Chapter 276: Pharmacy Owner
Did he surrender to the enemy?
This idea suddenly appeared in Master Lu's mind.
Not only him, but the other players present also thought of this, and their faces turned strange.
If it is really what they think, the situation will be more delicate in the future.
On that old street, the two robots clapped their hands, looked up at the installed sign with satisfied expressions.
"It's OK, not too high or too low, the effect is just right!"
"Speaking of which, isn't the color scheme wrong?" said another robot. "A pharmacy should use a simple and elegant color scheme. This kind of golden text gives people the feeling of a nouveau riche."
"The humans like this, don't think too much."
"Yeah, that's right!"
The two robots greeted Su Xia and then left in a large truck.
Su Xia walked to the center of the old street, raised her head and looked at the glittering golden sign, she was speechless and really didn't know what to say.
At this moment, a prompt suddenly popped up from the game system.
[Congratulations, you have obtained a new identity - pharmacy owner]
[You can choose to hide this identity or make it public so that all players can see it]
[Your game function module has been updated, go check it out]
【……】
Behind the nickname "Evil Bubble" above Su Xia's head, there is a golden title "Pharmacy Owner", which looks quite cool.
Su Xia didn't like to show off, but he also noticed the group of players watching in the distance, so he didn't choose to hide.
This is a great opportunity for publicity.
In his personal game system, there is a new function module called [Pharmacy Owner].
Click on this module to see a series of functional options related to the pharmacy.
【Material Management】
Inventory management
【Order Management】
【Customer Management】
【Market Analysis】
【Store Staff Management】
【……】
As soon as these functional options came out, the style of the game suddenly changed and it became a simulation business game.
Click [Material Management] to see the pharmacy's past material supply data.
The pharmacy's suppliers are distributed throughout the southwest region and have dealings with dozens of surrounding cities. They purchase large quantities of materials almost every once in a while.
The other party delivered the goods to the door, so Su Xia didn't have to go there in person, which saved her a lot of effort.
But there is also a prompt in the lower right corner: [Due to changes in the owner of the pharmacy, you need to recontact various material suppliers to ensure a stable supply of materials].
The pharmacy still has sufficient funds. Although it had a large amount of potions stored in the past that could not be sold, the recent arrival of players has changed all that.
Click on [Order Management] and [Customer Management], and you will find that the current customer base is a large number of players.
Adhering to the principle of small profits but quick turnover, both players and pharmacies benefited.
Even if he had no money, Su Xia could still make some in a short time.
The output of high-level pharmacists is terrifying.
Now, if he only wants to make a first-level low-level potion, he does not need to make it one by one. He can directly add materials according to the formula ratio and make hundreds of them at a time. The success rate and efficiency are frighteningly high.
Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu can do it too, but these two lazy guys just slack off all day long, wasting their talents, so they should just be more diligent during that period of intensified training.
[Due to Daddy's departure, your pharmacy's reputation has dropped by 65%, credibility has dropped by 45%, and customer satisfaction has dropped by 30%...]
[You need to take control of the pharmacy as soon as possible, otherwise it will lose ground in the fierce market competition...]
【Click to view surrounding competitors】
【……】
When Su Xia was browsing the various functional modules, the system suddenly popped up a prompt.
In the past, the word "Dad" was the golden signboard of the pharmacy.
Now that my father is gone and has become a wanted person by the Mechanical Clan, there are only a few young apprentices left. Can this pharmacy still be kept going?
I believe that such questions will arise in many people's minds.
Su Xia is only in his early twenties, and Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu are only slightly older than him.
Many famous pharmacists, at their age, are just ordinary apprentices, and their success rate in making first-level potions may be pitifully low.
Su Xia clicked to view the surrounding competitors, and the system jumped directly to a sub-page of the [Market Analysis] module.
A map appeared in front of him.
【Coral City Pharmacy Distribution Map】
On this distribution map, there are hundreds of potion icons of different shades. The darker the color, the stronger the ability of the pharmacy owner.
Su Xia discovered that in the southwest area of the city, around Dad's Pharmacy, there were no other pharmacies.
The other drugstore owners chose to avoid competition with Dad.
They knew they couldn't win.
The nearest pharmacy is in another block in the south of the city. It is called "Lao Ba's Pharmacy" and its logo is very light in color on the distribution map.
Su Xia clicked to view and immediately got some information about the pharmacy.
【Lao Ba's Pharmacy】
[Shop owner: Lao Ba]
[Current number of employees: three]
[Highest level of potion output: Level 2]
[Radiation range: ...]
【……】
It's just a shop opened by a second-level pharmacist.
In fact, more than half of the pharmacies on this distribution map are opened by second-level pharmacists.
Generally speaking, as long as you can successfully refine a first-level potion and your success rate satisfies your teacher, you can become a master.
In this case, as long as time goes by, the first-level apprentice will eventually become a second-level pharmacist.
Above that, their teachers will not be able to teach.
Because most teachers are only second-level pharmacists.
