Chapter 40
Last night’s celebratory banquet ended successfully, and everyone woke up to greet the rising sun the next day.
Several residents waiting to take the bus were waiting at the bus stop early in the morning, but this time they were unable to buy tickets.
This was the first time they had encountered such a situation, and everyone felt it was strange.
"Captain Deng, why aren't you selling tickets today? Is there something wrong?"
Deng Hailong smiled mysteriously, but finally, under the shove of the crowd, he told the truth: "I have an important mission today."
"What important mission? Is someone from Shanhai City coming here?"
Deng Hailong smiled slightly: "About the same."
During yesterday's beast tide, everyone stayed in the Taoyuan Shelter and was unaware of what happened in Shanhai City. However, smart people quickly figured out the actual situation through Deng Hailong's actions.
"There must be a lot of people coming here. Look, the 28th floor of Building 1 is empty. I think it's prepared for them."
"I think you're absolutely right."
Deng Hailong wanted to pretend, but he saw Ye Qing walking out of the shelter gate out of the corner of his eye. She was wearing white casual clothes today, and the soft clothes gave off a warm glow in the sun.
As soon as he saw Ye Qing, he immediately left everyone behind and went to greet him: "Boss, you're up now. Did you sleep well last night? Can you please take a look at what supplies we need to transport today?"
This was what Ye Qing told him yesterday. Lin Zhi was already his employee. She was in charge of such a huge thing in Shanhai City and should enjoy better treatment as a dispatched worker, so Ye Qing decided to bring some supplies to her.
The two of them went back into the shelter and started picking around the containers.
"1 box of sandwiches, 1 box of mung bean cakes, 4 sets of staff uniforms, 1 box of chocolates, 2 boxes of instant noodles, 1 box of orange juice..."
"Bring some medicine too."
Finally, Ye Qing pointed to the juicy pork sausages and said, "And this. Pack a few sausages for Lin Zhi and Xiao Jiu to try."
"Okay!"
After saying that, several bus employees started to move the supplies. They moved quickly and efficiently and finished the job quickly.
Deng Hailong dusted himself off and came to Ye Qing. When he was packing the sausages, he pinched one and put it in his mouth.
The one guarding the stage was Sanmao. Seeing that there were a few sausages missing from the machine's rotating drum, he immediately took out a few and put them back on.
Deng Hailong asked while eating: "Boss, if there is nothing else to tell us, then we will go~"
Ye Qing waved his hand: "Go~"
The population of Shanhai City will gradually be transferred here, and these small matters will be gradually handed over to her subordinates, so she will have extra time to do other things.
After the bus left, she began to check her asset balance. After the Beast Tide distributed the bonuses yesterday, there were still 400,000 left. Adding the money she had saved up over the past few days, her current crystal core balance was 450,000, so upgrading the weapon shop was completely feasible.
Speaking of crystal cores, she couldn't help but think of the dozen or so boxes of gold, silver, and jewelry seized from Sun Dazhuang's basement.
In the radiation world, everything outside has been corroded, and crystal cores that can provide energy have replaced gold and silver as the currency in the end times, so she doesn't know what to do with this batch of treasures.
"System, system?"
Ye Qing rarely calls upon the system.
As if just waking up from a dream, the system's voice was filled with the strong smell of waking up.
[Hey, host, what's up? ]
"I have a batch of gold, silver and jewelry. Do you offer recycling services?"
【Provided, buy-back price 10%. 】
"So low! Can't it be higher?"
Ye Qing felt a little sad. In other small worlds, gold and silver are hard currencies, and their prices are rising higher and higher. I hope this system won't take advantage of her.
[It can't be any higher. In this world, crystal cores are king, and gold and silver are just scrap metal.]
Ye Qing didn't want to hear it belittle these treasures anymore, so he turned off the system's voice fiercely.
The recycling price is so low that it would be a waste if it was sold at a low price, and its maximum value could not be realized.
Ye Qing plans to keep this batch of treasures. If they are useful in the future, that would be great. If not, it would be great to take them out and admire them from time to time.
Since there were enough crystal cores, Ye Qing went to the weapon shop to upgrade.
I walked through the glass corridor to Building 1. It was not yet opening time, but the staff of the weapons shop had already arrived. He was carefully wiping the dust off the containers with a feather duster.
Ye Qing paid a huge amount of operating fees every day, so all the shops and public places in the shelter had their own cleaning functions. Despite this, he still dusted them diligently, as if it was a habit that he couldn't quit.
Ye Qing stepped into the shop and said to the figure concentrating on cleaning, "Uncle Wang, you're here so early?"
Coincidentally, the staff member who applied for the job was Wang Xing's lame father, Wang Peng. He was originally a superpower who galloped on the battlefield, but accidentally lost a leg. Since then, he has been living at home for many years. These weapons were also developed during that period.
Zeng Di said that he was very proficient in both cold and hot weapons, and was indeed the best choice for the weapons shop.
Although Wang Peng's leg wasn't healed yet, it was in much better shape than before. He no longer needed a cane and could walk by hopping on one foot. He turned around, leaning on the shelf with one hand, and saw that it was the boss, so he immediately came up to greet him.
Ye Qing immediately waved his hand to stop him: "Just do your own work and don't worry about me."
Seeing that the boss didn't care about these things, Wang Peng started to work again, but his eyes kept glancing at Ye Qing.
