Chapter 19: The former store manager turned into a white bone demon
The bones were dejected and could only sigh for the thousandth time about their miserable life.
Song Yuqing scrutinized the skeleton like a researcher, her entire body carefully scrutinized. She was puzzled. Without eyeballs, how could this skeleton see? Without a cochlea, how could it hear? Without vocal cords, how could it speak?
Bai Gu felt embarrassed when Song Yuqing looked at him. If he still had any shame, his face would have turned red by now.
"Men and women shouldn't touch each other, so please don't get so close."
Song Yuqing felt a little embarrassed and took a step back.
"Let me introduce myself. My name is Song Yuqing, and I'm the manager of God's Supermarket."
"God's Supermarket!" The bones stood up as if they were struck by electricity.
"Huh? Have you heard of it?" Song Yuqing couldn't judge Bai Gu's expression. She could only infer what Bai Gu was thinking from his body's reaction.
"Hey, you found someone else so soon..." Bai Gu muttered to himself, interlacing the fingers of his left and right hands. "Can I...can I go to the God's Supermarket to take a look?"
Song Yuqing and Xiao Roubao looked at each other, wondering what the White Bone Demon was trying to do.
puff--
In the silence, the little meat bun farted.
The little meat package pretended that nothing happened and frantically comforted himself in his heart, it's okay, a loud fart doesn't smell bad.
Song Yuqing held his breath and unconsciously distanced himself from the little meat bun.
Puff——
Little Meat Bun clenched his fists and ran to the toilet behind him.
Song Yuqing: ...Is this child suffering from a stomachache?
"I didn't expect that even pandas have mutated." Bai Gu shook his head, and the bones in his body collided with each other, making a creaking sound.
Song Yuqing turned her attention back to the skeleton. Although she intuitively didn't think that the skeleton would hurt her, she still had to be vigilant.
"I can take you to God's Supermarket, but I don't know where you come from."
"Me..." Once Bai Gu started talking, it was hard to stop. Before the apocalypse, he was very annoyed with himself for this, always throwing all his personal information to anyone who spoke to him.
His name is Huo Bin. Before the end of the world, he was the owner of a convenience store on Lingdang Street. The store was left to him by his parents. He thought he had no special skills, so after graduating from university, he took over the management of the convenience store.
On the morning of the third day before the apocalypse, Huo Bin woke to a disembodied voice whispering in his ear, claiming the apocalypse was imminent. The voice claimed to be Master Fu. He initially thought it was a hallucination, but then discovered he could manipulate metal, even creating it from his palms. Furthermore, Master Fu showed him a preview of the apocalypse, forcing him to believe that Master Fu was real and that the apocalypse was imminent.
An ordinary person would be more or less panicked if he suddenly experienced such a thing.
In a state of extreme panic, Huo Bin closed his convenience store and tried to use all his savings to buy supplies. His savings were limited; he could only stockpile enough for a month at best. Huo Bin once again felt the unfairness of fate. He had never been the protagonist in a novel. Even if he knew the end of the world was coming, what would it matter? He had no magic finger to change the future.
Master Fu's indenture appeared at the right time. Master Fu promised Huo Bin that as long as he signed the indenture, changed the name of the convenience store to "God's Supermarket", and ran the store well no matter what happened, then Master Fu would protect his safety.
"You signed it, so you didn't die, right?" Facing the former manager of God's Supermarket, Song Yuqing felt a little complicated.
"I was afraid of death, so I signed the contract to sell myself." Huo Bin raised his head, as if looking at the ceiling, or through the ceiling, trying to see his fate clearly.
The day before the meteor shower, Huo Bin became the first manager of God's Supermarket. He seemed resigned to his fate, yet deep down he was filled with anxiety, unease, and fear. If all were peaceful, he could live comfortably as a shop owner. But in the apocalypse, it was impossible for him to run a store on his own. Where would the supplies come from? Where would the customers come from? He couldn't do it.
Mr. Fu advised Huo Bin to cheer up, open the shop door and start running the store immediately. However, Huo Bin did not listen and walked back and forth in the locked shop, with his hands covered with red marks from pinching himself.
Mr. Fu also had a bad temper. When he saw that Huo Bin did not open the supermarket, he scolded Huo Bin.
"I just ran away." Huo Bin's teeth were chattering. "On the night of the meteor shower, I wanted to go back to find Master Fu, but I was pushed into the mall by the crowd..."
Because of the indenture he signed with Master Fu, Huo Bin could not die. However, since one person could not resist the zombie horde, he was eaten alive by the zombies even though he was hiding in the toilet. After being reduced to bones, Huo Bin's gold-based abilities could no longer be used.
Song Yuqing felt heavy in his heart. Huo Bin was not a bad person, he just lacked courage and ended up like this.
"Come back with me to the God's Supermarket. After all, it was once your home." Song Yuqing wanted to take Huo Bin back with her so she could extract more information from Master Fu. She felt that Master Fu must be hiding something.
Huo Bin shook Song Yuqing's hand gratefully. It was worth it for him to hide in the toilet for a month without moving. It was worth it to meet a good person like Song Yuqing.
Song Yuqing calmly pulled his hand out of Huo Bin's hand bones, feeling the pain.
At this time, Little Meat Bun ran out of the toilet with something in his hands and ran towards Song Yuqing.
I have something good to offer you!
Song Yuqing and Huo Bin both took a few steps back. No matter how adorable a giant panda is, it's still important to be hygienic, right?!
Little Meat Bun noticed the slight disdain in Song and Qing's eyes and pouted unhappily. He opened his palm and saw three glowing red crystal cores lying in his palm.
Here you go. I transformed the absorbed supernatural power into a crystal core.
Looking at the three crystal cores, Song Yuqing marveled. The energy contained in these red crystal cores must far exceed that of the crystal cores of primary and intermediate zombies. Little Meat Bun is really powerful!
"What is this?" Huo Bin had been in the toilet for nearly a month and could no longer keep up with current affairs.
"This is a crystal core that can enhance superpowers." Song Yuqing carefully took the crystal core from Xiao Roubao's hand.
"Can you give me one?"
"No." Song Yuqing rejected Huo Bin's request without hesitation. She was a good person, but not that good.
In front of Huo Bin, Song Yuqing absorbed the three crystal cores into his body.
"Huo Bin, wait for me for a moment. I'll go upstairs to collect some supplies and then take you back to the God's Supermarket."
As soon as he finished speaking, Song Yuqing's eyes suddenly became dim, and countless snowflakes appeared. Everything he saw looked like the screen of an old broken TV.
Song Yuqing felt hot all over and his face flushed, as if he was drunk.
"Why is it suddenly hot?"
Seeing this, the little meat bun considerately fanned Song Yuqing with his hands and circled around Song Yuqing.
Song Yuqing's fever did not improve, but became more severe, and his body began to twitch slightly.
Huo Bin reached out to touch Song Yuqing's forehead. As soon as his white finger bones touched Song Yuqing's skin, they began to burn. Huo Bin hurriedly blew out the flames on his fingers. It was a close call; his fingers were almost burned.
The little meat bun was very close to Song Yuqing, and the fur on his body had been curled by the heat.
Song Yuqing felt a hot current rushing through his body, and this hot current was slowly growing stronger, as if it was about to break through his skin.
Song Yuqing's body twitched more and more, her legs softened and she fell to the ground.
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