891: In the real world, open a bookstore

Original World.

For this trip, Ye Tian did not adjust the flow of time.

Therefore, when he returned, less than a week had passed.

Also, because this trip didn't involve contact with the original protagonist and he didn't exert any influence on the entire World, coupled with the short duration, Ye Tian was like an inconspicuous passerby, and this trip did not yield any world coins.

During the week in the Tales of the Weird world, what Ye Tian did more of was helping the previous Host lay a foundation.

When he left, he used 100 points to create a function for him that could fuse strange items.

With this function, he could also go further.

Of course, this function also had a certain probability of Fusion failure during the Fusion process.

And the flow of some strange items after Fusion failure automatically fell to Ye Tian's side.

It wasn't that Ye Tian was greedy for these small things; in the Fusion mechanism, unsuccessful Fusions were often with more powerful strange items.

The previous Host couldn't control these strange items, so collecting them was just nipping the danger in the bud.

Although the initial strength threshold of the Tales of the Weird world was very low, the spatial span and growth limit in the future were not small. If the Host kept growing, they could even see the Western Hell, and even the Hell!

Of course, that would be a matter for much later.

The original protagonist in the Weird Tales series ultimately only stopped in the bloody Hell below the Western Hell.

From Ye Tian's observation, he could also see that the Western Hell and Hell behind the Tales of the Weird world, which were in the main Universe and each occupied half, were essentially like some Saints in the Great Thousand World back then.

They were avatars or branches of the true place of rebirth!

Various books contained many descriptions and derivative stories about these kinds of widely recognized existences.

For example, Pangu, Zeus, Nuwa, Eve...

Celestial Court, Heaven, Hell, Hell...

In many books, Hongjun was not as good as the newly emerging protagonist, and Pangu could only serve as a supporting character for the protagonist.

Ye Tian could roughly judge that these were merely avatars of a World!

Only by finding the source of all legends and entering the original works where myths were born could one see the True God!

Ye Tian currently had no plans to enter the source.

He worried that as soon as he entered, his bottom would be seen through.

The many points he had accumulated with great difficulty couldn't be wasted on concealing the heavenly secrets.

Not bringing out world coins this trip could also be considered setting a precedent.

It could only be said that the Host's path was not over yet.

Perhaps when he grew to a certain limit and had a significant impact on the plot of the Tales of the Weird world, Ye Tian could let Xiao Zao harvest world coins.

He glanced at the current major trending news in the Original World.

The impact brought by world coins was still exerting force.

From the news events, it could be seen that only the world coins obtained from the previous Jidao World had brought some sudden changes to people's lives.

The appearance of karmic retribution made the talk of Ghosts and Gods vaguely appear to be developing.

However, the first world coin primarily guided the adjustment between superstition and various faith discussions.

Therefore, this trend was only limited to an appropriate degree.

'Humans are doing, heaven is watching' - this was self-consolation for victims, but now its weight was considerable.

Compared to the years of entertainment-to-death and the demonized fake news, current news was presented more truthfully and responsibly, making people more willing to read it.

This was also the reason why Ye Tian often learned about the current situation in the Original World through the news.

It was raining lightly in Yang City today.

The pattering rain made the entire City quiet down.

The previous world coin adjusted the pressure of the entire World.

The City in the rain at this moment looked genuinely relaxed.

Glancing at the progress bar which was still at 15%, Ye Tian yawned, preparing to continue getting a batch of books from the bookstore.

With so many people in the World, the average speed of various book publications reached four to five thousand books per day!

Naturally, he couldn't just rely on his old stock.

Arriving at the largest bookstore in the City center, after making his selections, Ye Tian was just thinking about taking the batch of books away.

After a pause, he directly contacted the store manager and took over the entire bookstore!

"Little brother, actually this bookstore isn't worth that much money. My initial asking price was leaving room for you to bargain. You... why did you pay the full amount directly?"

The store Boss was a Middle-aged man wearing a twenty-yuan vest, ten-yuan flip-flops, and a Rolex worth hundreds of thousands.

In this era, fewer people came to physical bookstores to read and buy books than went to internet cafes to go online.

Although it was like this in any era...

This also showed that bookstores, like internet cafes, had become sunset industries.

The Boss originally wanted to haggle with Ye Tian to negotiate a suitable price.

"No need, just keep the money I gave you." How could Ye Tian not know the Boss's intentions?

It's just that money wasn't like points; with his max-level hacking skills, he could easily collect tens of billions of funds from Japan.

In Ye Tian's eyes, money truly only represented a string of numbers.

"No!" The Boss, however, was unhappy: "My store clearly isn't worth that much money, why are you giving me so much?!"

