Lu Yao asked the system: "What's going on with the alien race?"
The system was still bothered by the shop owner's comments about it being stupid and pretended not to hear.
Lu Yao changed the question: "How do you tell whether the store clerk you recruit is of a different race?"
The system cannot reject questions related to the task.
System: [… Spend 1,000 popularity points to redeem a special recruitment notice that is only visible to aliens. Do you want to redeem it? ]
"Yes." Lu Yao made a decisive choice.
There is a snack bar and a nail salon in front. Lu Yao can accept whether the clerks are human or not, but at least she has to know the employees' background.
The system couldn't help but ask: [The store owner doesn't seem to be worried about the risk of death at all? ]
Lu Yao: "If I'm worried, can I not hire employees of other races?"
System: [… No, this is the mission condition. The mission is invalid, and the store owner’s dream journey will end here.]
Lu Yao shrugged: "That's it."
There's no point in worrying, all you can do is rush forward.
[…]
The system was speechless. This unnecessary question added another piece of evidence of its "stupidity".
A special recruitment notice was posted at the door, and Lu Yao watched for a while.
She could see the job posting on the door. Normally, customers coming in and out would glance at it, but the customer didn't react at all.
The rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and water had begun to gather on the ground.
When you step down, the water is above your instep.
However, the blacklist system of the blind box store has its own defensive magic, and has already erected a thin and transparent protective barrier outside the store.
When the water flows to the blind box store, it automatically bypasses it as if it encountered some obstacle.
The sky was covered with thick, grey clouds, which were pressing down towards the ground, giving people a depressing feeling as if a rainstorm was about to come.
Lu Yao turned around and went back to the store. The winter limited blind boxes could be taken off the shelves and it was time to prepare new styles.
Ji Feiming had been observing Lu Yao, and seeing that she was about to walk into the black space that he couldn't enter, he called out to her.
Lu Yao turned around and saw him and asked casually: "What's wrong? Are you used to the work?"
Ji Feiming thought that going to work was almost like retirement. Pushing a cart to load and unload goods every day was even more intense than going to the gym on weekdays. What was there to be uncomfortable about
It’s just that the space he has to move around in is too small, and apart from delivering goods, the rest of the time is boring.
But Lu Yao said that he could go home after delivering the goods and didn’t have to stay in the store.
He was full of curiosity about the world outside the door. He envied the shop owner for being able to come and go as he pleased. However, he also had the job of monitoring the shop owner and was never willing to leave work early.
He already understood that he couldn't control Lu Yao, but he didn't care much anymore. He even began to look forward to where this street would lead to next time.
Ji Feiming shook his head, not intending to express his thoughts, and mentioned something that he was more concerned about: "Shopkeeper, what disease did the fat boy have? If you need a doctor, I can help contact him. I can contact the top doctors in various fields, and it is no problem for them to come to your home for consultation."
Lu Yao didn't expect him to mention this.
She didn't know anything about medicine, and originally planned to ask the clerk at the nail salon. At this time, she looked at Ji Feiming dimly and said, "If you come to see a doctor at home, you have to sign a confidentiality agreement. Are you sure there is a doctor willing to come to see you?"
Ji Feiming nodded: "If you need it, I can arrange it immediately."
Lu Yao was stunned for a moment. As expected of the former envoy of God, he had some connections.
She didn't agree right away, "I'll think about it."
-
Yao Yiyi and her group returned with food and daily necessities exchanged from the blind box shop, feeling a little excited.
There are few people in their base, and the supplies the five of them brought back included staple foods, ingredients, fruits and medicines, which are enough for emergency use.
Once the residents of the base have recovered some strength, they can organize some people to go to the blind box store to exchange supplies.
The rain was getting heavier on the road, and the ground was flooded. They held umbrellas and wore raincoats, walked out of the east district, and continued to head west.
They didn’t feel this way before, but this time after returning from the eastern area, they suddenly felt that the further west they went, the more desolate the scenery became.
When we first left the East District, we would occasionally encounter one or two small search teams, but after walking for half a day, we would see nothing.
Not only humans, but even mutant animals and plants seemed to have become extinct.
Yao Yiyi felt something was wrong. The rain came fast and heavily, hitting the umbrella with a loud and rapid sound.
The ground was full of mud and water, and the road was no longer visible.
She stopped and suggested, "It's raining too hard, let's find a place to take shelter first."
The others had no objections. They found a sheltered place under a huge rock and slowly moved forward through the mud.
Everyone hid under the rocks and waited for the rain to subside.
Yao Yiyi kept looking at the rain, feeling uneasy.
Suddenly, Wei Quan said, "Someone is coming."
Two figures appeared vaguely in the rain not far away.
The five members of the team immediately entered a state of alert.
The rain was so heavy that I couldn't see the people in the rain at all.
I saw that the two of them seemed to be supporting each other and walking very slowly.
A moment later, one person was left in the rain, while the other walked towards the direction where the search team was taking shelter.
Yao Yiyi's eyes were full of vigilance as she looked at the person who was getting closer and closer.
The speed and pace of the man walking alone in the rain were very strange, as if he appeared in front of him in the blink of an eye.
"Hello, my name is Xue Ge. May I ask if you are coming from the east?"
The young man stood in the rain, his hair and clothes soaked through by the rain, his black hair stuck to his face like algae.
Although he was in a very embarrassed state, his appearance was so delicate and his temperament was so special that he was eye-catching.
