Chapter 26 Selling Boxed Lunches

With Mu Chen's encouragement, Mingmei refreshed her sales performance that night.

Lu Gui and Lu Xiaoyao were definitely big spenders. However, compared to Lu Xiaoyao's mindless purchases, Lu Gui clearly thought about what kind of boxed lunches he needed before buying them in bulk.

For example, he directly bought five of the braised beef boxed lunches that could reveal a person's relationship network. He wasn't very interested in the rare resources that came from the red-braised pig's feet, only buying one as a token gesture.

But to be honest, Mingmei really didn't expect Dong Lei and Sun Yunzhong to be so generous when Mu Chen was willing to lend them money.

Based on her previous interactions with Dong Lei, her family was just an average family, and she only had her service allowance to spend each month. Mingmei couldn't help but internally curse her uncle as a black-hearted merchant when she saw her borrow two thousand yuan from Mu Chen to buy boxed lunches!

After selling a wave of boxed lunches on the black market, Mingmei once again closed up shop and headed to the black boxing arena.

Mu Chen didn't stop fighting because of what happened last night. When Mingmei went to the boxing arena today, she heard many people talking about the Number 18 fighter.

Passerby A: "What did you all bet on today? I saw Number 18 is back."

Passerby B: "Really? I saw him too. He didn't get hurt in any of the three matches yesterday, and he looks like he's in good shape today. Maybe he'll win them all again."

Passerby C: "Tch, didn't you see who he's fighting today?"

Mingmei was also stunned for a moment. She was holding the betting ticket she bought for Number 18 to win all three matches. She couldn't help but pause to listen to their analysis.

"His first match is against Fighter Number 3, that guy named Oulai."

"Whoa, why is he back fighting? Isn't he injur…"

Before he could finish, Mingmei saw that the person had a cryptic expression again, and the others also had knowing looks. They nodded in agreement and sighed, "Number 18 is really out of luck, running into that fiend Oulai!"

Mingmei was a little confused. From what they said, she knew that Fighter Number 3 was very difficult to deal with, but they had to explain what Oulai did, right?

"Excuse me, is the fighter you're talking about, Oulai, very strong?"

Before Mingmei could ask, a woman shrouded in a black cloak spoke up. Mingmei and the group who had been chatting all looked over. One of them immediately reacted and asked, "New here?"

"Yes."

The woman under the cloak nodded. The passersby nodded knowingly and said, "When Oulai fought before, he had a hundred consecutive days without a single loss. He was eventually recruited by the city lord of the underground city, and that's why he stopped fighting."

Hearing the other person mention the city lord of the underground city, Mingmei couldn't help but think of the mixed-blood octopus she saw on the black market street a few days ago.

Was this so-called Oulai recruited by that giant octopus?

What Mingmei was thinking was naturally what Hu Yue was also thinking. Hu Yue wanted to explore the boxing arena and see the level of the fighters. As soon as she came in, she heard people talking about it. The most talked about topic was Fighter Number 18, who had won all three matches yesterday.

But hearing that Fighter Number 3 was actually involved with the upper echelons of the underground city, her attention couldn't help but shift to this Oulai.

"Then why is he fighting again?"

"Who knows? Maybe he missed it after not fighting for so long and just wanted to fight—looking for excitement, right?"

The audience didn't seem too surprised that a fighter who hadn't fought in a long time had suddenly returned. Instead, they were more excited.

Compared to Mu Chen's almost fleeting glorious record yesterday, they were more inclined to believe that this undefeated legend could completely defeat Mu Chen.

Mingmei was no longer interested in listening to their exaggerated praise of Oulai. She didn't know where Lu Xiaoyao and the others had gone after buying the boxed lunches, so Mingmei tried her best to get closer to the arena, trying to get a seat in the front row.

By the way, since that fighter named Oulai had been recruited by the city lord of the underground city, Mingmei felt that this person was worth observing to investigate his relationships.

…

"Oh my god, Brother, you're fighting in black boxing? Aren't you afraid of running into a big shot?" Lu Xiaoyao looked at her older brother filling out the fighter registration form, her eyes almost popping out of her head.

"I submitted it today, so the earliest I'll be on stage is tomorrow. It's not that likely that we'll run into each other." While explaining, Lu Gui glanced at Lu Xiaoyao, who looked like she only understood half of what he said, and said, "You've been in the underground city for two days. Tell me, how many of the rules here do you remember?"

Lu Xiaoyao: 0.0

Was that really necessary?

How could she remember them?

