265 The Eleventh Store
◎ Artificial Starry Sky. ◎
Half an hour later, the voice of the Dream Fulfilling System suddenly exploded in Lu Yao's mind.
"I'm back." The ending sound was accompanied by a small upward tail.
Lu Yao had just been freed from the staged task and was walking along the shopping street with his hands behind his back.
Winter was approaching, the leaves on the mountain began to turn yellow, the sky was blue, the sun was soft, and the wind did not cut his face.
Lu Yao was calm: "Where did you go when you suddenly disappeared?"
The Dream-Fulfilling System: "He was... caught."
Lu Yao was a little confused: "You were caught and came back so easily, are you okay?"
The Dream-Fulfilling System was also confused: "You should be fine after you come back. Have you seen any new prompt information?"
Lu Yao: "Yes, the clue is on the back."
The Dream-Fulfilling System became excited: "This is the first time you do this, and it doesn't seem to be very difficult."
Without waiting for Lu Yao to speak, the Dream-Fulfilling System asked again: "Have you thought about it, what kind of store should we open this time?"
The clue was "The canning factory sent a distress signal", and the information obtained by the double-faced spy Tong was "paradise". Both clues were actually quite abstract.
Lu Yao: "I just finished the task of the tenth store. I'll take a rest for two days and think about it."
Dream System: "Lu Yao, we may not have much time."
Mo Zhu also said something similar. Lu Yao was puzzled: "Did you get any inside information?"
Dream System: "I don't know, I just feel a sense of urgency."
...
Lu Yao thought about it all night, and walked alone on the shopping street early the next morning.
The clerk was familiar with the owner's state. The owner was usually busy managing the store. Only when the work came to an end and she started to think about the new store, she could be seen walking around on the empty street early in the morning.
Zhou Su also came early, and greeted Lu Yao from a distance: "Owner, are we going to open a new store?"
Lu Yao saw weeds growing on the steps in front of the vacant store, squatted down to pull them out, turned around and waved at Zhou Su: "You came really early."
Zhou Su smiled, as if there was something good going on early in the morning: "Didn't we agree to have eel rice today? Come early to prepare the ingredients."
The water drop seal knew that Lu Yao liked to eat eels, so he carried several large baskets of fresh eels and crabs back to the Maorongrong store yesterday.
The employees also benefited from this, and lunch was upgraded to a luxurious eel rice and crab feast that was killed and grilled on the spot. A few employees who were allergic to seafood could order takeout from another world.
There were more and more employees in the shopping street, and snack bars, Qingshan Noodle House, and Maorongrong Store all provided employee meals.
Each store negotiates its own time and takes turns to schedule.
The store staff and stores responsible for preparing employee meals will receive subsidies, and sometimes hot spring hotels and creative DIY huts will also join in.
Occasionally, one day, no one wants to prepare employee meals, so Lu Yao lets them vote to order takeout from another world to change everyone's taste.
Lu Yao: "Can one person handle it?"
Zhou Su: "With Leopard's help, it's no problem."
Most of the blob seals are foodies. They are used to food cooked by humans. They remembered the eel rice they had eaten several times last year, and they started to get excited last night.
The Leopards like to go out on adventures with the store owner the most, and the second best thing is to prepare food with Zhou Su.
Zhou Su asked again: "Should we open a new store?" Lu Yao
nodded: "We have this plan."
Zhou Su: "What kind of store this time?"
Lu Yao frowned slightly, still a little confused: "I haven't thought about it yet, let's take a look at the store first."
After Zhou Su left, Lu Yao continued to squat on the ground and pull weeds.
The Dream Fulfillment System popped up: "When you choose a storefront, you will open the Star Gate, and then you must determine the main business category. Have you actually thought about it?"
Lu Yao: "I'm just thinking about the connection between the canning factory and heaven?"
The Dream Fulfillment System said honestly: "In fact, I don't understand what 'heaven' means."
Lu Yao: "The world of gods is not heaven?"
The Dream Fulfillment System: "I think it definitely doesn't count as heaven. And, I can't figure out why there is a canning factory in heaven."
Lu Yao actually had a guess in his mind, but he didn't tell the Dream Fulfillment System.
Lu Yao ate two eel rice and a plate of spicy crab at the Maorongrong Shop at noon, and walked out with the help of the wall, sitting on the steps in front of the Maorongrong Shop and looking at the sky.
She sat there for a while, slowly took out her phone and lowered her head to send a message.
Not long after, Ji Zhixin came out of the furry shop and saw Lu Yao sitting on the steps in a daze. He walked over to her and sat down.
