Chapter 424: Chapter 304: Courting Disaster is No Different From Seeking Death
"Give me one hundred thousand of them!"
"That many...?!" the waitress cried out in shock.
"Don’t you have that many in stock? It’s fine if you don’t. I’ll take whatever you have on hand!" Lin Li said to the utterly astonished waitress.
"My apologies, that was unprofessional of me. Mr. Lin, we do have that many pearls. Please, follow me..."
The waitress composed herself, gestured forward, and led the way to the restaurant’s backyard, bringing Lin Li before a newly built warehouse.
"This backyard of your restaurant... I remember it wasn’t this big before, was it?" Lin Li asked quizzically, looking around and noticing the yard was much larger.
"That’s because the Shopkeeper bought the neighboring yard and knocked down the wall between them. That’s why you’d feel the yard is much bigger than before, Mr. Lin," the waitress explained with a smile.
The reason Wang Gui had expanded the yard was precisely to build a new warehouse to store the pearls Lin Li needed.
Of course, aside from this newly built warehouse, he also had a larger one elsewhere for stockpiling pearls.
After several transactions, he knew that this pearl trade with Lin Li could become a steady, long-term business. Otherwise, he wouldn’t have gone to all the trouble and expense of this expansion.
Lin Li nodded after hearing the waitress’s explanation, then watched as she opened the newly built warehouse before them.
The new warehouse was over 150 square meters. When the large doors were pushed open, it was pitch-black inside. The waitress stepped in first and pressed a button on the wall.
CLICK.
A crisp sound echoed in the darkness. Immediately after, a brilliant light flared from the ceiling, instantly illuminating the entire warehouse.
’Spiritual Energy fluctuations?!!!’
Lin Li looked up at the spherical, glowing crystal objects hanging from the ceiling, then back at the switch embedded in the wall that the waitress had just pressed.
He understood at once. These lighting devices in the warehouse, similar to the electric lights on Blue Star, were a set of Convenient Spiritual Artifacts.
After all, the waitress was just an ordinary person. Only a Convenient Spiritual Artifact would allow her to use it without having Awakened Spirituality herself.
The waitress was already used to using these Convenient Spiritual Artifacts for lighting, so naturally, she didn’t notice Lin Li’s curious gaze.
After turning on the lights, she walked over to a large bamboo basket covered with a black cloth, bent down, and pulled the cloth away.
Lin Li noticed her movement and shifted his gaze from the Convenient Spiritual Artifacts overhead to the large bamboo baskets.
After the black cloth was removed, what came into view was a large basket full of round, flawless white pearls. Under the bright lights, they seemed to shimmer with a faint, milky-white glow.
After uncovering the large bamboo basket in front of her, the waitress went on to uncover several more. Then, she turned and said to Lin Li with a smile.
"Mr. Lin, there are exactly one hundred thousand pearls in this warehouse. You can count them if you’d like."
’It’s not like I have a finance-related Superpower like Zhang Yuxi’s. How long would it take me to count all this...?’ Lin Li shook his head with a smile as he looked at the fifty large bamboo baskets before him.
"No need to count. We’ve done business several times already. We should have that much trust. I’m sure Boss Wang wouldn’t cheat on the quantity."
When the waitress had asked Lin Li to count the pearls, it was just a formality. She knew he wouldn’t actually count them, but it was something that had to be said.
"Remember, Mr. Lin can choose not to count the pearls, but as the seller, we have to bring it up." Before he left on a long trip, Wang Gui had specifically instructed the waitress to follow this procedure.
Although the waitress had long known that the mysterious Mr. Lin possessed a Storage Space Superpower, she still couldn’t help but look amazed as she watched him make the dozens of large, pearl-filled bamboo baskets vanish one by one right in front of her.
The entire transaction went very smoothly. After stowing the fifty large bamboo baskets full of pearls into the Mysterious Small Island, Lin Li took out the cash he had prepared in his pocket to pay.
One hundred thousand pearls totaled one hundred thousand Copper Coins, which meant a payment of one hundred Silver Coins was sufficient.
After handing ten banknotes, each with a denomination of Ten Silver Coins, to the waitress, she didn’t verify their authenticity in front of Lin Li. Instead, she put them directly into her pocket. This was another thing Wang Gui had taught her to do.
"A pleasure doing business with you. I’ll be going now." After paying, Lin Li prepared to leave.
"Mr. Lin, why don’t you stay for dinner before you go!" the waitress invited warmly.
It was still too early for dinner. Lin Li shook his head and declined her invitation. The waitress didn’t insist and personally walked Lin Li to the restaurant’s entrance.
Just as Lin Li was about to leave, he thought for a moment and asked the waitress, "I just realized I don’t know your name. Would you mind telling me?"
"My name is Liu Yun."
...
After leaving the restaurant, Lin Li had accomplished his main goal for coming to Dongwu City. Next, he began to wander aimlessly through the city.
The sky gradually dimmed. The sun, which had been hidden by overcast clouds, peeked out, and fiery red sunset clouds set more than half the sky ablaze.
More and more small vendors came out to set up their stalls on the street. One by one, they pushed their homemade carts to their usual spots.
After parking their carts, the vendors tidied up their goods and began to hawk their wares.
Some sold handicrafts, others sold small snacks, and still others sold steaming hot, freshly made street food...
Seeing so many stalls lining both sides of the street, Lin Li felt as if he were back on Blue Star, wandering through a night market.
Just then, the streetlights on both sides of the road began to show fluctuations of Spiritual Energy. One after another, they lit up, their bright glow illuminating the street that was about to be enveloped by night.
With his strength further improved, Lin Li used the Perception from his Second Order High Rank cultivation to investigate.
He discovered that these streetlights, while providing illumination, were also faintly absorbing the ambient Spiritual Energy in the air.
’These streetlights are powered by Spiritual Energy, but I didn’t expect them to be able to absorb ambient Spiritual Energy to recharge themselves.
From the looks of it, as long as they aren’t damaged, they can keep running forever without any need for manual refueling...’
Lin Li looked at the streetlight in front of him, which was emitting Spiritual Energy fluctuations and absorbing ambient Spiritual Energy, and thought, ’If the streetlights in Rongcheng were all replaced with these, it would save a lot of electricity each year.’
"Golden grilled fish! Hot and savory golden grilled fish! Step right up, don’t miss out!"
Suddenly, Lin Li heard a vendor’s energetic cry. Following the sound, he immediately saw a young girl, perhaps only fifteen or sixteen years old.
The girl wasn’t tall, about 1.62 meters, and in front of her was a grill with several small, entirely golden fish on it.
The shape of these small golden fish was similar to the saury from Blue Star, but their color was a brilliant, sparkling gold, like the metal itself.
This was the fish’s natural color, not the result of a marinade.
While hawking her wares energetically, the girl flipped the golden fish on the grill.
Plenty of people were passing by, but no one stopped to buy her grilled golden fish.
’Sigh, why is business so bad today? I’ve been set up for half an hour and haven’t sold a single grilled fish.’
Just as the girl was grumbling to herself under her breath, a figure appeared in front of her grilled fish stall.
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