Store by the Corner I
Brief
The Endministrator accepts Chen Qianyu's invitation and decides to visit Fangxing Avenue for a proper experience of life in Wuling.
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1 Read Chen Qianyu's messages
Group chat
Chen Qianyu
Endmin? Busy? Lemme take you to a place with nice food!
Chen Qianyu
Quick! Let's get to it! There are tons of awesome snacks you gotta try!
Chen Qianyu
All of them are Wuling specials. You won't get them anywhere else!
Dialogue
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Aunt Tian
Did you forget already? The main ingredients are half a key of long-ear meat and fifty grams of liangge turnip cut in strips!
Radio
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Ah Zai
"This here before you is Wuling's center of science — the Tianshi Bureau Academy! It's a place of miracles, such as the Bane of All Blight — Xiranite!"
2 Meet up with Chen Qianyu and the others View on map
Dialogue
Chen Qianyu
We've been busy long enough. 'Tis time for a break! Let's go and feast along Fangxing Avenue!
Chen Qianyu
Yeah! Students aren't exactly rich, but Fangxing Avenue offers great food on the cheap! Once exams are over, everyone celebrates here!
Chen Qianyu
And we did survive a major challenge. This one's on me. Actually, I say our Endmin's got the tab. Heheh.
Perlica
I think I remember the place. Plenty of students have their meals at the avenue.
3 Have a walk around Fangxing Avenue View on map
Dialogue
Mi Fu
Endmin, what a coincidence.
Mi Fu
I'll let them do the explaining.
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Aunt Tian
*Sigh*... I guess so. I saw a new post on the bulletin. A business is ending their lease.
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Ah Zai
I've been perfecting my business plan since last year. Fortune smiles on me 'cos I'm prepared!
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Watchguard Liu
Let's all take a step back and talk nicely, okay...?
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Watchguard Liu
Captain Mi and Endmin, the Avenue business bidding process might be the problem. It calls for fair competition.
Mi Fu
What's your take, Endmin?
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Ah Zai
Sure thing! We Wulingers have a thing for competitions! Fair and simple! Let's start in two days.
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Watchguard Liu
Aunt Tian, both of you have valid reasons, but you know there's only one stall left. We have to reach an agreement...
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Aunt Tian
I know, Liu. I never wanted to make things difficult. Ah Zai and I will do our best and go with the watchguards' arrangements.
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Ah Zai
Hold up. Count me out if you're going with the arrangements! I'm different, Uncle Liu. I got a plan *plus* the determination to see it through!
Mi Fu
Hmph. Got some trouble on our hands.
Chen Qianyu
Endfield can't really handle complicated things like this...
Mi Fu
Dinner's on me.
Chen Qianyu
...Oh! I might have an idea! Endmin, come here! Let's talk about this...
Mi Fu
Start a competition? Hmm... Sounds like a plan.
Chen Qianyu
And to help Mi Fu out, feel free to ask if you need anything from us!
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Aunt Tian
You darlings are too kind, but I'm fine for now. Why don't you help Ah Zai first?
Perlica
Are the lady and the young man arguing about who gets to use the stall?
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Aunt Tian
I came here really early in the morning. Just wanna see if I could get lucky with the stall, but I ran into...
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Watchguard Liu
Aunt Tian and Ah Zai, you going along? Maybe you could set up your stalls first. May the most popular one win.
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Ah Zai
This stall is mine to rent, and that's final!
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Watchguard Liu
Both are qualified and their business plans are sound, but they're... Ugh. This is a real dilemma!
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Aunt Tian
Count this lady in. There's no way I'll lose!
Radio
Chen Qianyu
Ah! That smells so delicious! I'm starving.
4 Approach the crowd and see what's going on View on map
Story update
The Endministrator's team notices a crowd at Fangxing Avenue. The Endfielders decide to investigate.
Radio
Chen Qianyu
I'm so looking forward to the delicious food they're gonna make.
Perlica
Chen, they might not be selling food.
5 Go and help Ah Zai View on map
Story update
The Endministrator's team goes to Ah Zai to help him prepare for the competition.
Dialogue
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Ah Zai
Oh, it's you! Here to back me up?
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Ah Zai
I'm ... planning something special. Kinda need someone to take a few photos and check the process.
