Yueya walked to the self-service vending machine and leaned over to look at the little doll.
The doll is chubby, with blonde hair and black eyes, two blushes on its face, and a pair of white headphones hanging around its neck. It looks cute and well-behaved. The doll is made of gelatin, but its body is very flexible. It lies on the window, its mouth opening a little bit, like a shrunken living person.
"Young man... help me..." The little doll put his hands on the window and jumped up and down, calling for help.
Feifei thought it was fun, so he leaned forward and pressed his paw pads on the glass, swaying up and down with the little doll, rubbing and rubbing on the smooth glass~
Yue Ya asked the little doll: "What's wrong with you?"
The little puppet stopped and gestured as he spoke: "I was accidentally pulled in by the ghost in the vending machine. The ghost said that I had to pull someone to be a scapegoat before I could get out. I don't want to do this. Can you help me think of a solution?"
The little puppet clasped his hands together and bowed: "I will repay you when I get out!"
Yueya: "Can you stretch out your hand?"
"Yes!" The puppet's gelatinous hand passed through the glass and instantly turned into a white, living human hand. "But you can only extend it so far."
As long as the little doll reaches out its hand quietly when someone passes by, it can pull a living person in to replace itself without anyone noticing, and thus gain freedom.
But the little puppet didn't do that.
"Wait."
There is an electronic screen on the self-service vending machine, which lists the products in the machine and their corresponding prices.
Yueya found the price of the little doll, 1,000 yuan.
"You're worth quite a lot, 1,000 yuan."
The little doll pressed its head against the glass window: "Do you have money? Please, please~ I will give it back to you when I get out!"
Yue Ya yawned: "Do you have money?"
The little puppet said loudly: "I only have five dollars now! But I can make money and pay you back when I get out!"
Still quite confident, Yue Ya curled her lips and said, "You know it's hard to make money here, right?"
There is 1,000 yuan in change among the 50,000 yuan I earned from returning the goods just now. Yue Ya can indeed save the little doll by buying it.
The little puppet puffed out his chest and said, "I have a special way to make money!"
Yue Ya was a little curious about what this special skill was. He took out his wallet and was about to pay when he suddenly felt someone was looking at him.
His hunch was never wrong, so he closed his wallet and searched near the vending machine.
Seeing that he was slow to pay, the little doll thought he had been abandoned and whimpered, "Why did you put your wallet away? I'm not lying. I will really pay you back."
Yue Ya paused and saw an eye in the shadow of the blind box vending machine. The eye was severely bulging, with blue veins all around the eyelid. After meeting his gaze, it immediately hid deeper into the room.
"Because I don't have to spend any money, I can save a thousand dollars right away." Yueya snapped his fingers: "Fei Fei, catch it."
Feifei loves to play this game the most. He jumps into the shadows and follows the eyes to get behind the vending machine.
A minute later, Feifei came out from the other end, holding a severed hand in his mouth. The eye that Yueya saw was on the back of the severed hand. Although the strange hand was small in size, it exuded a lot of malice.
But no matter how vicious the ghost is, it dare not move under the fat mouth.
Yueya picked up Feifei with both hands and raised his chin towards the little doll in the vending machine: "Pull this hand in."
"It was this one that pulled me in. The kitten actually managed to catch it. It's amazing!" The little doll made an inexperienced sound, but reacted quickly and immediately pulled the severed hand into the vending machine.
A white light flashed from the vending machine, and a boy suddenly appeared in front of Yue Ya.
The boy was wearing a white sweatshirt and had headphones hanging around his neck. He bowed to Yueya politely and said, "Thank you, brother. I will pay you back."
Yueya didn't spend any money, but this rescue was worth 1,000 yuan.
Yue Ya looked at the vending machine. The severed hand had turned into a gelatin model, standing motionless in the grid, but its malicious intent had increased instead of decreased.
