Chapter 228: Money can be used to stock up
This car dealership is located at the corner of the shopping mall. The door of the car dealership opens outwards, and occasionally some car shows are held on the first floor of the shopping mall.
The car dealership mainly sells two-box Jeeps, which are not expensive and have a lot of stock. The warehouse for picking up cars is not far away, and the car dealership staff can drive the car directly over.
Youxi decided on the car model in less than ten minutes after entering. The low-key iron gray color and the trunk space are large. After the back seat is laid flat, more things can be placed.
Afterwards, she asked about the car film and license plate. The other party said that it only takes about 2 to 3 hours to expedite the film, and the license plate can be used as a temporary license plate first, and then spend time to handle it later.
Youxi will only stay here for 44 days, and it is not certain whether she can take the car away by then. Naturally, she does not mind this, as long as the anti-peek car film can be applied and the car can be picked up immediately.
She told the other party that she still had something to do and hoped to pick up the car with the film in two hours, and expressed her willingness to pay more.
Money means money power, and this applies to all the worlds. Sure enough, the other party is most fond of such wealthy customers, and will agree to all requests that can be done.
Youxi opened the unlimited currency payment code, swiped the full amount, and then moved to the restaurants on the third and fourth floors of the shopping center.
Before entering the restaurant, she went to the restroom first, took out the cup of boiling water she had put in the cubicle to test the temperature, and found that the water still maintained the boiling heat when it was put in.
Youxi was relieved, it seemed that the time-stopping function of the space was still there. As long as this function was there, it would be much more convenient to stock up.
She selected several restaurants of different types with good reputations on the Food, Clothing, Housing and Transportation APP. After entering the store, she said that her company was going to a team building and wanted to order food.
At this time, Wukongcheng’s time was 1 pm on weekdays. There were not many customers in the restaurant, and the kitchen had time to take orders. Youxi briefly looked through the menu and put forward her requirements.
She wanted to order a set lunch box, which means she would choose the dishes and then the restaurant would pack them in thick, microwave-safe compartments, with rice and a portion of soup of her choice.
When the other party heard this, he immediately looked embarrassed. It was not a problem to separate the stir-fried dishes, but how could a normal restaurant provide compartments?
"There is a large shopping mall in the basement, and there are two household tableware stores on the second floor. You can buy the largest ones with the most compartments. If you help me solve this problem, I will give you extra money. All the meals plus the take-out boxes plus an extra 500 for running errands and labor, okay?"
The other waiter: ...
The manager on the side pulled the waiter aside and came forward to open the menu for Youxi, asking her politely which dishes she wanted to choose, or he could recommend special dishes to her.
In this way, she relied on her "money power" to go up and down a total of six restaurants, ordering 50 lunch boxes from each restaurant, each of which was full of dishes and sufficient for two people.
Northwest Wind Restaurant: Cumin lamb chops (2), organic cauliflower in a pot, lamb skewers (5, unskewered), shredded spicy chicken, cheesecake, stir-fried mushrooms, served with lamb soup.
Cuisine: Foie gras sushi (4), salmon carpaccio (10 slices), spicy clams, shrimp and avocado rolls (4), Arctic clams (5), king crab meat Caesar salad, half served with almond tofu, half served with grilled eel rice.
Barbecue restaurant: Marbled beef, pork belly, beef tongue, stir-fried vegetables, teriyaki chicken steak, seafood pancake, half served with spicy beef vermicelli soup, half served with seafood tofu soup.
This restaurant is a bit special, because the beef, pork belly and beef tongue are all served raw, so Youxi added some money to ask the other party to roast them all for her, cut them into small pieces, and then pack several different dipping sauces in a seasoning box.
In addition, she also sat down and tasted the beef, which was not up to M12, but M9 was available. It was tender and delicious, so she asked for a larger portion of beef in the meal box.
The merchant certainly had no objection to this, because increasing the amount means increasing the price, and they wanted the more the better.
Sichuan restaurant: spicy chicken, dry pot bullfrog, mouth-watering chicken, boiling fish, hand-shredded cabbage, garlic water spinach, served with white rice and intestines and bamboo fungus soup.
