Qin Zhilu said quietly: "What's wrong?"
On the day of the Lawful Ones meeting, An Yu hung the octopus sleeping doll to the mall recycling bin.
What he didn't expect was that the recycling bin was only open to buyers, and the system directly credited 9,099 points back to Qin Zhilu's account.
——It was the night before Qin Zhilu went on a mission. An Yu was practicing the auspicious words Zhu Tao taught his superiors to say before going out on duty. Qin Zhilu knocked on his door with the octopus in hand.
Unbearable to remember.
An Yu's eyes were distracted, "Zhu Tao said that once you accept someone else's heart, you promise to treasure it well. Therefore, it is impolite to transfer or return gifts."
"Um."
An Yu raised his head and looked at the ceiling of the bakery, "I'm sorry, Ling Qiu never taught me this."
Qin Zhilu's tone was calm, "Then how do you plan to remedy it?"
An Yu followed what Zhu Tao taught him, "I'm going to bake you a piece of bread with my own hands so that you can eat it when you come back from your mission, is that okay?"
Qin Zhilu did not comment, but his cold tone seemed to have finally softened a little, "The new store has opened, how is the business?"
An Yu was silent for a while.
"On the first day, we sold 50,000 yuan." He paused, "Only 50,000 yuan was sold in total."
He and Xu Shuangshuang were the only two people in the empty store.
Xu Shuangshuang had already broken the pot and was lying in a chair, applying a facial mask and playing with her mobile phone.
The business on the day the store opened was actually pretty good. The time-honored brand already had a lot of attention. Xu Shuangshuang's "Wasteland Style Bread" post on social media became a hit, and several types of bread were sold out early.
But then, the competitors and the convenience store cakes unanimously put up the slogan "Specially available in the main city". Before An Yu could figure out what was going on, the store's business slowed down. No one has come to the door since morning today.
"I'm trying someone else's bread." An Yu picked up another piece of crispy Napoleon, "Is it true that people in the main city can't live without butter?"
Qin Zhilu thought: "Butter, cream, cheese, these things are only supplied in the main city. People need something to always remind themselves that they are from the main city, not to bear high pressure for no reason, but to have the most generous resources in exchange." "
An Yu couldn't understand the people in the main city.
He hung up the phone and checked online. Now the only company in the world that produces these complex dairy products is the Huang Group. The boss is a man in his forties. Not only does his family have strong assets, he is also extremely prestigious. He allocates huge amounts of money every year. The money is used to provide relief to Baicheng and fund brain research.
The unified slogan "Special for Main City" was proposed by Huang. Because he is the supplier of raw materials, it quickly covered all dessert shops in the city.
Xu Shuangshuang put down her phone, "Do you know what we are like?"
An Yu said lifelessly: "What?"
"The loach that tried to shake the giant dragon. He just popped up from the earth, thinking he could be embraced tenderly by the world, but he was stepped back into the mud with the claws of the dragon." Xu Shuangshuang grabbed a loaf of corner signature bread and scanned the QR code to pay, " Since there’s no business anyway, I’ll apply for three days’ leave, is that okay?”
Although she complained, Xu Shuangshuang was the only "customer" now.
An Yu sighed, "Take a break. You can take as many days as you like."
Xu Shuangshuang smiled and clasped her hands at him, "Thank you, boss."
*
When Yan Xi came to take An Yu back to the minaret, An Yu was carefully putting the mixed Polish yeast into the refrigerator.
Yan Xi was surprised: "It will take several days for Lu to come back. Are you starting to do it now?"
"Maddie said Polish fermentation is a science and may fail several times."
An Yu said, using the terminal to set a 16-hour alarm clock.
When exiting, he accidentally glanced at his empty account and couldn't help but sigh.
After investing 55 million in Xu Shuangshuang, he started to worry about poverty again. He was so worried that he would click on the "Task Recruitment Hall" from time to time to take a look. Although he didn't want to risk his life to make money, looking at the reward points could satisfy his craving.
