Chapter 408: Music Festival, King of Fighters Tournament

PS: The group number is in the book introduction. In addition, for the full subscription, as long as you are a legitimate reader, it does not matter whether it is QQ Reading, Qidian, or others (the group number is only displayed on Qidian, it cannot be helped that the subsequent description is not shown on QQ Reading, so sorry for the slight trouble, my fellow students. It seems I haven't seen group numbers written in chapters before? I don't know if it's appropriate).

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Boss Fang looked at this task, feeling a wave of awkwardness. "Can we discuss this? We are an internet cafe... what good is a New Year's Eve gala for an internet cafe?"

Although this was another world, it still had years, and the calendar of twelve months a year was deduced from the sun, moon, and stars, so naturally, there was a concept of celebrating the New Year.

And in terms of time, even far away in Half City, the time was the same, so Boss Fang did not need to worry about celebrating several New Years.

The other point was the issue of upgrading the shop once again.

The system panel prompted: "The energy provided by the spiritual crystal income has reached the standard for another upgrade, the shop can be upgraded again."

Clearly, when Legend first appeared, the two shops had grown to over two thousand computers each within a short period, which also caused an immense consumption of energy.

However, quite a long time had passed since the last shop upgrade.

With two thousand computers in the Half City shop, and over two thousand computers combined in the guild zone and ordinary player zone of the Jiuhua City shop, going from the original booming popularity to the current full house, the spiritual crystals earned were naturally not a small amount.

Do not just look at it as two spiritual crystals an hour; even if there were no other expenses in that hour, the income of several thousand computers for just one hour would be close to ten thousand.

Coupled with movies, television series, activations of various games, and the sale of snacks, the total turnover for these past few months had already reached the tens of millions level.

Of course, this was the system's money. After Boss Fang took his cut, he could be considered a millionaire.

Though this money might be an astronomical figure in the eyes of ordinary commoners, for warriors who could not practice martial arts at all without spending spiritual crystals every month, and even more so for cultivators who could not cultivate true immortality without spending a vast amount of spiritual crystals...

It seemed quite normal instead.

However, since he could at least be considered part of the wealthy class now, Boss Fang had also early on considered buying a more upscale shop later.

While obtaining the authority to upgrade the shop, Boss Fang also gained a certain increase in his privileges once again. For instance, his share of the income was adjusted upward by one percentage point, and part of the autonomous choice of shop upgrade mode was unlocked.

With the autonomous choice of shop upgrade mode, as the boss, he could plan the areas himself and choose the style of each area. At the same time, Boss Fang took a glance and saw that advanced options such as choosing whether to apply space expansion and whether to utilize space folding could also be unlocked.

Yet another privilege was the authority to adjust the online time limit; the boss possessed the authority to adjust the online time limit by two hours once again.

Right now, there was another matter he should consider, which was the issue of staff after expanding the shop.

One was definitely not enough, and on this point, Boss Fang, who had elevated his authority earlier, already possessed two slots for employee management. As the boss, he could plan the employees' working hours and could choose to issue special employee cards, which included free monthly online time.

The final upgrade was the activation of spiritual energy information digitalization conversion and the in-store network node, restricted to in-store members only.

Once opened, customers with membership cards could connect to the in-store network node through communication jades, directly logging into Penguin Communication to chat via the communication jade, while also being able to watch large-screen live broadcasts through the communication jade. In this way, even if they were elsewhere, they could watch the live broadcast without any delay whatsoever.

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On the other side, the research and development of the new type of communication jade in which Boss Fang held shares had also yielded new results.

Originally, because various functions needed to be realized, the size of the new type of communication jade appeared rather massive, but now, after a round of adjustments and improvements, it was already presentable to the eye. It was a jade tablet with a shape roughly similar to a mobile phone. Low-grade communication jades could achieve three functions: transmitting pictures, messaging, and calling, while the higher-grade ones were like the white jade carved with densely packed, complex, and intricate runes that Boss Fang held in his hand.

"This communication jade is a brand-new development by our alliance." When Li Haoran handed this communication jade to Boss Fang, his face still carried a proud expression. "Shadow Condensation Technique, Light Reversal and Image Tracking, Light Refraction into Image, Thousand-Mile Voice Transmission, Thousand-Mile Message Transmission, and all other functions are fully equipped!"

The Shadow Condensation Technique was photography, but the spell of the Wuwei Daoist Alliance just went by this name. The Light Reversal and Image Tracking spell corresponded to the video recording function, and Light Refraction into Image was a spell that manipulated light and shadow similar to an illusion, roughly equivalent to flat-screen imaging...

After Li Haoran introduced them one by one, Boss Fang began to give it a try.

Injecting the qi within his body into it, very soon, amidst drifting clouds and mist, a flat illusion appeared above the white jade, somewhat resembling the interface of a mobile phone. However, in terms of operation, the qi within the body was used to control something like a mouse cursor within the flat screen.

Text input was, naturally, the traditional input method of transmitting spiritual messages through communication jades.

"It works, right?" Li Haoran looked at his own masterpiece, sweating a bit in his heart. In reality, these were all low-level spells. In order to make this new type of communication jade, the entire Wuwei Daoist Alliance had forcefully raised its rank and effectiveness, perfecting it before drawing it into arrays and carving them into the communication jade.

Given that this kind of thing was basically handmade by artifact masters and the craftsmanship was extremely intricate, it was obvious that there were definitely not many communication jades that could reach this level. The one Boss Fang received was absolutely high-end goods.

"It works, awesome!" Boss Fang repeatedly flashed a thumbs-up.

Early in the morning, the popularity of the two shops could be said to be already very high. Particularly the various forces in the shop chopping away in Legend, if they had nothing else to do, most of them rushed in like a swarm of bees early in the morning.

Even Su Tianji, who was originally very sluggish like a salted fish, was no longer relaxing in the sofa rest area now. She would get online first before anything else, and then order instant noodles and milk tea.

But today, just as she walked up to the counter, she saw a large amount of newly added information.

For instance, the recruitment of new staff in the shop.

And for instance, the New Year's Eve gala for the New Year.

The content of the New Year's Eve gala was as follows:

Cosplay: Basic activity. Customers dressing up in outfits of games, movies, television series, and other types on the day of the gala can obtain an extra 1 hour of online time limit, and can sign up to participate in the "Most Accurate Representation" selection activity. Please try to dress similarly in "My Space" as much as possible so that participants from other shops can take part in the selection.

"My Space" Music Festival: One can sign up to participate in this activity, and this grand event will be held in "My Space".

"My Space" King of Fighters Tournament: One can sign up to participate in this activity, and this grand event will be held in "My Space".

"My Space"...

Looking at the various activities written on the small blackboard, Su Tianji felt her mind couldn't quite wrap around it. "It's just celebrating a New Year, why are there so many weird and strange things?!"

One had to know that normally she spent the New Year basically in secluded cultivation, where had she ever seen anything like this?!

Participating in any one item apart from the basic reward can once again obtain an extra 1 hour of online time limit.

If a participant obtains the top three in any item, they can receive one New Year gift box (Large) from this shop. The higher the rank, the higher the quality of the gift obtained upon opening.

Participating and obtaining the top ten can receive several New Year gift boxes (Small) from this shop, the specific number depending on the rank.

In addition, she actually also saw an entry: The shop will not close on New Year's Eve, and all customers can continue to stay online even after passing midnight.

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