Chapter 27: Not Enough Shops
"Are you satisfied?" Gu Jinsheng looked at Ji An, his dark eyes were unfathomable.
Ji An knew that he was asking about the result. Ji An was not a hypocritical person, so he nodded directly, "Satisfied, far exceeded expectations."
This is exactly what Ji An wanted, his hands would be clean forever, but they killed themselves.
As long as you are satisfied, Gu Jinsheng nodded.
Only after everything was done did Ji An feel like going to the store.
I thought the store would be quite deserted at this time, but it was filled with people. The line was at the end, and from time to time I could hear people arguing over seats.
What happened? He hasn't put the products in the store yet. After researching the products, Ji An had kept two to sell here, but Chen Chen and his friends came over, so he went to be busy with the things over there.
I just had some free time to come here today, and I saw how crowded it was.
"Brother, stand behind, don't cut in line." A male psychic in the team saw Ji An walking straight into the store, and stopped him with a fierce look in his eyes, viciously showing off the muscular muscles on his arms.
Is that so? Ji An was speechless.
“I’m the owner of this store.”
"Boss, it's not..." The male supernatural person said in surprise, "You are Researcher Ji? Researcher Ji, I am from the command center, we are colleagues, can you sell it to me first for the sake of our friendship?"
The speed at which the male superpower changed his expression seemed like he had learned Sichuan Opera. He grabbed Ji An's hand and in just a few words, they went from being strangers to friends.
Before Ji An could react, the people in the queue behind him were unhappy. The male superpower had stirred up a hornet's nest. "The guy in front, stop trying to get close to me. I'm from the research institute and a colleague of Researcher Ji. I'm queuing here and standing in line honestly. What are you talking about!"
"I'm still in the command center. Ask the people in line here who is not from these two families. The outside families probably don't know the news yet."
People from other departments had not received the news yet, so there were almost no people from other departments in the queue this time.
But now that there is such a commotion, everyone will soon know about it.
Someone watching the fun asked, "What's this for? What's so popular that people are lining up to buy? Mutated animal meat that's not infected with the zombie virus?"
Mutated beasts help those with special abilities to cultivate their special abilities, so they are quite popular.
"No." The person being asked curled his lips. "What's so special about that thing? This store sells space storage props. You know? It's the kind in the novels of cultivation, which can store things into space with just a whoosh."
"Oh my god! Is this true?" The man just found it very magical. He just didn't go shopping for one day, but why did he feel that the world had changed?
"Is this true or not? It's been a long time since this happened. My colleagues have already used it."
Well, the person who was asking the question stopped asking and turned around to go back to line up.
Now that’s it, the team disappeared from sight around the corner in the blink of an eye.
Tangning was alone in the store, her heart was beating fast in front of so many people with special abilities. When she saw Ji An, she felt like she saw a savior and almost cried.
"Boss, you're finally here!" Tangning begged for help, "I told them that we don't have anything to sell in the store right now, but they refused to believe me and insisted that they had to wait in line first and that some people wanted to make reservations."
Ji An smiled soothingly, "For now, forget about reservations. We'll only accept in-store purchases."
Space storage items are easy to sell. If Ji An is willing, they can be sold out in minutes as soon as they leave the laboratory. Now it is the store that needs to promote its reputation.
"Okay." Tangning agreed.
The problem now is that Ji An only has two space storage props, one of which has been promised to someone, and now so many people are fighting for this one. Just thinking about the endless crowd outside, Ji An feels dizzy.
He was afraid of causing this situation. He hadn't publicized it before and the news was only known internally. So how come so many people still came?
Ji An was a little afraid to take out the only space storage item, as he was afraid that it would be torn apart by these people.
Forget it, a true warrior always has to face the bleak life.
Ji An gritted his teeth and took out the space storage props under the eager gazes of the psychics.
Ji An didn't even see what the psychic in front of him did. Anyway, the space storage item he took out was gone. The psychic grinned and said, "Researcher Ji, how much do you want to pay?"
"Twenty million." Ji An's eyes showed no fluctuation. He had become accustomed to these people's madness.
Tens of millions is not a small amount. Such credit points are equivalent to the paper money before the end of the world at a one-to-one exchange rate. The problem is that before the end of the world, the country had been established for many years, and the economy had been prosperous for so long, so it was normal for some rich people. But this is the end of the world, and it’s only the seventh year, so how can there still be so many rich people.
