It's none of my business. I'm just a lunch box seller.

“But when will they figure it out?”

[For this kind of thing, you'd better ask it yourself. ]

"Hey, there's one more thing! The sales of the two outlets in the wizarding world (referring to Hogsmeade and Diagon Alley) are now almost negligible. How did you choose the location of the store? If you had opened the restaurant in downtown London, the business wouldn't be so bad!"

[It's okay, because we didn't open that interface, but the world asked us to open it. ]

"But why? They begged me to open a restaurant, and once it was up and running, they left me alone. It was the God of Ansa who asked you to do the work, right? They've played this game so well that they've figured out how to invite me first, leave me alone, and then negotiate terms!"

[No, that's not what they meant. That world invited you to open a shop there, hoping that you could serve as the last line of defense for the magic world.]

"But what does the magic world have to do with me? You can't really use me as a fuse just because I'm resistant to lightning strikes!"

【…】

The programmer had to admit that Boss Cheng's mind was really active. How could he think of his passive lightning resistance attribute as MAX from the fact that he was often struck by lightning from Master Lei Zang, and then compare himself to a fuse in an electrical appliance that could resist overload and lightning strikes?

[Anyway, you are not used as a fuse. But now is not the time for you to show up. Besides, the summer vacation of that magic school is coming soon, and your business may get better. Don't despise them for having few people. If you still despise them, then...]

"Just what?"

【No one will not despise it. 】

Boss Cheng: Σ(っ°Д°;)っ

"But have you ever seen someone ask for help but then not give the benefit?"

The programmer thought what Boss Cheng said made sense, so he asked him:

【Do you have any good suggestions? 】

“I think we need to pay more!”

[How to increase? Do you want to increase the price? ]

"No, I don't care whether they give it to me or not. But the main controller asked you to open the door. Since it is an assigned task, where is the subsidy?"

【No subsidy! 】

"Nonsense! Who would be willing to work without subsidies?"

【But there is really no subsidy! 】

Boss Cheng's eyes rolled, and he suddenly realized, "Ah, after all this fuss, your project team must have taken kickbacks for all the benefits that Taijun gave me!"

[No, wait a minute. How can this include kickbacks? ]

"Tell me! Is there one?"

[No, no, I guarantee you! ]

Eh……

Let Boss Cheng and the programmers quarrel for a while, and let us temporarily turn our attention to Denise and Xiao Xiangcheng.

Regarding yesterday's actions, although Xiao Xiangcheng violated Denise's ban, she not only used ninjutsu, but also publicly exposed the magical effect of her chakra to heal other people's injuries.

But Xiao Xiangcheng not only made great contributions, but also saved countless families. Moreover, that world is hard to get through. Even if the people there knew about Xiao Xiangcheng's special physique, they couldn't do anything to her!

The only problem is that Xiao Xiangcheng is out of school again...

I paid for a whole semester's tuition, toys, care and nutrition, but only attended two months of classes. The only consolation is that the tuition for the Kasukabe kindergarten in 2004 was not as high as the tuition in China in 2024 - tens of thousands of yuan, no refund or exchange!

So, don’t blame this generation of young people for not having children. How many families can guarantee that they can afford to raise one?

It is now the end of May, and Xiao Xiangcheng will be 5 years old in 4 months. In Denise's opinion, Xiao Xiangcheng can have fun for another three months, and then go back to primary school as soon as September comes.

But when Denise went to the education department yesterday to consult, she was told that children who were under 9 years old before September would not be allowed to enroll in primary schools. Even though Xiao Xiangcheng's birthday was only 6 days later than the enrollment date.

Denise called Zhou Zhezhi because of this matter. Zhou Zhezhi also made it clear on the phone that he did not recommend Denise to send Xiao Xiangcheng to a regular 9-year compulsory education primary school.

"Are you worried that Xiao Xiangcheng won't be able to adapt to the school environment?"

Zhou Zhezhi once again made it clear: "No, I'm not afraid that she can't adapt to the new environment. I'm afraid that the environment of the first grade of elementary school can't adapt to her. Ms. Denise, aren't you afraid that Xiao Xiangcheng will force other students and teachers to adapt to her?"

"I……"

Denise was persuaded by Zhou Zhezhi. After all, Xiao Xiangcheng was too bold in love, hate and violence. It was like a parent of a child in kindergarten who was kicked by Xiao Xiangcheng who used his chakra and broke his jaw just because he pointed at Xiao Xiangcheng and said, "You were born by your mother, but not taught by her."

This happened during the time when Boss Cheng disappeared, and Zhou Zhezhi helped to settle the aftermath. And both Zhou Zhezhi and Denise had kept this a secret. Especially regarding the fact that Denise had beaten up more than 10 people in the family, she had not said a word to anyone.

