Welcome to Ability Store-Chapter 56 - 55: Level 4 Store Manager

At the moment the clock pointed to half past eight, Chen Xuan was successfully transferred back to the store.

"I have to say, you really have nerves of steel." Lin Qing reclined on the sofa as usual, with a simple two dishes and soup on the coffee table, "Stirring up trouble with the Dimensional Limit Mechanism and daring to linger right under their noses."

"As they say, the most dangerous place is the safest place, plus their attention is all focused on the intrusion points, they hardly have time to care about anything else." He said calmly.

Of course, the key is he has many cards up his sleeve, not only the free check-in at half past eight but also the manager-exclusive recall, as long as the store hasn’t closed down, the mechanism can’t keep him.

"Were there any casualties at the scene?"

Chen Xuan shook his head, "I didn’t hear anything like that before I left."

Despite many ambulances arriving, he didn’t see anyone needed to be carried onto a stretcher.

After all, as the zoo attracted so many onlookers, the police station had already made preparations, plenty of police maintained order at the scene, so the flow of people remained controllable. Moreover, the real incident took place at the sparsely crowded Botanical Garden, and by the time they brought over large-caliber tranquilizer guns from the neighboring area, all unexpected risks were virtually eliminated.

In fact, releasing dinosaurs wasn’t part of the plan the two devised.

Although the information Lin Qing provided showed that the relevant Wanderer at the 109th intrusion point was a Scary Clawed Dragon named Guagua, it was unexpected that it drove a herd of herbivorous dinosaurs, resulting in a few ancient creatures, extinct for over a hundred million years, crossing the boundary and entering this new world.

Therefore, he didn’t immediately return to the store but first used "Invite Guests" to send Lin Qing back, then turned to watch the dinosaurs’ movements, ensuring they wouldn’t rush into the square area.

The method of control was also simple, he used the Eight Trigrams Palm he traded from Liu Shuyue previously, which could make the thick-skinned dinosaurs feel pain without drawing attention like the Thousand Thoughts Sword.

"Actually, you didn’t need to do all this." Lin Qing looked at him directly, "The invasion of the world will create more Ability Users, correspondingly more people will appear using abilities for evil. If we are to deal with the Dimensional Limit Mechanism in the future, it will inevitably affect many ordinary people, this is unavoidable."

Chen Xuan was indifferent, "If I can’t see it, can’t manage it, that’s one thing, but since I can easily sort it out, it’s better to do some aftercare, after all, this show is one we put on."

Seeing his attitude, Lin Qing didn’t persuade him further, her gaze just softened, "Let’s eat first."

When Chen Xuan sat by the coffee table, she also picked up her chopsticks.

Clearly, she hadn’t started eating before, she was waiting for him to return.

"The Dimensional Limit Mechanism must be in chaos now..." Chen Xuan mused as he ate, "I saw plenty of police cars at the scene, according to your statement, they usually try to avoid official intervention in the past."

Although the appearance of dinosaurs was a surprise, it must be said the effect was full. The main point of this plan was a time difference, allowing as many people as possible to personally experience the intrusion points before the Botanical Garden was fully controlled, and the sensational effect caused by dinosaurs was far more significant than the intrusion points – when one after another ancient giant dragon drilled out from the great forest, the ideology of anomalies existing in this world should sink deep into people’s hearts.

"Of course, the mechanism probably never imagined in their wildest dreams that someone understands erosion better than them." Lin Qing smiled happily.

"Indeed."

The Dimensional Limit Mechanism had little chance of success from the beginning, not because they lacked ability, but because it was an inevitable consequence of circumstances. The normal time for the 109th intrusion point to be detected was originally two years later, the mechanism captured the perpetrator Guagua at the scene and kept it in captivity. Later, through waveform record comparisons they discovered, the first fluctuation emitted by the 109th intrusion point was in 2025, which is today.

In other words, the opponent simply wouldn’t count on there being an intrusion point in the Botanical Garden.

It was precisely by relying on this unique piece of information that the two decided to use it to stir up big news.

"Is it okay leaving Guagua there?" This was Chen Xuan’s only concern.

In just a few minutes of contact, it was evident that this Scary Clawed Dragon was quite sentient, with presumably high intelligence, visibly happy when playing with Lin Qing.

Dino lives matter too.

Moreover, according to intelligence records, Guagua undoubtedly has abilities. But limited by language barriers, the Dimensional Limit Mechanism could only end with a series of question marks.