"Shopkeeper, my mother called to inform me. Can I accompany you out this afternoon?"
Lu Yao tilted his head and looked over: "I was just asking casually. President Ji is too polite."
Ji Zhixin: "My mother has said that she wants to cooperate with you, but she has never had the opportunity."
Lu Yao stood up and patted the dust off his body: "You can accompany me out for a walk."
Ji Feirong sometimes comes to the shopping street for vacation. Lu Yao eats with her and occasionally talks about the books they read. Lu
Yao has been thinking about the idea of opening a new store all morning. Just now, she chatted with Ji Feirong for a few more sentences. She just learned that Ji's also has a chain of bookstores in the city of Zhaoguang.
Ji Feirong is also a wonderful person. After chatting with Lu Yao, he called the person in charge of the bookstore and asked Ji Zhixin to accompany him.
Lu Yao and Ji Zhixin walked around the largest bookstore in the city center. Lu Yao met the manager of the bookstore and talked about many interesting things.
It was still early to go out, so Lu Yao walked around several bookstores nearby. After
finishing his work, it was almost time for the kindergarten to finish school, so Lu Yao went to pick up Budu after school.
Budu walked out of the kindergarten with the children in the same class. When he looked up and saw Lu Yao, a smile instantly appeared on his beautiful face like ice and snow.
The children who were traveling with him said: "Budu, your father and mother are so nice. They came together to pick you up."
Budu frowned slightly: "I only have my mother, and the man next to me is my mother's subordinate."
Teacher Fang who was standing at the door widened her eyes in surprise. She also thought that the young man was Lu Budu's father, but it turned out that he was just his subordinate.
Budu's mother looks like a college graduate. She is really too young.
Lu Yao picked up Budu and said hello to Teacher Fang before leaving.
Ji Zhixin drove the car, and Lu Yao and Budu sat side by side in the back seat.
Budu: "Are you going to open a new store again?" Lu
Yao nodded.
Budu: "What kind of store is it this time?"
Lu Yao: "I want to open a bookstore."
After Budu went to kindergarten, he had to read and write every day, so he became curious: "Can bookstores make money?"
This is a key question, but Lu Yao is actually not sure.
Lu Yao went to a physical bookstore in the afternoon to learn about it and listened to the store manager talk about many twists and turns in opening a store.
In her time, physical bookstores were almost an industry on the verge of extinction, and most bookstores could not make a profit simply by selling books.
Normally operating bookstores either had strong financial support and did not expect to make money from selling books; or had the support of Guo Jia policies; or they continued to create bookstore by-products, such as combining with beverage shops and cultural and creative products, and making money by improving the reading experience and by-products; or they sold educational materials.
The Dream Fulfilling System also listened to the discussion between Lu Yao and the bookstore manager in the afternoon, from blind trust in the store owner to trepidation: "Does heaven need a bookstore?"
Lu Yao: "Well... we have to go see what heaven looks like first."
The car drove into the shopping street, and Lu Yao got off the car and began to give instructions: "Everyone, the new store will be located in the three empty rooms next to the main engine room. There is a floor above."
The main engine room is next to the DIY Creative House. There are three small shops on the right side of it, with stairs on the side. The upper floor was originally a residence.
The upper and lower floors were pulled together, the star gate was opened, and all upgraded to alien space, and the available space became very large.
Dream Fulfillment System: “Have you thought about it?”
Lu Yao: “Yes.”
The Dream Fulfillment System was silent for a few seconds, and then asked: “Can I ask why you want to open a bookstore this time?”
Lu Yao: “I really can’t think of any connection between a canning factory and heaven. But the great Borges said that heaven should look like a library. Libraries are a bit difficult, and I think it’s also good to start with a small bookstore.”
Regarding the canning factory, Lu Yao had some ideas, and his imagination was quite big, so he didn’t tell everything.
The system was a little happy, and it reminded Lu Yao that the star gate was about to open, urging him to choose the main category of business.
The star gate opened, and the system began maintenance, and the maintenance time was 24 hours.
…
The next afternoon, the maintenance of the new store was over.
The new store's sign is eye-catching green, with a few large white characters in the middle - Lu Yao's Bookstore.
The store name continues the usual concise style of the shopping street, except that there is a finger-sized "Yao" mark on the lower right corner of the word "shop".
Most stores on the shopping street have added this mark to their products and packaging, so regular customers know that these are the products in Lu Yao's store.
The three storefronts downstairs were opened up, leaving four wall pillars, and white lines were left on the floor as marks.
There are no bookshelves in the store for the time being, and no detailed decoration has been done.
