Chapter 63 Chapter 63
"Family members, who would understand? When I woke up, all the trees in front of my door were bare."
Even though strange things have been happening frequently recently, the citizens of W City have become accustomed to them. However, when the trees near their homes were damaged for unknown reasons overnight, many people couldn't hold back.
"Can anyone tell me what's going on?"
On the Internet, users whose IP addresses are from the province where W City is located spoke out, sharing the tragic situations near their homes, companies, and schools.
"Are aliens attacking the Earth? Or are unidentified creatures demonstrating against the Earth?"
"...No, even if aliens came, they wouldn't start with our W city. We're not a big city!"
"Is it possible that it's because of acid rain from the sky? There was a dragon king who had suffered in W City before, and now that his ten-year period has come to an end, he's back to kill, kill, kill, kill!"
"Then this Dragon King is a bit shabby, why is he attacking the tree?"
When residents of City W posted on the Internet, relevant local media also reported the phenomenon.
After all, it is a professional media organization, and the pictures it provides are much clearer than those taken by ordinary people with mobile phones. Even the route of the bald trees is sorted out.
"It seems a bit unexpected."
"W City has a beautiful summer. I'm afraid this will affect the tourism industry, right?"
"The people above are too worried. Our tourism festival has just passed. Besides, even if the trees are not bare, our tourism will not be possible."
Many people were originally curious because of the news reports, but when they clicked in and saw the comments of many residents of City W, they couldn't help but feel ashamed.
"You people in W City are in such a beautiful mental state."
While the discussion on the Internet is lively, offline, the relevant departments in W City are also racking their brains.
What kind of reason can be made up to reasonably convince netizens?
This job was pushed back and forth, and finally fell on the head of the demon bureau.
"This matter is related to you, please help us think of a solution?" The leader of the Tourism Bureau received the task and came to Ning Su for help.
Ning Su was stunned for a second.
No, why should he do this kind of thing?
The head of the Tourism Bureau smiled and said, "After all, the mysterious man stole your little golden dragon statue."
This little golden dragon was specially built by the Special Management Bureau to welcome its new leader. This news is no secret in the agencies in W City, and the leaders of the Tourism Bureau are naturally no exception.
Before, many people lamented that the atmosphere in the Special Management Bureau was too corrupt. However, after Ning Su came, it didn’t take long for all these people to change their tune.
"If making this statue can attract good leaders, then we are willing to do it."
Some subordinates also kept muttering: "Is this thing useful? Can we send our director away?"
They also want to have a good-tempered and handsome superior!
"?" At that time, the protagonist in this sentence happened to pass by, feeling extremely complicated.
No, he's still here!
In short, the logic of the director of the Tourism Bureau is very simple. This matter is related to your Yao Bureau, so your Yao Bureau should be responsible for handling it.
Fortunately, this problem is not difficult.
When he was in City A before, Xiao Du was the one who made up excuses and cleaned up the mess for the troublemakers. Since he was very familiar with Xiao Du, Ning Su also learned some of the essentials.
The key is not whether the reason is reasonable, but whether you must be thick-skinned.
As long as you stick to one reason and don't let go, the suspicious masses will have no choice.
He pondered for a moment, then glanced at the notice in the office. Suddenly, an idea flashed in his mind: "I remember that our city will hold a marathon soon?"
Director of the Tourism Bureau: “?”
On the Internet, the popularity of the news about the mysterious baldness of trees in City W has not diminished, and as the scope of communication has expanded, the attention of most netizens has shifted.
Everyone started making jokes for no apparent reason.
A photo of a row of bare trees was made into various emoticons:
"So Bald"
"Suddenly Becoming Stronger"
Teacher, Where's My Hair?
Me and My Bald Colleague
For office workers, is it important to care about the sudden baldness of these trees? After all, their own hair has already fallen out.
At this time, the official explanation from City W came belatedly.
"In order to welcome the 'Happy Cup' and W City Marathon, our city has specially planned a reasonable route for the contestants and prepared special signs. Please stay tuned."
Along with this announcement, a marathon route was released.
