Chapter 210: Unexpectedly Became City Lord
When Song Ruyu entered the reception hall, she saw Old Master Huang, along with several familiar figures. Her two guards were also present.
Leng Qing was also there.
Everyone who had made a name for themselves at the Pet Beast Center was here.
It was clear that everyone had come for the points.
Without the Beast Tide, there were only two ways for people to earn points: one was to capture Pet Beasts, which wasn’t difficult, but the problem was that the Pet Beast Space couldn’t hold Pet Beasts that didn’t belong to them.
Making one trip back and forth meant they couldn’t capture many.
The second method was to kill Fierce Beasts. Although killing Fierce Beasts beyond a certain distance no longer awarded points, their corpses could still be exchanged for points.
However, the points obtained this way were too few.
They could accept these points before because they had already received points once when killing Fierce Beasts; the second time was like picking up free money, as every little bit counts.
But now, this price was unacceptable.
Therefore, everyone had gathered here, hoping to get Song Tiantian to change the way points were acquired.
When Song Tiantian came out, she saw such a large group of people.
These people were undoubtedly the strongest experts at the Pet Beast Center currently.
Among this group, Song Tiantian also spotted a familiar face, Jiang Su.
Cang Yonghong and Tan Zheng were not present.
They had returned to Qingshan City before the Beast Tide was about to appear.
Song Tiantian wasn’t sure where they were now, but she actually wanted to catch up with Jiang Su.
Jiang Su’s current Cultivation Realm was not low; he had already reached the Six-star Beast Tamer Realm, only one Realm behind Song Tiantian.
Jiang Su’s appearance was no longer as youthful as before.
In just one year of not seeing each other, Jiang Su’s face had become much more resolute, even showing a hint of weariness.
Song Tiantian suddenly remembered the first day she came to the Pet Beast Center, and how Jiang Su had been scared by a rampaging Snow Lion.
Later, when they started working, Jiang Su would take her to slack off.
She never expected that in just two years, so much had happened.
Jiang Su’s gaze towards Song Tiantian was no longer as clear as before; there was a hint of reverence in his eyes.
Song Tiantian sat in the main seat.
Although Song Ruyu’s Cultivation was higher than hers, Song Tiantian was still capable of fighting if it came to it.
Song Tiantian looked at the people below. These people had high Cultivation, but none of them would listen to her.
Including Leng Qing; Leng Qing was just on good terms with her, not her subordinate.
The Pet Beast Center had many experts, but few who could truly be utilized.
Tang Tan and Qu Danqin from the Medical Department were decent, both having reached the Five-star Beast Tamer Realm, but it was impossible to ask these two technical personnel to fight to the death!
That would be too much of a waste.
The only ones truly usable now were Shen Qing and Song Ranran.
Father Song was already old, and Song Tiantian felt a bit bad about asking him to risk his life; she only offered him verbal encouragement.
After all, if Father Song wasn’t given something to do and wasn’t made to understand the hardships of earning money outside, he would easily start criticizing from home and making demands.
Now, Father Song had his own social circle and was so busy every day that he had no time to criticize Song Tiantian’s life.
“City Lord, the Official channels have now officially renamed the Pet Beast Center to Qingshan City, and you are now the new City Lord of Qingshan City. We are all your citizens now. The Beast Tide has passed, but the Pet Beast Center must also usher in new development. Do you want to consider expanding Qingshan City? You don’t need to worry about Supplies here; Qingshan City has plenty of ready-made building materials. The Grain might have spoiled, but the building materials are definitely intact.”
As Song Ruyu spoke, she handed the official document to Song Tiantian.
Song Tiantian hadn’t expected to become a City Lord, and an officially recognized one at that.
She was just a small Boss of the Pet Beast Center.
However, Song Tiantian felt it was normal; the land here belonged to the Pet Beast Center, and the Official channels couldn’t take it back.
As for the people here, the important talents had already been taken away by the Official channels.
After all, a Meteor Shower had just occurred, and the world outside likely didn’t have abundant Supplies.
Secondly, this could also serve as a stronghold.
It would be a pity to abandon it.
But it wouldn’t be cost-effective to send people to guard it; it would be better to give the position of City Lord to her.
Song Tiantian glanced at the document; Song Ruyu had been appointed as the defending General of Qingshan City.
This was essentially assigning Song Ruyu an identity.
Song Ruyu’s Salary would be paid by her.
Then, the Official channels would no longer collect taxes from Qingshan City, and Qingshan City would be tax-exempt from now on, as the Official channels were not covering Song Ruyu’s Salary.
In the current times, paying taxes was not realistic anyway.
Next was restoring the Network, but the Bank’s Server had been burned down.
Therefore, all previous money was no longer valid.
The new currency was Energy Coins, Energy Coins processed from Energy Stones.
There was no other way; the Official channels also wanted to reshuffle things.
Because the Supplies were no longer valid.
However, every account had one hundred new currency units, which would appear as soon as they connected to the Network.
This hundred currency units was roughly equivalent to one hundred currency units in the 1980s, still quite valuable.
Song Ruyu looked expectantly at Song Tiantian, waiting for her to speak.
No matter how small the Salary was, it was still money. Although Song Ruyu looked forward to Song Tiantian giving her a Salary, she hoped even more that Song Tiantian would expand the Pet Beast Center.
This way, the City Wall would be enlarged, and the hunting range for Fierce Beasts would increase, which was an indirect way to obtain points.
Song Ruyu still didn’t dare to pressure Song Tiantian.
She could roughly guess who was responsible for the expensive Products.
Such potent items must have had Dr. Bai’s contribution.
Song Ruyu believed that the reason Song Tiantian kept the points so tight, even going so far as to let everyone use Energy Stones as currency instead of the elusive points,
proved that the Five-Star Beast Food was not easy to obtain.
Once people could possess a large number of points, they would desperately try to purchase Five-Star Beast Food, leading to a shortage.
Song Ruyu couldn’t help but laugh when she imagined Dr. Bai sitting in a dark room day and night, working tirelessly to make Five-Star Beast Food.
The quantity of this Five-Star Beast Food was truly astonishing; the incredibly expensive Beast Food and consumables were sold out as soon as they were released.
If Song Tiantian was pushed too hard and stopped having Dr. Bai make this Beast Food, where would she buy it from then!
The effects of this Beast Food were simply too miraculous; Song Ruyu believed no one else could make it besides Dr. Bai.
However, what Song Ruyu didn’t realize was that Dr. Bai was not only not the maker but was also her competitor, vying for Five-Star Beast Food every day.
