Chapter 28
As it approached twelve o'clock, Jiang Qing and his family reluctantly came down from their guest room on the fourth floor, preparing to check out at the front desk before dinner.
Judging from Shu Mo's attitude yesterday, it was unknown when they would be able to move in again. Thinking of this, the steps of the family of three became extremely heavy. Haohao has been crying since last night, and was only quiet for a while during breakfast. At this moment, he was holding his mother's hand, still sobbing, and was walking down step by step while being scolded in a low voice by Jiang Qing.
The three of them slowly went down to the first floor, only to see a circle of people standing around the front desk, but no sign of Shu Mo.
"Why are they all stuck here? Where's the boss?" Jiang Qing glanced at the empty front desk.
"The boss seemed to be out for something. He said he would be back at noon." Chen Hui moved aside, revealing the sign he was blocking.
He caught a glimpse of the room key in Fu Yiming's hand and looked surprised: "Are you here to check out too?"
"Yeah." Fu Yiming responded listlessly, "I forgot to apply for an extension of stay yesterday..."
He felt remorseful whenever he mentioned this incident.
If he could go back in time, he would definitely book a month in advance.
No wonder.
Chen Hui didn't show it on his face, but he felt a little emotional deep down.
For players of Jiang Qing and Fu Yiming's level, as long as they work a little harder, the income from their daily monster hunting can be enough to cover the expenses of food and lodging for a family of three in the hotel. In other words, if they wanted, they could live here with their children forever.
Perhaps it is precisely because their attitude is too relaxed that they make such mistakes.
It was a bit awkward for the two groups to just wait here, so they simply discussed their future plans.
——It was inconvenient for the couple to camp with their child, so they decided to return to Guangming Town to wait for news from Shu Mo. Chen Hui's team was going to kill monsters nearby, so it didn't matter where they set up their tents. They had chosen a spot to camp on the snowy plain near the inn early this morning.
Thinking about being able to have a hot meal after the battle every day gives me something to look forward to that day.
"I really don't want to leave..." Fu Yiming and his son wailed together.
The players passing by all showed understanding expressions.
There were also a few who failed to get a room themselves and were secretly gloating over the situation, but after noticing the identity of the speaker, they all stopped smiling.
If you can avoid provoking such elite players, then don’t provoke them.
As they were talking, the wooden door of the hotel was pushed open. Everyone turned around and saw Shu Mo walking in hurriedly.
She brushed off the snow on her body, raised her eyes and saw a group of people surrounding the front desk. Her eyes then swept to the clock on the wall, and she felt a little relieved.
11:54, not too late.
Everyone made way for Shu Mo to enter.
She took off her winter clothes as she walked and casually draped them over the back of the rattan chair. Under the heating in the house, the traces of snowflakes on the fabric quickly shrank until they disappeared completely. Shu Mo's cheeks, which were hurt by the cold wind, also turned a little red.
It’s still more comfortable in the hotel.
She rubbed her frozen hands, stamped her feet twice without saying a word, and sighed in her heart.
Let's go take a hot spring bath later when there are fewer people around.
The next second, he looked up and saw Fu Yiming, who had a sad face, and Jiang Qing and his wife, who were silently looking depressed, "Do you want to check out?"
"Yeah." Fu Yiming handed over the key sullenly.
Someone behind him shouted in a very tactless manner, "We need to check in", and his face suddenly became even worse.
Jiang Qing hesitated, "Boss, what you said before about sending flying monsters to the town..."
Shu Mo took the key and weighed it in his hand. "Oh, I just happen to have a free monster on hand. It should replace me to travel frequently between the town and the hot springs in the future. The news of the hotel renovation and upgrade will be posted on the bulletin board as soon as possible. Please pay more attention to it when the time comes."
She did not control the volume, and her words were heard by all the waiting players in the hall, and discussions broke out.
"Post it on the bulletin board? That's a good thing. I won't have to make a wasted trip like today."
"Whether you can grab it depends on luck."
"Even if we see the message at the same time, if someone walks faster, the room will be snatched by them first. Then won't we never be able to book it?"
