Chapter 001: Being a Shopkeeper
When Xie Yunsui opened his eyes, he was met with a pair of pitch-black eyes surrounded by fur.
He was startled and leaned back, then he could see clearly the object in front of him, which turned out to be a small bee.
Even bees were scary. Before Xie Yunsui could dodge, he heard the little bee buzzing away from him, making a sound: "Are you the new owner?"
Bees speak human language?
Xie Yunsui thought he was hallucinating.
Wait, where is this?
He looked around and found that the surroundings were bright and spacious. Neat shelves were arranged against the wall, but there were no goods on them. He sat at the door of the store, and to his right was a cashier desk.
He hadn't seen such a clean environment for a long time. Xie Yunsui subconsciously touched the ground with his fingers, and there was not even a speck of dust on it.
The little bee buzzed around him half a circle, taking in his movements and expressions. Its tiny chip processed the information before explaining, "Youyou cleans every two hours. The store is very clean."
It stopped on a round object that looked like a trash can. The small trash can then lit up with a light red halo, and suddenly pulled out two thin tentacles from its body. It held a dry rag in one hand and a wet rag in the other, and began to clean.
The little bee flew up and explained to Xie Yunsui: "Youyou's energy is low. If you don't replenish it, Youyou will be scrapped."
A palm-sized screen lit up in the small trash can, with a smiling face on it: O(∩_∩)O
Only then did Xie Yunsui see the bee's wings clearly. They seemed to be made of metal, and its body also reflected silver light under the overhead light, not to mention the layer of fluffy hair that did not seem soft at all.
He asked carefully, "Who are you?"
Seeing that he finally asked, the little bee flew in front of him, as if wanting to look him in the eye: "Good afternoon, dear owner, I am Tiantian, the only waiter in the store."
Xie Yunsui: "..."
Sweet.
Why does the voice of this name come from an enthusiastic middle-aged man?
Xie Yunsui tried to hold back, but couldn't help asking, "Have you ever thought about changing your name?"
Little Bee: "The name was given by the previous owner. Only the owner can change my name."
Xie Yunsui forced a smile: "Then changing the voice would be good."
Little Bee: "The voices were changed by the previous owner, but he bought me a lot of voice packs so I can change them myself. Which one do you like?"
As it spoke, its voice changed.
Xie Yunsui: "Let's just say 'you like it'."
That sounds pretty normal.
The little bee then changed into the voice of a cheerful child of seven or eight years old: "Shopkeeper, please make way. Youyou needs to sweep the area in front of the door."
"I'm not..." Xie Yunsui stood up and gave up his seat. He was about to deny his identity. He didn't even know why he came here. How could he become the owner of this store out of thin air?
But seeing that the little bee seemed to have recognized him, he asked, "Why do you call me the owner?"
"Because without a shop owner, the shop cannot be open, and if the shop cannot be open, there is no way to receive customers."
According to Little Bee, this store seemed to have been without an owner for a long time, and it hadn't received any customers for a long time. He must not be here to buy anything, after all, there was not a single item for sale in the store.
Xie Yunsui still remembered the hunger he felt before his death, but now he felt as if he had gone to heaven, without any pain at all.
He closed his eyes and asked, "What kind of store is this?"
The little bee said, "The Myriad Worlds Shop faces the eighty-four thousand small worlds in the heavens."
It's not a normal store.
Xie Yunsui walked to the door of the store. This was the place where he woke up. He leaned against the transparent glass door. The light inside was as bright as day, but it was pitch black outside. He reached out to touch the door and pushed it, but it didn't budge.
The little bee flew over and landed on his hand, its two big eyes and three small eyes all staring at him: "The owner needs to officially open the shop before he can open it."
Xie Yunsui asked, "Where are we now?"
The little bee thought for a moment and said, "I don't know. I've never been out, but I guess this is a crack in space and time, because there's no energy nearby."
It said, "The operation of the Myriad Worlds Shop requires energy. No matter which small world it is, there will be a variety of different energies. No matter where the shop falls, it can slowly absorb this energy, except for the gaps in time and space."
Xie Yunsui was curious: "You said before that you had two previous shop owners. Where did they go? Why did the shop fall into the gap in time and space?"
The little bee flew left and right, emitting a beam of light from one of its tiny eyes, casting a shadow on the white wall. Even though Xie Yunsui had prepared himself for the possibility that it wasn't a normal bee, he was still amazed to see it transformed into a projector.
A man, a woman, and a humanoid intelligent creature with bone wings appeared on the wall one after another.
It was during Little Bee's introduction that Xie Yunsui discovered that the man he had thought was not truly male, but rather a hermaphrodite, whose attire was more like the men Xie Yunsui remembered. He wasn't the first owner of the Myriad Worlds Shop, but it was he who had recruited Little Bee, awakened her intelligence, and appointed her as the shop's receptionist. Little Bee's memories also stemmed from him. He had run the shop for 560 years, spanning 18 small worlds.
The previous owner was a female monk with an immortal appearance. She gave the little bee a name and taught it the art of fasting. She ran the shop with the little bee for three thousand years, and went through ninety-nine small worlds.
