Chapter 15 Rules Convenience Store
The warehouse was littered with scattered boxes, with no room to step.
The scattered cargo and the messy scene clearly showed that there had been a big battle last night.
When Xin Boyu was about to think that the two men had been torn into parts because they failed to complete the task last night, he found two newcomers next to the pool at the end of the warehouse.
A thick English book was covering the large white pool, with various net bags scattered around it.
The two newlyweds seemed exhausted after a whole night. They were leaning against the pool, rubbing their wrists tiredly.
As soon as Xin Boyu met the two men, he was scolded with his face covered before he could even ask about the thief.
"What on earth did you let in last night? It almost killed someone. Do you know?"
After Qiao Song took the initiative, Tang Xiaoxiao also quickly cursed according to the lines. Although her momentum was not strong enough, the feeling of being afraid and cowardly was quite real.
"Sister Qiao Song and I were doing a good job at the front desk. It's fine that we were brought to the warehouse because of complaints, but why did you old players deliberately cheat us? If you want to deliberately reduce the staff in the warehouse, I will complain to the store manager!"
This was actually the true statement. Tang Xiaoxiao only found out later that the water ghost was actually the thief mentioned in the convenience store rules.
If it weren’t for her sister Qiao Song’s quick reaction, if some of the raw materials had been stolen yesterday, they would have been really finished.
Any materials lost in the warehouse must be compensated with one's own organs.
As for complaining to the store manager, it would be okay if the warehouse attendant really died, at least the parts can be recycled and the convenience store will not lose money.
If he hadn't died, it would have simply given that store manager, who loved to watch the fun and make trouble, more opportunities to extort soul coins from him.
When Xin Boyu thought of this, he immediately restrained his attitude.
It was a bit embarrassing to be scolded by a high school student, but he could only ask with a gloomy face: "Did that thing escape?"
Qiao Song stood up and rubbed his wrist, then threw out the hammer in his other hand: "Why, we were almost dismantled into parts and sold separately yesterday. Are you disappointed that we were not killed by that thing?"
Xin Boyu's face darkened, but in order to get better information, he still endured it:
"That's not what I meant. The situation was urgent at the time. You know the rules state that the thief must be caught and the stolen goods confiscated. I wanted to throw it out, but I didn't have enough time so I had to throw it in the warehouse. Are you sure that thing really escaped?"
Qiao Song frowned, "How would I know if he escaped? I was about to hand over the goods to the courier, and I saw a ball of fluorescent stuff that almost swallowed our goods. When I turned around to catch him, I couldn't find him for a long time. When the courier came, the door was still wide open. In the end, at least the raw materials didn't escape. Who would care about him?"
After she finished speaking, she seemed a little surprised: "But later it seemed that nothing was lost in the warehouse. Maybe it went out with the courier."
Xin Boyu cursed inwardly, "It's useless."
Judging from this description, the thief who regained his invisibility has most likely already run away.
Just dealing with the raw materials on the shelves has put these two newcomers in such a miserable state. It is almost impossible to expect them to deal with the water ghosts.
It seems that he and Lao Ma still have to find a way to go backstage tonight. If they can find the raw materials for the second wish star in the material pile, then they can still complete the task.
Just in case, the front desk clerk had to find a way to get a hand in.
Xin Boyu tried to put on a gentle face and apologized to the two of them first:
"I was inconsiderate before. So, Lao Ma and I should have received complaints last night. Since you are used to the front desk, if we change your shift tonight, I will transfer you two to the front desk. I also hope that you can help us buy some supplies."
After saying that, he took out a business card, on which was written [Black Iron Union Affiliated Fleet].
"As you know, the convenience store dungeon is only for rookies. Old players like us usually come here to purchase supplies. In a survival game like this, in addition to personal skills, there are occasionally some special item cards that you rookies can't afford. When the time comes, you get the items, and after the dungeon is over, I'll transfer the money to you. How about a 20% commission?"
