269 The Eleventh Store
◎ Each person bought three books.◎
Carney rushed over: "Reference for Catering for Employees in Shopping Streets"... What is this? Is it useful?"
Yuan: "There is no sample book for this book. It and another book on the shelf are the only ones with a price lower than 50,000."
Carney turned to the back and his voice broke: "30,000?!"
Yuan: "The "Dead Man's Table" is even cheaper, only 20,000. The two books only cost 50,000 in total, which saves a lot of money."
Xi asked Del: "Is this a bargain?"
Del shook his head: "I don't know. I'll open it and take a look. There is no introduction, so I can't tell what kind of book it is."
Yuan and Xi each tore open a book, and after opening it, they were both silent.
Simply put, there are two cookbooks. "Reference for Catering for Employees in Shopping Streets" uses boxed lunches as a standard to introduce the daily three meals of ordinary people, including the processing methods and matching of various meats, vegetables, and soups.
"The Table of the Dead" includes the recipes and methods of 99 common desserts, as well as the flavor introductions and methods of 36 drinks.
Xi threw the book to his brother: "Fifty thousand yuan, it's gone down the drain."
Robots don't need to eat, and there is not even a cafeteria on the island.
Eating wastes time, and the body is restricted by the survival instinct, which makes people uncomfortable.
Moreover, in the short-lived native experience of their generation, rice does not seem to be so necessary, and food does not bring much pleasure.
The prison cells are equipped with a small shop that specializes in selling oil, but the variety is limited and the price is a bit expensive, which is incomparable to the lubricant/lubricant specialty store in the Eighth District.
The prison guards have a fixed supply of maintenance oil every month and do not need to buy extra.
These two cookbooks are really useless, which is worse than throwing money away.
Yuan opened the "Table of the Dead" that Xi threw to him, and the mechanical eyes quickly scanned the whole book, and suddenly said: "It turns out that the picture on the cover is a dessert called Mont Blanc."
The cover of "Reference for Catering for Shopping Street Employees" is also food, but Yuan, Xi, Kani and Del have never seen food of that color and style, and they didn't know what it was at first glance.
Carney came up to Yuan and suddenly said, "There's something scary."
Xi got nervous: "What's wrong?"
Carney pointed to the spines of two cookbooks: "The author of these two books is called 'Luyao's Bookstore'. Isn't he the owner of the bookstore?"
Xi: "... No wonder the price is so cheap, I put it here to make up the number!"
Yuan packed up the two books and said nothing more.
Carney said again: "Del is rich, so he bought three books."
Del shook his head: "It's expensive, but I read a few of them and they're all quite interesting. Anyway, I can't get out, and I don't have anywhere to spend all those star coins."
Del's sentence is 220 years, and he has been in Guandao for 11 years, so there is basically no possibility of a sentence reduction.
He has no relatives and no worries.
The prisoners working in the Ninth District have performance rewards for different types of work. Some are piece-rate, and some are paid based on working hours.
Today, Del and his four companions worked at the vegetable base, and they were paid based on hours, an average of 20 star coins per hour, and they got no money for rest time.
Compared to normal work outside, this few star coins can only be considered a subsidy.
But the prisoners have no choice. No matter how much money they get, they have to work in the Ninth District according to the rules. It is better to have performance rewards than nothing.
All the prisoners in Guandao are robots, and there is basically no expense on weekdays.
However, the shops in the Eighth District can occasionally lead new trends in the prison and take away the prisoners' wealth.
Some people have discussed privately that the shops in the Eighth District may be a means for the managers to torture the prisoners.
But that shop never stays open for long, and it is the shop and the resident merchants who often suffer.
…
The four chatted all the way back to District 9. There were still five minutes left in the break time. The prison guard was about to come out to look for them, and he was stunned to see them come back in a neat row.
The four hid the books, took the tools obediently, and walked into the vegetable base.
Their job today is to build a rack for tomatoes and thin out the fruits.
This vegetable base is planted with large tomatoes, and the trees are tall, so racks are needed.
The fruits are too dense, and they can only grow bigger and better after thinning.
This world has achieved fully mechanized agricultural planting two hundred years ago. After the machines are set up and the operating program is good, there is basically no need for human intervention.