Lu Yao wants to first understand the world in which the new store is located, and then decide on the decoration style of the store and the direction of the first batch of books.
As expected, the books imported from the Luguang City would need to be re-translated, printed and bound. Re-translation and publication would also require copyright negotiations. The preparations before the bookstore officially opened for business were more tedious and onerous than those of previous stores.
Lu Yao walked around the store, opened the door, and prepared to step into the new world.
The Dream Fulfilling System suddenly screamed, startling Lu Yao.
After a while, the dream-fulfilling system almost cried: "I'm sorry, I seem to have messed up."
Lu Yao tilted his head slightly: "Huh?"
"I was deceived." The dream-fulfilling system completely collapsed, "This is not heaven at all!"
Lu Yao stepped out of the doorstep, a gust of cold wind blew, lifting the broken hair by her ears, she raised her hand to hold down the flying hair, and looked around.
Clean streets, light gray roads, square houses on both sides, like neat Rubik's cubes, clean sidewalks on both sides, without any plants.
The world was quiet and silent, and there was no one on the street.
Lu Yao turned around and closed the shop door, and answered slowly: "I thought it was nothing. I knew in elementary school that 'there is no heaven', just like there is no Santa Claus at Christmas."
Dream-Fulfilling System: "So... you didn't believe me at the beginning?"
Whether it was that Lu Yao was misled to open a wrong store, or that he had never been trusted, either fact was enough to defeat him. Lu
Yao walked on the unfamiliar streets, his tone calm: "Relax, things may not be that bad. First tell me, where is this place?"
The Dream-Fulfilling System suppressed its disgust and shame, and replied weakly: "This is called Guan Island. There are nine areas on the island. I just got some information. This is an interstellar prison. The island holds the poorest and most vicious criminals in the entire star field."
This is a world where civilization and technological development far surpassed Lu Yao's era. Paper books have long been abandoned, and some races have even evolved to the point where they do not need words, and can convey information only by sound or thought.
Lu Yao's bookstore is not attractive in this era, and the store is located in a prison. They may have opened a primitive store in a place where knowledge is least needed.
Its failure may prevent Lu Yao from completing the mission.
If the mission fails and he cannot return to Qianmen Mountain, he will not be able to realize his wish. The more
he thinks about it, the more uncomfortable he feels.
No wonder there is no one on the whole street, and the houses on both sides of the street do not have obvious door and window designs.
Looking across the street, only Lu Yao's bookstore has doors and windows.
The dream-fulfilling system shut down for a long time, unable to bear the guilt and regret: "Lu Yao, scold me."
Lu Yao's eyes moved up along the door of the bookstore, and saw the light yellow curtains on the second floor window of the bookstore. Her eyes looked up, and her pupils suddenly shrank slightly, and she murmured: "What a beautiful starry sky."
The night was dark, the sky was far away, and the stars on the sky were very close, as if you could touch them with your hand.
The shape of the stars was very specific, one by one, small round balls, some of which had rings around them, and some of which were glowing, like a big light bulb.
The Dream-Fulfilling System was so self-critical that it wanted to find a jar to crawl into, ready to be mocked by the sharp-tongued shopkeeper, but it heard Lu Yao say something irrelevant.
It was stunned for a moment before speaking: "This is an artificial starry sky."
Lu Yao was also stunned: "Do we still need an artificial starry sky in the interstellar age?"
The Dream-Fulfilling System said weakly: "Because most of the people detained on Guandao are violent criminals with high mental values, in order to more closely monitor them, the sky and land of the entire island are man-made products."
Lu Yao stared at the artificial starry sky above her head: "Is it night now?"
The sky and the ground were too bright, and she didn't notice it at all.
The Dream-Fulfilling System tried to cheer itself up: "Yeah. Converted into the time calculation you are familiar with, the day and night in Guandao are both sixty hours."
Lu Yao blinked slightly: "A day and a night is 120 hours. I wonder how many meals a day the people here eat?"
The Dream-Fulfilling System really couldn't be as optimistic as the owner: "We are in the eighth district now, and there seems to be no one at night. How about we go back to the store first?"
...
At the same time, the office of the eighth district management director of Guandao.
Jail guard 0815 knocked on the door and reported: "Director, I just received news that a new merchant has just moved into the vacant store."
Management Director Jilan looked up: "It has been three months since the last merchant moved in?"
"Yes." 0815 nodded, and said one more sentence: "After the previous owner withdrew from District 8, he has been receiving psychological counseling and seems to have not yet come out of the shadow."
Jilan nodded: "Send me the information."
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