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Orchid Town, the Chen family's mansion, deep in the ant nest.
In the dark cave room, empty needles were scattered all over the floor. Chen Xing's face was slumped, as if he had woken up from a hangover and his whole body was flabby. All nineteen tributary gold potions have been used up, and even the tail of the earth veins has not been sensed, let alone a deeper level.
"Brother, what's wrong with you? Has Suna made you unhappy?"
"If you're unhappy, just punish Suna."
A timid voice sounded in his mind. Chen Xing forced a smile and comforted him, "I'm fine. It's just that the breakthrough is not smooth, but it will be solved soon."
"Oh, brother, don't be unhappy, otherwise Suna won't be happy either."
"Yes, be good." Chen Xing responded and activated his black watch. There were still more than one million gold coins in his bank account.
"Buy another batch." Chen Xing made a decision quickly. He is not a sloppy person, and there is no point worrying about gains and losses here. A snail's path to becoming a strong man must pay more than an eagle's. He doesn't complain because complaining is meaningless.
In his first life, he was born into a family of ordinary workers. His family did not have much money, and his academic talent was average. However, relying on his tenacity, he completed his studies step by step and made achievements in the company step by step. In his early thirties, he also became a middle-level cadre of small and medium-sized companies.
In his second life, he woke up from the ruins and found himself in a strange world, with only eight gold coins on his body. However, he survived by relying on his tenacity, and lived better than many people. If he hadn't been beaten to death by the big devil, he could probably afford to buy a small apartment in Gray Horn City, marry a wife with a score of about 70, go to the recruit camp to work as a coach, and have a son and a half daughter, and be happy. It’s okay to live a small life.
In this third life, he has returned with memories and has advanced by leaps and bounds to a level that he could not even imagine before. But he lacked talent and struggled to make progress. Since it is not enough, then rely on hard work and climb step by step like before.
He believes that tenacity is also a talent.
A talent that can climb to the top of the pyramid.
"Hua Hua Hua..."
Suddenly there was the sound of metal wheels rubbing against the ground outside.
"Sister Canglian is here." Suna's cheerful voice sounded in her mind. She liked this big sister very much. Although she was cold, she was very kind to her, just as good as the previous big sister.
Many people in Orchid Town have seen Suna, but only Yeyang Bailiu and Jianyue Canglian know Suna's true form and ant nest. The former is the head wife, and the latter is the palace maid. If you can't trust them, then there is no one in the world who can be trusted.
In fact, it is not a question of whether he believes it or not. He needs someone to teach Suna, but he himself does not have the patience. Someone must do it for him, and it must be someone he can trust.
After all, Suna is not completely human. Strictly speaking, she can be classified as a mutated creature. If it attracts the attention of powerful people, it will be a disaster.
Although the black watch's combat power evaluation system currently recognizes Suna as possessing lord-level strength, in fact, apart from being thick-skinned and thick-bodied, she has little combat power. The Abyss Ant Queen mainly relies on ant colonies to fight.
Through the teachings of Ye Yang Bailiu and Jian Yue Canglian over the past few years, Su Na can already describe her abilities and advancements in human language.
She herself named the advancement process of the queen ant as "metamorphosis" because it is very similar to the shedding of an insect's shell. She is now in the third stage of metamorphosis.
According to her recollections, she had already undergone a transformation before meeting Chen Xing. Before Chen Xing left Orchid Town, he underwent a second transformation because he obtained a large amount of food. because
Because she was acting on instinct and didn't know what it meant, so she didn't tell Chen Xing. I quietly transformed in the corner, and then I ate the shell I shed.
After migrating to the Black Death Jungle, he accidentally discovered a huge corpse in a world fragment, which was dismembered by worker ants and dragged back to be eaten, undergoing a third transformation.
According to Su Na's description, Chen Xing felt that it was most likely the corpse of the dark demon. Aaliyah took away the crystal core and Su Na dragged away the corpse. It felt like the end was quite miserable.
Dark demons, fire demons, evil dragons, and fierce phoenixes are all at the top of the food chain of carbon-based creatures known to mankind. The existence of King Lintianxia was divided up like meat. Sure enough, the nature of the world is that the weak eat the strong.
After the third transformation, Suna gained the ability to produce separate nest queens.
This stage is the "queen of a hundred nests" of human cognition. However, the term "hundred nest ant queen" is very general, including several subsequent transformations, all the way to the legendary star-devouring ant queen.
Every time the queen ant transforms, she will give birth to new runes, gain new abilities and a more powerful body.
The queen transforms into soldier ants for the first time, acquires a thick carapace during the second transformation, and becomes the nest-dividing queen after the third transformation.
Suna didn't know if there was such a stage as the Star-eating Ant Queen. She didn't know what abilities she would gain during her next transformation, or when she would transform. But she could feel a certain distance.
After eating the huge corpse, she immediately began to transform, and after the transformation was completed, she felt that she was very close to the next transformation.
In other words, the corpse suspected of being a dark demon provided Suna with a lot of nutrients or energy, almost causing her to transform twice in a row.
In a sense, mutated creatures with crystal nuclei are more advanced creatures than humans, because humans in this world gradually began to come into contact with psychic energy after the Great Cataclysm, and these species completed their interaction earlier. The use of psychic energy.