[Just now I was calling him boy, but now I call him brother, haha]
[Yuezai is really good at saving money]
[Congratulations young man, you have embraced a thick thigh full of European energy]
[“I want to take advantage of the host’s luck again” I gave him 20 rare rubies as a reward]
The monster was still lurking there, so Yue Ya took the boys away from the vending machine to prevent them from getting hit again.
Yueya remembered that the boy said he had five dollars, so he asked casually, "Are you a player?"
The boy nodded and said gently, "Brother, you can just call me Xiaofeng. Do you also want to buy goods for me? I can find a way to make money to pay you one thousand yuan, or help you buy something to pay off your debt."
Xiaofeng said that he had special skills to make money. Yueya thought for a moment and said, "Tell me about your skills in detail."
Xiaofeng looked around and answered in his ear.
Yueya thought it was interesting and asked, "How many times can you use this skill in one instance?"
Xiao Feng scratched his head and frowned: "I'm not very skilled in using it. It's hard to control. It depends on the state. It may be once, or it may be several times."
In this case, we must use it efficiently. Yue Ya said: "Use your skills to buy things. Check our list to see if there are any identical products."
The two took out the lists and compared them. There were clothes and shoes on both lists.
Xiao Feng clapped his hands and said, "What a coincidence. Then choose one between the clothing store and the shoe store."
Yueya thought about it and said, "I'll choose a clothing store, but I need to buy women's clothing. What about you?"
Xiao Feng smiled and said, "I'm fine with anything. There are no clear requirements on the list. As long as I can complete the task, it's fine. I really want to get the room card and rest as soon as possible."
There were many clothing stores on the first floor. They followed the signs and came to the clothing area.
There are many mannequins and mirrors in the public areas of this district. You will suddenly see one or several pale mannequins when walking on the street.
The lights in the mall were getting dimmer and dimmer. It was quiet all around. Their footsteps were particularly loud. As they walked, the footsteps seemed to be mixed with the sound of something crawling.
Yueya looked back and didn't find anything unusual. Feifei didn't show any alertness or uneasiness, so he ignored the voice for the time being.
There are no greeters at the doors of these clothing stores, but the window decorations and mannequins are very prominent.
Yueya stopped in front of a clothing store called "Return to Zero". The store was very simple, with several transparent geometric bodies made of acrylic panels placed at the door. They were filled with plaster sculpture fragments, which looked quite artistic.
Next to these art installations stood two mannequins holding hands. They were in the same pose, had no facial features, and were wearing the same white dress, making them look like a pair of twins.
Xiao Feng looked around and asked Yue Ya, "This store looks normal. Do you want to go in?"
“No hurry.”
As usual, Yueya looked for the store notice first. This store's notice was printed on the wall and was quite conspicuous.
Tips from our store:
1. Please make purchases when you enter the store.
2. If you damage the goods or props, you will need to compensate according to the price.
3. Support body scan payment.
4. Recruiting part-time workers. Please discuss with us if interested.
The last beauty store used facial scanning to pay with your five senses, but this body scanning means... paying with body parts?
Yueya referred to other clothing stores and found that every store had a sign saying "Pay by scanning your body".
Yueya and Xiaofeng said, "Let's go with this one. Be prepared to use your skills."
"Okay." Xiaofeng took a deep breath and followed Yueya to the "Return to Zero" women's clothing store.
Yue Ya grasped the door handle of the clothing store. Scarlet blood oozed out of the glass door, staining his palms red. A woman appeared silently behind the door and looked at him through the bloody glass door.
"Brother, look, the entrance of this store has become so scary!" Xiao Feng's breath was a little unstable: "How about changing stores?"
Yue Ya glanced to the side and saw that the pair of mannequins holding hands at the door had changed into bright red skirts. Blood was dripping along the hem of their skirts, forming a pool of blood under their dangling feet.
"Hehe..." The two dummies suddenly turned their heads and stared at him. There was only a pair of bright red lips curled up on their snow-white faces!
