Chapter 141 Customer Complaint (Unedited) Why is there still such a shocking ending...?

4. As a cashier in the store, you need to check for customers who are trying to skip out on their payment and urge them to pay promptly.

Liang Xun quickly locked onto this known clue, and then her smiling gaze slowly moved down to the giant's bulging pockets.

"If I remember correctly, you also took a can of vegetables, right?"

Although Liang Jun purchased the canned vegetables before the game started and the payment process did go through the scanning and payment steps, no actual funds were deposited into the account.

Moreover, this is now a completely new round of the game, so how could the previous save/load possibly be successfully carried over to this round?

With the system rules backing her up, Liang Jun calmly ignored the giant's ugly expression, picked up the barcode scanner again, and casually pressed the button on the scanner, shooting out one blinding red light after another.

"If you don't need the item, you can return it to the counter; but if you do need it, you'll need to pay the original price."

The giant's mouth turned down, and the fat on his entire obese face suddenly looked loose and saggy.

"I'm a member of your supermarket!" he said, his voice slightly agitated, but his vocal cords, compressed by his fat, produced an excessively high-pitched sound. "As a member, can't you just casually give me some small perks?"

I never expected him to pull this stunt.

Liang Yan remained silent with a smile for a while. After realizing that she had not triggered any hidden rules, she began to confidently deal with whatever came her way.

"We're really sorry, members may be able to receive regular benefits from our store, but these benefits do not include 'free gifts'~"

Since neither the dungeon background nor the system rules explicitly mentioned this, Liang Jun simply spoke her mind, "So, would you like to continue with this canned vegetable?"

The giant seemed to sob a few times, his dissatisfaction emanating from within.

His large, thick fingers gripped the metal edge of the vegetable can tightly, as easily as squeezing a bouncy ball, and he tossed the solid can directly onto the cashier's counter.

"Check, please." He said indifferently, and at this moment, no emotion could be detected in his voice.

Fearing that the unpredictable giant NPC might change his mind again, Liang Jun pointed the barcode scanner directly at the exposed barcode on the canned vegetables.

With a "beep" sound, the specific product details of the canned vegetables were displayed on the screen.

She put down the barcode scanner and casually stuffed the canned vegetables into her already full shopping bag.

"The total is 1229 yuan."

Upon hearing this, the giant began rummaging through his worn-out wallet again.

He never looked up, and his muffled voice squeezed out from his throat, which was compressed by his fat, "Don't give me change, can you just give me the whole number?"

The giant handed Liang Jun a small stack of banknotes, with a conspicuous five-yuan note on top.

"It's four yuan cheaper, how about I make it 1225?"

Liang Jun's smile froze for a moment.

She didn't expect that the NPCs in the dungeon would put on this "bargaining" act for her.

Even more outrageous, I thought they were going to ask for an exorbitant price, but in the end, they just kept haggling and trying to cut the price down by four yuan.

Liang Xun leaned forward slightly and pushed the giant's hand, which was offering her banknotes, back with both palms.

Then, quite naturally, she tore off the receipt that the printer had printed out and flattened the paper, subtly showing it to the giant.

“I’m sorry, we charge according to the machine’s price here,” Liang Jun’s neatly trimmed nails casually brushed over the total amount at the end of the receipt, leaving a black ink mark. “Whatever price the machine tells us, that’s the price we charge.”

The giant was so angry he almost had a heart attack.

He abruptly pulled back the top five yuan note, and reluctantly rummaged through his wallet for a tattered ten-yuan note.

Liang Jun took the sweaty money and glanced at it briefly in her hand.

This is not a universal currency used in the real world. It seems that the system specially created a batch of game-exclusive currencies to distinguish the boundary between the game and reality.

Virtual game currency is indistinguishable from real currency, not to mention there are no banknote detectors prepared for cashiers at the checkout counter, and the system has no clear regulations on this matter—Liang Jun simply assumes they are all real banknotes.

Without any hesitation, she pressed the "checkout" button on the keyboard. When the cash drawer popped out, Liang Jun neatly arranged the banknotes according to their size.

However, apart from this deposit, the cash drawer was still empty. Normally, as the cashier, Liang Jun would be required to give the customer one yuan in change.

The coin section was completely empty.

Liang Xun glanced casually at the cashier's counter, where a colorful lollipop tree caught her eye.

She swiftly snatched a lollipop from above and then quickly scanned it with a barcode scanner.

After seeing that the product display showed that the lollipop was only 50 cents, Liang Jun grabbed another identical blueberry-flavored lollipop and threw it into Giant's shopping bag along with the previous one.

"You're short one yuan in change, so here are two lollipops for you."

