Chapter 49: Sorry, Owing Karma Just Means You Can Do Whatever You Want

"What is she..." Chu Hao muttered, pausing as he watched the blonde-haired young woman walking toward them from the private rooms. She gave him a rather eerie feeling—not merely because she had emerged from her personal quarters, but also due to her appearance. Her skin seemed noticeably paler, and even her eyes had turned red.

Chen Mo grinned broadly.

"Just a few minor mental control tricks (Hypnotic Eyes). After all, if she had simply returned to her own room, locked the door, and refused to come out, there wouldn't be much we could do about her."

To be honest, even within the talent-saturated Main God's Dimension, an individual with such absurdly defiant logic was exceptionally rare.

If this person wasn't simply lacking a few screws in her head—genuinely believing she could avoid all enhancements and rely entirely on her teammates' assistance to accumulate enough reward points to return to the real world—then she was undoubtedly a guide created by the Main God itself.

This was merely Chen Mo's conjecture, but the result mattered little. Regardless of whether she was a guide or not, the moment she chose this path, he had no intention of letting her go.

"So, you intend to treat her like the 'breeders' you mentioned, stripping away all her side stories and reward points?"

Though his insights often defied conventional wisdom, Chu Hao possessed genuine intelligence. Hearing Chen Mo put it this way, he immediately grasped the true nature of this so-called breeder.

"Yes. To be frank with you, I don't harbor much aversion toward breeders—those who strip teammates of their side stories and reward points, treating them like livestock to absorb their resources and strengthen themselves," Chen Mo said candidly.

"After all, in the Main God's Dimension, using any means necessary just to survive is entirely normal. If anything, breeder teams are the standard configuration for reincarnation teams—whether they are pure breeder teams that treat teammates like livestock, or semi-breeder teams that charge protection fees while contributing a certain amount of effort themselves."

"Of course, I am not saying I want to transform the Northice Team into a breeder team. But for someone who cares only about herself, contributes absolutely nothing to the team, hoards resources without utilizing them, and exists solely to elevate the team's difficulty, I fully endorse resorting to unconventional methods."

"I understand," Chu Hao nodded.

"So, what is your view on this?" Chen Mo asked.

"I don't mind what you're doing... In fact, I agree with it," Chu Hao replied.

Chu Hao was by no means a saint.

While he might be considered a good person in terms of moral standards, just as chaotic good differs from lawful good, his brand of goodness was different too.

Unlike Zheng Zha, who refused to abandon any teammate and despised all breeders or breeding behavior, Chu Hao was far more rational. He advocated for a salvation philosophy of "sacrificing the minority to achieve for the majority."

He held little affection for the blonde woman herself. She had barely communicated with anyone else, contributed nothing to the operation to hunt down aliens, and yet had reaped numerous benefits for free.

And now, upon finally returning to the Main God's Dimension, she had stubbornly ignored her teammates' warnings, insisting on hoarding her earned reward points to escape the Main God's Dimension... At that moment, Chu Hao had ceased to view her as a member of the Northice Team.

A teammate who refused to take orders was often far more terrifying than a formidable enemy.

Therefore, Chu Hao did not reject Chen Mo's approach. Besides, if the blonde woman really refused to spend a single reward point or side story as she claimed, she would most likely fail to survive the even more perilous upcoming reincarnation worlds. Rather than letting that happen, it was far better to force her to disgorge the benefits she had extracted from the Northice Team, using them to properly arm the team itself.

"So, what do you plan to exchange her resources for?" Chu Hao asked, looking at Chen Mo.

"Let's use them to purchase some team-oriented resources," Chen Mo replied.

"Storage items, team flight vehicles, healing medicines, high-leas lethal one-time-use items... Once the necessary team resources are redeemed, we can see if anyone else has other exchange needs. If there are still surplus resources, we can use what she has to make up the difference."

Chen Mo pondered for a moment before turning back to Chu Hao.

"By the way, Chu Hao, look up two exchanges. One is an enhancement called 'Bullet Time - X-Speed Multiplier,' and the other is a technological item called 'Personal-Mounted Psychokinetic Floating Cannons.'"

Chu Hao checked the two exchanges, closed his eyes, and after a brief moment, spoke.

"Bullet Time: X-Speed Multiplier. Targets only the user, capable of massively boosting speed, reaction time, and other attributes in a short span. The degree of enhancement corresponds to the X multiplier. The stronger the user's physical tolerance, the higher the multiplier. Requires one C-rank side story and 3,000 reward points."

"Personal-Mounted Psychokinetic Floating Cannons. Converts the user's energy or vitality into psychokinesis, transforming it into the driving force to operate the floating cannons and unleash incredible power. Requires one B-rank side story and 5,000 reward points."

Hearing Chu Hao's words, Chen Mo's eyes suddenly lit up.

"Those are the ones. Haozi, go ahead and buy both of those."

As expected of a man heavily indebted to the multiverse's causality. Not only Arcane Masters, but major weapons of mass destruction like psychokinetic floating cannons were sold at such dirt-cheap prices.

It was a pity that such exchanges apparently could not be repeated. Once Chu Hao made the purchase, the prices of these items would return to their standard values; otherwise, the grand vision of equipping every single person with an Arcane Master enhancement and psychokinetic floating cannons could actually be realized.

To put it simply, the effect of the psychokinetic floating cannons was that even if the user's personal strength was only at the second stage, they could manipulate the psychokinetic floating cannons by consuming energy cycles or vitality to deal with enemies below the fourth stage as easily as slaughtering chickens and dogs.

In *Infinite Future*, Zhang Heng had even been able to use them to block a punch from a four-high-stage Zheng Zha! It could be said to be an utterly absurd item.

The same went for the X-speed time multiplier enhancement. If Chen Mo were to query it himself, it would require an A-rank side story to exchange, yet Chu Hao could query it for just a C-rank side story, and afterward, even when Zhang Heng entered the Main God's Dimension, he could acquire this enhancement at such a bargain price.

Chen Mo then thought: since Zhang Heng also enjoyed exchange privileges, could he himself potentially trade for the psychokinetic floating cannons using a single B-rank side story?

If that were possible, the Northice Team's combat capability would skyrocket, making it vastly easier to deal with the dangers of various reincarnation worlds.

Chu Hao did not hesitate. Beneath the Main God, enhancements began to take place. Meanwhile, the remaining members of the Northice Team in their private rooms had basically finished testing their abilities.

Having witnessed the blonde woman's fate, most of them agreed that her resources should be utilized for the benefit of the team.

Jeanne looked somewhat reluctant, but in the end, she said nothing more and tacitly accepted the choice—which showed a much more resolute attitude than her behavior in the original storyline.

Ultimately, all the side stories belonging to the blonde woman were expended. One C-rank side story was traded for a large spatial storage item; one C-rank side story was exchanged for a flying vehicle capable of carrying passengers; one B-rank side story was used to get Chu Hao an Ioun Stone to boost his computational power; and the remaining B-rank side stories were broken down into various lower-level side stories and converted into all sorts of miscellaneous utility items.