Chapter 212
Ping An Grocery Store, attic.
Tang Yu'an looked at the map. The light spots belonging to Lao Mo and Gan Lin were densely surrounded by hundreds of light spots, twice as many as before.
After hearing Gan Lin's description, he finally realized the danger that Lao Mo and the others were facing.
"Lao Mo made the right choice to stay where he is," Zhou Qi said. "Although the gang has more customers, too many people means conflict."
Not everywhere is like Lanhu Town. Lanhu Town is an exception in the wasteland.
That is why they were so cautious when running the Kyoho Grocery Store, just to avoid conflicts as much as possible before becoming stronger.
"Fortunately, Lao Mo is rational enough." Zhou Qi said sincerely.
The old man who has been able to survive in the wasteland for so long is indeed not a vegetarian.
"But we also have to find a way to provide protection for Lao Mo and Gan Lin." Tang Yu'an said.
Zhou Qi thought about it and nodded, "Now that we have Old Xie, let's head to Yanlong Fort."
Tang Yu'an blinked. He had originally just wanted to say that he could give some of the inscribed equipment obtained from Tours to Gan Lin and the others, but he didn't expect Zhou Qi to make such a suggestion.
However, it is a really good idea.
"Shall we go in the RV?" Tang Yu'an asked.
"Of course." Zhou Qi nodded. "It's a bit slow, but it can ensure safety and salvage the drifting bottle."
They have now contacted Uncle Tang and Aunt Tang, and can contact them once every 9 days, so naturally they cannot leave the grocery store for too long.
"For those sections of the road that are really difficult to pass, we can only do so by building branches."
Fortunately, there is currently no limit on the number of branches.
But even if there is, according to the nature of the system, it can probably be unlocked by spending points.
They discussed it for a while and put it on their calendar.
"Come to think of it..." Tang Yu'an looked at the points balance and suddenly said, "It seems that Haijing hasn't done much trading these days."
Since there are 76 people in Guanyu Village, Haijing's daily trading volume is very stable, basically bringing him 228 experience points and more than 30,000 points every day.
However, in the past few days, the details of Haijing's income have dropped sharply.
"Could it be that life is better now, so you want to take a break for a while?" Tang Yu'an muttered.
Zhou Qi frowned slightly, feeling something was unusual.
He said, "Let's go get Xiao Hailan's message in the bottle and ask."
"good!"
By controlling the brightness of the drifting bottles, they can now basically tell which bottles belong to which people - unless the other party stops making wishes like Green Eyes, then they can't get the bottles.
Sure enough, the next message in the bottle was Xiao Hailan's.
"Great and merciful God's messenger, may your light always shine upon the earth..."
Tang Yu'an quickly interrupted the little girl's prayer and greeted her.
"My Lord God!" Little Hailan's voice rang out in surprise, "You have come to my dream again!"
"Yes." Tang Yu'an exchanged a few pleasantries with her, then asked, "How have you been recently? Are you doing well?"
"It's okay." Xiao Hailan nodded, "It's just..."
"What is it?"
"Dad said that since there are outsiders here, he won't do business with them for the time being, and he won't let me go out to play either," said Xiao Hailan.
Tang Yu'an couldn't help but look at Zhou Qi. He didn't expect that something really happened in Guanyu Village!
"Where did those outsiders come from?" he asked Xiao Hailan again, "Did they do anything bad?"
Xiao Hailan said, "Dad said they are from the town and come here every year to collect protection fees..."
She paused for a moment and added, "Before, he seemed to leave after collecting the protection money, but this year, I don't know why he stayed..."
"Dad said we can't let them know we're selling things, otherwise we'll get into trouble..."
So is this the reason why Haijing stopped trading these days?
They had also learned some information about Linhai Town from Hongli before. The salt roads there were monopolized, and only those who colluded with local forces could get the salt.
Like Jin Fu, he has connections in Linhai Town, so he can buy salt every time.
The people sent by Hongli to contact them basically fell on deaf ears. It was probably blocked by Jinfu and his gang, otherwise there was no reason for these local forces not to sell salt to her.