Cantonese restaurant: roasted suckling pigeon (1), pork chop, Singapore fried rice noodles, roast goose, flower fork, stir-fried seasonal vegetables, half with marinated clay pot rice and jelly lime tea, half with century egg and lean meat porridge and silk stocking milk tea.
Fast food restaurant: spicy chicken wings (4), original chicken (2), beef burger, roasted chicken leg burger, ice cola, latte, sea salt sundae.
This one is also a bit special, because it is a fast food that can be taken away directly, so there are many different combinations on the menu. So in addition to the 50 sets of sets she put together and asked to be put in a takeaway paper bag, she also ordered 20 super family buckets.
She left her mobile phone number with each restaurant and asked them to call her before they were about to finish taking away the food, and she would come to pick it up in person.
It is impossible for every restaurant to pack the dishes at the same time. It is estimated that it will take from one to two hours to three to four hours. She can pick up one by one. If 50 meal boxes are packed in large cartons, there are only a few boxes, which can be solved by a trolley.
As for trolleys, she had seen them for sale in the underground supermarket before, so she can buy them directly later.
Youxi took the escalator downstairs and passed by several connected gold and silver jewelry stores on the first floor. Her heart moved.
The unlimited currency may be closed, but if she prepares some gold in advance, she can sell it when the unlimited currency is closed. After all, she only has 100 cubic meters of space now. No matter how much supplies she prepares, the same volume of supplies cannot be as durable as the same volume of gold.
Thinking of this, she turned and entered the gold shop.
It was the Chinese New Year, and there were many customers in the gold shops. Most of them had enough money. Some bought gold for their children, some planned to give as gifts, and some bought to collect and preserve value.
Youxi squeezed in among them, but was not obvious.
She directly passed by those fancy jewelry and bought a few gold bars. She spent 200,000 yuan in one store and 150,000 yuan in another store.
Seeing that she bought gold bars quickly, the clerk strongly recommended various jewelry to her, such as large naked diamond rings, platinum diamond bracelets... all kinds of praise and recommendations, and kept urging her to try them on, saying that it was okay if she didn't buy them, and just wanted her to take a look.
Youxi actually likes such shiny things, after all, no woman can refuse such a big diamond ring, but she has a sense of propriety in her heart. She thinks that she has already bought enough gold, and buying more will be too conspicuous, so she declined one by one.
This city now seems normal, just like her native world, which makes it easy to forget the strange trains and smiling people before, but the more this happens, the more she has to be vigilant, and everything must be done in moderation.
When Youxi left the jewelry store, she heard a burst of noise in a luxury store next to her, which was very lively.
She passed by the store and saw a lot of people standing at the door, looking inside. This is a very famous luxury store. The cheapest item costs more than 2,000 yuan. The store is very large, but there are few customers even during the Chinese New Year.
Youxi has excellent eyesight and hearing. Standing in the crowd, she glanced into the store and figured out the reason for everyone's gathering.
A very impressive customer came to the luxury store. He looked like a man in his thirties or forties. When he first entered the store, he was "politely" asked to leave by the clerk because his clothes were old, his face and hands were dirty, but he wanted to check the goods.
But the other party was very angry and thought that the clerk judged people by appearance. He immediately said that he wanted to buy the most expensive men's travel bag.
The clerk thought he was trying to be a fat man, after all, his clothes and skin color showed that he was a "new industrial worker" (migrant worker), but he actually took out his mobile phone and paid for the travel bag.
And this was just the beginning. He sat on the sofa and asked the clerk to act as a human hanger, showing him all the men's trousers, shoes, and bags. He would buy any one he liked.
At first, the clerk was still skeptical. After all, he could still buy the previous travel bag if he tried hard, but he might not have the money to buy the second and third ones.
At this time, the man paid again and bought all the ten or so items he had liked before. The consumption of more than 100,000 yuan at once completely shocked the clerk.
The man seemed to enjoy the other person's change from looking down on him to being shocked and surprised. He sat down again and continued to pick out luxury goods.
"This is not the first store he has bought. It is said that he spent hundreds of thousands in the previous store. The clerks were so happy that they exceeded the sales target for this month. Now several other stores are also looking forward to his visit!"
"Oh my god, you really can't judge a person by his appearance! No wonder the clerks in this store are holding the products and showing them in front of him like they are selecting concubines. The commission is so easy to make!"
