Survival Game: Call Me an Honest Businessman

The roof of the house has been completed.

Li Zhi also began to think about how to formulate store rules.

Her most desired rule is: "The shop owner is always the strongest person in the shop."

However, the store rules will be directly posted at the store entrance, becoming a virtual slogan that all passing customers can see.

In other words, when she sets rules, she must consider how customers will feel when they see those rules.

If the rules are too domineering, the rules placed at the door will cause customers to leave directly because they are worried about their personal safety.

She had to come up with a rule that would protect herself, her employees, and the merchandise without causing any resistance from customers.

Li Zhi's thought at the time was: "Talents, items, and weapons should be prohibited inside the shop."

The game then displayed the following message: "Items prohibited in the shop will no longer be available for sale. The shop rules are about to take effect. Are you sure?"

Li Zhi immediately selected "no".

She planned to make money by selling non-attribute weapons to humans and D-class races. A rule made it impossible for her to sell her main products. Isn't that putting the cart before the horse?

So she came up with another one: "It is forbidden to arrest or attack shop owners and employees, or to damage the merchandise in the store."

The game results indicate that: [Attack and capture are two separate rules, damaging items in the shop also counts as a rule, and a level 3 shop can only have one rule set.]

Li Zhi tentatively suggested, "Then let's change it to prohibiting harm to the shop owner, employees, and items in the shop."

Have you finalized the store rules?

She immediately chose no.

I said that just to confirm that my guess was wrong.

The rules of this game are indeed very strict with verbs; a single verb is considered a rule, but nouns can be grouped together as a single rule.

If she could play some word games...

As Li Zhi was pondering this, a black hole appeared before him.

Her hair stood on end. She gripped both her shield and the fire gun, pushed them into her safe zone, and prepared to teleport away at any moment.

As a result, two people with constipated expressions fell out.

They went up and down, and both of them fell into the stream.

"vomit……"

The girl above gags.

The girl below instantly snapped out of her daze, and disregarding the fact that her cotton-padded coat was soaked, she raised her hands to try and cover the mouth of the girl who was dry heaving.

"Please don't throw up! Please! My interview today is very important!"

The girl on top nodded, used all her strength to flip herself over, and fell into the stream.

The girl below breathed a sigh of relief, climbed out of the stream, and saw Li Zhishi standing on the bank. She forced a smile and said, "Hello, you must be Hui—"

Li Zhi instinctively stepped back.

The girl's throat bobbed, but she didn't vomit. Her face was deathly pale as she introduced herself again: "It's me, Your Majesty. I just wanted to vomit..."

She was talking and gagging as she climbed up.

She stretched out her wet hand, as if she wanted to shake hands with Li Zhi, or as if she wanted Li Zhi to help her up.

—It's like a water ghost, a zombie, or a combination of both.

The rules in Li Zhi's mind vanished instantly, and he retreated frantically, ending up inside the store.

"A little white dove! I know it's you! Don't—you've caught a cold, your clothes are all wet, right? I'll get you two some clothes, you wait by the door for a while."

She retreated ten meters away, rummaged through her storage space and pulled out two sets of one-size-fits-all cotton coats, handing them to the two people who were trembling as they walked in.

The little white dove that was walking upright looked much better.

Although his face was pale, he still bravely explained, "We made a mistake with our spatial jump and ended up in someone else's territory. There's a space there that spins at a high speed like a washing machine, and that's why we came out like this. I'm really sorry."

The other girl couldn't say a word, she could only nod.

Li Zhi: "You two change your clothes first."

After they changed and came out, Li Zhi had already set up a table and chairs there, and took out the stove he had received on the first day, and boiled a pot of water.

"We don't have a pot, so you two will have to make do with this to warm yourselves up."

A little white dove looked much better. She took out a piece of ginger from her pocket: "Your Majesty, this is ginger that the Academy of Agricultural Sciences has recently grown. You can put some in."

As she spoke, she pulled out scallions, garlic, broccoli, tomatoes, apples, grapes...

