Gensokyo Population Revitalization Plan

Guros knew that Mu Huai's words to it were not only an acknowledgement of his words, but also a reminder for it to remain vigilant and ensure that the entire heretic group would not indulge in this dream of peace that would shatter at the slightest touch.

At the moment, it thought it necessary to warn the elf to prevent her from spreading the relationship between them and Mu Huai after leaving the dungeon, thus putting her benefactor in danger.

"Elf, I don't know why Lord Mu Huai didn't kill you, but instead brought you with him into our settlement."

Guros's amber pupils revealed a hint of the bloodthirsty murderous intent unique to wild beasts as he looked at Liu. He showed a ferocious face and threatened: "If anything happens to Lord Mu Huai on the ground, I, Guros, will bite your neck off even if it costs me my life!"

Liu was very surprised that a monster that could speak human language actually threatened her for the safety of mankind. Now was not the time to show off her strength, not to mention that she had no intention of telling anyone what she had seen. She nodded obediently to Guros.

"very good."

After getting the answer he wanted, Guros withdrew his gaze and continued to sit like a sculpture, watching his compatriots playing and having fun around the campfire in the distance.

……

After storing a warehouse full of metal ore into the four-dimensional backpack, Mu Huai gave the heretics some instructions, and then carried Liu away from the residence.

Before leaving, the heretics gave him a strange fishing rod made of vines and metal to express their gratitude.

[Heretic Fishing Rod: Filled with gratitude for a new species, the star rating of any fish caught on the 20th floor will automatically increase by 1.]

This unexpected harvest made Mu Huai, who had no fishing rod and could only watch the fish and sigh, overjoyed. After returning to Gensokyo, the 20th floor will become his main fishing spot. The stone fish produced here has an iridium quality and a unit price of 600 gold coins. It is the most valuable fish he can catch at present.

With the passive effect of this fishing rod, he can fully guarantee that the stone fish he catches every time will be of at least silver star quality. Basically, he doesn't have to worry about not being able to build signal base stations and transmission towers due to lack of funds in the early stages of development.

After Meizizi carried Liu for about twenty minutes, Mu Huai put her down from his shoulders and took away the blue cloth soaked with saliva.

The piece of cloth spread out in the air and turned into a piece of clothing that Liu was very familiar with. Her face turned from white to red and then to black. She cursed at him: "You pervert, bastard, you actually carried girls' underwear with you and even stuffed it into my mouth! Bah!"

Mu Huai jumped to the right to avoid her saliva, and with a wry smile, he put Hestia's lace panties into his four-dimensional backpack. "Do you believe me when I say this is just a beautiful accident?"

"I will repay you a hundredfold for the humiliation you inflicted on me!!"

"Miss Liu, you seem a little confused about your situation..."

Mu Huai pretended to be lecherous, his eyes sweeping over her fair thighs exposed outside her high leather boots, "Now you can't resist whatever I want to do~"

After hearing his words, Liu calmed down instead. A smile flashed across his cyan eyes, and he said provocatively: "Then why don't you attack me!"

Mu Huai was dumbfounded, and the perverted look he pretended to be collapsed instantly. Under normal circumstances, which girl would take the initiative to provoke a boy? Isn't this equivalent to putting her forehead against the muzzle of a gun?

"Haha, I knew you were pretending."

In order to take revenge on Mu Huai, Liu collected intelligence for more than half a year, intermittently from Chloe and secretly following him, and had already figured out his character clearly.

Excluding the fact that he tarnished her innocence as an elf, Liu actually had a very high opinion of Mu Huai.

He became an adventurer for only one month before he jumped two levels to become a Lv.3 adventurer. He killed Goliath, the Lord of the 17th floor, alone. He refused the recruitment of those powerful families and joined the Hestia family, which had nothing. He was young and rich, and the god Soma personally acknowledged that he had defeated the divine wine. If I were to list all his deeds one by one, it would take a long time to talk about it.

If other adventurers had so much fame, they would have long lost interest in exploring dungeons and would have either gone to the Women's Street to spend their days drinking and partying or to the tavern to brag and chat.

After all, adventurers are also human beings. Instead of going to the dungeon every day to engage in high-risk life-and-death battles, they would rather have enough money and honor to help them enjoy the rest of their lives without worries.

Mu Huai did not do these things. He also formed a temporary team with Orario's most dazzling rising star [Sword Princess] Ai Si to go on dungeon adventures. For half a year, his life was basically home - dungeon - the hostess of abundance. Living a life with this three-point straight line can be said to be extremely self-disciplined.

How bad can the character of a boy be if he can ignore the temptation of wealth and luxury and keep going to the dungeon to improve himself?

After being defeated by Mu Huai twice in a row, Liu also woke up from her obsession with revenge on him. Now that she had no main god to update her ability value, she could not defeat the opponent with her Lv.4 strength.

After his identity was exposed, instead of risking his life, he might as well try to win over the other party and ask him to help clean up the darkness hidden in Orario.

Thinking of this, Liu put away the faint smile on his face and asked him in a serious tone: "Mr. Mu Huai, are you willing to join me in clearing out the evil hidden in Orario?"

