Chapter 17 Rules Convenience Store
The soul vending machine in the corner of the convenience store is probably Qiao Song’s favorite thing in the entire dungeon.
You can hate your boss and the company, but you will never hate your salary!
The three-day salary at the convenience store is only 630 yuan, but it doesn’t matter, she will earn extra money on her own.
Thinking of the extra money, Qiao Song's steps became much lighter. Maybe it was because ghosts were much heavier than living people, but it was not difficult for Qiao Song to drag five ghosts back to the convenience store by himself.
A little ghost in white is worth 3,000 soul coins. In addition to Xiao Ni, there are four water ghosts here, but Qiao Song has no plan to sell them all. He will still be useful if he keeps the boss of the water ghosts.
The three water ghost thugs were thrown into the soul vending machine one by one. Small colored lights immediately flashed on the empty surface of the vending machine. Several vicious faces turned into photos, constantly rolling on the screen, and finally returned to darkness with a ding sound.
The pleasant sound of the machine counting money finally rang out, the gate of the cash outlet opened, and a stack of fresh soul coins came out shiningly!
It’s really a thick stack.
The three water ghosts that were sold were all knocked unconscious by Tang Xiaoxiao, and a total of 9,000 soul coins were obtained. Qiao Song readily counted out half of them and gave them to the little girl, but the other party was embarrassed to take it.
"I think I just provided a little help. Sister Qiao Song, you can almost beat four people by yourself with the hammer."
To be honest, after seeing Sister Qiao hammering the ghost, she now feels a surge in security when she holds the same hammer given to her by the other party.
The girl hesitated for a while before she said, "I'll just take 1,000. Sister Qiao Song, are you planning to build your own team? Can you take me with you when the time comes?"
It’s a bit of an exaggeration to call it a fleet, but Qiao Song is indeed planning to get a car of her own. She took the bus when she came to this ghost place before, and the hygiene conditions and safety level there actually didn’t look very reliable.
"Are you sure you want to follow me? Then this will be your investment." She didn't hesitate and directly collected the remaining soul coins.
Seeing that the two had already discussed future matters concerning the car, Xiao Ni, who originally didn't want to interrupt, had to speak up at this time.
"Well, the car you are talking about, is it the one left by the boss? We ghosts' cars should not be used by humans..."
Qiao Xia was still holding an unsold ghost in her hand. She shook the boss that Xiao Ni mentioned and said, "Why can't humans use your cars?"
Xiao Ni scratched his head and said, "Because the energy body is wrong. For example, in addition to eating living people, ghosts like us can also eat things like incense to survive. But you have seen those people who come to purchase supplies when you work at a convenience store. You humans can only eat ordinary food."
"The vehicles on Infinite Highway are divided into many different categories. As far as I know, they are similar to the means of transportation in the real world, divided into public transportation and private vehicles. Private vehicles, regardless of size, can only be purchased in the bus dungeon. But our boss's car, to be precise, was not bought. It was exchanged with other NPCs in the dungeon. It is a real hearse that can only carry ghosts, or be driven by ghosts..."
If robbing the ghost's car works, I'm afraid no one will go to the bus dungeon.
After Qiao Song figured this out, he asked again, "If a hearse is driven by someone else, will it have a negative impact on them?"
Xiao Ni was stunned: "I don't know about this, but you can't drive the car at all."
"No car keys?"
"The vehicle is authenticated by ghost energy. The key is the breath of the ghost bound to the vehicle. How can a human drive it? Don't look at me. I can't do it either."
Qiao Song smiled: "Then the ghost bound to your car is..."
Xiao Ni suddenly understood something, and when he lowered his eyes, he saw the broken ghost body of his boss in the girl's hand.
"Our car should be bound to Boss and Brother Wang..."
Because the boss didn't want to drive himself, he shared some of the authority with his younger brothers, but except for a traitor, he had no younger brothers left.
Qiao Song's eyes were smiling like crescent moons: "That's it, we can save a driver."
Xiao Ni felt that something was not right, but he also felt that it seemed like it might actually work.
Generally speaking, humans who can beat ghosts and monsters would not be so poor as to rob a group of little ghosts in white clothes to drive their shabby hearses.
Qiao Song’s answer to this is: “Save when you can, spend when you can.”
Of course she was happy to have a second-hand junked car and a driver for free.
However, the reason why she kept this water ghost boss was not just because of the car problem.