"You can’t possibly bring it back to raise it! The next day the entire community will know you have a dinosaur in the store." Lin Qing said helplessly, "Dragons are easier to deal with than humans, the mechanism won’t go as far as to dissect it for experiments."

"Hopefully." Chen Xuan shrugged. The stone of inquiry has already been cast, now it’s just waiting for the Dimensional Limit Mechanism to move their pieces.

...

After finishing the meal, customers gradually visited the store. Chen Xuan stood behind the bar, checking out customers while browsing online discussion hotspots.

Actually, he didn’t even need to check to know, even the neighborhood residents who came to shop talked about the Botanical Garden mutation and dinosaurs when they met, the significant impact of this event was self-evident.

The great forest area is now controlled by the government, fences for construction have been erected along the grasslands, residents temporarily can’t approach. But the more something is controlled, the more it proves this event isn’t unfounded, the homepage of various major video sites is almost entirely dominated by the word ability, people are already starting to inquire how they can awaken their abilities.

Suddenly, a familiar information icon popped up at the bottom of the screen.

Chen Xuan clicked to open it, sure enough, it was the email of LV4 manager approval.

——"At this point, you should already be as rich as a nation or famous throughout the world. If not, keep striving."

"You can have a branch. The section on branches in the Manager’s Code is unlocked."

"You can use new trading methods: Secret Transaction and Unilateral Request. The former won’t present a transaction box, nor do they require any exchange of ability numbers between the buyer and seller. The latter allows the purchase of abilities from an ability holder, conditions to be negotiated by both sides, transaction requires confirmation from the other party. These two trading methods do not calculate performance points."

"Ability synchronization restriction rises to LV4."

"Non-transferable, non-assignable. Current manager status: still surviving."

This time at least the store’s floors didn’t increase again.

But what exactly is a branch?

It wasn’t directly introduced in the message column, suggesting its complexity far exceeds managing accommodation or opening a restaurant.

Chen Xuan was used to this now, after all, the evening is long, he could slowly study it later.

The two new trading methods seemed to lift the limitation that abilities must be exchanged for abilities, which obviously is good news. For example, to save Liu Shuyue previously, when trading "Blessed Holy Maiden" with Joan, he also had to throw in a "Feng Shui Secrets" which was useless to both parties, the new trading methods would allow skipping all these operations steps.

After browsing the email, Chen Xuan couldn’t wait to click on the manager’s rating, wanting to see what new requirements the next level would propose.

Manager LV5 application conditions: 1000 performance points; as rich as a nation or famous throughout the world.

The first condition directly multiplied by ten from the LV4’s 100, but didn’t surprise Chen Xuan. Previous promotions showed that the performance gaps between each level were extremely apparent.

However, the second requirement left him speechless.

How exactly can it be considered fulfilled? How much money is enough to be called as rich as a nation? How much fame is considered famous throughout the world? Not bringing a single judgment standard?

Speaking of which, both these requirements are rather absurd, especially in modern society, not even the world’s richest man would dare claim as rich as a nation, right?

But he also noticed that this time the rating column included a hint: LV5 milestone reward, an additional ability slot can be added!

This means he can carry five abilities simultaneously instead of four, saving time on switching abilities and further enhancing configurations in battle.

He really wants this!

Chen Xuan pondered over and over, unable to figure out how to meet the application conditions more closely, so he had to first take the Manager’s Code and see what the branch was about.

This booklet he almost flipped through to crumbs before, memorizing the content of every page, yet he’d never seen any mention of branches.

But this time he managed to find a new table of contents entry.

Wow, even a book can add its own content.

"Branch": The manager can set up a branch, requiring a room of no less than fifty square meters, holding a legal and reliable lease or purchase contract. When the contract is scanned into the store manager app, the branch is deemed successfully established, any subsequent expenses all borne by the manager.

Simplified: it requires money.

This is a real expenditure, including rent, water and electricity, and product cost; the upfront one-time investment to start a store is far higher than operating costs.

He continued reading.

"Responsibility": "The ??? manager" is the sole ability, bearing full responsibility for the store, so it cannot be delegated to a branch manager. When guests arrive, the manager must be personally present, regardless of which store he’s in, daily working hours should not be less than 8 hours.

"Function": The branch’s warehouse, facility, inventory capability are all connected to the main store, staff can be transferred between stores without limit by distance or number of times. Branches don’t include extra value-added services like accommodation, dining, please pay attention to guests’ satisfaction when attracting guests with the branch.