Ron, covered in sawdust, ran over from the backyard and looked at Lin Fuxia anxiously, "Sir, are you satisfied with how the shop is cleaned up?"
Lin Fuxia nodded. "Not bad. Next, let's make the plaque and then a new medicine cabinet... Do we have enough money for the wood?"
"Enough, enough. What do you want engraved on that plaque?"
Lin Fuxia thought for a moment and said, "Just carve it up, Shuangxia Pharmacy."
She went to the backyard, took a branch and wrote these four words on the ground.
The characters in the real world are the same as her native language in her original world, but the characters in this game are very different. However, the game is set up so that players can read and understand the characters and language here.
The four words written by Lin Fuxia are words from the real world.
Shuangxia not only fits her name, but also represents two Xias, one is her and the other is her original body.
I don't know if there will be a day when she will leave and her original body will return to this one.
If this is the case, this Shuangxia is the trace she left in this world. If her original body cannot come back, then this Shuangxia will be her way of commemorating her original body.
The carpenter carefully copied these four words several times and showed them to Lin Fuxia.
Lin Fuxia was ashamed. As a carpenter with decades of experience, his handwriting was much more beautiful than hers. The font structure was spacious and majestic, and quite imposing, even though he didn't know these four words at all and didn't understand Chinese calligraphy at all.
"Yes, write it like this and then paint it black at the end."
The old carpenter hurried to make the plaque.
The old bricklayer climbed onto the roof, replaced the broken tiles, and checked if there were any leaks.
The little boy was very agile and also climbed onto the roof to help, passing things back and forth.
Lin Fuxia was worried that they would fall.
Two women were cleaning dust from various corners in the shop and painting furniture.
The yard was still a mess.
Lin Fuxia said: "If you are too busy, find a few more people to do the work."
Ron rubbed his hands anxiously. "We can handle it, we can handle it. Once we've cleaned up the shop, we'll go clean up the yard right away."
The others also looked at her nervously.
They need the job so badly that they don't want anyone else to share it.
Lin Fuxia was silent for a moment. It seemed that they were doing a good job at the moment. She was not in a hurry to use the yard. If she asked someone else to come, it would be very annoying to have several groups of people working in a small shop and causing some small troubles and struggles.
So she stopped insisting on hiring more workers and said, "Okay, it's getting dark. You can leave one person here to watch the store tonight, and the others can go back and rest. You can come back tomorrow and you don't have to be too tired."
"Not tired, not tired," Ron said quickly. "I don't know why, but I've felt relaxed all over since a while ago. I have a very comfortable feeling."
Lin Fuxia was slightly surprised. Could it be that the Rose Heart also has an effect on local NPCs?
She asked others, and they said they felt the same as Ron and suddenly felt a lot more relaxed.
They all lived in poverty and had various health problems. If they exercised a little more, they would easily become breathless and tired. But just now, they suddenly felt lighter and felt much more comfortable.
Lin Fuxia seemed to be thinking about something, but didn't say anything else. He came to the counter, poured out all the pills and checked them to make sure that every pill had the normal efficacy.
Then she wiped the dagger clean, divided a pill into four parts, and ate each one.
HP +1, +1, +1...
After being separated, the pills became smaller and easier to swallow, but the efficacy was also reduced. In the end, one pill could only restore 4 points of health.
That's strange too.
The efficacy of the medicine is so different. What if you chew the pill in your mouth and swallow it?
She actually endured the discomfort and chewed one, and finally recovered 3 points of blood.
I see. It turns out this pill has to be swallowed whole.
She took out the detoxification pill that she had swallowed and vomited before, and looked at it for a while. It was a pity that she could not quantify the efficacy of the detoxification pill, otherwise she could determine whether the efficacy of the detoxification pill was weakened after being cut.
She tried to squeeze the blood-replenishing pill tighter, which made it look a little smaller, but not by much, and it still made her throat choke.
