266 The Eleventh Store
◎ Guandao. ◎
0815 He lowered his head slightly: "The information has been sent to you."
Jilan opened the star ring implanted in his wrist, and all the information about the new stores in the eighth district was unfolded in front of him.
Jilan was just checking it out as a routine. He was not very interested in the merchants coming from outside. He casually scanned two lines, paused slightly, and suddenly quickly browsed the entire document.
He asked, "Is the new store manager a native?"
0815 remembered the screen he saw when he passed by the surveillance room when he came from the office just now: "Yeah."
The data clearly stated, but Jilan still couldn't believe it: "Isn't it covered with simulated skin?"
0815 shook his head. At first glance, simulated skin looks no different from real skin, and users can change skin color and skin material at any time according to their preferences.
Some humans do choose to cover a layer of simulated skin after replacing their mechanical bodies, but 0815 is sure that the new store owner is a native person without any mechanical limbs installed.
Jilan closed the data, stood up and said, "I won't read it anymore. I guess they will have to change people soon."
Those imprisoned in Guandao are all high-spirited criminals. The natives who have not changed their mechanical bodies are like newborn babies in front of them. They are simply the most perfect toys.
They spent a lot of money to enter the eighth district, but they don't even do basic protection. They are either stupid or looking for death.
Jilan walked to the door and stopped again: "What kind of store does she open?"
The face of the mechanical skeleton structure was cold and hard. 0815 couldn't make any expression. He mechanically spit out two words: "Bookstore."
Jilan suddenly raised his voice: "Bookstore?"
0815 didn't understand at first, so he went to check the information: "It's probably a store specializing in selling books."
Jilan: "..."
It's really the kind of store he thought of.
In the 293rd year of the star calendar, paperless teaching and office work were popularized throughout the star region.
It is now the 695th year of the Star Calendar. Technology has undergone countless innovations, and paper and books have long been obsolete.
Jilan can't even remember how long ago he last heard the word "book", not to mention that this is Guandao, where the most insane people in the entire star field are imprisoned.
Compared to reading some crappy books, those guys are full of thoughts about jailbreaking, brainwashing, and subverting the star field. The most basic thoughts are to bully new prisoners or tease the "honest people" who want to make a fortune in the eighth district.
Jilan said, "I bet in three days, this store will close."
0815 was more practical: "Frequent changes of partners are not good for District Eight."
Jilan didn't care much: "If it collapses, we will cooperate with District Seven. We have long wanted to set up a mental interrogation room."
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There was a new prop in Lu Yao's portable warehouse - a dark black ring with fine starlight flowing like broken gold on the surface. It can automatically adjust its size when worn on the wrist.
The system said that it was a prop that was automatically released when the star gate was opened. It was called the Star Ring. It had functions similar to mobile phones, but was much more advanced than mobile phones.
The Star Ring was loaded with a personal optical computer, identity chip, personal asset information and all past resumes.
Lu Yao had too many props on him, so he didn't put on the Star Ring immediately. He sat in a chair and studied how to use it.
Another screen suddenly popped up on the blue-black floating screen visible to the naked eye - a file was sent by 0815, the prison guard of the eighth district.
The Dream-fulfilling system spoke at the right time: "0815 is the contact person of the eighth district."
The new store was opened in the prison. Unlike the previous store, there are direct managers above it and certain management rules need to be followed.
Lu Yao had thought of this earlier. She thought that there would be staff to meet face to face like in Ghost Street, but she didn't expect there was only a file.
The file sent by 0815 contains basic information about Guandao (including a rough map), store management precautions, and business hours.
Guandao is a prison that specializes in imprisoning interstellar criminals.
There are nine areas on the island that are open to the public, and the areas that Lu Yao has access to are limited to the seventh, eighth, and ninth areas of the outer island.
Except for the slightly more detailed information of District 8, the data of Districts 7 and 9 are quite rough.
District 7 is a special interrogation area, which seems to be used exclusively for interrogating prisoners. District 9
is a labor area, or in layman's terms, it is where prisoners step on sewing machines.
The labor area in the interstellar era probably has many innovations.
Unfortunately, it involves a blind spot in knowledge, and Lu Yao can't imagine it, nor can he make a comparison.
The key point is that prisoners coming out of Districts 7 and 9 will pass through District 8.
District 8 is the only area in the nine districts of Guandao that attracts foreign investment. Lu Yao inferred that District 8 is a special area set up for legal income generation.
Lu Yao saw the simple maps of Districts 7, 8, and 9. All facilities and supplies on the island are provided by the government, and theoretically no foreign merchants are needed.
The map of District 8 has been updated with information about the bookstore. There is only one store on the entire street where the bookstore is located, "Lu Yao's Bookstore", and the rest are official facilities.
The data shows that District 8 only has one quota for each investment promotion. Ordinary people who want to do business in Guandao not only need to go through a complicated review process, but also have to pay a high entry fee.
In other words, there are no competitors on this street. Jail guards and prisoners are potential customers of the bookstore. The more Lu Yao looks at it, the more he feels that the new store is not too bad.
Lu Yao was suddenly shocked when he saw the formalities and entry fees marked at the end of the data, and immediately checked the store manager's panel.
Shop owner: Lu Yao
Age: 22
Stores: 12
Employees: 625
Popularity: 71354500
Assets: 1965W
Wish progress: 63%
Warehouse grid: 50
(Shopping Street Map)
The branch stations of the errand shop are not divided into separate stores. Including the bookstore that has not yet officially opened, Lu Yao already has twelve independent stores.
