179 The Tenth Store
◎I am a gold lover.◎
Lu Yao has already recognized the old lady as the one who hid in the crack of the door to watch her earlier. The twists and turns are just like this.
However, the errand shop mainly accepts orders for picking up and transferring items. Considering the situation in Gaosheng City, it can also help transport large items and pick up and drop off personnel, but it will cost extra. Finding people is a bit beyond the scope of business.
People going missing is probably a very common situation in this world. The errand shop cannot help find people frequently, otherwise it will not be a store, but like a full-time rescue.
Seeing the old lady's eyes filled with tears, Lu Yao thought for a few seconds and gently reminded her: "Grandma, do you know where your grandson has gone? If you have the exact location, we can go and pick him up. But if you don't know where he has gone, there is nothing we can do."
Cao Xiuhong's husband was resting in the bedroom. Hearing the noise outside, he thought it was his grandson who had returned. He got up and walked out. He was surprised to see a strange girl in his home and asked: "Who is this?"
Cao Xiuhong pointed at Lu Yao and said: "She is an errand runner. I want her to find Xiao Peng."
Lu Yao took out a flyer from his cloth bag and handed it to the old woman. She took the initiative to introduce herself: "Hello, I am a clerk in the errand shop. Our shop is just outside the community, specializing in errands and express delivery. If you want to pick up your grandson, as long as you have a specific address, it can also be considered as an errand."
The old man was thin and tall, with a thin layer of skin almost attached to his bones. He looked much older than the old lady.
He looked at Lu Yao deeply, took the flyer, and took out his reading glasses from the sofa with shaking hands. He lowered his head and looked for a long time, then raised his head and asked: "Do you only accept gold?"
Lu Yao nodded with a smile: "Yes, our store only accepts gold as a reward."
The old man held the flyer under his hand and winked at the old lady, motioning her to go into the house.
The old lady didn't listen, and directly pulled off a gold bracelet from her wrist that was almost as thick as Lu Yao's little finger, and stuffed it directly into Lu Yao's hand: "As long as you can find your grandson, I'll give you this bracelet. I don't have enough. There are other jewelry in the house, which were bought before the accident. What use can they be now? They can't be eaten or used."
Lu Yao was secretly shocked. The reputation of the Kingdom of Gold is really well-deserved.
In the store run by the owner, there are customers from several worlds who also use gold coins and gold ingots as currency, such as the human world of Alexandria, Dawu Dynasty, and Floating World Continent. However, due to various reasons, most of the gold used as currency contains certain impurities, and the purity does not reach the 999 that Lu Yao knows.
Most modern gold jewelry is made of pure gold, especially gold and silver jewelry made by the old lady, which are generally not fake.
Lu Yao did not take the bracelet from the old lady immediately, but took out a business card from his bag and handed it to her: "This is a business card for placing orders. You two need to write the name of the client and the address you need the errand runner to go to on the back of the business card. Without a specific address, our errand runner cannot accept the order." The front of the
business card with a blue background and white border reads "Lu Yao's errand shop", and there are two rows of small words below to indicate the main business scope of the errand shop.
There are four blank spaces on the back of the business card for filling in the name, goods, order address and errand address, and at the bottom there are small words indicating how customers use the order business card.
The two old men looked at each other for a long time. The old lady frowned and looked worried: "But we don't know where Xiao Peng went. He went with Old Liu from Jinhua's family."
Lu Yao: "Why don't we ask other family members? Maybe someone knows."
The old man waved to the door: "Go ask Jinhua." The old
lady sighed, opened the door and went out.
The old man glanced at Lu Yao, pointed at the sofa and said: "Sit down." Lu Yao
was polite for a while, but couldn't resist the old man's gaze and walked to the sofa and sat down.
After a while, the old lady came back, followed by two people.
The tall woman in the flowered shirt was Jinhua. When she saw Lu Yao, she said, "She looks young and healthy, but she is so heartless that she even deceived an old man."
Lu Yao stood up and prepared to explain. The old man next to him said, "Jinhua, you must know the warehouse where Lao Liu and the others went. Tell us. We don't ask for anything else, just that Xiaopeng returns safely."
Jinhua couldn't stand it and shouted, "Master, she is not trying to help you save Xiaopeng. She is a liar. She specializes in deceiving people like you who are in a hurry. What is the world like now? "Is there any kind-hearted person here?"
Lu Yao interrupted, "I'm not a liar, my shop is downstairs. From here you should be able to see the one with the flower basket at the door."
The other woman who came with Jinhua was younger. When she heard this, she walked to the window, opened the curtain and looked downstairs. After a while, she turned around and said, "There really is a flower basket. So you're not the one who had a fight with Li San and his group on the street the night before last, are you?"
Li San was a nearby gangster. After the zombie virus broke out, he gathered a group of people and often did some sneaky things.
They didn't dare to be so rampant before, but now there is no restraint or control. Ordinary people can do nothing about them except to avoid them.
A few days ago, they targeted a newcomer who was riding an electric scooter downstairs and called a group of people to help them. In the end, they lost the fight and were hung on a street lamp pole and tortured all night.
