Chapter 57 Amusement Park (11)

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If Black Panther had known in advance that he would have to clean up the messed living room by himself, he would not have been so irrational last night.

What's more, Yi Han also carefully calculated for it how many points the broken sandbags and treadmill were worth in total, and then said that even if the work was done well today, it could only have one meal first, and the next meal would have to wait until tomorrow.

"There's nothing I can do. Our family isn't rich to begin with, and you broke things. In order to save money, we have to live frugally." Yi Han said calmly.

So Black Panther, who was not good at math and did not know the real price of furniture, was fooled by him and swallowed his anger and diligently learned housework.

Yi Han watched from the side for a while, and seeing that the cat indeed bowed its head to the food and had no intention of revolting for the time being, he told Jian Lin to keep an eye on it while he packed up and prepared to go out.

Now his shop will soon be upgraded to two stars. The housework doll has been operating in the house since yesterday. As of this morning, Yi Han has 50,000 yuan in funds. He has always had an inexplicable sense of urgency in the past two days, as if the system will come to him and ask him to close the shop in the next moment. At this time, it is reasonable to close the business first and pretend to be dead, but this is not Yi Han's style. He decided to speed up the progress and get the physical store done today.

The residential area where Yi Han lives now is actually not far from a small popular area recommended in a hot post on the forum.

He didn't know this before, because he had used the prop "door" to go out twice, but the time was too tight and he could only walk, so he couldn't explore further beyond the snack street. But today, he searched the mall for a long time and suddenly found a prop similar to a satellite map.

On this satellite map, 99.9% of the locations are shrouded in fog, representing areas in this main divine space that have not been explored by Yi Han. The only area that is lit is near his residential area. At the edge of that circle of fog, one can actually vaguely see the signs of various entertainment venues such as shopping malls, bars, KTVs, and self-service hot pot restaurants. A bunch of signs are crowded together on the map, forming a rather lively commercial district.

Yi Han found the "Housing Selection Guide" again from the forum, and after comparing them one by one, he quickly recognized that this was the popular place with three stars recommended in the post. It was located in the central area of a third-tier small city, which was much worse than the most popular five-star recommended area in the big city, but it was a good place to open the first physical store in the early stage of the business.

So Yi Han no longer hesitated, and just to save the handling fee for changing communities, he immediately bought a permanent "door" and installed it in his home. This prop is completely different from the temporary "door" used 10 minutes ago. Installing it means that you are sure to settle down here. If you want to move to another city in the future, you have to change to a permanent door in another city, which costs much more.

After the "door" was installed, Yi Han set the floor and orientation for his house, and the windows were automatically installed in the house. This suite with a strange layout was finally officially embedded in the residential building.

After saying hello to Jian Lin, Yi Han went out.

This time, unlike before, he did not travel directly to the bottom of the building as if he had traveled through time and space. Instead, it was as if he had returned to the real world. Yi Han walked through the clean tiled corridor, pressed the elevator button, and then walked out through the unit door on the first floor.

The air at seven o'clock was very fresh. Many young people in the community who had just finished their morning exercises were walking and talking, laughing, and looking energetic.

Yi Han walked through rows of trees and residential buildings and turned to the snack street. He didn't know what time the snack vendors closed their stalls. Now there were vendors selling fresh fruits and vegetables on the side of the street, and some players were squatting in front of the stalls to choose. Yi Han slowed down his pace and took a look, and found that these vegetables were at least half the price of those sold in the system mall.

"Would you like some carrots? They're grown in my yard." A little girl gamer said with a smile.

Yi Han still had things to do, so he didn't buy anything for the time being...but that didn't stop him from sighing.

If only I had settled down earlier, I could buy ingredients from players every morning and cook for them. I wonder how much cost I could save!

Looking down at the satellite map, Yi Han walked along the snack street to the end, then turned around two buildings before arriving at the gate of the community. The map showed that after leaving the gate, it would take a few hundred meters along the road to reach the most prosperous area.

Yi Han looked up and found a wide road in front of him that was almost the same as the real world. The only difference was that there were not only cars on the road, but also various spirit beasts, carriages... and a few players flying at low altitudes. These players also flew in different ways, some flew with swords, and some grew wings. In this scene, Yi Han couldn't help but think of the leopard at home. Since it had no fighting power for the time being, in addition to doing housework, it could actually be arranged to carry people as a means of transportation. Otherwise, he would have to walk every time he went out, which was indeed a bit inferior to other players.

There are actually many shops on both sides of this road, selling cigarettes, alcohol, snacks, small pharmacies, dental clinics, etc. On the other side there are also barbecue restaurants, noodle shops, etc., but the shops are very small.

Yi Han walked a few hundred meters along the road and officially entered the commercial area marked on the map.

The center of the place is a large comprehensive shopping mall, surrounded by several streets of shops and food stalls. It is only 7 o'clock in the morning, and many players are strolling here. There are vendors selling small accessories, succulents, flowers, birds and fish on the roadside, but few empty shops.

Yi Han spent the entire morning here. He walked along the nearby streets, then went into the mall to look for it, and finally selected a few stores with good locations and close to the shops for sale, and contacted the owners.

At noon, Yi Han simply had a quick meal nearby, and then he started to deal with the procedures for opening the store. By the evening, everything was done.