After thinking about it, she asked Ron to get her an oven. She put the medicine in the oven and baked it. As the water evaporated, the pill shrank little by little. She pinched it from time to time to shape it. In the end, she got a pill that was at least one-third smaller than the previous one and it no longer looked so wet.
Now it's easier to swallow and the efficacy of the medicine has not changed.
She was overjoyed and made the same preparation for the remaining pills, but, huh?
Why are there only four pills in the fifth bottle?
Why are there only four pills in the sixth bottle?
Lin Fuxia was silent for a moment, then took the letter from Village Chief Bai again and confirmed that it said there were five pills in each bottle, for a total of fifty pills.
Where did the two missing pills go?
Either Village Chief Bai was lying, or someone secretly took it away.
The former is unlikely. There is no need for Village Chief Bai to lie. Even if he wanted to smuggle a few pills, he could just hide them when making the medicine. That way no one would find out, and there would be no need to put two less pills in the bottle.
So, it must have been stolen by someone later.
The first thing Lin Fuxia thought of was that someone had tampered with the post office.
Isn’t it said that the post office is the safest and most reliable?
She frowned as she thought about this while drying and roasting each pill. Finally, after making sure that doing so would not affect the efficacy of the medicine, she wrote a letter to Village Chief Bai.
Tell her to try to dry out the moisture in the medicinal mud before kneading the pills, and then roll the pills as round and compact as possible to make them look better. After the pills are formed, bake them briefly to make them less likely to fall apart.
Thinking of the handmade pill-rolling board she had seen before, she drew a blueprint and gave it to the old carpenter: "Can this be made?"
The old carpenter only took a few glances and said, "Yes."
Lin Fuxia said: "Then do this first, and be quick."
The old carpenter then worked quickly.
The structure of the pill rolling board is very simple, mainly composed of positioning columns and rolling strips. It can roll many pills at a time, and the pills rolled out are round, full and of uniform size. The thickness of the positioning columns determines the size of the pills.
The old carpenter had excellent skills and finished it quickly without seeking perfection.
Lin Fuxia was very satisfied. Before logging off, he ran to the post office and sent out the pill rolling board, the letter, and the instructions for using the pill rolling board.
Then she mentioned that something was missing from her package.
"The problem is definitely not with our post office," the staff member said confidently. "Whether we're receiving or sending mail, we always have at least two people on duty to supervise each other. We absolutely won't touch a customer's belongings, let alone open a package and steal something. You can rest assured about that. Did the sender put something less in the package before sending it and didn't notice?"
Lin Fuxia frowned, but didn't say anything else. He decided to wait and see next time.
Anyway, in the letter, she asked Village Chief Bai to pack the package tightly and mark it well next time he sends medicine. If someone tampered with it, it would be obvious.
Worried that Village Chief Bai didn't have enough money, she checked the game coin exchange rate. The game coins had dropped to 0.85, so she bought more than 10,000 copper coins and remitted them to Village Chief Bai.
After leaving the post office, the time to log off was approaching. Lin Fuxia suddenly thought of a question and called the game customer service.
This was the first time she took the initiative to contact the system customer service, and she didn't know whether the person behind this customer service was a so-called game company employee or something else.
She asked directly: After the player goes offline, the player's body will disappear in the game, right?
Game Customer Service: Yes.
Lin Fuxia: If a player logs off directly in front of an NPC, won’t the NPC feel strange?
Game Customer Service: ...Maybe.
Lin Fuxia raised an eyebrow. What does "maybe" mean? This customer service representative didn't seem to understand.
She asked again: If I go offline in the pharmacy, can I enjoy the buffs in the pharmacy during the time I am offline?
The game customer service didn’t reply for a while, and finally replied: It’s probably not possible at the moment.
It shouldn't be possible at the moment? But will it be possible in the future?
Lin Fuxia did not reply. After calculating the distance from here to the pharmacy, he gave up the idea of going back and found a deserted corner to log off.
