Due to the ruins on the wasteland, Lin Qian took the opportunity to recruit those E-level and D-level mercenaries to be "coolies" to help him build, which was also considered to be the best use, so that those mercenaries who could not enter the canyon also had a lot of complaints.

As soon as they entered the Everfree Forest, those high-ranking mercenaries were overjoyed, full of wild beasts, and full of treasures that could be exchanged for money. However, they were not in a hurry, but patiently explored inside, trying to find a more powerful beast to reap greater benefits.

But as the mercenaries went deeper, the dense woods became an obstacle, and some of the mercenaries began to set fires and even began to destroy trees on a large scale, so that the beasts had nowhere to hide. When Lin Qian learned of this situation, not only did he not stop it, but he also ordered his own people to cut down trees and transport the best timber to build houses by the way.

Looking at the sky-high fire on the other side of the canyon, Lin Qian thought to himself that he had done evil, but for the sake of human survival, he had no choice but to make this decision. If forests and wild beasts are considered natural ecological environments, then these mercenaries are capitalists who do not hesitate to destroy the ecology for the sake of profit. However, Lin Qian knew that the biggest threat he was facing now was these "natural ecological environments", and he needed to destroy them, and he knew that these people were no less capable of destroying than the capitalists on the earth.

Not long after the flames were ignited, something strange happened, and a strong gust of wind suddenly came from the depths of the jungle to the west, which stopped the fire and continued to spread inside. Even those mercenaries use magic to change the direction of the wind, but whenever the flames have a tendency to be uncontrollable, they will always be extinguished inexplicably.

It seems that it is not easy to destroy this forest, Lin Qian suddenly thought of the human traces that Sophia found that night, could it be that they are stopping? But it is easy to stop the fire, and it is not so simple to stop the mercenaries from exploring—or making profits.

Next, Lin Qian waited outside the canyon for the mercenaries to deliver the crystal nucleus to him—and then handed it over to Ysera.

"I said, Miss, you're too good at eating, aren't you?"

Ever since Ysera came here, Lin Qian had started to have a headache, no matter how many crystal nuclei were recovered in a day, as long as Ysera entered the warehouse, the warehouse would be wiped out when she came out. Then Ysera slept enough to digest the nuclei throughout the day, and continued to sweep the next night.

"Who told you to get less, not enough for me to eat." "Ysera is unceremonious, anyway, the crystal nucleus is energy, and eating too much is only good, and it won't gain weight.

"Then how much do you eat to really be enough?" Lin Qian decided to set a quantity for her.

Ysera didn't care about Lin Qian's attitude: "Don't worry, the energy I digest every day is limited, I overeat, the energy will take several days to digest, and when those people send high-grade crystal nuclei, I will naturally eat less." ”

"I hope so. Lin Qian shook his head helplessly, he was equivalent to using the guild's money to support a dragon, and it was no wonder if he didn't lose money.

After about ten days, the bottom hall of the chapter has been completed, and the superstructure is estimated to be some more days. Lin Qian decided not to be in a hurry, but instead built the auction house first as a means of recovering funds. The temporary office was located in a small house nearby, and Lin Qian was inquiring about the recent situation at the moment.

"Lord, this is our total cost in the past ten days. An old man respectfully handed over the account book for Lin Qian's review.

"Well," Lin Qian took the account book, frowned, and said in surprise, "More than 1.3 million gold coins?"

"Yes...... Yes," replied the old man tremblingly, "the exact number is recorded above, and you can verify it, President." ”

He is the chief financial director arranged by Lin Qian here, although he is told not to spare money and vigorously develop and acquire, but this large amount of money is flowing out of his own hands, and it is inevitable that he will feel uneasy.

Lin Qian glanced at the accounts again: 30,000 gold coins for building materials, 500,000 gold coins for hiring magicians, 790,000 gold coins for purchasing crystal nuclei, and some miscellaneous expenses can be ignored in comparison.

"What about those crystal nuclei?" This is the most important part of Lin Qian's money, and it is difficult to say whether he can earn it back by relying on them.

"This ......," the old man's face began to sweat, "the account ...... It has received more than 40,000 crystal nuclei above level 7 and 270,000 below level 7, but the inventory is ...... After the inventory is counted...... Only...... Less than half. ”

"What?" Lin Qian's jaw dropped in shock, "Half...... Don't you?"

"Yes...... Yes. ”

Lin Qian tried to stabilize his emotions, relieved his breath, and said calmly: "You go down, remember to call Miss Ysera, who is in charge of the warehouse, in when you go out." By the way, if she's sleeping, go and wake her up with a bucket of cold water. ”

The old man shuddered, although he didn't know Ysera's identity, but from the relationship between her and Lin Qian, he could see that he was definitely not a person, how could he have the courage to splash her with cold water. But Lin Qian's order didn't dare to disobey, the old man was having a headache, and when he went out, he saw that Sophia was about to come in, so he hurriedly stepped forward to ask for help.

"Lin really said that?" Sophia asked with a smile after listening to the old man's report.

