Traveling through the second dimension, the joy system encourages me to laugh heartily!

Meanwhile, in the kitchen, sunlight streamed in through the glass panes, weaving a tinsel-like grid across the oak floor.

As Alpha tiptoed to take down the kitchen utensils from the top shelf of the closet, the breeze just happened to lift the ruffles of her neatly washed apron, revealing her pure white stockings.

"Today I'll teach you how to make the simplest dish..."

She turned and explained to the little girls gathered around the cooking table.

Anne, the youngest, was trying hard to roll up her overly long cuffs, revealing her slender wrists.

"I'll teach them cooking later. I've already prepared lunch."

Chen Ming said while leaning against the door frame with a smile.

Although these maids would definitely have to cook their own meals in the future, [Crimson] would prepare enough food for them. Although the T-101 was an engineering robot, it was also adept at farming and harvesting vegetables. In fact, there was also a T-100 specifically for farming, but the need was not high, so Crimson did not request it...

But they are still young and can learn slowly. During the transition period, Chen Ming will give them materialized food.

After waking up the late-night Ai Li Xi, they enjoyed lunch together.

Chen Ming set out again for [Mary Chamber of Commerce].

Today has come the time for the second transaction agreed upon by him and Maya.

Moreover, with a large number of T-101s working day and night, the twin-building dormitories behind the villa were successfully built.

It's just right for the new little girls to live in - he deliberately used green and safe building materials, so they can move in directly.

The second transaction went very smoothly. Apart from Chen Ming's sudden appearance using [Teleportation], which caused some minor commotion, the atmosphere between the two parties was very harmonious.

Maya spent a month abducting 392 homeless orphans aged 5 to 10 from the commercial city of Murdo.

It wasn't actually kidnapping, because after arriving at the Mary Chamber of Commerce, these orphans were fed daily. Maya had delivered on her promise of warm shelter and delicious food.

So these homeless orphans did not cry or make a fuss, but obediently accepted the future of being sold to Chen Ming.

"All the little girls who meet the requirements in the commercial city are here. I will go to more distant cities to find the next batch, so it will take longer to prepare..."

Maya said apologetically after receiving the payment of 78400 gold coins.

"Don't bother, 500 maids are enough for now."

Chen Ming shook his head and refused, "It's a pleasure to do business with you. I'll come to you next time if I need anything."

Because his main purpose of giving money to Maya was to ask for repayment of a favor.

As long as Maya is still doing business in the area near the town, if any bad guys who covet his wealth appear, Chen Ming can immediately lend a helping hand as a hero.

But if Maya goes to a city too far away, if she encounters danger, he may not be able to rescue her.

More importantly, Chen Ming has already given Maya 10 gold coins. Even after deducting the cost, Maya will definitely make a lot of money.

As an outstanding businessman who established a chamber of commerce, Maya's capital suddenly increased dramatically, which will inevitably make her business bigger - these 10 gold coins are nothing to Chen Ming, but they have increased Maya's working capital fivefold!

In the original novel, when Maya was still a small chamber of commerce, she was targeted by someone, and a traitor teamed up with a gang of thieves to kill people and steal their property!

Now that we have become bigger and stronger, we will definitely attract more powerful enemies.

This is a common occurrence in World No. 1 - for example, when the original hero Lu Ge disguised himself as the young manager of the Baroru Chamber of Commerce, he made his first fortune by manufacturing cosmetics, and then was assassinated by an assassin at night.

Maya would definitely not be able to stop Luge's counterattack, as he was very strong.

So no matter from which angle you consider it, Chen Ming, who has already achieved the goal of making a nest and laying bait, has no need to continue paying money. He just needs to wait patiently for the fish to take the bait.

As for [adopting a little maid and hoping that one of them will have a beauty score of over 80 when she grows up], it is just a side effect of the task of sending money.

Because according to the Joy System's scoring criteria for girls' overall appearance, those with scores above 80 are considered school beauties, so Chen Ming estimates that only one out of about 1000 girls will meet the system's requirements.

Therefore, if you simply want to find a girl with a beauty score of more than 80 points, the efficiency of adopting a little maid is very low.

It would be more convenient and quicker to go directly to an adult.

When Maya heard Chen Ming say that the maids were enough for the time being, although she felt a little regretful, it was also understandable - after all, for a small manor owner, recruiting 500 maids was already a very exaggerated thing!

He nodded in understanding, "Okay, Mr. Chen, I look forward to your next visit!"

After saying that, Maya smiled and shook hands with Chen Ming, then arranged for 40 horse-drawn carriages to deliver the goods to his door.

……

After returning to the Banshan Manor, Chen Ming followed the usual practice and asked the maids to take a bath first.

Thanks to the experience from last time, we were more thoroughly prepared this time, unlike last time when we made a fool of ourselves by having nothing to wear after taking a shower.

Although there were more people, Alpha actually felt more relaxed—because 108 young maids had already lived in the manor for a month and were familiar with the various facilities here. One senior could guide four newcomers...

At dinner time, the connecting hall on the first floor of the twin towers was bustling with activity.

