Chapter 10 [Please add to your favorites]
Wang Wen: "So that means even you, sir, didn't know?"
The middle-aged man shook his head. "I don't know, I don't know. I still need to go back and prepare lunch for you. I'll be going now if there's nothing else."
Wang Wen paused for a moment. Speaking of lunch, they remembered the breakfast this person had brought: plain porridge, pickled vegetables, and a few large steamed buns. While it was enough to fill their stomachs, it…
Wang Tong, "What are we having for lunch?"
Middle-aged man: "Eat rice and vegetables!"
Wang Wen quickly followed up, "What about my two friends? Should we just leave their bodies in the room?"
The middle-aged man said, "It's alright, someone will come to clean it up anyway, you don't need to worry about it."
Wang Wen said, "Could lunch be a little more substantial? We're a lot of young people, so we need a lot of nutrition."
The middle-aged man said, "There's a small shop at the village entrance; you can go check it out there."
Wang Wen: "Can we wander around the village during the day? The convenience store is at the village entrance, can we go there?"
"Of course you can. You can walk around freely during the day. But you can't go too far from the village, or you won't be able to come back."
Wang Wen blinked. He couldn't go too far, or he wouldn't be able to come back.
He thought of several players who went to explore the area around the village, but he didn't know if they had gone far. Sure enough, the first thing he needed to do was to gather information.
"So, does that mean as long as you stay indoors obediently from 10 PM to 6 AM, you'll be absolutely safe?"
The middle-aged man stared intently at Wang Wen for a moment and said, "Yes."
After answering the question, he left, and Wang Wen had no way to ask anything more.
"Everyone should stay away from this house for the time being."
Even if he didn't say anything, no one dared to approach, after all, they were just ordinary people who would be afraid of seeing a dead person.
Wu Yin stroked his chin, muttering under his breath with some dissatisfaction, "This Wang Wen guy really knows how to show off; everyone's watching him!"
Xue Rui, “…”
Wu Yin: "By the way, should we go for a walk around the village? Ask the other villagers what's going on?"
Xue Rui felt that the middle-aged man's last look at Wang Wen was a bit strange. Could it be that as long as he stayed in the house during the specified time and moved around freely at other times, he could safely get through these seven days?
The two women killed last night might have been killed because the doors and windows weren't properly closed, or perhaps they opened the door in the middle of the night? Or maybe they heard someone knocking on the door...
Xue Rui nodded. "Let's go."
Wu Yin led him toward the village entrance, saying, "I heard there's a small shop up ahead. Let's go see what we can buy. It would be great if we could find something for self-defense."
Xue Rui also wanted to take a look; the convenience store should have hats or something, right?
The two of them walked along the village road. The sun was so bright in broad daylight, but they weren't afraid at all. Moreover, the villagers were all around, some working in the fields, some chatting together, and some tidying up in front of their houses, just like an ordinary small mountain village.
Wu Yin quickly spotted the convenience store. "Is that the one? Let's go take a look. Oh, right, we need money to buy things, let's use the money coupons first."
Anyway, there's no point in keeping this thing in my backpack.
Upon arriving at the convenience store, the first thing they saw was Lin Leyou inside.
Lin Leyou was idly reading a novel from the convenience store, so engrossed that he didn't notice anyone coming in outside.
He didn't look up until they walked in. Two men, were they players?
Wu Yin was walking in front. Just by looking at his gait, eyes, and expression, he could tell that he was a gangster. Most people living at the bottom of society have encountered people like him.
For honest workers, the best approach is to avoid talking to or interacting with such people and to stay out of their way.
But when Lin Leyou's gaze shifted to behind him, he blurted out, "Boss..."
Wu Yin was stunned for a moment, "What?"
Lin Leyou immediately came to her senses. "Ah, I mean... I'm the owner of the convenience store. Go inside and get whatever you want, and come to me to pay later."
Wu Yin didn't doubt it. "Okay, I understand. Let's go, Xiao Zheng, let's go in and take a look."
Xue Rui didn't suspect anything. Perhaps he would discover Lin Leyou's abnormality decades later, but right now he was just a kid who hadn't even graduated from high school.
He has some shrewdness, but not much; he has some cunning, but not much; he is vigilant, but not enough; he has experience, but not enough!
Lin Leyou appeared calm and collected as he continued reading his novel, but his gaze was somewhat unfocused as he looked at the pages.
This person was very young. The man walking in front of him called him Xiao Zheng. Logically speaking, he shouldn't be the boss Xue Rui that I knew.
If it were anyone else, they would definitely mistake this young man for Xue Rui's son or a younger relative, but Lin Leyou was the only one who wouldn't.
Xue Rui is the big boss of the company he works for. He had looked up Xue Rui's information before and had seen photos of Xue Rui when he was young online. They looked exactly the same!
Not to mention what Xue Rui did to him back then, he could never forget Xue Rui even if he forgot himself for the rest of his life!
So this young man is definitely the boss, Xue Rui!
So here's the problem: Xue Rui is only a year younger than me, and I'm almost fifty. Xue Rui isn't young either. When I met Xue Rui at the traffic light, he didn't look old, but he looked over thirty.
Could it be that... once players enter the Endless World to complete dungeons, they can freely set their own age?
Lin Leyou has too little information at the moment, so he can only put this matter aside for now. But then again, will Xue Rui recognize him?
You probably wouldn't recognize me. I look exactly like I just graduated high school. It's so different from how I look after working for decades.
Let's not alert them yet.
Xue Rui had no idea that Lin Leyou had seen him. After thinking so much, he immediately noticed the baseball cap, grabbed a black one, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He then walked around inside and saw some simple knives, such as kitchen knives and fruit knives. He and Wu Yin each took a few.
Wu Yin was indifferent to the food in the convenience store. He couldn't go seven days without eating anything, could he? Otherwise, he would starve to death before he even survived seven days.
Besides, the things in this convenience store look safer and more reliable than what that weird old man makes, right? They're all vacuum-packed!
Wu Yin was the first to pay the bill. Lin Leyou saw the knives and looked at everything without even blinking. "Three hundred and twenty."
Wu Yin pretended to reach into his pocket, and finally pulled out 320 yuan and placed it on the table. Lin Leyou knew that he must have just taken the money from the panel, which was why it was exactly that amount.
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