"Isn't this rain too heavy?"

Holding their boxed lunches, a group of players squatted by the door, gazing at the torrential rain outside, which resembled a broken beaded curtain, filled with melancholy.

They've been trapped in the shop for three days. With this heavy rain, they can't possibly get out.

Although the store provides small bread rolls every day.

But the facts also told them that the small bread rolls really didn't keep them full. If they hadn't eaten a box of vegetables and tofu that day, they would be so hungry that they wouldn't be able to get out of bed.

"Today's bread..." Leng Youyou said, glancing cautiously at the bar before continuing, "is less than before. Could it be that the shop is running out of food?"

"Didn't you say there's a vegetable garden in the backyard? Maybe we can eat vegetable salad after we finish the bread rolls?"

As she spoke, Lu Xiaoyao took another bite of her boxed lunch.

To be honest, I don't know if it's because there's no meat, but Lu Xiaoyao has been feeling unsatisfied with the vegetable and tofu boxed meals she's had for the past two days.

Even if she still has the stir-fried pork with chili in a boxed lunch, she can't actually eat that directly just to satisfy her craving.

Seeing everyone staring longingly at the heavy rain outside, Lu Xiaoyao had a premonition that sooner or later everyone would have to eat that boxed lunch that kept their body temperature in the downpour and go out in the rain.

"We looked at that vegetable garden in the back yesterday."

Suddenly Madison spoke up. He also glanced behind him with a cold, neurotic look. Seeing that there was really no one in the hall at the moment, he said, "Our room window has a great view of the backyard. We can see the vegetable garden too."

As soon as he finished speaking, Charlie and Julian's expressions soured. After Madison finished speaking, Charlie immediately added, "Where's the vegetable garden? It's just a wasteland overgrown with weeds..."

How could that be?

Suddenly, a clear, cold female voice boomed from behind them, startling everyone into a cold sweat.

Everyone turned around abruptly and saw Mingmei standing behind the bar at the kitchen door, her clear black and white eyes staring straight at them without blinking.

At this moment, she stood entirely in the darkness of the wall, where the candlelight couldn't reach her. The only thing everyone could see was her fair, delicate face, devoid of any color, illuminated by the candlelight on the wall. (www.cascoo.net)

"Guests, our vegetable garden is overflowing with vegetables! Please don't spread rumors..."

Right now, Mingmei is completely different from her previous gentle and approachable self. Although her tone of voice is still as aloof as ever, this time the aloofness seems to seep into their very bones.

Everyone was so frightened that a cold sweat had already broken out on their backs!

【Help!】

[The businesswoman's sudden appearance scared the hell out of me!]

[Wake up! She's not a female merchant! The merchant NPC is a young man!]

[I'm going crazy, is this girl some kind of villainous boss?]

[What I just said might actually be true! The usual big boss, Bean, is selling boxed lunches now. So what do you think the usual boxed lunch seller is doing?]

【Aaaaaah! Can you please stop? Why do you have to scare such a beautiful person? QAQ】

[Is this... this is the end of the pretense? Is this a prelude to a fight?!]

...

Even the viewers in the live stream were horrified by the way Mingmei was behaving, let alone the players present.

Wang Wenfei was genuinely frightened by this.

This completely negates all her previous efforts!

So, are the game developers really that cunning?!

Is this a deliberate act to deliberately create a bug that was discovered among the players?

Unbeknownst to many, Mingmei and Muchen's role-swapping maneuver in this round has inadvertently tarnished Yan Hui's image in everyone's eyes once again.

"If you don't believe me, you can come with me to the backyard and take a look."

Mingmei, seemingly unaware that her position and expression had startled everyone, took a step forward, exposing her entire figure to the candlelight.

Perhaps it was because of the candlelight, but the bright light now didn't seem as cold and frightening as it had been just now.

A keen-eyed player noticed that her steps were still a bit muddy and boldly asked, "Did you go to the backyard just now, boss?"

"Yes, the rain is too heavy, and the drainage in the vegetable garden is not very good. My partner and I are just digging drainage ditches to prevent the vegetables from being soaked by the rain."

As she spoke, Mingmei lifted half of the curtain, and everyone saw Mu Chen, covered in sweat, wiping himself with a towel. Behind him, a raincoat dripping with water hung on the wall.

This was the first time Mingmei had taken the initiative to lift the kitchen curtain and let everyone see what was happening in the kitchen. At this moment, Mingmei and Mu Chen were not carrying any dangerous items.

"Would you like to see our masterpiece?"

Taking the opportunity, Mingmei invited them to see the vegetable garden, as if she wanted to prove that the vegetable garden was not the wasteland that Madison and the others had described.

"Well... I'm sorry to bother you."

Since Julian and his friends had started the conversation about the vegetable garden, Julian was the first to agree. As he said this, he glanced at Charlie and Madison and asked, "Want to come along?"

Although Julian only glanced at them, Charlie immediately understood, took a step back and stood behind Madison, subtly signaling with his hand to reject Julian's proposal.

"Ah, forget it, you go if you want..."

Madison and Charlie pretended to be embarrassed and turned to leave, going upstairs.

Wang Wenfei noticed Madison's actions out of the corner of her eye, and then glanced at the other girls who had decided to follow and take a look, so she also refused.

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