Chen Qianyu
Hmm. Checking out the process sounds interesting. Your job is as good as done!
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Ah Zai
Sounds like a great start! I'm syncing you with the coordinates. Just help photograph the listed things for me!
Chen Qianyu
Ah Zai, you ready for the competition?
Chen Qianyu
Are you opening a photography studio?
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Ah Zai
It's not gonna be a studio! I'm gonna sell — Ahem. It's a secret for now. I don't want to spoil the surprise.
6 Go to the first coordinates and take a photo No map marker available
Dialogue
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Ah Zai
Oh? Done already? Awesome. Show me the photos!
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Ah Zai
Hmm. Composition is decent, but lighting's a bit off. I was hoping for a sprinkle of sunlight on the Tianshi Pillar. That'd be perfect.
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Ah Zai
That's alright. There are other steps in the process. Here, take this.
Chen Qianyu
There's a giveaway too? Oh, Ah Zai, we also heard your pre-recordings back then.
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Ah Zai
You heard it? That means my check-in location sensors are working. I am a genius.
Perlica
Did you write those tourist-guiding lines as well?
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Ah Zai
Of course I did. People who achieve great things are meticulous... And they work alone as well!
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Ah Zai
I'll summarize my event plan for you — Patrons taking photos at the check-in locations will hear my well-prepared intro of Wuling's beautiful sights.
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Ah Zai
Heheh. I'll tell you when the time's right. So, interested in hitting the next check-in location?
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Ah Zai
If they bring the photos to my place, they'll get a Connect-and-Win voucher!
Radio
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Ah Zai
"Greetings people, it's me again! Hah. The mini shellbeasts before you are a symbol of Wuling's rich ecology!"
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Ah Zai
"I even raised one when I was a kid!"
7 Photograph the Chubby Lungs No map marker available
Dialogue
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Aunt Tian
Got the main ingredients? Don't forget the condiments.
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Aunt Tian
You need the sweetness, the heat, and the herbal aroma!
Radio
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Aunt Tian
Half a key of long-ear meat, ten grams of rock sugar syrup, fifty grams of liangge turnip cut in strips, thirty grams of sectioned earthy parsley.
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Aunt Tian
And twenty grams of chopped hot fennel. That's it for the ingredients.
8 Give Ah Zai the photograph View on map
Dialogue
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Ah Zai
Lemme count the photos... Hmm. We're all set. Wow. You ran into Lifeng...?! Alright, here are the rest of the vouchers!
Chen Qianyu
Ah Zai, this event of yours seems really well-planned.
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Ah Zai
Sorry, I got too carried away — They're the most motivating words I've heard! Everyone criticized me as a kid. They kept saying I aim too high and how my head is full of weird ideas...
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Ah Zai
Oh, I hope that doesn't feel like too much. I actually learned these tricks from the TGCC.
Chen Qianyu
But your ideas aren't weird. I think they're really innovative, you know.
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Ah Zai
That's right! Innovation! That's what I was gonna say — My vision is to make Wuling a city of innovations!
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Ah Zai
She shouldn't simply focus on science and experiments and super boring lessons. The city deserves something new every day. She's gotta embrace innovation —
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Ah Zai
And Wuling shouldn't keep herself mired in the past. No one should shackle her future!
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Ah Zai
And thank you all for helping me out.
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Ah Zai
But sit tight. 'Cuz not all the prizes are ready yet. Swing by when the competition starts!
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Ah Zai
...Re-really?! You think it's well-planned?!
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Ah Zai
Hmph, but they won't take me down — Art is the career I chose! I ... am a business artist!
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Ah Zai
The TGCC's got all sorts of super-rad tricks! You need a really flashy package if you want your things to sell!
9 Go to the second coordinates and take a photo View on map
Dialogue
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Aunt Tian
It's done, my darlings. Have it while it's hot.
Chen Qianyu
It's so good — Oh I feel so happy right now! It's so soft and sweet and nostalgic!
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Aunt Tian
Oh dear, I just rambled on and on about the past, didn't I? Age is catching up, but days got a lot better. It felt too good to be true.
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Aunt Tian
Alright, darlings. Go ahead and do your thing. This old lady is ending the daily shift.
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Aunt Tian
And I'm happy you like it! Days got better, and so did the fillet.
Chen Qianyu
Huh? So what meat did you use to make braised meat noodles in the past?
