Chapter 4
Shu Mo thought for two seconds and immediately understood Song Wei's thoughts.
The experience gained from killing those two monsters directly allowed her level to jump from Lv.1 to Lv.5, which shows how powerful they are.
Looking at the shocked expressions of Song Wei and Zhao Yu just now, it is likely that the giant beetles and eye bats would be difficult to deal with even for experienced players like them.
So, Song Wei thinks it is safer to camp next to the hot spring, and even if she encounters danger, she can run to the wooden house for refuge?
——Song Wei treats her as a god-level player and is ready to curry favor with her.
Shu Mo figured it all out in a flash, but still smiled and said, "The snowfield outside this hotel is not my territory, anyone can camp here. I have no objection to you coming over and taking care of my business."
Unexpectedly, she agreed so readily. Song Wei felt a little embarrassed.
If there weren't several seriously injured members in the team, she wouldn't have rashly made such a request. She felt bad enough in her heart. Song Wei said repeatedly: "The hot spring water just now is really good. I will promote your hot spring to them when I go back. They will definitely come to bathe!"
Shu Mo smiled and said, "That's great."
*
The game world always gets dark at nine o'clock. There was less than an hour left, so Song Wei and Zhao Yu hurriedly left the cabin.
Thanks to Shu Mo's hot spring that restored their strength, the two of them walked back much faster than when they came, and soon arrived back at the camp.
Several simple tents were set up under a cedar forest, with a glowing crystal standing in the center to serve as a lighting source.
This is their camp.
Having just come out of the cozy and unique cabin, they both felt it was a bit hard to look at the simple camp in front of them.
Surrounding the crystal stone, several people sat dejectedly, all of them covered in dust and dirt.
Hearing their footsteps, the middle-aged man in the lead immediately looked over and said, "You're finally back. Did you find... huh?"
He was halfway through his words when he looked at Song Wei and Zhao Yu who were running over, his expression turning confused.
"you……"
"Weiwei, Xiaoyu?" Another team member recognized the two and exclaimed, "Why do you seem so different after going out?"
She put down the can she had just opened, walked over, grabbed Zhao Yu's hand and looked at it carefully, "Oh! You are really different! It's like you have become a different person. When I saw you guys coming towards me just now, I didn't dare to recognize you."
The middle-aged man also stood up, frowned and asked: "What's going on?"
The player panel of "Arctic Cold Apocalypse" can only be viewed by the players themselves. The captain cannot see their physical bars that are glowing green at this time, but he can detect the abnormality just from the status of the two.
After a day of fighting, their entire team was running out of energy, so he specially sent out two members, Song Wei and Zhao Yu, who were in relatively good condition.
Seeing that they hadn't returned yet, the man was worried that the two of them might have fainted outside due to exhaustion. Just when he was about to send someone to look for them, he saw Song Wei and Zhao Yu running back. They looked even more energetic than them who had rested for half a day!
What is going on? !
"Captain, guess what we encountered?" Zhao Yu said excitedly.
She is young and has a lively personality. The captain is accustomed to her sudden and unexpected behavior. But when he turns around, he finds that the usually steady Song Wei is also showing unconcealable excitement.
team leader:"?"
He asked cautiously, "Have you found a suitable campsite?"
Zhao Yu: "No! We found a hot spring!!"
--spa!
After these words were spoken, the remaining team members surrounding the crystal were stunned for a few seconds, and then stood up.
Even a seriously injured man lying in the tent struggled to crawl out.
The captain's expression was blank for a few seconds, then he suppressed his shock and said, "Xiaoyu, this is not a joke. You are still young, don't you have any idea about hot springs? Not just any pool of water surrounded by rocks can be called a hot spring."
"Yeah! After the game comes, even the sun feels cold on my body, how can there be hot springs?"
"Didn't they say that all the active volcanoes there are frozen? Even if there are natural hot springs, they would have been frozen into ice lumps long ago!"
