Survival Game: Call Me an Honest Businessman

The extreme cold quickly subsided as dawn broke.

The earth seemed to spring back to life in the instant of the climate change.

Many more animals have appeared on the mountains and in the forests.

Li Zhi wasn't awakened by the cheerful birdsong, but by the dialog box indicating a job level upgrade.

[The blacklisted shop has been upgraded]

[Shop: Blacklisted Shop]

[Businessman: Li Zhi (Career Path)]

Shop Level: 4 (1/10000)

【店铺锚点：1.索玛鬼市；2.黑铁港；3.浓绿集市；4.安全区宿舍；5.不忘危（领地）】

[Shop Status: Fixed stall in Wilderness Market, Fixed stall in Unforgettable Danger, Free stall (upgradeable)]

[Shop Equipment: Cheating Cloak, Dice Backpack, Scales on the Card Table, Level 1 Business License]

1 points.

Li Zhi wasn't particularly surprised.

She rubbed her eyes, washed up, heated up some bread and milk for herself, and enjoyed a rare, leisurely breakfast.

The chat area is very lively today.

Most were celebrating the end of the extreme cold, while some were worried about their main quest, and others were eager to explore the world.

Li Zhi was casually scrolling through the page when he unexpectedly came across some useful information.

[Is anyone near the Animal Market? The lions and monkeys are fighting again, and many stalls on the north side are closed. We can't buy food or water. Does anyone have any loans? Offline transaction preferred.]

I know I was lying nearby when the fighting broke out yesterday; that car almost ran me over, but who would dare to come out and make a deal with me then? Everyone here is staying indoors, worried about getting caught in the crossfire between those two races.

[Just buy it online! There are so many things available online, surely we won't go hungry, right?]

[Haha, I know. This kind of person definitely violated a contract or owes money, like a deadbeat on Earth, and is restricted from online transactions.]

Wow, I didn't know you could be restricted from trading like that. That's interesting.

Li Zhi did know.

She signs many contracts, and she carefully checks each one.

Almost all contracts contain a clause stating that violators will have their online and panel transfer transactions restricted, and in serious cases, their account balance will be locked.

Therefore, Li Zhicai said that the punishment for breach of contract in the Tianqi Continent is very severe.

On Earth, to punish a deadbeat, you might have to find them first, then issue a summons, then go to court, and finally limit the amount owed. But once a deadbeat learns to transfer assets, the punishment and summons become ineffective.

However, on the continent of Tianqi, Qiyuan Society monitors everyone indiscriminately.

No one can transfer assets under Qiyuan's nose. It can search all your transaction records, calculate your existing assets, and directly deduct the amount due to fulfilling contracts. Unlike Lanxing, which at least leaves you some humanitarian living expenses, Qiyuan doesn't even leave you with basic living expenses.

If you want to survive, you have to avoid Kaiyuan's surveillance to make money, which means you can't use the panel or any trading channels.

In fact, Qi Yuan may have already been monitoring this person's offline transaction proposal in the chat area.

The money they were planning to use for the transaction might not even be in their pockets anymore.

Li Zhi kept the fight between the lion and monkey orcs in mind. After finishing his meal, he changed into the cheat cloak, adjusted his merchant level to level 5, and teleported to the Green Market.

She wanted to use the teleportation array in the Green Market to get to the Beast Market.

The teleportation array was located around the giant tree where the vehicle was parked. Li Zhi selected the Beast Market, and several selectable anchor points appeared above:

[East Zone, West Zone, Central Zone, North Zone, South Zone of the Beast Market]

Without much hesitation, Li Zhi chose the North District of the Beast Market.

The more chaotic the situation, the easier it is for her to gather information and take advantage of the confusion.

A flash of green light, and Li Zhi appeared in a... slum.

At the junction of the cement ground and the yellow mud ground, shacks were haphazardly erected. Orcs went in and out of the shacks. When they saw Li Zhi, who was wearing a merchant's cloak, they didn't care much and looked away, then lay down numbly.

Li Zhi looked into the distance and saw a pile of ruins that had just collapsed.

It smelled of blood and a foul odor.

But looking further into the distance, one can see buildings with seven or more stories, brightly lit signs, and traces of plans for an elevated rail train.

—But the track was only halfway there, and it abruptly broke off in mid-air.

Orc children were playing on the tracks, on all fours, jumping and laughing in mid-air.

Her expression turned slightly serious.

The situation here was worse than she had imagined.

Although the wilderness market is chaotic and wild, it exudes a fierce vitality everywhere.

This place already has the modern beginnings of a small, third-tier county town on Earth, but even a small patch of land already shows a huge gap between the rich and the poor, and it is even more oppressive and desolate than a wilderness market.

Li Zhi stepped out of the teleportation array.

A few orc heads emerged from the previously quiet shantytown; most of them were disheveled, covered in dust, and had injuries on their faces.

Their eyes quickly scanned Li Zhi, as if they were judging something.

Some orcs quickly retreated, some left the shanty and went elsewhere, while a few others forced smiles, emerged from the shanty, and walked hunched over toward Li Zhi.

She cautiously took a half step back and returned to the teleportation array.

If she could still find order and regularity in the chaos of the wilderness market, here she only felt that everything revealed disorder.

As a result, she had no way of knowing the purpose of the orcs that approached her.

"grown ups……"

An orc stood outside the teleportation array, grinning. His weak voice carried a strange fervor: "You're here to do business at the Beast Market, right? I can show you the way. It'll only cost 10 copper coins a day, and I guarantee you'll quickly get a feel for the North District."

Li Zhi did not move.

Another orc approached, coughing as he said, "Sir, you're not an orc, are you? What race are you? You're here to buy something, right? I know of a batch of healthy new stock, all races included. Follow me; I'm related to the only doctor in the North District, I guarantee you'll get the freshest supply!"