Chapter 188
Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi had never expected that they were just borrowing Lao Mo's tricks to conceal their identities, but they had actually developed into a "believer" so quickly.
It can be seen that Lao Mo's set is really popular in the wasteland?
Looking at the father and son who were still waiting for a reply, Zhou Qi had no choice but to say, "Even believers need to use other things to exchange for water and food."
They did not forget that the main purpose of acting in the name of the Merchant God Association was to conceal their identities and facilitate transactions.
Developing believers is not their goal.
“Understood!”
Lao Ping nodded repeatedly, with a hint of disappointment in his eyes.
Since you can get something in exchange whether you become a believer or not, there seems to be no need to take the risk of joining this church...
Seeing that the two "messengers of God" had no intention of recruiting him, Lao Ping respectfully said goodbye to Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi, and then left with his son Ashan carrying the bucket of water.
Watching their light spots gradually fade away on the map and the area shrouded in fog also clear up, Tang Yu'an nodded with satisfaction.
Finally someone can help them develop the grassland map!
"An An, go back." Zhou Qi said.
Hearing this, Tang Yu'an couldn't help but put his hands on his hips and said, "I am now a mysterious businessman, Yin Guang!"
Then he chuckled and praised, "Wu Yue sounds great too!"
A smile appeared in Zhou Qi's eyes.
The reason why he asked An An to admit that he was a mysterious businessman was that he suddenly thought that there was actually another way to protect An An's identity from being exposed.
That is to increase the number of mysterious merchants.
When there are more mysterious businessmen, An An will become less conspicuous, and security will naturally be improved.
Now that we have a God of Business, let his apostles become "mysterious businessmen."
They walked back along the shore.
"Should we say it on the message board?" Tang Yu'an asked, "At least let's unify our stance with Lao Mo?"
They originally just wanted to open a teleportation point on the grassland, but they didn't expect to meet Lao Ping and his son, who promised to exchange the things they brought for water and food.
"I feel like Store No. 6...does it need to hire someone to manage it?"
It would be better to hire a local person as this employee, but the problem is that they have already spread the name of Shangshen Sect, and among the other employees, only the founder Lao Mo knows about this.
Then wouldn’t the newly hired employees at No. 6 Store be exposed as soon as they open the forum?
After all, a staff forum doesn’t look like a church forum at all, does it?
Zhou Qi thought for a moment and whispered, "Our goal is to do business, not to create a god, let alone to make this church bigger and stronger."
He knew that An An was still young and immature in thinking, and might really be influenced by the missionaries, just like Gan Lin, who felt that he had been brainwashed by Lao Mo and really regarded the mysterious businessman as a god.
"Even if the new employees figure out we're not real gods, so what?"
Zhou Qi asked in return, "We've already pulled him into the same circle of interests. After witnessing the mysterious businessman's power, how could he really let go?"
After all, they have a set of screening criteria when recruiting employees.
"We don't need to worry about how new employees will understand and respond after looking at the employee dashboard and forums."
As the team grows, it gradually needs to be managed, and Zhou Qi has been thinking about this issue.
Then he concluded that he should focus on the big and let go of the small.
As long as it doesn't involve issues of principle, let employees do what they want.
Whether you think they are real gods or charlatans, as long as they abide by the employee code of conduct and continue to make transactions to earn points and experience, just let them be.
"We can't control so many things."
From the very beginning, they never thought about becoming a high-ranking "god", nor did they want to control the minds of their employees. Otherwise, they would not have opened up the entire curriculum of the twelve-year compulsory education.
Not to mention junior high and high school, even completing all the courses in elementary school is enough to enlighten you.
Tang Yu'an thought about Zhou Qi's words, and finally nodded in agreement with his point of view. Brother Xiaoqi is smart and can always think of things that he can't think of!
"Let it be," he said. "We don't have to show up anyway."
Just send the recruitment information directly. They don’t need to contact the new employees. Once the construction of Store No. 6 is completed, they can leave.
Thinking of this, Tang Yu'an felt relieved instantly.