"This guy is too conspicuous to stay like this. I'll go in and deal with him first. As for you, why don't you hide nearby for a while, or do you want to turn into a card too?"
Xiao Ni trembled all over.
"Forget it! I'll hide first."
He didn't react until the two humans waved and walked into the convenience store.
No, why didn't he just run away? Why was he hanging out with these two humans? He should be free now, and the boss and the others were gone.
But, but.
He pinched the bag of ghost candy in his pocket that didn't taste like anything, and he felt something strange in his heart.
Or we can just wait and see. A ghost alone can't survive on this road, so being with them doesn't seem so bad.
Qiao Song returned to the convenience store again, opened the employee passage with familiarity, returned to the warehouse, and then quickly pressed the button to put the goods on the shelf. After operating on the shabby desktop computer, a transparent box really dropped from the ceiling.
She threw the water ghost boss who had been beaten unconscious by her into the room.
Tang Xiaoxiao had seen this scene before, and she was still shocked. Her sister Qiao's train of thought was really difficult for normal people to follow.
The water ghosts in the transparent frame began to twist and spin. Perhaps it was because the process was too painful, but the leader of the water ghosts, who had already fainted, actually woke up in the middle of it. In the end, his shocked, angry, and frightened look was frozen on a shining white card.
[White-clothed ghost card, no special 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 noticed that Xiao Ni’s white card said “function unknown”, but the card of this boss clearly stated “no special function”.
He has no special abilities, but he can sit firmly in the position of the leader of the water ghosts, and even has a car and a group of younger brothers. He must have other outstanding qualities. Therefore, it is not cost-effective to sell this guy directly for 3,000 soul coins. There is still a lot of value that can be squeezed out of him.
But apart from anything else, this shelving function of the convenience store is really useful.
Not only can it restrict ghosts, it can even reveal some of the ghosts' attributes to a certain extent.
"I just don't know if the level above that of the White-robed Little Ghost can be put on the shelf..."
After the card disappeared from the convenience store's shelving system, Qiao Song did not immediately go back to the convenience store front desk to look for the card, but turned and walked to another place in the warehouse.
Tang Xiaoxiao had been calculating the time and keeping an eye on them, fearing that the others would come down an hour or two before work. But when she saw Qiao Song taking the initiative to walk a few steps towards the small shelf hut, her heart couldn't help but beat faster.
Tang Xiaoxiao opened her mouth and gestured silently to her sister Qiao Song: Is there anything else you want to do?
But Qiao Song climbed up from the edge to the deep end of the shelf very flexibly, looking around as he climbed, and finally reached directly in.
Sure enough, he found a small house made of building blocks.
It was worth it that she secretly observed all the house models on the shelf that morning. Apart from those neat and beautiful-looking one-bedroom apartments, there were actually other things similar to house models hidden deep in the top that were hard to see.
This is not a one-bedroom apartment. It is more like a building block house that can be expanded or reduced in size. You can tell at a glance that it has many rooms.
She said, if there is only one bedroom, why not have more bedrooms?
Moreover, the price of a one-bedroom apartment is so expensive, and you can only make more money by having more bedrooms. Of course, the more money you can make by opening a store, the better.
Unless the price of this thing is not high, but the cost performance is very high.
In short, low profit.
You know, one of the most obvious rules of supermarket shelves is to put the highest-profit items in the most conspicuous and easiest-to-reach locations for customers.
Therefore, it is easier to find good things in these corners and edges, and it was worth it for her to study in the cabin for a long time yesterday.
The end time of this copy is after the night shift ends tonight, which means that after get off work tonight, they will no longer have the opportunity to return to the shelf hut.
The store manager, who only wants to make a lot of money, would definitely not tell them this method of buying a cheap house.
If you want to buy, of course you have to use the old method——
Under Tang Xiaoxiao's surprised gaze, Qiao Song quickly completed the process of putting the small building block house on the shelves.
Under Qiao Song's expectant gaze, the gray little building block house really turned into a blue card.
Portable mobile cabin combination kit (multi-room version)
[Note: The interior kit needs to be continuously upgraded and purchased. After purchasing this product, you can only get an ordinary house with basic decoration]
[Price: 1000 Soul Coins]
Tang Xiaoxiao's pupils trembled instantly!
Is it still possible?!
With such great deals, why not release them!
Qiao Song made a hushing gesture to her, and the two of them immediately returned to the front desk as if they were familiar with the process.
