286 ? The eleventh store

286 The Eleventh Store

◎Spiritual Heritage.◎

Klen, as usual, took the airship home after his night shift, got off one stop early, and walked to the 120-hour convenience store he often went to, to buy a new lunch box that was newly put in the morning.

Sometimes he would find a seat in the convenience store, looking at the pedestrians and airships coming and going outside the glass while eating, and sometimes he was so tired that he didn't have the energy to care about other things, and went home after buying things.

Klen couldn't figure out what was wrong with him recently, and he always felt particularly tired.

Half of his body had been replaced with a mechanical body, only the brain and internal organs were still in their original state, and all his limbs had been completely replaced with mechanical limbs, so ordinary physical work was not a burden for him.

Kron picked up a box of his usual bento in the bento area, and then picked up a box of kelp soup in the fast food area.

When paying, a message suddenly popped up on the Star Ring:

[Your package has been delivered, please sign for it immediately.]

Kron has not had much desire to spend money recently. The only time he placed an order was when he accidentally saw a bookstore live broadcast on the Star Network two or three days ago. At that time, he curiously tried to read a book in the store. On the way home, the content of the book kept lingering in his mind, so he impulsively placed an order to buy a book. It

would cost nearly 200,000 Star Coins to buy a set of three books. Kron was more cautious and only bought the first volume in the first order.

After placing the order, it was as if he had fulfilled his obsession. Keren did not watch the live broadcast room again, and he did not pay attention to the live broadcast news in the past few days.

He received a delivery reminder in the afternoon of the day he placed the order, and until this morning he received the news of the express delivery. Keren was originally exhausted, but suddenly he perked up a little. After paying, he walked out of the convenience store with his lunch box and hot pot, turned his feet and strode home.

Halfway through the walk, Keren could not help but click on the Star Ring to see if there were any unboxing sharing of the bookstore on the Star Network.

He did not find any related videos, but saw a recorded clip related to the bookstore.

The video, which was less than two minutes long, had more than 200,000 views.

Keren clicked in and first saw the nickname and number of followers of the publisher, judging that this was an ordinary Star Network user who liked to share his daily shopping experience.

She also placed an order in the bookstore's live broadcast room two days ago, and then released a recorded clip of the bookstore's live broadcast room on the sharing platform. The content was that the owner revealed that the books ordered through Star Network would be shipped from Guandao.

This sharing user had no other meaning, just a flag, indicating that after receiving the goods, they should check carefully to confirm whether the store owner was lying.

Guandao itself was not open to ordinary people until the newly established Eighth District continued to attract investment. Later, for some reason, the store stationed in Guandao began live broadcasting.

When the Star Network platform first released the news that Guandao would be live broadcasting to users, the high-frequency search list and chat square of the entire network exploded instantly, and it was stuck and people inside could not get out, which directly caused the Star Network to be paralyzed for ten hours.

But when the live broadcast started, the Star Network users who had been counting the days and looking forward to Guandao's first live broadcast only watched for less than an hour before leaving in a daze.

The reason was simple: they said they were going to broadcast live but they were being secretive, and the screen was invaded by mosaics like a toilet, so blurry that it was impossible to watch.

The anchor was also focused on selling goods, and he promoted the products dryly and frantically without any interesting words. It seemed that since he had occupied Guandao's territory, his products would automatically be covered with a layer of unattainable light.

Neither the live broadcast experience nor the experience of entering the virtual live broadcast room was good.

However, some people were attracted by the gimmick of "Guandao's first broadcast" and hurriedly placed an order in the store.

But when they received the goods, they found that the delivery address was on a remote and poor planet, which was definitely not the mysterious Guandao that could not even be found on the star map.

This incident caused quite a stir at the time. The owner of the Guandao store wanted to fool around at first, but later, after receiving a large number of return applications, he made a live broadcast to apologize.

However, the screen of Guandao's live broadcast room has always been covered with thick mosaics, which makes the viewing experience not good. The popularity of the live broadcast room has plummeted. Even after the owner has changed several times since then, the popularity of the live broadcast room is not as good as before.

