139 The Ninth Shop.
◎Humans are like vegetables in the field. ◎
The room was strangely quiet, and the security team looked at Lu Yao in shock, unable to say anything strong.
Liu Jing stood a little further away from them, closer to Lu Yao, and clearly saw the divine seal being gently brushed away by the shop owner like a layer of dust.
Cai Yuxing stood beside Jiang Lin, and only then did she realize that the shop owner seemed different from the others on Ghost Street.
She was not an ordinary shop owner, she did not rely on the church and the management office, and even the divine seal could be easily wiped off.
Ghost Street is His world, and humans are like vegetables in the field, growing to maturity, and then starting to rot.
If they are lucky enough not to be eaten, the end result is nothing more than rotting in the field.
In the end, he couldn't get out.
This store that suddenly appeared was really unusual.
Jiang Lin's consciousness had almost recovered, but his movements were still a little slow.
He walked slowly to the entrance of the restaurant, speaking word by word: "Shopkeeper, thank you."
The security team turned around and looked at Jiang Lin warily, but it was the director Qin Qiuming who spoke first.
Qin Qiumin: "You...are awake?"
Jiang Lin raised his arm and gently pressed his forehead, his face a little tired: "Yeah." Ren
Ran couldn't help but say: "What else do you remember?"
Jiang Lin raised his eyes and glanced at Lu Yao before continuing: "I sank to the bottom of the sea, and there was a deep and dark road in front of me. I wanted to swim to the depths along the road, but there was a voice in my ear, calling my name and nagging, which made it impossible for me to hurry on. Unconsciously, I didn't know where I went wrong. When I came to my senses, I had floated up from the sea. I looked up and saw fireworks all over the sky. In the end, even the sea water that wrapped me gradually receded."
Jiang Lin woke up when they were setting off fireworks on the street, but he was still drowsy at that time.
The security team members stared at him in silence for a long time, but the expressions on their faces were particularly vivid, as if to say: That's it? So simple? You are almost transformed into a complete form, and you came back so easily?
Cai Yuxing ran over, hugged Jiang Lin, and said in a tearful voice: "That's great! That's great!"
Jiang Lin lowered his head, pursed his lips shyly, and whispered to comfort him: "It's okay, don't cry."
Qin Qiumin still looked alert: "I have seen hundreds of mutants. It is absolutely impossible for someone like you to get rid of him easily."
The security team member, whose expression had relaxed a little, suddenly became solemn. Similar situations have happened before. The mutant suddenly became conscious, as if he had escaped from him by his own will, but that was just another trap to lure more people into it.
Lu Yao thought thoughtfully: "This is a situation worthy of attention. Tonight, I will stay with Jiang Lin all the time."
The security team has a total of seven people, plus Liu Jing, Cai Yuxing, Jiang Lin and Lu Yao, a total of eleven people.
There are three operating classrooms in the store, which can be used for one night after a little cleaning.
Opposite the operating classroom is the bathroom.
The security team told Lu Yao that when resting at night, there should be no more than six people in the same room.
"Six" may be His favorite number. When the number of people in the room is equal to or more than six, it is easy to attract His attention.
Lu Yao remembered the first task published in the store opening guide. He may really like the number "6".
Finally, Liu Jing and Xiao Cai lived in the No. 1 operating room, five security team members lived in the No. 2 operating room, and Lu Yao, Jiang Lin, Qin Qiuming and Xu Zhengrong lived in the No. 3 operating room.
After the rooms were assigned, it was still early.
The store door was open, and the security team was crowded at the door.
People were coming and going outside the door, and they seemed to be isolated in a glass bottle, unable to get out, and no one paid attention to them.
Nearing midnight, there were fewer pedestrians on the street.
Lu Yao got up and closed the store on time.
The furnishings in the guest room were simple. Lu Yao gave each person an air-conditioning quilt. It was up to personal preference whether to sleep on the floor or on a chair.
Qin Qiuming and Xu Zhengrong sat in the corner with their quilts, hugging each other, and trying their best to keep a distance from Jiang Lin.
In fact, they didn't have to sleep in the same room with Lu Yao and Jiang Lin, and they could rest in the hall outside.
