Chapter 1
"Go straight, turn right at the end of the road, and you'll reach your destination."
"GPS continues to guide you."
"GP number is weak."
'You have reached your destination.'
The last sentence is not a voice, but words floating in the air.
Galaxy Script Society.
Jiang Qi looked at the destination at the end of the road, his expression uncontrollably cracked.
He knew that his sister was never reliable.
This script-killing store hidden in the alleys of the old city, where the GP number is abnormal from time to time and cannot be found even by following the navigation, is the script-killing store that his sister Jiang Bing mentioned, which has invested huge amounts of money to open in bustling streets, central urban areas, and CBD areas with a promising future.
Jiang Qi didn't see any tall buildings or bustling streets along the way. He only saw breakfast shops, halal beef ramen shops, stir-fry fast food restaurants, Hunan rice noodle shops, spicy hot pot shops, skewers shops, bakery shops, fruit stalls, Mianyang rice noodle shops and countless small restaurants whose signs were so crooked that the words on them were unclear.
This is basically a street for takeaway snacks in the old city!
If there wasn't a system that had no other function except to give directions, Jiang Qi would probably not be able to find his destination even if he ate too much.
Just when Jiang Qi was standing at the door of the store doubting his life, his sister Jiang Bing called him.
"Hello."
"Jiang Qi, have you arrived at my store? Is the navigation correct?"
"I'm here, but this place doesn't seem quite like what you told me yesterday..."
"It's good to be here. I'm already at the airport and I still have half an hour to board the plane. I have a phone call to make later so I'll cut to the chase."
"This store has cost me a lot of effort. As you know, I have opened 12 stores before and have rich experience in opening stores. I have high hopes for this store. If I hadn't had something else that required me to be away for half a year, I really wouldn't want to leave."
"You just graduated and haven't decided what to do yet? Help me run the store for half a year. You're good at this anyway. Don't your parents always say that you stay at home every day and don't go out or make friends? Opening a script-killing store is good for socializing. You just graduated and don't have a job and no source of income, so I won't let you run the store for nothing. You can keep the profit from the store as pocket money for the next few months. If you really like it, I'll give you this store, and I'll open a branch somewhere else."
"I'll send you the landlord's WeChat ID now. If there are any problems with the house, just tell him. The rent is paid every six months and there are only four months left. Don't feel stressed and work hard!"
"I remember what you said last night was..."
"Oops, I've got a call. I'll hang up first. If you have anything, contact me on WeChat. Beep... beep... beep beep..."
Jiang Qi: ...
Isn't there still half an hour before boarding?
Jiang Qi silently looked up at the Xinghe Script Society sandwiched between Wang's Bakery and Tiantian Fried Skewers, sighed, found an empty corner, silently clicked on the exclamation mark that had been floating in the upper right corner of his vision, and opened the system panel.
Ever since Jiang Bing first tricked Jiang Qi into helping her run the store during the summer vacation of his senior year in high school, Jiang Qi got a system that he had no idea what it was used for.
Player Name: Jiang Qi
Age: 23
Occupation: Freelance
Stores owned: Milk tea shop (closed), fried chicken shop (closed), skewers shop (closed), flower shop (closed), childcare center (closed), snack shop (closed), convenience store (closed)
Script-killing store (being located, not yet confirmed)
This system was activated the moment Jiang Qi stepped into the milk tea shop that was about to go bankrupt and was tricked by Jiang Bing into looking after it (working illegally). Apart from helping Jiang Qi locate the shop he owned, it had no other function.
The system panel is extremely simple, with only text and no pictures, and the text is in Song font, which shows that this game has no artists. Jiang Qi has obtained the system for four years, and this semi-finished system has not changed at all, except that Jiang Qi helps Jiang Bing take over one more store, and there is one more store in the store column, and there is no update. It is indeed a fake and shoddy system.
"Hello, are you Jiang Qi, the younger brother of boss Jiang Bing?" Just as Jiang Qi was silently cursing his own "three-no" system in his heart, a crisp female voice interrupted his thoughts.
A girl with a rather pretty face, wearing a light makeup with mascara obviously applied to her eyelids and a dark spot at the corner of her eye, appeared behind Jiang Qi at some point.
"Who are you?"
"I'm a part-time worker in your sister's store during the summer vacation. My name is Liu Lan, boss, you can just call me Lanlan." Liu Lan said with a smile, "Sister Bing just called and told me that you were at the door of the store. I waited in the store for two minutes and found that you were not here yet, so I came out to look for you. Our store is not here, but on the other side. The sign is a bit unclear and the navigation is not accurate. I guess you didn't find it, so I came out to pick you up."
It is indeed a part-time job. Ms. Jiang Bing, who has saving money engraved in her DNA, likes to recruit cheap college students to work part-time.
Jiang Qi was like this before. He was cheaper than the average part-time college student. He just promised but didn't pay, and even had to pay for it when necessary.
Jiang Qi quickly closed the system panel while Liu Lan turned around and nodded, "Thank you, it's hard to find."
Glancing at his phone, Jiang Qi was sure that today was only June 17th. Even college students usually didn't have a holiday at this time. He couldn't help but say, "Your school has a holiday quite early. It's not even July yet."
"My home is nearby. I study broadcasting and hosting at a normal school here, so it's very convenient for me to go to work. The school hasn't closed yet, but there are no classes. I can come here every day during the summer vacation, and I can come here as long as I don't have classes during the week. Sister Bing previously set a summer salary of 1,000 yuan plus commission, with four days off a month. I'm the only DM (script-killing host) in the store at the moment, and there's another part-timer who won't be back until next week. I hope the boss will take good care of me."
