The Fourth Calamity: Starting with Dungeon Slimes

Chapter 23 Another deal with Jiang Chen!

Looking at the landlord's foolish daughter, Jiang Chen sighed.

Jiang Chen's gaze first fell on the necklace in Lilith's hand.

"Just a quick note, does this necklace also have a positioning effect?"

Upon hearing this, Lilith nodded as she put the necklace back around her neck.

"Of course, with this chain, the powerful members of the family will be able to find me easily."

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chen gestured for Lilith to follow him out of the tree hollow. Not long after, Lilith followed Jiang Chen to the edge of the cold pool.

"Finally, it's quiet inside. It was so noisy it gave me a headache."

Jiang Chen took a deep breath of fresh air and turned around.

"Let's analyze this rationally, without letting any personal feelings get in the way."

"Is this necklace related to your stepsister? Perhaps she suggested it for you, or maybe she made it for you?"

Upon hearing this, Lilith's face immediately turned wary. "You...you...how did you know?"

"Can you read minds?"

Heh...how would I know?

Of course, it's from watching short dramas before time travel. With your sister's personality, I could tell whether her poop was dry or loose just by looking at her.

Jiang Chen muttered a complaint to himself before continuing.

"First of all, I won't talk about your father and grandfather. They should be neutral. At least they won't kill you because of your sister."

"Next, let's talk about the butler and the commander of the Imperial Guard. Barring any unforeseen circumstances, they're biased towards your sister. Add to that your sister herself, and it means that two out of the five people who can locate you could potentially kill you!"

"Two? Jiang Chen, do you mean either the butler or the commander of the Imperial Guard has been turned by my sister Avril?"

Upon hearing this, Jiang Chen rolled his eyes.

"What kind of brain circuit are you talking about? There are three people involved. Your sister is definitely going to kill you, and the other two I'm referring to are the butler and the commander of the Imperial Guard, do you understand?"

"Alright, here's the question: your father is a succubus lord, and your grandfather was the former lord. What do you think are the chances of them coming?"

"Very low."

"So he most likely sent someone over."

"The people they sent were either the steward or the commander of the Imperial Guard."

Hearing what Jiang Chen said, Lilith nodded. "It seems so."

"Then let's talk about the butler. If I were your sister Avril, I would never send a butler, because a butler is definitely not as good as the captain of the Imperial Guard, and besides, the butler is with your cheap father."

"What if he has other ulterior motives and they get leaked? That's why I'll definitely send the commander of the Imperial Guard over. And coincidentally, you mentioned before that the commander's son is your fiancé."

"Your fiancé conspired with your sister to kill you. If this gets out, guess what the consequences will be for their family. So, just to be on the safe side, the one coming will definitely be the commander of the Imperial Guard."

Even if we take a step back and assume that the Imperial Guard Commander didn't want to kill you, he has no choice but to kill you because of what his son did.

"So you understand now, the Imperial Guard Commander didn't come to take you back this time, he came to kill you."

"Instead of thinking about what book to send me, I think you should consider asking me to order a coffin; that would be more reliable."

Upon hearing this, Lilith's expression immediately changed.

It seems... Jiang Chen is right.

Lilith wasn't stupid; she was just too excited to think too much about it when she learned that her family was sending someone over.

But now that I've calmed down and thought about it carefully, it really makes sense.

How could Avril possibly allow herself to return to her territory safely?

Once I get back safely, won't what they did before be exposed?

In an instant, Lilith's face turned deathly pale.

"Um... Jiang Chen, what do we do next?"

Lilith panicked.

"Hey...stop...stop...what do you mean, 'what should we do next'? You should say, 'what should you do next,' understand?"

Upon hearing this, Lilith was stunned for a long time.

Immediately afterwards...

A bad feeling...

"Jiang...Jiang Chen...you...you...you..."

Looking at Jiang Chen's mischievous grin, Lilith was somewhat incoherent.

Having spent so much time with Jiang Chen, she understood perfectly well what he wanted to do.

"I heard that, Miss Lilith, you recently signed a big order worth 10 with my group of little Patas."

"You tell me, Miss Lilith, how much is your life worth?"

As expected, the worst outcome still came.

"Um... Jiang Chen, aren't we friends? Shouldn't friends help each other?"

Lilith tried to awaken Jiang Chen's remaining conscience.

"Friends? Lilith, how could you have such dangerous thoughts!"

"You are defiling our pure trading relationship!"

What kind of pure transactional relationship is this?

How merciless!

In the end, Lilith had no choice but to bow down to the evil forces in order to save her own life.

"Jiang Chen, what do you want?"

"I'm not the kind of person who asks for an exorbitant amount. Here's what I'll do: just give me a few hundred thousand sets of mithril armor."

"How...how much?"

Lilith doubted that she had heard clearly.

"One hundred and eighty thousand sets of mithril armor."

I took a deep breath.

Lilith has already experienced the greed of this group of Pataliputra several times.

So she was mentally prepared.

"Jiang Chen, do you know how precious a set of mithril armor is? Do you know that even the Empire doesn't have many mithril mines?"

"The largest empire in human history, with tens of millions of soldiers, has no more than five hundred sets of mithril armor in total."

"Each set of mithril armor is extremely expensive, selling for at least two thousand magic gold coins. An average family could never use up that many magic gold coins in a lifetime."

"Besides, we succubi rely more on our bodies...wait...Jiang Chen, what kind of look is that! I'm a high-ranking succubus, not the kind of low-ranking succubus who sells her body!"

Lilith was getting a little frantic.

"In short, we succubi fight mostly by relying on our own bodies... no... by relying on the innate strength of demons and rarely on external aids!!!"

After saying that, Lilith glared at Jiang Chen angrily.

It was obvious that she felt offended.

"So what are you trying to say?" Jiang Chen glanced at Lilith's flat chest, a hint of disdain flashing in his eyes.

"Awooo!! I'll fight you to the death!!" With that, Lilith pounced on Jiang Chen and took a bite.

Not long after...

After being reprimanded, Lilith looked at the gleaming spiked club that Jiang Chen had pulled out from somewhere, and her tone softened considerably compared to before.

"Jiang Chen, what I mean is that our succubus race doesn't have that many mithril armors."

"How much can you afford?" Jiang Chen asked.

"Five sets, five sets at most!"

"Five sets?" A bunch of question marks flashed through Jiang Chen's mind. "Lilith, let me tell you, that's not how you bargain. You'll easily get ripped off if you try to bargain like that."

"At least 10,000 sets!"

Lilith counted on her fingers.

"Ten thousand sets... two thousand per set... um... twenty million... very good, very good... Jiang Chen, let's discuss how much it costs to order a coffin from you?"

"Huh?" Jiang Chen was a little surprised.

It seems they really can't produce it.

"Is 1,000 sets alright? I've already made a concession."

What materials are used in your coffin?

"One hundred sets is the absolute minimum, or I'll really go pick out a coffin for you!" Jiang Chen finally made a concession.

Ultimately, Lilith decided to sell 100 sets.

Well done! Another hundred sets of mithril armor gone today! Yay!!!

Lilith felt that if things continued like this, she would eventually have to sell off the entire succubus race.

No!

For the sake of the succubus race's future, we must find a way to minimize the losses!

Lilith's mind began to stir.

"Bubble Dragon, come here!"