After closing the warehouse door, Tang Xiaoxiao finally heard the product descriptions of the one-bedroom and multi-bedroom apartments.
"This is too cunning..."
She had already prepared herself to fight many ghosts in order to buy her dream house, but she didn't expect that she could make her dream come true with just 1,000 soul coins.
Qiao Song carefully searched the shelves for traces of cards while explaining to her, "Even if 1,000 soul coins are placed in a rookie dungeon, few people can afford it. This restriction is probably to prevent veteran players from returning to the convenience store dungeon to brush equipment."
Tang Xiaoxiao thought to herself, yes, if they hadn’t followed Sister Qiao Song to kill ghosts and feed them to the soul vending machine, their total salary would only be over 600 yuan now, not to mention the rent of 25 soul coins for the shelf hut every day.
By this calculation, even if you take a break after get off work, the minimum expenditure is 30 soul coins to ensure basic food and clothing.
The store manager is indeed a profiteer.
The two were lucky and quickly found the two cards they had just put on the shelf. They hurried to the front desk to settle the bill and put their items away. There was actually only more than an hour left before work time, so doing anything else would be very risky.
Fortunately, Qiao Song was already very satisfied with what he had gained in the past few hours.
As agreed, she returned the wind chime string to the Sunny Doll at the door before going to work.
But I couldn't help it and asked, "Do you sell this wind chime wire? What's the approximate price?"
The Sunny Doll, who had taken back the derivative, couldn't help but sneer when he heard this, and red began to spread from the eyes of the black-circled painting.
"This is not a price you can afford by selling a few white-clothed ghosts."
This doll really knows everything that happens around the convenience store.
You know, she made more than 9,000 yuan from selling ghosts last night. Combined with her previous income, her balance now has exceeded 10,000 yuan.
It costs 300 soul coins to rent a wire for three hours, but the price she can't afford is too high to buy it.
Xiao Ni is a good questioner. According to him, there is a scent of red clothes on the wind chime line. So the gap between the red ghost and the white ghost is so big?
Seeing that Sunny Doll no longer paid attention to him, Qiao Song temporarily gave up this idea, but this also happened to confirm the information that Xiao Ni had revealed before.
Particularly powerful ghosts will not enter the convenience store copy. In other words, all those who can come in, whether monsters or customers, are at a level that can be suppressed by red clothes. They are either in white clothes, or between white and red clothes.
In this case, tonight’s guests are the last wave, and should also be the strongest.
Xin Boyu and Lao Ma must have suffered some losses at the front desk before, so they need to be more careful tonight.
Before going to work, the two of them had searched the store back and forth countless times, but apart from the two water ghost cards and the house card they had put on the shelf themselves, they found nothing else.
Qiao Song thought about it, and before going to work, he picked out a large, sturdy and durable backpack for himself and Tang Xiaoxiao from the shelf in the corner of the convenience store.
"We don't know what the situation will be like before we get to the next instance, so let's restock our supplies while we can still buy things."
This way, after completing the dungeon, you can just run away with your backpack.
The two of them collected a lot of snacks in advance, normal canned food for humans, as well as water and biscuits. After they had settled the bill for these daily necessities, they placed them under the seat at the front desk. Half an hour before work, the others finally started to move.
Lao Ma pushed open the back door of the warehouse very cautiously, and was slightly surprised to see Qiao Song and the other man appear at the front desk.
"How dare you come out so early?"
Qiao Song looked confused: "There is no customer in the store, could there be any danger?" She had killed all the most active ghosts around.
Xin Boyu, who was standing behind Lao Ma, heard this, pushed the door open and walked out.
Looking around the entire convenience store, there was indeed no sign that anyone had been there, and the merchandise looked quite neatly arranged.
Tang Xiaoxiao was a little complacent: Of course, she had already organized the shelves under Sister Qiao Song's suggestion so that they wouldn't be able to see what she bought.
"Tonight is the last night shift. I hope you remember our agreement. If you find a specific prop card, you will get a 20% commission."
Qiao Song made an OK gesture.
The clock points to 23:00, it's time to go to work.
Different from the past, this time Qiao Song focused all her attention on the shelves in the merchandise area. She keenly noticed that at the moment she went to work, there seemed to be some changes on the ordinary shelves.
She narrowed her eyes, looking strange.
Once he had a hunch that something was wrong, Qiao Song couldn't sit still.
She quickly told Tang Xiaoxiao to keep an eye on the front desk and decisively started patrolling the store.
