52: Chapter 52 You keep it safe for me

Early the next morning.

Lin Yuan opened his eyes.

In his mind, that vast Dimensional Space remained clear.

54,000 cubic meters, equivalent to the volume of twenty standard swimming pools.

The bedding beside him shifted.

Su Xiaonuan curled up and moved closer like an obedient cat.

"Awake?" Lin Yuan leaned against the headboard and stroked her messy hair.

Su Xiaonuan nodded, her eyes hazy.

"Go to the job market and hire two hundred temporary workers, split them into twenty groups, and have them rotate in shifts. Contract every Michelin-starred restaurant, Black Pearl restaurant, and those time-honored brands in Jiangcheng."

Lin Yuan spoke extremely fast.

"Full Banquet, French cuisine, roast whole lamb, even freshly fried Shengjian buns. Have them cook 24 hours a day without stopping. As soon as a portion is made, pack it immediately."

"Huh?"

Su Xiaonuan sat up from the bed:

"Boss Lin, cooked food doesn't last long. The self-heating pots and vacuum-packed food we've hoarded are already enough to last us for decades…"

Lin Yuan didn't explain. He casually picked up a peeled egg that Wang Ya had just delivered from the bedside, and with a thought, the egg vanished into thin air.

Then, he made it reappear as if performing a magic trick and stuffed it into Su Xiaonuan's mouth.

Lin Yuan watched her wide eyes,

"In my space, time is frozen."

Su Xiaonuan swallowed the egg with effort, still unable to speak for a long time.

Lin Yuan pinched her chin and spoke:

"You know my secret. With this brand, you will never be able to betray me for all eternity."

"I never thought about betraying you!" Su Xiaonuan hugged Lin Yuan's arm urgently.

Lin Yuan took the opportunity to pull her into his arms, whispering against her ear:

"Do you know, in the last life, to cover for me, you cut your own wrists and used your blood to lure that group of zombies away."

Su Xiaonuan's body stiffened.

She looked up at Lin Yuan.

"And Shen Qingyue gave the only life-saving medicine to someone else."

Deep in Lin Yuan's eyes, a trace of violence flashed,

"That is why I climbed back from hell."

The room was very quiet.

Past life.

Rebirth.

Slitting wrists to lure zombies.

Su Xiaonuan didn't ask.

The moment the egg disappeared and reappeared out of thin air, there was nothing impossible in this world anymore.

She just stared blankly at Lin Yuan.

Tears fell without warning.

She could feel the burden this man in front of her carried and the pain in his heart.

Su Xiaonuan very slowly bit down on Lin Yuan's shoulder.

She didn't use force, but held on tight without letting go.

Tears rolled down her jawline onto Lin Yuan's skin, scalding hot.

Lin Yuan didn't push her away; instead, he rolled over, completely shrouding her in his shadow.

"Why are you crying?" He forcibly pried her pearly teeth apart with his thumb, "In this life, you don't have to die; the ones who should die are others."

This transformation from "sacrifice" to "favored subject" made Su Xiaonuan's body go soft like a puddle of water, and she took the initiative to lift her neck…

An hour later, the master bedroom door was knocked on timidly.

"Mr. Lin… breakfast is ready…" Wang Ya's slightly trembling voice came from outside the door.

Su Xiaonuan bit the pillowcase tightly, emitting suppressed pleas for mercy.

…

Ten o'clock in the morning.

After Lin Yuan set up the tasks, he prepared to go out.

Passing the guest room, the door was tightly closed. Su Muxue didn't come out for breakfast.

Last night, when Su Muxue passed by the doorway, Lin Yuan's high Mental Energy naturally sensed it.

The Ice Empress still needed some time to adapt.

Last night, the favorability rating didn't drop, did it?

Two kilometers away, Hongfa Meat Processing Plant.

The black george patton crushed over a puddle at the factory entrance and stopped in front of the office building.

Lin Yuan pushed the door open and got out.

The former factory manager, Wang Hongfa, with a beer belly and clutching a leather bag, greeted him, followed by two young men in reflective vests.

He had been squatting here for several days, only seeing logistics vehicles coming and going.

Today, he finally waited for someone in charge.

"Boss Lin! I've been sending you messages and you haven't replied!" Wang Hongfa skillfully pulled out a cigarette and handed it over, "Miss Su didn't come today?"

"What's the matter?" Lin Yuan put his hands in his pockets, ignoring his small talk.

Wang Hongfa's hand froze in mid-air, then his eyes rolled,

"Boss Lin, we need to settle the accounts properly today."

He held the cigarette in his mouth, then pulled a contract out of his leather bag and shook it.

"Miss Su signed this contract with me, saying she wanted my factory, plus buying the 100 tons of frozen pork I have in stock."

Wang Hongfa lit the cigarette and took a deep drag, "But the supplementary clause of the contract states that the 100 tons of pork will only be delivered after you pay the final payment."

