As eight o'clock approaches, the sunshine pouring down is getting warmer and warmer, and the crowd near the Snake Tower is getting bigger and bigger.
The crowd moved like ants, constantly shuttling around the Snake Tower.
But something strange is that whenever the crowd is close to the Snake Tower, they will run away with frightened faces.
Witnessing this situation, I was a little confused at first.
But when I saw the horror bookstore on the first floor of Snake Building, I suddenly realized.
The antique square plaque is engraved with the four-letter name of the store in blood red, which is very shocking.
On both sides of the square plaque, two white lanterns specially used for commemoration were hung, as if the bookstore was holding funerals for the deceased, which was very unlucky.
Under these two white lanterns, on both sides of the store door, there is a strange couplet.
Hengbiao: There is something wrong with opening the book
First couplet: Ghost accompanies me to study
Second line: I teach ghosts to read
This couplet alone made the people passing by frightened. How could they dare to go even half a step closer to the horror bookstore?
This is not over yet. Next to this weird and scary couplet, there are two roly-poly dolls.
These two roly-poly dolls are painted with smiling faces. The smiles are very stiff, just like the thick lips and big mouth on the face of a clown.
It was obviously daytime, and the atmosphere was full of righteousness, but when the breeze blew, the two roly-poly dolls swayed, causing a cold atmosphere to blow around the Snake Tower.
The people passing by could not help but tremble with chills, and had to stay away from the two dolls and this eerie bookstore with a look of horror on their faces.
"No wonder the crowd didn't dare to approach the Snake House. It turned out to be the reason for the horror bookstore." I shook my head and smiled bitterly, then approached the horror bookstore without knowing whether to live or die.
My move immediately attracted the attention of the people passing by. They stopped and had different expressions on their faces. Some were puzzled, some were sarcastic, and some were indifferent, but most of them showed expressions of astonishment.
An uncle in the crowd jumped up to me, patted me on the shoulder, and kindly advised: "You are a good young man, why can't you think about it so hard? Aren't you afraid that your parents will worry about it? Stay away from this bookstore as soon as possible."
This uncle was nearly forty years old, with a jagged face and a lot of fat hanging off his face. He persuaded me kindly while shaking his head and sighing, as if he was really worried about me.
"Why should you stay away from this bookstore? Just because it looks scary? I dare to go to haunted houses, so how can I be afraid of this bookstore." I raised my head and chest, pretending to be stunned.
This sentence immediately aroused the uncle's desire to speak. He said mysteriously: "It's more than scary. There are evil spirits in this bookstore. Look at the name of the store, the couplet, and the white lantern. Can it be serious?
A bookstore? A serious bookstore would put dolls outside the store? How unlucky."
After the uncle finished speaking, I was just about to interrupt, but he continued to shake his head and sighed: "Young man, I saw that you have a good bone structure and I kindly remind you that you must not enter this bookstore. Don't live up to the uncle's kindness."
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Then, this young man even made a gesture of stroking his beard, really thinking that he was the mysterious beggar in "Kung Fu".
The world is really big and full of wonders, and of course there are also a lot of weirdos.
At this moment, my thoughts were completely messed up, so I could only say: "I have a reason to enter this bookstore."
"What's the reason?" The uncle was surprised.
"Because I work in this bookstore." I grinned harmlessly.
The uncle's face instantly froze, horrified
He turned around and ran away, thinking I was a monster.
"Hey, don't go. The bookstore is opening with a big discount. Don't miss it when you pass by. Buy a book and get a book for free. Uncle, come and visit us!" Looking at the uncle's fleeing back, I shouted at the top of my lungs.
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When I shouted, not only the uncle, but also the surrounding crowd dispersed, thinking that I was a fool.
"Haha, a bunch of cowards." I ignored it and whistled as I walked to the bookstore and pressed my index finger on the fingerprint door lock.
"The fingerprint is correct. The fingerprint has been matched. The fingerprint owner is Liang Fan. Please open the door and enter the store."
The fingerprint door lock was unlocked, and I gently pushed the glass door open.
While pushing the door open, I looked at the time and found that it was exactly eight o'clock, just in time for the opening time required by the code.
"What a risk, I almost got punished. I remember the punishment for delaying the opening of the store, but it directly wiped out my life." Thinking of this, my face was covered with cold sweat.
As the glass door was pushed open, the crisp sound of the purple wind chimes on the door sounded. Because I was on guard, this time I was not frightened by the sound of the wind chimes.
I slowly closed the door and let the sound of wind chimes disappear quietly.
But as soon as the sound of the wind chimes disappeared, I felt a burst of heat coming from behind.
I quickly opened the glass door ajar, strode to the micro bar, and sat on the bench next to it.
After sitting down, I first took out items such as cloth and light bulbs from my black backpack.
After placing them on the bar, I pulled out the code in the corner of my bag.
The burning heat just now was radiated by this code.