The overlap between the bare tree line and the line announced by the media is as high as 70 percent.
“?” Netizens were amused.
"It's bad. You guys really made up a reason."
"Teacher, my brain is about to grow out. What should I do if I believe this reason?"
"...You guys are exaggerating. Even if you're holding a marathon, you don't need to cut down trees, right? It will only affect the appearance of the city."
"Catch an honest man!"
Netizens were discussing the matter, and it was clear that they did not believe a single word of the explanation given by the W City officials.
Holding a marathon? Is it necessary to go through so much trouble? Even cutting down trees, are you kidding me?
Moreover, whose trees were cut down overnight? I believe that the relevant departments will work overtime in the middle of the night. It is better to let them believe that these trees cut down their own branches.
"It's summer now, so it's understandable that these trees want to lose weight."
Faced with the netizens' sharp sarcasm, the W city officials chose to play dead - it doesn't matter, they can't think of a more reliable reason anyway.
In addition to pretending to be dead, they began to promote the marathon heavily.
This made the organizers and sponsors of the competition somewhat flattered.
——Are they so important to W City?
With this unexpected traffic, this marathon held in W City received unprecedented attention, and the number of registrations reached an unprecedented number.
Moreover, those who registered did not do so just to participate in the competition.
"...Running or something is not important. I just want to go to W City to experience the special mental state of the people here."
"Is the game important? Of course I want to go see my brother (bald) and brother (tree)."
Some time ago, a funny UP host posted these bald trees online, and a unique adoption campaign was launched online.
Among them, a tree with only its trunk left ranked the hottest.
"The broken arms and legs of this tree look just like my stupid leader."
This complaint was silently pushed to the top of the hot comments by various office workers.
Faced with the high popularity online, the W City Tourism Bureau was overwhelmed. Despite being criticized intentionally or unintentionally by netizens, it actually came up with a good plan.
Just before the marathon, the tourism bureau ordered a batch of unsaleable bouquets from farmers to decorate the bare trees.
The bare trees have turned into flowering trees, and the entire road is full of them, which looks extremely gorgeous.
This method not only attracted the admiration of tourists and contestants, but also promoted the city's flower market. For a time, news related to W City was everywhere.
It can be said to be a blessing in disguise.
In order to clean up the mess of the monster next door, the relevant departments of W City spent a lot of effort. However, this is not the end. Not long after the monster next door stole the little golden dragon, a lot of spiritual herbs appeared where the little golden dragon sculpture once stood.
Since this place was guarded by people from the Demon Bureau, the next day, they discovered this pile of extra things, which made Ah Hua look very unhappy.
"Master Ning, it is my fault."
She was clearly keeping watch nearby, but she didn't notice any trace of the thief demon next door.
"It doesn't matter." Ning Su had a rough estimate of the level of this thief monster. Although it was impossible to draw the strength of the entire monster next door from the level of one monster, it was a rough reference.
The opponent is obviously much more powerful than those organized monsters in W City.
No wonder the former director was wary.
After persuading Ah Hua, Ning Su did not care that the other party appeared silently again, but focused his attention on the spiritual herbs that the other party brought.
"Is there a rich supply of spiritual herbs next door?"
Why is it that the monsters from the Ancient Dragon Demon Kingdom don’t pay for the things they buy, and use spiritual herbs as general equivalents?
"They are... quite wealthy."
Unlike the little monsters like Ahua who make a living outside, the ancient dragon monster country has always been a prosperous place since ancient times.
Not to mention that the other side has a long heritage, just the living environment next door is much better than ordinary areas.
"I heard there's a spiritual vein underground next door."
The so-called spiritual vein is the place where the goblins gather. With enough earth essence, plants, animals, and even monsters will benefit.
Not only do plants grow naturally luxuriantly, but even monsters cultivate much faster.
Thanks to this blessed place, there is nothing to worry about, and it is no wonder that the monster next door is unwilling to come out.
Without the pressure of life and being self-sufficient, why should you come out and suffer?