...
While others were talking, You Xi withdrew her gaze from the man in the store, touched her newly bought thick sweatshirt and cardigan, turned around and walked towards the supermarket with her head down.
She knew the man, or rather, she had seen him before. He was a passenger from another carriage who got off the train at the same platform as her.
She still remembered that he was one of the novice passengers who was frightened by the attack scene of the smiley man. He was frightened and collapsed to the ground, but he did not return to the train. He should have walked out of the train station after she left.
He must have been a person with a heavy burden in life before, and lived a very depressed life, so he chose to spend retaliatory amounts after all the great changes. After all, in front of "unlimited money", few people can resist being tempted.
But Youxi always felt that this was not appropriate. Being too high-profile made her feel very insecure.
**
At two o'clock in the afternoon, she pushed the shopping cart into the supermarket again.
A total of 320 gourmet meal sets from six restaurants were enough for her to sustain for a long time, but since the delivery location was in the supermarket, there was naturally no reason not to stock up on other things for herself.
She pushed her shopping cart to the fruit section first, where there were a wide variety of fruits, and there was no obvious seasonal distinction.
She picked clean, boxed fruits, not too many varieties, just enough to supplement vitamins: cherries, cherry tomatoes, lychees, cucumbers, green grapes, blueberries, tangerines, hand-peeled oranges, kumquats, longans, ten boxes of all the above varieties.
Considering that she would only stay in this city for 44 days and would not be able to cook much later, she did not take any fresh vegetables or fish, but went to the shelf to get a box of dehydrated vegetables as a backup.
There were twenty bags in a box, each weighing 500 grams. This brand of dehydrated vegetables is better, and eggs are added to it, which is nutritious. You can soak them before eating, and use them for cooking or making soup.
After that, she picked out expensive and good-brand canned food, and took two boxes of luncheon meat, smoked fish, braised pork, lamb, and yellow peach, each box containing 24 cans. She
also prepared some instant hot pot and rice, taking a box of five different flavors of self-heating hot pot (6 boxes) and a box of six flavors of self-heating rice (4 boxes).
550ml bottled water is more convenient for daily drinking outside, so she also took ten boxes, each containing 24 bottles.
The shopping cart would definitely not be able to fit all the boxed goods, so she found a supermarket staff member and asked him to go directly to the warehouse to pick up the whole box of goods for her, and asked for delivery. The delivery address was the apartment hotel where she was temporarily staying.
She placed an order first and agreed on a delivery time of 5:30 in the evening. The hotel was not of high quality and the management was loose, so the delivery could come in at will.
After that, she pushed the full shopping cart and first took ten packs of ten masks, and then found a household cart in the daily necessities area.
This household cart is foldable, and there are net bags around it to prevent it from falling off. She took the largest size, paid the bill, and put seven or eight large shopping bags of fruit boxes on the shopping cart into it.
Then, she put on a mask, covered the cart cover, and leisurely pulled the cart to the car dealership.
Two hours had passed, and the film application work was almost finished. The car salesperson enthusiastically took out candy, biscuits and snacks to entertain her, and apologized that it took a little longer than expected because it was an anti-peeping film.
Youxi waited for more than 20 minutes and picked up the car smoothly. She laid the back seat flat, moved the shopping bags into the car first, and then folded the cart and put it in. Then she drove the car and entered the underground garage through the entrance.
The fruits in the car were smoothly transferred to the space.
Prepare meals and pack the fastest fast food restaurant at this time. Youxi heard that the other party had a deliveryman who could deliver the goods, so she asked the other party to deliver directly to the No. 1 direct elevator entrance on the second floor underground.
The other party’s two deliverymen and a waiter each carried two large backpacks and ran up and down twice, delivering all 50 optional meals and 20 family buckets.
Youxi folded up the cart for transition again, then changed into a coat of a different color in the car, tied up her long hair, put on a mask and entered the shopping center again.
This time, the target was the big pharmacy on the first floor of the shopping mall. Although she couldn't be hurt by a knife or a bullet in her current physical condition, she still had to prepare some medicines.
Antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, hemostatic spray, disinfectant iodine, gauze alcohol, cold and fever medicine... all added up to two big bags.