The vegetable base in Guandao is a place specially opened up for prisoners to kill time, and it is also a means of punishment.
However, this kind of mechanical physical labor does not seem to be a big punishment for the robot.
Some people outside believe that fruits and vegetables grown by hand are of better quality and taste better than those grown by machines. In fact, agricultural products from Guandao are quite popular in the outside market.
The robot has no interest in vegetables. Working is just a way to kill time.
Yuan and Xi work together. Xi likes to do hard work. He carries the rack in front, while Yuan pushes the vegetable basket to thin the fruits behind. The small fruits picked have to be transported out to be used as feed.
A prisoner greeted Yuan across the field: "Did you just go to the Eighth District?"
Yuan kept moving his hands: "Yeah."
The man said regretfully: "I heard that the store owner is a native. He will be sentenced to a longer sentence for killing someone, right?"
Yuan stopped and said calmly: "We didn't do anything."
The man was surprised: "Ah? Why? Don't tell me you didn't do it."
The man opposite was in the same cell with Yuan and Xi, and they would always chat about unimportant things when they met.
Thinking of the seemingly weak shop owner and the huge amount of wealth they lost, Yuan said calmly: "No, the bookstore is quite interesting."
"Ah? What's the fun of it? You didn't handle it. Our people will go there during the next break."
Yuan reached out and picked a handful of half-red tomatoes from the tomato branches that were bent by the fruits: "You will understand what I mean when you go there."
The prison guard walked through the door with a small whip in his hand, like an invigilator inspecting the examination room.
Yuan and his roommate stopped talking.
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The Eighth District Management Office.
Jail guard 0815 suddenly received a medical examination report. The file source was the Mental Value Research Center of District 7, and the medical examination time was 40 minutes ago.
Generally speaking, only staff members who have had violent contact with prisoners need to undergo mental value tests and physical examinations.
Due to the differences in the body materials and strengths of robots, the medical examination report will take at least two hours to come out.
This medical examination report came out a little fast.
0815 clicked on the file, and saw the name of the medical examiner who looked up, and he had a bad feeling in his heart.
It turned out to be the new store owner. Not long after the store opened in the morning, she was sent to District 7 by the prison guards of District 6 for a medical examination.
The director said that the store owner would not last for three days, and he did not meet her in person.
As the contact person, 0815 must pay attention to the store owner's condition.
0815 Quickly receive the medical examination report——
Name: Lu Yao
Age: 22
Gender: Female
Hometown: Death Star
Physiological characteristics: Native human, not cloned, not bionic, no gene screening, no gene fusion, no mechanical modification.
[No abnormality in physical condition. ]
[Spirit value: The value exceeds the upper limit of the instrument and cannot be unified. ]
...
0815 reviewed it three times again, and it seems that he can't understand the meaning of "the value exceeds the upper limit of the instrument and cannot be unified".
Just kidding, Guandao is imprisoned with high mental value criminals, and the threshold of the mental value testing instrument is the same as the research center of the capital star, and the highest test value can reach 6S level.
This "the value exceeds the upper limit of the instrument and cannot be unified" is simply like a joke. Could it be that the mental value of the new store owner exceeds 6S level?
0815 I can't imagine how scary that person is. The only prisoner on the island with a mental value of 6S is locked up in the deepest part of the inner island. He has been locked up for 20 years and has never been allowed to come out. Even contact can only be made by robots.
The mental value of 6S is very oppressive. People with a mental value below S level can't bear it at all. Even if they change to a mechanical body, they will still feel dizzy and even lose consciousness when they see him.
The bookstore owner can't feel the pressure brought by the mental value at all. Let alone 6S level, she looks like an ignorant ordinary person, and her mental value may be below D level.
However, the physical examination report records that the owner's mental value was in an uncoordinated state after three consecutive tests.
0815 had to contact the prison guard 0666. There was an investigation report after the physical examination report. The author was the prison guard 0666 of the sixth district. It mainly reported the contact process between the prisoner Gus and the store owner.
0815 felt that this investigation report was too general and many details were unclear, so he could only verify it in person.
Five minutes later, 0815 ended the video chat with 0666, looked up at the physical examination report displayed on the suspended light screen, and became more and more confused.
