Chapter 702: Everyone is Amazing

Wan Bobo let out a cold laugh and turned back to address the crowd:

"Everyone, I'm sticking to what I said before—I won't force anyone to stay or leave. But you'll all realize sooner or later that you won't find anyone as generous as me in this place. Right now, more than anyone, I want to distribute food to reward all of you for your hard work today. But I really can't do that. If the idea of 'not working but still gaining' takes hold in our 'family,' no one will put in effort anymore. I truly hope you can understand. If everyone could eat and get their Yu today without earning it, what about those who work tomorrow?"

His tone gradually softened, but a heavy atmosphere emanated from him.

"Ah, Wan Ge, don't talk like that—we get it."

"I'm really heartbroken for everyone who puts in effort for this family." Wan Bobo gave a bitter smile. "But you all aren't without benefits. As I said, starting tomorrow, every new member has to hand over ten Yu. And those Yu they turn in will eventually go into your pockets."

No matter how I thought about it, I never imagined that from that day on, the number of people in our supermarket would multiply.

Wan Bobo kept revising the "rules" of our family.

As he explained, because the numbers were larger than he expected, to make sure everyone could benefit more fairly, from now on, anyone who brought in new "family members" would only get Yu and not food. But similarly, food could be exchanged for Yu.

Although Wan Bobo didn't follow the rules suggested by that leader, he quickly amassed a large amount of Yu.

By the third day, some people had fully grasped the rules and started actively guiding the new members.

Wan Bobo's strategy worked. Although each team got very little food, everyone could eat a bit every day and avoid starving to death.

What intrigued me was that he gave me a can of food every day, and I shared it with Gu Yu Gege and Siwei Jiejie.

We hadn't done anything, yet we had food.

Gu Yu Gege went out early and came back late every day—I had no idea what he was up to.

By the fifth day, our "family" had grown to two hundred people.

Every day, Wan Bobo would give an energetic speech to everyone, and he always brought me in front of the group to sniff their scents one by one.

Strangely, the scents on these people grew fainter by the day, as if they had lost their own thoughts.

From all the sniffing, my nose was starting to hurt a bit, but it wasn't too bad. I didn't have to do anything else each day—just sniff everyone's scent.

On the seventh day, the first Qing Xiang appeared besides us—it was that Pang Gege.

He had said from the beginning that he wanted to leave, but in the end, he never did.

That day, a clear Jing Lei scent emerged on him, and I immediately told Wan Bobo.

Wan Bobo looked extremely pleased and pulled him in front of everyone, announcing loudly that our "family" had finally produced a Qing Xiang. He asked him to perform his Jing Lei right away.

But Pang Gege looked completely baffled and had no idea how to release that thing called Jing Lei.

Wan Bobo said it was fine and directly gave his team double the food. He said, "The highest reward always goes to the first one to succeed."

Although no one saw the Jing Lei, they knew someone had succeeded. They cheered and hugged each other, as if we had already escaped this place.

Then Wan Bobo asked Pang Gege to share his success story, but Pang Gege said he hadn't done anything special that day—he had just participated in a Ren Ji game, and when he came back, he had become a Qing Xiang.

What made me happy was that when Gu Yu Gege returned that evening, he had the scent of Qing Xiang on him, just like the first time I met him.

But his face looked terrible. He made his way through the bustling crowd to Siwei Jiejie and me, and Wan Bobo noticed something was off and quickly came over.

"Hey, what are you 'core members' doing here?"

"Wan Ge..."

Gu Yu Gege picked up a stone from the ground, gripped it in his hand for a moment, then turned his palm over to show everyone—the stone had vanished.

"What is that, Xiao Gu?" Wan Bobo laughed. "Performing magic tricks late at night?"

"No." Gu Yu Gege shook his head. "Wan Ge, this isn't magic—it's Qing Xiang. I've awakened it."

"Oh...?" Wan Bobo paused, then smiled. "That's great news, Xiao Gu. If we have to come back to this hellish place next time, you'll keep your memories."

"Yes, but I feel this whole organization is heading in the wrong direction."

Gu Yu Gege relaxed his hand, and the "air" in his grip dropped to the ground with a crisp "snap."

"How is it wrong?" Wan Bobo asked seriously.

"You gathering everyone here every day just to chant slogans won't turn them into Qing Xiang."

"How could that be?" Wan Bobo quickly pointed to Pang Gege in the distance. "We welcomed our first Qing Xiang today."

Gu Yu Gege followed Wan Bobo's finger, then sighed. "I ran into him on the street. He got his Qing Xiang by participating in a 'game,' right?"

"This..."

"I've been exploring for these seven days." Gu Yu Gege said, "But my abilities are limited on my own. I can only generally sense that this thing called Qing Xiang superpower isn't gained by chance—it requires certain conditions."

"Conditions?"

"Exactly." Gu Yu Gege nodded. "I'm not sure if the conditions are the same for everyone, but I gradually reached this conclusion after participating in many games."

"So you're saying..." Wan Bobo began to think. "If we want more people to gain Qing Xiang, we need to send them out to participate in games?"

"Yes." Gu Yu Gege replied, "If you really want to build a superpower army, staying put won't work. You have to put these people in danger."

I remember that night Wan Bobo didn't sleep at all. The next day, he rearranged the teams and ordered everyone to go out and participate in games.

He specifically instructed that games starting with Di were forbidden, but everyone had to join games starting with Ren. Each "family member" had to team up in pairs for supervision. After winning a game, they needed to bring back the Yu, and Wan Bobo would distribute it the next day. If anyone was caught hoarding Yu, the whole family would punish them and cut off their food supply.

I have to say, Gu Yu Gege was really smart. Following his method, the number of people in the family gaining Qing Xiang increased day by day.

By the ninth day, there were already over twenty Qing Xiang.

Some could even release their superpowers.

That day, the one who gained Qing Xiang was the auntie who had been in our room from the start. Wan Bobo happily asked her to share her success experience.

After thanking Wan Bobo, she excitedly said to everyone:

"I suspect that my success in gaining Qing Xiang is due first to Wan Ge and everyone's help in our family, and second to visiting a Shen Long."