Zhuang Liang had a feeling that Lu Yao had already come out of the game.
If the post on the forum is true, the only person he could think of who was the black ring, the new player, and the girl was Lu Yao.
Zhuang Liang took Qi Jue and drove to the abandoned commercial street on the outskirts of the city. He knew the address of the house where Lu Yao rented, but he had a hunch that Lu Yao was still in the snack bar.
He was unable to calm down, and on the way he told Qi Jue about the strange things about Lu Yao.
After hearing this, Qi Jue said calmly, "I don't know what secrets she has, but you will really be arrested for doing this."
Zhuang Liang: "…Aren't you curious at all? I checked. The average daily expenditure of that snack bar is over 5,000 yuan, and sometimes it can be double or triple. But I have never seen any customers patronizing it. Where did all those things go? Her shop looks so small, can it store so many things? And her life span, someone who has never entered the game, has a life span of 2,000 years, is this reasonable?"
Qi Jue raised his hand and rubbed his brows, "If you're curious, just ask me directly, why are you angry with me?"
Zhuang Liang: "…Will she tell me if I ask her?"
Qi Jue: "How do you know if she will tell you if you don't ask?"
Zhuang Liang: "I came to look for her once before, but I was stopped just as I was about to start."
Qi Jue: “…”
Zhuang Liang: "Why don't you talk?"
Qi Jue: "You must have said something rude, right?"
Zhuang Liang: “…”
There is no point in talking if you don't agree. Zhuang Liang felt that Qi Jue and his brother Qi Chen had very different personalities and he didn't understand him at all.
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In the snack bar, Lu Yao was making a menu. He had to prepare something decent as he was going to receive the demon in three days.
[Luyao Snack Shop is famous in Huangquan Township and is loved by customers. It has gained one million popularity points and upgraded to a six-star store. The reward is a free store upgrade, 3 new employees, and the owner can freely add menus.]
Lu Yao was pleasantly surprised that he could finally freely choose the menu.
Because there was not enough space on the menu and there were too many new categories, later on, things like coffee, desserts, and noodles could not be subdivided and could only be named in general terms.
She always felt it was not good and it took a lot of time for customers to place their orders.
Tomorrow she will make a new menu, classifying all the food and drinks in the snack bar and putting one for each table on each floor.
It is indeed time to hire new clerks, as Qi Chen cannot handle the second floor alone.
Lu Yao: "Help me post a job ad. Free store upgrade means I don't have to spend popularity points this time?"
The system gave a positive answer.
Lu Yao touched his chin and said, "Okay, I'll draw the blueprint for you later and upgrade it tonight."
The shop assistants have already gone off work, the ordered goods have been put into the store, and the snack bar upgrade drawings have been submitted to the system.
After dealing with these things, Lu Yao prepared to return to his residence.
She put on her bag, opened the door, and saw Qi Jue raising his hand to knock on the door. She paused and asked, "Why are you here again?"
Qi Jue is much taller than Lu Yao and can easily see the internal structure of the snack bar.
At first glance, it looks like a simple and clean shop, even the kitchen is open.
But he also felt the discomfort that Zhuang Liang mentioned. He inexplicably felt dangerous and absolutely did not want to step in.
Zhuang Liang poked his head out from behind Qi Jue, trying to hide the surprise in his eyes: "You're really back. We've been waiting for you in the teahouse, why didn't you come back there?"
They seemed to have been waiting for a long time, so Lu Yao couldn't keep his face cold. After talking with Qi Chen, Lu Yao had a better impression of Qi Jue, so he said, "I've been out for a long time, from somewhere else. Thank you for your concern."
Zhuang Liang wanted to know if she was the novice player mentioned in the post, so he asked cautiously, "How do you feel when you enter the game for the first time?"
Lu Yao raised her hand and waved outside. The two of them stepped back a little. She walked out, turned around and locked the door, repeating what she had said to Qi Chen that afternoon: "There is blood and body parts everywhere, and internal organs are spilling on the ground. The floor is sticky with blood and is very easy to slip on. It hurts so much if you fall."
Zhuang Liang was speechless: "..."
It was confirmed that she must be the novice player who fell to the ground and was helped away by the NPC.