"You're right." Although the word "next door" was mentioned again and again, this was the first time that Ning Su got to know the other party's information in relatively detailed information.
“It sounds like they have a lot of money.”
While saying this, Ning Su opened the map.
If on the map, City W is as big as a palm, then the area of the neighboring Demon Country is probably two-thirds the size of City W.
On human maps, the neighboring area is composed of forests, hills, and mountains. Due to the large number of species and complex environment, few people set foot there on weekdays.
This also gave the monsters the confidence to isolate themselves from the world.
Logically speaking, Ning Su should not disturb the peaceful lives of these monsters easily.
But who made the demon bureau poor while the neighbors were rich?
Since the people next door are very rich and can spend spiritual herbs as money, what's wrong in supporting the poor and poor monster bureau?
After all, next door is the Ancient Dragon Demon Kingdom, and he is also a dragon, so they are all one family!
How can one family speak in different languages?
The expression on Ning Su's face was slightly excited.
Dealing with the ancient dragon demon country and doing business with them can not only alleviate the predicament of the demon bureau, but also find the unfinished clues in G city.
It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.
On the side, Ah Hua had no idea what terrible idea Ning Su had come up with to make money. She just felt that the temperature around her dropped by several degrees in a short period of time.
She suddenly felt cold.
Looking at Lord Ning's eager expression and the flames dancing in his eyes, she became even more frightened.
Lord Ning, what are you thinking about?
Considering the current situation, even though he was extremely poor, Ning Su was not in a hurry to reveal his plans.
What was in front of him was not the stolen little golden dragon, but a pile of spiritual herbs that needed to be dealt with urgently.
I don’t know if the monster next door has a scale in his heart, but this little thief monster does seem to be interesting - when buying things from the proprietress, the spiritual herbs he gave her were only of ordinary quality.
When it was exchanged for the little golden dragon, the spiritual herb had been upgraded and there were quite a few of them.
Selling these spiritual herbs would probably be enough to cover the cost of two or three small golden dragon sculptures.
“So rich.”
Ning Su became more determined to make money by doing business with his neighbors.
"What should we do with so many spiritual herbs? Should we sell them ourselves?" Director Lu felt a headache when he saw these spiritual herbs.
Not to mention whether they have channels to sell them, just dealing with these things takes a lot of effort.
"No." Ning Su thought for a moment, "Leave it to the General Administration, let them find a solution."
From an economic theory perspective, selling raw materials is certainly not as profitable as selling deeply processed products.
But doing business also requires one to do things within one's means. There are no monsters in their W city who can handle spiritual herbs, and they lack relevant knowledge. They may not even be able to figure out the market prices.
In this case, it would be most convenient to directly hand over these spiritual herbs to the General Administration.
At least, the General Administration is half their own and won’t cheat them.
"Okay." Director Lu thought about it and agreed.
Ning Su and Director Lu were both efficient people. Having decided on this matter, they quickly contacted the secretary of the General Administration.
“Photos, photos, photos.”
After the photo of the spiritual herb was sent, the other party responded quickly and called over with a video. The person on the other end was not only the secretary of the General Administration himself, but also the Director of the General Administration who had just met not long ago.
"Did you go next door?"
The reason why the director of the General Administration was here was naturally not because of these spiritual herbs - to be honest, although there were many of these spiritual herbs, they were not enough for the General Administration to take seriously.
However, compared to the spiritual herb itself, the meaning behind it is more eye-catching.
There are also spiritual herbs in W City, but suddenly so many of them were produced. It is obvious that only the neighboring Demon Country can afford such a thing.
"No." Ning Su answered honestly.
This time, he met the big boss in human form and felt much more comfortable than last time.
The person opposite seemed to be the same. After looking at him, he was stunned for a moment and then quickly went back to work.
"Tell me more about it."
Ning Su briefly recounted what happened, and the corners of the mouth of the leader of the General Administration twitched.
Look, what did I say? It turned out to be the right thing to do to send Ning Su over despite all difficulties, right?
You know, the traces of monsters from the neighboring ancient monster country are actually rare. At least the previous director had been in office for many years and was not able to deal with the other side like Ning Su did.
