Chapter 31: Rubbing shoulders
Open the supermarket door and walk into the supermarket.
It was such a simple and normal process, but Yu Sheng felt unbelievable at this moment. The impact of opening the door several times just now was so great that he still had some aftereffects of opening the door. Even when he saw the shelves and the boss in front of him, some outrageous thoughts would pop up in his mind——
Could this be a small supermarket that looks exactly like the one I remember, but is actually a den in another dimension created by some evil thing? The shelves look normal, but maybe the bottles and jars on them are all filled with eyeballs soaked in formalin, and the boss across the street will suddenly pull out a chainsaw sword from his trouser pocket after greeting me, and charge at me and kill me under the cash register...
Fortunately, these outrageous thoughts only flashed through his mind for a moment, and Yu Sheng quickly calmed down. He first confirmed that he had really entered a normal supermarket, and roughly understood under what circumstances he could "open the door normally and correctly". Then he nodded to the young boss opposite him and said, "Come and buy something - do you have boxes of instant noodles and compressed biscuits?"
"We have instant noodles. The unpacked ones are piled under the stairs on the second floor. You can see what kind you want." Although the young boss thought it was a bit strange that Yu Sheng was dazed when he came in, he quickly ignored it and pointed at the iron ladder not far away. "We don't have boxes of compressed biscuits anymore. See the middle row on the left shelf? That's all of them. Not many people usually buy this, and I don't buy much either."
"Okay, help me load all the biscuits. I'll go get the box of instant noodles... and get two packs of sausages, the large ones."
"good."
The young boss responded, then turned around and took a large shopping bag to load things onto the shelf. While busying himself, he casually asked, "Why are you buying so many instant noodles and compressed biscuits all of a sudden? It's not good to only eat these. My wife scolds me for this every day."
"Keep it at home for future use." Yu Sheng said casually.
The supermarket owner didn't say anything else. He packed a big bag of things as Yu Sheng requested and walked towards the checkout counter. At this moment, the glass door of the supermarket was pushed open again - both doors were pushed open together, and the hinge of one of the doors made a teeth-grinding creaking noise.
The boss, who was counting the compressed biscuits, looked up when he heard the noise: "Hey, the door is broken, there is paper on it."
"Uh, I didn't notice." A young man with black hair, casual clothes and a plain face came in. He looked back awkwardly at the half glass door that seemed to be unable to rotate automatically, then turned his head away and said, "Do you have boxes of instant noodles?"
At this time, Yu Sheng was walking between two rows of shelves holding a box of instant noodles. When he heard the noise coming from the cash register, he looked up but quickly looked away.
"Oh, this is fine," the young man with short black hair pointed at the instant noodles in Yu Sheng's hand, "I'll take a box too."
The supermarket owner didn't even look up: "It's under the stairs on the right hand side in front. Take it yourself. I'll settle the bill first."
Yu Sheng passed by the young man, paid the bill at the checkout counter, and then walked into the gradually darkening night outside the supermarket, carrying a large shopping bag in one hand and a box of instant noodles on his shoulder in the other.
Li Lin found the instant noodles he wanted to buy under the stairs that the supermarket owner mentioned. When he was bending down to move the things, he felt a vibration in his pocket. He took out his mobile phone and found that it was a message from the captain.
He turned his head to look at the cashier, then looked down at his phone screen and casually replied, "I've settled down and am going out to buy something."
The phone buzzed twice, and a new message popped up on the screen: "Did you find anything unusual?"
Li Lin typed: "No, I will walk around the streets tomorrow and interact with the residents here."
After sending the message, the young Secret Service agent hesitated for a moment, then edited the next message: "When will the 'deep diver' in the team arrive? Who should be arranged to come?"
This time it took a long time before the phone vibrated again: "Xu Jiali, I will be at work tomorrow."
Li Lin stared at the message on the screen in a daze. Just as he was about to send a message to ask something, he saw another new message from his leader: "He just came back from Emain-IX. Something happened there, so his mission ended early. He is now reporting and undergoing a full set of inspections at the bureau. He will be assigned to your side tomorrow."
After reading the message on the screen, Li Lin's mouth twitched and he typed quickly: "Sent here to be on duty right after a field mission? Not giving me half a day off?"
"Xu Jiali took the initiative to ask for it. The situation he encountered is a bit special. Now he has some sequelae of deep diving. He needs to wear a stabilizer all the time these days. So he simply moved his vacation after the work to next week. There shouldn't be any problems on your side in the short term. He will take it as a rest when he stays with you. We can talk about the details when we meet tomorrow."
