My profession is too unique.

Chapter 139 Targeting the Successful [Glutton]

"The next thing is a fragment of the Void Star..."

Gu Bing sat up straight, and finally the main event arrived. On the screen was a diamond-shaped, deep purple crystal, its surface covered with fine cracks, each crack faintly revealing a starlight-like glow.

It appears to contain a rotating nebula-like substance inside, which emits specks of starlight as the light changes.

"Starting bid: 80 million!"

As soon as the person in charge finished speaking, Gu Bing didn't say anything immediately. Then, someone from the craftsmanship department spoke up, "Ninety million."

"One hundred million," Gu Bing called out in a clear voice after a moment's hesitation.

The voice was unfamiliar; it hadn't appeared at all during the entire event, so it was clearly there for this thing.

Those present were all seasoned buyers, and they immediately realized this, turning their gazes toward each other.

Gu Bing held her head high, making sure everyone could see her face.

Soon someone recognized her, quite surprised, "This is the young lady from the Gu family, she seems to be one of Su Chen's core members in the Trial Court."

"The Gu family sells meat, so this should be what Su Chen wants."

"I've heard that this Su Chen is very powerful?"

"You don't know? Just now, Ying Feng said he's more than just amazing..."

The discussion continued, but the bidding indeed stopped. Everyone was willing to give face, partly because no one else had an urgent need for the fragment.

Gu Bing kept a straight face and breathed a sigh of relief, but just then, another voice rang out.

"One hundred and ten million!"

From the corner, Xiao Ying called out, and He Kang's face immediately darkened, "What are you doing?"

"I suddenly want it, is that not allowed?" Xiao Ying looked troubled.

He Kang said angrily, "If you raise the price of these fragments now, what will happen when others raise the price of the potions too?"

Xiao Ying chuckled, "Let them carry it, how high can they carry it?"

Zhou Honglang, standing nearby, looked on in surprise.

The surrounding noise continued, and some people had already recognized Xiao Ying and He Kang. They immediately understood that it was an internal power struggle among the core members.

“They’re Wei Yufan’s men. They’re actually here too.” Gu Bing withdrew her gaze, her face grim.

Wei Yufan's accumulated experience is clearly beyond their reach.

If these two deliberately compete, they simply won't get it.

“Contact Su Chen…” Gu Bing whispered. Tie Feng hurriedly opened his bracelet and sent the message.

At the same time, Gu Bing announced her bottom line: "130 million."

“One hundred and forty million,” Xiao Ying’s lazy voice rang out.

Everyone was watching the spectacle. This kind of resource bidding happens frequently, but they wouldn't raise prices against each other, otherwise a vicious cycle could easily occur.

Such a scene is a rare sight.

"What should we do? This price is far beyond our expectations, and they'll probably raise it even further," Tie Feng said in a low voice.

"What did Su Chen say?" Gu Bing asked through gritted teeth.

"No response yet." Tie Feng shook his head helplessly.

Gu Bing shouted 150 million with a grim expression. Although she hadn't prepared that much money, it wasn't impossible to borrow it.

But Xiao Ying's 160 million followed closely behind, clearly aiming to crush them.

"Is there no higher price?"

The matter involved the core seeds of the court, and the person in charge on the stage did not dare to create an atmosphere, but waited quietly for time to pass before finally asking questions.

Gu Bing looked bitter; even with the combined efforts of the three families, this was all they could achieve.

"One hundred and seventy million."

Another voice suddenly rang out, and everyone was taken aback. It was the person sitting next to Xiao Ying.

"Uncle Zhou, you want some too?" Xiao Ying looked at him in surprise.

Zhou Honglang turned off the virtual screen and said with a smile, "Yes, the ministry has a need."

"If you had said so earlier, I wouldn't have raised it so high." Xiao Ying didn't care at all.

The result was unsurprising; it was taken over by the Ministry of Supervision.

Soon it was Xiao Ying's turn to buy the Jade Hidden Flowing Light. Gu Bing gritted her teeth and raised the price by fifty million, but Xiao Ying didn't care at all.

The bidding ended quickly, and the friction between Su Chen and Wei Yufan was just a minor incident that no one paid much attention to.

Back at the resource repository, everyone was taking turns to collect their winnings from the bidding.

“You shouldn’t have forced the price up. The Ministry of Supervision already wanted it, and that thing wouldn’t have ended up in Su Chen’s hands anyway.” He Kang shook his head incessantly from the side.