The screams continued all night, and these residents were terrified.
Lu Yao remained calm: "That can't be called a fight. They punctured my tires and threw debris in front of the store. I was just defending myself."
Everyone in the room: "..."
Lu Yao continued: "We just want to do some small business, we have no other intentions. The old lady and the eldest grandfather are worried about their grandson. After the order is placed, our special errand runners will go to the scene to check and bring the person back if he is still there. If he is not, we can't do anything."
Jinhua's man is the organizer of this material search. They are not wandering around aimlessly. If they are sure to take someone out, they must have collected intelligence in advance and will go out only after they have obtained specific information.
Others may not know the address, but Jinhua definitely knows something.
Jinhua didn't believe Luyao, crossed her arms, and snorted: "Who knows if you want to get information so that you can go and rob supplies?"
Luyao looked at the old lady helplessly: "Without the specific address of the errand, we have no way." The old
lady looked at Jinhua.
Jinhua turned aside and said nothing.
The young woman picked up the flyer on the sofa and read it, and suddenly raised her head to look at Luyao: "You don't accept supplies, only gold?"
Luyao nodded: "Yes, I am a gold lover, that's my hobby."
The matter-of-fact tone matched with the big golden pendant under her ear, which was particularly convincing.
Mrs. Cao was more and more certain that she had found the right person. She went to beg Jinhua: "We don't ask for anything, as long as Xiaopeng can come back safely. Please, have mercy on these two old people who are half buried in the earth."
Jinhua frowned, and her heart was also complicated and difficult to understand when she saw the two helpless old people.
It was such an obvious scam. It would not be a problem if it was just to cheat a little gold. She was worried that the young man wanted to intercept the goods.
The young woman who came with Jinhua walked up to Lu Yao and held out her hand: "I want to buy one of that business card. I don't know the exact location, but it's roughly around there. Please take the trouble to find it. I'm willing to pay three times the price."
Jinhua looked at her companion in shock, incredulous: "Are you crazy?"
The woman nodded: "I'm really going crazy waiting! I can't do anything, and I dare not go out. I can only worry at home. If I don't do something, I'm really going crazy!!!"
Jinhua was speechless.
No matter who went out or who stayed at home, they were suffering and stressed. In fact, she was almost unable to bear it.
Lu Yao took out a business card and handed it to the young woman.
Old Mrs. Cao hurried back to the house to find a pen and prepared to fill in the address.
The young woman's name was Ren Juan, and she asked Lu Yao to pick up her husband from a supermarket chain about 5 kilometers away from Guanyin Community. Old
Mrs. Cao wrote the same address as hers and asked Lu Yao to pick up her grandson Zhao Xiaopeng.
Lu Yao took out a gold-eating Pi Xiu from his bag: "The rule of our shop is that payment comes first and then delivery. On the first day of business, business cards and errand fees are both 50% off. A business card is sold for 0.2 grams of gold after the discount, and the errand fee is 0.8 grams of gold after the discount. The total cost for one person is one gram of gold."
Old lady Cao stuffed the big bracelet into Lu Yao's hand: "How much is one gram of gold? You can take this bracelet, as long as my grandson can come back."
Lu Yao raised the gold-eating Pi Xiu, and there was a crisp sound. The old lady's thick bracelet was bitten off in the middle, leaving a small gap.
Lu Yao: "That's all. We have a discount for the opening of a new store. If you think it's good, please come and patronize us more often in the future."
Ren Juan stared in amazement and took off the chain with the big golden Buddha hanging from her neck: "Your technology is quite advanced."
After filling out the form and collecting the payment, Lu Yao put the gold swallower into his bag and prepared to go downstairs. His nimble hands and feet made it seem like he was going to run away after defrauding the money.
Jinhua called Lu Yao: "Where are you going?"
Lu Yao walked out without looking back: "There are only two errand boys in the store, and the other one is cleaning the floor. I have to go back to take orders."
Jinhua: "..."
Ren Juan was standing at the door: "Don't tell me she really ran away."
Jinhua frowned and looked at her: "Do you regret it now?"
Old Mrs. Cao was a little at a loss, and tried to make amends: "If she really wanted to cheat gold, why would she only ask for such a small amount?"
Jinhua said weakly: "What's the use of gold? She knows that Da Liu and the others are in the Xingfu chain supermarket. Isn't it better to take people over to rob? Asking for such a small amount of gold is just a formality, and you still think she is a good person." Lu Yao
walked out of the Guanyin community, turned back to the store, put on his work badge and communicator, and rode his electric car out.
Ren Juan leaned over the window of Old Lady Cao's house and looked out: "They really went in the direction of Xingfu Chain Store."
Before they saw their family members coming back, they were still unsure. They were anxious to sit together and wait. Jinhua and Ren Juan went back home first.
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Xingfu Chain Store, five or six adult men and Zhao Xiaopeng were trapped in a small warehouse in the basement of the supermarket.
The day before, they left home before dawn and found their way to the supermarket.
Xingfu Chain Store is a large chain store. The underground floor, first floor, second floor and third floor of this building are all their shopping malls. From top to bottom, they are clothing area, home appliance area, daily necessities area, and underground warehouse.