The remaining team members talked at once, and no one believed it was true.
They argued for a few seconds, and suddenly remembered that there was one person left, so their eyes all fell on Song Wei.
"Weiwei, you speak."
"You've been out for so long, have you found a suitable camping site?"
"What's going on with the hot springs? Maybe Xiaoyu saw it wrong?"
Song Wei was silent.
If she hadn't seen it with her own eyes and soaked in the hot spring herself, she would probably be like this group of team members, unable to believe it, right?
Thinking of this, Song Wei shook her head and said word by word: "It's true."
Team members: “……?!”
"But it's not a natural hot spring, it's a hot spring hotel." Song Wei added, "Zhao Yu and I have already bathed there. The proof is that our frostbite has disappeared and our strength has returned to full."
She held out her hand to show everyone.
Everyone has noticed their changes a long time ago. A female team member directly held her hand. She was surprised by the smooth and soft touch under her hand. Suddenly, she understood the words in the Book of Songs: "Hands are as tender as catkins, and skin is as white as cream."
The other male team member blushed when he saw this.
How come he hadn't noticed that Song Wei was so pretty after spending so much time together?
Seeing that everyone was wavering, Song Wei hurriedly said, "I came back to say, should we move the camp near the hot spring?"
As soon as she mentioned this matter, some people came to their senses.
They exchanged glances, and someone said politely, "Weiwei, it's not that we don't trust you... If you said you found a cave, we would move there without hesitation. But it's getting dark soon, and the light is dim. It's inconvenient for Xiao He and the others to move around. It's not convenient for us to go through so much trouble to find a hot spring hotel. This..."
After all that talk, I still don’t believe that hot springs really exist.
Although I don't know what the point of Song Wei and the others lying is, the game has been going on for ten years, and the concept that all warm things have disappeared has long been deeply rooted in people's minds. How can it be shaken so easily?
Many people felt that it was inappropriate to run out when it was almost dark for a rumor that seemed true but not false.
Everyone hesitated.
Zhao Yu, who had been silent the whole time, sneered, "If you don't believe me, forget it. It's your own loss if you don't make love to me."
She said casually, "That store is amazing. When we were soaking in the hot spring just now, we just put our clothes in the locker for a while, and the locker actually cleaned and heated up the clothes. Now that I'm wearing them, I feel warm all over."
After Zhao Yu finished speaking, he hid the lower half of his face into the high collar of his winter coat.
The remaining warmth enveloped her, and Zhao Yu couldn't help but smile happily, muttering to herself, "It still smells good. Wearing such warm clothes, I should be able to sleep well tonight."
The team members were stunned.
In the ice and snow, such a description is too destructive. Even a few people who were firmly unbelieving could not help but feel a little hesitant.
The captain gritted his teeth.
"Forget it, pack your bags and let's go!"
*
On the other side, in the cabin.
It would take a while for the two to lead the team back, and Shu Mo was thinking about what to do during this time.
One of the three items initially delivered by the system has not yet been placed. Shu Mo dragged the last [simple stall] out of his backpack and found an empty space next to the front desk to set it up.
There was a loud bang as something heavy fell to the ground, and a glass cabinet about 60 cm high appeared in the corner of the front desk.
The shelf was empty. Shu Mo looked up and, just like the cash register, a panel popped up immediately.
【Types of goods that can be placed: 3】
[Currently owned product types: 0]
[Unlockable items: milk (hot/cold), coffee milk (hot/cold), ginger cola (hot), oolong tea (hot), fruit and vegetable juice (cold)...tea eggs, meat buns, baked sweet potatoes, white fungus and lotus seed soup, fermented rice dumplings...]
The last column of products to be unlocked, when clicked, is a list with rich variety.
How rich is it?