However, the code only generated heat and did not cause a fire. I turned to the contents page with familiarity.
Two new lines of small blood-colored characters appeared before my eyes.
"Congratulations (Liang Fan, the tenth bookstore manager of the Horror Bookstore), successfully opened the store on time. Please keep the store open in the next 12 hours to attract more customers to the Horror Bookstore."
"The horror bookstore is now open for business, and the sales chapter will be automatically unlocked. Please turn to the corresponding page to view."
Then, the catalog was full of ghosts and emitted an extremely hollow laughter.
Jie, Jie, Jie Jie Jie,
When the hollow laughter disappeared, the screen in the table of contents suddenly changed from the original nine chapters to ten chapters.
In other words, after the final chapter of the Foreign Object Illustrated Book, there is an additional chapter called Sales Volume.
"Business chapter?" With doubts, I immediately touched the newly added chapter with the tip of my pen.
As the pen tip fell, a paragraph of small characters appeared.
"Turnover: A chapter dedicated to the business of horror bookstores. In the turnover chapter, you can check the total turnover of horror bookstores. Please turn to the corresponding page to view (corresponding page number 245)"
"The corresponding number of pages in the turnover chapter is 245? Isn't the code a total of 244 pages? As the table of contents increases, the total number of pages in the code will also increase? It's really weird." I turned the code upside down and opened the last page.
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Sure enough, the last page of the code became page 245.
Page 245 happens to be the corresponding page number of the turnover chapter.
I frowned and looked at the page, only to see the three big blood-red characters "Sales Volume" engraved on the top of the page.
And these three
Below the big blood-red characters, there are a few lines of small black characters neatly listed.
The strange thing is that these lines of small black characters are flashing continuously, which is dazzling.
"Turnover of Horror Bookstore: 0 (Turnover is too small, please try to increase income for Horror Bookstore)"
"When the turnover reaches a certain level, the horror bookstore will be given the opportunity to expand. Please work harder."
"When a certain turnover is reached, bookstore administrators will receive varying amounts of ghost eyes. The higher the turnover is, the more ghost eyes will be obtained."
"Ghost Eyes: As the name suggests, they are the eyes of ghosts. Although they are full of resentment, they are the best material for strengthening your innate skills."
"If you reach a certain turnover, you can get the opportunity to expand the bookstore? Does this mean that this horror bookstore can be expanded? That's awesome." I touched my temples and tried to figure out the meaning of these few lines of small words: "Horror Bookstore
How else can it be expanded? Now that it occupies the first floor of the Snake Building, is it going to be expanded to the upper floor? But I have rented room 401 on the fourth floor to Gu Ya, which will be a trouble for future expansion."
But soon, I felt that I was worrying too much: "No one cares about such a weird and scary bookstore. Since no one patronizes it, how can it generate enough business? It's better not to think about expansion."
"What is this ghost eye? It says this is the eye of a ghost. Just hearing the name makes me think it is oozing. But oozing people are oozing people. This is a good thing. It can strengthen the talent skills." Although I don't know the talent skills.
What it is, but as soon as you hear it, you know that it is extremely mysterious, and the ghost eye can actually strengthen your innate skills, so it must be a rare good thing.
"But if you want to get the ghost eyes, you need to reach a certain turnover. Where can I find the turnover? The rewards are good, but they are too difficult to obtain." After reading these lines of small black text, I continued to other parts of the page.
I looked around, but the rest of the place was empty, with no extra words at all.
"That's it? It's too general, and it's not clear how much turnover can be obtained in order to get the opportunity to expand the bookstore and strengthen the talent skills." Regarding this setting, I was a little speechless: "How do I know the current bookstore?
Does the turnover meet the requirements for receiving rewards? Does it all depend on the mood of the code to issue turnover rewards? "
After complaining helplessly, I closed the code and digested the new information: "It seems that the bookstore's turnover is also very important, but due to the customer source problem, I guess it will be difficult to obtain the above rewards."
"But it's hard to come back. I also need to try my best to increase my turnover. I can't just sit around and be dejected." I cheered myself up a few times, and then I put the rules back in my bag.
After putting the code back in my bag, I put on this black backpack.
Although carrying a backpack in a store is weird, in order to keep the rules with me, I have to be a weird person.
Why bother with other people's gossip, just follow your own path and be yourself.
Then, sitting on the bench, I eagerly awaited the first customer in the bookstore.
But I waited and waited for about an hour, but I didn't even get the so-called first customer.
I was a little frustrated and simply put my head on the bar.
Dejected, I looked at the empty micro bar and micro milk tea shop, and suddenly thought: "Although I can't take on those three excellent recruitment tasks today, I still have to recruit employees. After all, I can't do so much work alone. Besides,
I don’t know how to mix drinks, let alone make milk tea or chicken steak.”
After making the decision, I held my breath and wiped away the decadence on my face.
It took me about twenty minutes to draft three recruitment notices.