I'm just an internet cafe owner

"You are strong, but you cannot defeat the powerful enemy in the next singularity. Hopefully, this Holy Lance can be lent to you. Your enemy in the next singularity will be..."

She turned into golden light and disappeared, but as she dissipated, she imagined the scene of the Demon King possibly having his kidneys cut off, and at the last moment she showed an expectant smile.

Fujimaru Kaori, however, was stunned: "Wait! Don't be a riddle reader! Huh? Why..."

What? My body is glowing?

With the death of the Lion King and the transfer of the Holy Lance, this singularity is rapidly undergoing repairs. The repairs are so fast that Romani hadn't even had time to sip his tea before the singularity ended.

As the singularity ended, the internet cafe reopened. Fujimaru Ritsuka arrived at the front desk carrying the Undamaged Lake, the Radiant King's Sword, the Holy Sword of the Sun, and a large collection of weapons and equipment from the Knights of the Round Table.

"Little Ji! Time to sell equipment!"

"Come on~"

Jibril came to the front desk excitedly and asked, "Whose house did you rob this time?"

"Some very strong Heroic Spirits, this time it wasn't just my achievement."

But as she said those words, Fujimaru Ritsuka and Matthew behind her turned their heads to look elsewhere.

Meanwhile, inside Valhalla, Lancelot, Gawain, Tristan, and Mordred were utterly dismayed upon seeing the IOU. According to the IOU, if they didn't pay, their weapons would be gone. Although they didn't know where the IOU came from, they had no choice but to obediently repay the debt.

Chapter 140 The New Game Terraria

Branch store, inside the room.

After completing the day's sales target, Liu Yuan looked at the more than one million yuan in funds in the system and began to consider what to add next.

The price of the game has now increased from 160,000 to 320,000, and buying it again would cost 640,000. One million seems like a lot, but at most you can buy two games.

Meanwhile, the branch is getting more and more new customers, and more and more customers are being brought in by these new customers. Tanjiro brought in four people at once, while Yosuke Shimazaki wasn't particularly helpful, as he only brought the spirit.

Saki Yoshida and Homura Akemi probably haven't gotten familiar with the mechanics yet, and haven't brought anyone in to play. On the other hand, the older stores, while bringing in more and more people, are approaching saturation. So, they can't use all the money to buy games; they also need to expand their space and increase the number of machines.

What games are good?

Liu Yuan glanced at the discounted games this week: two fighting mini-games. After filling them into the mini-game categories he had prepared beforehand, he began browsing the store.

There are just so many games to choose from, like the FC series, the Zelda series, the Final Fantasy series, and online games, etc. There are just too many options.

If it's a choice of several options, it's very simple to do. But it's not appropriate to let him choose from a vast ocean of options without having some goals.

"Hmm? Yes, we can add this..."

Liu Yuan saw a very classic game called Terraria, a sandbox game like Minecraft, which, apart from having map boundaries, had no restrictions like Minecraft.

Want to fight? Slay monsters, collect materials, acquire equipment, and slay even stronger monsters. The simple, linear combat system is easy for anyone to pick up and play. Want to build? Skip the Wall of Flesh and start building! In this world, you can build anything.

At the same time, Liu Yuan also looked at the game description provided by the system. It retained the traditional distinction between large and small worlds, and in a random state, there was still a 50% probability of corruption or crimson terrain.

However, unlike traditional 2D graphics, the game features a proper open-world sandbox environment where the terrain transforms into massive cuboids. Boundaries still exist, but instead of invisible walls, they extend into a void similar to Minecraft; jumping across them will result in death, though most players probably wouldn't attempt it.

However, compared to Minecraft, obtaining the completion rewards in this game is quite difficult. It requires completing the game on the highest difficulty level with your character.

Because this game doesn't have a true difficulty level, but rather consists of character difficulty and map difficulty.

There are four difficulty levels for the character: Travel, Easy, Medium, and Hard.

Travel difficulty doesn't result in death, and you can create freely, similar to the creative mode in Minecraft. On easy difficulty, death results in losing money; on medium difficulty, it results in losing both money and equipment; and on hard difficulty, death deletes your save file.

There are four map difficulty levels: Easy, Hard, Expert, and Master. The strength and skills of the monsters will change drastically depending on the difficulty.