Even if Hongli wanted to use force to break through, it would be basically difficult to do so.
First of all, Linhai Town itself has fifth-level ability people stationed there, and Hongli cannot defeat them alone. Jufeng Town is far away, and the guards she trained can't help at all.
Therefore, Jufeng Town has been restricted for a long time and can only buy salt from Jinfu.
Local people in Linhai Town, like the villagers in Guanyu Village, are not allowed to sell salt, otherwise they will face a heavy blow. So although they can easily obtain sea salt, they cannot convert it into wealth at all.
If these people who collect protection fees knew that Haijing was collecting salt, it would definitely bring big trouble to the father and daughter.
The fact that they have been able to hold out for so long without getting into trouble is that there are no bad people in the village who tell on them.
"I'm sorry, Lord God's Messenger, we don't have that much salt at home this time." Xiao Hailan said.
"It doesn't matter. Just trade the remaining salt to me." Tang Yu'an said, "They can't find the salt in your house. It will be more secure for you."
"Okay, but we can't add any more food or anything like that to our house, so I'll give all this salt to you."
What Xiao Hailan said was indeed reasonable. What could really bring danger to them and their daughter were the food and good things that were obviously from other places.
Tang Yu'an thought for a moment and said, "The God of Commerce hates getting something for nothing, so I won't take your things for nothing."
"I will grant your father an ability to help you through this difficult time."
"Thank you, Lord God, for your kindness!"
So, Tang Yu'an and Xiao Hailan completed the transaction.
[You obtained 723 kilograms of sea salt]
[You completed a transaction with a dream wisher, points +18075, experience +6, dream fragment +1]
After the transaction was completed, Xiao Hailan's dream light ball also disappeared.
Zhou Qi looked at Tang Yu'an and asked, "The ability you want to give Hai Jing... is it a portable storage?"
Tang Yu'an nodded. "He can temporarily put the things in the portable warehouse. At least it can provide an extra layer of protection, but it may not be enough..."
He can only authorize 5 slots for employees' portable storage space now. He can't authorize all of them to Haijing, right?
Zhou Qi thought for a moment and said, "Give him the authorization for Grid No. 1."
"Isn't that shared by you and Brother Chi Hao?" Tang Yu'an asked.
"Yes, Haijing and Chihao are both in our store now. They have a close relationship. I hope Haijing is smart enough to figure out how to use this channel to solve the problem."
Tang Yu'an thought about it and quickly understood what Zhou Qi meant.
His eyes lit up, "Okay, then choose this one."
So he authorized Grid No. 1 to Haijing.
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Linhai Town, Guanyu Village.
In the room on the second floor, Hai Jingku sat by the bed, looking at his daughter's sleeping face with some worry.
The salt pond by the sea was discovered by those people.
This is why he did not dare to mobilize the villagers to dry salt on a large scale. Otherwise, with the labor force of Guanyu Village, the daily salt production would have to increase several times.
It is definitely not right to say that they have no idea. The villagers only said that they used salt to make dried goods, and that the salted sea fish would be more durable in storage.
Because he had sold a lot of dried fish during this period, and had these dried fish as evidence, he was able to get away with it for the time being.
But the people from the town obviously didn't believe it completely yet.
Fortunately, the brown rice and polished rice he traded every day were sold on a per-capita basis, so it was difficult for the villagers to have any left over and it was also difficult to preserve in hot weather, so they were all eaten up every day and nothing was found during the search.
The fire stones that were previously traded have lost their popularity over the past month or two, and are therefore easy to hide.
It was a bit troublesome to have only one down quilt for each family, but the villagers also found ways to hide them. One family was exposed, but they said they picked it up at the beach and finally got away with it.
Despite this, those people stayed in the village.
With them here, everyone lives in fear, and without the whales to trade food, everyone's life becomes difficult.
Hai Jing is fine for now, but he feels that his house will be searched soon...
Once they find out, the things in his house won’t be hidden at all. What will he do then?
Haijing was thinking about the feasibility of taking his daughter away when he suddenly saw little Hailan open her eyes and wake up from her sleep.
