Chapter 468: Chapter 486: The Master Who Was Driven Away
Self?
Seeing money as dung?
Ridiculous!
Utterly ridiculous.
If others knew that I’d rather wallow in piles of money daily and sleep with the smell of coins, would their fantasies about the Master shatter?
Thinking about it, Ji You decided to maintain the image the public had of them.
Thus, Ji You didn’t utter half a word.
Seeing the expression on Ji You’s face looked genuinely bizarre. The burly man said, "Little Miss, take my advice and back off, or the other party might come and pick a fight. This floor space is occupied by strong people."
Ji You: "..."
Ji You twitched the corners of his mouth and said, "Thanks for the heads up."
Burly man: "Don’t mention it, it’s nothing."
Then—
Ji You took a step forward, continuing inward.
The burly man hurriedly stopped her saying, "Little Miss, what are you doing? I told you the floor inside is all taken."
Ji You took a deep breath, very politely saying, "Thanks for the heads-up, but I’m not here to steal the floor space, I’m just here out of curiosity, will just look around and leave. 1 minute!"
Burly man: "Uh..."
Ji You said, "1 minute, just a quick glance and I’ll go."
Seeing this, the burly man didn’t stop her anymore.
After all, he had already warned her, it was up to this young lady now to listen or not.
Ji You kept walking further inside, and what happened? Every step she took, someone blocked her claiming their territory. Her stiff smile could no longer be described just as ’stiff’. Taking a deep breath, Ji You mustered the courage to continue moving forward.
Finally, she reached the shelf.
By then, the shelf was empty, and there were no notices from the shop owner in the store, looking like a completely barren shop, wondering why people were even fighting for the floor space.
Reaching the shelf, Ji You then accessed shop owner’s permissions, entered the backend, and edited the information.
After finishing, Ji You chose to save and delayed the post for one minute.
Subsequently.
She walked back out, and the moment Ji You was stepping away, a person hurried towards her—a very slender figure, but strikingly beautiful, with long black hair, it was unclear whether they were male or female.
As they brushed past each other, the person rushed too hastily and nearly knocked Ji You down. The person was quite polite, dropping a line, "Sorry, didn’t do it on purpose."
Ji You: "..."
Ji You stiffened instantly and looked up to see, and though they looked nothing like Little Cutie, whether it was the tone of voice or the walking posture, coupled with Sheng Qingyan’s habit of lurking around her shop, Ji You was absolutely certain it was Sheng Qingyan!
Sneak away!
Quick, sneak away!
Without another word, Ji You started walking. Just before leaving, she faintly heard Sheng Qingyan talking to the burly man who had stopped her initially. The burly man raised his hand pointing at the departing Ji You, and said flatteringly, "Boss, just now it was this young lady trying to encroach on your turf, but I drove her away."
Sheng Qingyan listened and patted the burly man on the shoulder, saying, "Good job. Keep it up. As long as we defend our turf, we’ll definitely be the first to grab anything new the Master launches."
Burly man: "Yep!"
Ji You: "..."
Ji You couldn’t stand it any longer, nearly turned around to give Sheng Qingyan a good beating.
A few seconds later.
On the previously empty counter of Qingyou Shop, suddenly a sign stood up, bearing the very conspicuous words: [New arrivals coming in three days at 8 PM.]
This new signboard was, of course, set up by Ji You before she left. After she left, the store system would hang the sign at the set time she programmed. The sign stood quietly, initially unnoticed by anyone.
After finishing talking with the tall guy, Sheng Qingyan immediately entered his own territory, which was simply a piece of floor where he sat cross-legged.
Then—
His eyes suddenly widened: "What is that?"
"What?"
"Pointing to what?"
"Damn!"
...
Like Sheng Qingyan, squatting and guarding, the others also discovered the anomaly in the shop a few seconds later, everyone widened their eyes: "When did this hang up? How come I didn’t notice it?"
Everyone couldn’t stay calm anymore, they dashed to the counter to check the time of the announcement update, and then found out that it was less than 1 minute ago, how could this be?
What does this mean?
This indicates that the Master herself, or perhaps someone like the Master’s assistant, had entered the shop just minutes ago.
Everyone stared with wide eyes and open mouths: "Just now, who came in?"
Sheng Qingyan was the first to jump up, counted the number of heads on the floor tiles, and after counting, he found that the number of people was complete, no one extra, and no one was missing. Moreover, these people squatting around are mostly regulars, familiar and acquainted with each other.
"No one."
"All are familiar faces."
"Didn’t see anyone else enter."
...
People chattered all at once, and suddenly, the rough-faced tall guy sprung up: "That tall girl!!!"
People: "It’s her!"
"Right!"
"She looked unfamiliar."
"She doesn’t know the rules."
"I... I actually stopped the Master from entering the shop?"
"Done for! I stopped her too."
"Terrible! I stopped her too."
"Doomed! I stopped her too."
Sheng Qingyan couldn’t bear to listen to everyone’s wails, he almost wanted to grab the tall guy and shake him vigorously, urgently asking: "How long did she stay? When did she come in? When did she leave?"
The tall guy, just thinking about how he had personally stopped the Master and even used the neighbor’s big shot to intimidate the Green Glaze Master, felt even more remorse, and thus slapped his thigh, regretting sorely: "Just now, right before we left, didn’t she bump into you?"
Upon hearing this, Sheng Qingyan could not bother to ask further, he dashed out immediately, and obviously, many people had the same idea, thus, in the blink of an eye, the shop was deserted, with no one left occupying the floor tiles.
However, those who chased after, once they ran out, where could they still see any trace of the Master?
At that moment, everyone beat their chests and stomped their feet, filled with anguish and regret.
...
As for what happened later in the shop, Ji You didn’t care anymore. After leaving the shop, she experienced many dramatic ups and downs today, which was more thrilling than a roller coaster ride. She no longer wanted to experience that kind of thrill, so, Ji You arranged everything, went into the Alliance University intranet, checked the latest competition schedules, then simply logged out of Star Network.
After logging off Star Network, Ji You couldn’t help but check her emails again, unfortunately, there was still no reply from Senior Shi Ya. She wondered whether Senior was just getting off work, or was she working overtime?
The gift will arrive tomorrow evening, will Senior Shi Ya like it?
Ji You felt very anxious.