The psychic who bought the space storage item was in a good mood. Perhaps he saw Ji An's confusion and grinned, "When the base was first established, everyone's psychic abilities were not yet awakened, and they were all fighting zombies for their lives. Those who survived and those who didn't survived were given a large sum of compensation to themselves or their families.
Over the past seven years, the psychics have fought in so many battles, and unless they are used to enjoying themselves, they have accumulated a lot.
So, Researcher Ji, you better prepare more, otherwise there might not be enough to share."
Ji An nodded and asked, "What if I say that this is the only one I can sell? Do you think those people outside will eat me?"
Ji An asked seriously, and was also thinking seriously about how to leave the shop safely.
The psychic's eyes were filled with fear. "Researcher Ji, that's impossible! But you will be fine. With Commander Gu here to keep you in check, they won't dare to do anything to you, but they will definitely go crazy!"
After that, the male psychic said to Ji An, "Researcher Ji, you have to wait until I leave before announcing this news, otherwise I'm afraid you're fine, so I'll walk out."
Ji An said: "Go ahead, go faster, I'll talk to you after you leave."
That psychic was really fast and disappeared in the blink of an eye. Ji An suspected that what he awakened was not the ability of speed, but teleportation.
The second psychic came up and stared at Ji An with his eyes wide open, his mouth grinning from ear to ear, "Researcher Ji, it's my turn."
Ji An couldn't continue speaking, his expression was full of pity, and he coughed, "Well, the stuff is sold out, please come earlier next time!"
"What? Sold out!" The psychic's voice almost blew the roof off the house.
“Yeah, they’re sold out.”
"No, Researcher Ji, we just sold one? How come it's gone?"
"There are only a few of them. They were all taken by the headquarters and the research institute. I fought hard to keep the remaining ones."
The psychic's eyes suddenly fell on Tangning's fair neck, as if he had suddenly discovered that the person standing in front of him was a stunning beauty. He looked greedily and even licked his lips suspiciously.
Tang Ning was so frightened that her face turned pale. She covered her collar with her hands and hid behind Ji An.
"You, what do you want to do? Let me tell you, our boss knows our base's chief commander Gu Jinsheng. The three deputy commanders Kong Zhongcheng, Wan Xueying, and Zhou Qin are our boss's partners. If you dare to touch me, our boss will make you pay for it!" Tang Ning shouted in a bully-like manner.
"Don't slander me!" The man looked like he was more afraid of tarnishing his innocence than Tangning.
"My wife is a high-level psychic. If you say that, she will kill me." The man pointed at the necklace on Tangning's neck and said, "That's a space storage item, right? I'll offer a high price. How about selling it to me?"
The tense atmosphere suddenly relaxed. Tang Ning felt a burning sensation on his face, and then he felt a little disappointed in his heart.
"Not for sale." Tangning said unhappily.
"I'll pay a high price," the man said.
"I won't sell it then." Tangning thought for a moment and said, "It's only one cubic meter and isn't worth much. But I have a domineering contract, so I can't sell it even if I want to."
"It's a little small, but I can buy it for fun, but it's a pity that it's a domineering contract. How can everyone have a domineering contract?"
"You say that as if you have a treasure like this and you won't overbear the contract."
At this moment, a trembling voice sounded, "Old, boss."
Ji An looked over and saw the girl named Zheng Yan who came to sell a box of jewelry last time.
Her petite body looked even thinner and smaller among a bunch of big and strong psychics, so thin that she looked a bit pitiful.
Zheng Yan was trembling, a little scared. What kind of business was this store doing? Why were there so many people with special abilities? Could she still get the balance?
“Well…” Zheng Yan swallowed her saliva and said with a stiff head, “It was your store clerk who notified me to come here.”
It was Ji An who asked Tang Ning to notify her to come and get the money. Ji An had a lot of money now and was not short of it, so he sent someone over.
Ji An said: "I know, come with me to the back room."
With so many credit points, and Zheng Yan being an ordinary person, Ji An was afraid that if he called her in front of a crowd, he would be targeted by thieves.
Later, Ji An transferred the credit points and the money was credited to his account immediately. Zheng Yan's eyes widened when she saw the string of zeros at the end of the account.
