Guan Tong's current thinking was quite straightforward. There were two ways to transport items.
One was to let Shadow handle everything from start to finish. That is, Shadow would be responsible for the entire process of picking up and delivering the goods.
The other involved Guan Tong's personal participation. For example, using the "Body Swap" ability to exchange positions with Shadow when it reached the pickup point, then physically picking up/delivering the goods himself. After the 10-second cooldown was complete, he would swap back to the delivery location.
Regardless, he would definitely choose the first option.
The second option essentially turned him into a high-level courier, which was inefficient and also ca with risks.
If soone set a trap for you and you physically transferred over, you wouldn't even have a chance to escape when the ti ca.
Therefore, Guan Tong didn't even consider the second thod. The "Body Swap" ability was one of his life-saving trump cards. He would never easily expose it by using it for anything other than saving his own life.
After deciding on the first option, the next step was to enhance Shadow's resilience.
Resilience, as a type of defense, was actually linked to Guan Tong himself. If he wanted to enhance it separately, he could only try by adding words to the [Wordless Book].
Ever since the Ascendant Challenge Tournant ended, Guan Tong hadn't added any words to the first four pages, mainly because he didn't have any ideas.
Now that he had created the "Ascendant Ho" website and decided to make it successful, turning it into a major source of inco for himself, he needed to think around that.
So, over the next few days, Guan Tong, after a long while, resud his word-adding work.
He didn't overcomplicate things. He directly tried adding the character for "firm" or "sturdy" in front of "Five Senses Transformation Physical Form Guan Tong" on the first page.
This character represented toughness and sturdiness.
Guan Tong wanted to use the fuzzy requirent characteristic to see if he could achieve the desired effect.
To complete the test as quickly as possible, he didn't hesitate to use so of his reserve Mind Power.
Thus, in just three short days, he completed the word addition.
After finishing, he first summoned the humanoid Shadow, had it materialize, then fired a shot at it himself using the No.1 buckshot from Silver Hunt.
"Bang!"
The buckshot entered Shadow's body. Seeing this, Guan Tong frowned slightly.
The defensive power didn't seem to have increased; it was about the sa as before...
He then had Shadow transform from humanoid into a shadow line and shot at it again.
Unexpectedly, the shadow line did not break.
Was it because it was too thin and missed? Or...?
Guan Tong went back into the house, brought out a short knife, squatted down, and slashed at the shadow line.
Before the word addition, this slash would have definitely severed the shadow line. However, now it took the slash but didn't break. Only the point of impact dented inward slightly.
Guan Tong's eyes lit up. The word addition seed effective!
He slashed several more tis in succession and even tried summoning three living dead, having them stack up and press down on it. The shadow line still didn't break.
This level of resilience completely exceeded his expectations.
It seems the [Wordless Book] partially fulfilled my requirent. It only strengthened Shadow's resilience in its short, thin state, not its defensive power when in humanoid form, or when materialized in large volus.
Next, Guan Tong conducted a strength test.
Still a hair-thin shadow line, he tried having it materialize and wrap around a small stone. It could drag it. Wrapping around a slightly larger stone, dragging beca sowhat strenuous. For anything larger, it simply couldn't move it at all.
However, if one loop wasn't enough, use ten loops. If ten weren't enough, use a hundred. As long as the length was sufficient and the number of wraps was enough, it could eventually drag the object.
This preliminarily solved the problem of moving goods.
But solving one problem left others. The most pressing issue was stealth.
An ethereal Shadow could burrow into any physical object to hide, but a materialized Shadow would inevitably be exposed. If the goods needing transport were placed inside a sealed room, the shadow line would definitely cause damage to the room when exiting.
Therefore, at this stage, it was best to transport items outdoors.
Guan Tong thought it over and decided that just simulating scenarios in his head wasn't enough; he needed actual practice.
He returned to his room and opened the Commissions section of the Ascendant Ho website.
The previous post from soone who wanted the officially issued "Anti-speech Masks" delivered within the city was still there, and soone from a city gathering point had already replied, offering to sell them.
The two had even agreed on a price; they just didn't know how to complete the transaction.
Guan Tong pulled both of them into a discussion group and was the first to send a ssage.
Administrator: "Have you two finalized the commission details?"
Not long after the ssage was sent, both replied.
Black Stone (Commissioner): "Is that the Administrator?"
Wind-like Sky (Acceptor): "It really is Administrator! Why did you create a discussion group?"
Black Stone: "Could it be that the Administrator has a way to help us complete the transaction?"
Administrator: "First, tell
the specifics you've agreed upon."
Black Stone: "Okay. I have a camp out in the wilderness and need so officially produced anti-speech masks."
Administrator: "There are still about ten days left before the rule ends. Are you sure you still need them?"
Black Stone: "It's precisely because ti is running out that I need them! Many people in my camp are almost at their breaking point. Yesterday, soone who couldn't take it anymore scread out loud, and the result... The closer it gets to the critical final mont, the harder it is to endure!"
Guan Tong nodded. He actually had similar feelings himself. It was just that his personality was relatively placid, so he could still hold on.
Black Stone: "This buddy and I have already discussed it. We'll use Ascension Coins to buy them, 100 coins per mask. We plan to get 10."
