Chapter 32
With buses running back and forth to pick up passengers, the number of residents soon exceeded 1,000, and upgrading was just around the corner.
In the evening, when the day's work was almost done, Ye Qing said goodbye to everyone and slipped into her room. When people who knew her saw her half-hidden expression, they roughly guessed that she was going to be promoted.
Zeng Yi looked at her lovingly as she closed the door with a mysterious look on her face, and couldn't help but chuckle.
Da Mao, who was standing by, didn't understand what was going on. He opened his big, innocent eyes and asked, "Brother Zeng, why do you always smile at the boss?"
As if his thoughts were guessed, Zeng Yi's handsome face flushed slightly, and after a long while, he stammered, "No... I didn't look at her. I was just thinking about the delicious food for lunch."
As soon as these words were spoken, Li Yuanyuan, who was guarding the counter, burst out laughing. Seeing Zeng Yi and Damao looking at her, she pretended nothing had happened and took a crispy ice cream.
Zeng Yi coughed lightly and said, "Don't think about anything else, just work hard." Then he hurriedly left the scene.
Da Mao looked confused, scratching his head and asked Li Yuanyuan blankly: "Sister Yuanyuan, what am I thinking about?"
Li Yuanyuan took a bite of half the tip of the ice cream, squinting her eyes with a look of enjoyment: "You are still young, you will understand it later."
Damao didn't understand what was going on and walked away slowly with questions in his mind.
In the room, Ye Qing went into the shower room, turned on the hot water at a suitable temperature, and listened to the system announcement while taking a shower.
[Container income: 3000, restaurant income: 10000, clinic income: 5000, accommodation income: 2500, bus income: 5000.]
[Container cost: 1500, restaurant cost: 5000, clinic cost: 2500, accommodation cost: 0, operating cost: 500, bus fuel cost: 500.]
Today's profit: 11,000.
[Shelter Level: Level 3, Mission Progress: 1500/1000 Residents (Upgradable), Passengers: 120.]
[Crystal core balance: 620,000.]
[Side Quest 1 - "A Relaxing Entertainment Venue": Quest progress 0/3, quest reward 10 card draws.]
[Side Quest 2 - "A Relaxing Place for an After-Dinner Stroll": Quest Progress 0/1000, Quest Reward: 10 Card Draws.]
There was no progress on either of the two side quests, but the shelter had reached the upgrade conditions, and the crystal core balance was as high as seven figures, which was much better than having the debt wiped out at the beginning.
Ye Qing whistled, and with his smooth white hands, he clicked on the upgrade button on the system panel.
[Whether to spend 100,000 crystal cores to upgrade.]
【whether. 】
【yes. 】
【Upgrading, please wait...】
The higher the level of the shelter, the longer it takes to upgrade. It took less than a minute to upgrade at the beginning, but now it takes a full half an hour to upgrade to level 4.
Ye Qing didn't care about it. He applied shower gel on his body, picked up the bath ball and popped bubbles one after another. When he finally came out of the bathroom feeling refreshed, the system sound rang at the right time.
【Upgrade completed, please check~】
[Congratulations on successfully reaching level 4. You will be rewarded with 10 card draws.]
This is the first time there are rewards for upgrading!
The side quest was too difficult to complete, and she had only used the lottery pool once before watching it gather dust. But now she had such a precious opportunity, and she couldn't help but giggle at the number.
Saving the rarest ones for last, she did not use them immediately, but instead spent another 100,000 crystal cores to upgrade the small clinic. After the upgrade was complete, she opened the system panel to check.
[Shelter Level: Level 4, Mission Progress: Residents: 1500/10000, Passengers: 120.]
[Crystal core balance: 420,000.]
Shelter area: Building area: 1,200 square meters (expandable), total open space area: 21,100 square meters.
Shelter facilities: Small clinic (level 5), one bus (level 2), one restaurant, one clothing store, one container, one vending machine, one ice cream machine, two water dispensers, and several tables and chairs.
Ye Qing finally discovered the pattern: the upgrade of the shelter increases exponentially with the resident population.
Level 1 only needs to serve one guest, then level 2 needs 10 residents, level 3 needs 100 people, level 4 needs 1,000 people, and level 5 needs 10,000 people.
If you calculate it this way, then level 6 will have 100,000 people, level 7 will have 1 million people, and the later you upgrade to Vietnam, the maximum level of the shelter is level 10, so to upgrade to level 10, you need a population of 1 billion?
The more he calculated, the scarier it became. Not to mention whether it could be done, it was still unknown whether there would still be such a large population in the apocalypse. Therefore, Ye Qing guessed that there would be other requirements for subsequent upgrades.
Moreover, the system gives a time limit of one year. After one year, the protective shield will disappear. Once the protective shield disappears, all exposed buildings and residents will face the threat of radiation, and tens of millions of people will be in danger.
By then, all her efforts would be ruined.
The more he thought about it, the more headache he got. Ye Qing simply gave up and turned to look at other information.
She couldn't wait to see the system mall. The mall had four major sections: housing, food, clothing, and entertainment. The first three sections were currently open, and the last one was what she had been thinking about for a long time.
After spending more than ten days in the radiation apocalypse, she was almost bored to death and had to count the zombies passing by the door, not to mention the locals who had lived in this world all their lives.
If a new and interesting thing that can relax the body and mind appears at this time, it will definitely cause a sensation and attract more residents.
But the facts still disappointed her. The icon of the entertainment section was still gray. No matter how Ye Qing clicked it, she couldn't get in. A feeling of loss came over her, and she sighed deeply. She decided to just endure it.
She had no place to spend the 520,000 crystal cores that were supposed to be reserved for the entertainment sector, so she turned to the housing sector.
