Chapter 222
The title of "small town philanthropist" was triggered by Tang Yu'an when he was retrieving the dream bottle yesterday.
The person who made the wish was a little girl who couldn't speak fluently, so they asked her to say thank you and then gave her food.
Once the transaction is completed, this title is triggered and the "Evil Customers Go Away" halo is obtained.
After Tang Yu'an relayed this to Zhou Qi, even Zhou Qi was very surprised, because just by thinking about it, he could understand how powerful it was.
Their previous concerns about not being able to control non-overnight customers during the day were actually solved in this way.
"It turns out that doing good things will be rewarded!" Tang Yu'an was very happy.
"Yes, indeed." Zhou Qi couldn't help but nodded.
This was a complete surprise. Just like the title of "Little Miracle Doctor", perhaps the Doomsday Grocery Store system also encourages people to help others more.
In order to verify the effect of the halo, they went to the Jufeng Grocery Store that night.
At night, Xiaocao and Lan Lin returned to their home in the deserted city to sleep. The grocery store was naturally closed, and all the supplies in the store were moved back to their home in the deserted city.
So even if someone came to steal something, they would only find the grocery store empty, with nothing in it.
After discussing, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi opened the door of the grocery store.
Jufeng Mountain is very quiet at night. Apart from the patrolling guards, there is basically no one around. However, there are some scoundrels who take advantage of the darkness to do some sneaky things.
After opening the door, Zhou Qi placed a few more bags of salt at the door, and then he and Tang Yu'an used shadow umbrellas to hide in the dark and observe.
The open door of the grocery store was soon discovered by the patrolling guards. They looked at the door and went into the house to check. They did not find the thief, so they helped close the door and left.
The two teenagers did not rush to act.
Tang Yu'an saw on the map that after leaving the Jufeng Grocery Store, a guard broke away from the patrol team and soon joined up with a few other people.
After a while, two people appeared outside the Jufeng Grocery Store stealthily.
Tang Yu'an immediately marked the guard, and then continued to observe the situation with Zhou Qi, watching the two men open the door of the grocery store and walk into the store one after another.
As the two were about to start searching for the goods, he was given the title of "small town philanthropist" and gained the halo of "keep the bad guests away".
Then, they saw the two men disappear into the store and then appear in front of the store.
The effect is a bit like people who don't have accommodation privileges being escorted out of a grocery store at the end of business hours.
The two thieves looked at each other, and wanted to enter the grocery store in disbelief. However, after entering the grocery store, they turned around with their eyes wide open and walked out of the Jufeng Grocery Store again.
Only after leaving the area did he regain consciousness.
Then they ran away with pale faces as if they had seen a ghost.
This was a preliminary test of the halo effect, but they were not sure whether it was effective only because Tang Yu'an was in the store, so they continued to test it.
Tang Yu'an left on the teleportation array, and Zhou Qi continued to guard the grocery store.
The two men who had left before returned quickly, accompanied by three companions. Zhou Qi hid in the dark and observed them.
This time they were also unable to enter the Jufeng Grocery Store. As soon as they stepped into the store, they all turned around and left. This happened every time they tried several times.
Therefore, it can be confirmed that even if Tang Yu'an is not in the store, the aura of "keep the bad customers away" can still be effective.
Moreover, when customers have evil thoughts in the grocery store, even if they just want to steal things and do not have direct ill intentions towards Tang Yu'an, this halo is also effective.
Because the shop belongs to Tang Yu'an's property, those who covet his wealth naturally harbor ill will towards him.
The most important point is that this halo applies to all stores!
"That way, we won't have to worry about the previous robbery happening again!"
After Tang Yu'an met up with Zhou Qi, he said excitedly, "We can really open the door and do business!"
Zhou Qi also agreed with this idea, but in actual implementation, more considerations were needed.
After all, the branches they opened were basically handed over to employees to run, and employees traveled around the local area and it was impossible for them to stay in the grocery store all the time.
After leaving the grocery store, employees' personal safety also needs to be guaranteed.
They then tested determining store boundaries—that is, whether enclosing a plot of land with a fence was effective.
The answer is naturally no.
Enclosing land with a fence wall is still a bug-breaking behavior and is not within the protection range of the halo.
Starting from the store building, for every 1,000 points and 100 store popularity points deducted, the protective barrier can be expanded outward by 1 meter.
This kind of land grabbing behavior through deduction of points and store popularity is recognized by the system and is truly protected by the halo.
"Okay, this makes more sense." Tang Yu'an said.
This halo is already very powerful, and if it were unrestricted, it would be too incredible.
He was also worried that the bugs would be too severe and the loopholes in the fence would be fixed, which would be counterproductive.
