Ch2 - The Devil with a Hot Conscience

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After fumbling for a while, Shang Yinhe roughly understood the logic of the game.

As the narration mentioned at the beginning, his current identity is a demon with a “towering castle”. Different monsters will appear in front of the bulletin board in front of the castle. If the room decoration and rent meet their requirements, they will move in and become the demon king’s men. 

Every monster has its own race, attributes, profession and gender. Take the first Poyo Chick Iida as an example. Its race is a Poyo Chicken, and its profession is a newsman. It only has 3 pitiful attack points, 2 points on magic defenses, and its physical defense is 2 points. It’s not even counted as the “scum with only 5 combat powers” , its attributes are really terrible.

To conquer the world with such a monster? 

It can only be said that if the main mission is this, then it is really difficult to clear the level. But the game does not seem to be that pitted, and soon, the demon king in the linen cloak ushered in his second subordinate.

A water elf with a flower on its head.

The race is an elf, and her occupation is to work late at night in a convenience store. The attack power is 18 points, which is six times higher than the chicken. However, the physical defense and magical defense are pitiful zeros.

What’s even weirder is that her sex is actually specified, which is directly indicated as (female).

Why does this game set the gender of the monster? Is it possible that monsters can still fall in love?

——Don’t say it, maybe it really can.

The monsters living in the room will pay rent regularly, and the money can be used to purchase room decorations, such as various kinds of fitness supplies, various kinds of decoration supplies, various medical supplies, to enhance the monster’s attributes, mood, and have other magical effects.

Shang Yinhe found a purchasable item in the room decoration called “Love Balloon”. 

[Love Balloon: The nemesis of the bachelor! Let go of this balloon and you don’t have to worry about being single from now on! (Note: Disposable items- is it possible that you still want to take two boats? There is no future for players!)]

Not only can they fall in love, maybe the monsters can also give birth to children. 

[Quick Childbirth Buns: “No children yet?”, “When are you planning to have a baby?” After eating this, you can get rid of the trouble of infertility~! (Note: Disposable items-do you want a second child? Just buy another one~)]

Shang Yinhe closed the purchase interface with black lines.

In this world, the flow of time is very, very fast, Shang Yinhe feels that he had just run up and down a few times, and it was already dark.

The little chicken and the water elf obediently paid the daily rent: 15 yuan. 

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Now the devil has 1030 yuan.

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All simulation business games have relatively similar strategies, nothing more than saving money, saving money, and saving money.

You know, money, or various substitutes for money, is always the first element of a simulated business game.

Therefore, making money is also the top priority for the poor demon lord now. 

He studied for a while and found that the rent can be adjusted.

The current rent is 15 yuan. Shang Yinhe thought for a while and adjusted it to the current maximum rent limit: 30 yuan.

In an instant, the little chick Iida, who was still obediently staying in the room rushed towards him sobbing and chirping, jumping and moving forward quickly while shouting in a crying voice: “Lord Demon King, be merciful! Iida can’t pay the rent anymore! Iida is going to die!”

Shang Yinhe: “…” 

The puffy chicken Iida kept circling around him, whimpering and weeping while turning, his tears exaggerated like a waterfall.

A tender yellow chicken with a chibi body made such an action…

Not only did Shang Yinhe not feel heartache, but instead felt… quite cute?

With such a delicate mood, Shang Yinhe adjusted the rent to… 29 yuan. 

Iida’s crying paused for a while, and then it became louder in an instant.

Shang Yinhe raised his head and said solemnly: “This is the lowest rent.” He was firm and merciless.

Iida cried loudly for a while, but saw that the Demon King had a stern face and without any concessions. He then walked back to the room with a choked snort, muttering as he walked: “Iida can’t pay the rent, Iida is going to die…”

Shang Yinhe checked his conscience.

Well, the conscience is still there, and the conscience is still big.

So he stretched out his hand happily, and adjusted the rent of the water elf to 29 yuan. 

The water elf’s job is to “work late at night in a convenience store.” At this moment, she is estimated to be working and not in the room, so she is unable to raise any objections to the operation of the Demon King.

The Demon King actually has a subtle dissatisfaction.

