As Xia Tianqiong stepped into the Wujian Restaurant, a lively scene immediately came into view.

Looking around, the huge lobby on the first floor was packed, and there were even more than a dozen people waiting in line at the door.

He was somewhat amazed; the place was becoming more and more lively.

In the past, there were far more strange occurrences here than ghost hunters, but now there are significantly more ghost hunters.

It seems that people have already realized the benefits of eating here.

When the waiter saw a customer come in, he was about to greet him when he suddenly realized it was Xia Tianqiong. He quickly shut his mouth, looked away, and pretended not to have seen anything.

Xia Tianqiong took out a teleportation token and teleported directly to the basement level.

"Hello, welcome."

As soon as I arrived at the basement level, I heard sweet voices coming from both sides.

Turning my head, I saw two rabbit demons dressed as maids!

She is tall and slender, with a sweet smile, big, bright eyes, and long, furry ears.

Wow! The class has suddenly become much higher!

This kind of sweet female rabbit demon is loved by both male demons and men.

Xia Tianqiong nodded, quite satisfied.

The basement wasn't as lively as last time; at least I didn't see any strange queues.

However, the central circular bar has been expanded and turned into an open-plan space.

You can see many eerie beings and ghost hunters sitting inside, drinking and chatting, seemingly in a harmonious atmosphere.

The grocery store on the left, which used to occupy only one room, has now doubled in size and is bustling with customers.

Xia Tianqiong did not enter the general store, but continued walking inside, going directly to the innermost room where the loan business was conducted.

The area in front of the door was deserted, without a trace of anything strange. Unlike last time, when there was a long queue.

"Boss, you're finally here!"

Song Shiqiao sensed Xia Tianqiong and quickly pushed open the door to come out, saying, "Our loan business has been suspended for several days."

"It's okay, we can stop for a few days if we want."

Xia Tianqiong naturally knew what was going on.

He hasn't come for over a month; the ghost money he left behind must have run out. After all, the strange beings who come to take out loans wouldn't have ghost money to repay them; they would either use strange artifacts or their own bodies.

This also means that the loan business will only continue to consume ghost money.

"Tell me, how have you been doing over the past month?"

"As of now, there are a total of 405 strange loans, totaling about 340,000. Of these, 182 were repaid with strange artifacts after maturity, 72 were unable to be repaid and have been converted into human contracts, and there are still 95 loans that have not yet matured."

In addition, 56 loan contracts have expired, presumably because the loan officers mysteriously died outside, resulting in a loss of over 40,000 taels of ghost money.

When Song Shiqiao said this, she glanced carefully at Xia Tianqiong, afraid that he would be unhappy.

Song Shiqiao could sense that her mysterious death outside had automatically invalidated the loan agreement.

This is equivalent to losing money; the amount lent out is the amount lost.

Xia Tianqiong remained calm and said indifferently, "I know this situation is unavoidable. As the number of ghost hunters increases, the number of ghosts killed will also increase, and there will definitely be many more cases like this in the future."

"Then should we reduce the amount of loans, or raise the lending threshold, such as only lending to fierce monsters or evil monsters?"

"This is what I came here to tell you: we will no longer lend to wild and fierce monsters unless they have very good tricks. Otherwise, we will not lend to them. From now on, our main lending targets will be monsters of evil level and above."

"Okay, I understand."

Song Shiqiao nodded and continued to talk about the general store, "As the number and variety of strange artifacts and objects gradually increased, the business of the general store also got better and better, and the number of customers continued to increase, but mainly they were ghost hunters."

There's also a bar, which isn't profitable yet; it's mainly used to attract customers, since the drinks are bought from the restaurant and there's no profit in that.

Xia Tianqiong suddenly remembered that the delivery ghost and the baby tree ghost were brewing wine, but it wasn't finished yet.

"After a while, we may be able to provide a small amount of spirit fruit wine."

After chatting for a while, he left behind 200,000 taels of silver and prepared to leave.

Song Shiqiao handed over all the strange creatures who offered themselves in exchange for debt to him, but not all of them. She left a few to work here, such as the two rabbit demons, as well as the shop assistants in the bar and the general store.

Xia Tianqiong didn't care. He put the other strange creatures into the mirror space. They could be kept as cannon fodder, or killed to exchange for gold when he was short of money, or thrown into the evolution pool.

However, he discovered that there were two evil spirits inside.

This was an unexpected delight.

Unfortunately, their tricks are all mediocre, and they have little combat ability.

It's understandable; a powerful and wicked person wouldn't be so poor as to mortgage themselves.

Xia Tianqiong directly sealed two evil spirits in the sealing spirit chessboard, and now 24 evil spirits are still missing.

After completing these steps, you will be teleported to the third floor.

This is the floor where the evil spirits dine, and there are many more of them than before, about twenty or thirty.

Xia Tianqiong wished she could seal them all away.

"Hello, can we share a table?"

He found a slightly weaker evil spirit, intending to use the table-sharing rule to take it down.

The evil creature, seeing that it was a human, happily agreed.

A few minutes later.

The third floor was a mess, with tables, chairs, and dishes broken everywhere. Xia Tianqiong defeated the evil spirit and sealed it into the Demon-Sealing Chessboard.

The shopkeeper arrived as promised, looking displeased.

"Do you have to smash up this place every time you come?"

"Hehe, deduct it from my pre-deposited money. Oh, and please let them know that I want to see the Ghost Bride."

Xia Tianqiong said with a grin, her face completely unconcerned.

I was thinking, isn't your restaurant's rule just encouraging people to smash things?

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