The blind box of the plane was exposed, and foreigners cried for entry into China

Ling Xiaoyue waved her hand, and a gorgeous and profound space-time portal slowly stood in the center of the hall.

With a "whoosh" sound, it exploded like water in a frying pan.

"Really! It's actually true! Old Xue, look, look!" The experts couldn't help cheering and communicating with each other.

"God bless my China! God bless my China, hahahahaha."

"Now that this space-time gate has appeared, Mr. He's hypothesis is no longer a hypothesis! The answer is right here!"

"Oh my god, I never thought I'd be able to participate in such a major confidential project in my lifetime. Morning news, morning news!"

"I don't know what dimension we are connecting to this time. Are our armed forces strong enough to protect Miss Ling?"

"What are you worried about? Didn't you see something appear around the space-time gate again? Haha, it's that small shop after all."

"It's good that they showed up! With the store here, we don't have to worry about safety issues even if we encounter guests from another dimension who are stronger than us."

"There's nothing to worry about. Miss Ling said that we can buy a protective shield at that window. Once the funds are in place, maybe we can get one and do some research."

Listening to the discussions around him, he realized that the three-bedroom, one-living-room apartment that Ling Xiaoyue had carved out when he appeared in the convenience store had become an illegal building.

Inside the space-time gate, a multicolored black was flowing. Chen Xi controlled the drone, adjusted the angle, flew into the gate, and peered inside.

Although we already know that the plane we are connecting to this time is most likely the plane that Tao Duoduo and the others were in last time, the system keeps complaining about insufficient energy.

As he watched the drone pass through the space-time gate, the large LCD TV on his side did not show the scene on the opposite side.

This was the plan. After the space-time gate opened, if no one from the other world arrived immediately, we would first send out digital reconnaissance to gain a firm grasp of the situation before entering the other world.

Prior to this, the Supreme Commander sent Lin Chen, Su Yu, Chen Hua, Cheng Jia, and Chen Xi to assist Ling Xiaoyue. Their main task was to protect Ling Xiaoyue.

"The drone has lost signal and connection." Lin Chen put down the remote control.

Chen Hua gripped the pistol in his pocket tightly. "Are we about to travel through time?"

Chen Xi picked up the backpack and put it on his back.

"Yes." Cheng Jia concluded.

Su Yu's eyes lit up with excitement. He was from Province C. He had returned home on leave after completing his last mission. Lin Chen and Chen Hua had just been transferred here on a mission. Unexpectedly, they'd encountered such a great opportunity. They'd simply abandoned their original missions and transferred here. Time travel, space-time gates, dimension shifts—these were completely unbelievable until he'd seen them with his own eyes. Even after signing the highest level of confidentiality agreement, it still seemed unbelievable. Su Yu knew he was just a bystander. If he hadn't been closest, the higher-ups would have sent someone from that group over. Thinking about those people, Su Yu's heart skipped a beat.

"Well, comrades. Let's go." Ling Xiaoyue put on his backpack and entered the space-time gate first.

The moon was bright and the stars were sparse. Ling Xiaoyue and the others stood under a large banyan tree, assessing the surrounding situation.

Lin Chen found his lost drone not far away, tried to operate it, and found that it could still be used.

Chen Hua looked at the compass and said, "The compass is working normally."

The light in the woods was dim, and it was initially determined to be just before dawn.

"It's not the original plane, the trees are all normal size." Ling Xiaoyue said.

"This is an elm tree. It loves light, tolerates drought and cold, is not picky about soil, and has strong adaptability. It's found in northeastern, northern, northwestern, and southwestern provinces of China. It's also cultivated in provinces along the lower Yangtze River," Chen Xi added. "However, these data are for comparison purposes only and cannot be used as an absolute reference."

"This isn't a large jungle, probably just a small hill. Similar to the foothills in the south." Cheng Jia looked at the silvery moonlight filtering through the leaves. "Such a large moon. Such fresh air. The environment is unpolluted. The level of civilization must be pre-industrial. It's not impossible that this is some kind of immortal cultivation world or warrior continent."

The group relaxed their guard a bit, after all, no one knew what would happen after the space-time gate opened. Fortunately, they were lucky.

"Should we set off now?" Cheng Jia asked.

Ling Xiaoyue thought for a moment and asked, "Are you guys sleepy?"

Sleepy? Who would be sleepy here? This is a completely new map. There's no time to explore it yet. Who would be sleepy?

