178 The Tenth Store
◎The Errand Shop is officially open for business.◎
It was three o'clock in the morning, before dawn.
Lu Yao got up and went to the Maorongrong Shop to transport the modified computer to the Errand Shop.
Team 1041 took a break at the Maorongrong Shop, took the phone of the shopping street, and instructed Lu Yao and Harold to install the computer via video.
Lu Yao had learned how to install new equipment at the Maorongrong Shop at the beginning, and was worried about mistakes, so he asked them to supervise remotely.
Lu Yao and Harold had just removed the outer packaging of the computer in the store, and Cheng Ye, Ji Qingyan and Zhang Shu all came to the store one after another.
Cheng Ye and Qing Yan are the chief engineers and architects of the errand program. Before the errand program is officially available to customers, it needs to be tested several times on the spot. The two came to help in advance.
Zhang Shu came to work.
The night before, when Lu Yao and Harold were dealing with the hooligans who were looking for trouble in front of the store, Song Qingshan, He Bi and Zhang Shu were just getting off work and wanted to come and see the environment of the new store.
When they arrived, they saw the mess in front of the store. Later, they saw the zombies gathered on the road reaching out to grab the people hanging on the poles. Song Qingshan and He Bi turned around and vomited, and almost vomited bile.
The next day, Song Qingshan asked for leave and went to the hospital for intravenous drip because he was not feeling well.
In the afternoon, Song Qingshan called Lu Yao and said painfully that he was not qualified for the work of the new store.
There is a huge gap between imagination and reality. After seeing the ragged corpses with skin and bones torn apart and maggots infesting the rotten flesh, Song Qingshan vomited and had nightmares all night.
For a long time afterwards, he vomited whenever he saw meat.
The flow of time in Xindian is a little different from that in the shopping street. When it is three o'clock in the morning in the shopping street, it is about seven or eight o'clock in Xindian, which means that the working hours of the Xindian staff are four or five hours earlier than the normal working hours in the shopping street.
Song Qingshan usually has to take care of his children, so it is difficult for him to make do with the working hours of the errand shop.
Lu Yao accepted Song Qingshan's request, sent messages to the remaining two people, and began to consider recruiting another staff member for Xindian.
When He Bi received Lu Yao's message, he was horrified and politely refused.
He was also scared that night.
Before he actually saw the zombies and the dilapidated city, he didn't think about how terrifying it would be if the zombies were rampant.
It took Zhang Shu half an hour to get back to Lu Yao's message.
Lu Yao was already preparing to let Zhixin recruit new people.
Zhang Shu sent a message: Shopkeeper, I want to give it a try. I am willing to work in the new store.
Lu Yao confirmed with Zhang Shu: "Aren't you scared?"
Zhang Shu: "Actually, I have always liked horror elements. Of course, facing that real world is completely different from what you see in movies, TV shows, and novels. But I only need to work in the store, so it shouldn't be a big problem. You and Harold still have to work outside, which is many times more dangerous than us. I think I should be fine."
Lu Yao said to Zhang Shu like this.
Zhang Shu was officially transferred to the errand shop, responsible for monitoring and operating the order-taking system.
The computer was installed, and the order-taking system started running. The coverage of the network was consistent with the range of the signal receiver installed by Luyao.
Combined with the map scanned and recorded by the dream-fulfilling system, the best route can be indicated in real time by voice through the errand runner's special badge and communicator.
In order to test whether the system can operate normally, Harold was on standby in the store, and Luyao rode out on an electric bike and used the business card of the errand shop 5 kilometers away from the store.
The errand system received the order and immediately dispatched it to Harold.
It takes four minutes for Harold to ride his bike to the dispatch location, but only two minutes to run there, and he can reach the scene in three seconds by using the key of time and space to open the door.
Lu Yao felt helpless. Fast transportation was only suitable for ordinary people like her. Harold and Qiuyu probably didn't need it.
A total of 20 tests were conducted in the morning. The errand system, which was born by combining the most cutting-edge technologies from many worlds, was very excellent. All 20 deliveries were accurate.
The next day, the errand shop officially opened for business. Lu Yao
posted a message on the intranet of the shopping street the afternoon before that the new store would officially open. In the evening, three vans drove into the shopping street. The visitors were the owners of a flower shop in the city, and they pulled over 60 flower baskets.
Lu Yao later learned that the VIP guests, former employees, and partners of the shopping street had formed a group privately, and ordered flower baskets from the flower shop together, and had them delivered specially.
Before delivering them, they first informed Ji Zhixin.
Ji Zhixin also found time to mention this to Lu Yao, but he didn't mention that they were sending flower baskets.
When he received the flower baskets, Lu Yao was really surprised.
After contacting the bosses to express his gratitude, Lu Yao began to process the flower baskets.
More than sixty of them were taken to the errand shop. The scene was a bit too scary. After all, it is difficult to find a flower shop there that supplies this kind of flower baskets.
