Chapter 236: Space Shopping
“Captain, as you said, the path to the Underground World is currently occupied by the newcomer trials. Does Happy Home still need to continue executing new missions? Gather formal employees and open a new map?”
The latter was surprised upon hearing this: “Do you really want to execute missions? Your last exploration of the Underground World was pretty good, suitable as a raw material supply base for Mao Mao King. According to my plan, for the foreseeable future, you just need to go back and forth to this Bubble World, further developing and strategizing it. It’s both safe and offers benefits, isn’t it better than risking your life exploring unknown Bubble Worlds?”
In Yuan Zhu’s cognition, Happy Home should be like ‘Infinite Terror. East Continent Squad’, continuously entering high-risk Bubble Worlds to die, satisfying Mao Mao King’s twisted hobbies. Kill off a batch of employees, immediately recruit newcomers, replace them, using a gu-raising elimination system.
But now it seems, Happy Home lives up to its name, truly a very loving big family.
Although they still have to risk life and death exploring Bubble Worlds, the captain is there throughout to protect and escort them. Once a world with utilization value is discovered, it immediately turns into colonial development mode, emphasizing warmth, security, and growth potential.
Even the main mission is set very perfunctorily, emphasizing that anyone can pass it, and you won’t die unless you court death. If you want excess rewards, you can go solo and strive; or overfulfill Mao Mao King’s KPI to claim excess returns.
Yuan Zhu: “Uh… I realize our Happy Home is not like the Main God Space in novels. It’s neither cruel nor terrifying, but very harmonious. Even without signing Anti-Law with Mao Mao King, the captain still takes good care of us.”
The captain replied: “Even without signing Anti-Law, you’re still working for Mao Mao King, creating value. Regarding mission intensity, I’d like to assign you high-difficulty worlds, but your strength doesn’t allow it. As for bloody, cruel elimination modes, Mao Mao King is young and can’t stand them, and I don’t want to instill wrong concepts in her.”
“However, among other space squads, there are indeed types like you described. Some demon gods join the Space of Gods just to raise gu and fight crickets for fun. They even hold ‘team battle tournaments’ regularly to enjoy the pleasure of team members struggling for survival and fierce combat. But our Happy Home is more pragmatic, themed around business exploration, trying to cultivate members as much as possible. Though in future missions, we might encounter other ‘squads’, so be mentally prepared.”
Yuan Zhu: “Then shall we start a new mission?”
Captain: “No! If you’re interested, you can self-fund by recharging to fill that crystal pillar, pull people yourself, and start a private trip. To enter the Underground World, just wait three days. Once I complete the deployment in the Underground World, I’ll gather you to explore the new world.”
“Alright!” Yuan Zhu nodded helplessly, thinking carefully that three days wasn’t much. He could use this time to prepare the arms that A Miao transported back, and do a stint as a ‘transdimensional reseller’.
“Captain, I have another question to consult. Meng Xi and I plan to do a little business, transporting clean, cheap but valuable supplies scarce in the Underground World there, trading them for expensive ‘extraordinary medicinal herbs, pills’ and bringing them back to the present world… Do you think it’s feasible? It won’t require a huge price like bringing people out, right?”
The captain thought for a moment and said: “The restrictions on simply carrying supplies back to the present world aren’t high, still following the ‘easy in, hard out’ principle. Those living insect eggs/dao seeds need to be inactivated first. I suggest you transport supplies from reality into the Bubble World, then sell the traded ‘goods’ to the Space of Gods for points, and bring only a small amount of precious resources directly back to the present world—that’s more cost-effective.”
“So, is the plan feasible?”
The captain nodded: “Feasible! In the Space of Gods, the vast majority of teams allow members to make some small money within their capabilities. Whether transporting supplies from the main world into Bubble Worlds, or exchanging rare resources from the exchange list for purchasing agent services, these are the most basic ways to get rich. It’s physical labor, earning hard money.”
“But you’re different! Haven’t you already completed Anti-Law registration? And you early on created a corresponding Shadow Territory in the Underground World. This time entering the Bubble World, you can fully act as a loan agent for the Shadow Demon God behind you, spread the other’s shadow pollution, and harvest far more than cross-time-space supply transport.”
With that, the captain revealed a knowing ‘I get you’ expression.
Happy Home’s strongest brain supplement king, the moment Yuan Zhu entered the space, observed that familiar, intense, and unstable Anti-Law fluctuation.
He could tell at a glance that Yuan Zhu had just completed Anti-Law registration not long ago, combined with his exploration of the Shadow Domain after entering the Underground World, and the development and utilization of the shadow dream hole.
Combined with Yuan Zhu’s previous anomalies, he instantly deduced a new version of the ’cause and effect’!
