And speaking of Tree Mall, the Tactical System was already uploading all the data it had received from fighting against the Bladed Tail Mantis. There was nothing much for in terms of environmental data and the mutated minions were not exactly strong to create a brand new instance for the customers to try. Thus, the System used it as an update to the latest instance, The House.
A fourth pattern was added to the existing three patterns of 'The House' instance so that the Cultivators now have the possibility of finding a secret door where it leads to the Bladed Tail Mantis. There was not much development from the Dungeons and Pandas since Qiu Yue had taken 'The House' instance as a sign that Jin was going to pump out more instances despite being trapped in another world.
However, when it came to the Tree Mall itself, there were multiple improvements to it as Qiu Yue was part of the nation's redevelopment ministry. Even though she did not object to nor obstruct Jin's way of collecting tenants to fill up the Tree Mall, it was ineffective. Luring them because the rent was cheaper and they could be working in a dynamic environment was not enough incentive in her opinion. (Although there were still quite a number of companies attempting to bid for space.)
Instead, she had decided to use her existing knowledge of instance building skills to create places where it was conducive for the existing companies to interact, cooperate and socialise. Not only that, she has taken the opportunity to get representatives from various companies together to brainstorm and create an effective communication and logistic system among themselves. This way, the small and medium enterprises (SMEs) were able to tap some limited expertise from the multinational companies (MNC) which could not be possible in the outside world of cutthroat businesses.
In return, the SMEs were needed to aid with the MNCs' workload which was not an issue, and probably a boon because they get to learn from the MNCs and achieve business contacts from them as well. On the other hand, Qiu Yue started on charity as well since ...let's just say that Taxes were a pain in the ass and the ability to do charity would no doubt benefit the Tree Mall as a whole, but the various business companies who needed some tax levies.
eaglesnovɐ1,сoМ Thus, she first started by devoting an entire instance to helping the homeless. It was an easy feat since through contact with Police Cultivators, Qiu Yue had managed to get the whereabouts of those homeless people and their details so that her people (Pandafull Employees) located them and bring them into the Tree Mall. The instance was similar to a boot camp barracks except that it was designed with cubicles where everyone had a private space to their own.
While she did not collect any rent from them, various business companies 'sponsored' their stay and in return, they had to find work either through the Tree Mall Workmanship Programmes or outside of Tree Mall. And once they had obtained a job and accumulated sufficient wealth, they would be asked to leave to search for an apartment. While Jin did state that he wished to use Pandapolis as the city for cultivators to buy houses, the plan was eventually scrapped for his minions to live. It is even more pertinent now that their current World of Sanctum instances is full and Jin was not around to build any more instances.
It is true that the System is capable of creating additional instances but decided to not touch it since Jin initially wanted to combine all they had into the 'Virtual World' they were aiming for. Thus, allowing the newer minions of the System to have a place in the Pandapolis was vital for their survival. Besides, those Demon Rats were growing fast and even the high rise apartments that Pandapolis offered might not be sufficient.
And with regards to the Demon Rats, there was much to do. Even though the System had stated that all the Demon Rats were gone when the festival reached the end, there were still squads of Demon Rats trying their best to fight the overwhelming numbers. Jin's Army of monsters was already doing what they can to remove them so that they could start rebuilding the place. And since they knew that Jin wanted this place badly, the Commanders Gold and Weslie made sure that there were no more Demon Rats left behind.
They even got Peppers to continuously scan the area to make sure that there were no more Demon Rats alive. After all, one would never know how even just one Demon Rat soldier might have the ability to affect the current ecosystem. Or whether a 'miracle' would happen and enabled the Demon Rats to breed again, hence eradication was important to make sure that such an event would never appear.
But because the bulk of the Demon Rats had been killed, the Spirit of the Land was able to slowly regain its strength and even offered help to search for any stragglers. To Peppers' surprise, there were a few that could not be detected by her legendary grade magical scan. Something which Gold felt through hunches that the Demon Rats were not thoroughly annihilated but nothing to substantiate. Only through the tweaking of her spell that they finally found even more stragglers and they could finally say that the Northern Region of the Farming World had finally been cleaned out.
This also meant that Qiu Yue could earnestly push forward the plan that Jin had been wanting for the Farming World for a very long time.
To start producing their own materials and build the largest personal production supply centre so that they can sustain the future wars they might be waging on various fronts as well as provide the materials for Jin's Tree Mall. (And also house some cultivators as promised to give them some farming content, although Qiu Yue felt it was more feasible to create instances for them instead to do that.)
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