But one of them was the director of the church security room, and the other was an experienced old employee. Even though the owner's quality was outrageous and scary, they decided to watch over Jiang Lin with her at night.
Lu Yao pulled a chair against the corner, covered his legs with an air-conditioned quilt, and closed his eyes to rest.
Jiang Lin sat not far from Lu Yao, with his back against the wall.
After the lights were turned off, the night surrounded everyone like a tide. Lu Yao didn't plan to sleep, just closed her eyes to rest. But not long after, her consciousness gradually became blurred, and she fell asleep. In the middle of the night, Lu Yao
opened his eyes in a daze . She heard a strange yet somewhat familiar sound, like the squeaking sound of walking on a slippery floor in wet slippers, or the gurgling sound of a long tongue covered with mucus licking food. The windows of the operating classroom were covered by black opaque curtains. The room was pitch black and the air was particularly stagnant and tense. Lu Yao remembered that there was a switch near the base of the wall on her left hand side. She reached out and touched it, and felt a sticky, snot-like mucus on her hand. Lu Yao blinked hard in the dark and took a deep breath, trying to calm the impact of the disgusting touch. The next second, she suddenly felt a brutal force, and her left wrist was tied by a wet and slippery thing and dragged hard. The unknown is always full of fear, but Lu Yao roughly guessed what the thing that was tied around her wrist was. Recalling the scenes she had seen in the amusement park, Lu Yao found that she seemed to be immune to this level of fright. All kinds of bizarre imaginations emerged in her mind. She felt numb and planned to compete with that thing in strength. As long as the lights are on, the aliens hiding in the darkness will also show their true appearance. Lu Yao grabbed the armrest of the chair with his right hand, leaned to the left as much as possible, and touched the switch with his fingertips. "Click--" With a light sound, the darkness in the room was dispelled by a small piece of warm yellow light. Lu Yao saw the situation in the room clearly, and his pupils trembled suddenly. Jiang Lin went somewhere unknown, and the No. 3 operating classroom was invaded by a huge golden alien.
Its body was so huge that it almost filled the entire room. Its body was covered with open light golden eyes, and its long and sturdy tentacles were clinging to the walls.
Qin Qiuming and Xu Zhengrong were squeezed into a corner, their eyes bulging and they were about to suffocate.
It seemed to have no interest in them. Its fist-sized eyes stared at Lu Yao intently. Mucus oozed from its skin, and the room was filled with a heavy smell of water.
Lu Yao held his breath, put his hands behind his back, and took out the ruler of warning.
It slowly moved its eyes, as if observing Lu Yao's movements.
Lu Yao's tightly-stretched mouth curled up, revealing a barely perceptible smile. His fingers stroked the golden branches on the ruler, and the black mist shrouding the handle slowly dissipated. The statue, covered with a thin gauze, slowly opened its mouth and spat out eighteen black round beads.
Lu Yao used the ruler to drive the round beads, and the eighteen beads turned into ink cones with upper and lower points, and "whoosh" scattered in all directions.
"Pah--"
The cones sank into its eyes, and dark blue viscous pus flowed out of its eyes. Its tentacles swung vigorously, and the earth shook.
The eighteen cones firmly nailed its eyes, and its tentacles raised high and hammered down with force.
Lu Yao held the ruler horizontally above his head to block the blow: "I am sure that in this space, even you are not my opponent." As
soon as he finished speaking, Lu Yao exerted force with his arms to repel the alien octopus monster, and turned the ruler with his backhand, and the ruler blade pierced straight into the body of the octopus monster.
"Puff--"
The bloated alien octopus, which was as bloated as a pool of rotten meat, collapsed like a balloon, and gradually only a skin was left.
In the corner, Qin Qiuming and Xu Zhengrong knelt on the ground, their faces covered with tears and saliva, and their bodies were sticky and wet.
Lu Yao's eyes were fixed on the octopus skin, and there was a faint beating under the golden paper-like skin.
Only Jiang Lin was missing in the room. Lu Yao
took a deep breath, walked over and peeled off the skin. The boy was naked, his limbs and shoulders were pierced by eighteen black spikes, blood flowed all over the ground, mixed with the mucus on the ground, and accumulated into a pile of miserable despair.
