Chapter 12 Endless Stairs (7)
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This door almost spent all of Yi Han’s remaining money.
Although he even tried to scrape out every penny in order to save up the 100 million, he also knew that money is earned, not saved.
Doing business secretly in the blind spot of the system is not a long-term solution. If the outside world is really like the real world, a complete and real parallel world, he will have to rent the original physical store back sooner or later. Only by operating the physical store and the online store together can the business be truly expanded.
The "door" leading to the outside world really looks like a door.
After Yi Han bought it, a door icon appeared in the inventory, with a prompt that the "door" needed to be installed on a flat wall without any obstructions.
Yi Han installed it and the countdown started.
[This item has a time limit of 10 minutes. Please pay attention to the time and return to the room in time. If the player has not returned before the next level is drawn, the player will be deemed to have failed the "Real Escape Game" challenge.]
Ten minutes is not a long time. Yi Han did not waste any more time. He set an alarm on his mobile phone, opened the door and walked in.
There was a chaotic fog outside the door. After passing through it, a small path that was most common in residential areas appeared in front of me.
It was just 2 a.m., and the sky was still dark, with no stars or moon. There were dim street lamps on the roadside, and trees were planted on the side of the road, and the leaves rustled in the breeze.
Yi Han turned around and saw the place he had just come out of - an ordinary high-rise residential building. The building looked like a Rubik's Cube, probably with 20 to 30 floors, and many of the rooms with windows on the outside were lit. In front and behind this building, there were many similar buildings, with reasonable spacing and neatly arranged.
If it were in the real world, it would already be time to go to bed, but in this infinite world, the players had just finished the day's levels, and many of them, like Yi Han, had not rested yet.
There were groups of players walking on the road, some were walking out of the building, and some had just come back from outside. The places they were going to and the places they had just been to seemed to be in the same direction.
Yi Han controlled his expression, trying not to look like a newcomer. At the same time, he was secretly on guard and silently selected two girls who had just come out of the building next door and followed them.
The two girls also went in that direction. Yi Han thought that was the gate of the community, and there would be some special facilities outside, such as "mission release office" and "special goods auction house". Unexpectedly, the breeze brought their conversation to Yi Han's ears, and he even vaguely heard words like "stinky tofu" and "roasted lamb leg"...
This suddenly gave him a very unreliable guess...
The two girls walked through two buildings and turned a corner. Yi Han followed behind them. Before he got close, he seemed to hear a lot of noise coming from that side.
It seemed like many people were shouting and hawking their wares, but what they were selling were obviously not "such and such powerful weapons" or "such and such incredible abilities", but "such and such grilled cold noodles" and "such and such large mutton skewers"...
Yi Han's mood suddenly became complicated. After turning the corner, he suddenly saw a street full of people, a food street that looked like a vegetable market...
Just like in the real world, a row of vendors were sweating profusely as they grilled skewers. There were people lining up in front of each stall, and the small tables on the roadside were also full of people. The tables were filled with skewers of meat, beer, and stinky tofu ordered by the players. The only difference was that everyone used system points to trade.
In just a few seconds, the two girls who had just followed had blended into the crowd ordering food and could no longer be seen.
“……”Yi Han suddenly felt a little confused.
"Hey, little brother, are you the new guy who bought the door?" Suddenly, the boss of the grilled squid nearby greeted him.
Yi Han was startled to see that he was really talking to him. He thought to himself that something was wrong. It must be because of the shock just now that he couldn't control his expression and gave away the trap. It was not a good thing to expose his identity as a newcomer in such a place where players gathered. He immediately reached into the inventory and grabbed the handle of the pot.
Unexpectedly, Squid Boss saw through his defensive look again and laughed, "Don't be nervous, little brother, it's always like this the first time. Don't worry, the security here is very good, and no one will attack each other."
He had just prepared several servings of grilled squid for the customers, and those players took the squid and left. Although they heard what the boss said, they didn't even look at Yi Han.
