Wasteland Development Diary

Coming back to my senses slightly from the delightful taste, Zhou Yi began to examine the bowl of soup rice before him.

The rice was long-grain indica rice, and considering how few places there were to grow rice in the wasteland era, it was a delicacy in itself.

The soup was a broth made from meat and bones, with a unique fragrance, but it had been deliberately diluted with water, making it not greasy at all, and the more you ate, the more delicious it became.

It was topped with a little chopped green onion, a few thinly sliced pieces of dried smoked meat, and paired with crispy radish as a side dish, making it extremely delicious.

This soup rice was also quite expensive, costing 1 light seed per serving.

Zhou Yi asked the Flower Girl accompanying him, "How is this made?"

"The ingredients in our soup rice here are not difficult to identify, but there is also a special spice that is our boss's closely guarded secret."

The Flower Girl was called Xiao Yintian. She had a plump figure and a pure face, but she seemed a bit slow and not very good at reading the atmosphere.

Seeing that there was no way to find out the secret of the delicious food, Zhou Yi looked around again.

He was now in a relatively enclosed room, which was very quiet inside, with thick carpets on the floor, a huge bed and sofa, and a pool filled with water and flower petals.

"I want to see your body structure."

Zhou Yi looked at her.

Xiao Yintian was stunned for a moment, then nodded obediently. She took off her thin clothes, revealing her delicate skin, which did indeed look like a female body.

Zhou Yi reached out and touched her abdomen, and his hand sank right in.

The outermost layer felt and looked like human skin, but with a little force, you could reach under the skin. Inside the Flower Girl's beautiful body were layers upon layers of flower petals, soft, slender, and with a strange, fragmented feel.

Zhou Yi couldn't feel any organs inside her body, only those layers of fragile petals.

The flower surface was like it was made of layers of origami.

The inside was empty.

Zhou Yi withdrew his hand and asked, "I heard that you use flower thorns for business?"

"Yes."

Xiao Yintian nodded and stretched out her slender fingers, with barbs growing out of the tips—in fact, they could grow such structures all over their bodies.

Before coming, Xiao Tao had told him that the Flower Faces' unique method was to directly connect to guests through flower thorns, secreting and injecting flower liquid. This was more precise and controllable than traditional organ grafting, with higher intensity and pleasure.

Each Flower Face had a limited amount of flower liquid in their body, which took a certain amount of time to accumulate, similar to natural hormones.

Xiao Tao said that many Light Seeders had a hard time sleeping their entire lives. They were used to being tense all the time, constantly vigilant against enemies and possible attackers.

Flower liquid could allow them to experience rare relaxation, pleasure, and release, and could temporarily forget many worries, even if only for a few minutes.

This was the most luxurious and rare thing.

High-end prostitution in the wasteland era was not just about carnal desire, but about relaxation and forgetting.

Zhou Yi looked at the small thorns on Xiao Yintian's fingers and couldn't help but think of the scene of getting blood drawn at the hospital.

She was more like a beautiful nurse.

No.

Not really, nurses weren't this gentle.

He suddenly thought of what the Flower Girls were like.

They were bees, diligently collecting and making honey, and then giving it to those in need.

Zhou Yi stretched out his hand: "Xiao Yintian, use your hands."

"Okay."

The other party's slightly confused eyes finally recovered, becoming as if relieved.

Xiao Yintian gently held Zhou Yi's left hand with both hands.

Zhou Yi only felt a little itchy in his palm.

Huh?

Xiao Yintian suddenly exclaimed, "That... guest... I can't pierce through."

"Your body is too hard."

"I'm sorry..."

The Flower Girl's voice was a little panicked.

Zhou Yi comforted her, "It's okay, try again."

Xiao Yintian poked Zhou Yi's body with her hands, but it didn't work, and she looked distressed: "I'm sorry, I'm too weak to pierce your body, I can't make you happy."

Zhou Yi didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

The strength of the White Lion was truly a mystery.

Zhou Yi suddenly thought, "Oh right. Xiao Yintian, this kind of flower liquid, haven't you extracted it and injected it orally or in other ways?"

"That won't work."

The Flower Girl shook her head and knelt beside Zhou Yi, massaging his shoulders: "The fluid is only useful when it is connected to the body, the source is us."

