A Gamer's Personal View (3)

The eye was enormous; even with more than thirty people inside, it didn't feel crowded at all. And after a flash of light, all the seats that were meant for snake people began to change, becoming seats suitable for humans.

Once everyone was seated, two tiny tentacles extended from the chairs, intertwining to form a seatbelt. Tian Lan shifted slightly in her seat, feeling as if it were a fleshy cushion.

Then the giant eye took flight and headed towards its destination. The group sat atop it, and those inside the eye discovered that they now possessed Dark Vision, allowing them to see directly down into the city and observe ongoing construction on its outskirts.

Several snake people cleared away all the plants on the ground, making the ground perfectly flat. Then, they knelt down and began to chant a beautiful song. Although the song was beautiful, it had a dark and eerie feel to it, and even a sense of madness spreading through it. The song seemed to have a strange magic that could even reach the entire shadow world.

Upon hearing this music, the snake people on the street below began to sway and sing in unison to praise the great being. Even the eyes in the sky formed a circle and began to rotate.

Above the large eyes, a few people with weak willpower even began to sing along with the snake people, their tone and even their words were exactly the same. The others couldn't understand these words at all, and only felt that it was a group of snakes roaring collectively, beautiful yet eerie.

In that open space, a building rose from the ground, forming a huge black square tower. It seemed that all the buildings in the Shadow Kingdom were square towers like this, and from a distance, it looked like an obelisk.

Once the square tower had fully emerged, the snake people stopped their singing and dancing, respectfully bowed to the tower, and then entered it with various decorations, thus completing the ceremony.

Cold sweat poured down the faces of everyone in the room, especially those who had started singing along. They covered their necks and mouths and screamed in terror, but their screams sounded like the hissing of snakes.

The tongues of these people had somehow transformed into snake forks, and they were clearly writhing and twisting, indicating they were skilled in oral sex... oops, I mean, they were constantly changing shape, before finally reverting back to human tongues.

They were sweating profusely, frantically touching their tongues, finally swallowing hard, and closing their eyes with lingering fear, too afraid to look down. The others also breathed a sigh of relief; this place was truly too eerie.

Finally, their eyes stopped in front of a building on the edge. All the buildings they had seen along the way were square towers, but this one was extremely strange. It was a half-body human statue, dressed in black. Although his face was covered with a veil, he looked like he was smiling slyly. In his hand, he held two short knives. One of them was engraved with the word "Youjian" and the other with the two characters "Xiaodian".

"This is Some Shop?" Tian Lan's lips twitched. She inexplicably recalled the annoying little figure jumping around on the mural. Looking down at the half-figure-like building, the group of people suddenly felt like they might have gone crazy. How could they have thought of coming here?

There was a doorway in the spot where the black-haired, large-bellied half of the bust statue was, brightly lit. A black figure sat there, idly playing with a dagger. When he saw the group of people, his eyes widened, and then he immediately rushed over at the speed of a 100-meter sprint.

"Please come in, gentlemen. Welcome to our Some Shop. Are you looking for Little Peach Blossom or Little Jade Lotus...?" Shadow B, bowing like a servile pimp, dragged the group towards the shop.

Once inside, I saw all sorts of strange and unusual things: Black Face, crystal spheres, swords, large cleavers, martial arts manuals, Mad Star Fruits, Shadow B swimming pool photos, Snake Woman Notebook, Crow Sits on a Plane crash course manuals, alchemy pressure cookers, Azure Cloud Sect Nine Revolutions Golden Body Art, dead pigeons, big eyeballs, and so on. It seemed like I had infiltrated something extraordinary.

The shop didn't look big, but once inside, there were over thirty people standing there, yet it wasn't crowded at all. Shadow B looked at the group of over thirty people with great joy and said emotionally, "It's really not easy. On the twenty-eighth day since the shop opened, we finally have normal customers coming in. I don't have to sell Snake Woman fanfiction anymore..."

"Gentlemen, what can I do for you?" Shadow B tugged at his clothes, instantly transforming into a black suit, and then said with utmost professionalism, "This shop is a century-old establishment; whatever you want, we have it here!"

"Didn't you just say it would be open for twenty-eight days?" Tian Lan's lips twitched as she looked at the golden statue beside her, which shimmered with golden light and looked extremely mysterious.

Shadow B immediately stepped forward and said, "Opening hours don't matter. This statue is forged from mithril and possesses extremely powerful divine energy. Whether you bring it home to ward off evil spirits or use it to protect your house, its effect is unparalleled. Not 8,800, not 2,300, just 9,988, 9,988! Take the mithril statue home..."

Tian Lan touched it, and her hand was covered in gold powder, revealing the stone inside. Shadow B's words stopped abruptly, and a POS machine appeared in his left hand and a barcode scanner in his right. "Sir, will you be paying in cash, by card, or by scanning a QR code with WeChat Pay?"

"This is a fake, and you still want to charge me?" Tian Lan's expression froze. He thought he was already shameless, but he didn't expect the other party to be even more shameless than him.

"How could the real thing cost 998? Buy it or not? If you don't, I'll call 20,000 of my brothers over." Shadow B calmly looked at Tian Lan and said, "Young man, let me teach you a lesson. When you're out in the world, harmony brings wealth. Pay up and admit your mistake."

Clusters of black mist formed behind Shadow B, creating Shadow Assassin. Tian Lan twitched her lips, took out her phone, obediently scanned the code to pay, and the Shadow Assassin instantly disappeared. Shadow B also quickly packaged the idol and placed it in Tian Lan's hands.

Looking at the five missing haircuts and styling services in her account, Tian Lan narrowed her eyes. This was a dungeon world, and according to the quest information, it wasn't even in the same universe. How could she still pay by scanning a QR code?

"The store manager is truly knowledgeable, has he ever been to Earth?" Tian Lan asked, squinting. Then she saw the POS machine and barcode scanner back in front of her. Shadow B smiled and said, "We also deal in information trading. Your question isn't worth 28,000 or 8,800, it's only 1,380. Cash, card, or WeChat Pay/QR code?"