I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 692 Tit for tat
"You've arrived? How did you get here!"

Upon seeing Yang Jian and the others, Chen Qiaoyang showed no surprise, but rather disbelief, shock, and anger.

He was arrogant and didn't take the captains at headquarters seriously at all. But now, he was restricted in this ghost church, and even the four ghosts protecting him were under attack, so he didn't have a good chance to fight back for the time being.

But what about these team leaders in front of us?

From Yang Jian to Li Leping, from Li Jun to A Hong, they were all full of energy and showed no signs of being eroded by moss.

Could it be that all these people are stronger than me?
how can that be!

"It seems you don't welcome our arrival. That's alright, we're not here to see you anyway." Yang Jian wouldn't tolerate Chen Qiaoyang, but the strange situation inside made him hesitate to enter the house.

Looking around the room, Yang Jian said, "I should have called Liu San along. His paper figures could be used to better gather information here."

"No need for that. The shopkeeper's supernatural abilities greatly limit us, but under the same conditions, they also allow us to move around more easily."

After Li Leping finished speaking, the wild beast coiled around him ran into the room and retrieved a cell phone from the bed.

The beast's feet also showed signs of being eroded by moss.

Even when it was running around the room just now, countless moss could be seen growing out from under the wooden floor, seemingly trying to wrap around its four legs.

"This must be the ghost's domain. No wonder Chen Qiaoyang couldn't escape. What a pity."

Li Jun didn't say exactly what was a pity, but everyone knew.

Unfortunately, this place is already restricted by the "shopkeeper's" supernatural powers, and most of the supernatural power cannot be fully exerted. This is true for the ghosts on their bodies, and it is also true for the ghosts in this haunted church.

Unfortunately, Chen Qiaoyang arrived too early. If he had come in with the "shopkeeper," perhaps he could have roamed the church with the help of the four ghosts beside him.

“The phone does belong to Captain Zhang Jun. His phone is here, but we can’t find him.” Li Jun said with a grave expression.

Chen Qiaoyang sneered, "When I came here, there was no one here. There was no Zhang Jun, and no one else trapped here. Maybe everyone has been eaten. This ghost church is a cannibalistic hell."

Yang Jian and the others exchanged glances and said in a deep voice, "This is a good idea. We can tell the shop manager about it. If he approves, we might be able to deal with this ghost church from other aspects."

The best approach is to leverage the power of the "store manager," but there are significant limitations to achieving this.

It must be within the normal cognitive range of ordinary people, and it must also be within the range that the "store manager" believes ordinary people can solve.

If any of these conditions cannot be met, either the "store manager" will not approve, or the "store manager" will simply leave, and the goal will not be achieved.

“It’s alright. The situation is what it is now, so we can only prepare for the worst,” Li Leping said.

The two turned to leave, but Li Jun was more considerate. "Chen Qiaoyang, wait here for a moment. We'll tell the manager what happened and then come to rescue you."

"Hmph! Who needs your help!" Chen Qiaoyang sneered repeatedly, showing no gratitude whatsoever.

Li Jun ignored him, but Ah Hong whispered in his ear, "Captain Li, do you think this Chen Qiaoyang is a little arrogant?"

Proud?

Li Jun was speechless. He wasn't an old-fashioned person out of touch with the times, so he naturally understood the meaning of the word.

In his mind, this word had always been associated with cute little girls, but Ah Hong applied it to an old man like Chen Qiaoyang.

Li Jun imagined it for a moment, then almost vomited up his dinner from the night before. "Ah Hong, I remember you're not from Dachuan City either, so why would you think that?"

Ah Hong blinked and asked innocently, "Just a guess? What does this have to do with people from Dachuan City?"

"This……"

Li Jun was speechless for a moment, so he simply stopped talking and walked away with his head down, unaware of Ah Hong's smug smile after her success.

“Brother Yuan, this is the situation. I suspect that this horror theme park is involved in some dirty dealings that no one knows about.” Yang Jian looked serious, as if he had really discovered some unspeakable secret.

