"Thank you all for coming, and welcome back tomorrow."
In the evening, after closing the internet cafe, Ge Liang sat in his chair, looking at the numbers in the System, a smile involuntarily playing on his lips.
"Hehehe, this is truly a huge profit."
In just one day, Ge Liang sold eighteen beginner magic swords.
After deducting the 'purchase' cost, he made a net profit of sixteen million two hundred thousand.
"It's a pity, not a single Daoist robe was sold."
The Daoist robes were priced the same as the magic swords and were also very functional, but not a single one sold.
However, being able to sell so many Elementary magic swords today, he was quite satisfied.
The income from selling swords, plus the internet usage fees and the previous internet cafe balance, meant the internet cafe now had a total of eighteen million nine hundred and thirty thousand.
Without hesitation, Ge Liang directly chose to complete the mission.
Mission: Internet cafe balance reaches ten million liang (Completed).
Mission Reward: Twelve sets of matching computers, "legend of sword and fairy 1" TV series, choice of one out of three standalone games, host authority upgrade.
Choice of one out of three standalone games: diablo ii (Story Edition), resident evil 1 (Story Edition), the king of fighters 97 (Three-person Team Edition).
Current host Authority: 2
New Mission: Internet cafe balance reaches fifty million liang.
Mission Progress: 893/5000
Mission rewards include twenty-four sets of matching computers, a choice of one out of three standalone games, and an upgrade to host authority... The new choice of three standalone games has already been mentioned in the previous text, so it won't be repeated here.
However, the game "the king of fighters 97" (Three-person Team Edition) not only brought back memories of his youth... Actually, the king of fighters series games are not PC games, but arcade games.
But now, with the existence of matching joysticks, even players using normal mode can play this game, let alone the immersive mode.
The appearance of this game perfectly compensated for the internet cafe's lack of fighting games.
And looking at the description in the parentheses, this game should also support three-person team play, which means it can be considered an online game that can be played with friends.
However, the power ceiling in this game is very high.
It would be fine if one could choose game characters to fight, but what if players can only rely on their own strength without character selection? That would be quite a pain.
The final BOSS of the game is Orochi, known as the 'Earth's Will', whose prestige is much higher than that of Kaguya, the alien.
In the original work, it was only by gathering the power of the three Divine Artifacts that Orochi was barely Sealed.
Besides Orochi, the big BOSS, there are also smaller BOSSes like the Hachijesshu.
Whether it's Yashiro of the Parched Earth, Shermie of the Wild Lightning, or Chris of the Fated Flame, none of them are opponents that players can deal with at this stage.
Therefore, compared to "the king of fighters 97", Ge Liang was more inclined to choose "diablo ii" this time.
This game is not a sandbox game; Ge Liang guessed that it's the original game optimized by the System, and players only need to follow the storyline to clear the entire game.
Unlike "legend of sword and fairy 1", players played for a day and found it very fun and free, able to do anything they wanted, but not knowing the main quest still left them feeling confused.
Ge Liang estimated that to figure out the main quest, they would only understand after playing for more than a year of in-game time, when Baiyue summons the Water Demonic Beast to destroy the world, that the main quest is to deal with Baiyue, the big BOSS.
Or, they might roughly understand after watching the "legend of sword and fairy 1" TV series tomorrow... After selecting "diablo ii", Ge Liang began to check his newly added authority.
Current host Authority: 2
Unlock New Room: Training Room (Player Exclusive)
Training Room: Players can spend money to accelerate the Cultivation of Spells (Skills) in the Training Room.
New Items in Shop: Swords (Blue, Purple, Orange)... Random Teleportation Scroll... town portal scroll... Life Potion (Small, Medium, Large)... Horadric Cube... New Function: Expand Space... There's nothing much to say about the Training Room; it's essentially a player version of the enlightenment chamber.
However, unlike the enlightenment chamber, only one enlightenment chamber can be built, but many Training Rooms can be built as long as the internet cafe has enough space.
Besides the increased quantity, the cost also differs.
Using the enlightenment chamber costs one thousand liang with no time limit, while the Training Room has a time limit, costing one hundred thousand liang for one hour.
As for the Cultivation efficiency of both, Ge Liang was unsure.
After all, he hadn't even used the enlightenment chamber himself, so he didn't know if it was effective.
There's nothing much to say about the new items in the shop either; they are all items from "diablo ii".
Among them, besides the usual equipment and red and blue potions, Ge Liang felt that the most practical items were the Teleportation Scroll and the town portal scroll.
These things are absolutely essential for survival.
With these two scrolls, there's no need to worry about being surrounded and killed.
If you encounter an enemy and feel that the situation is bad, immediately use a Random Teleportation Scroll to 'fly' away, guaranteed to leave the enemy dumbfounded.
Finally, there's the newly appeared 'Expand Space'.
As the name suggests, it expands the internal space of the internet cafe.
In fact, with more and more computers, the internet cafe was already very crowded.
Even if this new function hadn't appeared, Ge Liang was planning to ask the neighbors if their shop was for sale.
Now, Ge Liang didn't need to ask; he could just use the System.
The price for expanding space was also reasonable, only one hundred thousand liang per square meter.
Without hesitation, Ge Liang directly purchased fifty-five square meters of space, and then bought three more matching computers, which, combined with the twelve computers rewarded by the System, increased the number of computers in the internet cafe to thirty.
Seeing that there were still four hundred and thirty thousand liang remaining, Ge Liang spent another three hundred thousand liang to open three Training Rooms.
Afterward, Ge Liang looked at the internet cafe's space map provided by the System and found that even after purchasing fifty-five square meters of space, with so many additional computers and the three Training Rooms occupying a certain amount of space, the upgraded internet cafe still seemed a bit crowded.
"Crowded is crowded. At least it's more spacious than before the upgrade."
With the internet cafe matters settled, Ge Liang finally had time to properly play a game.
He had played "legend of sword and fairy 1" more than once back in the day.
He had long memorized some of the storylines.
Using the same amount of time, his efficiency was many times higher than that of Kakashi and the others.
In just four hours of real-world time, the Red Demonic King of General's Tomb was defeated by Ge Liang.
There was no other way, as the immersive mode was quite different from the normal mode.
However, Ge Liang was still a bit dissatisfied. When he married Zhao Linger, he had fully expected *that* kind of scene, and he was very much looking forward to it.
But what happened? The System actually went black screen directly, and then it instantly jumped to the next day.
This was just outrageous, infuriating Ge Liang so much that he cursed the damn System in the game for an hour and still didn't feel satisfied.