Julie's delicious dishes led to the first batch of players in "Infinite World" becoming addicted to virtual food.
Previously, players ate the food in the game just to reduce their hunger levels. A few foods could also temporarily enhance happiness and cold resistance and other hidden attributes. However, Julie's food was so delicious that it could absorb people's appetite.
The slightly wealthy players in Friendship Town now would go to the restaurant even if they were just a little hungry. It was said that if they didn't eat Julie's dishes for several hours, they would feel their mouths itching.
Of course, it's not impossible that these bachelors went there for Julie's "beauty".
Little Fat almost every day would run out of his pet space and go to the restaurant door to smell the aroma of the food. He was really so hungry that he had tears and snot streaming down his face. He was extremely pitiful.
However, because of Julie, a group of food addicts emerged. Little Fat, absorbing their appetite so closely, had already reached level 13.
Little Fat didn't dare to see Julie. The dishes in the restaurant didn't have an option for "takeout", so they couldn't leave the table, so they couldn't buy them to give to Little Fat to eat. There was no way, so I negotiated with Julie and asked her to also make some steamed buns, pastries, bread, etc. This helped Little Fat a little bit.
I handed the steamed buns to Little Fat outside and suddenly thought of a word: "Takeout".
I found the former vendor. The vendor now looks tired and listless, sitting behind the cart.
Thinking of the time when I was born in this village, the vendor was the only place I could do business with. In terms of help, the vendor's help was probably the greatest, although he made some money from my sweat and blood.
I patted his shoulder: "What's wrong, have you had a bad time recently?"
The vendor looked up at me and forced a smile: "Lord, it's rare that you still remember me. Ah, as you can see, my situation is bleak. If you build another grocery store, I will have no business to do."
I felt a bit sad. Now the vendor is so humbly calling me "Lord", it sounds uncomfortable to me. It seems that it's more comfortable to listen to him talk with his previous cunning expression.
Grocery store, this is the one I just approved to build. It mainly sells some daily necessities, such as candles, torches, water bags, etc.
With the increase in the town's population, women, children, and the elderly also started to increase, so the demand for mirrors, combs, windmills, chess sets, etc. also increased. Although it doesn't earn much money, it is also one of the favorable conditions for attracting various players to move in, so it must be built.
I looked at the vendor: "If you have no business, what will happen in the end? Move away?"
The vendor smiled wryly: "To where? The villages everywhere have increasingly complete stores. Business is difficult everywhere. I can't even make enough money for the travel expenses."
"Within a few days, I will go bankrupt. At that time, according to the setting, I will become a vagrant. For half a month, no one will take me in. I will become a beggar. If the items I beg for are not enough to sustain my life, I will disappear from the world..."
I felt a bit heartbroken. I reflected for a moment and suddenly smiled: "Fortunately, I have thought of a business for you. That is, to deliver takeout!"
The vendor looked at me puzzled. I smiled: "The Julie girl in our town, her steamed buns and pastries are extremely delicious. I want you to take them to nearby villages to sell. Not for making money, just for advertising. You should tell those players that these are made by a god-level beautiful chef in Friendship Town!"
The vendor thought for a moment and was a little hesitant: "But, how many steamed buns do I need to sell to recover the travel expenses?"
I patted him: "The travel expenses are paid by me. I will also give you a subsidy."
The vendor suddenly said: "Actually, since you want to do advertising, why don't you let Julie girl make boxed meals for me to take to sell?"
I opened my eyes wide and jumped up: "Boxed meals!" The vendor nodded: "Yes, just make some lunch boxes, which can replace the plates for holding the dishes, and these dishes can leave the shop. My cart has a heat preservation function, and the boxed meals won't get cold. However, the taste and effect of the boxed meals will be 30% lower than those in restaurants."
I laughed heartily: "Great! Thank you very much."
Opening the "Comprehensive Catalog of Daily Items", I indeed found the lunch boxes in a very inconspicuous corner. I quickly made a batch and asked Julie to prepare the meals and put them in the boxes, and then the vendor would take them to various villages for sale.
Julie's own cooking tools and chef's clothing were much more advanced than mine, but the kitchen facilities were quite different from what she used thousands of years ago, so it wasn't her best level yet.
I spent over an hour creating the complete set of ancient kitchen facilities and utensils. Although the effect wasn't strong, it made Julie much more convenient. Julie happily thanked me.
I felt embarrassed instead, suddenly remembering something. Now I was only thinking of promoting Julie as our Friendship Town's flagship brand, but I hadn't thought that Julie was now helping me voluntarily!
I scratched my head: "Julie, now that you are a chef, how much salary do you want? Just say it."