Most of the goods on the third floor were looted when the zombie virus first broke out. There may be a small amount of goods left on the shelves, but there are many zombies transformed from dead customers and employees in the mall, so it is difficult to enter.
This area is too large, and there are shelves and counters everywhere that block the view. The zombies that move silently between the shelves cannot be cleaned up at all.
If you are not careful occasionally, you may be bitten by a zombie that suddenly jumps out, and the hidden danger is quite high.
The man who led Zhao Xiaopeng and others is called Da Liu. He is Jinhua's man. He is strong and stable, and has a good reputation among his companions.
After several scouting, they aimed at the underground warehouse of Xingfu chain supermarket.
There were no customers in the warehouse area. Even if there were dead stockers downstairs, there would not be many people. In addition, the entrance and exit of the supermarket warehouse was in the employee area, and ordinary people could not enter and exit.
At least it would not be as easy to find as the shopping mall upstairs. It is not ruled out that someone has the same idea as them, but a few teams alone would definitely not be able to take away all the goods. There must be a lot of supplies in the warehouse.
As long as they pick up some scraps, they can survive.
The team entered the underground warehouse of the supermarket smoothly according to the plan, using fluorescent sticks as lighting.
The goods in the entire warehouse were neatly stacked, and everything was the same as Da Liu's idea.
Several grown men were almost crying with joy when they saw five-kilogram and ten-kilogram bags of rice stacked up on a whole wall, large barrels of cooking oil, cans of toilet paper, five-liter bottles of mineral water, and boxes of noodles, salt, biscuits, candy, etc.
Everyone took off their backpacks and stuffed them with things like crazy.
The electricity and gas in the residence had been cut off, so cooking was troublesome and wasteful.
People's stockpiling ideas have also changed. They no longer rush to pack rice, flour and oil, which need to be cooked twice and are heavy and difficult to carry. They mainly pick up ready-made and filling dry food - instant noodles, compressed biscuits, snacks and pastries, long-lasting and light dry goods, and a few bags of salt and sugar. If there is still space, they will squeeze a few candles, lighters, soaps, and soaps. They will take two packs of sanitary napkins for women, and finally tie two rolls of toilet paper on the straps of their backpacks.
When they got up and left, they were still reluctant, so they gritted their teeth and carried a bag of rice, a bucket of water, and a bucket of oil.
Da Liu's team quickly packed up their supplies, and when they were ready to retreat, they found that they did not close the exit tightly when they came down, and now the staircase entrance was blocked by wandering zombies.
Not only that, the zombies in the warehouse were also startled by the noise they made and gathered from all directions.
The number of zombies in the warehouse was far more than Da Liu expected. There were not only supermarket staff, but also many zombies wearing daily clothes and looking fresh.
Seeing those zombies with fresh skin and emitting a foul odor, Da Liu's face sank: "These are people who have the same idea as us, and they haven't walked out."
Zhao Xiaopeng hid behind Da Liu, his legs going weak: "Will we die here too?"
They were not familiar with the terrain of the warehouse, and the lighting was insufficient. A zombie craving for flesh and blood could emerge from behind them at any time.
If they were bitten by accident, they would be dead.
Six or seven people hid in the warehouse and found an old warehouse that seemed to have been converted into a temporary lounge for employees. The space was relatively small, and when they came in, there was only a zombie locked in the locker.
Several people panicked and cleaned up the zombie, so they could take a breath in the foul-smelling room.
They didn't know how long they had been hiding, their noses were paralyzed by the stench, and their breathing became increasingly difficult, but no one suggested going out.
They couldn't get out.
The best ending is to die in this warehouse. If you are lucky, you will naturally rot and not become a monster wandering outside.
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Lu Yao stopped at the square in front of the Xingfu supermarket chain and asked the system: "How is it?"
The Dream Fulfilling System: "There are living people in the mall, but I am not sure if they are the errand runners specified in the order."
Lu Yao: "How many people, and their specific locations."
The Dream Fulfilling System: "Seven people, they are underground."
Lu Yao: "Underground?"
The Dream Fulfilling System: "There is a place that looks like a warehouse under the supermarket."
Lu Yao: "That's an estimate."
Lu Yao got off the car, took off the two daggers and put them on his shoulders, and walked towards the main entrance of the Xingfu supermarket chain.
The Dream Fulfilling System couldn't help but ask, "Why don't we call Harold? There are too many dirty things down there, I'm afraid you'll get bitten."
Lu Yao: "If I, as the owner, can't even complete my errands smoothly, how can I let the kids enter such a place?
Dream Fulfilling System: "That's different. You are much more fragile than them, especially since you don't plan to use your abilities."
Lu Yao: "People in this world don't have abilities either. Don't worry, I know my limits. Anyway, just go when you get the target person, and I'll trouble you to show the way. "
[Author's words]
Dream system os: That's different, those guys are thick-skinned and tough, and zombies can't bite them even if their teeth are broken.
The wild cat finally fell in love with its wild owner, and even learned high emotional intelligence...
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