How could this be?
Cheng Shuili became completely serious. She did not care what state Bao Chi had fallen into; what she cared about was the 3,960 game coins she earned every single day!
That was 3,960 game coins!
This was the most comfortable money Cheng Shuili had ever earned!
There was no way Cheng Shuili would watch this money fly away just like that!
She immediately pushed open the door and left the driver's cab. Fearing that these two beastmen might disappear, she simply stood at the entrance and shouted, "Bao Chi!"
The sudden sound made both beastmen jump in fright, especially the timid Bao Chi; if he could, he would have burrowed into a crack in the ground by now. The other beastman was no better; he only looked fierce, but in essence, he was no different from Bao Chi.
Otherwise, Bao Chi would not have come to him to form a team.
The two beastmen squatted down immediately, carefully supporting themselves on the ground with their hands, and shuffled forward bit by bit, as if that would make them invisible to Cheng Shuili.
Cheng Shuili: "..."
Were they just too cowardly, or did they think she was an idiot?
She twitched the corner of her mouth and shouted "Bao Chi" again!
This call still failed to attract the attention of the two beastmen, but it did summon Su Rui, who had been standing in the driver's cab, to come out.
"You know them?"
Su Rui really did not know what to say. Was Cheng Shuili's range of acquaintances a bit too wide? Weren't these beastman NPCs? If she remembered correctly, they were in a hostile state, right?
How did she end up calling out to them?
Cheng Shuili really did not have time to explain to her now and could only nod. Seeing that the two beastmen were still in a posture ready to flee, she finally could not help but stride over.
Her approach directly terrified Hu Bu and Bao Chi so much that they lay flat on the ground, not daring to move.
The two beastmen stared at each other with wide eyes. After a long while, Hu Bu asked, "What is she coming over for?"
His voice was very soft, but Bao Chi could hear the breakdown within it.
Bao Chi actually did not have such delicate sensibilities, but he could understand it now only because he was feeling the exact same way at this very moment.
"You... you just said that she was an extremely strong person..." Bao Chi stuttered for a long time before finally spitting out the second half of his sentence: "She... she won't eat us, will she?"
Hu Bu had no experience in this regard at all. He tried hard to think for a while, but he could not focus his energy in the current situation. Listening to the footsteps getting closer and closer, Hu Bu finally...
Broke down in tears.
Before Cheng Shuili even got close, she heard a wail.
She had originally thought it was Bao Chi being so spineless, but upon closer inspection, it was actually that tiger beastman crying.
Wasn't he the King of Beasts?
Good grief, even Bao Chi had more backbone than him!
Cheng Shuili stood in place and called out again, "Bao Chi."
The ears of both beastmen moved at the same time, and then, Bao Chi's leopard face, covered in teardrops, turned toward her.
Cheng Shuili: "..."
It wasn't that this beastman wasn't crying; it was that this beastman didn't dare to cry out loud at all.
Cheng Shuili did not know what to say for a moment, and Bao Chi looked like a young wife who had been wronged, his lips parted without a word, just streaming tears.
Hu Bu, lying on the side, turned his brain around several times before finally reacting: "You know each other?!"
He took the liberty of glancing at Cheng Shuili, and after feeling the majesty radiating from her, he hurriedly turned his head back.
Cheng Shuili finally realized why these two beastmen were running while she was calling them.
The 【Supreme Monarch】 title had not been unequipped, and she was currently speaking with 【Majesty】 active, so that really could not be blamed on Bao Chi. Cheng Shuili hurriedly changed her title to 【Noob's Salvation】 and sighed, saying, "Come to my vehicle and talk."
The teardrops on Bao Chi's face were hanging precariously, making him look truly pitiful.
Hu Bu was slightly better off, but one could tell from his clenched fists that this guy was also so tense he was about to have a stress reaction.
Su Rui gave each of the two beastmen a bottle of Hao Su Su milk, and the two beastmen sat directly on the floor of the carriage. Cheng Shuili and Su Rui sat opposite them, quietly watching their actions.
Bao Chi seemed to have not eaten for a long time; his eyes were filled with tears as he took the milk, drinking while he cried, looking as if he had suffered some immense grievance.
Cheng Shuili inwardly thought, "Oh no." In this state, the bakery wouldn't really have gone bankrupt, would it?
Hu Bu was drinking in small sips on the side, also not saying a word.
Cheng Shuili looked at the two beastmen before her, speechless for a moment. Come to think of it, they were supposed to have formed a team to go out and rob people, right? Why were they both acting so aggrieved inside her vehicle now?
Cheng Shuili waited patiently for the two beastmen to finish their boxes of milk and finally found an opportunity to open her mouth and ask: "What about the bakery?"
It would have been fine if she hadn't asked, but the moment she did, the eyes of the little stutterer who had just stopped crying welled up with tears again.
Cheng Shuili: "..."
She had to figure it out; long-term pain is worse than short-term pain.
The two beastmen wept into each other's arms for a while before Bao Chi stammered: "It's closed."
Seeming to worry that Cheng Shuili would misunderstand, he added two more sentences: "Temporarily. We have no raw materials now, so we can only close it for now."
Temporarily.
A heavy stone finally fell from Cheng Shuili's heart. She nodded, feeling relieved, and took the time to show concern for this pitiful beastman: "How did you end up as a drifter?"
Bao Chi: "Part... part-time job."
To be this aggrieved over a part-time job?
Cheng Shuili did not understand. Just as her brows furrowed, she heard Bao Chi say again: "We can't be without work."
Right.
They could not be without work.
Cheng Shuili understood; they were being forced into this.
Under the guise of concern, she struck up a rapport with Bao Chi. After chatting for a while, she really managed to get some useful information out of him.
Bao Chi: "We have to work five times a day."
That meant they encountered five waves of drifters a day.
Bao Chi: "We have to do it for a total of four days, and we get one day off in between."
That would be until the Famine ended; the day off was definitely the day of the dungeon this week.
Bao Chi: "People are so scary... If they get angry, they beat up beastmen. The two of us were just beaten up earlier, wuwu. Only you are different, human! You are a good person."
Oh, so they could attack beastmen.
Cheng Shuili had a bottom line in her heart, and her attitude toward the two beastmen improved quite a bit. She took the initiative to ask: "Do you have any performance targets to meet?"
The two beastmen had obviously never heard this term and looked blankly at Cheng Shuili, one on the left and one on the right.
Cheng Shuili clutched her forehead and laughed bitterly, having no choice but to ask more specifically: "Do you have a rule stating how much food you have to snatch back from a trip?"
The two beastmen shook their heads together, then looked at each other, and finally, it was Hu Bu who said: "But the two of us are too weak, we might not be able to snatch any food... The boss doesn't provide meals, and if there is no food, we can only starve."
Understood.
Cheng Shuili nodded; it was time for her to step in.
The bread remaining in the Abyss Ring finally had a good destination!
Cheng Shuili immediately took out the bread.
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