Chapter 185
"Let Kang Kang come?" Zhou Qi was stunned when he heard Tang Yu'an's words.
"Yes, after the store upgrades, customers can also use the teleportation array." Tang Yu'an said, "Shall we bring Kang Kang over and let him see Lan Hulin's situation?"
Zhou Qi thought about it and felt that this was not impossible, but the problem was...
"How do we explain Kang Kang's origins?"
When the three of them entered Lan Hulin, they were under close surveillance by the guards.
Since Lan Yunqing was able to transfer them instantly, he should have been able to sense that there were indeed three of them and they did not bring any other humans with them, especially such a young child.
How would they explain Kang Kang's arrival? Would this reveal the existence of the teleportation array?
"Even if it's exposed, it shouldn't matter, right? You can't use it without permission..." At the end, Tang Yu'an felt a little unsure.
Zhou Qi sighed and said, "Given the xenophobic nature of Lanhu Town, would they allow such a teleportation array to exist in the heart of Lanhu Forest?"
If they are enemies, then they have the ability to airdrop troops long distances, which is extremely deadly to any force.
Tang Yu'an thought about it carefully and found that this was indeed the case.
If the enemy can appear in the central hinterland without restrictions, and this place is full of ordinary residents, it’s scary just to think about it!
This was also the first time they realized that the teleportation array could become a powerful weapon in war.
They were born and raised in a peaceful and powerful country, so they seldom think about war. However, wars are not limited to big or small, and they can happen at any time in this chaotic doomsday.
Think about it this way...if one day due to an irreconcilable conflict, Hongli leads the guards to attack the deserted city home, they can even directly airdrop into Jufeng Town and occupy the entire Jufeng Mountain?
After all, even non-employees can use the teleportation array now!
"We must be extra careful when using the teleportation array in the future." Zhou Qi said seriously.
If those powerful forces knew that the mysterious businessman actually possessed such a killer move, Ping An Grocery Store would definitely become the target of public criticism.
Even if you are not condemned by everyone, you will be treated like a rat crossing the street and will no longer be able to do business honestly.
Tang Yu'an felt his scalp tingling just thinking about it.
"Right now, the only people who know about the teleportation array are Grandpa Li, Shitou, and Xiaocao. Let Grandpa Li do some ideological work on them first. They absolutely must not reveal the existence of the teleportation array to anyone."
Otherwise, the newly rebuilt Kyoho Grocery Store would probably not be able to reopen.
Without further ado, Zhou Qixian shouted in the store channel of the message board, and found that Old Li was still awake. Then he input the information into the light computer and put it into the portable warehouse.
Old Li quickly took the laptop away and returned it after a while.
Zhou Qi took out his light computer and saw an extra recording in it. He clicked play and the old man's smiling voice sounded.
"You just thought of it? By the time you reminded me, the daylily would have gone cold."
Zhou Qi couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. "It seems Grandpa Li has already explained this to Shitou and the others."
Tang Yu'an nodded, "It's great to have grandpa here!"
Then he asked, "What should we do now? If we don't bring Kang Kang here, how can we find out what's going on in Lan Hulin?"
Zhou Qi thought for a moment and said, "Don't we have umbrellas to shield us from the shadows?"
"You mean taking Kang Kang and going secretly?"
Zhou Qi shook his head. "Lord Lan Hu can communicate with Lan Hu Lin. Even if Kang Kang communicates with Lan Hu Lin secretly, he will be exposed."
"What should we do then?" Tang Yu'an scratched his head.
"I pretended to leave to pick someone up." Zhou Qi said.
"Wait five days, use the teleportation array to bring Kang Kang here, and then use the shadow umbrella to go outside the Blue Hulin. As long as there is a time difference and we don't appear directly in the Blue Hulin, there should be no problem."
"good!"
Tang Yu'an also thought this was feasible. "Then let's go find Brother Yunqing tomorrow. Then you pretend to leave, and I'll stay in Lanhu Town and wait for you to come back. Then we'll build the basement!"
