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Chapter 399 - 259 Task of Making Faces Familiar_2

Chapter 399: Chapter 259 Task of Making Faces Familiar_2

Experiencing a Chocobo ride isn’t cheap. Besides the 200 yuan entrance fee, there is also an additional 500 yuan fee per ride. Each Chocobo ride will either take you on one round, or give you fifteen minutes of riding time, whichever comes first.

Once Lin Hai started calculating, he realized how large the profit margin was. Only the affluent could afford these rides.

"The experience period is over. The next batch of riders, numbers 19-27, please prepare to enter."

The labour robot at the entrance announced this message over the loudspeaker and blew the whistle at the same time.

Immediately, the scattered Chocobos squawked and happily circled back with their riders to the entrance. The riders regretfully exited while the new riders began their turns.

As there is a limit of only one lap, most people chose to ride the Chocobo leisurely to fully experience the 15 minutes. After all, each 500 yuan ticket comes at a significant cost.

However, there was still a sizable line waiting for an up-close encounter with the Chocobos.

Time flew, and two hours had passed in an instant.

At nine fifty in the morning, the first show ended, and the visitors filed out in an orderly manner.

But there was no time for Mu You, Zhang Yang and others to rest, as the second show was about to begin.

It wasn’t until six in the evening, after the last group of visitors had left, that they officially closed for the day.

"Good job, everyone!"

After they closed, Mu You handed out bonuses to everyone who helped out. However, Zhang Yang insisted on not accepting and eagerly left with his group right after finishing. He did leave behind the ’Magic Shielding Device’, saying he was borrowing it and that he would return it after these busy few days.

With everyone leaving faster than rabbits running away, Mu You had no choice but to give up.

After sending off Little Ya and Lin Xue, Mu You closed the store and counted the total business revenue for the day.

The combined revenue from the entrance fee and Chocobo riding experience was 1,137,000 yuan. They also sold pets. Excluding the few Ice Angels, which were short in stock, they had sold ten of each of the remaining six types of pets for a total income of 2,350,000 yuan.

Apart from that, there were many receipts of pet feed and various pet supplies.

In total, the business income for the day reached 3,550,000 yuan!

The even scarier part was that, except for the pet feeds and supplies provided by the merchant group, the rest of the profits were virtually cost-free. They were pure profits!

A casual 3 million or more in a day illustrated the extreme profitability of this industry. Of course, the taxes were equally high.

When Mu You checked the backpack of the zoo after a crowded day, it was as clean as ever. There was hardly any trash, thanks to the hardworking labour robots. Mu You and his team certainly didn’t do as much to keep the zoo tidy as the robots did.

"Mu You, check where I am ranked?" Cola lazily called out to Mu You from a distant rock.

Cola was exhausted after a day of carrying the sign around begging for attention. His fur had been rubbed off in places, and he was now lying languidly on a rock, his tongue flopped out, too tired even to move.

"Don’t worry, you’re still in the top three."

Mu You consoled him, took out his phone, and opened the App for the pet store.

By now, on the homepage of the App had automatically generated the avatars of the three most popular pets of the day.

The undisputed number one was the Mandrake, with 4,499 votes. Given that the total number of visitors was just slightly over 5,000 and each person could only vote once, almost 90% of the visitors had voted for it, a substantial lead over the other pets.

The second one was Cola.

To his credit, his begging had earned him 2,402 votes, second only to the Mandrake in popularity, and he had earned the title ’star pet’.

The third pet was somewhat surprising—it was a humanoid turtle, the Wisdom Five-Star, a mini-turtle with the ability to walk upright.

This turtle seemed to understand the concept of being both an exhibit and a pet. During its appearances today, it acted ’lazy’. It reenacted human-like mannerisms of slacking off, spacing out, scratching its head, sighing—each action was brimming with humour, and it quickly became viral.

Not only did it earn the nickname ’sighing turtle’, its signature act of sitting on a rock and sighing became a GIF titled ’Life is hard, turtle sighs.’ The GIF widely circulated on the forum.

With that, the first day’s operation ended successfully.

Mu You logged in to the forum and checked the reviews. As expected, the first day had received overwhelmingly positive feedback. Most reviews were along the lines of ’time was too short, wished to stay longer’ etc.

Furthermore, those lucky enough to have bought magical animals flaunted their photographs online, causing much envy among those who couldn’t grab a ticket. As a result, Mu You’s inbox was inundated with pleas for more tickets...

Unexpectedly, one more thing that became popular were the labour robots.

"I’m not really interested in magical animals, boss. I just want to know where you got these robots," read a highlighted post on the forum.