Chapter 10 Against an A? Pass.

Lu Xiaoyao’s livestream was being broadcast from her personal first-person perspective. Therefore, everyone could see Lu Xiaoyao looking down at her own unremarkable neckline…

Everyone: Emmm, that description is spot on!

Mingmei couldn't help but chuckle in respect.

[Hahahaha! Our daughter hasn't grown up yet.]

[Never gonna grow up, never gonna grow up.]

[Little cub: Am I cute? I traded my figure for it.]

[Gagagagaga! I just realized why Yaoyao has so many "dad" and "mom" fans!]

[Brothers, shout it with me—]

[Against an A? Pass!]

All that to say, these days the bamboo shoots are just too fragrant, everyone wants a piece.

Mingmei watched for a while, and the sadness she felt earlier had eased up a bit. Even her movements as she packed up the boxed lunches were lighter.

“I said, why can’t I just pull out and sell boxed lunches at any time in this game? Why do I have to take them out and pack them in advance?”

If she hadn’t packed the boxed lunches into those food containers beforehand, the “stolen” boxed lunch situation wouldn’t have happened.

[Do you think this is still a horror escape game? Do you believe that if you took out a boxed lunch directly, the NPCs would immediately treat you like a ghost and burn you as a sacrifice to the heavens?]

Mingmei was speechless after Gui Gui asked that.

She took back what she said about the beginner village difficulty being too high in the previous round.

Compared to this round, Mingmei felt that this wasn't just a test for the players, but also a huge test for her as a boxed lunch vendor!

So how could she blend into the banquet tonight and sell boxed lunches without attracting attention?

Mingmei pursed her lips. According to the six-hour countdown, the time she could sell boxed lunches again would probably be when the banquet started.

“Um…”

A sudden voice startled Mingmei, and she immediately shoved the boxed lunches into the large food container in front of her. She turned around sharply and saw Charlie and Julian, who had been kidnapped earlier.

“What is it?” Mingmei looked at them. They had changed clothes, and it looked like their wounds had been treated with ointment. The air was filled with the smell of medicine.

“Um… we want to buy boxed lunches, two, we want both!” Charlie held up two fingers, gesturing.

“Sorry, you have another three and a half hours until your next purchase time,” Mingmei reminded them that after they missed the mysterious merchant, the next transaction time would be in six hours.

However, she was also curious, how did these two suddenly realize she was a merchant?

Charlie and Julian looked disbelieving when they heard this, and then asked without thinking, “When did we refuse you?”

“Wasn’t it you who didn’t want to eat anything else I offered?”

“Did we?”

“Didn’t you?” Mingmei’s skill at being sarcastic while maintaining a straight face was absolutely top-notch.

After the rhetorical question, Mingmei didn’t wait for them to recall but took the lead in repeating their previous words.

“Who said, ‘Listen to me, it’s best to eat less’?”

Charlie: “…”

“And who said, ‘Girl, it’s best to eat less things in the game, don’t eat if you can avoid it’?”

After Mingmei finished speaking, she looked at Julian, who was already counting ants on the ground. Mingmei’s cold laughter made them both tremble and fall silent.

For a moment, Charlie and Julian felt that this merchant NPC had a very strong aura!

So, had they been out of their minds before?

Why did they refuse to eat?

“Then… then is there no other way?” Charlie asked with a mournful face, “By the time we can buy them, the banquet will have already started, where will we find you then?”

“Even if you find me, are you two going to buy my boxed lunches in front of the tyrant? Do you think the intelligent NPCs are blind?”

Seeing that Charlie and Julian were also stumped, Mingmei had originally wanted the players to help her think of a solution for the evening, but these two stopped talking?

“Then… if you can attend the banquet, like you did at noon today, can you replace the food served with the food you sell us, and deliver it to us?” Julian, recalling the situation when Mingmei appeared earlier, proposed this idea.

“Hmm? You…” Mingmei was moved by the suggestion. She wondered if she could sneak into the king’s tent as a serving girl.

It shouldn’t be too difficult?

Seeing Mingmei pondering for a moment before nodding in agreement with their suggestion, saying she would find a way.

Just as the two of them were about to leave, Mingmei stopped them.

“Wait a minute.”

“Is there anything else?”

“Achen… what exactly happened in the king’s tent? Why did she die, and why were you two released?”

Mingmei couldn’t help but want to know about the maid named Achen.

They were able to take the initiative to find her, admit their mistakes, and want to buy boxed lunches. Mingmei didn’t think that something like “Five words floated down from the sky – quickly go buy a boxed lunch” could explain it.

Someone must have enlightened them!

Charlie and Julian were completely unprepared for Mingmei to ask them this. They looked at each other in surprise. Listening to the mysterious merchant’s tone, it seemed like she knew that person?

Holy crap!

Was it possible to have a good relationship with the mysterious merchant?

Could NPCs be charmed these days?

Seeing them looking at each other with their small eyes, not saying a word, Mingmei frowned and asked again, “Speak.”

“Ah… ah, when the tyrant interrogated us, seeing that we weren’t saying anything, he called that player over again. She took the opportunity to assassinate the tyrant, but failed… before failing, she tried to protect us, saying that everything was just her trying to get close to the tyrant and randomly accusing two people to deceive the tyrant.”

At this point, Charlie and Julian’s faces both turned pale, as if they had thought of something bad. Their lips trembled slightly, and the voices of their words were so low that Mingmei doubted whether the other party was even talking to her.

“She… she really was a player?” When Mingmei heard this, a strange light flashed in her eyes.

“Yes, she was the one who reminded us to find you.” As they spoke, their tone was filled with fear at the memory of that scene.

“Although the tyrant believed that we were just being used by the assassin, he didn’t intend to let us go directly, saying he wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. So, in front of our eyes, he beat her to death…”

This was even more torturous than a quick death!

In the interstellar era, war weapons were mostly highly destructive and had a wide range of attack. Once they were used, they were basically fatal with one blow. This scene of beating someone to death little by little had left a deep shadow in their minds.

Moreover, the person who was beaten to death had her mouth gagged the whole time, and not even a wail could be heard…

Even after Mingmei sent them out of the tent, the two still had pale faces and hadn’t recovered.

However, as soon as Mingmei entered the tent, the two immediately snapped back to their senses, completely different from before.

“Holy crap, these NPCs are really more amazing than the last, aren’t they? I just felt like I was talking to a real person…”

Charlie, who desperately needed to talk about something else to change the subject after escaping from the previous terrifying memory, whispered to Julian about this.

“Tell me about it. But I think there’s still one thing about her that’s not like a real person.”

“What?”

“Her face is relatively stiff, and she doesn’t have much emotion. Oh, no, that’s not right. When she’s being sarcastic, she’s quite like a person, but at other times… think about it, if her tone was a little sweeter and her expression a little cuter when she was recommending things to us… hey, what’s with that look on your face?”

After talking for a long time, Charlie suddenly noticed that Julian was staring at him with a dead-fish-eye expression.

“Have you been cooped up at school for too long? You can be like this just seeing an NPC? How embarrassing! She’s not one of those people from the Empire…”

“Get out, get out, stop using those young ladies and masters from the Empire to make fun of me… you’re the one who’s thinking dirty, okay?”

As the two laughed and scolded each other, they didn’t notice that behind a pile of grass outside the tent, there were two pairs of eyes staring at them…