In fact, since the first live broadcast incident, new stores have been much more cautious. Even if they are live broadcasting to sell goods under the name of Guandao resident merchants, they dare not say that their online shipping location is in Guandao.

Until this time, after more than three months of silence, the new store stationed in Guandao started live broadcasting, and the owner publicly admitted in the live broadcast room that the bookstore's shipping location is in Guandao.

Karen recalled the brief meeting with the store owner in the live broadcast room, turned off the video, and took bigger steps.

Once the expectation was born, it was hard to restrain it. Karen couldn't wait to confirm the shipping location of the book.

He also saw the discussion about "gift card lottery" in the comment area of ​​the video sharing the recorded clip, and expected that he should also have a gift card.

Thinking of this, Karen's expectations deepened.

Karen returned to the apartment as quickly as possible, picked up the package downstairs, carried it back home, put down the lunch box and the almost cold kelp soup, squatted in the entrance and started unpacking.

Before unpacking, Karen clicked on the Star Ring and turned on the automatic recording function.

Kren has already found out that this packaging box is not a compressed capsule commonly used nowadays, but an ordinary cardboard box with no load-bearing capacity and protection.

This packaging is too low-end, and it was delivered without any damage.

Kren's mechanical arm is equipped with weapons. He gently scratched the cardboard box with his fingertips, but he didn't expect it to open.

The outer layer of the cardboard box seemed to be covered with a layer of film. Kren turned the box over and saw a forbidden talisman next to the label.

There was a small word on the bottom of the talisman, saying that the forbidden talisman can be removed by scanning with the star ring.

The prototype of the forbidden talisman originated from Lu Yao's third store, a blind box store, in the shopping street. At that time, in order to protect the customers who bought blind boxes from having their goods maliciously snatched, Lu Yao developed a magic barrier.

Later, when the errand shop expanded its logistics and transportation business, Lu Yao combined the knowledge of talismans he learned in the Floating World Continent to develop the forbidden tampering talisman.

The first two forbidden tampering talismans could be removed by fingerprints or signatures. When they arrived at Guandao's bookstore, the forbidden tampering talisman evolved again.

Due to the popularity of mechanical bodies, conventional unlocking methods such as fingerprints, irises, and handwriting are no longer applicable. This time, the star ring and the customer's spiritual body are used as the standard.

The customer can remove the forbidden tampering barrier by scanning the forbidden tampering talisman with the star ring they ordered.

If the star ring is accidentally lost, it can also be identified by activating mental power and directly clicking on the forbidden tampering talisman.

Kren didn't think too much, took out the star ring and scanned it. The glittering film on the surface of the cardboard box was like a burning spark, which suddenly flashed for a moment and then suddenly faded.

This time, without any weapons, Karen used his fingernails to gently cut open the tape on the surface of the cardboard box.

The contents of the box were simple: a tightly packed book, an A5-sized paper notebook, a black oil-based pen, a small bag of nuts, and an untorn black card.

Except for the thick book with a blue cover, the rest of the items were gifts. After

Kron opened the physical copy of "The Count of Monte Cristo", he didn't bother to look at the gifts anymore. He sat on the floor and started flipping through the pages.

The feel of the book was actually not much different from when he flipped through it in the live broadcast room. The weight, the sound of the pages turning, and the smoothness of the paper were almost exactly the same, but the feeling of actually holding the book was slightly different.

Kron didn't know how to describe it, but there was a special sense of solidity in holding the book in his hand, and his restless mood was silently soothed by the words silently arranged on the pages.

He flipped through the pages quickly, and finally reached the end of the previous trial reading. He then read a few pages back, and after regaining the feeling of reading at that time, he could not wait to flip to the back. After

reading a few pages, Karen's mind was completely attracted by the world in the book, and he completely forgot how tired he was after work. The lunch box and kelp soup on the side had already gone cold, but he still stared at the pages tirelessly with his eyes wide open. He was so tired that he simply fell down and lay on the floor.

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Sang He was on vacation for the past two days. In the morning, she received the information that the package had been delivered, and she took it back immediately.

