Chapter 6 Chapter 6 404 Convenience Store 6
"What are you looking at? Hurry up and get to work in the back! You only have half an hour to unload the goods in this store. If you can't finish unloading, we'll pass it on to the next store!"
The big mouth of the head in front opened again, and its round eyes like car windows looked at Liang Ping and the bald man.
Liang Ping walked to the "cargo compartment" with his head held high. It seemed like another strange mouth. The convenience store was brightly lit, but the shipping port here was dark.
He gritted his teeth and went forward. There was a time limit for moving the goods, and he didn't know what the punishment would be if he couldn't complete it.
"Don't dawdle. One of us will go up to move it, and the other will receive it downstairs." The bald man said threateningly.
"I know." Liang Ping didn't waste any words. He had just shown off in front of everyone, and now he had to do it himself.
Although his scalp was tingling, he still climbed up the giant mouth. When he entered, he found that there seemed to be a faint light inside.
Under the dim white light, he saw boxes of packaged goods. The names of the goods were printed on the special cardboard boxes, including drinks, snacks, and various convenience store items.
Standing in this "cargo compartment", Liang Ping suddenly realized a problem. The delivery man had arrived, but he was the only player in the cargo compartment. There were no delivery staff, but he didn't know how much goods came from this convenience store!
Liang Ping looked at a few boxes and found some red words printed on them: "404 Convenience Store - Delivered to Ping'an Home Store".
He was certain that when he looked at the takeaway order earlier, he could see the name of the store, and their convenience store was the regional store of "Ping An Home".
Liang Ping had already rolled up his sleeves and started working. He estimated his strength, picked up two cardboard boxes and handed them out.
"Receiving the goods——"
The bald man stood outside the big mouth, keeping a close eye on the time, and immediately began to receive the goods. As he received the goods, he calculated in his mind.
The total time for receiving the goods and putting them into storage is half an hour. They finally reduced the time for receiving the goods to within 20 minutes. After that, all the goods had to be moved to the warehouse, and the system did not know how to put them into storage.
"Hurry up, if you get tired inside, let me take over." The bald man urged.
"I understand." Liang Ping said unhappily.
Wandering around in this strange body required him to constantly run back and forth, which was very physically demanding. Liang Ping felt a sticky tingle under his feet, whether it was a strange "mouth" or some other part. As he continued running, his shoes seemed to be stained with more secretions, making his steps increasingly difficult.
"Your physical strength is decreasing so quickly, let me take over." During another delivery, the bald man noticed that Liang Ping's speed had obviously slowed down.
"Don't use it for now, your feet will stick to it! The temperature is too high." Liang Ping didn't waste any words. The secretions in this "cargo compartment" were obviously going to slow down the speed of moving the goods, so he had to keep a person with good physical strength as a backup.
In this short while, Liang Ping was already sweating all over. He didn't notice it at first, but the temperature in this strange body seemed to be constantly rising, hot and sticky, making it difficult to breathe.
The two players here were speeding up to receive the goods. As it approached twelve o'clock, more customers came to the convenience store.
The peak of the night shift seemed to have arrived at this moment, and a group of teenagers came from nowhere and swarmed in, surrounding the cash register and the fresh food area.
Luo Qing couldn't help but yawn at this moment. No takeout had been delivered at this time.
It's strange. Is it because she hasn't worked in a convenience store for a few years that consumer habits have changed?
In the past, there were a lot of takeout orders around midnight, most of which were for late-night snacks.
However, Luo Qing thought again, their old community is mostly populated by elderly people and families of two, three, four, or five people. There are few single residents living alone. There are very few single otakus and housewives like the fat otaku in the old community, so it is normal to have few takeout orders at this time.
This is the consumption power of different groups, Luo Qing sighed in his heart.
Without a takeout order, if she sat there all the time, she would easily be caught by the surveillance camera and thought she was slacking off. Luo Qing pretended to stand up and first checked tonight's delivery order with the device. Seeing that her two colleagues in the convenience store were still busy, she stood at the door to watch the goods being moved.
Eh???
Luo Qing was suddenly stunned. Why were these two people moving things back and forth so clumsily?
What about the conveyor belt?
The delivery vehicles under the 404 Group have special conveyor belts. She had them when she worked part-time several years ago. It's not possible that after several years, the group's delivery vehicles have become old models, right?
The reason why Luo Qing doesn’t like to move goods is because the goods are very heavy. If he encounters a convenience store with stairs, he has to go in and out and up and down the stairs to move the goods, but he doesn’t need to do the step of taking the goods down from the car by himself!
She cleared her throat, walked down the steps, and prepared to ask the driver what was going on tonight.
Luo Qing just walked to the front of the car, and in the cool evening breeze, she saw the driver inside the car window puffing on a cigarette.
Luo Qing couldn't help but frowned, "Hey, Master, why isn't the conveyor belt in the cargo compartment running?"
The driver, who was puffing out a cigarette from the car window, suddenly put it out and said in surprise: "Huh? It's not on?"
The driver pressed a button at the driver's seat, and then Liang Ping and Baldy, who were moving goods, were "suddenly attacked".
Liang Ping, who was in the cargo compartment, felt his feet slip and he fell down instantly.
The sticky "cargo compartment floor" stuck to his body, and the surroundings suddenly seemed to surge, and his entire body, along with the cargo next to him, were swept up.
"It really isn't on. Oops, sorry, I didn't notice. I guess it's stuck and not responding."
"Well, it's fine as long as it's open. Our store is new, and if I'm not careful, it will be hard to move." Luo Qing shook his head.
It looks like the same old delivery truck. Occasionally, there are cases where the driver presses the machine but it doesn't work.
The two male colleagues were also doing this kind of moving work for the first time. Coming from other places, they didn't even know there were conveyor belts in the trucks. How much effort did it take to do this for half a day? Just imagine!
