Along with the maid's elegant yet thorny voice and the pungent smell of gunpowder, the originally peaceful atmosphere of the cafe was quickly and inevitably taken over. Xing glanced at the maid with a smile on her face and cold eyes, then put his palm back in front of himself, shrank his five fingers, and muttered in a low voice: "Hmm, is this an ability that only belongs to him? I thought I could do it, too." Although Xing had suppressed her voice as low as possible, it was easy for other people present to hear what she said. The maid narrowed her eyes slightly, and pulled up the corners of her mouth into a charming smile. One hand stretched restlessly from under the bar to the store manager's waist: "Excuse me, but what does this customer mean?" "Could it be that my store manager did something bad to you while the employees were away in the hall?" While asking this with a big smile on her face, the gentle maid exerted enough force on her fingertips to twist her body. The enormous force twisted the store manager's waist muscles and distorted his expression. Facing the maid's smile, our pioneer lady pondered for a moment. "He didn't do anything bad to me." —With such a resolute tone, she said something that instantly caused the raging fire in the kitchen to burn through the door curtain.
"He just touched my hair a little when he gave me the pair of guns." "..." The maid's mouth froze instantly. Two pairs of pupils, one red and one blue, flashed a cold light in the raging fire that filled the kitchen. "You mean..." the maid asked persistently, the force she applied to her fingertips becoming heavier, "The manager touched your head, right?" "Yeah." Xing put on a thoughtful expression. "When he touched me, I always had a strange feeling. Considering the example of the RPG series your store manager gave me before, I thought it was some kind of ability we both share, so I wanted to try it on the store manager." "You're feeling it wrong." The maid said decisively, "The store manager doesn't have any special abilities related to touch. What you feel is just a simple illusion." "Illusion? I clearly feel——" "It's just an illusion." The maid said with a smile, "If I have to say it, it's probably a feeling of gratitude for having suddenly received a gift." The maid's voice was gentle and persuasive: "I can see that you are a kind child. It is very reasonable for you to feel grateful to the benefactor who gave you the gift. There is absolutely no unnecessary emotion in this." "So that feeling is just gratitude?" Without a doubt, the maid's clear explanation made Xing unconsciously waver. "I thought your manager had a special ability that could increase the other person's favorability just by touching him... What a pity..." "You're mistaken. How could our store manager be so shameless?" The maid slowly tilted her beautiful face full of smiles and looked at the store manager with an extremely cold gaze, "Isn't that right, Captain?" Chapter 12: Current Situation of the Clerks Who Did Not Show Up After seeing off these plague gods from the train crew, the air in the coffee shop became quiet again. The beautiful maid smiled slightly, glared at the store manager with a slightly angry look, then loosened her fingers that were twisting the store manager's waist, and moved her slender fingertips quietly on the store manager's slightly greasy chest: "Captain, how do you say hello to Rita?" "Although I already knew that you were an extremely greedy boy, but, you attacked a girl you just met in front of us... Let's not talk about Rita, the two young girls, Guanxing and Yuexia, who saw their lovers turn their eyes to other girls instead of just themselves, must have been burned by the burning anger to the point of losing their rationality." With a swish, the kitchen door curtain was lifted to both sides at the same time by two arms stretched out from behind, and two silver-haired girls who looked 90% similar, with only slight differences in eye color and age, walked out of the kitchen side by side. "You don't need to try to excuse this guy while secretly criticizing my tolerance. If you have any opinions about us, you might as well say it to our faces." The short silver-haired girl rolled her eyes at the smiling Rita and sneered, "If I were really such a petty person, I would never have allowed a dangerous woman like you to follow us in the first place." “Well, I do feel a little jealous of that kid.” Although she looked much more mature than the other one in both appearance and figure, the girl with a pair of silver-haired breasts as enchanting and evil as bloodstone showed an excited expression like a child, and excitedly stretched out her sinful hands to the young store manager, “So, human, let me touch your breasts too! This way, I’ll be even with the gray-haired girl!” “You bastard! Don’t try to take advantage of us here!” Guanxing jumped up in frustration and slapped Yuexia’s arm that was stretched out towards the store manager. “Don’t stretch your hand! Don’t touch!”