"You're a newcomer and probably don't have many points. Here, take this. It's free." The Squid boss seemed to have made one extra from the previous order, so he generously handed it to Yi Han.
Yi Han didn't want to take it, but the boss was probably a part-time player who was setting up a stall. He didn't know what special props he had, but the stick was already in his hand before he could react. Then new customers came up soon, but the boss ignored him and continued to work hard.
"The squid here is super delicious," a girl passing by Yi Han turned to her bestie and said, "It's better than the second to last one inside, and it's 1 point cheaper. Let's queue for this one."
Her best friend immediately said yes.
Yi Han wanted to walk forward to take a look, but just as he took a step, he suddenly heard two people sighing behind him: "Alas, if you want to talk about delicious food, the best one is the braised pork in the novice level..."
Yi Han immediately paused and pricked up his ears.
"Yeah... But the forums all say that the store is elusive."
"For players who have passed the novice level, if we want to go back, we can only do so by assisting the new players. But the quota for this week has been used up. If we want to eat there again, we will probably have to wait until next week. We don't even know if we will be able to find it open again..."
The two sighed, but that was all they said before happily chatting about other food.
Yi Han didn't expect to meet his client the first time he came out. He walked forward along the snack street for a while thoughtfully.
Unexpectedly, when I passed by a few tables of players who were eating and chatting, I heard someone mention their own braised pork that could restore health. Everyone spoke in unison, praising it for being particularly delicious.
The door is only valid for ten minutes, and Yi Han only wandered around here for a short while before the time was almost up.
In order to avoid tragedy, I had to leave first.
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Yi Han was still a little confused until he returned to his room.
He had guessed that the ecological environment of the Lord God World was similar to the real world. But he had not expected the mental state of the players who temporarily lived in the Lord God World...
In his previous thoughts, players who were dragged into this kind of real-life escape game after a sudden death... shouldn't they all be bitter and resentful? But how come from Jian Lin, whom he met in the last game, to the shop owner he met this time, and the ordinary players sitting in the snack street drinking, eating and chatting, they all looked so... casual, friendly, and Buddhist?
Although the game itself feels somewhat Buddhist, neither cruel and bloody, nor dark and cunning, and sometimes even feels like teasing the players, there are still dangers and pressures. The players outside the door are so Buddhist, and compared to the "healing" ability of his braised pork, everyone is more concerned about whether it tastes good.
This made Yi Han even feel as if he was the only one in this game, working hard to pass the game and accumulate 100 million points...
Fortunately, this time I went out, I gained something else besides this.
"What are 'forum' and 'newbie assistance tasks'?" Yi Han asked the system directly.
He had heard these two terms from a random girl, but this kinetic energy had obviously not yet been activated in his system.
[The forum is a communication community provided by the game system for players. You need to clear at least 2 1-star dungeons before you can open social functions such as "add friends" and "invite duos". ]
[New player assistance missions are for old players to return to low-level levels to help new players pass levels. They can only be started after successfully unlocking a two-star dungeon.]
Sure enough, he couldn't open either of them for the time being, but this function full of friendly atmosphere once again made Yi Han confused about this game that should be full of open and covert fighting.
Speaking of which, from what those passers-by said, the reputation of my online store seems to have spread in the forum.
Yi Han didn’t know whether this was a good thing or not. After all, the more famous he became, the more likely it was that his illegal store would be discovered by the game company.
"I have to unlock the forum as soon as possible to see what's going on." Yi Han thought, and decided immediately: "I'll take a nap first, and when the difficult mode is officially activated, I'll start the game right away."
After a night's rest, the new level was shown as accessible.
[Level Name: Hot Spring Bath (One Star Difficulty)]
[Number of players: 8]
[Level Description: You and your colleagues are participating in a departmental team building, and end up being locked in a haunted hot spring bath. Please find a way out and the key, and escape before 24:00.]
[Clearance Reward: 200 points (basic points)]
[Failure penalty: Stay in the hot spring bath forever, accompanied by evil spirits. ]
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