Mu Huai's eyes lit up. He thought of the task Uranus had given him to eliminate the evil god, and immediately sat down cross-legged: "Tell me more about it, I might consider helping!"

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Chapter 36 Liu: You seem a bit too extreme.

Liu Jianjian told Mu Huai about his former clan, the Astralia clan, and how they were destroyed because of a trap set in the dungeon by the Dark Faction, an alliance of fallen clans that advocated "destruction of order" and "survival of the fittest."

Just a slight mention of the unbearable memories of the past would fill Liu's beautiful eyes with murderous intent and anger, as if stained with blood.

"In other words, this dark faction hides an evil god who delights in destruction?"

"Your description is correct. Although the main forces of the Dark Faction were completely annihilated and most of the evil gods were forcibly sent back to the upper realm, some remnants are still hiding in the current Orario."

"So the reason you bothered me in the first place was because I killed your enemy in advance?"

A trace of embarrassment crossed Liu's face, and he turned his head away in confusion under Mu Huai's piercing gaze: "I admit that I was a little impulsive at the time, but if you found out that the enemy you had been looking for for so long was killed by someone else, you would do the same thing as me, right?"

"I'm unlikely to keep any enemies."

"?"

Mu Huai smiled and explained his philosophy to Liu: "Let's make an assumption. If I have an enemy with a noble, I can only take the initiative to get rid of him.

After killing the nobleman, if his family investigates the truth and decides to avenge him, it will definitely cause trouble for me later, so his entire family must die as well.

But dealing with only the nobles is a bit unrigorous. After all, the nobles and the ministers must be involved, but I don’t know which minister they have a better relationship with, so all the ministers must die.

Now that the minister is dead, the king of the kingdom will definitely not sit idly by. If he sends troops to attack me, it is obvious that I am a greater threat than those ministers. The king will die no matter how he thinks about it.

If I kill a king, how will other kingdoms view me? Will they send people to hunt me down in order to save their lives? To be on the safe side, I'd better kill the kings of other countries.

As you know, there are gods in the underworld today, and no one can guarantee that those kingdoms are not protected by gods. If I want to kill the king, it is equivalent to killing their believers, so all the gods related to the kingdom must die.

But I have already started to kill gods. Will the gods in the upper world think that "this child must not be allowed to stay" and then force themselves to come down to the lower world to wipe me out?

Therefore, none of the gods associated with the war can be left alive. This is the trouble with social etiquette. If you want to kill someone, you have to eliminate them all according to their relationship with you. Otherwise, it will only create trouble for your own safety."

A few drops of cold sweat dripped down Liu's fair forehead: "I think you are a bit too extreme."

"Extreme? But none of the enemies I killed raised any objections. Doesn't this mean that my theory is not only perfect, but it even left them speechless?"

"...I suddenly feel that you are even more terrifying than the An faction. Fortunately, we are not enemies."

"Hehe, if it weren't for the fact that you're an elf lady, I would have banished you long ago."

His words, which didn't seem like a joke, made Liu feel fortunate for being a woman for the first time.

Mu Huai pulled out a bottle of powerful antidote from his pocket and fed it to her, then untied the ropes that bound her hands and feet. "Your condition will be restored in about ten seconds. I have something else to do, so I won't escort you back to the surface."

"Wait, you haven't given me an answer yet!"

"I agree to your request. Call me when you kill someone. You don't have to call me if there aren't enough heads to go around."

Although it sounded like the words of a villain, Liu was vaguely moved. She had been walking alone on this dark road for too long, and now she finally found a companion who shared her ideals of revenge.

Even if this companion will not bring light, but will only fall into darkness with her, a moment of warmth is enough for Liu to continue walking with him.

It was not until Mu Huai's back completely disappeared from his sight that Liu's delicate oval face revealed a smile that made everything else pale in comparison. It was a pity that he had left and did not have the chance to see this scene.

After the two parted ways, Mu Huai ran back to the heretic's residence with his fishing rod, picked up some fruits as bait and started fishing in the lake.

It turns out that before the mines return to Pelican Town, he won't be able to catch fish like stonefish that can be exchanged for gold coins, but he can catch a blue bottled drink - Joja Cola!

Wow~ I didn’t expect that I could drink Coke in another world!

Unable to wait to grab the can with the cold water droplets on it, Mu Huai held the pull ring with his index finger and pulled it gently.

"Pfft-"

A familiar and pleasant voice sounded immediately.

The Joja-Cola, chilled by lake water, was incredibly delicious. The exhilarating sensation of countless bubbles bursting on the tip of the tongue, along with the human's natural love for sugar, flooded into the brain.

"Cool!!!"

Fei'er, who was sitting next to him watching him fishing, asked curiously, "Master Mu Huai, is this drink caught from the lake really that delicious? Can I have a taste too?"

"sure!"

"Thank you, Master Mu Huai!"

Fei'er was overjoyed and was about to use her wings to catch Coke, but Mu Huai stopped her. Her eyes widened slightly and a blush appeared on her cheeks.

