Chapter 32 Platinum Supermarket: Everyone Lied.
Shi Yu got up early the next day, intending to summon Lin Fengbai. Yesterday, Lin Fengbai had whispered to him that he found food tasted different. Shi Yu planned to take Lin Fengbai out for breakfast.
Although Lin Fengbai's current form is fine even without eating, since he can taste the flavors, he should definitely try more.
Shi Yu opened the game panel and found that the inventory was empty.
Through the bedroom door, he could vaguely hear sounds coming from the living room.
Shi Yu opened the bedroom door, and Lin Fengbai stood in the living room with a deathly pale face, his hand trembling as he pointed at the television, his voice shaking as he said, "The...the television is haunted! It changes channels automatically!"
It's a little embarrassing to admit, but although Lin Fengbai had been a ghost for a long time, he was actually afraid of ghosts.
He has been afraid of ghosts since he was a child. However, despite his fear of ghosts, he loves watching horror movies. As a child, he often watched ghost movies on DVDs on the TV, which led to his stronger fear of television compared to other electronic devices.
Especially now, the "ghosting" is being made incredibly realistically!
Although Lin Fengbai didn't understand either.
Why would there be ghosts in broad daylight?
"It's not haunted."
Shi Yu gave this explanation that wasn't really an explanation, and then picked up the remote control.
Over the next ten minutes, Lin Fengbai witnessed firsthand the seamless communication between Shi Yu and the "ghost" in the room.
His initial shock turned to horror, then numbness, and finally acceptance, followed by admiration. After Shi Yu and the "ghost" communicated for a while using a special method, the flickering screen stopped, the television stopped on a nature channel, and a very harmonious atmosphere was restored between the human and the ghost.
Lin Fengbai couldn't help but ask, "What did you talk about with it?"
"He asked me if I was awake and if I wanted to have breakfast. He said the hotel's second-floor cafeteria had a buffet breakfast with a wide variety of dishes."
Lin Fengbai: "Huh?"
I didn't realize this ghost was having such a casual conversation. Shouldn't it be asking things like "What day is it today?" or "Help me get revenge"?
“It’s not a ghost,” Shi Yu added. “It’s Shen Su.”
"Ah...ah!" Lin Fengbai's reaction was even stronger than before. "What?"
Shi Yu explained, "Shen Su and I chose the same game, but he entered instance one and I entered instance three. This shows that there should be many instances in this game, and they are running at the same time."
"Coincidentally, Shen Su and I both live in room 1506. The TV in this room is shared by both instances. We discovered this last night. I wonder if the TVs in the other rooms are like this too?"
Lin Fengbai asked, "Last night?"
Shi Yu: "Yes, you were asleep at that time."
Lin Fengbai: "Oh."
He felt a sense of loss at not being led around.
But then I thought, thank goodness he was asleep, otherwise I would have been a third wheel.
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Shi Yu and Lin Fengbai went to the hotel's buffet restaurant. The other three had already arrived, taken some breakfast, put it on the table, and reserved seats for the two of them.
"I didn't know what you wanted to drink, so I didn't get you any." Jiang Yan had changed into casual clothes, her long hair tied in a ponytail, looking very refreshed. She pointed to a spot and said, "There are coffee, milk, soy milk, and other drinks over there."
Shi Yu nodded to Jiang Yan, then turned around and went to the self-service beverage machine to get a cup of coffee and a cup of hot milk. She gave the milk to Lin Fengbai and got some food.
After taking their seats, Yang Qiwen couldn't help but ask, "Were your rooms haunted last night? Mine was haunted! The TV was flickering and changing channels by itself!"
Jiang Yan and Gu Heng said they didn't watch TV last night, so there was no "ghostly" incident.
Shi Yu hesitated whether to reveal what he had discovered last night.
However, his words would expose Shen Su's existence, so Shi Yu pretended that nothing had happened last night and said, "We didn't watch TV either."
"Thank goodness, it must be just my room that's haunted. You know, I turned off the TV, but it kept turning back on by itself and even switching to the kids' channel? That's so creepy! Luckily, it's me in this room. If a girl had stayed here, she would have been scared to death!"
Yang Qiwen kept talking, while the other four ate their breakfast quietly. Lin Fengbai could understand Shi Yu's "concealment"—you can't trust anyone in a place like this.
On the surface, everyone believed what the other party said, but the viewers in the live broadcast room saw everything very clearly.
Q: Which of the four people here lied? A: Everyone except Yang Qiwen lied.
[Shi Yu is worried about exposing Shen Su's existence, so why are Jiang Yan and Gu Heng also hiding it? I don't understand.]
[Because they had all formed temporary alliances with players in the same room of another instance, wouldn't revealing this only make their already fragile alliances even worse?]
[Yang Qiwen: You're bullying me because I don't understand Morse code, sob sob sob.]
Wait, Jiang Yan and Mu Zhuo seem to have the same room number?
These two were even rumored to be a couple! It's said they actually dated.
Wow! The plot is suddenly getting exciting!
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After breakfast, Yu asked Jiang Yan, "Can I buy clothes here?"
Shi Yu is a bit of a germaphobe, but since the hospital provides clean hospital gowns every day during the hospital instance, there's no need to worry about clothing.
Upon arriving in this instance, he realized while showering last night that he didn't have any clean clothes to change into. Fortunately, the clothes he sent to the hotel laundry last night were dry this morning, but he couldn't wear the same outfit every day.