The different flavors of milk alone take up two or three rows, including strawberry, wheat, coffee, chocolate... There are also many kinds of fillings for the buns to choose from, fresh meat, crab roe, shepherd's purse, custard, and red bean paste. There are sweet, salty, meat, and vegetarian options, the variety is dizzying.
The progress bar seems to be endless.
Shu Mo swiped a few times and felt that he was facing the most comprehensive food supply market in the world.
——And these are just the “snacks” that can be sold in the thermal cabinet according to the system definition.
Shu Mo couldn't help but fantasize that if the business prospers in the future, she could open a restaurant here... Wouldn't that mean that all the imaginable food in the world would be put into the unlockable range by the system?
This is so luxurious!
As a player, naturally I hope the game content is as rich as possible. But looking at the list at this moment, Shu Mo felt a little bit of happy worry——
It is really difficult to choose three from such a huge amount of products.
Shu Mo looked at those mouth-watering pictures and wailed in his heart.
The fresh meat buns in the picture have thin skin and large fillings. The soft skin is steaming hot. When you break it open horizontally, you can see the full meat filling wrapped in gravy, which seems to be about to overflow.
Not to mention the customers, even she was drooling just looking at it.
Shu Mo thought for a moment and made a decision.
[Are you sure you want to unlock the items "Coffee Milk", "Fresh Meat Buns", and "Rock Sugar, Tremella and Snow Pear Soup"? 】
The same drinks, the same snacks, plus a soup that can fill you up a little, both sweet and salty tastes will be satisfied.
Shu Mo pressed OK, and the system popped up a new page.
[Please select the purchase quantity of each product (range 0~20)]
It was then that Shu Mo realized that although the simple stall had no maintenance costs, the goods purchased actually had a cost price.
...But if you think about it carefully, it seems reasonable.
She felt a little pain.
final,
Shu Mo sold a bottle of coffee milk at 10 points, which cost 3 points, and made a net profit of 7 points.
The cost of a fresh meat package is 5 points, the price is 15 points, and the net profit is 10 points;
A bowl of Tremella and Pear Soup costs 5 points, sells for 15 points, and has a net profit of 10 points.
Just now, while Song Wei and the others were taking a hot spring bath, Shu Mo had already learned a lot of basic knowledge. As she had guessed before, the living standards of the players here were quite poor. All food must be exchanged from the mall, and the types of food sold in the mall are extremely monotonous, basically canned food of various flavors, which makes people lose their appetite just by looking at it.
The players' bodies have been modified, so they won't get sick if they eat these foods for a long time, but they will definitely suffer.
Shu Mo estimated that as long as the prices of his products were not too high, he would have no trouble selling them.
——After all, in the end times, eating and drinking is only one aspect of survival. Equipment, supplies, and weapons also cost a lot of points. No matter how scarce snacks are, they will still be abandoned if it affects survival.
Since he didn't have much savings, Shu Mo bought five of each item.
The 100 points I just earned were instantly spent 65.
Press confirm, and the product appears out of thin air, exuding an enticing fragrance.
——The glass display cabinet also has heat preservation function, and each column is a separate grid, so there is no need to worry about the food on it getting cold or tainting the taste.
Shu Mo clapped his hands in satisfaction and looked around his small wooden house, which he had just begun to see in its entirety.
The glass cabinets were filled to the brim, filling up the area near the front desk and making the entire hall seem even more spacious.
Shu Mo was thinking that once she had enough money, she would buy a bench, a fireplace, and a stereo.
Benches are available for guests to rest. The longer you stay in the hall, the more likely you are to buy food and drinks from the stalls.
The crackling sound of wood burning in the fireplace is natural white noise that helps to relax your nerves. Moreover, when seeing the fire, people will reflexively feel warm, which is very consistent with her cabin and can also add some atmosphere.
As for the sound system, Shu Mo planned to hang it in an inconspicuous place on the outer wall of the cabin and play some soothing music to attract visitors.
...After all, which game’s safe zone doesn’t have its own exclusive BGM?
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