308 The Eleventh Store
◎That's a monster.◎
The knight's disappearance seemed to shock the prisoners in the third area. When they saw the shop owner walking over, it was as if they were meeting her for the first time.
Not to mention a native human, even if it was a robot, they had never seen such a strange ability.
After entering the 2S level and above, high-level psychic value users have a certain chance of awakening a second time through conscious training, and about 30% of them have a chance of obtaining materialized psychic abilities.
The prisoners in the third area who participated in today's operation are at least 2S level psychic value, and more than half of them have awakened a second time. It is these half of the prisoners who worked together to weave the psychic shackles for the store owner.
Someone hacked into the management system of Guandao and investigated the store owner, and learned that she is an S-level psychic ability user.
Because she is a native human, the prisoners in the third area look at her with a higher regard. When weaving the mental power chain, they once again add complex rules and weaving order as conditions to strengthen the chain's restraining force.
The prototype of this chain is the special handcuffs used by Guandao to restrain prisoners with high mental values, and special mental power and restraining rules are added.
In theory, even prisoners or prison guards with a mental value of 6S can be handcuffed.
Data shows that the owner of the S-level mental value can easily break the chain. There are only two possibilities.
One is that they made the handcuffs incorrectly and did not work as planned; the other is that the owner's ability value may be more than S level.
It's hard to say which possibility is more favorable to them, but in the current situation, everyone thinks it's probably the second one.
No one knows how tough the knight's mechanical body is better than them, who are also inmates. But he couldn't last more than two minutes under the hands of the store owner.
Not far away, the knight's mechanical body melted into molten iron, and it kept dripping from the table.
Losing the command and the strongest fighting power, the prisoners in the third area who were still fighting basically knew that this operation had failed.
They didn't think about escaping the prison, but just planned to dissect the brain of the native store owner in the live broadcast room of the bookstore, but in the end they didn't even cut off the corner of the store owner's clothes.
Having never seen such a strong native human, the prisoners in the third area also knew that if they were caught this time, they might be imprisoned underground without seeing the sun, and they would never have the chance to go out again. Almost instantly, everyone had the same idea in their mind, that they should at least have a head-on fight with the store owner before the end.
In their original plan, this was not included, because they expected the store owner to be controlled in the first place, and after a short but painful wait, he would be dissected alive.
At the beginning, it was indeed developing in the direction of their plan. The only thing that everyone did not expect was the store owner's calm and peaceful attitude from beginning to end and his unfathomable strange ability.
AO-17 left Yuan behind and rushed to the front.
His mechanical body was also specially customized. When it was shrunk into a sphere, it could move at high speed. In the blink of an eye, the distance between him and the store owner was reduced to half a body length.
The thin limbs quickly pierced out of the sphere and stabbed directly into the store owner's eyes.
Nearly 90 million netizens on Starnet stared at this scene with bated breath, nervous and a bit inappropriately excited.
A few minutes ago, they were still worried about the store owner who might die tragically.
But after watching the store owner melt the vicious robot criminal with his bare hands in the live broadcast room from an almost first-person perspective, they realized that the store owner might be a high-level psychic.
She did not change her mechanical body, and defeated the evil leader in the posture of a native human, which is enough to show that her ability value is higher than those notorious criminals in the third district.
If the shop owner was also a robot, this reversal wouldn't be so shocking.
But she has always appeared as a competent bookseller, intellectual, gentle, and even a little humorous, but you can't tell that she is so strong.
On the message board, excited netizens were swiping gifts. People who have always just watched the fun online became excited and swiped tons of luxurious gifts.
The message board in the live broadcast room was quickly filled with colorful gift information bars.
Some people also shouted excitedly -
[Wild Star No. 777: It feels like the one that just melted is the strongest. I'm afraid this little silver ball is no match for the shop owner. ]
[Wild Star No. 9999999: From the beginning to now, I have also misjudged her. The shop owner is not innocent and kind at all. He was pretending to be weak from the beginning. Seeing how she dealt with the Dark Knight so skillfully, she must be an experienced hand.
