346 ? This World (1)

346 This World (1)

◎A grocery store that sells humanity's ultimate fantasy. ◎Lu

Yao opened the store manager page after a long absence——

Shopkeeper: Lu Yao

Age:

22Stores: 13Employees

: 665Popularity

: 99999999Assets

: 225wWish

progress: 90%

Warehouse grids: 100

(Shopping Street Map)

From snack bars to rental shops, Lu Yao has thirteen stores under his name, covering twelve alien worlds, with a total of 665 employees, including intelligent creatures, artificial intelligence, and robots. His popularity has reached the current maximum value, and his assets are only about two million.

Lu Yao looked at the pitiful balance in the asset column. After many days of self-cultivation, she could not help but feel depressed again.

Her money, not only did it not increase, but it became less and less.

The Dream Fulfilling System added with a lack of confidence: "You have been in the Godless Land for more than half a year. Not only did you return to Qianmen Mountain, but Harold could not set foot in the Shaking Light City. This world cannot maintain a stable and continuous income, but other stores have different degrees of dependence on the Shaking Light City. If it were not for the income from the game krypton gold channel and the long-term support of die-hard VIP customers, many stores would face the crisis of temporary closure." Lu

Yao knew all these situations. In the past six months, she could not enter and leave the shopping street freely, and various stores had different degrees of operating problems.

The owner is not here, and the staff is trying to maintain the business. The assets of this world are still around two million, which is not easy.

But the owner, no matter how kind he is, will find it difficult to remain calm when he thinks that he has worked hard for three years to open a store, but it is still a mess when he returns.

The progress of the mission has made great progress. Lu Yao only got a bone in the star field, and even got no bones in the Godless Land, but the progress of the mission is faster than before.

When the bookstore mission was completed, the warehouse grid was still fifty, but this time it was upgraded to one hundred in one go, as if preparing for the new store that is about to open.

After the mission in the Godless Land was completed, Lu Yao's biggest gain was the development of an ability that does not belong to any god's half body, and the authority to open the star gate of this world.

The star gate of this world is opened. Time, magic, energy, antiques, elixirs, artifacts, deep-sea ingredients, high-tech props, robots... Any resource she has can become a commodity. Thinking of the new world that is about to open, Lu Yao's fluctuating mood calms down.

People can't just look back. Now that they have the capital to move forward, the past is written off, and they can look at "money" openly in the future. She can't wait to prepare for the opening of the new store.

The moment the restriction of the star gate in the godless land was broken, the clerks who stayed in the shopping street all felt it.

The time in the shopping street was late at night. In addition to the clerks in the Shaking Light City who worked the night shift on weekdays, the clerks from the other world who stayed in the store also noticed the movement.

It was an extremely mysterious feeling. It was as if a soft and warm light fell from the void and gently brushed everyone's shoulders. The owner's voice could be heard faintly.

She said, "I'm back."

Bai Lu, who was on duty at the hot spring hotel, Zhong Lianjia, who was working the night shift at the Super Time and Space Internet Cafe, Harold, the deputy manager of the nail salon, Xiao Qi, the deputy manager on duty at the snack bar, and Die Qi, the deputy manager of the Super Time and Space Cinema, all jumped up and ran out of the store when they sensed the owner's presence. Sure enough, they saw a familiar figure standing in the middle of the street.

Unlike the last time he came back more than half a year ago, the owner was still as thin, but his shoulders were no longer hunched, and he had regained the body of a young man. His silver hair had turned back to raven blue, his skin was smooth, and he had a faint and gentle smile on his face.

The familiar shop owner finally came back.

Bai Lu and Zhong Lianjia stood at the door for a moment, then ran towards Lu Yao.

The deputy store manager of the other world stood in front of the store, full of excitement, but unable to move forward. He could only watch eagerly as Lu Yao hugged and greeted the staff of the Yaoguang City.

Zhong Lianjia was still restrained, Bai Lu hugged Lu Yao tightly and was unwilling to let go, and even wiped her tears on the shop owner.

The emotions of several local store clerks calmed down. Lu Yao stood in the middle of the road, hesitating for a moment, thinking about how to balance the situation. As expected, he should start with the first store, the snack bar, to avoid being caught. When he walked past, he saw Harold standing at the door of the nail salon with his arms folded. Lu Yao changed his footing and stepped onto the stairs in front of the nail salon first.

She stood in front of Harold and raised her eyes slightly, "Harold, I'm back."

Harold kept an impatient look on his face, looked around, and snorted, "Too slow, it took you so long to come back. But, the silver hair finally turned black again, and the wrinkles disappeared. Can you live longer? Edward, Clarissa and Ambrose all want to see you, and they have thought of many ways recently. As long as you come back from that shabby shop, you can live forever."

