Chapter 099: Eating Watermelon at the Food Court (27)

"The screen disappeared?" Liu Tang asked Mo Qianhe uncertainly when he saw the projection screen in front of him disappear.

Mo Qianhe nodded and checked his communicator, only to find that all ways of communicating with other players were disabled.

Liu Tang walked outside the store to observe and found that a translucent air wall appeared between the shops.

Through the air wall, I could only see a vague light on the other side, and I couldn't see any specific objects.

The two air walls on both sides of the stinky tofu shop extended all the way to the center of the square, forming a fan-shaped area that only they could see clearly.

The stinky tofu shop where Mo Qianhe works was previously owned by the crumbly pancake shop run by Song Xiaoyan.

While he was taking orders for customers according to the dishes displayed on the ordering machine, he was listening to Liu Tang's report on the inspection.

"It seems that the Boss intends to cut off the connection between players today." Mo Qianhe concluded.

Liu Tang remained calm and replied, "Luckily, you guys already agreed on the specific sales figures yesterday, otherwise there might have been problems."

Mo Qianhe is not as optimistic as Liu Tang.

If the boss intentionally cuts off contact between players, he is very likely to use the information gap between players to cause trouble.

Once players fall into the trap, the common goals they set before may not be achieved.

No, I have to find a way to communicate with other players.

Mo Qianhe's other machine soon received an order for stinky tofu.

After he confirmed that he had received enough orders for the pancake shop, he started frying stinky tofu without stopping.

Liu Tang looked up at the display screen above the square, which showed the sales of each store.

Although players cannot place orders for the store they run, they can at least see their own sales and the sales of other players on the display screen.

After making the first batch of stinky tofu, Mo Qianhe pasted the order details on the packaging bowl.

He asked Liu Tang to help him find a marker in the store. He picked it up and wanted to write on the detailed list or packaging to pass on the message to his next bun shop.

But no matter how he tried, there was always an impenetrable layer of air between the pen and the paper, preventing him from leaving any words on the list or the bowl.

"It seems that he is determined to cut off contact between us." Mo Qianhe frowned.

Inside the glass viewing platform, Boss looked at Mo Qianhe's attempt and sneered, "It's a waste of effort."

Liu Tang observed Mo Qianhe's actions and understood that he wanted to convey a message through the food.

He stared at the products already on the conveyor belt for a while. The type and quantity of food had already been determined in the order, and there was no way to convey information by changing these.

but……

Liu Tang suddenly suggested, "Boss Mo, can you try putting a few more sets of tableware in the packaging bag?"

After hearing this, Mo Qianhe raised his eyebrows and placed an extra pair of chopsticks next to the packaging bowl of the next food.

The chopsticks were placed into the packaging bag smoothly without any obstruction.

It seems that as long as the player's behavior complies with the rules of the catering industry, it will most likely be enforced.

After all, it is not okay to scribble on guests' bowls, but providing guests with an extra set of tableware is a thoughtful gesture.

Watching the stinky tofu with an extra pair of chopsticks being carried away, Liu Tang fell into thought: "But what message can an extra pair of chopsticks convey?"

While Mo Qianhe was thinking, he picked up the crumbly pancake from the conveyor belt at the other end and handed it to the customer, and helped the next customer to take their order.

Liu Tang watched Mo Qianhe's operation and sighed, "The menu of this diaozha shaobing shop is much richer than our stinky tofu shop. It's really troublesome to order."

Mo Qianhe smiled and said, "That's better than a milk tea shop. Although Feng Xiansu has reduced the product categories, each category still needs to be marked with sugar or ice, which is more troublesome..."

Hearing this, Liu Tang was stunned, and Mo Qianhe was also stunned. They said in unison: "Yes! Remarks!"

Mo Qianhe quickly made a note under the next order for the Diao Za Shao Bing restaurant:

"If you can see the note, please add an extra pair of chopsticks to this order."

Not long after, the crumbly sesame buns with the order details attached were delivered. Mo Qianhe and Liu Tang were surprised to find that there was an extra pair of chopsticks in the bag.

The two of them excitedly high-fived each other.

Liu Tang's hair was so full of joy that it swelled up. "Great! This way we can pass on some important information!"

Mo Qianhe curled his lips: "Then let the information circulate."

As he spoke, he cut off the information conveyed on the detailed list and handed the meal to the customer.

After confirming that there is no problem, he enters the note in the next order:

"Please inform your superior that 'Note can convey information' and pass it on. After receiving a confirmation reply, please place a single chopstick. (Note: The conveyed information must be cut off before serving the meal to the guest.)"

In the stands, Boss was so angry that she slammed the pillow on the sofa against the French window. She screamed in a shrill voice mixed with mechanical sounds: "Liu Tang!!!"

Live broadcast room barrage:

"Hahahahahaha, Tangtang and Mo the Liar have messed up Boss's mentality."

"I've been watching dungeon live streams for so long, but this is the first time I've seen a boss go crazy. I'm dying of laughter."

"Stimulate!"

After Mo Qianhe fried about five portions of stinky tofu and sent them out, he received a crumbly sesame bun with an extra chopstick in it.

Liu Tang saw the extra chopsticks and clapped happily: "Great!"

After a while, Mo Qianhe discovered that the stinky tofu order from the next bun shop also had an additional note:

"It has been confirmed that the note can convey the message. The target is still a sales volume of 595 coins."

It seems that the information has already been transmitted in a circle in the square and passed back to Mo Qianhe through Qin Zhengyi who runs the bun shop.

When Qin Zhengyi first discovered that she had lost contact with others, she felt a little uneasy. Only after she was sure that she could convey the message through the notes did she feel relieved.

She began to devote herself to the busy work of steaming buns and selling stinky tofu.

