This Text Adventure Game is Totally Poisonous

At ten o'clock in the evening, Mu You and Lin Xue flew back to City K in time for the end of the day.

After leaving the airport, the two took a taxi home. When they arrived at the place where Lin Xue and Xiaoya rented a house, Lin Xue got off the car and went back to the community, while Mu You urged the master to continue driving to the pet shop.

It was already 10:30 in the evening, and Mu You thought that the store should have closed long ago.

It turned out that the lights in the pet shop were still on when they got closer.

Xiaoya stood at the door with an apron on her body and a broom in her hand. While cleaning up, she looked out from time to time.

This image made Mu You startled, almost made him think that he had traveled back to two years ago...

"boss!"

Xiaoya immediately noticed Mu You walking out of the darkness, and trotted out with apprehension and anticipation on her face: "How's the approval going?"

"Need to say? Of course it was done smoothly."

Mu You smiled, and took out two documents from the bag.

"It's really done?" Xiaoya hurriedly took the document and looked at it.

There were already several official seals on the previously obtained magical creature breeding and sales certificate, in addition to a list of creatures that could be sold, and various other documents that she could not understand.

"That's right, the animals and venues have been approved, and we can open anytime." Mu You said.

"Great!"

After reading it, Xiaoya showed a relieved smile: "Boss, when shall we open the shop?"

When will the store open...

Mu You pondered for a while. In fact, he had already considered this issue almost on the plane when he came here.

"Saturday."

Mu You made a final decision and said: "This Saturday, we will officially open for business."

"Saturday...so fast..."

Xiaoya murmured. She had been looking forward to the opening before, but now that she heard that it was going to open, she suddenly became a little nervous again.

The pet store has gone from bad to worse in the past two years. It was even on the verge of bankruptcy a while ago and had to be forced to transform.

After the transformation, it prospered for a while, but soon sank again due to the impact of the launch of the Fool's Game, and this time it sank even more thoroughly.

The store had no business for a whole month. In the four years since she joined the pet store, she has never experienced such a long period of closure.

When there was no customer for a week before, Xiaoya was inexplicably flustered, very afraid that one day Muyou would suddenly tell her: The world is changing too fast, the store will not continue to open, and then give her a severance pay to let her go home……

If this scene really happened, Xiaoya really didn't know what to do.

She has been in this store for four years, and she is used to everything here, and she is used to the life of taking care of the animals every day and sending them to the right owners one by one.

She has no other skills, she has not graduated from high school, she can only deal with animals, and ending all of this suddenly will definitely make her extremely confused.

Fortunately, Mu You has never shown any intention of giving up, and has been silently collecting magical animals, preparing for another transformation.

But this time, Xiaoya also saw the effect. The video posted a few days ago, with its horrific views and popularity, and countless people's comments urging the opening, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like a fake.

In the future, pet shops should prosper again, right?

"If only uncles and aunts were still here..."

Xiaoya couldn't help sighing with emotion in a low voice. But just after he finished speaking, he felt a little regretful, and hurriedly raised his head to look carefully at Mu You, only to find that Mu You was fiddling with his mobile phone, and he didn't seem to hear her words, so he was relieved.

"It's getting late, go to bed early today, and start tomorrow, but there are some things to be busy." Mu You patted her on the shoulder and walked into the pet shop.

"Um."

Xiaoya also went back to the store to put down her things, greeted Mu You, and took her bag home.

Lying on the bed at night, Xiaoya was still imagining what the new store would look like in the future, and watched videos of chocobo races many times due to insomnia.

Looking at the messages expressing support and expectations in the video, I gradually gained confidence in my heart.

The next morning, Xiaoya got up early with dark circles under her eyes. After tidying up, she left the house before six o'clock and rode to the cemetery in the northern suburbs.

There is the burial place of Muyou's parents.

Four years ago, as a girl who dropped out of school at the age of 17 and came to work in the city, Xiaoya knew nothing and bumped into walls everywhere. Fortunately, when he was about to have nowhere to go, he ran into Mu You's parents.

Uncles and aunts took her in, gave her a job, and let her live in the store temporarily, and this was the most difficult time. After that, she stayed in the pet shop like this.

So for her, the pet store is not only a place to work and make money, but also a place like home, and her uncle and aunt were the only people in the city who treated her well at that time.

After the two elders passed away, she and Mu You would often take turns visiting the cemetery, so their tombs were always cleaner than those around them.

Before arriving at the cemetery, Xiaoya went to the flower shop next to her to buy a bunch of flowers, the most common yellow and white chrysanthemums, and brought them into the cemetery.

But what she didn't expect was that when she walked along the stone road to her destination, she found that someone was already there in front of that cemetery.

"Boss?" Xiaoya called out in surprise.

The person sitting in front of the cemetery over there is Mu You.

