I open a restaurant in Mysterious Recovery

Chapter 365 Dream Chaser Zhang Xianguang
"Okay, okay, but let's see if we can find something first. If there's no money printing machine, then no matter how many ideas we have, it's useless. Do you have any water skills?"

Lin Yuan has a scale in his heart.

He has already given Cao Yang a 10% discount, which is an unprecedented discount.

If a bank is really to be opened, at least several employees will be needed. It is not impossible for Cao Yang to send some relatives and friends in, but that depends on the situation later.

His relationship with Cao Yang wasn't good enough to allow Cao Yang to send anyone in at will.

"Can you swim?"

Cao Yang and the others looked at each other. If they were to talk about how to swim, they actually all knew how.

Especially after becoming a ghost rider, with the protection of the spirit, swimming and diving are no longer a problem at all. As long as the ghost domain is opened, let alone being able to swim, even digging into the ground is possible.

But the problem is, this is not ordinary water, but water from a ghost lake!

Under the watchful eye of the "store manager", it was impossible for them to use their supernatural powers as they were absolutely suppressed. However, the water in the Ghost Lake was different. It seemed to possess suppressed supernatural powers.

However, this supernatural phenomenon is very normal in the eyes of the "store manager", and the external manifestation is:

Drowning!

Otherwise, a ghost rider like Xiaoxi, if placed abroad with his sister Xiaoan, would be a king-level existence, and even more of an outlier. How could he possibly be drowning?
If they were allowed to go into the water, they would probably end up similarly to Xiaoxi.

Lin Yuan knew the answer at a glance and immediately had a headache. Liu Qingqing suggested, "Brother Yuan, how about I call a robot over? If it's a robot, we don't have to worry about drowning."

Lin Yuan's eyes lit up: "Yes! Xiao Liu, you are smart. Then hurry up and summon it."

Liu Qingqing nodded. After getting the permission from the "store manager", she could naturally use the supernatural powers according to the state perceived by the "store manager".

Without her making any movement, a light gate appeared next to her, and then a robot with a metallic luster walked out.

Liu Qingqing glanced at Lin Yuan, then started fiddling with the robot's face. After a while, a face that was 60% similar to Liu Qingqing appeared. It was smiling and looked like it was alive.

"Your makeup skills are impeccable! Let's give it a try in the water, but can it find what it needs?" What Lin Yuan is most concerned about now is the possible money printing machine underwater.

Liu Qingqing said: "Brother Yuan, don't worry, it's very useful."

With a splash, the robot jumped directly into the Ghost Lake and sank to the bottom of the lake.

Cao Yang and others hurried to the lakeside to watch the excitement. They didn't know how deep this ghost lake was, but the water was relatively clear, so they could vaguely see the situation at the bottom of the lake.

After the robot fell to the bottom of the lake, it actually started moving and was not suppressed.

"Robots are not normal people and will not drown. This is the perception of ordinary people and naturally also the perception of the store manager, so the suppression of the Ghost Lake has no effect on it, allowing it to move freely on the bottom of the lake. As expected, in the store, we still have to change our thinking. We can't think about things with the thinking of the supernatural circle, we have to think like ordinary people." Zhang Lei was full of emotion.

Cao Yang nodded. "Professor Wang has already reminded us of this, but our thinking is a little rigid. If we really change our thinking, if we can't change it back quickly when dealing with supernatural events in the outside world, the result will be terrible."

"There's always a trade-off. I don't think there's a need to change your mindset now. Just make sure you don't trigger the killing pattern in the store and make as much money as possible," Zhou Deng said.

Li Leping glanced at him and said, "Are you sure we are the ones who are fleecing the store manager, and not him collecting the evil spirits we have imprisoned?"

The few of them chatted very quietly, otherwise if the "store manager" heard them it would have a huge impact, and they might even be killed outright.

They had suffered losses when they first arrived at the Peace Hotel, so they had naturally figured out a way to communicate in the Peace Hotel to avoid being misunderstood by the "store manager".

Lin Yuan's mind is now entirely on the robot at the bottom of the lake. He has had enough of the days of settling accounts and collecting animals. It is really too troublesome.

Even if we can't come up with mobile payment like before the time travel, at least we have to come up with cash checkout!
Time passed by minute by minute, and Lin Yuan suddenly said: "Can you get a few more robots over? I see that the robot's movement speed at the bottom of the lake is a bit slow. It may be because the resistance at the bottom of the water is too great. This fish pond is so big, and there are too few fish. How long will it take to search?"

Liu Qingqing nodded and said, "Okay, but we can only get six more now."

"Six, that's a small number, but you can get them here first and fish them out from the bottom of the lake. Let me know when you have any results. I'm going to the store first."

Lin Yuan didn't want to waste any more time here since he was with Liu Qingqing anyway.

