Jason Carter immediately took Brian Cooper back to his own shack, glaring at Brian Cooper as they walked. Damn it, it’s all because you keep babbling every day!

Brian Cooper secretly turned around and winked at Emily. When Emily saw Brian Cooper like this, she burst out laughing, as if all her bad mood had vanished into thin air.

She squatted on the ground, staring at that half-broken bone knife for a long time, then finally went back to sleep with a smile on her lips.

As for Jason Carter, he closed his eyes to carefully examine the palace within himself, as well as the words just typed out by the typewriter.

A side quest—this is interesting.

Chapter 11: Rounding Up, That’s a Hundred Million

Two basic learning charts—these things are extremely useful. Jason Carter is someone who craves knowledge, and with a learning chart, he can instantly acquire someone else’s experience. Jason Carter treasures them like gold.

Although the skills learned are random, and he might end up with something useless, learning advanced firearms skills before had already given Jason Carter a taste of the benefits.

But what really drew Jason Carter to the palace wasn’t these two learning charts, but rather what the palace mentioned at the end… a side quest!

Since it’s a side quest, it should be something less important, or maybe just a short-term task.

But at that moment, Jason Carter clearly heard the palace say: Because you lack a weapon, specially…

So this quest must be related to weapons, right?

Having spent years surviving in the wilderness, Jason Carter knows all too well how important a good weapon is. Previously, Old Martinez had gotten hold of a steel knife and wanted to sell it to Jason Carter, but even after saving up for half a year, Jason Carter still couldn’t afford it.

In the end, Old Martinez sold the knife to a manager at the chemical plant. The plant managers are usually leaders chosen from the refugees by the shelter, the kind of people who get to drink the soup when the shelter eats meat.

Back then, Jason Carter thought, if only he could have a good weapon someday. Then he wouldn’t have to lie in wait for sparrows in the wilderness every day. That’s getting harder and harder, and it’s exhausting.

With a good weapon, he could go hunt other wild animals, like rabbits, field mice, bamboo rats, and so on…

Now, even rabbits count as wild beasts…

The rabbits in the wilderness don’t attack people, but the big ones are as tall as a person’s calf and incredibly strong. Jason Carter once dug a trap over two meters deep, and a rabbit did fall in. But as soon as Jason Carter got close, the rabbit kicked its legs and jumped right out, even kicking Jason Carter in the head mid-air—he almost ended up with a brain hemorrhage…

Jason Carter looked at the kraft paper in the typewriter: “Because you lack a weapon, a side quest is now activated: Obtain 100 sincere thank-yous to unlock a weapon. Thank-yous can also be used to exchange for items.”

Jason Carter’s expression turned odd. This side quest… why does it feel so weird…?

Collect thank-yous? And they have to be sincere.

It’s easy to collect thank-yous, but the problem is, requiring sincerity makes it much harder.

And thank-yous can be used as currency? The key is, what can you buy with them?

He kept reading the kraft paper, and saw that new words would occasionally appear there.

“A thank-you from Emily Thompson, +1.”

Looks like he didn’t save an ingrate. Jason Carter sighed—the palace’s judgment must be accurate.

At this moment, there was another line in small print on the kraft paper: Unlock weapon: 1/100.

Jason Carter felt a bit regretful. If only he could collect negative emotions instead, he could max out the whole town’s negative emotions in no time!

But he’d just have to use whatever the palace gave him. At this point, Jason Carter was already looking forward to his future weapon.

Anything given by this mysterious palace was bound to be good.

Suddenly, Jason Carter opened his eyes and looked at Brian Cooper: “Liuyuan, say thank you to me.”

Brian Cooper looked confused: “Bro, don’t be like this, you’re scaring me.”

“Scared of what?” Jason Carter said impatiently. “Hurry up and say it.”

Brian Cooper thought for a moment and said, “Thank you for always taking care of me.”

“A thank-you from Brian Cooper, +1.”

Jason Carter grinned from ear to ear. Was it really this easy?

“Come on, say thank you a few more times,” Jason Carter said.

Brian Cooper was speechless: “Thank you…”

This time, Jason Carter was disappointed. Looks like you can’t farm it repeatedly—the key is sincerity. He looked up at Brian Cooper in dissatisfaction: “You’re not sincere!”

“No, no, your emotion’s off. Try again.”

“Still not right. Take a moment to get into the mood. Come on, yes, that’s the expression.”

“Try again. Sincerity is the key…”

“One more time, and put some emotion in your voice this time…”

Brian Cooper was on the verge of collapse. His mouth was dry as he said, “Bro, is this your ability? This is really hard on the throat…”

That night, Jason Carter spent half the night experimenting on Brian Cooper, but only managed to get one thank-you.

And that thank-you turned into two coins, each engraved with a heart. On the reverse side was an inscription: A grateful heart, thankful for you, accompanying me through life, giving me the courage to be myself. A grateful heart, thankful for fate, whether flowers bloom or fall, I will cherish it all the same.

Jason Carter smacked his lips. Pretty sentimental, huh.