Today is not Ching Ming Festival, nor is it the anniversary of the death of Mu You's parents, it's just an ordinary day, unexpectedly the two of them came to visit the grave at the same time.

"coming."

Mu You was not surprised by Xiaoya's arrival, he waved hello and signaled her to come over.

"Boss, you too..."

Xiaoya walked closer, only to find that the area around the cemetery had been cleaned up, except for a bottle of white wine that was almost empty at Muyou's feet.

But she knew that Mu You didn't drink alcohol, and this wine must have been prepared for his uncle who loved baijiu the most during his lifetime.

Obviously, Mu You has been here for a long time, and she has said everything she should do and want to say.

"Yeah, you have to tell them about such a big thing." Mu You picked up the wine bottle and poured the remaining wine in front of the tombstone.

Xiaoya also walked over and placed the bouquet in front of the tombstone.

After staring at the words on the tombstone for a while, she suddenly looked at Mu You and said with a smile, "Boss, at that time, fortunately, you didn't give up."

Mu You naturally knew what Xiaoya meant by 'at that time'.

Two years ago, when he learned of his parents' death, Mu You was still in other provinces and had a decent job.

It was of course a huge blow to him to hear the bad news suddenly.

In a daze, he rushed home from thousands of miles to attend the funeral, deal with the handover of various affairs and personnel arrangements after his parents passed away...

At that time, there were two choices before him: inherit the pet shop left by his parents; or give up the pet shop, rent and sell the shop, and then continue his work and life as usual.

Rationally speaking, he should of course give up the pet store. In this way, while continuing his high-paying job, he can also regularly have a good rental income as a backup, which allows him to live a very nourishing life in the first-tier cities.

But emotionally, he doesn't want the pet shop to close, because this is a shop that his parents have devoted many years of hard work to run. It is the most important thing for his parents besides him, and it is also the only thing his parents left for him.

If the pet store is abandoned, what is lost is not only a property, but also a sustenance.

And it's impossible to do both. If he wants to inherit the pet store, it means that he has to give up his job and everything he worked so hard in another city at that time, and he has no financial security since then.

Besides, at that time, when he returned to the pet shop after finishing everything, it was already three days later.

Including the time when the store was closed after the parent's accident, it has been a whole week, and the store has been left unattended.

In a week, more than half of the animals should die, right? Even if you want to continue to operate, it is basically impossible...

However, when Mu You dragged his exhausted body back to the pet shop that night, what he saw was not as deserted as he imagined.

The lights were on in the pet shop, and there was a man in the shop.

All the animals are well looked after and the shop is kept clean.

At that time, Xiaoya, who was still childish, just like last night, wearing an apron, holding a broom, standing at the door, forced a smile at him, and called Brother Mu, welcome him home .

But Mu You noticed that the girl was only strong and calm, she was holding the hand of the broom, even trembling slightly because of fear.

Xiaoya looked at him with such an expectant but extremely anxious expression, as if waiting for a verdict, waiting for his verdict on the pet shop.

It was at that time that Mu You suddenly lost his confusion.

It turned out that the store left by his parents was not only his own sustenance, but also other people's sustenance.

So the first thing he said after entering the store was: "Don't worry, I won't let the pet store close."

Mu You had already forgotten the expression on Xiaoya's face at that time, but in short, it was the two of them, with both hands, who laboriously and clumsily supported the store.

Although with the development of the epidemic, the situation of the store took a turn for the worse, suffered economic pressure, and gradually gave up some things due to the eyes of others, but the two never gave up. They persisted until recently, and finally gradually ushered in a turning point...

"If I gave up at that time, I would probably lose a lot of things." Mu You sighed secretly.

Without the pet shop, he would not meet Lu Yao, and without the USB flash drive, he would not enter the game in advance.

Like an ordinary person, he will not be able to qualify for the game until the public beta, becoming a member of the crowd, and disappearing from the crowd.

Where might it be like now, and even have the ability to change the direction of the future world...

"Boss, don't worry! Our store will definitely be booming!" Xiaoya encouraged him with a smile.

"of course."

Mu You also smiled, and then looked at the tombstone, as if saying to his parents, but also to himself: "The pet store will continue to operate. It may not become the largest and most famous store, but it will definitely be. live on for a long time..."

After that, neither of them spoke, and stood in front of the tomb, each silent for a while.

"Let's go."

After a while, Mu You got up suddenly, packed the wine bottles, and prepared to go home.

"Ah... just left? No more cleaning?" Xiaoya was at a loss, she seemed to have done nothing but put a bouquet of flowers when she came here.

"I'm done with all the work, what are you still doing to sweep? If you have the strength to go back to the store, you have a lot of things to do today. Let's go." Mu Youdang walked out on the stone road first.

"Oh." Xiaoya hurriedly followed.

It wasn't until she was about to leave the cemetery that she turned her head, looked in the direction of the tombstone, raised her fist, and made a cheering gesture.