My portable grandfather refreshes every week

Chapter 301 The World is a Huge Makeshift Team

That evening, Xue Daolu returned to the world of beast-eared girls.

After all, the Holy Sword was destroyed here, and the only way to trace its origins and find its remnants is to rely on the world consciousness of this place.

After a long search, they finally found only the ashes of a mineral water bottle.

These are the only remaining parts of the Holy Sword; the rest are truly gone, the kind that even the world's consciousness cannot retrieve. It would seem simpler to have the world's consciousness bestow a brand new Holy Sword upon it.

Xue didn't complain. It was great to trade the Holy Sword for control of a Dragon King, but that was the price to pay.

So he simply gathered the ashes together, then took out the old man's short sword, which was in the same style as the holy sword, and said, "Old man, is the material of these powders the same as your short sword?"

"Let me see, they seem to be the same... They're both special alloys, but how could they be broken into such a state..." The old man looked at the powder in the water bottle and couldn't help but ask.

The powder was so finely broken that it resembled grains of sand. What kind of battle could have resulted in such a devastating outcome?

Xue Luding scratched his head sheepishly. It wasn't actually broken during the battle; he had deliberately scattered it.

“But that’s not enough. According to the units of your world, these can only be used to make a short sword that is less than 60 centimeters long. I remember you said before that the original version of the Holy Sword was 120 centimeters long, right?” The old man seemed to have some knowledge of weapon forging, as he looked at Xue’s powder and said.

Xue Luding was taken aback. Indeed, he compared the amount of powder in the bottle with his hand and found that it was far less than the weight of the Holy Sword at the time. Even if it were melted down and reforged, it would not be able to recreate the Holy Sword of the past.

Although the hero arrived with a broken sword that had lost its tip, that was because the tip had pierced the head of the Shub insect race and remained inside. After killing the Shub insect race, the tip returned to its original position and was reassembled into the subsequent Holy Sword of Salvation.

"Can I add some other ingredients?" Xue could only try another method.

"Hmm... adding a little bit of other materials wouldn't be a big problem, but it would probably require a filler with a higher degree of mystery..." the old man said, seemingly troubled.

"Is mystery enough?" Xue Dinglu suddenly felt that there wasn't much of a problem.

He searched every nook and cranny of the consciousness space, and after a long while, he finally found a dagger in the deepest part of the treasure room.

It was a dagger still stained with blood. Although it was a weapon given to it by the King of Troy, it had once been imbued with the scent of the thorns of the abyss and had later pierced Zeus's brother.

Therefore, this dagger carries a certain degree of mystery surrounding "god-slaying" and "reproduction deprivation." Although it cannot yet become a Noble Phantasm, it is still a very good legendary weapon. It also fits the story of the Holy Sword killing insects, and it is obviously sufficient to serve as supplementary material for the Holy Sword of Salvation.

Xue Lude decided to cut the dagger, which had been stained with the blood of Zeus's second brother, into several pieces, put them into an iron can, and finally fill the gaps in the iron can with the original powder of the holy sword to make a steel billet for the Iron Can Horse.

Then they went to the Earth's core, where they used geothermal heat to forge and hammer the sword, finally hammering out the blade and quenching it using the magma from the Earth's core.

Although the process was abstract, the old man actually smiled and said that he had never tried this forging method when he was young. He found it very novel and urged Xue Dinglu to try it out. He was looking forward to seeing a brand new holy sword emerge.

Xue Lude guessed that the old man must have been a blacksmith, not just a veteran as he claimed. He even forged the short sword in the old man's hand and the predecessor of the hero's holy sword, but he had forgotten his past.

Only when Xue's law occasionally mentioned forging did the old man respond with a light in his eyes.

……

The following morning, today was the end of September and the first day of the 7-day holiday.

When I woke up in the morning, I saw that the hall was already full of people, all sitting together watching the TV playing online... "The Strange Adventures of Sildenas".

Xue Law: "..."

What's going on? Why is everyone gathered here?

Upon seeing Xue Dinglu, Xiaolongniang almost came over to give him a headbutt again, which made Xue Dinglu immediately dodge. This child has some kind of problem; she seems to think that he is very small. Every time she sees him, she acts like a cat and tries to give him a rocket headbutt.

But in fact, she is already over 1.6 meters tall, and because her bone and muscle density is far beyond that of ordinary people, she weighs more than 200 kilograms, after all, she also has half of the dragon bloodline.

Every time that weight and superhuman strength pounced on Xue Dinglu, it felt like he was being run over by a truck.