The boy wore fresh little flower earrings on his ears, and the bright purple flowers kept trembling under the heavy rain.
Yao Yiyi's eyes narrowed slightly, and she was more alert than before: "Yes. Are you coming from the west?"
Xue Ge nodded, lowered his eyes and saw the blind box placed at the innermost part of the stone wall, pointed at it and asked: "I'm looking for a place with that kind of box. Where did you get these boxes?"
Yao Yiyi: "We exchanged it at a store in the east area. Go east and find the Fairy Tale Square, and you will see the store."
"Thank you." Xue Ge got the information he wanted, turned around and walked in the direction of his companions. After taking two steps, he turned back and said kindly, "Don't go to the west. There's no one there anymore."
Yao Yiyi's expression changed, "Wait a minute, what do you mean?"
Xue Ge: "All bases in the west have been occupied by mutant beasts and turned into their nests. Soon, they will invade the east and continue to hunt humans."
Hunting humans
The faces of the five members of the team turned ugly.
Xue Ge said no more, turned around and walked into the rain, helped up his companion who was lying on the ground, turned around and walked north.
"Captain, what should we do?" Wei Quan asked, "Should we go back to the base?"
Li Xin frowned. "You believe him? We finally brought back so many supplies. We should at least go back to the base to take a look."
"But if what he said is true..."
Attacking multiple bases and hunting humans, this must be commanded by a high-level mutant beast.
If they go back rashly, it would be like delivering food.
Yao Yiyi looked solemn. The man just now gave her a very bad feeling.
The pair of earrings on his ears looked like fresh flowers, but no matter how hard the rain washed them, they remained neither deformed nor damaged.
She didn't know why she noticed this, it just felt strange.
And his last words implicitly confirmed her bad premonition.
Their base is small, there are not many people, and there are many elderly and weak people.
But because of this, everyone helps each other and struggles through one unpredictable event after another.
If it weren’t for the care of an older sister at the base, Yao Yiyi would not have survived this cold wave.
She looked down at the blind box on the ground and said decisively: "Go back and take a look."
-
On the fourth day after the cold wave ended, a new round of unpredictability began - floods.
The flood rose at night and Lu Yao was not in the store.
The blacklist’s built-in magic defense system automatically activates, and a spherical transparent barrier wraps the blind box store, making it float on the water.
When Lu Yao came to the store in the morning, he found muddy water spreading from the Fairy Tale Square to the main road outside.
As far as the eye can see, there is a sea of mud.
Wei Xuan and Nie Yu moved with all their belongings overnight and moved to the third floor of the shopping mall.
When they woke up in the morning, the first thing they did was lean on the railing to look around. They were surprised to see that the blind box store was floating on the water like a boat and was not flooded.
Then they spotted the owner standing in front of the store and they waved excitedly.
Trapped upstairs, unable to come down to work.
Lu Yao went back to the store, found a loudspeaker, and shouted across the air.
Under these circumstances, there probably won’t be many customers coming to the store, so we might as well give them a holiday.
Wait until the water level drops before coming back to work.
Wei Xuan and Nie Yu had stored food and a complete set of props powered by crystal core energy, so they had no problem with drinking water, food and keeping warm.
Luo Huian and Jiang Shanrun have been living in the laboratory recently, focusing on their research topics and not being affected.
Lu Yao had breakfast and pulled a chair to sit at the door.
As she expected, there were few customers.
Occasionally, mutant fish jump out of the water, and some fish crash into the protective barriers of the blind box store, as if launching an attack.
Lu Yao went back to the nail salon and bought a set of fishing tools. He then sat at the door and swung his fishing rod to pass the time.
When Ji Feiming delivered the goods, the area outside the store turned into a sea overnight, the storefront turned into a boat, and the owner was fishing out of boredom at the door.
What a broad mind.
He stood stiffly for a while, took out a book from his suit pocket, and sat down beside him.
A small wooden boat turned out from the back of Shenghong Building. Xue Ge squatted at the bow with a solemn expression on his face. His hands were not in the water. The boat went straight towards the blind box shop.
The companion was injured, weak and unconscious.
He had a poor sense of direction and took the wrong road, which took him several days to find the place.
It happened to be a flood season, so it took some time to build the ship.
Arriving at the door of the blind box store, Xue Ge saw Lu Yao fishing and frowned.
As soon as the fishing rod was thrown into the water, a stupid fish took the hook.
The young woman gathered the fishing line, swung the **crystal core knife, cut open the fish body, and the crystal core fell out.
"The number of mutant beasts in the east has decreased significantly. It turns out it's all thanks to you." Xue Ge stared at the crystal core sword in Lu Yao's hand with a mocking tone.
Lu Yao looked over and raised his eyebrows.
The boy is as beautiful as a flower, and wears purple flower earrings on his ears.
This temperament and appearance are too obvious.
She whispered to the system: "Is this it? It looks like a mutant plant. Is the flower on his ear the real one?"
System: [… Why were you able to guess it? ]
Lu Yao: "Just think about it and you'll know."
The three most powerful creatures in the world of impermanence are humans, mutant beasts, and mutant plants.
For other races other than humans, there are only these two considerations.
After the mutant rat advances, it can command other mutant animals to attack the base.
During the last transition period, mutated man-eating plants also appeared near the square.
Lu Yao noticed that there was another person on the boat, an adult woman wearing a white coat, with medium-length hair, closed eyes and a pale face.