The Ordinary Me is Worshipped as a Deity by the Extraordinary Them - Chapter 141.1

If the arrival of a merman and a giant dragon was enough to make one mentally numb, then the appearance of a unicorn made people uncontrollably begin to question their lives.

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After comforting Egbert the night before, Su Li returned to his own room and slept through a nightmare-filled sleep. Early the next morning after washing up, Su Li mechanically stuffed breakfast into his mouth, his consciousness in a daze.

Originally, Su Li had planned to give himself some time to relieve the mental pressure brought by nightmares, but Qi brought up a new topic at the breakfast table.

“I want to return to Inner City,” Qi put down his chopsticks and said calmly to Su Li, who was sitting across from him with somewhat vacant eyes due to lack of sleep.

He didn’t give Su Li much chance to react before directly expressing his thoughts.

“Perhaps for ordinary children our age, there might still be time to be confused and consider future development paths, but for me, I can’t feel that I can continue to do so anymore.”

“Given the current situation, I even feel that I no longer have the qualification to remain confused.”

He had neither time nor capital to support his continued uncertainty.

Qi’s words were very stream-of-consciousness.

Just like the ideas that Euphia and Castor had jointly produced yesterday, before producing actual results, Qi did not intend to fully tell Su Li what he wanted to do.

“I also don’t plan to continue wasting time being confused or trying to come up with better coping strategies.”

Qi looked into Su Li’s eyes.

Few people had slept well the previous night, but those who could practice elemental powers all appeared as normal as ever with no obvious changes, except for Su Li.

The dark circles under his eyes were noticeably excessive.

If Su Li hadn’t been right in front of them, others wouldn’t have known that staying up late could bring such significant changes to a person.

Dejected, powerless, listless.

“I want to return to Inner City to do some things that only I can do,” Qi clenched his fist.

As he spoke, he pondered excuses and reasons.

Finally, he could only say vaguely, “After all, I am the grand prince of Amikbi. Even if I don’t currently have sufficient inheritance conditions, at least I can use this identity to establish some of my own power base.”

Qi spoke more and more fluently. When it came to finding excuses, he felt he was really good at it. “I want to establish a commercial association, or rather, an auction house.”

“I plan to cooperate with Mr. Lan Zhe. Those top-grade medicinal herbs he once found in the Beast Forest, once sold through my channels, should be able to exchange for a large amount of wealth.”

“And then, I want to earn enough money.” Qi didn’t know how this excuse looked in Su Li’s eyes. He could only watch as the young man vigorously rubbed his eyes, which were difficult to keep open due to drowsiness, and then smiled at him saying, “That’s great.”

“To understand at such a young age that money is the most important thing—you have a bright future ahead of you.” In Su Li’s mind at this moment, there were no concepts of other worlds, humans, elements, giant dragons, and various other headache-inducing ideas.

He was now simply thinking from a personal perspective that it was a good thing for his young friend Qi to have a life goal of making big money.

Although he had no idea how Qi had come up with such an idea.

But considering the reality, Qi using his royal status to develop a commercial system did have promising prospects.

Due to the existing structure of nobility and commoners, Amikbi’s development direction could shift from the current royal system to a capital-based operational system without much issue.

Even though the world before his transmigration had proven that countries operating under capital systems would bring enormous lingering problems for future generations, the most obvious difference in this world was that everyone could master power.

It wasn’t difficult to overthrow the rule of certain exploiters; as long as the spark left now could make people generate the will to resist, then creating a capital operational structure for this country through Qi’s hands would actually be a good thing.

There was just one point…

From a personal perspective, Su Li thought about the future that might happen to young Qi.

That was, when people grew up and looked back at the goals they had in the past, they would often find that the current situation usually deviated greatly from past goals.

Could Qi accept that what he wanted and the goals he ultimately achieved would have obvious differences?

Su Li never thought that Qi’s excuse was just a reason to prevent him from feeling expectant and ultimately disappointed.

After running through all possible developments in his mind, Su Li then asked Qi, “Are you really prepared to advance toward your current goal?”

Su Li was referring to Qi’s goal of pursuing money.

However, Qi, who had always believed that Su Li’s ability to read people’s hearts was extremely strong, almost like prophecy, thought that Su Li had already seen through his true intentions.

He somewhat shyly clenched his fist while saying, “Yes, I am prepared.”

Whether it was competing with other royal heirs for that position or plunging into the countercurrent within the royal family.

He was prepared for it all.

Everything was for Su Li!

The youth who had never had anyone to rely on but had always helped everyone—shouldn’t he have some capital to back him up?

Qi, who inherently possessed inheritance rights, thought this way and would absolutely not change this idea because of external factors.

After all, if it weren’t for Su Li, perhaps he would have died at Willard’s hands from the very beginning.