"Are you so scared, you kind old man?" Xiao Ying took the silver-white metal box handed to her by the staff, lifted the metal clasp, and opened it to find a bottle of shimmering medicine inside.

The liquid exhibits a strange, multi-layered texture. When gently shaken, it ripples with golden threads resembling quicksand, which seem to move and intertwine within the azure base like living things.

After confirming that everything was alright, Xiao Ying closed the box.

“It’s not that we’re afraid, it’s just that it’s unnecessary.” He Kang shook his head and sighed, “Old Wei and Su Chen didn’t have any direct conflict. Aren’t we just escalating the conflict by doing this?”

"No direct conflict?" Hearing this, Xiao Ying laughed: "Do you think there's any room for reconciliation between the two of them?"

"Sigh," He Kang sighed, "but it's not like they should be obstructing things like this."

"If you play the good guy for too long, you'll even start to fool yourself." Xiao Ying turned and walked out. "A small matter... Ha, would anyone need this fragment for no reason?"

He Kang shook his head helplessly, followed Xiao Ying out of the resource library, and arrived at the parking lot. From afar, he saw Zhou Honglang's back and met the figure waiting next to the hovercar.

In an instant, Xiao Ying's face turned ugly. Zhou Honglang was smiling as he took the black metal box handed to him by his subordinate and handed it to Gu Bing, saying something.

"Could that be a fragment of the Void Star?" He Kang, who was following behind, also saw this scene and couldn't help but ask hesitantly.

Xiao Ying composed herself, her face expressionless. "If it's not a fragment, what else could it be? Gu Bing came here for the fragment. Do you think Zhou Honglang would give her something insignificant?"

Since things had come to this point, there was no point in saying anything more. Xiao Ying snorted coldly and turned to board the hovercar next to her.

…………

Two hours later, Gu Bing arrived at Su Chen's residence with the items. "These are the fragments of the Void Star..." Su Chen looked at the crystal fragments in the box, their starlight swirling within them, exceptionally beautiful.

"The Ministry of Supervision spent 170 million, and we gave them all of the 130 million, so they essentially spent an extra 40 million," Gu Bing explained, a strange look in her eyes.

Su Chen told her to wait for the people from the Supervision Department after the event, but she didn't expect Zhou Honglang to give him the things directly.

"Okay." Su Chen nodded. He contacted Cheng Lang immediately after receiving Tie Feng's message.

The two had just agreed to work together for Yingfeng's future. Cheng Lang was very efficient, but the supervisory department only provided the gloves; the money still had to come from them.

“However, is it possible to have too much contact with the Inspection Department…” she said with a hint of caution, as the power struggle between the court and the security bureau was common knowledge in Yingfeng.

"Don't worry." Su Chen closed the suitcase and put it aside.

Seeing Su Chen's confident demeanor, Gu Bing felt relieved and then cautiously said:
"Due to the recent audits by the Security Bureau, our delivery and sales channels have been somewhat affected by the Inspection Department. If you could submit your application, could you…"

Su Chen immediately said, "Leave this matter to me."

The Security Bureau has been making a lot of moves in the city lately, and Su Chen has heard about it. He guesses that they are probably looking for the Black Tuo Divine Blood.

However, such information could not be delivered to the lowest levels, so those guards who were actually responsible for doing the work were often driven by selfish motives and lined up their own pockets.

Gu Bing breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Su Chen agree decisively.

Su Chen thought it was normal to take someone's money and do their bidding. These three families did indeed save him a lot of trouble, and they actually raised the money to help him obtain the fragments of the Void Star.

After thinking for a moment, he added, "Would you like to eat some meat from the Inspection Department?"

"Is that possible?" Gu Bing asked in surprise, and even the seemingly dull Tie Feng couldn't help but look over.

The Ministry of Supervision consumes astronomical amounts of food, medicine, and weapons every day, and its business dealings with the three companies are somewhat intertwined.

When their family was at its peak, they had all profited from various institutions in the city, so they naturally understood how lucrative the profits were.

"I can give you a heads-up, but I have only one requirement: when I ask you to step down, you must not hesitate," Su Chen said in a deep voice. He had already spoken to Chong Jingtian, so getting something for free was no problem, but there would always be a day when the truth would come out.

Gu Bing immediately replied, "No problem, I can decide for Grandpa."

Tie Feng nodded in agreement; the Wang family members who weren't present wouldn't have any other opinions either.

After finalizing the matter, Su Chen inquired about the situation at the scene. Tie Feng's information only stated that someone had intercepted the deal, but the specific details were too complicated to elaborate on.