The water elf with flowers on her head also looks very cute. I really want to see how she cries…

Why is she not in the room at night and goes to work? 

Her job is still “working late at night in a convenience store.” Is there really a convenience store in this game world?

I have to say that in this cartoon-like world, with living creatures that cry and laugh by my side, I feel much happier.

In the middle of the night, the Demon King with a hot and blood-red conscience returned to his tent on the second floor.

Since the time in this world flies so fast, he is not at all sleepy yet. He estimated that in this world, probably only two or three hours have passed. 

In an instant, he had a new worry: if he is sleepy, where will he sleep?

Is it possible to live in the room downstairs?

Thinking of the tattered wallpaper in the room downstairs, the tattered refrigerator, the tattered washbasin and the tattered bed…

The Demon King made up his mind to make money quickly! 

He firmly reached out and adjusted the rents of both houses to 30 yuan.

The little Poyo chicken Iida should have fallen asleep (or simply disappointed with the cold Lord Demon?), and didn’t feel much about it.

Lord Demon is still a little disappointed.

In the evening, the system automatically archived and marked it as “Archive 1”. 

The next day, Iida the poyo chick left the room with sniffles and went to work.

The Demon King welcomed new residents: a skeleton and a werewolf.

In this two-dimensional cute cartoon style world, skeletons and werewolves don’t look scary at all.

The chibi skull wears a huge bow. The data shows that her gender is (female) sex and her occupation is a “trainee bonesetter”. 

This profession looks very subtle, but I don’t know if she would scare someone out of a heart attack first when she was giving bones to others?

And the second werewolf who arrived was wearing blue overalls and a small yellow hat, with a big tail dangling behind him. His obviously cute chibi body actually gave people the feeling of a little ruffian. The data shows that his gender is (male) sex and his profession is a “trainee athlete”.

The castle currently has four rooms in total. When you live in the first floor wearing overalls werewolf fourth room is the last room at that moment, the narrator’s voice jumped out:

“The Demon King’s castle is full of subordinates, and the trial of the apprentice Demon King is about to begin!” 

As the voice of the narrator fell, the blank book in the tent suddenly appeared in Shang Yinhe’s hands, startling him.

A standard six-pointed star appeared on the cover of the book, and it is still shining. In this world of two-dimensional simple strokes, it really shows a bit of strangeness and mystery.

Shang Yinhe opened the book, and pictures and words appeared on the blank pages.

The first page is his information. On this page, most of the paper is occupied by his full-length image. In the image, he is drawn as a little chibi figure with long hair, big eyes, and a tattered linen cloak. It looks so cute. 

Shang Yinhe never knew that he could also look so cute. He poked at the little man on the painting with interest, but the little man actually hid and made a huge grimace at him.

Below the photo is a series of data.

[Current Points: 0]

[Current Player Level: LV1]
[Current Player Experience: 0/150]
[Current Money: 1030]
[Number of Monsters Checked-in: 4]
[Number of Monsters Dead: 0]
[Number of Monsters Born: 0]
[Number of Adventurers Killed: 0] 

Shang Yinhe took a look at it, these data are quite detailed, showing all aspects that this game world can involve. But currently, most of the data are displayed as 0.

He turned the book to the next page.

The title of the second page reads The Game Achievements. All the achievements that Shang Yinhe had seen in the tent before were marked on the pages one by one, which appeared densely packed.

Shang Yinhe was temporarily not interested in what he had already studied, so he turned the page again. 

There are new things on this page.

At the top of the page is the title: “Game Missions”

There is currently only one quest on this page: “Apprentice Demon King’s Trial”.

[Apprentice Demon King’s Trial (In Progress)] [Type: Main Quest] [Difficulty: Sporadic] 

[Description: As a Demon King, you will sooner or later get used to a steady stream of adventurers. Now, come and defeat the original adventurer squad and start your first step in conquering the world! ]

——Looking at this description, will there be adventurers coming to attack his castle soon?

——By the way, under the influence of the narration, Shang Yinhe is now used to calling this dilapidated building his “castle”.

——After all, after looking at it for a long time, this thing that looks like an unfinished building can barely be called a “tower”. 

—Um, really?

——Shang Yinhe patted his conscience and said: Really!