Guide to Running a Shop in Another World

Chapter 103: The third store

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Lu Yao put away the clues, hugged the two bones, turned around and walked towards the blind box shop.

The customers in the store looked at her and Harold behind her with fear in their eyes.

Whether it is a giant monster transformed into a human or a shop owner who can drive monsters, they are more terrifying than mutant beasts and mutant plants.

Lu Yao ignored the guest and went straight back to the laboratory.

When Ji Feiming saw Harold, his brain stopped thinking.

He knew that the clerks at the snack bar and the nail salon were monsters, but he didn't expect there were dragons.

This kind of evil creature that only appears in adventure stories actually exists and is his colleague.

Harold saw him and frowned in disdain, "Why are you so useless?"

Because I'm not a dragon.

Ji Feiming wanted to roll his eyes, but he held back.

Compared with dragons, human power is too small.

Even the gods he once served were not so outrageous.

After watching a big fight, the store was now in chaos and the owner went into the laboratory.

Ji Feiming couldn't enter the special space, so he had to ask Wei Xuan, Nie Yu, Xue Ge and Ling Lan to maintain order in the store and evacuate the customers.

Jiang Han ran to the square and found Chi Jin had indeed disappeared.

After living together for several years, he only found out today that Chi Jin was a mutant plant that had evolved into a complete form.

He stood there in a daze for a long time, then turned around and ran into the blind box store.

When I entered the store, I found Xi Tingran was also there. There were several people standing at the door of the blind box store office, and they all seemed to be looking for the owner.

After a while, Jiang Shanrun came out and saw several people standing at the door, almost all of whom were influential people in the nearby base.

He remembered Lu Yao's instructions before entering the laboratory, and said, "I know you have a lot of questions. The owner is busy with an important experiment, which will take about three days. Go back today."

After seeing the mutant animals and plants fighting and the giant dragon, the leaders of the base also mustered up the courage to look for Lu Yao.

Being rejected at this time, I didn't dare to ask more.

Changming Base is familiar with the store owner, and some people have already entered the blind box store's research laboratory. Making friends with the store owner is the right choice.

Most people followed the advice and left, planning to come back in three days.

Jiang Han took a step forward, "Grandpa, what's wrong with the owner?"

Xi Tingran had already turned around, but stopped when he heard Jiang Han's question.

Jiang Shanrun shook his head: "Nothing. Maybe he has some new ideas and is experimenting."

Jiang Han nodded, temporarily put aside his doubts about Chi Jin, and prepared to return to the base.

What happened today was too sudden and he needed to slow down.

Turning around and seeing Xi Tingran, Jiang Han nodded casually without intending to say anything.

Xi Tingran took the initiative to call him, "Let's go out and talk?"

Jiang Han was stunned: "What are you talking about?"

"Go out first." Xi Tingran hooked Jiang Han's shoulders.

-

In the laboratory.

Lu Yao constructed a magic circle as quickly as possible and began the experiment immediately.

She spent her popularity points and exchanged them with the system for a pair of experimental mice.

After repeatedly modifying the data and conducting dozens of experiments, they successfully extracted the absorbed crystal core energy liquid from the mice.

The superpowers in the world of Impermanence enhance their superpowers by absorbing the energy of crystal cores. The little white mouse did not die after being injected with the energy liquid, so Lu Yao decided to try it out himself.

The crystal core energy liquid contains huge energy. Once it enters the body, the internal organs and blood vessels seem to be burned, almost suffocating.

She lay on a bed covered with magic circles for four hours. The energy liquid that had seeped into her internal organs and blood was gradually released from her body under the stimulation of magic.

Lu Yao was sweating all over, staring blankly at the ceiling, and said in a hoarse voice: "Do you think this method can remove the compass fragments?"

There was no one else in the laboratory. The system was silent for a while, and then whispered: [Even if the method is useful, the mission in this world has already ended.]

"Yeah. I wish I had thought of it earlier." Lu Yao put his elbow across his eyes, "What time is it?"

System: [Thirty-four hours and twenty-three minutes have passed since you entered the laboratory.]

"It's only been over a day, but it feels like a long time has passed." Lu Yao said in a low voice. He climbed up by supporting himself on the bed, found some clean clothes, walked into the bathroom, and started running hot water.

The system rarely started to talk: [You didn't eat, drink, or sleep, and you didn't drink any recovery potions, and you even did experiments yourself. Currently, all the values of your body have dropped to the lowest level. Take a shower, eat something, and go to rest. ]

"Yeah." Lu Yao responded casually. He didn't have much appetite to eat. After taking a shower, he fell asleep on the lounge chair.

After an unknown amount of time, she felt hungry and woke up in a daze.

The store was surprisingly quiet. Mr. Jiang was not in the laboratory, and Xue Ge and Ling Lan, who often watched TV series together during breaks, were not there either.

Lu Yao pushed open the door of the backstage space, and there was no one in the blind box shop.

There were no customers and the clerk was not there.