They returned to Store No. 6, which was still under construction. As soon as they took out the magic tent, Tang Yu'an received a system prompt.
[Experience value is full, merchant level +1]
[Merchant level reaches lv19, and the mall has added cumin, beef jerky, canned chicken, raincoats, and flashlights for exchange. For details, please visit the "Wholesale Market"]
[Portable storage slot +1, total slots: 23]
[Forum vest +1, new channel filtering function, new authorized employee management forum function]
[Teleportation skill upgraded to level 18, please see "Skills" for details]
[Weekly Quest Refresh Card +1]
Wow! Upgrade!
Tang Yu'an first looked at the teleportation skill. The effect of the first three levels had been increased to 4 times.
In other words, the distance for remote pickup has been increased to 40,000 kilometers, the advanced remote placement effect has been increased to 64 meters, and the intermediate remote pickup effect has been increased to 324 meters!
Tang Yuan looked at the effect of the skill improvement with great satisfaction. Due to the continuous improvement of his telekinesis skill, he was able to be so far away from Store No. 3 and still get water from the reservoir.
In the future, even if they go to a farther place, they can still pick up the goods remotely!
40,000 kilometers, how far is it exactly?
Tang Yu'an thought about it, but had no idea what it was. Finally, he shook his head and looked at the other rewards.
"Wow, there's beef jerky to trade!"
He immediately changed to a pack of cumin flavored ones, shared them with Zhou Qi and his two pets, then stuffed a piece into his mouth and ate it with relish.
The beef jerky is delicious!
Then Tang Yu'an opened the forum interface again, first looked at the meaning of the channel filtering function, and quickly understood it.
For example, the store channel. As the general store manager, he can see the speeches of all store employees. So in his case, the speeches of all employees in the store channel are mixed together, making it almost the same as the public channel.
But now with the filtering function, he can set it to only see the speeches of employees from a certain store. For example, if he filters No. 1 store, he can only see the conversations between Grandpa Li and others.
After actual use, Tang Yu'an found that this function was really convenient and he no longer had to worry about confusion.
As for empowering employees to manage forums...
He looked carefully and found that employees could be set as moderators of various sections.
The moderator of the message board can have the authority to ban employees, delete messages, set banned words, edit channels, etc.
Moderators of the communication area can publish rules, pin, feature, and delete posts, and can also ban employees from posting.
Moderators in the trading area have fewer permissions and can only review the content of the trading window. If they find any problems, they can submit them to the mysterious merchant for judgment.
Moderators of different sections cannot serve in multiple roles for the time being, and only branch managers can serve as moderators.
So, after consulting Zhou Qi, Tang Yu'an made him the moderator of the communication area, allowing him to manage the posts in the communication area.
Then, Tang Yu'an looked at his aliases again. He now has three aliases, one is "Dongtu Datang", and the other two are empty.
He thought about it carefully and quickly set up the two empty vests.
[Mysterious Merchant-Silver Light]
[Mysterious Merchant-Wu Yue]
Then he authorized the account Wu Yue to Zhou Qi. He could use this pseudonym, but the permissions were still limited to those granted to him by Tang Yu'an before.
But this is enough for Zhou Qi.
They crawled into the magic tent, had dinner, and started editing the post.
So the employees of each store soon noticed that several new posts were suddenly added to the communication area.
[Top][Exquisite] [Wasteland Herbal Collection [Continuously Updated]]
[Top][Fine] [Application of scientific knowledge in life [Continuously updated]]
[Top][Highlights] [How can we improve our own and our customers' survival rates in natural disasters [Continuously updated]]
[Top][Exquisite] [Discussion on the practicality of supernatural powers...]
These posts are eye-catching enough, but what is even more eye-catching is——
[Posted by: Mysterious Merchant-Silver Light]
[Poster: Mysterious Merchant - Wu Yue [Moderator]]
The mysterious businessman finally appeared!
But... why are there two? What do "Silver Light" and "Black Moon" represent? Names? Levels? And what are moderators?