Of course, to put it more bluntly, the former leader originally wanted to have a good relationship with his neighbor, but the other party ignored him.
After several attempts, the former director finally gave up.
In short, although they are both directors, the treatment they receive in the Ancient Demon Country is completely different.
Is this the power of blood?
Having said that, the director of the General Administration couldn't help but look at Ning Su again.
Ning Su had no idea what the big leader was thinking. At this moment, he was narrating his own thoughts.
He wanted to sell these spiritual herbs directly to the General Administration.
"Okay." The director of the General Administration thought about it and nodded, "I'll give you the market price. The General Administration will take whatever you have."
After all, the General Administration has a foundation that the branch offices do not have. There is more than one monster that can handle these spiritual herbs, and there are also two great monsters who specialize in it.
With these magical herbs, the Demon Bureau can also find a way to develop some medicines with human companies.
I believe that with new and cheap drugs, those unknown forces that are rampant in private can be curbed to a certain extent.
Thinking of this, the director of the General Administration was also a little stunned.
Not only had he never thought of this idea, but all the monsters in the General Administration had never thought of it in this direction before.
The reason for this is probably that they have never realized that they can cooperate with humans.
After Ning Su was admitted to the Monster Bureau, he provided them with new ideas, whether it was by drawing on the Vegetable Monster Station designed by humans or by making money through the movie "Mountain Soul".
"I'll let my secretary contact you about these matters."
Having thought of a new solution, the director of the general administration stopped wasting time on specific trivial matters and left in a hurry.
"What's wrong with him?"
Why is it that their big leader is in a daze and seems to be thinking about something while playing video, and he doesn't seem to be in a normal mental state?
"I don't know." Director Lu couldn't figure out this question either.
Since all the subsequent details were to be communicated with the secretary of the General Administration, Ning Su did not hesitate to negotiate the price with the other party. In addition, he also handed over the contents of receiving and transporting the goods to the General Administration.
"When the time comes, we will send a demon out to learn from the demons in the General Administration."
Whatever you learn is a skill.
Director Lu nodded indifferently. After discussing this part of the official business, he asked curiously, "Xiao Ning, did you notice that Secretary Chen from the General Administration looked at me strangely?"
Yeah?
Ning Su recalled and found that the secretary of the General Administration was indeed easy to talk to when bargaining.
"Do you look like one of his relatives?" Ning Su asked curiously.
"Maybe." Director Lu thought for a moment, but had no other ideas, so he ended the topic.
With the help of the spiritual herbs to restore some blood, both Ning Su and Director Lu felt a little relieved.
However, at the end of the month, looking at the accounts of the Yao Bureau, Ning Su felt helpless again.
"What are you doing?"
It turned out that after the establishment of the business department, the W City Monster Bureau began to carry out normal business activities, conducting normal identity registration for the little monsters, arresting the little monsters who committed crimes, etc.
And during this period, there will always be some additional costs.
For example, when fighting with monsters, if human farmland is destroyed, the monster bureau will have to compensate for the output of the farmland.
"...Lord Ning, we have been very careful." The monsters swore that when fighting, they would definitely adhere to the mentality of not increasing extra costs if possible.
However, the demon that caused the accident was not a fool. Seeing that the demons in the demon bureau were restrained, he quickly understood their concerns and went into the farmland.
If Ah Hua hadn't shouted "Catch it quickly", I'm afraid they would have really let the other party run away.
But in this way, the demon who caused the accident was caught, and a lot of crops were damaged. The other party asked the Demon Bureau to find a solution.
By the way, the owner of the crops here is not a human being, but a ginseng monster who makes a living by farming.
"Compensate for it." Ning Su sighed.
These are all reasonable expenses. No matter how much you save, you cannot skimp on this part of the money.
However, after Ning Su approved the expenditure, this editor was still hesitant and refused to leave.
"What's wrong?" Ning Su asked curiously.
The editorial monster considered his words for a moment and said, "Master Ning, the ginseng monster asked me to ask, the crops it planted this year are very productive, can our Monster Bureau help find a market for them?"
