Chapter 43: Useful Spreadsheet

"Tsk tsk, it's miserable! So miserable! There's no way to enhance the ashes, and without enhancement, they can't beat the boss. But without beating the boss, they can't get enhancement materials. Miserable! So miserable," Kirasa said, looking at Liu Yuan with a face full of sympathy, unable to help but comment, "Boss, aren't you going to help them?"

"How can I help? They play at the highest difficulty level to dance around death. I can't help them. Let them play slowly; they'll clear it eventually. By the way, aren't you free now?"

"!!!"

Kirasa sensed a hint of conspiracy and quickly shook her head, then pulled out a pink knife from thin air, "There are quite a lot of mosquitoes today. I'm going to kill mosquitoes."

"Heh, that excuse might work on others, but not on me. Since you're free, come and help!"

As a qualified internet cafe, just having games wasn't enough. Although they added the TT chat software besides games, for those who didn't like gaming, surfing the internet was torturous.

So! How could they get non-gamers involved?

Liu Yuan set his sights on the legendary Office Word and Adobe. He had made some money recently, so it was feasible to expand the range of practical tools a bit.

Tools like software weren't purchased as a set after the first purchase; instead, buying one increased the price for the next.

Fortunately, the initial prices weren't high, starting at ten thousand yuan, capped at 102.4 billion. Besides, Liu Yuan discovered an interesting aspect: if personal experiences were uploaded for refinement and turned into anime, TV dramas, or movies for sale, a considerable amount of money could be saved.

The original price of 100,000 yuan could directly become zero, but the downside was a 55% split with the system. After the split, another fifty-fifty split with the original author was required. In other words, the boss could only get 2.5%.

However, after some calculations, even if he took it all, it wouldn't make much sense. As a boss, besides food and drink, he didn't spend money elsewhere; all his savings were invested in the scamming system.

Making movies and anime could wait. For now, Liu Yuan directly purchased the right to use spreadsheet tool.

Liu Yuan thought for a moment and priced it at 5,000. Just by seeing this already tells a sentence: buy one, scam one, scam two to break even, scam three to make a profit.

He knew very well the backgrounds of the people sitting here.

Not to mention the Fujimaru family, who recently went on a robbery spree; each of them had at least 30,000+ on hand. It wasn't easy to say about Namikaze Minato, but judging from his wife's manner, it might be difficult to get the money out of him, but still possible.

As for Subaru... let's skip that.

So obviously, this software was targeted for purchase. Breaking even with the first sale meant that any subsequent sales to newcomers would be pure profit. The target customers were also clear: those in worlds without computers who needed quality spreadsheet functions.

However, before using it, Liu Yuan needed a little help from Kirasa, like promotion.

"Boss, I can't do it!"

"Believe in yourself; you can do it!"

After telling her about the spreadsheet's functions and price, Liu Yuan patted her shoulder and said, "I promise you, if you sell one today, I'll treat you to a snack tonight. If you can sell two, I'll add an extra meat dish to your three meals for the month."

"Wow!" Kirasa gasped, she was initially intending to refuse, but Liu Yuan's offer was too tempting.

The food provided by the system was indescribably delicious, and the employee meals were standard: two meats and one vegetable. But if she could add one more meat dish, why not?

But she knew Liu Yuan too well. If he set a goal for her to achieve, it would definitely be easy. However, stopping at this level wasn't enough; she had to set her own conditions.

"Boss! If I can bring in three customers, I want a bottle of coke added to my daily meals."

Liu Yuan calculated the cost, then patted his chest and said, "If you can get four people to buy, I'll give you a big prize."

Four people? That was impossible. Nyaruko wouldn't spend a high price on these useless things. Including Kaede and Subaru, there were only seven regular customers with nine computers.

Unless a newcomer came who urgently needed spreadsheet work and lived in a world without computers, would they use a spreadsheet? Impossible.

Kirasa's eyes lit up, "It's a deal! You better have the big prize ready!"

Kirasa first approached Kushina, who sensed her presence and took off her glasses.

"What's up?"

"Big sis Kushina~ We have a very useful software here. Do you want to check it out? It's a bit expensive, though."

"How much?"

"Equivalent to a hundred thousand in your world?"

Kushina gasped at the price. A hundred thousand seemed a bit cheap.

"Is it useful?"

"I vouch for it with my reputation. Its function is..."

Kirasa introduced the spreadsheet's functions: recording, organizing, processing, calculating, summarizing, and analyzing data. Although Kushina had never seen or used it, upon hearing its functions, she immediately concluded that it was useful.

"Give me one to try. If it's good, I'll have him buy one too. Kirasa, tell me quietly, did the boss set you some targets?"

Kirasa looked up and found that Liu Yuan wasn't looking in their direction. She whispered, "Yes~ I made a bet with the boss. If I win, I'll get better food and drink in the future. If I lose, there's no punishment~"

"Then my husband and I will each take one."

Originally, she wanted to buy one for the two Senju elders, but considering that they could only follow Minato into the game world to fight, she dropped the idea.

Liu Yuan wasn't actually daydreaming. He was just checking out what useful items he could freeload or quickly earn money with in the system store. But before he could find anything useful, Kirasa walked over and knocked on the table.

"Boss, I've sold two already!"

"?"

Liu Yuan glanced at the sales figures and thought, Wow, the couple bought two. He hadn't done anything yet, and the task was already half completed.

"All right, I'll add an extra meat dish to your three meals."

"Yeah~"

Just as Kirasa was feeling proud of herself, the door of the shop was pushed open. Walking in was a beautiful girl with blue hair.

"Hello, may I ask where this is?"

The girl's voice sounded like she hadn't rested in a long time, a bit weak. But at the same time, weak as it sounded, it also seemed to have a bit of vitality.

Kirasa directly introduced, "This is the Four-Dimensional Space Internet Cafe, where you can experience the charm of real games."

"Games?"

Ganyu sighed.

She felt like she had been working too hard lately. She actually dreamed of a place where she could play games. But she couldn't rest yet. She happened to be busy recently with significant trade contracts between Liyue and Sheznaya, involving a massive amount of transaction data.

Even the simplest addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division required countless calculations and verifications, just to ensure that this contract wouldn't have any problems.

Even if she was really dreaming, she couldn't rest. Even in her dreams, she could check if the calculations she made before were correct.