Chi Hao looked at these new posts and couldn't help but touch his chin.
He used to think the mysterious businessman was plotting something big, but after recent exchanges with other people on the message board, coupled with these posts, it was hard for him not to change his mind about the mysterious businessman.
Although these posts are not inflammatory and are all about popular science, precisely because of this, just looking at the titles of the posts gives people a sense of righteousness.
If the content of these posts is really as the title says, they can really save countless lives!
Such valuable knowledge, yet this mysterious businessman casually disclosed it! And it's free...
Chi Hao pondered the meaning of "silver light" and "black moon", and then clicked on the post about scientific knowledge application.
Because his test scores were so poor, Chi Hao reflected on his mistakes and finally decided to use his free time to learn the primary school curriculum starting from the first grade, and then he was fascinated by it.
The cartoons are so good... ahem, no, the natural science knowledge is really interesting.
The post on the application of scientific knowledge was published by "Mysterious Merchant - Wu Yue", and the entire speech was full of rigorous and authoritative feeling.
All Chi Hao could say the following words the whole time: "Oh, so it can be done this way...", "That's awesome!", "Is this also possible?"
Of course, as he watched, he began to not understand.
Although Chi Hao really didn't want to admit that this was his own problem, but...
[Fish in the water: This is amazing, this is exactly what I want! ]
[Fish in the Water: Lord Wu Yue, you are too strong! ]
[Fish in the Water: Lord Wu Yue, is there anything else you don't know?]
There were replies from Shui Zhongyu under almost every post, which made Chi Hao understand that it was really his own fault that he couldn't understand it.
Chi Hao forced himself to watch for a while, but finally chose to close it and watch something else.
The post "Complete Collection of Wasteland Herbs" was posted by "Mysterious Merchant - Yin Guang". His speaking style is completely different from Wu Yue's. His writing style and words are very lively, making it easy to read.
Each layer in this post is a plant that can be used as a herbal medicine, and its characteristics, functions and other information are clearly written, and there are even pictures for you to see.
There are more active people in this post. It has only been a short time since it was published, and there are two or three people on almost every level who are thanking me for sharing.
Moreover, Yin Guang is also very friendly. Anyone in the front row who asks questions related to herbs will get an answer from this mysterious merchant.
Of course, those comments that stubbornly asked about Yin Guang’s identity were ignored.
Chi Hao looked around and finally clicked on the post about the practicality of superpowers. He was very familiar with the knowledge about superpowers!
Of course, he also had a "private chat" with Zhou Qi through his portable warehouse, asking him if he knew any information about Yin Guang and Wu Yue.
Tang Yu'an looked at the question from Chi Hao in the exercise book and couldn't help but ask, "How should I answer him?"
Zhou Qi thought about it and wrote down his reply: [I had never heard of it before today]
After seeing his answer, Tang Yu'an couldn't help laughing.
The two aliases Yin Guang and Wu Yue were only created today. Of course, it was impossible to have heard of them before. Brother Xiaoqi really didn't lie.
After editing a few more replies and listing all the wasteland herbs that had been identified so far, Tang Yu'an closed the forum.
"If there are more sock puppet accounts in the future, I'll create a few more mysterious businessmen." Tang Yu'an laughed, and it seemed like it was very funny.
"I'll buy a few more masks, each mask of a different color corresponds to a vest number."
Zhou Qi also felt good. "I put on different disguises when facing different people, but I have to be careful not to mix them up, so as not to be exposed."
Tang Yu'an nodded, but he felt that it would be difficult to be exposed unless they built a well-connected transportation network or opened a teleportation array.
Otherwise, in an environment like the wasteland, many people may never see each other in their entire lives.
Putting away the mask and cloak, Tang Yu'an began today's study, while Zhou Qi continued to edit posts and review and manage the employee speeches in the communication area.
Since he has become the moderator, he must take responsibility and strive to manage the communication area well.
Driven by his and Tang Yu'an's posts, the communication area finally became active and other people began to post.
