Chapter 7
The text on the light screen in front of me changed rapidly, and settlement information was displayed one after another.
[Today's income details]:
[Small Indoor Hot Spring]: Receive 10 guests in total, earn 500 points
[Simple stall]: Sold 26 fresh meat buns, 44 rock sugar white fungus and snow pear soup, 30 coffee milk, and earned 1350 points
【Today's total turnover: 1850 points】
[Today's expenditure details]:
[Small Indoor Hot Spring Maintenance Cost]: -200 points
[Simple stall purchase cost]: -440 points
[Purchase bench (wood)*2]: -50 points
[Purchase rattan chair]: -10 points
【Total expenditure today: -700 points】
[Today's profit and loss: +1150 points]
“Swoosh—”
“Bang!”
A small firework exploded on the screen with brilliant special effects.
[Congratulations to the players for making a profit!] No facilities were recycled today, please keep up the good work! 】
Shu Mo felt that the tone of the system saying "no facilities were recycled" was like the host saying "last night was Christmas Eve" when playing Werewolf. It was obviously a cheerful tune, but when he thought about it carefully, he felt a chill in the calmness, which made people inexplicably creepy.
She shook her head and stopped thinking about it.
All in all, I should be able to get through this night safely. She also had a rough idea of the future business direction of the hot spring.
This is a monopoly industry. As long as you can attract customers, you will make money.
The biggest question is, how to attract customers?
According to the information Shu Mo just got from Song Wei and the others:
This game world has no Internet, no transportation such as trains and cars, and no friend or private messaging system. Information exchange depends on the most primitive word of mouth. Moreover, the coordinates of the hot spring are half a day's journey away from the nearest town, Guangming Town. Unless someone happens to get close to it while fighting monsters, normally no one would pass by.
Players in the game generally have a speed bonus. Even high-level players have to walk for most of the day. You can imagine how far the distance is.
Shu Mo had just looked through the [Building] module in the business mall, and the corners of his mouth twitched when he saw the sky-high-priced buildings and facilities in the list.
[Small Single Room]: 500 points/room
[Small double room]: 600 points/room
[Junior Family Suite]: 800 points/room
[Small single room (with indoor hot spring)]: 800 points/room
[Vending Machine]: 1,000 points/machine
[Sulfur Foot Bath]: 1500 points/seat
[Mobile stall]: 800 points/each
[Small restaurant]: 3,000 points/room
…
The bedrooms have various decoration styles to choose from, including Chinese, Japanese, European, etc. You can also increase the luxury by arranging bamboo forests and other landscapes outdoors...
But without exception, you have to pay extra.
Shu Mo chose to start from the cheapest one. The picture showed the simplest log style - as plain and simple as her cabin.
Shu Mo: “…”
Who would have thought that this decoration style that Song Wei and her friends felt was so warm was actually just because she was poor?
What’s even more outrageous is that each of these numbers is followed by a big red stamp: On Sale.
So this price is still a discount price.
A line of small print next to it states that in the early stages of the game, in order to maintain the player experience, all items in the mall will be sold at a discount.
As for the original price and when the novice discount period will end, all of this will be notified by the system in the future.
Shu Mo felt a black screen in front of his eyes when he saw this.
——She thought she had made a big deal today, but it turned out that she couldn’t even afford two double rooms!
If you make money purely from passers-by like this, how long will it take to upgrade?
She had a bad feeling.
Although Zhao Yu and the others repeatedly assured her before they left that they would advertise for her as soon as they returned to the town, Shu Mo felt that the effect of such publicity would not be optimistic.
Apart from relatives and friends, who would trust Zhao Yu and the others' words 100%?
If you don't have 100% trust, how can you walk for most of the day to verify the authenticity?
Not to mention the danger of encountering monsters in the wild, the time and energy cost of going back and forth is high enough.
Shu Mo has a headache.
You shouldn't think about such worrying issues before going to bed. Anyway, the operating costs for the next few days have been earned enough. Shu Mo made up his mind to run the business for two more days and see how it goes.
But then again…where was she staying tonight?
Shu Mo stretched and his expression froze. He looked around and his eyes fell on the door behind the front desk.
She had always thought it was a storage room, but when she thought about it carefully, there was a backpack setting in the game and there was no need for additional storage space.
Shu Mo opened the door.
There was indeed a small bedroom inside.
The space is more than ten square meters and is clean and warm.
There is not much furniture in the room. There is a single bed, a set of wooden tables and chairs, and a round white fluffy carpet under the bed. There is a skylight above the head, and the light from the chandelier is bright, so you don’t feel cramped at all due to the small space.
Although it is close to the hot springs, the environment is not humid. The humidity in the air is just right, and the hot spring is like a natural floor heating and humidifier.
“This is so comfortable!”
Thinking of the small, shabby single room she rented near the company for her internship, Shu Mo couldn't help but sigh with emotion.
If it weren't for the business pressure, she would really think she was here on vacation.
Her parents died in a car accident when she was very young, and Shu Mo was raised by her grandparents. After the two old people passed away one after another, Shu Mo had no relatives around him. During college, I spent every day and night in the library, spent very little time in the dormitory, and my relationship with my roommates was only lukewarm.
It was an unexpected sudden death, and Shu Mo couldn't think of anyone who would feel sad for her.
Thinking about it this way, there doesn't seem to be anything wrong with time travel.
Shu Mo simply washed up and lay down on the soft bed.
Her eyelids grew heavier and heavier, and as she became drowsy, she vaguely realized—
This seemed to be the earliest day she had slept in recent times.
*
They stayed up too late the day before, and finally found a solution to the Shadow Knight's silence, so they felt relieved. So the next day, Chen Hui and his friends slept until almost ten o'clock before slowly getting up and setting off.
