Chapter 48 What I Really Want to Do
"How about you take a nap first?" Song Yuqing was afraid that Nanjiao would die suddenly.
"No, I need to watch you input the merchandise inventory into the back office."
Song Yuqing:?
"Are they moving so fast? They've already finished the website?!" Song Yuqing didn't expect Nan Jiao to be so desperate. He was so sleepy but still forcing himself to stay awake. He was even more anxious than her to launch the shopping website. Could it be...
"I'm in a hurry," Nanjiao sighed. Life wasn't easy. As a rare wood-type psychic, and also a programmer, he had to rush between various bases, building networks for each one. Of course, all the bases he visited were state-owned.
Nanjiao felt that his stay at the God's Supermarket had been quite luxurious: he had enough to eat, slept well, and saw Gaha every day. But Nanjiao had to leave. The mission on his shoulders concerned the future of mankind.
Song Yuqing, held captive by Nanjiao, immediately began counting inventory and entering data. Naturally, she enlisted Liu Xiaona's assistance, tasking her with counting the supplies on the shelves while she worked on the inventory within the space. Song Yuqing had considered taking Liu Xiaona into the space to count the supplies, leaving her to run the business herself. However, despite repeated attempts, her space was only accessible to her, a single living person.
"But even pigeons can get in..." Song Yuqing thought, turning his gaze to Gaha and Little Meat Bun. First, Little Meat Bun was ruled out. He might have gone to catch pigeons as soon as he entered the space, so...
"Gaha!!" Gaha nodded excitedly when he saw Song Yuqing looking at him.
I do, I do!
Nanjiao secretly complained: "Stingy, petty, black-hearted, only bringing people to the space when they have to work..."
"Gaha!" Gaha covered Nanjiao's mouth. Song Yuqing wouldn't do that! She must have her reasons for doing that.
Song Yuqing pursed her lips. She hadn't dared to try it before, so she kept a trick in reserve, just in case. Now, she was sure that "what if" wouldn't happen to the employees of the God's Supermarket.
Song Yuqing chose to ignore Nanjiao's complaints, took Gaha's hand, and led him to the space. Up to this point, everything was going smoothly. But problems soon emerged. Although Gaha was happy to help and carefully counted the inventory, his language system was no longer human. Even counting was infeasible to him. Song Yuqing watched Gaha pace among the supplies, counting on his fingers, but to no avail.
Song Yuqing: ⊙﹏⊙
"Well, let me do it." Song Yuqing said, and started to count the supplies himself.
Gaha knew he couldn't help, so he simply started cleaning up the mess left by the pigeons. While cleaning up, Gaha unexpectedly uncovered more than a dozen security gates in a corner where the pigeon excrement had accumulated. This was the reward Master Fu had promised Song Yuqing, and Song Yuqing had almost forgotten about it. It wasn't his fault that he hadn't noticed these security gates when he entered the space earlier; the pigeons were just too troublesome.
Song and Qing finished counting the supplies, and Gaha finished packing up. The space returned to its original state. However, the area occupied by the pigeons continued to produce excrement.
Song Yuqing and Gaha left the space. Little Roubao smelled the scent of pigeons and was afraid of getting embarrassed again, so he quickly hid back in his room.
The back of the little meat bun looks a little lonely, and it feels sad about its own desires.
Without a camera, Song Yuqing couldn't take pictures of the products, so he could only temporarily record the product names, uses, and prices on the website. Nanjiao regretted that he should have brought a camera from Base Zero, but he still wasn't well prepared.
Song Yuqing also put information about fresh meat and coffee on the website. Since it was takeout, Song Yuqing raised the price of the items, charging an extra zombie for each item. As for the security gate that would self-report the price, Master Fu would have to use a little trick to modify it.
"Is this as it should be?!" Song Yuqing turned to ask Nanjiao. Even if Nanjiao said "it shouldn't be", she would still set the price the same.
"Compared to the pricing of other space ability users, it's quite cheap." Nanjiao said in a flat tone.
Song Yuqing asked Nanjiao curiously: "How do your other space ability users sell their supplies?"
"Five crystal cores for a bottle of water," Nanjiao said truthfully, "and this is the result of government price controls."
Song Yuqing couldn't help but sigh. All businessmen are dishonest. Mr. Fu's price was so honest that he was going to lose a lot of money. Since it was Mr. Fu who was losing money, Song Yuqing had no objection. But then again, if she raised the prices both online and offline, wouldn't she be able to meet her monthly sales targets more easily?
"Shh, stop imagining things. This is not something you, a person who has signed a contract to sell yourself, should think about." Master Fu ruthlessly interrupted Song Yuqing's inner monologue.
Song Yuqing: ...
Upon learning that Nanjiao would soon be leaving for various destinations, Chen She and the Xie brothers approached and pestered Nanjiao, hoping to accompany him to Base Zero. Nanjiao neither agreed nor refused, so the group assumed Nanjiao's agreement and began preparing for the journey. Since the journey was long, they naturally needed to prepare more supplies. Gathering their energy, they braved the bitter cold and went out to hunt stray zombies in exchange for supplies.
Suddenly a group of people came. Song Yuqing couldn't say he was happy, he just treated them as guests who came every day. But now they were all leaving, Song Yuqing felt reluctant to let them go.
Shen She: The world is so big, I want to go and see it.
Xie Hao: Me too.
Xie Zetian: I'm going to make a comeback!
Although the days in the God's Supermarket were extremely comfortable, Shen She, Xie Hao, and others had also thought about staying. However, in the end times, the worst thing to do is to stay in the comfort zone for a long time, otherwise you will be eliminated by the cruel reality without realizing it.
A frog boiled in warm water, comfort ruins life.
Song Yuqing and Liu Xiaona couldn't help but compare themselves and felt a little embarrassed: It's the end of the world, why are we still going out there?
"I want to find what I really want to do." Shen She said seriously. But in just a day or two, he looked a little older.
Seeing that they were determined to leave, Song Yuqing did not try to keep them and began to pack some food and cold-weather items for them.
"Is there a discount?" Xie Hao laughed.
“No discount.”
"Then, can you give me my prosthetic limb before I leave?"
“…”
"You promised me a long time ago and even took the deposit!"
Xie Hao pestered Song Yuqing, and stopped fighting the zombies. He followed Song Yuqing, muttering beside him. Song Yuqing gritted his teeth and asked Master Fu for an early use of the opportunity to travel to the parallel world next month.
Mr. Fu agreed and made an exception for the sake of God Supermarket's reputation.
This time, Song Yuqing went to the parallel world that was almost destroyed because of her, the parallel world where another Song Yuqing existed.
Song Yuqing headed straight for the God's Supermarket in the parallel world and used all her points to buy supplies, including food, medicine, protective suits of various sizes, and a prosthetic limb that would fit Xie Hao's broken arm. Of course, she also brought back dozens of bamboo shoot and pork buns and dumplings.
Just as Song Yuqing was about to return to her space, she caught a glimpse of a figure that looked very much like Sister Qin. In an instant, the figure disappeared into the crowd outside the supermarket.
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