Chapter 171 : Chapter 171
Chapter 171: Stop Queuing, You Big Dumbass!!
Tu Jian’s aura immediately frightened Manager Zhou into taking half a step back.
He stared at Tu Jian in surprise. For some reason, a hint of instinctive fear appeared in his eyes.
However, it quickly turned into a bellyful of rage.
He nodded heavily, his smile carrying a faint chill.
“Good!”
Then he picked up the contracts from the floor one by one and cupped his hands slightly toward Tu Jian.
“Then Zhou will take his leave first.”
As he spoke, he turned around with a huff and walked out.
After returning aboveground, he bent down and got into a luxury sedan.
Sitting in the back seat was none other than the Man with Glasses from the Lu Family.
Manager Zhou respectfully handed the contracts back to him and gave him a detailed account of what had just happened.
The Man with Glasses snorted coldly.
“They do not want a single drop? Hmph! I would like to see whether they can really stick to their word!”
High-Grade Spiritual Liquid was one of their family’s leading industries.
Beyond that, they also had Mid-Grade and Low-Grade Spiritual Liquid.
These were essential necessities for Second and Third Grade Martial Artists.
Of all the different grades of Spiritual Liquid the Lu Family supplied to the Wanren Military District, they accounted for at least one-third of the Wanren Military District’s total Spiritual Liquid supply.
If they withdrew all of it at once, he refused to believe the soldiers of the Wanren Military District would not cause a fuss!
After painstakingly killing enemies and earning merit, they would return to the Military District and take a look inside the Quartermaster Department.
There would not even be many bottles of the most important Spiritual Liquid for improving their strength, or else the prices would be outrageously high!
How could they not grumble?
How could the authority of the leaders at every level of the Wanren Military District not decline?
“Drive.”
The Man with Glasses put the contracts away and gave the order indifferently.
At eleven thirty in the morning, long lines formed at both of Lu Pharmaceuticals’ offline stores.
Outside the Lu Pharmacy on Happiness Street, a group of Martial Artists lined up in an orderly queue. There were at least three or four hundred people, with the line folding back on itself three times and nearly filling the entire sidewalk.
Farther away, there were also quite a few people who had arrived late or had come to watch the excitement.
It was bustling with activity.
There was no way around it. The higher the quality of Spiritual Energy Concentrate, the more it became something one could not buy even with money. Everyone had to fight to get it!
After all, this was one of the fastest ways for those below the Profound Rank to improve their cultivation.
The pharmacy’s doors were wide open.
In front of the entrance, a One-Meter Barrier Belt blocked off the people waiting in line outside.
Inside the pharmacy, several female clerks gathered around one person’s phone, laughing and chatting about gossip.
Before long, a heavy delivery truck printed with the words “Lu Pharmaceuticals” slowly drove over and stopped at the pharmacy’s side entrance.
A Profound Rank Martial Artist with a deep and powerful aura got out of the truck, along with a man dressed head to toe in designer brands.
His features resembled the Man with Glasses.
He was the son of the Man with Glasses, a third-generation descendant of the Lu Family.
As soon as he got out of the truck, he slid one hand into his pocket and glanced at the long queue. A trace of pride inevitably appeared in his eyes.
“Unload it. Be careful.”
He gave a casual order to the people behind him, then walked into the pharmacy first.
Afterward, someone opened the delivery truck. Under the personal supervision of that Profound Rank Martial Artist, they carefully carried several large crates into the pharmacy.
“Wow, there is so much stock! There should still be some left by the time it is our turn!”
Someone near the back of the line sighed in admiration.
“Six hundred and fifty thousand per bottle. How much money is that? How much revenue do they make in a single day?”
“I am so jealous. Was that Lu Xiao just now? The young master of the Lu Family. I heard he plays around a lot.”
“That is why being born into the right family is a skill in itself.”
“Hey, look!”
Some sharp-eyed people happened to be able to see through the entrance.
As soon as Lu Xiao entered the pharmacy, those pretty female clerks hurriedly surrounded him with radiant smiles.
They exaggeratedly pushed out their chests and arched their backs, showing off their curves.
Lu Xiao chuckled and stroked the chin of one of the girls.
The female clerk immediately smiled so brightly that her whole face seemed to blossom, and she almost pressed herself against Lu Xiao.
Lu Xiao casually wrapped one arm around her waist, then put his other arm around another female clerk’s waist and led the two of them into an internal room of the pharmacy.
A glance through the crack in the door was enough to roughly tell that it was a break room.
As for the two female clerks who had not been chosen by Lu Xiao, they walked aside resentfully.
Time passed second by second.
Soon, it was exactly twelve o’clock.
That delivery truck had finished unloading and left long ago.
However, the Spiritual Liquid still had not gone on sale.
The male Martial Artist at the very front of the line had arrived the earliest, almost the moment Lu Group released its announcement.
He had already been standing there for more than three hours.
He had long since grown thoroughly irritated.
So he shouted into the store from behind the One-Meter Barrier Belt.
“Miss, it is twelve o’clock!”
The clerk said impatiently, “Wait.”
Those two dry words made the male Martial Artist shut his mouth immediately.
That was because the Profound Rank Martial Artist had glanced over from the side entrance.
The line gradually began to stir restlessly.
It was already past twelve, yet the Spiritual Liquid still had not gone on sale, and the clerks had not given any explanation at all.
The staff who had carried the Spiritual Liquid inside were also doing who knew what in the storeroom.
