Star Abyss Walker

Chapter 37 Business Prodigy (Thanks to Xiao Han, the Silver Alliance Leader from Yuequan Bay!)
In the morning, at Feiyang Internet Cafe.

I repeatedly disassembled and reassembled a computer host to gain a lot of skill experience, so that I could upgrade several advanced level 2 skills to the maximum level as soon as possible. This is very important to me at this stage!

"Don't eat instant noodles for lunch."

Lu Xiaobei leaned on the counter and looked at me: "I'll go to Aunt Xue's restaurant across the street and cook you a few dishes."

"Such a good thing?" I was overjoyed.

Lu Xiaobei rolled her eyes and ignored me.

At noon, she returned from the restaurant across the street, carrying several takeout boxes in a plastic bag. She ate with me behind the bar. We ate home-style dishes: shredded pork with garlic sauce, stir-fried cured pork with garlic leaves, and stir-fried pork kidneys.

"So fast?"

I put down what I was doing, picked up a meal, and started eating.

"Well, their business isn't doing too well."

Lu Xiaobei said, "I heard that Xicheng University has recently banned food delivery to the campus and requires all students to eat in the school cafeteria. It is said that the cafeteria owner is the principal's brother-in-law, and the students are all complaining about it. As a result, the business of restaurants outside the campus is not good. Aunt Xue's restaurant is not doing well, and there are hardly any customers at noon."

"Actually, the taste is not bad."

I wolfed down my food.

"Yes, I also think their chef's skills are quite good." Lu Xiaobei nodded in deep agreement.

After finishing my meal, I tidied up my lunchbox and threw it in the trash can outside before continuing to work.

Lu Xiaobei sat to the side, holding a cup of milk tea, and took out a palm-sized novel from his pocket. The novel's title seemed to be something like "Don't Speak, There's Someone Under the Bed." I guessed it was either a horror novel or an adultery novel.

"Ding Han".

She looked at the book for a while, then put it down and said, "Recently, quite a few people have been topping up their cards. I've saved up 30,000 yuan. What do you think we should do with this 30,000 yuan to make Feiyang Internet Cafe's business even more booming?"

"Are you being shameless in asking questions?" I asked.

"Ok!"

She nodded emphatically, then rested her chin on her hands, looking straight at me with her beautiful big eyes.

"Alright, since you're so eager to learn, I'll teach you a little something."

I leaned back in my chair and gently beckoned with my finger: "Come closer. The fewer people who know about these trade secrets, the better."

"it is good!"

Lu Xiaobei immediately stood up, put his hand on my shoulder, and brought his ear close to mine.

"First of all, the zoning of our Feiyang Internet Cafe is not very good, with only two price ranges. Of course, this is related to the quantity and quality of our machines, and we can't rush it for now. However, since we are in the service industry, I think we should put more effort into providing more personalized services."

"Uh-huh!"

She repeatedly said, "Please continue!"

The faint scent of her perfume wafted into my nostrils, and I felt a little dazed.

“We have many long-time internet users in our internet cafe who sit on the computers all day without even having time to eat. I was thinking, since Aunt Xue's restaurant isn't doing well either, why don't we cooperate with them and make Aunt Xue's restaurant our partner to set up an ordering system for Feiyang Internet Cafe? If customers get hungry while surfing the internet, they can just pay at our counter and we can place an order with Aunt Xue's restaurant to have the food delivered. This way, it's a win-win situation for both the internet cafe and the restaurant, and customers can also have a better internet experience.”

"what?"

Lu Xiaobei's beautiful eyes widened as if she had opened the door to a new world: "Ding Han... you really are a business genius!"

"I'll praise you later."

I gave a look that said, "This is just the appetizer," and continued, "Actually, it's not just about food; it's the same with milk tea. It's quite troublesome for us to buy a milk tea making machine in the internet cafe, but there's a milk tea shop less than fifty meters away from us. That shop isn't doing too well, so we can go there and talk to them about cooperation, and create a new order channel between Feiyang Internet Cafe and their milk tea shop."

"Ok, Ok!"

Lu Xiaobei nodded slightly: "I can talk to them about the cooperation."

"Ah."

I nodded slightly: "In addition, I think we could also create a voice broadcast system to improve customers' online and gaming experience."

"what?"

Lu Xiaobei's mouth gaped open slightly: "Wh...what do you mean?"

"That's what it means."

I chuckled. "Take Legend of Mir for example. If a player logs into their account in our internet cafe and is a level 42 Fire Warrior, but no one knows it's logged in, they'll lose interest. But if we set up a system that automatically collects game data, once we capture a certain threshold of the player's game data, we can announce it over the internet cafe's loudspeaker at the same time they log in, like: 'Welcome to the level 42 Fire Warrior from Legend of Mir 7, logging in from machine number 22,' or 'Welcome to the level 71 Bishop, 'Super Healer, from Magic Baby, logging in from machine number 18.' Wouldn't that be a completely different experience?"

"..."

Lu Xiaobei stared at me, speechless.

"How about it, are you shocked?"

"To be honest, I was really shocked..."

Lu Xiaobei gave me a deep look: "Ding Han, how did you come up with these ideas?"

“If you start from the depths of the customer’s psychological needs, you can think of it too.”

"But……"

Lu Xiaobei said, "It must cost a lot of money to build such a voice broadcast system, right?"