So now you understand why Xiao Xiangcheng is on the kindergarten industry blacklist!

Not only does Boss Cheng have the dirty label of being the "family member of a gang-related person", but Xiao Xiangcheng and Denise also have to take the blame for dividing the work and beating up the entire family!

but……

Hanzo, who was spending money to eat in a restaurant for the first time, suggested: "Why not build a school yourself?"

It just so happened that this day was the day when Hanzo and his guards came to buy medicine from Boss Cheng. After his venom glands were removed, Hanzo was finally able to sit in the restaurant like other guests and eat the hot dishes that Boss Cheng had just cooked.

On Hanzo's left hand side, a 1.5-liter bottle of black iced kvass had been half drunk by him. And this guy had repeatedly refilled himself with fried hairtail three times.

Hanzo was sighing while eating, saying that he had been eating fried hairtail fish for so long, but he never knew that the edges of freshly fried hairtail fish were so crispy and delicious.

Boss Cheng teased Hanzo, "Who told you not to take off your mask earlier?"

"Haha, yeah! Who told me to..." Hanzo suddenly turned around in the middle of his words, pretending to be angry and yelled at Boss Cheng: "Who told you not to tell me earlier that you could take that thing off!"

Boss Cheng shrugged his shoulders, pretending to be deliberately irritating Hanzo.

"Is it your fault?"

The ninjas in the hotel burst into laughter.

In fact, the ninjas of the Hidden Rain Village are very grateful to Boss Makoto for helping their leader remove the poison sac and providing equipment to the Hidden Rain Village. They have followed Hanzo for more than ten years, but it was not until 10 days ago when Hanzo suddenly took off his mask that they discovered that their leader could actually laugh.

And after that, Hanzo smiled more and more often, and his originally cold temperament became much warmer. This is what a ruler who uses both kindness and power should be like.

Of course, the ninjas of Rain Village knew that if their boss had not easily killed the Seven Ninja Swordsmen of Mist Village in a casual conversation, their leader would never dare to show such a happy smile. It was as if the burden that could only be borne by one person was suddenly taken over by another guy who could and dared to carry it.

This kind of companion who can reduce one's stress is really worth laughing about.

"So, why don't you consider building a school yourself?" Hanzo, who had been sucking on the hairtail fish for at least 5 meters, asked the boss: "There are so many children in Dawn Town now, why don't you build a school yourself?"

"Schools are easy to build, or even unnecessary, as the teaching buildings and classrooms are already there. But the question is, after the school is built, what should we teach them?"

"Teach the children whatever you want to teach them," Hanzo replied.

"But I can do it my way..."

Boss Cheng couldn't help but recall the military training programs he experienced in his childhood, which could make any adult mentally collapse. Apart from that, he seemed to only know how to teach others how to cook.

"Forget it." Boss Cheng waved his hand. "If you really follow my advice, I'm afraid that few of the children in Dawn Town will be able to walk out of the training ground alive."

Hanzo and the other Rain Village ninjas believed that based on the "easy-going" killing method that Boss Cheng showed last time, the other ninjas could not imagine what level of training the boss had received. If fighting between ninjas was still based on skills, then Boss Cheng's swinging of the chainsaw sword to chop people was completely a killing instinct.

Hanzo rubbed his temple helplessly, and then asked his boss: "If you exclude the training and killing parts, what do you want the children to learn?"

"Eh? Let me think..." After thinking for a while, Boss Cheng replied, "I think the kids can do everything."

Hanzo spread his hands and said, "Look, isn't this what you want to teach your children?"

"What about you?" Boss Cheng also asked Hanzo: "What do you want the children to learn?"

"What does this have to do with me?"

"Nonsense, the Rain Country is yours! Don't you want to pass on your will and ideals to the next generation of the Rain Country?"

"But……"

"But what!" Boss Cheng smiled maliciously and asked Hanzo: "Are you trying to be lazy? Do you think you don't have to worry about anything if you just hand the school over to Dawn Town? The administrative agencies in the town are all empty, don't you see?

Even if the Rain Country is still at war with other big countries, the fighting now has little to do with the Rain Country, right? The Kirigakure is about to be chopped off by us, so it is basically impossible for any other country to mess with us in the short term, right?

Since I have nothing to do anyway, why don't you try to find an administrative team for my town? And find some ninjas who know how to teach to be teachers for my school? Since you said you can teach everything, I might as well turn the school in Dawn Town into a school that is similar to a primary school + a junior high school + a technical secondary school.

