152 The Ninth Shop
◎Who wouldn't know how? ◎
He allowed Lu Yao to buy a dozen knives that could hurt the aliens at the price of thirty ghost coins each last time. He gave a few to the patrolmen who came with him at the time, and gave some to his colleagues who knew him well when he returned to the church.
The knives were indeed useful. They went out on duty several times and encountered attacking mutants. They used the weapons in their hands to save their colleagues who were caught by the mutants, and the casualty rate of the church staff was greatly reduced in a short period of time. The depressed
mood of the church staff due to the disappearance of the meditation room was pulled back, and they found a little hope of smiling, as if they finally had something to rely on to protect themselves.
But within a few days, colleagues reported that they accidentally lost their knives.
They knew that the storage function of the ghost system had loopholes and things were lost from time to time.
Most people are usually very careful and don't put things in the storage bag, but there are also careless people who occasionally forget and put the knife into the storage bag, and then they can't find it when they need it.
In the first two days, only one colleague lost a knife, and everyone would remind each other not to put weapons in the storage bag when going out.
But in recent days, the patrolmen did not put the knives in the storage bag, and they still lost the knives one after another due to various circumstances.
Before Ren You and Jiang Lin came to find Lu Yao, the weapons of all the patrolmen in the church were missing.
The most bizarre situation was Jiang Lin.
He accompanied Ren You to patrol the North District in the afternoon, and on the way back, they met a girl who looked very similar to Cai Yuxing.
The girl sat on the side of the road with dull eyes, as if she was lost.
Jiang Lin got out of the car to check the situation, but before he got close, the octopus tentacles suddenly stretched out and hooked the folded, small, knife hanging on his waist.
Ren You and Jiang Lin were originally going to go back to the church through the staff-only passage, but because of this matter, they decided to turn back and asked Lu Yao to help them think of a solution.
Cai Yuxing looked at Jiang Lin: "How could I appear in such a place? Besides, I work in the DIY hut, which is not an exaggeration to say that it is the safest place on Ghost Street at present. You don't have to worry too much about me."
The place where Ren You and Jiang Lin met the suspected Cai Yuxing was a deserted road before entering the dedicated passage from the North District.
Jiang Lin lowered his eyelids, still frightened by what happened just now, and did not argue.
Liu Jing climbed onto Cai Yuxing's shoulders, with a teasing look on her face: "You are too concerned."
Cai Yuxing's expression was still serious: "I know. But sometimes you still have to think more. Fortunately, they just want the knife this time, not the person."
Thinking that he might become Jiang Lin's spiritual breakthrough and they could find the flaw, Cai Yuxing was also full of fear.
Lu Yao waved his hand: "The most terrifying thing about this incident is not that the knife is lost. They seem to be smarter and more thoughtful than before. They even know that Jiang Lin will stop when he sees someone who looks like Xiao Cai. This is not something that ordinary mutants can do." Ren
Ran slammed the table excitedly: "Yes. This is also what Jiang Lin and I are most afraid of. As long as I think about them pretending to be someone we trust, my scalp will go numb."
The mutants lack normal thinking ability and act entirely on instinct.
They shouldn't have made such a precise move today.
Pei Qi's face was particularly ugly: "He will learn and grow."
Lu Yao: "The great omniscient and omnipotent God?"
The others turned to look at Pei Qi because of this sentence.
Pei Qi tapped his chin obscurely, sat tense for a long time, his lips slightly open, but didn't say anything else.
Lu Yao glimpsed three regular employees standing behind the table from the corner of his eye, as silent as shadows.
These three guys are his eyes and ears. Lu Yao thought for a moment and took out two ghost bracelets from his pocket: "The knife is lost, why not learn about the latest product that the store is about to launch. It's called the ghost bracelet, which has instant messaging and storage functions, and will also provide the holder with a unique combat system. And it has a small function that can perfectly solve your current troubles."
Ren You and Jiang Lin took the ghost bracelet, their eyes full of inquiry, and the owner's long list of introductions just passed by their ears.
Cai Yuxing suddenly clapped his hands excitedly: "So that's it. He and his followers can't use the ghost bracelet."
