Chapter 129 Struggle is the foundation of happiness
Xiao Zhen hung up the sign for his special scented fruit juice.
He was full of confidence, thinking that this delicious drink would be a best-seller and would be sold out in no time. He only had to put it up and wait for the business to come.
The next day, Xiaozhen opened her online store, and the number of visitors was 0.
Xiao Zhen thought about it, added the keywords "super delicious" and "invincible delicious" to his juice products, and closed the webpage. Waiting for customers to come is a long process, he must be patient.
Five minutes later, Xiaozhen reopened her shop, and the number of visitor views was still 0.
Xiao Zhen sighed sadly, added another keyword "peerless wine ", and refreshed the page several times, but the number of visitors did not change. He closed the page, took out the game console from the drawer, and turned on the screen. Xiao A on the game screen immediately greeted him enthusiastically.
"Good afternoon, Yan Zhen."
"I'm not okay at all."
"..." The choked Little A maintained a smile and said, "Then we must do something happy."
"I asked you to tear down the house, did you do it?"
"… It's too hard to demolish the house." Little A raised his hand to show Xiao Zhen his blood-soaked hands. "I used up all my strength and only demolished one wall. My axe is also broken. Also, I'm very tired and hungry…"
"oh."
Little A said: "Should I do some simple work on planting..."
Xiao Zhen observed the house that Xiao A had demolished. It was indeed as Xiao A said, he had only demolished one wall. Xiao A's stamina bar had dropped to nearly zero, and the axe also indicated that it was damaged.
"Yan Zhen, should I do something about planting..."
"No." Xiao Zhen replied. He ordered Xiao A to pick up the waste wood and bricks produced by demolishing the wall, take them to the store and sell them all, and then used the money to buy bread and energy drinks for Xiao A.
Xiao A eats very quickly. His status bar shows that his stamina and satiety have been restored.
Xiao Zhen pressed the order to use the remaining money to buy a new axe and shovel, and announced, "You can continue to demolish."
“…”
Ignoring Xiao A's resentful look, Xiao Zhen turned off the screen and put the game console back into the drawer.
He opened his shop again, and the number of visitors was 1.
1, Xiao Zhen thought to himself. This was also a historic breakthrough, the first step in his business, from 0 to 1, from nothing to something. This was a brand new beginning for Xiao Zhen's business on this planet, which meant...
Captain Madara jumped onto the windowsill and said, "I just went to see your shop, and there's not a single business."
“……” Xiao Zhen closed the web shop expressionlessly.
Liu Xingquan squatted under the bushes of the experimental building, looking at the bottle placed deep in the bushes.
Before he left last time, he had tied a thin strand of hair around the bottle cap. Whenever someone picked up or opened the bottle, the strand of hair would break off. But now the hair had not changed at all.
This means that no one has touched the bottle.
His pen pal never came.
Ah, pen pal, pen pal, what happened to you? Liu Xingquan stared at the bottle for a long time with a sad look. Logically speaking, since he saw that the bottle had not been touched, he should turn around and leave immediately instead of wasting time. But Liu Xingquan squatted there for a long time, and finally he reached out and picked up the bottle without giving up.
The letter in the bottle shook under the vibration. Liu Xingquan was stunned. The handwriting on the letter was obviously not his own. The letter inside had been replaced!
My pen pal wrote back!
He excitedly pulled out the letter paper. The words on it seemed like characters he could not understand. After just a moment, they all turned into Chinese characters.
His pen pal's confessions still touched his heart as before.
Dear Xingquan:
【I'm sorry it took me so long to get back to you because I've been going through a lot these days. 】
[I don't know how to describe it to you one by one. In short, as I said in my previous letter, Tita and I's worm business has completely failed irreparably, and we are in a huge debt. This is a huge amount of money that is enough to make Tita and I fall into the abyss forever. ]
[But please don't worry, Tita and I have been reborn. After some things, we became company employees and took a flight to Asa. Yes, Tita and I are no longer wanderers in the bottom cave. It is the great company that saved us. We will go to Asa to work for the company. Although Tita did not have the opportunity to buy an elevator ticket to the upper part of the city in the end, our destiny has a greater span. He and I flew into the sky together and traveled among the stars. ]
[This is something I never dreamed of before.]
