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In Chelbonog, the only weapons available were warlocks, Molotov cocktails, and crossbows. But once they entered Lungmen, they had ballistae, bomb drones, and spell drones. They even managed to get their hands on Originium devices and spell pulse crystals for sorcery devices. To say that they were smuggled in would be giving the hooligan movement too much credit and belittling Old Wei.

Not to mention that many of them were originally infected people from the Lungmen slums. If the "rebellion" had been able to secretly transport weapons and equipment to the vicinity of Lungmen to arm so many people, Lungmen would have been occupied or divided up by other countries long ago.

Given the urgent need for large-scale monetization and bulk purchases, only Lungmen's sufficient warehousing facilities and well-developed disaster relief transport team were able to procure all these supplies.

Furthermore, Rhodes Island's purpose in going to Lungmen was to traverse Kazdel and retrieve former Babel Tower operators such as W one by one. Kal'tsit strongly recommended Rhodes Island's demolition expert, Ms. W, and a group of professionals to Xia Lin.

Incidentally, the remaining list needs to be finalized in Lungmen, a free market where there are well-developed headhunting firms and logistics groups. With the help of Kai Maomao's network of connections, it's even possible to obtain operator resumes and information through Rat Lord's channels using illegitimate means, and then recruit them in a targeted manner.

"Rhode Island entry application, Officer Chen..."

"The purpose is... procurement? A medical equipment company?" Xiao Chen picked up the documents in his hand. "Arrange for them to go to the commercial deck and keep an eye on them!"

"I understand." "What's Lao Wei thinking?" Xiao Chen looked puzzled.

"Purchasing? Just purchasing?" Old Wei was also a bit puzzled. He knew about Rhodes Island. The ancient relics that Queen Theresa unearthed had only recently been repaired at Rembitox, and a medical company had been registered there. Then they went straight to Lungmen to purchase them.

“Ignore them. Kal'tsit isn’t the type to do anything irrational.” Old Wei tossed the application aside and picked up his pipe again. “No, make a list of what they’ve purchased and report back to me daily…”

He thought about it and felt that given Kal'tsit's style, this matter was a bit unusual. It would be better to wait and see for a while. Lungmen's business was severely affected by Ursus's snowfield blockade plan, and it was inevitable that some people would take the opportunity to cause trouble.

Kal'tsit has some connection with me, but she has connections with everyone, including those within the Great Yan who don't like me. It's best to be careful.

Chapter 89 Wealth gone, people at peace

Chapter 89

Lungmen, Terra's largest trading center, even has a short canal to accommodate the huge demand for commercial lifting and lowering. The canal uses water power to lift and lower ships and super-large cargo platforms, running through several commercial decks, which greatly alleviates the demand for commercial cargo lifting and lowering when Lungmen is berthed.

Given Lungmen's trade volume, using Originium power as the energy source for lifting and lowering would be an astronomical cost. For a trading city, increased costs would mean a significant decrease in commercial competitiveness.

Large land-based ships like the Rhodes Island don't need to use this hydraulic lift platform. They can directly enter the commercial deck docking area, with all four docking piers deployed. Then, the procurement convoy, which was already prepared, leaves the hangar in an orderly manner, passes through the Lungmen checkpoint along the piers, and enters the city of Lungmen through dense slums.

"Our primary procurement target is industrial raw materials. We need to stay in the Ursus snowfields for a long time, and Rhodes Island must be maintained by ourselves."

This is a perfectly normal demand; the maintenance supplies for such a large land-based warship are clearly beyond what the Ursus Snowfield can afford.

"The second largest component is the supplies along the way, including food, fuel, commonly used spare parts, and weapons and ammunition."

This is a normal procurement need. For land-based ships that need to sail long distances, if they don't want to be robbed by biker gangs with a "last-century style" on the wasteland, it's best to purchase enough ammunition and weapons.

"Finally, there were the purchasing requests from the doctors. This part was too complicated, so I suggested that it be handled by a local agency in Longmen..."

The procurement list for this part is almost half a foot thick, containing everything from various processed metal ingots to machinery and equipment, and even a large amount of daily necessities, fertilizers, seeds, and building materials and tools. The largest demand for materials is actually various fabrics and textiles.

