Chapter 203 Safe House

The autumn leaves are falling and the cold wind is blowing.

At three o'clock in the afternoon, the sun came out from the dark clouds and the sky was bright.

In contrast to the desolation outside, the safe house was exceptionally lively.

Through the joint efforts of the monsters, all the things Xu Zhiyan brought out from the spirit-hunting live broadcast room were counted.

Some food that is not suitable for human consumption and cannot be sold to the outside world has been successfully eaten by monsters... After being cleaned up, the remaining food is classified, labeled according to price, and sold to players who enter the safe house one by one.

As for some electrical products, they will be allocated after evaluation.

Some monsters got electronic watches, some monsters got electric toothbrushes, and some monsters got small LED desk lamps that can be attached to their bodies...

The remaining items such as washing machines and air conditioners that the monsters in the safe house did not need were all stuffed into the small warehouse.

The safe house's business is now numerous and diverse, so Guishen specially opened up an empty room for Xu Zhiyan to use as a meeting room.

In a room with simple decoration style that resembles a study, Xu Zhiyan, Qu Ji and Xiao Cuigu huddled together, with thick account books piled on the table.

The safe house interim reporting meeting has begun.

However, before reporting, there are still some minor issues that need to be resolved.

"Brother Xu, what should we do with these extra appliances?"

Qu Ji poked his head out from a pile of account books, holding up a tablet with a hesitant expression.

Behind it, Little Keibone was holding a laptop and calculating quickly.

“Ka-ka-ka!”

After a while, the calculation results of Xiaokuigu appeared on the panel.

[Master (crossed out), Brother Xu, if these redundant appliances are sold as second-hand goods, they can probably only be sold for 300,000 to 400,000 real-world coins. We don’t have after-sales service, and the brands of these appliances are completely different from those in the real world.]

Xu Zhiyan, who was lying on the sofa and seemed to be slacking off, waved his hands with an indifferent look on his face.

"No, these things should not be sold in the real world."

He sat up straight, grabbed the tablet beside him, glanced at the detailed numbers, and told the follow-up plan.

"Although we don't have access to these appliances, they can be used in some dungeons. Players can use them to build good relationships with the NPCs in the dungeons."

It was as if he had previously given a gift to the neighbor NPC and received a new note in response.

It’s not like there haven’t been players who have thought about this before, but bringing things from the real world into the game is a very troublesome process and is very expensive.

These supplies brought out from the copy can be circulated freely in each copy without any additional operation. They only need to be put into suitable storage containers. They are natural gifts.

Xu Zhiyan had already thought about the destination of these electrical appliances.

"We supply dryers to rainy dungeons, solar panels and kettles to primitive and backward dungeons, and electric blankets to snowy dungeons... Believe me, players are not that stupid, they know what these things represent."

As long as players are provided with proper guidance in the corresponding copies, getting these electrical appliances will definitely allow players to obtain information resources that are worth the money.

Qu Ji was stunned for a moment, then nodded frantically, lowered his head to memorize these contents, and learned how to apply them to other situations accurately.

"In this way, we can provide gifts based on the degree of dungeon matching, and with some exquisite packaging, players will definitely be happy to pay a price higher than the original value of these electrical appliances!"

"That's right."

Xu Zhiyan gave him a gratified look.

This is why he did not spare even a single feather when he entered the copy.

No one knows how many points these things, which were originally worth only a few thousand dollars, can be exchanged for in the end.

Qu Ji quickly finished the outline of the plan, passed it to Xiao Cui Gu, and continued with the next question according to the plan.

"Brother Xu, the ghost students in the monster videotapes have merged with the ghost school bus, so we can't separate them for employee training yet. I checked and it will take about a week. What should we do with them this week?"

Its expression became a little strange.

Although everyone was high school students before entering the safe house, these fifty-two weak student ghosts... well, they were really lively.

Xu Zhiyan was stunned, probably because he had never thought about this question.

After a moment, he murmured, "Let them adapt first."

In fact, the best way to become a monster is to become stronger, but he doesn't really want this group of students who still have human consciousness to really become monsters dominated by power.

He was sure that these student ghosts with normal intelligence would be a treasure if they were trained well and could be invested in other aspects of the safe house's construction.

"Let them rest in the monster room for a week first. During this time, find someone to observe what they are suitable for."

"Okay, Brother Xu, next is..."

…

As the scale expanded, there were more and more things in the safe house, big and small. Qu Ji recorded all the problems accumulated during this period in detail.

Next came the exciting reporting phase.

“Ka-ka-ka!”

Xiao Ke Gu was the first to turn his notebook over and point to the long string of numbers on it.

[Brother Xu, our promotion of dungeon consumables is very successful. Currently, almost every player who enters the safe house has realized that they can make a lot of money by recharging their membership here to buy a large number of consumables and take them out and sell them in the dungeon.]