It's been another half year since they last met, and Harold has grown taller.

After all, he is a dragon who is about to grow up, his eyebrows and eyes are sharper, and his temperament has become calmer.

Lu Yao stood on tiptoe and patted Xiao Heilong's shoulder, smiling: "Don't worry, I won't die that easily. I don't want to become a vampire, a demon or an undead. Tell everyone, I'll come over to talk after I take care of the things that are piled up in the store."

Xiao Qie next door, Die Qi across the street, and Yu Cai from Qingshan Noodle House were all looking at this place from afar. Even if there was no deputy manager, they had to go and take a look first. Lu Yao was under a lot of pressure.

Harold didn't say anything, but he didn't want to go back to the store. He stood at the door of the nail salon and saw Lu Yao turn around and walk towards the snack bar next door.

Lu Yao walked a few steps, and suddenly turned back, looking at Harold with a clear gaze. His eyes slowly turned around, scanning every clerk in the shopping street, and said lightly: "This time I came back, I achieved a new result. Soon, I will open a new store in Shaguang City. By then, the space-time barrier for Shaguang City will be invalid like other stores."

Harold blinked, his dark blue pupils shrank slightly, and he seemed to be unconvinced: "Then I can also step into this city?" Lu Yao

nodded.

Harold has been to many different worlds. Shaguang City doesn't seem to be special. It's even ordinary and boring without any characteristics. But the only world he wants to go to but can't is here.

Harold took a half step forward and raised his voice: "When do you plan to open the new store?"

Xiaoqie from next door couldn't help it, and replied coldly: "Luyao just came back from that store, so he naturally needs to rest for a few days. Why are you in such a hurry?"

Harold glanced at the little purple-haired boy, said nothing, and turned to walk into the store.

Lu Yao successfully got rid of the shackles of the godless land, and he will be able to go to the Shaking Light City soon. Nothing is more exciting than these two pieces of news, so there is no need to argue here. Lu Yao

started from the snack bar and inspected the shops one by one.

Bai Lu and Zhong Lianjia returned to their respective jobs and waited for the owner to come, but the owner did not show up until dawn.

Bai Lu couldn't help but posted a photo of the owner in the employee group, with the news that a new store would be opened in the Shaking Light City.

When Lu Yao came back late at night, the staff had already discussed thousands of floors in the group. Perhaps this news was like a depth charge, causing a reaction like a landslide and tsunami in the group.

[Furry Shop - Zhou Su: Does that mean that I can finally take home the super luxurious gem mooncake box that I have kept in the office for three years? ]

[Childhood Tutorial Center - Bai Yi: Good idea, I can also take my Qiankun bag home and use it, so I don’t need to bring a suitcase when I travel in the future. ]

[Hot Spring Hotel - Ji Qingyan: Do I no longer need to take slimming and beauty pills in the office? And the souvenir that the owner brought back a year ago, can the space ring be used daily? ]

[Super Time and Space Internet Cafe - Zheng Ziqiu: What is it? ? ? We used to have such good benefits? How come I didn’t know anything about it. ]

[Childhood Tutorial Center - Bai Yi: When you joined the company, the owner was busy renting the store, and most of the hidden benefits were cut off. The owner finally came back after solving the problems of the new store, and he was happy again. 】

【Super Space Internet Cafe-Zheng Ziqiu: I just saw the photo of the owner, and he is completely different from the one during the interview. Has he changed so much? 】

Zheng Ziqiu saw Lu Yao as an old lady when she first met him, and her impression of Lu Yao remained at the time of their first meeting.

Later, she occasionally heard her colleagues talking about the owner, and she couldn't imagine what the owner really looked like until she saw the photo that Bai Lu posted in the group just now.

In the year when the owner was trapped in the godless land, the shopping street was particularly low-key, and the formal employees also tried their best to avoid trouble, so that the new employees who had been employed for half a year still knew their boss at a very superficial level.

Zheng Ziqiu knew that the shopping street was a remote workplace with excellent benefits, and that Lu Yao was a very powerful boss, but he never thought that Lu Yao could even do something like rejuvenation.

There are monsters and demons in the Floating World Continent, as well as cultivators. Zheng Ziqiu accepted them well, but it is said that the store owner is an ordinary human being born and raised like the store clerks in Yaoguang City.

Zheng Ziqiu carefully looked at Lu Yao's photos for a long time and saved them. She felt that the store owner, who looked like an ordinary human, was actually very far from her.

***

Lu Yao spent three days dealing with the accumulated affairs of the stores in the shopping street. There were too many things to do, so for the time being he just sorted them out roughly and then gradually pushed some of the stagnant matters back on track.