He leaned over to look at the salt jar and saw that all the salt was gone. He knew that his daughter had made a deal with the Lord Messenger of God again, and he couldn't help but smile bitterly.
But it doesn't matter, a little more or less is the same...
"Dad, I met the messenger of God! He said he would give you an ability that can help us overcome the difficulties!" said little Hailan.
Just as Haijing was about to speak, he saw a system prompt pop up.
Because of your outstanding performance, the mysterious merchant has decided to grant you access to "Portable Warehouse No. 1"
Hai Jing was stunned.
Portable Warehouse Slot 1? What is this?
He pondered it for a moment, and then his eyes lit up slightly. There was such a magical ability!
Hai Jing couldn't help but kiss his daughter on the cheek and said, "We must thank the Messenger of God!"
Then he quickly began to transfer all the good things in the house into his portable warehouse.
First of all, the down quilt has already been found in a household. If he says that he picked it up on the beach, it is not very realistic.
Fortunately, he and his daughter both had clothes made of room-temperature cloth, which they wore inside and a layer of old clothes outside. This kept them warm and made it difficult to be seen.
Then there are the flour and dried meat that have not been eaten yet...
As a result, he had transferred less than half of it when the system prompted that there was insufficient space.
Hai Jing, who had originally had hope in his heart, was suddenly doused with a bucket of cold water. Just when he was shrouded in despair again, he saw a message pop up on the message board.
【Message Board (Shop Channel)】
[Green as Blue]: Yunying, have you also obtained the permission for the portable warehouse?
Haijing was stunned and quickly replied.
[Cloud Eagle]: Brother Xiaolu, how did you know?
[Green as Blue]: Nonsense, of course it’s because I also have the authority!
Then Haijing saw in the system message that Green Rulan took something from slot No. 1 of the portable warehouse.
The whale's eyes lit up again.
【Green as Blue】: See it?
[Green as Blue]: What did you put there? Why did it take up all the space?
[Green as Blue]: This warehouse is not for you alone, besides me, there is also Xiaozhou!
[Cloud Eagle]: Can you take my things?
【Green as Blue】: Who do you think I am? Why would I take your things?
[Cloud Eagle]: Brother Xiaolu, don't be angry, that's not what I meant...
After Hai Jing's simple explanation, the misunderstanding was finally resolved and Chi Hao understood what he meant.
[Green as Blue]: So these things of yours cannot be discovered and must be moved immediately?
[Cloud Eagle]: Yes, the sooner the better.
[Green as Blue]: How long will it take before I can get it back? You know I'm out in the wild, so I can't keep it for you for long.
Haijing was delighted and replied immediately.
[Cloud Eagle]: It doesn't matter. If you can't take them with you, just throw them away. These supplies will bring great danger to my daughter and me.
【Cloud Eagle】: Supplies are not as important as lives
[Green as Blue]: Oh my god! You actually have a daughter! How old is she?
[Yun Ying]: He should be around six, almost seven.
[Green as Blue]: Okay, I'll help you transfer the supplies first, and then ask Xiao Zhou for help. It would be a shame to throw these supplies away.
[Cloud Eagle]: Thank you, thank you!
So, with the help of Chi Hao, Hai Jing quickly moved all the supplies in the house away.
Only when he saw that his family had become penniless again did he finally feel relieved and hugged his daughter and kissed her again.
[Green as Blue]: Why do you have so many supplies at home? Did you buy them all with points? A high salary is good...
[Green as Blue]: Is this low-temperature cloth also exchanged in the mall?
Looking at Chi Hao's message, Hai Jing quickly replied to him.
[Cloud Eagle]: No, these are not exchanged for points
As soon as the reply was sent, Haijing froze slightly. Because of Lv Rulan's help to him, he said too much in a fit of excitement.
If it’s not exchanged with points, then how did it come from?
Even in the forum trading area, transactions are conducted through points...
Obviously, Chi Hao also noticed it.
[Green as Blue]: Don’t tell me that your daughter can also contact mysterious businessmen in dreams?