With the recharge discounts and the temptation of profits, the number of people applying for safe house cards has skyrocketed.

How many points can you earn by running around in dungeons? If you are lucky enough to hit a safe house, it is so easy to be a middleman and make a profit!

With the multiple effects combined, the safe house's supply products are circulating among game players at an incredible speed, and it is only a matter of time before they become a must-have item in the game.

Looking at the rapidly rising curve on the report and confirming that the main system had not yet made any response, Xu Zhiyan finally felt relieved.

"It looks like I won't have to work so hard to make money in dungeons anymore."

If non-consumable products become hard-core commodities in the dungeon, it would be like owning a money printing machine.

After listening to this, Qu Ji pushed up his glasses and pulled up another form.

"Brother Xu, you don't have to work so hard now."

The table shows the copy income and expenditure of each door.

There are two ways to open the safe house to the public, both of which require paying fees to the main system.

If the safe house is regarded as a ship that travels between copies, then these anchor points are the coordinates where the ship stays.

One is an anchor point with a limited number of uses. For every million points, you can get the coordinates of ten copies, allowing the safe house to enter different copies of the same star level. The second is a permanent anchor point. Ten million points can obtain the coordinates of all copies of the relevant star level, and can enter all different copies of the same star level.

"For copies below four stars, we are still using ten anchor points for the time being, but for copies of four and four and a half stars, we can already build permanent anchor points."

Qu Ji looked a little excited, and Xiao Cui Gu quickly took out the income list of the blind box machine.

Unlike safe house anchor points which require money to purchase, this thing is pure profit.

With the blind box machine, useless props can also be sold. And because more and more players are entering, there are people who keep providing them, forming a perpetual motion machine.

Xu Zhiyan looked at the remaining points above, and the long string of zeros almost blinded his eyes.

"For permanent doors, let's open three and a half stars or four and a half stars." He spent 20 million points with just a few words.

Once these two doors are opened, what follows are unlimited money-making tools.

Even though he felt sorry for losing points, Xu Zhiyan knew that one cannot catch a wolf without risking his child, and it would be difficult to last long without investment.

"The next direction of upgrading the safe house will still focus on upgrading supplies. The pillow is a unique recovery item. The price will be determined after the upgrade is completed."

"Okay, Brother Xu!"

“Crack! Crack!”

…

After chatting about some miscellaneous things, this four and a half hour long safe house phase development report meeting finally came to an end.

Before leaving, Qu Ji received news that the safe house would soon log into the dungeon.

After seeing off his right-hand men, Xu Zhiyan was alone in the conference room.

Outside the window, it was getting dark.

A faint smell of ashes appeared quietly. Xu Zhiyan didn't need to look back to know that Party A, who had been hiding in the dark, had come out.

"How is it? Are you satisfied?"

He raised the tablet in his hand. The rising numbers across the board and the rocket-like development of the safe house were his greatest sincerity.

"We are developing very quickly. If we wait until the end of each year to review the situation, the meeting will take at least three days and three nights."

Xu Zhiyan tilted his head back and couldn't help but tease.

The ghost was silent for a moment, then replied, "I believe in your ability very much, you don't have to prove anything to me."

He unconditionally believed that Xu Zhiyan would do a good job, and he didn't care even if the other party didn't allow him to observe the meeting.

"No, I'm not proving my ability."

Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows, reached out and grabbed the chain around the ghost's clothes, pulled it down, but didn't move it.

For this meeting, he even changed into formal attire, just to show his respect for the points and Party A. Xu Zhiyan was somewhat eccentric in these aspects.

"I'm showing you our future!"

His tone was unusually excited.

"Today we opened two permanent gates. It won't be long before we can open all the gates and no longer have to pay any additional tolls to the main system."

It always makes people feel uneasy when the channel and coordinates are not in their own hands.

So this is Xu Zhiyan’s goal?

The ghost thought for a few seconds and spoke in confusion.

“Why not open more doors?”

The remaining points earned by the safe house during this period of time can allow them to open two more doors. If they want to completely get rid of tolls, it would be better to open all four doors.

Xu Zhiyan let go of his hand and stood up, glancing at Party A with a look of disappointment.

"We need some liquidity to back it up."

His plans were never limited to just the immediate scope.

"We'll start with supplies first, and gradually promote the brand effect. Once players recognize us, the space in the system mall will begin to shrink."

Perhaps the buttons on the collar were too tight, so Xu Zhiyan reached out and unbuttoned the top two.

"Next, I plan to open the Master Room and use the bug of unlimited human living supplies inside to supply the Nightmare Community, plant technology trees, research and develop props, and mass produce!"