The evening glow shines through the stained glass of the twin towers' domes, casting mottled shadows on the marble floor connecting the halls.

This place is designed as a cafeteria, and at this moment, the tempting aroma of food is wafting in the air. Rows of long teak tables are glowing with a warm luster under the warm yellow crystal chandeliers. Tableware is scattered on each table, filled with delicacies that can only be made in modern society.

Five hundred little girls in uniform beige dresses sat obediently on the benches. Among them, the 392 new arrivals stood with their backs straight, their slender fingers tightly grasping the hems of their dresses.

Their eyes were fixed on the delicacies in front of them - the amber-hued sweet and sour spare ribs piled up in a pyramid, with the sauce slowly sliding down the caramel-colored lines; the skin of the whole honey-roasted chicken was so crispy that you could hear the subtle crackling of the fat; the emerald-colored lettuce slices wrapped in crystal garlic complemented the ruby-red cherry tomatoes in the salad bowl.

But what made their throats tighten the most was the faint milky aroma in the air, which came from the three-layer strawberry cream cake delivered by the mechanical food truck.

Faced with a table full of fragrant delicacies, none of the little girls touched the food and they just tried their best to swallow their saliva.

After Chen Ming sat down, he saw that the little girls were a little reserved. So he picked up his chopsticks, picked up a piece of steak and placed it in Ai Lixi's bowl, saying loudly, "Everyone, eat quickly. I won't pick up any food for you. It's too far to reach."

The two women sitting next to Chen Ming also began to eat openly. Alisi picked up some food for Chen Ming, and Alpha was busy feeding Taldo.

As soon as Chen Ming finished speaking, 108 "seniors" who arrived early picked up their chopsticks in unison.

Meimi, with waist-length hair, expertly picked up the shredded pork with fish sauce, her lavender eyes reflecting the tense shoulders of the newlyweds. Her movements were like flicking a switch, and the clinking of cutlery gradually began to rise.

The new kids seemed nailed to their seats.

Mei Jia, the oldest, kindly helped the newlyweds by serving them food: "Listen to the host!"

Yuna stared at the sweet and sour spareribs that suddenly appeared in the bowl, her chopsticks trembling slightly in her hand.

As a wandering orphan, she had mostly eaten spoiled food and could only barely survive...The most sumptuous meal she had was just hard bread with rat teeth marks on it, served with vegetable soup with oily liquid.

Although you can eat your fill at Mary's Chamber of Commerce, the food is mostly vegetable porridge, with some shredded meat occasionally added in.

And now, there was a table full of meat in front of her! The sauce on the short ribs was swaying along the porcelain plate, reminding her of the muddy water dripping from the eaves during the heavy rain a month ago - when she and her sisters huddled in a leaky shack, sharing half a piece of moldy cheese.

Thinking of this, the girl's face suddenly turned red. She picked up the piece of meat and stuffed it into her mouth, not even noticing the sauce brushing against her nose.

As she started eating, the 392 new girls seemed to burst the dam, and the swallowing sounds instantly exploded under the dome.

A red-haired girl sniffed closer like a small animal, then buried her face in the pineapple rice. When she looked up, her eyelashes still stained with curry sauce, her face clinging to the rice grains.

[Crimson] carefully recorded the camera above the hall: the girl at table 37 was singularly picking at carrots, a possible precursor to night blindness; the twins at table 15 were fighting over blueberry pie, the horizontal grooves on their nails revealing a severe zinc deficiency; the curly-haired girl in the southeast corner was secretly wrapping a steak in a napkin, perhaps a post-traumatic effect from having her food stolen during her wanderings...

Chapter 82: Maglev Launch Site Completed

"Eat slowly."

The oldest, Mejia, reached out to wipe the rice from Yuna's mouth, but the girl suddenly froze, dropping half a piece of sweet and sour pork ribs from her trembling chopsticks. During her years of wandering, any physical effort to obtain food meant a struggle...

It wasn't until Mejia picked up two more pieces and put them into her bowl that the girl seemed to be relieved of the crisis and continued to eat with peace of mind.

Chen Ming was no longer surprised by this kind of scene of people eating voraciously.

In World No. 1, every girl who enters the manor will, without exception, give him a show of eating and drinking to excess.

He didn't pay much attention to these new little maids, letting them eat and drink to their heart's content, and showing their sweet affection to Elise who was sitting next to him.

Suddenly, a suppressed cough came from a corner, followed by choking coughs one after another - the new maids' faces turned red due to the stimulation of carbonated drinks that they had never tasted before.

[Deep Red] continues to record faithfully: It is recommended to increase DHA intake to promote neural development.

When the last bit of mango mousse disappeared between the lips and teeth, a small burp suddenly sounded in the hall.

Seeing this, Chen Ming thoughtfully materialized many boxes of stomach-strengthening and digestion-promoting tablets, and while performing magic treatment on the newcomers, he gave each of them two tablets.

The little girls who had received treatment walked back to their respective dormitories in groups of three or five, supporting each other and almost holding on to the wall.