Li Lin curled his lips, replied "OK", then stood up and walked towards the cashier with the box of instant noodles.
The supermarket owner behind the cashier raised his eyelids and took a look. He took out the barcode scanner and muttered again: "It's not good to eat these all the time. My wife scolds me for this every day..."
Li Lin was happy: "Then I won't buy it?"
"The total is 62.8 yuan."
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Irene heard some noise coming from the front door - it was opened from the outside, but when she leaned her head from the edge of the frame to look towards the entrance, she didn't see Yu Sheng for a long time.
After a long while, she finally saw Yu Sheng stick his head in from the door in a mysterious manner. He looked around inside for a long time before stepping into the house cautiously like a thief. He put a pile of things he had bought on the ground and then turned around to close the door.
Irene just watched this scene quietly, and only spoke after Yusheng closed the door: "Yusheng, what are you doing? Why do you come home like a thief?"
Yu Sheng sighed and muttered as he changed his shoes: "Don't mention it. I have a serious psychological trauma about 'opening the door' now. I dare not take a step forward without confirming it three times."
As Irene listened, her eyes fell on the pile of things at the door again.
"You bought a lot," Miss Doll was a little surprised, "You should push a cart, like a camping cart, it's very useful."
Yu Sheng didn't say anything for a while, just looked down at the instant noodles, ham and compressed biscuits piled at the door, then he seemed to suddenly remember something and slapped his forehead hard: "I should buy some liquid food! She has been hungry for too long and can't eat this directly... No, I'll go buy another bowl of eight-treasure porridge tomorrow morning... Or should I go now?"
Irene listened silently, and when she saw that Yu Sheng was really about to open the door and go out again, she suddenly said, "Let's do it tomorrow."
Yu Sheng had already changed his shoes again. He held the door handle and looked back: "She's still hungry..."
"Even if you buy them now, can you deliver them to that fox right away?" Irene looked straight at Yu Sheng, "And... seriously, I wanted to say this before. Even if you deliver these, it can only temporarily alleviate her situation. The biggest problem over there is not the lack of food, but the entity called 'hunger'."
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Yu Sheng stopped what he was doing.
After a moment's thought, he put his shoes back on, walked to the dining table and sat down opposite Irene.
"That's right. The biggest problem is 'hunger'. Although it's good to be able to fill my stomach temporarily...but let's talk about it tomorrow. There's really no rush. We have to find a way to enter the valley stably first."
Irene noticed that Yu Sheng had a serious look of thought on his face when he said the second half of the sentence. At the same time, she thought of the few words that the other party had revealed when he contacted her just now, and immediately realized something.
"…What happened?" she tried to ask, "Do you…have any ideas on how to enter that valley?"
"Strictly speaking, it's not the idea of entering that valley, but..."
Yu Sheng said this, raising his hand and grabbing at the air in front of Irene.
He grasped a door handle, and a door suddenly appeared in the air. The door itself had an ordinary shape, but its edges trembled and shook like a phantom. Then, under Irene's shocked gaze, Yu Sheng pulled the door hard.
The illusory door suddenly opened, and Yu Sheng saw a female elf standing opposite the door who looked like an oil man, with a bunch of mechanical limbs and wheel-shaped lower body behind her, but wearing a silver-white robe and skirt on her upper body.
She was standing in front of some large machining equipment and turned her head to look over here with a look of shock.
The mechanical limbs behind the elf Ji You Lao were still quickly and accurately adjusting the large device on the platform that was constantly emitting streams of light. Her eyes were wide open as if they were about to pop out. She stared at Yu Sheng for two seconds before yelling, "So who the hell are you..."
Yu Sheng slammed the door shut.
"...I didn't expect that I could connect to the same place twice in a row," Yu Sheng said with a hint of surprise and a hint of thought on his face, "Wait, this might be... Let's try to reproduce it later..."
He had just muttered halfway when Irene, who was sitting across the table, couldn't help herself. The doll lady looked like she was about to fly out of the painting and bite someone: "What was that just now!? What was it?! Huh?!"
"As you can see," Yu Sheng exhaled, "it's a door."
"Of course I know it's a door, but the key is--" Irene took a deep breath and jumped up from the chair, "What. Is. That?!"
(End of this chapter)
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