The green sticker turned out to be real. Even though he was mentally prepared, Zhuang Liang still found it ridiculous.
Lu Yao: "If there is nothing else, I'm going home."
Zhuang Liang stood where he was, not having the courage to chase after him.
Confirming that Lu Yao was the novice player who could make the NPCs of the Black Ring world bow down, many ideas emerged in his mind. Combined with the black ring with unlimited uses, there must be some connection between the two.
Is she from that world
No matter what the truth is, the only thing Zhuang Liang is sure of is that Lu Yao is not someone they can afford to mess with.
He no longer had any interest in why Lu Yao opened a store on this old and run-down street, or where all the food he purchased in large quantities had gone.
Qi Jue took a step forward: "Wait a moment."
Zhuang Liang stared: "??? Why did you provoke her? Let her go."
Lu Yao turned around: "Anything else?"
Qi Jue pointed to the store behind him and said, "I want to know why you want to open a snack bar here? Can you make money? Do customers really come here?"
Lu Yao: "I am happy to do this. I don't make any money, but I have customers. Is that ok?"
Qi Jue nodded blankly.
The girl is not very old, but she is quite cool.
Hearing the words "there are guests", Zhuang Liang became even more horrified. He waited until Lu Yao disappeared at the intersection before he dared to breathe normally.
Qi Jue looked back, with some confusion in his eyes.
Zhuang Liang was confused: "What's wrong?"
"The snack bar is gone." Qi Jue said.
Zhuang Liang looked back, but saw nothing. His legs suddenly went weak. "Fuck it! Fuck it! Go away! I was wrong! I won't come here again."
After Lu Yao left the snack bar, the "witch's veil" concealed the location of the snack bar.
But Zhuang Liang didn't know all this. He fell seriously ill when he returned home, and disappeared for a long time, closing the door to visitors.
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The next day, Lu Yao came to the store with a Polaroid camera hanging around his neck and a jar of pickles.
The clerks and customers were all amazed. Overnight, the snack bar was expanded by another floor, becoming a beautiful three-story blue building. The huge blue sign above the door became even more eye-catching.
Lu Yao opened the store door and asked the clerk to come in first, and the customers lined up at the door.
Xingzi came in and asked, "Why is there another floor? What are they selling this time?"
Xiao Qie and Qi Chen looked at Lu Yao expectantly. Quan Shengju said nothing, but his eyes were full of curiosity.
Bai Ming leaned aside, looking out the window, seeming to be worried about something.
Lu Yao shook his head: "It just so happens that there is an opportunity, so I will expand it first. I haven't decided what to do yet. I will consider it after I recruit new employees and finish the banquet for the Demon God."
Except for Xiaoqie who knew about it in advance, everyone else instantly forgot what they were talking about and crowded in front of Lu Yao in shock: "Master Demon is coming to the restaurant to eat?"
Xingzi held her head in her hands and said in disbelief, "The Demon God has been missing for nearly a hundred years. Even the guards don't know where He is. He actually wants to come to the restaurant to eat? No, we must prepare well."
Qi Chen squatted on the ground, his face full of fear: "Demon God, can it be that one? The one who punishes players for violating the rules of the paradise?"
He has a deep psychological trauma. When he lost the game, he seemed to have seen Him, but he couldn't remember it.
Lu Yao glanced at Bai Ming, but still couldn't connect the young man in front of him, who was as handsome as if he had walked out of a comic book, with the black-haired and black-eyed young man Bai Ming in the illusion.
Is it possible that a person’s appearance changes so much after they die
After a while of noise, the shop resumed normal business.
The shop assistants each performed their duties, and Lu Yao was preparing new menus in the kitchen.
She took some time to make all the food on the menu by herself, including the coffee and desserts on the second floor, and then took photos of them one by one.
Then paste the photos on the notebook provided by the system, and simply divide them into snacks, pasta, drinks and desserts. The thick menu has pictures and text, which is very convenient to use.
This one is the snack bar's main menu, and the menus placed on the table for customers to take are copies of it.
As long as Lu Yao added new dishes and pictures to the main menu, they would all be added to the copy immediately without her having to worry too much.