"It doesn't cost any money. I can write the program myself. It's not too difficult. It just involves capturing game information from the members' machines and setting certain trigger values."

"Row!"

She nodded vigorously: "I'll leave this to you. I'll handle the negotiations with the restaurants and milk tea shops."

"can."

In the afternoon, I started writing the voice broadcast program. Before writing it, I used all the skill experience I had accumulated in the morning to upgrade my advanced programming skills. I leveled up to level 5 in one go, which greatly expanded my understanding and vision in programming. After that, I completed the voice broadcast system in less than three hours.

At four o'clock, Sakura came to hand over her shift.

Lu Xiaobei is back too.

“I’ve already finalized things with Aunt Xue’s restaurant, but we need to find a way to let them hear the order status from here at any time.” “That’s easy. I can write a small program that will automatically play our order voice message on their mobile devices.”

"it is good!"

"What about the bubble tea shop?"

"It's all settled!"

"Row!"

Just then, three blond-haired teenagers, escorting a punk girl, walked into the internet cafe. They were our regular customers.

They each logged onto their computers, and as soon as the girl logged into her Audition Online account, the voice announcements in the internet cafe started playing.

"Welcome 'We are sugar, so sweet it's heartbreaking', the dance king of Langtaosha in East China Region 1, to go online on machine number 21!"

In an instant, the entire internet cafe erupted in excitement!
"Fuck!"

A blond-haired boy stared dumbfounded at the girl with the afro: "Zhou Lijuan, did you hear that?"

"I heard that, that's awesome!"

A girl named Zhou Lijuan stood up: "Xiao Bei, how do you guys make this sound in your internet cafe? It's amazing..."

"This is a voice broadcast system."

Lu Xiaobei laughed and said, "Our Feiyang Internet Cafe just launched a feature that's unique in the entire Xicheng."

I continued, "Our voice broadcast system is still being optimized. Currently, it supports seven games: Audition Online, Legend of Mir, MU Online, Magic Baby, Stone Age, Red Moon, and Fantasy Westward Journey. More will be added in the future."

"Awesome, absolutely awesome..."

A blond-haired guy said, "Boss, your voice assistant is absolutely amazing!"

Lu Xiaobei smiled and said, "Then I'll trouble you to spread the word. Feiyang Internet Cafe will strive for excellence and provide customers with a better online gaming experience. If you still have friends who don't know about us, please help us spread the word."

"Definitely, definitely!"

The group sat down, invigorated.

Lu Xiaobei gave me a look that said, "You're a genius."

I responded with a look that said, "Don't be silly, just sit back and watch."

……

In the evening, I bought some groceries and returned to my lodgings to cook.

"Han'er".

While I was cooking, Milo said, "Would you like to come to our bar tonight? I happen to have a free seat card and some drinks to offer. Come and support me. I'm performing 'The Ordinary Road' for the first time at the bar tonight, and I hope you can be there."

"Row."

I thought about it and realized there wasn't anything major going on that night. I had originally planned to disassemble my Blue Roarer a few hundred times to earn some skill experience, but there was no rush.

"OK, it's a deal then!"

"Ah."

After we finished eating, Milo didn't rush to leave. He simply handed me the guitar and asked, "Can you play?"

"I know a little bit."

"Okay, let's try playing one."

"Afraid you won't succeed?"

I held my guitar in my arms and sang Richie Jen's "Too Softhearted" while playing it.

"You do know a little bit, as expected." Milo pinched his nose and laughed, "You got at least three out of ten notes wrong, so you can only barely make out what kind of song it is."

"Why do you expect so much from an amateur like me?" I glared at you and said, "I only studied with a friend for a short time back then, and I felt like I didn't put any talent points into music, so I stopped studying."

"Actually, your voice is quite good."

Milo said seriously, "How about... you spend one skill point to learn the instrument mastery skill?"

"Study music?"

I frowned: "Excuse me for being blunt, but even a dog wouldn't learn. What's the point of wasting skill points on musical instruments? Do you expect me to pull out a suona and play 'Hundred Birds Paying Homage to the Phoenix' when someone is aiming a shotgun at me?"

Milo said speechlessly, "Seriously, don't you want to consider it? With your voice, if you level up your instrument proficiency by seven or eight levels, you can basically form a band with me. You can be the lead singer, and I'll play the instruments for you."

"Not interested in."

I shook my head: "I'm really not interested in music, I prefer fighting and killing."

"Damn, that's rude..."

……

The two chatted until 8 p.m., then took a taxi straight to the bar where Milo worked.

About ten minutes later, the taxi stopped in front of a bar.

As I got off the bus, I looked up and saw that the bar was called "The Fifth Element," and it had a sci-fi theme. There were even two warriors in power armor holding power swords standing on either side of the entrance, but unfortunately they were fake.

I followed Milo into the bar. The seat he had reserved for me was on the left side of the stage, very close to it. There were already quite a few customers inside, and the bar was dimly lit with ambiguous lighting.

"what?"

Suddenly, at a table not far away, two beautiful women stood up simultaneously, staring at me in disbelief: "Ding Han?"

They are none other than Zhang Ruolin and Ling Baiwei!

I was speechless. Those two decadent, dissolute women! It turns out the resident singer they were supporting was actually Milo!

(End of this chapter)