Chapter 9
Shu Mo never expected that he wouldn't meet a single customer on the second day of opening. He fell silent for a moment.
It's normal if you think about it carefully.
The daily customer flow is a very mysterious thing in itself, not to mention that she was so stubborn as to open a store in this desolate wilderness where there is no village or shop nearby.
The population dropped drastically after the game started. The nearest town, Guangming Town, had a total of more than 10,000 residents, but only about 3,000 people were active outside at the same time. With more than 3,000 people scattered across the vast wilderness, the probability of them walking right up to the Nuannuan Hot Springs was extremely small.
Shu Mo soon realized that his plan of "running the business for two days and seeing how things go" was no longer necessary.
If we continue like this, it will just be a waste of daily maintenance costs.
You have to make changes in time while you still have a lot of points.
Shu Mo was reluctant to even buy paper and pen, so he squatted on the snowy ground at the door and wrote carefully with his fingers stroke by stroke in the moonlight:
Plan: Go to Guangming Town to attract customers.
Once the hot spring address is chosen, it cannot be moved, but Shu Mo can open a temporary stall in the town to sell some food, and then attract customers to his own hot spring.
Temporary stalls are not subject to the restriction of [no secondary transactions]. Doing so is far more convincing than letting Song Wei and Chen Hui and others promote it verbally.
But here’s the thing…
Shu Mo frowned and wrote another line.
"How do we get to Bright Town safely?"
She drew that question mark very heavily.
Shu Mo squatted on the side of the road with his knees hugged, looking down at the plan he had written in distress. Suddenly, out of the corner of his eye, he saw a mass of things rushing towards him.
As he sensed it breaking into the barrier, Shu Mo looked up, "Bind it."
"!!" The thing whimpered and was instantly squeezed to the ground by an unknown force.
From a distance, it looks like a big fluffy snowball.
Shu Mo brushed the snow off his body, stood up and walked closer. When he looked closely, he saw a big white bear with a round head and a round brain.
A type of monster that has never appeared before.
She thought for a moment, then tentatively reached out her hand and stroked the huge head. "Use the skill, [Primary Taming]."
A flash of white light appeared in the palm of his hand.
Nothing happened.
Shu Mo: “…”
She bent down to look. Although the monster was suppressed and motionless, there was still ferocious aggression in its scarlet eyes. Shu Mo felt that as soon as she removed the restraints, this beast with no intelligence at all would pounce on her without hesitation.
...Is it really too difficult for her to subdue high-level monsters at her level?
"Annihilation."
[Destroy "White Bear Beast", experience +100]
[Level increased to Lv.7]
Seeing the upgrade reminder, Shu Mo casually called up his personal panel.
【Player Information】
Name: Shu Mo
Age: 22
Occupation: Summoner
Level: Lv.7 (20/800)
[Click to view skill list]
[Click to view the properties panel]
…
Shu Mo accumulated a lot of experience today after killing several monsters that had rashly entered the barrier. However, his upgrade speed was slow.
The experience required for each level up is increasing exponentially, and jumping four levels in a row like before is only possible during the novice period.
And now, Lv.7.
——This is obviously not a level that can be used alone.
What's more, her profession is quite lame.
Shu Mo stared at the three big words "Summoner" with mixed feelings.
"The End of Extreme Cold" will automatically assign the initial occupation. Players do not have the opportunity to actively choose, but after reaching a certain level, they can spend points to change their job.
Shu Mo was not planning to be a combat player, so naturally she would not spend the effort to figure out a career that suited her.
Things like summoning, which doesn't require her to fight and only requires her to cheer for others from behind, are actually quite suitable for her. When he first discovered his profession, Shu Mo happily imagined the scene in his mind, feeling that he had found a new direction for lying down.
But then she realized something was wrong.
According to the novice tutorial, the summoner in this game is designed to be similar to the trainer in a well-known Japanese anime, and needs to capture suitable monsters to be summoned by himself.
The area where low-level monsters gather happens to be around Guangming Town.
——This is not a coincidence.
Humans have spent a full decade exploring the game map. After discovering that there are no safe zones, they will naturally try their best to build towns in safer places.
In other words, if Shu Mo wants to find a monster suitable for her to conquer and improve her strength, she has to go to Guangming Town.
This creates a desperate cycle.
Shu Mo sighed helplessly.
Either you sit back and wait for the slim hope that someone will pass by, or you don't know when or whether Song Wei and others will come to introduce you to the store.
Either he risked his life and traveled alone through the snow to Guangming Town to seek a glimmer of hope, but he had to bet that he would not encounter any danger along the way...
This game saved her life, just to kill her in another way?
*
Shu Mo tossed and turned, and only fell asleep in the second half of the night with worry.
In the middle of the night, she was suddenly awakened by a violent noise.
It was as if something was stirring her consciousness madly. Shu Mo took a long time to react in a state of half-sleep and half-wakefulness before realizing that something had broken into the barrier and triggered its binding function.
The barrier will turn into automatic mode after she falls asleep, [Annihilation] will be disabled, and only [Restriction] will remain.
When Shu Mo woke up early the day before, he opened the door and saw three monsters lying neatly outside. They were forced to kneel all night long, feeling aggrieved.
Shu Mo felt like laughing, but he accepted the experience package that was delivered to his door without hesitation.
But after a good night's sleep last night, Shu Mo was very sure that such a loud noise as just now did not happen.
