There is a cement road in the middle of the shopping street, with shops on both sides.
Now there are three shops opened on the river side. Lu Yao looked across at the shops on the mountain side.
There are mountains on the back with lush trees.
In the early morning breeze, a row of stores seem to stand in the sea of clouds, mountains and forests.
Lu Yao raised his hand and pointed to a store opposite the nail salon: "Open this one and upgrade it first."
The system has already made a guess, but wants to confirm it again: [What store? ]
Lu Yao hesitated for a moment and said, "Lu Yao's furry shop."
System: [… Are you really not going to reconsider? The clue is "sea". Furry has nothing to do with the sea.]
Lu Yao: "The clue does have the word 'sea' in it, but it may not just be 'sea'. However, now I am mainly considering the economic aspect, and I don't want to open a big-spending store for the time being."
System: [Why?]
Lu Yao clicked on the store owner status bar on the system interface.
Owner: Lu Yao
Age: 22
Stores: 3
Clerk: 28
Popularity: 883500
Assets: 872W
Wish progress: 15%
Warehouse grid: 40
(Shopping Street Map)
"In the past month, although we have been making profits, our assets have shrunk by more than 300,000 yuan, and the cost of purchasing ingredients from Alexandria Continent has not been taken into account. The expenses of the snack bar and blind box store are too high. I need to slow down for a while," said Lu Yao.
The system had nothing to say, and immediately prepared to open the star gate of the new store, then upgrade the alien space and carry out simple decoration of the store.
However-
[Popularity value is insufficient, the upgrade to the alien space failed. ]
Lu Yao was stunned: "More than 800,000 popularity points are not enough to upgrade?"
I have indeed spent a lot of popularity points recently, but the upgrade and renovation of the previous three stores cost almost 200,000 popularity points.
How could it not be enough this time
System: […The store location in that world this time is a bit special and requires special upgrades to ensure the safety of the store owner and staff.]
Lu Yao: "...How much popularity do I need to complete the upgrade?"
System: [One million.]
Lu Yao: "… Do we have to wait for the snack bar, nail salon or blind box store to upgrade before we can get new popularity points?"
[yes.]
The system was also very depressed. It finally waited for the store owner to be willing to open a new store, but encountered this situation again.
[Lu Yao's blind box store has achieved a turnover of 2 million blind box coins, and is well received by customers, and has been upgraded to a six-star store. A reward of one million popularity points will be given, and the store will be upgraded once for free. The store owner can freely add and change blind box categories.]
!!!
Lu Yao clenched his fist: "Okay."
System: [… Really timely.]
Throwing in a million popularity points only upgraded the store into a different space for customers to enter and exit.
The subsequent renovation cost another 200,000 popularity points.
The system prompts that this world is very special. Except for the store owner, other employees must wear special work badges to enter the store.
One hundred thousand popularity points can be exchanged for one work badge.
Lu Yao spent 500,000 popularity points to customize cat tags (work badges) for the four cats who were about to become employees of the furry shop, and also ordered an additional temporary work badge.
The maintenance time for store upgrade and renovation is twelve hours.
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After the calico cat mother and baby were rescued by Lu Yao, they were initially kept in a nail salon.
Recently, three little kittens stayed in the blind box shop in the morning and were taught hunting skills by teacher Tiger Cub.
Like Ji Feiming and Bai Jing, cats can only move in the real space within the store. They cannot enter the alien space and will not run away and disappear without a trace.
The tiger cub itself is only the size of a palm and looks a little smaller than kittens.
He is very majestic among the kittens, pouncing on food, rolling around, and acting cute, and he teaches them in a very good manner.
The three kittens have been raised for a while and are now almost two months old.
The colors are different and the personalities are also slightly different.
The largest one is a cow cat, which has a lively personality and is good at scamming people.
When they see two-legged animals, they love to rub against people's shoes, meow, roll on the ground, and expose their bellies to beg for food.
Lu Yao named it "Ping Ci".
The second one is a small orange cat with a white chest and orange back. It has a somewhat dull personality, timid eyebrows and eyes, and always looks aggrieved. Its hobbies are sleeping and eating.
Its head and paws are round, a bit like a tiger cub.
Lu Yao named it "Dumb Tape".
The third one was the weakest when it was rescued and almost died. It was a round-faced pear-shaped one wearing white gloves. It had a very good personality and was the best at acting coquettishly.
Lu Yao called it sweet coffee.
Having never raised a cat before, Lu Yao didn’t know why these cats, even though they were from the same litter, had different colors.