The front door had been pushed open, and it seemed like a guest had come in and was asking something at the front desk. Tang Xiaoxiao was responding calmly.
Qiao Song walked quickly between the shelves. Before going to work, she and Tang Xiaoxiao had walked around the supermarket countless times and could almost remember the location of every item on the shelf.
But now she could feel that the positions of some of the goods had become a little strange, as if something inside was pushing them out.
To be precise, other things were inserted in places where those goods did not belong.
She walked to the nearest potato chip shelf, pushed the two bulging bags of original flavor potato chips aside, and soon saw a can hidden in the back.
Isn't this the canned brain flower that is exclusive to the red shelf? How did it appear here?
Many clues suddenly connected in her mind, and she immediately thought to herself that something was wrong. She quickly searched for items on the shelves, and sure enough, she made more than one discovery.
These special items that were put on the shelves last night did not appear on the red shelves, but were scattered on various shelves throughout the convenience store.
The outer packaging of some items even looks very similar to ordinary goods, and she wouldn't be able to tell if she wasn't so familiar with these shelves.
What a sinister and vicious listing system. If you play it this way, it’s easy to sell the wrong products to ghosts who don’t have a pass but manage to get these things.
The difficulty increased again on the last day.
When passing by the front desk, she gave Tang Xiaoxiao a gesture to buy time.
Qiao Song went to quickly eliminate the hidden dangers in the store, and Tang Xiaoxiao had to pay full attention to the two customers at the front desk.
"As for canned brains, we do have them. Do you have a pass?"
Miss Rabbit, who was wearing a floral dress, nudged the gorilla she was holding and said, "Honey, do you want to brush?"
The gorilla with sunglasses on his forehead frowned and looked at Tang Xiaoxiao's head: "Why is there a new person at the front desk? You must be a new player. This is not as delicious as yesterday's..."
The rabbit next to him immediately patted him in a coquettish manner and said, "What are you talking about? This person is obviously a student. He must practice questions frequently. He must be smart and have a good brain."
Tang Xiaoxiao didn't know why these two people started praising her. She responded with a few words reluctantly, saying that her grades were not particularly good and that they were a little biased.
After just a few sentences of conversation, Qiao Song had quickly searched half of the shelves, but the welcome sound at the convenience store door rang again.
This time, several middle-aged men wearing the same work clothes came in.
After Qiao Song finished searching the last shelf near the door, he looked up and saw that it was an acquaintance.
Walking at the end was the bus driver who took him to the convenience store on the first day.
She quickly figured out that these were employees of the bus company.
But she couldn't do anything else as the shopping basket in her hands was almost full. The red shelf didn't rise yet, so she quickly took the things to the front desk.
The gorilla just took out a pass and was about to swipe the card with a reluctant expression. At this moment, Qiao Song suddenly remembered something: "This customer——"
The people who were interrupted stopped what they were doing.
Qiao Song walked over from the shopping area and put the basket directly on the front desk. When the rabbit and the gorilla's attention were attracted by the red shelf goods in the basket, she went around to the checkout counter, took the basket down and placed it at her feet.
"What do you want to buy?"
The gorilla and the rabbit next to him looked at each other. The rabbit gently pressed down the gorilla's hand holding the pass and asked tentatively, "Do you have canned brains?"
Qiao Song smiled: "Of course there is. Do you need anything else besides this?"
She quickly picked up the basket at her feet, took out a can, and waved the remaining goods in the basket in front of the two monsters again before putting the things back.
Rabbit was quick-witted and had already figured it out: "Are you planning to sell these things to us without using the pass?"
In order to inquire about the hearse, Qiao Song had indirectly learned from Xiao Ni that all passes have usage times. "Look at what you said, the convenience store only stipulates that we can only sell these products to customers with passes, which does not mean that we must swipe the card. Isn't this a waste of your time?"
This was quite soothing, and the rabbit smiled: "I just like dealing with smart humans. As for the stupid ones, even if I can eat their brains, it's still a bit disgusting. Tell me, what do you want to exchange this time for?"
Qiao Song spoke quickly: "We want you to help us buy some special props that humans can use."
Now Rabbit couldn't help but look at her again. This was not news that a newcomer could know.
"Those item cards are not cheap. You have to know that although some of us in the group occasionally act as intermediaries for item cards, the fees we charge are very expensive. Are you sure you can afford it as a newcomer?"
Qiao Song: "You make your offer first."