A shop like Dad's Pharmacy, where apprentices have become fourth-level pharmacists but still stay in the shop, may be the only one in the entire continent.
"This kind of ordinary shop has no competitiveness. The shop owner is not even as good as my father's apprentice. No wonder they are so far away." Su Xia nodded secretly. Future development should not be too difficult.
Since the game was launched, many players have become pharmacist apprentices. However, it seems that only a few lucky ones have broken through to the second level so far, and most apprentices cannot even refine first-level potions.
Currently, the way mainstream players obtain potions is through these second-level pharmacies.
There are fewer third-level pharmacies above the second level, but they are also the mainstay of the city's pharmacist industry.
There are even fewer at the fourth level.
There is a fourth-level pharmacy in each of the city's southeast, northwest, and northeast districts.
In such a large city like Coral, there are only four fourth-level pharmacies, three of which are owned by people from other places and are quite old.
In this city, some of the owners of the second- and third-level pharmacies were once apprentices under them.
"There is actually a fifth-level pharmacist, he is quite well hidden."
Su Xia noticed that in the center of the distribution map, next to the central square of Coral City, there was a small pharmacy with a dark-colored sign.
He used to pass by this pharmacy often when he went out to deliver medicine.
I didn't realize at the time that this small and shabby-looking shop actually hid a fifth-level pharmacist.
【Muzi Pharmacy】
[Shop owner: Li Chang]
[Current number of employees: six]
[Highest level of potion output: Level 5]
[Radiation range: ...]
【……】
[Note: This pharmacy is currently not accepting apprentices. Ordinary players cannot become apprentices of this pharmacy.]
[Note: Player Sijidao relied on his own identity to forcibly join the pharmacy and became the apprentice of the owner of the store, Li Chang. He also spent a lot of money to buy a lot of materials for himself. He has now broken through to the second-level pharmacist]
[Note: The player Sijidao once planned to get rid of his father and create the title of "Coral City's No. 1 Potion Master" for his teacher]
“So this is it.”
Su Xia suddenly remembered that Sijidao once said that he had also become a pharmacist.
At that time , Sijidao was full of confidence, probably thinking that the owner of the pharmacy was the strongest pharmacist in the entire Coral City, and that by following him he would surpass Su Xia sooner or later.
But, is this pharmacy owner named Li Chang really better than my father?
Su Xia knew that his father was at least a fifth-level pharmacist and was recognized as a master in the entire industry.
This kind of "master" is not a master in the ordinary sense, but a master agreed upon by other pharmacists, even those high-level pharmacists have no objection.
Yi Yi had told Su Xia before that his father was a person that even the Zero Point Tavern was trying its best to win over.
In order to win him over, the Zero Point Tavern even went so far as to provide information about the pharmaceutical civilization in deep space.
"But Dad still didn't accept the invitation to the tavern." Su Xia couldn't help but think, if he had agreed to the tavern at the beginning, would the situation be different now?
Now, as long as Su Xia reveals his identity as a fourth-level pharmacist, he will still be a "master" in the eyes of ordinary people, but other high-level pharmacists will not agree.
Su Xia clicked on the [View rest of the area] option in the upper right corner of the distribution, and the picture in front of him shrank instantly.
The wilderness areas around Coral City, the oasis camps, mercenary towns, refugee gathering places, the farther Waste Armor City, Fish Scale City, etc., all the areas that Su Xia had been to, appeared on a larger map.
On this map, more than 90% of the area is still gray, which is the area that Su Xia has never explored.
"There is only one fifth-level pharmacist in Yulin City, and the same is true for Feijia City... The highest level of pharmacists in the Oasis Camp is only fourth-level pharmacists. It seems that fifth-level pharmacists are already extremely rare..."
Su Xia noticed that in a gray unexplored area in the southwest corner of the map, there was a "dragon head" symbol.
That is Dragon City, and it is also the central city for all players in the country.
The area further southwest is blocked by several high mountains.
After crossing the mountains, you can see a "giant elephant" logo. That is the main city of players from the South Asian subcontinent. Most of the players near that area are from India.
Long before the game was launched, Blizzard was spending lavishly around the world, spending huge sums of money to rent or buy high-rise buildings and transform them into VR hives.
Thanks to the cheap price and high-quality experience of Hive, there are just as many players in the South Asian subcontinent as in China.
"In the two human main cities, you can see darker colored pharmacist logos. I wonder if they are level 6 pharmacists. Unfortunately, I can't click to view them now."
With the infusion of those two pharmacist experience books, Su Xia has basically understood his future path and is confident that he can slowly grow into a sixth-level pharmacist in the years to come.
However, it is always better to exchange experiences and explore new paths with higher-level pharmacists than to work alone.
Swipe the map upwards.
In the north of the map, in a grayish-white unexplored area, you can see a "white bear" logo.
The symbols of several other human main cities are also reflected on the map.
