2nd Day (1)

"Take a seat," Yue Qiang shows his palm towards the seat, a gesture that hints the youngster to sit over there. As for Zhang Hao Ming, he was seated next to Yue Qiang, symbolizing the position between seller and buyer.

"What are you waiting for? Let me take a look at the goods you're so eager to sell." having no need to discuss menial matters, Yue Qiang went straight to the point asking to see the gold.

The moment the 50 gold plates are placed on the table, his eyes shined like a woman looking at jewelry. His mind has started to calculate the current market price, how much extra work needed, and of course, the rates he's going to offer.

After thinking about it for a while, Yue Qiang decided to play this safe and take less risk.

"Big brother Yue Qiang, these gold are all authentic, 24 carats quality. Please take consideration of our business dealing for so long and give me an accurate price," Zhang Hao Ming said.

"It is not an act of gentleman if I tried to cut the commission too much. How about this..." Yue Qiang took a glance at Zhang Qin Feng's expression before he continued.

"Since it's Xiao Feng's first time participating in our deal, I should give him a bonus as a token of luck and blessings. Let's do this at 300,000 dollars per kilogram. 50 pieces here, the total would be 1.5 million dollars. Deal?"

Yue Qiang's offer stands nicely between under and upper market value.

Since the offer was above what they're expecting, the uncle-nephew duo agreed with the suggestion instantly. 1 million dollars is transferred to Zhang Hao Ming's account, while the remaining 500 thousand dollars entered Qin Feng's account.

By giving a million dollars as a family gesture, Zhang Qin Feng officially takes over the General Store that can bring people to the X31-ITE dimension.

Zhang Qin Feng believes that if he works harder, getting another 1.5 million dollars will not be an issue. Furthermore, there are another 40 pieces of the gold plate back in the General Store, he has nothing to worry about.

"Let's go to Long Yi Cuisine Courtyard! I heard that their roast lamb leg with cumin herb taste extraordinary." Zhang Hao Ming suggested.

"Why not?" Zhang Qin Feng smiled.

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Back to the General Store again, the uncle-nephew duo shared a bed together before Zhang Hao Ming left tomorrow in the morning. Of course, it was his last service to Zhang Qin Feng and answered most of the questions that did not run across him earlier.

The next morning, Zhang Hao Ming left quietly without waking up his nephew. After all, the youngster may take some time to digest the information he shared last night.

At 11.30pm afternoon, Zhang Qin Feng placed 12 Red Meteorite Cores into the generator, hence activating the crucial travel for dimension travel. As for the remaining half an hour of wait, he took the initiative to get in touch with suppliers introduced by his uncle.

"Hello, Mr. Wang. I am Zhang Qin Feng, my uncle Zhang Hao Ming introduced me to you in regards to canned food supplies..."

"Yes, Mr. Zhou, from today onwards, I will be getting in touch with you on the dried goods. Yes, I understand. Yes..."

"Mr. Chen..."

After getting in touch with the supplies and made an estimated order worth 100,000 dollars, the time finally here for the dimension travel. There were no tremors nor blinking lights, but the view outside already turned into a bloody afternoon.

"The food shop is opened! Quickly!" the crowd around his General Store rushed over and allowed Zhang Qin Feng to starts his business.

"3 Soft Rolls,"

"2 bottles of drinking water,"

"A bar of chocolate,"

"Canned beef stew and chicken curry? Here you go."

The number of clients continued to grow until 2pm on his wristwatch. Taking a short break before he continued, Zhang Qin Feng sticks a piece of paper on the wall, with three rules that he has to follow no matter what happened.

--Rule 1--

If the owner of the General Store is threatened, there are two choices of options. The store owner blacklists the target and prevents him from accessing the shop to purchase any commodities in-store. Or, moving the generator and establish the General Store at a different location.

--Rule 2--

The owner is protected within the General Store, but not outside. And experiment outside of the store will not be protected. Locals in Dimension X31-ITE are not allowed to enter the store at all, no matter how urgent.

--Rule 3--

As long the owner is capable of making things happen, the General Store will not restrict any action and decision that does not break the 2nd rule. Profit or loss will be liable to the owner only.

Zhang Qin Feng returned to his seat after he reread what was written on the paper. As the business was somewhat slow today, he had some extra time to loiter around the General Store.

The apocalypse is a fact, no matter from which way he's trying to look. Strolling outside of the General Store, the bloodstains, living corpses, and scary sound from the surrounding scares Zhang Qin Feng.

Zhang Qin Feng was positive at first, but his first encounter with a survivor told him that he's too naive!

As he's trying to greet the survivor coming to him, he was pointed with a modern handgun. Luckily, it was just a warning instead of a threat because there's wolf-like beast chasing him.

He returned into the General Store asap after the shock. By taking a short break to calm himself down, there's something printed on the goods trading machine with some items rolled inside.

It was two young ladies in jeans and a t-shirt. But the receipt on their hand is much more precious than anything else.

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QIN-FENG GOODS TRADING (UPDATED)

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Deposit:

[1] Tianlang Electronic's Meteorite Battery / Perfect Condition **40**

[2] Tianlang Equipment's Universal Charger / Broken **5**

[3] Military Expertise Co. General Recovery / Expired **5**

[4] Military Expertise Co. General Vaccine / Expired **5**

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Issued:

(55) Red Meteorite Core

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"What the hell? The server actually offered to pay 40 credits for the perfect condition battery. What kind of item is that?" Zhang Qin Feng issued them the payment to them, but they did not make any purchase at all before they left.

"Well... I guess I am not that good looking as I thought. There go two perfectly fine girls out of my sight." Zhang Qin Feng raised his shoulder up and down a few times as he complains.

"It's not like I have no money in hand. Maybe I'll go back home at the weekend and visit my parents after collecting what I've ordered before I came here." Zhang Qin Feng planned his weekend schedule.

At midnight, he returned to his world once again.

Although it was his second experience in that world, he somehow has anticipation to quickly get back there to keep the business open.

After a shower and booze session, Zhang Qin Feng went to the workshop again, as he remembered what his uncle mentioned on that night.

"Through the console, you can check what you've got inside the server's printing database. If the printing information is complete, you can print out technologies from the X31-ITE world."

"One of the collections I managed to complete is the blueprint for this Daschund Manufacturing's Basic Smart Device. It can monitor my health, alcohol level, time, surrounding, and even a promised 120% network connection."

Remembered what his uncle said, Zhang Qin Feng quickly activates the Tinkerer's Workbench.

"Toot!"

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[1] Blueprints

[2] Scan for Ingredients

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"Let's get into blueprints." Zhang Qin Feng tapped on the upper option.

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[1] Tianlang Electronic's Meteorite Battery

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"EH?"

"Only the battery?"