This is a long chapter, contains more than 2000 words, the story is getting interesting !!
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"This ..."
With regret, great regret, it was as if ten thousand wronged souls were whistling through the old man's heart.
He admitted that he had underestimated Han Fei, he had underestimated the complexity and horror of human nature.
"I don't have anything I want to buy."
The old man had the wisdom of not resisting, he subconsciously shrunk back, but his arm was tightly grasped by Han Fei.
The two sales clerks in front of them were as if they had negotiated, they grimaced and repeated the same sentence over and over again.
"What do you want to buy?"
"I want to go home."
The old man's arms were grabbed by the two sales clerks and he was pulled into the store.
"What do you want to buy?"
Although the sales clerks were repeating the same sentence, the words contained an ever-increasing murderous intent.
The old man looked at Han Fei and the one-eyed clerk as if begging for mercy, and finally reluctantly walked over to the counter and picked up a candy.
"I want to buy a candy." The old man's voice was trembling, he lived right at the intersection and knew very well what this store was about, it was a convenience store that was not convenient at all.
"We're having an event right now, if you buy three candies, you'll additionally get one more free." Han Fei had a professionalized smile on his face, giving people a feeling of spring breeze, "Do you want to buy more?"
"But ..." the old man's face was pale, holding the candy tightly in his hand, "I don't have that many eyes."
This old man was aware of the hidden prices at the convenience store, and he was prepared to sacrifice one of his eyes, "Check out."
The one-eyed clerk nodded and took a very small paper figure out of his pocket for the old man to swallow.
After about only a few seconds, the old man's body began to become twisted, he painfully pinched his neck, then put his hand directly into his throat to try to snap the paper man out, but no matter what he did he couldn't touch the paper man.
There was a faint laughter coming out from his stomach as he maintained that horrible posture, the Yin Qi on his body kept shrinking and finally turned into a puddle of black blood that emitted a foul odor.
The one-eyed shopkeeper picked up the paper man amongst the black blood, which held a new candy in its hand, and the smile on its face became even more realistic.
"Senior, isn't the value of one candy equal to his eyeball?" In Han Fei's opinion it was already fine to earn twice the difference, but he didn't expect the one-eyed shopkeeper to be even more ruthless, directly destroying the man.
"The price is only used when the other party can negotiate the price with us." The one-eyed shopkeeper carefully retrieved the paper man back into his pocket as he picked up the tools from the garbage disposal room and began to clean up the floor.
Watching the one-eyed shopkeeper busy inside the house, Han Fei slowly realized that this senior was actually a very reliable person.
"The old man didn't dare to resist at all in front of One-Eye, could it be that this shopkeeper senior's strength is terrifying?" Han Fei suddenly became a bit curious about the one-eyed shopkeeper, and he took the initiative to go over and help out, cleaning carefully, "With the one-eyed shopkeeper around, tonight's task doesn't seem to be too difficult."
Before the two shopkeepers finished cleaning, a strange sound came from the back alley, which seemed to be a dumpster being rummaged through.
When the sound rang out, the one-eyed shopkeeper started to get a headache again, and his only remaining eyeballs continued to throb as if they would pop out of their sockets at any moment.
Muttering unconsciously words that no one could understand, he crouched down and covered his ears.
"Are you alright?"
"The rats, those rats are here again, sooner or later we have to kill them, kill them all ..." The one-eyed shopkeeper was reluctant to go near the garbage disposal room, he crouched down on the ground alone and started chanting like a madman.
The one-eyed shopkeeper felt just like a normal person when he was sober, but he became very scary once he suffered from stimulation.
Han Fei didn't dare to casually approach One-Eye either, he took the cleaning tools on the floor and turned around to enter the garbage disposal room.
"The one-eyed shopkeeper went crazy once when I said the word leave, the word leave seemed to have triggered the curse that the shopkeeper had set on him;now he started to go crazy again after hearing the sound from the back alley, could there be something important to him hidden in this back alley?"
The curse on the shopkeeper was set by the shopkeeper in order to prevent accidents, since the one-eyed shopkeeper would trigger the curse when he heard the sounds of the back alley, it meant that there was something in the back alley that could help the one-eyed shopkeeper find his sanity.
Smelling the pungent stench in the air, Han Fei put down the tools in his hands and pulled open the back door of the convenience store.
The moment the back door opened, all the sounds outside disappeared.
Han Fei looked towards the alley and everything was normal, except for a leather ball that slowly rolled to his feet.
"A leather ball? This size, it can't fit a human head inside, it should just be a leather ball."
Slowly squatting down his body, Han Fei touched the leather ball with his fingertips, the system didn't have any reaction, that's when he dared to pick up the leather ball, "One-eye said that there are a lot of rats in the back alleys, but how can rats play with leather balls?"
He walked out of the back door with the leather ball in his hand, and the ghost tattoo on his body started screaming again, but in order to investigate clearly, Han Fei could only condescend to the resentful souls among the ghost tattoos first.
