hsntnovel Chapter 60 City Rules Guardian
Chapter 60 City Rules Guardian
"But who knew I wouldn't get a single order all afternoon, not a single customer. They all went to your place. How can I not be angry?"
Qian Shi pulled one hand out and touched his chest, seemingly still unable to calm down.
"I was just angry, but I've calmed down now. I'm really not a human being."
"You two are still so short of money, who knows how many lifetimes it will take you to save up. I'm only one day short, so there's really no need to rush."
Qian Shi's words made Li Can feel as if he had been shot several times for no reason.
The mental and emotional impact left him unable to calm down.
Although he was initially a little confused about how Qian Shi's progress was so fast, he then thought that Xing Tiantian had already gone out, and he should have saved up enough for several hundred years.
"I understand, it's all in the past." Li Can nodded and walked side by side with Qian Shi.
"What do you want to do after you leave the city?" He naturally changed the subject.
Qian Shi became interested as soon as he heard this, and his hands pulling the wooden cart became even stronger.
"Of course, it's about eating, drinking, and having fun. I'll come back to our city and live like a king. I won't have to work anymore. I can go wherever I want. It'll be so free. If I don't like any of those bastards, I can just eat them up. Hehe."
Qian Shi chuckled and licked his lips, seemingly still wanting more.
Li Can was brainstorming and analyzing his words.
It seems that after leaving the city, they can return, but they won't be human anymore; they'll take on a strange form.
Like other strange guests, the ultimate goal of the people here is to eat, drink and have fun in the place built by the indigenous people.
Doesn't anyone else think something's wrong?
Is it so easy to be a weirdo? Why not just be a normal person?
In fact, everyone's values have been reshaped over the years. The world around us is like this. Even if you have some other ideas, as long as you are trapped here long enough, you will be assimilated.
Fortunately, Li Can remained clear-headed as a player.
He didn't intend to waste time here, and besides, he didn't have that much time.
According to the scroll's prompt, leaving the city is indeed the correct way to exit the game.
But he didn't want to go out as a weirdo...
Along the way, Li Can managed to get some information out of Qian Shi and chatted with him for a while.
"Is there any way to make money quickly?"
"Huh? Dazhuang, are you planning to go astray? The punishment is clearly written on the document..." Qian Shi started panting after walking for a while, scratched his sparse hair, and the two stood by the roadside to rest for a while.
The city clusters they left behind were getting further and further away.
But the stench of decay that Li Can had smelled in the refrigerator grew stronger.
The fragrance drifts from afar through the jungle, and when the wind blows, it fills the air everywhere; it truly travels for miles.
"How was the robbery?" Li Can tilted his head to look at Qian Shi.
The bulging exit permit he always carried in his trouser pocket was clearly visible.
Upon hearing this, he immediately covered his lower body, his face full of vigilance.
I immediately broke out in a cold sweat.
"Huh? Dazhuang, I only dared to come here because I thought you two were usually honest people. So you called me out alone just to plot this..."
Qian Shiyue's voice trembled more and more as he spoke.
Li Can observed his reaction and realized that there were certain laws to follow in the eerie labyrinthine city, but just like in real society, even with constraints, there would still be a group of people who would exploit loopholes.
If it's difficult to earn enough money to leave the city on your own, some people will definitely want to take a shortcut and research some unorthodox methods.
However, it seems that even those who were just a little short of leaving the city did not choose to rob... so this method of "robbery" is probably extremely risky.
However, to determine the exact source of the risk, we need to conduct an experiment with someone else.
Li Can's sinister expression immediately turned into a very amiable one. "How could that be? We were just chatting on the way, and we wanted to let you rest for a while."
Qian Shi frowned and looked around at the night scene for a while. Seeing that Li Can had not made a move, he finally relaxed and released his hands from his pockets.
He grabbed his shirt and wiped the cold sweat from his forehead. "You scared me to death! I really need to advise you to give up those illegal ideas as soon as possible."
"Oh? What's wrong?" Li Can asked casually.
"It's definitely going to be fatal. Don't be skeptical. Didn't we just have an example like that in our area a while ago?"
Li Can, of course, didn't know any examples, and he wasn't there at the time, so he just went along with what he was saying, trying to absorb as much useful information as possible.
"I didn't pay much attention."
"You don't know this? Let me tell you, it's a robbery. Almost all the nearby shops were robbed. They forced the money on the certificate to be transferred, and even made them say it was a personal transaction."
"Our customers buy things via bank transfer. If they want to buy something else, they transfer the amount on the certificate to other merchants."
"Originally, you could just rob it directly, but after the new city regulations came out, it was stipulated that the robbers should be killed directly, or the city regulations would automatically detect and maintain the environment."
"There might be city guards watching us from places we can't see. If you had said a few more words or had any malicious intentions towards me, I would have had to say goodbye to you with tears in my eyes, Dazhuang."
"I was talking about splits, cough cough." Qian Shi coughed a few times and changed the subject back.
"So everyone's afraid to play dirty tricks on each other, so they've started doing things openly. They've started committing blatant robberies that won't trigger the city guards' penalties. It's absolutely despicable, ugh!"
Qian Shi became increasingly angry as he spoke, and spat fiercely on the ground.
"We dare not disobey our customers, and now we also have to live in fear for other business people. Life is getting worse every day. Fortunately, if I can just bear with it a little longer, I will be able to leave the city..."
Li Can listened silently to what Qian Shi said, glad that he had not acted rashly. According to his description, the city guards were elusive and formidable.
The scroll also mentions a type of guard, namely the city gate guard.
It seems there are many such positions in the eerie city, each with its own specific duties; otherwise, given the city's development speed over the past few hundred years, it would have been destroyed long ago.
It was thanks to various guards that it was able to survive.
Li Can was quite curious about this, so he decided to find out how many articles there were in the city regulations and check them one by one to see if there were any loopholes that could be exploited to make money.
"That's really true, Qian Shi, you have to keep it up." Li Can patted his broad shoulder to comfort him.
Qian Shi's eyes instantly reddened when he mentioned this.
"Dazhuang, could you please divert some of the customers to me? With the business at that rate today, no matter how hard I try, I won't be able to leave the city anytime soon."
"But the guests don't listen to me either; who can control their thoughts?"
Li Can was actually a little confused about this.
He had no idea what kind of hardship those strange guests had endured before, yet his casual cooking skills had led to such a sensation.
In addition, there are temporary restrictions imposed by city regulations and guards, preventing people from making money through unethical or shady methods.
Then the only option is to expand the scale, open branches, or become a chain.
The old-fashioned working-class logic won't work; you have to grow big and strong in this bizarre, labyrinthine city and become the boss.
Moreover, we can't just focus on the catering industry; this requires long-term development.
Ideally, it would be something that yields quick and easy money... like gambling or something...
Li Can thought for a moment, then looked up at Qian Shi and said, "If all else fails, let's combine our two businesses and work together in the main hall. After you leave, the workers can stay here and continue to work."