The consciousness detection system can detect the consciousness state of the bracelet holder, and his followers can't activate the ghost bracelet at all.
Lu Yao: "This is a very meaningful discovery. The bracelet has an optimization item."
Ren You and Jiang Lin saw the manual and noticed that Liu Jing, Cai Yuxing and Pei Qi were all wearing the same silver bracelet on their wrists.
Ren You: "How much is this?"
Lu Yao: "What you have is the advance version, currently priced at 200,000 each. If the church decides to purchase in bulk, there will be a discount."
Ren You's eyes widened: "200,000? The last knife was only 30."
Lu Yao: "You can consider it. It doesn't matter if you don't like this. I still have the same kind of knife in stock, and it's 31. By the way, the store has recently had a customer customize a storage ring. It's safe, cheap and portable. The custom price is 880."
Ren You was a little tempted by the storage ring. Compared with the 200,000 ghost bracelet, this 880 storage ring is very cost-effective.
Ren You spent 600 ghost coins to buy 20 ordinary knives from Lu Yao, and also ordered an 880 storage ring.
Jiang Lin bought three knives, but did not order a storage ring or a ghost bracelet.
In the evening, the clerk finished training and left. Lu Yao closed the store and returned to the shopping street with the ghost bracelets collected from the clerk.
Only twenty ghost bracelets were produced in the first batch. Ji Linkai and Song Wen’s were not collected, and the remaining eighteen were in Lu Yao’s hands.
She was going to upgrade the ghost bracelet immediately and add a consciousness scanning function.
The consciousness scanning system of the bracelet currently only serves the bracelet holder. What she wants to add is a function for scanning others.
With this function, the bracelet holder can determine the consciousness status of colleagues and friends around him at any time.
He will learn and grow.
Who wouldn’t?
Lu Yao stood on a familiar street, the street lights were on, and the warm wind blew on her face, making her mind clear.
Bu Du stood at the door of the hot spring hotel, holding a huge piece of ice in his hand, looking over eagerly.
Lu Yao was studying ghost bracelets at the furry shop during this period, and he had little time to go back to the nail salon and the hot spring hotel.
In the midsummer, the temperature in the city of Shaking Light was extremely high, and it was almost impossible to go out.
Fortunately, the Nitian continent has entered the rose season, and the weather has become cooler.
He can usually walk in and out of Stranglethorn Vale, helping Lu Yao maintain various facilities built in Nitian continent, such as the dandelion cable car and solar collectors. In addition, Ji Feichen would come to see him every day.
Lu Yao crossed the road and walked towards the hot spring hotel, leading Bu Du into the house: "Have you not eaten well recently? You have lost weight."
Bu Du hugged the ice cube in his arms tightly and followed Lu Yao: "It's not that you have lost weight, it's that you have melted."
Lu Yao: "Then why don't we go back to Qianmen Mountain? I'll take you there."
Bu Du shook his head: "My mother can't get close to Qianmen Mountain now. You don't have to worry about me, it will be fine in winter."
Lu Yao sighed "Summer isn't over yet, and winter is still so long."
Not only did he not want to leave Lu Yao no matter what, he returned to Qianmen Mountain alone and took the initiative to change the subject: "Is the ghost bracelet useful?"
Lu Yao nodded: "It is useful, but I'm going to upgrade it."
Ji Qingyan made Lu Yao a cup of heat-clearing tea made by the little people using plants from the Nitian continent, and asked casually: "Are you going to upgrade so soon?"
"The situation has changed." Lu Yao took a few sips of tea. It tasted fresh with the aroma of plants. "By the way, I want to recruit two new computer majors. If you have suitable people to recommend, you can recommend them internally."
While talking to Ji Qingyan, Lu Yao took out his mobile phone and told this matter in the employee group on the intranet.
Ji Qingyan: "Are you looking for the person who manages the main server next door?"
The main server of the ghost bracelet is next to the DIY hut. Because of the system's prompt, Lu Yao placed the main server in the shopping street.
The shops on the shopping street are all located at the overlap of two time and space. The DIY hut in the ghost street cannot connect to the Internet, but as a shop on the shopping street, the DIY hut and the main system next door can connect to the network.