Hearing Tang Yu'an addressing Lord Lanhu, Zhou Qi pursed his lips slightly, but didn't say much in the end.
After discussing it, they lay down to sleep.
The next day, the two went to Lan Yunqing to explain the situation.
"Are you going back to Jufeng Town to pick someone up?" Lan Yunqing asked in surprise.
"No, I'm going back." Zhou Qi said.
"Wouldn't it be too dangerous for you to go alone? Is there such a powerful planter in Jufeng Town?"
At this point, Lan Yunqing showed a look of surprise, "I'll send someone to escort you back!"
Zhou Qi quickly shook his head, "They are our partners, not from Jufeng Town."
Then he refused, "I can go back alone. If there are too many people, some of my methods will be difficult to use and will only waste time."
Hearing this, Lan Yunqing nodded in understanding, "I really don't know how to thank you..."
Zhou Qi waved his hand and said, "We are only here to complete the task assigned by the mysterious businessman, and it may not work."
Lan Yunqing shook his head. "No matter what the outcome, I want to thank you for your contribution to Lanhu Town."
Afterwards, he took the two teenagers and moved to the edge of the Blue Hulin.
"Take care on your journey and be sure to return safely!" Lan Yunqing said to Zhou Qi.
Zhou Qi waved his hand, and as he and Tang Yu'an watched, he crossed the hill and headed towards Jufeng Town. When he was out of their sight, he took out his umbrella and returned the same way.
At this time, Tang Yu'an had been sent back to the cabin by Lan Yunqing, and happened to meet Mo Ke coming back.
Mo Ke listened to the conversation between him and Lan Yunqing and was confused. After Lan Yunqing left, he pulled Tang Yu'an aside to ask.
"Xiaoqi is really leaving like this?"
Tang Yu'an looked at Mo Ke, hesitant about how to explain this to him.
Should we keep it a secret or bring him into our camp?
After spending the past few days on the road together, Mo Ke has gained their trust.
There was a reason why Grandpa Li was willing to teach him hunting skills. He was indeed a good man who was brave, careful and loyal.
It seems that hiring him as an employee is not a bad idea. Moreover, after Mo Ke becomes an employee, it will be much more convenient for them to move around in Store No. 5.
Tang Yu'an thought about it and discussed it with Zhou Qi on the message board. After asking Old Li for his opinion, the two finally made a decision.
He extended a recruitment invitation to Mok.
Mo Ke looked at the strange panel that popped up, a little surprised.
[A mysterious businessman is interested in recruiting you as a salesperson for "Ping An Grocery Store No. 1"...]
Mysterious Merchant? What is this?
Mo Ke was stunned when he heard the mechanical sound ringing in his ears.
"Brother Mo, have you received any recruitment information from the mysterious businessman?" Tang Yu'an asked knowingly.
"Ah, is this you?"
"No, the Mysterious Merchant is a very great being. I am loyal to Him." Tang Yu'an imitated Zhou Qi's previous behavior and said shamelessly, "I just recommended you to Him."
"Recommend me to be a salesperson?"
"right."
Mo Ke was a little confused. He was still hesitating when he heard the boy say, "Grandpa Li also accepted the job offer."
"real?"
"Of course, why would I lie to you?"
Mo Ke thought back to his time with the two teenagers and felt that Xiao An had no reason to deceive him, since the old man had chosen this...
In the end, Mok accepted the offer.
Then, he found that apart from a novice task popping up, nothing special seemed to happen.
Tang Yu'an took him out and guided him like a senior to complete the novice tasks. In the end, he got points and opened the employee panel.
Mo Ke was immediately attracted by this interface.
The initial products that Tang Yu'an opened to him were wheat and glucose.
Back at Store No. 5, Mo Ke tried to redeem it with 1 point. When 100 grams of wheat appeared in his hand, he was completely stunned.
Mok has realized what a magical thing this is, especially after he discovered the existence of the employee forum, he has been deeply addicted to it.
However, when he found that his level was not high enough and he could neither leave messages nor post anything, he immediately asked Tang Yu'an for help.
