Chapter 329: Pressing on Zhang Youhong step by step
“Although there is another person above the store manager, as long as that person does not end up personally and does not change the rules, with our current understanding and knowledge, we can completely Let the store manager help us deal with some supernatural incidents to a reasonable extent. The sooner the store manager comes on the scene, the less damage will be caused..."
Li Jun looked at the tomb that had completely enveloped it. Bai Wu said softly: "He has obviously chosen Dahai City as the game environment tonight. Liu San, Li Leping, Su Fan, and Shen Linnei have all lost contact. If the store manager is not allowed to be present, I am worried that He will Let yourself go completely."
Tong Qian was startled when she heard this, and said quickly: "Captain Li is right. At least if the store manager is here, the incident can be limited to the store manager's knowledge. ”
Cao Yanhua was still somewhat resistant at first.
For a god-like existence like the true store manager, if possible, it is best to never enter the world.
But Li Jun and Tong Qian were right.
If the true store manager is allowed to continue, maybe Dahai City will really be completely out of control, but there are still several captains inside.
If these people were inside, he would want to die.
"In that case, let's call the store, use the same words as last time, and ask the store manager to deliver the food in person."
Cao Yanhua made a decision, and Li Jun immediately took out his mobile phone and called the Peace Hotel.
The phone was naturally picked up without any accident. Just as Li Jun and others thought, Lin Yuan did not prevent this from happening.
After all.
He is not a real god, nor does he want to make the whole world a hell. Many times he also needs a "store manager" as a lubricant between him and the world.
But it’s already past one in the morning.
Lin Yuan, the "store manager" who answered the phone, was confused. After saying something, he fell silent when he heard Li Jun's idea of ordering takeout.
Li Jun hesitated and said: "Boss Lin, are you not delivering takeout at this late hour?"
"No, since it is a business within the scope of the hotel, it will naturally be taken over. I'm just thinking about another thing, okay, tell me the address and I'll send someone over later." Lin Yuan sighed and woke up completely.
Looking at the hazy fog outside the window, Lin Yuan yawned.
Li Jun said: "Let's order four dishes. Boss Lin, you can take care of the arrangements, but we hope that Boss Lin can come over and have a midnight snack together."
Treat yourself to dinner again?
Remembering the last time, Lin Yuan shook his head and refused, "It's too late, I won't go."
Once in a while, it's okay, but Li Jun only ordered takeout twice. He was going to have dinner twice. Even though he was invited, he felt quite awkward.
The "store manager" doesn't want to come?
This is not possible!
Li Jun gritted his teeth and said: "Boss Lin, I seem to see Granny Meng here. She seems to be in a bad mood. She seems to be in some trouble."
Meng Xiaodong?
Lin Yuan was stunned for a moment, and quickly asked: "Where is Granny Meng, and what trouble has she encountered?"
"I don't know, I just saw it before, but soon she Missed it. But her expression was really wrong at that time, she seemed quite sad." Li Jun said.
Lin Yuan stood up immediately, "Okay, you wait, I will come over later."
After hanging up the phone, Tong Qian suddenly asked: "Did you really see Granny Meng in Dahai City? Do you know what this means?"
Meng Xiaodong is not an ordinary person.
As the first person to stay at the Peace Hotel, her existence was also won by the "store manager", and she can be regarded as a partner of the Peace Hotel.
This older generation that has survived since the Republic of China is itself full of mystery and danger.
They were very worried when Meng Xiaodong asked for leave from the "store manager" and wanted to leave for a while. They even tracked down Meng Xiaodong's whereabouts, but found nothing.
I only know that the place where Meng Xiaodong last appeared was the cemetery called Fushouyuan in Dahai City... Wait!
Tong Qian seemed to have thought of something.
"It seems that you have thought of it too. Yes, I made up what I saw when I saw Meng Xiaodong, but it's not much different. It's just a matter of whether I saw it with my own eyes. The ghost that revived in Dahai City The domain is actually a black tomb as big as a mountain and full of stench. It's hard not to think of something. Maybe this recovery of Dahai City has an inexplicable relationship with Meng Xiaodong. If that's the case, then it's okay. The only choice is to let the store manager handle it."
Li Jun sighed and said to Guo Fan, "You should get ready. Maybe the store manager will ask you to go back and drive later."
Guo Fangang. Nodding, the phone rang.
There was no indication on the caller ID, but he recognized the source of the number at a glance - the manager of the Peace Hotel.
After picking up the phone, the serious look on Guo Fan's face instantly disappeared and turned into a look of flattery, "I haven't slept yet. Brother Yuan, do you want to use the car? I'll be here right away, I promise not to. It’s okay to delay things.”