Jiang Yan said, "It is possible to buy it; there is a shopping mall downstairs. However, we do not have the currency of this world. I asked Manager Lu for help."
"Who needs my help?" Lu Boyue's voice drifted over from afar. "I'd be happy to help everyone!"
As Lu Boyue approached, everyone explained their needs. Lu Boyue waved his hand and said, "No problem! Give me a size from each of you, and I'll have someone go and buy it today."
With the minor issues of food, clothing, shelter, and transportation resolved, the six moved to Manager Lu's office to discuss more important matters.
Lu Boyue brought all the information they needed, including the company's articles of association, management structure, shareholders, board members, and some confidential documents.
To help them understand the Lu family, Lu Boyue even brought the Lu family's genealogy, information on the Lu family's currently living collateral relatives, and information on the old man Lu's former lovers... all the information was there.
It's clear that Manager Lu really wants to go bankrupt.
Lu Boyue handed them the documents and left in a hurry, saying she had something to do.
Judging from yesterday, Manager Lu was indeed very busy, and since everyone has received the materials, we didn't keep him around for long.
There was so much data that Manager Lu's two-meter-long desk was completely piled up, so everyone divided the work. Gu Heng and Yang Qiwen were responsible for reviewing the relevant data of Platinum Yue Supermarket, starting with the supermarket itself, while Jiang Yan, Shi Yu, and Lin Fengbai investigated Lu family members who might have a motive for doing this.
Extracting information from documents is a huge undertaking. None of us are professionals, and we've been working on it for a whole day. We haven't even finished looking through all the documents yet, but we have still managed to get some information.
Platinum Supermarket's full name is "Platinum Department Store Co., Ltd." The legal representative of the company is Lu Platinum, and there are two shareholders, Lu Platinum and Lu Shang, with investment ratios of 51% and 49% respectively.
Lu Shang is Lu Boyue's cousin and the daughter of Lu Boyue's fourth uncle. She is still in university and belongs to the type who only receives dividends and doesn't manage anything. Lu Boyue himself is not in charge either; he hired an assistant store manager to run the supermarket for him, and he usually just makes decisions and signs documents.
The company's senior executives were all recruited through legitimate channels, and the company's accounts are relatively clear. Although there are still some issues in certain areas, they are not major legal violations.
Compared to a company with a clear structure, Lu Boyue's family background is more complicated.
The Lu family is a large clan. Their ancestors started doing business during the Republic of China era, and the family has been prosperous since Lu Boyue's father's generation. Lu Boyue's father is named Lu Siming. Lu Siming has eight siblings, and he is the third oldest. Among the nine siblings, Lu Siming is the most outstanding in all aspects and has the most shrewd methods, so he naturally became the head of the Lu family.
Lu Siming married the most favored fourth daughter of the Cheng family, another prominent family, and they had a daughter, Lu Boyue. However, this Mrs. Lu was in poor health and passed away when Lu Boyue was two years old.
Lu Siming never remarried. He only had one son, Lu Boyue. This is probably why Lu Siming wrote in his will, "My son Lu Boyue can inherit all my estate after Boyue Supermarket goes bankrupt."
Of course, on the surface, Lu Siming only has Lu Boyue as his only son, but that's unknown in private.
Lu Siming never remarried after his first wife's death, seemingly a deeply affectionate man. In reality, the records of his lovers were thicker than a family tree. His lovers ranged from socialites and ladies to celebrities and models, and were scattered all over the world. It's worth mentioning that each of his lovers bore some resemblance to his first wife.
So, if you say he's a womanizer, every woman he dates is a substitute for his first wife; if you say he's devoted, his lovers could walk hand in hand around the Platinum Moon Supermarket.
Of course, that's not the point.
The key point is that with so many lovers, it's hard to say that Lu Siming didn't have some illegitimate children.
Legally, illegitimate children also have inheritance rights.
Although Lu Boyue provided detailed information, there was absolutely no information about the illegitimate child.
Of course, this doesn't mean that the Lu family's collateral relatives can be ruled out as suspects. Of Lu Siming's eight siblings, six are still alive. When the family property was divided, each of them received some assets. The old man treated everyone equally and didn't show favoritism. Now, Lu Boyue's uncles, aunts, and other relatives each have their own businesses. Judging from the written documents alone, it's not clear who has any ambition to seize Lu Siming's inheritance.
Everyone was exhausted after a day of searching through materials, so they simply organized the information they had gathered and went back to the hotel to rest.
We'll continue tomorrow.
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On the same day, Mu Zhuo and his three companions from the first instance were also reviewing documents in Manager Lu's office.
However, the information was not obtained by them from asking, but was provided by Manager Lu on his own initiative. With the information, Mu Zhuo's thinking gradually followed the same direction as Shi Yu's.
Mu Zhuo and the other two were carefully reviewing the materials.
Chen Su was just eating melon seeds.
And he would occasionally sigh.
"Lu Boyue's dad is really awesome, wow, he's still going strong for his age."
"His mistresses are all beautiful, but why do they all look like Mrs. Lu? Is he collecting them?"
"Oh, although if all my lovers held hands, they could circle the earth, I know I'm a loving and devoted husband?"
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As a result, the three people who were looking through the documents were often amused by him.
Work efficiency has been greatly reduced.
Finally, the three of them drove Shen Su to the teahouse next door.
Chen Su lay down directly on the long sofa in the tea room.
Take the experience of "being carried by a big shot" to the extreme.
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