Chapter 149 Auntie's Private Horse House
149.
Because you keep catching curse spirits, boiling curse spirits, and fishing curse spirits in the holographic game...
You successfully upgraded your remote food stall to level 10 with zero customers visiting it.
After the store level goes up, the system unlocks a bunch of miscellaneous functions that are somewhat useful but not very useful, but you finally get to the edge of the side quests.
[Your shop "Iron T Fire Fighting" has been upgraded to level 10]
【Street Food Contest has started, please sign up for the contest after February and before November every year】
[The judges of this food competition pay more attention to the quantity of food. Please try your best to develop food that the judges like.]
【After you win, you will be welcomed by a wave of customers】
【The function of attracting customers is now available】
[You can attract customers through: online promotion (5000G), offline flyers (10000G), posting advertisements (20000G)]
[Store decoration has been unlocked, you can decorate the store through the system mall]
[You have been given a chance to reselect your store location]
This is good. You should choose a location closer to a big city. That way, more customers will come to your store to spend money! You click on the map, but you find that -
The dungeon map is so huge, but you only have one place to choose.
The coffee shop you saw when you captured the imaginary cursed spirit Shirai is now being sold, and this is the only location you can choose for the new store.
That's fine, after all it's in downtown Tokyo.
It will be more convenient for you to steal at night... No, help local NPCs overcome fear!
For the store decoration style, you chose a modern minimalist cream style with a touch of Western fantasy, and embellished it with old Japanese style and new Chinese style... In other words, you bought all the fun things.
After the store is closed, you will ride your chocobo to collect items in places with many cursed spirits, which can create negative emotions for local NPCs and harvest the byproducts of negative emotions...
Oh my God, you might really be a genius.
You have discovered all the collection methods of perpetual motion machines.
Candelaike Mitsutada thought that it would be a waste of your elaborate decoration if you didn't open during the day, so he suggested that they run the business during the day.
"We also want to help the master." Cangtaiqiri Mitsutada smiled, "The master may not think highly of the daytime income, but..."
"I want to show my handsome side in front of my master sometimes."
So "鐵T救火" became a multifunctional store that runs coffee shop business during the day and food stall business at night.
Ye Dou had no objection to the arrangement, and even less after he tasted the coffee and cakes made by the Knife Spirits.
Fushiguro is as unmotivated as ever, and was only active when you went to the Zenin family to do bad things.
But he adapted well to the daytime shop, and even single-handedly expanded the daytime shop's clientele from young girls in their teens and twenties to women of all ages.
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The speed of replenishing the curse spirits at the Zen temple has slowed down recently. You smacked your lips. It used to be replenished within a day, but now you can't see any curse spirits every few days.
I did see quite a few big river vultures.
It turns out that the Zen family not only raises cursed spirits, but also raises river beetles. You have great respect for the Zen family. What an admirable dragon family it is - a family that specializes in raising dragons.
I believe that the legendary King of Naisha will definitely be born in the Zenin family.
However, after you have explored the Zen house 100% and touched all the trash cans and treasure chests, your interest in the Zen house has dropped sharply.
Plus, their cursed spirits rarely refresh, so you can just check every few weeks to see which NPC transformed into the new giant river beetle.
The Kamo family seems to be the most low-key of the three families, er, the one with the least presence? But their ability to manipulate blood is really cool!
When you were still a middle school student, you fantasized about being able to use your fingertips to bleed into weapons, then trample on demons and monsters and reach the pinnacle of your life in one fell swoop.
If there is a cute girl with glasses, short hair and a big sword in the Kamo family, you can forgive them for not having as many cursed spirits as the Zenin family, and generously return a bottle of their master's hair growth water.
Why only return one bottle? Because you are Guanyin Pizza, you are kind, and because you have already sold all the things you looted from the NPC room to the system.
That's right... you are a little troubled. When you are at Kamo's house, the system pops up a golden panel from time to time, saying that there are SSS-grade ingredients nearby.
You flew around Kamo's house from midnight to dawn, but you didn't see the SSS-level cursed spirit.
There must be a bug in the system again - a long time ago, when you took Fushiguro Megumi to the store to buy something, the system popped up saying that there were SSS-grade ingredients nearby.
But at that time, the only living creature near you was a woman who was carrying a baby out for shopping. She seemed to have had brain surgery and had stitches on her forehead.
It's impossible that the wild child's mother is some kind of cursed spirit, right?
…
Now when you encounter a game bug, you can calmly send a text message to the administrator to request a solution.
You have grown up. You are no longer the childish Fatty and Catman, but the mature Ruga. You fully understand that it is useless to insult the administrator - if you want to insult someone, just insult the game program group.
Noah's Ark showed you the game's development team last time, and you have already engraved the people in the programming group into your grudge book.
Every night before going to bed, you would take it out, draw a circle and curse on the notebook to relieve the hatred of encountering the bug.
