I opened a shopping mall in Xihuan

Tomorrow, the fence between Schlevog Street and this side will start to be opened and built. Considering that the flow of people coming and going here will inevitably increase in the future, Youxia wants to open the mall first before the fence is opened. come out.

"Do you want to take it out now?" Rice asked him.

"It's all coming."

Saying this all-purpose phrase, Youxia skillfully opened the game menu, and without even using the silver moon staff to cover it up, he directly clicked on the icon of the big shopping mall at the end, and dragged out the phantom of this building.

Seeing this phantom, You Xia suddenly realized that something was wrong. No matter how you go left or right, you can't see the end of this shopping mall. How big it must be!

He frowned, moved the phantom of the shopping mall, and before clicking to place it, he vaccinated Rice: "Be prepared, don't be too surprised later."

Les nodded calmly.

He has been with Youxia for a long time, and he is already used to the other party showing some amazing things from time to time. Before Youxia would use a magic excuse to fool him, but now he doesn't even bother to fool him, just tell him directly, Magical abilities and items are gifts from the gods of the earth.

Regarding the gods, Rice, like most races, knows very little about them. Although he felt that this matter might not be as simple as what Youxia said, he couldn't find a more reasonable explanation, so he could only accept this statement— —His mate seems to be a favorite favored by the god of the earth.

He had just come to this conclusion when an extremely magnificent and majestic building suddenly appeared in front of him, interrupting his thoughts immediately.

Because he was very close to the building, Les felt that his entire field of vision was occupied by the tall and heavy lime wall columns and the off-white wall in front of him. He tried to look up, but found that he could not even see the house roof.

He opened his eyes wide, and was about to step back to see the whole picture of the building, when the building in front of him suddenly disappeared again.

Les turned his head to look at Youxia, who just happened to look over with embarrassment and asked, "What did you see just now?"

"Tall buildings." Rice replied without thinking.

"Indeed, a tall building." You Xia, who took the shopping mall back into the system because of cowardice, murmured, "It's really too high, it scared me."

Rice asked puzzledly, "Wouldn't it be better to attract customers if it's taller?"

You Xia was in a complicated mood. He really thought that the most attractive appearance of the shopping mall would help him attract more customers when it opened, but he didn't expect that the system building without the fixed structure control of the house would be exaggerated like this.

Well, it’s actually not an exaggeration. It’s only a dozen-story building, which is normal in modern times... But this is a different world. As the most prosperous city in the Western Continent, the tallest building in Ross City is only seven floors. As soon as it was released, the residents of the whole city would see it every morning when they woke up. He wanted to be high-profile, but he didn't want to make it public!

He took a quick look just now, and the appearance of the large shopping mall arranged for him by the system this time is more European-style and retro. Compared with the novelty glass hotel, the appearance of this shopping mall is actually quite similar to the local architectural style.

Of course, the premise is that the floor is not that high.

"Why don't we drive the mall into the abyss!" You Xia said with a bit of helplessness and amused, facing Rice.

Les raised the corner of his mouth slightly, but before he could respond, Youxia turned around and said, "Forget it, money can't be spent in vain, and land can't be bought in vain. Sooner or later, you have to take it out."

After the words fell, the huge building reappeared in place.

This time, Youxia didn't take the building back quickly, and Rice finally got to enjoy the tall building.

Viewed from the front, the shopping mall is in a "convex" shape, with a height of about four or five floors on the left and right sides, but the building in the middle has fifteen or six floors, and the height of each floor is higher than normal buildings. High, especially the bottom two floors, the walls are almost entirely supported by towering wall columns, with long, pointed and narrow glass windows sandwiched in the middle, which elongates the visual effect of height and is very magnificent. .

You Xia was also studying the new building in front of him, but he didn't pay much attention to the details of the exterior, and was more concerned with guessing the structure and distribution of stores inside the mall through the distribution of doors and windows outside.

When the research was almost done, he grabbed Rice's wrist and said, "Let's go, I'll take you in for a visit before anyone comes to watch."

Rice nodded and replied, "Okay."

Then, the two entered the mall through the arched door on the left side of the first floor of the building.

Although viewed from the outside, there are many large glass windows with excellent light transmission on the outer layer of the building, but because of the barriers of the shops on both sides, the light in the inner passage of the mall is still very dim.

It wasn't until You Xia turned on the main switch of the mall's lights that the aisle was brightened up.

The internal environment is very good, the space is spacious and open, the ceiling is high above the head, and a suspended ceiling is designed. The warm white bright lights illuminate the off-white walls and marble floors, making it very clean and refreshing.

"This place is full of empty stores." Les looked around and said.

The unopened shopping mall was as quiet as a church in the middle of the night, only the voices of two people talking and footsteps lingering in my ears.

"It's empty now, and the mall will become lively when the merchants settle in later," You Xia continued, "Let's go, let's go and see the storefront."

"Ah."

With that said, the two of them walked through the most spacious aisle and walked around the entire shopping mall to look at the store.

They weren't just wandering around aimlessly, while You Xia was shopping in the mall, he was also analyzing the customer flow of each store inside.

For example, some corner shops are narrow and not well located, so the rent is definitely cheaper, while some shops are leaning against the outer wall, not only are the shops large, but can be accessed from the inside and outside of the shopping mall, the rent of such shops must be high .

While analyzing, he chose a suitable storefront for his store, and unknowingly came to the elevator at the entrance of the center.

There is an escalator in the mall, but it hasn't been opened yet, so the two chose to take the elevator upstairs.

