowly descending a slender beam of light.

"Buzz—"

The moment the beam of light touched the Origin Card, a buzzing sound suddenly exploded in his mind.

He could clearly sense that on the sleeping jar in his Origin Card, the phantom of a giant tiger slightly raised its head and let out a silent whimper towards the pillar of light. A dark golden dragon pattern quietly emerged in his Origin Card, faintly echoing the red light of the tower stone.

"Congratulations, Master, on successfully forming a contract with the Lighthouse and becoming a professional Ruins Hunter!"

Suddenly, the system's ethereal voice resounded in his mind—

"In the process of global information integration, the Hunter's Ruins information panel has been expanded!"

"Biological detection function activated!"

"Harmony Value feature enabled!"

A series of system notifications startled Cheng Zhuo, who quickly opened the system panel:

[Owner: Cheng Zhuo]

[Realm Level: 0 (0%)]

[Original Card: Beast Pet Summoning - Rank F - Gray]

[Original Skill: Summon Burial Dune Cat - Infant Form]

[Biosome Strength Rating: 16.5]

[Gene unlocking rate: 0.10007%]

【Strength: 16】

[Agility: 15]

【Spirit: 18】

[Physical Fitness: 15]

Luck: 18

Number of partners: 1/3

[Harmonious Harmony Reward: 1 point of random five-dimensional attribute daily]

【space:……】

The system interface has expanded with several pieces of information related to card repair.

However, what interested Cheng Zhuo the most was the later-added Harmony Value feature section—

[Harmony Value: 167]

[Daily Random Blind Challenge: 3] (Available after each Harmony Challenge)

【Harmony Blind Core: Epic Blind Core/10000, Legendary Blind Core/100000】

There really is a 'daily' system...

Cheng Zhuo suspected that the system had plagiarized his ideas.

Staring at the "Daily" annotation, it feels both absurd and reasonable.

He noted that the annotations for the resonance value contained detailed historical records:

[You and your partner Ruan Qinghe have completed your contract, rewarding you with 100 Harmony Points]

[You and your partner Ruan Qinghe have completed a harmonious performance, Harmony Value +30]

[You and your partner Ruan Qinghe have completed a harmonious performance, Harmony Value +10]

[You and your partner Ruan Qinghe have completed a harmonious performance, Harmony Value +25]

It seems that continuous sex can also lower the harmony value.

Cheng Zhuo's gaze fell on the last line, somewhat surprised...

Your partner, Ruan Qinghe, has developed feelings for you; Harmony Value +2.

Does this work too?

It seems that the system is indeed connected by emotions.

The higher harmony value from a "papa" (a type of sexual intercourse) might be due to the intense emotional entanglement that occurs at that moment.

After understanding the situation, Cheng Zhuo focused his attention on the random blind core that was about to be received.

"Receive all of them."

Two greens and one blue.

Three blind cores appeared in space instantly.

After activating the silent chant, Cheng Zhuo received two support cards and one resource card:

[Source Energy Supplement - Support Card *2]

[Quality: Good Product, Green]

[Effect: Greatly increases source energy recovery speed, lasting 30 seconds]

[Usage restrictions: None, effects decrease with rank 6 and above]

[Description: It's basically a condensed version of the source core]

Source Energy Supplement is a relatively common auxiliary card.

However, low-level hunters usually prepare ordinary cards that can fully restore their source energy within 15 minutes, but do not have a stamina recovery effect.

A high-quality supplement like Cheng Zhuo's would cost several hundred yuan on the market.

Using it only for a one-time recovery is somewhat extravagant.

The other supply card turned out to be a multi-functional watch.

[Watch & Supplies Card]

【Quality: Exquisite Blue】

[Effect: Releases a custom OPhone watch]

Usage restrictions: None

[Description: It can detect the user's biological strength, perfectly matches the current Lingxi System, can release mini-satellites, and quickly draw maps... Try it out for yourself!]

The described function caught Cheng Zhuo's eye.

This single function for detecting the strength of biological organisms is worth at least a million.

……

at the same time.

Hongshi Town, more than 200 kilometers away.

Inside the spacious stone house, rows of LCD screens are neatly arranged, with a green wavy curve on the larger central screen.

Those are the radiating lines representing the Redstone Lighthouse.

Like the town's unchanging red stone color, it quietly fluctuates within a safe threshold.

"Uncle Wang, of this batch of new contracted recruits, only one child was kept. If this continues, we may have to follow in the footsteps of Ping'an Town and hand over the management to Xingtie City."

A middle-aged man with a cigarette in his mouth leaned back in his chair, his eyes fixed on the screen, his tone full of helplessness.

The white-bearded man, called Old Wang, flipped through the hunters' list and let out a deep breath:

"There's nothing we can do about it. The disaster twenty years ago caused Star Iron City to lose too many high-level hunters. The conditions they offered were too generous, and it's normal for young people to be tempted."

"These young people are so short-sighted!" the middle-aged man said, sounding somewhat indignant.

"The ecosystem around our town is much richer, and the higher the level, the greater the rewards from the lighthouse. From a long-term cultivation perspective, we have a much bigger advantage!"

Not everyone is willing to trade the present for the future...

The white-bearded man shook his head and turned off the list projection.

at this time,

Suddenly, the central screen made a "sizzle" sound!

The pale green curve suddenly spiked, instantly breaking through the 'warning threshold'.

At the same time, a blinding beam of light shot out from the crimson boulder outside the window, piercing straight into the sky...

"What's going on?!"

The middle-aged man slammed his hand on the table and stood up abruptly, his face ashen. "Have the monsters started an uprising?"

The white-bearded man hurriedly walked to the monitor, his eyes darting around:

"No alarm, it's a contract fluctuation..."

"Contract fluctuations? This level of contract fluctuations, could it be Grade A?" The middle-aged man was slightly taken aback, then suddenly his face lit up with wild joy:

"No! Even A-rank doesn't have this effect... Could it be an S-rank rookie contract???"

"Another one! This one's even more outrageous..."

"What's going on? Uncle Wang, is there some other sign? We can't possibly have two S-rank contracts at once, can we?"