Really, she really said, "I didn't expect that my treasures, which were called broken stones by others, could actually save my life if I didn't treat them as treasures. It was worth it that I never forgot to bring them with me wherever I went in the apocalypse."
Ji An was also wondering how she could have so many jades, so he asked, "How do you have so many? Do you have more? Our store still accepts them."
“No more.” Zheng Yan shook her head regretfully. “I used to be a jewelry designer. Those are my most precious designs before the end of the world.”
"Then do you know how to appraise jewelry?" Ji An asked.
"Yes." Zheng Yan said, "Although not as good as professionals, but still okay. As long as it's not a fake by a professional master, I can still tell it apart."
Ji An's eyes lit up. He needed such a talent. It was not a big deal for the jade in the store to wait for him to identify it. In the future, he would collect more and more jade and wait for him to identify it alone. How could he handle it?
"Are you interested in working in my store? As a jewelry appraiser, I'll make $10,000 a month, with bonuses," Ji An said.
"Such a high salary!" Zheng Yan had never seen such a high salary in her life, and then she hesitated. She looked at the superpowers outside and said fearfully: "I wonder what our store does?"
"I'm temporarily selling space storage items and collecting jade on the side."
"Space storage props?" Zheng Yan was in a trance and felt like she was still dreaming. Why did she seem to have heard something mysterious?
Zheng Yan finally agreed to such a good job, although she felt that she was crazy because of poverty and might be dreaming. But even in a dream, Zheng Yan was unwilling to miss such a good job.
Ji An briefly introduced the two people, confirmed Tang Ning's identity as the store manager, and increased his salary by three thousand on the spot.
"In the future, I will hire a person with super powers to protect your safety in the store. You can rest assured that he will be safe." The things in his store are too tempting for everyone, and Ji An is afraid that two ordinary people who have not awakened their super powers cannot control them.
"Yeah." Zheng Yan and Tangning both agreed.
After a brief finalization, Ji An discovered that there were no fewer customers in the store, and the lines were even getting longer.
Ji An asked the psychic at the head of the line, "I told you that the stuff was gone, why aren't you leaving yet?"
"Researcher Ji, let's make a deal. Considering that I didn't sleep last night and waited in line all night, let's give me a reservation. Next time you have the product, let me be the first to be notified. How about that?"
"No." Ji An shook his head. "My store needs publicity, so I'm not accepting reservations for now. If it's not necessary to promote this place, I won't deliver the goods to the store."
Ji An turned to Tangning and Zheng Yan and said, "You two go tell everyone that the items are sold out. Come earlier next time. Also, we don't accept reservations."
"Okay." Although the two were a little scared when they thought about how violent these psychics would be if the goods were gone, no one refused and they all went out and told each other one by one.
Unfortunately, the effect was very poor and no one moved at all.
"Researcher Ji, business is booming!" Zhang Yi walked in, smiling, "Researcher Ji's store is doing really well, it's packed with people. Did you remember what you promised me? Did you sell my goods?"
"No, of course I remember." Ji An gave Zhang Yi the space storage item that he had specially reserved for him. Zhang Yi was delighted, transferred money on the spot, and thanked him repeatedly.
The top-ranked psychic seemed to have caught some insignificant trick on Ji An, and yelled, "Researcher Ji, you are going too far. You just said that it was gone, so how come it is still there? This is an insider deal. This is unfair. This is a shady deal!"
Ji An was speechless. Please, this is his private shop and he is the boss. He can sell it to whoever he wants. What a shady deal!
Zhang Yi smiled coldly, "Do you know me? I know you. You're from the research institute, right? You're doing experiments with researcher Han Yaokun right now. It's working time now, so you asked for leave, right? If I tell your director Han Yaokun that you asked for leave to queue up to buy space storage props, what would his reaction be?"
What kind of reaction? He can be fired on the spot!
Everyone knows the grievances between Han Yaokun and Ji An. Ji An has beaten Han Yaokun so hard that his face is swollen. If he knew that he didn't go to work just to queue up to buy Ji An's things, he probably wouldn't have to go to work anymore.
The man stopped pretending and looked sad, obviously knowing Zhang Yi. "Minister Zhang, you are so good at killing people and destroying their hearts!"
After saying that, he left cursing.
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