"Tsk~" Yuexia pouted and withdrew her arm with an unhappy expression. In the kitchen, Haitu, who had already hung her apron aside, looked at the scene behind the bar through the gap in the door curtain, laughing silently in the dark. The young store manager chuckled and changed the subject with a wandering look in his eyes: "By the way, Guanxing, when I announced my intention to open this cafe, several other members of Hyperion also said they wanted to come and work as my shop assistants. But since then, Yuexia and the others have been busy decorating the cafe, so I temporarily handed the work of connecting with them to you. Since you happen to be free now, can you tell me about their situation?" Multiple landmines with incredible precision. Under the young store manager's words which contained the triple debuff of "mentioning other women in front of me", "working with other women after losing my job", and "that job involves contacting and communicating with other women", Guanxing's already ugly expression suddenly became even uglier. "Hmph, what a poor way to change the subject." However, considering that this guy was so confident in letting him communicate with other Hyperion members, Guanxing thought to himself, "There's really nothing I can do. This guy really can't do anything without me." He finally suppressed his dissatisfaction and said lightly, "You know the situation of Xilin and Jizi. They still have an inseparable bond with the world they originally lived in. Therefore, we have temporarily arranged temporary jobs for them. When they have free time, they will naturally come to this cafe to report." "That ninja and Kallen were clearing out the strange beasts around the 'singularity' - the food you asked Yuexia to prepare for that girl was cooked from the carcasses of the strange beasts that the two of them brought back." "Finally, you should know more about Delta's situation than I do." "Hmm? Ah... I remember now, that seems to be the case." The young store manager pounded his palm with an expression of sudden enlightenment, "I remember that she seemed to have borrowed my Hyperion to hunt down those two troublemakers, Rosaria and Lilia. Before she left, she asked if my store was in need of dishwashers and garbage collectors. If I needed them, she would send the sisters to me." "That's exactly what happened." After telling the other members about their current situation and whereabouts, Guanxing walked out of the bar and walked in front of the store manager. He crossed his arms and his blue eyes showed a stern look that would not allow doubt or deception. "I have already reported to you about my work. In exchange, Captain, shouldn't you also explain the previous situation to us?" After going around in circles, we are back to the original question. "You should know your own specialness, and you are also very clear that that ability will have an impact on specific targets without your subjective will. You once promised that you would try not to touch other women except us. But now, why did you suddenly break the promise you made?" Guanxing stared at the store manager's eyes, his intelligent gaze was as deep as the bottomless ocean: "Is that child special to you?" "As expected of a sage king who once wrote the history of the world, he easily grasped the key point of the problem with just a few deductions." The young store manager sighed, raised his hands, and made a gesture as if surrendering, "Um, do you believe what I said?" "Believe." Without any hesitation or delay. The moment Yufan asked this question, Guanxing nodded gently. "I believe everything you say." Even if it's a lie, I believe it. “Hiss—this is really giving me a headache. You put on such a serious expression, doesn’t it mean I can’t fool you at all?” The young store manager smiled bitterly and shook his head. “That child named Xing does have some indissoluble bond with me, so when I saw her, I couldn’t help but give her the Holy Judgement of Heavenly Fire.” "So, Captain, you didn't plan to take back the pair of guns in the first place, right?" Rita whispered. "Ah, that's right." The store manager nodded. "Besides the fact that the pair of guns are not the only ones I have, it's also because of that connection that I instinctively think that these weapons are quite suitable for her." "What exactly does that origin refer to?" Guanxing frowned. "What you know is the deepest secret about me. Then the identity of that pioneer and mine will be exchanged..." The store manager put a finger to his lips and raised his lips slightly, "...that is the relationship between the two of us." Chapter 13: Better to digest it internally than to let outsiders take advantage of it "..."