0666 told him that Gus did have contact with the store owner in the eighth district, but as written in the investigation report, there was no violent conflict. Gus also bought several expensive books in the bookstore before leaving.
If Lu Yao really has a 6S mental value, she can't be just an unknown interstellar businessman at this age.
The military and the research center will never let go of such a talent as a native 6S mental value human who has not undergone any genetic screening and fusion.
However, the detection equipment of the research center is unlikely to make mistakes, not to mention that it has been tested many times.
Is it possible that even Lu Yao herself doesn't know that her mental value is so high?
This doesn't make sense. Or maybe she knows that her mental value is different from that of ordinary people, so she dares to move into the eighth district without changing her mechanical body.
0815 The more he thought about it, the more reasonable this idea seemed to him. He decided to go to the bookstore to meet Lu Yao in person.
But before leaving, he still had to deal with the physical examination report in his hand.
Lu Yao's medical examination report will be sent to the person in charge of the sixth district and Lu Yao himself after being reviewed by the eighth district.
Regardless of whether Lu Yao knows it or not, this 6S level value is too eye-catching.
Jilan came out of the office and saw 0815 sitting stiffly in his seat, seemingly unaware of him. He asked, "What's wrong?"
0815 immediately turned the suspended light screen in front of him and said, "Director, please take a look at this report."
Jilan quickly scanned Lu Yao's medical report and hit the key point at a glance: "The values cannot be integrated? The mental power value exceeds 6S level, there is no criminal record, and he is a native human without any genetic integration. This buff is superimposed."
0815: "Director, do you think this medical report is..."
Jilan: "I will inform the research center that Lu Yao's mental value has been changed to S level."
0815: "Yes."
After handling Lu Yao's medical report, 0815 filled out the attendance sheet and prepared to go to the bookstore.
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Bookstore Street, Lu Yao's bookstore.
Lu Yao just received a report from the physical examination center.
As she expected, there was nothing abnormal in her physical values, but she was a little surprised by the S-level mental value.
However, in Guandao, S-level mental values seem to be not uncommon.
Lu Yao asked the Dream-fulfilling System: "Is my mental value a little too high?"
The Dream-fulfilling System was silent for a long time before answering: "You really have no self-awareness at all."
Lu Yao: "Ah?"
The Dream-fulfilling System didn't want to continue talking to the store owner.
It felt that there was something wrong with Lu Yao's physical examination report. How could this guy's mental value be only S?
The Dream-fulfilling System was confused in other aspects, but it knew Lu Yao best, especially her ability values.
The last time I told Lu Yao about the loan, I accidentally saw the shadows on the floor. Lu Yao
must have been furious at the time, and those shadows woke up.
Lu Yao himself seemed to be unaware of this, and the Dream Fulfilling System could not tell anyone, so it planned to secretly investigate the shopkeeper's true mental state.
Apart from other things, everyone believed that there was no AI system in this world that could compete with it, and it was not difficult to sneak into the database to check Lu Yao's real physical examination data.
As long as the opponent was not a god or Lu Yao, the Dream Fulfilling System was full of confidence.
Lu Yao was unaware of all the little thoughts. She had just sold another ten books. She checked the accounts and found that the business on the first day of business was so good that it seemed unreal.
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District 9, vegetable base.
The bell rang and the break time was over. Del and Kani walked towards the fields with their eyes fixed on the books in their hands.
They had never felt that the 30-minute break time was so short. They had only turned half of the book in their hands and were reading the exciting part when they had to go back to work.
The people around them suddenly ran quickly. Someone shouted: "Fight! Fight! The twins were beaten!"
Del and Kani looked at each other.
Twins are actually quite rare in this era, unless they are chosen by people.
The only twins who went out to work today were Yuan and Xi.
Del and Carney put away their books and followed the crowd. Outside the vegetable greenhouse, they saw Yuan and Xi being beaten.
Contrary to what everyone imagined, Yuan and Xi did not fight back when they were beaten to the ground.
Yuan was lying on the ground, holding his stomach and rolling around with laughter. Xi knelt on the ground with his legs in an orz position, pounding the ground with his right hand. His hearty laughter could be heard from far away.