Lungmen city is almost exactly the same as a normal ground city, of course, referring to the commercial deck. It has parks, bustling pedestrian streets, tall tower-like buildings and various sky bridges, and even subway and underground commercial pedestrian streets under the deck.

The massive amount of Lungmen Coins flows like blood through the veins of the streets and the organs of the commercial buildings, keeping the city's basic vitality and life force, and giving Lungmen Coins value through commercial activities.

After being tested by the Longmen Food Safety Department and the Commerce Bureau, Xia Lin's honey was deemed to be first-class honey. Although it was not as good as those special-grade honeys, it had the advantage of being produced in large quantities.

As honey is part of Terra's luxury goods, a large quantity of high-quality honey, measured in tons, arrived, attracting confectionery and food companies like sharks that had smelled blood.

The Reunion Movement and Amiya Logistics lack talent to conduct business negotiations. While Rhodes Island has plenty of people left to carry out a large-scale terrorist attack in Lungmen, they are really hard to find for business negotiations.

Finally, this batch of honey was sold for 2000 Lungmen Dollars per 250 grams, which is about 40% lower than the normal market price. Of course, it will not be turned into relatively cheap machine-made sugar blocks, but into various high-end dessert gift boxes, such as the kind that can buy a whole box of etched ammunition.

Nearly 15 tons of honey were sold out in just one afternoon. In contrast, other items such as flour, herbal tea, and pure Originium took five or six days to be consumed.

After all, apart from the pure source stones, these are all bulk commodities, usually traded in units of thousands of tons. With only a few tons of supplies transported by Amiya Logistics, it will be really difficult to find interested buyers.

Basically, it was only through Kroos's influence in the Lungmen retail industry that the money was eventually spent through various supermarkets. As Rhodes Island's largest purchasing agent and online shopping agent, Kroos has a considerable network of contacts in the Lungmen retail industry.

After all, in reality, Rhodes Island relies on her to provide for the food, drink, and daily needs of hundreds or even thousands of people, from civilian staff to operational operators, as well as medical and engineering departments. This is a huge business; the clothing needs of each operator alone are enough to support several clothing brand stores.

Not to mention that among these operators, there are quite a few who live for the moment and have no shortage of money.

For example, W wears a normal uniform when she's fighting, but her everyday clothes are anything but cheap.

As one of the biggest mercenary leaders in Kazdel, she was also a hidden rich woman. Not to mention the Kazdel mercenaries under her command who had never seen the world, arriving in Lungmen was like arriving in heaven. In less than two days, their savings turned into all sorts of random hobbies and luxury items filling their living quarters.

In addition, Rhodes Island also ordered a large quantity of pharmaceutical raw materials from the Life Pharmaceuticals division in Lungmen.

In particular, the raw materials for the Ore-borne disease inhibitor, in the eyes of those who know their next course of action, such as Lao Wei and Xiao Chen, do not seem to have any problems.

If they enter a place like Ursus without stocking up on the raw materials for treating Oripathy, then they'll start to suspect that Rhodes Island is just making a feint and going to cause trouble in places like Great Yan.

Those Reunion members who hitched a ride disappeared as soon as they arrived at the port, making the surveillance personnel arranged by Xiao Chen wish they could learn to create shadow clones. These people not only ran around randomly, but also without any pattern.

In the morning he was on Lungmen's busiest commercial street, in the afternoon he was on the food street, and at night he appeared in the red-light district and even the slums below deck. He also applied for a legal weapon license in Lungmen with a security pass issued by Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals and was carrying a staff and weapons.

It's worrying that these people might suddenly create a big news story, but the truth is they didn't do anything at all. They were just like tourists who had just arrived in Lungmen, exploring all the open areas, low-risk areas, and medium-risk areas, and spending a lot of Lungmen Dollars on souvenirs and consumer goods.

This made the Guard Bureau hesitant to even use methods like detaining people for questioning, since they all looked like tourists who came to spend money.

If the Guard Bureau does this but can't produce any evidence, and Rhodes Island protests, it won't just be a matter of losing face; it will severely damage Lungmen's tourism industry and shopping-related service industries.

Old Wei won't do anything to Xiao Chen, but he will definitely skin those corrupt lower-level guards alive to give Lord Kal'tsit and the public an explanation.

"The business investigation is progressing very slowly—" Sergei, the captain leading this special Reunion Movement operative, slammed a rolled-up file on his subordinate's head in dissatisfaction. "You've spent so much time and money, and this is what you give me? You're not here for a vacation, you're here to conduct a business investigation, do you understand?"