When he was about to go back to sleep, Tang Yu'an accidentally discovered the Jufeng Mountain team on the map that was heading towards the deserted city.
This is actually very easy to find. After all, the road between the deserted city and the Jufeng Mountain has always been rarely visited.
And now, suddenly nearly two hundred light spots gathered on this road, including not only ten guard teams from Jufeng Town, but Hongli was also among the team.
Just a glance and you'll spot the problem.
So, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi knew that what they had worried about had happened.
In particular, there are seven green spots in this team, which are the visitors from outside the town that Tang Yu'an had marked before.
Even if they did not receive more intelligence, they could infer from the existing information that Hongli suddenly led the team to the deserted city, which must be related to these seven people.
Regardless of whether they are heading for the deserted city home or not, the possibility of the home being exposed to this team is as high as 99%, and they must come up with a response plan.
Of course, after the initial panic, they quickly calmed down -
Because they now have the title of "small town philanthropist", this problem seems to have been solved.
Of course, due to the limitations of the halo, they need to expand the protective barrier of the deserted city home outward, otherwise the team can still enter the wall.
Their farmlands, farms and factories were all built through hard work over the past two months. These are the foundations of their homes in the deserted city and cannot be destroyed.
So, Tang Yu'an gritted his teeth and directly expanded the protective barrier range of the deserted city home to 10 meters outside the wall.
A total of 490,000 points and 49,000 store popularity were used, plus the previous 25 meters of expansion, the total expansion was 515 meters.
Because the distance is calculated from the store, the entire range is not a regular circle.
Theoretically, when the No. 1 Store building is expanded in the future, this range can automatically extend outward - of course, it must be unowned land or owned.
After using up 490,000 points, Tang Yu'an's points balance returned to over 600,000.
Before I could be happy for a while, the points balance dropped back to below one million. I can only say that saving money is really difficult!
However, after seeing the actual results today, Tang Yu'an was happy and felt that the points were well spent.
"In this way, we can safely absorb more people into the deserted city home!" he said happily.
The number of residents in Huangcheng Home has now reached 58, and the new residents have also been included in the family household registration book.
Under the guidance of other residents, they completely adapted to life in the deserted city home within two days and showed great enthusiasm for work.
No matter they are ordinary people or people with special abilities, they don’t want to leave after arriving at the deserted city home.
After all, after two months of construction, the home not only has a certain scale, but the infrastructure has also been improved a lot, and the standard of living environment has naturally been improved.
They had never seen a place cleaner and tidier than the deserted city home! No, let alone seeing it, they had never even heard of it!
In the deserted city home, even the farms are cleaned every day. Although there is inevitably a smell, it is much better than the place where they lived before.
Not to mention, these chickens, ducks and sheep can eat their fill every day, and the food they eat is very good.
In other words, their previous lives were not as good as those of the livestock in the Huangcheng Home Farm!
And as other residents said, there is no danger or oppression here. As long as you work hard, you will have food to eat and a house to live in.
They did not live in caves with other people. Instead, each family had a separate room and could get bricks and cement for free from their homes to build a kang.
Although you have to pay for room rental, it is not expensive.
Most importantly, not only is lunch included in your daily work, but you can also receive corresponding wages based on your work performance.
The salary standards are also transparent, and the salary based on the amount of work done will be written on a board.
Although they are illiterate, they can remember the information corresponding to the words after reading them several times. After all, this is related to their livelihood.
Moreover, the salary paid by the home is a very magical piece of paper called Ping An Coin. This piece of paper is fireproof and waterproof, and it can also regulate temperature when held in the arms.
It feels cool when it's hot and warm when it's cold.
To be honest, they are not happy to exchange such a good treasure for food!
But there is no way, this is the rule of the deserted city home.
Currently, Huangcheng Home does not allow residents to leave. If you want to leave, you will need to divest yourself of your home identity.
All the wealth you earn in your homeland must remain, and you can only take away what you originally had—
This was the decision made by Old Li after comprehensive consideration. He believed that the current situation in the deserted city was still based on survival, so population movement had to be controlled.
Once such a rule is implemented, it will be impossible for residents to take things from their homes and resell them. Not only that, they will also lose the good life they have worked so hard to gain in their homes. Who would be willing to leave?
So after the flood, no residents have left yet, and the new residents are reluctant to leave after arriving.
These 58 residents alone can bring Tang Yu'an tens of thousands of points on average every day, and can also bring a wave of high growth when the potatoes and sweet potatoes are harvested.
When there are more residents in the future, the energy it can unleash will only be greater! As time goes by, the value created by the deserted city home will become higher and higher.