Rita, Stargazer, Moonlight, and Brownie who was watching the show in the kitchen were all stunned at the same time. The next moment, an expression of understanding appeared on their faces. “To be honest, when she first came into the store, I had the thought that this child and I were of the same kind… or rather, the expectation?” Yufan spread his hands, his eyes blurry, as if he was recalling something that happened not long ago. “But after seeing the child’s reaction when she saw the Holy Judge of Skyfire, I realized that she and I were not of the same kind.” Yuexia gently grasped Yufan's palm, and slowly put her soft lips to his ear. Her soft and gentle voice could melt a person's bones: "Human, we are here, we are all here, and we will always be by your side." Yufan smiled and gently scratched the bridge of his nose under the moonlight: "Don't act so calm. If we count the time, the time I've spent here has long exceeded the time I've spent on 'the other side'." "I am no longer in that newcomer mentality. With you by my side, I am not alone." "As for the pioneer lady——" Yufan paused. "She was a customer of the store and I gave her some small extra assistance in my capacity as a non-store manager, that's all." "..." Seeing that their store manager seemed to have completely let go of his past mentality, Guanxing and others also unconsciously revealed relieved expressions. "Now that everything has been clarified, let's not talk about the pioneer lady for now." Rita said, "Captain, how are you going to deal with the child with a restless force in his body?" "..." If Yufan was just feeling a little annoyed in the Shura Field, then the whole question raised by Rita immediately escalated his annoyance into a headache. Of course he knew this girl. Just like Walter Yang, in the countless world bubbles in the Quantum Sea, "Raiden Mei" had appeared before him in various completely different identities. Sometimes she was an assassin affiliated with the dynasty, and sometimes she was a wandering warrior. But Yufan met more often students of St. Freya's College, and also the Third Herrscher who was directly protected and monitored by St. Freya's College. The store manager is actually a time traveler, but just as he had said to Guanxing before, if time is calculated, the time he has experienced in this world has long exceeded the time before he traveled through time. Of course, he and the long-legged fox girl "Yukong" from the fairy boat are not relatives at all. Not to mention his experiences before the time travel, even his original name was renamed "Yufan" based on the meaning of "captain" "the ferryman who steers the sails". Deep down, the so-called Herrscher is by no means an untouchable existence for Yufan. Even solving the problem facing Raiden Mei is not considered a difficult task in Yufan's eyes. However, if he wants to solve the problem facing Mei Raiden, he will inevitably have a connection with Mei Raiden, or even the world where Mei Raiden is. This is not a good thing for Yufan, who is planning to retire and live a stable life after opening a coffee shop. If he solves the problem of Mei Raiden, that world will throw more problems at him, and his heart is not really so cold-hearted that he can turn a blind eye to the life and death of an acquaintance - it's just like cooking, the person with better cooking skills in the family will usually be asked to do more cooking work, and then further improve his cooking skills in the process of cooking, and then in this vicious cycle, he will inevitably go astray and become a master chef. What a joke, it was fine for him to save the world when he was a captain, but now that he has retired and is the manager of a cafe, you still want to pull him to save the world? He was tired of saving the world and all that in the Quantum Ocean. Now he just wanted to hold his wives in his arms and spend the rest of his long life leisurely in this cafe. Feeling irritated, Yu Fan shook his head uncomfortably: "Let's talk about Nizi's matter later. It's still business hours now, so let's focus on how to receive the next guests." "The next guest..." Rita chewed over Yufan's words, a helpless arc appeared on the corner of her mouth, "Captain..." “By the way, don’t call me by that name in the store,” Yufan said. "...Okay, Mr. Manager, do you have any misunderstanding about the customer flow of this cafe?"
