âWe ran into one of Seventh Heavenâs teams and were beaten,â Zhou Huan Huan said casually. However, she was unable to hide the depressed look on her face.
âSeventh Heaven.â
Lu Li shook his head sympathetically.
This was the nature of the competition. Strength was essential, but luck was still important.
The three landladies had above average strength; they were quite strong compared to the ordinary players. If they were lucky, advancing through the tournament wouldnât have been that difficult, but they would be hard-pressed against a top-level team. Against a team from one of the biggest guilds, there was naturally nothing that they could do.
âIt doesnât matter â we didnât really expect to get anything. The three of us are more like casual players,â Dou Jing Jing said, trying to comfort herself.
Reality had taught them the difficulties of entrepreneurship â their initial plan of setting up a gaming studio had long been abandoned.
Dawn had already broken the record for that most-played online game and was now worthy of being called the universal game. There was actually a lot do to within it.
For example, setting up a shopâŚ
âI want to open a Potion Shop. Iâll have a banner that says âXin Xin Mercenary Groupâs Potion ShopââŚâ Liu Yi Yi joked.
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Potions didnât even have that much potential, and she even wanted to affiliate the shop.
âXin Xin had already promised to be the store salesperson,â Dou Jing Jing said as she put her arms around Lu Xin then continued, âAs long as Xin Xin is there by the counter, lots of people will come in to buy things.â
âNo,â Lu Li subconsciously refused after thinking about that scene.
âWhy not?â
Surprisingly, this question had come from Lu Xin herself. Although she was shy, she struggled to look brave, trying not to show any weakness in front of her brother.
âItâs hard work.â Lu Li lowered his voice and spoke gently.
âIâm not scared; I want to make money too. I canât make big bro do it all.â Lu Xin began to choke up as she spoke.
She had joined the game and seen her brother PVPing with other players. While other players looked at Lu Li in awe, she only felt sorrow and grief.
The Lu Li in the competition felt so unfamiliar that she was afraid.
She didnât know that her brother had been putting so much effort into the game. This was something she didnât normally get to see.
âXin Xin, as long as you are ok, I am happy. Iâm not even tired when I play games.â
Lu Li immediately started consoling her when he saw her tears. He bent down and wiped her eyes with his sleeve.
Once upon a time, Lu Xinâs classmates were making fun of her patchy clothes.
She was generally so well-liked that there were some girls who were jealous of her. In reality, the patches werenât even that obvious and they actually looked quite nice.
However, a fourth grader didnât have much control over their emotions, so she starting crying the moment she saw her brother.
Lu Li had bent down in the same way and clumsily wiped her tears away with his sleeve.
Every time he saw his sisterâs tears, Lu Li would feel like he had been stabbed in the heart, as he didnât know what to do. Assassinating Sorrowless again would be an easier task to deal with.
âDonât cry Xin Xin; big sister will let you make the decisions. We will hire employees and Xin Xin can help look out for the store. She canât fight mobs and can only stay in the safe area, so sheâll be really bored.â Dou Jing Jing was also distressed.
âHow can you manage your sister like that?â Liu Yi Yi couldnât take it anymore. âI had planned to teach her how to make potions and rent a stall for her. She would have been allowed to keep the money she made,â she protested.
âXin Xin is already fifteen.â
Zhou Huan Huan felt sorry for Lu Li, who was being ganged up on by everyone. She could only stress this one point.
Lu Li had a decent understanding of Lu Xinâs perspective.
This girl had always been strong even when she was young and was always looking for ways to alleviate her brotherâs burden. On the summer holidays, she would take up odd jobs, no matter how bad they were. She just wanted to help make some money.
Lu Li touched her face and sighed, âXin Xin, I just want you to be happy. Listen to me, your brother isnât actually suffering that much. Making money isnât as difficult as you think it is. From the start of the game until now, I have already made over $1 million, and I made over $100 thousand just today. You really donât need to work in the potion shop.â
âBut big bro, I really want to do somethingâŚâ Lu Xin knew her brotherâs weakness. If she cried first and then softly asked for something, he would always agree.
Eventually, Lu Li couldnât convince her sister and he gave it another thought. Perhaps Liu Yi Yi was right.
Lu Xin couldnât fight mobs because of her heart; she might not be able to take the fright.
There were also some players who might randomly kill others for fun. These players played the game recklessly and had no regard for the kind of damage that it would inflict on others.
If something like that happened, even if Lu Li killed that player until he reached LV0, it wouldnât reverse the damage done.
The best thing was for her to stay in the safe area, which obviously included the Potion Shop. Whether Lu Xin could make money was one thing, but the most important thing was that she had peace of mind.
âPromise me youâll never leave the safe area. Do you understand?â Lu Li carefully urged.
It wasnât as though the safe area was completely empty either. The game had a cinema where you could watch movies and there was even an amusement park. Currently, tourist companies were also building attractions within the safe area.
âWell, but big bro, when I reach level 10, I want to tame a dog,â Lu Xin said as she smiled. Her tears had dried up now.
Lu Li had no choice but to promise that he would help her.
In reality, he didnât intend on stopping her from entering the game, but was waiting for the gaming box to come out at the end of the year.
The gaming box couldnât sustain a person inside of it without eating or drinking, but it did protect the personâs sleeping and nervous systems.
The earlier versions allowed the user to achieve almost the same effect as actual sleep.
The later versions could protect a userâs mental state. If Lu Xin faced some kind of danger, the system would protect her. It could change the scene before her or temporarily confuse her senses.
PVP players generally didnât use this feature, but this was no problem for non-PVP players.
Since he had promised to let his sister open a Potion shop with the landladies, Lu Li naturally had to discuss Lu Xinâs workload.
The main point that he vehemently argued for was that she couldnât do work that was too intense
In addition, he urged that they should also give her more money so she could feel a stronger sense of achievement.
As the three landladies loved Lu Xin, they didnât bargain with Lu Liâ conditions. In fact, they even accepted these conditions as if they were to be expected already.
Even Lu Li wouldnât have had the compassion that they did. He really needed to repay for them for this.
The best thing about the shop was that the team could take potions out of it. Although Sesame Rice Ball specialized in Alchemy, he didnât make every kind of potion. They normally got their unimportant potions from the Exchange Hall.
Additionally, Lu Li planned to take his sister to meet his teammates tomorrow.
He also wanted to watch some competitions with her.
When they were younger, they couldnât spend money on luxuries like this. However, things were different now. They could watch competitions or movies and do anything they wanted.