The air is stagnant.
Except for the initial discussion, everyone was watching the scene in front of them quietly and in disbelief for the rest of the time.
Even the extremely boastful store manager just looked at Anxi and the others with a smile without saying a word.
"Are we... still going to buy mobile phones?" Shen Yunjia took a step forward and carefully broke the awkward silence.
"go!"
Anxi immediately squatted down and got out of the space under her arms.
She moved quickly and ran to the door of the store in a flash. Shen Yunjia was stunned for a moment and quickly followed.
"Take me one!" Seeing that he was left behind, Zheng Jia quickly ran to catch up with the two of them.
Wu was left behind, so he didn't say anything, and walked gracefully behind the three of them.
Anxi knew that she couldn't get rid of him, so she could only treat him as air and try not to look at him.
"Welcome everyone to come again next time."
When they pushed out the door, the store manager took off his hat and put it on his chest and bowed deeply to them.
…
…
After coming out of the store.
It was still daytime outside and they had only been in the game for about three hours.
Follow the store manager's instructions.
After they went out, they kept walking straight along the road.
Along the way, they saw many strange ghosts. When they found them, the ghosts grinned and wanted to pounce on them.
But after looking into the golden eyes behind them, they all shrank back like deflated balloons.
This ghost named "Wu" has an unusual identity and ability.
An Qian had a deep impression of this when she was working in a restaurant, but she didn't expect that every one of the ghosts he encountered along the way would be scared and run away.
"Here we are."
Shen Yunjia pointed at the shop sign and patted An Qian.
An Qian broke away from her thoughts and raised her eyes to look in the direction pointed by Shen Yunjia.
The store's sign has faded, showing white spots on the underlying floor. The glass door of the front entrance is covered with various posters, one on top of the other. It seems that the shop owner was too lazy to clean up and get the new ones, so he just put them up without taking off the old ones.
What is written on the poster are all mobile phone plans, which are roughly how many ghost coins a month, including how many gigabytes of data traffic.
"It's quite convenient. You can even apply for a mobile phone card directly. I didn't have to choose when I bought a mobile phone. I just used whatever mobile phone card he gave me."
Zheng Jia raised his head and read the package contents on the poster carefully. He took out his mobile phone and clicked on it, thinking about whether to change the package. After all, there was no Wi-Fi in the community.
Anxi pushed him: "Let's go in first and talk later."
"Oh." Zheng Jia came to his senses, pushed open the glass door and walked in first.
Just opened the door.
There was a strong smell of smoke coming from the mobile phone store.
Anxi stood at the door and looked inside. The walls of the store are yellowed, and there are still some mildew stains in the dark corners of the walls. In the center of the store, there are several rows of glass cabinets covered with scratches and various fingerprints.
Behind the last row of cabinets, a middle-aged man wearing a washed-out white undershirt and colorful pants was sitting on a wooden chair watching TV programs with a fan.
"...Hello?" Shen Yunjia hesitated for a moment, then called the middle-aged man opposite.
"We want to buy a cell phone."
The middle-aged man had actually known for a long time that An Qian and the others had entered the store, but he didn't react much and didn't even look back. His eyes were glued to the TV and he shouted: "From left to right, there are one thousand ghost coins, three thousand ghost coins, and so on." You can just take a look at the ghost coins and the mobile phone with 5,000 ghost coins."
"If you want to apply for a card, remember to bring your ID card. It doesn't matter if you don't have an ID card. Just add money."
He spoke very crisply and clearly, and it seemed that he did this kind of thing all the time.
"Let's go and take a look first." An Qian walked towards the counter with one thousand ghost coins first.
Baigu Apartment did not get the ghost coin reward, and she spent a lot of money saved before living in the community. Now she only has less than 3,000 ghost coins left in her hand, and she has no extra money to buy high-quality goods.
Although it is said that the mobile phone costs one thousand ghost coins, the ones placed on the counter are all second-hand touch screen mobile phones that have been used at first glance, or are old mobile phones with oversized fonts.
This kind of mobile phone for the elderly can be bought for only two to three hundred in the real world, but here it is marked with a price tag of 799.
Shen Yunjia looked around at her cell phone and muttered: "The cell phones here seem a bit expensive."
"If it's too expensive, go somewhere else. The price is the same everywhere now. I'm already the cheapest here." The middle-aged man lit a cigarette and put it in his mouth, and started smoking it nonchalantly.
"All right."
Shen Yunjia nodded helplessly, then seriously leaned on the glass cabinet and picked it up.
She finally chose a large-screen mobile phone. Except for the paint on the phone case falling off a little, the rest was in good condition. It could be considered a treasure.
Anxi found an ordinary white touch screen machine placed in the corner. Although the model looked very old, it was brand new.
"Your one is 799, and your brand new one is 999." The middle-aged man quoted the price, and An Qian and Shen Yunjia paid.
After collecting the money, the middle-aged man took out a leaflet and placed it on the table: "It depends on which package you choose. The mobile phone number cannot be chosen randomly."
"Then let's take the cheapest one with 20 ghost coins." An Qian pointed to the flyer. You have to save money here. After all, you can only earn ghost coins by clearing dungeons, and the source of money is very unstable.
Shen Yunjia also quickly followed: "I choose this too."
"Okay, wait."
The middle-aged man put the flyer back, turned around and entered the house.
After waiting for a while, he walked out with two mobile phone cards in his hand and photographed them directly on the glass counter.
"Take it away."
After the matter was done, the middle-aged man sat back in front of the TV and smoked a cigarette, too lazy to look at Anxi and his party again.
"Wait a minute, can I change the package?" Zheng Jia came out from behind and held up his mobile phone to show it to the middle-aged man.
The middle-aged man clicked his tongue impatiently: "Why didn't you tell me earlier?"
Zheng Jia shrank his neck and said in a low voice: "...I'm sorry, I want to be like them."
"I can only change your mobile phone card directly, do you want it?"
"want!"
Listening to Zheng Jia's angry answer, the middle-aged man rolled his eyes, stood up and walked into the house again. Soon, he took out a phone card similar to Anxi's and slapped it on the table.
"Hurry up and leave." The middle-aged man pointed at the door angrily.
An Qian and Shen Yunjia looked at each other and dragged Zheng Jia away.
A group of people were walking on the way to the bus stop.
No one spoke during this journey, perhaps because everyone had a similar feeling in their hearts.
The store is quirky yet ordinary.
Weirdness means that in this foggy city full of ghosts, this middle-aged man and his shop look so ordinary. In contrast, the so-called normality does not refer to the normality in Fog City, but reminds Anxi of the feeling when she was still in real life.