"The books in my store and this commercial building, the original cost was only eighty percent of the price you gave me!"

"Considering my store has been open for seven or eight years, many facilities are old, plus there isn't much customer traffic, you risk losing money by taking over, so reduce it by another thirty percent!"

"I'll just take half the price." Saying this, the Boss started operating his telephone to transfer money.

When half of the money returned to Ye Tian's account, the Middle-aged man finally breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Little brother, letting people earn ill-gotten money these days is harming others."

"I still want to live for a few more decades, so don't let earning this ill-gotten money make me encounter something unclean."

Seeing the other party's actions, Ye Tian smiled slightly.

This situation, as expected, should be a microcosm of countless places in the entire World.

After signing the contract for the purchase of the bookstore, Ye Tian also became the Boss of this bookstore.

After simply looking around the bookstore.

He found that there were actually many things in the bookstore that had little relevance to books.

For example, toys in Children's books, and some merchandise like figurines related to popular books.

This was also how physical bookstores currently survived.

Just selling books, the Boss would probably have to eat the West wind.

Unless they 'cooperated' with Schools.

However, with the supervision of the Jidao world coin now, the sword of karmic retribution hung over countless people's heads like a God, and things that went against conscience would also withdraw from the stage of history.

It took him over ten minutes.

Ye Tian cleaned out all these things unrelated to books.

In the bookstore, only books drifting with the scent of ink remained.

The quiet bookstore enveloped by the sound of rain looked much better at a glance.

"Boss, how much is this book?" While Ye Tian was tidying up the bookstore, many customers also came into the store one after another.

Most of them found a corner to sit down and read.

They were likely regulars of this store.

After hearing these words, Ye Tian didn't move.

Because this customer wasn't asking him.

Instead, they were asking the former bookstore Boss who was hiding to the side, flipping through Water Margin, after completing the handover procedures with him.

"Oh, I'm not the Boss anymore." The Middle-aged man waved his hand with a chuckle, then pointed towards Ye Tian's direction to the customer asking about the book price: "The new Boss is over there. If you're buying books, just go find him."

"Changed Boss?" The sixteen or seventeen-year-old boy with a pale, sickly face looked over, surprised.

Ever since he could remember, the Boss had always been this Middle-aged man.

It was really sudden that it changed now.

"Whatever the retail price is written on the back, pay that much. Every book is sold this way." Ye Tian took the initiative to speak, answering the boy.

His answer made the boy's expression stiffen: "Is it that expensive?"

"Boss, aren't you being unkind?" Behind him, a Middle-aged man who had brought his Child to the bookstore heard the situation here and couldn't help but stand up and say: "Everyone knows the difference between the wholesale price and the retail price of these books."

"Even if you cut it by 30%, you'd still make a profit. Selling it at the retail price to a sick Child, isn't this the behavior of a dishonest merchant?"

Perhaps because everyone silently acknowledged karmic retribution in their hearts, people were less indifferent to such unreasonable situations and more willing to stand up and speak out.

"That's right, brother, we absolutely cannot be dishonest merchants!" The former store owner also came to Ye Tian's side, lowering his voice to convey: "What if that unclean thing finds you? That wouldn't be worth it at all!"

"The price on the back of the book is set by the manufacturer. I'm just selling it at the price they set. If the dirty thing is going to find someone, it will be the second one to find me. It's fine." Ye Tian said to the former store owner with a subtle mood, then looked at the boy between the two bookshelves: "You like this book?"

In the boy's hand was a web novel.

This kind of book wasn't actually well-regarded in the real World.

Elders' views on it were comparable to their negative views on games.

The boy in front of him wasn't the mischievous type; he was more like an obedient Child.

If it were before.

This Child would not have had the idea of buying this kind of web novel.

But, under the effect of the world coin that shrunk Humans a hundred times, the removal of pressure increased the interaction between people.

Understanding also increased.

Precisely because of the effect of that world coin, elders and parents no longer resented electronic entertainment like games and novels as much as before.

Perhaps there were still elders who couldn't understand, but they definitely wouldn't curse and list all the disadvantages as they originally would.

It was also precisely because the pressure in the family was not placed on the Child that the Child in front of him dared to pursue what he liked.

The question Ye Tian asked, as expected, was met with the boy's affirmative nod: "I like it!"

The people around also smiled knowingly upon hearing this answer.

It seemed this Boss was quite decent. Asking the Child like this definitely meant he planned to let the Child take the book at a low price, or give it to the Child for free.

Only.

What the people around didn't expect, and what left them dumbfounded, was that this new Boss held out Two fingers: "Since you like it so much, then give me Two times the price and buy this book, 'Martial Soul Continent'."