However, opening a shop is a good suggestion; we could give it a try.
[Ding, please check your system tasks.]
[Ding, please check your system tasks.]
Lin Yiran heard the system notification and opened the system panel with her consciousness. She was surprised to see a new message notification. The moment she clicked on it, she saw the large words at the end: "[Mission Completed, Reward: 20 Popularity Points]"
Lin Yiran's eyes lit up, and she went back to read the previous task instructions. The complete version was as follows:
[Ding! Random Task 2: Please create your own food shop and name it. Upon completion of the task on the shop's opening day, you will be rewarded with 20 popularity points!]
Lin Yiran's eyes lit up again. Open a shop? That's great!
Jin Shuo: "What are you thinking about? You seem so lost in thought. Oh, by the way, your skewers are pretty good. Give me a few more, I'm not full." He had only eaten a small piece of steak and picked at two stalks of greens at home, so he was indeed not full.
Lin Yiran was brought back to her senses by his provocation. Seeing that he still wanted to eat, she resignedly stood up and went to grill some skewers for him.
but?
When Lin Yiran saw that the guy take the last roasted eggplant from the baking tray, she felt a little puzzled. Judging from his reaction, it seemed...
That's rather ordinary, isn't it?
Lin Yiran thought: The food she made was supposed to suppress violent energy, so it was obvious that the other person ate it so quickly and calmly without any abnormality. This made her wonder if there was something wrong with the food she made.
Why didn't Jin Shuo react at all?
System 101: "Host, don't worry. Only people whose mental energy is in a berserk state or whose mental sea is severely damaged can immediately tell that the food you make does not contain berserk energy. Ordinary people, even those with superpowers, will not be able to tell that there is anything abnormal about the food you make immediately."
"Moreover, nobles like them regularly undergo mental energy channeling. After channeling, their mental energy sea is in a calm and undisturbed state, which greatly improves their survival rate. You can rest assured about that. He most likely didn't discover the special properties of your food."
"I ate so many skewers simply because I was craving them."
"Hey, give me two more corn skewers and eggplant skewers, and ten more potato slices! And twenty skewers of enoki mushrooms, too! Oh my god, it's so delicious I can't stop eating!" It's numbing and spicy, the grilled corn is sweet, the enoki mushrooms are perfectly infused with the aroma of chili peppers, and there's the crunchy texture of green beans. Paired with the special chili sauce, he now feels like he has a very special fragrance on him. In other words, he's completely marinated!
In short, it's very unique; it's a flavor he's never experienced before, and even his chefs can't make it taste like this.
There were only a few skewers of mushrooms left on the plate, so Lin Yiran took out another twenty or so skewers from the refrigerator in her Star Brain. This guy really can eat a lot, she thought.
He finished off the remaining skewers on the tray.
After finishing eating, Jin Shuo let out a burp, shook his head, and said, "This is so delicious! If you opened a shop, I would definitely come here to eat every day. By the way, even if you don't want to be our chef, you should still open a shop around here. Listen to me, if you opened a shop, you would definitely have more customers than you do now."
"Middle-class people in the interstellar world are quite pretentious. They think these small stalls are unreliable, that's food for ordinary people, so they won't come to buy from them at all. If you opened a shop, you could raise the price a bit, and even if you sold it for ten star coins a string, people would still buy it!"
Lin Yiran: "I'll consider opening a shop, but I don't need to raise prices." Her food is designed to serve people from all walks of life. How can people who have to pay ten star coins for three insect cakes survive if she suddenly raises prices?
Furthermore, she had always felt that interstellar civilians represented a huge market. Mainly because the interstellar civilian population was large, leading to more repeat customers. As for those living near the junkyard—oh, those were considered impoverished, not civilians. Lin still hadn't included them in her calculations.
Even if you offered them ten strings of coins, they might not be willing to buy them.
As for the middle class that Jin Shuo mentioned, they are probably just small figures in various mercenary groups, right? Only those kinds of people are considered middle class in the eyes of a top tycoon like Jin Shuo in the Ninth Star.
Well, actually, she also has her own selfish motives. Mainly, she herself is now considered an ordinary citizen, so she always wants to do something for ordinary people. She wants to take it slow and gradually expand her stall and shop. Maybe in the future, she can open a chain store and a food court like the most famous 'Golden Beach' in the interstellar world.
Just imagining the scene of her business gradually expanding, Lin Yiran felt that her future was limitless.
Jin Shuo: "Open a shop? Do you need a shop? I can rent one for you..."
Lin Yiran: "No need, there's nothing I can do to help you, so don't even think about it."
Jin Shuo understood: "See? I've been too polite. I told you I'm renting you a room, the kind that costs money, not giving it to you for free. What do you take me for, an idiot? I know you don't want to do things for me, and I won't force you, but when it comes to renting a place, you really have to rely on me!"
Lin Yiran frowned: "Why should I?" What an arrogant person! Why should she rely on him? Can't she find a shop herself?
Jin Shuo took a skewer of green beans from the grill that Lin Yiran had prepared. Not minding the heat, he bit into it directly, and the splashing juice burned his tongue. However, he only frowned slightly, took out a small bottle from his Star Brain, and sprayed it on the burn. But even such an embarrassing incident did not affect his smug expression: "Because this whole street you see now belongs to our family."
"And that's not all. Behind, and even further back, those dozen or so streets..."
"They're all from our family."
………………
Lin Yiran almost had an emotional breakdown. This is the difference! The key point is that many of these stores are completely empty, with no tenants at all. Guess what Jin Shuo said about this?
"Not open? No businesses? So what? We don't need these few coins. Let the house stay empty."
Most of the houses and shops inside this third layer of protective cover are empty.
Kelin still remembers it clearly. The slum under the abandoned bridge was crowded with poor people. When she took a stroll there, she could see rows of small houses made of scrap metal sheets, enough for a family to live in.
Comparing yourself to others will only make you miserable.
She had nothing to say about it.
The law of the jungle prevails in every world.
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