"This is the Flower Face's [Pleasure] ability, which can make the life connected to the flower liquid feel comfortable and peaceful. However, the effect of the body fluid is the best, and there are subtle differences in the body fluids of different individuals."

Zhou Yi roughly understood.

The various clubs provided not only the satisfaction of physiological desires, but also a kind of comfort and temporary forgetting of worries.

After paying a service fee of 50 light seeds, he came out of the Weather Club.

Zhou Yi asked Xiao Tao, who was waiting at the door, "I understand the flower system, so how does the leaf system attract customers?"

"This is my job."

The girl in the hoodie said confidently, "The leaf system has a much higher threshold than the flower system. Only those who cannot be selected as leaf systems will become flower systems."

"We have to learn a lot of things, we have to know how to dress up, play musical instruments and dance, we have to be proficient in the common languages of the East and West continents, our written expression must be able to write long letters and daily notes, we have to understand basic history, geography and local customs, we have to be able to take care of the feelings of others, we have to maintain emotional stability at all times, and we have to have at least one unique skill of our own."

Zhou Yi was shocked.

These requirements were indeed high enough.

He carefully recalled that Xiao Yintian of the Weather Club was indeed not as chatty as Xiao Tao, and seemed a bit clumsy and dull. She only relied on her figure to attract customers and went straight to the point with flower thorns.

It seemed that there was also a lot of competition within the Flower Girls.

Zhou Yi smiled and said, "Xiao Tao, what is your unique skill?"

"Hehe, my unique skill is making clothes."

The girl pointed to herself with a magical look: "This dress was made by myself. Although it imitates the clothes of the God Era, the details are my own creations."

"Most of my clothes are made by myself. Whether it's underwear or outerwear, skirts or socks, I can do it."

"Many guests buy my clothes as souvenirs."

"..."

Zhou Yi couldn't help but ask: "Do guests buy new clothes?"

The girl shook her head: "No, many of them prefer the ones I've worn, as souvenirs, because they may never meet again in this lifetime."

"It's very expensive to come to Huayi to play once. Many people can only save money to play once in their lifetime, and some people are too busy. By the time they are not so busy, my flowering period is over, and I may die."

"So I have to do my best every time, show them my best side, and hope they can happily remember me at my prettiest."

Zhou Yi originally wanted to make a few jokes, most of the guests who consume beauty really like the original flavor and so on.

However, Xiao Tao's second half of the sentence made him put away this mentality.

"Xiao Tao, I'll also buy one of your clothes."

"Okay."

"Do you want the one on me?"

Zhou Yi casually said, "Then this one."

"Okay."

As she said that, the girl began to take off her clothes.

"Wait a minute... let's talk about it when we leave."

"Ah, okay! But this one costs 100 light seeds."

"Then... I'll think about it again."

The price immediately restored Zhou Yi's rationality.

The Ox-Horse brothers' annual income combined is only 24 light seeds, it was too extravagant for him to spend like this.

...

Huayi has a warm climate and fertile soil. In addition to cultivating flowers, it also produces various fruits and foods.

Fruit is very cheap.

Especially there are many fruits that cannot be eaten in Shagang, including mangoes, apricots, dragon fruit, cherries, pears, etc., and some fruits that I can't name, the taste is sour and sweet, with a unique flavor.

Zhou Yi ate to his heart's content.

Yuanxiao who was traveling with him didn't eat these. The demon hunter preferred to drink oil and eat bullets, and was not interested in these.

Walking while eating.

Zhou Yi asked Xiao Tao to take him to the April Club.

The leaf club created by Tabo was small in scale, with only a small store, with 7 flower girls and 3 flower boys under its name.

Tabo was instructing a group of young men and women.

Seeing Zhou Yi coming, he immediately asked everyone to go and do their own work, and then trotted over and said with a smile: "Mr. Zhou, how do you feel about Huayi? Our place is only one of the districts, Huayi has five districts in total."

Zhou Yi didn't waste any time: "I heard Xiao Tao say that the April Club's profits mainly rely on selecting Flower Faces who have not yet grown up from the flower garden, bringing them back for cultivation, and then finding excellent ones from them and reselling them to other large clubs."

"That's right."