The feeling of his consciousness being disturbed became stronger and stronger. Shu Mo suddenly woke up from his daze and finally realized that the thing was struggling too violently, so that the barrier could no longer suppress it!
Shu Mo almost broke out in a cold sweat.
If the barrier collapses, won’t she be the next to die?
This game really wants to kill her! !
Shu Mo rushed out of the bedroom while desperately mobilizing the power of the barrier to restrain the thing outside.
Under her control, the power of the barrier increased significantly compared to the automatic mode. When Shu Mo's hand was on the door handle of the cabin, she suddenly felt relaxed, as if the struggling force suddenly disappeared.
There was a "thump" sound outside the door.
There was a dull sound like something heavy falling on the snow.
Shu Mo tightened his grip, took a deep breath, and suddenly pushed the door open.
She was already prepared to see some ferocious beast fall in front of her, and it might even raise its head and exhale a breath of foul air when it saw her, and make a dying struggle -
But she never expected that there was a young man in black clothes and black hair lying in the snow.
The boy looked to be about seventeen or eighteen years old, with his eyes closed, but his handsome features could still be seen. But his face was pale and bloodless, as if he would disappear in the wind and snow in the next second.
Shu Mo: “?”
Shu Mo: “!!!”
She blurted out a cry of surprise and rushed to the boy's side, "Are you okay?"
Oh no, I hit the wrong person!
And he plays like an elite player.
If she had to wait until he woke up and came to hold her accountable, she wouldn't be able to keep her little shop open!
Shu Mo's mind was filled with the barrage of comments that flooded the screen, and he felt like crying but had no tears.
In any case, we can't just let people lie in the snow like this.
Shu Mo guessed that he must have struggled for too long and fainted due to exhaustion, so he quickly dragged the boy into the house with an apologetic look and placed him on the wooden floor of the hall.
Then he thought about it, opened the business mall with a heavy heart, and bought a fireplace for 50 points.
Just like canned food, ordinary products in the game without additional effects are not expensive, but if you pursue special effects, the cost will rise sharply.
For example...
【Name：Exquisite Fireplace】
[Description: The stone fireplace emits a charming fruity wood aroma when burning. Improve lobby landscape, customer satisfaction +1】
[Price: 800 points]
as well as,
【Name：Luxury bench】
【Description：A soft cushioned bench with a refined shape. Improve lobby comfort, customer satisfaction +1】
[Price: 800 points]
Every point of customer satisfaction means a +1% increase in the transaction price of all items sold in the hall.
Shu Mo looked at it with envy, but the current customer flow was too small, and 1% was only a very small increase, so the degree of her envy was limited.
After buying the fireplace, she took a look at the layout of the hall and then installed it on the empty wall next to the curtain of the men's bath.
The passages leading to the men's and women's hot spring pools are not located in the center, but near the corners. The remaining space on the same side wall is more than enough to install a fireplace.
Shu Mo thought that he could put a cabinet on the wall on the side of the women's bath to sell local specialties, or install a vending machine or something.
She didn't think much about it. The most important thing at the moment was to take care of the unconscious boy.
Shu Mo dragged the boy to the fireplace with a grunt and let him warm himself by the fire.
I don't know what kind of wood was burning in the fireplace. The leaping flames were bright and pure, with little smoke, but it gave off a pleasant fragrance. Staying by the side and listening to the crackling of firewood makes people relax unconsciously.
The firelight gently embraced the two of them, and the young man's lips gradually showed some color.
Shu Mo waited quietly, gradually becoming drowsy.
She didn't know how long it had been before she woke up again, and the room was already filled with a layer of hazy morning light.
Shu Mo blinked and suddenly met a pair of dark eyes.
…Her breathing stopped for a moment.
The boy woke up at some point and stared at her motionlessly.
The superior facial features were magnified in front of me, stopping at a measured distance.
"Are you awake?" Shu Mo yawned and quickly covered his mouth. "I'm so sorry about last night... The protective shield here mistook you for a monster that broke in and triggered an automatic attack."
The boy said nothing.
He turned his back to the fireplace and looked at Shu Mo, and a flash of fire seemed to pass through his dark eyes.
Shu Mo frowned in confusion, but didn't take it to heart, thinking that he had seen it wrong.
"Would you like something to eat? I have a hot spring here, which is provided to you for free. You can go and soak in it before breakfast." She said again.
In order to prevent senior players from finding fault, Shu Mo apologized in a very proper manner.
"Soaking in a hot spring can restore your physical strength. Your current physical strength should be..."
Since he struggled until he collapsed due to exhaustion, his stamina bar should have turned red a long time ago.
Shu Mo thought so, looked up, and then he was stunned.
There was no health bar or stamina bar above the boy's head that every player has.
...What's going on?
"Who are you?" the boy finally spoke.
"Shu Mo, the owner of this store." Shu Mo answered cautiously.
At the same time, she quietly opened the boy's panel -
Within the scope of the barrier, she has supreme power and no secret can escape her.
...Although he was mentally prepared, the information that appeared in front of him still made Shu Mo stunned for a moment.
【Monster Information】
Race: Black Dragon
Age: N/A
Ability: Fire
Strength: N/A
…
Shu Mo: “?”
The young man's clear voice sounded in his ears, and he seemed to hesitate for a moment.
"You can call me...Mo Bai."
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