After he came here, he started to have people to talk to, and his life became much more interesting. They all said that it is better to get promoted sooner rather than later than later.
Now that she came here so early, could it be that she was going to upgrade the weapons shop? Wang Peng couldn't help but feel excited, and his eyes stayed on Ye Qing. He had only been running the weapons shop for a few days, and he didn't expect to witness its upgrade so soon.
The first few levels consumed less crystal cores, so Ye Qing simply upgraded the weapon shop to level 4 in one go. After the upgrade was completed, Ye Qing began to check the shop properties everywhere.
The store area and decoration have not changed, it is still the previous 100 square meters, but the originally empty shelves are much fuller.
The number of cold weapons has increased from 4 to 7 categories, with the addition of swords, crossbows, and guns. The number of styles in each category has also increased accordingly, giving customers more choices.
Hot weapons also appeared. Although there was only a pistol, it was a good combat tool for ordinary zero-power users. The weapon shop also provided matching bullets.
What’s even more surprising is that it also provides a set of forging furnaces, similar to the alchemy furnaces used by ancient sorcerers.
It stood beside the counter, about half a man's height, jet black, its body intricately carved. It was perforated with tiny holes, through which one could see the flickering flames within. The heat was visible to the naked eye, yet standing nearby, it felt cool and unnoticeable.
This is a treasure. Ye Qing even thought of building a dedicated forging room for it.
[Forge: Level 4, Success Rate: 60%, can produce corresponding equipment based on the material. The higher the material attributes, the stronger the item produced.]
I didn't expect that there is such a thing as a success rate for forging a furnace. The forging furnace is linked to the level of the weapon shop. The higher the level, the higher the success rate of the forged weapons.
Ye Qing thought of the large number of exotic beasts and supplies captured yesterday. He had not thought of other uses for them and had just left them on the open space. Now was a good time to give it a try.
She immediately found a bunch of supplies to experiment with. One bottle of snake venom failed, but she was still able to extract several bottles of high-quality snake venom, enough to bring down an elephant.
Crocodile skin can be made into a set of armor with defensive properties, and ivory can be made according to one's own preferences. Ye Qing decomposed it into several exquisite daggers.
This elephant is a level 4 exotic beast with extremely high attribute values. The dagger it makes has powerful attack attributes. Not only Wang Peng on the side, but even Ye Qing was surprised.
Wang Peng could no longer contain himself and put down his feather duster to surround Ye Qing. He had a deep understanding of weapons and knew the value of this cold weapon at a glance.
He was so emotional at this moment that he finally found his voice: "Boss...should this be put on the shelf?"
Ye Qing nodded: "These are weapons with attributes. Let's put them on a separate counter. The price will be the same as that of thermal weapons."
This weapon is made from self-provided materials, unlike the system-provided ones, so there's no reference price. However, it has special properties and doesn't require constant restocking like firearms, so it's reasonable to price it similarly to firearms.
Wang Peng quickly responded, "Okay, boss. I'll research and write a reference price for you."
"Okay." Ye Qing nodded. "By the way, we can also provide weapons manufacturing services. Customers provide their own materials, and we only charge a certain handling fee."
Wang Peng immediately wrote it down in his notebook: "That's a good idea. Many hunter teams and mercenaries have a lot of exotic beasts and treasures that they don't know where to spend them."
After taking a final look around, Ye Qing said goodbye to Wang Peng and went to the lobby of the comprehensive building. She planned to promote this new business in the halftime advertisement of the TV series.
There is a one-minute intermission commercial in the middle of each episode of the TV series. Before it was added, there was always the magnificent VCR introduction to the shelter. One time, she suddenly had an idea, since there was an introduction to the shelter, why couldn't there be other introductions.
As a result, small advertisements about guest rooms, clothing stores, containers, restaurants, etc. followed one after another. The system's own pictures, plus a brief system audio introduction, although not professional enough, were more than enough as mid-game advertisements.
I've been very busy these days and haven't watched any TV series for several days.
Even when she is not at home on weekdays, the TV is on all day long. It plays some variety shows and sketches, so you can enjoy the whole show without having to watch the previous plot. It is very friendly to customers who occasionally cannot come due to something.
As breakfast time approached, more and more people came to the restaurant. Most of them gathered in front of the TV with a plate of buns and pastries, hoping to feast their eyes before going out to work.
They probably watched a skit and a lot of people were laughing so hard that they were bent over.
She brought a small bowl of porridge from the restaurant and sat on the single sofa, slowly drinking it. This single sofa was her exclusive seat. Everyone had a tacit understanding that even if no one came, they would keep the seat for her.
Ye Qing did not disturb their interest. He waited until the skit was finished before switching to the "Guess What You Are Following" interface and took out "The Legend of Huanhuan" to continue watching from the previous episode.
The plot of "The Legend of Huanhuan" is interesting and has gained many fans. Some residents immediately sat on it excitedly.
"Boss, you're finally here. Let's go see Huanhuan today, shall we?"
"If I want to see Huanhuan, I won't go hunting today. It's okay to take a day off occasionally."
There was only one TV, and to avoid arguments due to their different preferences, Ye Qing would switch the channel to a variety show or a skit whenever he left, which was short and complete.
This is the second time this series has been broadcast since the advent of television.
Ye Qing: "Yes, I happen to be off today."
"That's great, let's watch it together."
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