Xiao Feng took a deep breath and looked at the two dummies with a condemning look: "If you keep scaring us, we'll move to another store!"
The two dummies turned their heads back at the same time and pretended nothing had happened.
Xiaofeng: “…” Quite sensible.
Not only did the mannequin change, but the art installation at the door also changed. The plaster remains contained in the transparent geometric bodies turned into bloody limbs. These limbs squirmed and crawled restlessly in the geometric bodies, as if they would crawl out at any time. The thick blood was squeezed and seeped out from the cracks, flowing all over the ground.
Xiao Feng asked quietly, "Brother, are we still changing stores?"
"The stores here are all in the underworld style, there's no need to change." Yue Ya looked at the "person" behind the glass door, let go of the door handle, and knocked on the door instead.
The heavy door slowly opened inwards, and the dirty blood that had accumulated on top poured down. Yue Ya pulled Xiao Feng back two steps, but they didn't hide far enough, and their clothes were inevitably splashed with blood.
Yue Ya frowned, but soon returned to his gentle and harmless look, slowing down his pace and walking into the store.
The room was filled with a rotten and stale smell. Yue Ya covered his lips and coughed, and his eyes and eyebrows showed even more sickness.
Xiao Feng quickly asked with concern: "Are you okay?"
Yueya waved her hand to indicate that she was fine, and said in a hoarse voice to the clerk in the black dress standing in front of her: "We want to buy two sets of women's clothes."
The clerk in a black dress bowed to him and made an inviting gesture: "Welcome, both of you. Please come in."
The black-skirted shop assistant looked a little pale and gloomy, but there was nothing strange about her. Xiao Feng breathed a sigh of relief: "This shop assistant looks okay..."
The clerk in the black skirt turned around, exposing her back with an axe embedded in it, and Xiaofeng stopped talking abruptly.
"Brother, aren't you afraid?" Xiaofeng was having a heart attack.
Yue Ya looked at the bloody figure with no expression on his face, but his voice was a little bit gentle: "I'm scared."
[I believe it]
[I believe it too. Our Yuezai is very timid.]
[Here we go again, this man is playing the pig and eating the tiger again]
[The host seems to be unable to smell the dust. Every time he coughs, I frown and feel distressed.]
The salesperson in a black dress led them to a row of clothes, stood still, and introduced them in a flat voice: "These are all new models of our store. Please feel free to choose."
Yueya looked at the price. The new series of clothing starts at 99,999 yuan.
It’s about the same price as a lipstick, so the premium isn’t that big, but the money in Yueya’s pocket isn’t enough to buy a skirt.
The store rules state that damaged merchandise must be compensated. Yueya feels that the underlying meaning of this sentence is: our store will scam you at any time and anywhere.
He avoided touching the clothes and said to the black dress salesperson, "Please help us pick out two dresses of one size."
The black-dressed salesperson curled her pointed lips and asked, "What style do you want?"
Yueya said casually, "Sweet."
"I see. Wait a moment." The salesperson in the black dress looked at them, selected two dresses, and her stiff and gloomy face softened a little: "Please come over here to pay."
Yueya always felt that the way she looked at him was somewhat meaningful, and he felt a little uneasy.
Yueya suppressed this strange feeling and patted Xiaofeng on the shoulder: "Boss Feng, I'll pay the bill."
Xiaofeng nodded seriously and quickly followed the clerk in the black skirt.
Just as Xiaofeng caught up, the clerk in the black skirt suddenly screamed and fell to the ground, her body broken into pieces. One of her arms rolled in front of Yueya.
Yue Ya lowered her eyes and looked. The arm was pale and bluish, with irregular cracks on it. There was no blood at the broken ends. It looked a bit like a corpse prop in a horror movie, very fake and eerily so, and even more creepy than a real corpse.
