The Great Merchant in the Cataclysm Chapter 178:

Chapter 178: Coming Up With A Small Plan

Two gourds were hanging on a small vine of a tree. One big and one small. One blue and one green. They were tightly attached to the vine.

Even though that rainbow do had sealed the presence of these two gourds, but fortunately, the Obsidian Beetle had good eyesight. Hence, he could examine their appearance through the Obsidian Beetle’s eye.

They were connected tightly to each other as the joints were attached with no separation. Moreover, their color seems to be fading out slowly. The rainbow do had isolated the wind, yet the two gourds had traces of movent on the surface.

That feeling was as if they were still alive, and they were breathing.

The reason why Zhang Mu was so astonished was that he rembered the origin of these gourds all of a sudden. He only heard of it from others, however it had left a deep impression in him.

Because this set of gourd was actually the personal treasure of the Ice Queen, the most renowned leader of Shan Xi city in the past, and was sowhere between a vegetable and a weapon. The Ice Queen had used them to collect high-ranked mutated animal corpse and turn it into a kind of powerful evolving stock solution.

This kind of evolving stock solution was one of the closing items in the trade fair in Shan Xi city. Because they were very precious, only the first sub-rchant of Shan Xi city, who worked closely with the Ice Queen, was qualified to use this resource to sell and hold his place at the trade fair. Furthermore, it required the Ice Queen to do the job personally.

Everyone was envious. However, no one dared to steal the treasure in the hands of the Ice Queen. At most, when the trade fair was about to end, there would be a wave of crazy bidding.

Even Zhang Mu was not qualified to enter this type of trade fair. Only the sub-rchant before number 20 had the power to buy such a treasure. Therefore, he heard this information from the followers of a great leader. To ensure that the evolving solution stock was not wasted, the Ice Queen had used that treasure on the spot. Although the process only lasted for a mont, everyone was deeply attracted to it.

The big gourd was the first process to produce an initial evolving stock solution that was relatively hard to absorb for the human body. After that, the stock solution would be poured into the small gourd. The liquid obtained from the small green gourd would be the final evolving stock solution. This evolving stock solution could allow anyone from the third rank and above to absorb the whole blood and flesh essence from the sa ranked mutated animal without waste. And the most remarkable thing was, it ignored any attribute.

Because it could only be used once a month, so this evolving stock solution was generally used on a fifth-ranked or a fourth-ranked mutated animal at the minimum. However, this situation was still pretty uncommon.

The condition to use these set of gourds was extrely harsh as it required at least a third-ranked mutated animal. The higher the rank, the gap between the mutated animal and human would be longer. Five fifth-ranked strong evolver might not be able to kill a fifth-ranked mutated animal. If they did not handle it well, the result might be reversed.

But even if that was the case, the evolving stock solution was still highly sought after by everyone because its effect was too good to be true. The flesh and blood essence from a mutated animal would be able to boost a human body nurous tis.

Therefore, after the first absorption, the person who was consuming it had to separate at least three portions to finish the rest successfully, even though a small part of energy would be wasted and lost over ti.

Zhang Mu’s eyes were sparkling when he recalled the grand effect of this set of gourd. That was the precious item of the Ice Queen. He never expected that there would be a hidden history behind this as it turned out that this set of gourd had grown up in Jin Zhong city. But now that Zhang Mu knew its existence, then no one would be able to get it.

Even though he had to wait until the third rank to use this set of gourd, but it would be a huge hidden card in Zhang Mu’s hand. Therefore, it was a treasure that he would not slip by.

However, in Shan Xi city, Long Qi was not a fool. If he took advantage of the mayhem and stole the set of gourd, he would be suspicious. Therefore, Zhang Mu had to think carefully about the reports he had to give him, as well as his next move.

He suspected that the old white fox did not know the specific effect of this set of gourd. If that was the case, then it was such a reckless waste of using this item.

However, there was one more problem that Zhang Mu could not figure it out. The Obsidian Beetle said that it did not sll the rotten scent of the walking dead. Therefore, it ans that the intellectual type of walking dead was not in the city. Did it hid in the walking dead herd and used the other walking dead as a cover? After all, this was its most vulnerable period.

At this mont, Gu Quan had co around and looked at Zhang Mu, “Brother Zhang Mu, before Brother Shu left, he had drawn a map based on the mory of his emperor scorpion and handed it to . I had combined the drawing with the interaction I had with General and completed a part of the map now. So I’ll leave the rest of the map to you.”

After that, Gu Quan let his cat lean closer so that he could give a crumpled paper and a pen to Zhang Mu. The number and types of mutated animal had been listed on the paper already.

Zhang Mu also started to draw on the paper, using various symbols like a solid triangle or a hollow circle, to mark on the map. He would then write the aning of that symbol below.

However, he had reserved parts of the details this ti. He did not write all of the pieces of information that the Obsidian Beetle transmitted to him. He wrote the details a little scattered so that it was not obvious to notice that the east side was the easiest to break through.

If there were proofs that he was wrong, Zhang Mu naturally had a way to deal with it. He would say that the matter regarding the golden python had caused so problem in his deploynt.

Nevertheless, Zhang Mu felt that after this incident, the old white fox would place a stricter demand for all the mutated animal to patrol every area. In that case, except for the core portion, the other sections should have a similar military strength. Therefore, Zhang Mu was not afraid that Long Qi would co after him.

Now, the one who had the most trouble with Long Qi, was the woman with a deadly gray expression on the back of Gu Quan’s General.

With her bearing the wrath from Long Qi, Zhang Mu would not have any conflict with Long Qi in that short period.

Before they knew it, the group of four people had returned to the periter fortification of Shan Xi city. It seems that because the battle was getting closer, everyone started to beco nervous. The scale of defense and the number of people had started to increase too. Even ordinary people have been recruited to defend the periter.

Zhang Mu raised his head to look at the fortification and did not saw Li Hu’s figure. He turned his head to ask Gu Quan about this.

However, that General which he sat on roared abruptly. It was as if a rumble of thunder had erupted. Slowly, the gate had opened.

What? Even this could do the trick?