The wind and snow have been blowing recently, and the pace of task distribution in the recruitment hall is extremely fast. New tasks rarely stay for more than two hours. There is only one task that is stuck there like a nail in the door——
In the past few months, with District 84 as the center, 22 bait cities have reported thousands of missing persons. After preliminary investigation by drone, those bait cities only had very weak abnormal frequencies intermittently, but no aberrant creatures were detected. This phenomenon is as common as wind and rain in the world outside the dome, and it is difficult to establish a connection with missing persons. Shangfeng originally didn't intend to take care of it, but the Koi God Cult in District 84 has been very popular on social media recently, and these cases have finally been brought to the forefront by public opinion.
In the system, this task is positioned as [Search and Rescue] and [Treatment]. No one who is a powerful lawman is willing to take on such dirty work. However, there are a few intelligence departments that have been vacant all year round and are eager to try, but in the end they are automatically disbanded because there is no wet nurse to join the team.
An Yu scanned the recruitment hall for a while, "By the way, sir, are you going on a mission alone?"
According to his observations, the system never dispatched single-player tasks.
Yan Xi smiled and said, "It's not a task, it's just a help."
"help?"
Yan Xi hesitated slightly, "There should be nothing that can't be said. There are currently five officers in the minaret. Except for the law, they are all highly talented deformed people who have appeared in recent years. But in fact, there should be nine high-level officers, and there are four Like Ritsu, the first generation of aberrants left the Spire when it was first established. They had a very bad relationship with the Peak. Whenever they faced an invasion of freaks that they couldn't cope with, they would only turn to Ritsu for help. Ritsu never used Spire's resources. I went alone."
An Yu knew nothing about this history and asked, "Where are they?"
"When the human genetic grading system was first proposed, it was strongly resisted by them. They took a group of aberrations and ordinary people who were unwilling to be assigned to the bait city to go out independently and established an 'equality zone' in the north. Without technological protection, equality The district is facing more brutal attacks by freaks. In the past ten years, two of the first generations have died in the resistance, one died of illness, and there is only one left, named Miss."
"The first generation..." An Yu thought for a while, "Sir, when did he become deformed?"
"As a fetus."
Yan Xi said: "You should know that the great disaster began 26 years ago - in 2122, the Yuge Snowfield suddenly fluctuated with abnormal frequency, and a super-level snowstorm fell all over the world. The first batch of deformed people were born from this. At that time, the law was just abdominal. His mother, a writer, was directly exposed when she and a friend doing scientific research were collecting winds in the Yuge Snowfield. Since she did not have abnormal characteristics, the higher authorities allowed her to give birth normally, and she was included in the first batch of genes after birth. The list of the entropy test. A total of 10,000 ordinary people and aberrants were tested in that test. Ritsu was the only extreme outlier sample. Although he was only 1 year old, he had exceeded the upper limit of one million, so he was considered one of the first generation of highly talented people. . The other first-generation officers were all twenty or thirty years older than him, and they could be considered as watching him grow up before they broke up with their superiors."
An Yu asked: "Then when did they leave?"
"2138, that is, when Lu was sixteen years old." Yan Xi sighed, "After the catastrophe, the world stopped for a long time, so long that people thought it was a cosmic accident that would never happen again. Unexpectedly, eight years later, everywhere Abnormal snowstorms appeared one after another. At first, they only caused small-scale genetic mutations. But eight years later, when Ritsu was sixteen, the second world-class snowstorm came. A large number of normal people suddenly became deformed, and super-abnormal bodies began to appear in the world. .The original urban distribution of human beings was not strictly based on genetic distribution. Many people with low genetic entropy could also live in the main city because of their outstanding talents and abilities. But in that year, the above officially proposed genetic classification, and five first-generation high-level people , only Lu chose to accept it."
"2138..." An Yu suddenly remembered the "wait" that Qin Zhilu published in that year.
Yan Xi smiled and said, "It's normal that you don't know this. It happened ten years ago. How old were you then? Eight years old?"
An Yu said "Yeah", "I just transferred to Area 53 from the orphanage."
"It's rare for children to be observed in high-risk orphanages for so long." Yan Xi lamented: "Society's resources are limited, and they are usually released after half a year of observation."