[I never thought I could leave the cave.]
[This ticket is equivalent to my savings of the past few decades. The ship is owned by the company, so we don't have to pay any fees. Can you imagine? We have been walking on garbage dumps and have never left the bottom of the cave since we were born, but now we are traveling across the galaxy on a starship. This is the most ridiculous scene in my dream.]
[The company is expanding its mining business in Asa and is in urgent need of manpower. It is said that Asa is far away and has a bad environment, so there is always a shortage of manpower. This time the company has taken in a large number of poor debtors like us. ]
[Tita and I are quite satisfied with the current situation. We now have uniform company uniforms and go to the ship's cafeteria to eat on time every day. The food here is better than what we had in the bottom cave, but it's a pity that I didn't find the Tasi ball. ]
【During the voyage, Tita and I met some new friends who will also be my colleagues in the company. I am happy to introduce them to you. My new friend, the lizardman Xiong Shi, is a very interesting guy. He sleeps in the cabin opposite me. He is a burly man with a throat so loud that it can shake the cabin. It was this majestic and majestic Xiong Shi who told us one day that he was in love.】
[This lizard man fell in love with Nirou, a logistics worker on the ship. But the problem is that Nirou is a slug man. Well, I don't know if there are slugs on your planet, the kind of slimy things that look like snails without shells. Nirou's race is a slug man that has evolved into an intelligent civilization, but anyway, you know, it is a slug, a large slug. ]
[Xiong Shijian insisted that Nirou must be a princess of the royal family who had been stranded outside. He liked to use exaggerated words to describe how beautiful Nirou was, how elegant her manners were, and even the wet marks she left when she walked made her look noble and extraordinary.]
[At this point, Tita will say, "But, she is a slug."]
[“No, she is a princess! She is a goddess!” Xiong Shi shouted, slapping the ground with his tail whenever he was excited. “Race cannot limit her charm and temperament. Look, she is coming. Oh, her tired look really breaks my heart.”]
[Nirou slid past them. She was wearing a company uniform, and the logo on it showed that she was a level 10 employee of the company. To be honest, Nirou looked quite white, smooth, and soft. But I couldn't feel how beautiful she was anyway. She was a standard large slug, and I couldn't tell that she had any noble royal blood.]
[After she walked to the other end of the deck, Xiong Shi whispered, "Did you see that? She is so beautiful. She, she is exactly what my dream partner looks like."]
[I said, "But she's a slug."]
[We don't know what the lizardman's special hobby is for slugs. Xiong Shi is indeed in a crazy love with Ni Rou. ]
[We have seen this kind of cross-race love once before in the bottom cave. Uncle Meng, who lived in the crooked cave, fell in love with a colorful lowland spider. When he mustered up the courage to confess his love, the spider wrapped him up in silk. When the patrolling guards found him, he was just a dry skin. ]
[So we sincerely told Xiong Shi about this past, hoping that he would turn back from his wrong path. But Xiong Shi insisted that slugs and spiders are different. Nirou is a gentle and kind big slug. Tita said: "Did you say three sentences to her in total?"]
【“Four sentences.” Xiong Shi said seriously.】
[The company has a rule that when low-level employees meet senior employees, they must stop and shout a slogan: "Struggle is the foundation of happiness!"]
[We are now interns at the lowest level of the company, at level 13, while Nirou is a full-time employee at level 10. Every time we see Nirou, we shout this slogan. In this way, we shout one more slogan than Xiong Shi.]
[Nirou probably doesn’t even know his name.]
[Xiong Shi disagreed. He said that when he arrived at Aesha, he would work hard to improve his employee level so that he could talk to Nirou openly. May the Star Spirits bless him.]
[In fact, raising the level of our employees is also the goal of Titta and I. ]
[It is the great company that took in us, the poor and destitute debtors with nowhere to go, and took on our debts. Tita and I will work hard and down-to-earth on Asa and repay the company with our hard work.]
