Chapter 30: Is Platinum Supermarket such a poor game?
“Mr. Shi, you are much more handsome in person than in the photos!” Lu Boyue greeted Shi Yu warmly, shook hands, and then introduced the three people behind him, “Gu Heng, Jiang Yan, and Yang Qiwen.”
Then Lu Boyue looked at Lin Fengbai behind Shi Yu and asked, "Who is this?"
“My assistant, Mr. Lin,” Shi Yu said.
Lu Boyue responded with two "ohs," not dwelling on the assistant's question.
Jiang Yan and Gu Heng glanced at Lin Fengbai, their expressions thoughtful.
For a moment, Shi Yu felt he shouldn't have summoned Lin Fengbai. Jiang Yan and Gu Heng were veteran players and might recognize Lin Fengbai as the boss of the Xincheng Hospital instance. But Shi Yu quickly realized that he was right to respect Lin Fengbai's wishes.
Lu Boyue continued, "The four of you are bankruptcy experts that I carefully selected from the forum. I have complete confidence in your professional abilities!"
Shi Yu: "..."
He didn't really want to be this expert.
The other three twitched at the word "expert," but Jiang Yan said, "I wouldn't dare call myself an expert. Just call me Jiang Yan."
Lu Boyue laughed twice, "Miss Jiang is too modest." Then she added, "It's not convenient to talk here. Let me take the four of you to my office to discuss the details."
After saying that, he led the five people toward the back door of the supermarket.
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Meanwhile, what is Chen Su doing?
I encountered someone while staying in the first instance.
He didn't know the person, but the viewers in the live stream were very familiar with that face.
Mu Zhuo was the most handsome man in the entire server, and he dominated the beauty ranking for three years. However, all of this must be preceded by the word "in the past".
A few days ago, Mu Zhuo's ranking dropped to third, and one of the two people who surpassed him was in this instance.
[Chen Su crashes into Mu Zhuo, oh my god!]
[It wasn't a coincidence, was it? I feel like Mu Zhuo did it on purpose, since these two pushed him down the rankings as soon as they arrived.]
[The other two in this instance both know Mu Zhuo, so the three of them teamed up directly!]
[Mu Zhuo is a veteran player; this dungeon is like a beginner's area for him. There's no need for cooperation; he can solo it.]
[It's called a collaboration, but it's really just those two clinging to Mu Zhuo's coattails.]
So Mu Zhuo really did it on purpose?
I feel like I'll be ostracized if I stay in the dormitory.
[Sinking into the night, in danger.]
The viewers in the live stream unanimously guessed that Shen Su would be ostracized, but in the game, Mu Zhuo took the initiative to approach Shen Su and extended an invitation: "Hello, I am Mu Zhuo, would you like to cooperate with us?"
Shen Su glanced down at the boy who was shorter than him, seemed harmless, and was decent-looking but not as handsome as Shi Yu for a few seconds.
"Okay." He smiled at the boy, revealing two small tiger teeth, and gladly accepted the invitation. "Hello, I'm Chen Su."
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Lu Boyue's office is very large and impressive. It has a conference room, a tea room, a small kitchen, and a locked room that is probably a bedroom.
The interior features a minimalist modern style with gray, white, and black colors, yet it is filled with antique items, exuding wealth. However, perhaps to avoid appearing tacky, a grand piano is placed in the corner next to the floor-to-ceiling window.
The first thing Shi Yu saw when he came in was the piano. He asked, "Does Mr. Lu usually play the piano in his office?"
"Just practicing casually, just practicing casually, haha."
After finishing her sentence, Lu Boyue did not continue the topic of the piano. She led the four people to the tea room, personally poured them tea, and then said, "You can discuss it first and give me a plan later. I have some things to do here, so I'll leave for a bit."
Then he pointed to the two bodyguards at the door, "If you need anything, ask them."
The owner has left.
The guests at the tea table stared at each other in bewilderment.
Shi Yu lowered his head and quietly sipped his tea. The liquid in the high-quality Jingdezhen white porcelain teacup was brownish-red in color, with a strong aroma and rich flavor, and a pure and pleasant aftertaste. It was a good Pu'er tea.
Lin Fengbai sat next to Shi Yu and peeled a piece of fruit candy from the fruit plate and put it in his mouth.
Gu Heng and Jiang Yan were also silently drinking their tea, inwardly cursing the store manager. He hadn't given them the relevant information, nor had he bothered to share any key details. Discussion? Discussion my foot! He even expected them to provide a solution? Did he really think such a solution would work?
After a long pause, Yang Qiwen finally couldn't hold back any longer and said, "I just looked at the instructions, and it says we only have ten days. Hey, if I had six months, I would have a way. My cousin's company went bankrupt in the first place... Anyway, ten days is too short. You guys have experience playing games, do you have any ideas?"
Gu Heng glanced ahead and said, "Even if his supermarket is facing bankruptcy, he can sell any of the antiques here and survive for a while. It's hard for him to go bankrupt within ten days."
Yang Qiwen stared at an antique vase in front of him for a while, then suddenly had a flash of inspiration: "I have a bold idea..."
Gu Heng: "There are bodyguards at the door."
Yang Qiwen said awkwardly, "Okay."
“He can choose to sell the antiques or not, and he can choose to continue investing his money or not.” Shi Yu, who had been quietly drinking tea, suddenly spoke up, immediately attracting everyone’s attention.
Lin Fengbai folded the candy wrapper in his hand into a paper crane and looked up at him.
Shi Yu met the puzzled or surprised looks of the crowd and continued, "He can sell goods at low prices, let products go unsold, make the financial accounts chaotic, he can also invest, invest in whatever loses money, and even gamble, using the supermarket as collateral... It's hard to run a supermarket well, but there are a hundred ways to go bankrupt."