Lin Yuan, with a serious expression, said to the manor owner, "Old Zhuang, you're a local, haven't you noticed anything strange?"

“Boss, you’ve misunderstood me. I rarely come to the city, and my knowledge of this church is based on hearsay; I don’t really know much about it. But if what Xiao Yang said is true, then I’ll report it to the law enforcement bureau immediately and have them come and inspect it thoroughly,” the manor owner said in a deep voice.

Ordinary people in the law enforcement bureau naturally couldn't handle this paranormal event.

However, if the "store manager" approves of it and makes him feel that the law enforcement agency can handle this paranormal event, then it will naturally fall into place.

At this moment, the manor owner and Yang Jian and the others reached a tacit understanding without words.

"Okay, I believe you."

With Lin Yuan's permission, the manor owner quickly mobilized a group of staff members dressed in law enforcement uniforms. They were well-equipped, but their presence felt very strange.

They didn't seem to have undergone formal training; they were more like a mob.

At the same time, each of them had one or two wild beasts or birds hanging on their bodies, clearly indicating that they were beast tamers or ghost controllers.

Are all members of the law enforcement agency in Greater New York City ghost riders?
Even a ghost probably wouldn't believe this, but seeing Lin Yuan's constant nodding in agreement, Ah Hong, who was about to lower the manor owner's impression score, silently shut her mouth.

Lin Yuan accepted the setup proposed by Yang Jian and others, so this place naturally became a criminal den.

Using a so-called horror-themed amusement park to secretly detain people and profit through unknown means is utterly insane and outrageous! Deep within the Ghost Church, the sounds of a struggle soon echoed before quickly disappearing.

Yang Jian, Li Leping, Li Jun, A Hong, the manor owner, and others had no idea what was happening inside. Even though they were very curious, they couldn't go in to see without the "manager's" approval.

All that is known is that after a while, Chen Qiaoyang was brought out.

However, he was very listless, and even the four ghosts had disappeared and had not turned into wild beasts to follow him. In particular, the moss on his face had not been completely removed, making him look very disheveled.

"Old Chen, did you take a bath in sewage?" Lin Yuan asked in surprise.

Chen Qiaoyang just wanted to crawl into a hole right now. Even though he knew that the "manager" was unlikely to let him join the Peace Hotel, he still wanted to maintain a good image in front of the "manager".

But now?
Seeing that Chen Qiaoyang looked unwell and was unwilling to speak, Lin Yuan did not force him. "It seems that you are not in good condition, Lao Chen. You should go to the hospital to get a check-up and take care of your health."

Upon hearing this, the manor owner immediately signaled for the gardeners, who were disguised as law enforcement officers, to take Chen Qiaoyang away. A short while later, the sound of an ambulance driving away could be heard outside the door.

Besides Chen Qiaoyang, other people were brought out one after another.

These were people who had been sitting in the first two rows of seats in the lobby, but rather than being rescued, they were corpses that were carried out.

They were all dead.

Moreover, they all have all sorts of animals on them, some that run on the ground, some that fly in the sky, and although they lack those that swim in the water, they are still quite diverse and abundant.

But now, all of these animals look as if they are dead, and they were carried back with their owners.

The manor owner leaned closer to Lin Yuan and said, "Boss, it's a waste to leave these animals like this. I now hold some position and can influence the law enforcement bureau. Why don't we send all these animals to the shop?"

Lin Yuan gave him an appreciative look. "Old Zhuang, you really are thinking of the store. How about this, since this is our branch and it's too far away, I've decided to build a directional teleportation portal, just like the one at the Dahai City branch. What do you think?"

"Thank you, boss. We will definitely work hard and not let you down." The manor owner was overjoyed.

He wasn't concerned about the effect of the directional teleportation portal; what he cared about was the meaning it represented.

The Peace Hotel now has several branches in Dahai City, Dadong City, Dayuan City, Dachang City, and some franchise stores managed by Zhang Xianguang.

