Chapter 96: Mingdu Conquered By Fast Food
After parting ways with Bai E and the other three, Huo Yuhao went straight to the open experimental ground behind Enthusiasm Headquarters.
This was an experimental site exclusively for Huo Yuhao, approximately seventy thousand square meters, the size of ten standard soccer fields from his previous life.
It housed quite a few soul tool research devices imported from the Sun Moon Empire, with the highest level reaching Level Eight Soul Tool.
At first, Huo Yuhao had Enthusiasm try to contact the Sun Moon Empire’s Mingde Hall to see if they could exchange herbs for some soul tools.
He didn’t demand too much; Level Six Soul Tools would suffice.
Thus, two Enthusiasm cadres disguised themselves as members of the Snow King Merchant Association and entered Mingdu, using the promotion of Snow King Ice City as a cover to finally make contact with Mingde Hall.
Upon learning that Enthusiasm was there to purchase soul tools, Mingde Hall surprisingly did not notify Mingdu’s soul engineer corps directly; instead, they invited the Enthusiasm cadres to discuss matters at Mingde Hall.
As soon as the Enthusiasm cadres arrived at Mingde Hall’s conference hall and took their seats according to their names, they realized that the surroundings were filled with people from the Douluo Three Kingdoms.
Heaven Soul, Star Luo, and even Dou Ling had sent people there to buy soul tools.
Star Luo Empire was the most affluent, buying ten Level Eight Soul Tools and several Defensive Soul Tools in one go.
The people from the Sun Moon Empire’s Mingde Hall actually secretly brought out Level Eight Fixed Soul Tool Cannonballs to sell, leaving the Enthusiasm cadres dumbfounded.
Shouldn’t such war weapons be kept strictly under wraps in theory?
Later, Mingde Hall’s people exchanged views with the Enthusiasm cadres and learned that the other side intended to trade rare medicinal herbs for soul tools.
At first, Mingde Hall’s person in charge didn’t care, thinking it was some minor faction from Heaven Soul Empire coming to Mingdu to beg for scraps.
The Sun Moon Empire lacked everything except medicinal herbs—hadn’t they seen how Sun Moon Empire soul engineers popped pills every day?
Even the most genius soul engineer in history, Xiao Hongchen, was madly popping pills, and now at just thirteen years old, two years older than Huo Yuhao, he was already a Level Forty-Nine Soul Sect.
This was also the main reason why Sun Moon Empire soul engineers generally had pointed heads, making it hard to break through to Level Ninety-Five Super Douluo.
Their bodies contained too many medicine residues, which greatly affected the soul engineers’ potential, though they actually didn’t care much about their pointed heads.
With the mindset that all guests are welcome, Mingde Hall’s person in charge casually glanced at the list of medicinal herbs provided by the Enthusiasm cadres, then trembled as he removed his glasses.
“Thousand Years Purple Ganoderma, Thousand Years Star Cloud Grass, Thousand Years Snow Silkworm, Hundred Years Bright Soul Flower…”
“Big brother, did you all rob the entire Star Dou Great Forest?!”
Mingde Hall’s person in charge had seen big scenes before, but he had never seen a scene like this.
He had originally thought the other side were country bumpkins, but ended up as the clown himself.
Just the herbs on the list from the other side surpassed Mingde Hall’s entire collection!
The vast majority of the herbs provided by the Enthusiasm cadres were unavailable at any price in the Sun Moon Empire!
They belonged to the kind that didn’t need to be refined into pills; just putting them directly in an auction house would stir up a storm of blood in Mingdu.
Of course, no one dared to refine these herbs into pills—they were too precious!
However, for Huo Yuhao, these herbs were nothing at all; Thunderclap Hellvine Canyon had a pile of rare medicinal herbs, and under the nourishment of heaven and earth origin energy so dense it had solidified, they grew at an extremely fast speed!
They could basically be harvested in one batch, and another batch would grow the next year.
This was the true natural Treasure Gathering Basin second only to the Ice and Fire Yin Yang Well!
After reading the list, Mingde Hall’s person in charge felt like a raw recruit, completely incapable of handling this batch of herbs.
They were already selling soul tools on the sly and didn’t dare tell the Hall Master.
Although they all knew full well that Jing Hongchen definitely knew about their little actions, he turned a blind eye for the sake of the large amounts of money and rare metals Mingde Hall gained.
Mingde Hall’s person in charge knew he definitely couldn’t make the decision himself, so he went to Jing Hongchen to explain the situation.
Jing Hongchen did know that Mingde Hall was selling soul tools to the Douluo Three Kingdoms internally.
He was too lazy to care because a portion of the money earned from the Douluo Three Kingdoms would always end up in his pocket.
So as long as they didn’t sell key technology or Level Nine Soul Tools, the rest was harmless.
Even Level Eight Fixed Soul Tool Cannonballs were fine; anyway, they couldn’t kill him in the end.
