Infinite Puzzle City

Chapter 371 Return to the Lost City
Xiao Ran walked out of the funeral supplies wholesale store in Guanlin Market.

The boss followed behind, waved goodbye to Xiao Ran with a smile, and promised to deliver all the papers Xiao Ran needed before tonight.

A box of mulberry paper for funerals and a box of yellow paper are enough for one person to use normally for a month.

Xiao Ran bought sixty boxes of paper each, but these boxes were definitely not enough to support him in running the paper-making business perfectly.

But it doesn’t matter, as long as it’s enough to get [Amazing Pavilion] up and running.

There are six boxes in one rudder, which is enough for them to use for a long time, and the rest can be kept for themselves to use slowly.

After buying these things, Xiao Ran didn't leave in a hurry, but continued to stroll around Guanlin Market.

In fact, the business of Guanlin Market has been visibly declining in recent years.

Once the most famous wholesale market in Los Angeles, many stores have closed down and changed their business after being impacted by e-commerce.

Those that remain are either large in scale or rely on their skills to make a living and have a loyal customer base.

Survival of the fittest, there's nothing we can do about it.

Xiao Ran bought a lot of snacks, intending to give them to the little girl Qiu Kui.

I bought some books for Sister Liu, as well as some small items such as a telescope, a makeup box, etc.

There was also a seat cover, a cowhide hat, some cigarettes and other sundries.

After shopping around, it was already noon, so Xiao Ran went straight to a small noodle shop in the mall to eat sweet potato noodles.

The noodles made from sweet potato flour mixed with wheat flour are chewy and have a sweet potato aroma. They are filled with spinach and bean sprouts, topped with sesame paste made with garlic juice, and covered with an egg.

At twelve bucks, the portion is enough to fill an adult.

The price of twelve dollars is already very affordable for Los Angeles.

But I don’t know if it’s an illusion, but in recent years many young people always feel that they have less and less money to spend.

The cigarettes that used to cost ten yuan have now increased in price to eleven yuan.

The noodles that used to cost eight yuan have now increased in price to twelve yuan.

The beef soup that used to cost five yuan is no longer available. The starting price is ten yuan.

Everything is going up except wages.

Even though Los Angeles has become a major tourist city, the streets are packed with people during holidays.

However, not many people can actually make money. Instead, those businesses that were initially so popular that they converted their auto repair shops into Hanfu shops overnight began to go bankrupt one after another.

Some people made money, but more people lost everything.

This is also something that can't be helped.

Xiao Ran was eating three bowls of sweet potato noodles in a row and enjoying it very much when suddenly everyone ran out.

I didn’t know what was happening outside, but many people rushed out to join in the fun.

Xiao Ran was also curious, so he simply ran out with the noodles in his hand.

When I ran out of the gate of Guanlin Market, I saw that everyone outside was staring at the roof of the shopping mall building.

Several men and women were standing on the roof and began to take off their clothes one by one.

Good man, are you going to give everyone some benefits before jumping off the building? ?

No, why don’t we just forget about those men?

This move undoubtedly caused the mall entrance to be crowded with people in an instant.

Xiao Ran pricked up his ears and heard that employees of several shops actually recognized these people.

"Isn't this the family of the owners of the Xu's Candy Store? What happened to their family?"

"I don't know. The whole family is crazy. Hey, the daughter-in-law here has a good figure."

"Hahaha, you deserve it. This family of mine shortchanged me on weight, and the candy they sold me last time was expired. We do business in the same place, so we'll see each other everywhere, but they even cheated me. How fucking wicked."

"His daughter-in-law is not a good person either. She has many bad intentions."

"We recently hired a college student to do part-time work. He works twelve hours a day and is paid two thousand a month. And they are still withholding his salary. How shameless!"

Everyone lowered their heads and whispered, but they all had an expression of gloating. It was obvious that the family that owned this shop did not have a good reputation here.

Xiao Ran took a closer look and roughly understood what was going on.

Beginner!
It was obvious that these people were controlled by the beginners and were deliberately standing on the rooftop to make a fool of themselves.

Since it was a beginner taking action, Xiao Ran was even more willing to watch the fun. He sat on the stone next to him with a bowl of noodles, eating while watching.

Eating noodles and watching dancing in broad daylight, the taste is still... mmm... delicious! Too delicious.

However, such a big commotion would naturally attract the attention of the police immediately, especially when Xiao Ran noticed that several figures wearing "Narrative Delivery" work clothes in the distance quickly disappeared into the crowd.

In my heart, I can only silently mourn for three seconds for this beginner brother who took action.

"No one was killed, so the sentence should be light."

Xiao Ran pondered in his mind, and in fact, he had a rough idea of the red line standards for the company's actions.

Such a high-profile move would definitely not work, and the company would definitely strike down every criminal it could find.