Tang Yu'an was so excited just thinking about it.
Zhou Qi didn't lose his composure. He said, "There is still one last hidden danger."
Tang Yu'an blinked, "What hidden danger?"
"When operating to the public, the protective barrier only activates its all-weather function of defending against destructive natural disasters and dangerous creatures."
Zhou Qi explained, "Then is the customer's long-range attack considered a natural disaster?"
Tang Yu'an touched his chin, "But humans are also living creatures. When they attack the grocery store, they should be considered dangerous creatures, right?"
Zhou Qi shook his head and said, "In the system's judgment, humans are just customers, not on the same level as other creatures."
This can be seen from the map cursor.
Dangerous mutants will show red dots, but those who show aggressive abilities will still be green dots representing customers.
"That's true..."
Tang Yu'an muttered, thought for a moment and said, "Then let's continue to expand the protective barrier outwards!"
It will continue to expand until the entire deserted city is covered, and then only those who have no ill will towards him can enter the deserted city.
"I don't believe they can hit us from such a distance!"
With the level of technology in the end times, it shouldn't be possible to produce missiles, right?
Zhou Qi couldn't help but laugh, "If it's as you say, then no matter how many points we have, it won't be enough to fill the gap."
500 meters would require 500,000 points. The deserted city is so large that it would probably take them a long time to save enough points.
"Hurry up and upgrade." Zhou Qi said, "Since the night protection barrier can resist attacks, if you continue to upgrade, you will definitely unlock related functions."
Tang Yu'an nodded and glanced at his experience bar: lv21 (35625/37800)
"I feel like I can get promoted to the next level tomorrow or the day after tomorrow," he said.
After becoming a mid-level businessman, upgrading becomes much more difficult. If he didn't have so many excellent employees, it would definitely take much longer to upgrade to the next level.
"In addition to level upgrades, the store level is more important," Zhou Qi analyzed.
"Then we'll need more materials to upgrade the furniture." Tang Yu'an said, "The seven-day sale will be refreshed tomorrow, so we should be able to find materials!"
Seeing Tang Yu'an so confident, Zhou Qi could only nod.
This was the result of many experiments in the past, and he no longer had any doubts :)
"We can also arrange more draws."
"Doing a mission?"
"Well, I think it's time to complete the road construction task." Zhou Qi said seriously.
The project had been shelved because of concerns that connecting Jufeng Mountain and the deserted city and making the road more accessible would attract the attention of Jufeng Town.
Now that it has been exposed and has the halo of "bad guys keep away", there is no need to worry so much anymore!
"Let's absorb as much of the population of Jufeng Mountain as possible." Zhou Qi said.
"What about Sister Hongli?" Tang Yu'an hesitated.
Zhou Qi thought for a moment and said, "Let's not show up for now. Let Xie Chaori talk to her."
If they could win over the red carp, that would be even better. They could even take over the resources of Jufeng Mountain as well.
"Okay!" Tang Yu'an nodded, "Then after we solve the current problem, we will go build the road!"
He looked at the image uploaded on the light brain.
Hongli was still standing there. The two people who were not expelled by the halo had already run to meet up with their companions to check on Gu Zhenfei's condition.
After being attacked and vomiting blood, Gu Zhenfei fell to the ground. No one knew what happened. Everyone else surrounded him.
Although there was a little distance between them, Tang Yu'an could still see the sarcastic smile on Hongli's face after zooming in the camera.
It is obvious that although Hongli came to the deserted city with them, they should not be in the same group.
And with her intelligence, when she saw the sign of the Huangcheng Grocery Store, she would definitely think of the Jufeng Grocery Store, and then think of them.
The fact that she is still standing there and not being rejected by the halo means that she can fight for it.
"Let's go talk to Lao Xie!"
Since rescuing Old Xie, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi have not seen him. They contacted Old Li through the light brain and asked Xie Chaori to return to Building 1.
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"What? The two bosses want to see me?"
Xie Chaori was still confused about the situation outside his home. When he heard what Old Li said, he couldn't help but tremble in his heart.
He concealed his emotions, took one last look at the images outside, then turned and left in the direction of Building 1.
On the way here, Xie Chaori had a lot of chaotic thoughts, until he saw the two somewhat familiar figures at the door of Building 1, he hurriedly collected his thoughts.
But he never expected that as the distance got closer, his body would gradually become out of control.
When he came to the two young men...
To be precise, when he came in front of Zhou Qi, his legs went weak and he fell to the ground.
Seeing him shaking like a sieve, Tang Yu'an was stunned for a moment, and hurried over to support him, "What's wrong with you? Where do you feel uncomfortable?"