"Master, it's urgent." Jian Yue Canglian got out of the car and said simply and clearly.
"Be good here, I'll go up first." "Oh~"
Chen Xing got on the ant cart and left the ant nest. Jian Yue Canglian didn't tell the situation directly, which meant that she couldn't say it in front of Suna.
Returning to the bedroom, Jian Yue Canglian immediately reported the situation.
"The store in Gray Point City was smashed up, and the store in Dragonstone Town was also forced to close."
"What!"
"It was done by a group of local gangsters. They left a message saying that the master beat someone who shouldn't be beaten." Jian Yue Canglian added.
Chen Xing narrowed his eyes and already knew who did it. It was obviously the Luo family in Gray Corner City.
It seems that this level cannot be bypassed...
This was not the result of him causing trouble. Even if he hadn't slapped the seventh young master of the Luo family, what happened today would still have happened.
In essence, wealthy families are local bullies, and they are officially designated local bullies.
A wealthy family does not have a clear territory. They do not do business or go to work. They practice martial arts every day. So where is the source of income?
The answer is - charging local protection fees.
The mayor manages the city, and the wealthy families divide the profits. If you want to do business in Gray Corner City, you have to be affiliated with a certain family and give them a piece of cake.
Chen Xing, a dragon crossing the river, did not want to pay protection fees, so this fight was unavoidable.
There is a reason why Chen Xing doesn't want to pay protection money. Zombie paradise is an industry with small profits but quick turnover, with very low profit margins, requiring customer traffic, and is a one-time consumption, because few people will travel to the same place twice.
Once divided
If you take out a piece of cake, it is likely to be all the profits. Otherwise, based on his relationship with his third uncle, it would not be difficult to get support from the Ye Yang family.
According to the business practices of the Red Country, if a more powerful force develops in Gray Corner City, it will be regarded as an investor that will prosper the local economy. At this time, the powerful family will not interfere.
For example, in the Holy Light Church, there is no wealthy family that would not think of collecting protection fees, but they will also establish good relations with the locals and occasionally transfer some benefits.
Chen Xing originally thought that his plan to destroy the Yang family would stop the powerful families in Gray Corner City, but he didn't expect that less than a month after opening, they would start causing trouble.
He also smashed the store, but the person who came back to report didn't mention the beating. It should be considered that he saved some face and wanted to negotiate peace.
The news spread quickly, and not long after, Mayor Bert, Mayor Anbixi, No. 2 Mayor of Orchid Town Pang Youcai, and Black Snake arrived at the mansion.
They are all shareholders of Zombieland, with Chen Xing holding 50%, An Bixi and Bert 1.50%, and Pang Youcai and Black Snake holding 10%.
"Master Chen, what should I do?"
"The money must not be divided, otherwise what would we make?" Chen Xing said.
Everyone immediately felt reassured and expressed their agreement.
"We have three towns, an old mercenary group, and the Pang family's connections in Dragon City. Why do they charge us protection fees?" Chen Xing said loudly.
"Come, come with me to Gray Corner City and meet those old guys!" Chen Xing cheered.
"Uh, well, it's almost autumn recently, and my lumbar spine hurts a lot." Mayor Anbixi slapped his lower back, looking in pain, "If it had been ten years earlier..."
"Well, a lot of new ducklings have been brought in to the duck farm recently, but they don't know how to raise them. What do you mean..." Mayor Bert looked embarrassed.
"My words don't seem to have any weight." Pang Youcai said with some embarrassment. He just wanted to say that he could not represent the Pang family, but he was too embarrassed to say it. Now that we are on the same boat, we must work together. But then again, he, the eldest princess's cannon fodder - is already cannon fodder, what energy can he have?
"I can go with you, but I'm worried that my reputation outside will be bad and will be discredited by Mr. Chen." Black Snake said.
The four people's words were all evasive.
But Chen Xing can also understand. They, the mayors of edge towns, have low connections and low status, and they are like deflated rubber balls when they meet a wealthy family.
Then there is Pang Youcai. The other party is willing to be here as his cover, so he must have no better position when he returns. Although he is the eldest son of the Pang family, he sold himself for a little money. How can such a person have a high family status?
As for Black Snake, how confident can a local mercenary leader be? Those who have the ability have already gone to Sanchahe City to hang out, why stay here and do the escort business for the corpse transport team?
Besides, Black Snake has a really bad reputation. He likes to torture people with a scalpel and is not allowed to show up. If he goes to Gray Corner City to negotiate, he will probably be regarded as a target of attack.
There are many old men in these powerful families, and they have poisonous mouths. Chen Xing can think of all kinds of things like a nest of snakes and rats colluding into each other.
"Okay, I'll go by myself."
After hearing Chen Xing's statement, the four of them breathed a sigh of relief.
"Then I have to thank Master Chen." "With Master Chen taking action, we will definitely win the battle." "Youcai wishes Master Chen a triumphant return." "The Black Snake is always ready to be dispatched."
"Xiao Yang, call the aerostat over and prepare to set off."
After a while, Chen Xing took Lao K and the maids onto the airship and flew towards Gray Corner City.