Building area (expandable), Ye Qing had never seen this word before. Every time the system was upgraded, the first floor would be automatically expanded outward. After the floor area was expanded, the newly expanded vacant space on the upper floors could be used to purchase rooms in the mall.
She looked at the word in confusion and clicked on it.
[Should we spend 100,000 crystal cores to expand?]
【whether. 】
100,000!
This huge number immediately scared Ye Qing. Money is hard to earn and shit is hard to eat. If you don't manage the household, you don't know how expensive oil and salt are. Half of the crystal cores that he had worked hard for several days disappeared in the blink of an eye.
Ye Qing gritted his teeth, closed his eyes and nodded "yes".
【Expansion completed, please check~】
Shelter area: Building area: 2,500 square meters (2 buildings), total open space area: 20,000 square meters.
This happened quickly. Ye Qing immediately clicked on the panel to view the miniature model of the building.
Originally there was only one main building on the open space, but now another building of the same size has appeared behind the main building, connected to the main building by a glass corridor.
The glass corridor is 20 meters long and 5 meters wide, covering an area of exactly 100 square meters. One end of it is connected to the empty wall of the elevator shaft, and the other end is connected to the center of the new building, making it convenient for people to travel between the two buildings.
Ye Qing enlarged the model and looked at it carefully from top to bottom. There were not many changes in the exterior and interior of the building, except for the addition of an annex building.
To make it easier to distinguish them, she named the original building the Comprehensive Building and the new building Building 1. Following this pattern, if other buildings are added in the future, they can be named in numerical order.
Building 1 has only one floor and is empty. Ye Qing plans to leave it vacant temporarily to make room for other facilities to be opened in the future.
Then he began to check the room vacancy rate. At present, all the rooms are almost full. Occasionally, there are no suitable room types due to too many passengers, so they have to stay in the four-person dormitory. Ye Qing plans to arrange the number of room types carefully during this upgrade.
When I opened the house panel of the system mall, I was surprised to find that other room types had been added to the guest rooms, which provided me with many more choices.
The first floor of the comprehensive building covers an area of 1,200 square meters and has a total of 36 rooms, including 10 four-person dormitories, 10 single rooms, 10 double rooms, and 6 family suites.
She continued to increase the number of floors according to the original layout until it reached the 28th floor, which was the limit.
The next step is to arrange Building 1. Building 1 cannot follow the layout of a comprehensive building. As people's living conditions improve in the future, their spiritual pursuits will become higher and higher. If the comprehensive building is set up for the poor, Building 1 will be set up according to the level of the petty bourgeoisie.
She does not plan to stay in the four-person dormitory. There are 8 single rooms, 8 double rooms, and 8 one-bedroom and one-living room rooms suitable for singles and couples. There are two types of family suites: 3 two-bedroom and one-living room rooms and 3 three-bedroom and one-living room rooms.
Due to the adjustment of room types, Building 1 can only accommodate 30 rooms with the same building area, and the number of floors is also directly increased to the maximum of 28 floors.
Since two new room types were added, she reset the room prices, which were not much different from the original ones.
As a benefit, the dormitory for four people is still 40 crystal cores/room/day (10 crystal cores/person/day), 50 crystal cores/day for a single room, 80 crystal cores/day for a double room, 100 crystal cores/day for a one-bedroom and one-living room, 200 crystal cores/day for a two-bedroom and one-living room, and 300 crystal cores/day for a three-bedroom and one-living room.
In terms of preferential policies, passengers pay the original price, residents receive a 10% discount, and employees receive a 50% discount.
Then there are the corresponding service facilities. Ye Qing set up four elevators on both sides of the other end of the glass corridor, which are symmetrical with the elevator shaft of the complex building. A water dispenser was also added.
In this way, the crystal core is completely consumed.
Ye Qing fell silent as she looked at the remaining balance of only 100 crystal cores. This was not enough to cover even one day's operating expenses. However, with so many fixed assets lying around, plus the continuous income sources from guest houses, restaurants, containers, etc., she would soon be rich again.
After figuring it out, Ye Qing's mood improved and he turned to stare at the lottery pool.
【Lottery pool, remaining times (10).】
【Whether to use, yes/no.】
Just like when you complete a game, the happiest moment is when you receive your rewards, especially when the item you get is one you like but can’t bear to buy.
This time she was still sincere. She prayed three times in her heart, entered 10, and started clicking the confirm button.
The lottery pool was activated, and several colorful cards slid rapidly from left to right. Amid the celebratory sounds of 10 fireworks shooting into the sky, cards were drawn from above and arranged in order.
Her heart was lifted high as she began to open the pages reverently.
As if it was a routine set by the program, the first four pictures were still food, [a box of instant noodles, a box of sandwiches, a box of chocolates, and a box of cucumber-flavored potato chips].
After the last experience, Ye Qing was not too disappointed. She would be very satisfied if she could get 3 different things out of 10 chances. Moreover, there would be a chance to get a rare item once out of ten consecutive chances. Last time she got a bus, and this time she was eagerly looking forward to it.
【Congratulations on winning a sausage grilling machine. 】
The item that comes out of the fifth card is similar to the ice cream machine from last time. It is very good to be able to increase the variety of food. Baby Ye Qing will keep it well.
【Congratulations on winning a vending machine. 】
She already had one vending machine, and she planned to put the extra one in Building 1, which was still empty.
Next came two more boxes of food.
【Congratulations on winning a TV. 】
TV! Ye Qing, who hadn't had any entertainment recently, was shocked beyond words. She couldn't wait to turn on the last one and watch TV.
【Congratulations on obtaining a weapon shop. 】
“Oh my god!”
She screamed in surprise, then realized she had screamed too loudly and covered her mouth with her hands in delight. What good luck! She actually got two extremely rare treasures!
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