My Misfortune Crushed Instances-Chapter 74: Commendation and Reward
Wu Mengying personally sought out Li Rui to repeatedly understand the situation in the Secret Realm, from Wang Ba to her, and then to Song Yao along this line, they were all his direct "guardians", so there was no need to hold anything back.
As for the encounters in the Demon Wind Temple, she was also well aware, so using Chongxu’s token, as well as Sun Qian’s information, was both unexpected and reasonable.
As a secret agent of the Secret Realm, she didn’t consider defrauding Zuo Qiutian to achieve her goal as anything improper. By any means, the mission of a secret agent is to clear the level.
Moreover, this time, not only did he clear the level himself, but he also brought two others along, leveling up He Chengli to level 16 and Wu Sun to 18, which was beneficial for the Baili Association.
Additionally, information about Zuo Qiutian’s conspiracy, as well as what he knew about "people from beyond the sky" and the possibility of someone being a double agent, was crucial. However, Li Rui didn’t need to get involved in these matters for now, getting the intel itself was already a significant contribution.
Wu Mengying stated on the spot: "This time, our city-level Chapter will award you with an Outstanding Contribution Medal, which is an honor to be recorded in your file. The provincial-level Chapter might also have other honor recognitions."
Li Rui asked, "Does this award come with equipment?"
A secret agent of the Secret Realm has a total of 13 equipment slots: chest, arms, gloves, belt, legs, shoes, four rings, two ornaments, a necklace, and a weapon.
So far, if you count the administrator’s coat, Li Rui’s weapon, two rings (one blue and one green), two ornaments, and one glove, seven slots are not blank.
But the quality of equipment in six slots still needs to be improved.
However, upon hearing his question, Wu Mengying couldn’t help but smile wryly: "This medal is the highest honor that the city-level Chapter can award, and it will greatly benefit your future promotions."
Li Rui asked, "Does the registration audit for the Secret Realm battlefield consider honors?"
Wu Mengying nodded and said, "It is one of the reference standards."
Wang Ba suddenly leaned in and asked, "Do you want to sign up for the Secret Realm battlefield?"
"Just asking," Li Rui replied casually.
Although he reached level 17 in just over a month, the minimum requirement to sign up is to reach level 30 and successfully advance in profession, which definitely means more time will be needed.
Now, to level up to 18, he already needs 80,000 experience points, and who knows what comes next.
Wang Ba saw through his group member’s thoughts. Although he wasn’t too optimistic, he didn’t want to discourage him, just encouraged him by saying:
"If you want to participate, you have to work harder. Level 30 is just the entry threshold, and there will be selections at that time, so you need to work hard."
Li Rui nodded and said, "We’ll see, no rush."
At this moment, someone knocked on the office door, Li Rui unlocked the door and found it was Wu Sun.
"Uh, Huo Yun is looking for you."
Hearing it was this person, Li Rui was taken aback: "What do you mean?"
"He’s in the reception room."
Wu Sun knew what he was wondering, "He flew over."
"Reception room?!"
Li Rui was dumbfounded, "We just came out of the Secret Realm a few hours ago."
He greeted and entered the reception room.
"Why are you here?"
Huo Yun stood up quickly, intentionally straight-faced, and said, "People from the Huo family never owe favors."
He took out a temporary data storage card, the same type as the Lingdong Amulet given by Yun Jiaying.
Li Rui didn’t hesitate and accepted it with a smile.
Helping someone recover from a failure once in the early stage is worth a piece of equipment, of course, provided that the Huo family is wealthy.
"Well, your overall quality is very high. If there’s a chance in the future, we can cooperate, and if you need payment, that’s fine too."
"Sure, add me on WeChat."
Li Rui greeted him with a smile, not realizing that this taciturn person wanted to indirectly offer tribute, just considering it a business deal.
Huo Yun said, "I have to return home, so I won’t stay, but if you’d like to have a meal...."
"Take care."
Li Rui, preoccupied with business, stood up to see him off.
Huo Yun’s latter half of the sentence was cut off, he got up and walked to the door, but then heard a voice from behind.
"Hey, wait a minute."
Li Rui said with a smile, "Help me with something, when you go back, if you encounter any other family’s younger members at a similar level to me, tell them they can pay for power leveling if they’re in the same Secret Realm as me."
"....."
Huo Yun’s mouth twitched, "There has to be a plan, right?"
"What plan?" Li Rui tilted his head.
Huo Yun returned, sat down by the coffee table, and said, "Look, different Secret Realms have different difficulties, different people’s abilities vary, some can cooperate with you, some will hold you back, your fees should definitely differ too."
"An epic equipment piece is equipment, so is a rare equipment piece, what will they give at that time?"
Li Rui gave a thumbs-up: "Makes sense, no wonder it’s you."
Receiving praise, Huo Yun felt elated, he cleared his throat and continued, "I suggest we categorize it, for Secret Realms below five stars, ask for excellent to rare level equipment, six to seven stars require epic, and higher.... it might be hard to help, right?"
"Not necessarily."
The two discussed it in the reception room.
An hour later, they finally finalized the list.
"Thank you, thank you, thanks to you." 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮
Li Rui hesitated for a bit and took out the Secret Realm data storage card, "You were a great help, you can take this back."
Huo Yun, like an overbearing CEO, waved his hand: "Business is business, I’m off."
Li Rui thought this guy was quite decent, if he met him next time, he wouldn’t charge for power leveling.
He took the item from Huo Yun to the support group and saw the equipment inside on the device.
[Shattered Electric Belt.]
[Item Level: 17.]
[Quality: Rare]
[Attributes: Defense +7, Spirit +3.]
[Special Effect: Thunder attribute damage +5%.]
[Eternal: Yes.]
Though the increase in Thunder attribute damage matched well, the rarity of this equipment’s entries couldn’t compare to the Lingdong Amulet of the He family, likely because He Chengli is almost certain to be the sole heir of the main family, but Huo Yun is just one competitor.
Even though the Huo family must have better items, he may not necessarily have the authority to mobilize them.
Li Rui didn’t mind, now another piece of non-blank equipment had been added, 8/13 were green or above.
He had already found a solution to his unlucky constitution.
If the random items in the Secret Realm didn’t give high-quality ones, he could just get them from the rich people.
After all, the unlucky constitution could lead to more random events than others, which is just right for leveling by experience boosting.
"Maybe if I lead a group of people in the future, the Superpower Division will even give me a contribution award."
He muttered as he went to find Wen Yan to help him open the enhancement equipment nearby.
The task of preventing the Demon Beast resurrection gave three epic-level enhancement materials, Li Rui wanted to see what effect they would have if used to enhance the administrator’s coat.
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