Tabo nodded and bowed: "What would you like to drink, I'll pour you some water."

"No need. Let's talk about business."

"Okay, okay."

Tabo said sternly: "We are a small club with limited resources and cannot afford many Flower Faces, so we can only maintain the current scale."

"Although we also have our own fixed customers, the number is still too small, so we can't support the club's revenue by relying on this part."

"The main thing is to rely on the process of cultivating flower girls and flower boys. After the cultivation is good, I will go around to promote them. Of course, they are also competitive themselves. Like Xiao Tao, there are always large clubs that will fund the excavation of them."

"This part of the transfer fee is our main source of income."

Zhou Yi suddenly realized.

Tabo's business is similar to digging up amateurs in the entertainment industry and packaging them as idols to debut.

"Children like Xiao Tao are always promising."

His smile converged: "But most of them don't have that much talent after all. This industry is too dependent on talent. If the first impression is good, then it is half successful. If you have special memory points and charm, then it is even better."

"But these are very few."

"Like our club, I will keep 10 places each time, and only 1 to 2 can be transferred out, and the others have to be supported. This industry is very cruel. Some children can't wait for a guest in a year, because most guests will look for the most popular Flower Faces."

"We are leaf-based, so it's slightly better. The flower system has more losses. Their flowering period is very short, because a large loss of flower liquid will continue to consume the flowering period, leading to decay earlier than the leaf system, and it will not work in 1-3 years, becoming a withered flower."

Zhou Yi couldn't help frowning: "Then how do you arrange these people who don't have guests?"

"Work as a handyman in the club, or do some flower tool handicrafts."

"There is no way... They are all children I have put my heart into cultivating, I can't abandon them, right? In this way, I will not only lose money myself, but also smash my sign. My biggest feature is that no matter what, I will support them, and they are willing to follow me."

Tabo twisted his beard with his claws, and a look of sorrow appeared in his small eyes: "In the past, I could support them, but in the past few years, the outside world has been turbulent, and all kinds of guests have spent less in Huayi. Last year, I borrowed money from my eldest brother. Fortunately, Shagang is rich now, otherwise it would be a little unsustainable here."

"Ah, I'm talking a bit far... There are indeed many clubs looking for Xiao Tao, but I have to find her a good place, their flowering period is only those few years."

Zhou Yi pondered for a moment.

"How much does your club spend each year?"

"Ah? This... about 1000 light seeds, this is necessary."

Zhou Yi calculated.

It costs 100 light seeds for each Flower Face.

It is indeed a high-spending group.

"Like this."

Zhou Yi said: "Whether they are flower girls or flower boys, if they are in this idle state and cannot start work, they can transfer to work in our company."

"This can also reduce some of your expenses and will not lose your reputation."

He had this plan when he was chatting with Xiao Tao before.

Although the April Club is a small club, it has all the necessary processes, and it focuses on cultivating the highly demanding leaf system.

These young men and women are already cute and moving, and they are proficient in languages and can write, and there are no obstacles in communication, and they have also been professionally taught in social interaction.

The wasteland development company is lacking such people.

Most of the company's employees are former scavengers and townspeople. They have limited education and can do simple work, but they are a bit overwhelmed with more complicated tasks.

Yuan Tong has complained several times that his former pirate subordinates were considered to have traveled north and south and have a little knowledge, but they still cannot do a good job in coordinating interpersonal relationships, calculating numbers, and recording and organizing.

Although Mushroom Forest Elementary School is cultivating children who master knowledge in the next generation.

But it's a drop in the bucket.

Anyway, the young men and women in the entertainment industry here are idle, so it's better to go to the company to work. All departments lack such employees, who can connect with the ministers above and communicate with ordinary employees below, and help the department complete internal and external coordination work.

"Wonderful, wonderful!"

Tabo's small eyes lit up: "Mr. Zhou, with your move, our club will be revitalized!"

Zhou Yi added: "In terms of salary, refer to our company's standards."

"Of course this is not a problem."

Tabo said cautiously: "That, can we go one step further?"

"What do you mean by going one step further?"

"I have always heard my eldest brother talk about the company's various things. Mr. Zhou, I have always yearned for the great achievements you have created. The April Club is willing to join the company and work for you!"

Zhou Yi: "..."