Chapter 095: Eating Watermelon at the Food Court (23)
After hearing what the Boss said to Liu Tang, Mo Qianhe remained calm on the surface, but he was already panicking in his heart.
You should know that all the store managers who violated the rules before, whether they were NPCs or players, were reset by this Boss, and no one knows what will happen to Liu Tang.
Liu Tang saw Mo Qianhe's worry, patted his hand gently, and comforted him, "It's okay, I'm a part-time worker now, not a store manager, so the punishment will be lighter.
"Besides, I'm a boss NPC. Even if I'm punished, the most I'll get is expelled from the dungeon, not killed."
Mo Qianhe's brows were still furrowed, and he held Liu Tang's hand tightly without letting go.
Liu Tang gently pried the other person's hand apart and gave him a push: "Time is running out, go to the store quickly. Don't worry about me, I'll be fine."
Mo Qianhe also knew that even if he wasted time here, he wouldn't be able to change anything. He nodded and said, "Then be careful."
Seeing an arc-shaped wrinkle on Liu Tang's bun head, he turned around and hurried to the stinky tofu shop.
The other four players who had previously become temporary store managers are still responsible for their respective stores:
Feng Xiansu runs a milk tea shop; Song Xiaoyan runs a shaved pancake shop; Qin Zhengyi runs a steamed bun shop; and Jiang Minxu runs a fried skewers shop.
Ji Zehan was assigned to the newly opened Plum Blossom Cake Shop. Like Mo Qianhe, he was hurrying to the shop.
Everyone is carefully reading the detailed rules of the current mode:
1. Players are only allowed to purchase goods once and must not waste raw materials. At the end of the day, players who waste more than 5% of raw materials will be eliminated directly;
2. To thank customers, the food court will cover all raw material costs, and the products will be sold at a promotional price of 5 food coins per item. After deducting the store's daily rent of 100 food coins from the sales revenue, all proceeds will belong to the players.
3. The store with the lowest total sales for the day will be eliminated and will no longer participate in subsequent activities;
4. If there are multiple stores with the lowest sales, the player from the store with the highest sales will select one from the store with the lowest sales to be eliminated;
5. If there is no store with the highest sales, the Boss will select a store player with a sales of less than 500 Food Coins to be eliminated;
6. Players whose personal accounts have accumulated 1,000 Food Coins can directly pass the level.
Jiang Minxu was looking through the purchase list while analyzing the rules of the current model.
Judging from the last rule, the method of clearing the dungeon remains unchanged, and you can clear it by earning 1,000 Food Coins.
Now that the cost of ingredients has been removed, the difficulty of accumulating wealth has actually decreased compared to the previous "collaboration model".
The only thing is that raw materials cannot be wasted and can only be purchased once, which means that players need to estimate from the beginning how many servings of food can be sold today.
Although we have the sales volume of the previous few days as a reference, the model has changed now. Not only are the products on sale at special prices, but there is also less competition from other vendors. The daily order volume will definitely change.
In order to avoid wasting raw materials, players are likely to choose a more conservative purchase quantity.
However, under this model, the unit price of all stores' goods is a uniform 5 coins, and conservative purchase quantities will directly lead to lower sales.
However, sales that are too low will put players in danger of being eliminated.
How to ensure that raw materials are not wasted while maintaining a high sales level is the difficult problem players face at this time.
Although there are six players alive now and only one needs to be eliminated today, everyone seems to have a high chance of survival, but no one knows how many days this competition mode will last. If one person is eliminated every day, or the number of eliminations increases, no one can guarantee that they can survive to the end.
Liu Tang had already followed Boss to the glass stand.
Looking down from the transparent floor-to-ceiling windows, you can clearly see six shops on the circular platforms surrounding the square.
There is a milk tea shop next to the dormitory building on the left, and clockwise there are a crumbly pancake shop, a fried stinky tofu shop, a steamed bun shop, a plum cake shop and a fried skewers shop.
The boss pointed to the sofas in front of him and said, "Sit wherever you like. You should be thankful that the other NPCs have already returned to the plaza platform. Only you have the privilege of remaining here to witness this grand event."
After Liu Tang waited for the other party to sit down, he chose a sofa farthest away from the Boss and sat down.
He suddenly felt like Feng Xiansu in the "Wanjing Garden" back then, watching everything happening on the field on pins and needles, but unable to do anything.
In order to prevent him from being confused, the Boss showed Liu Tang the current rules.
After reading it, Liu Tang gradually realized that the last-place elimination of players in this mode was just like the "reporting" of the NPC boss before. Once it started, it would be like a chain reaction, getting faster and faster until no one was left.
"Countdown to the food court's special offer, five minutes." The broadcast echoed over the square.
At this moment, Mo Qianhe had just arrived at the shop he was in charge of. While checking the purchase order, he spoke to the other five players' monitors in front of him: "Everyone, although I know that some of you still have some personal grudges to resolve, I hope that everyone can work together today and strive to ensure that no one is eliminated."
Hearing this, the other players hadn't reacted yet, but the Boss burst into laughter first: "Hahahahaha, how naive! I'm almost crying from laughing."
When Liu Tang heard Mo Qianhe's voice, he didn't care about the embarrassment and quickly rushed to the Boss's side and squeezed in front of his camera.
Boss was quite proud of herself when she saw Liu Tang keeping his distance from her before, but now he suddenly became boundless, which made her very uncomfortable.
She pushed Liu Tang away and shouted, "Go away! Go back to your seat!"
Liu Tang dodged the other person's hand and continued to move closer to the camera, shouting, "Be quiet! Don't disturb me while I listen to Boss Mo's speech! I want to cheer for Boss Mo!"
