There is a cement road in the middle of the shopping street, with shops on both sides.
Now there are three shops on the river side. Lu Yao looked at the shops on the opposite side, on the mountain side.
Behind is the mountain, with lush trees.
In the morning breeze, a row of shops seem to stand in the sea of clouds and mountains.
Lu Yao raised his hand and pointed to a shop opposite the nail salon: "Open this one and upgrade it first."
The system has already made a guess, but still wants to confirm it again: [What shop? ]
Lu Yao hesitated for a moment: "Lu Yao's furry shop."
System: [...Really don't think about it again? The clue is "sea", furry has nothing to do with the sea. 】
Lu Yao: "The clues are indeed 'sea', but it may be more than 'sea'. However, now I mainly consider the economic aspect, and I don't want to open a big-expense store for the time being."
System: [Why? ]
Lu Yao clicks on the store owner status column on the system interface.
Store owner: Lu Yao
Age: 22
Stores: 3
Employees: 28
Popularity: 883500
Assets: 872W
Wish progress: 15%
Warehouse grid: 40
(Shopping Street Map)
"In the past month, although it has been profitable, the assets have shrunk by more than 300,000, and the cost of purchasing ingredients from Alexandria has not been taken into account. The expenses of the snack bar and blind box store are too high, I need to slow down." Lu Yao said.
The system had nothing to say, and immediately prepared to open the star gate of the new store, then upgrade the alien space and perform simple renovations on the store.
However——
[Insufficient popularity value, the alien space upgrade failed. ]
Lu Yao was stunned: "More than 800,000 popularity points are not enough for the upgrade?"
Recently, the popularity points have indeed been spent a bit too much, but the upgrades and renovations of the previous three stores were almost all completed with more than 200,000 popularity points.
Why is it not enough this time?
System: […The store location in that world this time is a bit special, and a special upgrade is required to ensure the safety of the owner and the staff. ]
Lu Yao: "…How many popularity points are needed to complete the upgrade?"
System: [One million. ]
Lu Yao: "…Do we have to wait for the snack bar, nail salon or blind box store to upgrade before we can get new popularity points?"
[Yes. 】
The system was also very depressed. It had finally waited until the store owner was willing to open a new store, but encountered this situation again.
【Lu Yao's blind box store's turnover reached 2 million blind box coins, which was very popular with customers and upgraded to a six-star store. Reward one million popularity points, upgrade the store for free once, and the store owner can freely add and change blind box categories.】
!!!
Lu Yao clenched his fist: "Okay."
System: 【... Really timely.】
Throwing in one million popularity points only upgraded the store into a different space for customers to enter and exit.
After the renovation, another 200,000 popularity points were spent.
The system prompts that this world is very special. In addition to the store owner, other employees need to wear special work badges to enter the store.
One hundred thousand popularity points can be exchanged for one work badge. Lu Yao
spent 500,000 popularity points to customize cat tags (work tags) for the four cats who will become employees of the furry shop, and also ordered an additional temporary work tag.
The shop was upgraded and renovated, and the maintenance time is 12 hours.
After being rescued by Lu Yao, the mother and son of the calico cat were initially kept in the nail salon.
Recently, the three kittens stayed in the blind box shop in the morning, and were taught hunting skills by the tiger cub teacher.
The cats, like Ji Feiming and Bai Jing, can only move in the real space in the shop, cannot enter the alien space, and will not run away.
The tiger cub itself is only the size of a palm, and looks a little smaller than the kittens.
He is very majestic among the kittens, chasing food, rolling around, and acting cute, and he has been taught in a very good way.
The three kittens have been raised for a while, and they are about two months old. They have
different colors and personalities.
The largest one is a cow cat, with a lively personality and a specialty of bumping into people.
When it sees a two-legged beast, it likes to rub against people's shoes, meowing and rolling on the ground, exposing its belly to beg for food. Lu
Yao named it Bumping.
The second one is a little orange cat with a white chest and orange back. It has a bit of a silly personality, frowning and always looks very aggrieved. Its hobbies are sleeping and eating.
Its head and paws are round, a bit like a tiger cub.
Lu Yao named it Dumb Glue.
The third one was the weakest when it was rescued, and it almost died. It was a round-faced pear flower with white gloves, with a particularly good personality and the best at acting coquettish.
Lu Yao called it Sweetie.
Having never raised a cat before, Lu Yao didn't know why they were from the same litter but had different colors.
