I Materialized the Shushan Game

Chapter 203: This Business Is Really Thoughtful! Is This A Joke?

Chu Ping cared a lot about this type of investment project. Although it was a merit industry that a tycoon wanted to give to the Chen Clan, the industry would be located in Linhe County, which would increase employment, tax revenue, and the economy.

So he immediately took people back to the county and met that tycoon, who turned out to be a very beautiful woman in her thirties.

He just did not know why she used her long hair to cover most of her face, which undoubtedly affected her looks.

The person in charge of county investment promotion reported to him at once, “County Magistrate Chu, this is Ms. Liao Shuang, president of Weikai Group. These are the various types of factories she intends to acquire and integrate.”

When Chu Ping heard her identity, he was full of surprise. He had heard of Weikai Group. Although it was not as strong as Mr. Liu’s company, it was also one of the domestic top 100 enterprises.

Now there was actually another tycoon offering a merit industry to the Chen Clan. How could that not be surprising?

He did not think she was stupid or tricked by the Chen Clan. There must be something about the Chen Clan that made her firmly believe.

Just think of how the road construction team dug up a stone tablet, and the Chen Family Head erected it, and that alone could change the air quality of the Chen Clan and the surrounding area.

The Chen Clan really had many miraculous things. These tycoons were not fools.

“Ms. Liao, thank you very much for your trust in Linhe County.” Chu Ping thought for a moment, then immediately thanked her with a smiling face.

“County Magistrate Chu, you are too polite.” Liao Shuang also nodded politely to him.

The investment promotion person in charge immediately handed a document to Chu Ping. “This is the information on the factories in Linhe County that Ms. Liao wants to acquire and integrate.”

Chu Ping took it and was immediately surprised. It was not because the investment itself was huge, but because these industries were completely a merit industry tailored for the Chen Clan.

From this alone, one could see how much care this female tycoon had put into it.

She was very pious.

…

Time passed; a day went by.

In his room, Chen Han opened a packaging box and took out two ornament pieces.

These were metal ornaments ordered in the county and just delivered, not cheap.

He then took out the refining stone for the “yin to yang” skill, intending to refine this skill.

【Current decorative ring cannot withstand the power of refinement. Please change props and try again…】

Unfortunately, both consecutive prompts said the same.

Still not working.

It seemed that this beginner complete refining stone was not something these ordinary items could be used to refine.

Putting the things down, he immediately picked up his mobile phone and searched through it. After a while, he ordered several relatively expensive special metals.

Those ordinary ornaments would not do. Special metals should be different, right?

After placing the order, he happened to think of that Ms. Liao brought by Mr. Liu.

After they parted unhappily yesterday, he had thought she would come again to ask for help this morning, but unexpectedly, the whole morning passed without any movement.

Just as he was thinking this, two game prompts suddenly sounded in his mind:

【Congratulations, you have gained 1 point of wish power!】

His wish power had increased by another two points.

After the national style event ended, the lucky draw at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall was still ongoing. After all, it was for wish power, so it could continue harvesting tourists’ wish power.

It increased quite a bit every day.

With an ID card, one could participate in the lucky draw once per day, and it was not limited to tourists, because he found that many residents of Shangyuan Village came to offer incense, and they could also provide wish power.

For example, Village Chief Guo Zhen and those stay-behind elders.

However, rewards like royal jelly and scar removal cream were limited in quantity and had naturally been removed.

Now the grand prizes were premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea and calming talismans.

Under normal circumstances, the winning probability was certainly low. However, as long as someone offered “Two Woods, Two Incenses, One Tree” as offerings, they could trigger the “Blessing from the Heart” attribute. Those who provided wish power could improve their fortune and increase their winning chances.

Since the national style event ended, there were fewer tourists offering such offerings, and many only offered some incense.

However, because of the temptation of the prizes, his wish power still increased a lot after the event.

He checked the wish power in his mind: 10,000 wish power（4793/10000）.

The requirement for the next wish power upgrade was about to pass halfway.

Thinking this, he left his courtyard and went toward the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall to see how things were there.

Since there were already several hall wardens at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, even with many tourists every day coming to offer incense and draw lots, everything inside was still in good order.

“I won… I won, a protective talisman?”

A very excited tourist hurriedly rushed out together with their companions.

Chen Han roughly understood the tourist’s intent. If it was for personal use, they would already be wearing it. Rushing out like this meant they wanted to sell it.

Mr. Liu’s people had been buying calming talismans long-term at the parking lot, and at quite a high price.