The reason the Reunion Movement was chosen to handle this was because they seemed more like ordinary people.

The Yeti Squad and the Shield Guards clearly looked like they had received military training and participated in actual combat. Veterans and new recruits who had killed people on the battlefield would stand out if they walked together, let alone a group of guys who would unconsciously form two or three scattered formations or a shield guard defensive formation that covered the front, back, left, and right. If they came to Lungmen, it wouldn't be a business investigation, but rather an attempt to make trouble for Old Wei.

Comparatively speaking, the members of the Integration Movement, who spend all day running around on the ridges of the fields, handling all sorts of trivial family matters, and are no different from the village committee members, are more like shopping representatives sent by a normal rural village.

And they did indeed do some business-related work, such as working at Amiya Logistics.

For example, their strange experiences of opening small shops and cooperatives in settlements, if we disregard the fact that they do have professional weapons training, any Guardian operative would have to admit that they are just a group of small-time merchants who have never seen the world.

Those who can argue with a night market stall owner for an hour over a mere 50 cents difference, forcing the latter to back down and avoid affecting business—in Longmen, that's what you call a formidable character.

The retail industry in Lungmen is extremely complex, but Xia Lin taught them how to quickly investigate the retail industry: look at which products are placed in the most conspicuous place, and you'll know that product must be the one with the highest retail profit and the one that actually sells the worst.

Products placed in a corner and ignored by everyone are simply products that nobody cares about, even if they are placed in an inconspicuous location.

However, the item that is not in a corner and that many customers hold is definitely the best-selling item, but also the one with the lowest retail profit.

As a manufacturer, he naturally wants to produce the goods with the lowest retail profit margins and the highest sales volume in order to maximize his profits. High retail profits and good sales mean that the other party has more bargaining power and can lower the price offered by the supplier.

If suppliers are unwilling or unable to compromise, then supermarkets and retail stores will inevitably cut these profits, which are not high.

However, items that sell well and are easy to sell are placed in the secondary attention zone to put pressure on suppliers and to allocate shelf resources more rationally.

This surprised Talulah and Kal'tsit, who were completely detached from worldly affairs. They hadn't realized that even such a seemingly ordinary retail business had such profound knowledge involved.

The latter, in particular, even began to reflect on whether they had ever been a sucker at such times, buying those exquisite and expensive items.

But when you use something that's not worth the price—the truth is, everyone has found themselves to have been a sucker in this situation to some extent.

However, the investigation was less successful when it came to commodities and luxury goods, as no one would think that these guys, whose faces and bodies screamed "poor and stingy," would know anything about luxury goods.

They declined to receive customers for bulk commodities, stating that they only conduct business-to-business transactions and are not open to the general public.

Xia Lin, who exudes the aura of a CEO on an undercover mission, is different. He can easily obtain specimens from mining companies, but if these Reunion Movement members go there, people will suspect they're just there to freeload.

There's no way around it; the stingy infected of the Ursus Snowfield are completely different from Xia Lin, who lives in the interstellar era and has no shortage of money in Terra, not only in terms of behavior, knowledge, speech, and even temperament.

They entered those halls, even if they had to muster up the courage and repeatedly remind themselves, "I am a customer, I am their provider."

However, faced with the gleaming marble floors, the magnificent hall, and the beautiful animal-eared receptionist, one can't help but feel ashamed of oneself.

And Xia Lin? He went in as naturally as if he were entering his own bathroom, even offering some criticism, saying the floor was too shiny, a bit dazzling, and slippery, suggesting they replace it with some high-end, soft-light building materials—

Aside from showing slight surprise and admiration in front of the beautiful beast-eared girl, he acts as if he's commenting on something in his own company.

Even though he still smelled of dirt and had calluses on his hands, this kind of person still gave off the feeling of a boss on an incognito visit, so of course no idiot would neglect him.

Normally, when you encounter this kind of character, you won't see the face-slapping plot you'd find in a light novel—

He's just an employee, okay? This is just a job, okay? If it weren't for the requirement to provide smiling service, most people would probably see a grumpy face, okay?

