Chapter 258
"Will this really work?"
After hearing Zhou Qi's plan, Tang Yu'an was somewhat tempted, but couldn't help but hesitate, "I think it's still too risky..."
Zhou Qi thought about it and nodded, "We can conduct a test first."
"How do we test it?"
"Isn't it possible to reach Teacher Gu's dimension quickly? Let's try it with small animals first."
Because of the achievement title of "A Thread of Connection in Dreams", if the person who establishes contact with Tang Yu'an is also a plane merchant, then his message in a bottle will be able to directly reach the other party's dream sea.
Coupled with the drift accelerator, they can exchange items with Teacher Gu through the drift bottle once every three days, which is much faster than other dimensions.
The most important thing is that they can directly communicate with Teacher Gu through video, which makes communication more convenient. As long as a certain amount of compensation is provided, Teacher Gu should be willing to cooperate.
"Yeah, that's fine too!"
Tang Yu'an thought this was a good idea, so he said, "Then I'll go out and get a small animal."
"Let's get two," Zhou Qi said, "as a control group."
"Oh, okay! Then I'll go look for it in the homeland. Wait for me!"
After Tang Yu'an finished speaking, he quickly stood up and ran towards the stairs.
When he reached the attic and was completely out of Zhou Qi's sight, he slowly exhaled and touched his slightly hot cheek with his hand.
Whenever Xiaoqi spoke, he couldn't help but look at his lips.
Opening and closing, like a kiss...
Why didn’t I realize that Xiaoqi was so handsome before?
Tang Yu'an quickly shook his head to get rid of this strange idea from his mind, and then stepped onto the teleportation array.
The boy's figure disappeared in the attic, and the small grocery store fell silent.
Zhou Qi, who was sitting on the sofa, had lost the calmness on his face. He leaned against the back of the sofa, staring at the ceiling in a daze.
Not knowing what he was thinking about, he suddenly raised his hand to his forehead and closed his eyes tightly.
In fact, Zhou Qi remembers all the memories after becoming a mermaid.
What had he done to An An? To be honest, he was a little scared of himself.
Fortunately, An An didn't blame him. Although she was obviously a little uncomfortable and talking to him was not as natural as before...but at least, he was still willing to talk to him.
As long as he pretended not to remember, he could pretend that what happened in those two days had never happened.
An An would not hate him, and their relationship would not be broken by his corrupted emotions or inappropriate behavior...
That's good.
Zhou Qi slowly opened his eyes. Although he thought so in his heart, his fingertips touched his hot lips.
His cheeks gradually turned a faint red.
If you look closely, you can notice that his ears are already red...
When Tang Yu'an ran down from the attic with the little animal, Zhou Qi had calmed down again and his expression had returned to normal.
"What animal was caught?" he asked.
Tang Yu'an opened the spirit storage bag and showed it to him, "Two toads, two fish and two rabbits."
When the chickens grow up, they can lay eggs, and the lambs can produce milk and wool. Tang Yu'an was reluctant to catch them, so he caught toads, fish and rabbits instead.
Zhou Qi nodded, "Then let's talk to Teacher Gu first."
"good!"
So, Tang Yu'an made a video call to Gu Qianli.
"Xiaoqi, you're back to normal." Seeing that Zhou Qi had woken up, Gu Qianli smiled.
"Thank you for your concern." Zhou Qi said, "Teacher Gu, we have a humble request..."
After hearing the two teenagers' plan, Gu Qianli was a little surprised, but he did not refuse to help.
"No need for spirit stones. It's just a piece of cake for me." Gu Qianli said.
Tang Yu'an was very persistent. He said, "Teacher Gu, didn't you say that cultivators pay attention to cause and effect? You have helped us so much. No matter if it is a small matter to you, we should pay you."
Gu Qianli couldn't help but laugh, "You are speaking in a coherent way now."
In the end, he only symbolically accepted a wood spirit stone.
Zhou Qi caught one of each of the three animals and petrified them.
Only then did Tang Yu'an realize that Zhou Qi's petrification ability was not only applicable to himself, but could also be used on other animals.
How powerful it would be if this were used in battle!
Zhou Qi grabbed a little rabbit and turned it into stone. After a while, it turned back into stone again. The little rabbit was still alive and kicking and had not died.
After making sure that this ability would not cause any actual harm to the rabbits, Zhou Qi continued to petrify the three animals, then placed them and the control group into the spirit storage bag, and then stuffed them into the drifting bottle.
Tang Yu'an threw the message in a bottle into the sea of dreams, and Gu Qianli soon received it.
"Teacher Gu, how is it?"
