Jin had many things on his plate so he decided to take things a bit slowly for the rest of November considering that he had successfully completed the monthly mission portion from the System. (That is assuming that the gangsters did not harass him that much.) First on the list was the police partnership contract.
With the new partnership deal with the Tiangong District Police Station and only them (he did not trust the other departments), they had made Dungeons and Panda their official training partner for at least a year. According to the contract, every law enforcement officer, including their admin personnel, would have certain privileges when going into the dungeons in Jin’s store.
The most apparent perk was a major discount on the dungeons. Every one of them would receive a credit budget of 3500 Yuan (500USD) the moment they registered with Dungeons and Pandas. The System naturally checked their records with the police’s database, but the policemen themselves did not know it.
The HR personnel had technically only provided him with a list of names approved for by their captain. Jin, on the other hand, did not trust the police HR personnel with this list of approved names, mainly because a piece of paper could be forged while the central police database records were something that could be trusted. (Even though it was apparently not hackproof since the System had gained access to it, but it was way better than just a simple piece of paper.)
Nevertheless, with the threat of the Banned Emperor and the Ruby Rats, the System made sure the information in the police database was reliable by cross referencing with the police’s payroll records. Sure, it could not catch moles coming into the dungeon that way, but at the very least, the System was able to inform him about a fake record that was recently altered into the database and provide a substantial level of security checks before allowing the policeman to train in Jin’s dungeons.
Ever since the assassination attempt by the Banned Emperor lackeys against the Head of the Royal Tiger Zodiac, Hu Yuan Ba, the System had asked Kraft to increase the security checks against the customers who entered Jin’s store.
The customers did not need to be checked in person. After they entered their data into the registration machine to gain access to the functions of Jin’s store, most of the customers forgot about it. But in the background, the System would ensure that every customer’s data was being processed, verified and identified any possible threats. To date, it had made a potential threat list that was being constantly revised and updated based on the actions, facial expressions and even conversations the customers had while inside ‘Dungeons and Pandas’.
It might seem scary, but considering that they were within the belly of a beast, they had no choice to be subjected to the System’s constant vigilant monitoring. With Jin being the last known Royal Panda descendant, the System would take no chances in regards to protecting him even though it did not show it out openly.
One might ask what about the reincarnation process? If the System thought that the threat was similar to the Ruby Rats, the System would have prefered to let Jin handle it by himself as such an opportunity would allow him to gain experience fighting them, overcoming the odds and only assist him when it was needed. If Jin ever died, the System had sufficient top tier quality materials for an in-house reincarnation process.
However, the System could not say the same about the Banned Emperor assassins. With their knowledge on how to destroy the dantian with a forbidden technique, the System would spare no cost to ensure the survivability of Jin. That was why, even when it was 99.77% sure that it was Ming who was helping Jin in some way, it would be best for Jin to have a mentor that was once mercilessly hunted down by the Twelve Royal Zodiacs.
After the System saw the items and weapons related to the Demon Exorcists in the Grade 8 reward box, the System learned from Jin’s expression that he knew something about the Demon Exorcists even though they were supposed to be a secret organisation to begin with. Unbeknown to Jin and Yun, the System had recruited Grandma Yuan as a Sub System user back then not because she was just a mere instructor to Yun, but more importantly, she came from a long line of Demon Exorcists and was the perfect instructor for Yun. (since she was supposedly the next in line to inherit the System.)
Back to the topic of the Police Partnership. Aside from the credit wallet budget of 3500 Yuan, each time they cleared a dungeon, the System or rather, Jin’s store would not only reward them medals but a one time increment of 100 Yuan (15 USD) towards their next month budget of Pandamonium Credits. Yes, registering would give them 3500 Yuan at the start and each month thereafter would allow them to receive a base credit of 3500 Yuan. It was a minor incentive for the policemen who managed to work hard to clear the dungeon.
However, the amount in that wallet would not be addictive but rather replaced. Let’s say Deng Long did not participate in any dungeons, for November, his credit of 3500 Yuan would be brought forward to the month of December. Assuming he spent 3000 Yuan worth of credits and cleared three dungeons for December, he would be receiving 3800 Yuan worth of credits for January. Naturally if Deng Long decided to go the extra mile and he decided to fork out his own money to play the dungeons while clearing fifteen dungeon instances, he would be receiving a total of 5000 Yuan for the following month.
It was an idea that Jin thought about since the one proposed by their HR personnel was stiff and inflexible. They had wished to control the money like how they had been doing for the past month or so with the Ruby Rat Triad’s money. Nonetheless, they admitted it was a hassle for them too since the system for that was already in place.
However, the HR personnel loved Jin’s idea and model for it and calculated that it was still within the upper limits of their budget for training. After Jin offered them the juicy perk that his ‘team’ would do all the accounts and transactions for the police, HR personnel felt it was worth the upper ceiling of the training budget if they had one less troublesome task to do, considering the fact that the policemen were actively taking money endlessly from the coffers.
Apart from the discount, the HR personnel ultimately went ahead with the deal mainly because Jin did offer them something which they could not resist, just as he had promised Gupta. Jin was willing to sell them weapons such as pistols, taser guns, batons as well as ammunition and even armour at a price that the finance and accounting personnel in the HR department could not believe. (This would have been impossible if Hou Fei did not personally provide them with samples of those equipment in the first place to replicate them.)