There were only rows of machines and shelves full of blind boxes. The display screen hanging on the wall played homemade blind box advertisements, and the sound was particularly harsh.

It seemed like she was the only one left in the whole store.

Lu Yao felt a little alert, but then he relaxed, as if there was nothing to be wary of.

She pushed open the shop door, and the scene outside made her pupils constrict and her heartbeat suddenly quicken.

Is this a world of impermanence? Is she dreaming

The world is covered with yellow earth and dead bones, and it looks desolate.

Lu Yao wanted to tap the system to ask, but the system seemed to have disappeared and there was no response.

There was a loud rumbling sound of rocks collapsing outside. Lu Yao stood on tiptoe to look, but could see nothing.

After a while, the noise in the distance became louder and louder.

Unable to contact the system and unable to open the portable warehouse, Lu Yao walked directly out of the blind box store.

What needs to be done must be done immediately, opportunities are fleeting.

She followed the sound and walked for a long way without meeting anyone on the way until she saw two figures fighting.

To be more precise, they are giant mutant beasts and mutant plants fighting each other.

Lu Yao stood in the distance and watched for a while, his expression gradually becoming strange.

The mutant tiger in the fight looked very much like the Beast King that fought with Chi Jin in the blind box store a few days ago.

After he transformed into a beast, he had a tuft of white hair on his head, making him very easy to recognize.

However, this mutant tiger was much larger than the Beast King, and the one fighting with him was a mutant white hibiscus.

Lu Yao made a tentative sound. The beast and the flower were fighting fiercely, leaving no room for others to intervene.

She picked up a thin branch from the ground and pushed it slowly over.

Before he could get close, the mutant Hibiscus suddenly fell to the ground, and blue blood splattered all over the ground.

The mutant tiger didn't care and pounced on it and started to eat it.

After eating a few bites, the tiger's face suddenly changed and he rolled on the ground in pain. After he recovered, he bent over and continued to eat.

The whole process lasted for more than ten minutes. In the end, the mutant tiger became stiff, fell to the ground, and foamed at the mouth.

Lu Yao ran over to check the situation, but his fingers went straight through the mutant tiger's body.

They seemed like shadows that she couldn't touch.

When she came back to her senses, the mutant beasts and plants that had just made a mess on the ground had disappeared, leaving behind two almost completed pieces of compass fragments.

The opposite of what she was experiencing.

Here, the Beast King killed the Flower King, and the compass fragment in his body was almost twice as large as the one dropped by the mutant white hibiscus.

It was just a beast and a flower, and they both died.

The compass fragments were scattered on the ground, visible but not tangible.

A mournful cry was heard from the front. Lu Yao picked up the twig again and walked forward.

I don't know how long I walked, but the scenery around me changed and only a bare expanse of yellow sand was left.

The young man knelt in front of the broken compass, crying bitterly.

Lu Yao walked over and stretched out his hand, but as expected, he couldn't touch him.

She simply sat down next to him and waited to see what would happen next.

The boy cried day and night without stopping.

It's just that in this world, no one cares.

After a long, long time, Lu Yao finally got tired of sitting there and stood up to leave, but someone came.

The young man with silver hair and red eyes walked closer, took a look at the broken compass on the ground, and said in a cold tone: "Your crying is really ugly. How dare you call yourself a god like this?"

The young god raised his head, his eyes were red and swollen, and his voice was hoarse, "My world is dead. Order collapsed, humans were slaughtered by the beasts, and there are no more living people in this world."

The silver-haired young man uttered a "tsk" and said calmly: "Isn't this the equality of all beings that you pursue?"

The young god's ears and eyes turned red. He wanted to refute, but he couldn't speak. Finally, he asked in a stammering voice, "What are you doing here?"

The silver-haired young man took out two bones from his black robe and said, "Let's make a deal."

The young god agreed to help hide the bones in exchange for reviving the world of impermanence.

The silver-haired young man frowned: "No, change another one."

Young God: "Why? This is my only wish."

The silver-haired young man said calmly: "I only kill, I don't save the dead. It's useless to pray to me."

The young god reacted. He had been sad for too long and almost forgot the special physique of the person in front of him. "Then... before the end of the world comes, help me kill the Beast King and the Flower King."

If you can't revive the world directly, destroy one of the links.

Without the Beast King and the Flower King, humans might not be doomed.

The silver-haired young man sneered but didn't say much. He waved his hand and turned away: "Hide the bones for me."

Lu Yao stared at the silver-haired young man's departing figure, stood up silently, and followed him.

This place feels like a dream, but also like the memory of a god in the world of impermanence. There is no need to worry about being discovered.

The world has collapsed and God is no longer God.

If you want to redirect the world, you have to start from the moment God made a mistake.

The second round begins, the balance compass is shattered into pieces, and the day of impermanence is coming.

The desolate world began to change, gradually becoming what Lu Yao was familiar with.