Jiang Lin's eyes were a little cloudy, but he still stiffened his neck and tried his best to look directly into Lu Yao's eyes, using all his strength: "Really - thank you." Lu
Yao froze in place, his face a little pale.
Xu Zhengrong walked over, his face was equally miserable, and his voice was hoarse: "The container left behind after the God descended, it will not live long."
God descended, the God descended here.
But no one has ever seen His true body, and He must borrow a human body when He appears.
A used and discarded container will quickly lose its vitality, like a wind-dried loofah, leaving only a shell.
Several ways to save Jiang Lin flashed through Lu Yao's mind. Fortunately, she had been to many worlds, and her experience allowed her to deal with the situation calmly.
Lu Yao used the ruler of discipline to first remove the Zhu Shenzhu that was nailing Jiang Lin, then used light magic to heal his wounds, and then put the bracelet made of God's Tears and Zhu Shenzhu on his hand.
Xu Zhengrong and Qin Qiuming fell to the ground, almost speechless.
Lu Yao felt Jiang Lin's breath with his hand and breathed a sigh of relief: "It should be fine."
Xu Zhengrong came back to his senses, climbed up with his hands and feet, and almost slipped several times, almost fell in front of Jiang Lin, in disbelief: "Really?"
Lu Yao: "The injury will take a few days to heal. As long as you wear this bracelet, you will not be possessed by another body again, and you will not get lost again."
The Tears of God are the power of the Goddess of the Sea of Gods, Cuihuangxing. It is no problem to nourish the fetus, and it can be said that it is a waste of talent to heal Jiang Lin's body.
The God of the Gods Pearl was taken from the God of the Gods Tree that sealed the evil god in the Floating World Continent.
After the God-Slaying War ended, the Immortal Realm gave Lu Yao a lot of rare treasures for some reason.
Lu Yao was not interested in those, so he went directly to the Lingxiao Immortal to ask for the God of the Gods Tree.
Lingxiao Immortal said he would go back to report, and within three days he sent a small box of the God of the Sacred Tree.
The God of the Sacred Tree is a sacred tree that can ward off evil.
It is said that the last God of the Sacred Tree in heaven had died a thousand years ago.
The small box that Lu Yao got was a stock that was forcibly snatched from the hands of some True Immortals by the Emperor of Heaven.
Only one of the beads in Jiang Lin's hand was a real God of the Sacred Tree bead, and the rest were imitation beads made from the female statue on the Ruler of Rules and Precepts.
It was enough to match the Tears of God. Lu
Yao walked to the door, turned on the lighting equipment, and opened the door.
The people sleeping in the two operating classrooms next door also woke up, and heard the noise outside, but did not dare to move.
Hearing the footsteps in the corridor, everyone was trembling with fear, until they heard Xu Zhengrong and Qin Qiu's name was Lu Yao, then they carefully opened the door and came out.
Lu Yao washed his hands in the bathroom and came out. It was a little after five in the morning. Everyone stood at the door of the No. 3 operating classroom, as stiff as wooden stakes. Due to
life and work reasons, the three groups of people living in the store were not unfamiliar with the miserable conditions in the room. What was unfamiliar to them was the result.
The owner, the director and Brother Xu were still alive after the God's Descent, and even the chest of the boy who was reduced to a container was still rising and falling.
What on earth happened here just now?
Lu Yao took out a clean towel from his pocket and handed it to Ren You: "Director Qin and Xiao Xu are frightened. You carry Jiang Lin out and give him a bath. I'll go get him some clean clothes."
The owner's voice was close at hand, but everyone was slow to react. They stood there in a daze for several seconds before they made any move.
Lu Yao turned on the lights in the corridor and the lobby, opened the door and returned to the shopping street.
The security team helped Jiang Lin, Qin Qiuming and Xu Zhengrong to wash up. Liu Jing and Cai Yuxing stood in the corridor, still in shock.
After a few minutes, the security team helped Jiang Lin out first, and Lu Yao had not returned yet.
Liu Jing took the blanket from their room and wrapped Jiang Lin up. When Qin Qiuming and Xu Zhengrong came out, she took the blanket from the security team's room.