Seeing Gu Qianli take out the spirit storage bag to check it, Tang Yu'an asked nervously.
Zhou Qi also stared at the image on the screen and clenched his fists nervously.
"See for yourself."
Gu Qianli took out all six animals. The three living creatures that had not been processed had already died, and as for the petrified ones, nothing could be seen for the time being.
Tang Yu'an looked at this scene, feeling both scared and relieved.
Fortunately, they conducted the experiment first, otherwise it would be too dangerous!
"I'll help you deal with the three dead ones, and I'll send these three petrified ones back to you?" Gu Qianli asked.
"Okay, thank you for troubling Teacher Gu!"
So, Gu Qianli stuffed the soul storage bag containing the three petrified animals back into the bottle, and then threw it into the dream sea.
Because Tang Yu'an had just used the accelerator, it is temporarily unavailable and can only wait three days.
But he thought it was a good idea. After all, if Xiaoqi really wanted to go back via the message in a bottle, it would take him nearly 20 days to drift.
If problems occur within three days, it proves that this method is completely unworkable.
After ending the call with Gu Qianli, Tang Yu'an hung his parents' message in a bottle on the window and did not send it back for the time being.
We'll see after three days...
Tang Yu'an looked at Zhou Qi, "Brother Xiaoqi, do you need to rest for a while?"
If the experiment is successful, it means they will be separated for at least a month, and he is a little reluctant.
Zhou Qi thought for a moment and said, "Let's go to another world."
"good!"
Alien cabin.
Although they had been away for a week and more than half a year had passed in the alternate dimension, everything in the cabin was still clean and the yard was well-maintained thanks to the maintenance of the robots.
Feeling the rich spiritual energy of the giant forest, the two young men couldn't help but sigh.
The reason why their strength grew so quickly was not only because of their practice and Gu Qianli's guidance, but also because of the high concentration of spiritual energy in this world.
Zhou Qi left the hut and went to the river to meditate.
Tang Yu'an was guarding him right beside him, driving away the mutant creatures while also not forgetting to study and practice.
They stayed in the other world for a week, and only returned to the original plane when Zhou Qi's absorption of the water spirit insects became stable. Less than 6 hours had passed here.
Before it got dark, they put on their cloaks and masks, opened the front door of the grocery store, and went to the cab of the RV.
“Chirp, chirp, chirp!”
Seeing them appear, the little red bird flying in from the window couldn't help but sing excitedly.
"Ruby, we're back."
Tang Yu'an smiled and stretched out his hand, and the little red bird landed on his finger, jumping around excitedly.
The whales outside heard the noise and rushed over in a hurry. When they saw the familiar figures of the two gods' messengers, they were so excited that tears came to their eyes.
"My two lords, I'm so glad you're safe!"
Tang Yu'an nodded at him, then judged his task of feeding the pet as completed and gave him a reward.
"Thank you for the hard work during this period," he said.
At this time, a small head popped out from behind the whale.
"You are Hailan, right?"
Hearing the young man's slightly amused voice, Xiao Hailan blushed and continued, "Master Divine Messenger, your voice is different from the one in my dream."
"Oh? Do you still remember the details of your dream?"
"I remember! Your voice is better than in my dream."
Little Hailan came out from behind her father, speaking in a childish voice with great seriousness.
"Thank you, Lord God, for saving my father and me and giving us such a good life... I will always be a devout believer in the God of Commerce and pray for you every day!"
Tang Yu'an reached out and touched the little girl's head, then looked at the crowded crowd outside the RV.
Within the protective barrier of the RV, except for a distance of three or four meters around the RV where no one dared to approach, the rest of the place was crowded with people.
"What's going on?"
Wasn't it like this when we left this morning?
But before Hai Jing could explain, they knew the answer - they saw several mutant creatures appearing outside the protective barrier, attacking the protective barrier and trying to break in.
"They are Li Zhentian's men."
Hai Jing said, "I don't know what happened, it suddenly became like this. The townspeople saw that they couldn't get close to the RV, so they hid inside..."
Tang Yu'an couldn't help but look at Zhou Qi.
Zhou Qi nodded and said, "They were attacked. I'll be back soon."
Tang Yu'an was worried about him, so he quickly flew over as well.
In fact, after they appeared, the townspeople who were crowded inside the protective barrier and sitting close together noticed them.
Out of awe and fear of the cult, the townspeople dared not say a word. They could only watch from afar and whisper to the people around them.
After seeing the two cloaked men flying, everyone couldn't help but exclaim.
Seeing them rushing towards the monsters, even Haijing's heart couldn't help but jump. Unfortunately, the road was blocked by the crowd, so he could only stand there with his daughter and worry.