Back then, when Yuan Zhu tried unsuccessfully to sell him the Disease Garden and indirectly inquired about Anti-Law system employment, he guessed the young man’s lucky encounter was stumbling upon an ownerless Disease Garden, encountering half a dead ‘disease demon god’ corpse inside.
Thus, Candle could super-speed brand the holy mark + seal casting + condense soul crystal in an extremely short time; and fantasize open Three Phases to part-time Anti-Law, using the disease demon god’s corpse as pollution source to go high-ranking and lend.
However, Candle’s shadow uniform, and subsequent actions in the Bubble World, broke his inference. But now, he brain supplemented a new ‘truth’!
Candle’s lucky encounter wasn’t picking up half a demon god corpse in an ownerless Disease Garden; it was encountering a gravely wounded, near-death Shadow Demon God inside the Disease Garden!
The shadow system demon god and disease system origin both suffered losses, and were encountered by the youth. Thus, the other party formed a connection with the Shadow Demon God, freely refining pollution to elevate holy light, and gained dominion over shadow power.
All this manifested in the Bubble World’s Shadow Domain. A mere ‘holy light newcomer’ could open a shadow dream hole, something only a heaven rank qi refiner could do, far exceeding his own ability limit.
And relying on the shadow dream hole to create a ‘three-layer shadow domain’, that’s fundamentally demon god work! Having nothing to do with Yuan Zhu.
Thus, the Happy Brain Supplement King saw through everything!
In the captain’s eyes, Yuan Zhu was eagerly inquiring about Three-Phase Power, wanting to loan for Anti-Law.
Clearly, after encountering the Shadow Demon God back then, to survive, he had no choice but to compromise and cooperate mutually.
To revive, the demon god gave him part of the shadow authority, making Yuan Zhu an agent. This allowed him to easily open a shadow dream hole inside the Bubble World. And using it as base to create a domain.
As the price, Candle was inevitably pinned down by the other. So in Happy Home, he decisively chose holy light as main cultivation system for confrontation.
But that’s far from enough—a mere 1-seal soul crystal, how could it oppose demon god power?
Especially the opening of the shadow domain, signaling the demon god would accelerate revival. Thus Candle went mad, barely qualifying at seed level, forcibly opening Three Phases, then registering Anti-Law. Shadow.
The goal was to preempt the Shadow Demon God’s revival, in its weakest state, forcibly turn the ‘authority’ he grasped into Anti-Law. Pollution Root, consolidating his own rights, not to be discarded after use.
Only Anti-Law perfectly matches, countering the Shadow Demon God, hijacking part of its origin. Allowing Candle to share this power as partner and spokesperson, achieving each other mutually.
Though just brain supplement, all of Candle’s exhibited signs fit his guess.
In fact, if Yuan Zhu knew the captain’s conjecture, he could only say ‘awesome!’ Except the other didn’t anticipate that the Shadow Demon God (Tiger Demon) was himself, everything else fit perfectly.
So facing the captain’s eerie ‘I know everything’ expression, Yuan Zhu suddenly felt uncomfortably seen through. Naively thinking his secret was really pierced by the captain? His heart tensed involuntarily.
Seeing Candle’s thief-hearted guilty expression, the captain grew even more convinced of his idea, smiling more amiably. He just appreciated Candle’s daring, ambitious, idea-having, achievement-capable, and highly motivated striving type! As fellow Anti-Law (high-ranking) contestants, he seemed to see his younger self.
Every time the other returned to Happy Home, he was either asking ‘has the spacetime coordinate anchoring been done?’ or urging ‘quickly start a new mission!’. Mao Mao King needs talents like you who roll inside!
Thus, the two suspicious riddlemen exchanged a glance, maintaining tacit understanding, not spelling it out. True riddlemen sparring is about enjoying this unspoken mutual understanding.
Snake Snake: “Boss, his eyes are so sleazy, what exactly is he thinking, hinting at?”
“How would I know?”
Captain: “In the future, if your boss has good business, don’t forget Mao Mao King.”
Yuan Zhu, with clear eyes, nodded to show understanding: “Oh!”
Oh damn! Do I have a boss?
Snake Snake: “Boss, your boss wouldn’t be the Tiger Demon behind the Shadow Domain, right? He wouldn’t have mistaken you for Tiger Demon’s Anti-Law. Professional Manager, right? Just like he’s working for Anti-Law. Luxury Children’s Wear?”
“…” Yuan Zhu was silent for a moment, then acknowledged: “It’s pretty similar.”
“How do I bring ‘bulk supplies’ from the real world into Happy Home, and how to deliver them into the Bubble World?”
Captain: “Simple. When in the real world, go to the side of the supplies first. Then consume ‘coins’, but choose not to enter Happy Home. At that time, you’ll feel a ‘suction force’, control this ‘suction force’ to envelop the supplies you selected. They will consume this power to teleport the supplies into Happy Home.”