"sudden--"
The bald man who was standing in front of the strange big mouth waiting to receive the goods was suddenly startled by the changes in front of him.
Boxes of packaged goods were "spitted out" by the huge mouth in front of him. A deep red thing that looked like a tongue flashed before his eyes, and Liang Ping was also "spitted out"!
He was completely wet and sticky all over, and was covering his mouth and nose as if he was suffocating.
The next second, the strange giant mouth of the deliveryman suddenly closed and ran away in the blink of an eye.
"What's going on?" asked the bald man.
"I don't know either. I just turned around to move two more boxes of goods, and then it was like an earthquake in there, and I was swept out directly." Liang Ping replied.
The bald man looked at him with great suspicion, wondering if this guy had done something in there?
Liang Ping felt very aggrieved, "I really didn't do anything."
Don't think that he is the one who did all the bad things!
At this moment, the bald man saw Luo Qing coming out at some point, and she was standing exactly where the front head of the delivery ghost was just now.
Did she do it? Was she afraid she wouldn't have enough time? What did Luo Qing do to this strange thing?
Luo Qing also walked towards the two of them at this time. She pointed at the goods piled on the ground and quickly compared them with the delivery note she had written down.
"The goods are all ready, let's move them in."
She noticed the two people looking at her with puzzled eyes, "I just checked the delivery order in the system, and these are exactly it."
"There are still fifteen minutes left, hurry up." The bald man looked at the time and urged hurriedly. Now was not the time to ask detailed questions. The serious matter was to deliver the goods to the warehouse.
Luo Qing walked lightly back into the store and asked Nie Ke, "Xiao Ke, are you here for takeout?"
"No, Sister Luo Qing." Nie Ke replied.
Still no work, after thinking for a while, Luo Qing walked through the shelves.
"Okay, I'll go turn on the lights in the warehouse for them first."
After turning on the lights, Luo Qing dragged a small cart from the warehouse door to the convenience store door. Liang Ping and Baldy, who were moving goods in, immediately put four boxes of goods in.
"Where did this cart come from? That's great. One person can carry it up and the other can put it in." The bald man was naturally happy to save some effort.
"It's right next to the warehouse. I've turned on the lights inside. There's a machine in the warehouse for warehousing." Liang Ping's eyes flashed when he heard Luo Qing's words.
"I'll deliver it." He pushed the cart into the warehouse, and after entering, he found something similar to a barcode scanner.
Liang Ping scanned the four boxes of goods on the cart one by one, and immediately a message popped up saying "XXX goods have been successfully received!"
He quickly unloaded the goods and hurriedly pushed the cart back to the door. During this time, the bald man brought over six more boxes.
There are a total of thirty-two boxes of goods tonight, and fifteen minutes is enough to complete the warehousing. As soon as we finished moving the goods, it was already midnight.
"Ding—it's exactly midnight."
A mechanical system sounded in the convenience store. Liang Ping, who had just returned to the door, suddenly saw a child appear on the steps, which scared him.
It's as if it was refreshed in an instant.
Tonight's delivery and warehousing was completed without any problems. What the hell is this kid?!
The bald man obviously noticed at this moment that a small child suddenly came to the door. He was about five or six years old, wearing tattered clothes and was very thin.
"Little boy, where are you from? Where are your family members?" The bald man squatted down immediately.
"Uncle, I, I have nothing to eat. It's past midnight now. Can you give me some of that?"
The other players in the convenience store were confused and looked at each other. It was past the time, give me something, what was “that”?
Is this kid having trouble speaking clearly, or is he deliberately telling a riddle?!
Oh no, this is another trouble!
The night wind was howling, and suddenly it became stronger, mixed with indescribable noises and rustling sounds.
The bald man looked at the child with a puzzled look on his face: "What is that? What's your parents' phone number? Uncle will contact them for you."
"That's it." The child was about to cry eagerly.
"That's right, it's the things you don't want to sell."
Things we don’t want? Ren Shumei pondered. They were now convenience store employees. This kid was referring to things the convenience store didn’t want. According to the rules, that meant garbage, right?
No, that's not right. Are the unwanted items for sale expired or near-expiry items?!
None of them were stupid, and they all understood what the child said after listening to him.
Could this be a beggar, asking for food that had expired that day? But the rules didn't specify how to deal with expired or near-expiry goods! When Baldy was checking the dates on the goods, he noticed that those within two days of their expiration date were placed in a large, sealed box with a label.
The bald man did not make a decision on his own. He looked at the others. Luo Qing had gone to the bathroom at the moment.
"What do you say?"
Several people shook their heads. If it were in reality, they might have given it, but this was a copy, so it was better not to act rashly.
"What you want is not here." said the bald man.
"You're talking nonsense. You're talking nonsense!"
As soon as he heard it, the child started screaming.
"I saw it all, it's clearly there, right there, give it to me now!"
At this time, Liang Ping noticed that the child's eyes were fixed on a certain place in the convenience store.
What is he looking at?
Following the child's gaze, I saw that the little boy was looking at the shelf at the door, which was just an ordinary bread shelf!
"Look at the glass outside!" Ren Shumei shouted.
"Ah!!!" Nie Ke subconsciously covered his mouth.
At some point, a group of strange people appeared outside the glass wall of the convenience store and behind the little boy. There were men and women, old and young, all staring at the bread shelf at the door like the little boy.
The four players present looked over together and saw that it was just a shelf with bread on it!
"What are they looking at?"
"Is it something we can't see?"
Nie Ke's voice was soft, but at this moment, several people already had the answer in their hearts.
What these weirdos are staring at right now is probably the first rule in the "Convenience Store Employee Code of Conduct" - the invisible shelf!
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