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The cursed spirit of the Kamo family was also captured and cleared out.
Gojo family... Gojo Satoru said he would like you to visit Gojo family during his vacation. Since he took the initiative to bring your aunt into the house, you should reluctantly leave 1% of the good things for the Gojo family.
The three families have already developed your appetite. Now the harvest from going to the NPC's house every night is far less than what you would get from riding a bird to catch up.
Well, come to think of it... why did you come to the NPC's house to collect? Wearing a sad headdress, you sat on the bird's back, scratching your ears and rubbing your cheeks, as if to create a negative mood...
But you just went into the NPC's house and rummaged through their cabinets and boxes under the bed. How could that give the NPC negative emotions?
Hiss... Yabai, I forgot why I entered the NPC's house in the first place.
But it is really convenient to go into the villagers' homes and take what you want.jpg
After feeling guilty for a while, you quickly run to the next house with a righteous look on your face - oh, this house has a golden trash can on the roof!
You never thought you would be collecting car accidents at night.
The damn NPC actually attacked your beloved wife Chocobo - causing you and the suddenly comatose Chocobo to become meteors and fall from the sky.
This is a very infuriating act, and you pick up your heavy sword and join Frey in a righteous massacre against the sorcerer who attacked from behind.
Halfway through the fight, you remembered that you were not a summoner and could not beat the NPC to death and then revive it, so you quickly stopped and gave a bottle of potion to the sorcerer, whose health bar was only a little bit left.
"Tell me, who told you to harm me?" You grabbed the sorcerer's clothes and said viciously, "You damned villain, how dare you harm my eternal wife, Chocobo No. 1? I'm going to soak you in pepper, fish mint and squid juice."
The sorcerer was almost dead because of you. Almost dead, probably about 70 to 80 percent dead. It's not a big problem. He can still speak.
Faced with such a kind aunt, the young sorcerer naturally turned back and realized the difficulty... In short, he told you that the high-level sorcerer asked him to solve the Monster Bird incident.
"...It's best to bring the body back." The sorcerer who took over the task answered honestly, "The cursed spirit that so many people are talking about should have a quasi-first-class strength, which will be a very good material."
Cursed spirit? Who? Is it your Mirai Hat? You turned your head blankly and the Chocobo that had been staring at you tilted its head and made a cute "Gu".
Who is spreading rumors that this cute baby is an edible ingredient? Even if the chef's professional recipe does include roasted chocobo legs...but, your Miracle Hat is not a weird-looking cursed spirit!
In a rage, you opened the map search and rode your Miri hat straight to the place where the high-level sorcerers often stayed.
Before leaving the game, you save the game on purpose - not for anything else, but just in case you accidentally kill a suspected important NPC. You can go back to the game and then use a lighter force to beat the person to death.
Just in case, you unloaded the Dark Knight's weapons and equipped the newly purchased physical holy sword - Crowbar.
[Straight Crowbar: Archimedes once said, give me a crowbar, I can pry open all doors... huh? Not Archimedes? Not the original words? None of that matters, the crowbar is important. Attacking the back of the head can cause 100% crit and stun. No special effect bonus. ]
Needless to say, the upper floors are different. After prying open the outermost door, there are several more doors inside. Behind each door, there are talismans that you cannot understand.
You checked it with the system and found that it was a golden-quality good thing, a defensive barrier talisman, a talisman that prohibits the use of magic power, a talisman that resists a fatal injury...
I kind of like this place, it's so generous. You sighed, unceremoniously tore off all the talismans and stuffed them into your backpack.
You walked deeper into the house and saw several elderly people in a small, cramped, depressing room.
No wonder Gojo Satoru said that the high-level Jujutsu masters are old oranges, the faces of these NPCs all look like Chen Pi.
You circled around an NPC in surprise, then reached out and pulled his long white eyebrows - they were quite strong and well-maintained.
You have seen elderly NPCs before, but you have never seen an NPC that is this old and dry and hairy.
The NPC whose eyebrows you pulled looked very angry. He jumped up and started chattering a bunch of words that could not be skipped. You were too lazy to listen, so you turned around and jumped onto the beam to open a treasure chest.
The NPC looked even angrier, his hands were shaking as he pointed at you, and he kept muttering something about being indecent and the death penalty.
The elderly NPC sitting in the first seat waited for you to jump down from the beam, then spoke indifferently: "Superior Curse-Breaker..." He seemed to want to pronounce your name, but in the end, he just frowned and jumped over, "And the Superior Curse-Breaking Wraith, Frey."
In the middle is a paragraph filled with Old Orange's superior reasoning: Maybe they think that you and Frey are twins, and Frey is not a human being, but your closest brother who died early, and only because of your curse did he transform into a cursed spirit.
Are the NPCs in this instance all very imaginative, regardless of age? Why not let them write books in Yokohama? They will definitely become a big hit if they write fantasy books, squeezing out all the eccentric bestsellers in Yokohama.
