Li Ang was in a good mood and casually asked, "What are the conditions?"
The mule chuckled, glanced around the inside of the Immaculate Furnace Shop, and said, "Do you need any employees in your shop?"
"Hmm?"
Li Ang raised an eyebrow and asked, "What do you an?"
"You run this shop all by yourself, don't you?"
The mule said, "Stocking goods, restocking, responding to surgery appointnts, performing modification surgeries...
You don't spend much ti in Ga Square, and whenever you log in, you handle everything personally.
Also, because you're unwilling to accept friend requests, ordinary custors who want to book a surgery can only leave a ssage on the board and wait for you to contact them.
This leads to so custors with urgent modification surgery needs, who are willing to pay more, having to wait in line like everyone else.
By the ti it's their turn, they might have already turned to other large organizations for help, or worse, if they're unlucky, died in a script task due to lack of strength.
It makes you miss out on many opportunities to earn commissions."
"Hmm."
Li Ang nodded. The players' friend function can ignore spatial distances and allow real-ti conversations without delay, usable both inside and outside the square.
The friend list has a cap of 999, and if you want more, you can spend 1000 points to increase the space by 20 slots.
Players can add friends through nicknas and specific IDs, and after the recent version update, there's an extra option to "add teammates from the last ga as friends," making it more user-friendly.
Ever since the Door Struggle began, Li Ang's friend request list has been full at 99 , and when he checked, he found all sorts of people,
like those who think he's strong and want to add him as a friend;
or those who are bored and just want to see if the account is inactive, adding him for fun—these people leave notes like "1111," "test," or "are you there are you there are you there" in their friend requests.
There are even so who send their photos in an attempt to flirt—both n and won.
Besides that, there are custors from the Immaculate Furnace;
Generally speaking, after clearly posting the service list and prices, most new players who lack financial strength will choose to back off,
but there are still a small number of newbies who, for so reason, clearly can't afford the modification services yet still apply for surgery appointnts or try to add Li Ang as a friend.
The reasons are bizarre—
"Mr. Store Manager of Immaculate Furnace, I'm a newbie still in school and don't have much money. Can you help
and do a surgery for free? When I level up, I'll be able to repay you soon. Please believe , boo hoo hoo."
"Hello, Store Manager of the Immaculate Furnace, I'm also a player focused on the dical support system. I've been following you for a while and always hear that your modification projects are amazing. I have a few friends who had surgeries at your place, and I personally love your modification approach. Could you share your techniques with ? I have over three thousand followers on the forum, and with my promotion, I can definitely help you beco popular. I hope you won't miss this opportunity."
"Store Manager, I'm your loyal fan. I don't have much money right now and can't afford the surgery fees, but I have so rare materials, like the skin of a wild Ultraman from the M78 Nebula, a shovel used by a white-headed tiger, and the coffin board of an ancient mummy. Could I use these materials to offset the cost?"
Such inexplicable players make up a small half, while the remaining majority of custor friend requests are much more normal,
either expressing doubts, inquiring about the detailed procedures and post-operative effects, or being tight on budget, hoping Li Ang could offer a discount, or approaching a script task, hoping Li Ang could prioritize them on the surgery list.
Li Ang, when free, occasionally looks through the notes attached to these friend requests, but he never responds.
Besides business custors from the Immaculate Furnace, those trying to add Li Ang as a friend include lobbyists from large organizations—
These people consistently try to invite him to join their organizations, promising negotiable benefits, fancy cars, beautiful won, luxury villas, everything included, and offering perfect-level equipnt as gifts isn't out of the question.
If he's not willing to join, they offer other cooperation plans,
like large organizations investing in Li Ang's Immaculate Furnace Shop, helping him expand the shop, increase staff, and optimize processes, with Li Ang acting as an advisor, occasionally guiding the dical support players of the large organizations, recruiting them as apprentices (for which they would pay a considerable training fee),
while still maintaining control over the Immaculate Furnace, with all profits split seventy-thirty (Li Ang taking seventy percent), providing him with a constant source of inco.
It must be said that the conditions proposed by large organizations are quite favorable—they have their information networks and can calculate the shop's money-making potential based on the Immaculate Furnace Shop's daily custor flow and service price list,
formulating a win-win agreent that is both profitable and satisfying for Li Ang.
However, Li Ang isn't very interested. If he truly wanted to make money, why collaborate with others?
Having his brain worms acquire player qualifications, directly working for him in Ga Square would be much better, requiring no wages, and the brain worms specialized in bio-modification could assist him with surgeries.
The only concern is that player qualifications co with countless possible opportunities, and there's a certain probability that might allow the brain worms to break free from the hive's control.
This is the biggest risk.
Similarly, Li Ang wouldn't risk letting large organizations involve themselves in his core business, potentially gaining insight into his power system.
Besides, even if Li Ang were willing to teach the Origin of Life and Swamp God Power, no one could likely learn it.
Li Ang outright rejected these friend requests,
resulting in the highly paid lobbyists coming up with one plan after another, shifting tactics to appeal to parts Li Ang might be interested in.
For instance, rare magical beast biological samples, dical surgery skill books, etc.
Or, adding so inexplicable flirtatious words and pin-up photos of girls after the legitimate business cooperation requests:
"Canned peaches have a shelf life of 15 months, cola should be drunk within 24 hours after opening, and hickeys fade in about a week. It seems everything has a tiline. How boring is that? I prefer things that follow no rules, like lying on a tree watching the stars, and suddenly the shop manager brother falls into my arms."