The content of the posts is the same as what they publish, tending towards popular science knowledge, and some are free and some are paid.
Of course, there are also inquiry posts like the one posted by Shuizhongyu, where she listed all the difficulties encountered in the learning process and issued a reward.
As long as the questions are answered and she finds them useful, she will reward them with points. Although the amount is not much, it is a very good source of points for an employee who is not well-off.
Knowledge is wealth, truly proven.
For this reason, the painting style of the entire communication area has become serious and full of academic atmosphere.
During a break from studying, Tang Yu'an opened the communication area and felt overwhelmed. Were there no posts that could entertain people?
Spiritual and cultural construction is also very important!
He thought about it and simply switched to a small account to post and set the pace himself.
[The martial arts story you don't know: "The greatest heroes serve their country and their people!" [Continuously updated]]
【Posted by: Dongtu Datang】
[Main post: The discussion forum is so lively today! Let me share a martial arts novel story with you. It's from a book. Will anyone read it?^^]
As soon as the post was published, someone replied immediately.
Evergreen: [Sofa]
Little Noisy: [The benches have been moved. Peanut soda and popcorn are for sale in the front row!]
Seeing these two replies, Tang Yu'an couldn't help but laugh. Grandpa Li and Lao Mo are so fast!
Of course, the other employees who clicked in were confused, and some actually asked Lao Mo about it.
Are they really selling peanut soda and popcorn? Is there a trading area? Are these things edible? Are they delicious? Are they expensive?
How can I explain this? I can only say that this is a joke, simulating the scene of everyone watching movies and listening to operas before the disaster.
This then leads to the question: what is a movie? What is a play?
[Fish in the Water: I know about movies! We've been watching them a lot lately!]
Then Shitou and Xiaocao asked in the store channel when the movie would be shown, as they wanted to watch it at home in the evening.
Before, Shitou and Xiaocao didn’t know about the movie showing in the chat room. It was only when Old Li called them back to register their family books that they discovered that there were many new and interesting things in their home.
Then they were also fascinated by the movie. Even if the hot soup business was busy at night, Xiaocao would run back home early with her brother to watch the movie on the day it was shown.
This is one of the few spiritual nourishment they have in this end times.
And now, there is one more spiritual food!
That's the martial arts story that the little genius doctor sent! Although many of the words are incomprehensible, it doesn't matter, the voice can read them out for them.
And most importantly, this story post can be read and viewed over and over again at any time, unlike a movie, which needs to be watched at a fixed time and place.
When Tang Yu'an started posting novels, the forum, which was originally quite active, suddenly became quiet.
Almost all employees who entered this post were attracted by it, waiting to see...
"To know what happens next, please listen to the next episode!", everyone's defenses were broken.
[Panshi: Huh? Why is it gone?]
Fish in the water: Yes, yes, what about the rest? Why is it gone?
[Pu Wei: I want to see the rest...]
[Cloud Eagle: What a wonderful story. Is there no more to it?]
【Green as Blue: Urge for more updates! 】
[Red Victory: Urge for Updates]
Only Old Li and Old Mo felt itchy and a little nostalgic at the same time.
I haven't felt this way in many years...
[Dongtu Datang: It’s late, time to go to bed. I’ll continue sharing with you next time when I have time. Good night^^]
In the magic tent, Tang Yu'an closed the book in his hand and stretched.
This novel was taken from his father's collection. When he posted it in the thread, he also noted the title and author.
Because it is impossible to scan directly with a light computer, he can only copy and publish it sentence by sentence, which is also a meticulous job.
But it seems to be working well, everyone likes it!
Zhou Qi also marked his post as featured to let everyone know that the moderator also encourages the appearance of this type of post.
So those who were completely awake because of Tang Yu'an's novels also began to share the legends they had heard, which finally made the communication area with a strong academic atmosphere more interesting.
Tang Yu'an said he was going to sleep, but he couldn't fall asleep because he was reading the stories posted by others.
It was not until Zhou Qi urged her that she reluctantly climbed onto the bed. Hei Zhenzhu was already asleep on the futon beside the bed.