The players in the escape game talked about things quickly and decisively, and signed contracts in a swift and decisive manner. Yi Han finally rented a store in front of the shopping mall. The location was very good, but the rent was very expensive. The 50,000 points he had were only enough for two months of rent, and the mall stipulated that the rent had to be paid quarterly.

Fortunately, the original boss was very easy to talk to. He was moving to a first-tier city recently, but there were still some things left to deal with, so the store would move a few days later. The two of them signed a sublease contract, agreed on the date for rent payment and the date for Yi Han to officially open the business, and he also helped to solve the procedures such as the business license, but the expenses still had to be paid by Yi Han himself.

By evening, Yi Han, who originally had a huge sum of money, was penniless again.

After a day of talking business, Yi Han felt more exhausted than a day of killing ghosts. But when he entered the house, he saw Jian Lin standing on a chair hanging curtains on the windows, and Black Panther squatting beside the chair, lowering his head and using his claws to clumsily pick out the long threads at the stitches of the curtains. It looked so funny that he couldn't help but chuckle.

"Ah, this, I bought it with my GPA. I felt that the bare window would look ugly without hanging something... I'm sorry, if you don't like me wasting my GPA, I'll return it." Jian Lin heard the door open, turned around to see him coming back, quickly jumped off the stool, and explained carefully.

"It's okay, it looks good." Yi Han smiled, closed the door and looked around.

When he left in the morning, the house was still a mess, but now it looks clean and tidy. Not only has the messed-up living room been tidied up, but the sandbag has also been replaced with a new one - in fact, the previous sandbag was about to break, and it only cost a few points to replace it. It was just a trick to settle accounts with Black Panther in the morning - and this new sandbag was obviously bought by Jian Lin. Jian Lin is not a real pet, but this is the first time he spent his credit points to buy something for the family without telling Yi Han. He seems to be afraid that Yi Han will be angry. Yi Han feels a little helpless about him thinking this way, but if he says something like "I'm not your master, you can spend your own money however you want", it will seem even weirder...

The two of them had kept the house very clean, and according to Yi Han's instructions, Jian Lin should have fed Black Panther dinner tonight. After a round of hard work, Black Panther looked very obedient and seemed to get along well with Jian Lin. But when he looked at Yi Han, he looked alert and resentful.

After chatting with Jian Lin for a few words, Yi Han returned to his room.

In the corner, the housework dolls were holding iron pots and soup pots, diligently preparing takeout.

After milk tea was launched on the market, it instantly became a popular food like ice cream. However, since neither of them is made with kitchen utensils, the housework dolls cannot do the production. Yi Han can only make them in batches at one time and then hand them over to the dolls to sell. Compared with other meals, it has more processes. If too much is made, the hot milk tea will get cold and the ice cream will melt. If too little is made, they will be sold out in a short time.

Yi Han has not figured out how to solve this problem yet. Perhaps he can only wait until the physical store opens, and then fill the kitchen with freezers and incubators...

Yi Han was feeling a little tired. He had just laid down on the bed and was about to take a break when he suddenly felt his cell phone vibrate.

Generally, outside of the level, apps rarely send messages through mobile phones. And Yi Han's phone is always on silent, so even if there are messages from friends, there will be no notification.

Yi Han was a little confused and unlocked the screen, but found that the system only sent a vibration prompt but did not say what to do.

Staring at a blank screen, for some reason, Yi Han suddenly had a strong intuition that something important was about to happen.

He quickly got up from the bed, waved his hand to stop the puppet from working, and put the iron pot back into the inventory.

Then he thought for a moment, opened the door and returned to the living room, taking the chain that tied the black panther in his hand. The black panther was his pet now, and even if he was not tied up, he could not disobey his master's orders. Tying him up before was just Yi Han's evil taste.

"What's wrong?" Jian Lin had just finished hanging two curtains and brought water to Black Panther in a small basin. Seeing Yi Han frowning, he couldn't help but ask.

Yi Han shook his head, and the next moment he heard a polite knock on the door.

This time, Jian Lin was also startled.

It was only this morning that they installed the door and settled here. Neither of them had told anyone they knew where they lived, so the visitor could not have been their friend.

Yi Han shook his head at Jian Lin, motioning him to go back to his room and hide, but Jian Lin did not move. Instead, he took out a dagger and the Book of Fear from the inventory and stood with him... Yi Han sometimes felt very strange. This kid was afraid that he would be angry when he spent money to buy curtains without his permission. Why was he not afraid of being angry when he refused to go when he was asked to hide in danger?

The residence in the main god space does not have peepholes, but has more intuitive monitoring functions.

Yi Han pulled Jian Lin over and operated the runes on the door. Then the door panel turned one-way translucent, revealing the visitor - a man in a black robe, with an unclear face, all in black, with a few black feather-like decorations hanging on his belt.

He raised his hand to knock on the door, and a silver badge belonging to an employee of the Real Escape Game Company appeared on his cuff.

——Not a ghost NPC like Jian Lin who signed a contract with the company after the player died, but a higher level, or the kind of employee who can be said to be truly in cahoots with the game system.

"Hello, I'm staff member A27."

The person outside the door was very sensitive and seemed to have noticed their prying immediately. He raised his face, which was half covered by the black robe, revealing a young boy's face, then raised a relaxed smile and introduced himself.

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