Chapter 4: Losing Memory and Knowing Things Are Not Contradictory
The encounter between the Trailblazer's group and this cafe was a very ordinary thing.
Having expended a lot of physical strength during the journey, and at that moment, there was a cafe on the street that looked very comfortable, so it naturally became natural to go in and take a short break.
"But seriously, shopkeeper, the environment in your shop is so nice, and the coffee is also great, why are there so few customers coming in to patronise it?"
After being seated and taking a sip of coffee, March 7 asked with a big grin.
"At least there's a girl here this time, but last time when I entered I couldn't even see half a customer."
Dan heng glanced at March 7th, his eyes moving slightly, and didn't say anything to stop her from what appeared to be a somewhat rude enquiry.
The trailblazer was as silent as ever.
"Asking a shopkeeper the reason why their shop isn't doing well? There's really something about you." The young shopkeeper shook his head a little helplessly and said ambiguously, "If I knew the answer, this shop wouldn't be so cold."
"Ah, isn't it a bit too rude of me to ask that question?" March 7th scratched his hair, "Sorry shopkeeper, I just think this shop deserves to have more people come in and patronise it, I didn't mean anything else."
"That's fine, the fact that it's relatively cold here is a fact in itself, a cafe with more clerks than customers is probably not rare no matter where it is, or I should say that if there was such a cafe then it should have gone out of business and closed down a long time ago." The young shop manager smiled indifferently.
"Won't the shop manager feel resentful?" March 7 asked.
"What's there to be upset about, life is not as good as nine times out of ten, if you have to be upset about this and that, you don't have to think about anything else but being upset." The young shopkeeper shrugged his shoulders.
"Er ... but shopkeeper aren't you the one who runs the shop?" March 7th said cautiously, "The shop will not be able to stay open if there are no customers to patronise it, right?"
"It won't."
The young shop manager shook his head.
"Most of the reasons why the shop can't be opened is because of the lack of money, but I'm not short of money, and opening a shop here can only be considered a hobby, to put it bluntly, it's just like looking for something to do, whether there are customers or not is no big deal as far as I'm concerned."
"Oh~ I see, it's the kind of life winner who has already achieved financial freedom and just comes out to experience life because they can't stay idle, right?" March 7 nodded in understanding, "The same as that Black Tower Space Station's station manager, Miss Asta?"
"I don't know that lady called Asta, but well ..."
The young shop manager curled up the corners of his mouth, revealing a somewhat subtle smile, "If that lady is a space station manager, she does have something in common with me in a sense."
"What do you mean? The shop manager also has a space station?"
A look of intense curiosity suddenly appeared in March 7's eyes, as she looked up and down at the shopkeeper and suddenly reacted, "Wait a minute, I don't think there's such a thing as a space station in Belobog ... yet, is there? Do you know what this word means?"
"It's a kind of large spacecraft in which you can travel in cosmic space for a long time, right?" The shopkeeper said.
"You actually do know!" March 7 said in surprise, "No wonder from the moment I saw entered the cafe I felt that the ambience and atmosphere of this place is out of place with Belobog, and upon closer inspection, the work clothes of your shopkeepers seem to be completely different from those of the other shops as well, does it mean that you're all celestial aliens who came from outer space just like us?"
In response to her, there was a meaningful smile.
"Got it got it got it!" Seeing the shopkeeper's expression, March 7 was instantly silenced.
Although the spirit of pioneering was to bravely explore the unknown, these so-called 'unknowns' obviously did not include other people's personal privacy.
"Enough of the small talk, besides coffee, what else do you guys need to order?" The shopkeeper asked.
"Of course! We're here for a celebration banquet! How can we do it without some delicious food?" March 7 raised her own arm, "Any recommendations?"
"Do you have any cravings?"
The three customers shook their heads in unison.
The shopkeeper turned his own gaze towards the young girl, whose entire face was still buried in the soup, and said thoughtfully, "Then, would you like a plate of the shop's new Fresh Tonatiuh Soup?"
"What's Tonatiuh?" March 7th asked.
"An aquatic animal that lives in the Sea of Quantum, well - just understand it as something similar to a lobster."
"The Sea of Quantum? What is this place?" March 7 cocked her own head and directed her gaze towards the only teenager among the three-person squad who was drawing as much knowledge as possible from her limited memories, "Dan Heng, have you ever heard of this place?"
"..."
Dan Heng was silent for a moment and said in a low voice, "I've seen this term before in the erudite society's information, although I haven't delved deeper into the specifics, however, if I remember correctly, the so-called Sea of Quantum should not be a specific place name."
"It sounds a bit complicated, but if it is possible for aquatic animals to live in it, it should ... not be too different from other normal oceans, right?" March 7 said somewhat hesitantly, "Or, should we just try this?"
"... It's better for you to dispel that idea."
Dan Heng sighed tiredly, as the squad member whose thinking was most inclined towards normal people among the three-person squad, he didn't think that the bowl of weird thick soup that could make humans lose consciousness was something that could be ingested.
For the sake of his stomach and his life, he tentatively took over the big responsibility of ordering from March 7: "Shopkeeper, please serve us some local dishes from Belobog, preferably the kind that most people are familiar with."
"Belobog's local dishes ah, it's not impossible ... " The shopkeeper touched his chin, smacked his lips and revealed a somewhat regretful expression, "Then according to Belobog's side of the custom, I'll give you guys the Yubihong fish fillet , Roasted Lizard Meat, and Rock Roasted Cave Salamander for these, are there just three of you?"
March 7 nodded, "It's just the three of us, I originally wanted to invite Bronya and Seele, but they're either caught up in things, or they've gone back to the lower zone ... and I don't know when we'll be able to have a meal together."
" Broonya and Seele? ..." the shop manager laughed and whispered in a voice that only he could hear, "It seems that no matter where they are, these two sisters are so close to each other ..."
"Right, there's one more thing." Suddenly, the young shop manager walked over to Miss Trailblazer's side as if he had remembered something and patted her shoulder, his handsome handsome face hanging with a bright smile, "Those two weapons that I gave you earlier, are they good?"
"Of course."
There wasn't even a millisecond of hesitation.
Trailblazer's heroic face revealed a picture of a rather contented expression.
"It's not as good as my baseball bat for the time being in terms of feel, but in terms of destructive power and appearance, it's a perfect ten out of ten."
"Really, it's good that it suits you." In the shopkeeper's eyes, a little bit of doting feelings appeared, he stretched out his own hand and gently stroked Trailblazer's head of grey hair, and said with some emotion, "I don't know why, at the very first moment I saw you, I felt that you were very suitable for that weapon, and it's not an orphaned item anyway, so if you think it's good to use it, then you can collect it for yourself for the time being."
"Really?!" Trailblazer all of a sudden widened his own eyes, his golden pupils written with excitement, "Thank you dad ... not right ... ship ... not right either! ... shop manager!"
March 7 blinked and stared blankly at the equally confused Dan Heng.