"...Two prominent figures in the Nascent Soul Realm have fallen in the Demon Realm."

Upon hearing Yang Bolin's words,

whether it was Gu Junming who was in the same room as him, or Lin Li and others in the Fire Camp over a thousand kilometers away, they nearly all shivered at the same time.

This information exceeded everyone's expectations, not even the think tank had imagined such a scenario could occur.

Previously, Gu Junming—or rather the rabbits—had deduced that something was amiss in the Demon Realm based on a simple criterion:

Data analysis.

Just as it was destined that Yang Bolin would send people to understand Chixian City, the rabbits inevitably kept an eye on Purple Treasure Pavilion, a partner.

Unlike Purple Treasure Pavilion, which had yet to dispatch personnel, the Fire Camp side had begun related information gathering very early on.

How early was this timing?

Early to the period when Zhuo Yuanxin and others experienced the teleportation array.

The smart students among us should still remember.

At that time, after Zhuo Yuanxin and others were teleported to Luoshuang City, they did not just waste time walking around, but rather spent that half day to roughly understand Luoshuang City.

Such as the size of Purple Treasure Pavilion's branch in Luoshuang City, the customer flow, and so on.

While half a day may not yield much useful information, when time stretches longer, it's different—don't forget, Luoshuang City is also within the signal transmission range; at the first moment when a certain person went missing, Lin Li and others contacted Zhuo Yuanxin to confirm the situation.

At that time, following the command center's instructions, Zhuo Yuanxin and others rented a shop opposite Purple Treasure Pavilion's branch, leaving behind a special forces warrior Chen Fei—the same warrior responsible for carrying boxes during the pit against Tang Family Commerce Association.

He specialized in collecting flow information of Purple Treasure Pavilion's branch and summarized the intelligence back to the command center every two Damo Days.

Meanwhile, Gu Junming and others left in Ziqiong City did not remain idle; they used various opportunities to gather bits of information.

This task was extremely tedious and dangerous, but it was thanks to the contributions of Chen Fei, Yu Lian, and others that the rabbits could slowly yet genuinely advance the progress bar of understanding the Damo Realm.

The intelligence collected by each unit might be limited, but when data accumulated to a certain value, a data-driven profile database of Purple Treasure Pavilion was successfully established.

After a month or so, the rabbits had roughly grasped the size and radiative range of Purple Treasure Pavilion.

Simultaneously, they figured out the trade threshold of Purple Treasure Pavilion when its shipment speed reached its peak phase.

Previously, when Yang Bolin mentioned raising the price, he had included a trade volume of sixty thousand Happy Sticks every four Damo Days; the command center compared this trade volume with Purple Treasure Pavilion's known radiative range and found a significant discrepancy with the trade threshold.

After all, even if you're acting as a second-hand intermediary, you must adhere to the basic law, right?

The normal increment in battle resource ought to be 20%-30%, which is supported by numerous instances on Earth, but the quantity Yang Bolin required clearly exceeded this increment.

This indicated that Yang Bolin possessed a brand-new trade channel, and based on the shipment volume of Happy Sticks in the previous two instances, it could be deduced that this channel was either serving a population numbering in the tens of millions or a city cluster, or a region of high resource consumption due to frequent battles.

Considering the previous big pit Purple Treasure Pavilion had with Tingyun Pavilion, the command center made a bold inference:

Maybe something had happened over there in the Demon Realm.

In actuality, the command center didn't have much confidence in the accuracy of this conjecture, inside and out they were only about 40%-50% certain—it's not challenging to deduce from data analysis that an additional channel exists, but to conclude from that with absolute certainty that it's the Demon Realm is quite far-fetched.

Ultimately, aside from the Demon Realm, there are many other possibilities.

For example,

If a mega city discovered an ultra-large gathering of demonic beasts, intending to launch a super-scale annihilation battle—this scenario theoretically exists and holds water as well.

But as the saying goes, fortune favors those who bet on uncertainty, and since there's no cost to guessing anyway.

Thus, Gu Junming boldly voiced this inference.

Who would have thought this casual speculation actually hit the mark—and what's more, the source of this hit seems unusually significant!

Given the current situation, maybe it even struck the kind of fruit that had hit Newton on the head.

And just as Gu Junming was about to continue listening, Yang Bolin suddenly went silent.

This little old man, who was vigorous just moments ago, appeared somewhat fatigued as he rubbed his temples, his face flushed with redness that surfaced who knows when:

"Ah, with so many delicacies before me, I couldn't help but indulge, somewhat lacking the strength to hold my drink; Shopkeeper Gu, please allow this old man to catch his breath, can't be helped, getting old..."