Xie Chaori shook his head. He just looked at Zhou Qi, with an unprecedented fear in his eyes.
Even when facing a herd of beasts, he had never been so scared... Why was it that when he saw this young man, just by facing him, he was so terrified that he completely lost control of his body?
Zhou Qi looked at Xie Chaori and took a step forward. Xie Chaori then took a big step back.
He couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. He didn't know why, but when he looked at Xie Chaori, Zhou Qi suddenly had a feeling in his heart, that is...
He could drain Xie Chaori's supernatural powers and use them for his own purposes, as if Xie Chaori was a "psychic stone" to him.
He could even easily... kill him?
When this thought emerged in Zhou Qi's mind, Xie Chaori felt even more fearful.
In his eyes, the young man in front of him looked like a ferocious beast in human skin.
He could take his life at any time, but he had no thought of resisting. It seemed that the only thing he could do was to surrender.
"Who are you?"
Xie Chaori needs to try his best to be patient and not appear so terrible.
"Me?" Zhou Qi thought for a moment and said casually, "I am Zhou Qi."
He had figured out the problem - because he had devoured and absorbed the earth spirit insects from Xie Chaori's body.
The spiritual insect attacked Xie Chaori and turned him into a stone. If he hadn't pulled out the earth spiritual insect, he would probably have remained a stone forever.
But he didn't expect that the spirit insect would still have such a great influence on Xie Chaori after leaving him.
After being swallowed and absorbed by him, it was transformed into his ability.
This discovery did not make Zhou Qi happy.
He did not forget that there was a spiritual insect in his body. If this spiritual insect left him and could affect him, it would be troublesome.
From now on, he not only has to find a way to deal with this spiritual insect, but also has to prevent it from escaping.
Zhou Qi's face looked unhappy, and Xie Chaori felt even more pressure, with sweat already oozing from his forehead.
"You can sit over there first."
Tang Yu'an helped him sit down on the steps. After moving away from Zhou Qi, Xie Chaori finally felt better.
"Thank you," he said. "Are you Boss An?"
Xie Chaori looked at the young man beside him.
He was almost exactly the same as described by the residents of the home, with a childish and cute appearance, a pair of beautiful eyes that were clear and bright, like a little prince who walked out of a film or TV show.
Of course, Xie Chaori did not dare to look down on him for this.
He glanced at Zhou Qi cautiously again. That young man must be Boss Zhou...
When Zhou Qi looked over, Xie Chaori suddenly froze and stood up subconsciously.
Seeing his big reaction, Zhou Qi had no choice but to look away, walk a little further away, and communicate with Tang Yu'an through the message board.
"Boss An, that Boss Zhou... Boss Zhou..." Xie Chaori swallowed and asked, "Could he be the legendary ninth-level ability user?"
Otherwise, why would he have such a strong reaction when facing this young man?
Tang Yu'an: "..."
He didn't know how to explain it for a moment.
From Zhou Qi's message, he roughly understood what was going on.
He organized his words and said, "Do you remember that you turned into a big rock before?"
Xie Chaori nodded, "I was seriously injured and attacked by the backlash of my supernatural power."
"Can those who were previously affected by the backlash and alienation return to normal?" Tang Yu'an continued to ask.
From the information he learned from the forum, it should be impossible - yes, after Wen Qingqing joined, there were many paid posts related to superpowers in the communication area.
Sure enough, Xie Chaori shook his head.
"At least I haven't seen it..." He had guessed something, "Could it be..."
Tang Yu'an nodded, looked at him and said, "This is the price you need to pay to release you from the backlash state."
Xie Chaori's heart suddenly shook.
He opened his mouth, then closed it again. After a long while, he asked, "Is this... Boss Zhou's ability?"
Tang Yu'an paused, then nodded.
It seems that there is nothing wrong with saying this.
After knowing what happened, Xie Chaori's fear was alleviated a little.
Although this price is a bit unbearable, it seems nothing compared to being a stone forever.
As long as he stays away from that young man, his normal actions will not be affected, but... can he stay away from him?
He smiled bitterly and sighed, "The Shangshen Sect... is truly filled with talented people!"
Xie Chaori wiped his face and looked at Tang Yu'an.
Although the boy looked harmless, he no longer dared to underestimate him at all.
He looked at Tang Yu'an, his expression complicated and tangled, and asked, "So why did you call me here? What do you need me to do?"
"It's nothing, I just hope you can win over Sister Hongli." Tang Yu'an said.
Xie Chaori was stunned for a moment, then a look of ecstasy appeared on his face. "It's about winning her over, not dealing with her, right?"
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