The previous owner was a female insect who was brave and good at fighting, but not good at business. She led the little bees to expand the territory, and every time she arrived in a world, she tried to conquer it. Because she obtained little energy, she only ran the store for two hundred and eighty years and went through thirty-one small worlds.
He also replaced the little bee's skin with steel and installed several nanochips.
The last scene of the projection was that the female insect was facing a full-scale hunt by a certain technological dimension, which drained all the energy of the shop. In the end, her soul was scattered and her energy was annihilated, and the shop also fell into the gap of time and space.
Xie Yunsui: What a thrilling battle...
Under the guidance of the little bee, he came to the cashier counter. The current counter was the model left by the fighting maniac. He didn't know how to open a store, so he used the fool mode. Xie Yunsui only watched it twice and basically learned how to operate it.
A scan of Xie Yunsui's entire body suddenly appeared on the screen, followed by a series of symbols and Chinese characters.
[The Wanjie Store has been identified...]
[Already bound to Ancient Blue Star, Animal Kingdom, Vertebrata, Mammalia, Primates, Hominidae, Genus Homo, Species Homo sapiens.]
[Bound by Xie Yunsui, assumed position: Wanjie Shop Owner.]
Almost in an instant, Xie Yunsui felt that he was bound to the store, like a connection deep in his soul. When he opened his eyes and looked at the store again, he had the illusion of being home.
At the same time, he felt that he was endowed with some invisible power. With a slight movement of his fingers, the whole store was completely renewed. The lights changed to warm yellow light, the cash register counter became smaller and leaned against the door, and the high-tech cash register system also changed into a more familiar computer shape. The shelves against the three walls were emptied. The small trash can that had just been cleaned up and down was startled, and stretched out a thin stick and claws to feel the air next to it, but touched nothing.
The small trash can in Xie Yunsui's eyes also became different. It turned out that it was a multifunctional household machine that was proficient in washing, cooking, cleaning and massage. However, its energy was about to run out, so it had to remove other power-consuming modules, leaving only the simplest cleaning mode. The brackets were replaced with extremely thin ones to avoid being too heavy and consuming energy.
Xie Yunsui looked at the space of only ten square meters and thought that there was no need to clean it every two hours, so he set a time limit for cleaning the small trash can once a week.
The little bee flew back and forth, looking at the empty shop, wanting to cry but unable to: "Shopkeeper, you can't tear down the shelves even if you have nothing to sell!"
The little bee had experienced the super luxurious period of the store. At that time, the store had five floors, each floor was nearly a thousand square meters, and there was an endless stream of customers every day. It was such a grand occasion. Even though the store fell into a gap in time and space and its energy became increasingly scarce, it was reluctant to remove all the shelves.
There was not a single shelf left, and the angry little bee Bang Bang gave Xie Yunsui two wings.
None of the store employees could cause any harm to the store manager. Xie Yunsui only felt himself being touched twice and couldn't help but pinch the little bee: "The store's energy is almost exhausted. Now that the store is closed, there is no point in keeping the shelves."
He previously thought Little Bee was just a waiter, but after becoming the store manager, he discovered that Little Bee had many more responsibilities than he had imagined. After being trained by three store owners, Little Bee transformed from an ordinary insect worker bee into a mechanical species that only retained the form of a bee.
Its eyes each have their own function: two large eyes for recognition, recording, and video, while its three smaller eyes function as a projector, a scanner, and a laser weapon. Its wings not only allow for flight, but their edges are sharper than an operating room knife. Its antennae are energy sensors, its thorax houses an energy core, its abdomen contains a nanochip, and its tail also contains a venom sac and stinger.
...As expected of a battle maniac.
Of course, it still retains the duties of a receptionist, responsible for the store's temperature and humidity balance, the lighting effects of each area, opening and closing the store on time, arranging the work areas and duties of other employees in other stores, and shouting "Welcome" when guests come.
Currently, everything in the store, including the cash register table, is made of energy. If it weren't inconvenient to squat on the ground to look at the computer, Xie Yunsui would have wanted to put the table away as well.
Xie Yunsui didn’t quite understand. The previous owners had been to so many worlds. Was it difficult to buy a table and shelves?
This small shop relies on energy generation. As the shop owner, Xie Yunsui does not understand the origin of the Ten Thousand Worlds Shop and the significance of collecting energy. He can only prepare to open a shop in the small world, collect energy, expand the store, and open shops all over the heavens and ten thousand worlds, just like the previous shop owners.
The store's energy value is about to hit bottom. If we stay here any longer, the store will shrink further, and in the end, there might not even be a place to step.
Xie Yunsui opened the computer page and selected the small world he was about to jump to.
The more energy there is, the more energy-rich the small world you jump to will be. However, there are not many small worlds for Xie Yunsui to choose from now, and there are some places where even intelligent beings have not evolved.
Xie Yunsui paused. Actually, it doesn’t matter if there is no intelligent body.
[The plane has been selected. Detection shows sufficient energy. We will be transferred to that plane soon. Please wait...]
The next second, Xie Yunsui landed on a beach. The salty sea breeze mixed with waves rushed towards the beach, breaking the rocks on the shore.
Xie Yunsui slowly revealed a question mark.
Where is this?
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