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The ones setting up roadblocks are, of course, the police. Upon learning that there were plague patients near the temple, their first thought was quarantine.

Going up the mountain to rescue people? Sure, they thought of that too, but without professionals and proper protective gear, how could they go up the mountain for a rescue?

Later, they heard that the Daoist Temple had taken action. The local police were quite familiar with the temple, so they didn’t rush to rescue anyone either and just sealed off the road first.

It wasn’t until around seven that the epidemic prevention department arrived. They hadn’t gone up the mountain yet and happened to see people coming down, so of course, they had to stop them—when it comes to quarantine, Australians are also quite strict.

Those wanting to go downhill naturally refused, saying that the temple had already disinfected them and deemed them non-harmful—otherwise, would those people have allowed us to leave without permission?

Sofia directly dealt with those who didn’t listen, but alas... the epidemic prevention team also had to be believed, didn’t they?

In short, going down the mountain was absolutely impossible. In the end, the police drew their guns.

The final result was that the road leading to the temple was sealed for a whole three days. Afterwards, people went up the mountain fully armed to inspect and confirmed the patients before releasing the quarantine three days later, finding no new issues.

They originally wanted to inspect the temple, but Sofia firmly refused, saying that our place is a sacred ground, impervious to evil.

During those three days, there were some issues with food and accommodation on the mountain. Food was manageable since the Australian Government brought in supplies, but accommodation was problematic—camping for one day is fine, but who can endure camping every day?

So people on the mountain vented on various social media platforms, outsiders thought quarantine wasn’t unexpected, but those here believed that since the temple said we’re fine, how could there still be a problem?

In the end, the temple incidentally gained some attention because of this matter, until the plague was confirmed in Queensland, and the public’s focus on Amstan gradually diminished.

One consequence of the roadblock was: some collected rainwater couldn’t be sent out in time.

The temple had already become a focal point for intelligence agencies of various countries. Among the tourists, there were always spies. When Sofia announced that the expanded rainfall could kill the plague, more than one person took out containers to collect rainwater.

But Sofia couldn’t intervene in this matter. Too many people were collecting rainwater. Some had ulterior motives, but many were just curious. Seeing others collect, they did the same, wondering if it could provide some protection—like Holy Water.

In the end, quite a bit of rainwater was taken down, but when some people went back for testing, there was basically nothing special left in it. They had reasons to believe that the three-day quarantine had affected the water quality.

Three days later, the tourists all descended the mountain, but the Australian Government was resentful of Sofia not allowing searches, so they continued to isolate the temple—you won’t let us search, so we’ll extend the quarantine.

Sofia remained indifferent to this, maintaining her cold demeanor—quarantine is quarantine; anyway, the temple lacks nothing in terms of food and drink, and they didn’t believe it could last for ten months or more.

Her uncompromising attitude put others in a tough spot. Just on the fifth day, there was a request from the Great Barrier Reef to bring some plague bacteria to Amstan to test whether the rainwater here had a significant effect on inhibiting the plague.

The method of plague prevention hitched on metaphysics was truly a desperate measure.

However, there was no choice. The place was a renowned tourist destination, and if it had to be closed because of the plague, the local area didn’t know how much revenue would be lost. The epidemic needed to be controlled quickly.

However, Sofia firmly refused the request, saying we’re in quarantine, and since you don’t trust the temple, we see no need to cooperate. Let’s stay out of each other’s business in the future.

The other party was dumbfounded upon hearing this, "We also heard that plague patients you’ve treated have recovered quite well. We’re considering further cooperation."

"There’s no need. If a patient doesn’t fall sick at our doorstep, we absolutely wouldn’t get involved," Sofia very coolly hung up the phone.

Her outright refusal caused an uproar at the Great Barrier Reef. A legislator stepped forward to directly criticize the biased local government, saying that because of some people’s religious prejudice—fortunately not "religious discrimination"—our tourist area had to be closed and isolated!

However, even if it’s just "bias," this accusation wasn’t something certain people wanted to accept. So someone else jumped in, saying, wouldn’t the people forget the epidemic plague that occurred in Australia over a hundred years ago?

Of course, while verbally sparring from a distance, the temple’s quarantine was lifted.

This verbal spat even increased the temple’s level of attention a bit more.

But Feng Jun was no longer interested here, Chen Shengwang had chosen his apprentice and came to Australia.

Feng Jun went to the Spirit Stone Mine for a harvest, bringing Sister Hong and Beauty back home with him.

After returning, he had to consider a new issue: how to handle the transfer of basic industry?

During this period, his university classmates submitted seven research reports, one of which was done by his dorm leader.

The leader, Liu Menglong, hadn’t attended the centenary celebration. He only heard from Wang Qianqiu that Feng Jun was working on a project, so he reached out through various channels to ask if he could also participate.

