Chapter 79
Facts have proved that even at the end of the world, China is still a society based on personal relationships.
Even an ordinary player may pass on the news to some extraordinary beings through the introduction of relatives.
Due to the existence of this wave of enthusiastic players who "can't do it themselves, so they start to look for relatives and friends with potential", the investment promotion plan of Wenquan unexpectedly received a wave of publicity. In just a few days, several people came to Wenquan to discuss opening T stores.
Shu Mo received customers one by one, and soon decided on two more stores and started decorating them.
Now that she had hired enough employees, she was no longer busy with interviews and had some free time.
That afternoon, the hot spring welcomed a group of uninvited guests.
"You said you wanted to see our boss?"
Gu Xiao frowned and looked at the group of people in front of him.
The leading man looked arrogant and didn't seem to care about the cashier girl at the front desk. He didn't even bother to say anything. "Yes, ask your boss to come out to see me and say that someone from the Pastors Association is here to discuss something important."
Pastors Association?
Although Gu Xiao was not a combat player, he had heard of the existence of the Senior Priests Association and knew that they were very powerful in the town. Then he looked at the group of people standing silently behind the man, and it seemed that each of them was quite powerful. He was suddenly startled.
Could this be someone trying to cause trouble?
The hotel has been open for so long, but this is the first time to encounter such a thing. Gu Xiao did not dare to take it lightly. He sent them to the restaurant upstairs to wait for a while, and returned to the lobby, feeling a little confused.
"What's wrong with you?" Mo Bai happened to pass by and saw Gu Xiao running around anxiously like an ant on hot pan, so he asked curiously.
Gu Xiao seemed to have grabbed a life-saving straw, and asked him with a sad face: "Do you know where the boss is?"
The hotel is getting bigger and bigger, and Shu Mo doesn't have a fixed office, so it's really inconvenient to find her when there's something urgent.
Mo Bai tilted his head to feel for two seconds, and after finding Shu Mo's position, he nodded, "I know."
Gu Xiao was in a hurry to find someone and didn't notice the strange two-second pause. "Then I'll leave it to you."
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On the other side, the group sat down in the restaurant and were secretly shocked by the interior decoration of the hot spring.
After accidentally learning a few days ago that Nuannuan Hot Spring had taken away their business, the Pastors Association quickly formed such a team.
Among these dozen people, half are priest players who are high-level members of the association, and the remaining seven or eight are elite players they temporarily hired in the city. The average level is Lv. 77, and there are even two top ten players leading the team. Even in this high-level leveling area, this is definitely a team that can crush any level.
Before setting off, they had a good plan and were determined to teach Nuannuan Hot Spring a lesson. But after rushing to the hot spring with anger and arrogance in their hearts, everyone found that the situation seemed a little different from what they expected.
This hot spring doesn’t seem that simple?
"To be able to build such a complex of buildings in the advanced leveling area, and also such a strange barrier... Who is the boss here?" One person couldn't help but ask, "Could he be an elite player from somewhere else?"
"No matter where she comes from, now that she is in Guangming Town, she must follow the rules of the town."
The man who had just spoken to Gu Xiao said disdainfully, "I heard that the owner of this hot spring is just a girl in her early twenties. We are willing to negotiate with her, which is already giving her face."
The decline in income is only a recent phenomenon. The huge foundation that the Pastors' Association has built in Guangming Town over the years cannot be shaken in just a few weeks.
Therefore, even today when coming to Nuannuan Hot Spring for negotiations, the senior executive of the association still maintained a condescending attitude.
Although they called it a negotiation, they actually had only one request on this trip, which was to ask Wenquan to give up making props with special effects.
They have already investigated and found out that Nuannuan Hot Spring is mainly engaged in the leisure and entertainment industry, which should not conflict with the association. However, the boss chose to add special functions to both the food and hot water.
They didn't know that these effects were not determined by Shu Mo, so in the association's view, this was a provocation.
The man looked at the scenery outside the window with a gloomy expression.
"I hope she's smarter... Otherwise, I have plenty of ways to make her compromise."
If Shu Mo could agree to their conditions and only provide simple food and hot water, the two sides could still live in harmony.
otherwise……
Aren’t there many ways to shut down a store?
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By the lake.
[Consumed: 100 points]
[Obtained: [Bait]*10]
Shu Mo took out a bag from his backpack and sprinkled it evenly into the lake.