When pressing the elevator floor, You Xia deliberately observed the numbers on the buttons, and found that the elevator can only go up to the fourth floor at most, so he guessed that the elevator in the hotel and the elevator in the shopping mall are not the same.

On the second floor, there are still similar empty stores surrounding the spacious aisle, but compared with the first floor, the shop area on the second floor is larger overall, and the storefront on the third floor is similar to the second floor.

After shopping around, You Xia had a rough plan in mind.

There are a lot of small shops on the first floor, which are more suitable for renting out to the catering industry and selling some special snacks. Relatively speaking, the hygiene of the back kitchen on the first floor is also relatively easy to manage, while the shops on the second and third floors are larger. It is more suitable for renting to other stores such as clothing and jewelry, which usually require a larger space.

From the outside of the mall, the mall should have a fourth floor. However, when the elevator reaches the fourth floor and comes out of the elevator, there is only an empty lobby in sight.

You Xia immediately understood that from this floor upwards is the scope of the hotel.

At present, none of the nine additional shops provided by the system have settled in yet, so the rooms on the upper floors are all like model rooms, and there is nothing to watch. Youxia took Laisi to the fifth floor by the hotel elevator, and only looked at a few of them at random. room, he backed out without interest.

On the contrary, there are two special passages at the end of the aisle on the fifth floor, which are quite interesting. Open the glass doors of the passages to reach the roof platforms on both sides of the "convex"-shaped shopping mall.

At present, there is no layout on the platforms on both sides, but Youxia guessed from the floor-to-ceiling glass door passages specially opened that after the hotel settles in, these two places will inevitably become places like garden restaurants.

"Looks like someone is coming."

When the two walked to the railing of the terrace, Les suddenly spoke.

"Really?" You Xia stood at the railing and looked down, and sure enough, he saw a group of people running from the poor huts in the distance.

"It really is."

Rice's eyesight is better than his, and he quickly reported the specific situation: "Not all the residents of Maria District are inside, and the sheriff outside should come here specially to check this high-rise building."

Hearing this, Youxia's guilty conscience as if he had done something bad came out again, he looked at Rice and asked, "Then shall we go now?"

"It will be very troublesome to meet the sheriff for questioning," Rice thought for a while, "Close the lights and doors below, and I will take you away immediately."

"If you leave now, will they come to your door?"

"If you can't find out the situation, you won't."

You Xia immediately agreed: "Then let's go right away."

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As a result, on the same day, after Youxia put a high-rise building in the slum area that shocked the whole city, he really moved back home with Rice, and there was indeed no magistrate who came to the door for the whole day, but on the third morning, their The residence received a personal visit from the city lord.

When seeing Herro's kind face with a little fat, You Xia was very guilty, thinking that the other party came for the shopping mall building, but after sitting down, the other party said something else.

"Four businessmen came to me yesterday to inquire about the price of land in the slums," Herro Hodge said with a smile, "The closer the land is to your territory, the more sought-after it is."

You Xia froze for a moment, and asked, "You mean, someone wants to buy the land near my mall?"

"Yes."

"What are they buying it for?"

"Maybe it was used to build some houses or shops." Herro replied.

You Xia was speechless for a while.

He also thought before that if his mall develops well, it may drive the economic development of the surrounding area, but he didn't expect the development to come so fast. He just put a building on the land, and he didn't even say it. What is the building used for? Aren't these people afraid of losing money with themselves?

This shouldn't be, when it comes to money, businessmen have always been a very cautious group, and it stands to reason that they would not make blind bets so early. He raised his eyes to Hero's smiling face, wondering how much the city lord had revealed. Information about your own shopping malls to the outside world.

"The land has not been sold yet, but some impatient businessmen are already secretly competing. I came here today to tell you the news, and to ask you to build your shopping mall well. What difficulties are there in the process? You can discuss with me about your needs, and I will try my best to help you." Speaking of this, the city lord's tone became a little more serious, "Whether Maria District can get a new life depends on you."

You Xia pulled the corner of her mouth: "You are joking, I don't think I have such great ability."

The city lord closed his eyes and shook his head, and then slowly said: "Nowadays, you are the hottest businessman in the entire Western Continent. I don't know how many visitors from other places come here every day just to see you."

"Really?" Youxia looked suspiciously at Rice who was seated beside him.

He did feel that the business was getting better and better recently, but he really didn't have the impression that many people came to see him.

Rice said in a flat tone: "When you are not at home during the day, people often come to visit. They are just tourists from other places, not important people, so I didn't mention it to you."

You Xia really didn't know about this, if City Lord Hero hadn't mentioned it, he wouldn't even know he was so famous.

Afterwards, Herro chatted with him in all kinds of compliments and exhortations, and when it was almost lunch time, the busy man got up to leave.

You Xia got up to send him out, but before he walked out of the living room, the other party suddenly stopped and looked at Rice, pondered for a moment and said, "I heard that you have become the Lord of the Abyss."

Les looked at him calmly and nodded.

"Then why are you still here?"

Les looked in Yuxia's direction, and replied softly, "My home is here."

The home he was referring to was naturally not the City Lord's Mansion, but the house he was currently in.

Herro was choked and speechless for a moment.

"Okay." After a moment of silence, Herro said expressionlessly, "You can stay in the city, but try to avoid appearing in public places as much as possible, so as not to be caught by others."

Les turned his gaze away, silently acquiescing to his words.

The city lord took one last look at him, then turned around and left without looking back.