"Yes, please ask Madame for help. The old man bowed again.

"Go down, I'll go find Ysera. Sophia had a plan in her mind and turned to the warehouse.

The dragon princess was sleeping soundly at the moment, unaware that Sophia was gathering a ball of water suspended above her head, ready to let go.

"Forget it, it's a dragon princess, you have to give her some face. Sophia thought for a moment, withdrew the water balloon, and instead gathered a beam of light on her face, and Ysera was startled and crawled up.

"Lin is looking for you!" Sophia said and left directly, not giving her a chance to ask.

Ysera was already unhappy when she was woken up, and Sophia's attitude made her even more in a bad mood, but the surprise just now really made her sleepless, so she had to go to Lin Qian's office.

"Tell me, what's the matter with Princess Ben?" said Iser into the office and put on a stool, as if he didn't treat himself as an outsider.

Lin Qian raised up and saw that it was Isera, and looked at it carefully, a little puzzled: "Who woke you up?"

"Who else? isn't that your spouse?" Ysera knew so little about human things that he could only understand in terms of dragons.

Lin Qian understood, and the account room was afraid of causing trouble, so he went to find Sophia to help.

"She didn't splash you with water?"

"How dare she?" said Ysera.

"It's not a question of whether she dares or not, it's whether she wants to or not. Lin Qian knew that the two of them were not compatible, and said pointedly.

"What do you mean?"

"It was my idea to splash you with water, and even if she did do it, you wouldn't risk revealing your identity and turn into a dragon to fight her, would you?"

Ysera thought that this was indeed the case, her biggest worry here was to expose her identity and cause unnecessary trouble, could it really be that she "let go" of herself?

"By the way, what are you looking for me for?" said Ysera, deliberately avoiding the thought.

Lin Qian's face immediately changed: "Don't you know what's going on? Most of the crystal nuclei I bought with hundreds of thousands of gold coins were eaten by you, do you really think that my money fell from the sky?"

Seeing her so angry, Ysera also felt that she was a little too much, but this was the condition that Lin Qian agreed to at the beginning, and she would not be soft: "Who made you humans so unbearable, you can't even feed my dragon, I originally wanted to raise the condition to our entire dragon clan." ”

"You-" Lin Qian was completely speechless, "Now that there are more and more mercenaries outside, and there are more and more crystal nuclei, I don't have much spare money to buy anymore, and if you continue to eat like this, you will really eat me poor." ”

"Will you have no money?" Isera looked incredulous, "Don't think I don't know, you took the crystal nucleus purchased at a low price, processed it a little, and the price increased more than ten times in the blink of an eye, will there be no money?"

Lin Qian couldn't say anything about her, so he had to give an eviction order: "Anyway, give me less food when you go back!"

It's not that Lin Qian is not kind, but now he really doesn't have much money. With a paper agreement in Azure City, Lin Qian promised a huge funding gap in order to get that large amount of amethyst, and now he has come to develop this wasteland and recover the crystal nucleus indefinitely, and the already stretched capital chain is in danger of breaking. Not really...... I had to come up with a banker's trick.

The next day, two windows in the chapter hall were suddenly renamed: Access Vault. The bulletin board next to it is clearly written, saying that it is to prevent mercenaries from fighting each other for money, and considering that it is inconvenient for mercenaries to carry a large amount of money on missions, this vault for access is opened, and the handling fee is free, mainly to help mercenaries temporarily store money and wait until they want to use it to withdraw it.

To put it bluntly, this is Lin Qian's private bank, but it can only be deposited and withdrawn, not loaned, and has no interest, which is the most basic stage. Lin Qian understood that his money was mainly on those mercenaries now, and as long as it could be recovered, there would be no gap in the entire funds.

In view of the precedent of the Magic Guild never being cheated and cheated, some mercenaries also felt that it was very inappropriate to bring a lot of money, and they all saved it one after another, but Lin Qian collected a lot of cash this time, alleviating the urgent need. But the money is only temporarily their own, and the final income depends on the auction house.

What Isera said was right, Lin Qian's auction house was very profitable, and the reserve price of the auction was more than ten times higher than the cost, but there were still many mercenaries who grabbed their scalps to buy good things when they appeared. As the mercenaries get richer in their pockets, they will also consider buying themselves a few pieces of magical equipment in case they can get out of the adventure.

The unscrupulous actions of the mercenaries in the forest can easily attract the revenge of the beasts, or even be besieged by counterattacks, and this is where the role of some magical equipment and props comes into play. Teleportation scrolls, disposable scrolls that allow users to teleport to a distance of 100 meters, are the hottest items sold recently, originally sold at a fixed price at a designated window, but due to the shortage of supply, they were eventually distributed to the auction house to auction, and the auction is limited to 100 pieces per day.

The more he made profits, the more Lin Qian felt that there was a shortage of manpower, there were too few magicians to make magic equipment and props, and most magicians were willing to take risks instead of staying in the laboratory to do all kinds of research and production.