Accommodation costing tens of thousands a month and meals costing over a thousand a day weighed on everyone like a mountain, forcing them to scramble just to survive.
"Do you have a plan for this mission?" Bai Tingjiao asked as they walked down the street. Unlike the aloof Ye Ling and the quiet Xuan Yuan Nian, she was a fairly lively girl.
"The mission details mention a few shops that were robbed. One of them is a breakfast bun shop nearby. Let's go take a look!" Xiao Ran said, looking through the mission briefing.
Xiao Shao Bun Shop was a husband-and-wife business in Border Town. Both owners had once been Elite Class Trainers, but they had encountered danger during an expedition into the wilderness, leaving most of their Pokémon dead or injured. Disheartened, they had decided to stop adventuring and opened this shop instead, serving people passing through.
"Sir, four meat buns and four vegetable buns, plus four cups of soy milk," Xiao Ran called to the busy owner after finding an empty table and sitting down.
"Coming right up!" replied the owner, who was packing an order for another customer. He quickly put eight buns on a plate and had his wife, who still retained her charm, bring them over.
They had to admit that the buns here were quite good. Business was booming, with almost every seat occupied early in the morning, so Xiao Ran and the others found no chance to speak with the owners for a while.
It was past ten before the crowd began to thin. After tidying up the shop, the owner noticed that Xiao Ran and the others were still there, washed his hands, and walked over to them.
"You youngsters certainly are good-looking. You've been sitting here all morning. I take it