At this point he also specifically mentioned the price of the item card, probably wanting to let Qiao Song understand how high the 20% commission was. It was almost as high as the soul coins that could be earned by clearing the convenience store copy.
"You don't have to worry about not having enough money in your account. Once you find that item, just leave it in advance. I will transfer the money to you before you leave the convenience store copy."
Isn't this just asking someone to buy on your behalf?
Qiao Song has broadened his horizons.
But who says she can't afford it?
Qiao Song tried to act like he was moved, but very hesitant: "You won't lie to me and just give me the money for buying things without counting it as commission, right? After all, you also said that I can't buy that thing with the money I have. What if I get detained in the store?"
Xin Boyu didn't expect that this little girl was quite smart, so he had to grit his teeth and calm her down first: "Then I'll give you 100 soul coins as a reward for your hard work. You can help me keep an eye out for any prop cards that appear at the front desk at night. If you can buy that thing at that time, I will give you an additional 20% commission."
Qiao Song grabbed his hand and said, "Deal."
Get 100 for free first.
After Qiao Song put away the business card of the Black Iron Union Team, Xin Boyu said he wanted to take Lao Ma out for a walk. Before leaving, he also looked through the remaining raw materials in the box.
Still haven't found what I want.
During this time, he and Lao Ma lifted up the thick English book covering the white pool, wanting to check what was inside.
But the moment the lid was opened, the light shone into the pool, and the water ghost instantly escaped into the mirror space.
So both net bags were empty in the end.
Qiao Song calmly put away the net bag that had previously contained the water ghost, covered it with a new layer of net, and finally put a book on it.
In this way, when the pool returns to darkness, the mirror disappears and you can just pull the net again to catch the water ghost.
The external explanation is——
"I'm traumatized by the raw materials I fished out last night. Besides, we may not go to the front desk tonight. When the store manager has arranged the shifts and confirmed that we're going to the front, we'll take these things away. Otherwise, it'll be too much trouble to rearrange them all."
Xin Boyu cleared his throat but didn't say that he had bribed the store manager in advance to help with the shift arrangements.
He was afraid that the other party would follow suit, so he also spent money to bribe the store manager.
He had checked the boxes of raw materials left by the two newcomers last night, and found that there was no wish star raw material like the one he found in the warehouse on the first night.
The third day was the last day of the Rule Convenience Store. He had to find a way to confirm whether it was possible for the warehouse to produce another wish star.
So the two of them had to go to the front desk on the last day, and after last night he also discovered that the risk at the convenience store front desk was much greater than that at the warehouse.
Whether it is for the sake of safely passing the level or for the prop card, he will not lose out by changing his position again.
After everything was negotiated, the warehouse, which was originally filled with tension, became inexplicably joyful again.
Little do they know that everyone has ulterior motives.
In the following period of time, the night shift warehouse keeper will have to load all the remaining materials. This is a hard job, and Xin Boyu and the others have no intention of staying to help.
Qiao Song guessed that the two men probably wanted to go out and track the group of water ghosts to see if they could find some traces of them left. The cleaning lady, Aunt Liu, was also tired after working the whole night yesterday, but she still politely asked if she needed any help.
Qiao Song didn't want outsiders to see what he did next, so he advised his aunt to go to rest quickly.
So Aunt Liu took the key to the hut given by the store manager, paid the money, and disappeared from the spot. She must have entered the zoom hut on the shelf.
Suddenly, only Tang Xiaoxiao and Qiao Song were left in the warehouse.
"Let's go, let's put the merchandise on the shelves."
Qiao Song and Tang Xiaoxiao carried the goods that had not been delivered by express last night to the special loading area.
It was the same process as when Lao Ma put the products on the shelves. After pressing a button on the wall, a layer of transparent light curtain instantly descended around, and then a very old computer appeared with very few options on the screen.
After scanning your face to enter with the warehouse manager's authority, two options appear: put the product on the shelf and modify the price.
The option to modify the price is greyed out.
Qiao Song had reason to doubt whether only the store manager could change the price. After all, his big head looked quite like a computer.