Other players in the square also followed the routine, and the sales of each store kept pace and soon exceeded 200 coins.

After Feng Xiansu helped the previous fried skewers shop sell ten fried skewers blind boxes in a row, she turned around to check another order-taking machine and found that there were no new milk tea orders, so she was a little idle for a while.

Only then did she take the time to look at the big screen above the square to check the sales of each store.

Looking at a row of numbers, she gradually realized that something was wrong.

The sales of other stores at this moment are very close, with a difference of less than 20 or 30 food coins, but her milk tea sales are the lowest, more than 50 coins less than the store with the lowest revenue.

You should know that the milk tea shop was the store with the highest sales in the food court before. During the customer appreciation event, if she had not intentionally controlled the sales speed, it would have been the store with the fastest sales growth.

Not only is the growth slow, but it is also so far behind other stores. This is really abnormal.

Feng Xiansu went to the machine to confirm again and found that half an hour had passed and there were still no new milk tea orders.

Her brow furrowed, and anxiety began to build in her heart.

She recalled carefully and realized that her next job was the crumbly pancake shop run by Song Xiaoyan.

In other words, Song Xiaoyan was helping her with the ordering and sales of milk tea.

Could it be that Song Xiaoyan did something?

Feng Xiansu was selling the fried skewers sent from the previous seller while shaking her head.

They just reached a cooperation agreement yesterday, and the other party should not turn against them now.

Besides, if she wanted to take action, she should have done it yesterday. There was no need to wait until today.

But... looking at it from another angle, the situation today is quite different from yesterday.

Today, the orders for Feng Xiansu's milk tea shop are completely controlled by Song Xiaoyan, but Feng Xiansu controls Jiang Minxu's fried skewers shop, and her influence on Song Xiaoyan is minimal.

In other words, Feng Xiansu lost the means to counter Song Xiaoyan today, and the balance between them is no longer as it was yesterday.

For Song Xiaoyan, there is no concern or loss if she takes action at this time.

Did she betray the agreement?

Feng Xiansu thought hesitantly.

The girl looked at the data on the big screen and discovered in despair that the gap in sales between the milk tea shop and other stores was still widening.

Even if Feng Xiansu wanted to threaten Jiang Minxu and make him counterattack Song Xiaoyan through a cycle, it was too late.

Because even if she stops placing orders for the fried skewers shop from now on, causing the shop's sales to stagnate, it will still be higher than the current stagnant sales of the milk tea shop.

The milk tea shop is still the store with the lowest sales, and as the store manager, I will definitely be eliminated.

She has fallen into a situation from which she cannot recover.

In the Crumbly Pancake Shop, Song Xiaoyan was also in trouble at this time.

She was absentmindedly packing the pancakes and putting them on the conveyor belt, waiting for the arrival of customers.

However, the store was empty.

This situation has been going on for half an hour.

She wanted to pass a message to Feng Xiansu, the manager of the previous store, through the notes, but without any customer orders, she had no way to place an order, and no way to pass a message through the order notes.

She knew that Feng Xiansu must have discovered the problem by now.

Song Xiaoyan was not only worried that the other party's turnover would not reach their common goal, but also worried that the other party would no longer trust her.

In this "competitive mode" where trust is particularly important, if one person does not cooperate, the cooperation chain of the six players will collapse completely.

Boss looked at the increasingly worried expressions on Feng Xiansu and Song Xiaoyan's faces and raised the corners of his lips: "Without orders, let's see how you can pass on the message this time."

Song Xiaoyan realized that she had to do something.

She looked at the crumbly pancake in her hand and suddenly thought, if she couldn't pass the message forward, could she pass it backward?

A minute later, in the stinky tofu shop, Mo Qianhe found a bunch of chopsticks in the packaging bag of the newly received crumbly sesame cakes.

It was not like one or one pair as before, but dozens of pairs of chopsticks that could barely be held in one hand.

He paused for a moment, took out the extra chopsticks, handed the pancake to the waiting customer, and while continuing with the work at hand, he told Liu Tang the situation and started thinking.

Is there something wrong with the crumbly pancake shop?

However, it is obvious that the message can be conveyed through notes. Even though it takes a whole circle and takes more time, it is better than putting a pair of chopsticks and asking him to guess, right?

Based on Mo Qianhe's understanding of Song Xiaoyan, this person is not a fool who would seek the far away instead of the near.

Unless… she couldn’t deliver the message via the note.

Liu Tang noticed the problem at this time and pointed to the big screen in the square to remind people: "The sales of milk tea shops have completely stopped."

Mo Qianhe had too many things to do and did not look up. He just made deductions based on the information provided by Liu Tang.

The milk tea shop business is controlled by Song Xiaoyan and Feng Xiansu.

If the producer Feng Xiansu encountered a problem, she could pass on the message by placing an order for her previous fried skewers shop, without having to let Song Xiaoyan deliver ambiguous messages.

So based on the current situation, the possibility of problems with Feng Xiansu is relatively small.

If there is a problem on the side of Song Xiaoyan, the party who placed the order and is unable to place the order, the message cannot be conveyed through the remarks.

So, what is the reason for not being able to place an order?

First of all, we have to rule out the possibility that she intentionally did not help the milk tea shop take the order, otherwise she would not remind herself that something was wrong by passing a handful of chopsticks around.

So Song Xiaoyan had no choice but not to place an order.

Mo Qianhe immediately noted the problem as briefly as possible on the next order of crumbly pancakes:

"If the ordering machine is broken, one pair of chopsticks will be passed; if there are no customers, one pair will be passed; if the milk tea shop doesn't deliver the food, three pairs will be passed; if there are other reasons, two pairs will be passed."