To complete the game and defeat the final boss, you need a certain level of understanding of the game, or you need to have enough talent to complete it in one life.

The rewards for clearing the dungeon are quite impressive: a set of equipment, a set of jewelry, and five weapons. The only downside is that the highest difficulty reward can only be obtained once; to get it again, you'll need to unlock the even more difficult Calamity dungeon.

Besides that, what truly captivated Liu Yuan was this Heavenly Sword; the moment he saw it, he wanted to get his hands on it. This game provides useful equipment that satisfies his DNA, so of course he had to buy it.

However, these are all questions for ordinary gamers; internet cafe owners don't worry about these issues at all. What's the most important thing after choosing a new game? Of course, it's...just kidding.

Terraria also supports multiplayer online play, so Liu Yuan got up and went downstairs to have some fun.

Currently, in the entire internet cafe, apart from Liu Yuan who has a relatively normal daily routine, even the newcomer Takashima Yuna has been led astray by Kisara and spends all her time cultivating immortality.

There are employee dormitories available, but they don't live there! They play games every night until almost dawn the next day.

But it was precisely because of this that Liu Yuan felt like he was back in his youth. Back then, he would skip classes to go to internet cafes and sit in groups of five, losing every game he played all night.

Seeing Liu Yuan come out, Mu Geng waved and said, "Boss, you added a new game? Want to play together?"

"Of course, the real fun is playing this kind of game together. Come on, I'll start a server, and we'll just have fun."

Let's go!

"

Jibril rubbed her hands together excitedly, "Hehehe..."

Her goal was very simple: if she couldn't beat Liu Yuan in real life, she'd crush him in the game. Of everyone, only Takashima Yuna had the most sense of responsibility; her idea was to quickly familiarize herself with the game so she could introduce it to the guests when they came tomorrow.

Accompanied by a soothing background music, the group entered the game that Liu Yuan had started.

As soon as they entered the game, they were captivated by the environment. Green mountains and clear waters, a person called the guide greeted them, and cute rabbits and slimes hopped and skipped towards them as if welcoming them.

Liu Yuan glanced around and noticed that there seemed to be quite a lot of slimes, so he curiously asked the guide, "Brother, don't you feel like there are a lot of monsters around here?"

"It's alright, as long as we build a house, we can defend against these monsters."

"In other words, before we have a house, we have no choice but to run away..."

Only Takashima Yuna noticed Liu Yuan's conversation with the guide. She reminded the other two beside her, "Kisara-nee, Kokichi-senpai, shouldn't we be more careful?"

"Be careful? Be careful of what? There are no monsters around."

Jibril nodded and said, "That's right, I'm super strong!"

Liu Yuan patted Takashima Yuna's shoulder and said, "It's alright. They're just starting out. They'll soon find out how cruel this world is."

Terraria, on the surface, looks like a fairy tale world. There are cute monsters, friendly NPCs, monsters to hunt, and even after defeating the Wall of Flesh, the Hallow will appear, along with elves and unicorns.

But only those who have played it know how bloody and cruel it is, especially the Queen of Light, who can definitely teach all players a lesson.

As a seasoned player, Liu Yuan knew what was most important in sandbox games: resource gathering. Whether it was wood or stone, once the resources were collected, that was it.

"By the way, in this world, even slimes can kill people."

As Liu Yuan finished speaking, he reached out and caught the two slimes who had jumped over, and they were then dismembered by the slimes.

"what?"

Upon seeing her companion's corpse, Yuna Takashima covered her mouth; she hadn't expected these cute guys to be so brutal.

"Don't be surprised, this isn't even the highest difficulty level. They would have been taken out long ago on the highest difficulty level."

Liu Yuan took out the copper pickaxe he was given as an initial gift and said while digging downwards, "Ignore them, they'll learn how to play this game after dying a few more times. Come on, sis, let's go mining together!"

"Hey, hey, hey? Going down into the mine? Where's the guide?"

"Don't worry about it. NPCs on non-highest difficulty maps can respawn infinitely after death. Let's collect the resources we need first. Let them have fun up there. The most fun time in this game is after dark."

"Ok."

Yuna Takashima made a choice; she chose to go down into the mine with Liu Yuan to obtain resources.

