Chapter 211 Rat Monster
Opening an exclusive cinema will also lose money, which is also news. In the world of technology, no matter whether the movies make money or not, cinemas will definitely make money, but it is just a matter of how much you make money.
But in this Miracle City, one problem is that the tax revenue is too high. Half of the box office of dozens of gold coins earned per day is paid for taxes. The rent here can only be considered relatively cheap, and the annual rent of a cinema after the renovation of a large warehouse is also 200 gold coins.
Moreover, Link is good at his employees. There are four employees in the cinema, two of whom are responsible for selling tickets (actually, there are no tickets, so they are charged and put in, and they are cleaned every day), and the other two are responsible for screening movies.
By this calculation, although the entire cinema's annual net income paid rent, salary and food expenses of the four employees, the cinema not only paid this amount of expenses, but also spent a lot of money on decoration, buying chairs and renovating, and the projection equipment.
When the cinema business is good, it only earns a few gold coins a day. Although people watch movies every day, it only takes hundreds to hundreds of people a day.
It can be said that in City of Miracle, although movies are a new industry, they are still half dead.
Although this Miracle City is a cultural desert and has few entertainment activities, everyone comes here with the dream of a strong man, or at least the businessmen who come here with the dream of making money.
In other words, the people here don’t need cultural and entertainment activities in particular, because everyone is a guy with dreams. People with dreams are a relatively simple guy.
As for Link, when he came back this time, he returned to his hometown first and then took his sister Lin Qi to the City of Miracle, which doubled the teleportation fee.
This time, Lin Qi came here to increase her sister Lin Qi's practical experience.
Now Link's sister Lin Qi is a level 14 mage who surpasses Link. It seems that her sister's magical talent is indeed better than this second brother.
In recent years, Lin Qi has been studying in the mage tower of Teacher Helena or her disciples. Of course, the cost was paid by Brother Link. Before joining the mage, Lin Qi found a place to participate in the battle according to the requirements of the mentors.
Even if you are just a mage who is purely engaged in research, you cannot be in a hurry when you encounter a battle temporarily. The rhythm and style of battle are all crucial things for a mage. What kind of combat style you form requires you to find it in the battle and dig out from your body during the battle.
Generally, at this time, you will become a senior mage of a magician and spend several years or even longer participating in the mercenary group to fight with the monsters to form your own fighting style.
However, Lin Qi has naturally become much easier with Brother Link. She can practice in the small world under the care of her brother. Although Link has been staying in various small worlds for many years to develop these small worlds, Lin Qi's time flow rate for the main world is not long. Now Lin Qi's magic level has just reached level 15, which is the same as the second brother, but the level of the mage is far superior to that of the second brother.
However, in order to quickly increase the magic level, Lin Qi is not a magical and martial arts practitioner, but a pure mage. Correspondingly, because of his good talent and qualifications, Lin Qi has actually awakened two blood talents at level 14, one of which is spell-free casting, and the other is the deepening of elemental damage. If you become a magician and awaken a good magic skill, even if you enter the legendary mage, it is not a dream.
After Lin Qi joined the team of the three Catwoman sisters as a senior magician, she did not take the lead. Instead, she decided to obey the orders of the current captain, Hu Niu Amilia. After all, she was only a passerby to the entire team, and she might leave in a few years. There is no need to grab the shift and seize power.
The team once again went to the Demon God Tower, this time to help the new team member Lin Qi get the first level of teleportation crystal.
With the help of the mage, the team's lethality has increased greatly. Lin Qi's fighting style is similar to the magic soldiers under His Highness Helena. She always has elemental magic such as fireballs and lightning, pursuing killing ability.
Lin Qi will have many other spells, but Lin Qi also feels that such a weak monster does not seem to need to use too many magic techniques, directly apply elemental magic, which is simple, clear and quick.
Starting from entering the first floor of the Demon God Tower, every time I encounter a tree monster, Lin Qi will sprinkle fireballs or lightning. Before rushing up, groups of tree monsters were already killed and dying. Then the three cat girls went up to finish the fight.
