Chapter 42: Walking Past the Coffee Shop
Song Yuqing was stunned. The sea that looked so real was just a painting?
"No, no, no, this is not a painting. Once the specifications of God's Supermarket meet the standards, you can enter the pollution-free pure world through this window." Master Fu hurriedly explained.
"What does it mean to meet the standards?"
"Unlock the achievement of killing 3,000 zombies for six consecutive months and unlock the screening room in God's Supermarket."
Song Yuqing once again felt that Master Fu was not kind. He didn't say anything and kept things secret, and no one knew what he was doing!
"Well, you can't blame me. I can't do anything about it." Master Fu had his own reasons. There were some things that Song Yuqing didn't know, and maybe he would never know them in his lifetime.
"I wonder what the sea looks like now?" Xie Hao was reminded of his homesickness. He was born and raised by the sea.
"I've seen it. It's dried up." Nanjiao pursed his lips. Without any mutations, the aquatic creatures would end up reduced to ashes.
"Sister Song! Look!" Shen She suddenly spoke, her voice excited, breaking the melancholy atmosphere in the coffee bar.
Following Shen She's gaze, Song Yuqing looked at the large menu above the bar, which listed several types of coffee named after supernatural powers.
Earth latte, five zombies; water Americano, five zombies; wood cappuccino, five zombies; gold coffee, five zombies; water pour-over, five zombies...
What's even more special is the healing espresso. The menu states that one shot of espresso can bring a person back to life or restore sanity to a zombie, and it can be exchanged for one hundred zombies.
Song Yuqing looked at Gaha, then shook his head and chuckled. Gaha had the rationality of a human being.
At the end of the menu, there's a diagram illustrating how to make crystal coffee: grinding the crystals into a powder and brewing it with ground coffee. Coffee beans, boxed milk, a grinder, a pour-over kettle—all the necessary equipment for making coffee—are also neatly laid out on the bar, though there aren't many of them, making it seem more like a display.
"I'll do it! Make coffee!" Liu Xiaona was very excited. She hadn't had coffee for a long time!
Puff puff puff——
As Little Meat Bun expelled the gas, he ran downstairs, his teeth bared, leaving everyone staring at each other in bewilderment. When Little Meat Bun returned, he was clutching a handful of crystal cores of varying colors and sizes. On the day Lin Han led his men to attack the God's Supermarket, Little Meat Bun had absorbed a considerable amount of supernatural energy, which took several days to transform.
Take it! This is the crystal core I just transformed!
Little Meat Bun, looking proud, dumped all the crystal cores onto the bar. Liu Xiaona, unceremoniously, grabbed a handful and placed them in the grinder along with the coffee beans. Song Yuqing's mouth twitched. Others assumed these crystal cores were from Lin Han, but Song Yuqing knew full well that the zombies brought back from Base 27 were mostly rudimentary zombies, their cores stagnant and monotonous, not as colorful as these.
Liu Xiaona turned the handle of the grinder with all her might, but she could only turn it less than half a turn.
"Hey, don't damage the items!" Master Fu was furious. He had just logged off for a while and came back to see his clerk doing something stupid. "Is this how you can grind a crystal core?"
"Here is an explanation." Shen She was young and had good eyesight, so he noticed a piece of paper the size of a mouse taped to the side of the bar.
Song Yuqing leaned forward to take a look. It said: Unnamed Coffee House. All coffee is automatically produced. Limited to two cups per person per day. Just place the cup under the tap at the bar...
"Unnamed Coffee, right? Let's call it that?" Song Yuqing announced without waiting for Master Fu's response, "From now on, this coffee bar will be called Passing By Coffee House!"
"Every time I walk past this coffee shop, I can't help but slow down my pace~~" Mr. Fu sang it. He originally wanted to name the coffee bar "God's Coffee Shop", but what's the matter? He liked this song as he walked past the coffee shop.
Song Yuqing swayed along with Master Fu's humming. Honestly, Master Fu's singing was quite pleasant. The Xie brothers, Nan Jiao, Shen She, and the others, who couldn't hear Master Fu's voice, were baffled by Song Yuqing's sudden swaying. Meanwhile, the words "Walking Through the Coffee Shop" quietly appeared on a small sticker beside the bar.
Everyone couldn't wait to drink the supernatural coffee. Before Song Yuqing could react, they each grabbed a cup from the bar and squeezed it under the tap. Gaha and Xiao Roubao looked at them, speechless.
Xie Hao, though he only had one hand, was the first to place his cup under the faucet. He held a vintage-style glass. As soon as he placed it under the tap, the faucet began to glow with colorful light, projecting a transparent screen displaying various coffee styles. He tentatively tapped the screen, selecting a latte. The tap made a humming sound, remarkably loud in the quiet cafe. Soon, a stream of brown and white water gushed from the tap, pouring into the cup, filling it perfectly.
Under the gaze of everyone, Xie Hao drank the local latte in one gulp.
"Delicious!" Xie Hao's eyes lit up.
"Five zombies!" Liu Xiaona stretched out five fingers towards Xie Hao.
"It's free today." Song Yuqing didn't plan to charge, after all, the coffee shop hadn't opened yet. She searched the menu again and again, but she still couldn't find any coffee that could enhance the abilities of a space-based user. She was somewhat disappointed.
"Master Fu, no space-capable coffee?"
"Well, spatial abilities are considered non-mainstream abilities, so we don't have them at the moment."
Song Yuqing didn't quite believe what Master Fu said. Lin Han also had spatial abilities, but she only knew of the one in Nanjiao who had wood abilities.
"Don't worry, I'll upgrade your space."
Song Yuqing didn't seem happy to hear Master Fu say this. She heard another meaning: she couldn't improve her abilities through her own efforts; she had to rely on Master Fu's blessing. To upgrade her space, she had to please Master Fu. What about Lin Han? How would his space abilities be upgraded?
"Gaha!!!" Gaha suddenly yelled, startling Song Yuqing. Turning around, he saw Gaha holding a coffee cup filled with pure Americano. From Gaha's huddled features, it was clear that this water-based Americano was twice as bitter as regular Americano.
Nanjiao handed the water-based American coffee to Gaha. He saw Gaha was curious, so he specially took a cup of water-based American coffee for Gaha. After all, before Gaha turned into a zombie, he liked to drink American coffee without sugar the most.
"You've changed." Nanjiao looked at Gaha who was sticking out his tongue, shook his head and sighed.
Song Yuqing waited for Gaha's next reaction. Although Master Fu only said that the supernatural coffee could enhance the original supernatural power, he didn't say that it couldn't be used to generate more supernatural powers.
Sure enough, after drinking the water-based American coffee, Gaha's skin became radiant, and a small stream of water flowed from her fingertips. Everyone was amazed. If she drank a few cups of different coffees, wouldn't it be a panacea? Song Yuqing also picked up a cup and prepared to drink a few cups of coffee to see what wonderful results the five elements of metal, wood, water, fire, and earth could produce with her.
Unfortunately, Gaha's water ability only lasted thirty seconds. Song and Qing pushed through the crowd and squeezed to the faucet. Just as they were about to pour their coffee, they saw the small stream of water in Gaha's hand disappear instantly.
"Gaha..." Gaha pouted in dissatisfaction. She hadn't had enough fun yet.
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