"The dumpster was rummaged through, but there are no obvious teeth marks or claw marks ..." Han Fei slowly walked to the middle of the first dumpster and the second dumpster when he stopped.
Hiding in the middle of the two garbage cans was a four or five year old boy, the boy was so scared to see Han Fei in his store clerk's uniform that his face was pale and his eyes were full of tears, but he didn't dare to cry out.
He bit his little hand, his tears couldn't stop flowing down, and he desperately tried to get inside the dirty corner.
Frankly speaking, Han Fei was also very scared right now, after all, he hadn't been able to quit the game yet, and it would be the end of him if something really happened.
Big eyes stared at small eyes, after a moment, Han Fei first bent down, he gently rolled the leather ball in his hand to the child, "Is this your thing?"
The boy hugged the leather ball and nodded with tears in his eyes, he still didn't dare to speak, as if he was afraid to open his mouth and cry out directly.
"Are you a child who lives in the neighborhood? Where is your family's adult?" Han Fei asked the other side and the child didn't open his mouth, so he had no choice but to back away, "I'll pretend I didn't see you, you hurry up and go home, don't come here to play in the future, this place is very dangerous."
Getting up, Han Fei retreated to the back door of the convenience store.
After seeing Han Fei take the initiative to back up, that little boy ran out holding a leather ball da-da-da-da-da-da.
He glanced at Han Fei with some uncertainty, and when he saw that Han Fei really had no intention of catching up, he put down his pickleball and gave Han Fei a one hundred degree bow before running towards the outside of the alley.
"You forgot your leather ball." Han Fei shook his head, "This kid is quite cute, if only the ghosts of the deep world were like him."
Hearing Han Fei's reminder, the kid staggered back again and picked up the leather ball on the ground.
"What's your name, little one? We can make friends in the future."
Han Fei spoke again, and this time the kid didn't run away, agonizing for a while before saying in a milky voice, "My mom said that everyone in the store is scary."
"You know the people in the store are scary, why do you still run to play inside this alley?" Han Fei merely wanted to tease that child, such a cute little guy was not common in the deep world.
"I came to find my brother to play, my brother is here, he is inside the wall."
"Inside the wall?" After the little boy finished speaking, Han Fei immediately looked at the wall with vigilance.
It was very dark in the back alley, and only by walking closer could one realize that there was a silhouette on the walls of this back alley.
"My brother is in the wall, he tried to save me and my mom before and then went into the store, I haven't seen him since then. The last granny clerk said that all the people who go into the store end up in the walls, and she said my brother should be in the walls too." The boy stammered a lot, and Hanfei caught the key point keenly.
"The last granny clerk?" Hanfei had seen the photos in the staff prep room, and his own picture was taped next to the one-eyed photo, which appeared to be an old lady with her face painted off on the other side.
"Does your brother have a melon face and long ... hair," Han Fei described One-Eye's appearance, and he was just halfway through when the kid clattered toward him.
"You've seen my brother?"
Before Han Fei could reply, the system's voice came in his head, "Attention player number 0000! You have successfully triggered the G-rank hidden quest - Vanishing Brother."
"Vanishing Brother: help the child in front of you find his brother, reuniting loved ones is a virtue."
"Attention! The rewards of this hidden quest are not fixed, and this hidden quest may have an impact on other quests, so please choose your completion method carefully."
Without the system's later reminder, Han Fei might have let the child go to see One-Eye right now, "The hidden quest can't be that simple, if I directly let the child go to see One-Eye, One-Eye, who was under the shopkeeper's spell, might die a violent death directly, and the shopkeeper who's hiding in the store room might also run out to finish off the child and me... ..."
This matter should be considered in the long run, in order to accomplish the task perfectly, the first thing to do was to get rid of the curse in his brother's body.
Han Fei stared at the little boy in front of him, a plan surfaced in his heart, "Perhaps I can use this child to gain my brother's trust, then we, the new and old staff members, will join forces and slowly look for an opportunity to replace the store manager."
"The store manager is very strong, but this deep world is so chaotic, who can guarantee that accidents won't happen? As long as One-Eye and I are able to seize the opportunity when it arrives, then it's not impossible for us to become the store manager."
Although it was Han Fei's first day on the job, he was already thinking of joining forces with the old employees to rise up and replace the store manager.
"Curses are hard to get rid of, I'm now only aware of two ways to dispel a curse, the first is for the person who placed the curse to actively lift the curse, and the second that's to take out the person who placed the curse."
"Right now the difference between our strength and the shopkeeper's strength is too big, it's better to work honestly, everything can be done slowly, as long as we live and don't die, the probability of my success will become bigger and bigger."
A light flashed in his eyes, Han Fei quickly controlled his emotions, "I've seen your brother, but I can't let you see him now, but I promise you that I'll let your relatives reunite after a while."
"Really?"
"Of course." Han Fei used the secret of touching the depths of his soul and rubbed the child's head, the other party was simple-minded and the only emotions that were transmitted to Han Fei were worry and longing for his family.