175 ? The tenth store

175 The Tenth Store

◎ "Is this... considered hiring child labor?"◎

Lu Yao rode his electric scooter back to the errand shop. Before he reached the door, he saw a few people in front of the shop from a distance, holding tools in their hands, as if they were prying the door open.

They were three adult men. They saw Lu Yao park his scooter on the side of the road but did not stop. One of the men was holding a large wrench in his hand and walked towards Lu Yao, shouting, "Get off the scooter."

Lu Yao was mentally prepared for the possible end of the world, especially since the order of this world might have just collapsed and new rules had not yet been formed. Some people seemed to have just "broken away" from the shackles of law and morality, and began to oppress those who seemed weaker than them without any bottom line.

Lu Yao got out of the car smoothly, glanced at the two men who were still diligently prying the lock in front of the store, and slowly walked over: "Don't pry, you can't pry it open."

The man with the wrench came over and grabbed Lu Yao's arm, pulling her towards the door: "We can't open it, you open it!"

The two men squatting at the door stood up and made way. One of them took out a spring knife from his trouser pocket, pointed the blade at Lu Yao: "I saw you riding a little electric donkey around the street before dawn, don't blame us, blame yourself for showing off, open the door quickly." Lu Yao

said nothing, stretched out his hand to pinch the wrist of the man with the knife, and gently turned it. There was a cracking sound, the man screamed, the knife fell to the ground, and he couldn't lift his wrist.

The man's companion's face changed suddenly and he raised the bent water pipe in his hand.

Lu Yao raised her hand to resist the oncoming water pipe. A strong wind blew from behind. She bent down suddenly to avoid the wrench that was hitting her head. The wrench drew an arc in the air and hit the water pipe on the opposite side. The clanging sound rang out at the intersection.

After a long period of training, Lu Yao's body was light and flexible, and she didn't need to use her abilities to deal with ordinary people.

"Ahhhhhh——"

"Ahhhh——"

In less than a minute, two screams rang out one after another, and the people who were secretly watching from a high place silently retreated and disappeared behind the curtains. Lu

Yao clapped his hands, kicked away the wrenches and steel pipes blocking the road, walked back to the roadside, pushed the electric donkey to the front of the store, hung a lock, and pasted a sticker with a gravity magic circle on the base.

The electric donkey is not expensive to buy, and it is very convenient to use on a daily basis. After charging it for a while, Lu Yao will ride it out in the afternoon to continue laying signal receivers.

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Zhang Shulan took a shortcut back to her residence, climbed the stairs to the third floor tremblingly, and made sure that there was no one in the corridor. She bent over and walked to the door of Room 303, carefully took out the rope with the key hanging from her neck, and held the key to open the door.

After Zhang Shulan entered the room, she closed the door lightly and quickly.

The edge of the door was covered with a circle of sponge tape with double-sided tape, so there was no extra sound when opening and closing the door.

The doors and windows were closed indoors, and there was no light.

Even if it was bright outside, the room was dim, only slightly brighter than at night, but not so dark that you couldn't see your hand in front of you.

In the past, when Zhang Shulan came back, the baby was waiting at the door.

Today, the baby was not at the door, and there was no sound in the room. Zhang Shulan's heart suddenly lifted, but she didn't dare to make a sound. She reached out from the shoe cabinet and took out a rolling pin, then walked into the room step by step with her waist bent.

Zhang Shulan walked from the living room to the kitchen and bathroom, and made sure that there was no one in the room outside. Her heart grew colder.

She walked to the bedroom door, used a rolling pin to push open the door, the closet, the bed, the window sill, and her eyes froze.

Five-year-old Lin Shanshan was lying on the window sill of the bedroom, pulling open the curtains a little, looking out.

Zhang Shulan slowly exhaled, pushed open the door and walked over.

When Lin Shanshan heard the sound, she turned around and pointed outside the window and said, "Mom, there's a fight."

Zhang Shulan was so scared that she almost fainted. She sat on the ground and hugged her daughter, rubbing her tender little face, "You almost scared mom to death."