Seeing Lu Xiaoyao like this, Lu Gui subconsciously rubbed his forehead. When he turned around to leave with Lu Xiaoyao, he whispered to her, "Are you like this when you're with Julian usually?"

"What do you mean 'usually'? I'm so busy every day in the Sixth Legion, and he's so busy at the Federal Military Academy that he doesn't have time to breathe. There's not much time to spend together. I wish we had more 'usually' time!"

Thinking of this, Lu Xiaoyao suddenly realized that long-distance relationships were really hard _(:3」∠)_

Even though they could have close contact on the Star Network, they still wanted to meet in person.

"That's good." Lu Gui breathed a sigh of relief and muttered, "I was afraid that your true face of being too stupid would be discovered by the other party, and you'd be easily manipulated by him in the future."

Lu Xiaoyao: ???

Are you really my brother?!

Just as Lu Xiaoyao was about to argue with her brother, a tug came from her arm, and the next second, Lu Xiaoyao was pulled away from her original spot by her brother.

Before she could shout her brother's name, Lu Xiaoyao only felt a blur in front of her, and the bangs on her forehead were stirred up by a dark red figure flashing before her eyes.

When she steadied herself, the dark red figure had already passed through the spot where she had been standing, and Lu Gui looked unkindly at the figure that had moved away from them and entered the fighter's backstage.

"Just now…"

Lu Xiaoyao looked at Lu Gui uncertainly. Lu Gui's eyes darkened. When the huge figure that she couldn't see clearly passed in front of them, Lu Gui met the heart-palpitating gaze.

Those were inhuman eyes that he couldn't describe, with light golden vertical pupils looking at him indifferently. At that moment, Lu Gui couldn't help but feel a surge of fear from the bottom of his heart. Even though he tried to break free from that feeling of falling into an ice cave, it still took him a few seconds.

What a powerful and terrifying mental force, to be able to affect him like that?

"Who was that?!"

Seeing that her brother hadn't spoken, Lu Xiaoyao became angry and stuck her tongue out at the departing figure.

If it hadn't been for her older brother just now, she might have been knocked over by this burly man.

"Let's go."

Lu Gui took a deep breath and ignored Lu Xiaoyao's complaints, directly taking her away, with no intention of causing trouble.

Lu Xiaoyao originally wanted to say something, but she immediately shut her mouth when she saw the frightening look in her brother's eyes.

However, a hint of regret flashed through Lu Xiaoyao's mind.

She should have used the boxed lunch's ability to see that person's relationships just now.

"Should we…"

"No need."

Knowing what Lu Xiaoyao wanted to do, Lu Gui stopped her, glanced at the fighter's backstage again, retracted his gaze, and said, "If he's really that powerful, Mu Chen will see it."

…

Just as the players in the game were trying hard to adapt to everything and explore the clues and plot of the game, the outside of the game was also very lively.

"I want to play too."

Lu Gui couldn't help but twitch the corner of his mouth when he saw Hu Mingli sitting on his desk, and sighed inwardly.

How did the pure and passionate chuunibyou (eighth-grader syndrome) teenager grow up to be so twisted?

"Then go in."

"Then unlock the permissions and let me in." Hu Mingli pouted and looked at Yan Hui, "Is there anything I can't know?"

Yan Hui: "There's a lot."

Hu Mingli's expression stiffened for a moment at Yan Hui's blunt answer.

"After thinking about it carefully, those words you said before are very perfunctory." The more Hu Mingli pondered about Yan Hui's explanation that he was setting up a game for the people from the Outer Star Sea to indulge in, the more he felt that something was wrong.

"Instead of saying that you're making them indulge in normal emotions that they've never experienced, I now think that you're actually making them return to the right path?"

Hearing Hu Mingli's evaluation, Yan Hui almost couldn't help but laugh, "Are you seeing me as some kind of living Bodhisattva?"

Hu Mingli wasn't in a hurry to give examples when Yan Hui denied it, but only said, "Indeed, you wouldn't do anything without a profit. If there were no benefits, you probably wouldn't do this, so—what is there in the Outer Star Sea that's worth you going to so much trouble for?"

"Is there? Going to so much trouble?"

Yan Hui turned his head and blinked innocently at him, picked up the health pot on the side, poured himself a cup of hot water, sat directly on the sofa, and looked at the gray-purple sky outside the floor-to-ceiling windows. He sighed, "Time really flies. In the passage of time, how many escaped fugitives from the Empire have fled to the Outer Star Sea in recent years?"

Seeing that Hu Mingli didn't speak, Yan Hui didn't wait for him to think. Instead, he continued to talk to himself, "Do you know how many people die in the Outer Star Sea every year?"