“I saw your new video yesterday, so I’ll show it to the kids this morning,” Auntie said from the side. “Are we going to the farm today? Let them see the story behind it.”

"Oh……"

Xue Daolu didn't know if they understood it or not, but he knew that Xiaolongniang definitely didn't understand it, since what she cared about most right now was whether those weird shapes that turned into bread and cream on TV tasted good.

When Xue Dinglu came down, she was watching the bread and cream monstrosities on TV while eating sandwich cookies to satisfy her cravings. If she hadn't known it was a video, she probably would have picked up the TV and started chewing on it.

As for the Silver Kingdom, Xue Dinglu shrugged. He had already made arrangements yesterday, so he said, "Let's go there soon. After all, we're shareholders of that farm, so let's freeload."

After saying that, Xue's Law opened a portal.

Everyone went inside. The other end of the portal looked like a private backyard of a guesthouse, where people were working busily.

The knight commander kept carrying all sorts of ingredients back and forth, while the two female knights changed into standard Western fantasy maid outfits. These weren't the kind of clothes that look more like erotic clothing in modern anime, but rather like the traditional maid outfits of noble families after the Renaissance. They then began cleaning the houses that were grown from pea trees.

In fact, as soon as they entered the guesthouse, which was filled with a fantasy and fairy tale style, the children were immediately captivated.

The small wooden house was built by hollowing out the trunk of a pea tree. Inside, all the chairs and beds seemed to have grown directly from the tree. Morning glory vines climbed the wooden fence outside, and morning dew condensed into crystals.

As you leave this place, the cobblestone path leads to a mushroom-shaped hut, which looks like a witch's dwelling. Unfortunately, it's now also used as a guesthouse. Scattered on the ground are pine cones that squirrels cracked open last night, and countless little squirrels on the roof aren't afraid of people. They just munch on dried fruit and look at Xue Dinglu and his companions with curious eyes.

Not far away are farmlands and barns, with cute, cartoon-style scarecrows standing in the fields, their unique melodies from the Titan civilization playing when the wind blows.

Beside the farmland, there were also curious deer, wild hedgehogs, and pangolins. These little animals seemed to be dancing to the rhythm of the scarecrow in the wind, not afraid of strangers at all, probably because they had been soothed by old Watson.

These scenes were truly like something out of a fairy tale, leaving the children completely bewildered. Little Dragon Girl, for instance, was now clapping her hands with shining eyes, clearly adoring the place.

For other children, this place must be like a fairyland.

When Xue left the backyard and walked along the cobblestone path to the gate, the place was filled with a modern atmosphere. A parking lot was set up at the entrance, and now a stage was placed at the entrance of the guesthouse.

In addition, there are many toys for children, such as slides and rocking horses, but these all look like they grew directly from plants, without any trace of technological processing.

Clearly, Xue Dinglu was amazed when he arrived. The farm had even recreated the fairytale style of the original Silver Kingdom to a great extent, which had exceeded Xue Dinglu's original expectations.

When he came here a month ago, the area had just been developed. The Silver Princess still needed to wash weeds in the pool, and the Knight Commander needed to drive a tractor around to transport goods to earn money to supplement the family income.

But in less than a month, the place was completely transformed into the fairytale-like wonderland it is today.

The old man, gazing at the scenery, couldn't help but smile. He slowly said to Xue Dinglu, "This place seems to share the same style as your academy. If your magic academy were located nearby, the style would be very consistent..."

Xue Dinglu was taken aback.

He then remembered that the academy was actually designed by old Green, and according to the information he had obtained, the prototype of the Silver Princess was actually old Green's daughter, but only a prototype.

The current Silver Princess has nothing to do with Old Grimm anymore; at most, one could say that the King of the Silver Kingdom is someone who looks like Old Grimm.

After all, the entire fairy tale world was just a world imagined by old Grimm.

He placed the Titan civilization into that carefree world, and then, all alone inside the Evil Eye, used his own skin to record the civilization and time.

"Yes, if I plan to open a magic academy in the future, I'll put one of the entrances nearby," Xue Dinglu thought.

The little girls couldn't wait to start playing under their aunt's guidance. Xue Dinglu let them play without worry, while checking the prices.

The Pea Hut costs 400 per night, and the Mushroom Hut costs 500 per night. Other entertainment activities in the huts are free, but you have to pay for meals.

Xue Dinglu glanced at the menu.

Apple pie, fairy honey bread, mushroom house pie, moonlight strawberry pudding, pumpkin candy, and golden spindle tower cake...

Actually, none of these foods seem to be foods that Easterners would be used to eating. They are probably local specialties of their Silver Kingdom and other recipes from the Titan civilization, just made with Earth's ingredients.