At this time, the gorilla next to him who was wearing a floral shirt snorted, took off his sunglasses and put them on the counter.
Suddenly, a virtual projection screen that was very close to the system mall appeared above.
"The cheapest ones here start at 1,000 soul coins. You newbies only make a few hundred yuan after doing three days of doing a convenience store dungeon. How could you possibly..."
Before the gorilla could finish his impatient words, Qiao Song had already quickly checked off three items.
"How much is the purchasing fee?"
Seeing her generosity, Rabbit hesitated for a few seconds and said, "I'll charge you 20%, which is already a friendly price. For most people who come to us to buy things, we charge at least 35%. You have great potential, so it's worth a discount."
Qiao Song didn't feel bad about the handling fee, and spent 4,800 soul coins without hesitation to buy the three items.
Miss Rabbit readily bought two cans of brain flower, saving her the need for a pass, which made her very happy, not to mention that she also earned 800 yuan in purchasing fees.
She left a business card: "I hope we can meet again in a higher level dungeon in the future."
Qiao Song put the three prop cards in his pocket. Seeing that Tang Xiaoxiao was still in a daze, he explained, "The convenience store rules don't say that we must swipe the pass when selling goods. It only says that things can only be sold to customers with passes."
Tang Xiaoxiao recalled the rules, and it was true, except that the shelves were hidden. If you wanted to get the goods on them, you had to swipe the pass first to make the shelves rise.
"That's why I asked you to delay just now. The goods we put on the shelves yesterday seem to be scattered all over the store today. Not all of them appear in the red shelves."
But on the other hand, it means that these things can be sold to customers who already have a pass without swiping the pass.
Tang Xiaoxiao nodded her head as she listened, wanting to take notes, but she had not expected that there was actually a way to buy things from customers.
"This is also the information I got from Xiao Ni. It seems that most of the ghost passes came from these guests with animal heads. I will tell you the details later. Let's receive tonight's guests first."
Speaking of customers, Tang Xiaoxiao remembered what her sister Qiao Song had just said, that the special products on the red shelves were already scattered throughout the convenience store.
"Sister Qiao Song, you took all those things back so quickly?"
"No, I only took back half of it."
Qiao Song put the shopping basket full of special items under the cash register and took out an empty basket: "Put the remaining half slowly."
Tang Xiaoxiao nervously pulled the corner of Qiao Song's clothes and said, "Then, what about these customers?"
After finishing the purchase of the rabbit and the gorilla, another group of customers appeared at the front desk.
They were wearing the same uniform and looked tired and numb, but without exception, they exuded an aura that made them look like someone who was not to be messed with.
Several packages of special snacks for energy were placed on the counter.
"Bill, please."
Qiao Song carefully picked out the special products inside.
"Do you have a pass? If not, these cannot be sold."
Unexpectedly, the other party stretched out his long arm and was about to grab her collar. Qiao Song dodged quickly and asked Tang Xiaoxiao to stand close to the back wall.
"This guest, if you attack the staff without reason, aren't you afraid of being punished by the guard at the door?"
The middle-aged man snorted coldly: "Don't be so arrogant. Drivers are special. There are few ghosts on the Infinite Highway who will deliberately make things difficult for us. You have to sell it whether you want to or not. Hurry and settle the bill for me."
Qiao Song laughed. This was almost an open threat to her.
The drivers stood together, and each person behind them was carrying a bag of things they wanted to buy, most of which were mixed with the special red items they had just searched out from the shelves.
After the driver said this, the sunny doll at the door did not react at all. It seems that it is true as they said, the copy guards are more tolerant of the driver.
Sunny Doll didn’t have the same attitude towards those ordinary little ghosts in white before.
These drivers must have one that is special enough, either in terms of strength or status.
"Please bring the stuff here. It's hard for me to handle it in so many batches."
Seeing that she gave in, the driver snorted coldly and made way, asking his colleagues to bring all the things over and divide them into different plastic bags.
After everyone put their things at the front desk, Qiao Song turned around and asked Tang Xiaoxiao.
“Did you take clear pictures?”
Tang Xiaoxiao swallowed and nodded.
"Okay, give me the phone."
Qiao Song saved the video, then quickly opened his address book and found a number he had just recorded two days ago.
"Hello, is this the bus company? I want to report that many drivers in your company openly violate the rules of the Goblin Alliance and want to escape the card swipe number--"
As soon as she said this, the drivers who were originally arrogant suddenly changed their expressions.
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