She didn't want to walk with all the things, so she went back to the garage again and moved smoothly into the space with the help of the anti-penetration compartment.
After that, she checked the shopping guide map of the shopping mall and went to an outdoor equipment store on the fourth floor. Although there were no professional protective clothing here, there were ordinary cold-proof and waterproof assault clothes, camping tents, and outdoor survival tools.
She asked the store to provide her with a comprehensive set of wilderness survival equipment, including tents, sleeping bags, camping cooking utensils, lighting and heating equipment, multi-functional shovels, tactical knives, Swiss army knives, compasses, emergency blankets, fire sticks, lighters and other tools.
She bought two extra boxes of gas cylinders to go with the cassette stove, as well as several sets of assault pants, hiking boots, gloves, ropes, replacement batteries, and survival backpacks. She
didn't take any water purification equipment, but she had a box of metal ice as a backup. If she only used it for drinking, a total of 50,000L of purified water would be enough for a lifetime.
As for daily water use, she planned to buy some square water storage tanks and directly store water in ten cubic meters of space, so that she could replenish it later.
She couldn't carry all these things by herself, so after paying, she left her address and agreed on a delivery time of 6:30 in the evening, deliberately staggering it by one hour from the canned goods she had bought before.
Next, she went to the home textile store on the second floor and bought a few thin blankets and thick velvet blankets, and then went to the women's clothing store next door and bought a batch of comfortable, lightweight and breathable summer clothes. Because it is winter in Wukong City, the summer clothes have been stored in the warehouse, and there are not many of them, so she bought them all.
After transferring these things into the space with the help of the car, other restaurants that had placed orders before started to call.
Youxi took the folding cart from the car (space), took the direct elevator to the fourth floor, and began to count the food, pick up the food, and move it with the cart.
At 4:45 pm, she drove the car around the underground garage and parked the car near the elevator room of the building where the apartment hotel was located.
Because the buildings on both sides are close, the underground garages are connected, but the shopping center parking lot is on the second floor, while the apartment hotel's underground garage is on the first floor, so you need to go up and circle.
She stopped on the fourth floor where the reception desk of the apartment hotel was located and said she wanted to exchange some cash. After the other party asked her the amount she needed, he scanned her payment code and gave her 2,000 cash.
This is a hotel, and it is good to be able to exchange 2,000. If she wants to prepare more cash, she has to go to the bank.
But she doesn't have a bank card and doesn't know how to operate it, so she will exchange these for the time being.
At 5:35, the supplies purchased from the supermarket arrived, including dehydrated vegetables, canned food, self-heating rice hot pot and water, a total of 22 boxes and 10 bottles of bottled water. Two deliverymen pushed the cart up and down the elevator several times to help her deliver all the goods.
Youxi gave each of them a tip of 100 yuan. Both deliverymen were very happy and told her to call after-sales service if she had any questions.
At six o'clock, she put 21 boxes and 10 buckets of water into the space, turned on the TV and tuned to the news channel, took a simple shower first, and changed into a T-shirt and sports pants that were convenient for exercise.
It was winter in Wukong City, but due to her physical condition, she did not feel particularly cold. She bought a few winter clothes to hide her identity.
In the mirror, the whole picture of this body was reflected, with black hair down to the waist, a slim and well-proportioned figure, very white skin, lips with a natural rosy red, thick eyebrows and deep eyes. Even without makeup, there was a kind of gorgeousness after makeup.
If you look closely, you can find three-quarters of her own appearance in this face, and the figure is almost exactly the same as before.
But compared with the previous eight mission worlds, this body is still special, like an abrupt change in a neatly arranged team.
Why?
Steam rose in the bathroom, and the mirror that had just been wiped dry was soon covered with a thin mist again. She lowered her head and was about to take out the clothes, but she caught a glimpse of herself in the mirror out of the corner of her eye.
A coolness instantly surrounded her, she raised her head abruptly and looked at the mirror again. In the thin mist, You Xi in the mirror was also looking at her with a surprised expression.
Illusion? She frowned slightly. The moment she lowered her head, the self in the mirror seemed to still be looking up without moving...
Youxi wiped the mist off the mirror again, then leaned on the sink and stared at herself in the mirror.
A minute later, nothing was unusual.
