Chapter 215: Remedying
Using Ghost Controllers to offset the debt seems like a pretty good method. After all, there aren’t few out-of-control Ghost Controllers.
But a full thousand Ghost Money—how many Ghost Controllers would it take to offset that?
“You’ve scammed so many people before. How much Ghost Money can one Ghost Controller offset?”
“Uh, this mainly depends on how much of the dishes they ate…” The Waiter’s voice grew smaller and smaller, eventually sounding just like a mosquito buzzing, “For one time, probably ten to twenty bucks…”
How much?
Zhang Qian even suspected he had misheard and kicked the Waiter flying. “Before, you scammed ten bucks at a time, but with me, it directly becomes over a thousand? That’s a hundred times the difference! Aren’t you afraid of bursting yourself?”
Fine, to really use Ghost Controllers to offset the debt would probably require a hundred Ghost Controllers, and they couldn’t be grabbed randomly—only those out-of-control Ghost Controllers would do.
Those guys can be wanted by Headquarters and still survive; each one is slippery like a mudfish, not easy to catch at all. Zhang Qian figured even if he worked himself to death, he couldn’t catch them all.
The Waiter crawled back using hands and feet. “I didn’t mean to harm you, Shopkeeper. It’s mainly that guy who was really bold and reckless, doing things without considering the consequences…”
“Then why did you only scam others for so little before? Is it because I’m handsome that you want to rip me off?” Zhang Qian said speechlessly.
The Waiter awkwardly scratched his head. “A Shop Assistant’s authority is limited. Even if I wanted to scam, I couldn’t serve that many dishes at once…”
Otherwise, with the Waiter’s personality in Fierce Ghost form, he wouldn’t care what the customer ordered. Every meal would have to feature the Manchu Han Imperial Feast, emphasizing lavishness.
As for whether they could afford it, it didn’t need to pay anyway, so it wasn’t in his considerations.
Suppressing the urge to hit him, Zhang Qian asked again, “Forget it. What’s the exact process for using Ghost Controllers to offset the debt?”
Even beating this guy to death wouldn’t help. Keeping him alive might let him offset a bit of Ghost Money.
After going out, he could ask Wang Xiaoming. Headquarters gathered supernatural items from all over the country, so there must be plenty of Ghost Money in stock.
Then hunt some out-of-control Ghost Controllers to offset the debt. Piecing it together shouldn’t be too difficult.
Provided that Ghost Controllers were worth something.
However, the moment the Waiter opened his mouth, he denied Zhang Qian’s plan.
He reminded him with very little confidence, “Shopkeeper, you might have misunderstood something. Being able to use Ghost Controllers to offset debt doesn’t mean you can directly use Ghost Controllers to deduct the share the Branch Store needs to hand over.”
“The Ghost Restaurant won’t casually grab Ghost Controllers either. It only grabs customers who can’t pay and eat free meals. And it’s not offsetting a specific amount, but directly writing off that bill.”
“In this process, the amount doesn’t matter. One buck and a thousand have no difference. As long as it’s a customer who can’t pay, even if just one buck short, the Ghost Restaurant will grab the Ghost Controller who ate the meal.”
“Then the corresponding bill will be crossed off, and the next share to be handed over will exempt that portion.”
In other words, Ghost Controllers couldn’t be used as currency at the Ghost Restaurant. At least, a Shop Assistant didn’t have the authority to use Ghost Controllers as share contributions.
“Crossed off…” Zhang Qian didn’t believe his nonsense.
From the Ghost Restaurant Boss’s performance, He definitely wanted to earn more Ghost Money.
He hadn’t killed him before for the Waiter’s scamming because the value of one Ghost Controller was greater than a dozen Ghost Money.
Now with a thousand bucks, it absolutely couldn’t be settled by one Ghost Controller. Even he himself probably wasn’t worth that much.
So the Waiter daring to do this definitely had other reasons.
“A thousand Ghost Money isn’t a small amount for the Ghost Restaurant either, right? Are you sure I’m worth that price?” Zhang Qian said.
“That guy didn’t plan to scam that much at first, but the deadline from the Main Store was approaching, and you gave the dishes to it to eat… Anyway, with you to take the blame, he just ate up all the inventory.”
The Waiter cautiously glanced at Zhang Qian. “After all, I had no way to know in advance if the customer could pay… If the customer defaults, even if he’s not worth that price, the main responsibility shouldn’t fall on me.”
He hadn’t known before that the Ghost Restaurant could no longer influence here. He figured that if he couldn’t hand over the money, he’d get punished anyway, so he might as well gamble big.
“So you were just desperate?” Zhang Qian sighed.
But taking the blame… Using the Waiter as a scapegoat might not work, since he ate all the dishes himself.
Noticing Zhang Qian’s scrutinizing gaze, the Waiter hurriedly said, “There has never been a similar situation before, but the Ghost Restaurant’s mechanism for grabbing people to offset bills should only trigger once per order.”
“The order is now complete, so even though you surprisingly survived, you won’t be hunted further, but you also can’t use others to offset the bill anymore.”
Either hide in a Supernatural Land for life without coming out, or gather a thousand Ghost Money before the deadline.
Those seemed to be the only two paths in front of Zhang Qian.
Of course, he could also go head-to-head with the Ghost Restaurant. If he could kill that mysterious Boss, the so-called share would naturally have no meaning.
But Zhang Qian held no hope for that.
Being able to open a Branch Store on the Ghost Ship meant that in terms of strength and status, the Ghost Restaurant Boss wasn’t much inferior to the Captain. He was absolutely not an existence Zhang Qian could contend with.
“Maybe Luo Wensong could defeat the Boss, but I’m not related to Luo Wensong. He has no reason to help me.” Zhang Qian murmured.
Although resolving the Captain also relied on Luo Wensong, that was based on the premise that the Ghost Ship’s resurgence would bring disaster to the Holy Spirit. Betting on Luo Wensong standing on the human side, he wouldn’t let so many people die.
But the Ghost Restaurant Boss was purely his personal matter.
Moreover, the Boss wasn’t some small fry. For Luo Wensong to make an enemy of someone of comparable strength for his personal affairs—Zhang Qian didn’t think he had that much face.
“How much time is left on the deadline?” Zhang Qian asked the Waiter at his feet.
The Waiter closed his eyes, as if sensing something. After a while, he replied, “Less than three months, probably seventy or eighty days.”
“Seventy or eighty days… That’s not short.” Zhang Qian nodded.
Just a thousand bucks—not completely hopeless.
He hadn’t been a Cultivator for long, and without deliberately collecting, he’d accumulated nearly two hundred Ghost Money. If he paid more attention from now on, getting another eight hundred or so didn’t seem like a big problem.
“Ghost Tattoo, Ghost Restaurant… So are there also places like Ghost Hospital, Ghost Clothes shop? These places definitely have the most Ghost Money. He needed to explore in that direction from now on.”
