"Which company can handle the purchase?"

After the announcement, an awkward silence settled over the crowd. The company owners — Ding Jikai included — stared without speaking.

Finally, Sun Kai walked forward. "Colonel Chen — a jin beast this size is beyond what any company or independent here can take on. High-grade jin beast materials don't circulate at the camp level. Up until now, the Command has been the only organization capable of hunting specimens this powerful."

Ding Jikai collected himself and added: "We've never dealt with anything like this. Even half this size would be unprecedented for us. The way things work, high-grade jin beast materials are a Command monopoly."

He paused, then shifted approach. "That said — we could take a few eggs off your hands individually. Colonel Chen, are you selling them separately? Our company would like to purchase two or three. Price is negotiable."

Several other company owners chimed in at once. "Same here. We'd take a few."

The Command had produced results with jin beast domestication. Eggs could be incubated and the animals raised under human direction — that was the obvious appeal.

Shen Cong's voice came through the external speaker: "They're unfertilized. You still want to buy them?"

The company owners went quiet.

"Unfertilized? They can't be hatched?"

"If that's the case — they'd only be good as a supplement. Nutritional content on a jin beast this powerful would be extraordinary, but at the price they'd need to be..."

"We probably can't afford it."

This was not the outcome Shen Cong had been working toward. He'd hunted the Six-Horned Dragon for two reasons: to demonstrate his capabilities, and to convert the kill into resources — equipment, materials, information, upgrades. The demonstration was proceeding exactly as planned. The conversion was not.

He felt a familiar frustration building and let it come out in his tone. "If nobody can handle it, clear out. Stop crowding around my vehicle."

He released the suppression on Great Vajra's Activity radiation.

The pressure aura rolled out — stronger than the Six-Horned Dragon's residual aura, considerably stronger. The difference was immediately…