170: The basic qualities of being a slave

“Oh, Mr. Long, you don’t know how strict our Great Ming’s management of the entertainment industry is. If they find out we’re operating like this without a written agreement, there will be problems! Also, competition in our line of work is fierce, and the company boss is worried you’ll be poached by someone else, so he strongly requested that I sign a contract with you quickly. Please understand the helplessness of a small wage earner like me. If I get fired by the boss because of this, I’ll be in big trouble…” Xu Ruoying cried out in a delicate voice.

Long Yuan listened, dumbfounded. Is this something a Princess should say? He had already checked the information captured by the Heavenly Dao Eye, and this Xu Ruoying was a direct descendant of the Xu Family, definitely a legitimate Princess.

The Xu Family was the Great Ming’s number one super aristocratic family. Their ancestors were enfeoffed as Dukes of Wei by the Great Ming, and their progenitor, Xu Da, was posthumously granted the title of Prince of Zhongshan. As a direct descendant of the Xu Family, Xu Ruoying naturally held the title of Princess, but she was now calling herself a small wage earner. If people like her were called wage earners, what could those truly miserable working people be called? How would they refer to themselves?

Losers? Beasts of burden? Leeks? Consumables?

However, Long Yuan naturally wouldn't expose Xu Ruoying's identity to her face. Since she said she was here to sign a contract and not to dig up his secrets, it didn't matter. Regarding the Xu Family, he was most wary of the Martial Commander of the Xu Family, Xu Yanran. As long as it wasn't her coming, he wasn't afraid...

“Alright, since you’ve said all that, if I don’t agree now, it would be unreasonable!” Long Yuan said helplessly.

“Hehe, thank you, Mr. Long! Oh, I can arrive in Fengyang today, and maybe even see you tonight! I won’t bother you anymore!” Xu Ruoying giggled.

Long Yuan was speechless when he heard this. It was obvious that Xu Ruoying had already planned her itinerary and even bought her plane ticket. This phone call was just to inform him about the matter before she departed. As for whether he agreed or not, it wouldn't change anything about their meeting for her...

“Another thing… why do I feel like Fengyang is getting livelier and livelier now?” Long Yuan thought, a little belatedly.

For a small place like Fengyang, whether it was Zhu Nan, Geng Rutai, or Xu Ruoying, these people were all significant figures, and they were all coming for him. This made Long Yuan feel a bit incredible, but he no longer had the uneasy, weak mindset he had before. On the contrary, he felt that he should be able to handle this situation relatively easily...

“First, deliver the gun so that Zhu Nan can quickly return and do things for me! Oh, there’s another thing, which is that when implementing the cooperation plan later, a large base will be needed. Where to build this base is a problem…” Long Yuan pondered as he stepped out of the Formation, quickly moving forward in the shadows of the road…

It was still early, and there weren't many pedestrians on the road. Long Yuan only took five minutes to reach the vicinity of the County Government Building. He first called Zhu Nan. Zhu Nan hadn't slept well last night due to over-excitement, but he had fallen asleep in the morning. After being woken up by the call, he found it was from Long Yuan, immediately sat up with a jolt, quickly tidied his hair and clothes, and then knelt on the ground with a “plop.” Only then did he respectfully say, holding his phone: “Connected!”

“Eunuch, the Xuan Gun has been refined. I’ll be with you very soon!” Long Yuan said directly.

“So fast?! Okay!!! This old servant will immediately welcome Ninth Young Master!” Zhu Nan said excitedly.

Hanging up the phone, he put on his palace attire with lightning speed, tied his hair, put on his hat, applied makeup, sprayed a light perfume on himself, and even brushed his mouth several times. Then he opened the door and went to wait outside the elevator door…

As soon as he stood still, he saw the elevator numbers rising. With a “ding,” the elevator door opened, and Long Yuan walked out.

“Greetings, Ninth Young Master!” Zhu Nan immediately bowed down and said.

Long Yuan quickly helped him up and said, “Eunuch, please don’t be so polite! Come inside!”

“Yes, sir!”

Upon entering Zhu Nan’s room, Long Yuan took out two Armor-Piercing Spears and two large boxes of bullets from his space, explained all the precautions, and then said, “Are there any suitable locations near the Nanyue Base for a weapons factory base? Preferably a large area, with good concealment, close to resource production areas, and convenient transportation for large quantities of materials to enter and exit…”

Zhu Nan thought about it and couldn't help but smile bitterly, “Ninth Young Master, these conditions are too demanding. If they were considered separately, they would be easier to find, but combined, it’s difficult. After all, a place with convenient transportation suitable for large quantities of materials to enter and exit is unlikely to have very good concealment…”

Long Yuan nodded. He had also thought about this problem and knew it wouldn't be easy to find. So, he changed the subject and asked, “Do you have a map of the Nanyue Base here?”

Zhu Nan proudly said, “Ninth Young Master, this old servant always carries a map with him. This is a basic quality for a servant!”

He immediately walked to a corner of the room, rummaged through a box, and pulled out a large package. Opening the package, inside was a thick stack of oil paper. After carefully unfolding it, a huge map of the entire Nanyue Base appeared before Long Yuan…

Long Yuan secretly praised Zhu Nan in his heart. Such a map could not be found online; it was classified information of the base. The Heavenly Dao Eye currently only captured surface-level information and had not yet delved into the network's underlying layers. It wasn't that the Heavenly Dao Eye lacked this capability, but doing so would consume a large amount of energy. Given the current energy Rank of the Heavenly Dao Space, such deep data capture was not cost-effective, unless it was for people and events on the blacklist, which would make it worthwhile.

And finding a weapons factory base was something Long Yuan had only just thought of and hadn't yet added to the blacklist, so the Heavenly Dao Eye naturally couldn't provide him with more information or references.

However, with this most authoritative map now available, it saved the Heavenly Dao Eye a lot of energy consumption.

His Divine Sense quickly scanned the entire map. Long Yuan searched according to his own standards. Many places did not meet the requirements. Just as he was feeling a bit disappointed, his eyes suddenly lit up. He pointed to a spot in the southwest corner of Nan Yue City and asked, “Eunuch, there are several mines and multiple roads around here, so why is the population so sparse? It seems very desolate?”

Zhu Nan looked and said, “Ninth Young Master, this place is called ‘Tiankeng.’ It’s surrounded by mountains, but the inside is unfathomably deep. Later, because there was nowhere to pile the waste from Nan Yue City, someone suggested dumping it here, so it became a waste disposal site! It has been used as a waste disposal site for over eight hundred years, and it’s said that the waste has piled up higher than the surrounding mountains, so it’s definitely impossible for people to live around there…”

“What? Eight hundred years of accumulated waste?!” Long Yuan asked, surprised and delighted.