However, something unexpected happened.
The monsters that were originally attacking the barrier stopped and turned around to flee after the two gods' messengers rushed out.
The two gods' messengers looked so small in front of such huge and powerful beasts.
However, such tiny humans scared them away just like that!
The impact of this scene on everyone was even more severe than Zhou Qi defeating Li Zhentian alone.
Zhou Qi remembered clearly that none of these five psychics had gold-type abilities, so he was not worried.
It is quite surprising that they can hold on for so long after being seriously injured. After extracting the spiritual insects, perhaps they can continue to be kept as thugs.
Faced with five monsters fleeing separately, Zhou Qi did not rush to chase them, but stretched out his hands to the monsters.
As spiritual power was mobilized, earth walls rose from the ground in the direction of the monsters' escape, blocking their way. Then, after the monsters were forced to stop, huge water balls emerged and trapped them.
This is at the seaside, where water spiritual energy is abundant and the power of the water spirit can be exerted to the maximum extent.
Watching the monsters struggling in the water ball, Zhou Qi flew over, stretched out his hand and pressed on the nearest monster, extracted the spirit insect from its body, and took out a small bottle to put it in -
These small bottles were made by him and Tang Yu'an when they were practicing in the other dimension.
The materials used were crystals with corresponding properties, and then using the inscriptions taught by Tours, they could seal the weakened spirit insects inside.
Seeing that the fire spirit insect had entered the bottle and was struggling to get out, Zhou Qi smiled slightly.
It seems that the bottle was successfully made.
However, he didn't dare to hand the bottle to Tang Yu'an. This spirit insect would only be so obedient when it was with him. This was probably the reason why it didn't run away.
The monster has slowly shrunk and turned back into human form.
Zhou Qi went to deal with the remaining four monsters, and finally got three fire spirit insects, one earth spirit insect and one water spirit insect.
Fire-type mutants are quite popular because of their strong offensive capabilities.
The five psychics were fed medicine by Tang Yu'an and barely managed to stay alive. At this time, Hai Jing finally pushed through the crowd and squeezed over.
"Let someone take them to heal their wounds."
Zhou Qi pointed at those people with special abilities and said to Hai Jing, "If they are obedient, they can stay and work. If they are not obedient... then you can do whatever you want."
“Okay, okay!”
Haijing quickly called people over and carried these people with special abilities away.
Those who witnessed how the two "God's messengers" easily dealt with several monsters all fell to the ground in prostration.
The scene of thousands of people kneeling down to them was so spectacular that even Hai Jing couldn't help but pull his daughter to kneel down when he saw this scene.
There were only two gods' messengers left standing, wearing cloaks and silver and black masks.
Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi had never experienced such a scene. Fortunately, they were covered by masks and did not reveal their true identity.
Wu Yue's calm and cold voice sounded.
"Let them all get up." Then he looked at Hai Jing again, "Take us to Li Zhentian's house."
During the week they disappeared, the various forces in Linhai Town were fighting each other to the death, especially Li Zhentian's dozens of adopted sons.
In the end, Li Peng won the war with the support of Haijing and successfully became the new manager of Linhai Town.
At this moment, facing the two envoys of the Shangshen Sect and witnessing their overwhelming strength once again, Li Peng had no desire to resist at all.
At this time, he even took the initiative to step forward and said that he could take them there.
Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi arrived at Li Zhentian's house smoothly.
This old man knows how to enjoy life. The villa he built might be considered ordinary before the disaster, but in this doomsday, it is very luxurious.
"We dealt with Li Zhentian, and now we are the new managers of Linhai Town, right?"
"That's right!"
"Then his property belongs to us, too, right?"
"That's right!"
After a few words of conversation, Tang Yu'an obtained the ownership of this seaside villa, so he opened the panel and successfully built it into "Ping'an Grocery Store No. 12".
Of course, the external name in the future will be "Linhai Grocery Store".
After successfully opening the protective barrier and teleportation array, Tang Yu'an called Hai Jing and his daughter over.
"The Linhai Grocery Store will be handed over to you for management. You will be responsible for the operation of Linhai Town. I hope you will not disappoint me."
Haijing felt a heavy burden on his shoulders, but after looking at his daughter beside him, he nodded vigorously.
"Master Yin Guang, please rest assured. I will do my best to promote the Shangshen Sect!"
Tang Yuan paused, then reached out and patted his shoulder, saying seriously: "I hope you can always remember the rules and teachings of the sect, and don't become a person like Li Zhentian."