Exactly because of this, many tourists were more pious when coming to offer incense and draw lots. At least some of them were pious enough during the draw to provide wish power.

“Patriarch!”

“……”

Aunt-grandmother and those hall wardens saw him coming and greeted him respectfully.

Now, in their eyes, this Patriarch was the messenger of the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation walking in the mortal world.

Chen Han nodded in response. After learning a few things from aunt-grandmother, he was about to leave when his junior sister hurried in. Seeing him, she quickly greeted, “Senior brother, you are here too.”

“Why do you look so rushed, what happened?” Chen Han asked curiously.

Xiao Yu immediately frowned and handed him a tablet. “Senior brother, there seems to be a problem with our lottery mini program. The backstage data does not match at all. The number of draws is far higher than the number of incense offerings.”

Chen Han took the tablet suspiciously and looked at the backend data of the lottery mini program.

Sure enough.

The numbers were several times higher.

This was impossible.

The incense offering count was recorded by tourists scanning the code on the incense sticks. Although scanning was voluntary, under all the miraculous influence of the Chen Clan, basically no one would skip this 10 yuan.

This showed that someone was exploiting a loophole in the mini program for the draw. The key thing was that some abnormal entries had already won two prizes, and both were lucky bags of premium Thunder Bamboo Spirit Tea.

The key point was that they had set the mini program to a local area, only valid within the Chen Clan. That meant someone was fleecing the Chen Clan right under their noses.

While he was still puzzled, he saw another row of draw entries suddenly appear in the backend data. These ID numbers were clearly virtual identity numbers from the internet.

Chen Han frowned slightly and thought of something.

Had he ever stipulated that virtual identity numbers could not be used for the lucky draw?

Apparently not. People could not think of everything in advance. Who could be that thorough?

This meant the Chen Clan had been negligent and given others a chance to legitimately exploit the loophole.

If they refused to give prizes after someone won, such a person, unafraid of the Chen Clan’s various means and deliberately stirring trouble, would make the Chen Clan seem untrustworthy. Now that the Chen Clan had quite some popularity online, that would be a loss.

Of course, he could directly announce that virtual identities were invalid for the draw or let Huang Xin and the tourism police handle it.

But if it were exposed that way, it would also alert others that there was a loophole in the Chen Clan’s draw, attracting more people to cause trouble and instead creating more annoyance. It would also give people the impression, “Is the Chen Clan really so powerful if they cannot handle this kind of person?”

Most crucially, why had no game task been triggered?

That was wrong.

Under normal circumstances, should these people not be judged as demonic cult rogues or something similar?

Or had it not yet reached the threshold to trigger it?

However, this matter could not be left alone; there was one most direct method.

He immediately instructed his junior sister, “Xiao Yu, adjust the local area setting of the lottery mini program. Set the range directly to around the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.”

Previously, the limit area was the entire Chen Clan, mainly because of the large number of tourists.

Now he felt it unnecessary and simply restricted it to around the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall. Even if one had already added the mini program, one would need to be in that area to draw.

That way, those who were fleecing them would have to enter the Chen Clan to participate.

Once these people came in, they would have bad luck. He believed after once or twice they would not dare come again. The problem could be solved quietly, which also served as a warning.

Most importantly, if they still continued even after this, then it would be too much if the game system still did not trigger a game task.

Hearing his instructions, Xiao Yu nodded. Before long, she completed the backend operations and changed the valid area of the mini program to the area around the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.

Outside the Chen Clan, in a hidden spot, a device could be seen placed there, its signal indicator light flickering.

The device was connected by a data cable to a laptop, and a tattooed young man was operating on the laptop while holding a tattooed girl in his arms.

“Husband, I have sent the newly purchased batch of virtual identity numbers to your email,” the tattooed girl said, putting down her mobile phone.

Wu Yan hugged the girl with a big grin. “I hope this batch can hit two more prizes!”

Honestly, compared to the traffic schemes he did before, fleecing the Chen Clan here was so much more profitable. He had won twice, and selling the prizes brought in 62,

And that batch of virtual identity numbers only cost around 15,

If it were not for wanting a steady flow and not provoking too much resentment from the Chen Clan, he would have bought a crawler cracking software to directly break the Chen Clan’s lottery mini program.

Then he could claim all the prizes the Chen Clan released. But that would draw police attention, and if they seriously investigated, what he was doing would clearly not be on the righteous path.

The key was that those people from the Chen Clan had real kung fu.

He and his girlfriend had tried it. The Chen Clan seemed to possess mysterious powers; going inside brought misfortune.

