Li Ang was in a good mood, and casually smiled, "What conditions?"

Mule smiled, glanced around the interior of the Immaculate Furnace shop, and said, "Is your shop still hiring?"

"Hmm?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow and asked, "What do you mean?"

"This shop is all supported by you alone, right?"

Mule said, "Procuring goods, replenishing stock, responding to surgery appointments, performing modification surgeries..."

"You don't spend much time in the game plaza, and you do everything yourself every time you log in."

"Moreover, because you are unwilling to open friend applications, ordinary customers who want to make a surgery appointment can only leave a message on the message board and wait for you to contact them."

"This leads to some customers with urgent needs for modification surgery, who are clearly willing to pay a higher price, but have to queue up like everyone else."

"By the time it's their turn, they may have turned to other large organizations for help, or, even worse, died in a script mission due to insufficient strength."

"Making you miss many opportunities to earn commissions in vain."

"Yeah."

Li Ang nodded. The player's friend function can ignore spatial distance, provide real-time calls without delay, and can be used inside and outside the plaza.

The upper limit of the friends list is 999. If you want to expand it further, you can spend 1000 points to increase the space by 20 slots.

Players can add friends through nicknames and specific IDs. After this version update, an additional option of "Add teammates from the last game as friends" has been added, which is more user-friendly.

Since the Doorway Contest started, Li Ang's friend request list has been full at 99+, and when he opened it, he found all kinds of people.

For example, those who added him as a friend because they thought he was strong;

Those who were idle and wanted to see if the account was a dead account and added it casually—the remarks for these people's friend requests were all things like "1111", "test", "are you there are you there are you there".

There were also those who sent their own photos to flirt—both male and female.

In addition, there were customers of Immaculate Furnace;

Generally speaking, after clearly posting the list of commodity services and prices, most novice players without enough financial resources will choose to back down when they know it is difficult.

But there are also a small number of novices who, for some reason, are not able to pay for the modification service but still apply for an appointment on the message form, or even try to add Li Ang as a friend.

The reasons are also strange and varied—

"Mr. Shopkeeper of Immaculate Furnace, I am a novice who is still in school and doesn't have much money. Can you help me and give me a free surgery? I will be able to pay you back soon after I level up, please believe me, sob sob sob."

"Shopkeeper of Immaculate Furnace, hello, I am also a player specializing in medical logistics. I have been following you for a long time. I have always heard that your modification surgery projects are very powerful. I also have several friends around me who have had surgery there. I personally love your modification ideas. Can you share your technology with me? I have more than three thousand fans on the forum, and after my promotion, I will definitely be able to help you become popular. I hope you don't bite the hand that feeds you."

"Shopkeeper, shopkeeper, I am your loyal fan. I don't have much money on hand right now and can't afford the surgery fee, but I have some rare materials, the skin of a wild Ultraman from Nebula M78, the shovel used by the Tiger with Suspended Eyes, and the coffin lid of an ancient mummy. I don't know if I can use these materials as payment?"

This kind of inexplicable player occupies a small half, and the remaining half of the customer friend requests are much more normal.

Some are skeptical and ask about the specific process and postoperative effects of the surgery, some are short of money and want Li Ang to give them a discount, and some have script missions approaching and hope that Li Ang can help them get to the front of the surgery list.

When Li Ang had nothing to do, he would occasionally look at the small print attached to these friend requests, but he never replied.

In addition to customers of the Immaculate Furnace business, there were also lobbyists from large organizations who added him as a friend—

These people have been trying to invite him to join the organization, and the treatment is negotiable. Luxury cars, beautiful women, villas, and mansions are all available, and it's not impossible to give him a perfect-level equipment as a gift.

If he is unwilling to join the organization, there are other cooperation plans.

For example, a large organization could invest in Li Ang's Immaculate Furnace shop, help him expand the store, increase manpower, and optimize the process. Li Ang can act as a consultant, occasionally guide the medical logistics players of large organizations, and recruit the latter as apprentices (for which they can pay a training fee that can be called a huge sum).