Lin Shanshan hugged Zhang Shulan and patted her back gently, "Mom is not afraid."

After she calmed down, Zhang Shulan remembered that her daughter had been looking outside, "What were you looking at just now?"

Lin Shanshan pointed downstairs and said, "There's a fight."

Zhang Shulan opened the curtains, revealing a little gap, and immediately saw a conspicuous sign across the street. On the sign with a blue background and white border, the words "Luyao's Errand Shop" were written in large, eye-catching letters.

The eye-catching shop sign was the second most important thing. Zhang Shulan took out the business card she had received not long ago from the pocket of her sports pants.

The business card also had a blue background and white edges, a particularly refreshing style. The words "Lu Yao's errand shop" were printed on the front, and several rows of densely written text were written on the back. She didn't have time to take a closer look.

Zhang Shulan remembered that Lu Yao had said that he had opened a store near the Guanyin community. It turned out that it was not an excuse.

The shop sign, the business card, and the white electric car parked at the door of the errand shop were enough to prove that she was not lying.

At this moment, there was no one at the door of the errand shop. The people who had been fighting had gone somewhere. There was only a small electric car parked at the door, but no one was nearby.

Zhang Shulan was a single mother with a five-year-old daughter. She originally worked in a nearby department store.

More than a month ago, her and her daughter's tight but relatively peaceful life was disrupted by a sudden upheaval.

A strange virus broke out on an ordinary afternoon. The infected people would die quickly, and after death they would stand up again and become soulless puppets, wandering freely in cities and streets of all sizes. The flesh and blood of humans was their only desire.

Many people moved away from the community where Zhang Shulan lived, and many died on the way to move. Some died at the mouths of zombies, and more people died unclearly in the chaos.

Zhang Shulan wanted to leave at first, but her daughter was too young. She didn't know where to find a safer place after leaving this small nest where she depended on for survival.

After hesitating for a long time, Zhang Shulan and her daughter stayed.

Fortunately, she had the habit of hoarding goods. Whenever there was a discount or holiday promotion, she couldn't help but buy some cheap rice, flour and daily necessities to keep at home.

When the zombie virus first broke out, the government still stepped in to control the situation. At that time, money could still buy things. Zhang Shulan found a way to hoard some things at home, including but not limited to rice, flour, canned meat, oil, salt, toilet paper, cat litter, mineral water...

But she had limited energy and savings. At that time, everyone was frantically rushing to buy goods in the supermarket, so she didn't dare to buy too much.

Two weeks later, the situation was completely out of control, and the army//troops failed to withstand the invasion of the zombie tide.

Too many people died, and the most difficult ones would immediately stand up and turn into man-eating zombies, occupying the city without reason.

Social order began to collapse step by step from then on, and it became what it is now in less than two months.

Zhang Shulan was more and more afraid to go out, but the food supply was getting less and less, and the surrounding security was getting worse and worse, which made her particularly anxious.

Zhang Shulan was also worried that if she didn't go out, she would be more and more afraid to go out in the future, so she would still go out if she had the chance, even if she could only find a pair of socks or a bag of candy to give her daughter and herself an extra guarantee of survival.

Zhang Shulan had been to that coffee shop several times and was roughly aware of the pattern of zombies wandering nearby. She sneaked out before dawn.

As expected, she did not encounter any zombies or other people. The coffee shop was in a conspicuous location and had been searched many times. The few remaining supplies were not worth anyone's attention. She found half a pack of leftover coffee powder, half a bottle of caramel syrup, a small bag of coconut flakes, and a dozen milk foams in the store.

There were not many things, but they were enough to make Zhang Shulan happy for the whole day.

She had never thought that she had spent too much time in the store. When she wanted to leave, she was surrounded by zombies.

If she hadn't met the girl who gave her the business card, she might not have been able to come back today.

Zhang Shulan calmed down, lit a block of solid alcohol, boiled a pot of water, and used the syrup and milk foam she had just found to make a cup of sugar water for her daughter.

Lin Shanshan took small sips of the drink while holding the cup, feeling somewhat happy, and whispered to Zhang Shulan, "Mom, the sister who was fighting won."