"The top leaders have unanimously decided that you will be... "
"The death penalty."
This plot is quite atmospheric.
You clapped your hands to the NPC who was speaking, and handed out flyers to the middle-aged NPCs who were not as stupid as you: "The new shop is renovating the old shop and will reopen soon. Please come to 'Iron T Fire Fighting' to eat something whenever you are free. Please support Auntie's food stall."
"Ridiculous!" Another unfamiliar Feng Gan NPC jumped out, "What a disorganized kid!"
A thick black mist suddenly rose from the NPC Feng Gan.
The other old oranges just frowned, then lowered their eyes and drank their tea quietly, with no intention of stopping the other party.
In your eyes, this Feng Gan NPC suddenly grew——
A wrinkled, somewhat aged sunfish.
"Oh, were you asking what the ingredients in the store are?" You looked at the NPC next to you who had received the flyer and was now trembling with fear because of the appearance of the special grade cursed spirits, and continued, "It's cursed spirits, the tender and juicy cursed spirits carefully selected by the auntie, who insists on catching and killing them freshly every day. We don't sell leftovers - but we do sell pre-prepared dishes."
The sunfish is getting closer and closer to you. You slowly take out the crowbar and hit the sunfish on the back of its neck.
The special grade cursed spirit that was hit by the critical strike slowly fell down.
[You have obtained S-level curse ingredients]
It's obviously a premium ingredient - it's the first premium you caught - is it S- because the ingredient is too old?
You pondered for a while, picked up the sunfish, and talked for a long time, which made you feel like eating something...
You are too lazy to search your backpack, since there is already some food on hand. The ingredients are food for minors, so why can't you eat them? So you plan to just nibble on the cursed spirits.
Under the horrified gazes of a room full of NPCs, you calmly took a bite of the "Sunfish".
“Who said this cursed spirit is old?” You took a big bite of the cursed spirit and made a “Puh-Puh” sound while chewing. “This cursed spirit is really good.”
You looked at the NPC next to you again, who seemed to be about to faint. You handed the food in your hand to him and asked in a friendly manner, "Would you like to have a bite?"
After a pause, you added, "It's not very tasty jelly."
It doesn't taste good, so you poop, but it has a jelly texture, so you chew it.
The NPC who was about to faint actually fainted this time.
You scratched your head, looked at the other NPCs, and said cautiously, "Eating a cursed spirit alive, is this a very private place?"
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You don't quite understand the behavior patterns of the NPCs in this room.
Sitting on the ruins of the house, you bent down and poked the dry NPC's face. Well, his face was also dry.
Didn't I just take a bite of the sunfish? Why did these NPCs shout "monster" and "curse" and such rude words and become red names?
You click save with a bit of frustration.
You got a big scare, and now you couldn't hold back, so you and Frey killed all the high-level people together - and then your reputation and friendship in the magic world became negative, which was very bad.
You want to do business in the world of sorcery, how can I let you sell things now?
The old orange at the high level of spellcasting is a bit too fragile and explodes too easily, causing you to reread the file twenty times.
The last time, you just walked in and didn't do anything, but all the NPCs started shaking in fear.
Although they all looked confused, they still followed their hearts and did not make things difficult for you. They even tried hard to put on a cute smile and asked if you needed anything.
Maybe it's because we replayed the game too many times in a short period of time, and some bug has occurred? Otherwise, why did they all look so scared of you when you first met?
With this in mind, you bluntly said that you wanted everyone in the world of sorcery to eat at your restaurant, and that you wanted Gojo Goga Yugetsu to work in your restaurant.
Because they are good-looking, they can use their appearance to confuse wild sorcerers and attract new customers to dine in your restaurant.
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"Well, why are these two people working here? Auntie is also curious." You raised your finger and said seriously, "I just met with the senior management, and they knelt down and cried and begged Auntie to tell them their needs..."
"I told them, and then they came to work in the store... well, that's what happened."
Nanami Kento opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end, he just took a sip of coffee and said nothing.
"It's just a temporary assignment." Gojo Satoru, who was walking carelessly on the other side of the chair, acted like the best in the world and said with a grin, "This is much more interesting than listening to Ye Moth's lectures all the time."
Xia Yujie didn't say anything, but from his expression, it seemed that he agreed with what was said.
"Come to think of it..." You looked back at Nanami Kento and Haibara Yu, "You two seem to be pretty good-looking, maybe you can seduce... well, I mean, attract customers."
You took out the maid outfit from your backpack and said righteously, "Since we are classmates, let's dress like women together!"
Nanami Kento retorted: "No, we are just senior and junior relatives, not that familiar..."
"Don't be shy, Nanami--Jie, go ahead and grab him."
"…Don't look at me like that. Sorry."
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You sit on the blue slime sofa, looking out the window, with a brilliant smile on your face under the armor.
Today is also a peaceful and beautiful day.