She clicked the put on shelf button, and immediately a large transparent frame dropped from the ceiling.
"Xiaoxiao, are you okay? Do you want me to come?"
After all, the first time Tang Xiaoxiao saw kidneys turned into kidney cuts snack, she almost vomited.
But the little girl insisted on coming by herself.
"After what happened last night, I feel like I've mostly overcome it. I don't know how many more ghosts I'll run into in this dungeon in the future, and I can't keep being afraid of them."
She used to be frightened by these things and her face turned pale, but after a night of training, she can’t say that she has overcome her fear, but only that she has become completely numb.
She originally thought that those slippery and soft organs were particularly disgusting, but after seeing Qiao Song hitting these things like baseballs last night, Tang Xiaoxiao was able to treat these things equally as small elastic balls.
Place the heart, liver, spleen, lungs, and kidneys into the transparent frame one by one, and then press the button to put them on the shelf.
After all these things turned into bags of expanded snacks, Qiao Song moved out another box.
These are all prop card materials that have been soaked in the pool solution and have become a little wet.
There were little paper figures with only half a head left, weird-looking puppets, shoes with wings, and all sorts of strange objects whose purpose was unclear at first glance.
Qiao Song first threw the shoe with wings into the transparent frame. After a flash of light, a card appeared in the frame.
The words "three-second acceleration card" can be vaguely seen.
The card spun twice, then flew into the ceiling pipe and disappeared, perhaps entering the shelf system of the Rule Convenience Store.
At this time of day, the convenience store is busiest, and I don’t know if anyone is using credit cards to buy these items.
When Qiao Song thought of this, he looked around and confirmed again that there was no sign of Lao Ma and the other man returning.
She had asked Aunt Liu before and learned that the small shelf room where she slept was in the corner of the warehouse, facing a wall.
After making sure that no one would notice, she called Tang Xiaoxiao to go to the pool.
At this time, the water ghost soaking in the pool was still thinking whether he still had a chance to escape, when he felt that the book pressing on the pool was taken away again. The moment the light came in, he immediately became excited and prepared to escape into the mirror space that was about to appear on the water surface, but he felt that the book was quickly covered back.
Then he regained his physical form in a daze, and the next second, he was pulled out by the net that had been set up in advance.
Tang Xiaoxiao didn't expect that Qiao Song was still at the bottom of the pool, covered with a net bag like a plastic bag on a trash can.
As the other party used a net bag to take out the water ghost, he sighed: "Your ability is really hard to guard against. You can disappear into the void as soon as you see the light? No, it should be something else that appears on the water surface when the light shines on it. Is it a mirror?"
Seeing that his abilities had been almost exhausted by her, the smile on Xiao Ni's face froze completely.
After realizing his current situation again, he could only cry and say, "Sister, please don't feed me to the vending machine, okay? I still want to be reborn. I have never hurt anyone, I have only stolen things, and a little devil like me is worthless!"
She shook the net bag and said, "After you steal something, if the front desk clerk can't afford to compensate for the loss, she has to use herself as collateral. How can this not be called harming others?"
"Don't play pity on me. I won't fall for it."
Qiao Song slowly and deliberately took a few steps towards the back door: "Besides, I'm really short of money. Can't a white coat of your level be exchanged for 3,000 soul coins?"
The water ghost's heart suddenly sank. He didn't expect that the other party even knew the market price. It seemed that he had done a lot of this work.
"Well, there are still several water ghosts in our team. You can go and catch them! Many of them just live by sucking up to the boss and don't have any special abilities!"
Qiao Song immediately looked upon the friendship of this gang of thieves with new eyes.
In order to divert the flames of war and to protect himself, the water ghost named Xiao Ni began to cry about how he was exploited by the team. Every time after stealing something, the expensive cans of food were divided among those bootlickers, while he could only eat a little soup left by the boss.
"When I was alive, I was running errands for them. But now that I'm dead, I can't escape their clutches."
