Everyone turned their heads in unison to look at the restaurant entrance.

Another customer walked in: "Give me a chicken, I'm not picky, but the plumper the better."

Li Yue tried to communicate with the diners: "I'm sorry, sir, we're out of ingredients for today."

The diner stared at the chicks on the ground: "It's been eaten by others, it's okay, I'm not picky."

Li Yue and Xia Chuhe silently stood in front of the chick.

The diner said, "You're not selling it? If you refuse, I'm calling the food service department."

The little chick squeezed between Li Yue and Xia Chuhe and whispered, "Manager, don't be embarrassed. I... I can do it."

Xia Chuhe said in a low voice, "I'll give it a try."

She remembered Zhao Huan's new superpower—dream weaving.

Xia Chuhe walked up to the diner and said, "Please wait a moment, sir. I will serve you a plump and delicious rooster shortly."

Xia Chuhe stared at the diner's dull, gray eyes and, without any instruction, wove a ten-second dream for it. In the dream, a plump, robust, golden-red rooster willingly jumped into the diner's mouth...

The diner smacked his lips and said, "Huh? Finished eating?"

Xia Chuhe gave it a thumbs up: "Good appetite, guest!"

The diner patted his stomach, feeling like he had eaten something, but also like he hadn't: "Where's that chicken? It looked really delicious."

"It's too tired, so it's going home first," Xia Chuhe said.

"Alright," the diner muttered, leaving behind eleven energy coins. "The extra one is for him."

Xia Chuhe unceremoniously pocketed the energy coins.

The chicks below couldn't believe what had happened.

The others were also completely baffled.

After the diners left, Xia Chuhe asked the chick, "You still haven't told me that the food law only protects diners?"

The chick shook its head: "I don't know, I heard it wasn't like this before."

"Who told you that?"

The chick no longer answered directly, "I want to go home."

Xia Chuhe made way for the chick, and once it was out the back door, he immediately said to Li Qiusheng, "Take Wang Yan with you, and follow it. See where it goes. Find a suitable opportunity to warn it not to tell anyone what just happened. Also, be careful."

Watching Li Qiusheng and Wang Yan leave, Xia Chuhe said, "I obtained a dungeon core before, which can copy other people's abilities, but it can only be used once a day."

Li Yue's eyes lit up: "You used Zhao Huan's superpower!"

The scene in the nursing home where Zhao Huan's teammates committed murder one after another left a deep impression on Li Yue.

"right."

"Well done!"

Although the crisis was averted, Li Yue was still a little worried: "I need to go out quickly and see if I can hire a few more chickens, otherwise it will be troublesome if more diners come."

The new information brought by the previous diner is that refusing a diner's request will also be punished by the dining law.

The lack of ingredients is unlikely to be a valid reason for not opening for business.

Li Yue went out for a while and quickly returned with two chickens. Neither of them were as imposing as the rooster in the hummingbird video; they looked rather frail. Xia Chuhe was quite suspicious; being sucked by a diner would probably kill them.

Fortunately, no more customers entered the store after that.

The two chicks who didn't get a chance to earn energy were very disappointed.

...

Midnight finally arrived, and the drumbeats of the night resumed, plunging the street into silence.

Xia Chuhe peered out onto the street and saw that all the diners had disappeared, but the lights in the other shops were still on, presumably because they were still cleaning up.

The two chicks, dejected, left before the business even opened.

Xia Chuhe and Lu Danggui cleaned the dining area, Bu Yi tidied the kitchen, and Li Yue checked the accounts.

After everything was over, Li Yue exclaimed, "Opening a shop here is incredibly profitable. Not counting the free restaurant and our labor costs, the cost is two energy points, and the profit is eight energy points, a profit margin of 400%!"

One unit costs 10 energy points, while the chicken that is eaten only takes 2 energy points.

Without thinking about tomorrow, Li Yue first tallied up today's accounts. The first order only had a deposit of 5, the second order 10, and the third order 11. After deducting the 2 from the chick, she had 24 energy points left.

I was just about to go to the vending machine on the back street to buy something when the doorbell rang again.

Once business hours are over, don't the diners just disappear?

The shop door opened automatically, and two tall, thin figures dressed in white robes walked into the shop.

Fat Black shouted, "Revenue 25!" (Revenue, excluding the tip from the third customer and without deducting costs)

The skinny, dark-skinned man shouted, "Pay 10 in taxes!"

The fat, dark-skinned, and thin men shouted in unison, "Money! Money!"

The energy coins in Li Yue's combat pack rustled softly.

Li Yue quickly covered her combat pack.

The energy coins surged out of the battle pack with unstoppable force, but Xia Chuhe, who was prepared, caught them with a hoe and instantly stored them in the farm.

The two dark figures, who hadn't received the money, both exclaimed "Huh!" in unison.

Fat Black Man: "I don't pay taxes."

Skinny, dark-skinned: "Just close the door."

Fat Black: "No business allowed tomorrow."

Skinny and dark-skinned: "If you don't give it to us, we'll shut down permanently."

Xia Chuhe secretly released a small snake to test the waters, and the snake passed right through the two men. These two dark figures had no physical form; how could they possibly fight them?

Two dark figures approached, exuding a strong sense of oppression. Xia Chuhe worried that being unable to operate would cause them to completely miss the clues to the core of the dungeon, so she reluctantly counted out ten coins.

Fat Black: "Not bad!"

Skinny and dark-skinned: "Tomorrow! No, the day after tomorrow!"

Fat Black: "Try your best!"

Skinny and dark-skinned: "Keep it up!"

The two shouted in unison, "Cheer!"

Xia Chuhe and the others all turned pale, and they wanted to rush up and beat the two dark figures right now!

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