The last person to speak was tall and strong, with a voice like a bell. As soon as he spoke, he immediately grabbed everyone's attention.
He looked dissatisfied and shouted, "Boss, this is not fair, right?"
Many people had strange expressions when they heard this.
If you run slowly, what does it have to do with your boss?
Do you want the boss to not post the notice for your sake, so that we can all try our luck?
When he looked again, he saw that the person who was speaking was from Song Si's team, and he knew what was going on.
Most of the senior players in the town know each other, and Song Si's team has such a distinctive style that everyone naturally has a deep impression of them.
Sometimes when news of a boss's appearance spreads in the town, and all the teams go to grab it together, they are always the one that falls behind because they are too slow. After doing this so many times, the team members have developed a conditioned reflex and get angry when they hear that someone wants to "steal" something.
"If you're worried about not being able to get the news in the first place, just hire someone to keep an eye on it every day. There are plenty of people in this town who don't have a fixed income and are eager to do this kind of work, which doesn't require much effort. What's the point of causing trouble for the boss?"
Jiang Qing suddenly spoke up in the silence, and said calmly: "At the current market price, you can hire children and the elderly to do a day's work at around 10 o'clock. The high-level player team can afford this, right?"
She seemed calm and composed, but the powerful aura surrounding her could not be ignored.
Realizing Jiang Qing's identity, the sturdy man hesitated and was about to argue, but he noticed the little boy she was holding out of the corner of his eye and choked.
He suddenly remembered the key that Fu Yiming had just handed over.
Chen Hui smiled and said, "They brought their children with them and set out a day in advance. You can't walk slower than a child, right?"
"I'm reluctant to spend money and too lazy to leave early. No wonder I can't get a room."
There were a few laughs from the crowd and the strong man's face turned red.
He also knew that he was being unreasonable. Instead of allocating rooms based on first-come, first-served basis, was he going to let everyone fight to decide who had the right to stay in a room?
But it is really hard to get a room in this hot spring hotel. Because of the job assigned by the system, he is always one step behind others. No matter how he thinks about it, he feels unhappy.
Shu Mo spoke at this time: "This arrangement is for the convenience of most people. As for the problem of players not being able to grab a room because of the different lengths of time it takes to travel, I will think about it carefully and expect to make some adjustments soon."
Shu Mo is calm and gentle without losing his aura. Compared with Jiang Qing, it has more power to soothe people.
When the sturdy man heard that she was really going to adjust her business strategy because of his complaint, he felt embarrassed. He stammered and thanked her, then apologized in a low voice after a while.
Shu Mo smiled, and seeing that it was already twelve o'clock, she asked Mo Bai to go upstairs to replenish today's lunch according to the menu. She stayed behind the counter, signaled Jiang Qing and his family to stay, and then quickly checked in the remaining guests.
When everything was done, she looked at Jiang Qing and said, "Thank you for what you did just now."
"In fact, even if I don't speak up, you will have a way to deal with her, right?" Jiang Qing admired Shu Mo's neither humble nor arrogant attitude. He looked at her with tenderness in his eyes, as if he was looking at his own little sister.
——A little sister who is even stronger than her.
She remembered Shu Mo's last words, "There will be some adjustments soon," and asked curiously, "Have you figured out what to do?"
"Well, it just needs some testing." Shu Mo responded vaguely.
On the way back, she was thinking about how to change the hotel's future business model. At this time, she already had a basic outline in her mind, but she still needed to test the feasibility.
In fact, she was not unable to understand the grievances felt by Song Si and his group.
The initial profession in "Apocalypse of Frost" is automatically assigned by the system, and it costs a huge price to change profession later, so most people play the very first profession.
Players assigned to summoners have to bear more feeding costs, players assigned to heavy armor will have lower agility, players assigned to priests will find it difficult to protect themselves in the wild... These disadvantages are not the result of players' free choice, and it is normal for them to feel unfair.
It's just that it's really ungentlemanly of you to vent your dissatisfaction by making a fuss about this matter like the strong man did.