“The more ‘coins’ you consume, the stronger the ‘suction force’ generated, and the more supplies you can transport. Don’t use too many coins at once, or the ‘suction force’ will be too strong, and after transporting supplies, it’ll still be unused and wasted. As for teleporting supplies from the space to the Bubble World, it’s the same action, just consume coins.”
“So simple!”
Yuan Zhu tallied the black coins in his hand. Originally only for his own entry and exit, occasionally paying in the exchange list to open individual high-level trading zones, he still had a large surplus, far from running out.
But now involving ‘transdimensional reseller’, this amount of coins immediately became scarce. Who knows how many shipments this quantity can handle? Better to quickly open the nightmare smuggling channel as the best policy!
“Anything else?”
Yuan Zhu shook his head: “No! Captain, can I buy another set of uniform? This equipment is comfortable to wear and highly practical.”
“Of course! Mao Mao King. Silk Luxury Goods, in grade and potential, equivalent to holy seal + soul crystal. If you had abandoned holy light back then, even without signing Anti-Law with Mao Mao King, simply using the uniform as foundation, absorbing other pollution to continuously feed and grow the uniform, you still would have qualified to breakthrough seed, becoming a unique transcendent.”
Yuan Zhu got a bit interested: “In that case, what system would the ‘uniform ability user’ who breakthroughs to seed belong to? Would it still count in Mao Mao King’s supernatural system?”
“Not belonging. That situation is stepping on Mao Mao King’s ‘uniform’ to go high-ranking; like the qi refiners in the underground world stepping on Kunlun Immortal Path, knight system to go high-ranking, but essentially insect pollution. Indiscriminately filling the uniform, what it ultimately condenses, I’m not sure. In your case… I guess probably a brand new shadow seed.”
Yuan Zhu: “Then if I buy several sets of uniforms to bring back to the main world, distribute to others, infuse holy light or other energy to make new seeds and sell to others. All this has nothing to do with Mao Mao King? This is something I can do?”
Captain nodded: “Of course! Mao Mao King is a commercial deity, luxury clothing is made to be traded and sold. After selling, how it’s used is entirely up to the buyer.”
“Straightforward!”
Yuan Zhu gave the captain a thumbs up, and reflected on his own behavior. Others dare casually buy and freely create Mao Mao King’s uniforms. Yet he cultivates goblins but insists on uniform ‘shadow pollution + imprisonment’, striving to control them in hand, eliminating escape possibilities.
The gap, the vision, far inferior to Mao Mao King, needs self-reflection!
After brief self-reflection, he decided to further intensify control over goblins in strength and methods. Find ways to elevate Anti-Law, strive to develop mass-popularizable ‘slave contracts, mental pollution, faith control’… etc.
He placed his hand on the stone pillar again, entering the Mao Mao King exchange zone, quickly finding the flagship product uniform, each priced at 500 points.
So expensive?! Looks like Happy Home’s entry welfare is really not bad, free uniform.
Snake Snake: “This uniform’s pricing comes entirely from Mao Mao King! Exclusive business, she can sell at whatever price she wants!”
He continued browsing the ‘product description’, discovering this uniform’s abilities were indeed not bad.
Before filling and feeding ‘pollution’, it already had basic quality enhancement, neural reaction reinforcement, pollution resistance, mental resistance… self-repair, never wear and tear, and other series of practical minor abilities.
As for that never wear and tear, it’s not the uniform being invulnerable to all magic. Rather, when the uniform’s destruction wear reaches no less than 30%, it can quickly self-proliferate and repair via bathing in moonlight, eating flesh, absorbing energy, etc.
But when the uniform is at full status, the threads’ extra proliferation expansion cannot exceed 30% of the total.
Once the uniform absorbs a certain energy, it will alienate, from then on absorbing corresponding ‘polluting energy’ allows quick repair, and derives related attribute abilities.
Though tempted, he still only bought one! Hmm, give to Nie Yin to boost PUA strategy progress, younger brother next time! After all, younger brother only spends money, brings no economic output; but Nie Yin + uniform can greatly elevate safety index, defense and combat power both improved, more efficiently generating revenue for him.
After getting a set of uniform, Yuan Zhu continued browsing the exchange list, even searching for little pumpkin related info, discovering this thing in the Space of Gods sells for 3-?? points varying?
“Huh, why the price difference?”
After carefully browsing, he found the pendant-level little pumpkin gifted by Star Realm Bank was an innately malnourished variety, diameter about 3cm, internal space also small. Above that, star realm pumpkin clan could cultivate even higher quality space pumpkins, internal space from backpack to suitcase to larger spaces…
This type of space equipment is no longer ‘gift grade’, thus not available at Star Realm Bank.
Closing the exchange list, Yuan Zhu bid farewell to the captain with a brand new set of uniform, returning to Running.