But they are all very good-looking, at least from a human perspective, soft and cute, and very easy to rub.
The calico mother is different from the puppies, and has a bossy temperament.
Because the two spots on her head look like two connected hearts, Lu Yao called her Erxin.
Erxin usually stays in the nail salon, lazy and comfortable, and loves to sleep on the windowsill.
The puppies were taken away for half a day in the morning, but she didn't pay much attention.
Occasionally she would go out for a walk and come back in the evening.
Lu Yao wrote their names on the badges they customized for them, and they could wear them to work in the furry shop.
The next morning, the shop was upgraded and a huge sign with a cat's paw print was hung.
Lu Yao was going to take a look inside the shop before picking up the cats. As
she was about to open the door, a Cadillac and a Porsche drove into the shopping street from the main road and parked at the side parking lot.
Ji Feiming and Bai Jing got out of their cars.
"Shopkeeper, good morning." Ji Feiming knew that Lu Yao had opened a new store, and he started looking forward to it yesterday. He was curious about where the new store would lead to, so he rushed here early
in the morning, a quarter of an hour earlier than the usual working hours. Bai Jing fell behind and nodded to Lu Yao as a greeting.
He came to give Luo Hui'an an IV drip, and at this time he saw a new store opened across the street, and his curiosity was instantly aroused.
Lu Yao nodded, "Good morning."
Ji Feiming took the initiative to step forward, "Shopkeeper, I want to see the new store too."
Every time a store is opened, it is like opening a blind box, and this is the moment of unpacking the box.
Lu Yao didn't know what kind of world this time was.
But some of the system's operations were different from the past. Lu Yao thought about it and thought that more people might be good.
She handed the temporary work badge to Ji Feiming: "Put this on. Follow me, be calm, and don't make a fuss about anything you see."
This badge is the same as the cat's collar badge, with a small silver badge with Lu Yao's name on it, and an elastic buckle, so it can be worn on the hand like a rubber band.
Ji Feiming took it and put it on, thinking that after seeing a terrifying creature like the black dragon, nothing could shake his mind anymore.
Bai Jing was also curious, but there was only one temporary work badge.
He had to wait for Ji Feiming to come out to replace him, so he simply went to the blind box store first to give the fat boy an IV. Lu Yao
pushed open the door of the furry store, and the cold and humid water vapor with a slightly salty smell came over.
She hesitated for a moment, then stepped into the store. Her feet were wrapped in icy sea water, and the water soaked into her shoes, freezing her to the bone.
Is the store in the sea?
She originally guessed that the furry store in the other world might be located by the sea or on the beach, but she didn't expect there to be water as soon as she entered. It was really like "drowning in the sea."
After she walked completely into the store, Lu Yao couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.
The store is located on a flat, round seabed, and the outer wall has become a transparent, soft wall membrane, so you can clearly see the world outside the wall.
Where the light leaks, dark green seaweed stretches, corals sway gracefully, and schools of fish swim quietly, as if you are in an underwater forest.
It's novel and disturbing.
There are two steps at the entrance, and the sea water soaks in. After two steps, you step onto the soft, dry white shallow beach.
The edge of the store almost blends into the underwater world.
Walking onto the shallow beach, you can truly enter the furry store.
The interior of this store is relatively simple for now, with only a three-layer cat climbing frame, two low stools, and a few lazy sofas for sitting and lying.
In addition, the cat kitchen and bathroom are hidden, with only a sign hanging on the transparent wall.
Ji Feiming followed Lu Yao and his shoes got wet.
The owner was too calm, and he didn't want to show any loss of composure, so he resisted the urge to go back.
Walking into the store and seeing the ocean world within reach, he opened his mouth and said in a lost voice: "This store is located on the seabed?" Lu Yao
turned around and said, "It seems so."
Ji Feiming lay on the transparent soft film and observed the outside. He was already worried: "There are only fish here. How can our store attract customers?"
The funniest thing is that the owner is also planning to bring a cat over. Will fish pet cats? Lu
Yao also looked outside. Not far away, a huge black shadow was slowly approaching the furry shop and swam leisurely across the top of the shop.
As it swam past, the huge black shadow almost covered the entire shop.
Lu Yao frowned: "There is something wrong with this transparent wall. I heard that cats have megaphobia, and they will be scared to stay here."