The subsequent developments would have been obvious—his royal mother, whom he hadn’t seen for a long time, would inevitably have conflicts with Willard.

The longer Qi stayed by Su Li’s side, the more he liked to look at problems from different angles, just like him.

If he had died at Willard’s hands back then, the Queen would definitely have cut off all possible powers that might support Willard while taking revenge on him.

In other words, there was a high probability that the Queen would have directly confronted the Grand Judge after Qi’s death.

Once that situation occurred, the final result would only be tragedy.

Whenever Qi thought of that possibility, he felt fearful, and at the same time, increasingly grateful for meeting Su Li.

Otherwise, he wouldn’t even have had the ability to anticipate such possibilities; he would have just died simply and ignorantly.

Having a future and having the right to choose that future—all of this was brought by Su Li.

It was precisely because of this unwavering idea that Qi could say without hesitation, setting aside embarrassment, when he thought “Su Li had already seen through what he wanted to do”: “No matter what happens in the future, I will achieve what I want.”

To achieve that goal of having an entire country back Su Li!

He had already thought about how to do it in his mind yesterday.

As for Su Li…

…Was this child’s notion of making money really so profound?

With the conclusion of talking at cross purposes, accompanied by Qi’s words as serious as an oath, Su Li could only put down his bowl and chopsticks, sit up straight, and say to him with equal seriousness and solemnity. “I understand.”

“But I also want to say something that might sound like preaching and unpleasant to you.”

Those who had been corporate slaves generally understood that maintaining a comfortable social distance also meant keeping conversations shallow rather than deep.

Su Li opened his eyes, which had appeared somewhat blurry due to drowsiness earlier. The light flashing in his green eyes was like the first ray of sunlight shining on a lake surface after heavy rain.

Su Li told Qi, “Striving upward is human instinct. If one day you fall due to reality, please do not hate yourself.”

People easily lost themselves in the world of money.

Su Li couldn’t give more detailed advice, nor did he think it necessary to go beyond the Queen’s authority and dictate Qi’s future at this time. Therefore, his parting words were only these seemingly useless ones.

While he felt ashamed that he couldn’t say something more useful, Qi suddenly stood up. He clenched both fists, and his ice-blue eyes continuously flashed with determination. He said, “Yes!”

“I will definitely accomplish my goal, and I definitely won’t let you fall into the abyss!”

Qi suddenly felt that the excuse he had randomly found might indeed have the possibility of being realized.

But what made him happiest was actually that Su Li’s subtext was telling him that even if he failed, even if he couldn’t succeed, there was no need to feel regret or self-blame.

Qi was happy about Su Li’s concern.

After all, he knew that the enemies on his path ahead were the extremely skilled schemer Ophelia and Willard, who stood behind the Grand Judge.

Su Li probably would never know what the grand prince was thinking at this moment.

He could only turn to ask Qi when he planned to leave.

Qi said, “This afternoon.”

Su Li exclaimed in surprise, “So urgent?”

“Because Sister Ophelia… no, because the Princess sent a knight over early this morning saying that she also plans to leave this afternoon.”

Qi felt that Ophelia’s trip to the Mercenary City had probably also allowed her to determine her future development goals.

Ophelia, who already had an extremely high desire and thoughts for that position, would be even more determined now. For Qi to defeat her and reach that position would not be an easy task.

Time was money. Since Qi had already determined his future, there was no need to hesitate long before stepping onto that path.

Su Li didn’t say much more afterward, only taking out the pocket money that Lan Zhe had given him earlier and stuffing it into Qi’s hand.

Under the young man’s puzzled gaze, Su Li said, “Consider this my initial investment.”

If his young friend wanted to go to the capital to develop economically, the only thing Su Li could do was provide some initial capital.

Qi also had a sudden realization after Su Li’s words.

So Su Li knew that before he could take that position, he needed to establish many connections?

Qi chose to accept the pocket money given by Su Li and clenched his fist, silently vowing not to disappoint Su Li’s expectations.

The two, who were completely on different wavelengths throughout, communicated very harmoniously and naturally.

No one around Su Li had yet discovered that he had such a habit—when there was no need to think, he would actively abandon his brain.

Moreover, the person involved never considered this habit a flaw. Su Li only felt it was natural—brain cells couldn’t possibly be endless; they needed time to recover.

Qi also made a firm decision that he must truly provide backing for Su Li in a very short—very, very short—time.

And he also wanted to tell his mother, the Queen, about his growth journey.

With the king’s uncertain remaining lifespan, as soon as he died, the Queen would become the most precious identity in Amikbi in the short term.

Qi needed his mother to know how much influence Su Li had on him and for whom his heart’s desire to compete for that position had arisen.

Just like Egbert.