There are many shops in the shopping street whose customers rarely have the opportunity to see this kind of flower baskets. Lu Yao asked Xiao Ji to distribute some to each shop. In the end, there were more than twenty left, and they were all taken to the door of the errand shop to be displayed.
At three o'clock in the morning, Lu Yao and Harold arrived at the errand shop first.
About ten minutes later, Zhang Shu also arrived.
In order to facilitate work, Zhang Shu also bought a small electric car.
She urgently learned for two days and was barely able to go on the road. She didn't dare to drive too fast, so she came a little late.
When a new store opens, it usually has to set off firecrackers. Electronic firecrackers are also fine. It's just a formality.
However, zombies are most sensitive to sound. Lu Yao thought about it and skipped this step to avoid unnecessary trouble.
On the day of the official opening, the long-overdue system tasks were officially issued.
[The store has been successfully upgraded and is currently a one-star store. Please keep working hard! ]
[You have a new task! Please complete a single errand task within 24 hours, and the reward will be 100 points of popularity and 1 fragment of the world's truth! ]
It's a regular new store task, but the time limit is very short, and the reward is better than nothing.
Lu Yao is more concerned about the "fragment of the world's truth" at the back, and he doesn't know what it is.
The owner is also experienced, and he puts aside things he doesn't know or can't figure out. The most important thing at the moment is to take orders and complete tasks.
The errand shop opens too early, so Xiao Ji doesn't come to the shopping street until around four or five o'clock, and she has to give priority to delivering goods to the Internet cafe.
Lu Yao went to the snack bar to get breakfast in person, and ate in the store with Zhang Shu and Harold.
The specific location of the errand shop in the Golden Kingdom is No. 170 Guanyin Road, Gaosheng City. The flower baskets at the door almost reach the road, but the store has been open for two hours, and there are no customers, let alone people on the road.
Harold leaned against the door with his arms crossed: "There is no one."
Lu Yao: "It's normal for a new store to open. But we can't wait any longer."
Lu Yao brought a cardboard box out of the warehouse.
Harold frowned when he saw the flyers in the box: "Another time?"
Half of the box was flyers that had been made long ago, and the other half was business cards that Lu Yao had remade after modifying the style.
Business cards are exclusive props of the errand shop and are directly linked to the errand system. As long as the customer fills in the address on the back of the business card, the errand runner will take the order and come to the door.
Therefore, the function of the business card is equivalent to the express delivery slip used in the normal world, which generally needs money to buy.
Lu Yao put a stack of flyers and business cards into a small hand-sewn cloth bag, and put a gold swallower specially used for collecting and verifying money into the bag.
The gold swallower was made by a weapon refiner in the Floating World Continent. It looks like a squatting Pixiu, which means "gathering wealth".
The gold swallower can be used to test the purity and weight of gold.
After the order is issued, the system calculates the cost of the errand, and the gold swallower will automatically bite the corresponding amount of gold, without the need for the clerk and the customer to worry about it.
Lu Yao carried a cloth bag on his back and handed one to Harold: "I'll go left when we go out, and you go right, and go put flyers in the houses nearby with intact doors and windows and curtains drawn. If someone opens the door and expresses interest in our business, you can say that we're having a new store opening promotion, and business cards are only half price, and only one per person."
Harold reluctantly carried the small cloth bag and muttered in a low voice: "It's the same thing every time we open a store."
Lu Yao pushed him out the door: "This method is simple but effective."
When they reached the door, Lu Yao turned back and instructed Zhang Shu: "Don't be afraid, we won't be alone in the store later. Contact us if someone places an order, and we'll get there as quickly as possible."
The errand runners have special work badges and communicators, and Zhang Shu can contact them directly through the errand system in the store.
Harold went out on his bike with his bag on his back. He was happy to ride without considering efficiency.
A few days ago, Harold rode an electric bike in Emerald Town, attracting the attention of the residents in the town. Some customers even wanted to order an electric bike at the nail salon.
People in Alexandria travel by horse-drawn carriages, and some even by ox-drawn carts. When they see an iron-shell electric bike, they are so excited that they are speechless. Lu
Yao came out of the store, turned left and walked into the Guanyin community.
The Guanyin community should be a high-end community. The gate is very grand, with a security booth and a gate at the entrance.
There are two corpses in security uniforms in the security booth. The bodies are rotten and should have been cleaned out in the early days.
There are more than 20 residential buildings in the community. Lu Yao stood downstairs and looked up. One building has more than 30 floors.
There are probably quite a few people staying in this community, but they are rarely seen going out.
You can't take the elevator, so you can only climb up the stairs. Occasionally, you will encounter sporadic zombies in the corridor, which are basically the original residents of the building.
Generally, if you encounter zombies on the lower floors, Lu Yao will change to another building.
The first and second floors are the only way for everyone to go out. There are zombies wandering in the corridor but no one is cleaning them up. It can be basically judged that there are not many people in this building.
