Chapter 108 The plastic mannequin in the convenience supermarket has a standard smile on its face,...
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"This task doesn't sound difficult."
The teddy bear shook his head and looked at the new environment curiously.
"Don't think about it. How could the system be so kind?"
Cecilia was already familiar with the system's routine. She yawned and looked around lazily.
The shelf next to them is two meters high and filled with a wide variety of goods. You have to stand on tiptoe to get the things on the top shelf.
She took a quick glance and saw that the nearby shelves were full of food. They should be in the food area.
"Where's Jia Dadan?"
The teddy bear turned his head and looked around, but did not see Jia Dadan.
"I guess he found a place to hide?"
She said nonchalantly, picked up a bag of potato chips and looked through it again and again but didn't find anything wrong.
As soon as the "door" appeared, Cecilia dragged Jia Dabing out and forced him to the next room to avoid being unable to take care of him in the chaos.
After spending such a long time with each other, she had a certain understanding of each other and walked straight to the darkest corner of the supermarket.
Sure enough, Jia Dadan’s figure was found in the corner.
Although he came in before them, Jia Dabing did not explore the supermarket. Instead, he found a corner and continued to squat.
"Did you find any clues?"
The teddy bear jumped onto the other to inquire, but it frightened Jia Dabing so much that he almost dropped the little guy.
"Don't look for me, don't look for me! I don't know anything, I don't know anything!"
Jia Dadan held his head and repeated those words in a muttered voice.
"...This guy must have just been lucky. He just crouched through the first room, and then met you in the second room."
Looking at the other person's trembling back, the teddy bear was speechless, "Xia, I recognize your ability."
"Meeting you is also a manifestation of his luck. After all, as long as he follows you, he can pass the level without doing anything."
Unable to get any information from Jia Dabing, the man and the bear began to wander around the supermarket.
Before he had taken a few steps, he bumped into another person.
The other person looked like an ordinary human being, with black hair and black eyes, and a very ordinary appearance, the type that could not be picked out in a crowd.
When he saw Cecia, he was stunned for a moment, then he smiled gently.
"Hello."
Completely different from Jia Dabing, he actually came up and said hello on his own initiative.
Those eyes were clearly smiling, but they revealed some inexplicable emotions that made Cecilia feel somewhat familiar, as if she had seen them somewhere.
"You're a player too, right?"
Seeing that she didn't say anything, the other party took the initiative to bring up the topic, "I'm Lin Zhi, may I know your name?"
"Checia."
She answered casually.
Although this person is a little strange, in her eyes, any living human being is a walking pollution purifier.
“It’s a nice name.”
Lin Zhi’s eyes curved, and his sight slid across Cecia, “So, what’s the name of this little guy?”
His gaze paused and rested on the teddy bear lying on his shoulder.
?
The teddy bear didn't move or speak the whole time, so why would he ask that?
Cecilia frowned and took two steps back.
"I don't have the habit of naming my toys."
She said this in a cold voice, and the other party's sticky gaze kept lingering on her.
"We should be wary of strangers."
Lin Zhi said softly, with a hint of approval in his words. He took two steps forward, closing the distance between them.
"Don't be afraid, this is my ability."
[ID Card "Biologist"]
[Precision Search (Passive): You can detect all nearby life forms and determine their good or evil attributes, as well as whether they can be brought into your camp.]
He showed his ID card.
"Because both you and Little Bear have green icons, it means you have no ill will towards me, so I took the initiative to come to you."
Lin Zhi explained, raising his hand to touch the quietly lying little bear.
"Your ability is wrong."
Cecia slapped the man's hand away and put the teddy bear in her pocket. "This is my property. You have no right to ask."
Those scarlet eyes glanced at the other person coldly without a trace of warmth.
"I'm sorry, I was reckless."
Even though his sincere confession resulted in such treatment, Lin Zhi was not angry. The smile on his face did not diminish, and even deepened.
The hand that was originally trying to grab the teddy bear went off track, and the fingertips hooked into Cecilia's hair, and the two were entangled for a moment before they released.
"Since you don't like it, I won't bother you anymore."
He showed a regretful expression, and his dark eyes stared at Cecia.
"To express my apology, I'll tell you something - it's best to buy items that are in high sales volume."
After saying that, Lin Zhi bowed slightly, turned around and left her sight.
"What's the matter with him?"
After the other person walked away, the teddy bear crawled out and whispered in Cecia's ear, "I always feel that he doesn't look like a human being. Could he be the owner of the room pretending to be him?"
"Won't."
She rejected Teddy Bear's guess.
When the other party approached, she used the team function to investigate - the other party was indeed a player, and his name was Lin Zhi.