Liu Qingqing was stunned for a moment, and suddenly felt like she had shot herself in the foot. She clearly came to ask Lin Yuan whether he had asked Mr. Qin, who drove the ghost bus, about the address she had drawn, but she ended up being assigned a job.

Forget it.

Just do it, what else can you do?

Only after you have done this job well can you speak to the "store manager". Otherwise, a worthless employee will not get any say in front of the "store manager".

Since Lin Yuan was going back to the store, Cao Yang and the others naturally followed him.

They were so engrossed in watching the fun just now that they naturally remembered to go with the "store manager" to check out the points mall.

There's also the gaming aspect.

"Brother Yuan, the background of last night's game was very interesting. Is there a subsequent story mode? We want to continue playing." Cao Yang took a few quick steps to catch up with Lin Yuan and offered his suggestion with a smile.

Lin Yuan smiled and said, "I see. Since you have helped me so much, I can consider it. But I am not the one developing the game. I can give some suggestions, but the plot will depend on the developers' ideas."

He speaks so directly, really like a "store manager".

However, Cao Yang did not give up, and still discussed the plot of the virtual game with Lin Yuan with a smile. It seemed that he wanted to make Lin Yuan interested in the plot of the virtual game, and then push for the development of the plot in this area.

Lin Yuan answered with hmm and aah sounds, and was obviously not interested. However, he did understand one thing: this Xiao Cao was actually a plot party?

The so-called plot party is when playing games, rather than defeating bosses and increasing levels, what they prefer to do is to explore the plot and historical background of the game.

Some of the more adept plot fans are even curious about the background of a passing NPC and want to dig deeper into it.

Cao Yang's performance was completely that of a plot party, and he wanted to dig out the background of last night's virtual game. Originally, Lin Yuan just thought it was fun, but suddenly he thought of something.

He runs a restaurant. Although the e-sports room and virtual games are just a service, if it can generate enough profits, it will naturally be developed vigorously.

Compared with projects such as Ghost Lake·Fish Pond and Ghost Rental, e-Sports Room·Virtual Game can be said to be the most profitable one besides the basic service of a hotel - meals.

Since players have needs, they must be met.

And for those who love the plot, what do they need most?
Looking at Cao Yang who was getting more and more excited, Lin Yuan suddenly said, "Last night's game was so fun. If there is a book of 'historical facts' about the background of the game, would you be willing to buy it?"

"what?"

Cao Yang was stunned, then he reacted and nodded repeatedly, "Buy it! Definitely buy it!"

If it was information from other games, it would be fine, but a store manager appeared in last night’s game. Both the history of Taiping Ancient Town and the history of the store manager are very precious information.

If he could use evil spirits to exchange for corresponding information, I believe he wouldn't have to spend any resources, and the headquarters would have to send the imprisoned evil spirits here.

Lin Yuan was also very satisfied with Cao Yang's answer.

When he returned to the cashier counter, he had already communicated with "Golden Finger" for quite a while, but unfortunately the final result was not satisfactory, because "Golden Finger" was simply unable to provide the so-called game background history information.

There is nothing we can do about this.

Although Lin Yuan has restored some stories that happened in Taiping Ancient Town forty years ago through various means, the backgrounds of these stories are not complete. Many NPCs in the game don’t even have faces, let alone any so-called backgrounds.

They appeared only because they had appeared in the memories of He Liansheng, Boss Liu and others.

Lin Yuan couldn't control Shen Lin to infinitely exploit bugs, and he couldn't dig deep into the information and background of one of them. So what could he sell to the players?

Could it be that we want him to edit and write stories?
This is not impossible, but there are still many people who lived through forty years ago. If they really made up a set of information, they would most likely be slapped in the face in the end.

Lin Yuan would never do such a thing.

"Store Manager" Lin Yuan was very depressed, but since he couldn't do it, he would not force himself to do it. He could only apologize to Cao Yang.

"The background of the game is still being further improved and developed, and there is no plan to sell it to the outside world for the time being, but you can try to continue playing. Isn't it more interesting to discover a piece of history through your own efforts?" Lin Yuan gave such an explanation.

I'm not worried that Cao Yang will be angry.

For fans of the plot, digging into history with one's own hands should be more fulfilling.

Sure enough, Cao Yang looked a little disappointed, but he didn't seem angry at all. "Well, that's all we can do. By the way, Brother Yuan, when are you going to expand your store? There are too few e-sports rooms here, and many of my colleagues want to come over to play games with us in the evening."

"Well, I'll think about it."

Lin Yuan was naturally very happy to hear that the e-sports room was so popular, but the hotel had just been upgraded and there was no way to expand it for the time being.