Upon hearing this, Gu Junming raised his eyebrows:

What nonsense, you, a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage Eight Layer, would get drunk on two cups of seven-degree fruit wine?

Seriously!

Just as he was at a loss for Yang Bolin's behavior, Ma Ning's voice suddenly came through the earpiece:

"Chief of Staff Gu, Shopkeeper Yang wants to see our 'trump card,' connect the video, can't just freeload everything from others."

Gu Junming could become the intelligence head in Ziqiong City due in part to his nimble thinking, which certainly outranked that of the brutish fellows like Lin Ziming and Yan Shaohua.

Therefore, given Ma Ning's hint, he immediately understood:

Good fellow, Yang Bolin is preparing for an equivalent exchange.

Makes sense, too.

Previously, Yang Bolin had already provided free information related to the demon beast passage, which counted as a gesture to his partners and showed his attitude.

Now, the stunning secret involving the demon realm or even Nascent Soul Realm cultivators was at stake. If he were to still offer it without compensation, he would be overly disrespecting his identity as the Chief Shopkeeper of the Purple Treasure Pavilion.

After all, Yang Bolin's bias towards rabbits mainly lies in the understanding aspect of things, which is the difference between traditional commercial thinking and industrial thinking. Speaking purely of intelligence and strategy, he doesn't lag behind.

It's not unlikely that he had prepared to use this information to gain insight into Taoshu Commerce Association's remote communication means long before he came to celebrate Taihe Building's opening.

Fortunately, the command headquarters reacted quickly and decided to reveal the remote communication means before Yang Bolin after the emergency resolution.

After all, this was already a semi-public secret between the two; now, it was just formally put on the surface—what development would occur after being laid bare, that's another story.

Anyway, considering the capability of temporary resolution, the number of brains the rabbits have over there, it's impossible for Yang Bolin alone to overshadow them.

Thus, Gu Junming was silent for a moment and straightforwardly said:

"Shopkeeper Yang, our boss hopes to have a talk with you, do you think...?"

Upon hearing this, Yang Bolin's eyes immediately lit up, the redness on his face instantly faded, and his whole person regained his vitality:

"Hmm? Shopkeeper Ma can also converse with this old man at this moment? Does your commerce association possess such mystical means? Then this old man must shamelessly take a look."

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Gu Junming chuckled, took out a Huawei foldable screen phone from his body.

He unfolded it, entered the password, and said to Yang Bolin:

"Shopkeeper Yang, please wait a moment."

Meanwhile, as the data connected, Ma Ning also informed Gu Junming of other matters:

"Chief of Staff Gu, our dedicated bandwidth for video calls is limited, and in the short term, we might only be able to use it this once—for this call, many devices have temporarily stopped data exchange.

So the communications department will also hand over the shopping list of materials you'll need to purchase next.

This material list is in word format because it contains many pictures and text and involves transactions of tens of thousands of spirit stones, so the word file is quite large, please bear with it."

After about a quarter of an hour, Gu Junming pushed the phone in front of Yang Bolin:

"Shopkeeper Yang, it's ready."

Yang Bolin immediately looked screen onward.

In the small iron frame about half a foot square in front, Ma Ning's face appeared prominently.

At this time, Ma Ning had reverted to his shopkeeper appearance from the Ziqiong Market and, smilingly, cupped his hands to Yang Bolin:

"Shopkeeper Yang, how have you been?"

Watching the real-time transmitted image, Yang Bolin suppressed his inner shock and returned the greeting:

"Shopkeeper Ma, it's been a long time, your complexion is as rosy as ever, the commerce association's business must be quite good recently?"

"Thanks to Shopkeeper Yang's fortune, all is well at the commerce association, but how about your alcohol indulgence.....?"

"Ah, let Shopkeeper Ma laugh at me, the alcohol indulgence has subsided, really subsided."

The two old fellows tested the waters with each other and then exchanged a look and burst into laughter simultaneously.

Then Ma Ning's expression turned serious, and he lightly coughed, saying:

"Shopkeeper Yang, the remote communication array you see is the core trump card of Taoshu Commerce Association, and there are only so many seats in the entire commerce association.

To express our attitude today, we've specially exhibited it, isn't it time for Shopkeeper Yang to express as well?"

Yang Bolin nodded upon hearing this, clearly satisfied with Taoshu Commerce Association's approach, so he didn't keep it in suspense and straightforwardly introduced:

"It was the first snow of the Demon Realm Day in 4571 of the Damo Calendar, arriving later than usual..."

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Moreover, this plot is quite crucial, so let's play an additional update game. Many people participated in the previous three additional update games, but it's a pity that none guessed correctly....

This time, let's make it simpler, four choices.

The question is as follows:

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