Now even the three cat girls understand why there must be mages in the slightly stronger team of brave men. The efficiency of this monster clearing is too high.
Kill the tree man leader again. After getting the teleportation crystal, a group of people activated the teleportation crystal when they entered the Demon God Tower the next day and entered the second floor of the Demon God Tower.
In the Demon God Tower, each layer is a different small world. The same is that each layer of monsters is relatively single. The second layer of monsters is a rat monster.
Unlike the first layer, the tree monsters are in groups of three or five, which is considered to be very small. Although the individual combat power of the second layer of rat monsters is not as good as that of ordinary tree monsters, there are enough rat monsters. As soon as the rat monsters are more than one meter long and drag their tails appear, there are twenty or thirty, and the most are even a group of more than one hundred rat monsters.
Moreover, although the combat power of the mouse monster is slightly lower, it is considered an attack ability. In fact, the mouse monster is very agile, but now there are three nemesis of the mouse monster in the team, all of which are big cats.
In addition to Link, who usually doesn't take action, the four-person team soon had a countermeasure after several battles with the mouse monster. Every time they fought, they had to cover the magician and then rely on Lin Qi's elemental magic to clear the field. If the mouse monster wants to run away, Lin Qi will throw a chain of lightning to temporarily paralyze the mouse monsters. Then the cat girls go up to harvest the mouse monsters.
After all, it is the second level of the Demon God Tower. Even if the low-level warriors form teams, they can fight. Moreover, Lin Qi is still a high-level mage here.
However, there are also sequelae of fighting like this. By noon, Lin Qi's magic was almost exhausted. At this time, the group would choose to go out and go back to the store to have a meal. There are many teams doing this. After all, few people's physical strength and magic fighting spirit can support the Demon God Tower for eight hours.
After all, the brave are not a person who clocks in and works, and there is no need to follow the nine-to-five rule. If you are tired, come out. Just continue to kill monsters tomorrow. This is the daily life of the brave. There is no need to do anything to do in one battle, because no matter how many times the first layer is cleared in the Demon God Tower, the monsters killed inside will be refreshed that night. It is said that this is the power of the sealed demon kings.
The demons are immortal, so the monsters in the Demon God Tower will never be killed. It is said that the gods used this Demon God Tower to suppress the Demon Gods just to prevent the demons from gathering their strength to break through the seal again.
Lin Qi said during tea time after lunch: "Second brother, the food here is a bit too greasy."
Link: "It seems like you didn't eat it. If you don't eat it, give me some less."
Lin Qi: "How can we do it? If we don't eat well, we will lose the magic level. What I'm talking about is the chef's level here."
"There are so many things to do when you eat and drink for free. You can try cooking next time."
Lin Qi: "I can only boil meat in white water. Because this is how my family always does it."
Link didn't want to think about boiled meat in white water anymore. In the past, there was no way at home. Even if you got the meat, there was not much seasoning to make. It was good if Link's family could eat salt when he was a child.
Thinking of the boiled meat made by my mother and younger sister, Link asked: "I haven't been back much in the past few years, how are my family?"
Lin Qi: "It's not so good. I just open the portal every year during the Chinese New Year to go back to see it. My elder sister gave birth to another child. Now there are four children in the family. My elder brother has three children.
My eldest sister has many children, and my brother-in-law’s income is not very high. I only give you a few gold coins every time I go back, but I don’t have them even if I have too many.”
"Brother is still tying the barrel?"
Lin Qi: "In addition to hooping buckets, he also helps people build furniture. Now he is a carpenter with poor skills."
"A carpenter is a carpenter, so why are there carpenters with poor skills?"
Lin Qi: "It's not so good, it's not so good. It's like wheels and axles, so my brother can't make it. He can only make some simple furniture. But there's still some foundation you left in the house, and you can still hold on."