But they are all very good-looking, at least from a human perspective, they are soft and cute, and very easy to rub.
The calico cat mother is different from her cubs and has a very bossy temperament.
Because the two spots on her head looked like two connected hearts, Lu Yao called her Erxin.
Erxin usually stays in the nail salon, lazy and comfortable, and likes to sleep on the windowsill.
The cubs were taken away for half a day in the morning, but she didn't pay much attention.
Occasionally I go out for a walk and come back in the evening.
Lu Yao wrote their names on the work badges he customized for them, and they could wear them when they went to work in the furry shop.
The next morning, the store upgrade was completed and a huge sign with a cat's paw print was hung.
Lu Yao planned to go to the store first and then pick up the cat.
She was about to push open the store door when a Cadillac and a Porsche drove into the shopping street from the main road and stopped at the parking lot on the side.
Ji Feiming and Bai Jing got out of the car respectively.
"Good morning, shop owner." Ji Feiming knew that Lu Yao had opened a new store, and he had been looking forward to it since yesterday. He was curious about where the new store would lead to, so he rushed here early in the morning, a quarter of an hour earlier than the usual working hours.
Bai Jing fell behind and nodded to Lu Yao as a greeting.
He came over to give Luo Hui'an an IV drip, and at this moment he saw a new store opened across the street, and his curiosity was instantly aroused.
Lu Yao nodded, "Morning."
Ji Feiming took the initiative to step forward and said, "Shopkeeper, I want to see the new store, too."
Every time we open a store, it’s like opening a blind box. This is the moment of opening the box.
Lu Yao didn’t know what kind of world this was.
However, some operations of the system are different from before. Lu Yao thought about it and thought that it might be a good idea to have more people.
She handed the temporary worker badge to Ji Feiming: "Wear this. Follow me, stay calm, and don't make a fuss when you see anything."
This ID card is the same as the cat's collar ID card, with a small silver plate with Lu Yao's name on it, and an elastic buckle, so it can be worn on the hand like a rubber band.
Ji Feiming took it and put it on, thinking that after having seen a creature as terrifying as the black dragon, nothing could shake his mind anymore.
Bai Jing was also curious, but there was only one temporary worker badge.
If he had to wait for Ji Feiming to come out to replace him, he might as well go to the blind box shop first and give the fat guy an IV.
Lu Yao pushed open the door of the furry shop, and cold, humid vapor with a slightly salty smell wafted over him.
She hesitated for a moment, then stepped into the store. Her feet were wrapped in icy sea water, which soaked into her shoes, chilling her to the bone.
Is the store in the sea
She originally guessed that the furry shop in the other world might be located by the sea or on the beach, but she didn't expect there to be water when she came in. It was really like "drowning in the sea".
After walking into the store, Lu Yao was stunned for a long time.
The store is located on a flat circular beach, and the outer wall has become a transparent soft membrane, through which you can clearly see the world outside the wall.
Where the light leaks, dark green seaweed stretches, corals sway gracefully, and fish swim quietly, as if you are in an underwater forest.
New and disturbing.
There are two steps at the entrance, and the sea water seeps in. After two steps, you step onto the soft and dry white shallows.
The edge of the store almost blends into this underwater world.
Only when you walk onto the shallows can you truly enter the furry shop.
The interior design of this store is relatively simple for now, with only a three-tier cat climbing frame, two low tables, and a few lazy sofas for sitting or lying down.
In addition, the cat's kitchen and bathroom are hidden, with only signs hung on the transparent walls.
Ji Feiming followed Lu Yao and got his shoes wet.
The shop owner was too calm. He didn't want to lose his composure, so he resisted the urge to return the item.
When he walked into the store and saw the ocean world within reach, he opened his mouth wide and said incoherently, "This store is located on the bottom of the sea?"
Lu Yao turned around and said, "It seems so."
Ji Feiming lay on the transparent soft film, observing the outside, and began to worry: "There are only fish here, how can we attract customers to our store?"
The funniest thing is that the owner is planning to bring a cat over. Can fish pet cats
Lu Yao was also looking outside. Not far away, a huge black shadow was slowly approaching the Furry Shop and swimming leisurely over the top of the shop.
As it swam over, its huge black shadow almost covered the entire shop.
Lu Yao frowned: "There is something wrong with this transparent wall. I heard that cats have giant phobia, they will be scared to stay here."
