The End of the Universe Is Live-Streaming E-commerce – CH68

Chapter 68: The 68th Day of Livestream Selling

How were they supposed to receive them?

They did not even know where Miye and Belgi actually were.

So His Highness Prince Reinhardt’s next sentence was, “Can you temporarily keep them for us first?”

Mr. Kai, the humanoid disaster: “…” So you’re planning to get something for nothing, huh? He knew the other side was shameless, but he had not expected them to be this shameless.

“We promise we’ll resolve this as soon as possible,” Lin Zhao said, also feeling somewhat troubled. If it were some other item, the system could handle the transaction. But that was an entire ship of living people. Still, no matter what he was thinking inside, he tried his best not to show it on his face, as if he truly had a detailed follow-up plan and only needed some time. “We can first discuss the children’s placement. About how old are the children on your side? How many are there in each age group?”

“Is that important?” Kai raised an eyebrow.

“Of course it is. Different ages require different ways of care, and we’ll provide different kinds of support too. For example, if they’re over six, we have to consider nine-year compulsory education. Uh, I’m assuming you’ll need us to provide textbooks? Although we use our local schoolbooks, we’ll provide translated versions.”

Kaman, the wasteland plane, was currently using exactly this model.

This time, before Kai could speak, Mr. Dandelion and the Miss Dandelions—who had boarded the starship after Kai opened it and allowed the other plants in—immediately showed faces of collective horror. They rushed to ask Lin Zhao on the other side of the camera.

“What does nine-year compulsory education mean?”

“Do all children over six have to attend?”

“How serious is it if they don’t? Is it too late to make up for it starting now?”

Lin Zhao instantly understood the implication behind their words. “…Aside from Duoduo, you didn’t also raise children on other planets, did you? Just how many have you raised? None of them went to school?”

Only Kai darkened his face. “Who is Duoduo?”

“Duoduo is the bravest child in the world!” Once the topic turned to the children it had raised, Mr. Dandelion had far too much to say. “He began a journey alone to find his mom and dad. Alone! For three whole days, no one helped him. He avoided zombies and people with bad intentions. He really, really is amazing.”

Of course, that probably mainly relied on luck. If it were any other cub, Mr. Dandelion would not recommend setting out so recklessly.

In short, Mr. Dandelion knew quite a few children like Duoduo. After all, it could not possibly have only visited one or two planets. In fact, it had visited every planet “nearby.” “I originally could have gone even farther, but for some reason, whenever I reached certain edges, I would be stopped, or I would drift back in place.”

“Edges?” This time, Lin Zhao became interested. More accurately, he became interested on behalf of his younger brother.

After all, Lin Zhao remembered that before switching to studying natural energy, his younger brother had been a PhD researcher in astrophysics. He believed Xiangxiang would definitely be very interested in the topic of whether the universe had a boundary.

And at that moment, Lin Zhao abruptly thought of the twenty-two planes he could choose from. “Have you been to all the planets inside this boundary? How many are there in total? Is it twenty-two?” Oh, no, if Blue Star was included, that would be twenty-three. Uh, no, they also had to subtract Mr. Dandelion’s own Miye, so it was still twenty-two.

Mr. Dandelion shook its head regretfully. “I haven’t been to that many planets yet. So far, there are only a dozen or so.”

Kai, the humanoid disaster who was very good at catching the key point, said, “A dozen or so children?!”

Of course, it was not as if a child could be picked up on every planet. Mr. Dandelion said this universe did not have that many bad-hearted parents. Of course, it was also not the case that one planet could only provide one child.

“What is this boundary, then? Is it like walking into a wall, or?” Lin Zhao had no choice but to act as the navigator of the conversation again, bringing the topic that had drifted off course back on track again and again.

Mr. Dandelion shook its head. “There is no wall. Beyond the ‘boundary,’ I can see that there is still an endless black universe. We just can’t get through.”

“We’ve been imprisoned?” Kai, who was always especially sensitive in this regard, immediately darkened his expression. His whole body seemed to say, Tell me where the boundary is, and I’ll blow it up. He hated being locked away. No living being deserved to be confined somewhere before they had done anything wrong.

“Maybe it’s protection.” Reinhardt did not know where this thought came from, but he instinctively spoke. He did not care whether anyone believed him or not. He only looked intently at Lin Zhao, hoping Lin Zhao would not misunderstand.

“Protection until when?” Kai crossed his arms and sneered. Clearly, he had already imagined who knew how many dark and bloody possibilities.

Considering this humanoid disaster’s childhood experiences, he really could not be blamed for using the greatest malice to speculate about this universe.

“Until you become strong enough.” This time, the answer did not come from Reinhardt, but from 1114. It was as if some underlying code had been triggered, and it instinctively gave the answer. “This protection does not have no time limit, nor does it require you to reach some fixed standard. You will only succeed, or…”

Be devoured.