"There's nothing we can do, boss. We can't get into many places, and they won't even see us. They don't know anything when we ask them questions." The subordinates were also frustrated. Fortunately, the investigation into the retail industry had yielded some results, and they could also get a general idea of ​​the situation for bulk commodities by following the clues of the retail industry.

"Forget it, I'll go report this to the boss. Sergei scratched his bald head. This whole thing has caused him to lose his hair. His hairline is receding rapidly, and now it's almost enough to shave a samurai's chonmage.

"Okay, I understand. That's settled then. The main task going forward is to assist with procurement, ensuring that the items marked in red on the project list are procured. Ideally, we should buy as much as possible, and I'll figure out the funding."

Xia Lin put down the communicator and, with the help of the communication base station and Terra's relatively clean electromagnetic environment, was able to barely contact Rhodes Island in Lungmen, even while on the farm.

Moreover, Rhodes Island's communication system is very advanced, with clarity even better than when they communicated through the Lungmen relay station in Lungmen.

"Old Xia, can we buy it over there?" Yelena was the kind of person who had never seen the world. She didn't know what the concept of a trading capital of Lungmen was. The commercial streets of Schulzburg and Schönbrunn were the biggest commercial centers in her imagination.

"Yes, but it's hard to say." If White Rabbit is a country girl who has never seen the world.

Xia Lin, on the other hand, is probably someone from a developed country who has seen too much of the world. He doesn't really have any confidence in his understanding of what level a commercial center would be in Terra even if it were downgraded.

Theoretically speaking, he can buy industrial goods from all over the galaxy at the Covenant's orbital commercial network center. Except for controlled items and those that are too expensive to be listed on the network, such as cargo ships, he can buy everything from shuttles and small spaceships to clothing, food, and shelter.

However, Lungmen really has no confidence in whether it has the production and supply capacity, since the quantity and scale of its purchase orders have clearly exceeded the commercial supply limits of ordinary mobile towns in Ursus.

As for the money, Rhodes Island naturally covered it. The cost of refitting and maintaining a warship the size of four aircraft carriers is an astronomical figure. Kal'tsit and Rhodes Island Pharmaceuticals need to have profits of at least 60 billion Lungmen Dollars per year in order to barely keep operating.

To achieve the level of being able to launch a surprise attack, she would need to find a way to provide Rhodes Island with nearly 10 billion LMD every year. In a sense, Kal'tsit is really good at this. She has connections all over the world, can persuade investors to provide funding, and can also get deals at this price.

[PS]

So Doctors, please don't complain about why you have to pay to upgrade operators, especially since an escort mission only costs 7500.

Rhodes Island's maintenance costs, operating expenses, salaries for a large number of civilian staff who aren't operators, and the basic necessities for thousands of people—none of that came from you. So, the fact that Queen Kael'thas was able to secure so much investment and funding is truly a testament to her hard work and dedication.

That 7500 is purely your performance bonus, you could even call it the department's slush fund. As for why you have to pay for the promotion—

Corporate training is paid for by the company, but if your department conducts private training, it's naturally out of your department's own pocket money.

As for the price of 100 billion LMD, that's really a friendly price. Considering the size of Rhodes Island, its personnel, equipment, and interior design, and the maintenance costs for a warship or even a command ship of that tonnage in reality—

It would take at least $200 billion to $300 billion to maintain even the most basic status as the Queen of the Docks.

Now you know why Rhodes Island has so many rich women, right? Of course! Who the hell could afford a warship like that without money? Without investment from seventeen or eighteen large conglomerates, do you think you could even afford a land-based warship?

So stop criticizing the group of nobles, rich women, and capitalists on Rhodes Island—even a normal worker-peasant regime, once established, wouldn't be able to support such a thing before the four Five-Year Plans.

Chapter Ninety: On the Way to Longmen to Recruit Old Troops

Chapter 90

"What exactly did Rhodes Island purchase?" Xiao Chen barged into Lao Wei's office and asked without hesitation, only to find Lao Wei looking embarrassed in front of a mountain of documents. "Here, that's it."

He assumed Rhodes Island had ulterior motives or was preparing to purchase some basic supplies, and that they were even prepared to buy weapons.

But to his utter surprise, they were actually buying all sorts of machinery and parts. All of them together, a single set of equipment could generate a list and instructions that were one or two thousand pages long. And he had his subordinates report in detail what Rhodes Island had purchased, which is how it ended up like this.