After hanging up the phone, Guo Fan regained his composure, “Captain Li is right, the store manager has indeed contacted me. I have to rush over now. Do you have anything to tell me?”
Cao Yanhua and others shook their heads, saying they had nothing to say.
Guo Fan then used the authority of the Peace Hotel employees, and a white mist surged out of his body and enveloped him, and then disappeared without a trace with the white mist.
Peace Hotel, Lin Yuan went to the second floor after getting up.
There were four cooks recruited in the store before, namely He Yin'er, He Yuelian, Liu Qingqing and Tong Qian.
He Yin'er was arranged by Lin Yuan to take care of the fish pond. Although the business of the fish pond has not improved and the main business has gradually changed from fishing to breeding, He Yin'er's identity has not changed.
And He Yin'er didn't stay in the store tonight either.
He Yuelian has been promoted to lobby manager and no longer works as a cook, and she is not in the store tonight either.
Tong Qian has never lived in a store.
I arrive at the store on time at six in the morning to prepare for work, and get off work on time at six in the evening. At most, we all have a work meal together in the evening. I will never be in the store the rest of the time, and occasionally I have to ask for leave.
It is also because of this work attitude that her position has remained unchanged.
Liu Qingqing is the only one left.
Liu Qingqing has certain mental problems due to schizophrenia. Although Lin Yuan sometimes regrets recruiting a patient to the store, since he is his own employee, he will naturally not People were driven away directly.
Because of this, Lin Yuan took good care of Liu Qingqing on weekdays. During normal working hours, he would only ask her to help in the kitchen when Tong Qian was too busy.
Plus Liu Qingqing is obviously interested in him.
So usually Lin Yuan can avoid provoking Liu Qingqing.
Tonight's situation was a bit special. He was anxious to inquire about Meng Xiaodong's situation, and it was hard to call Tong Qian again.
He had no choice but to go downstairs.
When they arrived on the second floor, they happened to see Li Qingzhi standing at the door of 211 holding an old hatchet. This surprised Lin Yuan, "Old Li, what happened?"
In Lin Yuan's sight, Li Qingzhi Transformed back into a gorilla again.
He looked at Lin Yuan expressionlessly, without any movement, but Lin Yuan seemed to have heard something, looking at the door of 211 in surprise and vigilance, "So that's it, this kid actually Want to steal game equipment? Thank you for your hard work tonight. You have to go to Caesar Farm tomorrow morning. Go to bed early in the evening. I will ask Lao Fan to come and guard you. He is the security guard. ·Lao Fan lives in 212, which is opposite to 211.
Lin Yuan walked to Lao Li, raised his hand and knocked a few times. The door of 212 opened. Looking at Lao Fan who was neatly dressed, Lin Yuan smiled with satisfaction: "Lao Fan, you are very efficient. , he can go from sleeping to fully dressed in just a few seconds. He is indeed an elite warrior. Unlike Guo Fan, that kid will definitely not be able to endure hardship and be driven back by the headquarters.”
(Guo Fan sneezed: Who, who is scolding me?)
"Okay Lao Fan, you and Lao Li will talk about some situations here. I have some things to do and I will leave first. You guys can talk. . ”
Lin Yuan left this corridor, turned left at the exit, and came to door 208.
Tuk!
Tuk! Benedict!
Amidst the knock on the door, the door slowly opened with a creak. A bright and slim-fitting cheongsam caught Lin Yuan's eyes, especially the fair skin exposed under the split skirt, which made Lin Yuan hurriedly look away.
"Liu Qingqing" chuckled and said: "Brother Yuan, you can watch it if you want, I don't mind."
A few black lines appeared on Lin Yuan's forehead, and he said in a bad mood : "You know how to say these cruel words at a young age. I think you are sleepy. Okay, let's get down to business. Someone is ordering food. There are no other cooks in the store. I need you to work overtime."
"Liu Qingqing" expressed understanding, but, "Well, what about the reward?"
Lin Yuan seemed to have met Liu Qingqing for the first time, and suddenly thought of something. After confirming, Finally understood one thing:
Liu Qingqing is sick!
In other words, Liu Qingqing is now controlled by the split personality from her body.
So, is this split personality so direct? It doesn’t have the reserve of a girl at all. It’s simply...
It’s actually quite charming.
Compared to the shy and timid Xiaojiabiyu, such a passionate and mature character gave Lin Yuan a very different feeling.
But he quickly recovered, "Let's cook first, and we'll talk about the rewards later."
"Okay."
At most, overtime pay will be recorded, but Lin Yuan said that it would be fine at all. Not false.
But the look "Liu Qingqing" gave him at the end still made him feel uneasy, "This personality won't think of anything terrible, right? No, I have to keep an eye on it."
With that said, he came to the kitchen with "Liu Qingqing".
