Chapter 3772 — This Is a Good Thing
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Xu Lingchong and Meng Jueming and the others withdrew to a quiet corner before he finally spoke up: "Old Meng, do you think Wei Zhao has some other scheme in doing this? The fellow isn't especially clever, but surely he wouldn't just jump into a pit of his own accord?"
Meng Jueming frowned in thought for a moment, then said heavily, "Young Master Xu, I've turned it over and over, and apart from buying himself some goodwill, Wei Zhao gains absolutely nothing by doing this. This is fixed by the challenge rules—no matter how hard he racks his brains, it's useless."
"Maybe he's after the fifteen initial points that come with the Mountain-Low No. 1 cave dwelling?" Meng Zhou suddenly put in from the side.
Meng Jueming shot him a look and cursed in exasperation at his failure to live up to expectations: "Are you an idiot? Even if the Mountain-Low No. 1 cave dwelling starts out with fifteen points, from then on he can't challenge anyone to earn more points—he can only sit there passively waiting for others to challenge him. What the hell use is fifteen points if all you do is guard them?"
Yet Xu Lingchong seemed somewhat hesitant: "Didn't you say that when this fellow was at the Pill Hall earlier, he chose forty spirit herb seeds in one go? If he switches to the Mountain-Low No. 1 cave dwelling this time, not only can he buy goodwill and smoothly pocket the fifteen points, but since no one wants to jump into that pit voluntarily, probably no one will be willing to challenge him for the first dozen rounds or so."
"Right! That way the fellow can save his strength and devote it entirely to those forty spirit herb seeds—three birds with one stone. Truly cunning, the bastard. Good thing Young Master Xu saw through it!" Meng Zhou hastened to agree.
Once Xu Lingchong put it that way, even Meng Jueming, who had been dismissive at first, could not help growing cautious.
At this, Li Zhengming thought to himself that things looked bad. At this rate, Wei Zhao's bid to swap cave dwellings with Xiao Che was likely to fall through—after all, rules were made by men, and with a great young master like Xu Lingchong standing right here, finding some pretext to block him would be the work of a moment.
After pondering for a while, Li Zhengming suddenly spoke: "Young Master Xu, Senior Brother Meng, I have a thought or two—though I don't know whether I ought to voice them."
Meng Jueming and Xu Lingchong exchanged a glance. Li Zhengming was, after all, the one among his newcomers—Meng Zhou aside—whom he valued most, so he nodded at once: "Go on."
"It's like this. I think that Wei Zhao fellow is overestimating himself. Taking forty spirit herb seeds of his own accord earlier was in fact digging his own grave, because given the conditions we newcomers of the Green Cloud Pavilion have, no matter how much effort he pours in, those forty spirit herb seeds are basically all going to wither and die. Wei Zhao can be no exception!" Li Zhengming declared with righteous confidence.
Xu Lingchong, Meng Jueming, and the rest nodded in agreement. In truth, guaranteeing the survival rate of spirit herb seeds required a specially constructed environment like a spirit herb garden; otherwise, even with their own conditions, none of them could ensure a decent survival rate.
So when Wei Zhao had announced that he would take all forty, he had in fact already leapt into a deep pit from which there was no climbing out.
Pausing a moment, Li Zhengming went on: "Therefore, I believe that even if we let him swap cave dwellings with Xiao Che, the outcome cannot be changed—and moreover, for Leader Meng Zhou here, this is a stroke of luck he could only dream of!"
"How do you figure that?" The others were momentarily taken aback.