"Have you all rested well? Let's take down the boss in one fell swoop today and go back to town to stay tonight."
Chen Hui had already calculated the time and said confidently.
As soon as the words came out, the team members' eyes lit up.
After not seeing their families for three or four days, everyone wanted to go back early, not to mention that they were foreseeing a great harvest this time!
"Pack up and set off!" Chen Hui ordered.
At the same time, in the Shadow Knight's territory.
On the open plain, the clanging sound of swords clashing could be heard from time to time, as a group of people were fighting fiercely with the boss.
The team looked extremely miserable and many of them were injured. On the other hand, the boss Shadow Knight, wearing black armor, riding a white horse, holding a sharp sword with a flashing cold light, looks majestic.
It suddenly reined in its horse, pointed the long sword in its hand to the sky, and raised its front hooves high.
Someone was sharp-eyed and recognized that this was the pre-swing of a skill, "Watch out! It's using that move again!"
The next second, the Shadow Knight let out an indistinct roar, and suddenly shot a beam of black sword light at a player in a white robe who was muttering something in the distance.
The priest was halfway through chanting a healing spell when he realized something was wrong and hurriedly rolled to the side.
But it was too late.
The sword light shot into the priest's brow, and a sinister sickle symbol suddenly appeared above his head.
“Oh my god!!”
The bald man in the lead cursed.
He is the captain of this team, Hou Qingping. t passed by here with his team early this morning and accidentally discovered the territory of the Shadow Knight.
A few days ago in Guangming Town, there were some big players who were buying up Shadow Knight's materials at high prices, and today they ran into them.
What kind of luck is this? !
The team was ecstatic and immediately fired the boss.
But after fighting for such a long time, three people in the team had been silenced, and the Shadow Knight's health was less than half gone.
The bosses in the game will not be weakened after being injured. They will only become stronger and stronger until their last drop of blood is shed. On the contrary, our side lost two mages and a priest, and our combat effectiveness was greatly reduced.
"Damn it! Retreat!"
Hou Qingping roared unwillingly.
"Stop hitting me!"
"Everyone, get out of the battle range!!"
Everyone retreated tumbling and crawling.
[You have left the Shadow Knight's territory]
Leaving the boss's territory means automatically leaving the battle.
When all players leave the battle, the boss will start to recover health automatically.
——That speed is not comparable to the player's automatic reply speed.
Everyone watched helplessly as the health bar that had been reduced with great difficulty instantly recovered at an astonishing speed.
The Shadow Knight sheathed his sword, shook off his blood-red cloak, turned around, and rode away in a dashing manner.
Hou Qingping gritted his teeth unwillingly and commanded the team members, "Forget it, let's go. We can't take it down alone."
"Damn it! If it weren't for that silencing skill..." someone spat in anger.
Hou Qingping's face was gloomy. "Go back to the city and recruit a priest with advanced dispelling skills."
"Those priests are not cheap!" said another team member, half worried and half angrily, "Knowing that we have found the boss, they will definitely rip us off. Bah, I feel sick when I see their condescending attitude!"
"What else can we do?" Hou Qingping was also very upset and scolded, "The repellent powder is so expensive, you're going to pay for it?"
When the man heard this, he immediately shut up in anger.
If you use dispelling powder, you can't stop it without at least 2,000 points.
But hiring a senior priest for a day would cost about one thousand.
That group of senior priests probably knew how valuable their skills were. They boasted of having $2.58 million each and even set up a Senior Priests Association! Relying on their monopoly, the prices are getting higher and higher. The players are angry and helpless, but they still have to treat them like masters.
So when they heard that they were going to look for this group of people, they all had a sour face.
Hou Qingping temporarily gave up his travel plan and decided to return to the town as quickly as possible.
"Captain, look over there."
Halfway through the journey, someone secretly pulled Hou Qingping and gestured for him to look in a certain direction.
"Is that Chen Hui's team?"
Hou Qingping took a quick glance and saw a human figure flickering in the dense forest in the distance.
It really is them.
Chen Hui's team seemed to be busy on their way and did not notice the movement here.
"The direction they are heading seems to be heading towards the Shadow Knight, right?"
Someone was startled.
"Captain, what should we do?"
Hou Qingping raised his eyebrows.
He and Chen Hui had a conflict over a transaction in the past, and they have been at odds ever since.
The daily activities of the two teams are all around Guangming Town. Their strength is similar, so naturally they compete secretly.
In terms of equipment, level and team strength, Hou Qingping was a treacherous and cunning person. He did many dirty things such as secretly tripping up Chen Hui and snatching the boss.
Should I sneak up on them...and attack them when they're in the middle of a fight?
The thought flashed through his mind, but then he thought again, his side was in extremely bad shape, and by the time Chen Hui was forced to withdraw from the battle, it was hard to say who would win.
Had to give up.
Hou Qingping snorted coldly and said contemptuously, "Oh, you don't know your own limitations."
As the saying goes, your opponent is the one who knows you best.
Hou Qingping was fully aware of the strength of Chen Hui's team. After a quick observation, he discovered that their team only had the weak pretty boy pastor named Xiao He, so he became even more disdainful.
"Just because of them, they want to kill the boss?"
"Never mind, let's go!"
"Go back to the city and hire a priest, and come and kill this Shadow Knight tomorrow!"
Then I can sell the materials at a high price, exchange them for equipment, and show off in front of Chen Hui and the others...
Hou Qingping grinned, revealing a mouthful of yellow teeth with pride.
At his command, the team set off together.
Hou Qingping walked in front with his head held high, but suddenly Chen Hui's profile, which had just flashed by, appeared in his mind.
I always feel that the guy seems to have become a little whiter... Is it a lighting problem?
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