Questions such as “What is going on?” and “What is happening?” grew more and more frequent.
This instead brought out the stubbornness in the two female clerks.
The more the crowd acted like this, the more enthusiastically they played with their phones.
In their hearts, they thought, Why are you babbling at us?
High-Grade Spiritual Liquid being sold in large quantities is not something we can decide on casually.
Young Master Lu personally came over. Do we dare open our mouths and sell it without permission?
You can only pray that those two female clerks are good at serving him and satisfy Lu Xiao early. Then he will naturally come out.
The more the people outside saw the attitude of the two female clerks, the angrier they became.
Time quickly reached twelve twenty.
The pharmacy still showed no intention of starting the sale because Lu Xiao had yet to come out of that room.
Suddenly, someone in the crowd outside shouted, “Holy shit! Brothers! Check the news!”
“The main counter at Fortress Pharmacy City has High-Grade Spiritual Liquid! Everyone can sample one milliliter for free with an ID card!”
“The quality is higher, and the price is lower! You all can keep waiting here. I am going there first!”
After shouting loudly, that person dashed toward the Abyss entrance!
Many people did not react at first.
After they came back to their senses, most of them felt it was definitely some competitor who had come to stir up trouble.
After all, if such a good thing were real, ordinary people would sneak off by themselves.
They would never shout it out loudly.
In truth, their guess was indeed correct.
The person who shouted was indeed an employee of Zhang Group.
However, even though the method was old-fashioned, it really worked!
Even if many people did not believe it, they could not help taking out their phones to check the news.
Fortress Pharmacy City was located inside the Fortress above the Abyss entrance. The pharmacy city inside might not be the largest in all of Linyuan City, but it was definitely the most authoritative one in all of Linyuan City, and it had been jointly built with the Abyss-Suppressing Army.
Although the items inside were expensive, they were completely guaranteed.
If one wanted to obtain a counter in Fortress Pharmacy City, apart from having money, layer after layer of review was unavoidable.
Precisely because the threshold was too high, the merchant occupancy rate of Fortress Pharmacy City had never exceeded seventy percent.
However, when people opened the Pharmacy City announcement, this piece of news really was there.
【Zhang Group Enters Fortress Pharmacy City; High-Grade Spiritual Energy Concentrate Special Promotion.】
【With an ID card, each person may sample one milliliter of Spiritual Liquid for free once. The price for a two-hundred-milliliter bottle is only five hundred thousand!】
Competition in the spiritual medicine industry was common.
However, there had never been anyone who allowed people to sample the product for free!
Not even one milliliter!
An ordinary merchant would never let you sample it for free.
Even if each person could only sample it once, that was still a tremendous giveaway. If five thousand people came, they would sample away five thousand milliliters!
One promotion alone would give away over twelve million worth of product just like that!
And what if ten thousand people came? Twenty thousand?
It was truly spending money to buy publicity.
More importantly, if the merchant had no confidence in the quality of its product, it would never invest so much just to let people sample it.
Thinking of this, many people who had not managed to get a place in line, who had only come to watch, or who were dissatisfied with the Lu Family quickly left.
In an instant, more than half the crowd dispersed and headed toward the Abyss entrance.
In just two or three short minutes, the people leaving the scene had already started running!
They were terrified of falling behind others!
The people still standing in line at the scene fell into an eerie silence.
They were also conflicted. They had already waited in line for so long. Should they just leave like this?
What if that place was a scam? If they wanted to come back, they might not be able to get a place in line anymore.
Just then, one man’s phone rang. He answered it directly on speaker and said impatiently, “Hello!”
The other end of the call was extremely noisy, and the roar of his good friend came through.
“Hey! You have not bought the Spiritual Liquid yet, right!?”
“No. I am still in line. It has not gone on sale yet!”
“Stop queuing, you big dumbass!!”
“Hurry up and get your ass to Fortress Pharmacy City! Hurry! Counter Seven is selling High-Grade Spiritual Energy Concentrate.”
“Free samples! I just tried it! The quality is so much better than the Lu Family’s!”
“It is only five hundred thousand! I am already in line right now. They have already started selling it!”
“Do not tell anyone else. Come secretly! Hurry!!!”
The last shout from the man on the other end sounded as if someone had stepped on his foot, and his voice cracked.
It was so loud that the only people who did not hear it were the female clerks inside the store.
The people standing in line heard it clearly.
After the man hung up, the surroundings fell into an eerie silence for one second.
Then...
BOOM!
Everyone seemed to hear the starting pistol. All of them charged toward the Abyss entrance.
True Qi erupted from each person, and their blood surged wildly. Their speed was much faster than that of a car!
Some people even used Cultivation Arts to leap more than ten meters in an instant, darting and vaulting across the surrounding public facilities, arriving first despite starting later.
Setting the rhythm was an extremely terrifying thing.
Once a herd effect formed, the consequences were often beyond belief.
A moment ago, the entrance of the Lu Pharmacy had been packed with people. In the blink of an eye, not a single person remained!
Only a few “passersby” were left in the distance, holding their phones and filming the whole thing from beginning to end.
The two female clerks were completely dumbfounded.
Coincidentally, Lu Xiao walked out at that moment, fully satisfied.
Behind him followed two female clerks who were constantly straightening their clothes.
Seeing that there was not a single person outside, Lu Xiao immediately smiled and asked the two female clerks, “It sold out so quickly?”