The twin-building dormitory is 10 stories high, with 10 60-square-meter dormitories on each floor, and a total of 200 dormitories in the two buildings.

Each dormitory has four beds, an independent bathroom, and is fully equipped with air conditioning, refrigerator, washing machine, wardrobe and other furniture.

All these dormitories face south, and the doors lead to a long corridor leading to the elevator and stairwell.

Theoretically, it could house 800 people at full capacity, which was more than enough for 500 maids. Even if it wasn't enough, they could just have [Crimson] build more. This kind of high-rise building wouldn't take up much land, and in this world, you didn't need to apply to the government to build a house; you could just build on your own land...

As the moonlight soaked through the lace curtains, the four new maids supported each other and moved into their dormitory.

The wool carpet with dark embroidery swallowed up the sound of footsteps, but could not swallow up their excited heartbeats.

As soon as they entered the room, they lay on their backs on the soft beds, staring at the ceiling in a daze, as if they had lost all their strength and didn't want to move at all.

After a long moment, one of the girls buried her face in the lavender-scented pillow and muttered, "This mattress and quilt are a hundred times softer than the hay I slept on before... Pinch me and tell me I'm not dreaming..."

Suddenly a hand reached out and pinched her thigh, causing her to burst into tears due to the pain.

“Hiss…it hurts…you’re really pinching me!”

"Do you believe it now?"

The black-haired girl on the opposite bed withdrew her hand, the warmth of the other person's skin still lingering on her fingertips.

At this time, another girl took out an apple from her beige dress with great effort and asked shyly, "Who will eat this? I really can't eat any more..."

"Are you stupid? Why are you carrying one? Didn't you even eat three helpings of cake at dinner? And you're not full?"

"I...I'm afraid there won't be anything to eat tomorrow..."

The girl bent her knees and recalled the miserable days when she had to break the black bread she got into four pieces and eat them over four days.

"I can't eat it anymore. Why don't you put it in the refrigerator at the door?"

"What's a refrigerator?"

"You can store food in the refrigerator! The senior introduced it to me when we were waiting in line for the shower just now. It's the silver-gray metal cabinet."

Upon hearing this, the girl who hid the apple rubbed her belly, walked over, and put the apple in the refrigerator.

After that, she didn't lie down again, but began to explore the dormitory to see if there were any new things and broaden her horizons.

While exploring the toilet, she remembered the smart toilet demonstrated by her predecessor in the afternoon, so she tried the flush button with a red face, but she regretted it the next moment - the sudden gushing hot water almost scared her to tears!

……

The next day, these new maids, under the guidance of their predecessors, quickly began to work on the daily maintenance of the Banshan Manor.

Although they are still young, they have experienced a lot of hardships, so they are hardworking and do their work with great determination!

As long as it is work taught by Alpha, they will study it carefully and carry it out strictly.

Even if there are things that are really impossible to do, such as being too high to reach or too heavy to lift.

All they had to do was shout, "Help me, Sister Crimson!"

Then the next moment, the T-101 that has been following them will take action to solve the problem.

500 maids are responsible for the cleaning of the two villas and the twin buildings behind them. Each person is only responsible for a very small area.

It instantly rescued Alpha from her busy maid work.

She only needs to spend a little time every day to arrange tasks and check results. She can use the extra time to take care of Talduo and spend time with Chen Ming.

After delivering the money to Maya, Chen Ming returned to staying at home again - there was no need for him to leave the manor until the fish took the bait.

Of course, Maya, who he used as bait, still needed to be closely monitored.

Now that the satellite has not yet been launched into space, Chen Ming can only rely on drones for monitoring.

Panda Star's drones are also about 50 years more advanced than Blue Star's. They include reconnaissance type (A-101), precision attack type (A-102), wide-area bombing type (A-103)...

Next door to the computer center, a hexagonal metal tower hummed in the sunlight. This titanium alloy vertical takeoff and landing platform's surface was covered in honeycomb-shaped holes. Every time the red warning light rotated, an A-101 reconnaissance drone would be ejected from one of the holes. Its silver-gray rotors would instantly start 30 meters above the ground and soar into the sky.

Chen Ming stood in front of the floor-to-ceiling window on the second floor of the villa, watching another group of drones disappear into the clouds.

The A-101 is relatively small, with a diameter of only 1.5 meters. It is equipped with a very advanced multi-spectral scanning array and full-band monitoring equipment from visible light to millimeter waves. In the absence of cloud cover, it can identify the front and back of a coin on the ground at an altitude of 3000 meters.

They have precise flight routes to ensure that there are no blind spots in the patrol area.

Whenever the battery level is less than half, these hardworking little bees will automatically return to the manor to recharge along the most economical route. The intelligent dispatching system of [Crimson] will always ensure that each drone retains the reserve to deal with emergencies.

At the same time, the next team of A-101 drones will arrive at the scene to replace the drones that have returned to recharge.

If all the drones were controlled by humans, it would be extremely troublesome - at least 100 maids would have to be assigned to learn how to control drones.

But with the intelligent group control of [Crimson], Chen Ming is much less worried. At most, it is a little noisy every time the drone takes off and lands.