Building a sect from scratch.

Chapter 86 The Visit of the Golden-haired Bamboo Civet

After dinner, the group quickly returned to the game.

Although it's getting dark on Earth in the real world, it's afternoon in "Ten Continents Chronicles," which is not only when there are the most online players, but also when the NPCs are most active.

Thanks to the players' hard work and the NPCs' friendly assistance, "Chang'an City" has taken shape. At the players' strong request, houses for the NPCs have even been built.

These relatively simple and single-function houses are mostly located in the area closest to the valley entrance, which makes it convenient for the NPCs of Shenyou Village to work in the spirit fields. That's right, although Wang Ergou and others repeatedly stated that Chang'an City would not collect taxes on grain, medicine, or other goods, let alone a head tax, in order to improve the economic level of the villagers of Shenyou Village, everyone brainstormed and finally designed a "Shenyou Village Agricultural and Sideline Products Joint Venture Cooperative Factory", abbreviated as "Shennong Factory".

According to rumors, the player who named the factory insists that the name is just a coincidence, but no one believes him.

The NPCs at Shennong Factory will work in their spiritual fields as family units, producing abundant, high-quality agricultural and sideline products, such as spiritual herbs and plants, as well as spiritually imbued fruits, vegetables, and grains. These products will be sold to buyers in Taiping Town under the name of Shennong Factory. The escort missions will be completed by players, who will only receive a small reward.

Originally, the village chief of Shenyou Village was prepared to take 30% to 50% of the profits from Wang Ergou and the others each time. However, he did not expect that these Taiyin Sect disciples who called themselves players were so cheap. Even if it was just a few spirit herbs or a small bag of spirit wheat, there were plenty of players scrambling to do this kind of hard labor.

What surprised the NPCs even more was that the players also started buying large quantities of Shennong Factory's products. For example, a hot pot restaurant that opened next to Lu Ren Duck's milk tea shop at the entrance of the dungeon would buy large quantities of tofu and vegetables from the NPC in charge of Shennong Factory every day. This not only emptied the village's stock, but also forced many NPCs in Shenyou Village to grow fast-growing vegetables, and even the number of people raising chickens and ducks increased significantly—the players really can eat too much!
As soon as Zhao Qing logged on, she headed straight for Lu Renya's milk tea shop.

Drinking milk tea in the game won't make you fat—only newbies who haven't reached the Foundation Establishment stage get rounder from overeating and drinking. Zhao Qing has already reached the Foundation Establishment stage, so she doesn't have any worries about gaining weight! However, she painstakingly sells the materials she drops from dungeons for spirit stones, which she eats instead of drinking, which makes her quite heartbroken.

Heartbroken as I am, I'll still drink my milk tea.

But what was somewhat unexpected today was that there were many more players on the way to the milk tea shop, and some of the players who liked to chat directly in the game even reached Zhao Qing's ears.

"How cute these hamsters are!"

"Is that Totoro?"

"That's bigger than a rat! Even bamboo rats aren't that big!"

"You're cultivating immortality and you're talking to me about body shape?"

"It's definitely not a hamster!"

"Its name is 'Golden Bamboo Civet,' it's 'raccoon dog'! A civet! It must be a masked palm civet, right?"

"What nonsense are you talking about! Civets are felines, and those things with two big front teeth sticking out of their faces don't look like felines at all, okay?"

What are you cursing about?

"No, who swore? I wasn't speaking normally."

"You've already 'talked nonsense,' and you still say you didn't curse!"

"What the heck? 'Bullshit' is considered an insult? Do you think my insults are so weak?" Watching the conversation of the players ahead of her escalate to increasingly absurd levels, and hearing something about "golden-haired bamboo fox," Zhao Qing suddenly had a hunch. She quickly jogged a few steps to catch up, preventing a potential conflict arising from a North-South verbal slang term:

"Hey! Hello! What's this 'golden bamboo cat' you're talking about?"

Upon hearing Zhao Qing's question, the players indeed stopped arguing, turned to look at her ID, and excitedly exclaimed, "It's Second Senior Sister!"

"Sister Pig! I can't believe we've bumped into each other here! What a coincidence! Can I have a friend request?"

"Hey, isn't your attempt to suck up to someone a bit too obvious?"

"What's with all this nonsense? Why not just be open and honest? Are you stupid for not clinging to a powerful figure?"

Seeing that the two were about to argue again, the two friends and relatives caught in the middle immediately objected. One of the players shouted, "Stop! Can you two stop embarrassing us in front of the big shots?"

Another player kindly explained to Zhao Qing, "It's like this, a group of 'Golden Bamboo Fox Demons' just came to visit us. It seems they were invited by Chai Gou Cai Cai. Apparently, they saved Cai Cai's cabbage, and Cai Cai invited them to eat hot pot and drink milk tea to thank them. We just saw it, so we called our friends and family over to watch!"

The man from Northeast China followed up with an envious sigh: "Look at them! No wonder they're so lucky! They can even invite NPCs! Last time I wanted to bring that little girl from Divine Blessing Village out to play, she looked at me like I was a kidnapper!"

Zhao Qing glanced silently at the broadsword on the back of the Northeastern man, which was several tens of centimeters wide and comparable in size to the Dragon Slaying Saber, and at his muscles that seemed capable of killing a wild boar. She decided to remain silent on the topic, simply thanked him, and hurried to the milk tea shop.

At this time, at least thirty or forty people had gathered in front of the milk tea shop.

All that could be heard was a group of players screaming like aunties and making all sorts of squeaking noises towards the center of the crowd. Many players, disregarding their already precarious public morality, even climbed onto the roofs of the milk tea shop and hot pot restaurant in pursuit of a better view!
After all, going up onto the roof usually only deducts 10 points of public virtue. Some players who diligently do daily sect tasks but never do anything immoral have accumulated a lot of public virtue. Now, in order to see what the furry "Golden Bamboo Fox Demon" looks like, they grit their teeth and become "immoral players" for once. In private, players call those who do things that will deduct public virtue "cancer players" or "immoral players"!

Fortunately, out of fear of losing favor, everyone just watched with restraint and didn't actually pet the little bamboo raccoons. Of course, they were also embarrassed to do so because the parents were watching nearby. Jin Li had come here specifically in human form to show respect.

Only Chai Gou Cai Cai and Jia Xiao Ren, taking advantage of their proximity, used the pretext of thanking the little bamboo foxes to repeatedly pat the wooden milk tea cups they were chugging, making all the onlookers green with envy.

Zhao Qing flew over the crowd and landed in front of Shiba Inu Cai Cai, calling out, "Cai Cai! Senior Jin Li!"

Shiba Inu Cai Cai's eyes lit up: "Second Senior Sister! You're online too!"

"Oh, she's Fellow Daoist Baili's junior sister," Jin Li finally saw a "Taiyin Sect disciple" who was somewhat familiar and whose attitude towards him seemed much more normal. He secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but then he recalled the scenes he had secretly heard and seen through the little snake's perspective and asked hesitantly, "Your sect's disciples seem to be particularly enthusiastic towards demon cultivators?"

Zhao Qing first nodded to Shiba Inu Cai Cai as a greeting, then racked her brains to carefully explain to Jin Li: "Um... Senior Jin Li, it's like this, we prefer furry animals, because your kind of appearance... um, looks cute and adorable to us, so that's why we were a little rude..."

"Cute? Adorable?"

The boy-looking Jinli tilted his head in confusion.

(End of this chapter)