The items in the warehouse were decreasing one by one. Every time Zhang Tie appeared, the warehouse would be empty by about four or five hundred kilograms.
The extraordinary stamina and strength granted by the Nine Wolf Strength began to manifest at this moment. Zhang Tie carried things back and forth between the Castle of Black Iron and the warehouse like a tireless ant...
Two hours later, most of the goods in the warehouse had "disappeared." Zhang Tie sat on a cardboard box and meditated in the warehouse, beginning the meditation of < Abacus Mental Calculation > to recover his mental strength. At this time, Zhang Tie's physical strength could still keep up, but he felt a little tired. However, after carrying heavy objects in and out of the Castle of Black Iron frequently for a short period of time, even Zhang Tie's mental strength, which had increased again, was somewhat overwhelmed after a hundred or two hundred times.
This meditation session lasted over an hour. Zhang Tie began by visualizing two thirteen-column abacuses simultaneously in his mind, then began performing complex arithmetic operations using these two abacuses. Initially, Zhang Tie discovered that the two abacuses displayed perfect synchronization when performing operations in his mind. For example, when he wanted to calculate 3659 multiplied by 49631, both abacuses would produce the number 181599829. After practicing this for a while, Zhang Tie suddenly had an idea: to try using the two abacuses simultaneously to perform different arithmetic operations, doing multiplication on one abacus while doing addition on the other. As soon as this idea came to mind, Zhang Tie couldn't resist trying it. However, Zhang Tie found that multitasking was extremely difficult. After the two abacuses in his mind collapsed many times, Zhang Tie was finally able to perform two different two-digit calculations on the two abacuses simultaneously, like a primary school student. Moreover, the process was not very smooth. Zhang Tie felt like he had returned to when he first learned to use an abacus, clumsy and awkward.
It turns out that mental training and physical muscle training seem to have something in common—the more strenuous the training, the better the results. After more than an hour of struggling to multitask with the < Abacus Mental Calculation > training, Zhang Tie found that his mental strength was recovering much faster than before, and the effects were more obvious. Moreover, his thinking seemed to be clearer.
This was truly a case of "after the darkest hour comes the dawn," Zhang Tie was overjoyed to have rediscovered the potential of < Abacus Mental Calculation Abacus Mental Calculation >. He had originally thought, based on the book's description, that the skill had reached its peak after his recent surge in mental power, making further progress difficult. However, this sudden inspiration revealed another way to use < Abacus Mental Calculation > hadn't anticipated.
He could now be considered the number one person in the world at the " Abacus Mental Calculation." Among the billions of humans and beings on the entire continent, was it easy to rank first in something? This thought made Zhang Tie somewhat proud and put him in a great mood. He became even more motivated to do things.
Over the next two hours, the items in the warehouse gradually decreased. By the time Zhang Tie had lost count of how many times he had come out of the Castle of Black Iron, the entire warehouse was empty again, with only the Beehive that looked like an old tree stump remaining inside.
Picking up the Beehive, Zhang Tie disappeared into the warehouse...
"The system has detected that the handsome and imposing Lord of the Black Iron Castle is carrying a large number of carbon-based intelligent life forms into the Castle of Black Iron. The Castle of Black Iron Animal System is activated!"
As the notification line slowly disappeared before his eyes, Zhang Tie, standing inside the Castle of Black Iron, burst into laughter. He really could bring living creatures here; this was fantastic!
At this time, the area within a 50-meter radius of the Little Tree in Castle of Black Iron was already piled with things. Zhang Tie ignored those things and instead carried the Beehive to his private plot of land in Castle of Black Iron.
After more than two months of growth, the corn that Zhang Tie planted first had grown as tall as a person and had already flowered. The vitality Castle of Black Iron was becoming stronger and stronger, and many of the flowers and plants that Zhang Tie had planted were now in bloom.
Zhang Tie carefully placed the Beehive horizontally beside the plot of land. He squatted down and pulled out the serrated, breathable metal plate at the entrance of the Beehive Beehive. The door for the bees to enter and exit the Beehive was opened. Zhang Tie watched with great interest as several bees immediately crawled out of the Beehive opening. These adorable little creatures, having been cooped up in the Beehive for so long, must have been quite excited. A few bees crawled out, looked around, and then flew up, circling the Beehive twice before heading straight for the flowering cornfield. Then, more and more bees crawled out of the entrance of the Beehive and began to take flight. Even Zhang Tie seemed to feel the excitement and joy these little creatures had for their new environment.
Everything in Castle of Black Iron pleased the little creatures, especially the various flowers. With no one to compete with them, the bees felt as if they had entered paradise.
The Beehive contains more than 1,000 bees. The Beehive told Zhang Tie that once the Beehive is in the wild, the queen bee will lay eggs, and if the environment is suitable, the number of bees can increase quickly. The barrel-shaped Beehive that Zhang Tie bought can hold more than 70,000 bees.
Zhang Tie was also happy because he sensed the bees' joy!
Then Zhang Tie directly opened the Biological and Species Management Panel of Castle of Black Iron, selected the entire bee colony and the queen bee, and invested 5,000 Spirit Qi Value at once to begin the first mutation and evolution of these little guys in Castle of Black Iron.