"Boss, are you asking us to stay?" Fu Yiming smelled the aroma of food wafting from upstairs and felt a little eager to try, but he also felt that Shu Mo had something else to say, so he had to suppress his urge to ask her.
Shu Mo came back to his senses and pondered for a moment, "You don't have to rush to leave after dinner. I'm going to expand the hotel this afternoon, and there should be rooms available by then."
Jiang Qing & Fu Yiming: “!!”
It turned out that Shu Mo deliberately kept them here for this reason. The two of them were immediately happy and grateful.
Fu Yiming was so annoyed by Haohao's nagging that night that he said thank you several times when he heard what Haohao said.
Shu Mo smiled.
In light of upcoming changes to the hotel, the expansion will increase the number of premium suites. The group of players gathered on the snowfield may not be willing to choose such expensive rooms. Before new guests see the notice board, there is a high probability that several of the built rooms will be empty.
In that case, why not allow those who want to live there to live?
The reason why Fu Yiming's family was kept was, firstly, to express gratitude to Jiang Qinggang for speaking for her, and secondly, to reduce losses.
Turning his head and seeing the joyful backs of Fu Yiming and Haohao as they left, Shu Mo lowered his head and smiled.
Everyone is happy.
The guests who had just gathered in the hall went upstairs to have lunch. She had nothing to do, so she bought a stack of white paper from the mall.
According to Jiang Qing and his colleagues, an A4-sized white paper would be charged 100 points for posting on the bulletin board for one day.
Therefore, most people would rather write the words smaller and squeeze them together than be willing to stick such a large piece of paper.
Shu Mo recalled the huge wooden board he saw when he passed by the market. Most of it was covered with palm-sized cardboard, which was pasted densely with almost no gaps. It was impossible to count how many cards there were at a glance.
She secretly clicked her tongue.
Just this piece of wood standing here brings in tens of thousands of points every day. There must be a huge force supporting it behind the bulletin board.
You know, Guangming Town has a mayor.
Residents live in the town and need to pay taxes on time to hire guards and build public facilities. The flow of this tax money is entirely coordinated and arranged by the mayor and his staff. There is a lot of profit to be made in the process, which is definitely more profitable than if she worked hard to open a hotel.
Bulletin boards are also part of public facilities.
When it was first established, in order to attract people to watch and obtain "advertising" income, the bulletin board also set up a special page to summarize daily small town news and world news brought by travelers. This page still exists today.
With the advent of games, people’s past entertainment life and technology have been destroyed. Now even printing newspapers has become difficult, and bulletin boards have replaced the function of newspapers.
There is not much other entertainment in the town, and many residents go to the wooden board every day when they have nothing to do. When people are idle to a certain extent, they can figure out even the smallest words.
Many people who post information do not have enough money, and some may have a flash of inspiration and do the opposite. They may make the notices they post extremely difficult to recognize, or provide an easy-to-solve riddle, and mix it in with other unremarkable messages, so that they can be noticed more easily.
But Shu Mo was not prepared to do that.
The process of posting a notice is a two-way screening between the message publisher and the receiver.
For example, the Senior Pastors Association has its advertisements posted on bulletin boards for years, and they are deliberately made large and conspicuous. Why? The purpose is to show their strong financial resources to all the people passing by, and behind this financial resources are the successfully completed transactions and the strength of senior priests.
In addition to the content of the advertisement, the fact that "we can afford such an advertisement" itself is also a message conveyed to consumers.
Therefore, if Shu Mo wants to advertise himself in the future, he must do it in a high-profile manner.
People who spend a long time in front of the bulletin board to pass the time by solving riddles and reading small print are most likely players who do not have a stable job. These people are not her main target customer group.
For truly wealthy players, such as Jiang Qing and Fu Yiming, time is money, every minute and every second is precious, and they will not waste it on such things.
Even if they go to see the bulletin board, they will most likely just glance at it quickly, extract the important information and leave.
To attract these players, the advertising must be high-profile enough.
Shu Mo's thinking is extremely clear.