Like Karen, Sang He also recorded a detailed unboxing video.

After recording, she did not have time to compare and edit and upload it. She first walked to the bright window sill with the book in her arms and sat down to read it.

Five or six hours later, Sang He finished reading all three volumes of The Count of Monte Cristo. Still not satisfied, she picked up the first volume and started reading it for the second time.

At the end of the story, Dantes told his friend in a letter:

"The secret I want to tell you is: there is no such thing as happiness or misfortune in this world. There is only a comparison between one situation and another, that's all. Only those who have experienced extreme misfortune can taste extreme happiness. Only those who have made up their minds to die will know how good it is to live (1)."

Sang He repeatedly savored this passage and couldn't let it go.

She began to agree with the shop owner's statement: books are substitutes for the brain.

This is definitely not an exaggerated advertising slogan. Deep in the winding corridors built by words, there are precious spiritual heritages left by human ancestors.

Sang He finished reading "The Count of Monte Cristo" and "The Green Ray" three times. Fortunately, she did not impulsively place an order on the movie website that morning. She has lost interest in peeking into other people's brains. On the contrary, after reading the books at hand, she still felt a little unsatisfied.

Sang He got up with a thin blanket rolled up, walked to the cardboard box still on the floor, and suddenly saw an unopened package.

She remembered that when she drew a gift card, she got a free book.

Sang He took it in her hand and weighed it. It was a thin book. It was not thick after opening it.

Sang He was not disappointed in her heart. After all, it was a gift.

The cover of this book is also blue, which is different from the deep blue of "The Count of Monte Cristo". The cover of the gift book is light blue, with a rose covered by a glass cover in the middle.

This kind of small red rose is rare, but for some reason, Sang He recognized it at a glance.

But she didn't seem to have seen this book before. Sang He thought about it and realized that she had not seen this thin little book in the bookstore's live broadcast room.

So the owner gave her a new book that has not yet been officially put on the shelves?

Sang He was not very disappointed in her heart, but after seeing this new book, her favorability towards the bookstore increased a little bit uncontrollably.

Originally planning to continue reading this new book, Sang He turned a page and put it down.

The story of Dondes and Gatsby is still lingering in my mind. I read it very quickly, but the aftereffect is also very strong. I will be sick if I read it again. I'd better save this book for the evening to enjoy slowly.

When she was free for a while, Sang He opened the Star Ring and clicked on the recorded video of the store owner packing that she had saved last time, and then clicked on the unboxing video she had just recorded. She wanted to compare this package with the one that the store owner packed in Guandao from all angles.

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The bookstore did not broadcast live today. Lu Yao and 0815 made an appointment to discuss the new clerk in detail.

The plan given to Lu Yao by the Eighth District followed the template of previous years, allowing her to transfer three clerks from outside the island to the island.

Lu Yao had no one to transfer outside the island, and she had to submit detailed information for review when hiring clerks on the shopping street.

The Dream Fulfilling System can help to forge data, but Lu Yao was worried about the safety of the store clerks and did not finalize this plan easily.

She thought of several plans privately, which required the cooperation of the Eighth District, so she arranged a meeting with the counterpart.

In the afternoon, the store owner and 0815 discussed the hiring of new store clerks for a long time and did not pay attention to the news on the Star Network.

It was not until nearly time to get off work that 0815 got up and left.

Just like last time, 0815 could not give the store owner an immediate reply and needed to go back and ask Director Jilan.

After 0815 left, Lu Yao stayed at the store until closing time and closed the store on time to rest.

After the store closed, Lu Yao went back to the hot spring hotel, had dinner with Bu Du, and then inspected the stores.

After finishing his routine work, Lu Yao once again returned to the staff office of the bookstore alone, and had to continue working overtime at night.

However, the books placed on the desk this evening were no longer dignified classic literary works, but a pile of physical books of online literature of various styles.

The Dream-Fulfilling System was puzzled: "Didn't you say that things that are too simple can't attract them?"

[Author's words]

Merry Christmas Eve!

Note (1): The original sentence is quoted from Alexandre Dumas's "The Count of Monte Cristo".

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