He would still have control over the Immaculate Furnace, and all income would be divided seven to three with the large organization (Li Ang taking 70%), and he could earn a steady stream of income while lying down.

It must be said that the conditions offered by the various large organizations were relatively favorable. They also had their own intelligence networks and could calculate the shop's ability to attract money based on the daily customer flow and commodity list price list of the Immaculate Furnace.

They could formulate a win-win contract that would both make money and satisfy Li Ang.

However, Li Ang was not very interested. If he really wanted to make money, why would he look for someone to cooperate with?

It would be better to let his own cerebrates obtain player qualifications, enter the game plaza, and directly work for him. He wouldn't have to pay a penny in wages, and the cerebrates specializing in biological modification could also help him perform surgery.

The only concern was that the player qualification would bring opportunities full of countless possibilities, and there was a certain probability that it would allow the cerebrates to break away from the hive's control.

This was the biggest risk.

By the same token, Li Ang would not risk letting large organizations get involved in his core business and thus spy on his power system.

What's more, Li Ang was willing to teach the Biological Template and Swamp God Power, but probably no one could learn them.

Li Ang rejected all these friend requests.

As a result, the lobbyists who were receiving high salaries, when one plan failed, came up with another. They changed their thinking and started from aspects that Li Ang might be interested in.

For example, rare magic beast biological samples, medical surgery skill books, and so on.

Or, after leaving a message with a serious business cooperation request, they would add some inexplicable flirtatious words and photos of pretty young ladies:

"Canned yellow peaches have a shelf life of 15 months, cola should be drunk within 24 hours after opening, and hickeys will disappear in about a week. It takes three months for two people to get through the adaptation period, and everything seems to have a deadline. How boring, I still like things that have no rules to follow, such as me lying under a tree looking at the stars, and Shopkeeper brother, you suddenly fall down and land in my arms."

"Good evening, Shopkeeper brother! The weather has been very cold recently, so you must dress warmly when you go home, with warm socks, cotton-padded jackets, and everything! You must not forget your long underwear! You must pay attention to keep warm! You must not catch a cold! Love you ^3^"

"Jumping trees and shadows, pretending to be staring intently, walking and stopping towards your footsteps, pretending to be mysterious, yearning for your response, the guidance of the corners of your mouth, a sweet crisis, a sweet glass candy, given to the most beloved shopkeeper uncle??"

It must be said that the professional attitude and level of these lobbyists who were getting paid were simply outrageous, and their photo editing skills were also very superb.

Even Li Ang would go online and carefully look around when he had nothing to do, to see what new tricks they had come up with—

This action stopped after the lobbyist groups started sending him photos of muscular bodybuilder male models and thin, handsome men.

"Uh..."

Li Ang smacked his lips, thinking of the memories of being bombarded by friend requests.

"Since you don't like cooperating with those big organizations,"

Mule smiled and said, "Why don't I introduce you to a cashier?"

"Cashier?"

Li Ang was a little surprised and said, "You?"

"My sister, the one I brought to your shop for surgery last time."

Mule raised his chin, "How about it? She can handle the surgery appointments for this shop."

"Customers add her as a friend and state their requests. She can send you the information of customers who have urgent needs and are willing to pay more."

"So you don't miss the opportunity—those players who defect to other organizations or die directly won't run to the Immaculate Furnace shop again to erase the messages on the application form."

"You would have to waste time the next time you log in."

"She can also be responsible for replenishing stock and taking care of things in the store, saving you from running back and forth."

"As for the salary..."

"You can give her whatever you think is appropriate."

"Hmm?"

Li Ang raised an eyebrow. The idea of finding someone to be a front desk cashier was good, and Mule was a friend with whom he had a close relationship. The person introduced by Mule would definitely not be too bad.

Nepotism, one of his own, trustworthy.

"Okay, call her over."

Li Ang nodded, "However, have you encountered any trouble recently?"

Mule, who was about to log off and return to the real world, stiffened almost imperceptibly and smiled casually, "Why do you say that?"

"Based on my estimation of you, our personalities are relatively similar. You will do everything possible to reduce the risk of your loved ones showing their faces in public."

