"You can all look outside the door yourselves."
Seeing that the three people in front of him were still entangled, Mu Chen suddenly interrupted, turning everyone's attention to the door.
When Lu Xiaoyao and Merita turned around, it was already so dark outside that they couldn't see anything at all, as if a black code had been applied to the outside.
"Oh My God?"
Lu Xiaoyao looked down and could even see that the lights inside the house didn't shine out. The shop door was like a dividing line, with the interior brightly lit and the outside pitch black.
"What the hell?! It's so dark?!"
Unconvinced, Lu Xiaoyao pushed the basket of vegetables she was carrying out the door a little way, only to be dumbfounded.
Half of the vegetable basket that was sticking out of the shop entrance was completely invisible. The basket was right there, but the half of it was covered by a black cloth, which scared Lu Xiaoyao so much that she immediately pulled the basket back.
As a result, two of the four eggs in the basket were missing!
"Where are my eggs?!"
Lu Xiaoyao stared at the door in horror, then took two steps back into the store before daring to peek furtively at the entrance a few more times.
Merita stood still, staring at the darkness outside the door for a long time, but still couldn't figure it out.
At this moment, Julian turned to Mingmei for help: "Boss, do you know why it's dark outside?"
“A very thick fog rolls in here as soon as it gets dark.”
"Dense fog?" Merita turned to look at Mingmei, feeling that Mingmei was teasing her. "This... can be explained by dense fog?"
"Yeah, a thick fog can cost me two eggs."
Lu Xiaoyao was also startled by the sudden turn of events. She stared at the eggs in the basket with a pitiful look, and finally turned to Julian and Mu Chen, asking, "Boss, you guys aren't eating eggs tonight, are you?"
“We bought fish and meat from the villagers.” Julian sighed, staring at Lu Xiaoyao’s possessive expression towards her food, and pointed to the soaking wet bamboo basket they had brought back in the corner. “But we didn’t buy any vegetables…”
"We have plenty of vegetables! Hahaha, we'll treat you to vegetables, and you can treat me to meat!"
Everyone present could clearly see Lu Xiaoyao's opportunistic behavior, but coupled with her chubby, adorable, silly smile, no one said anything, which was taken as tacit approval.
[Have you... forgotten something?]
Why?! The topic has shifted back to dinner again?
[Hilarious! So what if there's vegetables and meat? You guys have vegetables and meat for lunch too, and in the end, it's still the same thing, isn't it?]
[Wow! We've gone off-topic! Shouldn't we be talking about understanding that black fog outside?! What to eat, what to cook!?]
...
The comments section was filled with concern for everyone, and Mingmei dutifully spoke up, saying, "Something came down from the mountain in the thick fog. The Mountain God warned everyone years ago not to go out after dark."
The topic returned once again. This time, Lu Xiaoyao and Merita, who had heard many legends about the mountain god in the village, perked up and said, "The mountain god again?"
"Why 'again'?" Julian and his group had also taken a walk around the village this afternoon and heard some legends about the mountain god, but judging from Lu Xiaoyao and the others' tone, something seemed off.
"Isn't the mountain god omnipotent? Can't he even handle what's in the black mist?"
In the evening, she got into a heated argument with an older woman, but as soon as the sun went down, the woman turned around and went inside without any hesitation. Merita was already a little annoyed by that inexplicable argument.
Now that she heard Mingmei praising the mountain god, Merita put her argument in front of Mingmei.
“No, the Mountain God naturally has a way.” Faced with Merita’s doubts, Mingmei, like the devout believers in the village, pointed to the corner next to the shop’s door where torches were placed and said, “In the darkness, as long as you light a torch, you can drive away bad things and light the way forward.”
"The boss is right."
Just then, a person holding a torch suddenly appeared at the shop entrance. Everyone turned around and saw that Wang Wenfei had actually arrived.
Wang Wenfei was also holding a torch. As soon as she entered the store, she hung the torch in the designated spot outside the door, illuminating the area outside.
"It really does work... torches are useful."
Lu Xiaoyao and the others felt that the game's design had once again broadened their understanding of the game.
"Why are you out here so late?" Merita was taken aback when she saw the bag the other person was carrying, and then said, "Were you kicked out by your family?"
“It’s not that…” Wang Wenfei’s expression wasn’t very good. She took a deep breath and didn’t want to say more. “It’s perfect. Aren’t we going up the mountain to the mountain god’s temple tomorrow? It’s good that I’m here. We can leave earlier tomorrow morning.”
"Ah...then you..."
Lu Xiaoyao wanted to ask what happened, but Merita, who was next to her, stopped her from speaking.
It's obvious that Wang Wenfei doesn't want to talk about it, so Lu Xiaoyao's insistence on asking is pointless.
"Everyone hasn't eaten yet, right? Let's eat first."
When Wang Wenfei saw the vegetable basket next to Lu Xiaoyao, she took the initiative to change the subject. The group went into the kitchen again, and this time, Mu Chen also went in.
Mingmei, curious, walked over to the kitchen and saw that Mu Chen had already put on an apron and was instructing others to wash vegetables and cut meat, as if he were the head chef.
"Do you cook well?"
Thinking back to what happened at noon, Merita felt she needed to be mentally prepared.
"It's alright. I did some special training with my family when I went home for the Chinese New Year."
Mu Chen casually mentioned that he was undergoing special training with his family. The bright face standing at the kitchen door suddenly turned red, and she secretly cursed Mu Chen for being shameless.
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