Chapter 141 New Guest Tatsumi

At 7:30 the next morning, Kisaragi and Jibril stood up listlessly, preparing to tidy up the shop. Liu Yuan, on the other hand, returned to the branch with Takashima Yuna, ready to welcome the new day.

As for why Kisaragi and Jibril ended up like this, the reason is simple: they were both murdered all night.

These two truly took the "life is a constant pursuit of death" philosophy to the extreme. While Liu Yuan and Mu Geng were mining, they were exploring. While cutting down trees, they summoned the Mind of Cthulhu in the Crimson Land.

They were disgusted by the image of the Brain of Cthulhu, especially after being killed by that thing twice in a row. They sat there like they had lost their souls.

"Alright, let's get ready to open for business. Xiao Ji, you're in charge of things here. Just call me if you need anything."

Liu Yuan currently has no plans to expand the old store. He plans to expand the store at the same time once the new store is fully staffed and both stores are on a sustainable development path. In this way, the goal of daily sales of 200,000 should be achievable.

On the way back to the branch, Liu Yuan was thinking about something: should he try some pay-to-win tactics? In the end, he rejected the idea. It wasn't that he was being hypocritical. Rather, pay-to-win tactics work best the first time. Now that there are fewer people, if they figure out the tactics, it will be harder to trick new people later.

As the time reached eight o'clock in the morning, Yosuke Shimazaki was the first to rush in.

"Boss! Have we arrived yet?"

"Of course!"

Liu Yuan took out a next-generation console: "Sega's next-generation console in 2100. This console will completely remaster all the old games in HD, and it is specially prepared for older gamers."

Liu Yuan also asked the system why such a console still existed in the 22nd century. According to the system, this was the latest marketing tactic in that world: remastering games and anime that older generations had played and watched, then packaging and selling them. It was said to be very effective, and even their children couldn't stop them from doing so.

Thank you so much!

After Yosuke Shimazaki carefully put the console away, Liu Yuan spoke up: "I've also uploaded some new games here. Would you and Elf be interested in playing them together?"

Just as Liu Yuan uttered those words, the elf walked in.

"What? Play with him? Of course!"

She subconsciously wanted to say that she wouldn't go with the orc face, but her mind kept reminding her that 'arrogance ruins one's reputation'. Almost every time she wanted to refuse, the words were on the tip of her tongue, but she just couldn't say them.

Yosuke Shimazaki nodded, agreeing to play games together.

It's really fun. As for the rewards in the game, he's already collected all the rewards from the Resident Evil series, so he doesn't really care about the rewards from other games.

He came here entirely because Liu Yuan was able to help him buy the computer; he could never repay this kindness in his lifetime!

The thought of having more and more new Sega consoles in his hands brought a slightly perverted smile to Yosuke Shimazaki's face.

Just as Yosuke Shimazaki entered, Homura Akemi walked in looking exhausted.

"Hey, Xiaoyan, what's wrong?"

"I'm so tired... Boss, do you have anything that's good for energizing me?"

"Black coffee~ please."

After casually deducting the cost of a drink from Homura Akemi's card, he handed the black coffee to her. Homura took the black coffee, blew on the edge, took a small sip, and then her expression turned serious.

The coffee was very bitter, but the effect was very obvious; she felt completely refreshed the moment she took a sip.

After forcing herself to finish the coffee, which was bitter, Homura Akemi felt terrible. She coughed a few times, then took the water Liu Yuan handed her, drank a large glass, and hesitantly asked, "Boss, I've realized my talent is really bad... Is there any game like Minecraft where you don't need much talent to improve yourself?"

Homura Akemi once thought she was a genius, after all, her combat talent was indeed better than Saki Yoshida's. But after playing with the Old Man's Ring, she realized one thing: she was a weakling.

It's been a week. Apart from defeating Rataen with the help of Fujimaru and Natsuki Subaru a few days ago, and defeating the Imitation Tear by skipping class, she has found the other monsters extremely difficult to fight. She feels that she is not suited for this kind of painful game, and if possible, she would like to play some easier games.

"Yes! The new game Terraria. Like Minecraft, it's a sandbox game with progressively increasing difficulty. It only requires some movement skills, and relies more on equipment. If you have Minecraft experience, you can complete it perfectly in about two weeks by following the guide, right?"