When they went into the Chen Clan before, each of them had their own bad luck: bird droppings on the forehead, choking when drinking water, or almost falling for no reason while walking.

Back then, they had almost given up on doing this.

But they had no choice. They owed others a large sum of money. If he did not repay, he did not care about getting beaten, but those people would harass his girlfriend and even his father.

Those people sometimes did not know when to stop. He would rather offend the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation of the Chen Clan. People only said that doing bad things in the Chen Clan brought bad luck; they had never seen the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation actually kill someone.

God loves all people. Surely he would understand his difficulties.

Just then, he suddenly froze. He found he could no longer draw. There was an error prompt even when adding the mini program.

He tried to use other virtual numbers to add the mini program, but it was the same.

He understood that the Chen Clan’s people must have discovered this and had now modified the restrictions on the mini program.

His girlfriend saw his expression change and asked in confusion, “What’s wrong?”

Wu Yan frowned and said, “We can’t draw anymore. The Chen Clan people changed the restricted area. If I’m not wrong, if the Chen Clan continues this lottery, you will probably have to go into some area inside the Chen Clan to draw, most likely at the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall.”

“Ah??? How do we go in then?” His girlfriend’s face changed.

She knew very well how sinister it felt inside the Chen Clan: walking and almost getting bird droppings in the mouth, choking when drinking water.

If her boyfriend had not tested and found there was no problem outside the Chen Clan, and if those people were not pressing them so hard, she would not have dared to do this with him.

Helpless, Wu Yan could only go up to retrieve the device. But as soon as he stepped into the Chen Clan’s range, before he could collect it, his foot suddenly slipped and he fell sprawling.

He hit his head and a huge bump swelled up.

He knew this had to be the Chen Clan’s sinister special ability taking effect. It was really uncanny: as soon as you approached the Chen Clan’s range, this would happen.

This made him ignore the pain of the bump, hurriedly grab the device, and retreat far away.

…

Leaving the Heavenly Lord of Demon Subjugation Hall, Chen Han returned to his courtyard, lay on the recliner, and scrolled videos on his mobile phone. But today seemed to clash with sha qi; before long, he came across two videos full of fierce resentment.

One was about a certain university forcefully demanding that female students provide free services for foreign exchange students.

Judging from the comment section, if the netizens had swords in their hands, their keyboards would have killed people already; all the university’s leaders could start thinking about reincarnation.

Chen Han was speechless. Seriously, what era was this, and there were still universities going so crooked.

The key was that regarding messy incidents in universities online, this one had an especially high appearance rate.

The other video was even more speechless: a post-2000 guy who could not read traffic signs blamed others for not understanding traffic rules, flew into a road rage, drove into someone, and even shamelessly said he represented the post-2000 generation to punish the other party.

Now he was facing up to the death penalty at most.

Chen Han was full of black lines. He was 24 this year, also post-2000; was he just represented like that?

The entire comment section was cursing the post-2000 generation.

“The post-2000s are the real lost generation.”

“Only a post-2000 idiot would do such a thing.”

“Typical post-2000 behavior, no surprise. How else do you get brainless people shouting about cleaning up the workplace all day!”

“……”

Chen Han sighed silently.

Idiots like that could not represent the post-2000s.

Besides, there were idiots in every age group.

“Truly a calamity out of nowhere.” As a post-2000, Chen Han was quite speechless. Just then, his phone received another bank transfer notification.

Another 100 million, again from that Ms. Liao.

She finally made a move.

Next should be a call from Mr. Liu, right?

The phone did ring, but it was not from Mr. Liu; it was from County Magistrate Chu. As soon as the call connected, County Magistrate Chu’s voice came through, “Chen Family Head, are you at the Chen Clan now? We have merit industry documents that need your signature.”

Hearing this, Chen Han roughly understood what was going on.

Was this Ms. Liao imitating Mr. Liu?

Thinking that, he said into the phone, “County Magistrate Chu, I am at my own courtyard.”

Not long after he hung up, he saw County Magistrate Chu and Ms. Liao appear together, along with Mr. Liu and Chen Kai.

Once they came in, they all greeted him.

Then County Magistrate Chu took out two documents and handed them over. “Chen Family Head, these are the property certificate documents and the merit industry record documents. They are all offerings from Ms. Liao. Please take a look at these industries. She is very sincere.”

He was essentially speaking on behalf of Ms. Liao. Normally, doing this would not be appropriate for him and might even risk displeasing the Chen Family Head.