Not only Hai Jing, but also Tang Yu'an who was secretly peeping at the screen was stunned.
How did Brother Chihao know about this? Could it be that... Brother Yunqing told him about Xiao Risheng?
And Haijing has already replied to Chi Hao.
[Cloud Eagle]: Brother Xiaolu, you know so much.
【Green as Blue】: It’s just so-so.
[Green as Blue]: The mysterious businessman really likes to trade with children.
[Cloud Eagle]: Call God's Messenger
Looking at Chi Hao's somewhat disrespectful remarks, Hai Jing frowned slightly, but before he could say anything more, there was a sudden noise outside.
The group of people who appeared at the beach before now came to the outside of Haijing's house.
The leader looked at Haijing's house and said, "This is the largest house in the whole village, and you can tell it's newly built."
"Go in and search!"
"yes!"
Several men kicked open the door of Haijing's house and entered one after another.
Haijing stuffed his daughter under the bed, then ran downstairs in panic, and then he pressed his tall and strong body to the ground.
"Don't move, just cooperate with our investigation!"
Hai Jing's face was pressed against the cold ground, his heart beating rapidly, as if it was about to jump out of his chest. He wanted to resist, but the huge gap in strength made him choose to remain quiet.
In the end, they found nothing unusual except some dried fish.
Just as Hai Jing was about to breathe a sigh of relief, he heard his daughter's screams coming from upstairs. He had already given up resistance, but he angrily overturned the person who was controlling him, and then rushed to the second floor regardless of anything.
Little Hailan, who was hiding under the bed, was dragged out by a big man. She cried for her father, causing all the blood in Haijing's body to rush to his head.
"Let her go!"
He rushed over, punched the big man in the face, and snatched his daughter back.
"dad……"
The big man was punched and immediately kicked Haijing in anger. Haijing held his daughter in his arms and took the kick head-on.
The big man was about to kick again when he was stopped by a voice: "Da Biao, what are you doing? Did I tell you to hit someone?"
Da Biao shuddered suddenly and finally stopped beating Haijing.
The leader came up from downstairs and glanced at Haijing and Xiao Hailan. Haijing pressed his daughter's face in his arms and lowered his head tremblingly.
The leader looked at Da Biao again.
"Boss, I think that girl is pretty..."
The leader slapped him in the face and cursed, "Shut up! What kind of garbage is in your head? Don't let me see you touching a child again, or I'll tear your head off!"
After being scolded, Da Biao lowered his head and dared not say a word.
"Let's go, there's no one we're looking for here."
Without finding anything, the group finally left Haijing's house and left overnight for the next village.
After they left, the villagers who had been paying attention to the situation here dared to come in to check on the situation of Haijing and his daughter.
"Haijing, are you okay? Those people are finally gone!"
Hai Jing hugged Xiao Hai Lan tightly, looking frightened, "It's okay, we're fine..."
"Your face is injured, what about your body? Did they hit you? Do you want me to help you take care of it?"
"That's troublesome..."
After treating the wound, Haijing held his daughter and sent the villagers who came to help away. Then he closed the door and breathed a sigh of relief.
"dad……"
Hai Jing reached out and stroked his daughter's head, wiped away her tears, and said gently: "It's okay, Daddy is here, no one can hurt you."
Little Hailan leaned in his arms and fell asleep while crying.
Hai Jing held her and sat on the bed, still feeling a wave of fear in his heart. Fortunately, he moved the things away in time...
He held his daughter in his arms, a hint of hatred flashing in his eyes.
His power is still too weak. In this world, without power, one really cannot...
Haijing opened the message board again.
【Message Board (Shop Channel)】
【Cloud Eagle】: Thank you, Brother Xiaolu.
[Cloud Eagle]: You and the Lord God saved us, father and daughter.
【Green as Blue】:?
【Green as Blue】: What happened?
Haijing told him everything that had just happened.
[Green as Blue]: Damn! If I were here, I would definitely burn these people to death!
[Cloud Eagle]: Brother Xiaolu, do you know how to gain superpowers?