Only then would there truly be no dignity left. Civilizations that failed to evolve were no different from livestock in the eyes of certain civilizations that called themselves superior.

That was definitely wrong. But it was also a kind of unavoidable, real discrimination.

And 1114 thought, I exist to change all of this. It did not mean that it had to make every planet successfully evolve, but at the very least, they should not—and must not—fall into a massive conspiracy where only a tiny handful of lucky ones passed.

These overly profound questions were not something Lin Zhao’s brain could consider. But he also did not pretend he had not heard them. He immediately had 1114 record everything and send it to his younger brother and the expert team behind him.

Professional matters should be left to professionals.

What Lin Zhao could do was something more within his ability. For example, from Kai, he learned that the children sleeping aboard the Belgi starship were generally between three and six years old. They were all children with superpowers, exceptionally strong physiques, and excellent genes. The Belgi people called them hope, and that was not wrong at all.

These children had been chosen at different times, but their bodies had all stopped at the age they entered hibernation. Some of them knew what had happened, while some were still ignorant and confused.

The only thing they had in common was that when they were selected, their families had all been happy for them. Because this was the only qualification their entire family had to board the ship. Most ordinary people had been left behind, because resources were limited. There was no way for them to carry the hope of an entire planet.

Although in Kai’s view, the planet Belgi had long since rotted through and had nothing worth inheriting.

In short, after some discussion, they decided to first thaw a group of six-year-old children who could live independently, or at least eat on their own. There were boys and girls, with different abilities.

More than a hundred children were thawed at once.

“Can they take care of that many?”

“That’s way too few, isn’t it?”

Kai and Mr. Dandelion spoke at the same time, voicing completely different concerns.

After the humanoid disaster choked for a moment, he said, “I mean, with this many children, where will they live? On the starship? That would go against our original intention of letting the children grow up on Miye. But if we let them live on Miye…”

Miye truly was pure, pollution-free nature. It had all kinds of natural landscapes, from tropical rainforests to grasslands and deserts.

But it had no cities.

Surely they could not let the children live out in the wilderness?

“We can…” We can cut down my trees to make wooden houses.

“No.” Kai, as if he could foresee the future, cut off Mr. Dandelion’s idea one step ahead. Although Mr. Dandelion did not think there was anything wrong with using itself as material, and most of it would not feel pain, Kai would absolutely never allow such a thing to happen again.

This even included the passion fruits Mr. Dandelion had promised Lin Zhao in exchange for the backpack. Those were the fruits of the passiflora flowers, and in the end, they had all been replaced by gold provided by Kai.

To be precise, it was gold taken by the Belgi people when they fled. The entire planet Belgi was rich in all sorts of minerals and rare earths.

And gold was a hard currency accepted throughout the universe.

Lin Zhao inexplicably felt as if the business deal that had originally failed had somehow ended up happening after all, though he still could not confirm whether Belgi was the plane he had drawn in the lottery that had later turned gray and become inaccessible.

In short, descendants never felt pain selling off their ancestors’ fields.

Kai was rich now.

This also led Lin Zhao to suggest, “Why don’t you just buy houses from me?”

“You can even sell houses?” Shock x N.

“Yeah. On our side, you can buy them on Pinduoduo.” Lin Zhao had seen this while scrolling through short videos. Someone had gone back to their rural hometown for New Year and bought a prefabricated house for their parents on Pinduoduo or something like that. He did not know if it was real or fake, but that was not important. What mattered was that behind Lin Zhao stood the motherland, the infrastructure maniac. Whether Pinduoduo could do it or not, the motherland definitely could.

These simple houses definitely could not be a long-term solution, but they were enough for a transition period. Later, they could naturally build their own houses.

As for materials and the like, if they could not use local materials, Blue Star could sell those too.

Oh, right. There was also the Pagar Grassland. In the entire beastman grassland, they might not have much else, but things like trees, soil, and grass—how much did they want? As much as they could take.

Didn’t that mean work had come for Vián, the prairie dog who had always been trying to make the beastmen self-reliant?

Even if Lin Zhao did not take a broker’s fee, he was very willing to help his compatriot attract investment.

Honestly, among all the plane friends Lin Zhao knew, aside from Duoduo of the zombie plane, whose parents were suspected to be dead, Vián was still the one Lin Zhao felt had the most miserable life so far. Even though this prairie bro’s tribal construction project had recently been in full swing, and was even showing signs of developing in the direction of Clash of Clans. But still…

Lin Zhao wanted to help him as much as possible.

He said to the suspicious humanoid disaster, “If you don’t trust me, I can take you to look at one of our successful examples. I have similar aid-construction projects in other planes too.”

In one sentence: I’ll introduce you to the soccer-playing prairie dog!

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