Gu Bing's smile vanished, her thin lips pursed, and she said angrily, "It's Xiao Ying, an inner court seed, a fourth-tier professional. He's Wei Yu Fan's man. I didn't expect to run into them this time."

"Wei Yufan...it's him again." Su Chen frowned. This old guy sees him as a strong competitor and has been subtly trying to undermine him several times.

"This time it was probably Xiao Ying who acted on his own initiative. Nobody knows about our plot to seize the fragments of the Void Star," Gu Bing said.

“Acting on his own initiative… Xiao Ying…” Su Chen pondered.

Gu Bing briefly explained: "He is a fourth-tier mental-side professional. First and second tiers are top-tier professions, while third and fourth tiers are superior."

"I see." Su Chen said thoughtfully.

Then, Gu Bing became somewhat puzzled: "What he bought is the 'Jade Concealment Flowing Light' potion, which is a high-level potion used to stabilize one's profession and is only used when one has just been promoted."

"Is it really this difficult for Wei Yufan to advance to the fifth-tier upper-level profession?"

Su Chen did not respond. After chatting for a few minutes, Gu Bing and Tie Feng said goodbye.

After seeing them off, Su Chen had just tossed the fragment into his storage space when Ming Lin knocked on the door and asked, "So, did you get the job you wanted?"

"Just got it, that's why I called you here." Su Chen invited him to sit down. "It's called [Armored Bone], and its main function is to strengthen the physical body by fusing with external objects."

"Roughly what is its function?" Minglin paused, then realized, "A profession that was just deciphered?"

“Yes.” Su Chen nodded, and seeing Ming Lin hesitate, he added, “The intensity is not low, requiring more than one top-tier physical combat profession as a foundation.”

A true expert's skill is immediately apparent. Upon hearing these two requests, Minglin's eyes lit up, and he immediately said, "Change it!"

But then he added, "There aren't any requirements that are extremely difficult, are there?"

"No, it's just a matter of resources and time, which you can definitely provide."

“Okay.” Minglin was quite excited. “My job doesn’t have any extremely difficult requirements.”

At this point, his expression turned strange, as if he were recalling something. "It's just that the food I eat is a bit unusual, but it's not a big problem."

Private job exchanges are basically based on needs, and there is no question of job intensity.

"Then let's sign the contract first." Minglin said, and then took out a piece of grayish-yellow paper from his pocket.

Once unfolded, it was covered with densely packed characters that Su Chen couldn't understand, with black patterns spreading along the edges.

"A contract?" Su Chen looked at it in surprise. He was quite familiar with this kind of thing. It came from a special profession called contract masters and was used in many industries.

"Oh, you haven't traded important items privately, have you?" Minglin suddenly realized and explained, "Professional information can be copied and spread, which is not good for either party in the transaction."

"A contract is a kind of constraint, preventing one's profession from being leaked."

"Is there a punishment?" Su Chen frowned slightly.

“No.” Minglin shook his head. “The stronger the binding force of a contract, the higher the requirements for its creator. We don’t need to make contracts with punitive implications.”

"My contract is very simple. If either of us discloses any professional information about the transaction in any form, the other party will know, but that's all."

"You certainly don't want me to resell it."

Minglin was quite thoughtful. Su Chen thought for a moment, then placed his hand on the contract. He sensed the vague information and the content was roughly the same as what Minglin had said.

"Then let's sign it." Su Chen nodded, and the two quickly completed the signing. The contract then turned into a stream of light and disappeared, merging into their respective bodies.

Su Chen said in surprise, "It's still a secret agreement..."

After signing the contract, the two switched professions.

[A special profession has been discovered – Gluttony. You can take the job after completing the requirements.]

[Job requirement one: To engage in extreme eating for more than thirty days in total.]

[Job requirement two: The food consumed cannot be repeated and must include inanimate objects, living things, plants, decaying matter, metals, and rocks.]

[Job requirement three: Fusion with the Abyss Stomach.]

Su Chen carefully reviewed the three job requirements, and they were all basically related to food.

"Eating beyond the limits, and the types of food cannot be repeated... live things, metal... rocks, and even decaying matter..." Su Chen frowned. He was quite picky about what went into his mouth, and these requirements made him rather resistant.

[The obese glutton dragged his body along, and when he saw the imposing figure of the Crimson Flame Thunder Lord, his fat trembled, realizing his own insignificance, and his second requirement for employment was to be eliminated.]

"That's more like it..." Su Chen's expression relaxed a lot. Who would want to torture themselves for no reason? Can't they just eat something good?
(End of this chapter)