Chapter 2: Harvesting lemons, the first customer arrives...
Zhu Yu was awakened on time by his powerful biological clock.
She touched her flat belly and remembered that she only drank a cup of lemon tea yesterday and went to sleep without eating anything.
What should I eat?
Zhu Yu opened his personal panel and switched to the red player mode.
She browsed through the system mall.
Very good, just like the previous copy, the system mall still does not provide any food and water.
[Please receive your player novice gift pack]
Just as Zhu Yu was about to close the system mall, a message reminder suddenly popped up.
Wow, this copy also has a novice gift pack.
Although Zhu Yu is no longer a novice player, who would dislike free things?
She clicked to confirm without hesitation.
[Gold coins*100, nutrient solution*10, dust mask*1 have been placed in your backpack]
Nutrient solution!
This should be the main source of basic physical strength and nutrition for the players in this dungeon in their daily lives, right?
Zhu Yu curiously took out a test tube of nutrient solution from his backpack. The transparent liquid shimmered in the sunlight. There was a simple label on the bottle that read "Basic Type·Lemon Flavor".
"What a coincidence? This nutrient solution also has lemon flavor?"
She unscrewed the bottle cap and drank it all.
Instantly, a strange sour and bitter taste hit her taste buds.
"yue!"
Zhu Yu almost couldn't hold back and vomited. He quickly covered his mouth, frowned, and swallowed hard. Then he took a deep breath, "Who said it tasted like lemon? It clearly smells like industrial waste liquid!"
She stared at the test tube in her hand and made a mental note of the copy.
"Forget it, at least I'm not hungry anymore."
Although the taste of the nutrient solution is hard to describe, after drinking it, the hunger I felt just now disappeared all of a sudden, and I felt a lot more energetic.
After meeting the basic needs, Zhu Yu casually slid open the system interface and clicked on the task panel to view the side quests.
[Side Quest—Countdown: 40h]
1. Served a customer (Progress: 0/1)
2. Sold 10 cups of lemon tea (Progress: 0/10)
3. Pick 20 lemons (Progress: 0/20)
When he saw the last task, Zhu Yu slapped his head.
I almost forgot, the lemons in the orchard are ripe and ready to be picked!
She stood up from the bed, held the white jade pendant around her neck, closed her eyes, and moved her mind.
When she opened her eyes, she was already standing in the middle of the orchard.
Seeing the familiar orchard in front of him, Zhu Yu took a deep breath, and the fresh lemon scent hit him in the face.
The lemon trees in the orchard were arranged neatly, and each lemon exuded a golden glow, obviously fully ripe, waiting for her to pick.
Above the field, a virtual sickle was floating, swaying gently.
Zhu Yu walked over and touched the sickle icon. Immediately, a system prompt sounded in his ears: "Do you want to pick the fruits?"
"yes."
The virtual sickle instantly turned into a ray of light, sweeping across the field from top to bottom.
All of a sudden, all the ripe lemons fell down, and were then quickly absorbed into her storage space.
At the same time, the lemon trees gradually turned into wisps of light and disappeared into the air, and the ground returned to being an empty planting plot.
Zhu Yu opened the orchard panel and saw a line of data pop up on the screen:
[Lemons x 10 harvested, seeds x 20 generated, experience +30]
"30 experience points... just enough to unlock a new piece of land."
Zhu Yu opened the land interface and spent 30 experience points to expand new land.
Looking at the newly added blank fields, she did some calculations and found that there were currently 11 plots of land in the orchard. After deducting the sleeping time, she could plant lemons four times in a row. Each lemon had three experience points. In this way, she could unlock four new plots of land today.
After Zhu Yu finished his calculations, he opened the planting interface and replanted 11 lemon saplings with the lemon seeds he had just harvested.
The empty fields have become full of vitality again, with tender green saplings lined up neatly, waiting for a new round of growth.
"Okay, let's wait until they mature next time."
Zhu Yu left the orchard and returned to the fruit tea shop.
[Pick 20 lemons (Progress: 10/20)]
The third mission was already halfway through. Zhu Yu just sat down behind the counter and was about to continue studying the player mode in this dungeon world when he heard the electronic bell at the door:
"Welcome."
A player came to us so soon?
Zhu Yu raised his head and saw a young man with platinum-blond hair walking in from the door. His beach floral shirt was open and his peach blossom eyes looked around the store with interest.
"Hey, shop owner," he raised his chin, his voice lazily teasing, "your business is pretty quiet, did you just open?"
Zhu Yu stood up and replied with a polite smile on his face:
"I guess so. We just opened today. What can I order?"
"Shopkeeper, you only gave me one option on the menu," the man casually placed his hands on the countertop, flipped through the menu, and winked at Zhu Yu: "Then let's have ten cups of violent lemon tea first."
"Okay, please wait."
When entering the number of cups, Zhu Yu suddenly realized: "Ten... ten cups?"
Seeing the other party nod to confirm again, Zhu Yu curled his lips and quickly placed the order without giving the man a chance to regret.
"Hello, here are 200 gold coins in total. Our store is newly opened, you can top up 1,000 gold coins to become a member of our store, and you can enjoy a 20% discount."
Zhu Yu just opened the scanning page of the cash register, and the next moment, a system prompt sounded:
[Player "Yun Ze" becomes a member of our store and recharges gold coins*1000]
So quickly? Without even a second's hesitation.
Zhu Yu stared at the line of words thoughtfully. Is it that this player himself is wealthy, or is it that the overall wealth level of the players in this copy is relatively high?
The robot arm had already started making the beaten lemon tea. Amid the pounding sound of the machine, the other party did not leave the counter to find a seat to wait, but continued to chat with Zhu Yu in a brisk tone:
"Shopkeeper, is the underground city outside also under your management?"