"Liu Qingqing" sorted out the kitchen utensils. With Liu Qingqing's life experience, her cooking skills have already adapted to... the requirements of the Peace Hotel, but there is still a problem.
"Brother Yuan, what do you want to cook?"
Lin Yuan thought for a while and said: "Four dishes, first stew a pig's trotter... Speaking of which, the variety of meals in our store It’s still a bit short. Can you think of anything else you can create? Just give it to Lao Li and the others tonight for the price of seven yuan.”
The Lao Li mentioned here naturally refers to it. It's Li Jun.
"Liu Qingqing" smiled and said: "Brother Yuan, you really know how to do business. If you cheat someone like this, I'm not afraid that he won't order takeout in the future."
"What is a pitfall? This is called version preview. Okay, let's do it quickly, we still have to rush." Lin Yuan reminded.
"Liu Qingqing" said nothing more, just thinking about what kind of food to make. This thing seems simple, but it is actually quite troublesome.
The first requirement is that the dishes made must meet the standard of seven yuan, and this standard depends on the judgment of the "store manager".
If the dishes produced cannot meet the requirements of the "store manager", will the wasted ingredients be counted on yourself?
If it were a normal restaurant, she wouldn't think so, and she wouldn't have such harsh conditions, but with the stingy character of the "store manager"...
Of course, everything is just in case.
The "store manager" obviously had no intention of reminding her, so she could only follow her own ideas.
Looking at the pig's trotters that were already stewed, "Liu Qingqing"'s eyes lit up, "I know what to do."
Looking at "Liu Qingqing" who was busy in earnest, Lin Yuan nodded secretly, "Although it is schizophrenia, Xiaoliu's split personality is actually not bad. It is independent and can innovate dishes, which is quite good. Unfortunately, it can only be seen at night."
About half an hour later, "Liu Qingqing" had the dishes ready and all four dishes were packed in food boxes. "The food is ready. Brother Yuan, do you want me to accompany you? Or summon a robot." Come and help?”
In the “store manager’s” understanding, Liu Qingqing has successfully undergone biotechnology transformation and has the ability to summon standby robots through space technology.
It is also for this reason that the "store manager" gave Liu Qingqing the job of delivering food in his original idea.
"Call a robot over. In the future, the store may have to add a night shift to answer the phone and take out the business. You can do it tonight, and I will choose another person to do this when I go to work tomorrow. "
Liu Qingqing and "Liu Qingqing" both covet him, but Lin Yuan has no such thoughts about her now.
In order to avoid the intensification of reserve, it is natural to hide whenever possible.
"Liu Qingqing" did not force it. She quickly "summoned" a puppet. Of course, in Lin Yuan's eyes, this was a robot.
Looking at the appearance of this robot, Lin Yuan frowned, "This robot is very similar to you."
"It is about 60% similar, and it also has some The ability to protect yourself and help if you encounter bad guys."
A combination of a delivery boy and a bodyguard?
This is quite good, but Lin Yuan always suspected that "Liu Qingqing" deliberately built a robot that looked similar to her.
The main one:
Even if I can't be with you, there is a substitute that you can see at any time and think of me!
Facing "Liu Qingqing's" expectant eyes, Lin Yuan felt more and more that his idea was correct, and then... agreed.
Handing the food box to the robot Liu Qingqing, Lin Yuan called Guo Fan who had just entered the door and walked out of the store together.
"Liu Qingqing" sat behind the cashier and watched Lin Yuan leave with a smile.
When Lin Yuan and Guo Fan disappeared, the white mist in the store became thick again, also surrounding "Liu Qingqing".
However, surprisingly, although the white mist filled every space in the store, it left a square area of the checkout counter, which happened to be where "Liu Qingqing" sat.
In front of her, there was the Republic of China-style hand-cranked landline phone and a modern computer.
Putting the technological products of the two eras together, there was a sense of contrast and fragmentation, and "Liu Qingqing" saw a small sticky note attached to the bottom of the computer display.
She took the note over and finally read the words on it clearly:
[Night shift job responsibilities (temporary version): Answer the phone, respond to the reasonable needs of the callers, and contact the store staff in a timely manner to deliver takeout orders. 】
[Night shift work specifications (temporary version): Do not leave your post without permission, answer the phone politely, and allocate work reasonably. 】
"The temporary version of the night shift work content?"
"Liu Qingqing" looked at the note with interest, suddenly grabbed it with the other hand, and then gave it a hard tear.
Although she is a woman, she is stronger than a normal adult man because of her supernatural power.
Logically speaking, such an ordinary piece of note paper can be torn into pieces.