A group of small fish gathered on the shore of the lake. They opened their mouths as she moved and scrambled to catch the bait thrown into the air. It was a spectacular scene.
After one packet is spread, a reminder appears in front of you.
[Consume [Bait]*1, and the growth of fry in the nearby 5 units will be accelerated]
Shu Mo had nothing to do these two days, so when he ran to the lake to feed the fish, he discovered that the fish feed he bought from the mall actually had the effect of accelerating their growth.
One pack can skip 4 hours of growth time. The limit is to feed three packs a day, which can save up to 12 hours.
If you insist on feeding, the growth period of the fry can be shortened by half.
Shu Mo patted the crumbs off his hands and called up the panel to take a look.
[Tip: The "fry" of this unit is growing, and the next maturity period will be 3 days and 16 hours later]
"This unit".
Shu Mo stared at the three words and sighed softly.
Although the method of accelerating growth by using bait is good, it has a disadvantage, that is, the range that can be affected by a bag of bait is too small.
You know, this lake is several square kilometers in size. Although Shu Mo did not fill every place with fish fry, he still threw in hundreds of fish fry.
It is enough to support the consumption of all fish dishes in the hot spring, and even have some left over.
It takes three bags of bait to feed five units of fish fry, and that's only the amount for one day.
If she really wanted to rely on this to speed up, she would have to do nothing and just spread bait on the lake every day.
So Shu Mo simply treated this as a pure form of entertainment.
A lucky fish in a random area is selected every day to be fed, and those that cannot be fed can only grow naturally.
She took out another bag of fishing bait, and suddenly noticed a little girl staring at her out of the corner of her eye.
Shu Mo turned his head in confusion and met her eager gaze. He thought of something and shook the bait in his hand, "Want to feed it?"
"Yeah!" A big smile immediately appeared on the little girl's face.
"Then we each have one bag."
Shu Mo bent down and handed her the bait, then took out another bag and slowly fed it to her with a bit of demonstration intent.
The little girl followed suit, opened the package and scattered a handful of food. Immediately, several small fish emerged from the water in front of her, circled around her happily for a few times, as if to express their gratitude, and then began to eat the food floating on the lake.
"They are so smart!" the girl was delighted.
"Shanshan, why are you running around by yourself?"
At this moment, a middle-aged couple hurried over, and when they saw the girl, their tense expressions relaxed a little.
"I'm not running around. My elder sister is teaching me how to feed the fish." The little girl grabbed her mother's sleeve and showed off to her, "Look, these are all the fish I fed."
It was only then that her parents realized Shu Mo was there too. They recognized her as the innkeeper and guessed that she was "playing" with their daughter, so they thanked her repeatedly.
They pulled Shu Mo aside and wanted to transfer the money for feeding the fish to her. They also asked if they could pay more and buy a few more packets of fish bait from Shu Mo.
The two of them were able to bring their daughter to stay at the hot spring, so they are obviously elite players who are not short of money and love their children. In their opinion, their daughter was having a lot of fun and was obviously fond of the little fish. Besides, such animals were rare to see in the apocalypse, so they said they were willing to pay for their daughter to have more close contact with the little fish.
Shu Mo didn't expect that he would have such an unexpected gain.
My thoughts suddenly opened up.
She doesn't have enough energy to feed them one by one, but there are players who are rich and free and are willing to do this job for her.
Shu Mo immediately took out two bags and handed them to the two of them, reminding them, "The fish in this area have been fed. You can first sprinkle some bait and observe. If you find that they don't eat, you can feed them in another area."
"I'll put this bait in the vending machine in the annex later. If you want to bring your children to feed the fish in the future, you can buy it there."
As for the three or two bags, Shu Mo confiscated their points and simply gave them to the girls for free.
The girl's parents gratefully responded and squatted down to feed their daughter.
Shu Mo left the lakeshore, thinking about going back to put the purchased bait into the vending machine and setting a low price. There should be many players willing to pay to experience the fish feeding activity.
Shu Mo sells the bait, which originally costs 10 points in the business mall, for 3 or 4 points, and can still recover some of the cost.
She walked a few steps around the lake, her heart moved, she noticed Mo Bai approaching, and turned her head.
Mo Bai just happened to stop.
The distance from the main building to the lake was not short, and even after running for such a distance, his breath was steady. "There is a group of people looking for you. Gu Xiao has arranged for them to stay in the restaurant, and asked you to hurry back."
"So anxious?" Shu Mo was stunned.