She had no way of verifying his abilities, but there was something strange about this man and she couldn't trust him easily.
"What a weird guy..."
The teddy bear muttered, looked back at the direction where Lin Zhi left several times, and then followed Cecilia to other areas.
The introduction of the system is not exaggerated. The supermarket really has everything. Basically, any item you can think of is available in the supermarket.
There are not only common foods, home appliances, and daily necessities... but also valuable oil paintings, finished villas, and even some people are selling weapons.
"Xia, real supermarkets don't sell these things."
Looking at the guns on the shelf, Teddy Bear looked at the price marked on the side in disbelief, "I've never seen anyone selling guns in a supermarket. This is contraband!"
Cecia picked up a gun at random. There was a number "100" marked next to it, but there was no unit. She didn't know what currency she needed to pay with.
Next to the price there is a palm-sized electronic screen with sales figures constantly jumping on it.
There were only three customers in this supermarket, but the sales of goods were increasing at a terrifying rate, as if there were many invisible people here.
“Is there something wrong with this sales volume?”
She murmured, and the teddy bear on her shoulder agreed with her.
“Fake!”
The little guy said righteously, "I have seen a lot of this in reality. This is data falsification!"
"No, no, no, customer, how can you slander our supermarket like this?"
A strange voice sounded behind her.
The sound sounded like the constant friction between plastics, forming syllables. It didn't seem like something a living creature could make, but compared to mechanical sounds, it had a bit of life in it.
She turned her head and saw a snow-white plastic mannequin standing behind her.
Plastic dummy?
She immediately became alert.
When you first enter the dungeon, the introduction to "it" mentions a plastic dummy.
Perhaps, "it" is hidden here.
The mannequin's body is so smooth that it reflects light, and the shape of the facial features can only be barely seen on the face. It is no different from the mannequins in real shopping malls.
It had a standard smile on its face and its mouth was trying to open and close, but its lips were originally closed together and could not open, so it could only move its lips when speaking.
"You have no evidence to prove that our supermarket is counterfeiting. According to the law, we have the right to sue you for defamation!"
There was anger in the sound of the rubbing plastic, but the face maintained a perfect smile, which was creepy.
"Suing me for libel?"
Cecia raised her eyebrows, not having any favorable impression towards this strange creature.
"There are clearly only three people in this supermarket, and no one is buying anything. But sales are continuing to rise. Isn't this fake?"
"It's okay if you don't know us, but don't say anything."
The plastic mannequin tied an apron around itself with the words "Convenience Supermarket" written on it.
"We are a chain supermarket, and we have branches all over the universe. This sales statistic is naturally the sum of all the stores."
As it explained, it handed Cecia a glass of water.
"Although this branch has few customers, you must believe in the potential of our supermarket - soon, very soon this place will be full, don't generalize."
Chain store?
Cecia was skeptical of its claims.
"You are required to pay compensation for the offense you have caused to our supermarket..."
Before the plastic dummy could finish its words, a sharp axe was placed across its neck.
Someone approached it with a smile and whispered, "I wonder if you have heard of an idiom -"
"Murder to silence the witness."
The pure white eyes rolled and it changed the subject.
"...Since you are our new customer, I will not mind. I hope you can take care of the supermarket's business. If necessary, I can also introduce products to you."
Hearing this, Cecia nodded with satisfaction and put away the axe.
"Oh, I haven't seen a new customer in a while. I'm a little too excited!"
The plastic mannequin raised its arm stiffly and tapped its head. "I forgot to introduce myself. I'm a shopping guide in this supermarket."
"I know everything about the supermarket. You can ask me any questions you have."
Finally, we caught someone useful.
She stared at the other person's smooth face and tried to ask, "Before entering the supermarket, I heard that your supermarket has a minimum consumption. Is that true?"
"That's right! I didn't expect you to have made a guide before coming here. It's really our honor."
The plastic dummy raised its head proudly; it seemed to really like the supermarket and was proud to work there.
"Taking into account the different conditions of each customer, our minimum consumption is very humane. It is not fixed, but determined based on the assets of all customers on that day."
"Assets? How is this calculated?"
Cecia asked in surprise.
"As of now, the assets of the three guests are all 0."
The plastic dummy answered truthfully and explained patiently.
"Since supermarkets are located in different places, ordinary currency cannot be unified. For this reason, we have specially launched a supermarket-specific currency——"
As it spoke, it fumbled in its apron and pulled out a small, shiny coin.
There is a bag of potato chips on the front of the coin, and a shopping cart full of goods on the back, with four small words written at the bottom: "Convenience Supermarket".
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