This cushion was prepared for it by the magic core.
Although this little kitten is too naughty, as its owner's pet, it still needs careful care and protection.
"It's time to go to bed, good night, Xiaoqi brother!"
"good evening."
As night falls, the world is shrouded in darkness.
Outside the magic tent, the construction robot was still working hard to build a house. Yuanbao squatted at the exit of the tent, scanning the surroundings with his four eyes, standing guard in a solemn and majestic manner.
Across the lake, there was a sudden rustling sound in the bushes.
Lao Ping lay down behind the bushes and whispered to the people around him, "How is it? I didn't lie to you, did I?"
The person lying next to him was a person with special abilities from their tribe. He had insisted on coming over to investigate because he doubted the truthfulness of what Lao Ping and his son said.
Lao Ping was worried, so he followed him in the end.
"Now that we've seen it all, let's go back! Don't you see that giant beast guarding there?" Lao Ping whispered, "Our tribe can't afford to offend them!"
The two psychics didn't say much. After taking turns using the telescope to see the situation clearly, they quickly took Lao Ping away.
Because they found that the giant wolf was looking towards them, even though it was so far away, it still made them feel nervous.
It wasn't until they ran a kilometer away that they finally spoke.
"Is this Shangshen Cult... really as magical as you say?"
"Why would I lie to you? You've seen most of the water in the lake; it was all brought in by the gods."
"Did the angel really say that we can get water and food?"
"What are you thinking? You have to exchange it for something. This god hates getting something for nothing, and believers can't just take it for free."
Both psychics showed regret.
Although the lake was huge and they should be able to grab some water, the giant four-eyed wolf made them give up this suicidal idea.
It would be a big waste to let several people die for a little water.
They walked away while talking, and Yuanbao withdrew his gaze and continued to guard around the tent dutifully without chasing them.
The next morning, when Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi came out of the tent, the construction robot had already built a new house.
It is a very simple house, covering an area of only 30 square meters, with two floors and a basement.
Zhou Qi absorbed the moisture from the wall to speed up its solidification, while Tang Yu'an began to set up branches and activate the protective barrier and teleportation array.
Because he had no intention of opening this branch to the public, he chose to close it directly.
So the newly built house disappeared out of thin air.
"Did you see that? Dad and I weren't kidding, were we?"
On the other side of the lake, Lao Ping and Ashan, who had come with a few villagers to exchange water, stopped by the lake and witnessed the entire process of the house disappearing out of thin air.
"What kind of supernatural power is this? It's too amazing..."
When several young men and people with special abilities were discussing, Lao Ping's expression suddenly changed.
"Oh no, it's that black panther!"
Seeing Black Pearl appear next to Yuanbao, Lao Ping and Ashan couldn't help but tremble in their legs because of the shadow of yesterday.
But Lao Ping quickly took a deep breath, suppressed his fear, and said to the people behind him: "You stay here and don't act rashly. I'll go over."
"Remember, we can't mess with them. Don't do anything that might anger them!"
Then he picked up the shoulder pole, took the things he had prepared to exchange for water, and mustered up the courage to walk towards the location of the two giant beasts on the opposite side of the lake.
Seeing him come out on his own initiative, Black Pearl, who was wagging its tail and eager to come over for fun, looked away with boredom.
It walked to the lake and played with the fish in the lake.
Tang Yu'an also found the people by the lake from the map, so he and Zhou Qi put on masks and walked directly out of Store No. 6.
They are God's messengers now, no need to pretend!
In the eyes of the tribesmen, the two cloaked men appeared out of thin air, which instantly cast a veil of mystery over the Shangshen Cult.
Lao Ping paused slightly, then quickly returned to normal.
He came closer with a shoulder pole, put the things down, and immediately knelt down before the two cloaked men.
"Master Yin Guang, Master Wu Yue, we have brought something to exchange for the water!"
As he spoke, he opened the lid of the basket, revealing the lamb inside.
Judging from the breed, it seems to be sheep?
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