After the Internet Cafe closed for business, it remained silent until all the players had left.
Su Ran then walked out and first went to the shop on the left.
But as soon as he reached the entrance, he was slightly stunned to see the chain lock on the door.
He then realized that Wu Lei and the others had only given him the land deed, but not the keys to these shops.
He didn't know if they had forgotten, or if they had never considered this issue at all.
"Forget it, I'll just have to force it!"
Su Ran couldn't help but circulate the Martial Qi within his body, and with a lift of his hand, he exerted force.
Snap!
He tore off the door lock.
With another push, the door opened.
Su Ran then smoothly walked in, and as soon as he entered, he could smell a musty odor in the air inside the room.
The counter at the entrance had toppled to the ground, and the long tables and benches in the main hall were scattered disorderly everywhere, covered in accumulated dust.
Clearly, this place had been abandoned for a long time.
Su Ran looked around again and found that this shop was much larger than his Internet Cafe.
However, there was also a problem: it was divided into many small, separate rooms, likely private dining rooms or elegant seating areas specifically prepared for guests when it was a restaurant.
A shop like this would be quite troublesome to expand and renovate.
Su Ran hesitated for a moment, not rushing to choose, and then went to another shop on the right side of the Internet Cafe.
After opening the door lock using the same method, he walked in and took a look.
"Oh!"
"This place is good!"
Su Ran's eyes lit up.
Although this shop was not as large as the previous one, it wasn't small either, and it felt very spacious at first glance.
With one look, everything in the entire shop was clearly visible.
"This is it!"
Su Ran immediately made his decision.
"Would the Host like to bind this shop?"
"Yes."
"Ding, binding successful."
It was at this moment that all the dust and stains inside the entire shop disappeared without a trace, becoming impeccably clean.
Even the musty air that was originally in the room seemed to have been purified, becoming incredibly fresh.
However, apart from the environment, nothing else changed.
Even the old counter in the shop and the tables, chairs, and benches scattered on the floor did not disappear; they all remained.
Su Ran was not surprised.
Previously, he hadn't activated the construction function, so the system would handle many things, but now, he had to solve all of this himself.
So, at this point, he called up the system's construction page.
He found that the 3D floor plan of the Internet Cafe on the screen was now divided into two areas: one was the original Internet Cafe, and the other was the newly bound shop.
Su Ran couldn't help but touch the screen and began to operate, successively selecting the old counters, tables, chairs, benches, and broken room decorations, etc., on the floor plan.
He clicked delete on all of them.
In a short while, the main hall became empty, considered to be cleaned up.
Then, Su Ran called out the task list again, dragged it down, and clicked to submit the task.
"First expansion of the Internet Cafe storefront completed. Reward: One hundred computers."
It was not until this system prompt sounded that one hundred computers and matching tables and chairs instantly appeared in the main hall.
Su Ran first arranged these one hundred computers neatly.
Then, he clicked on the floor, walls, ceiling, windows…
And so, Su Ran continuously used the construction mode, starting the construction and renovation of the entire shop.
It was increasingly feeling like playing a building game.
…
The next morning, the players arrived at the Internet Cafe.
They thought they had arrived even earlier than before.
However, upon arrival, they still found that the Farming Team had already formed a long queue.
"Damn, did these people actually go back?"
"Exactly, they're all here so early; it'd be a miracle if we could win against them!"
"Forget it, didn't the Boss say the expansion would be completed today? Is it done?"
"I don't know!"
At this time, the players quickly observed the surroundings of the Internet Cafe.
From the outside, no changes were visible.
Moreover, they found that even after the Internet Cafe opened, the doors of the two adjacent shops remained tightly closed, showing no sign of opening.
"Could it be that the expansion isn't finished?"
Everyone was a bit confused and anxious.
After the entire Farming Team had entered.
They also rushed into the Internet Cafe, originally intending to go directly to the Boss to ask.
"Oh, what's that?"
But as soon as they entered, they noticed that there was an additional passageway corridor to the right of the Internet Cafe's entrance.
They walked over to take a look.
"Wow!"
They were surprised to find that it connected to the adjacent shop, and they saw that in the spacious hall next door, a hundred brand new computers had already been set up.
At this moment, the players' eyes gleamed, and they were so excited they almost jumped up.
"There really are new machines!"
"And, they even added so many at once!"
"The Boss is awesome!"
"Finally, there's a spot, let's hurry up and play!"
And after their excitement and thrill, the players who hadn't played games for a day or two could no longer hold back and quickly started their machines to enter the game.
…
Meanwhile, Liu Chengfeng was not in a hurry to play games; instead, he first came to the bar counter.
"Boss!"
As he spoke, he placed a thick wad of gold notes on the counter.
Each of those gold notes had a denomination not of one thousand, but of one hundred thousand.
Clearly, he wasn't there to buy game guides.
Su Ran was startled: "This is…?"
Liu Chengfeng explained: "Boss, this is twelve million in gold notes. It's the change from the elixir I received from you yesterday!"
Su Ran probably understood what the other party meant and waved his hand: "No need, right?"
Liu Chengfeng, however, stated: "Boss, since you are unwilling to accept the land deed for free and want a fair transaction, we naturally cannot take advantage of you!"
Su Ran asked in surprise: "But I remember Ouyang Qing saying before that that bottle of elixir was only worth ten million. Did you give too much?"
"Not too much; what they said was just an approximate price!"
Liu Chengfeng shook his head and said: "In reality, the quality of your elixir, Boss, is even higher. To be honest, it could even sell for twenty million. The fifteen million I'm giving you here is already considered a bargain!"
Su Ran looked at Liu Chengfeng's serious face.
He didn't know if what he said was true or false.
"Alright!"
However, in the end, Su Ran still accepted the gold notes, because from this incident, he realized that although most of the time, the money from this world was useless to him, it might occasionally be needed. Keeping some for a rainy day was not a bad idea, so he accepted them.