But he had no choice. Ms. Liao had promised that once it was done, she would invest in a project in Linhe County to increase employment positions, so he had to thicken his skin.

Seeing him speak up, Chen Han looked through the documents, and was truly surprised. These industries were divided into many facilities, and the products were basically all related to the Chen Clan, or rather to the Daoist sects.

For example, factories producing incense sticks and candles for Daoist use, factories producing various Daoist instruments, all with sufficient machinery, and factories producing craftsmanship items whose mechanical parameters could be set to produce all kinds of Daoist objects…

With these industries, the Chen Clan could produce their own Daoist-related supplies in the future and also produce their own various Daoist instruments.

Most important was the craftsmanship factory. He had previously considered whether the Chen Clan should develop some Daoist craftsmanship items, engraved with the Chen Clan’s name, as souvenirs for tourists.

Now many scenic spots provided souvenirs because souvenirs had significant value. First, they could enhance the visitor experience and satisfaction.

Free souvenirs could bring a sense of surprise to tourists, make them feel their trip was more worthwhile, strengthen their goodwill toward the scenic spot, and leave a deeper positive impression.

Second, they reinforced brand memory and communication, promoting repeat visits or secondary consumption.

Third, they conveyed the cultural connotation of the scenic spot. Souvenirs that integrated the site’s history, folk customs, and natural landscapes could serve as carriers of cultural transmission, allowing tourists to understand the unique charm of the scenic spot more deeply and elevating its cultural value.

The Chen Clan could later transmit its own culture, turning those fabricated stories into its real historical culture, and might even invest in shooting a movie 《“Chen Clan”》.

They could film the heroic deeds of the Chen family assembling the young and strong from the ten miles and eight villages during wartime to resist bandits and protect every household.

This kind of thing had been done by many mystic sect sites. There was a place that had been almost in decline but rose because of a movie; only recently its leading figure was about to go in.

Now this merit industry offered by Ms. Liao was indeed very thoughtful.

At the same time, he received a game prompt:

【Congratulations, you have once again robbed a large batch of spirit stones from a demonic path big shot. Since they need help from the Chen Clan and have to hide from the Blood Demon, they can only swallow their anger!】

【Congratulations, you have obtained primary spirit stone x5!】

Seeing this prompt, Chen Han was truly surprised.

So the game system could really grant wishes. Previously, after obtaining spirit stones, he had wished for more, and it really rewarded him with a few more.

He was not going to be polite. If it had the ability, next it should send him a few immortal artifacts.

Chen Han looked at the woman opposite and asked, “Previously Mr. Liu said you were burned and needed scar removal cream?”

Hearing this, Liao Shuang’s expression brightened. She immediately lifted the hair covering half of her face. As the covered side was revealed, Chu Ping and Chen Kai’s eyes widened.

No wonder she covered it. The burn was terrible, twisted and ferocious like a coiled dragon, even affecting that eye.

Ignoring that half of her face, Ms. Liao would absolutely be very beautiful; at her age in the thirties, with good appearance and mature charm, she would be liked by many men other than boys and young guys.

But now, looking at that half of her face, it felt like a demon from hell.

They also understood that Ms. Liao wanted to rely on the Chen Clan’s scar removal cream to treat her face.

But could the Chen Clan’s scar removal cream really cure such burns?

Liao Shuang herself was not sure. Now, revealing her scars before everyone, she could only look expectantly at the Chen Family Head.

Seeing this, Chen Han picked up his phone and called Xiao Yu. “Junior sister, bring some aloe vera and olive oil over. I am going to make scar removal cream.”

Then he said to Liao Shuang, “Wait a moment.”

After that, he went into his room. The most important ingredient for the scar removal cream was spirit flower pollen; all that was in the warehouse and naturally could not be taken out in front of everyone.

Also, he had not filmed a video in a long time, so he could take this chance to shoot a video of refining spirit flower paste.

After all, in the game system, the scar removal cream was originally called spirit flower paste.

Seeing that the Chen Family Head was going to make scar removal cream for her, Liao Shuang was overjoyed. After all, he had finally agreed to treat her.

But thinking of the aloe vera and olive oil he mentioned, she felt uncertain again. Could these two ingredients really be used to make scar removal cream and even treat her burns?

Weikai Group had a subsidiary that produced skincare and beauty products and often used these two ingredients, so she understood their effects.

Chu Ping and Chen Kai were also surprised when they heard “aloe vera and olive oil.”

The Chen Clan’s scar removal cream currently sold for more than 30,000 per small portion. Were these its ingredients?

Was the Chen Family Head joking?