"Not sleepy!" The unanimous and decisive answer echoed in the empty mountain forest, startling a flock of flying birds.

Ling Xiaoyue also planned to let everyone rest here and wait until daybreak. "Since no one is tired, let's set off."

"How could I be sleepy! With the plow attached, I can now plow three acres of land!" Su Yu said excitedly, looking at Ling Xiaoyue with sparkling eyes.

Ling Xiaoyue smiled and said, "It's not necessary to plow the land. If you really have that much strength, you might as well save it. You will have work to do later."

"Lin Chen, can you use the drone to explore the terrain and surrounding environment?" Ling Xiaoyue looked at Lin Chen who was fiddling with the drone with his head down.

"Sure. But there is no signal here, so the drone can only take pictures." Lin Chen frowned. If there was no signal, then there would not be much use for him as a technical soldier.

Several people sat under a tree waiting for the images taken by the drone.

"There is a village here. Judging from the architecture, it seems to be from ancient times."

"According to the position of the moon, it's already early morning, around three o'clock. Dawn will be in three hours."

"Zoom in here." Cheng Jia pointed to the location of the village in the picture.

"There are dogs."

Several people turned around and looked at Cheng Jia.

Cheng Jia was stunned. He explained, "Raising poultry and livestock requires a lot of food. This dog looks like a typical Chinese native dog, but judging by its size and the way it looked at the drone, it's clearly a well-raised and well-mannered dog."

"This means that this village should have no shortage of food, at least this family does. Otherwise, such a fat and strong dog wouldn't be in such a good mood. Besides, if we go out, it should be relatively safe."

"Oh~" Four "ohs" echoed in understanding. One more? Ling Xiaoyue munched on a wafer biscuit, nodding vigorously.

Cheng Jia looked at it once, and then looked again.

"Go on." Ling Xiaoyue swallowed the biscuit.

"It's not far from here, and it's almost dawn. Why don't we rest here for an hour and eat something?" Cheng Jia said, looking at the bread, dried meat, and milk tea beside Ling Xiaoyue. "In ancient times, there was usually a curfew at night. If we go out now, we'll be mistaken for bandits and it will be troublesome."

"Milk tea! Sister Ling, how did you bring milk tea here! There is actually milk tea!" Su Yu exclaimed in surprise.

The remaining three looked over in surprise. Oh, it really is.

"Didn't you have enough dinner?" Cheng Jia sat next to Ling Xiaoyue.

"I'm hungry again. I don't know why, but I feel very hungry as soon as I pass through the time and space gate." Ling Xiaoyue picked up a piece of bread and started to eat it.

After hearing this, they realized how hungry they were. So Ling Xiaoyue emptied out all the food in his backpack and told everyone to eat their fill before continuing on their journey.

"Did Sister Ling bring all the snacks?" Su Yu spoke first. "What will Sister Yue eat after we eat them all?"

"It doesn't matter. The food I brought is more than we can finish eating here in a year."

Several people were surprised.

"My convenience store followed us." Ling Xiaoyue smiled awkwardly.

"Then the shopping mall is useless?" The cautious and taciturn Chen Hua spoke.

"It works. There are two space-time doors, one for entry and one for exit. We just entered. Those who are left on the other side can only leave."

"Then what if we leave this space-time gate tomorrow?"

"That's true." Ling Xiaoyue touched his chin and felt it was too troublesome.

He poked the system that was pretending to be dead in his mind and said, "System, can you simplify it a bit? It's too troublesome now."

"Yes, just upgrade to level one." The system yawned, replenished its energy, and felt that the data flow was smoother.

"Then upgrade now."

"So straightforward?" The system was surprised. This stingy person was actually willing to plunder the system? He agreed to the upgrade without even asking how much data was required.

"Aren't all my points yours? I was just trying to hold back before just to leave evidence so they'd believe what I said was true. Now that my helper has gotten them, why should I keep these points?"

Ling Xiaoyue cut off a small portion of the materials exchanged with Taohua for research, and exchanged the rest for points.

The system was moved upon hearing this, and immediately deducted the system coins needed for the upgrade and upgraded.

"Ding~ Congratulations host, your plane trading system has been upgraded to level one."

Ling Xiaoyue patted the bread crumbs on his hands, wrote a note to inform the other side, walked to the space-time gate and threw the paper plane in. With a wave of his hand, the space-time gate disappeared.