There were body parts lying on the ground in front of him. Xiao Feng froze and took a deep breath: "She, she, she... why did she suddenly break into pieces?"
The two ghost shop assistants rushed to the "crime scene" and looked at them in surprise, covering their lips: "Two customers, how did you damage the model in our store?"
"You have to pay for the damaged items according to the price," one of the ghost shop assistants squatted down and pulled out a sign from the wreckage: "This dress is worth 200,000, and the model is worth 300,000. You need to pay a total of 500,000 in cash or by swiping your wallet? If you don't have that much money, you can work to pay off the debt."
Xiao Feng understood: "You are scamming me!"
The ghost clerk frowned in grievance: "My dear customer, how can you wrongly accuse us? We have surveillance cameras in our store and we can check the surveillance at any time!"
Another ghost clerk pointed to the camera on the wall and added: "We saw with our own eyes that you pushed down the mannequin in the store and damaged the clothes. If you refuse to compensate, we will have to call security!"
Yueya looked at the camera. It was facing Xiaofeng's back, and it must have captured something that was beneficial to the store.
This store is so skilled at the fraud business that it is amazing.
"Compensation is equivalent to buying this model," Yueya put Feifei down and stepped on the severed hand in front of him: "Is it up to me to do with it?"
Fei Fei narrowed his eyes and slowly paced around the debris on the ground, sniffing from time to time.
The wreckage that pretended to be still felt threatened and began to tremble uncontrollably.
"Then I won't be polite." As soon as Yue Ya finished speaking, Fei Fei immediately bit the other severed hand. The black-skirted clerk who was trying to scam her couldn't pretend anymore and let out a scream. The debris on the ground fled at the speed of light as if it had legs.
The pile of debris fled far away and reassembled itself tremblingly. Without two hands, it looked more like a dummy showing off clothes.
Yue Ya said in a faint voice: "This model is fine, how is it damaged? Your surveillance cameras have recorded it, don't lie with your eyes open."
The ghost shop assistants were frightened by him and no longer had their previous momentum. They shrank back one by one, pushing each other, and finally pushed out the one in a white dress.
The white dress salesperson mustered up the courage to say, "The model's hand is broken! You broke it!"
Yueya picked up the arm and shook it towards the black-skirted salesperson: "Is this your arm? If so, come and take it back, or I can deliver it to you."
The ghost clerk in the black skirt shook her head frantically, not daring to admit that it was her hand.
Just kidding, either option is horrible!
"You saw it too, she said no," Yueya spread her hands and said to the cashier, "Pay the bill, swipe your hand."
The ghost clerk in the black skirt cried, "I have the employee price, I'll pay the bill, just give me your hands."
Yue Ya curved her eyes and said, "Then I'd better obey your command."
Fei Fei held the hand in his mouth and walked happily to the cashier counter: "Meow meow!"
Pay the bill meow!
Xiao Feng was amazed at what he saw, and all he could say was just one sentence: "Awesome!"
[The employee price has appeared again hahahaha, the staff are always changing, but the employee price is always the same. So, is their employee price super cheap?]
[Xiaofeng: Didn’t you ask me to use my special skills to pay for it? It seems like I can’t be used.]
[I really want to team up with the anchor to play games, this is so cool]
After completing the formalities, Yue Ya carried a bag of clothes and did not leave immediately: "Then let's talk about compensation now."
The ghost shop assistants all looked stiff and asked in unison: "What compensation?"
Yue Ya pointed at the blood stains on the shirt and said in distress: "My clothes were stained by your store, you should compensate me, right?"
The ghost shop assistants all showed shocked expressions at the same time.
It seems that this is the first time that a claim has been made.
Yue Ya explained everything to them clearly: "You don't have men's clothing in your store, so you have to pay compensation according to the market price."
Xiao Feng tugged at the clothes that were also stained: "Pay two pieces!"
