After the silver was distributed and the grain was collected, everyone returned to the hall in groups. It was a good day. Most people had a bountiful harvest!
The third elder, Old Third, also pulled the 12 shi of grain allocated to them back to their resting place. The villagers had even lent them an ox cart. It was confiscated from the rioters anyway, so it was like offering a borrowed flower.
Su Muqing looked at the 894 contribution points on her personal information panel, her sense of happiness about to explode. Midway, she found an excuse to detach from the main group.
She crept sneakily behind a haystack. After observing her surroundings and finding no one, she flashed into her space.
Upon entering, she first checked the conditions for upgrading her space to level 4. Upon seeing the requirement of 5 million in gold and silver currency plus 10,000 contribution points, she silently clicked to close the prompt.
Level 4 requires 10,000 contribution points? How long would that take to accumulate? She couldn't possibly go out every day to throw away hundreds of taels of silver, only to pick them up and distribute them to the villagers again, could she?
Wouldn't that spoil them all? They'd just sit at home every day, waiting for her to pick up silver and support them?
Su Muqing still felt unwilling. So she asked 217, "217, why are the conditions for upgrading the space to level 4 so high? Is it a mistake?"
217: "Replying to the host. Level 4 spaces feature advanced species, most of which contain spiritual energy and are generally applicable to cultivators. Therefore, the threshold is higher."
Su Muqing: "Level 4 needs ten thousand. What about level 5, 6, and 7?"
217: "Replying to the host, level 5 species are precious and come with derivative functions, requiring 50 million circulating currency and 100,000 contribution points. Level 6 species are rare and possess creation skills, requiring 500 million circulating currency and 1 million contribution points. The current space level is too low to view the conditions for upgrading to level 7."
"Alright! Just pretend I didn't ask. I'll continue shopping!" Su Muqing sweated.
She had casually ignored the 500 million in gold and silver. It was just the one million contribution points. Was this system deliberately preventing people from upgrading?
Never mind! Let's live in the present! If you want those illusory things, just sleep, and you'll have them in your dreams.
So Su Muqing opened the modern mall again and continued shopping. Upgrading seemed unlikely in the short term.
Looking at her shopping cart, it was already filled with instant noodles, ham sausages, and other snacks, as well as some anti-heatstroke medication and daily necessities. The tax-free shopping experience limited additions to 99 items at a time.
Su Muqing thought for a moment, deleted all the daily necessities, and replaced them with food and commonly used medicines. She also selected a few common seasonings and maxed out the quantity of each item. Then she clicked to checkout.
Insufficient balance? Even 500,000 balance wasn't enough? Was she getting too carried away? She took two more silver ingots from the chest and topped up her account. The balance instantly became 1.5 million. It turned out each silver ingot weighed 25 taels.
She clicked to settle again, confirmed the purchase information on the screen, and in the blink of an eye, the purchased items were scattered on the open ground not far from the spiritual field.
Wow! Looking at the piles of supplies as high as small mountains, it was just like a warehouse in those super large supermarkets.
Alaskan, who was resting after finishing harvesting the crops, saw this. It wagged its short legs and ran over. With a gentle sweep of its tail, the instant noodles and snacks were neatly stacked together, even sorted by category.
No wonder the threshold for upgrading to level 4 was so high. Looking at this 4-star advanced little helper, it was truly thoughtful!
217: "Host, there is a familiar plane trading link. Do you wish to match?"
Su Muqing: "Match..."
"Muqing? It's Chen Yuan! That's great. I've sent you links several times. You're finally online."
Su Muqing didn't expect the sender of the link to be Chen Yuan? "I'm sorry, Chen Yuan! I barely entered my space yesterday and didn't know you sent me a link." Su Muqing apologized and added Chen Yuan to her backup trading list.
"It's okay, it's okay. I've matched many people these past few days. Either they were even more miserable than me and couldn't help, or they were big shots who didn't bother with me. You weren't online when I sent you links. Anyway, I didn't get anything useful in exchange." Chen Yuan felt quite annoyed recalling her experiences over the past few days.
Su Muqing was a little confused by her words. "A few days? It's only been one day! Didn't we just trade yesterday? Why are you saying it's been a few days?"
Chen Yuan was also surprised by her answer. "Ah? How could it only be one day? It's been a whole week for me... Perhaps the passage of time differs in different small worlds! Ah, never mind all that. I have several hundred catties of fresh pork here, the meat of the grunt beast that female beasts in the beast world love to eat. And a piece of top-quality fiery red fox fur. Do you have rice and flour to exchange? I really want to eat some rice! I feel so weak."
Fiery red fox fur? She could make two large cloaks for winter and wear them out with the little milk bun, which would be very stylish.
"Of course, we can exchange! What a coincidence! I just bought a large batch of food. Your link just came through. I have instant noodles, ham sausages, and snacks. I even have seasonings. What do you want?" Su Muqing readily agreed, bringing the food in front of the screen for Chen Yuan to see as she asked.
Chen Yuan swallowed as she looked at the food appearing on the screen. "Anything is fine. How do you have these things? Did you bring them from modern times? Didn't you say you transmigrated to an ancient world on a fleeing famine road?"
Su Muqing talked to her while packing her supplies. "Yes! I bought them from the space mall. You probably haven't upgraded your space yet, so the mall hasn't opened. I was only able to upgrade and open the mall because I unexpectedly obtained a batch of gold and silver yesterday."
Chen Yuan pouted. "I don't think so. My space doesn't have an upgrade prompt. It seems not only does the passage of time differ, but our spaces are also different. Yours is clearly much more advanced. Hey, hey~ give me some more corn-flavored hot dogs."
Su Muqing, having just purchased a large quantity of supplies, was very generous. With food in hand, she felt at ease and packed without hesitation.
Besides five boxes of instant noodles in different flavors, there were also some ham sausages, hot dogs, preserved vegetables, small bread, lollipops, and so on. Considering Chen Yuan was in a beast world where meat was the staple food, she also packed a large box of seasoned barbecue sauce for her, both spicy and mild. Finally, she packed five more large boxes of miscellaneous items.
A total of ten large boxes of food were placed in the quantum box, plus a whole bottle of 2.5L happy fat house water!