"Good evening, shop manager brother! It's really cold these days, you must dress warmly when going ho! Long socks, a cotton jacket, you need to have them all! Don't forget the thermal pants! Take good care not to catch a cold! Love you ＾3＾"
"Jumping trees and shadows, pretending not to blink, as I follow your steps, stopping and starting, mystifying, hoping for your response, the guidance of your smile, a sweet crisis, a sweet glass candy, for the dearest shop manager uncle ????"
I have to say, the dedication and skill level of these paid lobbyists is unbelievable, and their photoshop skills are top-notch,
even making Li Ang, when he's free, co online to check what new antics they've co up with—
This behavior stopped when the lobbyist groups started sending him photos of abs fitness male models and slender young n's selfies.
"Uh..."
Li Ang smacked his lips, recalling the bombardnt of friend requests.
"Since you don't like collaborating with those large organizations,"
The mule chuckled and said, "How about I introduce you to a cashier?"
"A cashier?"
Li Ang was a bit surprised, "You?"
"My younger sister, the one I brought to your shop for surgery last ti."
The mule raised his chin slightly, "How about it? She'll handle the store's surgery appointnts.
Custors add her as a friend, state their requests. Those urgent and willing to pay extra will have their information sent to you.
Prevents missing opportunities—those who switch to another organization or died won't co back to the Immaculate Furnace Shop to erase the ssages on their application forms.
You'd waste ti logging in again next ti.
She can also handle restocking and supplies for the shop, saving you from running back and forth.
As for the pay...
Just decide for yourself."
"Hmm?"
Li Ang raised an eyebrow, thinking it was a good idea to have soone at the front as a cashier, plus the mule was a fairly close friend, so anyone introduced by him couldn't be too bad.
Connections, your own people, trustworthy.
"Okay, go ahead and have her co over."
Li Ang nodded, "But, have you run into so trouble recently?"
Just before logging off to return to the real world, the mule's body stiffened almost imperceptibly, and with a casual smile, asked, "Why do you say that?"
"Judging by my assessnt of you, we have relatively similar personalities. You'd definitely go to great lengths to reduce the risk to people you care about being exposed."
Li Ang spread his hands and said casually, "Although we're good friends, we've never t in the real world.
If you're asking her to work here, it's possible that you've encountered so trouble in the real world that you can't solve and want to find a way out for your sister.
After all, as you said yourself, the job she's applying for is a cashier, spending a lot of ti at the Ga Square—a refuge away from the Star Gate disaster in the real world?
Or is soone chasing you in the mortal realm?"
"..."
The mule was silent for a while, just as she vaguely guessed that Li Ang was gradually revealing his true strength, Li Ang had also guessed the troubles she faced.
"Combined with your personal strength and the high-quality equipnt and items purchased with money, your overall strength is quite good.
Facing players in the top twenty on the individual combat power rankings, winning would be difficult, but escaping shouldn't be an issue."
After ascending to demigod, Li Ang watched the video of the portal capture battle again and gained further understanding of each player's strength displayed.
"Besides, with Wu Dai's help—I know you two have been frequently in touch, and you lent the Catastrophe chanical Golem to her.
There should be few individuals or forces capable of threatening you."
Li Ang frowned and said, "Moreover, pursuing a broker who holds many secrets is inherently risky and low-cost-effective—the broker could easily have stored the confidential information elsewhere, ready to release half of it to the public network in the mortal realm upon capture.
Unless it's not the deadly information in your possession that concerns them, but rather a deep-seated personal vendetta..."
In just a few seconds, Li Ang had deduced the predicant the mule was in based on her current situation and behavior.
The latter stood in place, remaining silent, and Li Ang nonchalantly waved his hand, "Wu Dai has considerable power in the real world and maintains a harmonious relationship with the Special Affairs Bureau.
If you wanted to entrust your cherished one, you didn't ask her but instead ca to .
The most likely scenario is that the force you've provoked is either the Special Affairs Bureau, or another large organization of equal level capable of pressuring or maintaining good relations with the Special Affairs Bureau—
European Heavy Industry Group? Federal Bureau of Investigation's Supernatural Accident Place? Or the Global Occult Coalition?"
"... Phew."
The mule exhaled a breath of impure air, stood upright, and nodded, "Sorry, I do have so selfish motives in this matter.
I'll find another trustworthy cashier..."
"It's okay."
Li Ang chuckled, "You just wanted to find a reliable way out for your family, not explicitly asking
to help solve your troubles or directly defy a large organization to protect you. That shows you consider
a friend.
Hmm...
The cashier application, I've agreed, so find a ti for her to co work.
Moreover, if you need assistance in terms of force, I can help too—as a rcenary and friend."
"You're willing to help?"
The mule asked in surprise. The other's personality was always cautious,
except for once a long ti ago when she introduced a task related to Dusheng Village (where the employer, invited by Li Ang, ended up dead, losing both the money and his life).
There's been no further real-world contact with Li Ang since.
"Yeah."
Li Ang nodded casually, as the Star Gate mutation is about to break out, with unidentified jumpers and Forever Species on the rise.
The disguise draped over him would eventually be torn away proactively or passively.
Li Ang had few friends, and the mule seed to be walking the sa lonely path of revenge he once did—her path seed even harder than his.
Besides...
Li Ang was also eager to know just how high his actual strength was,
and how much difference there was with others in the sa group.
"Thank you."
The mule slowly nodded, "I'll bring my sister over for an internship now, and you can introduce her to the cashier job processes.
I'll bring those two Perfect Level items later.
As for the hiring matter, if needed, I'll contact you through friend communication."
"Okay."
Li Ang nodded, watching the mule's disappearing figure, he drank his cup of tea,
while waiting for the mule to log back on, he casually turned on the TV hanging at the front of the cashier desk at an angle.
The TV was broadcasting a series of stories about the consecutive deaths of forr senior leaders of the United States intelligence agency.
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