“We can think of these methods, and I believe Lu Boyue can too, so why doesn’t he do them?” Shi Yu took a sip of tea and continued to ask questions. “Of course, perhaps he tried them, but failed. Why?”
“There’s an external force interfering and stopping him,” Jiang Yan said, her eyes lighting up.
"Yes." Shi Yu placed his teacup on the table, his gaze meeting Jiang Yan's. He smiled slightly, "Miss Jiang is right, so we need to figure out what this 'external force' is now?"
Jiang Yan analyzed: "Lu Boyue's character is set as a super rich second generation. These wealthy families are usually very complicated. After the head of the family dies, other relatives, brothers and sisters, and even illegitimate children in the family will want to claim the inheritance. Lu Boyue's condition for inheriting the inheritance is that Boyue Supermarket goes bankrupt, or that he inherits all of his father's inheritance. Other members of the Lu family will definitely not be happy."
Jiang Yan made the final decision: "We can start by investigating Lu Boyue's relatives!"
"But speaking of which, where did Manager Lu go?"
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Where did Manager Lu go?
Store Manager Lu is currently in instance one.
"Hello everyone! I'm Lu Boyue." Lu Boyue, wearing a pink shirt, greeted them with a smile. He shook hands with Mu Zhuo, Chen Su, and the other three in turn, and said in a light tone, "It seems that everyone already knows each other, so there's no need for me to introduce you all. It's too noisy here to talk. I'll take you to my office to discuss things in detail."
As Lu Boyue led the way, he said, "The four of you are bankruptcy experts that I personally selected from the forum. I have complete confidence in your professional abilities..."
The audience laughed so hard they almost died.
[Lu Boyue said he had something to do; was he going to meet a client in the first instance? ??? ??? ? ...
[Hahaha, the lines haven't changed at all!]
[I mean, is it really necessary to say "bankruptcy expert"? Didn't Manager Lu notice the subtle expressions on everyone's faces when they heard those words?]
[Is Manager Lu going to go to Dungeon 2, Dungeons 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 later? Hahaha!!!]
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[You guys were right, Manager Lu really did go to the second instance after settling people in the tea room!]
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Shi Yu was taking a nap on a small sofa in the tea room with earphones in her ears, Jiang Yan was leaning against another small sofa, Gu Heng took out his laptop from his briefcase and kept typing on the keyboard, seemingly doing nothing, while Yang Qiwen continued to study the game panel.
During this time, the bodyguard came in twice to bring them afternoon tea, fruit, and desserts. He also gave Lin Fengbai a stack of colored paper specially for folding origami cranes. By now, the origami cranes folded by Lin Fengbai had filled half of the coffee table.
Lu Boyue returned in the evening, still all smiles: "Good afternoon, everyone! How was your afternoon?"
"That's great, thank you for the afternoon tea, Manager Lu."
After exchanging pleasantries, Gu Heng got straight to the point: "Manager Lu, we need some information from you. We're new here and don't know anything about the supermarket, so we can't come up with a detailed and feasible plan under these circumstances."
"Information? Ah! Sure, sure!" Lu Boyue's face was beaming with smiles. "The plan isn't urgent. To be honest, it was my oversight; I should have given you the information first."
Gu Heng: "Then?"
Lu Boyue glanced at the sky outside the window and casually called out to everyone, "It's getting late, I'll take you all to eat first. The documents aren't urgent, they're not urgent, filling our stomachs is the most important thing!"
Lu Boyue led everyone to a seafood restaurant. There were no other customers besides them; it seemed they had booked the entire place.
Lu Boyue called the manager to serve the dishes, then said to them, "You guys eat first, I have something to do, I'll be leaving for a while."
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Copy 1.
Manager Lu led Shen Su and his group to the seafood restaurant and said the same thing: "You guys eat first, I have something to do, I'll be leaving for a while."
Immediately afterwards, Manager Lu appeared in dungeons two, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine...
Then I took everyone to a seafood restaurant.
When Manager Lu returned to the seafood restaurant in the dungeon, the French blue lobster, king crab, Australian abalone, bluefin tuna, and other seafood on the table had all been cleared out.
"Has everyone finished eating?" Manager Lu's face was still beaming with a bright smile, but his eyes revealed fatigue. "If you've finished eating, I'll take you to rest."
Gu Heng: "The information?"
Lu Boyue: "It's so late, everyone go to the hotel and get a good night's sleep. Let's talk about it tomorrow."
The other three had no objections, but Shi Yu asked, "Has Manager Lu eaten?"
Store manager Lu paused for a moment, looked up at Shi Yu again, and then nodded: "I've already eaten, thank you."
Shi Yu didn't ask any further questions.
Manager Lu led the group to the Lu's Hotel, arranging a presidential suite for each person, and then headed to instances two, four, five, six, seven, eight, and nine.
The audience stopped laughing at Manager Lu.
I started to feel sorry for her.
Is this game really that poor? Can't they spawn more Store Manager Lus? Can't you see how busy our Store Manager Lu is?
[Don't be fooled by the fact that some people have visited five, six, seven, eight, or even nine seafood restaurants, they haven't actually eaten a single meal.]
My heart is pounding so hard my chest is shaking, and my shoulders are trembling! Hahahaha! Sorry, I just couldn't hold it in!
【Wait, can't bodyguards handle taking people out to eat and stay at hotels? Why does Manager Lu have to do it personally?】
Perhaps it's to appear more sincere?
[No one else cares about Manager Lu, but out of all these instances, only Yu Yu noticed that Manager Lu hadn't eaten. Although I don't care whether Manager Lu has eaten or not, my wife Yu Yu is so sweet, sob sob!]
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