"Okay, this kind of ordinary life is true. For example, we have been out for a long time and have seen more people. If we want to live a normal life, we can't stay."
Lin Qi didn't think so: "What is plain is true, it's all a lie. If you weren't your second brother, you went out and opened up a situation. My eldest sister's income in the city was just average, which means she could barely be able to eat and spend money. My eldest brother's family is probably still farming, and when she was farming, she was exposed to the wind and sun every day. How could the eldest brother do what she wants? He can do whatever she wants. Almost no one cares about it, but the family still can eat meat every day. The worst thing is that I probably would marry a farmer, and then give birth to a child for him to serve him. I should be a rural aunt, at least a child, and fortunately I have always rejected those blind dates.
Now I am a half-step away from being a wizard. Maybe I can build a mage tower. You are also a marquis now, with your own territory, and the small world is also very profitable. Even more profitable than the territory. If you chose the wrong route to join the army, you are just a veteran now. Maybe it will be a difficult problem to find a wife. Now I know you have two wives in my hometown.”
If Lin Qi really wants to build a mage tower, Link will still support it. Of course, the mage tower is built in the territory of Marquis Raphael. At the level of the mage, it is basically impossible to use his own funds to build a mage tower, and there is no capital. However, Link has almost this capital. A mage tower that is easy to defend and difficult to attack can increase the mage's combat power by several levels.
Although the legendary mage is strong, it cannot defeat a mage tower. The most basic facilities of a mage tower are magic shields and powerful ruby magic cannons, just like a magic fortress, combining attack and defense.
Link himself has participated in the battle in the Mage Tower, and even if the dragon tribe attacks hard, he will suffer a loss.
I have to say that what my younger sister said makes sense. It is probably because she has been out for a long time and misses the peaceful life at home. But what is the ordinary life? She still has to face the firewood, rice, oil and salt every day. If she doesn’t eat salt for a few days, she will lose the energy. If she doesn’t eat meat and oil, her stomach will feel hungry at any time.
The income from farming can't starve the whole family to death. Going out to work in a trading company can only barely support the whole family.
"My parents are fine."
Lin Qi: "It's okay, it's great. I've been enjoying my life at home for the past few years. What's wrong with it? Apart from how many years old you've gotten older, I accidentally lost a few teeth. It's all because of age, so it's inevitable. I can help my sister-in-law see the child."
Link remembered one thing and threw two bottles of the essence of life for ten years: "When you celebrate the Chinese New Year again, you go back and take your parents back to the Marquis' territory, change the place, and let them live a heavy life as a young man. If you want to choose a profession, it's enough to rely on their liking. If you want to pay, I'll open a note and you can go to the Marquis' residence to get it."
"I know. But is this really good?"
Link: "What's wrong with it? We all have a long life, so it's time to help our family. Not to mention parents, even if they are older brothers, sisters and sisters-in-law, I'm going to help them once. Of course, they have to wait for their children to grow up and become independent. Now, I still have a lot of resources in my hands, and it's not that difficult to make ordinary people stronger."
"They are lucky, and I am the one who has come to this day by step."
Link: "Come on, you live and study in the Magic Tower. I pay 100,000 gold coins a year and you have this opportunity. You think anyone can have a legendary wizard every day and the worst is the magician. Someone can't have this opportunity even if they take money. The resources you get are actually no less than anyone else."
"Yes? OK, yes. Thank you, second brother."
"Own family."
"By the way, second brother, is this reliable to directly increase its strength by relying on magic crystals?"
Link shrugged: "I don't know, but the people here have been like this for a long time. Anyway, after advancing to the Sanctuary, it will be a three hundred years of life, and it will not be fake. I have given the magic crystal to His Highness Helena, who is looking for someone to conduct human experiments for research. As for the current results, at least there is absolutely no conflict between ordinary people and middle and low-level warriors in our world."
Lin Qi: "Yes, after all, not everyone has the potential for legend. With this magic crystal, there is one more way to go."
Chapter completed!