Zhang Shulan picked up the business card next to the coffee table again, thought about it, and carefully put it in the inner pocket of her clothes.

There are actually quite a few people in this community and the Guanyin community opposite, and strong men always have an advantage. Zhang Shulan has always been worried about the safety of herself and her daughter.

The girl who gave her the business card looked weak, but someone who dared to ride a bicycle alone on the street at this time must have a lot of people behind him.

Zhang Shulan could feel that Lu Yao had no ill intentions towards her, so she ran back to pick up the business card when she was on the bridge.

She was alone with a child, and this could be considered a trump card if she needed help in the future.

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Lu Yao pulled a power strip out of the store, charged his electric car, closed the store and returned to the shopping street. He couldn't help complaining to Tuan Tuan: "Look, the store hasn't even opened yet and someone wants to buy for free. If you run a supermarket, there will be fights every day."

The Dream Fulfilling System sighed: "You are right. Selling goods requires paying the cost of the goods, and the customers are not honest. It is really tiring to argue every day."

Lu Yao: "You can decorate the store according to the drawings. I will arrange the remaining signal receivers in the afternoon. I will install the system in the backstage tomorrow and try to open it officially in three days. By the way, I will modify the business card style later. I will go to the evening. Print out another batch."

Dream-fulfilling system: "What about the store clerks? It's okay for the receptionist to be an ordinary person, but I'm afraid it won't work for the errand runners. There are not only zombies outside, but also many people with bad intentions. The working environment is extremely bad, and ordinary people can't complete this kind of work."

Lu Yao: "Ordinary people are not qualified for errand work, so I want to transfer a few store clerks from other stores first."

Dream-fulfilling system: "What do you mean?"

Lu Yao: "You see, Harold and Tina are on summer vacation recently, and Xiong Anan, Qiuyu, and Xiao Renshen are making trouble in Buxian Mountain every day, disturbing the leader of Hengze Sect for three or five days. I'm going to complain once. The kids are too energetic. Why not find something for them to do to expend their energy?"

Dream Fulfillment System: "Is this... considered hiring child labor?"

Lu Yao: "How can it be considered child labor if they work in your own home? Besides, have you ever seen child laborers who are nearly 100 or over 1,000 years old?"

Dream Fulfillment System: "...you didn't say that before."

Lu Yao: "I'll ask the kids. If that doesn't work, I'll recruit a group of professional errand runners from Alexandria or Floating World."

Dream Fulfillment System: "Your idea is ideal, but the rules don't allow it. If we investigate it carefully, , this can also be regarded as a kind of "talent export", and it is from one world to another. The last time Harold took you and Qiuyu through time and space to Tomorrow City, it was successful because both of them signed a soul contract with you, so they were not sanctioned by the rules of the world. "

Lu Yao: "Does that mean that the kids in the store who have signed a contract with me can travel through time and space with Harold?"

The portable warehouse can transfer employees from other stores to another store, but there is a restriction-the transferred employees cannot cross the star gate of the new store and can only move within the store.

All along, the only ones who can cross the star gate without restrictions are Lu Yao and Harold, who has the ability to travel through time and space, and even sometimes they are rejected by other worlds.

Dream Fulfilling System: "After all, Tomorrow City is not a scheduled route for the shopping street, so the relevant rules have been relaxed. If you want to use employees from other worlds in the errand shop, you must make sure that they sign a soul contract with you."

Lu Yao: "For the time being, ask Harold and Qiuyu to come over to help. In the early days of the new store, there are not many customers, and three people should be enough to run errands. If it gets busy later, I will think of a way."

Lu Yao came out of the errand shop. It was already morning in the Shaking Light City, and the staff came to the store one after another.

Lu Yao ran into three employees from the DIY Hut's main control room. He walked over and told them about the DIY Hut's reopening. The three people were very surprised.

Lu Yao then proposed that a person should be transferred to the newly opened errand shop to manage the backstage order system.

【Author's words】

The new store is probably a new perspective. The store owner and the staff observe from the perspective of passers-by how the residents of the Golden Kingdom stock up to survive in the disaster.

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