Back at the military base, the two who were about to enter the job market arrived one after the other.
Surprisingly, both of them successfully cultivated Qi after basking in the golden light, indicating they both had excellent cultivation aptitude. One was a man named Luo Zexuan, and the other a woman named Wen Mingyue.
Luo Zexuan comes from a family with three generations of military service, while his maternal grandparents' family is in business. He himself is highly intelligent, skilled in negotiation, and has studied psychology. He learned business from his mother from a young age and was able to invest and earn money on his own before going to university. Originally, as the youngest son, he was supposed to take over his mother's company, but he admired his grandfather, father, and eldest brother more, and later applied to a military academy. Don't let his refined and gentle appearance and ascetic, handsome face fool you; he can talk a man to death.
The other candidate was someone they had been debating for a long time. Originally, they wanted to assign Lin Qianqian a female bodyguard. However, considering Lin Qianqian's lack of combat skills, they decided after much discussion to select someone from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to partner with Luo Zexuan.
Wen Mingyue comes from a diplomatic family; her father was an ambassador, her mother a translator, and her maternal grandfather also worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. She possesses high intelligence and emotional intelligence, skipped grades in her education, speaks multiple languages, and has outstanding diplomatic skills. Even though she has been working for several years, she is actually quite young, only thirty years old.
Lin Qianqian wasn't very good at external business negotiations, so she would leave those matters to the two of them from now on. After signing the employee contracts, neither of them returned to the valley to cultivate; instead, they went directly with Lin Qianqian.
Lin Qianqian didn't treat them badly either. She used spirit stones to set up a spirit-gathering array for the two of them at the guesthouse to facilitate their cultivation.
Lin Qianqian was in a good mood. The number of shop employees on her panel had increased to 2/10, meaning she wouldn't be alone next time she transmigrated.
Tang Dezhong and Chen Dinghai were also in high spirits. After bathing in the golden light, although they hadn't entered the path of cultivation, they both felt at least ten years younger. The recovery of those old academicians and generals caused a stir among the higher-ups.
Although Lin Qianqian is the owner of the mall, she doesn't have to worry about anything. People won't come to her unless it's something they can't handle. She only needs to occasionally go to the research base to help in emergencies or guide the people in the valley in their cultivation.
However, the supernatural research base has more problems. After all, compared to supernatural beasts and plants, humans are still very weak, and ordinary humans would have a hard time dealing with accidents.
Therefore, all sorts of problems arose, and she often had to rush to the rescue, which seriously disturbed her cultivation. After several times, Lin Qianqian remembered something.
In the Immortal Abyss Realm, many people use puppets as bodyguards or to protect their homes. Some even create them as servants, in human, beast, insect, or other forms. In any case, cultivators create them based on their own mood and needs.
Lin Qianqian first went to the Heavenly Palace Treasury and looked through it. She remembered seeing it when she was organizing it, but she had to look for where it was because there were too many things.
However, she actually found it. The puppets in the Heavenly Palace Treasury were of a very high level. After all, it was the treasury of the ancient Heavenly Emperor, and the things of the ancient immortals and gods were not something that ordinary people could control.
After searching for a long time, she finally selected two puppet sword attendants who were below the Immortal Rank and at the Mahayana level. These were already the lowest-ranking puppets in the Heavenly Emperor's treasury.
Initially only the size of a palm, it instantly transforms into a lifelike form after being infused with spiritual energy.
Apart from their lifeless eyes, these two puppets were indistinguishable from real people. When Lin Qianqian first saw them, she even thought they were real people. She pinched their skin with her hands; it was a soft, resilient, and elastic unknown material, not much different from real skin.
Both puppets had bare lower bodies, with no distinction between male and female.
After she advanced to the Nascent Soul stage, her divine sense was just enough to control them. After binding them with her blood, she stuffed spirit stones into their chests. The moment their eyes moved, they became Lin Qianqian's most loyal bodyguards.
Lin Qianqian also named them Sword One and Sword Two, and took out two magic robes, transforming them into a jumpsuit and cloak style, for them to wear.
She had originally planned to take out a few more to serve as bodyguards in the military region and the valley. However, Blue Star had almost no spiritual energy, and the spirit-gathering arrays on the puppets' joints couldn't gather much spiritual energy, so their movements could only be driven by spirit stones.
A puppet in the Mahayana stage requires top-grade spirit stones to operate. A single sword strike can split a small mountain in two, but a top-grade spirit stone will be exhausted after a few such strikes.
Even if Lin Qianqian were a wealthy spirit stone holder, she would still feel the pinch. Besides, guarding some mutant beast cubs doesn't require high-level puppets; using a cannon to kill a mosquito is a complete waste.
Suddenly, she remembered that there must be some lower-level puppets in another place, namely the storeroom on the third floor of the Temple of Heaven, which she had seen when she was organizing it before.
Most of the puppets were poured out of a jade pendant's space. Lin Qianqian figured the pendant's owner must be a puppeteer or a weapon refiner. While the puppets weren't high-level, they ranged from Foundation Establishment to Nascent Soul stages.
For puppets below the Nascent Soul stage, which don't fight every day, a mid-grade spirit stone can last a long time, so this consumption is nothing to her. After placing the spirit stone and setting the commands, although she can't do anything too complicated without divine sense to direct it, suppressing the supernatural cubs is still no problem.
After speaking with Tang Dezhong, they were sent to work for free at the Superpowered Children Management Center.
Lin Qianqian even considered whether she could equip the mall with such puppets to act as shop assistants, but the system rejected her idea and told her not to try to find loopholes.
Lin Qianqian immediately started arguing with it: "The mall is so big, even if we hire 10 employees, we still can't manage it. How can we manage without finding some help? Many malls on Blue Star now use intelligent robots. How can using puppets be considered exploiting loopholes? System, you are too outdated. You can't keep up with the times. Go back to the main system and update it."
The system's mechanical voice trembled slightly after hearing this, warning: "You may be transported to a world where puppets or robots cannot be used. If you insist on using them, fine! Please pay!"
Then comes the familiar payment window: "Each puppet or robot identity will be awarded 2 points, without taking up an employee quota."
Haha! What a shameless system! It talks so righteously, but in the end, it's all about earning points!
Lin Qianqian asked timidly, "What will happen if I don't pay?"
The system's response was: "This system has no obligation to carry unknown things across dimensions."
Alright! Lin Qianqian backed down. Your father is still your father, and everything the Master said is right.
Lin Qianqian thought about it and realized that the transmigration points were very important and should not be wasted. She decided not to buy an identity for the puppet for the time being.
Upon arriving in the new dimension, if conditions permit, we can hire people first; if not, we can use puppets. That's the decision.
After thinking for a moment, he asked, "Do I need to buy identity documents for these two puppets that I've recognized as my masters in order to take them through time travel?"
The system paused for a moment after hearing the question before continuing: "No, but it can only serve you personally and cannot participate in the mall's transactions."
Lin Qianqian understood what the system meant: you can recognize a puppet or robot to serve you, but don't try to exploit loopholes to use it as a mall employee.
Then we'll have to leave this issue aside for now and discuss it later.
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