Feng Jun had heard from Wang Qianqiu that the leader wasn’t doing so well currently. After graduating with a master’s degree, he originally worked as a copywriter for a listed company. But after less than two years, the company’s actual owner died, and he was laid off.

Now, he works at a cultural company, and because of performance assessments, and he’s not good at business, his income isn’t very high.

He’s a bit like Feng Jun, not contacting classmates much when he’s not doing well.

Liu Menglong is likely in the most challenging period of his life, hearing there’s business at Feng Jun’s side, and he could only proactively reach out.

But what surprised Feng Jun was that the proposal book submitted by the leader clearly had themes of online novels, such as the concept of traversing to a different world and progressing through technological trees.

And from the planning, one could tell that the leader had definitely read a lot of online novels. Feng Jun was quite puzzled, as the leader wasn’t into online novels back then. Who knows what experiences led him to get into this.

He didn’t ask directly, as there were bound to be inconvenient matters, but he later found out that in his spare time, the leader started writing online novels, though every book he wrote didn’t do well.

No matter what, Liu Menglong’s ideas matched Feng Jun’s taste the most. But in the end, he still chose the proposals from Cao Rui and Zhang Guofeng as first place and Zhao Mingshun’s proposal as second place.

He had no choice; if he really chose Liu Menglong as first, wouldn’t some people be more inclined to speculate about him having some extraordinary encounter?

So the leader only received a 200,000 yuan hardship fee, but he was still very happy and expressed that he would come over to have a drink with Feng Jun later.

What Feng Jun had to do now was customize a batch of outdated industrial equipment to sell in the Mobile Phone Dimension.

Sister Hong had always been quite attentive to his project, and after reading a lot of related proposal documents, she applied to help customize these devices herself. In her words, it’s because she needs to do something for Luohua.

Currently, Luohua’s Jade business has somewhat declined, mainly because Feng Jun doesn’t want to flood the market with too much volume, lest it disrupt the Jade market. It’s only when a major speculator tries to hoard and manipulate the market that he releases some inventory.

So, most of the Jade business has been handed over to Liang Siyu, a classmate of Zhang Caixin. Sister Hong very trustingly passed on most of the details and rarely stepped in directly.

But without handling Jade, she had no other business in Luohua. Focusing entirely on cultivation was a good thing, but she also didn’t want to become a freeloader. She always wanted to contribute something to Luohua.

She believed that she was suitable for this business, at least more so than Yang Yuxin and Yu Qingzhu, as the two relied more on the system, while she had more connections on the streets, making her less conspicuous when procuring items.

Moreover, she understood Feng Jun’s plans very well and knew the industrial level of the Mobile Phone Dimension, so she was confident that during procurement, she could accurately specify various requirements without causing any misunderstandings that would result in unsuitable purchases.

Feng Jun agreed after hearing her reasoning, acknowledging that Sister Hong in charge of procurement meant simply laying out the requirements, unlike when he had to ask for help from others, having to fabricate explanations.

So on the third day after returning to Luohua, Sister Hong set out with Beauty and Tang Wenji.

No sooner had they departed than Dong Zenghong and Zhang Dongyuan visited, accompanied by Yan Siwei, the runner-up of the Dragon Gate Conference. Their main discussion was about establishing an overseas Taoist temple.

The Dragon Gate Conference yielded good results this time, with Qingcheng and Ghost Valley each taking two promising talents. However, this only increased their conviction that overseas expansion was necessary—after all, Qingcheng didn’t even have its own Spirit Gathering Array yet.

Recently, they had already entrusted others to search all over overseas for prime Feng Shui locations, eventually identifying over twenty potential sites. Dong Zenghong personally analyzed them and focused on selecting nine key locations.

This visit’s purpose was to invite Feng Jun to go with them and identify the most suitable place.

Feng Jun actually had no strong feelings about constructing overseas Daoist temples. "Is it really necessary to be so concerned? Those overseas temples can simply pay homage to our homeland, there’s no need for us to undertake such efforts ourselves."

As if we’d believe you, the two men shared a knowing smile, fully aware of the recent events in Amsterdam Town, as "Han Hong" was present there—if you’re unconcerned about overseas temples, it might be because you’re afraid of not having a beautiful temple master?

However, the conversation couldn’t be framed that way. Dong Zenghong carefully chose his words, "Them building and us constructing are not quite the same... Foreigners don’t understand Earth Vein techniques, and it’s a waste to leave such great Earth Veins unused. Why not take advantage of them ourselves?"

He was quite familiar with Feng Jun’s worldview, understanding that he had a small-group-centric mindset.

Feng Jun was briefly stunned, "Well..."