Shi Min sighed and asked, “Did you all really believe they only had a hundred ki stones on them?”

“Of course not,” Shi Gong and Shi Rong both replied. This was the respected Medusa Queen, after all. No matter how much the Snake race had fallen, there was no way they would have fallen to that extent.

“I didn’t either. The reason they said that was because they were rather guarded against us. They might not have taken the bait no matter what we tried to do to them,” Shi Min said. “Sometimes, you have to slacken the fishing line to catch the fish. So, my plan was to let him have a taste of sweetness first, which is why I suggested some rocks. For things like rock betting, once you get really into it, it becomes too hard to pull yourself out. However, I didn’t expect there to actually be a heaven-grade treasure inside.”

Even he felt a bit depressed when he thought of that. If he had known that things would turn out that way, he would have simply bought them for a few hundred ki stones. That would be ten thousand times the profit!

“Sigh, we’ve really helped them...