Accustomed to expanding the hotel through Gold Finger upgrades, he didn't want to spend money to hire a construction team to do the construction, which was not only a waste of money, but also a waste of time. However, the hotel is not limited to the rooms on the second floor. The nano laboratory in the basement has a large space, and the nano material seems to be very suitable for renovation?
Lin Yuan was thinking about it in his mind, but these things had not been finalized yet, and he couldn't say it out in advance, so as not to make the guests happy for nothing and affect the reputation of the store.

Cao Yang and Lin Yuan were chatting non-stop just now, and no one else could get a word in. Now that they had finally finished chatting, Zhou Deng immediately said, "Brother Yuan, can we take a look at the points mall? We got a lot of points this time."

Lin Yuan came back to his senses, opened the computer and looked at it, with a strange look on his face, "You don't need it. I see that you don't even have a single point in this game, which is much worse than last time."

Cao Yang explained: "Brother Yuan, you don't know that this game was completed by the cooperation of Zhang Lei, Zhou Deng and I, so the points among the three of us are divided equally."

Li Leping was not mentioned.

Firstly, Li Leping left the stage earlier than any of them, and he also worked hard to fatten up Zhang Lei, so it was difficult to count his 35 points, as it would be a bit ugly to see how he was eating.

"Points transfer, okay. Take a look, these are your current points." Lin Yuan said, turning the computer screen behind the cash register so that Cao Yang and others outside the cash register could see it clearly.

At the end of the last round of the game, Wei Jing had 43 points, Zhang Lei had 21 points, Cao Yang had 7 points, and Zhou Deng had 1 point.

However, Wei Jing and Zhang Lei both purchased the card [Dahai City·Supernatural Forum·Ye Zhen] and activated the one-click dress-up function, which cost 18 points.

Zhang Lei then exchanged all the remaining 3 points for the duration of the dress-up, a total of 2 minutes, and the remaining points were 0.

Wei Jing had the most points, but he did not use them indiscriminately. With his supernatural powers as a ghost catcher, he had the ability to suppress nine ghosts without any solution. His strength was extremely terrifying, and he did not need much other supernatural powers. However, he still spent 15 points to buy ten minutes of duration for changing clothes.

Eight minutes of the time were given to Wang Xiaoming, and he cooperated with Wang Xiaoming in the experiment, leaving two minutes for himself to deal with emergencies.

Zhou Deng originally had 1 point, but he used this 1 point to watch his "Highlight Collection" screen, and there was nothing left from the last game.

So the number of points has also changed a lot:
【Virtual game points ranking list:

1. Li Leping: 35 points.

2. Cao Yang: 32 points.

3. Zhou Deng: 25 points.

4. Zhang Lei: 25 points.

5. Wei Jing: 10 points. 】

"Haha! Now I'm not at the bottom anymore, I got 25 points, hahaha!" Zhou Deng was so proud, feeling the excitement of a liberated serf singing.

Cao Yang, Li Leping and Zhang Lei pushed the boy to the back and said, "Brother Yuan, can I take a look at the points mall? There should be more cards that can be purchased this time, right?"

This is what they care about most now.

In last night's virtual game, there were so many powerful characters. The owners of the dozen or so shops and Old He who guarded the ancestral hall were all terrifyingly powerful.

Just the action of Lao Liu, the owner of the paper-making shop, almost forced them into a desperate situation. If the evil spirit had not revived in the end to fight, they probably wouldn't have gotten even one point.

Now that you have completed the game, you can use the BOSS cards to check the true situation and strength status of those people last night.

Although the abilities obtained from the cards are just a kind of supernatural power possessed by these bosses, they are also very good choices.

Even if you just take a look at it, you can get a lot of information from it.

For example, who is the most powerful ghost rider in Taiping Ancient Town, how many bosses are there, how difficult is the strategy, and what kind of preparations are needed.

Cao Yang had mentioned before that he wanted to play a story-based series of games.

Although the "store manager" did not agree immediately, considering his previous caring attitude towards players, he should not be too bad.

So the next round of games will most likely be a continuation of last night's game.

Even if it was just a replica of last night's game, they could still make a targeted plan through the BOSS card information in the peripheral mall and card mall.

Information is the most expensive thing in the world!

However, when Lin Yuan opened the points peripheral mall on the computer, Cao Yang and the others were stunned, especially Zhou Deng, who had just rejoined the circle. Seeing that there were still only three cards of Ye Zhen, Luo Qian, and Zhang Xianguang on the card mall, he immediately exclaimed: "Brother Yuan, are you mistaken? Why isn't the game BOSS we played last night on it?"

Lin Yuan was also a little surprised and urgently contacted "Golden Finger". Soon his expression became strange, and the look in his eyes made Cao Yang and others feel creepy.

"Boss Lin, just tell me what the situation is. Has it not been developed yet? We can understand." Li Leping took the initiative to find a way out for Lin Yuan and glared at Zhou Deng sideways.