She lowered her head and wrote down the basic information about the hot spring on the A4 paper in her hand.
[Nuannuan Hot Spring officially opened! 】
【Provide accommodation, hot springs, foot baths, and catering services】
【Address: ...Coordinates】
She wrote the word "hot spring" in a big and eye-catching shape. The bottom line has small print listing the price of several delicacies.
A fresh meat bun is 15 points, a skewer of oden is 5 points, and so on.
After finishing writing, she felt that the black and white words looked too monotonous, so she used her lifelong artistic skills to draw a colorful hot spring pool next to it - blue-green spring water, gray boulders, and used green ink to decorate the side with a few lush green bamboos.
And a big steaming bun.
The straightforward aesthetic is comparable to that of a primary school student making a hand-written newspaper.
After finishing the painting, Shu Mo admired himself and put the paper aside.
Then he took out an A6-sized piece of paper - about the size of an adult's palm - and solemnly wrote four words at the beginning.
——【Recruitment Notice】
Recruitment is different from advertising. It targets people who are short of money and have time, so it doesn’t need to be too big.
Although he has more money now, 100 points is still money. He should save as much as possible. Shu Mo doesn't want to be seen as a sucker.
There are a lot of people who are short of money in Guangming Town, most of whom are players who cannot go out to fight due to age or physical reasons. Seeing a job opportunity is like a hungry wolf seeing meat - this is very similar to the world in the past.
Shu Mo knew that he would not have trouble recruiting people, so he did not spend much time on word choice and sentence structure. To avoid wasting time, he wrote all the requirements clearly and concisely.
Having looked for so many companies and submitted so many resumes, Shu Mo couldn't be more adept at writing this.
A job posting was soon released.
The general content is that Nuannuan Hot Spring is recruiting three employees to be responsible for front desk reception, cashier, and restaurant catering services.
The workplace provides food and lodging, but due to the long distance, accommodation is compulsory, and the daily wage is set at 50 points/day - this is just the starting salary, and does not include various benefits and subsequent salary increase system.
At the same time, she specifically emphasized that the food in the store was quite good.
It is difficult to find a stable job in the apocalypse. For example, the girl she met before who worked at the front desk of a hotel in Guangming Town only earned 30 points a day. Shu Mo's 50 points a day also includes food and lodging, and the food is top-notch. She believes that she is not mistreating her employees.
The only employee, Mo Bai, enjoys his work every day.
When we have more employees and introduce a shift system, it won’t be so busy anymore.
Shu Mo checked the job notice one last time to confirm that no important information such as the address was missing, and his eyes fell on the bold words on the bottom line.
【Interested applicants please complete your personal profile as soon as possible and indicate your home address. 】
[Note: The paper must be palm-sized, and your resume must be handed to the white pompom hovering above the bulletin board before 17:00. 】
"Done." She curled her lips slightly and summoned white fluff.
More than six hundred pompoms suddenly appeared in the hall. Shu Mo handed the two pieces of paper to the shiny white fluffy cat and told it to keep them safe.
"Stick the two pieces of paper on the blank space of the huge wooden board in front of Guangming Town Market, got it?" She said, and then instructed someone to bring back the resume.
According to Jiang Qing, when the summoned beast posts advertisements on behalf of the summoner, the money will be deducted directly from her personal account, so there is no need to worry about any other troubles.
The shining white fluff nodded vigorously, and its snow-white, round body, which had no visible edges and corners, swayed back and forth.
It silently called over seven other white fluffs. The fluff that stretched out from their bodies was like two furry little claws. Each of the white fluffs grabbed a corner of the paper and flew up steadily with Shu Mo's recruitment notice and hotel advertisement.
Then there was a flash of light and it disappeared in mid-air.
Mo Bai said before that the mana consumed by teleportation depends on the mass of the object. The weight of a few pieces of paper had almost negligible impact on the entire group of white fluff. Shu Mo estimated that they would be able to reach Guangming Town in half an hour.
It was not yet half past one in the afternoon.
...I wonder how many resumes she can receive in the nearly four hours until five o'clock in the afternoon?
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