Those who have seen it once still find it novel.

"We can summon it when we need it. It will make it easier for us to escape." Ling Xiaoyue explained.

In the shopping mall lobby, a soldier, intently watching the space-time portal, saw a paper plane fly in. He checked his eyes and picked it up, but the portal vanished. The soldier, startled, saw writing on the plane. He immediately ran to report it to his superiors.

The rest period was over. Ling Xiaoyue and the others packed up their trash and began to walk down the mountain.

When they arrived at the village entrance, "Should we go in?" Su Yu asked.

"Everyone is still sleeping, why are you going in to steal the cow?" Chen Xi interjected.

"There are no cows in this village," Chen Hua corrected.

"We're not going anywhere. Let's find an open space not far from the crowd." Ling Xiaoyue continued to move forward.

"If you can't find it, just look for the official road, it's the same." Cheng Jia said.

Lin Chen continued to follow silently, controlling the drone to explore the way.

"Go straight ahead along this road and you will reach the official road. This village is not far from the town. It's about an hour's walk away. The official road is right in the middle. There is a three-way intersection with an open space, a pavilion, and another one, which should be a resting pavilion or teahouse." Lin Chen looked at the pictures taken by the drone.

Ling Xiaoyue nodded in understanding. "This place is similar to Guda back home. We're here mainly to attract customers. Let's find a place to set up the store and wait for customers to come. Once enough people know about this, we can let them enter the shopping mall connected to the space-time portal through the store."

"The store doesn't have enough goods, right?" Chen Hua asked before Cheng Jia could speak.

"It's only the small shop that's bound. The shopping mall is a foreign player. The system says that if you want the shopping mall to come, you either have to pay or get the consent of the ruler of this plane," Ling Xiaoyue explained. "You all signed a confidentiality agreement and all know about this system league. Regardless of your system, you all participate in this competition. The first-place host receives a galaxy reward, while the first-place system player is directly promoted to the galaxy's star network mastermind. So every penny we spend is precious."

"Can you tell me how much it costs to come to the shopping mall?"

"One square meter, one small goal." Ling Xiaoyue's face was indifferent, and he was thinking, "Shit!"

The crowd fell silent upon hearing this. They should just let that emperor agree. Even if it was the state itself that was spending so much money, everyone felt bad. Wouldn't it be better to use that money for military expenses? Besides, while this plane might not seem very valuable right now, in the original plane before, even a handful of soil or a blade of grass was worth studying.

Everyone walked to the official road and saw a closed tea stall in front of them, so Ling Xiaoyue put the convenience store next to the tea stall.

The shop had already been cleaned and tidied, with bunk beds hidden away, so when they needed a rest, they could just pull down a cabinet to create a bed. The shop was surrounded by cabinet-like shelves, and when all the movable cabinets were lowered, there were exactly four 2-meter double beds, enough for eight people. There was no place to wash, but no one would complain about that. After all, they had slept everywhere during their missions, so this was considered a good condition.

Less than an hour before dawn, everyone began to prepare.

Cheng Jia was in charge of foreign affairs and financial management. Chen Hua was in charge of sourcing, Su Yu and Lin Chen were in charge of sales, and Chen Xi was a mobile staff member, primarily serving as Cheng Jia's assistant. Ling Xiaoyue would move wherever needed. After all, the place was limited.

Once the map was transferred to the shopping mall, all six people were responsible for selling goods.

Now several people began to discuss how to attract enough customers to come.

"It smells good!" Ling Xiaoyue spoke first. "Let's cook a pot of hot pot right here in the restaurant. Who can resist the aroma of hot pot?"

"That's fine." Cheng Jia nodded. Chen Xi wrote it down in the notebook.

"The distance of fragrance is limited. What should we do for places farther away?" Chen Hua asked.

"Light!" Cheng Jia blurted out, "Light is faster than sound and travels farther than fragrance."

"Then what should we use as the light source?" Lin Chen frowned and began to ponder.

"Flares and fireworks!" Ling Xiaoyue clapped his hands. What could be more eye-catching than fireworks?

"We can also play speakers, the sound is very loud." Su Yu said.

Everyone looked over with baffled eyes, wondering how on earth this person had gotten into the team. Oh, a sharpshooter, a master of ancient martial arts, that's all right.

Chen Xi then reminded that it was almost dawn.