Let’s Squander A Billion First!

Chapter 858: Chapter 858: Ask the Immortal of the Yellow Springs (End)

Chuzheng realized she had been back for several days, and Bastard hadn’t made a single peep.

Calling it elicited no response.

It was as if it had vanished...

After the ’spy’ was caught on Wenxian Road, they checked the entire Wenxian Road again, but except for finding a few petty thieves and troublemakers, there were no other discoveries.

Based on what the spy confessed, they checked the trash can where the intelligence was dropped, but still, not a single clue was found.

No other abnormalities appeared on Wenxian Road.

If one absolutely had to point something out...

Chuzheng got a complaint.

The buyer from before, Lan Lvyi, complained about her ten times a day, with a record high of fifty times, and the number was still climbing.

[Lan Lvyi: Scammer!]

[Lan Lvyi: I know you’re there, and I know you can see this. Is this how you do business?]

Lan Lvyi didn’t just complain, but also griped while doing so.

Every time Chuzheng logged on, she could see a bunch of his messages.

And she couldn’t just block him.

The customer is God.

For the sake of making a living.

Stay calm!

[Owner of Yellow Springs Road: What do you want?]

Lan Lvyi replied instantly.

[Lan Lvyi: A refund!]

[Owner of Yellow Springs Road: Impossible.]

[Lan Lvyi: Scammer! Why won’t you give a refund!]

[Owner of Yellow Springs Road: You can only get what you want from me.]

[Lan Lvyi: ...]

[Lan Lvyi: Scammer, monopolizing the market!!]

[Owner of Yellow Springs Road: Thanks for the compliment.]

[Lan Lvyi: How can you be so shameless?]

[Owner of Yellow Springs Road: Keep complaining then, goodbye.]

[Lan Lvyi: ...]

Within minutes, Chuzheng received five complaints.

Chuzheng wasn’t bothered by it.

She organized the items in the store.

Many items were already out of stock, and Chuzheng sighed. She went upstairs to her room and from the small, glowing porcelain bottles on her table, she picked and chose some and took them to the living room.

There was another room on the other side of the living room.

Chuzheng pushed the door open to enter, where the light was very dim.

The room contained only a table.

On the table were things like incense, wax, and paper money, and next to it was an Incense Burner.

Chuzheng didn’t turn on the light, but sat down at the table and poured out the soul from one of the porcelain bottles.

The soul, having been nurtured for a while, was no longer as scattered as it initially was but a cluster of light.

Once poured out, it instinctively tried to flee.

Chuzheng’s wrist was wrapped with a silver thread that reached out, encircled the soul, and dragged it back in.

Chuzheng placed the soul into the black Incense Burner, the light within flickering on and off, as she added something else into it.

Her movements were neither hurried nor slow, as if performing an elegant task.

Having done all this, Chuzheng leaned back in her chair, staring at the Incense Burner.

Two hours later.

Chuzheng opened the Incense Burner and drew out a few incense sticks, placing one end of the incense into the burner.

A faint glow slowly climbed up the incense sticks.

Only when the several sticks were fully aglow did Chuzheng take them out and seal them with yellow wrapping paper.

One stick per package.

Chuzheng proceeded to create several more of each item using the same method, incense, wax, and paper candles.

Chuzheng updated the quantities in her shop with the new stock.

As soon as she finished updating, an order notification popped up.

Chuzheng glanced at the order, went downstairs, and packed the items.

She pulled out a contract, the content of which was always the same.

Contract:

Today, I sign a contract with the owner of Yellow Springs Road, violating this contract shall result in an offering of the soul.

Contractor: XXX

There was a large blank space in the middle, and Chuzheng took out a pen and began to write in it.

[Item: Hundred Coagulation Incense-Dream.]

[Price: 300 days of lifespan.]

After writing it down, Chuzheng stuffed the contract carelessly into her bag.

On the holographic screen beside her, the Hundred Coagulation Incense was displayed.

[Hundred Coagulation Incense-Dream]

The user can gain the ability to enter someone else’s dreams for one month, with the ability to use it once daily and each use lasting for half an hour.

Users should follow the instructions for use, and if problems occur, it is due to improper use by the user and has nothing to do with our shop.

This is a non-hazardous item, and there are no returns once sold.

-

A robot squatted next to Chuzheng: ”Master, did you raise the price?”

Chuzheng, with an indifferent face, replied, ”I did not.”

The robot cooed milkily, ”Three hundred days, a whole year! For the last batch, you only priced it for half a year.”

Chuzheng glanced at it, with a stern face: ”This batch is of better quality, prices rise with the goods.”

The robot was skeptical: ”That sounds like complete nonsense.”

”...”

The items sold on Yellow Springs Road were extracted from unknown beings, granting certain special abilities.

Of course, Chuzheng wouldn’t sell anything particularly dangerous; most were little props, good for healing minor ailments, scaring people, or entering dreams.

And the payment she received was lifespan.

How could one trade lifespan?

Of course, it’s possible.

Because she is the Owner of Yellow Springs Road.

But, do ghosts exist in this world?

Chuzheng could tell you responsibly.

Believe in science.

Do not indulge in superstitious feudal beliefs.

There are no ghosts in this world.

-

Over at the manor, ever since Chuzheng caught that unregistered resident, it had been very calm, with no further incidents occurring.

Hu Shuo had set her working hours during the day, and Chuzheng went timely every day, leaving on schedule.

Not a minute more or less.

That day, just as Hu Shuo got off work and arrived at the door, he ran into Chuzheng.

”Miss Chuzheng.”

Chuzheng was originally walking out, but a few seconds later, she turned back: ”Mr. Hu.”

”Miss Chuzheng, is there... something you need?” Hu Shuo asked tentatively.

”Can your master wake up again?”

Hu Shuo shook his head: ”It’s hard to say. Although Fanxing is still operating, ever since the master fell into a coma, we haven’t been able to log in, and thus we can’t enter the game to find him and bring him out.”

”Why can’t you log in?”

”That...” Hu Shuo hesitated: ”Because we can’t obtain the security key.”

The security key was only known to the master.

Whether it was due to some problem with the game, the game’s security system had automatically activated. Without the security key, none of them could get in.

The whole team was now trying to find a way to crack the security key.

Only after cracking it would they be able to send someone into the game.

Because Xing Jue was inside, they couldn’t resort to brute force to hack in, so the cracking was going slow.

”Can’t he wake up on his own?”

Hu Shuo said, ”We don’t know exactly what problems have occurred. If the master is only trapped inside, unable to find a way out, then as long as we crack the key, the master can wake up.”

”But if the master perceives himself as one of the game’s characters and takes the game world for the real one, then he won’t think of leaving.”

”We can only go in, find the master, and then figure out a way to awaken him.”

That was the optimistic scenario.

Hu Shuo hadn’t mentioned the pessimistic scenarios suggested by the team.

Of course, he didn’t need to mention them to her.

”Miss Chuzheng, why, all of a sudden, are you asking this?”

”Just asking,” Chuzheng said coldly, as though she was just making casual conversation: ”I’m leaving.”

Hands in her pockets, Chuzheng’s baggy shorts swished with a graceful arc in the afterglow of the sunset, casting the carefree silhouette of a young girl in the background.

Hu Shuo couldn’t help but twitch at the corner of his mouth.

Miss Chuzheng was a pretty girl, but why was she so... slovenly?

Couldn’t she dress up a little and wear something normal?

*

To be continued