She was about to go back, but Mo Bai seemed to have discovered something. He suddenly raised his head and looked into the distance.
"What’s wrong with you……"
As soon as the words came out, Shu Mo realized that something was wrong.
Suddenly there was a rustling sound in the sky, which became louder and louder until a dark cloud-like thing appeared on the edge of the towering snow-capped mountains.
Shu Mo narrowed his eyes, and the moment he saw clearly, his scalp suddenly felt numb!
The dark cloud was actually made up of countless flying monsters. They flew over a long distance in the blink of an eye. The buzzing sound of their wings was deafening. When it reached a certain frequency, the snow on the top of the mountain began to slide down. The dark clouds covered the sky, and the flying monsters that blocked out the sun were like a swarm of locusts passing through.
At the same time, the earth shook, and several running children fell to the ground, staring blankly at the horizon.
In the rolling snow fog, several monsters rushed out, followed by a large group of high-level monsters of various shapes, rumbling towards the inn like a tide.
The dazed people suddenly woke up as if from a dream, and roars were heard everywhere.
"It's a monster wave!!!"
"What are you standing there for? Run!!"
"Run! Enter the barrier!!!"
"Inn, yes, quickly hide in the inn's barrier!!"
People cried out in panic and the leisurely atmosphere was instantly broken. The child who fell was picked up by his parents, who ran towards the hotel without thinking too much.
Some people were separated from their families in the fleeing crowd, and screams were heard everywhere.
The doomsday-like scene was reflected in his eyes, and Shu Mo's heart was beating violently. At this moment, the system's introduction about the monster tide emerged in his mind without any context.
[…The monster wave first appeared three months after the game was released, killing nearly one billion players worldwide. The frequency of appearance is completely random, ranging from one month to several months. Each appearance is inevitably accompanied by a large number of deaths. 】
In the third month after the game was released, when players had finally adapted to the rhythm of the game and gradually regained their confidence in survival, a nightmare disaster quietly arrived.
It was a scene like hell.
The camping area that humans had painstakingly built was easily destroyed, and countless elderly, weak, women and children died at the hands of beasts. Only after that did the surviving players truly understand what a "doomsday game" was.
Later, as cities were built one after another and with the protection of city walls, the death rate of players dropped significantly. However, every time a wave of monsters breaks out, it will still cause the deaths of countless combat players in the wild who are unable to escape in time.
Fortunately, this time, the hotel was right next door.
The players by the lake ran desperately towards the Nuannuan Hot Spring, but there were still a few who ran slowly and were left far behind, with looks of despair on their faces.
At the critical moment, a snow-white figure came running quickly from the direction of the hotel and stopped in front of everyone.
It moved so agilely that no one could see its appearance clearly until it stopped.
It turned out to be the bus from the hotel.
The car door opened with a bang, and Shu Mo's tense voice sounded from behind him, "Hurry up and get in the car!"
The players who had already fallen into despair reacted and were almost overwhelmed by ecstasy.
They scrambled to the car, and the mimic didn't even look back, but ran away. In just a few moments, they sent everyone into the barrier safely.
Those players who had already run into the barrier huddled together, looking outside in fear, their hearts still hanging high.
The barriers bought from the mall were as fragile as paper under the siege of hundreds of monsters. In the lakeside camping area, those barriers that had no time to be put away were easily torn to pieces with great force.
...What about the inn's barrier?
Can it withstand the combined attack of so many monsters?
The hotel dispelled the players' concerns with practical actions.
A few seconds later, when the first wave of monsters rushed closer, with scarlet eyes, they rushed towards the players hiding inside, but were shattered by the barrier almost instantly.
It looked effortless, no different from when a single monster appeared.
In just a moment, a layer of fallen objects appeared outside the barrier, and the scene was extremely spectacular.
The "barrier" that had been silently guarding the hotel with a transparent posture also appeared in the air at this time, with a halo on its surface, strongly announcing its presence.
It seems to be saying that this is an absolute "safe zone".
The players finally let out the breath they had been holding.
“…You managed to hold on?”
“Oh my god…”
“The boss is awesome!!!”
Everyone was laughing and crying. Some people collapsed on the ground, still not recovering from the aftermath of escaping death. Others laughed wildly as they stared at the monsters outside the barrier that were attacking in vain.
"Fight, fight! The more people come, the more people will be killed by the barrier!"
In ten years of gaming, have they ever seen a monster being suppressed like this?