Under Tang Yu'an's guidance, he quickly exchanged the glucose and then ran out to trade with the Lanhu people.
Watching him leave, Tang Yu'an breathed a sigh of relief. Just as he closed the door and turned around, he saw Zhou Qi moving the umbrella away and appearing in front of him.
Tang Yu'an walked over and let the umbrella cover them again, then said, "You didn't get discovered on the way back, did you?"
"Probably not."
Zhou Qi took him around the first floor and finally decided to open the entrance to the basement in the room.
Without further ado, the two began digging.
Zhou Qi has earth-related abilities and can store the soil directly into his portable warehouse, so digging the soil is not difficult. However, when they cut the floor and saw the dense plant roots underneath, the two of them were in trouble.
These roots obviously belong to the blue beech tree. If they destroy these roots, will it alarm Lan Yunqing?
Just as the two were struggling with the dilemma, the small green vine wrapped around Tang Yu'an's hair emitted a faint fluorescent light.
Under the influence of its light, the tangled tree roots seemed to be pushed apart by a gentle hand, revealing gaps.
Zhou Qi was delighted and quickly reached out to touch the soil, transferring the soil to his portable warehouse bit by bit.
Slowly, a 2x2x2 meter space appeared under the cut entrance, and at this time, the emerald was no longer able to do anything.
As its light faded, the surrounding tree roots stopped retreating and even showed signs of growing again.
Tang Yu'an quickly activated the protective barrier and retreated to the basement. After he chose to close the store, the protective barrier instantly activated, blocking the tree roots outside.
Then, Tang Yu'an opened the hardware panel again. At this time, the basement had appeared on the 3D map, and he could directly generate walls and floors.
After the operation was completed, this small but almost fireproof basement was completed.
"Hey, it's done!"
This would greatly enhance secrecy. As long as they acted carefully, the Lanhu people would not know about the existence of such a teleportation array.
Zhou Qi also breathed a sigh of relief.
He looked at the teleportation array and said, "When Lord Lan Hu becomes one of our own, we can make him the branch manager of Store No. 5 and let him control the teleportation array of Store No. 5."
The branch manager has a lot of authority. In addition to increasing or decreasing the number of overnight customers, he can also grant employees the right to use the teleportation array.
Moreover, after the main store is upgraded to level 3, the branch store manager can also see the teleportation array list.
Once Lan Yunqing becomes the branch manager, he should be able to greatly reduce the threat posed by the teleportation array to Lanhu Town, tie their interests together, and truly establish a peaceful, friendly, and trusting relationship, right?
"Yeah, that's a good idea!"
Tang Yu'an said happily, "We came to Lanhu Town to set up a branch teleportation point just to facilitate business, not to occupy other people's places."
Of course, Lan Yunqing had just been hired not long ago, and they didn't want to expose the other branches to him, so they kept the teleportation array secret for the time being.
As for when he can truly become one of us, we can only leave it to time.
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When Mok came back, his employee level had been upgraded to level 3.
The sales of glucose are very good, and both adults and children in Lanhu Town love to eat it.
He not only sold glucose, but also used his fire ability to make clay figures, and cut grass leaves to weave into small toys such as grasshoppers, attracting a large number of children.
"I feel like I can reach level 5 tomorrow!" Mok said excitedly.
Tang Yu'an hadn't expected that Mo Ke actually had a talent for business. "Not bad, not bad. Keep up the good work!"
Then he said, "Brother Mo, I'll take you somewhere."
Then he took Mok to the room on the first floor and pulled him into the basement.
The entrance to the basement was a dark void in Moke's eyes, but after jumping down, he unexpectedly found that this small space was quite bright.
"There's actually a basement here? I slept all night last night... Wow!"
Mo Ke was startled when he suddenly saw Zhou Qi waiting for them in the basement. He calmed down only after seeing his appearance clearly.
"Hey, Xiaoqi, didn't you leave? Why are you still here?"
"That's what we're going to explain to you."