But she had tried her best, and the note was still intact, which gave her a new judgment, "It seems that the store manager really wants to run the Peace Hotel well, but he just doesn't know. What is the night shift?" Everyone takes turns to work, or new people come in. But no matter what the situation is, it seems that I have the hardest time.”
She has a share in the takeout at night.
To deliver food, she still needs to summon a robot and a puppet.
"It feels like being a cow horse, but what I want to do is be the boss's wife."
"Liu Qingqing" rubbed her eyebrows with a headache, suddenly felt something, and couldn't help but laugh, "There's not much time Well, as expected, you still have to go back to your brother’s house as soon as possible. Then let me add more fuel to your fire. Don’t delay it too long.”
There is paper on the table. And pen, she took the paper and pen and started to get busy.
After a while, "Liu Qingqing" yawned, lay down on the table and fell asleep, but in just a second, she sat upright again.
Compared with the maturity, generosity and charm before, Liu Qingqing is obviously a little flustered now.
This is the modern Liu Qingqing.
"What is going on, what happened, why am I here?"
Liu Qingqing was extremely flustered, but she did not run around.
She has also experienced supernatural events. Although she almost died that time, she still knew how to deal with such an event.
First of all, don’t panic.
In supernatural events, the more panicked you are, the easier it is to make mistakes, and the easier it is to trigger the killing patterns of evil spirits and lead to attacks by evil spirits.
Although there is no chance of death due to the supernatural presence of the "store manager", the feeling of life being worse than death is more painful!
Liu Qingqing still clearly remembers the painful feeling when she was at home.
Then, look for patterns.
Liu Qingqing looked around and quickly saw the surrounding environment and the two pieces of paper in front of her, "This is still a store, is it the cashier? Yes, in the Peace Hotel, there are no evil spirits who can I took it away quietly, even if she wanted to mess around, Brother Yuan would not allow her... Is this a night shift? ... And this, that scene in the dream? "
There are different contents written on the two A4 papers.
A piece of paper from the perspective of "Liu Qingqing" introduced what happened this evening, that is, the "store manager" knocked on her door in the middle of the night...
"Why wasn't it me at that time? Ah! "
Seeing this, Liu Qingqing felt extremely regretful.
Fortunately, the content on the second piece of paper made her whole body feel cold.
This is a painting, a painting that she drew very sloppily and handed it to the "store manager", but the painting in front of her is very clear.
Except that it is not colored, it is almost the same as what was taken with the camera.
The gloomy forest and the old house in the forest lit with two lanterns like will-o'-the-wisps, just a glance through the paper made her shiver all over.
On the edge of this painting, there is a line of delicate small words written: "Go early and come back early."
The next second.
Two pieces of A4 paper spontaneously ignited without wind, and soon turned into a cloud of ashes, then drifted away in the wind and flew into the ghost realm of white mist.
It's like destroying corpses and destroying traces.
Liu Qingqing was no longer sleepy at this time. She only felt that her back was wet, and the terrifying coolness was constantly eroding her brain:
"When she was awake, It's getting shorter and shorter, but... it's also getting more and more dangerous."
Lin Yuan didn't know what was happening in the store. He had already taken the puppet Liu Qingqing on the ghost taxi, "From now on. How long does it take to get to Dahai City? Half an hour, right?”
Guo Fan blinked, "Absolutely."
Since the "store manager" has spoken, it will definitely take half an hour to drive. Even if the time is off by a minute or a second, it is impossible to leave. This avenue is shrouded in white mist and ghostland.
Guo Fan doesn't mind either, he's not in a hurry anyway.
"Boss, Sister Liu is really attached to you. The food delivery robots are all made to look like her. I want you to think of her when you are out, boss."
Lin Yuan said angrily: "Drive your car well and don't ask questions that you shouldn't ask. I'll just take a moment and call me when you get there."
Guo Fan said with a smile: "I know, boss."
Just as Guo Fan thought, the road that should have returned to reality as long as he walked fifty meters, now turned out to be very, very long.
Under the knowledge of the "store manager", this avenue spreads straight into the distance, with no end in sight and no detours.
In reality, such a road simply cannot exist.
But here, as long as the "store manager" thinks, it is just a matter of words, and time passes by minute by second.
It wasn't until half an hour later that Guo Fan's eyes suddenly became clear.
The white mist disappeared and was replaced by a mountain road. He was currently going uphill, and not far away he could see a large number of temporary buildings with bright lights.
Guo Fan looked back.
The "store manager" in the back seat fell asleep like an ordinary person, and his head was resting on the robot Liu Qingqing's shoulder.
Guo Fan couldn't help but laugh.
But the next second, the robot Liu Qingqing suddenly looked over. The look in his eyes made Guo Fan's back instantly feel hairy, and at the same time, he felt uneasy in his heart: "It...has its own consciousness?"
(End of this chapter)