Li Ang spread his hands and said casually, "Although we have a good relationship, we haven't even met in the real world."

"You let her work here, possibly because you have encountered some trouble in the real world that you can't solve, and you want to find a way out for your sister."

"After all, you said yourself that the position she is applying for is a cashier, and she has a lot of time to spend in the game plaza during the day—avoiding the Star Gate Cataclysm in the real world to take refuge?"

"Or, are there people chasing you in the real world?"

"..."

Mule was silent for a moment. Just as she had vaguely guessed that Li Ang was gradually loosening his concealment of his true strength, Li Ang had also guessed the trouble she was encountering.

"Your own power, coupled with the various high-quality equipment and props purchased with money, your overall strength is quite good."

"Facing the top twenty players on the individual combat power list, it would probably be difficult to win, but escaping shouldn't be a problem."

After advancing to demigod, Li Ang rewatched the recording of the Doorway Contest, and gained a further understanding of the strength shown by each player.

"Plus the help of Liu Wudai—I know you have been in frequent contact before, and you even lent her the Calamity Sun mechanical golem."

"There should be very few individuals or forces that can pose a threat to you."

Li Ang frowned and said, "Moreover, chasing down an intelligence dealer who has a large number of secrets in his hands is extremely risky and has a very low cost performance—the intelligence dealer can completely save the confidential information elsewhere. Once he is captured, half of the information will be automatically sent to the public network in the real world."

"Unless, it's not that you have some people's fatal intelligence in your hands, but pure bloody feud..."

In just a few seconds, Li Ang had guessed the predicament she was facing based on Mule's current situation and performance.

The latter stood there, silent. Li Ang waved his hand indifferently, "Liu Wudai's power in the real world is very considerable, and her relationship with the Special Affairs Bureau is also very harmonious."

"You want to entrust someone you cherish, but instead of looking for her, you are looking for me."

"The greatest possibility is that the forces you have provoked are the Special Affairs Bureau, or other large organizations of the same level that can put pressure on the Special Affairs Bureau or have a good relationship with the Special Affairs Bureau—"

"The European Heavy Industries Group? The Special Accident Department of the Federal Bureau of Investigation? Or the Global Supernatural Alliance?"

"...Hoo."

Mule exhaled a breath of turbid air, straightened her body, and nodded, "Sorry, I have certain selfish motives in this matter."

"I'll find another trustworthy cashier..."

"It's okay."

Li Ang smiled and said, "You just want to find a reliable way out for your family, without explicitly asking me to take action to help you solve your troubles, or directly sheltering you under the pressure of a large organization. It proves that you treat me as a friend."

"Hmm..."

"I agree to the cashier application. Find a time to have her come to work and introduce her to the cashier's workflow."

"Also, if you want to seek help in terms of force, I can also help—as a mercenary and a friend."

"You are willing to take action?"

Mule said in surprise. The other party has always been cautious in character.

Apart from Mule introducing a job in Dusheng Village a long time ago (the employer was killed by Li Ang, who was hired by him, the money was gone, and the life was gone),

There has been no real-world contact with Li Ang.

"Yeah."

Li Ang nodded casually. The Star Gate Mutation was about to erupt, and there were still Wanderers and Eternals of unknown origin above.

The disguise on his body would be torn off sooner or later, actively or passively.

Li Ang had few friends, and Mule seemed to be on the lonely road of revenge like him before—her road to revenge was probably more difficult than his.

And...

Li Ang also wanted to know how high his true strength was,

And how much difference there was between him and others in the same echelon.

"Thank you."

Mule nodded slowly and said, "Then I'll bring my sister over for an internship now. You can introduce her to the cashier's workflow."

"I'll bring you those two perfect-level items later."

"As for the employment, if necessary, I will tell you through friend communication."

"Okay."

Li Ang nodded, watched Mule's figure disappear, drank the tea in his teacup,

While waiting for Mule to log in again, he casually turned on the TV hanging diagonally in front of the cashier counter.

On the TV, there were lengthy reports about the continuous deaths of former senior leaders of the intelligence agencies in the United States.