【This is our chance for a new life. 】
【Struggle is the foundation of happiness.】
【I will always remind myself. 】
[Our short training on the ship has ended. Tita and I are about to enter hibernation mode, and we will not wake up until we sail to the Yasa planet.]
[I am writing this letter to you while lying in my hibernation chamber. On the inner wall of the small chamber are written these words: "A lazy person today will inevitably face destruction tomorrow." My company is really an incredible and great company. Even when employees are in hibernation, they are not forgotten to let them gaze at the company's good words. 】
[When you hear from me next time, I will be working on the planet Aesha.]
【I will tell you about the interesting things in my work then. 】
Good luck, my friend.
Liu Xingquan finished reading the letter.
How strange, he thought, the hair on the bottle mouth was clearly in the same state as he left it last time, which meant that no one had touched the bottle. But the letter inside was definitely replaced.
Could it be possible that this letter could be replaced automatically?
He laughed at his own delusion.
Liu Xingquan took out a piece of white paper and began to write a reply.
In the letter, Liu Xingquan wrote:
[My mother once said that there is no such thing as a free lunch. I don’t believe there is a conscientious company that would suddenly assume debts for strangers. This kind of organization is called a charity on our planet, but it is definitely not a commercial company. Unless the boss of this company is the protagonist’s long-lost parents. Please be careful.]
[Also, it's too disgusting that a lizard man and a large slug are in love. If you don't want to fail, you should change the setting. ]
Xiaozhen opened her online store again, and it showed that the number of visitor views was 2.
2 to 1 is another big step forward, which means...
He turned to Mr. Cat and asked, "Have you seen my shop?"
"Oh, I just took a look and you don't have any business." said Mr. Cat.
Xiao Zhen added a few more labels to his store with an expressionless face, "all natural", "no additives", "natural choice", "all hand-picked". When he was about to add a few more labels, a warning popped up on the webpage.
"You have exceeded the maximum number of tags."
Xiao Zhen reached out and turned off the warning sign. He turned back and checked his tags again. He looked at them and thought they were all good, and he didn't want to delete any of them.
Captain Madara said: "Why don't you just delete all of these and replace them with 'Please take a look at my juice, it's really delicious'."
"..." Xiao Zhen ignored him. He searched the Star Network Trading Network with the keywords "juice" and "fragrant fruit". As expected, he couldn't find Xiao Zhen's shop at all. Xiao Zhen turned a page on the holographic screen, and then waved his hand to turn another page.
It wasn't until page 26 that Xiao Zhen finally found his shop.
"That means customers have to spend nearly 30 minutes flipping through pages before they can find your store. No hope, no hope." Captain Ban shook his head and lamented, "I think we can drink your juice until the New Year and still have some left."
Xiao Zhen clicked on the trading network's platform service, and the platform indicated the price of the first three pages. The price increased with each level. This price was already beyond what Xiao Zhen could afford. These advantageous levels were almost all occupied by major alien chambers of commerce. He sighed and clicked back to his online store, and the number of visitors was still 2.
At this time, a small blue box with the words "Quick Push" popped up next to the juice image in the middle of the holographic web page.
After clicking on the small box, a cute holographic image of an Elt appeared. This cute cat said: "For only 1,000 credit points, you can get a quick push..."
"Spend 1,000 credits and you can randomly appear on the customer's search terms homepage. Quick push, I wish you a big sale... Valid for 6 hours local time, meow..."
"It's a very common platform selling traffic business method. It's also very common on shopping websites on this planet. Monopoly platforms all have the same face. As long as you pay, you can get a certain amount of traffic randomly. Whether you can sell it depends on your luck." Mr. Cat said, "The more money you spend, the greater the chance of exposure. Of course, whether you can sell it or not has nothing to do with the platform. So, do you want to spend money to sell juice?"
That sounds damn familiar.
Captain Ban said: "Isn't this just the platform cutting the leeks of merchants? In a sense, this is the same as me spending money to raise caterpillars for investment!"
"Thank you for telling me this brilliant truth!" Xiao Zhen said, "But leeks can be divided into low-grade leeks and high-grade leeks!"
"You are all leeks, so stop trying to save your dignity!"