The appearance of the Knight's mechanical body was inspired by the legend of the Paladin told by the bards.
But the Paladin's armor is silver, and the Knight prefers dark colors, so he ordered the designer to change it to black.
After the bookstore's special coding program was turned off, the Knight's mechanical body was exposed to the Internet netizens and soon got the nickname "Dark Knight".
[Wild Star No. 497: There is no need to speculate too much. If the prisoners in the third district hadn't caused trouble and wanted to broadcast the owner's brain dissection live on the Internet, things wouldn't have turned out like this. 】
【Wild Star No. 3: I have been wondering what kind of person can open a store in Guandao. I thought the bookstore owner was friendly but lacked courage, and the new store would not go far. Now it seems that I am too young. People like the owner deserve to make a fortune! ! ! 】
【Wild Star No. 1000989: Quick, quick, quick! The owner will cut them to pieces! ! ! 】
...
A few seconds were inexplicably stretched.
Lu Yao stood still, the silver metal spike was less than two millimeters away from his pupil, and a tense and fierce battle was about to break out.
The suspended light screen suddenly went black, and when the screen lit up again, a row of large words appeared on the screen-the anchor has gone off the air... Click on special attention and turn on the real-time reminder of the start of the broadcast...
【Wild Star No. 777: ? ? ? ? ? ? 】
【Wild Star No. 497: !!! !!! !!! ? 】
【Wild Star No. 8888888: ? ! 】
The floating message screen in the bookstore live broadcast room was filled with symbols of surprise and shock.
【Wild Star No. 777: No, the third district can broadcast the live broadcast of the brain dissection attempt, but the store owner can't watch
a fight? I'm so angry! ! ! 】
【Wild Star No. 497: Ahh ... 】
【Wild Star No. 4579803: This may not make the social news... It can be said that the store owner single-handedly suppressed a social news event that could have had a huge impact within the scope of provoking trouble.】
[Wild Star No. 9999999: I’m afraid it’s not that easy. In addition to the prisoners in the third district, six more prisoners appeared later. I don’t know where they came from. Those guys must have escaped from prison and ran into the bookstore’s territory...]
[Wild Star No. 777: Those are obviously prisoners from other districts, but I don’t think they escaped from prison.]
...
The discussion about the bookstore and Guandao spread from the suddenly closed live broadcast room, and inevitably became the center of public opinion for tens of millions of life forms in the entire star field.
The programmer of Guandao’s information department faced his boss’s death gaze and kept raising his hand to wipe the non-existent cold sweat on his forehead.
Fortunately, the store owner was strong enough and did not really have his brain dissected in front of tens of millions of netizens, otherwise he would have to go to the third district tomorrow to be a prison buddy with those hateful guys.
…
Inside the bookstore, the silver spikes that AO-17 exploded were blocked by a curved black shadow, and stopped less than two millimeters away from the shop owner’s eyeballs, unable to move forward any further.
A pair of large eyes opened on the silver sphere, and seeing the half shadow extending from under the shop owner’s hair, the pupils shrank slightly: "Spiritual entity?"
Lu Yao did not answer, and she couldn't tell what these shadows were.
They just followed her heart, and they would respond to any of her commands, with characteristics similar to the mental chains they used.
In the eyes of the others present, the shop owner's silence meant tacit consent.
The several mechanical prisoners that had surrounded AO-17 maintained an offensive posture, their arms, ankles, and necks were entangled by unknown shadows, unable to move.
Once they tried to break free, the shadow would wrap around them even tighter, and their spirit would feel suffocated like drowning.
Just like when they used the mental chains to handcuff the shopkeeper.
Without giving them much time to think, the shadow grabbed AO-17's thin thorn, pushed it out half an inch, and then pulled it down, feeding it into Lu Yao's palm like feeding food.
Lu Yao held AO-17's limbs, and the complex golden emblems floated on his arms, looming.
AO-17's mechanical body began to transform, and he shrank back into a sphere. Tens of thousands of silver thorns stabbed out again, and he instantly turned into a silver sea urchin.