Three days passed in a blink of an eye. In order to welcome the Demon Lord, the snack bar hung up a closing sign half a day in advance.
Lu Yao was busy in the kitchen, and several shop assistants were watching nervously on the side. Thinking that the Demon God was coming, they didn't know where to put their hands.
In the evening, the temperature suddenly dropped. The shop assistants didn't feel it, but Lu Yao touched his arm and felt cold.
At this time, there was a knock on the door. Xingzi and Xiaoqie both responded, and Lu Yao knew that it was the door to this world.
She wiped her hands and walked to the door. "Who is it?"
"It's me." An old and familiar voice.
Lu Yao opened the door and the person standing outside was the devil.
There was only a skeleton left inside the demon, his armor loosely attached to his body and a tattered cloak.
As He walked, His bones stretched out as if they would fall apart at any moment.
Lu Yao was shocked by what he saw, but not very scared.
When the devil came in, Xingzi, Xiaoqie and other residents of the Land of Dreams bowed their heads and saluted the devil.
Except Lu Yao and Bai Ming.
The demon god looked at Bai Ming and laughed, "How dare the evil demon possess my people?"
Lu Yao tilted his head and saw something peeling off Bai Ming's body.
The young man with silver hair and red eyes separated from Bai Ming like a transparent phantom, and Bai Ming became the person that Lu Yao had seen in the illusion.
A sixteen-year-old boy with black hair and black eyes.
The peeled-off phantom, still maintaining its handsome appearance of silver hair and red eyes, looked deeply at Lu Yao before gradually disappearing.
Was Bai Ming being leaned over by something
Later, for a long time, an incredible joke circulated in the snack bar.
Xiao Qie always tells customers with great interest: "Let me tell you a joke. There is a clerk in our store who is strong enough to participate in the guard selection, but he was possessed by a ghost for more than a month and he didn't notice it at all. If it wasn't for the demon god coming to the store that day... A ghost is possessed by a ghost, hahahahaha, I can laugh for ten years."
Every time Bai Ming wished he could find a hole in the ground to crawl into.
According to him, he was conscious during that time and was not controlled. But he also didn't remember the change in his appearance, and didn't know why that thing attached itself to him.
Come to think of it, he was already being leaned over when the captain of the guard found him, and even the captain of the guard didn't notice anything was wrong.
Bai Ming’s matter was naturally surprising, but what was more important at the moment was to receive the Lord Demon.
Everyone quickly adjusted their mood and got busy.
Lu Yao led the demon to sit by the window.
The night outside the window is silent, and the lights on the other side of the river are reflected obliquely in the water, sparkling, quiet and beautiful.
The demon turned his head and looked for a while, and noticed the row of succulents on the windowsill. They were fleshy and round, and very cute.
He moved his fingertips slightly without extending his finger, and a row of succulents quickly shrank and turned black, turning into a handful of ash and falling on the tiles.
Lu Yao came out with a plate of food and saw this scene. The power of the demon god was much more terrifying than that of the guard captain.
The demon turned his head, with only his bony knuckles left, helplessly facing each other, and he actually felt a little aggrieved: "I'm just a little curious."
He was just a skeleton, with two black holes in his eyes, and his teeth could be seen chattering when he spoke.
Lu Yao walked over and asked as he served the dishes, "Master Demon's illusion should be very powerful, right?"
The demon raised his chin proudly: "Of course."
Lu Yao said: "Then you can help me pick a few succulent plants and put them in there, and they will never die again."
The demon god hesitated for a long time looking at the empty flower pot, then turned his head and looked at Lu Yao with his empty eye sockets: "No matter how good the illusion is, it can't compare to the real thing. I still prefer the ones you planted."
As expected of a demon god, he is not tactful at all.
Lu Yao nodded: "Okay, it's not difficult. Break off a piece from the plant next to it tomorrow and plant it. It will soon grow roots. Your meal is ready, please enjoy."
The demon god was somewhat dissatisfied: "You let me eat alone?"
The willful tone of the lonely old man.
Lu Yao smiled and said, "Just treat it as an appetizer. Eat it first, and we'll have dinner together later."
The demon lowered his head and saw the table full of dishes. He sat in silence for a while and slowly picked up his chopsticks.