In the center of the map is a silver-white "hollow gear" logo, representing the Silver City of the Mechanical Clan. This is the area where the legendary Mechanical Overlord sits. There is a large area of spaceship wreckage under the city.
In addition to this silver city, the other three super cities of the Mechanical Clan, the Deep Dive City, the Earth City, and the Sky City are also marked on the map.
When the mechanical overlord is not in charge, these three cities are the power core of the entire mechanical race.
"The Deep Dive City is located in the south of Zhongzhou Continent and is said to be floating on the sea." Su Xia thought of the description on the game's official website. His brain capacity was limited, and he could not imagine what it would be like to see a city floating in the sea.
The game’s official website only released a very blurry picture, and let players explore the rest on their own.
Now, all the mechanical opponents that Su Xia faces, whether it is An Lan, Yu Tuo or that Moser, are all from the Deep Dive City camp.
The other two mechanical super cities are located on the other two continents, and are what the players on those two continents need to deal with.
"There's actually a pharmacy logo above the Mechanical Clan's city logo."
The mechanical race can do what humans can do, and they can also do what humans cannot do.
The gap in strength between the two sides is too great, and one can feel a sense of powerlessness just by looking at the map.
Su Xia exited the main map and returned to the small map of Coral City.
He noticed that the color of his pharmacy was darker than the other fourth-tier pharmacies, but lighter than the fifth-tier pharmacy, probably because there were three fourth-tier pharmacists in his shop.
[You can recruit employees, please view detailed information in the employee management function module]
Suddenly, another message popped up on the system.
Su Xia's eyes lit up, and she immediately exited the current map, returned to the main page, and clicked [Employee Management].
What appeared before his eyes were multiple sub-page options such as [Employee Information Management], [Attendance Management], [Leave Management], etc.
In the information management column, Su Xia saw several options such as [Recruitment] and [Dismissal].
Click [Recruitment] and detailed information will pop up immediately.
[Option 1: You can choose to recruit "players" as pharmacy apprentices]
[It should be noted that as a visitor from another world, the time of arrival in this world is not stable, and the player's life in the other world needs to be taken into consideration]
[But currently the pharmacy's customer base is mainly players, so recruiting player apprentices can improve the efficiency of communication with player customers...]
【……】
[Option 2: You can recruit residents of this world as pharmacy employees or apprentices]
[As a fourth-level pharmacist, there are many second-level and third-level pharmacists who are willing to ask you for advice. After gaining their approval, you can directly recruit them as employees.]
[You can also teach ordinary apprentices from scratch...]
[There is no limit on the number of recruitments, please choose according to your current personal tolerance]
【……】
Su Xia browsed through all the content at a very fast speed, and then let out a long sigh of relief.
It was pretty much what he thought.
From now on, he can also become a teacher like his father, and there is no limit to the number of apprentices he can have.
In ancient times, he would be a founder of a school of thought.
At this moment, the players who were watching in the distance became confused.
"Why is Su Xia standing on the street without moving? Is he AFK?"
"Be civilized and talk about the machine instead of the words."
"No, look, there is a string of golden titles following his name, it almost blinded me ..."
The glittering golden title of [Pharmacy Owner] was so dazzling that it was impossible to ignore it.
The current Su Xia has an extra layer of golden light special effect compared to other players. In the early web games, he would be at least a first-charge VIP.
"It looks like it's true. Even the system has recognized it." Bing Lei smiled. "No matter what, it's good that we can keep the pharmacy. Haha, it seems that we were really worrying too much before."
"impossible!"
Master Lu found it hard to accept and his face looked as if he had eaten a dead fly.
He held the telescope tightly, gritted his teeth, and said, "He has been recognized by the mechanical race. Do you still think he will stand on your side?"
"Don't try to sow discord. We believe in Brother Su's character !" North snorted coldly.
"Even so, the stock of the pharmacy will eventually run out!" Master Lu was unwilling to give up. "The store in this game will not refresh in real time. As the player level gets higher and higher, how long can the high-level potions in stock last? Does Su Xia have the ability to refine high-level potions?"
"You don't have to worry about that!"
North responded firmly, not looking worried at all.
In fact, most players are still using level one and two potions, and level three potions are still considered a luxury item, with first-tier players only using them when attacking bosses or performing difficult tasks.
But as the player's level increases, the health bar becomes longer and longer, and the situation that Master Lu described will eventually occur.
Now, they can only hope that Su Xia's advancement speed can catch up with the players' upgrade speed.
"Brother Su was already a second-level pharmacist before." Bing Lei whispered to himself, "After such a long time, he should be about to break through to the third level."
"Do you think it's that easy to become a third-level pharmacist?" Sect Leader Lu said, "Si Ji Dao became a disciple of a fifth-level pharmacist, and tried madly without considering the consumption and waste of materials, but now he is only a second-level pharmacist."
"Is Sijidao your father? He talks about him every day."
“You fucking…”
Master Lu felt aggrieved and his face turned red and white.
Why are the people in Su Xia's camp so poisonous?