An Yu said, "Because they think sleepiness is an abnormality."
"If someone is suspected of being abnormal, shouldn't he be under permanent observation?"
"Because my sleepiness suddenly shortened that year, they thought it might just be an incurable disease." An Yu said softly: "After I turned eight, my sleepiness suddenly shortened to a week or two, and the longest was only a month. .”
Yan Xi almost squirted, "How long will you have to sleep before you turn eight?"
An Yu said: "I only wake up for a month or two every year."
"..."
Yan Xi said seriously, "It seems that the rumors are not false, you are indeed very abnormal."
An Yu looked out the window silently.
He was a little concerned about the two points in time mentioned by Yan Xi.
The small-scale abnormal snowstorm reappeared eight years after the catastrophe - that was the year the orphanage picked him up, and the year the orphanage recognized him as 1 year old.
There was another eight years between the second world-class severe snowstorm and that one, which happened to be the point where his sleeping sickness got better without any warning.
An Yu said: "Has your brain given up studying me now? Doesn't it mean that there are many paradoxes in me?"
Yan Xi smiled and said, "Then you have to ask Lu."
"Sir?"
"After returning from Area 53, the boss hopes to restart the brain test with real aberration genes to see how many kinds of abilities can be stimulated in you."
An Yu felt horrified, "But every severe infection may cause the survival value to plummet."
"Theoretically, the experiment can be perfectly measured and stopped in time." Yan Xi paused, "But Lu disagrees. He said that the awakening switch has been pressed. You can gradually awaken according to your own will, and there is no need to take risks unless necessary. . There has always been a subtle mutual restraint between Lu and Shangfeng, and there is nothing he can do if he doesn't agree."
An Yu stared out the window for a while, then suddenly remembered something, "The officer seemed very tired during the days when I fell asleep. What on earth was he doing?"
"Sorry, I have no comment on this." Yan Xi said softly, "You can ask Lu directly."
After returning to the minaret, An Yu couldn't help but worry about his account.
Before going to bed, he sent a message to Xu Shuangshuang asking: How much is the profit today?
Xu Shuangshuang replied instantly: The vacation has just begun, so don’t disturb me.
Perhaps due to excessive anxiety, An Yu slept a little longer this time. When he opened his eyes, three days had passed.
The terminal was filled with Jiang Xiao's greetings.
An Yu ignored him and directly opened Xu Shuangshuang's chat box.
-The vacation is over, what happened to the income?
He went to the restaurant to get a plate of bread and ate breakfast while waiting for Xu Shuangshuang's reply.
After sleeping for three days, nothing major happened in the minaret.
The commander on the 195th floor, Shen Yang, returned from his mission. He heard that four ocean time-space disordered areas were rectified in succession, and a large area of the sea was cleared.
Zhaoran, who was favored by Yan, entered the minaret the day before yesterday, but has not shown his face yet.
In the mission recruitment hall, the population search and rescue mission around Area 84 is still hanging alone, and it will never be taken away.
A message from Mrs. Maddie popped up on the phone.
-Boss, the Polish seeds in the refrigerator have been over-fermented. When did you put them in?
"..."
An Yu reluctantly replied: Sorry, I slept for a few days. Make another copy and put it in.
-OK. What about both? Shouldn't she come back to work today?
Not back yet?
An Yu called Xu Shuangshuang in confusion - there was no signal.
He suddenly had a bad feeling. Xu Shuangshuang wouldn't take the money and run away, right?
An Yu immediately called Maddie, "Have you contacted Xu Shuangshuang in the past few days?"
"No." Maddie lowered her voice, "Didn't she go to Area 84 to pray for the genetic entropy of future children? I didn't dare to disturb her."
"Oh... no wonder there is no signal." An Yu breathed a sigh of relief, "It should be on the way."
He hung up the phone and refreshed the page, only to see that the nail-biting task in the recruiting hall suddenly changed.
The mission benefit level changes from D to C. The mission description has also been replaced -
[Reorganization of the Koi God Cult in District 84]