[The branch manager "Liangzai Zhou" grants you access to the "Ping An Grocery Store No. 1" teleportation array. You can reach "Ping An Grocery Store No. 1" through any fixed teleportation array.]
At the same time, the permission to teleport from Store No. 1 to Store No. 5 was also opened.
"Teleportation array? What is this?"
"Brother Mo, come with us. Grandpa Li is waiting for you. He will explain everything to you."
Then Tang Yu'an stepped onto the teleportation array first and disappeared under Mo Ke's gaze. Then he was pushed to the middle of the teleportation array by Zhou Qi.
Soon at Zhou Qi's urging, Mo Ke also used the teleportation array and appeared in the teleportation room on the 9th floor of the Deserted City Home with a confused look on his face.
And just as the two teenagers said, Old Li was already waiting for him at the door of the teleportation room.
"You kid, you are still so lucky." The old man looked at Mo Ke, and a smile appeared at the corner of his slightly curved mouth.
Mo Ke hurried forward.
"Old Li, what's going on? You...why do you seem like a different person?"
Not only did he change into new clothes, but his thin body also became fuller and stronger, and his whole mental state was different.
"I'll tell you slowly later."
Old Li looked at Mo Ke, patted him on the shoulder and said, "Very good. I haven't seen you for a while, but you're still in good shape."
Mo Ke couldn't help but laugh, "I'm fine, please don't curse me."
"Come on, I'll take you to see the deserted city home we built, and give you some employee training. You can stay and help us in the future."
Old Li greeted the two teenagers and took Mo Ke away.
"You said this is a deserted city? But I'm clearly in Lanhu Town... Wow, what's going on with this water wall..."
Mo Ke was taken down the stairs screaming all the way, and only stopped screaming when he met other residents.
The residents were not surprised by the newcomer. They just greeted Old Li respectfully and went back to their own work.
Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi stood on the balcony, looking at everything in their deserted city home.
During their absence, some new things were added. The brick factory's production efficiency seemed to have improved a lot, and the reserves in the warehouse had increased significantly.
In addition, a cement plant has been initially established and has started production.
Tang Yu'an thought for a moment and said, "Brother Xiaoqi, shall we build a branch on the grassland?"
"On the grassland?"
"Yes, we can raise sheep on the grassland and build a ranch. We won't have to worry about having no meat to eat!"
Although they definitely don't have enough manpower now, they have to do things step by step and build the teleportation point first.
Besides, was it possible that there were people living on the grassland? They had seen some signs of human activity on the way to Lanhu Town, but they had not encountered any people.
Zhou Qi thought about it and felt that it was feasible.
Anyway, he needs to disappear in Lanhu Town for a few days, so he might as well use this time to build a branch on the grassland.
This will make the maneuverability much greater, after all, you can't put all your eggs in one basket.
But it was already late, and if they wanted to build a branch, they would have to wait until tomorrow, so they told Old Li to tell Mo Ke to go back to Lanhu to guard it at night, and then they took the teleportation array to the other dimension.
While they were away, 27 days passed in the alien dimension, and the newly placed ordinary chicken eggs and duck eggs in the chicken coop had hatched.
Three little yellow chickens and a little yellow duck were running in the yard, being bullied by the big yellow chicken and running around everywhere.
Tang Yu'an quickly took a cardboard box and put the little yellow chicken and the little yellow duck in it to avoid being chased by the big yellow chicken.
As the offspring of a mutant hen, the big yellow chicks have good fighting ability. Several ordinary chicks have been bullied to death.
Tang Yu'an quickly took out the healing potion, diluted it with water and fed it to them, which saved them.
Looking at the heroic and high-spirited appearance of the big yellow chick, Tang Yu'an decided to take it to the swimming pool and let the mutant hen discipline it.
As for the newborn chicks and ducklings, they were sent to the chicken coop in the deserted city home.
After seeing this, Old Li quickly ordered people to build a duck shed next to the pond, and the little yellow duck had already jumped into the ditch in the farmland and was swimming happily around.
The three little chicks followed its example and jumped into the ditch, and they almost drowned. Fortunately, Amu was quick enough to pick them out.
