I run a food city in the last days

The conditions for upgrading the pancake shop to level five are actually not complicated, just a few words:

15 blue diamonds.

Good guy, she has worked hard for so long and only has more than 20 blue diamonds in her hand, and she will use most of them now.

"System! Come out!" Jiang Yiyin gritted his teeth, "Don't all upgrades use crystal cores?"

The system's plain voice sounded: "Fifth-level stores are special."

"That's too expensive! How can I save enough money for resurrection potion in this way? I'm afraid it won't be enough in this lifetime." She tried to bargain.

"……come on."

The veins on her forehead were throbbing, but she could tell from these unwavering words that there was no room for negotiation on this price.

Her heart was bleeding, but in the end she gritted her teeth and chose to upgrade.

Countdown to level five: 2:59:59.

It took a full three hours to upgrade. The more she looked at it, the more heartache she felt. She simply turned her eyes away and ran to the dormitory to squint for a while. In her dream, she saw blue diamonds flying around and wanted to catch them. Then it disappeared with a hiss, and she was so anxious that she yelled "Don't go--" and then woke up.

She wiped the sweat from her forehead and looked at the time.

The upgrade was over, and she quickly got up to see the changes in the pancake shop.

However, no new products or tools appeared. She searched around carefully to make sure that she had not missed any location. Then she became angry: "System! Is this what you call special?"

"Please check the background information."

She didn't know if it was an illusion, but she always felt there was a hint of helplessness in the system's voice.

When she opened the backend, she discovered that after the store upgraded to level five, it did not add equipment and products, but two more attributes.

The first item is "available for rent". She can choose to rent the store to apocalyptic survivors, but the system specifically states that the taste of the products cannot be guaranteed after renting, which may have an impact on the overall reputation of the food city.

The second attribute is "hostable". She can spend a certain amount of crystal cores to rent an anthropomorphic AI to run the store. She only needs to set up a series of data, and the AI ​​will do everything.

The price of AI is not low, but she can't save this money.

After all, with the pancake shop upgraded to level five, the second shop is already waiting to open in the background.

As the food city operates more and more projects, she will never be able to run it normally by herself unless she learns how to use shadow clones.

She was really curious and went to the Blue Diamond Mall to search, and found that there really was such a power as "Shadow Clone", but what was the price...

Jiang Yiyin silently closed the mall and opened ai rental to study.

Bust-length photos of handsome men and beauties were neatly arranged. Whichever photo she looked at, a series of information would appear.

It turns out that each anthropomorphic AI is good at different things, and the ones with better attributes will naturally be more expensive.

She looked at it with interest for a long time, and finally bought the cheapest one without hesitation.

Anyway, the attributes are enough for a pancake shop, and there are not many customers now, so it is okay for her to take care of two shops.

After confirming the purchase, the picture of the AI ​​immediately showed "Delivering". When she was curious about how the system would deliver the AI, she suddenly heard the door behind her being pushed open.

Turning around, a brown-haired man came out: "Hello, boss, I am number ai3118."

She was startled and thought that if she rented an AI again in the future, she would have to wait until no one was around, otherwise the sudden change of living people would easily overload her heart.

After the uncle finished speaking his lines, he stood motionless. She circled around him curiously and saw a string of codes behind his left ear.

She called up the system backend, set up the pancake shop's data one by one, and changed the name of ai3118 to "Jian Bing". Finally, she found that he still needed a dormitory.

Jiang Yiyin could only arrange a simple staff dormitory for him. Anyway, the dormitory was connected to the pancake shop.

After setting up the things related to the pancake shop, she rubbed her hands and looked at the newly lit store page in the background.

Then a system prompt stuck on my face:

Do you want to spend 100 cores to open a second store?

She was very confused: "Are you really a food management system, not some Zhou Papi system?"

The system pretends to be dead.

Sighing, what else could she do? The only choice is yes.

The shadow of a new shop appeared on the left side of the pancake shop. Within a few seconds, it turned from virtual to real and stood firmly on the ground.

She hurriedly ran out to check and clearly saw "Yangchun Noodle Shop" written on the sign.

Jiang Yiyin's eyes lit up. To be honest, she was tired of eating pancakes and soy milk for several days and couldn't wait to change her taste.

She hadn't had dinner yet, so she walked directly into the shop to show off her skills.

After buying the ingredients from the system mall, she washed her hands, rolled up her sleeves and put on a scarf. She first chopped the tube bones into small, palm-length pieces to make soup stock.

Then scoop out the flour and start kneading.

The loose flour was quickly kneaded into a smooth dough in her hands. With skillful pulling and beating, noodles as thin as silver threads slowly appeared. After several repetitions, the noodles became chewier and smoother.

Put the noodles on the chopping board and set aside. Take a sea bowl, heat the pot, dig out a small piece of pork and put it on the bottom of the pot. When the oil is hot, pour it into the bowl, then add light soy sauce, 2 drops of dark soy sauce, salt, and a small spoon Gently stir in the sugar.

At this time, the aroma of the bone soup has begun to emit. Take a large spoonful of the clear soup and pour it into a bowl. The fresh, bright, and slightly oily noodle soup is ready.

Boil water in a pot and put the noodles in after boiling. She likes the chewy texture, so when the water boils again, she immediately takes the noodles out and puts them into the soup. Finally, sprinkle with a handful of green scallions and a bowl. The Yangchun noodles are ready.

Then he asked Jian Bing to cut a plate of braised beef, and she sat at the picnic table outside the shop and started to enjoy it.

The noodles are chewy, the noodle soup is warm, and the braised beef is spicy and refreshing. While the eaters are sweating profusely, they feel a sense of satisfaction in their hearts.

Cool!

The only regret is that she doesn't like to eat alone, but now she only has Jian Bing by her side, and there is no one to share the delicious food with.

rustling-

Jiang Yiyin turned his head and was surprised to see a familiar little head sticking out.

"Hi," she couldn't help but wave, "Why didn't you come yesterday?"

The child didn't speak, his eyes were glued to the food as always.

She drank the soup at the bottom of the bowl in one gulp, cooked the remaining noodles without saying a word, and brought the full bowl to the child.

"This is today's new product, called Yangchun noodles. You can eat it here."

She placed the bowl on the edge of the safe zone and drew a vague line with her finger: "I'm right here and won't go through. You don't have to be afraid."

Perhaps because he felt her kindness several times, the child shrank a little, but in the end he did not run away.

She stepped back a few steps to give the other person space. Her desire for food finally defeated her fear. The child slowly leaned out half of his body from behind the tree, staring at her warily while quickly picking up the bowl.

Then I saw him throwing away the chopsticks, reaching out to grab a handful of noodles and stuffing them into his mouth.

"Hey -" She was both amused and speechless, and it was too late to stop her.

The child stuffed the noodles into her mouth several times very quickly, her cheeks bulging, and she was about to take another bite when she suddenly looked behind her warily.