Chapter 308 - 179: Unknown Zone! Across the Great River! Exchanging the Waterfield Card

Chapter 308: Chapter 179: Unknown Zone! Across the Great River! Exchanging the Waterfield Card

Chen Chong and Xu Jun had only just gotten up and hadn’t even swallowed their food when they saw Zhang Meng rush in and blurt out two pieces of news all at once.

The two froze the moment they heard him. In an instant, they lost their appetite.

"What? You have a lead on a Waterfield Card?"

"And you’ve found traces of wild goats?"

Chen Chong and Xu Jun exchanged a glance and immediately put down their bowls and chopsticks.

"Elaborate!"

Zhang Meng had obviously rushed over without a moment’s rest after hearing the news. He sat on the sofa, panting heavily, and downed a large bowl of water before he could speak again.

"Brother Chong, you asked me to post bounties yesterday, right?"

"As you requested, I posted bounties for both the Waterfield Card and any sign of wild goats, offering ten times the points of a normal mission. And sure enough, we got news in less than a day."

"Actually, it took less than a day. According to Zhong Fang, team members had already provided this information yesterday afternoon."

"You were busy at the time, and I was tied up with other things, so there was a delay. But as soon as I got to the gym this morning and heard about the Waterfield Card and the wild goats, I came straight here."

"I knew that news about these two things was your top priority right now."

Chen Chong: "You’re right. Both planting rice with a Waterfield Card and capturing and domesticating a medium-sized animal like the wild goat are crucial for me at the moment."

Zhang Meng didn’t beat around the bush and got straight to explaining the source of the information. "Here’s the deal. The intel on the Waterfield Card came from a member of the logistics team. Brother Chong, your guess was spot on—Waterfield Cards really do exist. What’s more, this guy has one and he hasn’t even used it."

"Really?" Chen Chong was genuinely surprised to hear that.

After all, when he’d first acquired the Brown Rice, he had only mentioned in passing his guess that something like a Waterfield Card might exist.

The Cards covered so many categories that just because he hadn’t seen or heard of one didn’t mean it didn’t exist.

’But it was just a guess.’

The bounty for the Waterfield Card had just been a shot in the dark. He had even been prepared to lead a team to construct a proper paddy suitable for rice cultivation if they couldn’t find a lead within three days.

Even without the growth bonus from a Card, they had to get this staple crop planted. ’I can’t believe a Waterfield Card actually exists.’

"So, is this person willing to part with his Waterfield Card?"

Zhang Meng nodded. "Of course. He wouldn’t have reported it otherwise. It’s just that regarding the ten-times-points reward, he seems to have a different request—looks like he wants something else. That’s why we haven’t acquired the Card from him yet. You can go see him about it later, Brother Chong."

Chen Chong nodded. "Alright, I’ll go see him when I head to the gym later. As long as I can acquire his Waterfield Card, I can agree to his request, provided it’s not too outrageous."

"What about the news on the wild goats?" Xu Jun asked.

Zhang Meng caught his breath. "The information about the wild goats also came from our team members. And more than one person reported it."

"Oh? More than one?" Xu Jun repeated.

"That’s right. Members from three separate hunting teams all provided this information."

"According to them, they stumbled upon the goats by chance while scavenging for resources in the Primitive Jungle, back before they joined our team."

"Two of the teams stated they only saw the wild goats from a distance, in the region of the Barren Mountains. Furthermore, both teams pointed in the same direction."

"And from what I know, those two teams aren’t very familiar with each other."

"If that’s the case, then their stories are probably true. There really must be wild goats over in the Barren Mountains."

Chen Chong fell silent.

Creatures like wild goats thrived in mountainous terrain. And while the Primitive Jungle was vast and boundless, mountains and hills were few and far between.

He’d been here for over half a month and had explored a radius of several thousand meters in every direction.

’If there was any place suitable for wild goats, the Barren Mountains would definitely be it.’

’Although that area was once Stone Claw Eagle territory, that wouldn’t stop wild goats from roaming there.’

’But considering the steep terrain of the Barren Mountains and its intersecting cliffs, even as a Transcendent, it would be incredibly difficult to catch a wild goat if I actually found one.’

’A live one, that is.’

’After all, the purpose of catching them was to raise them, not just to hunt them for meat.’

Chen Chong was confident he could secure a dead one, but catching a live one was another matter entirely. It would be incredibly difficult.

"You said there were three teams, didn’t you? So what was the information about the wild goats that the third team provided?" Jia Wen asked from the side, chewing on the end of a feather fan.

Zhang Meng heard this and burst out laughing. "I was going to keep you in suspense for a bit longer to see your worried faces, but I didn’t expect you to get to that so quickly. If it were just about spotting wild goats, I wouldn’t have called it good news."

"According to the members of this third hunting team, they didn’t just see wild goats—they actually caught a kid themselves, using a trap."

"Back then, they had no intention of penning it for breeding. Besides, even if they had, raising a kid to maturity would have been next to impossible. Forgetting the time it would take to grow, it would have been incredibly difficult for their small team to catch another compatible goat for it to breed with. So, all things considered, they just roasted and ate it on the spot."