The prisoners who came over to see the excitement were puzzled for a while, thinking that the two brothers were mentally ill.
Most of the prisoners had bad tempers. In such a place, being too gentle and kind would only lead to being bullied.
Yuan and Xi were not soft persimmons before. Although mechanical fighting did not cause pain, it was embarrassing to be beaten to the ground.
Yuan saw Del and Kani in the crowd, and stretched out his hand to them, unable to restrain his smile: "597 also went to the eighth district... Five... Five... Five people together, want to dig the owner's brain... No, this is too funny..."
Yuan laughed so hard that he choked and couldn't speak a complete sentence.
There was no expression on Del and Kani's iron masks, but they were very confused.
At this time, Xi raised his head and took over the conversation: "The owner said... If everyone buys three books, this matter will be... Forget it. Hahahaha, three books per person, five people will... That's fifteen books... Hahahaha..."
These words were intermittent and had no beginning or end.
Except for Del, Kani and the five parties involved, the one who ran over to eat melons didn't understand.
Team 597 understood.
Not winning the fight, losing a small million in property for no reason, and being laughed at in the face, even a Bodhisattva couldn't help being angry.
597 ran up and punched Xi twice.
Xi's iron abdominal muscles were punched so hard that two dents were formed, but he didn't care.
The more angry and defeated 597 was, the happier he seemed to feel.
People are like this, when they meet someone who is more unlucky than themselves, their mentality becomes strangely balanced.
The jailer finally arrived and saw 597 beating the twin brothers.
The twins said that they did not fight back, and were about to go back to work in the fields when they were suddenly beaten up. They really didn't fight back at all, there was surveillance as evidence, and there were witnesses all around.
As a result, all seven people were taken away by the prison guards, and it seemed that they would all be locked up in a small dark room.
The people who were watching the excitement dispersed.
Carney and Del fell behind, silent.
When there were only two people left, they suddenly bent over with their hands on their stomachs.
At first, it was just a hoarse laugh, which gradually became louder and louder, and then the two of them laughed out loud.
Carney tried to control his breath and looked up at Del: "You say - if another group of people go, will the owner... ask them to buy four books each..."
Del thought of that scene and laughed again.
Perhaps, they can continue to "create" the next victim.
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Bookstore Street, Lu Yao's bookstore.
Lu Yao felt that bookstores were like small shops opened in schools, and customers only came during breaks.
As soon as the bell rang, the store became quiet.
This school does not have physical education classes yet, so she "stands guard" during the breaks, and the rest of the time she can do other things.
After Lu Yao checked the accounts, she saw that the shelves were a bit empty, so she went to the warehouse to get the inventory and filled the shelves that were sold out in the morning.
The space in the store is actually very large, and Lu Yao has divided the book categories and display plans.
It's just that there was insufficient preparation time before the bookstore opened, so currently it is mainly filled with literary books.
The mental threshold of the criminals in Guandao is much higher than that of ordinary people in this era, and too simple things cannot attract them.
Lu Yao selected classic literary works. No matter what era it is, great and profound thoughts can resonate with the soul.
Judging from the sales records in the morning, there was almost no big deviation between Lu Yao's choice and the result.
When the reputation of the bookstore is established, other categories of books will be introduced one by one.
Dream-fulfilling system: "A reference to catering for employees in shopping streets and the dining table of the dead have also sold a lot."
Lu Yao: "... They are regarded as a magic tool for making orders."
Because he was responsible for binding, printing and translating books into interstellar versions, Lu Yao had no experience, no experience at all.
Before officially printing the books as products, in order to familiarize themselves with the production process of books, the owner and the staff tried to make two new books.
"A reference to catering for employees in shopping streets" collects the catering records of employees who often prepare employee meals. Although it was just a trial, everyone was very serious.
The staff of each store carefully sorted out the employee meals that had been served in the store, wrote in detail the preparation and production process of the ingredients, and also provided colorful pictures of the finished meals.
Lu Yao took it in his hand, sorted it out carefully, classified it, and wrote some tasting records.
The author written on the cover of the book is "Lu Yao's Bookstore", but it is actually a delicious and nutritious recipe book compiled by the staff of the shopping street. The name of the chef is noted at the end of each meal in the book.