Dare you talk to the "store manager" like this? Aren't you afraid that the store manager will ban you?
Lin Yuan was helpless. If the "Gold Finger" didn't give him the card, what else could he do? He could only explain according to the "Gold Finger"'s instructions: "You don't have any strategy to defeat the BOSS in the game, and you don't even know who the game BOSS is. If that's the case, then we naturally don't have the BOSS information here, and naturally we can't make it into a card."

This……

What a reasonable job!
Cao Yang, Li Leping, Zhang Lei and Zhou Deng looked at each other, and suddenly had a feeling of "I am such a useless person". They didn't even know who the BOSS was, but they were still trying to find out the BOSS's information from outside the board and then develop a strategy. What's the difference between this and cheating?
Of course, if you can cheat, playing games will naturally be more fun.

But the problem is that not only are they not using cheats now, but their intention to cheat has been exposed by Lin Yuan, which is a bit embarrassing.

Fortunately, a customer came in to eat and order food at this time, giving them an excuse to leave. However, the customer was an acquaintance, Yang Xiao and Zhang Xianguang.

Zhang Xianguang?
In the virtual game Dahai City Ghost Grave Incident, they had encountered Zhang Xianguang, and now they can also exchange Zhang Xianguang's cards and peek into Zhang Xianguang's abilities.

Come to think of it, it’s quite interesting.

Unfortunately, the card [Dream Chaser·Zhang Xianguang] is too expensive. It costs 30 points just to buy the card, 6 points to activate the one-click dressing function, and 3 points for one minute, which is twice as much as Ye Zhen. Otherwise, you have to exchange it for a high-end card and perform the dressing-up in front of Zhang Xianguang.

“Welcome~”

Amid the welcome, Zhang Xianguang and Yang Xiao walked into the Peace Hotel and were transformed into a gorilla and a robot respectively.

Zhang Xianguang glanced at Cao Yang and others with some confusion, and then retracted his gaze. He did not participate in the virtual game, so he did not have enough knowledge about the situation in the virtual game, and was even less clear about the problem with the cards.

Ling Yiguang was also unaware of this matter, so even if the two of them could communicate with each other in the world of ghost painting at the right time, they would not be able to know anything about the points mall and card mall.

So he just felt that Cao Yang and others looked at him in a strange way.

"Is it because of the conflict between my other self and Dahai City? I need to find a time to have a good chat with my other self. It seems that something happened that we don't know about."

Zhang Xianguang withdrew his gaze and prepared to go to the cashier to order food, and exchanged a few words with Lin Yuan by the way.

After all, Yang Xiao came with him, and Yang Xiao was just a character in the oil painting of the Ghost Post Office. Unlike him, he did not have the resources and channels of evil spirits.

If he didn't pay for Yang Xiao, Yang Xiao would be accused of eating and drinking free as soon as he entered the door.

Yang Xiao is not a ghost rider, but a spiritual being. If he were really treated as a freeloader, he would probably be detained by the Peace Hotel and forced to wash dishes.

This is not okay.

But when Zhang Xianguang turned around, he found that Yang Xiao had already sat down at the dining table, and next to Yang Xiao was a young man who looked 70% similar to Yang Xiao.

Yang Jian?

Zhang Xianguang has now transformed into a gorilla, with most of his face covered by fur, but even so, it is still obvious that his face has turned dark.

Lin Yuan greeted, "What's wrong with Lao Zhang? Are you in a bad mood?"

"It's okay. I just felt a little emotional when I saw the reunion of Old Yang and his son." Zhang Xianguang forced a smile and found a suitable reason.

Lin Yuan nodded, "I understand. But Lao Zhang, where are your children? Why haven't I seen them? Even if you've been working, they should come to see you, right?"

This is a good intention.

But despite good intentions, Zhang Xianguang was deeply heartbroken because he had devoted himself to his career and had no children in the past sixty or seventy years.

There is an old father, but that father...it’s better not to mention him!
Zhang Xianguang’s silence made Lin Yuan feel a little embarrassed. He knew at a glance that Zhang Xianguang’s family had big problems. This was like hitting the nail on the head.

This is not possible!

As a restaurant owner, you can't hurt your customers like this. Moreover, this customer is a hidden big client. It is possible that you can ask him to help with contract mediation with the company called Ghost Post Office.

This is big business.

Although the Peace Hotel's business is good now, to make money, it is natural to develop in all aspects and not be shabby.

Fortunately, Zhang Xianguang had excellent self-regulation ability, so Lin Yuan didn't have to rack his brains to think of how to comfort him. He pointed to Yang Jian's table and said, "Two home-cooked dishes, one meat and one vegetable, thank you."

(End of this chapter)