Chapter 100: Adventures in Fresh Food Supermarket (Part 3)
Thanks to the fact that human food could not attract the interest of monsters, all the ingredients Lu Ren needed were sold very cheaply in this fresh food supermarket. Even after he bought all the vegetables and beef, he found that there was still a large surplus in his budget.
This is not a fresh food supermarket, it is clearly a charity organization.
"There are frozen raccoon legs in the refrigerator, so we don't need to buy pork." Lu Ren silently calculated, "Well, the money saved can be used for a rare luxury. Why not buy some seafood and let Lu Yang and Ali taste the taste of seafood..."
After all, it was a fresh food supermarket, and its main selling point was that you could buy fresh seafood in inland cities. Lu Ren had not bought seafood very often, except when he was alone during the Chinese New Year to reward himself for a year of hard work. Most of the time, he would drool over the seafood he saw on TV.
After making up his mind, Lu Ren began to search the seafood section in the supermarket.
He was surprised to find that the seafood area was separated from the rest of the supermarket. Not far from the meat counter, there was a door with a cardboard sign on the door frame, with the words "Aquatic Area" written neatly in large print. Other than that, there were no fancy decorations.
In order to confirm that he was in the right place, Lu Ren even asked the nearest salesperson: "If I want to buy seafood, should I go in that direction?"
The salesperson smiled and replied, "Yes, but the aquatic area is quite humid, so please make sure you wear protective clothing."
Lu Ren, who often goes to the vegetable market, knows this. Because the goods are fresh, there will usually be some fish scales and stagnant water on the ground in the aquatic area.
And this is a fresh food supermarket specifically for monsters, so the seafood inside should be more lively accordingly. Therefore, before pushing the door, Lu Ren had already prepared himself mentally: the aquatic area of this fresh food supermarket would definitely have more accumulated water than the vegetable market.
However, after pushing the door open, he realized that the problem he should not be considering was the accumulation of water.
The moment Lu Ren opened the door, the sudden blinding sunlight blinded him so much that he could only close his eyes reflexively. Deprived of his vision, Lu Ren felt a warm breeze blowing on his face, with a sticky and damp smell. The sound of waves came to his ears, and the unique smell of the sea could be smelled in the air.
Before Lu Ren had time to open his eyes, he realized that there was a sea behind the door.
Just as he was stunned, he suddenly felt a sense of weightlessness and Lu Ren staggered. Fortunately, Jun Fang behind him was quick to support him.
Lu Ren's eyes finally adjusted to the light. He slowly opened his eyes and found that he was actually on a boat, which was rising and falling with the waves.
This is a huge wooden sailing ship, which looks quite old, but judging from the state of the deck and the side, it is well maintained. Lu Ren looked back at the way he came and found that he and Jun Fang should have just walked out of the cabin door.
There were also two salesmen on the deck of the ship waiting for customers to arrive. When they saw Lu Ren and Jun Fang looking at them, they immediately greeted them warmly: "Welcome to the aquatic area."
Aquaculture area?
When Lu Ren heard this word, he couldn't help but look at the endless sea beside him.
Because there were too many questions popping up in his head at once, Lu Ren could only pick out his biggest question and ask, "Where is the aquatic product?"
After hearing this, the salesperson looked at Lu Ren with a look that said, "Can't you see such an obvious problem?" Then he smiled and said, "Of course it's in the sea."
"In the sea?"
Faced with two people with question marks written all over their heads, the salesperson smiled and pushed them to the side of the boat, then gave each of them a fishing rod.
One of the salesmen explained, "Yes, in order to ensure the taste of the fish, all the seafood in our supermarket is guaranteed to be alive. However, considering that although it is fish, it is a monster after all, it is too dangerous to easily keep it in a tank. So in order to solve these problems, our supermarket has created a new method and specially contracted this sea area, striving to let customers eat the freshest and most delicious seafood."
Lu Ren looked at the fishing rod, then at the sea, and finally at the smiling face of the salesperson.
“But why do you have to fish for yourself?”