"Recently, the price of pork in Jiangcheng changes every day, it has skyrocketed by nearly 70%!"

Wang Hongfa exhaled a smoke ring, "Several people have already contacted me. Why don't you pay me at the current market price first."

"If Mr. Lin thinks it's too expensive." Wang Hongfa spat the cigarette butt on the ground and crushed it with his leather shoe.

"I am also a person who keeps his word."

"Let's just deduct the pork price from the time we signed the contract from the final payment, how is that, reasonable right?"

Lin Yuan glanced at him, strode forward, and walked straight into the depths of the factory area.

Wang Hongfa felt a chill down his spine from that look, gritted his teeth, and followed with the two young men.

After the meat processing plant was transferred to Lin Yuan, no one had been hired, just some temporary workers to watch when goods were shipped in.

Wang Hongfa and his men, who were very familiar with this place, easily followed.

The heavy cold storage door opened.

A mist of minus twenty degrees rushed at them.

Piles of cardboard packaging boxes reached the ceiling.

On the left were ten thousand tons of various frozen goods and daily necessities, and on the right was Wang Hongfa's 100 tons of frozen pork.

"See? I told you nothing has been shipped out lately. My meat is all here!" Wang Hongfa said to the young man beside him with a grin.

Lin Yuan ignored him and walked alone into the depths of the cold storage among the towering shelves.

This was a blind spot for surveillance.

He spread his palm, aiming at the "small mountain" piled up with ten thousand tons of frozen goods.

In his mind, that silent space sensed its master's call.

Lin Yuan's temples bulged slightly, a sign of highly concentrated Mental Energy.

In just a thought.

Inside those mountainous cardboard boxes, all the frozen meat, poultry, seafood, and even Wang Hongfa's 100 tons of frozen pork were separated into the space with extreme precision within half a second!

Over ten thousand tons of supplies were neatly arranged in Lin Yuan's Dimensional Space.

And what was left in place were only empty cardboard boxes.

The ultra-low temperature of minus twenty degrees had long frozen the corrugated cardboard as hard as wood.

The layered boxes were nested and supported each other, plus the outer layer was wrapped with three or four circles of industrial tape and packing straps—even if the inside was hollowed out, these frozen hard shells remained as motionless as brick walls.

Lin Yuan turned around and walked slowly out from between the shelves.

He patted the frost off his jacket.

Lin Yuan took out his phone:

"Xiaonuan, send a breach of contract notice to Wang Hongfa."

Lin Yuan's tone had no fluctuation, "Since he doesn't want to sell, I don't want it either."

Wang Hongfa was stunned for two seconds, then suddenly burst into loud laughter.

"Boss Lin, have you given up?"

Wang Hongfa pointed at the two "mountains" in the cold storage, full of complacency,

"You don't want it? Fine! But your goods are still piled on my territory!"

"Want to move them away? Sure! From today on, pay me storage fees by the day!"

Wang Hongfa thought he had grabbed Lin Yuan's Achilles' heel.

With over ten thousand tons of goods, it was impossible to find a second cold storage in Jiangcheng to take over in a short time!

Lin Yuan looked at him,

"Fine. You keep it 'safe' for me."

After speaking, he turned and left.

Wang Hongfa stood at the door of the cold storage and spat a mouthful of thick phlegm on the ground.

"Having money is a big deal? Aren't you still being held firmly by me!"

He took out his phone: "President Zhang, the pork deal is done. Yes, one hundred tons, if you take it all, I'll round down the price. We can load the truck this afternoon!"

…

Two o'clock in the afternoon. Cloud Top Palace.

Lin Yuan returned to Villa No. 12.

Lu Yan stood in the living room covered in mud and dust, handing over an engineering blueprint.

"Boss, all hardware defense walls, water circulation systems, and air filtration nets for Tiangong No. 1 are completed, three days ahead of schedule."

Lu Yan pointed to the load-bearing structure on the blueprint, "There was plenty of time, so 30 cm composite armor plates were added to the walls."

Lin Yuan took the blueprint and glanced at it.

"Start the soft decoration, and also dig a passage from the basement of Villa 13, where you live, to the underground garage of Tiangong No. 1."

That was the secure passage he reserved for future doomsday security.

Only he and his confidantes would live in Tiangong No. 1, but the goddesses couldn't be expected to do all the dirty and tiring work.

"Understood!" Lu Yan didn't ask again and turned to walk away.

Just the moment after Lu Yan left.

The phone in Lin Yuan's pocket vibrated sharply.

Caller ID: Principal of Ston International School, Principal Li Jianguo.

Lin Yuan pressed the answer button.

On the other end of the line, the background noise was mixed with shrill sirens and screams.

"Chairman Lin! A student in Class 3 of Grade 11 bit someone to death during lunch break!"

Principal Li Jianguo's voice trembled out of tune.

"He bit off his deskmate's neck! Blood sprayed onto the ceiling! That student is still in the hallway, pouncing on anyone he sees!"

"What should we do…"