"Yes, I am the city lord here."
Zhu Yu did not make any excuses to cover up and directly admitted his identity. At the same time, he glanced at the robotic arm to confirm the progress of the lemon tea production.
The other party seemed to be amused by her answer, his peach blossom eyes curved slightly, and his smile deepened a little:
"The Lord Mayor is selling tea himself? This really broadens my horizons."
Zhu Yu: "For a small business, you have to do it yourself."
"Interesting." Yunze dragged his tone, as if he was savoring her words. Then he seemed to remember something, his eyes flashed, and he asked again, "By the way, owner, which union are you from?"
Zhu Yu's hand paused imperceptibly.
She was completely unfamiliar with the term "guild" at this point, but based on some of the mobile games she had played before, she immediately realized that this should be an important organization of players in this copy, which might involve resource allocation and power relations between players.
In order to avoid revealing his flaws, Zhu Yu pretended not to hear and turned directly behind the counter. He took out a cup of freshly made lemon tea from the machine and handed it to him: "Your first cup of lemon tea is ready. Try it first to see how it tastes."
Yunze raised his eyebrows, seemingly not caring about the question she didn't answer. He took the cup and took a big sip.
Just after he took the medicine, his movements suddenly paused, and his lazy expression was instantly replaced by surprise. His peach blossom eyes widened slightly, as if he was a little bit unbelievable.
He slowly swallowed the tea, a satisfied smile gradually appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Wow, this tastes really good."
"Your ten cups are ready."
Zhu Yu pointed to the ten cups of lemon tea neatly placed on the counter and reminded.
Yunze put all ten cups of tea into his backpack.
After doing all this, he did not leave immediately, but stood in front of the counter, glanced at Zhu Yu, and casually reminded him: "Shopkeeper, you are running this place alone, so you have to be more careful."
"Huh?" Zhu Yu was stunned for a moment and looked up at him.
Yunze shrugged casually and said cheerfully, "This area has been a bit uneasy lately, and high-level monsters occasionally come out to wander around. You should be careful when you go out. Of course, it's best not to go out."
"Thank you for the reminder, I will pay attention to it."
Zhu Yu nodded and responded seriously on the surface, but she couldn't help complaining in her heart: It was such a hot day, and unless it was necessary, she would not be stupid enough to run out and be exposed to the scorching sun.
After watching Yunze turn around and leave, Zhu Yu finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Since this copy did not transport her until 45 days later, she was not familiar with some information.
When facing that player, she had to be extremely alert.
This was also the first customer after the opening. When Zhu Yu sat down, he couldn't help but recall Ou Qi, his first customer in the previous copy.
At that time, the other person's eyes were clear and a little shy, which was completely different from the sloppy player just now.
"Ah, college students are more innocent."
She sighed, slowly ordered herself a cup of lemon tea, and casually opened the task panel.
[Receive a customer (Progress: 1/1) (Completed)]
[Sold 10 cups of lemon tea (Progress: 10/10) (Completed)]
Zhu Yu smiled. Although the customer was a bit talkative, he was wealthy and bought ten cups of lemon tea in one go, which made it easy for her to complete two mission goals.
Next, she just needs to wait quietly for the next batch of lemon saplings to mature, and she can complete all the side quests!
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As soon as Yunze stepped onto the ground, the team members waiting nearby immediately surrounded him and asked anxiously, "Mr. Yun, what's going on? What's going on down there? Is that the sand boa's nest?"
Yunze glanced at them lazily and didn't answer in a hurry. Instead, he threw a cup of lemon tea from his backpack to each of them.
"Tea."
Jiang Dong took the cold cup and looked down at the lemon slices floating on it: "What is this? Is it poisonous?"
Yunze glanced at Jiang Dong unhappily, with a hint of impatience in his tone:
"Drink it if you want, or give it back to me if you don't want."
Jiang Dong was about to retort when a team member next to him took off his mask and impatiently took a sip. The next second, his eyes suddenly lit up and he exclaimed:
"Fuck, this tea tastes exactly like real-life thrashing lemon tea!"
Jiang Dong looked at him suspiciously, lowered his head to look at the lemon tea in his hand, and finally couldn't help but take a sip.
Instantly, his expression froze, apparently surprised by the unexpectedly refreshing taste.
He raised the cup and sniffed it carefully, then took another sip and muttered to himself, "I thought it would have the same 'lemon flavor' as those nutrient solutions, but I didn't expect it to have the right amount of sourness and sweetness, and a refreshing fragrance."
For a moment, several people were immersed in the cup of lemon tea in their hands, drinking it with great pleasure.
After Jiang Dong finished drinking it in one breath, he came back to his senses, looked up at Yunze, frowned and asked:
"By the way, where's that A-level sand anaconda? What did you find? And where did this tea come from?"
After hearing this, Yunze lazily leaned against a rock, shaking his lemon tea in his hand, and said slowly:
"The sand anaconda can't run away. I have probably already locked down the location of its lair. We just need to wait for it to come back. But right now, there is a more important issue that I need to report to the union first."
Jiang Dong was stunned, and his expression immediately became alert: "More important question? Could it be that other unions really sent people to intercept it?"
Yunze: "Don't worry, it's not a big deal. The problem is not the monster, but the new store downstairs."
He paused, looked up at everyone, and his tone became a little more serious: "That shop owner is quite interesting."
The team members looked at each other, confused: "Shopkeeper? What do you mean?"
Yunze did not respond directly. He just lowered his head and took a sip of lemon tea. He raised his eyebrows and said, "Let's deal with the sand anaconda first. You will understand later."
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