Chapter 37: Players Enter the Shop

Listening to the crisp, pleasant clinking of the gold coins inside, she narrowed her eyes in happiness.

Wen Ruyan also looked at the glass jar filled with gold coins and curled her lips into a smile. “There are about three hundred gold coins.”

“Yay, yay, yay!” Zhu Ou cheered happily.

Mo Yubai also looked at the gold coin balance in her account with excitement and clicked to upgrade the shop without hesitation.

She had to upgrade the shop first to earn more gold coins.

Once the shop upgrade was complete, the drink options increased to ten, and the vegetable ice cream flavors expanded to five. In addition to egg tarts, strawberry mini-cakes were added, along with a new cultural and creative cup section.

Looking at the new additions, Mo Yubai sighed along with Wen Ruyan and Zhu Ou. What else could they do? Back to work!

They took down the closed sign and replaced it with the open sign.

Besides the various chibi monsters, a few chibi humans also appeared in the shop.

Mo Yubai raised an eyebrow when she saw a familiar chibi human. Yang Yangyang?

It seemed that once the game reached level four, players could also enter to order food.

But it didn’t matter. She, Ou Ou, and the others all had cat heads now, so they definitely wouldn’t be recognized.

She just wondered if these players entered with their actual physical bodies or only as virtual game avatars.

Yang Yangyang looked on in surprise as he entered a milk tea shop page after paying resources at the Cat Snack Shop.

On the game panel, there was a chibi avatar that looked just like him. In front of the avatar stood a calico cat head wearing a pink cherry blossom apron, looking at him curiously.

Ignoring the cat head’s scrutiny, Yang Yangyang instead controlled his avatar to look around and observe his surroundings.

The entire shop was divided into two areas: the milk tea ordering area and the cultural and creative self-service area.

He saw a strange, dark-skinned chibi goblin toss ten gold coins into a cabinet next to the cultural and creative ceramic cups. The ceramic cup then slowly floated down from the shelf into the little goblin’s hands.

He also tried to quietly control his avatar to walk up to the ordering counter and typed, “Give me fifty cups of Durian Lemonade, but without the durian.”

Zhu Ou’s eyes widened instantly when she heard this. What a genius! No durian, wasn’t that just lemonade?

“Alright, let me double-check with you. Fifty cups of Durian Lemonade, no durian, correct? The price remains the same. I see you’ve chosen to pay with resources, but twenty Iron Blocks and fifty stones can only be exchanged for ten cups of lemonade. Would you like to make up the difference in resources?”

Mo Yubai withdrew her gaze and continued her grand milk tea enterprise, making delicious milk tea for the little monsters.

She had already tried her best to lower the prices for players as much as possible, making them almost less than half of what the monsters paid. If the players couldn’t even accept this, then it was goodbye.

Hearing this, Yang Yangyang pursed his lips. “That’s right, no durian. But pack the durian separately for me. Just ten cups then, I won’t add more resources.”

Zhu Ou turned to look at Mo Yubai, silently asking, Can we even do it like this?

Mo Yubai nodded gently with a smile, signaling that it was fine. After all, it would be a waste not to exploit the game’s loopholes.

Zhu Ou turned back and said with a smile, “Alright, please wait a moment. In the meantime, you can take a look at our newly launched vegetable ice cream to see if there are any flavors you like.”

Hearing Zhu Ou’s words, Yang Yangyang looked closely at the ice cream menu. His eyes lit up, and he quickly said, “Then I’ll also have two cilantro ice creams.”

Without any change in expression, Zhu Ou continued to smile. “Alright, that will be twenty pieces of rubber. Please wait a moment.”

Without hesitation, Yang Yangyang took out twenty pieces of rubber from his backpack and selected payment.

Since childhood, he had loved eating cilantro, even juicing it to drink. He hadn’t expected this milk tea shop to have such good taste as to offer cilantro ice cream!

A few minutes passed, and Yang Yangyang controlled his chibi avatar to walk out of the shop, carrying ten cups of lemonade and holding two ice creams.

