Half an hour later, the two came to the roadside stall for barbecue that Tao Ming said tasted pretty good.
"First, give me twenty skewers of beef skewers, ten skewers of corn, and two skewers of squid. Add more chili for me. Hey, ginger wine, do you want chicken wings?"
Seeing her ordering food skillfully, Jiang Jiu narrowed his eyes slightly and raised a faint smile at the corner of his mouth, "You don't look like it's your first time here."
Tao Ming paused and avoided Jiang Jiu's gaze: "How is that possible? Do you think I'm just someone who comes to eat at a roadside stall?"
Jiang Jiu tapped his fingers on the table.
"Well, it certainly doesn't look like it."
"That's right, hahaha..."
The two accidentally looked at each other, and Tao Ming immediately swallowed back his awkward and stiff laughter, lowered his head and admitted his mistake.
Jiang Jiu put down his crossed legs and stood up: "I'm going to buy a drink."
"Drink?" Tao Ming was a little confused, "What kind of drink? Uncle sells drinks here."
Jiang Jiu glanced at her enigmatically and shook his head slightly.
"No, what I want to buy is not available here."
After saying that, she walked in one direction.
Two words drifted over from afar.
"Wait."
Tao Ming frowned. Did they see a store selling drinks when they came over there just now?
…
…
The sky had just darkened, but no one could be seen on the streets of the old city. Looking along the way, only the barbecue stall they went to just now was still open for business.
Jiang Jiu was a little careless.
This didn't look like a place Tao Ming would often come to. Maybe it was just a little late, but there weren't many customers at the barbecue stall.
It seems that you can only know the answer after you taste it.
When passing a signpost, Jiang Jiu stopped and turned right at the intersection.
The road sign to the right says "Yun'an Road". Because it took so long to build, the paint on the road sign has peeled off.
Keep going forward.
This commercial street no longer looks as prosperous as it once did. There are clusters of old buildings and telephone poles connecting both sides of the road. When you look up, you see dense wires first, and then the sky.
"Creak——"
Jiang Jiu kicked the can at his feet away, his eyes moved up the damp wall and landed on the old house number.
No. 43, Yun'an Road.
The girl put her hands in her pockets.
She walked down this street to the end, and there was no No. 44 Yun'an Road that the game mentioned.
Could it be that number 44 will only appear when the dungeon is opened?
Jiang Jiu narrowed his eyes and looked at the end of the road.
Maybe it was too dark, and her 5.0 vision couldn't see what was over there.
After a while, the girl turned around and returned the way she came.
Passing by a convenience store, Jiang Jiu bought two boxes of milk.
When she returned to the barbecue stall, Tao Ming was eating a squid that was bigger than her mouth in one go. When she saw Jiang Jiu, she cooed.
"Jiang... Yu Fei is here to mess with you."
Jiang Jiu responded, put away her long legs and sat down, and casually put the milk on the table.
Tao Ming's chewing movement froze for a moment, trying to pretend he didn't see anything.
Jiang Jiu "kindly" moved the milk carton forward to ensure that it was within the girl's sight.
"…Zundu, do you want to drink?"
"Don't be cute." Jiang Jiu rolled up his sleeves, picked up a bunch of beef, and ate it slowly, "Both boxes are yours."
Tao Ming was dejected, but he still inserted the straw obediently and drank with a distorted face.
Jiang Jiu kept chatting with the barbecue stall owner.
"Uncle, how long has your store been open?"
The boss is a straightforward northerner and very enthusiastic: "It's been more than ten years! If you ask around here, no one knows about Liu Ji BBQ!"
The ginger wine bites into the meat, and the chili powder coating on the outside and the doneness are just right.
"Then you should be familiar with this area."
"There used to be a commercial street near here, but it was very prosperous. My wife and I have been doing business here. I didn't know how prosperous it was at that time!" The boss couldn't help but sigh when he mentioned the grand occasion of the commercial street in those days. "The city government was later restructured. , gradually fewer people come here.”
Society is developing too fast, and those who cannot keep up will have no choice but to be eliminated.
The chili pepper was very satisfying, and my lips were numb. I took a sip of ginger wine and said, "Then do you know No. 44 Yun'an Road? I heard that the barber shop is very good."
After the words fell, Jiang Jiu keenly noticed that the boss's expression changed.
"Little girl, what are you talking about? Lao Liu, I have been here for so many years and I have never heard of No. 44 on Yun'an Road." He shook his head.
Jiang Jiu smiled: "Really? Maybe I remembered the house number wrongly."
Until Jiang Jiu and the others finished eating and left, the boss was grilling skewers with his head down, looking a little absent-minded.
Tao Ming ate to his heart's content and rubbed his belly: "What barber shop are you talking about? Why have I never heard of it?"
Jiang Jiu calmly said: "It's okay, go home."
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…
The next morning.
Jiang Jiu struggled to get up from the bed and rushed to Yun'an Road before the dungeon countdown ended.
I don’t know if it was too early, but the road was covered in thick fog, and you could vaguely see the houses and buildings hidden in the thick fog.
Jiangjiu kept moving forward.
As the countdown cleared, she finally found the non-existent No. 44 at the end of the road.
At a glance, it was obvious that it was a barber shop. There was a spiral light strip specially designed for barber shops at the door. As I got closer, the scent of low-quality shampoo hit my nostrils.
An old-fashioned plaque without any three-dimensional decoration, a flat plastic film with pictures of some fashionable girls printed on it, all wearing the most popular haircut of the last century, with five words printed squarely in the center of the signboard .
Barber shop of life.
Jiang Jiu stood at the door and looked in. There was a flowery door with a big lock wrapped around the old handle. It hadn't opened yet.
In her mind, she recalled the dungeon process that Yu Ren had mentioned to her.
The instance will not officially start until all players have gathered.
It seems she arrived a little early.
After yawning, Jiang Jiu found a place to sit and squinted his eyes to take a nap.
After a while, several voices came from the thick fog.
"It's so thick that I can't see the road clearly."
"Where is this?"
"anyone there?"
…
Several people walked out of the fog, three men and one woman. They were all stunned when they saw each other.
"here it is?"
"I just came down to buy breakfast. Why are you here?"
Several people looked at each other, and then someone noticed the sleepy Jiang Jiu in the corner.
"Hello, lady, may I ask where this is?"
The only woman among the four stepped forward to ask.
Jiang Jiu glanced at her and said slowly: "Wait a little longer."
The system prompt did not sound, and the people were not here yet.
One of the tattooed muscular men in short-sleeves was a little irritable when he heard this: "What wait a minute? Where is this place?!"
Jiang Jiu ignored him.
The man frowned and strode forward: "I'm talking to you! Are you deaf?!"
"Shut up."
Jiang Jiu lazily raised his eyelids, but his cold and solemn eyes shocked the man to the spot.
(End of chapter)