Hai Jing hurriedly said, "No, I will strive to ensure that all the weak and poor people in Linhai Town can obtain enough food and water through labor, so that everyone can live a good life together!"
Tang Yu'an nodded in satisfaction.
He told him the rules of the protective barrier and asked him to work hard on trading to increase the popularity of the store. Then, he looked at Xiao Hailan who was standing next to Haijing.
Tang Yu'an squatted down in front of her and asked, "Xiao Hailan, are you willing to be my employee?"
This was a decision Tang Yu'an made after careful consideration.
Although they could no longer communicate through dreams after being recruited, there was actually no need for that now.
After all, they have already built a branch in Linhai Town. All the materials traded by Hai Jing in the branch will become his property, and he will no longer be able to earn points through Xiao Hai Lan.
And little Hailan is also old enough to go to school.
She was so young that it was impossible to send her to the deserted city home, so they had no choice but to recruit her as an employee and let her learn the systematic courses.
Besides, Haijing also needs manpower for such a big town, and Xiao Hailan can help a little.
Xiao Hailan had no idea what she would face next. When she heard Tang Yu'an's words, she nodded hurriedly.
So, she became the youngest employee in Ping An Chamber of Commerce.
Tang Yu'an touched her head again, and then went back to the RV with Zhou Qi.
"Dad, Lord Yin Guang is so kind! Lord Wu Yue is so cool, they are all just like in my dream..." Looking at the backs of the two gods' messengers, little Hai Lan couldn't help but say.
Hai Jing patted the top of her head and said, "You must study hard and not let Master Yin Guang down."
"OK!"
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After returning to the RV, Tang Yu'an looked at the idle message board (administrator channel) and couldn't help but discuss it with Zhou Qi.
"Brother Xiaoqi, we now have managers for several of our stores. Do you want to bring them all to this channel?"
The development of branches varies, and the fastest growing one is naturally Huangcheng Home.
Gathering branch managers in one channel also makes it easier for them to communicate. Whether they talk in the channel or add friends to ask questions, it is more efficient than for them to figure it out on their own.
And Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi don't have to lead them one by one.
Zhou Qi thought about it and nodded, "Okay, but the topic must be limited."
After all, the situation of each store is different, and they formulate different management tasks based on different situations.
What is worrying is not the lack of resources but the inequality. If they communicate freely, problems will probably arise.
"Yeah, then let's limit it."
Tang Yu'an didn't think this was a big problem. Those who could survive in the apocalypse were all smart people. Apart from Brother Chi Hao, no one else would talk casually on the message board.
But just in case, it doesn’t hurt to set some keyword restrictions. It’s always better to be cautious.
So after setting the blocked words and checking that there were no omissions, he pulled Old Li, Lan Yunqing, Hongli, Big Beard and Haijing to the administrator channel.
"Next, we'll go to Yanlongbao to build a branch, and then bring him in after Lao Mo takes over!"
"Um."
Speaking of Lao Mo, Tang Yu'an couldn't help but glance at the store channel. He had previously pulled Zhan Xiong from Zitian Castle into store No. 6.
At this time, Lao Mo and Lao Ping began to provide "employee training" to the newcomer.
Tang Yu'an nodded with satisfaction, then set the RV to closed mode, and then headed towards Yanlong Fort with Zhou Qi.
The residents of Linhai Town, who originally thought that the Shangshen Sect had left and were still a little uneasy, soon discovered that a plaque had been erected in front of Li Zhentian's "mansion".
Those who could read quickly recognized the words on it. It said:
Ping'an Chamber of Commerce, Linhai Grocery Store.
After nightfall, this brand new grocery store, like the RV before it, disappeared from everyone's sight.
Witnessing such a "miracle" again, the residents of Linhai Town felt only gratitude and joy in their hearts.
Very good!
The God of Commerce did not abandon them, and His messenger established a branch in Linhai Town!
Of course, there are also some people who are worried that after sending away the bully Li Zhentian, another "evil god" who is more difficult to send away will come.
However, when the magical grocery store appeared again the next day and Haijing took out bags of food to exchange for sea salt with them, such worries were thrown behind them.
The news that Linhai Town had fully lifted the ban, residents could freely make sea salt, and exchange it for daily necessities at the Linhai Grocery Store, spread like wildfire and spread to various villages along the coast.
The residents of Linhai Town cheered and from then on they had true faith!
Three days later, Tang Yu'an pressed the accelerator of the message in a bottle and finally got the bottle sent back by Gu Qianli.
He took out the petrified rabbit from the spirit storage bag, and Zhou Qi was responsible for unpetrifying it.
When they saw the rabbit recover and jump to the ground, both boys showed happy smiles on their faces.
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