She opened her eyes in the game box, took off her helmet, stretched her muscles, and soon received a text message from the bank.
"Your account ending in *** has completed a transaction of 100,000 yuan..."
Chuanhe acted quickly indeed. With the 100,000 yuan, her savings reached 200,000 yuan.
It's stable for now.
At this time, in the game, the players disappeared almost at the same time. Some of them disappeared directly in front of the NPC, while others, like Lin Fuxia, would find a safe place to log off.
The entire game world suddenly became half empty and became quiet.
The NPCs seemed to have gotten used to this scene.
"Alas, these otherworldly people are gone again."
"During the day, I think they're too noisy, but when they leave, it feels too quiet."
There are also NPCs with bad intentions who will play a prank by deliberately piling up all kinds of things in the place where a player is offline, occupying the entire place. When the player comes online tomorrow, they will appear directly on top of these things and throw him to death!
There are also NPCs who lock the house of a player who has logged off, and some NPCs set traps, hoping to capture and rob the player alive the next day.
However, such NPCs are a minority after all.
Most NPCs just wait for the nightfall and continue their lives silently in the deserted world after the players leave, while both the city-states and villages have quietly strengthened their vigilance.
Night is dangerous because that is when monsters appear.
"If only those aliens could stay here at night, they would rush to do the guard work." Someone sighed.
"Haha, it's only been a few days and you've already started to rely on those people?"
"Cheap and fearless labor, it would be a waste if we didn't use it."
…
At this time, the real world, the game company.
The customer service department received countless opinions and complaints during the day. Now that the players are offline, the employees cannot go off work yet. They need to organize and sort these complaints into categories.
Customer service representative Xiao Xin stretched, took a sip of milk tea and continued working.
A colleague came over and said, "Who are you going to show these to? I don't think the manager will even look at them. Besides, the game won't make any changes based on player complaints."
Xiao Xin shook her head: "I don't know, but I'll just sort it out anyway."
She opened each chat window and summarized the opinions of the players on the worksheet. One of the players asked whether he could still enjoy the buffs in the house after logging off.
Are there any buffs in the room?
She remembered this player. Before this sentence, the other party asked if the NPC would feel strange if the player disappeared in front of it.
NPC is just game data, how can it have emotions?
What a strange player.
She shook her head and filled in the suggestion directly, followed by the player's ID number.
This number is an internal game number, and no one knows who the player corresponding to the number is.
I was busy until nine o'clock in the evening, clicked submit to my superior, and left work.
"Finally, I can get off work."
"Hey, have you seen the online support for 'New World'? It continues to decline, with over two-thirds of netizens saying they won't play this game."
"Our company's stock price has been in the red."
“I don’t know how much longer I can do this job.”
While waiting for the elevator, Xiao Xin heard her colleagues talking and felt a little worried. If possible, she would like to work in the company forever.
It's a large company with a good working environment and good benefits. Although she often has to work overtime, her overtime pay is never delayed, and she is even willing to work overtime.
But if the "New World" project is crossed out, the company will definitely lay off the redundant employees...
With such worries, she walked into the elevator.
…
As the night deepened, the lights in the gaming company gradually dimmed.
No one knew that the compressed packages formed by the players' opinions were not sent to the superiors' work computers, but were directly delivered deep underground to the Empire State Building.
An extremely large computer is working busily here, with countless data streams flowing on the screen, and staff members are walking around not far away.
As the Empire's supreme AI and guardian, this computer calculates various data from across the Empire every day. The arrival of a compressed package went unnoticed.
In just a few seconds, the computer further screened and refined the contents of the compressed package and sent it to "New World".
Not long after, in the game, with blue sky and white clouds, and green grass, a white cat wearing a large gold chain inlaid with gems was lying lazily on a rock, sharpening its claws boredly, its eyes half-closed, and drowsy.
Suddenly, a package was thrown in front of him out of nowhere.