Ji Feiming turned around and rubbed off the goose bumps on his arms. "Not to mention cats, I also have gigantic fear. That was a shark that just swam over, right? Is this store really safe? It would be terrible if water got into it or it was destroyed by fish."
The system immediately popped up: [Shop owner, rest assured, this shop upgrade is expensive, mainly because of the safety issue. This wall looks thin, but it is actually very tough and will never be damaged. ]
Lu Yao: "It looks good, but the cat will be scared. Can you solve this problem?"
System: [Spend 40,000 popularity points to upgrade the cat clerk's badge. When wearing the upgraded badge, the giant sea creatures in the cat's eyes will shrink, and will not exceed the size of a human. Does the store owner choose to upgrade? ]
Lu Yao looked at his popularity value which was only over 100,000 and upgraded with tears in his eyes.
She had never raised any small animals before, and last night when she was collecting information related to the ocean, she saw a seal pup that was washed ashore. It died because it was under too much stress due to so many people taking pictures, watching, and touching it.
Most cats are timid, and several of the ones in her house are still kittens, which are also easily stressed.
Small animals are sometimes incredibly fragile, and for the sake of the store staff’s physical and mental health, they must be upgraded.
When Ji Feiming first entered the store, he was resistant and afraid.
After standing for a while, I gradually felt calm. It was so quiet here.
At this moment, there was a knock on the door.
White mirror is here.
Ji Feiming walked out and handed over his temporary worker badge.
Miraculously, when he left the store, his wet shoes had dried.
Lu Yao stood at the door, "Xiao Ji, can you send Erxin over here? I want to see its reaction first."
Bai Jing took the sign, didn't ask any questions, and walked straight into the store, and also got his feet wet.
He frowned and walked quickly onto the white sandy beach, then found himself in an underwater forest.
A scallop was swimming past him with its mouth wide open.
Lu Yao was waiting at the door, took Erxin from Ji Feiming, made sure that her work badge was securely hung around her neck, and carried her back to the store.
Bai Jing was lying on the soft membrane wall, fascinated by a group of sea bream swimming by outside.
Erxin has been eating and drinking for free in the store recently, and his hair has become thick and smooth, and it feels very good to touch.
She turned over lightly, broke free from Lu Yao's hands, and walked around meowing, observing the new environment.
After walking around for a few times, she noticed the school of fish swimming outside and stopped where she was.
His round eyes were full of curiosity and a hint of vigilance, but he didn't show any overly intense fear.
It seems that the work badge still has some effect.
Lu Yao took the three kittens over with confidence.
Daijiaotai and Tianka were a little scared and hid in their small nest on the cat climbing frame, not daring to come out.
He was very bold in trying to scam Lu Yao. He rubbed Lu Yao's trouser leg while meowing, turned over on his belly to act coquettishly, and rolled around. He followed the whole process very well.
Lu Yao went to the kitchen and made some cat food that kittens could eat.
When she came out with the cat food bowl, Bai Jing was lying on the floor with Er Xin in his arms, and Peng Ci was licking his hair.
"You haven't left yet?" Lu Yao asked.
Dr. Bai runs his own hospital, so he is usually very busy.
If it weren't for his relationship with Ji Feiming, he would never come to the shopping street every day just to give the little fat boy an IV.
Bai Jing stroked Er Xin's soft belly again and again, and an unknown school of fish swam slowly over his head. "It's so comfortable here. The feeling of petting cats is completely different from that of ordinary cat cafes. I want to stay a little longer."
Being a doctor is a very stressful profession, and Bai Jing’s family background is similar to Ji Feiming’s.
In addition to ordinary guests, we usually also receive special guests like Lu Yao, which only makes the pressure even greater.
He often finds ways to relieve stress by himself, such as going to cat cafes, playing escape room adventures, or riding thrilling rides at an amusement park, but none of them makes him feel as relaxed physically and mentally as lying here at this moment.
Lu Yao put the cat food in the cat dining area. Pengci and Erxin, both experienced cats who eat cats, left Bai Jing one after another.
Doctor Bai sat up depressedly, propped himself on the floor with his hands, looked up, and suddenly narrowed his eyes and murmured, "Is there something floating up there?"
Lu Yao took out some adhesive tape and sweet coffee from the cat bed and let them eat. He casually added: "What else can there be? There is nothing but water and fish outside."
Bai Jing tilted his head and looked carefully for a while. It was a bit far away and some places on the seabed were dark, so he couldn't see clearly. "Owner, come and take a look. Is that really a fish? It looks weird."