The large silver spike aimed at Lu Yao was blocked by Shadow again. The cloth-like Shadow pressed the spike tip with its front side, and a layer of dark blue liquid precipitated from the back side.
The thin liquid gradually gathered at the lowest point of Shadow, condensed into the size of water droplets, and dripped onto the floor with a swaying sound.
With a hissing sound, there was a rustling sound like water vapor thrown into boiling oil.
A fist-sized hole was eroded in the lobby floor that Lu Yao had specially reinforced.
Robots are not afraid of physical toxins, and this poison is probably used specifically to deal with her.
In fact, they did not look down on the shop owner at all.
Lu Yao lowered his eyes and grabbed AO-17, aiming at the spike tip on the sphere and slashing it. In just a few seconds, he trimmed the arrogant sea urchin head into a flat head, and the spike tip containing neurotoxins was scattered all over the floor.
Lingliu came over at some point, took out a mini mop, and began to clean around the shop owner.
Lu Yao gently tossed up the spherical AO-17 and ordered the eight prisoners standing in the shop: "Collect all of them, leave none behind."
Facing the shop owner's sweeping gaze, the eight people, including Zhu Wei and Xi, slowly lowered their heads and answered helplessly: "Yes."
The prisoners entangled by the shadow temporarily lost their ability to move. Zhu Wei and others carried out the recycling work, just like harvesting wheat in autumn in ancient times, accurately removing the heads of all the prisoners, forcing them to completely lose the ability to control their mechanical bodies.
When Kieran and 0021 entered the bookstore with the remaining members of the special guard force, they saw the owner standing with eight prisoners, and a pile of electronic computers scattered on the cash register and the floor.
The electronic computers of the eight prison guards had been detached from their heads and placed neatly on the cash register.
Most of the prisoners in the third area retained their complete heads, and only the knight was left with a bald black box.
0815 had walked in from the window and stood in a corner of the hall, looking at the metal skulls all over the floor. For some reason, he remembered the book that the owner had tried to read during the live broadcast not long ago.
[But it was the dog that died. 】
0815 He only had a superficial understanding of the book from the few excerpts that the store owner had read, and he still didn't know what the book was about. But at this moment, he suddenly became very interested in the book, but it was not easy to ask the store owner at this time.
0021 looked at the row of electronic computers on the cash register. Fortunately, the metal mask could not reveal emotions, otherwise he would not know how angry he would be at this moment.
The twenty high-level mental value special prison guards personally approved by the warden failed to protect the store owner who was supposed to be the focus of protection in this incident, and instead asked the other party to protect them in return.
0021 calmly instructed the team members to retrieve their teammates' computers, and then solemnly apologized to Lu Yao, and finally took away the head of the prisoner from the third district.
The black airship landed outside the bookstore and took away the prisoners from the 0021 special forces and the third district, leaving the store empty.
Yuan and others stood there, feeling a little overwhelmed.
Jilan asked 0815 to contact the repair department to pick them up. In this incident, these prisoners were just a small matter, and even the prisoners from the third district were not important. Jilan
looked past 0815 and looked at Lu Yao standing not far away.
That was a monster.
Jilan didn't know why Lu Yao came to Guandao.
He didn't believe that she came to the island just to open a store, but now that she had landed on the island, it would be difficult to find a suitable reason to ask her to leave Guandao before the contract expired.
She is strong enough to crush all obstacles. This
is the first time that Jilan has encountered such a difficult partner since he took over the Eighth District.
Now he can only ask her to go to the Seventh District to take another mental value test.
The Seventh District has just replaced a batch of equipment, which is the same as the latest equipment used by the Capital Star Mental Value Research Center. This time, specific data must be obtained.
Lu Yao didn't know that Jilan's mind was still so complicated. She was concentrating on listening to the Dream Yuanmeng System re-broadcasting the task prompts.
