134 The Ninth Store
◎The Evil God loves to hear flattery. ◎
Starting from the fourth page of the "Golden Store Opening Guide", there is a stack of papers in the middle. The material is different from the front and back. There are about three or four sheets. It feels like thick copperplate paper, but the front and back of the paper are covered with a black translucent film. You can vaguely see some dark solid color blocks under the film.
Lu Yao moved his position and sat under the light holding the "Golden Store Opening Guide" to see the contents of the paper clearly.
There are some strange silhouettes on the paper covered with black film. One of them is suspected to be a head. The head has several curved tentacles.
Lu Yao looked at it for a long time and inexplicably felt that this thing is a bit like the octopus head bartender she met at the door just now.
Because she can only see the outer outline, she can't be completely sure.
Those twisted lines might be vines, streams, or even clouds.
Turning to the back, Lu Yao saw a silhouette that looked very similar to the ghost candy, with a pointed top and an open umbrella-shaped bottom, and two black holes in the middle that looked like eyes.
Apart from these two silhouettes that aroused her association, the rest looked abstract in their own way, and she had no way of imagining their true appearance from the dark silhouettes.
The silhouettes of various forms were marked with very small text below.
Regardless of which silhouette it was, it had the same annotation - a humble believer in the great, omniscient God.
A humble believer in the great, omniscient God.
Lu Yao recited each word silently, who made these annotations?
"The great omniscient God" is enough. It may be a bit inappropriate to add "humble" before the word "believer", but Lu Yao really wants to laugh.
These pages can probably be called "the illustrations of the believers of the omniscient God". The octopus head and the little ghost are actually believers of God. When Lu Yao started reading the rules, he thought they were two different things.
The lucky candy jar contains eye octopus monster candy and little ghost candy, which may be a hint.
In this world, the existence of God may not be a secret.
But the illustrations that appear in the store guide are only silhouettes, and they are covered with special paper, which seems to be a bit of a cover-up.
After Lu Yao finished reading the atlas, he continued to flip through the pages. There were only three or four sheets of paper left at the back, which contained safety and hygiene regulations. The second to last sheet of paper was a page of address books, which contained all the phone numbers of the street management offices in each district, the offices of the street committee, and the church.
An idea flashed through Lu Yao's mind, and she took out the cleaning team business card given to her by the street management office staff from her portable warehouse. The phone number on the business card did not appear on the address page of the store opening guide.
Moreover, except for the church's security room, the address page did not have the cleaning team mentioned by the two staff members, and there was no cleaning team in each district or the central city.
Lu Yao couldn't figure out the connection, so he simply put it aside and continued to flip through the pages. The last page was divided into two columns, upper and lower.
The paper quality of this page is also somewhat special. The slightly reddish paper feels smooth and delicate, and it is thin and tough when you twist it with your fingertips.
In the middle of the column at the top of the paper was written "Rules for Shopkeepers at No. 13, North District, Ghost Street", and the column below was left with more than half a space without a single word.
Lu Yao was subconsciously wondering what was going on when a row of words slowly appeared on the paper.
——The first rule of the store owner: Please ask the owner Lu Yao to quickly prepare for opening the store. Three days later, the great all-knowing God wanted to hear a sixty-six gun salute over the streets of ghosts.
Good guy, it turns out this is the task release board.
No wonder those two people asked Baba to send it over. If she gets it late and misses the mission time, who knows what will happen later.
By the way, after entering the Ghost Street, the agency system did not issue tasks immediately as usual. Lu
Yao came to this world entirely because of the note asking for help. The events and tasks that occurred in this world are very likely not controlled by the agency system.
But it is obvious that the new task publisher is no easier to deal with than the agency system.
The store will officially open in three days, and sixty-six salutes will be fired.
The salute is obviously not to celebrate the opening of the new store, but because the great omniscient god wants to hear it.
Is this a compliance test?
Lu Yao closed the "Golden Store Opening Guide" and secretly pondered the relationship between the Street Management Office and the omniscient god.
After thinking for a while, she suddenly felt dizzy. The scene in front of her eyes began to distort. Half of the sticky tentacles had infiltrated her consciousness without her knowing when. It was like a tail that was accidentally broken off by a four-legged pet, twisting and shaking, and the dark red skin was covered with bulging eyes.
At first, those eyes did not open, but not long after, the two eyelids that were closed up and down began to tremble, as if they were about to open.
Lu Yao's head suddenly seemed to be continuously poured with cement slurry. Her head felt cold and heavy, and it was swollen and painful. She wanted to vomit but couldn't.
"Ding Ding Dong——"
A series of bells woke Lu Yao up. Her chaotic consciousness gradually returned to clarity, and her back was soaked. Lu
Yao picked up the phone on the table.
Harold had just made a video call to her using the intranet.
The video call did not go through, and Harold sent another voice message in a rather irritable tone.
He made three consecutive video calls to her, and she did not hear the first two.
Harold sent another voice message to ask where she was, but he could not sense her location, and the key of time and space could not open the door to where she was.