In the future, schools will not only be able to train ninjas, but also engineers, businessmen, administrators, and workers. After all, only with abundant talents and a solid economic foundation can we build a modern new home for the Rain Country, right?"

You know what, Hanzo was really persuaded by Boss Makoto.

In fact, Hanzo also understood that Boss Cheng asked him to send a management team to show that he would not compete with Hanzo for power. Moreover, Hanzo knew that besides cooking, Boss Cheng seemed to have only three hobbies left, namely killing monsters, robbing safes, and snatching strange loot.

People have no interest in wealth, fame, or power.

Even the original prototype of Dawn Town was built to gather more people so that he could sell lunch boxes...

0176 Good news

The end of the world, who knows what year, mid-June. (Through astronomical measurements, it is also June in Birch Forest City.)

On the fifth level of the hierarchical city, there is an unfinished supporting column over 600 meters high left by the ancients. Under the ruthless erosion of time, it may collapse at any time due to its excessive weight.

Fortunately, the engineering team responsible for inspecting and repairing this area had already discovered the signs of collapse of the supporting column. So when the column was about to fall but refused to fall, it just stood there like a time bomb, holding up but could fall at any time, and the stubbornness of the column was ultimately no match for human engineering explosives.

"Retreat quickly! Everyone retreat quickly!"

"The part above 600 meters has begun to detonate."

"5"

"4"

"3"

"2"

"Boom~Bang~Bang~Bang~Bang~"

"Fuck! Who started it? There's still one second left, don't you know?"

Regardless of whether it was activated a second earlier, the support column above 600 meters was blown down. The steel structure debris weighing tens of thousands of tons fell from the "sky", hitting the 5-story artificial surface and stirring up a huge amount of PM10 and PM2.5 particles.

About 10 minutes later, dozens of drones flew to the ground of the fifth floor that had been hit, while other drones flew directly to the "ceiling" of the fourth floor and began to check whether the structure of the hit area was damaged.

Yes, this is actually an impact test of the load-bearing structure of a city. The test results are very encouraging. When the ground load-bearing structure in the 5th layer test area was damaged by more than 10%, it still withstood the impact of a falling object of about 7 tons.

“It’s really not broken!”

“This is too durable!”

"With a weight of more than 7 tons, the impact force when it hits the ground must be huge!"

"Great! Those 150GB drawings were finally not drawn in vain!"

"That is to say, if we pile it up higher according to this engineering structure..."

"If we replace all steel structures with lighter and stronger synthetic materials, it is not impossible to pile them up to 20,000 meters high!"

But the commander-in-chief of the blast test told everyone not to be happy too soon, because a structure that has only undergone one impact resistance test is not enough to prove its strength.

"Clean up the scene and continue blasting! Until the structural limit is determined!"

This group of demolition geniuses continued to bomb for a month, until they blew up two supporting pillars on the 5th floor that were not supporting anything. Only then did they feel satisfied and brought the summarized experimental data back to Birch Forest City and handed it over to the UNSC's Supreme Academy of Engineering Science.

"These Silvers are bombing every day. Every time they bomb the 5th floor, we on the 6th floor are shaking."

"Just shake it. It won't collapse anyway." Boss Cheng lifted up the stainless steel lunch box and showed it to Zhang Peng. "There's a big bone left from the stew of pickled cabbage. Do you want some?"

"I want it!"

"Chek noisy!"

Zhang Peng ignored Boss Cheng's old trick that had been outdated for at least 7 years, and trotted along with his plate. Then, as if handing a chamber pot to an emperor in urgent need of peeing, he extended his plate to Boss Cheng. Boss Cheng then shoveled the remaining pickled cabbage and the large bone with a lot of meat into Zhang Peng's plate.

Because Zhang Peng on the 6th floor and the "explosion geniuses" on the 5th floor did not belong to the same system. So Zhang Peng did not know why the guys on the 5th floor were "blasting" every day. Even though they had heard that the 5th floor was doing experiments, the airport staff and pilots on the 6th floor had no idea what the experiments were.

"They are doing destructive experiments on the load-bearing structure." the boss told Zhang Peng.

"Is it about blowing up the floor?" Zhang Peng asked again.

At this time, another young man with a Qiqihar accent suddenly spoke up and told Zhang Peng that they were not just blowing up the floor.

"Blowing up the floor is nothing. If we are ruthless, we can even blow up the load-bearing columns."

Boss Cheng explained to Zhang Peng: "This is the member of the experimental group who played with explosives 'downstairs' from you."

However, Zhang Peng asked, "No, can you really tell Bie Yin'er about such a secret?"

"It's not confidential! Besides, if it was confidential, I wouldn't dare tell my boss about it."