Amu has now become an expert in raising chicks.
Although it was often confused by the extra chicks, as the three chicks it had hatched before grew up, Amu's love for them disappeared visibly.
After all, grown-up hens are really not cute and don’t have beautiful and bright feathers.
So the appearance of the new little yellow chicken once again attracted Amu's attention.
Cute little yellow chicken, Suki!
The gray hen after molting, da mee!
The big parrot Amuyan was so obsessed with it that even Lin Zhen couldn't control it, so he just let it go.
Anyway, the grown-up chicks don't really need it to take care of them.
After settling the newly hatched chickens and ducklings, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi returned to the main store to salvage today's dream message in a bottle.
No one fished out Wen Qian’s bottle today. The first one was Xiao Hailan, the second one was Xiao Risheng, and the third one was a little girl from Jufeng Town.
Her name is Huahua. She lives with her parents in a makeshift shed on an open space. It's so cold and they hope it can get warmer.
Tang Yu'an traded the fire stone that had been left in the other dimension for three months and was only warm enough to last for her in exchange for a few pebbles from her home.
Although it was a loss-making business, Tang Yu'an was still quite happy.
The last bottle is Gan Lin's.
"Lord God, we are ready!" the young man said excitedly after getting his response.
Tang Yu'an couldn't help but twitch the corners of his mouth.
Is Gan Lin getting too caught up in the role? He really just wants to run a business, not become a god!
Still, the deal had to be done.
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Near Yanlong Fort.
Among the ruins, in a cleared space, a well has been dug in the middle.
Next to the well, there was a newly made stone bed, and Gan Lin was lying on it with his eyes closed.
The raging fire dragon in the sky and the moon hanging in the horizon complement each other, adding a touch of mystery to the scene.
Lao Mo was wearing a cloak made of black room-temperature cloth, holding a long mutant mantis sickle in his hand. He stood by the well with a calm expression, his eyes closed, and muttered to himself.
There were more than twenty men and women standing around them, looking at Lao Mo and Gan Lin with different expressions.
When the "miracle" that Lao Mo talked about did not appear, these people gradually lost their patience and could not help whispering.
Only Sha Zi and Luo Xiaolei, who had witnessed the miracle with their own eyes, kept looking at Lao Mo and Gan Lin seriously.
They were also very curious about whether Lao Mo could repeat his previous miracle tonight, and whether the "Son of God" he had brought forth really possessed the ability to communicate with the gods...
Time passed minute by minute, and finally, when the commotion grew louder and the situation was about to get out of control—
Lao Mo suddenly opened his eyes and then knelt down towards the well.
As he knelt down, a pile of golden wheat with full grains appeared out of thin air beside him.
Lao Mo shouted loudly: "Thank you, great God of Commerce, for giving us water and food!"
The commotion suddenly stopped, and everyone looked at the well in the middle of the open space. They saw that water was actually gushing out from the well mouth that was built half a meter high!
The new mutant couldn't help but ran over first, scooped up the overflowing well water and took a sip.
"Real water! Really clean water!"
Someone else ran to grab a handful of wheat, but before he put it in his mouth, he saw Lao Mo looking at him coldly.
Suddenly, several people were startled and quickly stepped back, shouting along with Lao Mo: "Thank you, great God of Commerce, for giving us water and food!"
The newly arrived psychic also quickly retreated back into the crowd, kneeling and shouting along with them.
Just worship and shout, and you can get water and food, only a fool would refuse! There is no harm in believing in such a god...
Lao Mo slowly stood up and helped Gan Lin, who was woken up.
Gan Lin showed a look of joy, and Lao Mo also felt relieved.
The water was exchanged for the fire stone at the bottom of the well, and as for the wheat on the ground, it was naturally exchanged for his points.
20 kilograms of wheat cost 100 points. Lao Mo felt painful when he thought about it, but... seeing the fanaticism gradually appearing on the faces of the believers, he was still very satisfied with the result.
He just doesn't believe that this effect can't scare people!
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