Because of the special nature of the master room, the things produced in it are the same as those in the monster room and cannot be brought into the dungeon.

But the nightmare community is now part of the safe house's affiliated space and is not affected by this rule.

"Currently, even the most useful low-level props on the market are sold for thousands of credits. As long as we pay attention to the direction of research and development of our props, we may be able to bring new changes to the entire game!"

Xu Zhiyan looked up at the ghosts and gods.

The setting sun outside the floor-to-ceiling window of the conference room fell on him, and the golden afterglow was not as warm as him.

"Although I don't really want to destroy the main system, I am still very interested in destroying the system mall."

His eyes narrowed slightly and he spoke arrogant words.

"No one can stop us!"

He, Xu Zhiyan, wants to be the richest businessman in the world.

The ghost lowered his head to meet those jewel-like eyes that made him fall into depravity, and almost drowned in the endless greed.

His focus from beginning to end was on Xu Zhiyan's choice of words.

us.

Normally, he thought this word was just normal, but at this moment, he realized what an intimate and charming word it was.

us……

He and Him.

The sun set completely and darkness fell quietly.

When he returned to the lobby of the safe house, Xu Zhiyan had put away his arrogant look and turned back into a gentle and smiling businessman.

Thinking that he would log into the copy of the safe house soon anyway, he did not go back to change his clothes. Instead, he sat in the lobby of the safe house in formal attire, scrolling through his phone out of boredom.

[Host, are we going to start upgrading now? Let’s start upgrading now! Upgrade, upgrade!]

The safe house system jumped out impatiently.

Xu Zhiyan paused while fiddling with the live broadcast room and set the time.

"We will start upgrading early tomorrow morning."

The technology tree has not been opened yet, so I don’t know if any materials will be needed by then. It’s better to choose a time when you have enough time to buy things from the shell.

The safe house system was almost crying.

[Ok, I'm not in a hurry.]

But once Xu Zhiyan made a decision, he seldom changed it because of his mood. He tried to find something for the system to do to divert its attention. After all, this was one of his valuable assets.

"Speaking of which, I can now watch the live broadcast of the five-star dungeon. Are those big guys on the leaderboard currently in the game?"

He is quite wealthy now, so it shouldn't be a problem for him to take part in a few game betting competitions, right?

The system seemed to see through his thoughts.

[Replying to the host, don't even think about betting on the top players in the rankings. Half of them are like you, and can't bet on the points, and the other half always bet on weird things.]

"Hmm? Weird stuff?"

Xu Zhiyan was stunned, somewhat unable to understand.

After clicking on four five-star copy live broadcasts in a row, he finally found a big guy who ranked high on the points list.

"This is... let me see, number ten, clown? There are people called this?"

Since he has been running around in dungeons all year round, he doesn't have much time to watch live broadcasts. When he first saw the player with this strange name, he was very confused.

[This is a benefit for the top 20 in the standings.]

The system adjusted its mood and acted as a tour guide conscientiously and responsibly.

Usually, famous players will have their own nicknames. If they can enter the top 20 of the standings, they can choose whether to display their existing nicknames or their real names.

[However, there are exceptions. In some high-level dungeon drop items, there will be things like live broadcast room prop name change cards, which can modify the personal information of the live broadcast room.]

This is a high-level item that is somewhat useless.

[The anonymous card used by Mr. Guishen in the live broadcast room is also a prop of this type. It is very rare, but its use... different people have different opinions.]

Xu Zhiyan nodded, reached out and clicked on the Joker's guessing panel.

As he glanced down, his expression gradually changed from normal to confused, and then to solemn, with a hint of self-doubt.

"What the hell is this? Guess how many hours this guy slept in this dungeon? Good man... guess whether the number of times he blinked throughout the game was odd or even?"

What comes later is even more outrageous.

How many NPCs will you kill in a dungeon? Will you have more wounds on your body? Will you change your clothes when the dungeon ends?

After seeing what happened next, Xu Zhiyan almost laughed out of anger.

"This is a rubbish game. It's really cheap."

This type of random guessing has almost no regularity. Players cannot even conspire with other players in advance because they cannot guess the relevant guessing items at all.

...It's quite suitable for people who like to have fun.

The Joker's copy has just begun, and you can still participate in the guessing game. The live broadcast room is extremely lively, and everyone is talking about the strange guessing options.

[OMG! Another wink! Damn the system! I lost all my pants the last time I guessed the wink!]

[Can't you guess something else? Blinking is too mysterious. For me, I guess that Chou Ge believes in Buddhism this time. I choose to kill 0 NPCs! ]

[Wait for work upstairs! 】

[Hehe, I guess the Ugly Emperor blinked an odd number of times this time. ]

[How many scars will there be on the body? Oh no! If there is this option, doesn't it mean that this dungeon is a physical attack dungeon? ]

[Eighty percent likely. How can I guess the wound if it's not a physical attack?]

