Chapter 1017 - 517: Returning Fully Loaded, Astronomical Wealth

The number of protons in flash-sand is 14, but the number of neutrons reaches a staggering 22, and it can still exist stably.

In its normal state, it keeps flickering with light, hence the name flash-sand.

Flash-sand is a specialty of the Black Sand Sea. Because it’s tainted with a faint trace of the Power of Destiny, the Primordial Evil Race usually uses flash-sand to divine good or bad fortune.

Chip companies in Great Xia mix trace amounts of flash-sand into silicon crystals, creating an epoch-making piece of black technology—the light-crystal chip.

Compared to ordinary silicon-based chips, the performance of light-crystal chips has increased more than thirtyfold.

So this stuff is also a material of strategic significance.

Among the spoils these puppets collected, there are 6 kilograms of flash-sand, enough to manufacture at least three million light-crystal chips.

Half an hour later.

The puppets’ sweeping operation of the stronghold came to an end.

The amount of loot was jaw-dropping: there were as many as 86 kinds of Level 1 Exotic Materials, 22 kinds of Second level Exotic Materials, 6 kinds of Third level Exotic Materials, and even 3 kinds of Level 4 Exotic Materials. All sorts of other supplies were even more numerous.

One rare Level 4 Exotic Material called "Crimson Tearstone" can effectively stimulate a Knight’s physical growth and can even allow an Elemental Spirit to give birth to "Crimson Power". Even Miss Jana felt this stuff was quite good.

Hundreds of years of accumulation by the Demon Eye Evil Race—part of it was now handed over to Yang Fan for free, just like that.

For the first time, Yang Fan felt that robbing was just too damn satisfying!

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Canglan Star.

Great Xia, West River Province.

Half a year ago, West River Province had another name—Shapudian.

Now Shapudian had held a nationwide referendum to join Great Xia, and the entire territory was re-divided into four provinces, with West River Province being one of them.

Zhou Furu was taking his fiancée Ma Miaodan—who had a Great Xia name, Zhang Qianqian—by the hand as they stepped into a high-speed train carriage.

About a year ago, he moved with his parents to Shapudian, settling in the wealthy district of Glory City, the capital.

In Great Xia, Zhou Furu’s family was just an ordinary household.

But in Shapudian, Zhou Furu’s family could be counted among the upper-class households.

At the time, Ma Miaodan’s family realized that, from then on, Great xia People would have the final say over this land, so they began plotting to find a Great Xia husband for the prettiest girl in the family.

Zhou Furu happened to be living in the neighboring building and naturally entered this family’s line of sight.

For them, this was like having a pillow delivered just when they were dozing off.

Thanks to Ma Miaodan’s family’s efforts at matchmaking, this young boy and girl gradually came together.

The funniest part was that during their six months of dating, Ma Miaodan rushed to pay the bill 80% of the time, which constantly made Zhou Furu feel like he was a guy living off his woman.

Just last week, the two families deliberately gathered together to hold an engagement ceremony for them.

To be honest, even now Zhou Furu still felt a sense of unreality.

I haven’t even gone to college yet, so how did I suddenly end up with a fiancée?

But he didn’t feel he was losing out; after all, Ma Miaodan was far more beautiful than the school beauty from his middle school days in Great Xia.

If he had stayed in his old hometown in Great Xia, he probably would never have had the chance in his lifetime to get engaged to such a pretty girl.

Just then.

"Vrrrm～"

The train shuddered slightly and began to move off slowly.

This high-speed railway is a main trunk line built by Great Xia running through the four newly annexed provinces, and it was only officially opened not long ago.

Today was the third day of the school’s winter vacation, and the mining state-owned enterprise where Zhou Furu’s parents worked had issued two VIP museum visitation tickets, so the kid was taking his fiancée to Eastern City for a visit.

The "museum" in question was the "Sea of Death Black Sand Evil Race Museum," which had just been declared completed yesterday.

Not long ago, Mr. Ghost destroyed a Primordial Evil Race called the Demon Eye Race in the Black Sand Sea with his own strength alone.

To warn the world and make Canglan People firmly remember the danger posed by the Evil Race, Mr. Ghost ordered the construction of this museum.

Because a large amount of new materials and new technology were used, and many Superpower Users were called upon, it took only five days from groundbreaking to completion.

At the time, all the senior officials of the province attended the ribbon-cutting ceremony, and even Great xia National Television gave a special ten-minute report on Great Xia News that very evening.

According to leaked information online, reservations for visiting the museum are currently booked up to a year from now.

If Zhou Furu’s parents hadn’t luckily drawn two VIP tickets, the two of them would have had to make a reservation and wait their turn just like everyone else.

"Open your mouth!"

Ma Miaodan held a piece of peach flesh and said this with a beaming smile.

Zhou Furu opened his mouth with an "ah," and Ma Miaodan, face full of joy, fed the peach into his mouth.

She was absolutely, utterly satisfied with this fiancé who was a year younger than her. At every family gathering, she could see the full-on envy in the eyes of her same-age cousins.

Although a considerable number of Shapudian People had already successfully passed the assessment and obtained official Great Xia National IDs, she knew that her cousins still preferred to marry true Great xia People rather than the so-called "New Great xia People."

Chewing the sweet peach, Zhou Furu kept his eyes fixed on the TV screen in the carriage.

A commentary floated out from the television.

"...The Demon Eye Evil Race was wiped out by Mr. Ghost with thunderous force, and the gradual ebbing of the Poisonous Ant natural disaster marks a tremendous improvement in the security situation around the World Gate in Eastern City.

"Just one hour ago, the Pioneer Alliance officially passed a resolution to comprehensively ramp up development efforts in the Black Sand Sea.

"Given that the ’Interface Transit Island’ was recently completed and put into use, the Pioneer Alliance will station between fifteen and twenty thousand development personnel on the Transit Island.