Wind-like Sky: "That's right. My gathering point issued one mask per person, but over these days, several people accidentally made sounds and died, and a few more who couldn't take it ended their own lives. Their masks were left unused, so I collected them all. The officials won't take them back anyway. Wouldn't it be great to sell them for so Ascension Coins?"
So that's how it was...
After reading both descriptions, Guan Tong understood the situation.
Wind-like Sky: "But the transportation aspect is a problem. I definitely can't leave the city. Forget leaving the city; even stepping outside the gathering point, if a drone captures my face, I might get questioned! There was this guy before who went out for a stroll, and the officials ca to his door and gave him a good lecture, saying it's best not to go out during the rule period."
Black Stone: "Since the Administrator pulled us into this group, do you have a way to help us complete the transaction?"
Administrator: "I can help you, but it's a paid service. A transportation fee is required."
Black Stone: "No problem, that's only fair. We certainly can't expect the Administrator to help for free."
Wind-like Sky: "I agree too. But how much is this service fee?"
Guan Tong thought about it and decided to charge a percentage of the transaction amount.
If it were a fixed fee, whether set high or low, or a tiered pricing based on transaction amount, it would be troubleso and might lead to user dissatisfaction later.
A fixed percentage commission was the fairest.
Administrator: "A 10% commission based on the transaction amount. Each party pays 5%. Or, you can discuss and have one party bear the full 10%."
Wind-like Sky: "A 10% transportation fee on the transaction amount?! Damn, Administrator, you're way too ruthless!"
Hearing this, Guan Tong typed his reply without changing his expression.
Administrator: "Where's the ruthlessness? It's not easy for
either. Maintaining the website, providing long-distance transportation—these all require high costs."
Black Stone: "I can accept 10%. Although it's a bit much, I can understand. After all, the Administrator can transport things out of the city under the Warti Managent State. Not only is there risk involved, but it definitely requires trendous effort too."
Wind-like Sky: "Then I guess I have to accept it too... No choice. Who else but you, Administrator, has this capability? You totally deserve to make money!"
Administrator: "100 coins per mask, you want to trade 10, so the transaction amount is 1000 coins. 10% is 100 coins. Each person bears 50, right?"
Wind-like Sky: "No problem."
Black Stone: "No problem. But how exactly do we do the transaction? We need to add each other as friends on the Terminal, right?"
Administrator: "Send
your digital IDs."
Wind-like Sky: "Administrator, why don't you send us your ID? Hehe, are you afraid of exposing your identity?"
Adding friends on the Terminal requires one party to know the other's digital ID.
You input the other party's digital ID to add them. After adding, unless you actively disclose it, the other party cannot view your digital ID, Mind Power, or other related privacy. All they can see is a nickna—but since Guan Tong was going to do website business, he definitely needed to change his original nickna.
Simultaneously, the other party only exposes their digital ID. Other aspects remain hidden unless they actively disclose them.
If you don't even want to leak your digital ID, then have others tell you theirs, instead of you telling them yours.
As the Administrator, Guan Tong was definitely in the position to ask users for their IDs, not the other way around. That would be turning the natural order upside down.
Black Stone: "No problem, I'll privately send it to you, Administrator."
Wind-like Sky: "I've privately sent mine too."
Both sent their digital IDs to Guan Tong via private ssage on the forum.
Guan Tong didn't add them imdiately. Instead, he first opened his Personal Terminal and modified his nickna.
Although many people on the forum suspected that he, the Administrator, was Shadow himself, suspicion was just suspicion, without any real evidence.
If he added them as friends and people saw that his Administrator nickna was "Shadow," it would be no different from admitting it himself.
Guan Tong thought about it and directly changed his nickna to "Administrator of Ascendant Ho."
That's right. As a qualified administrator, he should spare no effort in advertising his own website.
Then, using the digital IDs, he added both as friends.
Since he hadn't set his information to public, the two could see nothing except his nickna.
Administrator: "Friend requests sent. Now send
your geographical locations. Don't be vague; preferably include detailed coordinates."
The two then privately sent Guan Tong their locations.
Wind-like Sky was in Lipuo City, approximately three hundred kiloters away from Mingdao Mountain where Guan Tong was.
The coordinate location sent by Black Stone was also over two hundred kiloters away from him.
Neither place was particularly close, but they weren't extrely far either.
Next, Guan Tong confird with Wind-like Sky the type of gathering point he was at, learning that the latter was in a hospital.
Guan Tong opened a satellite map on his computer, found that hospital, looked at it from various angles, and selected a "pickup location."
That was the hospital windowsill. He instructed Wind-like Sky to pack those masks, place them on the windowsill, and keep the window open. This way, the shadow line could later climb up the wall and retrieve the items without damaging the structure.
But the route from entering the city to the hospital needed careful planning. Guan Tong didn't want his transport process to be discovered by official patrol vehicles or drones, as that might draw attention and cause trouble.
He then focused intently on studying the map route, with more concentration than when he was preparing for the college entrance exams.
Because this was the first order for his "Shadow Logistics." Although the 100 Ascension Coin transportation fee was nothing to his current net worth of several hundred thousand, if this process could be successfully executed, it represented future inco worth millions, tens of millions, even billions. He had to take it seriously.
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