The price that Jin was selling was even less than the discounted price from their approved manufacturers. He might be just a dungeon supplier, but the System had manipulated the records with the help of Kraft to get the license with the least amount of restrictions. Going beyond that, Kraft had also issued Jin licenses which included the sales of food, alcohol, weapons and many more. Of course, such a license permit would prove to be expensive except Jin’s turnover in the near future would be sufficient to pay the next year’s reregistration.
Hence, after several in house testing and the permission from the central police station to procure weapons from their soon to be exclusive training partner, the deal was done. Technically speaking, it was not possible for a district size police station to procure such items since they were not a major district. That was also despite the revised threat assessment by Tiangong’s Police Captain, Mao Pai Huo, that they had justification to buy such equipment.
But what Pai Huo did not know was that behind the scenes, Yang Ling, the daughter of the Royal Tiger Zodiac Clan caught wind of such news with regards to Jin’s actions and gave the green light for Tiangong District Police Station to procure them. With Royal Zodiac Tiger family as the major ‘shareholder’ of the Police and key protectors of certain regions in Shenzhen, she backed the words of the Police Captain. (Perhaps, Jin did think about such a thing in advance? He couldn’t, right…could he?)
With these two sweet perks of the deal, the police also upheld their bargain by erecting a temporary police post in one of the vacant stores so the policemen in Tiangong district had one additional post to report to during their patrols. This increased the patrols in the shopping district and ensured that they could conduct a rapid response to Jin’s store if the Ruby Rats ever dared to disturb them again.
One additional perk from the deal was that Jin was allowed to use lethal force without consequence should he judge that he or his customers were in mortal danger. Of course, there needed to be video evidence which should not be a problem within the shop instance but the police also took this chance to procure more security cameras to monitor the shopping district. The Police Captain used an overarching excuse that the shopping district needed additional monitoring which immediately received the approval from the Central police headquarters.
It was quite a win win situation for both parties since one could enforce order better while the other was guaranteed more profit coming in. With the police contract approved, that was one thing that could be removed from the checklist. Only because of this, Hou Fei began to bug him for the military contract too since he rendered his services personally and in a business sense.
“Though I hate to admit it, considering your relations with the Royal Zodiac Tigers, business wise it would be better if you team up with Yang Ling. That way, you will have a better chance to secure a Royal Zodiac initiated military exercise rather than a normal military exercise. It will definitely yield you more cash in return. Of course, if put me in the scene and you can be rest assured to have the Snake and Tiger Royal Zodiac ‘working’ together.” Hou Fei remarked during a night visit to Jin’s store.
“I thought you said you do not have such clout to do so?” Jin was refining the final details of the Deep One Dungeon which he planned to release in the latter half of November.
“Yang Ling’s family has an army and a triad under their command. I may perhaps have certain contacts…well more like many contacts to make things happen, but initiating a large scale army exercise that can bring in lots of moolah? I wish. You can expect to earn 10x more from Yang Ling’s family than from me.” Hou Fei replied dejectedly.
“Awww, and here I thought I could perhaps initiate a Tiger Army Division vs Snake Army Division exercise.” Jin pretended to sound disappointment and chuckled after that.
“I personally would recommend you do monster extermination exercises since those things do happen even right now. You might not have heard about this but a freak monster horde was recently exterminated in the southwestern part of Russia. There were some casualties due to the lag of response time, but the observers mostly blamed the inadequacies of the military for handling the situation.” Hou Fei informed him as he searched for the article for Jin to read.
“Heh, I will consider, but you know I have many things to do nowadays, right? The setting up of the Dungeon City Fortress is a top most priority since we do not really have that much time left in the automated dungeon barrier. About 2 months or so?”
“To be exact 57 days.” The System replied and Jin could only sigh louder.
“So yea, the police is simple enough, I do not have to create any new additional instance for them. The army, on the other hand… I mean it would be interesting since it could strengthen my own forces indirectly but I have been thinking how to.” Jin admitted.
“Modern warfare? You will probably need your troops to be familiar with modern war tactics since your Dungeon City Fortress would be that way. Perhaps copy a random city and use it to simulate the Monster Horde?” Hou Fei was throwing his ideas around.
“Hmm, that’s a simple and realistic idea, the officers might like and it should be simple to plan. But how the horde moves is a different issue and those army nut heads have to think on their feet to defend against them. On the other hand, my horde gets to experience modern defence tactics which could be used for the defence of my Dungeon City Fortress…” Jin stopped fiddling the console and considered Hou Fei’s proposal more seriously.
“Alright, but let me at least get the basic infrastructure up first, then we further discuss about the military exercise contract.” Jin conceded and Hou Fei gave the okay sign and left him for Panda Muscles. (Since he was considered ‘staff’ he benefited from free training)
“Now…time to finish this crazy dungeon. I cannot wait to see how the cultivators will react to this!” Jin whispered to himself with glee.
“Do not forget to visit Grandma Yuan else System will issue it as an impromptu mission with penalties involved” The System stated and Jin unwittingly nodded his head as he placed all his focus on completing the Deep One Dungeon.
