The deep night quietly poured in from the windowsill.
The pointer on the wall once again approached a new midnight.
Chi Ting heard someone calling him to turn around. He saw Lou Yueren had walked behind him at an unknown time. At the same time, he reached out to Chi Ting and slowly straightened his messy collar. “This isn’t tidy.”
Chi Ting lowered his eyes to watch the action and asked, “Are you sure you don’t want to sleep for a while?”
“I would rather not sleep,” Lou Yueren replied. “You know what it is like to stay up all night. The most sleepy period is over. If I sleep any longer, I’m afraid I won’t be able to sleep again in the early hours of the morning. I might as well save up and leave it to tonight to make up for the ‘ingredients’ I missed yesterday.”
As he was talking, he straightened his collar. Seeing Chi Ting still looking straight at him, he raised his eyelids playfully. “What’s wrong?”
“Just because you are worried you can’t sleep?”
Chi Ting’s words slowly entered his ears. Lou Yueren didn’t panic at all despite the clear pointed tone. “Of course, there is also another main reason that I can’t fall asleep. After all, lying in the same bed like that, well~ there is really no way, right? Even though I personally don’t consider other people’s feelings, I really can’t get excited if there are too many people watching.”
Chi Ting didn’t need to be at the scene to guess the wonderful reactions of the people at the live stream site to these fierce words.
He even suspected that Lou Yueren was indirectly speaking these words to the players who were watching the live stream.
He cleared his throat with a low cough. Then he hummed in a deep voice and decisively didn’t continue the topic. “It is almost time. Let’s go down.”
Chi Ting actually had a nap when he returned to his room.
His long legs seemed a bit crowded on the bed, but his condition after getting up today was indeed not very good. He soon fell into a drowsy sleep again, and didn’t wake up until late at night.
Chi Ting naturally realized that something was wrong with the situation. It was obvious that Lou Yueren also realized it.
He didn’t say it, but he knew very well that this man didn’t choose to make up for his sleep. It was most likely because Lou Yueren wanted to stay by his side and observe whether anything else would happen.
However, there were some things that Lou Yueren didn’t want to talk about. Chi Ting decided not to ask any more questions. After going downstairs, he saw that other people were waiting in the lobby on time.
Hua Qianmei was the first to notice the two figures. “Hey, here are the two of them. How did you sleep?”
“Not bad.” Lou Yueren greeted very naturally. “It seems that everyone has recovered well after catching up on sleep.”
“Yes, I really don’t know what happened last night. Now I’ve had another sleep and I feel refreshed,” Ji Xingque replied.
Lu Nanling reminded, “The time is almost up. Now that everyone is here, let’s get ready. Today, we should follow the division of labor from last night.”
Despite the noise, everyone on the Dawn team quickly got into position upon hearing what was said.
As midnight officially arrived, a slight click sound was heard from the locked door of the restaurant. Then just like the night before, the familiar ugly customers started to come in one after another.
Due to the experience of the first night, the reception process was already familiar to them.
After Chi Ting finished taking an order he was responsible for, he returned to the cashier counter and saw Lu Nanling writing furiously to make statistics. He asked, “Any new clues?”
“As previously speculated, these customers with the same face model should have their own established procedures. Their orders always revolve around the dishes made up of three basic colors of incense. Their average order value is exactly the same.”
In this instance, it should be a good thing if it could remain stable. However, there was no smile on Chi Ting’s face. He turned his head to meet Yue’s gaze and heard the latter make a low ‘tsk’ sound. It was obvious that he had the same idea. “It seems that we can see what new gameplay there is in this instance tonight.”
“No need to wait. The new way to play is here.” As Hua Qianmei spoke, she had already started walking with a tablet in her hand.
Such a figure was undoubtedly quite dashing and neat. Chi Ting’s gaze passed over Hua Qianmei’s back and headed straight in the direction of the door.
As a hand pushed open the door, the first thing that caught his eye was the eye-catching red nail polish on the fingertips.
A long black dress hung loosely from the woman’s skinny body to the ground. Even though there wasn’t the sound of rain outside, it left a wet mark on the ground as she walked into the restaurant.
Her body seemed dry, but water droplets were slowly flowing down her hair. They gradually gathered at the roots of her hair and fell to the ground drop by drop.
This wet feeling seemed to add a strong sense of stickiness to the entire restaurant. Combine this with the white silk tightly wrapped around the neck and it was inevitable that people would feel suffocated at first glance.
Compared to all of this, her face was what attracted the most attention.
She was almost pale, but the red of her cherry-colored lips was exceptionally bright. She had no nose. Looking upwards, there were a pair of narrow, fox-like eyes that didn’t look like those of a human being at all. The eyeballs kept darting around, observing everything around them. But the expression deep inside couldn’t be seen clearly due to the long hair that covered her face. This was a face that was completely different from the ones that had appeared in front of her.
Chi Ting watched from afar as Hua Qianmei led the woman to the dining table with a smile on her face. He turned around and saw Lu Nanling slowly writing down a new line of information: [Lv 2 customer, foxed-face woman, unlocked.]