[Lu Yao's bookstore has a hot sales volume and has been successfully upgraded to a three-star store. Reward popularity value +30,000, spaceship parts +3! Please keep up the hard work, store owner! ]
[Lu Yao's bookstore is famous in the star sea and has been successfully upgraded to a four-star store. Reward popularity value +40,000, spaceship parts +4! Please keep up the good work, shop owner! 】
【Lu Yao's bookstore is popular throughout the star field and has been successfully upgraded to a five-star store. Rewards: Popularity +50,000, Spaceship Parts +5! Please keep up the good work, shop owner! 】
[You have a new mission! Lu Yao's bookstore is becoming increasingly popular. Please take advantage of the situation and become the first store in Guandao to open to nine regions. The mission will last for 32 days. The rewards are 200,000 star coins and 20 spaceship parts! ]
The opening is a long list of store star-up rewards. Lu Yao quickly passed by the popularity value and paid attention to the special rewards.
The core reward this time is spaceship parts. Could it be that he is planning to give her an interstellar spaceship through the mission?
After the live broadcast room was opened, Lu Yao's star ring lifted some permissions and could query some information on a fixed webpage.
Knowing that the mission rewards include spaceship parts, she specifically checked on the Star Network. Even the lowest-end interstellar spaceship costs hundreds of millions of star coins.
If she really gets an interstellar spaceship for free, she can laugh off the overtime and humiliation she has to endure in running a bookstore.
Seeing that the store owner was dreaming about spaceship parts, the Dream Fulfillment System couldn't help but pour cold water on him: "The new mission has also been released. It is more than twenty times more difficult than the previous mission. Why don't you take a look at it."
Lu Yao raised his arms and moved his shoulders: "I just finished the mission. I need to rest for two days. Remind me of the new mission in three days."
Dream Fulfillment System: "...Why don't you take a look at the mission description before making a decision?"
No matter what he said, Lu Yao refused to look at the mission.
Jilan came over and asked her to go for another physical examination, and Lu Yao did not refuse.
Not only her, but also Xi and Zhu Wei were asked to go for the examination.
Because of the sudden incident at noon, the rest of the prisoners in the third district had already been sent back to the third district prison by the prison guards.
Their activity day was declared over early, and it is very likely that they will not have the opportunity to come out for the next few months.
There are no prisoners going out for activities, the live broadcast room is closed, and it is estimated that there will be no customers in the store.
Lu Yao still left Yin Hua and Ling Liu to watch the store.
Before going to the seventh district, Lu Yao took the time to contact Xie Molin of the Childhood Tutorial Center and asked him to purchase a batch of printing equipment within three days.
On the second floor of the bookstore, the Black Star team is working diligently to pack the orders that surged at noon.
After the affairs in the store were arranged, Lu Yao took Zhu Wei and Xi on the airship again.
This airship is the public airship of the Eighth District, and the pilot is the artificial intelligence Eva.
The owner sat with two employees, facing Ji Lan and 0815.
0815 sat stiffly, his eyes scanning the owner from time to time.
After repeated hesitations, he stared at his boss and spoke to Lu Yao: "Just now in the live broadcast room, in the last paragraph of the book you read, why did Katie ask for forgiveness, and Walter said 'but it was the dog who died'. Does this sentence have any special meaning?"
Because the owner read the excerpt, 0815 couldn't analyze anything according to the meaning of the text, but curiosity continued to torment him.
Zhu Wei and Xi turned their heads when they heard this. They were only paying attention to the fight at the time and didn't notice that the owner was still live streaming in that situation.
And he also read a book they had never heard of.
Zhu Wei blinked hard: "What book?" Lu
Yao still carried a cloth bag this time. She took out a sample copy of "The Veil" from the bag and handed it to 0815: "The plan was disrupted by this incident. The book will be on the shelves in the store tomorrow. This sample book is given to you as a gift."
0815 was surprised for a while and didn't understand why the owner suddenly showed goodwill.
He likes books and knows the value of books.
The book that the owner did not forget to recommend even in a life-threatening situation must be a good book.
After listening to the excerpt, 0815 was also sure that it was a book he would like.
But he was still a little embarrassed to receive a book worth tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, for nothing.
What's more, his boss was sitting next to him.
Lu Yao understood, and took out another book from the cloth bag and handed it to Jilan next to 0815.
"It's a small gift for our first meeting."