Liu Lan is very familiar with the restaurant owners in the surrounding area. When she passed by a noodle shop, she yelled at the owner: "Boss, don't forget to send a bowl of beef ramen tonight. Add more green onions and no cilantro."
"What about your basic salary?" Jiang Qi asked.
"Usually? Usually there is no basic salary, only commission." Liu Lan didn't think there was anything wrong. "Sister Bing is very nice. She said that since I don't have classes now, it's no different from being a summer worker. She started calculating my summer worker salary from the day before yesterday."
Jiang Qi looked at the worker in front of him who had been exploited by the capitalists before he even entered society: ...
If he remembered correctly, Jiang Bing told him last night that the script-killing store's business hours were from 2pm to midnight every day, with no upper limit.
I can only say, sister, you are worthy of it.
As the only biological brother of Ms. Jiang Bing, Jiang Qi knows his capitalist sister too well.
Graduated from a famous art academy, his main job is an illustrator, and his secondary job is to open a shop. From freshman to now, he has opened 12 shops of different sizes, from milk tea shops, fried chicken shops, skewers shops to printing shops, clothing shops, and flower shops. The range and variety of the shops are so wide that people can't help but sigh that he has too much money to burn.
The common feature of these stores is that they have a short lifespan and low cost, ranging from a week to a year. Jiang Bing's first store was a stationery store, which he opened seven years ago when Jiang Qi was still in high school. The stationery store was located on Aquatic Products Street and used Jiang Qi's own storefront, so there was no rent. It closed after only a week, and Jiang Qi has not used up the unprocessed stationery left.
At that time, Jiang Qi thought his sister would see the reality clearly, find out that she was not cut out for business, and turn back. Unexpectedly, Ms. Jiang Bing became more and more courageous, and lost more and more money. She used the money from her main business to support her side business, and she truly became penniless.
This was not the first time that Jiang Qi helped his sister take over a mess. As a jobless person who had just graduated from college and failed the postgraduate entrance examination and was struggling with the second exam and job search, Jiang Qi had a lot of time. He started helping Jiang Bing take over (working for free) several stores that were about to close down during the summer vacation of his senior year in high school. He was proficient in various snack making techniques and store closing methods, and accumulated rich work experience at a young age.
It can be seen that Ms. Jiang Bing has not learned any of the capitalists' money-making skills over the years, but she has learned the capitalists' skills of exploiting employees 100%.
Given that Jiang Qi himself had a useless system, he had reason to suspect that Jiang Bing had a system that could make money by opening and closing stores, otherwise it would be hard to understand why she was so keen on opening stores after closing so many different stores.
They are getting bigger and bigger, and more and more expensive.
Jiang Qi followed Liu Lan into the store.
The decoration of the first floor is OK. The front desk and the bar are the first thing that comes into view. Behind the front desk are two huge wooden book racks, which are estimated to have hundreds of books. The empty space of the book racks is filled with several exquisite small ornaments. On the bar are two figurines that Jiang Qi doesn't recognize, several glass cups that look quite textured, and a half-drunk glass of juice. There is not much decoration on the first floor. There is a sofa and coffee table set for guests, a freezer in the corner, light green wallpaper, a chandelier that doesn't match the wallpaper, spider plants by the window, a dressing mirror standing by the wall, and star lights hanging along the window. The lighting in the house is good, and the overall feeling is bright and generous.
It is much better than Jiang Qi had imagined. It can be seen that Jiang Bing really put some thought into the decoration. It is much better than those previous stores that just put up a layer of wallpaper and considered it decoration.
"Sister Bing said that you, the boss, have never played a script-killing game, so she asked me to watch the store with you during this period. Next Monday night, a carload of customers will make an appointment for the exclusive product that Sister Bing just bought last week. It arrived yesterday. I have already finished reading it, and I need a male DM to perform it. I originally wanted to delete that performance. It just so happens that you are here, the boss, why don't you take a look at that performance now and we can rehearse it together to see if you can perform it?"
"You don't have to call me little boss, just call me Jiang Qi." Jiang Qi had no aversion to playing roles. He was in the drama club in college and didn't have many opportunities to play people. Most of the time, he played flowers, plants and roadside stones.
Jiang Qi had never been exposed to script-killing before, and all he knew about it came from the emergency store manager training Jiang Bing gave him last night.
There are three types of scripts based on price: boxed, city limited and exclusive.
The books on this shelf are basically in ordinary boxed form. There is no purchase limit, so you can buy as many as you want.
City limits are usually three limits per city, and a few of the best will come up with twelve limits per city. City limits are usually fought over in big cities, and small places can be chosen at will. Xun City where Jiang Qi is located is the latter.
Exclusive, as the name suggests, means the only one of its kind.
DM is the host who guides the players in the script-killing game. Each script has different character scripts, and each character has his own story and mission. The stories of all people are connected together to form the entire content of the script. After receiving the script, the player needs to play the role he has received. There are many types of scripts, which can be roughly divided into four categories: reasoning scripts, emotional scripts, fun scripts and horror scripts.
As a fan of mystery novels and criminal investigation dramas, Jiang Bing's script-killing store is mainly filled with mystery novels, accounting for an astonishing 80% of the total, and the remaining 20% are all fun novels, with no emotional novels or horror novels.
There is a reason why this store is on the verge of bankruptcy due to its willful behavior in opening the store.
Jiang Qi looked at the books on the shelf, comparing them one by one with what Jiang Bing had talked about with him last night. As he was looking, he saw a book that Jiang Bing had not mentioned.
"Mask Club".
The black cover doesn't stand out at all among the dark-colored books.
"What book is that?"
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