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Aunt Tian
Back then it was just straw mushrooms and a mix of other stuff to make it filling.
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Aunt Tian
Indeed. It's a long story.
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Aunt Tian
I never thought about building a big noodle business. The first bowl I made was for a child.
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Aunt Tian
The child then brought friends over to try the noodles, and the other kids brought their parents over for more.
Perlica
Back in those days, I believe everyone had it hard.
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Aunt Tian
When they were building this city, I worked in the construction crew.
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Aunt Tian
We only received supplies once per month. Hardly any of us got the "braised meat".
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Aunt Tian
This place was literally uninhabited. The fowlbeasts that arrived probably went home because there was nothing around.
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Aunt Tian
The child got sick and everything tasted bitter. So I made some maltose with the remaining grains and added them to the dough with liangge turnip.
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Aunt Tian
The adults couldn't stop crying as they ate! The flavors reminded them of Hongshan and the liangge turnip vines of summer sprawling along the fence.
Radio
Chen Qianyu
We got some nymphsprouts!
Chen Qianyu
Let's bring them back to Aunt Tian!
10 Take a photo of a mini shellbeast No map marker available
Dialogue
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Aunt Tian
Where did I put it...? Ugh, my memories are getting worse with every year...
Chen Qianyu
Aunt Tian, what are you looking for?
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Aunt Tian
Oh, the helpful young people are here. I'm trying to make some braised meat noodles, but I can't find my jar of bamboo sprouts.
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Aunt Tian
Look. I even prepared a huge pot for making the stock.
Chen Qianyu
Getting the pot ready sounds like a ton of work already...
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Aunt Tian
I've followed the steps all my life. Never felt complicated to me. If it's something you're good at, you'll get into the little, gritty details.
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Aunt Tian
They're grove nymphsprouts that grow at the Stragglers Grove. I would get a jar every week. And then I lost it while moving stuff around during the last few days.
Chen Qianyu
We'll dig some fresh ones for you!
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Aunt Tian
I soaked it in the mountain spring of Sword Quenching Marsh and rubbed it down with coarse salt. Look at it shine...! But my sprouts went missing, and now I can't even start cooking!
Radio
Chen Qianyu
These mini shellbeasts are so cute! And there are so many of them!
11 Give Ah Zai the photograph View on map
Dialogue
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Aunt Tian
These grove nymphsprouts are super fresh! I can't thank you enough, kind children.
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Aunt Tian
I got the rest prepped. Washed the liangge turnip, soaked the earthy parsley in oil, and chopped the hot fennel... Everything's set. Time to cook!
Chen Qianyu
Aunt Tian, did you run a stall back at the Residential Area? A five-wheel power-cart with a little canopy on top?
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Aunt Tian
Of course, darling. Are you from Wuling?
Chen Qianyu
I had your noodles back when I was in Wuling! I even talked about them with my friends aboard Dijiang!
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Aunt Tian
Seems we're tied together by fate. I can reveal a few of my secrets so you can make your own.
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Aunt Tian
Braised meat noodles may look simple, but perfection ... requires true commitment.
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Aunt Tian
Our first step is prepping the materials. We need minced long-ear fillets, plus liangge turnips, grove nymphsprouts, rock sugar, earthy parsley, and hot fennel.
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Aunt Tian
And there are three house secrets from Aunt Tian. First, use fresh stock for the nymphsprouts!
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Aunt Tian
Second, cook that meat over a small fire till it's just right. Too fast and it would be too tough. Too long and it would melt into the stock.
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Aunt Tian
The third secret lies in the dough. It's living and breathing, children. You need to find it out yourselves.
Chen Qianyu
Find it out ourselves? Is there any trick to this?
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Aunt Tian
My trick is having the heart to feed someone. Once you get these feels, your meals will end up delicious.
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Aunt Tian
Come, I'll show you what it means! Help me bring the ingredients here. And just what I need, please! Don't bring too much!
Radio
Chen Qianyu
I just remembered something! I've actually had Aunt Tian's noodles before!
Perlica
You had them before?
Chen Qianyu
Yeah! They're really famous. Everyone who lived in Wuling City ate them too.
Chen Qianyu
When I first arrived here, my teammates treated me to some.
Chen Qianyu
The queues were ridiculous.
