An extra 10 gold coins were added. As for the extra 10 gold coins, Lu Jiu chose to add a floor to the department store as a playground for underage children to entertain and relax.

There were now more than 1,500 temporary residents in Xuantian City, of which there were about 400 underage children, and the toy city she opened was divided into two parts.

One side was suitable for children under 10 years old, and the other side was suitable for over 10 years old. She believed children will be very happy to see it.

She can open more shops, including entertainment venues, but the level of Xuantian City was not enough, and Lu Jiu personally felt that these were not needed now.

She didn’t want to open a restaurant at first because there were many food stalls in the city, but she chose to open it for the convenience of NPCs to buy food.

These NPCs were not simple robots. They have thoughts, but they were loyal to the city lord, and possess vigor and physical strength, so Lu Jiu has to pay them wages.

NPCs with equipment have their purchase channels and items such as HP potion given by the city lord.

So raising NPCs was expensive.

After being promoted to the second-level city-state, the number of patrolling combat NPCs has doubled. From the original sixteen to the current thirty-two. She has the authority of the city lord and has a special channel to purchase city defense equipment.

*

After spending resources and gold coins to be promoted to the second-tier city-state, Lu Jiu invited Shen Jufeng to visit the city-state’s changes.

When they rented out the dormitory, they felt that the road had become wider, and the floor had also changed, from the original blue-gray to black.

The wooden platform of the fixed booth in the commercial street next to it has a spacious ceiling, which can protect it from the sun and rain.

The most conspicuous thing is the several shops that have risen from the ground, and each shop has a sign, such as Xuantian Tailor, Xuantian Restaurant, Xuantian Pharmacy, etc.

There were still many closed doors that have not yet been opened.

Tailor shops and restaurants were okay, but pharmacies and blacksmith shops were the most visited.

Lu Jiu and Shen Jufeng first visited the pharmacy, and when they walked in, they found that the entire pharmacy was decorated in a modern way. For a moment, they mistakenly thought that they had returned to a peaceful society.

The store manager of the pharmacy was a young mixed-race girl who looks like a western elf. Many people who visit the store were attracted by her beauty.

“Why are there no products when opening a store?” Some visitors asked the drugstore NPC.

They heard that it was a pharmacy, and many of them wanted to see what kind of medicine the game world would sell, but there was nothing on the display stand.

The delicate face of the store manager showed no other expressions, but she replied dutifully, “I don’t sell any medicine today. Please come at nine o’clock tomorrow morning. This is the store’s business hours.”

The store manager pointed at the electronic screen next to her with her slender fingers, which showed that the pharmacy was open from 9:00 am to 6:00 pm.

The young man who asked just now felt a twitch in his heart. He can work with this NPC from nine to six.

“It’s strange, why open the door when it’s not open today.”

“Who knows, but this NPC looks too good-looking.”

“I went to see other stores, but they were only open and didn’t sell anything. They said they would sell tomorrow.”

No matter what other people discussed, the NPC stood at the counter without changing her face.

Compared to the hustle and bustle of the pharmacy, Zhuang Yun took his daughter to the department store. He said it was a shop, but it was a building with three floors.

The interior was modernized, just like the previous shopping mall, but there were no products there. Before he came, he heard that nothing was sold today.

Zhuang Antong saw that there was only a 30-year-old woman on the first floor with no products, so she shook Zhuang Yun’s hand: “Dad, let’s go upstairs and have a look.”

There was no elevator in the store, but there was an escalator. There were also no products on the second floor, and there was no change until the third floor.

The entrance on the third floor was different from the decoration of the two floors below. It was warmer overall. This floor was divided into left and right sides, which were completely separated. The left prompt was suitable for children under 10 years old.

Zhuang Yun took his daughter to look to the left first. When he entered the door, he saw various entertainment facilities, such as carousels, bumper cars, and small roller coasters.

This only occupies one corner, and there was other electronic entertainment equipment. Zhuang Antong also saw an exploration city, which was a small secret room game.

This was a special place for children to play. She didn’t expect the city lord to open this place. Zhuang Yun heard that people from outside the city advertised that the shops there didn’t have this.

Zhuang Antong looked at the fun entertainment equipment. Her eyes were full of surprises, but she didn’t say that she wanted to play, she knew that it was not easy for her father to earn money.

Although it was closed today, the NPC was still here.

“I want to ask about the charges here.”

This NPC was still the one they met on the first floor, “This is a card system, you can play all the game devices here with the card. 1 copper coin for 10 days, 3 copper coins for a month, if you recharge the annual fee at one time, there will be a discount. It’s only 30 copper coins.”

Too cheap!

Only these words came to Zhuang Yun’s mind. Even in a shopping mall before doomsday, the monthly fee for applying for a card in a children’s playground was not low.

“Is the card application will start tomorrow?”

“Yes, it will officially open at 9 a.m. tomorrow.”

When Zhuang Antong heard the price, she calculated it carefully. She can collect the materials by herself and then went to the mission hall to exchange copper coins. She could apply for the card by herself.

Zhuang Yun thanked the NPC, and then took his daughter to the other side of the third floor.

The entertainment equipment here was completely different from those under 10 years old. It was like a video game city, and there were some exciting projects.

Zhuang Yun found that the internal structure here was larger than what he saw from the outside, which reminded him of space, and the game world is high-tech.

After that, he was satisfied and took his daughter back. He was even more satisfied and determined he will not to leave Xuantian City.

“When I go out in the future, you can stay in the amusement park. Dad can be more rest assured if you are here.”

This was a shop under the name of the city lord, and an NPC store manager was guarding it.

“Dad, I will earn my own money to get the card, you have worked very hard.”

Zhuang Yun rubbed his daughter’s tender little face: “Okay, my An’an is sensible.”

At least here, he felt that life was getting better and better.

*

Lu Jiu told the NPC early in the morning not to reveal her identity as the city lord. They can meet her at the city lord’s mansion or send her a mail.

So when she and Shen Jufeng came to observe the shops, the NPCs just stood there like a wooden figures when they saw her. Then the two went back home after seeing a few shops.

Shen Jufeng said: “There should be many residents who would not choose to leave here after opening the shops.”

Through the dialogue channel, people can know that not all the shops opened in the second-tier city-states were the same. Most of them have three shops, and five shops here were rare.

“It’s no joke. I especially spent dozens of gold coins to open two more shops and a professional mining team. I hired the best NPCs, so I invested hundreds of gold coins.”

NPCs were also graded. The system was equipped with the most basic ones by default. The city lord needed to spend their own money to hire talented ones and pay their salary.

Even a rich woman like Lu Jiu also felt that she was burning money.

She has hired the most talented NPCs from the beginning, whether they were combat or non-combat types. Although the combat power was at the beginning level now, as the city-state upgrades, the NPCs will also upgrade.

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