Franchise stores are negligible. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that these so-called franchise stores don't really have much influence with the "store manager." They're more like a gamble with no real chance of success.

These four branches can only be opened by the store's employees.

Among them, Dahai City, Dadong City, and Dayuan City were respectively opened by He Yuelian, Liu Qingqing, and He Yin'er, three of the four great female chefs.

Dachang City was opened by driver Guo Fan.

Of these four branches, only the first branch opened by He Yuelian has a directional teleportation portal; the other three do not.

Now that his manor owner's branch has surpassed others and obtained a directional teleportation portal, does this mean that his status among those above "store manager" is already above Liu Qingqing, He Yin'er, and Guo Fan?
Guo Fan didn't care; he was just a driver who was dispensable. But Liu Qingqing and He Yin'er were two of the four chefs who had joined the restaurant even earlier than him.

Being able to surpass them is what the manor owner cares about most!
As for the idea of ​​using public office for private gain, that's simply not true, since this major city of New York is now under his control.

His words are everything!
The matter of a mere few dozen ghosts is simply a matter of a single sentence.

The Ghost Manor has been thoroughly searched, and the culprit has been found, leading to a fierce confrontation. The gardener's side has suffered considerable losses.

In just half an hour, several people had been carried out, some in critical condition.

Their bodies bore deep claw marks that exposed bone, as if they had been scratched by some wild beast, whose claws were even poisonous.

Clearly visible, the wounds from being scratched were wet and covered with moss.

"Old Zhuang, your law enforcement bureau isn't very effective. They're armed and full of animal trainers, yet they can't even handle a ghost church."

Li Junping was not one to mock people, but now that he saw the "shopkeeper" treating the manor owner better and better, he couldn't sit still any longer.

We absolutely cannot let the "store manager's" heart lean towards foreign countries!
Unfortunately, they couldn't do it by force, so they could only try to turn the tide with words. Luckily, the gardener on the manor owner's side was really incompetent, which gave him the opportunity to make his move.

After saying that, he didn't give the manor owner a chance to refute him, and said to Lin Yuan, "Boss Lin, the situation abroad is much worse than in China. The reaction speed and execution are much worse. If this were in China, places like Ghost Church, which use the name of a horror theme park but have secretly harmed countless people, would have been discovered and shut down long ago. They would never have survived until now."

Lin Yuan was somewhat surprised.

He merely expressed a bit of closeness to the manor owner, and it ended up pushing Li Jun to this point.

Is this still the same taciturn special forces major general who just charges straight into things when faced with a problem?

Yang Jian and Li Leping were also stunned. Although Ah Hong was also surprised, she had worked with Li Jun for so long that she immediately understood what he meant and immediately cooperated, saying, "Captain Li is right, Boss Lin. You've come here today to experience the local customs and culture. It's fortunate that you didn't go in, otherwise you might have encountered danger, which would have been bad."

The manor owner's face turned completely dark, his knuckles gripping his cane turned slightly white, and his eyes were filled with murderous intent as he looked at Li Jun and Ah Hong.

If they weren't in front of Lin Yuan, he probably would have taken action and killed those two bastards who dared to slander him!
“Boss, you’ve misunderstood. This church was hidden too well before; it’s not something an ordinary person could find. In fact, although New York City has experienced some turmoil, the overall situation is still quite good. If you don’t believe me, I can personally take you to experience the local customs and culture, and not just this one place.”

The manor owner's words sounded weak, but there was nothing that could be done about it.

He considered himself God's sheepdog, and this Greater New York City was the place where he shepherded the world on behalf of his God, Lin Yuan.

Otherwise, he would rather live in a haunted place, or even the Peace Hotel, than run off to a place like Greater New York City, set up a branch, and even send out gardeners to clean up the whole city!
His idea is simple.

He was to herd this land for God Lin Yuan, and the starting point was New York City!
If even the environment of New York City cannot be approved by God, then isn't he a complete failure as a sheepdog? How can he possibly gain God's approval?
Therefore, he must seize this opportunity!
(End of this chapter)