However, this uniqueness is already an advantage, and the price of the guesthouse is not too expensive. After all, this place is different from other guesthouses, and there are no mosquitoes or flies in any of the rooms.

Frogs wearing garlands and crowns diligently ate flies and mosquitoes by the pond, occasionally croaking in unison. The sound wasn't noisy; rather, it sounded like singing.

There were also trees, which were probably newly planted by old Watson, covering the entire hilltop and forming the simplest magical barrier.

If Xue Daolu were to spend a few hundred yuan to experience the authentic fairytale atmosphere here, he would be quite happy. However, perhaps because it was still early, Xue Daolu didn't see any other customers. The Silver Princess, who had originally thought that the place would be packed with people after opening and that she could make a fortune lying down, was now listlessly slumped over the cashier's counter.

Xue Dinglu stepped forward and asked, "What's wrong? Isn't today the opening day? Why do you look so listless?"

"Nobody's here... I should have spent a few million more on advertising... But actually I spent nearly a million, and it hasn't made a splash at all..." Princess Silver sighed as she looked at the empty parking lot.

Xue clicked his tongue.

There are so many pitfalls in advertising, especially with physical guesthouses like this. You can throw a million dollars into it and not even hear a sound. Also, this hill is actually in a relatively remote suburb of Jiangcheng. It was originally a tea plantation, but it was abandoned and then contracted out to the people of Baiyin Kingdom.

Naturally, there are very few people here to begin with, so they can basically only attract people by their own quality.

Xue Dinglu was also a little puzzled. Logically speaking, his video should have gone viral and attracted some traffic, but now there wasn't a single visitor, which was really hard to believe.

Is it really that bad that my TT account has such poor advertising appeal?

Xue Daolu began to doubt whether he had actually opened his TT account. The edited version of "The Bizarre Adventure of Sildenafil" had around 5000 million views. Although it couldn't match the popularity of "Tian Ting Ji," it was still considered a viral hit, so it shouldn't be so quiet...

Perhaps Xue Dinglu doesn't really understand the business of homestays. This thing should be based on word of mouth. Once the reputation is good, the number of visitors will naturally increase.

As for the environment here, he couldn't find anything to complain about. After all, the people who arranged this place were all pure Silver Nation people, and the trees and houses here were all grown by the old mage Watson using the seeds of the Titan civilization. This was the most authentic fairy tale flavor that could be achieved.

“Didn’t you have two female knights who sold pancakes via live stream before? Actually, we could have them do live streams to sell products, or even live stream them cleaning. I think two female knights dressed as maids could probably gain some popularity.” Xue Dinglu came up with a bad idea.

Princess Silver was taken aback for a moment, then immediately said, "Great idea!"

Then he immediately ran over to have Fiona and Fione, the two female knight sisters, start a live stream. Naturally, he was excitedly sitting at the cashier's counter, waiting for customers to arrive so he could collect some money.

Fafnir followed behind Xue Luding the whole time. Actually, she didn't really like the style here. After all, the environment of the Holy Magic Kingdom was not much different from this place. She was probably the least interested in this place.

But watching the Silver Princess bustling about, and then thinking back to the fairy tale I watched on TV that morning…

She knew that this Silver Princess was just like her; they were both people whom Xue Dinglu had rescued on a whim. Therefore, they were essentially the same kind of people, and now, they were competitors in another way.

Thinking about this, she felt a sense of crisis again, but when she thought about everything her aunt had told her in their conversation yesterday, Fafnir felt lost.

"Beep beep beep!" The sound of a car horn came from outside.

Princess Silver jumped up excitedly. The first group of guests had arrived. She realized that everything is difficult at the beginning, but once it starts, the road ahead will surely be smooth.

However, when she excitedly went out, she found that it wasn't guests who had come, but a group of college students.

The group of college students, carrying equipment, speakers, musical instruments, and many props, began discussing with the Knight Commander how to set up the stage.

"What... they're not guests, they're college students we invited..." Princess Shirogane immediately became like a salted fish that had lost its dreams.

Xue Daoli shrugged. The guesthouse had actually invited quite a few student clubs from USTC to liven up the atmosphere and also to support the event.

Just like Senior Sister Lian Shan's literature club band, they were also within the scope of the invitation.

After all, college students are cheap; a club can hire them for a thousand or so yuan, and providing food and lodging is enough to make them work very hard.

If it were a professional orchestra in the community, let alone a thousand dollars, even adding two zeros to the price wouldn't guarantee them this much effort.

