Vending Machine

Mu Rufeng turned to glance at the guy, directly ignoring the employees eyeing him like tigers stalking prey as he began wandering around the cafeteria.

Wherever Mu Rufeng went, every employee watched him with strange looks in their eyes.

Some employees even swallowed unconsciously, as though Mu Rufeng were exceptionally delicious.

Yet no matter how tempted they were, not a single employee dared to make a move directly.

Mu Rufeng had now seen for himself that most of these employees still retained human forms.

A small number were no longer human at all, grotesquely misshapen, including bizarre things resembling Tentacle Oddities.

There were also some like Chang Feng, retaining the appearance they had at the time of death.

Fortunately, Mu Rufeng possessed the Fearless attribute. Otherwise, his legs would probably have been shaking like sieves already.

"Huh? A vending machine?" In a corner of the cafeteria, Mu Rufeng discovered a highly modern Vending Machine.

Mu Rufeng walked straight over. The moment he saw what was inside, his eyes lit up.

There were many goods inside: bottled water, drinks, spicy sticks, bread, and even instant noodles.

As for the prices, they were miraculously identical to prices in the real world.

Of course, what it accepted here were Soul Coins, not RMB.

There were also goods from bizarre instances, such as Blood Flower Beer, Scarlet Eyeballs, Corpse Worm Spicy Sticks, and so on. Naturally, these also cost Soul Coins.

Mu Rufeng rubbed his stomach. He really was getting a little hungry now.

The stronger his physical constitution became, the faster he got hungry. By the same token, he also ate more.

A man was iron, food was steel; skip one meal, and hunger struck like a hammer.

He had quite a few Soul Coins on him now, a full 180. Since they had all come for free anyway, he did not feel bad about spending them.

Mu Rufeng thought for a moment, then chose two cups of instant noodles, along with two loaves of bread and two bottles of mineral water.

The two cups of instant noodles cost ten, the two loaves of bread cost six, and the mineral water cost two, for a total of eighteen Soul Coins.

Mu Rufeng took out two ten-value banknotes and stuffed them directly into the payment slot.

"Clatter, clatter, hiss, hiss~~~!"

The Vending Machine shook a few times. Then, with several clunks, the goods he had bought dropped into the dispensing slot below.

Mu Rufeng crouched down, reached in, and took the items out.

When Mu Rufeng saw the goods clearly, he was instantly dumbfounded.

There were only three things in his hands: Little Master Crispy Noodles, a Wife Cake, and one 330ml bottle of mineral water.

"What's going on? Did you give me the wrong items?"

He had eaten Little Master Crispy Noodles before, and he had even loved them as a child, but he had bought two cups of Kang Shuai Fu instant noodles.

Little Master Crispy Noodles were priced at one yuan, while two cups of instant noodles cost ten yuan.

There was a tenfold difference in price between the two.

And the two loaves of bread that had cost six yuan had turned into a one-yuan Wife Cake, while two 500ml bottles of mineral water had become one 330ml bottle of mineral water?

That had cheated him out of more than ten yuan in one go.

"What are you staring at? Get lost already." Suddenly, a rebuking voice came from the Vending Machine.

"Huh? You're alive?" Mu Rufeng said in surprise.

A pair of eyes suddenly appeared on the Vending Machine before him, while the dispensing slot below had already turned into a mouth.

"Tell me, did you make a mistake? I put in twenty, selected eighteen-worth of items, and you gave me goods worth only two yuan and fifty cents?" Mu Rufeng said.

"Huh? Are you saying I gave you the wrong items?"

The Vending Machine's voice turned icy.

In the next instant, a pair of arms and a pair of legs suddenly grew from the Vending Machine.

The machine had already been taller than Mu Rufeng, and after growing legs, it became even taller.

"Yes, you were wrong." Mu Rufeng nodded, utterly unafraid.

"Kid, I think you're tired of living." The Vending Machine reached out, grabbed Mu Rufeng by the collar, and violently lifted him up.

Riiip~~!

The T-shirt Mu Rufeng had bought for thirty yuan was torn apart on the spot.

"Kid, get the hell out of here, or I won't mind teaching you a lesson." The Vending Machine snorted.

His clothes had been torn, yet Mu Rufeng was not angry at all. Instead, he smiled and said, "May I ask, can you attack me?"

"Kid, I think you really are tired of living. Fine, don't you think the items were wrong? Then give them back."

The Vending Machine still did not attack Mu Rufeng. Instead, it reached out, snatched the crispy noodles, Wife Cake, and mineral water from Mu Rufeng's hands, tossed them straight into its mouth, and returned them to the shelves.

"What you did should be against the rules, right?" Mu Rufeng suddenly said.

"Heh heh, you're right. I did break the rules, but what can you do about it? Want to buy food? Fine, the price is now ten times higher."

The Vending Machine's hands and feet retracted once more as it looked at Mu Rufeng with a smug expression.

Clearly, it was certain that if Mu Rufeng wanted to eat, he could only buy food here.

After all, in all of Scarlet Preferred, only this place sold things from the human world.

And in this bizarre place, it did not dare cheat the employees, since every one of them was a tough nut to crack.

But humans? Heh heh, cheat one if it could.

Mu Rufeng was not the first human it had cheated.

Even after breaking the rules and having a portion of its strength suppressed by Scarlet Preferred—

So what? Humans could not defeat it. If they fought, it could strike back, then eat that human.

"Oh, so you mean I can attack you?" Mu Rufeng said with narrowed, smiling eyes.

"What? You want to fight this lord? Sure, I'll stand right here and let you hit me three times." The Vending Machine smiled as well.

As long as Mu Rufeng attacked first, it could retaliate. That way, it would have its blood food.

"You said it." Mu Rufeng slowly raised his right hand.

"That's right. Come on." The Vending Machine said disdainfully.

Do not let the fact that it was merely a Vending Machine fool you; its strength was not to be underestimated. When it came to humans, it ate one for every one that came, and two for every pair.

"Then here I come."

Mu Rufeng stepped back with his right foot, clenched his right hand into a fist, swung his arm backward, and slightly twisted his upper body to the right.

This stance allowed him to throw a punch with maximum force.

"I don't know how strong I am either. This is perfect—I'll use you to test it out." Mu Rufeng muttered.

"Come on!" The Vending Machine still wore that disdainful look.

Boom!

The Vending Machine was sent crashing heavily into the wall behind it.

At that moment, a large hole had already been smashed through the glass window on the front of the Vending Machine.

And because it had crashed so heavily into the wall behind it, the Vending Machine's body had suffered massive damage as well.

The tremendous commotion immediately drew a great many eyes.

When they saw the battered Vending Machine, every one of them revealed a shocked expression.

"Oh my, did I hit too hard? Why are you so fragile?" Mu Rufeng was slightly astonished inside, though his outward display was wildly exaggerated.

He immediately walked toward the Vending Machine.