The Super Time and Space Cinema has not shown any new movies for three months. Snack bars and Qingshan Noodle House have adjusted their menus several times, reducing nearly 50% of the ingredients that need to be purchased from the Shakeout Market. The blind box store has stagnated in new products. The Creative DIY House has not launched any new hand-made activities for half a year. The bookstore has not put new books on the shelves for four months, and it will have to pay copyright fees to three authors in the near future... Some stores have problems in operation, some because of insufficient funds, and some because the owners are absent.

After three days of busy work, I only felt two big words floating in front of me - lack of money!

The first step to restore the vitality of the shopping street is to open a new store first.

With money, everything can be revitalized!

The first step to open a new store is to choose a suitable store, determine the main business, and then open the star gate.

Lu Yao has been thinking about the main business for a long time. She wants to sell the various stocks accumulated in the warehouse and the interesting goods from other worlds to the customers in this world. Only "grocery store" can fully demonstrate her ambition.

Lu Yao's grocery store in the other world is the name of the new store opened in this world.

As for the storefront, Lu Yao chose two huge vacant warehouses on the shopping street as the place for packaging and shipping.

Because Lu Yao does not plan to set up offline stores, the new store directly faces customers in the form of an online store.

After the store location, the main business of the store, and the business model are determined, Lu Yao plans to open the star gate.

The Dream Fulfilling System dutifully reminds you: [After the star gate is opened, the City of Shaking Light will be able to communicate with the world with the star gate, but other things may also come to this world through the gate.]

The world where Lu Yao is located was originally an ordinary world with low magic and low martial arts.

Before the previous generation of gods fell, evil things and strange phenomena were only spread among a very small group of people.

The existence of the paradise game and the illusion ring are extremely accidental phenomena, which is partly due to the fact that the demon god is too powerful.

Since the fall of the previous generation of gods, the world where the City of Shaking Light is located has become more boring and ordinary. The bizarre phenomena and existences that could be observed through special props before have become invisible and untouchable.

Once the star gate is opened, those isolated strange creatures will reappear, and what's worse is that some beings who have set their sights on Lu Yao will sneak through the opened star gate.

The Dream-Fulfilling System only recently learned about the existence of the star gate rules. It turns out that it is both a constraint and a protection for Lu Yao.

A world with star gates but no gods is like a piece of fat meat hanging high in the air, and with Lu Yao as a target, the Dream-Fulfilling System dare not imagine what kind of chaos the situation will be once the star gate is opened.

Lu Yao: "After the mission in the Godless Land was completed, no new clues were received. If we don't open the star gate in Yaoguang City, where else can we go?"

Dream-Fulfilling System: [No, this is the last leg. 】

Lu Yao: "Then are there any other options?"

Dream Fulfilling System: [...I'm just reminding you. 】

Lu Yao: "This kind of reminder with no way out is just a disclaimer. Don't worry, let's not talk about the strange things that existed before the fall of the old gods, but it's not that easy for outsiders to pass through my star gate."

She remembered the 10 million gate fee clearly.

It's not impossible to pass through the star gate, but the fee must be at least doubled.

Dream Fulfilling System: [Also, you have too many types of goods, many of which are items that ordinary people in this world will never touch. Even if there is a one in ten thousand chance of getting it, you still have to pay a price of equal value, just like the Fantasy Ring. 】

Lu Yao: "I understand. It's about balance. Don't worry. I can handle things well, even if I don't know anything else."

[……] The more decisive and relaxed Lu Yao's response was, the more unsure the Dream-Fulfilling System felt: [I always feel like you're a little frivolous. Are you planning to do something bad?]

This "bad thing" is not "evil" in the universal sense, but based on the Dream-Fulfilling System's understanding of the store owner, it always feels like she's planning to do something outrageous.

Any item in Lu Yao's hand could make headlines if she sold it.

Seeing how excited she was, it was obvious that she was not just selling it casually.

Lu Yao's eyes were bright: "You always assume I'm so bad!"

Lu Yao teased the Dream Fulfilling System for a while, urging it to open the Star Gate as soon as possible.

The Dream Fulfilling System was entangled for a while, and now its little arms could no longer twist the golden thigh of the store owner.

Forget it.

***

Yaoguang City, Lu Yao's hometown.

An ordinary world.

The humans in this world do not know magic, do not have superpowers, do not know how to cultivate immortality, and do not have holographic games. There are no robots or highly intelligent humanoid robots. The greatest power of humans is fantasy.

So why can't she sprinkle a few small miracles in this world of only fantasy?

The star gate opened, and on a run-down street in the suburbs of Lucky City, a grocery store selling the ultimate fantasy of mankind quietly appeared.

[Author's words]

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