0815 was worried for the store owner: "..."
Although Director Jilan loves money and likes to make money, he doesn't like to accept gifts from others in this way.
The store owner may have good intentions, but the director will definitely not accept it.
0815 secretly regretted not bringing up this topic just now, the atmosphere might have been a little better.
Jilan's eyelids were half drooped, he thought seriously for a few seconds, it has been many years since he met someone who gave gifts so directly.
If it was something else, he would not even look at it, and would scold anyone who had dirty thoughts.
But this book...
Jilan didn't want to say that 0815 had been reading the Star Ring Window. He had sharp ears and listened to the excerpts that the owner tried to read and memorized them in his mind.
He was also curious about the sentence "but it was the dog who died" that seemed to carry endless meanings.
Lu Yao raised his arm straight, his eyes wandering back and forth on the faces of the two robot jailers. The steel mask was as cold and hard as usual, but Lu Yao read some struggles from their different postures.
After about a minute and a half, Jilan slowly raised his arm and took "The Veil" from Lu Yao's hand.
0815 turned his head and his pupils dilated.
After a pause, he finally took the new book from the store owner with peace of mind and whispered, "Thank you."
Before officially opening the book, 0815 pretended to read the introduction on the back, wanting to take a look at the price.
When the link to "The Veil" was put on the live broadcast room, he was so focused on the store owner's living conditions that he had no time to pay attention to it, and the link was only up for less than ten seconds.
There were several rows of small words printed on the lavender cover. 0815 quickly scanned it and roughly understood the background of the story. He couldn't wait to scan the lower right corner of the back cover.
Price: 99,000 Star Coins
0815: "..."
It's really not cheap.
Director Jilan next to him had already turned the page and read it attentively.
0815 secretly took two deep breaths, calmed down and opened the book, reading ten lines at a glance.
Zhu Wei and Xi looked at the two people opposite them with inexplicable envy. It was the first time that they felt jealous of the prison guard. Lu
Yao gently touched their arms and explained in a low voice: "I only brought two books with me. After the physical examination, there will probably be no customers in the afternoon. You can read books in the store in the afternoon, just like taking a day off."
Rather than reading the book, the two were more concerned about the special mental mark that the owner had attached to their mechanical bodies.
It was difficult to discuss the details at this time, and they also planned to return to the store after the physical examination to avoid the prison guards before looking for the owner.
Strangely enough, both of them were more inclined to the owner than the prison guards.
0815 After reading two-thirds of the book in hand, the airship slowly landed and stopped in the seventh district, which was the same building when Lu Yao came for the first physical examination.
However, this time, they were not greeted by a nursing robot, but by two prison guards from the seventh district.
0766 and 0777.
Lu Yao had been in Guandao for so long, and this was the first time she met a robot that was only one finger taller than her.
The two jailers were undoubtedly robots. They were relatively rare humanoid robots. Their appearance was infinitely close to that of native humans. Their height, body shape, skin and hair color were almost the same as those of real people.
Perhaps the surprise in Lu Yao's eyes was too obvious. 0766 explained, "Being huge has its advantages. A body shape close to that of native humans is not without its advantages. As you said, robots are not much better than native humans."
0766 was a lively female robot. Her opening words revealed that she was eating melons on the spot today.
Her partner 0777 was a relatively silent man.
Jilan and 0815 did not intend to go upstairs with them. They sat down on a bench in the lobby on the first floor and continued to read "The Veil" as if no one was around.
Lu Yao and his group took the elevator upstairs. 0766 took Lu Yao and Zhu Wei to the 28th floor, and Xi and 0777 went upstairs.
Zhu Wei was examined first, and then was led downstairs by a nursing robot. Lu
Yao was left alone, and seeing 0766's energetic look, his scalp tingled: "You don't want to dissect me, do you?"
0766 turned around and gently pressed her down in the examination room, and said frankly: "I am indeed particularly interested in your ability value that is different from that of ordinary people. Judging from your performance today, your mental value is very likely to have broken through the 6S level."
[Author's words]
Note: "But it was the dog who died" is originally from Maugham's "The Veil".
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