The ginseng monster is an expert at farming. The weather has been good in the past two years and the harvest is very good, but due to their identity as monsters, many of the ginseng cannot be sold and have to rot in the fields.
In W City, there are many monsters like the ginseng monster, and they all face the same problem.
Of course, when this editor monster was reporting, he polished the words of the ginseng monster to the greatest extent possible.
In fact, after they accidentally destroyed the crops, the ginseng demon not only chased them with a broom, but also cursed them while beating them:
"You bunch of editors are just messing around here all day long without doing any real work. You are just a bunch of useless people."
"What kind of demonic bureau is this? The human government is helping to attract investment and deal with unsold bouquets. What have you done? You're just showing off all day long, but it's useless."
After being scolded by the ginseng monster, in the past, the monsters could still justify and reiterate the responsibilities of the Monster Bureau. However, after Ning Su took office, they were instilled with many purposes of serving monsters. Therefore, after being scolded by the ginseng monster, they felt a little touched.
Therefore, the editor dared to make suggestions.
"Very good." Ning Su encouraged the monster in time, "It's good that you can perceive the little monsters' requirements."
The editor felt embarrassed by the praise and kept silent with a red face.
After Ning Su calmed his men down, he began to think about the question raised by the other party.
Helping the little demons sell things is indeed the responsibility of the Demon Bureau - since the Demon Bureau requires the little demons not to expose themselves in front of humans, then, as an obligation, it is to help the little demons create conditions for keeping secrets.
What's more, serving the little demons and helping them improve their living standards is what Ning Su has always been doing.
However, now that we have decided to help, how to help is also a problem.
"Go ahead and do your work. Let me think about it."
"Yes." The editing monster left obediently.
After going out, it wanted to shake Ah Hua's shoulders.
Lord Ning, he is so gentle!
Ning Su had no idea how to help the little demons deal with unsaleable agricultural products, so he had to call Xiao Du for help.
Xiao Du was promoted after Ning Su left, and he was still busy at this time. However, after receiving Ning Su's call, he parked the car on the side of the road and concentrated on the call.
"Helping farmers? There is a related opportunity - would you consider live streaming?"
It turns out that there is a very popular live-streaming variety show at the moment called "Agricultural Assistance Competition".
The content of the program is the same as the title, which is a gimmick by the program team to invite two celebrities to promote products together.
In order to increase the fun of the show, some fancy tricks will be put into the show, but what ultimately determines the winner is the amount of goods the guests bring.
Because of the clear comparison in numbers, this live broadcast program became a good place for traffic fans to fight as soon as it appeared.
What’s the point of competing for reposts and comments on social media? Let’s compete for appeal and sales volume!
Since this program is indeed in the name of helping the poor and farmers, the quality of the products can be guaranteed, and the program's commission is very low, fans are encouraged to compete to buy under this premise.
As the most prominent artist in the past period of time, Ning Su had naturally received an invitation from this program. However, at that time, Ning Su had already taken office in W City, so Xiao Du helped to reject the invitation.
"If you want to go, I'll go talk to them."
Ning Su thought for a while and said, "Okay, thank you for your help."
"Mountain Soul" has just been released for two months. There is no more popular movie at present, and Ning Su's name is still popular. Coincidentally, these products in W City also meet the requirements of the program. As soon as Xiao Du contacted them, the other party agreed.
The team for this type of live broadcast program is professional, the program flow goes smoothly, and they quickly agreed to do a special episode on W City.
After the two parties agreed, the program was officially announced quickly.
At the first moment, various netizens rushed to the scene:
"? My eyes are blurry. Who is this?"
"The missing have returned!"
"Oh my god, it feels like a long time since I last saw you. I haven't seen my cub for decades!"
Compared with the excited fans, Ning Su's participation in the show also attracted some negative feedback.
"You haven't appeared for so long, and you're already cutting leeks when you come out?"
"Haha, didn't they say they were coming back for a short while to film and would leave after the filming? Why are they back now?"