[Cloud Eagle]: I want to gain superpowers and protect my daughter.
Tang Yu'an, who had just fished out all the drifting bottles, also noticed the conversation between Hai Jing and Chi Hao.
He and Zhou Qi also realized that such a dangerous thing had just happened.
If Haijing's secret is discovered, what will those people do to him? Is the consequence of selling salt illegally in Linhai Town really that serious?
While they were worried about the safety of Haijing and his daughter, they couldn't help but wonder how Chi Hao would answer this question.
【Message Board (Shop Channel)】
[Green as Blue]: There is no special method. It is determined by one's physical condition. Although the younger one is when awakening, the stronger one's talent is, there is actually no age limit for awakening superpowers, so you can still have hope.
[Green as Blue]: If someone tells you that they can help you awaken superpowers, don't believe it.
[Cloud Eagle]: Why?
[Green as Blue]: I've heard that it seems like something is injected into the human body. Although there is a certain chance of awakening, the mortality rate is extremely high.
[Green as Blue]: You still have a daughter to raise, don't do anything stupid.
[Cloud Eagle]: I understand, thank you.
Tang Yu'an relayed Chi Hao's words to Zhou Qi, and then said, "Brother Xiaoqi, what are you injecting into this... Could it be the spirit insects?"
Zhou Qi frowned, "Even if it's not, it should be related to the spirit insect, right?"
They discussed it for a while, but since they couldn't reach a conclusion, they shifted their attention.
The conversation between Haijing and Chihao has ended, and Chihao also contacted Zhouqi with his exercise book, hoping that he would help preserve Haijing's things——
Although those people have left, there is no guarantee that they will not come back, so it is better to be cautious.
Tang Yu'an also saw from the map that those people were indeed still wandering around Guanyu Village and had not really left for other villages.
It’s really cunning!
Zhou Qi naturally did not refuse Chi Hao's request and transferred all of Haijing's things to the warehouse of Ping'an Grocery Store.
In this way, through Chi Hao's transfer of the money, they not only helped Hai Jing and his daughter, but also avoided exposing their identities.
"It seems that before going to Yanlong Fort, I have to go to Linhai Town again." Tang Yu'an looked at the map of Guanyu Village and couldn't help sighing.
Haijing is their excellent employee and he must not be allowed to fail. Moreover, they have developed feelings for Xiao Hailan and cannot bear to see anything happen to them.
"Well, Linhai Town is close to us, so we can go find Haijing and the others first."
Zhou Qi said, "Let's go to the alternate dimension to take a nap, then come back and drive the RV. We need to get to the center of the deserted city as soon as possible so we can leave."
"Uh-huh!"
Tang Yu'an nodded, and finally looked at the elf on the sleeping pillow before leaving with Zhou Qi.
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XZ156793 plane.
In the thick and misty fog, a figure wearing a conical hat and holding a bamboo stick was moving slowly forward.
Gu Qianli walked very carefully.
The visibility in the fog was very low, and objects less than two meters away could not be seen. He could only grope carefully, and if he walked too fast, it would easily trigger the ban.
On this ancient battlefield, you may encounter all kinds of strange dangers.
At this moment, there was a sudden clicking sound.
Gu Qianli quickly stepped back and looked down to see a skeleton. He had just stepped on someone's finger bones.
"Sorry, I'm sorry..."
He was about to continue walking, but hesitated, sighed, dug a hole on the spot, and prepared to bury the skeleton.
However, when they were moving the bones, they saw a piece of cloth sticking out from under the pile of earth.
This is……
Gu Qianli quickly dug out the piece of cloth, and soon revealed the true face of the piece of cloth——
It is a complete spirit storage bag!
Although there are some damages on the surface, judging from the fluctuations in spiritual power, it does not affect its use.
Was his luck changing? He actually found the spirit storage bag!
Great! Just trade it and you'll get 300 Spiritual Stones!
Gu Qianli happily put away the soul storage bag, then continued to bury the skeleton. Finally, he gave it a tombstone without any words and bowed in front of it.
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