The boss was forced into a corner and had to shoot Liu Tang as well before he got him to go back to his seat.
The robot straightened the flying metal parts all over its body and gritted its teeth in hatred: "You are as annoying as ever!"
Liu Tang didn't care what the boss thought of him and happily began to watch the players' discussion.
Jiang Minxu was the first to respond to Mo Qianhe's proposal: "How do we do it?"
Mo Qianhe continued, "First of all, we must ensure that there is no player with the lowest sales volume."
Ji Zehan frowned: "Even if multiple players have the same sales, as long as one player's sales are higher than the others, he can choose a player to be eliminated."
Mo Qianhe nodded and replied, "So, we still have to make sure we don't have the player with the highest sales."
Qin Zhengyi reacted: "There is no highest and no lowest. In other words, we want the sales volume to be exactly the same."
Song Xiaoyan questioned: "Even so, the boss will choose a player whose store sales are less than 500 Food Coins to eliminate."
Mo Qianhe curled his lips: "So we must ensure that everyone's sales are higher than 500 Food Coins. How about... 505 Food Coins?"
Jiang Minxu fell into deep thought. He wanted to control the sales volume to 505 coins. It was not difficult to purchase raw materials.
One serving of food costs 5 coins, so you only need to purchase the ingredients for 101 servings of food.
But from the perspective of customer purchase, it is difficult to control.
Song Xiaoyan asked, "How can we guarantee that we can sell 101 servings of food? Furthermore, it would be easy if the food was of a single variety, but how can a small shop like a milk tea shop or a fried skewers shop, with a wide variety of products, manage to sell out all the items they stock?"
Feng Xiansu was a little surprised to hear Song Xiaoyan's question. This man and her childhood friend were in charge of the pancake shop and the bun shop respectively. The products were of limited variety, so logically there was no need to worry about the variety.
She was caught off guard by the other party's kindness in thinking of helping the milk tea shop where she worked.
Before she could figure out the purpose, she heard Mo Qianhe's answer: "It's simple, hunger marketing."
After he finished speaking, everyone saw Mo Qianhe walking to the front door and adjusting the words on the advertising display to:
Special offer for customers, you can buy a portion of stinky tofu worth 20 coins for 5 food coins!
Only 101 copies available today! While supplies last!
Everyone: “…”
Jiang Minxu from the fried skewers shop reacted quickly and followed suit, displaying the following message on the display screen in front of his shop:
Super Deal! 5 Food Coins for Any Purchase!
5 sets, each only 19 pieces! While stocks last!
There's also a secret combo, only 6 servings available! Come grab it now!
Seeing this, all the players took action and put up similar sale slogans.
Boss sitting in the viewing platform: "..."
Liu Tang slapped his thigh and laughed heartily on the sofa: "Boss Mo is so smart!"
Live broadcast audience:
“…”
"It's hard to learn good things, but it's easy to learn bad things."
"Mo liar, you're just like me. You're still ruthless when it comes to deceiving NPCs."
"Countdown to Food Court Specials: Three, Two, One. Open for Business!"
"Competition mode is officially open!"
As the broadcast sounded, a surging crowd appeared in the center of the square again.
Soon there were long queues in front of all the shops.
Several large screens facing seven directions appeared above the square, displaying the real-time sales of each store.
The business of all stores was developing at the same pace, and soon all of them exceeded the sales of 200 food coins.
Liu Tang's original worries about players competing with each other were swept away, and now he was left with only peace of mind.
Seeing this, the Boss turned to look at him and said, "You don't think all players will keep their promises, do you?"
Liu Tang turned to look at Boss, and tiny wrinkles appeared on his chubby head.
Then, the players heard the boss speak on the communication: "I have good news for everyone. I just checked the purchase quantity of all players.
"All six players have purchased more than 101 ingredients. I mean, including Mr. Mo, who came up with the plan, all of them have exceeded that.
"As for how much more, you can guess for yourself."
When everyone heard this, their hearts tightened slightly.
Putting aside the motives of each other for over-purchasing, the boss's motives are already clear.
She just wanted to destroy the trust that had just been established between the players and make them suspicious of each other.
Qin Zhengyi was panicking because she had imported 105 portions of raw materials.
This was done to prevent Feng Xiansu from doing something.
If the other party is willing to cooperate with Mo's plan, then Qin Zhengyi will choose to sell only 101 dumplings, and the extra raw materials will be regarded as waste, and will be within the 5% deadline.
If Feng Xiansu was unwilling to cooperate and pushed sales very high, she could still sell a few more copies. Even if it was only a few more, as long as her sales were higher than the other person's 101 copies, she wouldn't be eliminated or targeted by the other party.
This was something she and Xiaoyan had discussed in advance.
But now she knew that everyone had purchased more than the agreed amount, so her 105 dumplings would most likely be at the bottom of the list.
Xiaoyan, who follows the same strategy as himself, may also face the same danger.
Thinking of this, sweat broke out on her forehead.
At this moment, Mo Qianhe chuckled and said to the boss on the screen, "Stop stirring up trouble here. I bought a few more batches because I was worried that the quality of the stinky tofu might be unstable, or there might be mistakes in the production, which might cause one or two batches of stinky tofu to not meet the sales standards and the sales volume to not reach 505 coins.
“So leaving some redundancy is just to improve the ability to resist risks.
"Boss, don't you even have this little bit of business common sense?"
Ji Zehan, who had been quiet all this time, also smiled and agreed: "Yes, me too."
Boss was choked by this and turned to Liu Tang and said, "He's just as hateful as you."
Liu Tang tilted his head. "What's so hateful about it? I'm almost dying of cuteness! Look at yourself and find out if you've been a good boss these years. Are you being targeted because you're such a bad person?"
Boss: “…”
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