After learning the purpose of the person in charge’s visit, Jing Hongchen was a bit surprised and carefully looked at the herb list.
After reading it, his fat face trembled a few times, and he directly leaned back tactically.
He thought selling Level Eight Soul Tools was bold enough, but the Douluo Three Kingdoms were even more impressive!
They were willing to sell herbs that could create cultivation geniuses out of thin air!
Thinking of his grandson and granddaughter still chomping on pills full of side effects, he resolved to personally talk with the Enthusiasm cadres.
These herbs could greatly accelerate Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen’s cultivation speed without side effects.
In the end, Jing Hongchen discussed in detail with the two cadres in a very amicable and enthusiastic manner, quickly finalizing the cooperation.
Mingde Hall would transport a large batch of soul tools, including research soul tools, soul tool production platforms, a pile of soul carving knives, and several Level Eight Soul Tools, to the Ming Dou Mountain Range.
Then disguise it as being attacked by soul beasts, with the soul tools disappearing, and Enthusiasm sending people to receive them.
Since the transaction went much smoother than expected, there was still some time before the return date.
The two people and some Enthusiasm members gathered together, came up with an idea from a point king, and simply took advantage of this time to promote Snow King Ice City and Kenlaishi in Mingdu.
In just half a month, Snow King Ice City and Kenlaishi swept through Mingdu, beating Mingdu’s traditional catering industry to tears.
They seized the Mingdu catering market at an extremely terrifying speed; even the two cadres were stunned by the scene.
Because Snow King Ice City and Kenlaishi hadn’t shown such strong dominance on the Heaven Dou Plain, nor crushed traditional cuisine; the two sides had been evenly matched.
Later, after market research, they discovered that compared to traditional cuisine, the fast food concept extremely suited the tastes of Sun Moon Empire soul engineers!
A Hamburger Set Meal could be prepared in just three minutes, with production speed that traditional cuisine couldn’t hope to match, while being rich in high calories to greatly replenish the soul engineers’ consumption.
Most importantly, it was cheap—twenty Copper Soul Coins, who couldn’t afford that? In Mingdu, twenty Copper Soul Coins dropping on the ground wouldn’t even be picked up.
Actually, most low-level soul engineers had little money; most of their funds were spent buying rare metals to make soul tools.
For a soul engineer to advance one level, who knew how much rare metal would be wasted—these were all pure silver.
So low-level soul engineers were generally poor ghosts; in their eyes, Kenlaishi and Snow King Ice City were simply a ray of light! They were relief grain from heaven.
Despite Mingdu’s traditional catering industry spreading news that fast food was unhealthy, these soul engineers didn’t care at all.
What health? Once it enters my stomach, it’s energy. We soul engineers pop pills every day and have long been unhealthy! Fast food makes no difference.
Of course, quite a few people in Mingdu wanted to forcibly seize Snow King Ice City and Kenlaishi, but they were stopped by Mingde Hall.
Not only because Enthusiasm was Mingde Hall’s partner, but also because the two cadres had given half the fast food industry benefits to Mingde Hall.
Mingde Hall’s higher-ups immediately realized that the fast food industry might be the future of the Sun Moon Empire’s catering industry.
Food was a huge market! It could continuously bring rich funds to Mingde Hall!
When Jing Hongchen saw someone trying to touch his future money bag, he grabbed a Level Nine Soul Tool and went to chat about life with them.
In this way, Enthusiasm provided fast food technology and operational plans, while Mingde Hall provided political and strength-based protection; their cooperation directly monopolized Mingdu’s catering industry, harvesting the wallets of low-level soul engineers and commoners together.
After operating together for a month, Jing Hongchen saw that the dividends from the fast food industry to Mingde Hall exceeded the earnings from laboriously selling soul tools for three quarters.
He immediately went mad; anyone wanting to intervene in the fast food industry was either threatened by him to withdraw or physically cleared from the biological circle.
Then he dragged Enthusiasm along to promote the fast food industry across the entire Sun Moon Empire to make it big and strong!
Jing Hongchen wanted everyone to eat burgers, drink cola, and sip milk tea, bringing a caloric gospel to the Sun Moon Empire!
He even sent Xiao Hongchen and Meng Hongchen to the Snow King Ice City headquarters in Mingdu as directors to help Enthusiasm clear obstacles from the traditional food industry.
Because of their close cooperation, aside from Level Nine Soul Tools, Enthusiasm could have as many other soul tools as they wanted, and Mingde Hall would provide them.
If the royal family questioned the missing soul tools, just say it was soul beasts!
Anyway, soul beasts wouldn’t protest; pinning the blame on them was always safe.
Huo Yuhao hadn’t expected that the first thing he destroyed in this world would be the Sun Moon Empire’s catering industry.
But Huo Yuhao didn’t care about these things now; his gaze was fixed on a soul tool vehicle on the experimental ground.