At the same time, I was thinking that maybe the college students could bring some friends to spend money, but now that I've looked at it, forget it, I shouldn't think too much about it.

The first group of college students were quite surprised by the environment. They were even amazed when they saw squirrels gathering together to eat dried fruit, deer, hedgehogs, and pangolins dancing together, and frogs singing in the distance.

They were all astonished when they saw the mushroom house and pea house in the distance, and when all sorts of fantastical and magical scenes appeared.

"President, is this really a place where we can stay for free and have meals provided?" The college student with clear eyes asked the senior member of the drama club. They were here to perform a play for three days.

The morning show is the play "The Three Little Pigs," and the afternoon show is the play "Ali Baba and the Thief." It's a fixed program; food and lodging are provided for three days, and payment will be made after three days at 1400 yuan per play.

They originally thought they were doing quite well, but after arriving at this guesthouse, they felt like Alice in Wonderland, and realized that they, a group of college students, were completely out of place.

They even felt embarrassed about the accommodations here, as they were clearly very expensive.

"Don't be shy, the boss said it includes food and accommodation, so don't be reserved." The senior student in the club said, then whispered, "I met them when I was negotiating the contract; they were all very beautiful foreigners."

"Oh oh oh..."

Although they were surprised, they still arranged the sound system, props, and other equipment according to the contract.

The awkward thing is that all the actors have come, but there are no audience members.

This made the little Silver Princess very anxious. She even stood on tiptoe to see if any guests were coming while biting her nails.

They had put a lot of effort into building this farm, and they even sold all the precious metals from their equipment and weapons. In addition, they were in debt for several million, and their savings were almost gone.

This is her first business venture, and the first step in rebuilding Baiyin Kingdom. If she fails here today, she feels she will have to start live streaming to sell goods and pay off her debts.

In fact, Xue Dinglu was also a bit confused by this situation. He had imagined that his video data would be very good. Even if it was bad, he should have attracted ten or so groups of people. Why was there no one at all?

He scrolled through the comments on his videos, which were all from tourists. How come there was no one here when it was actually time for the opening?
This is also what puzzled Xue. When he was preparing to post another video, this time a short, purely promotional video, he was surprised to find that there were many more comments below his previous video on TT.

"Have you arrived at the theme park in the Silver Kingdom?"

"No, we're stuck in traffic."

"We're stuck in traffic too, for an hour."

"It looks like there's been a minor collision up ahead. I'll go check it out."

"I found another road on the navigation that hasn't opened yet, I'll go check it out..."

Xue Luding looked up and, with his current level of observation, saw the path more than ten kilometers away. Xue Luding did indeed find that it was blocked.

At that moment, he understood. A new road had been built at the farm, but the navigation system hadn't been updated. All the navigation was leading to the original mountain road. These college students had signed contracts here before and knew there was an internal road.

The original mountain road was a narrow two-lane road, requiring a long detour, and when a collision occurred, the entire road was blocked.

The newly built shortcut, overgrown with weeds that almost completely covered it, was deserted at the moment.

Xue Dinglu immediately asked the anxious Silver Princess, "Didn't you put up a road sign for this road that leads directly to the farm?"

Princess Baiyin was stunned for a moment, then looked at Xue Dinglu with a look of utter disbelief.

"Even without road signs, didn't you think about clearing the weeds on both sides of the road? The weeds on this shortcut are already covering the road. And didn't you even use navigation to drive around this road a few times?"

Xue's series of rhetorical questions completely baffled Princess Rabbi, whose eyes revealed the fear of having made a mistake.

So Xue's Law added insult to injury: "Where are your greeters? Don't you have any?"

Princess Silver immediately said, "I arranged this this morning, asking that old man Watson to get a wolf grandmother as a greeter... I just don't know why it's not done yet."

Xue Law: "..."

Are you guys the kind of people who always mess things up at crucial moments?

……

If he couldn't figure it out, he stopped thinking about it. Xue Lude wasn't exactly a shrewd businessman either. He went to the backyard and saw old Watson constantly pulling a husky, saying, "You have to turn into a werewolf and go out to greet guests. If you succeed, I'll definitely give you a big bone to eat..."

The husky started barking wildly, but Xue's Law could actually understand what it was trying to say: the husky kept saying it couldn't do it...

Xue Law: "..."

It seems the Silver Kingdom is just a makeshift operation. He thought those little animals at the entrance were substitute greeters, but it turns out Old Watson wanted to turn the husky into a werewolf and dress it up as a woman to be a greeter.

No, is it even possible for a human to imagine a husky dressed as a woman to greet guests?
(End of this chapter)