Could it be... is it possible that Lord Mu Huai intends to feed me personally?

For example, what should I do if it is mouth-to-mouth?

"Wait until I catch another bottle. This one isn't enough for me."

"……Oh."

Fei'er wilted like an eggplant hit by frost, staring listlessly at the water.

After fishing for about three hours, Mu Huai harvested at least forty bottles of Joja-Cola. He also tested that even if this fishing rod was used by a heretic, it could still catch wooden sticks, Joja-Cola, waste paper balls, and other things classified as garbage in the game.

He simply gave them a new task, which was to send people to take turns fishing in the lake every day. The Joja-Cola caught would be stored in the warehouse like ore, and the rest of the garbage such as branches and paper balls would be used as fuel.

Mu Huai would come and take away some of the Joja Cola every once in a while, and the rest of the cola-loving heretics could take it themselves. He planned to take the cola he took away to the hostess of the bountiful restaurant to see if he could discuss with the store manager Mia to sell it as a special drink in the store.

At that time, the sales of Coke would be split 70% to 30% and converted into materials of equal value to be brought to the heretics. However, they would rather not take a cent than take 70% of the sales. Mu Huai had no choice but to change it to a 50-50 split, and only then did he reluctantly convince them to agree.

Guros grunted in dissatisfaction: "Master Mu Huai, how can you give us 50% of the profits when you have contributed so much? Even if you accept all the sales, we won't be dissatisfied at all!"

"Brothers should be clear about their accounts. I can't always point the way for you. I'm human, and you heretics have to carve out your own futures. You can't just blindly follow my words. Some things are better explained right from the start than to let them become a mess later."

"...I understand. We will work harder to think about how to develop in the future, but I also want you to know that we will stand by your side, even if it means we have to make the world our enemy."

The heretics bowed their heads one after another to express their highest respect to Mu Huai.

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Chapter 37 Hestia: Promise me, you can only use it for peeing.

Mu Huai returned to the surface with twenty bottles of Joja Cola, and called Ai Si and Hestia to go to the Hostess of Abundance. As soon as they entered the restaurant, they met Runa's smug gaze, "I knew you would come."

It was not peak meal time, but Roy and the others had no reason to refuse and let Liu go to receive Mu Huai. Just when they were feeling embarrassed about this, they found that Liu had already taken the initiative to walk over.

"Welcome to the hostess of Abundance, Mr. Mu Huai, why are you here so early today?"

"I need to discuss something with Manager Mia. Hestia, please find a place to sit first. Ms. Liu, please take me to see the manager."

"Okay, please follow me."

Liu brought Mu Huai to the kitchen. At this time, the store manager Miya had just put down the kitchen knife. She glanced at Mu Huai and asked indifferently: "What does the famous Mr. Mu Huai want to discuss with me?"

"Fortunately, this is Orario and not Night City, otherwise I would feel like you were scolding me..."

"what?"

"Ahem... Nothing much. I want to cooperate with the Mistress of Plenty to sell this... bubbly sugar water."

Mu Huai pulled a bottle of Joja Cola from his cloak and placed it on the table next to him. Mia frowned at the strange little blue can. "Mr. Mu Huai, we can't sell a drink of this unknown origin."

"I can only say that this is something I got from a hidden area in the dungeon. It's absolutely safe."

"Dungeon..."

Mia glanced at Xier, who was standing at the serving area, and only after seeing her nod slightly did she believe Mu Huai's words: "But, I don't think adventurers would like something like sugar water."

"How about you try it first?"

Mu Huai opened the Coke and poured it into the two wooden glasses that Liu handed to him.

Looking at the strange dark brown drink with tiny bubbles in the cup, Mia hesitated for a moment and then raised her head to drink it all in one gulp.

"Pfft! Cough cough cough..."

"Manager, are you okay?!"

The noise from the kitchen drew Chloe and the others in. Mia wiped the remaining water from the corner of her mouth and pointed at the untouched Coke: "Someone of you try this sugary drink. We've told you it's a little irritating to your tongue and mouth."

The girls looked at each other, and after discussing for a while, they decided to divide the wine into five cups and let everyone taste it.

"Nya~ I felt like my tongue was hit by lightning magic."

"Hmm...it's a very subtle taste, but after taking a sip I wanted more."

“I think it goes really well with fried chicken nuggets!”

Although their opinions varied, they all gave a fairly positive review and believed that this novel beverage could be sold in the store.

After Mia and Mu Huai agreed on the sales split, they decided to officially start sales next week, because the amount of Joja Cola he currently has on hand is completely insufficient to meet the restaurant's minimum daily beverage inventory requirements.

After discussing the cooperation, Mu Huai returned to Hestia and the others, took out three bottles of Coke and handed them to them: "Try the new drink I got. Take a sip first to see if you can accept it."

Hestia took a sip and immediately handed him the Coke with a frown: "I don't like this drink very much. Mu Huai, please help me finish it."

"Ah."

Lily watched as her Lord God used a little trick to kiss Mu Huai indirectly, and she couldn't help but blame herself for not thinking fast enough, otherwise she would be the one laughing now.