It’s so cool!
Even the town’s walls can only passively defend against attacks, and their defensive capabilities are limited.
During the monster tide outbreak, combat players must take the initiative to attack again and again to eliminate as many monsters wandering around as possible.
Otherwise, once the city walls are damaged and monsters break into the city, the consequences will be disastrous.
During this process, because there are too many monsters, there will be a large number of casualties every time.
But now, they can just sit in the inn and leisurely wait for the monster tide to pass!
A disaster that could have caused countless deaths was so easily averted that many people were so excited that they shed tears.
But some people began to worry, "Once a monster wave breaks out, it usually lasts for at least a day. What should we do at night if we haven't booked a room?"
Before, when the hotel’s business hours ended, non-guests would be automatically moved out, but if they were moved out now, they would fall directly into the monsters!
Panic began to spread, and some people even started offering high prices, begging current residents to provide a bed.
At this moment, a prompt suddenly popped up in front of all the players within the hotel's barrier.
[During the monster tide outbreak, Nuannuan Hot Spring is open 24 hours a day and all facilities are open all day. 】
[Please rest assured, conserve your strength, and wait for the disaster to subside. 】
This piece of news seemed to have given everyone a shot of adrenaline; their hearts were at ease and were replaced by endless gratitude.
"If there were no hotel, I would be..."
Some high-level players' tents were still set up outside, of which only a few fragments were left. The entire camping area looked like a hurricane had passed through it, with only a few barbecue grills in the hotel still standing there stubbornly.
They looked at the wreckage with fear: if they had been there, their fate would probably have been the same as the tent!
Every time a monster wave breaks out, high-level players have the highest mortality rate. Because the monsters here are of high level and sparsely populated, it is difficult to find players to fight together, and whether you can escape depends almost entirely on luck.
Unlike players of lower levels, as long as they can form a team of dozens of people and withstand the first wave of monsters' charge, their survival rate will be greatly improved.
During a monster tide outbreak, monsters will be different from usual times and will not harass players endlessly. Instead, they will move in a fixed direction, like a large-scale migration.
After the large army passes, only a few monsters will stay in the human gathering area. This is the opportunity for players in the wild to escape and for players in the city to come out and clear out the monsters.
Some people will also take the opportunity to pick up the drops of nearby dead players.
However, this time, because of the existence of Nuannuan Hot Spring, not a single player died in the nearby area, and the survival rate was suddenly increased to 100%, which is simply incredible.
About ten minutes later, the number of monsters outside the barrier decreased significantly, and the remaining monsters no longer attacked the barrier, but wandered around in the nearby snowfield.
Knowing that they had safely survived this crisis, many players jumped up from the ground, linked their arms around each other and said they wanted to go to the restaurant for a big meal to celebrate their survival.
Some players, however, looked at the high-level monsters nearby and began to have some ideas.
Because of the monster tide, the number and density of monsters gathered on the snowfield are much larger than usual, and there are all kinds of monsters, including insects, flying monsters, snakes, goblins, tree elves, and water monsters.
The stone monsters left the swamp and the tree spirits left the jungle, and their difficulty level suddenly dropped sharply.
In contrast, the nearby terrain is a flat snowfield that is most suitable for players to fight.
Even if there are more monsters, don’t they have a hot spring to back them up?
Seeing that the situation is not good, they can completely hide back in the barrier of the hot spring, and the risk of going out to fight monsters is greatly reduced.
The more these senior players thought about it, the more excited they became.
The terrifying monster tides of the past have become a good opportunity to harvest points in their eyes.
Several teams exchanged glances, whispered a few words, and then rushed to the counters everywhere.
"Hello, please give me 20 fresh meat buns!"
"Ten cups of latte first!"
"I'll go to the foot bath first to reserve a seat. Agility is also important. When the time comes, you can eat while soaking in the foot bath. Don't waste time."
"We need ten hot spring spots, which is 1,000 points..."
“We want that too!”
The hot spring's turnover skyrocketed instantly.
More than an hour later, after eating and drinking their fill and soaking in the hot springs, the players stepped out of the barrier with confidence, with countless gorgeous buffs above their heads.
With the hot spring, the only safe zone in the game, behind them, they felt more confident to charge towards the monsters.
Especially after discovering that more than one team of players did this, a sense of pride arose in everyone's hearts.
They fixed their eyes on the monster not far away and thought to themselves.
The positions have changed, and now it's our turn to reap you.
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