[I think that's it. If it's not a physical attack, there won't be an option of 100+ in the guess number! ]

Seeing this, Xu Zhiyan raised his eyebrows, and found a new use for the mobile phone.

According to the system's long-standing practice, even if his live broadcast room is unbanned, it is estimated that the guessing will be replaced with this kind of strange questions in the future. At that time, will he be able to get some clues about the copy by guessing the questions?

Thinking of this, Xu Zhiyan was not so averse to these weird guessing questions.

The barrage of comments flashed by quickly, and the audience talked a lot and frequently.

The Joker starts off on a wild road in complete darkness. The man wearing the clown mask probably has good night vision, so he doesn't look for a light source, but just moves around the screen.

Xu Zhiyan just wanted to make some money through guessing, but after finding out there was no hope, he just looked at it for a while and then left.

Although it was completely dark outside the window, it was not yet time to log into the dungeon in the safe house. Only the sound of monsters moving could be heard from the yard from time to time.

Since he was free anyway, Xu Zhiyan might as well continue watching the live broadcast.

Soon, he came across an acquaintance - Gan Mi.

It was nothing at first, but when he glanced at his personal ranking in the upper right corner, he doubted whether he had not woken up yet.

"Twenty-four? Did he eat a rocket?"

He remembered that when he met Gan Mi before, the other party was about 70 or 80 people...

However, it still feels very novel to see acquaintances on the mobile phone screen.

The barrage of comments in Gan Mi’s live broadcast room became even more terrifying.

Almost everyone was talking about his sudden rush for the rankings.

[Can anyone tell me why Boss Gan is in the dungeon again? Wasn't he in the dungeon just released a few days ago?]

[I declare that from today on, Smiling Tiger will be renamed King Tiger. ]

[Gan: I stopped laughing, and I became stronger]

[Hahahahahahahahahahahaha you bunch, be careful or Boss Gan will come out and beat you up! ]

[Just wait, wait for Boss Gan's business to raise prices! ]

[Hey, hey, hey, don’t let innocent people get hurt! ]

[Looking at this hard work, I guess there will be another dungeon tomorrow, right? ]

Xu Zhiyan glanced at his phone and nodded in agreement.

In the center of the screen, Gan Mi stood on the rooftop of a tall building with one hand in his pocket, a cold expression, blood on his cheek, and faint dark circles under his eyes revealing his slightly tired state.

I saw him standing there for a long time, and suddenly turned around.

In an instant, thirty or forty monsters as tall as a person climbed up from the side of the building wall and pounced on him.

Gan Mi did not move, but just raised his hand slightly and faced the group of monsters.

The moment he clenched his palms tightly, the monsters that were flying towards him seemed to be trapped by an invisible wall. They were instantly squeezed into a ball and kept compressing.

"Puff--puff--puff--"

In the shrinking space, monsters were constantly being squeezed into meat paste and exploded, making bursts of noise.

The air wall blocked all the splattered blood, and the scene was not as disgusting as imagined.

Gan Mi let go only after all the monsters were dead.

“Crash——”

The blood that was locked by the air wall had no container and fell heavily on the top floor, flowing around and flooding Gan Mi's shoes.

The blood-red moon hung high in the sky.

At the same time, one of the tallest buildings in the shell, the high-end rest area building, is also quietly changing.

Players passing by stopped to watch.

At the top of the rest area building that was already towering into the sky, translucent light blue grid squares flashed by, and a new area appeared!

Inside the rest area building.

Enli followed behind Yan Chengfan.

He didn't understand why the person in front of him was looking for him. In his impression, this white-haired man only talked to his adopted brother Gan Mi.

In the past, even if they met by chance in the shell, the other party's eyes had never fallen on him.

But there is a huge gap in their status. Yan Chengfan is currently number one in the points ranking, so he can't refuse the number one's request for a meeting.

Standing in the spacious and luxurious elevator, Enli keenly discovered that the floor pressed by the other party seemed to be wrong.

99 floors? Is the building with the high-end lounge that high?

Just when Enli didn't know whether to make an excuse to leave, Yan Chengfan spoke.

"Lili, do you know why I haven't killed you yet?" The man's voice was as nonchalant as ever.

"What?"

Enli turned his head suddenly, took a few steps back, leaned against the wall, and looked at the smiling man, but the elevator was so small that he had nowhere to hide.

Yan Chengfan seemed not to notice the other party's vigilance and fear, or he simply didn't care, and he continued to speak.

"You are the last brick in Gan Mi's missing memory."

"But don't worry, I won't be the one to kill you."

His words were full of sincerity, but his eyes were full of coldness.

"I just can't wait any longer."

"These boring human family games are really annoying."