The group hurried to the lobby, but they didn't see Lu Yao. They saw the store door open, and everyone was terrified.
Ren Ran was like someone splashed a bucket of cold water on his face, and his voice was trembling: "It's only five o'clock, where did she go?"
Cai Yuxing: "The owner just said to get clothes for Jiang Lin, I thought she prepared spare clothes in advance."
A security guard couldn't help but say: "She is a girl, how can she prepare clothes for young men?"
Cai Yuxing was about to cry when she saw the half-open door, and she murmured, "Did he go out to buy clothes for Jiang Lin?"
The rule of Ghost Street to open at six in the morning is absolutely impossible to be broken.
Liu Jing: "Don't panic, Lu Yao knows the rules."
Xu Zhengrong walked to the door in a thin blanket.
Ghost Street at this time does not belong to humans. You may never come back after taking a look at him, but you must make sure of Lu Yao's situation.
He pulled the thin blanket tightly around him, took a deep breath, raised his eyes and looked outside. His tense and anxious mood could not help but relax when he saw the scene outside the door.
Xu Zhengrong was stunned for a moment, raised his hands and rubbed his eyes hard, and then looked outside the door with a confused look.
Others didn't know what he saw, and they didn't dare to step forward.
Ren You endured it for a while, but felt that Brother Xu's face looked a little strange, so he lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Xu, what's wrong?"
Xu Zhengrong turned his head to look at them, then turned to look outside the door, and finally raised his hand gently to them .
Ren You pointed at himself: "You want me to go over?"
Xu Zhengrong nodded.
Ren You was still a little scared in his heart, so he tiptoed behind Xu Zhengrong, looked outside the door, and began to rub his eyes like Xu Zhengrong just now.
Liu Jing asked, "What's wrong? Have you seen Lu Yao?"
Ren You lowered his head and quickly wiped his eyes, and gestured to everyone.
The unconscious Jiang Lin was placed on a chair in the hall, and the others walked to the door cautiously with great curiosity.
Outside the half-open door was not the Ghost Street they were familiar with, but a strange street that looked extremely deserted. The orange street lights were pouring down, opening up the view as far as the eye could see.
They saw a few scattered shops across the dilapidated cement road, vaguely Internet cafes, cram schools, and blind box stores, and in front of the sign of each shop was a familiar name - Lu Yao.
The quiet street was not prosperous, but everything seemed real and lovely.
It was completely different from the Ghost Street with a lively appearance.
A team member bravely reached out his hand, but was blocked by a transparent invisible film when he touched the door frame.
They still couldn't walk out of this door.
Another team member asked, "What is outside?"
Liu Jing thought of the food that Lu Yao had treated them to, and her face changed several times. She whispered, "Could it be the world outside of Ghost Street? The food in Lu Yao's store is better than other places, not because she found a delicious store, but because the food is not from Ghost Street."
Ren You tried to think, but the situation in front of him was completely beyond his cognition. He shook his head twice, but still had no idea: "Are you saying that Lu Yao came from outside?"
The teammate couldn't help but say, "How fresh, who didn't come from outside?"
Ren You: "She is different from us, she can go back."
Qin Qiuming and Xu Zhengrong thought of what happened when the gods descended, and their initial thoughts might be completely wrong.
At this time, Lu Yao came out of the snack bar, and his shadow was stretched out by the street lights.
She walked out of the deep night, passing through one shop after another, and went straight to the DIY hut.
The people standing at the door suddenly became anxious and left quickly, not forgetting to help Jiang Lin who was at the table, and hurried back to the operation classroom.
Qin Qiumin stood at the door of the No. 1 operation room and said in a low voice: "Don't make public what happened tonight. Wait until you find out where the owner came from before reporting it."
Everyone had a lot of thoughts in their minds, and their curiosity was stirring, but they also knew the pros and cons.
They didn't know why the owner came to Ghost Street, nor did they know why she could come and go freely in the two worlds.
But this might be an opportunity.
Or rather, they hoped it was an opportunity.
Lu Yao returned to the store, took out a few sets of clean clothes and handed them to Xu Zhengrong: "Change first. How's Jiang Lin?"
Qin Qiumin: "She looks like she's asleep."