Yue Ya saw two pairs of high heels on the display stand, which were the same color as the skirt he got. He changed his mind: "I can use these two pairs of shoes to pay off the debt."
The ghost shop assistants clenched their fists and gnashed their teeth, but they couldn't do anything to him.
This is not a scam, but a reasonable claim, so reasonable that they can't find any reason to refuse.
Several ghost shop assistants gathered together and discussed in a low voice. After a while, their faces were not so ugly anymore. The ghost shop assistant in the black skirt packed two pairs of shoes and personally handed them to Yue Ya: "We are very sorry for soiling the clothes of the two distinguished guests. To express our apology, we are giving these two pairs of shoes to you."
In order to avoid disputes, Yueya still asked them to issue invoices.
Before leaving, a ghost clerk stared at Yue Ya's face and said word by word: "This customer's figure, appearance and ability to deal with things are all top-notch. Our store is recruiting part-time workers. The salary and benefits are very good. If you need us, you can come and apply."
"I'll think about it."
Yueya carried a bunch of goods and left the store with Feifei and Xiaofeng.
Xiao Feng was still amazed: "I never thought that I could buy things from ghosts in this way. I really learned something new!"
They bought two sets of clothes without spending a penny and also got two pairs of shoes for free. They didn't even have to go to the shoe store, which saved them a lot of time.
Yue Ya originally wanted to use Xiao Feng's skills to buy clothes as planned, but the ghost clerk insisted on giving them to him, so how could he refuse?
After Xiao Feng was excited, he felt a little ashamed: "But now not only have I not paid off my debt, I also owe you more money. I am such a loser."
Yue Ya didn't care: "I still need a wig. The wig shop is on the second floor. If you don't want to go that way, we can separate here."
"I still need two more hats, which are on the way." Xiao Feng frowned after saying this. "The list says I want to buy two identical hats. I don't understand why the hats are the only ones I want in duplicate and why they also require the same style."
Yueya: "Your customers may have two heads."
"That makes sense..." Xiao Feng understood after a while and said with a pale face: "Huh?"
It feels like a picture!
Yue Ya found that Fei Fei was breathing heavily. He carefully felt around and heard the strange sound mixed in with the footsteps again. This time the sound was more obvious.
Something was following them.
Yueya stopped and looked back, but there was still no one behind her.
He looked towards the entrance of the "Zero" clothing store. The corpses in the transparent geometric bodies had turned back into plaster, and the blood that was spreading randomly had disappeared, making it look a little less eerie.
But the model in red who was holding hands was gone.
Yueya understood why those weird shop assistants changed their attitude towards him. It turned out they had a back-up plan.
Yueya thought, if she wants to follow, then she can follow. It can be used as a wallet and cat food at the same time, so it’s very cost-effective.
[Yuezi showed a "funny" look, what is he planning?]
[Sisters, the pair of mannequins in the clothing store are missing! Did they follow us secretly?]
[Then I know what the host is planning]
[Other players being followed by ghosts: scared! The anchor being followed by ghosts: cat food! wallet!]
Yue Ya came to the escalator, which was still deserted. There was only one person on the escalator. This person was wearing black clothes and standing on the downward escalator with his back to the first floor. He looked a little weird.
Isn’t this man in black alive?
Yue Ya narrowed her eyes. She did not find a sign near the escalator, but she heard the elevator's safety warning sound.
"Please stand firmly and take good care of the elderly and children around you."
Understood, Yueya stepped onto the elevator, held onto the handrail, and specifically told Xiaofeng: "Stand well and hold on firmly."
"This is the safety requirement for taking the elevator, right?" Xiaofeng was very smart and held the handrail after getting on the elevator.
The elevator went up slowly, and Yue Ya passed by the man in black next door. He suddenly had an idea and looked back, but he could still only see the back of the man in black!
Yue Ya withdrew his gaze and saw a figure in black clothes in front of him, only three or four steps away from him.
Hiss...his scalp really tingled this time.
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