However, the networkable area is limited to the real shop space on the shopping street. The additional upgraded alien space and the ghost street area outside the DIY hut cannot receive network signals.
In the ghost street area, the connection between the bracelets depends on Lu Yao's ability-willpower.
All the information related to the ghost bracelet was gathered through the wish network to the DIY hut where Lu Yao was, and then transmitted to the main computer system next door through the network that he could not invade.
He certainly could not cross the star gate, so the main server was guaranteed not to be invaded, but the price was that two more employees had to be hired to manage the server.
Lu Yao was originally going to continue to work overtime at the furry shop at night, but seeing Bu Du's look, he felt a little reluctant, so he pulled a stool and sat down by the window, ready to work overtime at the hot spring hotel.
The dwarfs hadn't seen the owner for a long time. She occasionally came over, always in a hurry, and rarely spoke to them.
Seeing the owner sitting down, the dwarf employees gathered around Lu Yao and pulled her to talk about the interesting things that happened recently in the hotel and the Nitian continent.
Blackthorn has grown taller. Lu Yao took a ruler to measure the little fellow. It is about five centimeters.
Beefball has gained weight. It has
a round body and long limbs. It spun around on the table and bit its tail like a beefball with four toothpicks stuck in it.
Iris, Bamboo Boat, Jiexiang, and Ziye all came to Lu Yao to keep in touch. They said that the yam and wild vegetables planted in the valley had a good harvest this year. The peak sun season also dried a lot of meat. This year's dusk rose season will not be so difficult. The
new sacred tree is growing well, more luxuriant than the previous generation of sacred trees.
The chief of the sacred tree tribe said that it may bear fruit in a few years, and the Nitian dwarfs will not die out.
Lu Yao listened to the chatter of the little people while busying himself with the ghost bracelet in his hand. The lights were turned off late at night.
Before turning off the lights, Lu Yao, Bu Du, and Black Ci and Beef Li, who were too excited to sleep, took a walk around Stranglethorn Vale. There were two huge moons in the sky, shining on the ground.
Compared with half a year ago, Stranglethorn Vale was like a huge and ancient city, with stars shining overhead, lights on the ground, small houses crowded together like mushrooms, wasteland was reclaimed into square fields, insects chirped, and the night wind was cool.
After returning from the night tour, Black Ci took Beef Li to say goodbye to Lu Yao and Bu Du at the door of the inn, and walked towards home, looking back every few steps.
After watching Black Ci and Beef Li return home safely, Lu Yao and Bu Du returned to the inn to rest.
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Midnight, South District of Ghost Street.
Ji Linkai lay in bed, tossing and turning.
Click-click-click-click-
a faint sound came from outside the door.
Ji Linkai tilted his ear to listen, stood up silently, his feet touched the floor, his whole face was hidden in the night, and his eyes stared sharply at the door in front of him.
He has a special identity, and the room he lives in is the most hidden basement in the whole building.
The time has passed midnight, and any sane resident of Ghost Street will not continue to wander outside, even in his own home. There
are long corridors and more than 20 rooms in the basement, but only Ji Linkai lives there, so there should not be any sound at this time.
Dong-dong-dong--
after a few seconds of silence, similar dong sounds continued to be heard.
Ji Linkai tensed up and slowly lowered his eyes.
He had been out for so long today, he must have been found by "He".
Everyone was resting upstairs at this time, no one could save him, and he couldn't let anyone else get involved.
The Desert Eagle that he had just made during the day was hidden under his pillow, with three bullets in it. When
he returned to his residence at night, he made ordinary bullets with the materials that were not used up during the day.
After a few minutes, Ji Linkai's expression became more and more solemn. He seemed to hear the gurgling sound of sticky and smooth skin rubbing against the rough floor of the basement, just like a golden octopus with a huge head struggling to crawl on the land, leaving a trail of wet water marks behind it.
Suddenly, all the sounds disappeared, as if all the sounds he had just heard were just dreams.
Ji Linkai did not dare to relax. Sweat oozed from his forehead, forming water droplets that slid down his face. The itching spread from the trail of the water droplets, but he could only hold his breath.