Compared with the crimes he had committed in the dog factory before, what he had done was more excessive, but the problem was that he had not caused any large-scale riots.

And from beginning to end, he did not take any direct action.

So all I got was a small phone warning.

From the above two situations, it is not difficult to see that the existence of a company itself cannot be expected to be just. The meaning of the company's existence itself is to maintain stability and, when necessary, eliminate hidden dangers to the masses.

If it is a personal case and does not trigger the red line, most of the time the company will not pay special attention to you.

After all, Zhong Yi himself said that the company is very short of staff and does not have enough energy to take on all the tasks.

It took about ten minutes for the family on the rooftop to be rescued.

It is unknown what happens next.

Xiao Ran was too lazy to pay any more attention and went straight home after finishing his noodles.

For the next few days, Xiao Ran stayed in the store.

Xiao Ran studies origami every day, and for this purpose he searches for many origami videos on the Internet.

Although he inherited the paper-folding craftsman's legacy, it was only the inheritance of skills, not the inheritance of techniques.

How to make lifelike paper figures, how to pinch paper flowers, and how to make cows and horses.

Xiao Ran doesn't know any of these things, and it's impossible for the old man of the Zhou family to teach him step by step on such things.

Therefore, Xiao Ran still has to rely on himself to explore and learn everything.

Sometimes when searching for paper-tying videos, Xiao Ran would occasionally see a lot of news about supernatural events on the Internet.

Among them is the family we saw at Guanlin Market not long ago.

This family is extremely unlucky, with videos flying everywhere and all kinds of revelations constantly coming out.

All the evil things that this family had done in the past were exposed.

This made everyone say that he deserved it.

But apart from this family, there seems to be a supernatural craze sweeping the Internet recently, with all kinds of weird and strange things happening one after another.

For example, a young man was just smoking in the elevator, and suddenly he couldn't control himself and put the cigarette directly into his nostrils.

There are also those who go out without a leash on their dogs. When others advise the dog owner to put the dog on a leash, the dog owner will scold them on the spot: "None of your fucking business, this is my own son."

As a result, the next second, his own son suddenly lost control and crashed into a Rolls-Royce driving on the side of the road, smashing the windshield of the Rolls-Royce.

Now the dog owner was sued and lost everything.

When the expensive repair bill was placed in front of him, I wonder if the dog owner would want to stew his own son.

Similar situations are becoming more and more common.

Some are pranks, while others are pure malice.

But at the end of the day, the increasing number of these situations only means one thing.

The number of beginners is increasing rapidly.

Moreover, most of them are getting younger, because many beginners have obviously gone too far. Generally, after adults gain abilities, most of them will quietly make a fortune, like Huang Le, who uses the abilities to modify his own sex toys.

It's already such a mess now, what will it be like when the maze city falls? ?

But these are not things Xiao Ran should worry about.

After checking the time, Xiao Ran began to pack up and prepare to leave.

Last time, Black Keyboard mentioned in the group how to accurately find the entrance to the maze city, which is to look directly at the navigation map. Whenever there is an area with restricted access, there is a good chance that you will find it right.

Now that maze cities appear so frequently, such places are not difficult to find. The reason why I waited for a few days was that I hoped to find an entrance that was more remote.

And the entrance I found this time is a good one.

Very close to myself, but very far from the city.

It's a small road at the junction of Luomeng.

It only takes about ten minutes for me to go out, which is why I can stay at home so calmly and not leave until it is almost dark.

Hey, can't I use industrial skills to go back?

This is of course the fastest and most time-saving way to go back.

But the cooling time cannot be solved, and I still need to use industrial return to quickly enter the maze city.

Although Lu Cheng said that it would take at most one month, what if I'm unlucky and there's a one-month cooling-off period, and I'll have to go a longer way.

Now I can walk back and take the bus. Didn’t the driver say last time that he had been promoted?

I might as well go see him, killing two birds with one stone.

But Xiao Ran rode a shared bicycle along the main road all the way north. After riding up a high slope, he saw that the traffic police ahead had already set up a cordon.

There is a sign with white letters on a blue background in front, which reads "Frequent fog, traffic suspended."

But this did not pose a problem for Xiao Ran. He parked his car, climbed over the guardrail on the side, and walked forward on the wheat field next to him.

He heard someone calling him from behind from afar, but Xiao Ran didn't care. He pretended not to hear it, quickened his pace, and soon disappeared from the sight of the traffic police.

After walking about two miles, Xiao Ran stopped.

The maze city has not yet begun, but Xiao Ran's powerful mental strength has already allowed him to sense the strange feeling in the surrounding air.

It seemed as if the surrounding air pressure began to rise, and people felt like they had arrived at a plateau.

Xiao Ran raised his head and looked up, but he could not see anything. However, he could feel something slowly descending...

(End of this chapter)