I work as a housekeeper in Guilou

Chapter 282 Middlemen make the difference
The strange world can be divided into broad and narrow sense. In the broad sense, the strange world cannot be measured by physical concepts. It has no boundaries, or its boundaries have not been explored yet.

It is filled with endless white fog, and strange creatures can easily get lost in it, fall into nothingness, and finally dissipate.

In order to survive in the strange world, the strange creatures united to enclose a piece of land, which is the strange world in a narrow sense.

The narrow sense of the ghost world is centered on the ghost main city and is divided into four areas: east, west, south and north. Each area is divided into small districts. The number of districts in each area mainly depends on the strength of the ghost king in that area.

The ghost kings check and balance each other and fight against each other. It is common for them to kill and eat ghosts in order to strengthen their own strength.

The monsters that move around here can either surrender to a powerful monster king and pray that he doesn't eat his subordinates, or go to a neutral organization like Happy Home and pray that they can pay the rent.

Although the word "weird" is used on strange pets, their situation is not as difficult as that of strange creatures.

On the one hand, the source of power that the Ghost Pet can provide is limited, and is not enough for the Ghost King to fill his teeth; on the other hand, beating a dog also depends on the owner. The Ghost King usually does not cause trouble for the pet, but goes directly to the owner.

Detective X's agency started out by finding lost pets. There are only a few pets like these with extremely high intelligence, and most are newly enlightened pets that can't even speak, so it's common for them to get lost.

Of course, there are also some who get angry with their owners and run away from home. Faced with such people, Detective X can only admire them and call them brave warriors.

After it gains a little fame, it will receive other types of orders, such as "disposing of garbage" or solving "holes" that suddenly appear.

"Hole?" Xia Qimiao turned to the next page and touched the dog's head lying on her legs.

"You have seen Alcania and know that a territory can develop self-awareness. That is a 'lord' who is higher than a god/immortal." The Border Collie raised his dog eyes and looked at his owner.

"Arkania's situation is very special. It was attacked when it was just born. It was bullied before it even grew up."

"But even so, it has absolute authority in the field."

Xia Qimiao remembered that it could extract crystal cores from people and zombies across the continent without any harm, and nodded.

"The strange world can devour ownerless or weaker domains, but will not touch normal, well-developed domains."

"Because the domain consciousness inside has extremely powerful power, it is difficult to invade from the outside."

"Generally speaking, this kind of realm will not actively contact the strange world, unless a strange creature is born in it. In this case, it will be temporarily connected and a 'hole' will appear."

The strange world has countless areas to pass through.

Detective X alone has more than a thousand of them on record.

Of course, they have not been to most of the places themselves, but just wrote down the bits and pieces of information they heard in case they need them again.

"It takes a long time to expel the strange things from the domain, and this kind of 'hole' will continuously devour the source power in the strange world area, which makes the local strange king very troubled, so we need to deal with it."

Xia Qimiao discovered a contradiction: "The domain consciousness has great power and absolute authority, so why is it so difficult to expel the strange creatures born in the area, and why not just kill it directly?"

"I didn't understand it at first, but Santou gave an explanation." Border Collie rubbed the golden retriever's head and spoke for it.

"If you think of the domain as a big family, the domain consciousness is like the parent, and the weird things are like the children who have grown up crooked."

"Let alone asking parents to kill their own children, it would be extremely difficult to completely sever ties with their children and drive them out of the house."

"So, external intervention is needed." "If a strange creature enters the domain, it will be regarded as an intruder by the domain consciousness and strangled directly. Relatively speaking, strange pets are treated better and can stay in there for a while."

"This period of time is enough for us to catch the strange creature, or guide it to the strange world, so that the 'hole' can be closed."

"The original agency gathered a lot of strange pets, and took on this job from the strange kings in each district, so it earned a lot of source power, but it didn't keep any of it."

At this point, the Border Collie gritted his teeth, and his eyes flashed with ferocity when he thought of the ghost. But after his current owner touched his ears, his attitude softened and his eyes became watery.

"Since there aren't many pets with high IQs, most of them are kept by their owners without worrying about making a living, so our firm basically monopolized this type of orders in a short time."

What is the most sensitive thing for monopoly? Of course, it is competition, so Detective X is the first one in the entire ghost world to pay attention to players.

"We didn't know what 'players' were at the time. We only knew that these players who suddenly appeared had low prices, high success rates, and were difficult to deal with because they came and went without a trace."

"We can't win the price war, and we can't catch it either. If this continues, it will be extremely disadvantageous to the firm."

Moreover, the ghost's appetite was growing bigger and bigger. If they paid even a little less source power, they would suffer great torture.

"So what measures did you take?" Xia Qimiao thought of the copy and Detective X's comments and made a guess.

Bian Mu's voice was as clear as ever: "I found a way to contact the leader who calls himself 'System' and sent it the agency's order."

Be a middleman and make a profit by being a middleman.

"We made a lot of money from it, and used this source of power... to kill the previous owner." After saying this, Border Collie looked at the current owner cautiously.

They can certainly use all sorts of excuses to justify their original actions, but now they have to lay the bloody facts before her.

Maybe it was influenced by the three heads and wanted to have a heart-to-heart with her.

The Border Collie nervously observed his owner's expression, afraid that he would see any negative emotions such as boredom.

"Do you mind if I ask the price?" Xia Qimiao asked expressionlessly.

It had imagined all kinds of scenes, but this one was really beyond its expectations.

"What's the price..." It was unusually slow, but it quickly realized the question, "Oh, the source power value of the order."

"It depends on the difficulty, ranging from about 20,000 to 2 million. The price charged by the 'system' is only half of ours."

"The minimum is 20,000?"

"Yes," Detective X analyzed to his master, "Compared to the source power swallowed by those 'holes', what we collected is already a small amount. If it is lower, it will not be worth it."

The price of the game is only half of the system price, which means that the lowest price you can get is 10,000.

If Xia Qimiao remembered correctly, the E-level copy only gave players 100 points of source power reward.

What are players to the game? They are cheap labor, materials that can be consumed at will, and an endless source of power.

Haha, how can one not go crazy when writing a paper? Hahahahahahahahahahaha woooo