"The Table of the Dead" was written by Qi Chen, who usually has the habit of recording the desserts and drinks served in the cafe. Unknowingly, he wrote a thick stack of manuscripts, and each snack and drink has a beautiful illustration.
When Lu Yao said in the group that he wanted to try to make a sample book, Qi Chen took out this manuscript.
After voting by store employees and a small number of customers, ninety-nine of the most popular desserts and thirty-six drinks were selected as the content of the sample book.
After the final version of "The Table of the Dead" was finalized, Qi Chen's name was originally to be signed directly.
Since he was already a dead soul and entered the Land of Dreams, his name could not appear in the world of the living in this way, and he could not edit it no matter what.
Lu Yao was familiar with Qi Chen and had a close connection with the Land of Dreams,
so he could not circumvent it by having the same name. Ordinary living people could not suppress this book. The dead soul is the truth after losing all the glitz and glamour. Pseudonyms and anonymous names are not allowed. This is a real "Book of the Dead".
After Lu Yao and Qi Chen discussed it, they decided to sign the book in the world of the living with "Lu Yao's Bookstore", the publisher of this book, and then publish a version in the Land of Dreams signed by Qi Chen.
After the two books were printed, interested clerks signed up for sample books, and later there were more than ten copies left.
When Lu Yao was arranging the bookshelves, she casually placed a few books on the empty bookshelf against the corner.
There were not enough books in the store to fill all the bookshelves at the moment, and the cookbook was inconspicuous, so no one would probably notice it.
She didn't expect any customers to buy cookbooks.
Before the bookstore officially opened, she knew that the people on the island had no demand for food.
But the owner never thought that the customers might not recognize the food pictures on the cover. After all, robots were not born robots. They were once like her, needing to eat, drink water, and go to the toilet. There was no reason why they couldn't recognize what food looked like.
But things were so outrageous that the robots on the island didn't recognize the tempting pictures of the meals on the cover. They only saw their cost-effectiveness and used them to pay the bill.
Lu Yao refilled the conspicuous bookshelf facing the door and planned to put a few more cookbooks next to it.
Anyway, they were all officially published books, and if customers paid, she wouldn't mind selling a few more.
The Dream-Fulfilling System suddenly said, "A customer is coming." Lu Yao
turned around.
A two-meter-tall, humanoid silver-white robot in a black uniform stepped into the bookstore and walked straight towards her.
0815 stood in front of Lu Yao, and its amber mechanical eyes slowly turned a circle. It felt that this native humanoid was even smaller than what he saw in the video.
He introduced himself gently: "Hello, I'm 0815, the jailer from the Eighth District Administration."
Lu Yao quickly responded and stretched out his hand to him: "So you're the contact person, I'm Lu Yao."
0815 squeezed the shopkeeper's fingertips unnaturally, raised his hand and touched his chest. He felt as if his heart was beating even though there was no heart there.
He has been working on the island for fifteen years, and he hasn't seen a native human for fifteen years.
The native human in front of him was a little different from the native human he had in mind.
She was very relaxed.
Could this be the sense of relaxation brought by the 6S-level spirit value?
0815 didn't dare to jump to conclusions, and asked Lu Yao about the details of his contact with Gus in the morning as a matter of routine.
…
0815’s voice suddenly rose: “Besides Gus from District 6, have other prisoners been here?”
Lu Yao thought to himself, do we really not have any surveillance?
You seem to know nothing, comrade prison guard.
0815 actually watched the surveillance before coming here, but he only watched the part of the arrest of Gus sent by 0666.
0815 was stunned for a moment: “Did they cause you any trouble?” Lu Yao
turned around skillfully and pulled out a few new books from the bookshelf: “They are very studious, they just came to buy books. These are the best-selling books in the morning, you can take a look.”
When 0815 left the bookstore, he had a cloth book bag in his hand. It was a
heavy bag, and it contained quite a lot.
He went out on field duty just to confirm the survival status of the store owner, and halfway through he talked about the prisoners and books, and things started to become strange.
[Author's words]
Leisure activities of island residents -
Before: tormenting shop owners.
Now: persecuting prisoners.
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