"You can't find a new job, so you accept this kind of notice?"
If, when Ning Su was officially announced, there were all kinds of negative and sarcastic remarks, then when the program officially announced another guest, the popularity on the Internet reached its peak.
There is no other reason, it is because the guest who is about to compete with Ning Su has a great background——
Not only did he play a leading role in a hit drama at a young age, he also had natural appeal and charisma, and he set a sales record when this variety show just became popular.
Even though this variety show has been on the air for more than half a year, no one has broken his record.
In terms of popularity, this actor named Zhuang Jingcheng is one of the best among his peers, and in terms of his ability to sell goods, no one can challenge him.
Therefore, after the program was officially announced, many people were excited.
"Did the program team specially find a control group?"
"This is clearly intended to embarrass Ning Su."
"What are you talking about? If it weren't for "Mountain Soul", how could Ning Su be compared with Zhuang Jingcheng?"
"How about Ning Su take this opportunity to learn from Zhuang Jingcheng's professionalism?"
People are having fun online and are having a blast, but offline, it’s a different story.
Zhuang Jingcheng had already added Ning Su's WeChat and greeted him nervously, "Hello, Teacher Ning. I can finally add your contact information."
"Thank you so much for what you did before."
The reason why this young traffic star was so polite was definitely that the two sides had met before.
Speaking of which, Zhuang Jingcheng is Su Yin's cousin. When filming "Mountain Soul", Ning Su once gave Su Yin a amulet as an apology.
Later, because Zhuang Jingcheng needed to go abroad to participate in an event, in order to ensure his safety, Su Yin wanted to temporarily lend his amulet to his cousin.
After Ning Su knew about it, he didn't let him borrow it, but made a new one and sent it to him.
As luck would have it, this amulet actually warded off a disaster for the other party.
Because of some previous events, Zhuang Jingcheng always wanted to thank Ning Su, but never had the chance. When he heard that Ning Su was invited this time, he thought Ning Su needed help, so he contacted the program team.
After a few visits, he became another guest.
"Teacher Ning said that he wanted to sell the most goods and didn't care who the other guest was."
Taking this into consideration, the program team simply invited Zhuang Jingcheng, which resulted in such an explosive lineup.
After the official announcement, public opinion was too noisy, and the program crew was a little worried, so they communicated with Xiao Du privately.
"It's okay, he won't care."
The entertainment industry is lively and useful, but in the final analysis, it is just a tool for Ning Su to achieve his goals.
As long as the goal is achieved, it doesn't matter if you are ridiculed by boring people.
After finishing the live streaming program, Ning Su spent a few days with Director Lu to sort out all the young talents in W City who needed help with live streaming, and finally confirmed a list.
These little demons didn’t believe it at first, but after seeing the official announcement of the program, they realized that the Demon Bureau was not joking.
"The sun really rose from the west!"
Ning Su: “…”
No, he hasn't left yet!
After finishing all these, the preparations before the show were completed. However, when the car of the Demon Bureau passed by a row of flower trees, Ning Su suddenly had an idea in his mind.
The next day, a huge billboard appeared at the border with W City, which contained the promotional content of the live broadcast.
Ning Su and Zhuang Jingcheng stood opposite each other, with the words "Live Shopping" written in large letters on it. In addition, there were also the contents of the goods to be sold in this live broadcast.
In order to attract the attention of the monster next door, Ning Su once again reluctantly sacrificed his portrait rights and ordered the little monster who could paint to paint a little golden dragon.
"What are you doing?" Director Lu asked curiously.
"Test it."
Explore how well the monsters next door have integrated into modern society, and also test their attitudes toward the monster situation and themselves.
After the signboards and posters were hung up, Ning Su didn't bother with them anymore.
But who would have thought that a few days later, a little demon who was specifically responsible for this came to report: "Master Ning, there is movement!"
"?"
Ning Su rushed to the scene.
I saw that my poster and the little golden dragon were torn off and disappeared.
The part of Zhuang Jingcheng was marked with a big X and thrown on the ground, with several claw marks left by something unknown.
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