The Castle of Black Iron is currently brimming with Spirit Qi Value, generating a significant amount daily. Zhang Tie wants to see what the results will be if he invests all his Spirit Qi Value into it. If once doesn't work, he'll try twice; if twice doesn't work, he'll try three times; if three times doesn't work, he'll try ten times; he can even try a hundred times. It's just a small amount of Spirit Qi Value, so he won't mind wasting it. If it succeeds, that will be a huge success—a worthwhile deal...
The evolutionary cycle of bee colonies seems to be closely related to the lifespan of the worker bees responsible for collecting nectar. The time it takes for the first mutation to result is almost exactly the lifespan of the worker bees in the Beehive —56 days.
After glancing once more at the mountain of boxes, Zhang Tie left Castle of Black Iron. Those things could only be assembled tomorrow. Time was almost up for the day; he should leave first.
A few minutes later, the small door to the warehouse that Zhang Tie had rented opened slightly. Zhang Tie carefully peeked out through the crack and saw that it was already dark outside and there was no one around. He then slightly opened the small door, quickly slipped out, locked the warehouse door, and hurriedly left the storage area in the night.
Zhang Tie was very satisfied with today's gains. He obtained a large amount of supplies from Castle of Black Iron, discovered Samira's whereabouts, made some unexpected gains while cultivating < Abacus Mental Calculation >, and even verified the idea that living things could be brought into Castle of Black Iron.
After today's events, Zhang Tie felt more confident about the future. No matter what the future held, he was certain he could ensure that those he cared about lived well.
Two weeks later, if he didn't return the warehouse key, his ten silver coin deposit would be lost. Someone else would open the warehouse, and it would be empty. In this storage area where trucks carrying goods come and go every day and every hour, people would just assume he had taken the goods and hadn't had time to return the key. They would never suspect that the goods had disappeared after entering the warehouse. What kind of lunatic would be so bored as to squat in front of their own warehouse door for two weeks among the hundreds of warehouses in this storage area, just to see if the goods would still be inside when the warehouse door opened?
Even if such a lunatic really existed, who would believe him? The warehouse would swallow up the goods? With his disguised face, who could find him? Fifteen days later, he might not even be in Black Flame City. So, this seemingly audacious plan would leave absolutely no room for error.
So the remaining tasks are to find some time in the next few days to dismantle those large building blocks Castle of Black Iron, quickly rebuild the house, and also find an opportunity to settle accounts with that bastard Samira. The Iron Thorn Combat Hall is about to reopen, and I also need to find time to go back and see how Mary's attitude is.
Having not eaten all day, Zhang Tie bought a loaf of bread from a roadside bakery to tide him over.
As Zhang Tie munched on a meat floss and milk bread that he had previously been reluctant to buy, he walked along the road, thinking about the shock and fear on Mary's face when she saw him return to the Iron Thorn Combat Hall under a different identity. Suddenly, a strong sense of exhilaration welled up in Zhang Tie's heart.
This world ultimately belongs to men with real power!
Back on Monet Avenue, Zhang Tie spent several dozen copper coins to buy a ticket at the entrance of the underground bar before he was able to enter.
The underground bar at night was more than ten times more lively than when Zhang Tie left in the morning. Just around the dimly lit dance floor, there were hundreds of people standing there, hugging and twisting wildly. The band's music was also more energetic. There weren't actually that many people there to drink.
Several burly, bald men in black tight-fitting t-shirts stood with their arms crossed along the aisle and the edge of the dance floor, motionless like wooden stakes in the shifting light, greatly intimidating the troublemakers.
The bar was doing brisk business, with men and women constantly leaving the dance floor to drink and spend money at the bar next door, or even booking private rooms. The price for a private room here was one silver coin for two hours, and five silver coins for an overnight stay. I really don't know how that guy Tang De managed to turn a private room into his own private place for fooling around.
A few minutes later, Zhang Tie returned to his apartment on Monet Avenue through a secret door in the private room, where he transformed back into his original appearance in the secret room.
This disguise trip made Zhang Tie realize the benefits of hiding his identity. Looking at the wardrobes and a bunch of disguise items in the secret room, Zhang Tie simply decided to go all the way and move everything in the secret room back into the Castle of Black Iron.
After Zhang Tie had worked on it several times, the entire secret room became empty.
After a day of all that work, Zhang Tie was exhausted. Leaving the secret chamber, he returned to his lodgings upstairs, took a Zhang Tie, and went straight to sleep. Zhang Tie planned to spend the next day trying to see if he could finish building the house inside the Castle of Black Iron...
However, life is always full of surprises.
The next morning, what woke Zhang Tie wasn't his biological clock, but the doorbell in his room. Someone was pulling the bell cord outside the apartment building, and the doorbell inside the room rang, reminding Zhang Tie that someone was looking for him.
Zhang Tie got out of bed, still half asleep. He looked at the sky outside; it wasn't even six o'clock yet, and it was still dark. Who would come looking for him so early? Even if it was just some kids playing a prank, it was probably too early. No child would get up at this hour.
However, the incessant ringing of the doorbell reminded Zhang Tie of the urgency of the person looking for him, so Zhang Tie quickly dressed, went outside the room, and opened the outer door of the apartment.
Upon opening the apartment door, Barry and Doug, their faces filled with anxiety, stood outside.
"Something's happened at Shavin's house!"
Barry's first words instantly dispelled any lingering sleepiness Zhang Tie had... (To be continued, please search for the novel for better and faster updates!)