Yuto Saito asked Song Yi, "Officer Song, does your military lack storage rings?"
Song Yi replied, "It's a serious shortage. Currently, fewer than 20% of soldiers in the country have rings."
Hearing this, Yuto Saito smiled. "I have a lot of rings here. Do you need to buy them?"
Song Yi knew that the God of War team had killed a lot of zombies and monsters, so it was normal for them to have extra rings. She immediately understood Yuto Saito's meaning and gestured. "Tell me the price."
Yuto Saito smiled. "It's really easy to talk to smart people. I'll calculate the price based on the storage space of the ring."
Ordinary ring: 50 spar
First-grade ring: 100 spar
Second-grade ring: 1,000 spar
Third-grade ring: 10,000 spar
Fourth-grade ring: 100,000 spar
Fifth-grade ring: 1 million spar
Song Yi was surprised. "You have a fifth-grade ring?"
Yuto Saito raised his left hand and showed it. "I'm wearing a sixth-grade ring with 10 million cubic meters of space."
"10 million cubic meters!" Song Yi was stunned; the storage space was huge, capable of holding a vast amount of supplies.
Yuto Saito smiled. "What do you think? Do you need to buy them? I should also remind you that rings of rank five or above have the ability to be invisible."
Song Yi pondered for a few seconds before responding, "A fifth-grade ring for one million spar is too expensive. The prices for ordinary and first-grade rings are reasonable, but second-grade and higher are too costly. I'll need to ask my superiors for instructions."
Yuto Saito: "Okay, feel free to contact me if necessary."
Song Yi: "Okay."
In front of Song Yi, Yuto Saito put the 200 chickens and 50 pigs into his collection ring, along with the feed next to them. Song Yi suddenly remembered something and said, "Yuto Saito, there's something I've been wanting to ask you."
Yuto Saito gestured. "Please, go ahead."
Song Yi: "Why can the storage ring hold live chickens and pigs but not humans, zombies, or monsters? Logically, if unmutated poultry can be stored, ordinary humans should also be able to."
Yuto Saito replied, "If you think about it carefully, why can humans, zombies, and monsters be put into the ring after they die?"
Song Yi guessed, "Could it have something to do with intelligence, blood, and combat power?"
Yuto Saito: "Storage rings have a repelling effect on certain living creatures but no repelling effect on dead objects. For example, chickens, ducks, pigs, and cows have low intelligence, so they can be stored. Human intelligence is very high, so the ring can't hold them."
Song Yi: "So, according to you, humans are rejected due to intelligence, zombies due to their blood, and monsters due to their combat power? When a certain value is reached, they are repelled?"
Yuto Saito: "Intelligence higher than 70, a virus in the blood, or combat power higher than 100—as long as a living thing meets any of those criteria, you can't put it in a ring. But if it's dead, you can."
Song Yi: "When a monster dies and has no fighting power, I can understand that it can be collected. When a human dies and can't think, I can also understand that they can be put in a ring. But when a zombie dies, the virus is still in the blood, so why can it be stored?"
Yuto Saito kindly reminded her, "Are you not aware that storage rings have the ability to automatically purify dead objects?"
Song Yi suddenly realized. "Ah, I understand. So, monsters with less than 100 combat power and no viruses can be put into the collection ring while they're alive?"
Yuto Saito: "That's right."
Song Yi said happily, "Thank you for clearing up my confusion."
Yuto Saito smiled. "You're welcome. Thank you for the chickens and pigs. If you find any other animals later, you can let me know. I'm currently developing a farm."
Song Yi was puzzled. "You still live in Douyu University, don't you? It doesn't seem suitable for developing a farm."
Yuto Saito: "I don't live there anymore. I have my own territory now. If one day you can't get along in the army, you can come to me."
Song Yi said softly, "I hope that day never comes." She knew that if that day came, the military of the Dragon Kingdom would have suffered a severe blow.
Yuto Saito: "If you need to buy any rings, contact me. I'll be heading back now."
Song Yi: "Okay. Could you send me the current number of storage rings you have on WeChat? I'll ask my superiors for instructions and let you know if there's any need."
The Floating Island's Farm and New Discoveries
Saying goodbye to Song Yi, Yuto Saito used Teleportation and returned to the Floating Island. Song Yi watched Yuto Saito's teleportation ability with envy. She truly wished she had such a talent.
Back at the villa, Yuto Saito stood in the yard, contemplating that in the future, with more pills, he could also sell strengthening potions and Awakening Pills. A strengthening potion can be made by a first-grade pharmacist and could be sold at a slightly cheaper price. The Awakening Pill requires a sixth-grade pharmacist to refine and could be sold at a very good price. Awakening Pills were too precious for ordinary people. However, if the army had a few more Awakened individuals, their combat power could be greatly improved. Yuto Saito estimated that if an Awakening Pill sold for 100,000 spar, someone would buy it.
Yuto Saito sent Song Yi the number of rings he had. The other team members also had rings, but Yuto Saito didn't ask them for theirs. Scarcity drives up price. If he took too much at once, the other party might lower the price. There was no need to take too much at one time.
Entering the living room of the villa, Yuto Saito found the girls chatting.
Natto looked up and said happily, "Brother Su, you're back."
Yuto Saito replied, "Yes. This time, I harvested 20,000 spar and got 200 chickens and 50 pigs from Officer Song."
The girls rejoiced.
Ni Shuang said happily, "Chickens and pigs, great!"
Juzi clapped her hands. "Fantastic! We'll have fresh chicken in the future."
Ruoruo joked, "Little Juzi, those chickens are for laying eggs, so don't even think about eating them."
Juzi smiled. "I was just kidding."
Yuto Saito asked, "Who among you has experience raising chickens and pigs?"
Ruoruo raised her hand. "I raised them when I was a child."
Yuto Saito: "I can't believe it, Ruoruo, you actually raised them."
Ruoruo smiled. "Yeah, I'm amazing. My grandparents are from the countryside. I lived with them for a while as a child and often helped raise chickens, ducks, geese, and pigs. And, by the way, there were Xiao Huang and Xiao Hui."
Juzi asked, "What are Xiao Huang and Xiao Hui? Cats or dogs?"
Ruoruo: "Two puppies."
Yuto Saito sent the chickens, pigs, and some feed from his ring to Ruoruo through the team mail. "Ruoruo, go to the farm, settle the chickens and pigs, and choose a few people to help you take care of them."
Ruoruo received the email and responded, "No problem, I'll go right away."
Yuto Saito sat on the sofa, checking the elixirs that a seventh-grade pharmacist could refine. Previously, Yuto Saito had communicated with the system and learned that a seventh-grade pharmacist could refine "detoxification pills," which could cure the zombie virus after being consumed. The materials required for refining detoxification pills were life and death grass and spar.