She shook her head and turned to get the clothes from the rack. This time, when she deliberately glanced at it with her peripheral vision, everything was normal in the mirror.
Under the dim yellow light of the bathroom, the back of the person in the mirror, who had almost half of his body turned to the side, suddenly twisted his neck silently. The angle of this twist revealed a little bit of his face, as well as the black eyeballs and the corners of his lips that were almost embedded in the end of his eyes.
The corners of his lips were hooked.
**
At 6:30, the goods from the outdoor equipment store were delivered, and Youxi gave the other party a 200 tip as usual.
There was no more information on the news on TV, so Youxi put on a sweater and cardigan, put on a mask, and went out again, planning to walk to the shopping mall in front for dinner.
After a bowl of pork bone ramen with a cup of pearl milk tea, she carried five cups of brown sugar pearl milk tea and five cups of matcha bubble tea, a small bag of soy milk, sea salt, chocolate mille-feuille, red velvet and other cakes, and walked out of the shopping mall again. It
was completely dark outside, and the wind was very strong. The empty city at night was very different from the daytime. I don’t know if it was because the shopping mall was close to closing time, there were not many pedestrians on the road, and the surroundings seemed particularly quiet. The sense of strangeness in the city suddenly became heavier.
When Youxi reached the corner, she suddenly noticed something unusual. Her reflexes kicked in immediately, and she quickly moved seven or eight steps toward the sidewalk. Almost one or two seconds after she moved, an object landed heavily near her original position with a bang.
She looked up and saw a black figure flashing by the edge of the shopping center's rooftop and disappearing into the night.
She looked down again to see what had fallen - it was a person, a person who had died horribly. The flesh and blood on the other person's body seemed to have completely disappeared, leaving only skin wrapped around bones, his cheeks sunken like a skull, and all the exposed parts of his body were charred, as if he had been burned to death.
But it was just like that, because his clothes were intact, so it could be judged that he was a man - wait! Youxi narrowed her eyes slightly and glanced at his clothes and the watch on his wrist again.
She remembered this man. This was the man who had spent lavishly in the luxury store in the afternoon and attracted the attention of passers-by! He
was also a novice passenger who arrived at Wukong City on the same train as her!
Why?
Who killed him and how?
She came back to her senses amid the screams of passers-by, and her intuition made her take a few steps back again when other passers-by surrounded her, and carefully stayed away from the center of the incident.
**
At seven o'clock in the morning, after washing up, Youxi turned on the TV news, and then browsed several news platforms on her mobile phone.
No, nothing.
Regarding the incident of someone falling from a building and dying in the shopping mall yesterday, she did not see any relevant reports, and not even a video was leaked.
This incident was a bit unusual. She always felt that the death of the novice passenger was closely related to the death of the veteran passenger.
She originally wanted to stay here for one more night, but now she was going to leave directly after breakfast. Because this apartment hotel adopts the payment-first-come-later method, in addition to the full accommodation fee, a deposit of a certain fee will be charged, so she wants to leave now, just leave the room card and leave.
Half an hour later, Youxi put on a windproof hat and a mask, went down to the basement in low-key clothes, and drove away from the area.
Her plan today is to explore the entire city. According to the platform data, the entire Wukong City area is not large, about 100 square kilometers, with a population of about 200,000. But it is still very difficult to find a hidden station in a city of this size.
She is now in the southwest of Wukong City, and the nearest highway intersection is ten kilometers to the south. She plans to go there first to test one of her ideas.
More than half an hour later, Youxi sat in the car, looking at the traffic light across the road in a daze.
This was the road out of the city, and the highway entrance was on the left side across the road. Even if she didn't go to the highway, she could leave the city and enter the suburbs as long as she kept driving after this traffic light.
She had passed the traffic light twice, or to be more precise, she drove to the center of the intersection twice, but every time she drove through the intersection, it would suddenly become dark outside the car, as if she had suddenly fallen from day into the thick darkness of the night.
In the darkness, it seemed as if countless eyes were watching her...
When she came back to her senses, she found herself behind the zebra crossing. She checked the time on her phone. Time was flowing and there was no repetition. So this time was different from the storm world. She did not fall into the Mobius time loop area.
But no matter what the reason, the result of both was the same. She could not leave Wukong City.
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