With a beaming smile, Liang Jun handed the heavy shopping bag to the giant, causing her biceps to bulge dramatically. "Welcome to visit us again."

Seemingly sensing the end of the payment process, the two barriers blocking the giant's path automatically opened to the sides. The barriers opened so wide that Liang Xun wondered if they were also afraid of being scratched or damaged by the giant's enormous body.

Just when Liang Xun thought everything was settled and she hadn't even had a chance to quietly breathe a sigh of relief, she heard the giant, who had just taken the shopping bag from her, complain resentfully, "I'm going to complain about you."

Liang Jun's heart skipped a beat.

When I looked up again, the exit barrier was already tightly closed, and the giant's figure had long since disappeared into the aisle of the store.

Oh no, there's another explosive tail kill...

The breath that Liang Jun hadn't been able to exhale lingered in her chest, making it hard for her to breathe.

Was it because I did something wrong?

Was it because she didn't immediately agree to the giant's attempt to round down the bill, or because she substituted a lollipop for the one dollar that needed to be given as change?

Liang Xuan was completely baffled.

Every rule reveals the importance of store performance to cashiers: ensuring customers don't complain and thus lower sales, preventing customers from skipping out on their orders or getting freebies, and doing everything possible to increase their own sales.

However, there were no suitable banknotes or coins in the cash drawer to make change, and Liang Jun clearly couldn't find any other way to get it over with; two 50-cent lollipops successfully filled the one-yuan gap, not only without harming the customer's rights, but also preventing errors in the store's accounts—

Liang Jun really couldn't figure out where the problem lay.

She pressed the tip of her tongue against the side of her teeth and made an impatient "tsk" sound.

Perhaps because it was still early, there weren't many customers shopping at the store. Since the giant NPC left, no one else had come to the checkout lane that Manager Liang had been using.

She braced her hands on the countertop, stood on tiptoe, and glanced around in front of and behind her. She noticed that the other players were still dealing with the difficult NPC, each busy with their own tasks.

Unexpectedly, she was the first among them to finish the mission. Taking advantage of this brief respite, Liang Xun immediately began preparing for what she needed to do next.

She first pressed the "Checkout" button on the keyboard again, and after the cash drawer popped out, Liang Jun repeatedly checked the specific amount inside.

Not only that, she also tried to summon the system, asking, "System, what is my current mission completion progress?"

Perhaps it had been too long since Liang Jun had initiated a conversation with the system, because the system in her mind was slow to react for several seconds before she gradually realized what the other party meant.

[Current progress: Revenue 1230/10000...]

[Successfully surviving by following the rules will allow you to clear the level. Keep up the good work!]

After the system verified the data, Liang Xuan was relieved to confirm that the task progress calculation was based on the value of the currency in the cash drawer.

Because according to the amount on the receipt printed by the printer, the correct turnover should be 1229 – those two lollipops were not included in the checkout list.

After the rather complicated doubts were resolved, Liang Xun turned on the screen of her phone that was placed to the side.

Although the bell did not ring as scheduled during her work hours, Liang Jun was able to quickly realize, by doing a simple calculation based on real time, that three hours had already passed in the game.

Game time: 11:00.

This efficiency is far too slow.

Liang Jun unconsciously bit her lower lip.

If we calculate based on an average spending of 1,000 yuan per customer, then to achieve a turnover of 10,000 yuan, we would need approximately ten customers.

There are only twelve working hours a day, and it takes three hours to serve just one customer, which means that only four customers can be served a day, and the turnover is only about four thousand.

To complete the sales target set by the system, you need to spend at least three days here.

But who knows what might happen in these three days...

After much thought, Liang Jun finally decided to first organize the clues she had gathered and then share them in the "Never Die" group chat.

Her fingers flew across the keyboard, sending the triggered hidden rules word for word, and also briefly sharing her deductions with everyone.

Finally, after a moment's thought, Liang Jun decided to tell the truth about her actual situation.

Liang Jun: [Regarding the content related to Rule 2, "Complaint Rate," I haven't quite understood it yet.]

Leung Yung: [But if circumstances allow, you must try your best to give customers change.]

Leung Chung: [I probably made a mistake at this step, which is why the customer complained.]

Soon, a new message popped up on the phone screen.

Ge Lin: [I just saw an auntie off.]

He then casually quoted the last message Leung Chun-fai posted—

Ge Lin: [Holy crap, Sister Jun, how did you get reported?! Are you alright now?!]

Just as Liang Jun was about to reply, her finger suddenly hovered above the screen—

She smelled an extremely strong, unsettling odor of blood.

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Author's note: September's perfect attendance record has come to a successful end, and Mint is finally going to get her first little badge!

I hope we can continue our efforts and achieve even greater success in October (just wishful thinking).