“Protecting yourself? Brother Su, you aren’t thinking of fighting someone in Mulberry Field Town, are you?” Sun Quan’s expression grew stranger.

He looked at the blank-faced Su Mo.

“Brother Su, don’t tell me you really don’t know the Tian Yuan Territory’s rules and its protection of civilians?”

“Huh?” Asked like this by Sun Quan, Su Mo was slightly bewildered.

In his investigations these past few days, he had put his focus mainly on the territory’s development and had not gathered much on its specific rules.

Hearing Sun Quan say this now, could it be that the Tian Yuan Territory did not even allow fighting?

“Brother Su, if you’re planning to fight someone, I advise you to give up that idea early.”

“If you were in some other territory before... forget it, just open your game panel and look at your bond with your previous territory, and you’ll understand.”

“There’s a crime value on it. Once it goes above one point, our territory’s law enforcement is no joke.”

“Crime value?”

Following what Sun Quan said, he called up the game panel, searched out Qingguo Territory, and took a careful look.

Sure enough, beneath the introduction of Qingguo Territory there was an entry for identity bonds.

Compared with the introduction, this button was pitifully small, no wonder he had skipped over it when he looked before.

He gathered his thoughts and lightly tapped it.

After a new page flipped up, Su Mo read the figures on it and calmly closed the game panel.

3,870 points.

Without a comparison, Su Mo might not have taken this number to heart.

But set against the Tian Yuan Territory, where even one point got you arrested by law enforcement,

with his sins as high as the heavens, he would probably be hung up and paraded through the streets, or even executed at the Meridian Gate, for all he knew.

“How about it, Brother Su, did you have any crime value before?”

“None. A law-abiding person like me never even noticed this thing,” Su Mo said seriously.

“Good that you don’t. Even if you did, it wouldn’t matter. Our Tian Yuan Territory has never asked about the past.”

Sun Quan smiled carelessly, and after walking a little farther, he pointed at the mouth of an alley beside them and stopped.

“Brother Su, this is where I get off. See you tomorrow.”

“Right, see you tomorrow.”

Realizing that this Sun Quan might really have taken him for Zizai Liang Lane’s secret weapon,

Su Mo wanted to explain, but when he opened his mouth, he found he did not know where to begin.

“Forget it. If everything goes smoothly, I will have to produce a tool in the end anyway.”

“It’s just that now, I may have gained an extra enemy in Qiankun Grain Store.”

He went to the main street and bought some instant food, then steeled himself and bought some fruit.

After passing through four dark alleys in a row where the sun never reached, he saw his home from far away and felt relieved.

If Qiankun Grain Store wanted to make a move, there were only two ways.

Within the rules, they could block Zizai Liang Lane’s channels for buying equipment and materials and strike at the root.

Outside the rules, they could coerce and lure the developer electricians who had been hired and sweep them all up in one net.

The former was Zizai Liang Lane’s problem, and they would certainly find a way to solve it.

As for the latter, with Oreo guarding Huang Xiaojuan, Su Mo was not afraid at all for his own safety.

After all, there was still the “great god” Feng Long, who hadn’t even been used yet.

If the other side really wanted to play tricks, Su Mo was no pedant, and he naturally would not hide his means and leave them unused.

By then, who would be dealing the dimensional strike was still an open question.

“Xiaojuan, I’m back!”

In the small courtyard, after a while of Huang Xiaojuan cleaning and tidying, most of the shabby feeling had disappeared.

Looking at the slightly yellowish lamplight in the large central room, Su Mo knocked on the door and felt a deep sense of peace.

This ruins mission.

It did not have the carefree feeling of the first one, when he had been confident and soaring, ruling the world with everything in his grasp.

Nor the thrill of the second, when he commanded over a million fish people and led an entire deep-sea tribe to conquer the world.

But this peace alone, this feeling of joy that came from the bottom of his heart,

was already enough for Su Mo to put down all his weariness and have a happiness that belonged to an ordinary person once more.

June 2nd, Year Eight of the Doomsday Calendar.

After Huang Xiaojuan reported her identity, she was assigned to a new planting park and began her day-after-day assembly line work.

Oreo followed behind her, serving as a half bodyguard while looking for opportunities to search for the whereabouts of Moore and Su Chan.

As for Su Mo himself, he had also gotten up early.

It was barely past seven-thirty when he strolled all the way to the front of Zizai Liang Lane.

“Morning, Brother Su.”

As if he had been waiting here early, Sun Quan trotted over as soon as he saw Su Mo appear.

“Morning!” Su Mo replied with a nod.

A night had passed, and as of now,

Su Mo did not feel much resistance anymore toward Sun Quan, the “little brother” who had joined of his own accord.

After greeting each other, the two began walking side by side toward the inner hall.

“Speaking of which, Zizai Liang Lane’s business is really getting worse and worse. They contracted tens of thousands of mu of land this year, but so far they’ve probably recruited not even a hundred workers. If the tools can’t be produced, they’ll go bankrupt from the compensation alone this time,” Sun Quan said in a low voice.

“Compensation?”

“Yes,” Sun Quan nodded. “There are quotas on this. Every mu of land has to hand over a fixed base amount to the territory. If it falls short of that base amount, unless it’s a natural disaster or man-made calamity, you have to pay an expensive breach penalty, a full five times the price of the equivalent grain.”

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