At first, he just wanted to betray his accomplice to divert attention in order to survive, but as he spoke, he wanted to cry more and more, and his emotions became particularly real.
"If being a ghost wasn't so difficult, who would want to steal? Isn't eating incense much better than eating these canned human flesh?"
"Incense? Are there any ghosts on the road to infinite survival who would eat this?"
Seeing that she was interested in this, Xiao Ni nodded immediately: "High-level ghosts even have shrines, but ghosts like us in white clothes usually can only eat living people... No, I, I mean the special canned food sold in stores."
As if he was afraid that the human would get angry, he quickly added, "Every convenience store has different rules. As long as you don't break the rules during work, we can't attack humans directly."
Qiao Song hummed, this was similar to her previous speculation.
However, this kid actually knows a lot of inside information and he's stupid. He tells everything once he's threatened. No wonder he's always being exploited.
It is indeed not cost-effective to sell him directly, and Qiao Song does have the intention to use this kid to hook out his accomplices.
After all, a water ghost is worth 3,000 soul coins.
"How about this, I'm going to do an experiment next. After it's over, if you can still maintain your current state, I'll follow your plan tonight."
When Xiao Ni heard this, before he could feel happy that he was let off, he saw Qiao Song carry the net bag containing him into a strange transparent box.
Wait a minute, did this human just mention some experiment? !
With a snap, he was poured out.
Just as Xiao Ni was thinking about whether to try to escape again, he felt a terrifying force coming from all directions, almost turning into substance in the air, and strangling his throat.
Qiao Song’s hand was already placed in front of the put-on-shelf option.
Tang Xiaoxiao next to him also leaned forward curiously: "But Sister Qiao Song, can this kind of ghost thing that doesn't belong in a convenience store really be put on the shelf?"
It turns out that it really works.
After Qiao Song clicked the put button, the screen of the old desktop computer suddenly flickered, and the put button turned gray and white, in a stage where it seemed to be usable but also unusable.
Finally, a few big words appeared on the screen.
[It is detected that the executor is an infinite survival player, temporarily serving as a warehouse attendant, and the primary authority has been passed. 】
[Occupational testing in progress...]
[Professional attribute matching rate passed]
【Congratulations! You have successfully added new products to this store! 】
There was a ding sound, and the old computer screen began to emit colorful lights.
The water ghost in the transparent box finally realized that something was wrong.
Xiao Ni was almost terrified to find that he was being pressed flatter and flatter, and finally spinning like a wrung-out rag.
After a few seconds, the water ghost in the transparent frame disappeared, leaving behind a white prop card.
[White-clothed ghost card, unknown function, there is a high probability of releasing a water ghost directly after use. (The person who put it on the shelf is a temporary employee of a convenience store warehouse)]
Qiao Song's eyes lit up.
Sure enough, ghosts are also the hard currency of infinite survival.
She said, the soul vending machine is said to not be available in every copy. If you want to make money by catching ghosts, don't you have to find other ways to save the ghosts?
After hearing her explanation, Tang Xiaoxiao swallowed her saliva.
Although Qiao Song would occasionally scold the display screen store manager as a netherworld capitalist, she felt that her sister Qiao's brain circuits were not much inferior...
This is a ghost!
In order to avoid encountering ghosts in the dungeon at night, normal people would choose to raid for supplies during the day. However, Qiao Song did the opposite and only wanted to catch as many ghosts as he could in the novice protection dungeon.
In fact, Qiao Song’s idea is very simple. Didn’t he say that the first copy is for accumulating resources? He must hurry up and get a car and a suite.
The only thing that made her uneasy was the price.
After all, the fourth rule of convenience store also states: [All items that can be put on the shelves are considered commodities. ]
What if a Submariner worth 3,000 is put on the shelf and the price tag is also 3,000, but you can’t buy it, then you’ll suffer a big loss.
After turning the card over, she saw a number on the back that made her feel relieved.
[Price: 10 Soul Coins]
Fortunately, it is not the same as the soul vending machine, where one ghost costs 3,000 soul coins.