The silver-haired young man traveled around the world and met a mutant white hibiscus beside a swamp. The mutated white hibiscus had not yet grown into a flower king but had already collected some fragments.

He shattered the white hibiscus, took away the compass fragments, and a piece of bone that accidentally fell out.

At that moment, Lu Yao clearly saw a hint of depression in the young man's eyes.

Perhaps he had not expected that the young god would hide his important bones so perfunctorily.

The young man put away the bones, changed his name to Chi Jin, sneaked into the human base, and became a researcher studying mutant plants.

A few years later, Chi Jin was out looking for compass fragments and met the young Beast King.

A flower and a beast fought for the compass fragment.

Chi Jin beat the Beast King to the bottom of the cliff and fell into a coma. He was rescued and brought back to the base by Jiang Shanrun.

After that, he stayed in Changming Base.

Lu Yao came out of the Changming base and walked slowly towards the blind box shop.

A white mist filled my eyes and I couldn't see anything clearly.

She lowered her head and rubbed her eyes. When she opened them again, she was back in the blind box shop, as if she had never left.

Lu Yao sat up from the chair, as if he had just had a dream.

There is a compass on the table out of nowhere

This is... the equilibrium compass. Didn't it disappear after it was repaired

System: [He seemed to want to stay in the store, so he came back on his own.]

Lu Yao: “…”

So she just saw the memory of the balanced compass

The Impermanence World has been destroyed once, this is the second round.

That young man with red eyes was clearly the strange ghost that possessed Bai Ming in the snack bar.

It seems that the silver-haired young man that Xiao Heilong said his mother met should be him.

Why did he keep hiding the bones

Lu Yao couldn't understand.

But he said they would meet again next time, which means he was not dead.

System: […He has another sentence after that, that’s the key point!]

Lu Yao stood up and went outside, wanting to take a look at the impermanent world now.

The compass of balance has been repaired and impermanence no longer comes.

The residents of this world have not noticed yet and go to the blind box store to exchange supplies as usual every day.

Perhaps because of the deaths of the Flower Emperor and the Beast King, the Balance Compass was recovered, and the power of evolution was lost, and the mutated animals and plants began to become normal.

The mutant beasts became smaller in size and their strength was about the same as that of normal beasts. Their original crystal core hearts turned back into flesh and blood, but their "hmms" evolved into crystal core blocks.

Except for special individuals like Lily of the Valley and Snow Song that have evolved consciousness, most mutated plants have degenerated into appearances similar to ordinary plants.

It’s just that after they bloom, the fruits they produce are crystal cores of different colors.

People no longer had to hunt mutant animals and plants, and began to rely on picking up the "humms" of mutant beasts and planting mutant flowers and plants to obtain crystal cores.

The little alien tiger cub has been guarding the place where the beast king died and is unwilling to leave.

Lu Yao looked at it for a few days, sighed, slowly walked over, and sat down beside it.

The tiger cub tilted its head to look at her and made a "wool" sound, as if asking a question.

Lu Yao hugged his calf and looked into the distance. "A few kittens have come to my house recently. They are not very obedient. We need a dignified and serious teacher to teach them hunting skills. Do you want to try?"

She knew he could understand.

The tiger cub stared at Lu Yao with his round eyes and tilted his head without moving.

Lu Yao thought he was unwilling, so he reached out his hand tentatively and stroked its soft fur.

The tiger cub did not hide. Instead, he habitually stuck out his tongue and licked her fingers lightly, but did not respond.

Lu Yao didn't force him. He played with him for a while, then stood up and prepared to go back to the store.

The tiger cub let out a "wool" and followed in small steps.

He didn't know where else to go, so by staying here, at least he could continue to look after his father.

-

As time went by, residents of the nearby bases noticed that the Day of Impermanence had disappeared, but the problems of soil and water pollution remained unsolved.

The world is still broken.

At this time, the blind box store launched a new series of crystal core energy, including crystal core nutrient solution that can purify soil, plant crystal core powder that purifies water, special seeds with extremely short growth cycles, planting tools...

After finishing the new blind box launch, Lu Yao contacted several persons in charge of nearby bases.

After the exchange, the bases began to communicate and cooperate and prepare to plant crops in different areas.

After Zhong Ruying recovered, he found Lu Yao and took the initiative to express his desire to stay in the blind box store's laboratory.

The blind box store has become lively, and the store staff include humans, alien plants and animals, as well as people from other worlds.

In this world, everything will start from scratch.

-

The owner has been staying in the blind box store for many days and has been reluctant to move on to the next world.

The system was patient for many days, and finally couldn't help asking: [When do you plan to open the fourth store? ]

"How about today?" Lu Yao looked at the time and it was almost time.

The system is happy: [The clue is "Drowning in the Sea", what kind of store do you want to open? ]

This time the clues seem concrete, but are actually abstract.

Based on previous experiences, the system is no longer willing to proactively make suggestions.

Lu Yao: "It's time for the kittens in the store to earn their own money for milk powder."

System: […Huh?]