Julie smiled: "Brother Tian, my life was saved by you and my sister Yusra. What else do you want from me? As long as I can help you, I'm satisfied."
I felt embarrassed. Turning to the original chef NPC in the kitchen, I asked: "Uncle Xiao, a god-level chef, how much should the remuneration be?"
Uncle Xiao was now helping Julie, but he didn't complain at all. On the contrary, he was excited that he could see the skills of a god-level chef in his lifetime. He voluntarily reduced the commission by half.
When I asked, Uncle Xiao calculated for a while: "Our expert level is 15 gold coins per day, master level is 50 gold coins per day, and master level is 200 gold coins... Well, for a god-level life career, theoretically, it's 10,000 gold coins per day. However, because only one god-level chef appears on the continent every few hundred years, it should be priceless. Actually, there hasn't been anyone heard of helping others work as a god-level careerist..."
I fainted on the spot. 10,000 gold coins a day? It's life-threatening! My small shop, although it's currently bursting with customers and the daily income is only a few gold coins!
Julie chuckled: "Brother, actually, seeing so many people liking my food, I'm already very happy. Don't worry about it."
After a while, I recovered and thought: "How about this? I'll make you the owner, and you get 20% of the restaurant's income."
Julie excitedly said: "Owner? Great! Then I can develop dishes myself. My father always said that the restaurant's crowd was complex and didn't agree that I should be an owner. I never had the chance to try it before. Thank you, Brother!"
Seeing Julie's happiness, I finally felt at ease. However, thinking of being called "big brother" by a "girl" over 4,000 years old was really strange.
Leaving the kitchen, I greeted everyone and then sat together with Honey.
Special Liaison sighed: "Brother, now the game has changed the settings. When NPCs fight monsters, the experience points only count on the NPCs, and there are no drops of treasure. The killed monsters cannot be cut up. Without Louison's guidance, Brother Huawang has left, and now we level up is slower."
I laughed heartily: "You're too dissatisfied, you and your two are both at level 47. Why do you still think it's slow? You're a priest and your online time is only 14 hours a day."
Special Liaison looked sad: "Now there are only 12 hours left. My parents have started to limit my gaming time. If it weren't for me using game coins to exchange some money for them to see, they would have stopped me from playing long ago." Honey said with a "clack": "Now I'm so grown up, yet my parents are still so strict with me. I'm so useless. Look at me, I play games with my big brothers outside all day long. My parents don't care about me, and I don't need their money. The money I earn from playing games can support myself!"
In reality, according to Honey's own account, he is part of the "underworld". I didn't believe it at first. In this era where everything is about high technology, how could the underworld survive?
However, the Tiger King told me that nowadays, the "underworld" has high-tech talents and its activities have expanded to the online world. They say "hackers in the underworld" is pretty much what it is. Players like Honey, with low intelligence, are responsible for earning money from games and collecting information. Once the organization needs something, they will issue an order in the game and show up immediately.
I have always been worried. If the underworld behind Honey's power spreads to my Friendship Town, with Honey as a connection, it will definitely be a troublesome matter. However, at present, his big brothers haven't issued any orders.
Time passed like this. I went alone to level up, worked hard for two days, and killed a 27-level boss, thus reaching level 42. Little Pao couldn't level up by killing monsters, but Chu Chu rose to level 21, and Xuan Gui rose to level 30.
To tell the truth, I'm now quite fast at leveling up. After all, I have a treasure that can store 1,000 items, saving several trips of traveling. The Paladin's set is a gold-level one, but it's stronger than a set of ordinary platinum equipment. Plus, the platinum-level Fire God's Eye and my own high attributes. And of course, there are Little Pao and Chu Chu's help.
Other players of the same level as me, although they have many high-damage skills, are also quite energy and fatigue-consuming. It's not suitable to use them too much during leveling up. So, even players with strong attributes and high equipment are slower than me.
On the way back to the town, I passed through a barren land. I tried the skill on the Paladin's set: the ultimate magic "Green Sea".
The magic was cast, and green grass spread like waves from beneath my feet, covering an area of several tens of meters in less than a few seconds. But at the same time, I felt my life essence rapidly draining away, making me extremely frightened.
Not only did my MP drop to zero instantly, not only was the number of my spirit power decreasing little by little, not only was the fatigue level in the game rising rapidly, but my real vitality seemed to be being sucked into an invisible big hole!
I shouted loudly, withdrew the magic, and my entire body seemed to be about to collapse. It was just a moment ago, what happened? Was it an illusion? No matter what it was, I didn't want to try this ultimate magic again! Although the grassland is beautiful, it's impossible for me to exchange my own vitality for it.
Once again, I had a strong suspicion about the game's mainframe. Is this game really harmless?