Chi Ting laughed. “Lv 2? Unlocked? Are you really playing this as a computer game?”
This sentence made Lou Yueren shift his attention. He gave a positive comment after just one glance. “Strictly speaking, it is just a computer game. Now it seems that since the second type of customer has been unlocked, there will be a third or fourth type soon. At this pace, the demand for ‘ingredients’ will probably increase every day.”
Lu Nanling was as blunt as ever. “Once demand exceeds inventory, that is when the fun really begins.”
Lou Yueren’s expression was filled with increasing curiosity. “Then according to the current situation, will the fun begin tonight?”
This tone of voice made people feel that the person who was in the instance and might be affected by the ‘good show’ at any time wasn’t him.
In response to this, Lu Nanling only gave one answer. “That depends on the number of Lv 1 and Lv 2 customers allocated tonight. Of course, we also need to see if Lv 3 will appear.”
As he spoke, he wrote another note in his notebook. “To be honest, I am also very curious about what Lv 3 will be like.”
Chi Ting looked at the subtle tacit understanding that the two of them had inexplicably developed. Then he cleared his throat. “So if only Lv 2 appears tonight, what proportion of the distribution will cause adverse effects on us?”
“Probably only 35% of customers need to be the foxed-faced women…” Speaking of this, Lu Nanling’s brow furrowed. He obviously felt a bit guilty for not being able to detect and avoid the crisis in advance. “Thinking carefully, the different colors of incense on the purchase list I found last night have a fixed order. If I had paid more attention, I should’ve been able to guess this step-by-step demand. This is undoubtedly a very low level mistake.”
Hua Qianmei heard this when she came back and laughed. “If such a mistake is considered low level then the brain of Little Bird is probably equivalent to a paramecium in your mind.”
Ji Xingque, who just ran out of the kitchen with a tray, asked, “What? You called me?”
Hua Qianmei replied, “…No, no. You heard it wrong.”
She took the tray from Ji Xingque calmly and continued to talk to Lu Nanling without changing her expression or heartbeat. “Little Brother Lu, I told you before, you are good in everything except that you like to be too hard on yourself. Of course, it is sometimes attractive for a man to be strict with himself, but there is no need to demand 100% perfection. In fact, I think it is good now. You can ask other people. I don’t believe that they aren’t looking forward to other exciting developments.”
Lou Yueren laughed. “Sorry, I’ve always been afraid of chaos in the world.”
Chi Ting thought for a moment before nodding with a smile, “It seems it is indeed like Meimei said.”
“So, since we have come here anyway, let’s just wait and see what interesting entertainment programs we will encounter.” Hua Qianmei’s beautiful eyes turned. She smiled as she turned the tray to serve the food.
Since they had already figured out the main time cutoff points for this instance, all the squares were filled with onlookers once the instance time approached midnight.
Guided by the discussion in the player forum, the attention paid to the live stream room of the No 89 Dawn team soared sharply. The conversations in the instance had naturally been heard by the viewers without omission.
This made all the players glance at the shocking scenes in the nearby windows. The corners of their mouths twitched fiercely. They were speechless and couldn’t help complaining in their mouths.
It was indeed very rare to be able to ensure safety until now, but was it okay to not have a sense of crisis at all? They were still talking big and looking forward to it?
Let’s see if they could still laugh later!
As more and more people gathered around screen 89, time passed by.
The customers in the restaurant changed one after another. Then one ‘ingredient’ on the Dawn team’s business list finally ran out.
The supply chain was broken.
The submitted order didn’t receive a response for a long time. The foxed-faced woman sitting at table 12 stared at the smiling face in front of her, and the originally narrow eyes narrowed even more.
She stared at Hua Qianmei. After a long wait, she rejected the suggestion to change the dish for the third time. Her tone was low and hoarse, which was completely inconsistent with her appearance. “Meat… I said, I want to eat leg bone meat…”
Drip, drip.
As she spoke, the sound of water dripping on the ground beside her seemed to become clearer.
All the whites of her eyes were gradually covered by black pupils. The fox-faced woman slowly stood up with her hands on the table. As her head tilted to the side in a strange arc, wet saliva gradually seeped from the corner of her mouth to her jaw.
She stretched out her hand from under her black cloak and moved closer to Hua Qianmei. “Leg bone meat… your restaurant doesn’t have any leg bone meat, right? It doesn’t matter, it doesn’t matter. In fact, it doesn’t matter… I only want leg bone meat. I think… your legs are very beautiful. So use this… as a replacement… hehe, hehe…”
The creepy laughter was accompanied by pleasant background music, but the other customers around seemed to be unaware of what was happening here. They were either enjoying their meals or waiting patiently.
The fox-faced woman’s head reached Hua Qianmei’s leg.
The slender fingertips touched lightly and cut a hole in the trousers. Blood gushed out instantly.
The corners of her mouth twitched slightly, forming a distinct arc.
A few seconds later, something broke with a clear crack.
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