Chen Qianyu
But a bite of those noodles solved all your troubles... It simply felt like being "back at home"!
Chen Qianyu
Ugh. I can't find the words to describe it, but you'll know when you have a bowl.
12 Go to the third coordinates and take a photo View on map
Dialogue
Perlica
This is the location of Ah Zai's coordinates.
Chen Qianyu
Why is he being so mysterious...? This place is great for photographing Chubby Lungs! He does have taste!
Chen Qianyu
Look at this huge speaker... Ah Zai must have placed it here.
13 Go to the third coordinates and take a photo No map marker available
14 Take a photo with Lifeng No map marker available
15 Give Ah Zai the photograph View on map
Dialogue
Lifeng
Endmin, I didn't expect to meet you here. Is the team visiting this place for some research?
Chen Qianyu
Research? No, of course not. We're here ... on a mission.
Lifeng
Mission? Did Ah Zai give it to you? Hah. I ran plenty of errands for him as well.
Lifeng
We're kinda like classmates, but he quit school to learn a trade... I mean, to start a business.
Lifeng
And Ah Zai seems like someone cut out for running a biz. Our instructor ran out of tricks to get him to read to study.
Lifeng
And he really stuck to his choice and plans. I really admire the guy!
Lifeng
Oh yeah, since everyone's here, why don't we take a group photo?
16 Go and help Aunt Tian View on map 1 View on map 2
Story update
The Endministrator's team goes to Aunt Tian to help her prepare for the competition.
Radio
Chen Qianyu
I'm a little curious about how Aunt Tian is preparing for this. Let's go talk to her.
17 Go to the Stragglers Grove for some grove nymphsprouts View on map
Radio
Chen Qianyu
That's quite a crowd. Did someone open a new store?
18 Give the grove nymphsprouts to Aunt Tian View on map
Radio
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Ah Zai
"Welcome, my patrons and friends! This massive Chubby Lung mascot is a symbol of Fangxing Avenue..."
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Ah Zai
"One could hardly imagine how ten years ago, this was just a stretch of Blighted wilderness without any buildings or life..."
19 Make braised meat noodles with suitable ingredients No map marker available
20 Make braised meat noodles with suitable condiments No map marker available
Dialogue
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Aunt Tian
The condiments are ten grams of syrup, twenty grams of chopped hot fennel, and thirty grams of cut earthy parsley.
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Aunt Tian
It's okay. You'll get better with practice.
Radio
Chen Qianyu
I totally mastered the braised meat noodles! I'll definitely make more for you once we get back to Dijiang!
Chen Qianyu
So, Endmin, which of those two will win?
Perlica
It seems that both sides are evenly matched.
Chen Qianyu
The Bell of Three Presences, the most iconic symbol of the Tianshi Bureau Academy! Snappity snap!
Chen Qianyu
Lemme think about what Ah Zai might say this time.
21 Cutscene 2 dialogue
Dialogue
Lifeng
For the Bell of Three Presences, I've taken six or seven photos of this place already...
Lifeng
I got a feeling that Ah Zai is taking this event really seriously.
Other dialogue
13 Game scripting dialogue not tied to a specific quest step.
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Ah Zai
Got it? Lemme see. Hmm. A perfect capture of the mini shellbeasts!
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Ah Zai
I love mini shellbeasts! I raised one myself. They like being close to people!
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Ah Zai
Alright. This photo is done. Well, people, gotta need help at the next check-in location.
Chen Qianyu
We're here! Let's run a scan. Maybe it will show us where the nymphsprouts are!
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Aunt Tian
The main ingredients are: half a key of long-ear meat and fifty grams of liangge turnip cut in strips.
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Aunt Tian
The condiments are ten grams of syrup, twenty grams of chopped hot fennel, and thirty grams of cut earthy parsley.
Chen Qianyu
Umm, Aunt Tian probably said something else...
Chen Qianyu
That scared me! What's going on!?
Perlica
It sounds like pre-recorded audio.
Chen Qianyu
Doesn't look right. This isn't in Aunt Tian's recipe...
Chen Qianyu
If we forget, we can always ask Aunt Tian again...
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Aunt Tian
Got the main ingredients? Don't forget the condiments.
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Aunt Tian
You need the sweetness, the heat, and the herbal aroma!