Ji Feiming turned around and rubbed off the goose bumps that had just appeared on his arms, "Don't talk about cats, I also have megaphobia. Was it a shark that just swam past? Is this store really safe? If water gets in, or it is damaged by fish, it will be terrible."
The system immediately popped up: [Don't worry, store owner, the main reason for the expensive upgrade of the store this time is safety issues. This wall looks thin, but it is actually very tough and will definitely not be damaged. 】
Lu Yao: "It looks good, but the cats will be scared. Can you solve this problem?"
System: [Spend 40,000 popularity points to upgrade the cat clerk's work badge. Wearing the upgraded work badge, the huge sea creatures in the eyes of the cat will shrink, and the largest will not exceed the size of humans. Will the store owner choose to upgrade? 】
Lu Yao looked at the popularity points that were only more than 100,000, and upgraded with tears.
She has never raised small animals. Last night, when she was collecting data related to the ocean, she saw a seal pup washed up on the shore. Because too many people were taking pictures, watching, and touching it, the pressure was too great and it died directly.
Most cats are timid, and many of her cats are still kittens, and they are also easily stressed.
Small animals are sometimes unimaginably fragile. For the physical and mental health of the clerks, they must be upgraded.
When Ji Feiming first entered the store, he resisted and was afraid.
After standing there for a while, he gradually calmed down. It was too quiet here.
At this time, there was a knock on the door.
Bai Jing came.
Ji Feiming walked out and handed in his temporary work badge.
Miraculously, when he left the store, his shoes that had been wet were dry.
Lu Yao stood at the door, "Xiao Ji, can you send Erxin over? I want to see how it reacts first."
Bai Jing took the badge, asked nothing, and walked directly into the store, also getting his feet wet.
He frowned, walked quickly onto the white sand beach, and then found himself in an underwater forest.
A scallop was swimming past him with its mouth wide open.
Lu Yao was waiting at the door. He took Erxin from Ji Feiming, confirmed that her work badge was hung around her neck, and carried her back to the store.
Bai Jing was lying on the soft membrane wall, fascinated by a group of sea bream swimming by outside.
Erxin had been cheating and eating in the store recently, and her fur had grown thick and slippery, and it felt very good to touch.
She turned over lightly, broke free from Lu Yao's hands, and walked around meowing to observe the new environment.
After walking around for a few laps, she noticed the school of fish swimming outside and stopped where she was.
Her round eyes were full of curiosity and a little vigilance, but she didn't show too much fear.
It seems that the work badge is still useful.
Lu Yao took the three kittens over with confidence.
Dai Jiaobu and Tianka were a little scared, hiding in the small nest on the cat climbing frame, not daring to come out.
Pengci was very brave, rubbing Lu Yao's legs while meowing, turning over his belly to act cute, rolling around, and following the whole process very well.
Lu Yao went to the kitchen and made some cat food that kittens could eat.
When she came out with the bowl of cat food, Bai Jing was lying on the floor, holding Er Xin in his arms, and Pengci was licking his hair.
"You haven't left yet?" Lu Yao asked.
Doctor Bai runs his own hospital, so he is usually very busy.
If it weren't for the relationship with Ji Feiming, he would never come to the shopping street every day just to give the little fat boy an IV.
Bai Jing touched Er Xin's soft belly again and again, and an unknown school of fish swam slowly over his head. "It's so comfortable here. The feeling of petting cats is completely different from that of ordinary cat cafes. I want to stay a little longer."
Being a doctor is a very stressful profession. Bai Jing's family background is similar to Ji Feiming.
In addition to ordinary guests, he usually receives some special guests like Lu Yao, and the pressure will only be greater.
He often finds fun to relieve stress by himself, going to cat cafes, playing secret room adventures, or going to amusement parks to play thrilling projects, but none of them makes him feel relaxed physically and mentally like lying here at this moment.
Lu Yao put the cat rice in the cat dining area. Pengci and Er Xin are both experienced cats who eat cat food, and they left Bai Jing one after another.
Doctor Bai sat up depressed, propped his hands on the floor, looked up, suddenly narrowed his eyes, and murmured: "Is there something floating up there?"
Lu Yao took out the plastic sheet and sweet coffee from the cat's nest and let them eat, and casually added: "What else can there be? There is nothing but water and fish outside."
Bai Jing tilted his head and looked carefully for a while. It was a bit far away, and some places on the seabed were darker and could not be seen clearly. "Owner, come and take a look, is that really a fish? It looks weird."
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