Lu Yao has recruited many errand runners in the errand shop. Those who have signed the contract are considered employees. There are more than 600 employees in the entire shopping street.
If time could go back to the beginning of last spring, Lu Yao and the Dream Fulfilling System might not believe that the small broken street could develop to its current scale.
There is no need to look at the popularity value. Lu Yao looked at the assets that mattered most. There was still 1965W in the account.
During the Mid-Autumn Festival, online game activities and shopping street VIPs had revenue. Lu Yao's assets did not shrink for the time being, and the progress of wishes also increased a lot.
The errand shop actually made a lot of money. The head office vacated a warehouse specifically for gold storage. Lu Yao also took most of the gold bars and put them in the portable warehouse. It was a pity that the wall of the world blocked her way to cash out, otherwise she would be a wealthy woman with a small amount of assets now. Lu Yao
slowly breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the new store settled in the eighth district did not use her small treasury.
Seeing Lu Yao checking the treasury, the Dream Fulfilling System suddenly said, "There's something I forgot to mention. We don't have the universal Star Coins in our account. We've used a loan to pay the settlement fee first, and we have to find a way to pay it back."
Lu Yao suddenly had a bad feeling in his heart: "What?"
The system task reminder suddenly sounded -
[You have a new task! Lu Yao's bookstore is settling in the eighth district of Guandao. It has a loan of 10 million Star Coins from Xinghua Bank. There are still 32 days left before the repayment deadline. Repay the loan on time, waive the interest, and reward Star Coins*50,000. If you are overdue for one day, the interest will increase by 10%! Please open the business as soon as possible, work hard, and repay the loan on time! 】
Lu Yao: "???" Lu Yao
was about to explode.
What kind of shady loan contract is this? Have they asked her for her opinion?
She could tolerate the misleading information on the store opening and the tricky store location selection, but they made her take out a loan of tens of millions for no reason, and the repayment conditions were so harsh, and they didn't even hide their intentional difficulties.
"Why didn't you ask me in advance?"
The Dream-Fulfilling System blamed itself and felt helpless: "This loan is a prerequisite for opening the Star Gate. If you don't deposit the settlement fee into the account of the eighth district in advance, the store can't be established."
Time was stretched to infinity, and Lu Yao sat in silence in the store.
In the dark of the chair, the shadow cast on the floor was trembling, and the edge of the shadow seemed to be pricked by needles, constantly trying to break free from some kind of restraint.
The night was as cold as water. Lu Yao finally suppressed her irritable mood bit by bit, and the shadow on the floor stopped dancing.
She slowly stood up from the chair, walked out the door, and broke off a piece of material from the road in front of the bookstore with her bare hands.
There was too little useful information in the file sent by 0815. Lu Yao was unwilling to go through twists and turns to obtain intelligence. She took the silver material back to the store and sent a message to Xiao Ji to send Alfred over. Lu Yao
used the key of time and space to trace back the time of the material and obtained the latest and most complete intelligence. Combined with the environment of Guandao, he quickly drew the shop decoration drawings and submitted them to the Dream-making System.
"Finish the interior decoration within twelve hours. I will go down to select the books. After I get the copyright, I will translate them for you and I will be responsible for proofreading. The bookstore will be officially opened in two days at the latest."
The Dream-Fulfilling System asked cautiously, "Are you not angry anymore?"
Lu Yao had already digested the bad emotions and said in a terrifyingly stable tone, "There is no point in being angry. Let's prepare for the store opening first."
This time he made a big mistake. He earned 10 million star coins in 32 days, but it was actually only 30 days from the official opening.
Lu Yao roughly estimated based on the information he collected that the purchasing power of one star coin was about equal to five soft sister coins.
The bookstore needs to earn an average of 340,000 star coins every day to barely complete the task, which is equivalent to a turnover of 1.7 million soft sister coins. It can only be achieved if there are no accidents during the business hours.
Fortunately, one day in this world is equal to five days in the Shaguang City. Lu Yao repeatedly confirmed with the system that the repayment time is calculated according to the star calendar. The task time limit is longer than the time calculation she is used to, but the business hours cannot be calculated so roughly.
After communicating with the system, Lu Yao came out of the bookstore and returned to the shopping street to draw up the first batch of book lists. Then he spent the whole afternoon contacting the staff and VIP guests of the shopping street.
Lu Yao's bookstore wants to officially open within two days calculated according to the star calendar. The biggest obstacle is to obtain the copyright for the translation and publication of books in time.
Two days into the calendar, Lu Yao had about ten days to negotiate the copyrights he wanted.
According to the normal process, it was impossible to get so many genuine copyrights in ten days.
Lu Yao could only use the connections he had built up over two years of business, using money, favors, and even rare services to speed up the acquisition.
Ji family, Bai family, Fu Chi, Yu Shu, Du Mingyan, Shen Pingjin, Shi Yan, Xie Xiuliang, Lu Yanlin... Among the VIPs in the shopping street, there are many guests who understand the publishing industry and even know famous writers.
The owner used all means to get the translation and publishing rights of most of the books on the list in six days, including some overseas copyrights, and the assets were inevitably reduced by a large amount.
Lu Yao didn't have time to think about these details. She returned to the bookstore immediately after getting the contract and plunged into the mustard space to push forward the follow-up work.
Yuanmeng System and Alfred were responsible for the translation, Lu Yao revised and proofread, and finally put the final version into printing.
The cover design and printing of the translation were all completed in the shopping street.
...
Two long days passed, and the "antique" store on the bookstore street in the eighth district of Guandao officially opened.
【Author's words】
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