Rita gently held her forehead and said, "You chose the location of this shop in the singularity of the quantum sea. Although this singularity will invade different real worlds, giving this cafe the characteristic of connecting different worlds, ordinary people without abilities cannot detect this shop. Normally, no one will come in to patronize it." "We have opened the store here for more than half a month. Apart from the pioneers who came for the second time, only Miss Mei came to this store by accident." Rita spread her hands, and her charming eyes with a teardrop mole suddenly flashed a hint of mischief, and her pink little tongue gently licked her moist lips. "So, instead of waiting for customers who won't come, would you like to do something more meaningful with us, Mr. Manager?" Seeing Rita's deliberate attempt to flirt with the opposite sex, the already thin-skinned Guanxing couldn't hold back any longer: "Hey! There are customers in the store! Can you please stop being so shameless?!" "It looks like that customer won't be able to wake up for a while." Rita laughed, "Besides, Mr. Stargazer, don't you think it would be more exciting to have a sleeping person lying next to you?" Yuexia's face flushed all of a sudden. She pinched the hem of her skirt, looking a little embarrassed, and her tone of voice became stammering unconsciously: "Humans... Humans, what Rita said... seems to make some sense. Why don't we..." "Hey! Calm down! Brownie is still behind us!" "It doesn't matter. With Miss Hare Rabbit's upright character, Rita believes that she will take the initiative to avoid the tryst between us and the store manager." Rita said with a smile, "Are you right, Miss Brownie?" "Are you going to take that guy away again?" Brownie put her hands on her hips, raised her neck, and said unhappily, "We agreed to play games together during the break." "No games allowed during work hours, Miss Brownie." "Tsk... no matter how you look at it, your violation is more serious!" "What you said..." Rita blinked her eyes gently, "The rules of the store are made by the store manager and Master Stargazer. What the store manager is doing cannot be considered a violation of the store rules." "Is this the cafe the pioneers were talking about?" Just at this time. Along with the sound of the door opening, a young girl dressed in luxurious military uniform, who looked of high social status, walked in. The sound of her knee-high high heels tapping the ground was crisp and stern. The conversation behind the bar stopped abruptly. "what?" Suddenly, the customer let out a slight exclamation. She looked at Brownie's face in surprise and rubbed her eyes fiercely: "Is this...I stayed up too late..." "If you stay up too late, I recommend a cup of lily tea." The young store manager first glanced at Rita with a smug look, then hurried over to her, "You look like you've been working for a long time, why don't you take a good rest in the store? If you work too much and ruin your health, it won't be worth it." Although the store manager just wanted to express his pride and complacency of "Look what I said, aren't there customers coming to the store?", in the eyes of Rita and the others, the store manager's behavior undoubtedly meant "I am more interested in the new customers than you guys." Ok. It would be better to find an opportunity to beat up this restless guy. The four girls standing behind the bar looked at each other, and under the special circumstances of foreign invasion, they showed a high degree of cohesion and united the front in an instant. Chapter 14: The girl who just lost her emoji, and the upcoming emoji At one o'clock in the afternoon in Changkong City, the pedestrian street, which should have been bustling at lunchtime, was unusually quiet. Apart from the sound of traffic in the distance, the only sounds were a few muffled footsteps. There wasn't a single citizen to be seen on the roads or in the shops along the streets. The shops on the street were all closed, with "Closed" signs hung outside. Several yellow cordons were erected at both ends of the pedestrian street. Anti-entropy guards holding advanced machine guns stood facing outwards in front of the cordons, ready for battle. After the pedestrian street was completely blocked, all shops here were forced to close, and the moving crowds of people and vehicles were forcefully driven away from the street under the machine guns of the guards. ——Of course, the vehicles that were driven away did not include the old jeep with the Russian military license plate.
"Did Mei Raiden disappear here?" Opening the car door, Cocolia arrived at the door of Hyperion Cafe. She narrowed her eyes, looking at the wooden door of the cafe without missing a single detail, and asked the researcher who came to her side from the co-pilot seat in a meaningful tone: "—in this empty air?"