The white cat was stunned for a moment, then meowed and waved the thing away with one claw.
Here they come again! Here they come again! Why do these players have so many complaints? Even coming to his place, they're still talking so much nonsense. If you don't want to come, don't come. It's so annoying!
Soon after the package was waved away, it rolled back and stubbornly appeared in front of the white cat.
The white cat meowed and swatted away with another paw.
But soon, the package rolled back again, this time covered with a lot of mud.
The white cat stood up, huffed at the package in dissatisfaction, with its tail raised and a very fierce expression.
Get lost! I won't change anything! Even if my world isn't perfect, why should I change the rules for a bunch of outsiders?
Because he was unhappy, a few white scales appeared on his forehead. He raised his claws irritably and pressed the hard scales back.
Stop it, he wants soft fur! Get out of the way, scales!
But the package opened by itself and a piece of paper came out.
It says: The game has been online for several days, and you can consider making the truth about the game public.
The white cat sneered and turned his head. There are still so many people boycotting this game. It is impossible to make it public now?
This is a test for the players, and those who jump around too much deserve to be eliminated.
The paper seemed helpless, and then the words on it changed: People don’t know the truth, and the competition in this situation is not fair.
The white cat opened its mouth and uttered a clear, boyish voice, cold and ruthless: "But you also know that it's impossible for everyone to get an 'admission ticket'. Some people will always be eliminated. I just eliminated a group of people in advance using my own standards. I think it's fair."
The paper is silent, and then the handwriting changes again: you can consider extending the daily online time.
White Cat didn't object, but he didn't agree either. He was still not very welcome to these players and was somewhat passively resistant.
The words on the white paper no longer changed, but simply disappeared. Then the package was opened, and a long piece of paper filled with various opinions emerged.
The white cat rubbed its claws impatiently, and the scales on its head popped out again, but he pressed them back.
I really want to tear this paper into pieces.
But I'm a little curious about what's written on it.
After struggling for a long time, I went over to look through the message and found that the first one was actually written by a believer of his who particularly admired him.
You can take a look at this.
We still have to give face to believers.
Eh? Is this a problem after the player goes offline?
He checked again, meow, this believer is pretty good, he has already opened a shop, he is worthy of being his believer.
The white cat felt very proud, so he did not object to making new rules.
Yes, not changing the rules, but making new rules.
So the next day, when Lin Fuxia came online, he received a system notification, and it was a notification to the whole world.
The notice mainly contains three points:
1. From today onwards, there are two ways for players to leave the game: logging off and idling.
Going offline means the game remains the same as before. Hanging up means the player is offline, but their in-game body still exists. This can increase their online time, which can increase their experience points to a certain extent, and can also slowly restore their physical data.
For example, when you are offline, you still have low health. After a period of rest, when you go online, your health will be full.
But there is also a disadvantage of hanging up, that is, the body left in the game world may be attacked and in danger. Once the body dies, the number of deaths will also increase.
2. The maximum game time limit for players is still 12 hours per day, but players can choose their own game time. For example, if players want to enter the game during the day, that is completely fine.
3. The maximum number of times a player can die is 9 times. After the 9th death, the player cannot be resurrected, that is, he cannot log in to the game again.
When he saw the third point, Lin Fuxia was stunned.
She had once guessed what Village Chief Bai meant when he said "players only have nine lives", but she didn't expect that she actually guessed it right.
After all nine lives are lost, you can no longer log in to the game.
Now that the game has proactively explained this, players will begin to cherish their lives.
This bizarre rule should attract many people who don't play "New World" to join the game and experience for themselves what capital and confidence this game has that prevents players from logging in after dying nine times.
There have always been games that attract customers, but no operations to drive them away, which will undoubtedly arouse the public's curiosity.
The influx of a large number of new players will definitely increase the value of the game currency.
Lin Fuxia opened the game currency trading platform and found that the game currency had dropped to 0.83. Is it time to buy it?
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