Traveling through various miniature worlds with a small restaurant

Chapter 192 The Bizarre Post-Apocalyptic World 9

"Xiao Qian, what did you say? What do you mean Jiang Shuang is missing?"

Lin Xiaoqian explained anxiously, "I searched the entire fourth floor but couldn't find her, so I went into her room. But I found that she wasn't in the room at all, and the window was wide open."

Liao Zhuang frowned and said, "Could something have lured Jiang Shuang away from the window?"

Zhuang Damao said instinctively, "How is that possible?"

Mo Ying said, "It's not impossible. Doesn't that little boy know some kind of evil magic that can control people's minds? Could he first bewitch Jiang Shuang and make her climb down from the window? With Jiang Shuang's skills, it would be very easy for her to climb down from the fourth-floor window."

Lin Xiaoqian sighed, "Is now the time to praise Sister Shuang's skills?"

"Oh right, there are security cameras!"

Lin Xiaoqian ran to the cashier and checked the security camera footage at the entrance. Sure enough, she saw Jiang Shuang climbing down from upstairs, but she disappeared into the white mist as soon as she landed.

"So Jiang Shuang really did climb down from the window herself. This place is really eerie; it's impossible to guard against anything."

Lin Xiaoqian said anxiously, "We need to find Sister Shuang as soon as possible."

Mo Ying calmly said, "Don't rush. That thing must have a purpose in luring Jiang Shuang there. And there's a very high chance it wants to get something from us. Let's open the metal door outside the restaurant first; maybe clues will come to us on their own soon."

Lin Xiaoqian nodded, "Okay! At worst, we can let all those people outside in and see if I shock them or not."

Zhuang Damao pressed a button on the remote control, and the metal door rose up. The people outside saw them through the glass and immediately began to frantically pound on the glass, letting out screams.

Looking at them, Lin Xiaoqian couldn't help but ask, "Are they really zombies?"

Mo Ying replied, "Actually, I don't think so, because I feel that they have the aura of living people, but their current state doesn't seem like that of real people, but rather like they are possessed. When I was outside, I didn't have any spiritual energy, so I couldn't tell what was wrong with their bodies."

Lin Xiaoqian slammed his hand on the table: "That's easy, just let one in and take a closer look."

Without further ado, the four of them ran to the glass door and let one person in at random.

Mo Ying directly used magic to bind it.

Coincidentally, the person who was let in was Zheng Dayong.

He was tightly bound by ropes formed from spiritual energy, crawling and writhing on the ground like a caterpillar, straining to lift his head, his neck bulging with veins, and making a 'hoarse' sound.

"I'll try casting a calming spell on him first," Lin Xiaoqian said, reciting the spell and patting Zheng Dayong on the head.

Zheng Dayong suddenly turned his head and almost bit Lin Xiaoqian's hand.

"Oh my god! You scared me!"

Zheng Dayong suddenly spoke in a rough voice: "You want to save people? Then go steam a thousand buns and put them at the door."

Lin Xiaoqian and the others: ? ? ?

WTF?

Let them steam buns?

Liao Zhuang pointed at Zheng Dayong: "You're not Zheng Dayong, who are you?!"

'Zheng Dayong' didn't answer him. Instead, he said viciously, 'If I don't see Baozi at the door before eight o'clock tonight, I'll kill your companions, hahahahaha.'

"You!" Liao Zhuang kicked Zheng Dayong in anger.

Mo Ying said sternly, "How can we trust that you won't harm our companion? At the very least, let us see that she's alright."

Lin Xiaoqian quickly chimed in, "That's right. We can't trust you until we see Sister Shuang safe and sound. Let us see Sister Shuang first."

Zheng Dayong paused for a moment, then said, "You can choose not to believe me, then just wait to collect the corpses of your companions."

After saying that, Zheng Dayong closed his eyes and remained silent.

Liao Zhuang kicked him again, but he didn't move. He asked in alarm, "He's not dead, is he?"

Mo Ying crouched down and examined him carefully. "He's not dead yet."

Then he raised his hand and placed it on Zheng Dayong's head. The spiritual energy slowly circulated within his body. After a moment, Mo Ying frowned and slowly raised his hand.

As his hand rose, a thin wisp of black smoke emerged from Zheng Dayong's brain.

Zheng Dayong began to let out continuous painful screams.

Zheng Dayong stopped howling only after all the black smoke was drawn out, and then lay motionless on the ground.

The black smoke, about ten centimeters long, transformed into a black crystal under the influence of the spiritual energy in Mo Ying's hand.

Liao Zhuang exclaimed, "My God, is this a crystal core? Then he's a zombie!"

Mo Ying shook his head and said, "Zheng Dayong is indeed a living person, but he contains a strange energy. If it resides in a person's brain for a long time, that person will not live long."

Zhuang Damao also leaned closer to look, "Could it be that the little boy used this thing to control the people in the town?"

Mo Ying nodded. "I remember we asked the people in town, and they all said they had only come to this town in the last year or two, and they all said they were rescued by a person named Xiao Li. Therefore, I guess that the little boy is Xiao Li."

Zhuang Damao nodded, then shook his head: "That's not right. They said Xiao Li is a young man in his early twenties."

Mo Ying said, "Everyone in the town trusts him. He's the only one who can appear and disappear in the town so mysteriously."

Liao Zhuang interjected, "Mo Ying is right. That little boy suddenly appears and disappears, and he can control people. He's mysterious and strange. It's probably some kind of illusion that has changed his image in people's minds. It makes perfect sense that the little boy is Xiao Li."

"Everyone," Lin Xiaoqian interrupted, "I think it's more important to make the steamed buns first, no matter what. In order to save Sister Shuang, I plan to make the steamed buns first. Excuse me."

Zhuang Damao also stood up, "A thousand is too many, let me help you."

"Wait a minute!" Mo Ying said. "Don't rush. I think we can find Jiang Shuang by starting with this black crystal."

Lin Xiaoqian and Zhuang Damao paused, looking at Mo Ying with hopeful eyes, "Do you have a way?"

Mo Ying stood up, glancing at the people still baring their teeth and brandishing their claws outside the door. "I need more of these black crystals. Get me some more people in."