"These are all newly grown fruits from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences. The Imperial Household Department said they would let Your Majesty try them, and if they are delicious, we will send them to you regularly."

Li Zhi withdrew his hand that was reaching for the ginger.

Especially after catching a glimpse of another girl's shocked expression out of the corner of his eye.

She coughed and said, "You, cough cough, let's keep things online. In real life, you can just call me Boss or Sanwu."

Bai Ge: "Okay, boss. The chief of District 15 gave you a gift not only to build a good relationship with you, but also because he wants to sell the Academy of Sciences' new research products through you, and asks me to act as the middleman. These are the Academy of Sciences' latest inventions."

Bai Ge took out these inventions one by one and introduced them.

Li Zhi was interested in a set of guns powered by Apocalypse Micro Dust.

This includes pistols, rifles, submachine guns, machine guns, riot guns, and tranquilizer guns.

These guns have no attributes and would probably be considered defective by most weapon masters on the Apocalypse Continent, but they are more than enough for D-level races and humans.

Bai Ge: "If pistols and machine guns can use Apocalypse Crystals as energy, their weapon grades can be forcibly upgraded to Grade D, increasing their range by 15 meters and 50 meters respectively, and their overall combat power by 5 points."

Li Zhi: "How does the government plan to cooperate with me?"

Bai Ge: "This is an invention by Dr. Zhao, the leader of Research Group 1 in District 15. She hopes to cooperate with you on a revenue-sharing basis. You can get a 7% cut from the sale of each gun."

Li Zhi was somewhat surprised.

This is a relatively favorable amount for her.

Bai Ge chuckled: "After you partnered with the organization, 10% of the Apocalypse Dust that the organization catches every day goes to Dr. Zhao's team. She has a particularly good impression of you. Knowing that you were going to open a shop, she said that you would have priority in selecting the inventions that would be sold to the public in the future, and she wanted you to be the sole agent."

Li Zhi: "I see. I won't let Dr. Zhao down. I'll take the 7% commission she suggested. Have you considered the pricing?"

Bai Ge: "These guns were only released yesterday. The official store prices pistols at 35 points, and rifles..."

While the two were discussing, the other girl was drinking ginger tea and looking around.

After the two finished speaking, he took out a silver coin and said, "Boss Sanwu, I'd also like to buy a membership card."

After Li Zhi accepted the money, she stood up and said, "I have other tasks to complete, so I'll be leaving now."

A black hole appeared ahead of her. After she stepped into the black hole, the black hole and she disappeared together.

This reminded Li Zhi of Luo Hong.

Luo Hong's appearances and disappearances are always in roughly the same way.

Li Zhi: "Is your colleague's talent the ability to teleport freely?"

Bai Ge: "It's a spatial jump. As long as there are coordinates, the calculation team can determine the appropriate jump distance and the required mental strength. She can perform up to three consecutive jumps. This is the first time she has jumped this far. It feels like we've entered the territory of another race."

Li Zhixin felt a chill.

As expected, even the safe zone is not absolutely safe.

At least spatial talents can penetrate "barriers".

She thought of Yu and Luo Hong, and even more advanced races that might have already set their sights on her.

Li Zhi: "Has the authorities researched the spatial talent of those with it? Can they freely travel between different territories?"

Bai Ge: "No, if we accidentally enter someone else's territory, it will consume a lot of mental energy. The longer we stay, the more energy we will consume. That's why we are in such a sorry state because we are trapped in an unknown territory. The 10 points of mental energy that the ordinary energy potion adds are gone in a second. She can't travel out again. If she didn't have a spare bottle of high-level energy potion that adds 50 points of mental energy at once, we might not have been able to escape."

Li Zhi immediately became interested: "Does the high mental energy consumption of spatial talent users when entering other realms only apply to humans, or is it the same for other races?"

Bai Ge: "According to the research of the Academy of Sciences, this is true for all races."

Li Zhi instantly had an idea for the store's rules.

She walked to the rule sign at the shop entrance and wrote: Using talents, props, weapons, and skills inside the shop will consume 100 times more mental energy.