Lu Yao took a look and nodded: "She probably needs to recuperate for a while. It's almost dawn, I brought some breakfast, you can eat it if you want. You can leave at six o'clock."
The snack bar had some crispy cakes that had just come out of the oven, both salty and sweet, as well as buns, fried dough sticks, shaomai, tender tofu pudding...
Lu Yao took a lot, opened the box, and the steam was rising.
The security team, who had always been polite, did not refuse too much this time. After a few polite words, they could not help but pick up the big stuffed cake from the box and eat it. They sat on the floor with a bowl of tofu pudding and ate it with big mouthfuls until tears came out.
Liu Jing and Cai Yuxing sat next to each other, eating steamed buns and fried dough sticks, and drinking tofu pudding in small sips. They were much more polite than the older men, but they could not help but lower their heads and wipe their tears.
They seemed to see hope, but did not dare to have too much expectations, and even did not dare to ask the owner about his purpose, fearing that it was just a fantasy they had created under extreme despair and fear.
But the lunch box in the palm of his hand was boiling, and the aroma and taste of the food were so real.
Lu Yao took two bites, and he could not sit still when he thought of the miserable situation in the No. 3 operation classroom.
Before daybreak, the place must be cleaned up and ready for business.
Lu Yao walked in wearing waders, pasted a circle of cleaning talismans along the walls and floors, and cleaned inside and outside three times before he was barely satisfied.
Before the security team and Liu Jing and his party left, Lu Yao took out a stack of newly prepared confidentiality agreements.
The contract requires confidentiality of everything that everyone experienced and saw in the DIY hut last night.
Qin Qiumin and his party hesitated for a moment before signing the confidentiality agreement.
Liu Jing and Cai Yuxing were no exception.
Jiang Lin was still in a coma, and Cai Yuxing took his hand and pressed his fingerprints on the contract.
Jiang Lin and Cai Yuxing followed the security team back to the church, and Xu Zhengrong and Ren You sent Liu Jing to the management office.
At seven o'clock in the morning, the people who stayed in the DIY hut for a night left with indescribable complex emotions.
Lu Yao put up a billboard at the door and went back to the store to continue cleaning.
I don't know if the small fireworks advertisement last night was useful. Time is limited, otherwise it can be made cooler.
"Boss, the two of us want to participate in the handmade experience activity at the door." A clear voice sounded behind him. Lu
Yao turned around and saw an old man and a child standing at the door.
The little old lady was wearing a pair of grey plaid trousers and a dark red floral gown. She was thin and had a hunched back. A dry smile was squeezed out of her skinny face.
Lu Yao was a little surprised.
She had never seen such an old guest on the street.
The boy standing next to the little old lady was very young. He looked about the same age as Jiang Lin. He was tall and thin, with no expression on his face. He was the one who spoke just now.
Lu Yao took out the registration book: "You need to register to participate in the event."
The boy's name is Song Wen, and the little old lady's surname is Xu.
Song Wen called her grandma. Lu
Yao turned around to pour tea, and when he came back, there were four more people standing at the door.
They also came to experience handmade gifts/flowers/bombs.
In less than half an hour, all the free places for the second day of the event were used up.
Lu Yao greeted the guests with a smile, and after completing the registration, he took them to the No. 1 operating classroom.
———
North District Management Office Building.
Liu Jing was packing up in the office.
Chen Huisheng was out on a business trip and was not in the office.
Fang Cong was originally in the office, and after Liu Jing came back, he went to the smoking room. There was only one newcomer left in the office.
The newcomer was a little overwhelmed as he faced this situation for the first time.
Liu Jing packed up her things calmly, and before leaving, none of her old colleagues were there, so she had to say hello to the newcomer.
When Fang Cong came back from the smoking room, Liu Jing had already left the office.
In the afternoon, Chen Huisheng came back from field work, feeling depressed: "Du Xiao from Group 3 has developed symptoms of mutation and his intelligence has deteriorated. The church will come to pick him up later."
Yesterday, Liu Jing passed away.
Today, another one passed away, and he felt bad.
Fang never spoke.
The newcomer sitting in the corner raised his head, hesitated for a while, and whispered: "This morning, Sister Jing said something to me when she left."
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