Dong-dong-dong-dong
"Ji-Lin-Kai--"
"I--found--you"
"Click--"
The door lock had no resistance to the brutal external force. In the deep night, the crack of the door opened little by little, and a golden octopus tentacle stretched out.
The muscles in Ji Linkai's arms trembled unconsciously. At this moment, fear almost made him unable to move.
The light switch was next to his bed, but he didn't have the strength to lean over and turn it on.
A
long and teeth-grinding creaking sound rang out, and the door was pushed open.
The chirping sound came again, it was coming in.
Ji Linkai quickly reached out, touched the Desert Eagle under the pillow, raised it and fired two blind shots forward.
There were no windows in the basement, and the lights were not on in the room, so the view was completely dark, but he had lived in this room for two years.
Two months ago, when Tiannao was still there, he had also trained his perception in this room at night.
Those exercises were not used in the last operation, but the efforts he had made were not in vain. He heard two dull and faint sounds and a muffled groan that could not be concealed.
Hit!
Ji Linkai seemed to have strength in an instant. Relying on his familiarity with the terrain, he touched the switch and pressed it without hesitation.
The light drove away the darkness, and Ji Linkai blinked twice to adapt to the dazzling light.
The next second, the Desert Eagle slipped from his hand and fell under the bed with a crisp sound.
Ji Linkai's eyes were covered with a layer of deep despair.
The two shots just now did hit him. He saw that the huge alien that was now coiled in his room had two wounds on one of its waving tentacles, but that little injury did not seem to cause any harm to it.
Its fat and wet body was squeezed in the gray basement. There were two vertical lines in its golden eyeballs, staring at Ji Linkai's pale face, and then it spoke.
"So your name is Ji Linkai."
"Did you enjoy the seafood tonight?" "
You ate so many shrimps and grilled eels tonight, your mouth was full of oil, and you must have enjoyed it very much."
Ji Linkai's almost stagnant thoughts were awakened by these words. The alien knew that he had eaten seafood in the evening, and the sound of this thing sounded inexplicably familiar.
He should have heard it somewhere, but he suddenly forgot it.
However, it did remind him of something.
Ji Linkai's mind moved, and at the same time, the opponent's huge golden tentacles also attacked.
In the blink of an eye, the tentacles wrapped around Ji Linkai's waist and lifted it high to the ceiling.
The octopus monster: "I will crush you to pieces, your blood and flesh will spray all over the wall, just like a mosquito that was slapped to death on the wall, and even its body was crushed into the dust."
Ji Linkai's face flushed, and his legs kicked randomly, causing it to laugh.
"Bang——"
"Ah——"
A blood hole pierced through the inner side of the tentacle that the octopus monster wrapped around Ji Linkai. The huge pain instantly paralyzed the octopus monster, and it screamed continuously.
Ji Linkai fell to the ground and rolled on the spot to avoid its flailing tentacles, holding the Wish Revolver tightly in his hand.
He was not paying attention to anything else, and after stabilizing his posture, he raised the revolver, aimed at the golden octopus's head, and fired two shots in a row.
"Ahhhhhhh——"
The octopus's feet flew around the room, and the whole building shook.
Ji Linkai frantically looked for a place to hide, and was hit twice by the octopus's feet in the chaos. He endured the severe pain and rolled to the corner, leaning against the wall, and raised the Wish Revolver with difficulty, aiming at the golden octopus's head and firing another shot.
The target was huge, and when the bullet flew out, Ji Linkai felt that he saw a golden track, and hit it the next second.
The golden octopus stood still, its fat tentacles hanging in midair in a twisted shape.
After about ten seconds, or maybe dozens of seconds, Ji Linkai saw a bunch of round balls of flesh emerging from the edges of the octopus's tentacles, beating as if they had life. The balls accumulated more and more, like tumors falling on the bald octopus's head. Suddenly, there was a loud noise, and the bunches of flesh-pink balls burst like soap bubbles.
Ji Linkai suddenly remembered the fireworks he had seen from afar on the bell tower at dawn that day, when the sperm whale, as big as a mountain, crushed the giant squid's body with its teeth, and the giant squid also exploded like this.