Lu Yao immediately replied to the message, comforted the little black dragon, and told him that she would go back to the nail salon to rest immediately.
When she stood up, Lu Yao felt a stickiness on her back, and she touched it with her back, and her thin cotton T-shirt in summer was soaked with cold sweat.
Her feeling was not wrong, this world was troublesome and complicated.
All that scheming was indeed not enough to beat.
Lu Yao stopped thinking about the omniscient god, quickly packed up his things, closed the shop and returned to the shopping street.
Walking on the familiar small street, Lu Yao sent a message in the employee group.
[Shop owner-Lu Yao: Without my permission, employees are not allowed to enter the ninth store, including Bu Du and Harold.]
It was already early morning when Lu Yao came out of the creative DIY hut, and there were few living people in the group.
Lu Yao set up a striking message, and they would see it when they woke up in the morning.
In the nail salon, all the foreign employees were sitting in the lobby, and they seemed to be waiting for Lu Yao, and Bu Du was there too.
Lu Yao opened the door and smiled: "Why don't you sleep so late at night?"
Harold frowned and snorted: "What happened this time?"
Last time Lu Yao suddenly disappeared in the Internet cafe, although everyone handled it calmly and the matter was resolved later, it also left a deep impression in their hearts.
Harold just couldn't find Lu Yao and almost went crazy.
Not only could he go to the store, he was on the verge of going crazy, but he was stopped by the mature friends in the store.
But the attitude of the adults was the same, they didn't want Lu Yao to get into trouble.
Since they met this human race, their long and boring time suddenly became lively and interesting.
Even if it was to kill time, they didn't want the owner to reach the end of his life too soon. Lu Yao
walked over, smoothed Harold's hair first, then picked up Bu Du, sat him on his chair, and held the child in his arms.
The cold aura emanating from the child suddenly changed, and he lowered his head, his ears turned red: "Mother, let me go." Lu
Yao released his hand as he was told, and the child pursed his lips, jumped down, and sat aside.
After the children's emotions were calmed down, the great necromancer Ambrose asked in a long tone: "You just said in the group that the staff were not allowed to go to the ninth store. Did you encounter any trouble?" Lu Yao did
not intend to hide it from them, and nodded: "It is indeed a bit troublesome."
The great devil Clarissa tapped the death sickle placed beside her with her toes: "Even you can't handle it?"
Lu Yao smiled and shook his head: "The street over there may be managed by an evil god who likes to hear rainbow farts. I am trying to please him."
Evil god.
There are similar existences in Alexandria, but none of them can be compared with the dragon clan.
There are too many dragon clans and they are powerful.
One or two scattered evil gods are no match for the dragon clan.
But even dragons have trouble acclimatizing. Alexandria is their home turf, and other worlds are different.
Judging from the current situation, Harold has been banned by the one from Ghost Street.
Not only may he still be able to go, but Lu Yao doesn't want him to go there.
The world over there is a bit strange, and she doesn't want the child to think too much.
Things haven't gotten out of control yet, but since it has come to this, even if the opponent is the evil god, she has to give it a try.
Merulu and Pushu sat on Mumu's shoulders, one on each side. Merulu said, "Lu Yao, why don't you open that store?"
After Merulu finished speaking, Pushu and Mumu nodded.
In the eyes of fairies and slimes, the evil god is still a very powerful and terrifying existence.
Lu Yao used building blocks to build a miniature playground for the twin fairies. The two little ones may have played a lot recently, and they have lost a lot of weight.
Lu Yao stood up and touched Mumu, then rubbed the twin fairies' cheeks with her fingertips, and sat back down: "No, I have a reason to go."
Harold couldn't help it: "Why do you have to go? If something happens to you there, we won't be able to find you."
Just thinking of that scene, the little black dragon felt like the blood was flowing backwards.
Lu Yao considered the wording and said truthfully: "Going there is indeed not in my plan, but I received a distress message from a friend."
To beautify it, she and Tongyi can be regarded as friends in distress, this is one.
The second is to be realistic, Tongyi is indeed more to her liking than the proxy system.
If she wants to replace the wooden robot, she must find Tongyi back.
Not only did she think of something immediately.
Edward, who had been silent, stroked the dazzling emerald on his cane and said in a low and mellow voice: "Is it that friend who brought you to Alexandria?" Lu
Yao raised her head and met Edward's deep and calm emerald eyes, and nodded slowly: "Yes."
In the past, Lu Yao could trust very few people.
But now, she has many powerful friends and companions.
The hall was quiet.
Friends and adventures are the eternal themes of this continent. They know that there is no reason to stop Lu Yao, but they are deeply worried about her safety.
A world that even dragons and demigods cannot set foot in, a human race...
Charmander Tina asked: "What can we do?"
The others seemed to have just come back to their senses, looked at Tina, and then turned to look at Lu Yao.
