The Little Guest carefully cleaned the stains on the floor bit by bit with a mop, afraid of missing even a tiny spot.
As he mopped, he observed Bai Yuze's face, and seeing Bai Yuze's tightly shut eyes, he waved his hand at Bai Yuze.
Bai Yuze did not react. He wanted to see what this mischievous child was up to.
Seeing that Bai Yuze didn't respond, the Little Guest quietly walked up to Bai Yuze and opened his mouth, ready to bite Bai Yuze's leg, but stopped about a dozen centimeters away from the leg.
This was his test. He wanted to verify if Bai Yuze could truly see with his eyes closed, or if he was using the ability of a Town-Suppression Strange Object.
After his rather hasty method of verification, he came to a conclusion: Bai Yuze was able to see his surroundings clearly with his eyes closed due to the enhancement of some Town-Suppression Strange Object.
And now, the other party's ability duration was over!
The Little Guest showed an evil smile. He immediately threw the mop to the ground, just as he was about to continue his mischief...
Ding-dong!
"Waiter! Waiter! Fry me two dishes and get a few bottles of beer! I'm going to drink my fill today!"
A loud-mouthed burly man suddenly entered the convenience store. His tone and the content of his words confirmed that he was a troublemaker...
Gao Tianxiong, who was at the counter, initially wanted to ignore the man, but the customer walked directly to Gao Tianxiong, grabbed him by the collar, and roared.
"I'm talking to you! Can't you hear me?"
The burly man shook Gao Tianxiong, but Gao Tianxiong didn't respond, like a marionette with broken strings, letting the man shake him.
Bai Yuze immediately thought of a countermeasure. The rules didn't explicitly state what to do when encountering a troublesome customer. If the other party was a guest, then in the absence of other customers, he could confront him.
But now, the other party had both a doorbell alert and came to shop with a purpose, and moreover, the other party was currently shopping. This was also why Gao Tianxiong dared not make any other moves.
"If only I could interrupt someone's shopping..."
Bai Yuze muttered to himself. At this moment, the words of the Little Guest next to him reached his ears.
"My goodness, who is this guy! He's even more arrogant than me! I must find a way to challenge him!"
Bai Yuze was speechless listening to the Little Guest's overestimation of his own abilities. If Bai Yuze could pull off the Little Guest's head and kick it like a ball, then that customer could crush the Little Guest's head into a ping-pong ball!
If you want to challenge someone, at least first see if you are qualified and if you are on the same level as them!
"Qualified... I got it!"
Looking at the lifted Gao Tianxiong, Bai Yuze instantly thought of a way to save him. He grabbed the Little Guest next to him. The Little Guest was watching with great interest at the moment and was suddenly interrupted by Bai Yuze, his face full of confusion.
"What is it?"
"I need your help. After this, I'll never make you sweep the floor again!"
"Really? It's a deal!"
The Little Guest's eyes were full of light. He felt this opportunity was a gift, and he had to seize it well.
Poor little guy, oppressed by Capital Ze. If one day the oppression lightened, the little guy would only feel it was a gift from the other party, ignoring the fact that he shouldn't have to endure these hardships in the first place...
"It's a deal, give me your hand."
Bai Yuze picked up the Little Guest, controlling both of the Little Guest's hands with his own. Since the customer's attention was completely drawn to the counter, Bai Yuze was able to walk safely to the wall.
"It might hurt a bit, but just bear with it!"
"Hurt? Bear with it? Human, what are you going to do?"
As soon as the Little Guest finished speaking, his big face was pressed by Bai Yuze himself against the light switch.
Splat!
The lights went out. Relying on his night vision, Bai Yuze held the Little Guest and quietly approached the troublesome customer. When the Little Guest's hand touched the other party.
The other party's entire body stiffened! He let go of Gao Tianxiong, who immediately fell to the ground. Due to not touching the ground for a long time and the suffocating feeling of his neck being constricted by his clothes, the near-death experience made Gao Tianxiong lose control of himself, gasping for air.
Instantly, all the customers focused their attention on Gao Tianxiong. Their hands gradually grew claws, their teeth lengthened, and their bodies became covered in fur.
Seeing this, Bai Yuze used the Little Guest's hand to touch each of the customers who showed malice towards Gao Tianxiong.
After the crisis was resolved, Bai Yuze again used the Little Guest's face to hit the light switch.
When the store regained its light, all the customers touched by the Little Guest's hand had turned into food items on the shelves...
After getting up from the ground, Gao Tianxiong gave Bai Yuze another thumbs-up. The life-saving grace needed no words.
Thinking back to that scene, it was quite desperate. Being choked by a strange entity and stared at by other strange entities. If he used a Town-Suppression Strange Object, his fate would be to be surrounded and killed by the other strange entities after breaking free.
If he didn't use the strange object, he would suffocate to death. At this moment, he understood why the rules referred to these uninvited guests as 'guests'. Being able to provide them with convenient help indeed warranted the respectful title of 'guest'.
However, one's heart is separated by a belly, let alone strange entities... Who knows when a guest will turn into an enemy?
"Well done!"
Bai Yuze patted the Little Guest's head. In the absence of light, guests would regard all touched items as commodities, no matter what they were. As long as they were commodities, they would be managed by the convenience store.
Therefore, the hierarchy was: Customers buying things > Shop assistants > Customers who have finished buying things > Guests > Commodities.
In the absence of light: The Guests' hands are superior to everything.
Bai Yuze placed the items on the ground one by one onto the shelves. Bai Yuze swore that he would never buy these few items in the future, never!
Looking at the somewhat empty shelves, Bai Yuze suddenly realized that one identity was missing: the supplier.
A convenience store couldn't just sell these few things. The gaps left by sold items usually affected aesthetics, so shop assistants would replenish stock promptly after items were sold out.
But the rules didn't tell them when to restock. If an item was sold out and a customer needed to buy it, what should they do? They couldn't just turn all of them into commodities, could they?
The rules also mentioned trying to meet customer needs as much as possible. If even basic needs couldn't be met, then this rule was purely redundant.
This was clearly unreasonable! Unless... he and Gao Tianxiong would sooner or later learn about the supplier identity!
"Warehouse!"
Bai Yuze instantly thought of the warehouse. He had never been inside the warehouse. What would be stored in the warehouse if not goods? He was almost influenced by the term "main circuit breaker," instinctively thinking the warehouse was just a place to reset the power.
And the warehouse was very likely to contain the rules of the supplier, and the rules knew they had to go to the warehouse, so it wasn't explicitly stated.
As for why the two would go to the warehouse, the answer was the lights!
The lights were affected by the goods! The fewer the goods, the more easily the lights would go out. The conditions for keeping the lights on were to reset the circuit breaker and continuously supply goods!