The exploded tumor sprayed all over the wall. Ji Linkai buried his head in his knees, but was still splashed with disgusting pieces of meat and mucus.
When the meat pieces finally stopped spraying, at least five minutes had passed. Ji Linkai stood up with the help of the wall and limped to the center of the room, where a person was lying.
When he saw the person's face clearly, a trace of self-mockery appeared on Ji Linkai's tired face.
It turned out to be him.
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The dormitory area on the first floor, the narrow and long corridor was silent.
Even though the basement was like an earthquake just now, no one upstairs was curious and opened the door to check the situation.
However, a series of untimely footsteps slowly sounded in the darkness.
A few minutes later, a figure stopped in front of a door and knocked on it three times.
No one answered.
Ji Linkai, who was outside the door, was extremely tired. He knocked again patiently, but still no one answered the door.
"Song Wen, this is K. Open the door, I have something to tell you."
In the room, Song Wen huddled in the corner, not daring to speak.
The whole building was shaking just now, and even people with good sleep quality would wake up, but the door must not be opened at this time, even if the person outside the door claimed to be his grandmother.
Ji Linkai waited for a few minutes, but still no one answered the door, and he felt complicated.
He felt relieved for a while, and a little sad at the same time.
The door cannot be opened at night, this is their last defense.
But in the face of real malice, this door is like a piece of paper, it can't defend against anything.
Ji Linkai stood in the dark for a few minutes and knocked on the door for the last time: "I just want to tell you, if you are awake, take out the ghost bracelet immediately and activate the combat system. He has found me, and I will leave at dawn."
The footsteps gradually faded away, Song Wen sat on the bed, stroking the silver bracelet on his wrist.
The voice was K.
It didn't sound like a lie.
The vibration downstairs just now was indeed those things coming, and they must leave here at dawn.
But should the battle system be activated?
Song Wen called out the system panel, swiped to the wish box section, and was full of conflicts.
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Shopping street, hot spring hotel.
When Lu Yao was about to lose consciousness, she suddenly woke up with a start.
She got up and turned on the light at the corner of the bed.
The warm yellow light propped up the darkness and drove away the deep fear that suddenly flashed in Lu Yao's heart.
Someone is using the battle system.
Twenty minutes later, Lu Yao was about to fall asleep again, but was awakened again.
Someone signed a contract late at night and prayed to her for a wish box.
The rules for obtaining the wish box are similar to what Goddess Fura once did with all her power, but Lu Yao only temporarily lent part of his wish power to the defenseless ghosts on Ghost Street to help them get out of danger.
The price is that every time they confront her, she will sense it, as if there is an eye staring at them from above.
In fact, Lu Yao has already felt a little troubled. Just now, she received a huge fear that did not belong to her.
Lu Yao took out the ruler of rules and began to pinch the second wish box without complaint, thinking in his heart that he would complain about it when the dream-fulfilling system came back.
All these things are preparations for finding the dream-fulfilling system.
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In the early morning, Lu Yao woke up after sleeping for less than two hours, yawning all the way to the DIY hut.
Three volunteer employees, Chen You, and Gan Ying came to the store one after
another. Huang Qi had not arrived until breakfast time. Lu Yao asked Gan Ying and Chen You, "Why didn't Huang Qi come with you?"
Gan Ying shook his head, "I don't know."
Chen You thought for a while and said slowly, "He went out to clean at night and didn't come back." Lu Yao
: "What did he clean?"
Chen You shook his head and pretended to be stupid.
Halfway through breakfast, a guest came to the door.
Ji Linkai walked into the DIY hut with great momentum and ran into a clerk eating. His Adam's apple rolled up and down, and he forgot what he was going to say, so
he said casually, "What did you have for breakfast? It smells so good." Lu Yao didn't expect him to come so early. Thinking of something he didn't have time to ask yesterday, he said, "There's seafood porridge. Do you want some?"
Ji Linkai changed color when he heard the word "seafood" and remembered his original intention of coming in the morning. He turned around and went out. When he came back, he was followed by a young man with his hands tied. It was Huang Qi who had not shown up all morning.
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