But if you think about the last rule of convenience store rules, you will understand.
Convenience Store Rules Article 6: [All goods in this store can only be settled with soul coins, but the store itself does not provide soul exchange activities, please go to the corresponding vending machine. ]
The convenience store itself does not directly use ghosts for soul currency transactions. This proprietary business seems to be exclusive to the soul vending machine.
The principle of the soul vending machine is probably to directly destroy or convert the ghost into some special energy, which means that the ghost itself no longer exists and has been completely used up.
But the prop card made by the convenience store says that after using this card, the water ghost can be released directly again.
These 10 soul coins are roughly equivalent to the labor fee charged for compressing the ghost into a card.
From this perspective, this convenience store is quite conscientious.
"However, isn't there too much room for maneuver here? Haven't there been veteran players who have done this before?" Qiao Song was puzzled.
Obviously, Xin Boyu and the others can enter the convenience store copy through special methods and look for the item card called Wish Star.
So if you want to do this, there must be other thresholds.
The work of putting things on the shelves during the day can only be done by the night shift warehouse manager. If one wants to put raw materials that are not produced by the store on the shelves, one probably needs to have higher authority or a qualified identity.
Tang Xiaoxiao's mind suddenly became active: "Would it be okay to call him Uncle Ma? After all, his real job and his identity in the game are both warehouse managers."
"It's possible."
Qiao Song recalled the career test that had just appeared on the computer screen. It seemed that this infinite survival game had other meanings for the classification of careers.
Otherwise, why is it that Tang Xiaoxiao, a high school student, has book-related abilities, while she, a college student, should not be assigned a temporary worker status just because she has too many part-time jobs?
After all, she had gone through a lot of hardships to get into the university.
You still have to go through more copies to collect information. The old players in this copy are too smart and focus on special prop cards.
The most useful information was what she and Tang Xiaoxiao obtained outside during the day.
All in all, it is better to rely on yourself than on others.
"That card called the Orange Wishing Star was most likely put on the shelf by them last night. Those two people clearly came for the prop card. I suspect they wanted to go back to the warehouse to work on the third day, maybe to find another wishing star to put on the shelf."
Tang Xiaoxiao hummed, propping up her chin to think: "But we didn't find any raw materials related to stars in the warehouse last night."
Qiao Song stretched out a finger and shook it. "It may not be a star. The blue courier who accepted the bribe revealed that the primary copy is a newly generated copy, which will produce a very special prop card, but he did not say that this prop card is the wish star card. So I suspect that there should be more than one card, or more than one kind."
Judging from the performance of these two veteran players, the value of this card must be very great, and it will only appear in new copies. This restriction is enough to show its preciousness.
It is very likely that Xin Boyu and the other person came here with a mission from their [Black Iron Guild]. Since they didn't get the most important thing, they must take something else back to report, right?
Maybe the voodoo dolls and strange building blocks that she and Tang Xiaoxiao had just put on the shelves would become the prop cards at the front desk and appear between the shelves at night, waiting for them to find.
However, the price should be very expensive, otherwise Lao Ma would not have sent them to the front desk with peace of mind and returned to the warehouse. It is not known whether he was looking for the raw materials for the wish star or to avoid the front desk work.
After all, as an old player, she must have some savings. But when the other party gave her 100 soul coins as a deposit, a trace of pain flashed across her face. She might have suffered a big loss at the front desk last night.
Qiao Song, who didn't realize that he had let the other party suffer a great loss, patted Tang Xiaoxiao's head and said, "Go upstairs and rest early. Remember to set an alarm. Let's go outside the convenience store as soon as it gets dark tonight."
Tang Xiaoxiao asked, "Ah?"
"But don't convenience stores open until 11pm?"
Qiao Song immediately revealed a fox-like smile: "But when it gets dark, the ghosts come out."
Didn’t she prepare a suffering water ghost little brother, waiting to hook that whole group of water ghosts?
Tang Xiaoxiao: ...
I already want to pray for those ghosts in advance.
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