In order to ensure normal access to and from the units where people live, they will definitely not let zombies wander around in the corridor.
Houses with tightly drawn curtains are usually occupied. Lu Yao usually observes downstairs for a while to get a good idea before starting to sweep the house.
Originally, this kind of house-sweeping activity is best done by knocking on doors and communicating face to face. Lu Yao is not that skilled at socializing, so he only puts a flyer on the door handle.
Unexpectedly, after sweeping three units, Lu Yao encountered a family on the seventh floor of the fourth building with a slightly open door.
An old lady stood in the door, holding the door tightly with both hands, peeking at Lu Yao through the gap. When her eyes met Lu Yao's, she immediately closed the door in panic.
Lu Yao walked to the door, stood there thinking for a while, raised her hand and knocked on the door gently. Knowing that there was someone behind the door, she began to introduce herself cheerfully: "Hello, I am a clerk in the errand shop outside the community. The shop mainly does errands and express delivery. Today is the first day of opening. Orders are 50% off. If you need, you can learn more."
Lu Yao stood at the door and waited for a few minutes. The door did not open again. She still stuck/put the flyer on the door handle as before and continued to sweep the floor.
When Lu Yao left the seventh floor and continued to climb to the eighth floor, a resident on the seventh floor of unit four slowly opened the door and took the flyer on the door handle.
Cao Xiuhong is a resident of Unit 4, Room 705. She is 62 years old and lives with her husband and grandson.
She is the old woman who just secretly looked at the road through the crack of the door.
When the footsteps outside the door faded away, Cao Xiuhong plucked up the courage to open the door again and took back a flyer.
She heard what the girl said outside the door, but she also knew that the world is not good now. In addition to zombies, there are also many people who are willing to gnaw other people's bones to survive.
She was afraid of being deceived, so she resisted opening the door.
An old woman like her can still survive, thanks to her grandson with them.
Her son and daughter-in-law are busy with work, so Cao Xiuhong and her husband have been taking care of their grandson who is in school.
The grandson was supposed to take the college entrance exam in only six months, but a zombie virus broke out more than a month ago, and the school could not be opened, so everyone had to stay at home.
Their family was lucky. When the accident happened, the grandson, who was in the third year of high school, was having lunch with them at home, so the whole family was not separated. During
this period, they lived on the food reserves at home.
The three of them had to save and save, and after nearly two months, they had reached their limit.
The day before, the residents on the same floor were preparing to go out to find supplies, and Cao Xiuhong's grandson Zhao Xiaopeng asked them to take him with them.
The people on the same floor knew each other's background, and the adults knew that Zhao Xiaopeng was the only one in Cao Xiuhong's family who could go out, so they agreed to take him with them.
But they had been out for a day and a night and had not returned yet.
Cao Xiuhong was anxious and had knocked on the doors of other residents several times in the morning.
Most of the people who stayed at home were relatively weak elderly people, women and children, and they were also anxious because of this matter. Cao Xiuhong was scolded several times, but she didn't find out anything. She was so anxious that she almost cried.
At this moment, she heard footsteps and quickly hid back home. She was afraid that it was her grandson who came back, so she peeked through the crack of the door.
It turned out that the person coming up from downstairs was a young girl with short hair. One side of her hair was pressed behind her ear, revealing the golden lotus pendant on her ear. She had a cloth bag on her shoulder and a stack of what looked like flyers in her hand, which she kept sticking on the door of the resident.
In the past, when she went out and came back, there would be various small cards stuck on the crack of the door, but this was the first time since the outbreak of the zombie virus.
Cao Xiuhong closed the door carefully, took the flyer back to the restaurant, picked up the reading glasses from the table, put them on and read the contents of the paper carefully - the main business scope of Lu Yao's errand shop, the order process, the charging standards, the store location...
The content on the flyer was very detailed, and the layout was like an old-fashioned classroom blackboard, without any fancy renderings, nor any eye-catching advertising slogans, but even an old woman like Cao Xiuhong could barely understand the meaning of the flyer.
Lu Yao encountered zombies in the stairwell on the thirteenth floor. She roughly counted that there were more than ten of them, so she didn't plan to go up.
When going downstairs, Lu Yao ran very fast, took a few steps, held the railing with his hands, and jumped down directly.
I don't know how many floors I went down, but I suddenly looked up and saw an old lady standing at the entrance of the stairs, looking a little panicked and anxious.
The old lady wanted to speak when she saw her, so Lu Yao quickly jumped down, covered the old lady's mouth, and whispered, "There is a zombie on the thirteenth floor, don't scream."
Cao Xiuhong's eyes widened in fear, and then she nodded repeatedly.
When Lu Yao let her go, she pulled Lu Yao up and ran away.
You know what, the old lady had small steps and ran very fast. Before she could make any sound, she pulled Lu Yao into her home in the blink of an eye, closed the door and said to Lu Yao: "Please help me find my grandson."
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