The moment he stepped over the threshold, Yang Yangyang saw ten cups of lemonade, the packaged durian flesh, and two cilantro ice creams appear in his backpack.

Delighted, he took out a cup of lemonade and took a huge gulp. It was ice-cold and refreshing!

Then he took out the packaged durian and took a small bite. It was smooth, sweet, and absolutely perfect.

Finally, he carefully took a lick of the cilantro ice cream. A rich cilantro flavor filled his mouth, accompanied by hints of light sweetness. Yang Yangyang closed his eyes in bliss, savoring it slowly.

Inside the Internet Celebrity Milk Tea Shop, a short-haired girl smiled slightly at Zhu Ou. “Hello, I’d like fifteen cups of Stinky Tofu Bubble Tea. Put the stinky tofu, pearls, and milk tea in separate containers, and fill the cups to the brim with ice!”

Zhu Ou looked at Mo Yubai, her expression devoid of hope as she signaled with her eyes: Can we actually fulfill such a bizarre request?

A flash of astonishment crossed Mo Yubai’s eyes. She nodded helplessly at Zhu Ou, signaling: We can!

This order was incredibly fast. They simply packed the raw ingredients for her and filled fifteen cups to the brim with ice.

Just after sending off that bizarre player, they heard a commotion inside the shop.

Mo Yubai poked her cat head out, looking curious.

It turned out a player had provocatively stepped on a rabbit customer’s foot and was commenting with a look of disdain.

“Giving milk tea that humans can’t even get to these beastly monsters is such a waste of good things!”

Mo Yubai frowned at the male player’s arrogant behavior. She was about to step in to kick him out of the shop and blacklist him permanently.

But then, she saw the rabbit he had stepped on leap up like a spring. Its three-lobed mouth opened, and it sucked the player straight into its belly!

At the same time, outside the milk tea shop game, a slovenly man, whose hands were still in the position of controlling his character, collapsed instantly.

If one were to walk closer, they would see that his pupils had fully dilated. He had died silently.

The rabbit seemed to be in a very good mood. It shook its ears, walked up to the stunned Zhu Ou, and ordered thirty cups of carrot jasmine grass tea, then went to Wen Ruyan to order twenty carrot ice creams.

Zhu Ou instantly put on a smile out of reflex. “Here is your number. Please wait a moment.”

At this moment, all the players who witnessed this scene became as quiet as mice. None of them complained about the milk tea tasting bad anymore, nor did they nitpick about the shop being full of monsters.

On the surface, they all stood in a neat line, waiting obediently for their orders, but in reality, they had all moved to the chat channel to vent.

“Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! Did you guys see that?”

“I saw it, I saw it. It was absolutely terrifying.”

“That player was on my friend list. I just used a Tracking Gold Coin to teleport to him, but it showed that his game account has been deleted and he is dead, so he can’t be targeted!”

“Too scary. This Cat Snack Shop is unfathomable!”

“What are you guys talking about? Why does it show that I’ve been blacklisted by the Cat Snack Shop and can’t buy resources?”

“Bro, me too! I don’t know what happened, but I’ve been blacklisted!”

“This is unfair! We want to protest! We want to report them!”

“Give it a rest. For trash like you who do nothing but talk trash, being blacklisted is a different kind of protection.”

“Help! How can I casually pet that tabby cat’s paws? As a tabby lover, I’m dying here!”

“Go to sleep. You can have whatever you want in your dreams.”

“Girls, let me share a little trick. You can buy the dark cuisine^[1] milk teas disassembled. The Cat Snack Shop is practically doing charity.”

“Share the trick, please.”

“Plus one.”

“There’s no real trick. For the Hamburger Coffee, you can just ask that calico cat to pack the hamburger separately. That way, we not only get normal-tasting coffee, but we also get a hamburger!”

“Shoot, why didn’t you say so earlier? I endured the disgust and bought fifteen cups of Hamburger Coffee already.”

“Here comes another guilt-tripper. Heh heh, wait for me. I’m using a Tracking Gold Coin to head over right now.”