Lu Yao: "I really have something I want to ask you for help with. You don't know that I had to fire sixty-six salutes to that self-proclaimed omniscient person when I opened the shop. We can't be careless about this matter, we must let him learn some lessons."
...
The alien clerks listened to the owner's description and arrangements, their eyes gradually widened, as if they really didn't need to worry about it.
After talking to the nail salon clerks, Lu Yao went to take a shower and rest.
The clerks were busy until midnight, helping the owner prepare materials and props for the new shop.
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The next day, Lu Yao woke up from the rest room of the nail salon after a long absence, washed up and prepared to go out.
Ambrose was receiving guests in the reception room outside. He stopped Lu Yao and pointed to the two treasure chests on the coffee table in the lounge area of the reception room and said, "Everything you want is there."
Lu Yao was a little surprised: "So soon?"
Ambrose: "Be careful."
Lu Yao put away the treasure chest, turned around and walked out the door: "I will pay attention."
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At six o'clock in the morning, the bells of the West District Church rang throughout the Ghost Street, awakening the humans sleeping in the dark.
Half an hour later, the four patrol teams of the church security room lined up and prepared to start the first patrol mission in the morning.
Two people in a team, a total of eight people.
Their patrol range is the four blocks in the east, south, west and north. They have to patrol the entire street in the morning, noon and evening. This is the daily work of the security room.
Among the security guards patrolling the North District today, there was a young man who had just been transferred in. He was very enthusiastic about his work and was about to go out with a piece of bread and a box of milk in his mouth.
But he was a newcomer and had to work with his seniors for the first three months.
The senior who led him was a middle-aged man who had worked in the security room for two years. In a security room with a high turnover rate, the senior could definitely be said to be capable and experienced.
The young people respected the senior, but the senior's work attitude was very casual.
He was only in his early thirties, but he looked like an old man who was about to retire. The other teams had already left, and he sat on a chair in the church courtyard, watching the birds flying around while eating breakfast slowly.
The young man called Ren You. After waiting for more than ten minutes, the senior was still biting the bread slowly. He was a little impatient: "Brother Xu, if you don't leave now, you will miss lunch."
Brother Xu looked at him, "tsk", stood up and said: "Are you so anxious to die?"
Ren You's face turned pale: "They said patrol is the safest job."
Brother Xu walked past Ren You and walked towards the door: "This is Ghost Street, not the farmers' market at your doorstep."
Ren You: "..."
At this time, most of the shops on the street were closed, except for some breakfast shops.
[The opening time of the shop shall not be earlier than six o'clock, and the closing time shall not be later than midnight. ]
Most shops have this rule, but for some reason, most shops' official business hours start from eight to nine in the morning.
Breakfast shops are different in nature, and the latest opening time must not be later than seven o'clock, but there are not many customers in the shop.
Ren You and Brother Xu rode a patrol car from the West District, bypassed the central city, and arrived at the North District Street.
The road was very deserted, with few people and no such things.
Brother Xu tilted his head and glanced at the dazed Ren You: "Nothing happened on the way, you seem disappointed?"
Ren You glanced at Brother Xu, raised his hand and pointed at a figure on the opposite side of the road, and lowered his voice: "Brother Xu, look at that girl, she's a little weird."
The girl stood in front of a breakfast shop selling porridge and buns and fried dough sticks, staring at the auntie who was serving the porridge. She didn't look like she wanted to eat breakfast, but more like she wanted to eat people...
Lu Yao suddenly felt two strong gazes from the side, turned her head and looked over. The middle-aged man and the young man sitting on the patrol motorcycle were looking at her.
There was a church emblem on the front of the patrol motorcycle. Lu Yao had seen the introduction in the shop guide and immediately guessed the identities of the two people. She nodded slightly politely and turned to walk in the direction of the DIY hut.
She actually wanted to come to the street early to stroll around. She didn't expect that the ghost street that was bustling at night would be so deserted in the morning, but the snack bar on the roadside was really fragrant.
The fragrance floated out of the store and went straight into her nose. She had obviously eaten breakfast, but she still wanted to eat, and she was also a little curious.
Unfortunately, she had no money in her pocket, so she could only look around for a while, and she was seen.
It was also quite embarrassing. The more Lu Yao thought about it, the faster she walked.
Ren You watched Lu Yao walk quickly, but Brother Xu didn't react at all, and urged: "Aren't we going to catch up?"
Brother Xu looked at Lu Yao's back with empty eyes and shook his head: "It's a stranger, but she is a human."
Ren You also knew that she was a human, and those things would not be so polite.
He just thought this person was a bit strange.
The two patrolled along the streets of the North District and met Lu Yao again on the way back.
This time it was at the door of the DIY hut, and Lu Yao was putting up the billboard he had just made.
You have to apply to hire a clerk in Youling Street. Lu Yao thought of a way last night, not to hire a clerk for the time being, and to promote the characteristics of the DIY hut.
Xu Zhengrong also saw Lu Yao, scanned the content on the billboard, and gradually slowed down the car and stopped at the door of the DIY hut.
[Author's words]
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