The salesperson explained to Lu Ren, "This is a new service developed by our supermarket. It can make the purchase process more interesting. It was supposed to be launched next month, but the staff member who was in charge of fishing yesterday had his hand bitten off by a fish. So he took a leave of absence to go to the hospital today, and planned to ask Dean Bai Ze to find a hand that looks similar to his own to replace it. As you know, it's hard to get an appointment with an expert. So there is no staff member who can help with fishing today, and this is a good opportunity for you to experience the upcoming service in advance."
Another salesperson followed suit: "Yes, you are the first one to experience this service, you are so lucky."
“……”No, no, no, this is not luck at all. You just said that the last person who fished here had his hand bitten off.
So Lu Ren took back the fishing rod from Jun Fang's hand. He returned the two fishing rods to the salesperson and said, "Thank you, but we won't participate..."
Before he finished speaking, he heard the salesperson say, "As the first and second experiencers, all the fish you catch will be given away for free at this supermarket. No fees will be charged."
After hearing this, Lu Ren returned Junfang's fishing rod to him, and took Junfang to one side to discuss countermeasures. The two of them squatted in the corner with their backs to the salesperson, looking like two huge mushrooms.
It can be seen that Lu Ren is struggling internally at this moment: "Although this is a good free opportunity, it will be difficult to encounter the next one if we miss it. But even if the event itself is very tempting, I don't think we may be able to participate."
Junfang nodded, "Yes, Ren, I don't know how to fish."
"Even though I don't know how to do it, that's not the point. Whether or not we can catch fish is not the most important thing. The most important thing is that once we join in, we can't guarantee that our organs will be intact after we finish fishing."
Junfang was very confident about this: "Don't worry, Ren. As long as any fish dare to approach, I will definitely knock them out. By then, even the most ferocious fish will become a side dish in today's hot pot."
Lu Ren, who was still hesitant, looked at Jun Fang after hearing this and asked, "Are you sure?"
Jun Fang's eyes were clear and sincere. He looked at Lu Ren and said solemnly, "I'm sure."
The two of them hit it off immediately and took out their phones to search for "how to fish".
The online tutorials were very detailed, but also very complicated, which made the two of them very confused and they didn't know where to start.
The salesperson may have seen the dilemma the two were facing, so he stepped forward and kindly reminded them: "Don't worry, the bait we provide is a pill rich in spiritual power, which is what monsters love the most. We will definitely have a good catch."
As he spoke, the salesperson took out a small box from behind his back and handed it to Lu Ren. Lu Ren opened the box and saw that it was full of black pills.
Although it was unclear what the effects of these pills were, this did not prevent Lu Ren from putting them on the hook as bait. Then, under the guidance of the salesperson, Lu Ren and Jun Fang both threw the hooks into the sea, waiting for the big fish to take the bait.
Only then did Lu Ren finally have time to take a good look at the sea in front of him: it was boundless, sparkling, and presented a kind of calming blue. The sailboat they were on had folded its sails and was drifting alone on the sea, looking small and lonely.
Lu Ren asked the salesperson: "Where are we?"
The salesperson smiled and replied, "This is the outermost sea area of the Endless Abyss."
"Endless Abyss?" This seemed to be a word that Lu Ren had never heard of in his past life.
The salesperson nodded, as if she was surprised that Lu Ren didn't know about the Endless Abyss. "All the monsters that commit crimes in Kunlun Realm will eventually be imprisoned in the Endless Abyss. And once they fall into the Endless Abyss, they will never be able to get out again, and can only fall into darkness forever."
Junfang also added quietly: "Ah Ren, in fact, Wujinyuan is a cooperative prison of the Foreign Household Investigation Bureau. The criminals we caught were eventually imprisoned there."
Lu Ren finally understood: "In other words, we are now fishing outside the prison gate?"
Junfang nodded.
Lu Ren wanted to ask where the Endless Abyss was, but when he saw his fishing rod moving, he didn't care about anything else and hurried to reel it in. But the thing in the water was making a lot of noise, and with his own strength, not only could he not pull it up, but even Lu Ren himself was almost pulled under.
Seeing this, two salesmen rushed to help.
With the concerted efforts of the three people, the big guy in the water was finally pulled up. After the thing was on the boat, Lu Ren took a closer look and was dumbfounded, because the fish looked so strange.
The fish had four chicken heads, six chicken legs, and its upper body was covered with red feathers. From the front, it looked like a genetically mutated pheasant, but its lower body had three fish tails covered with scales.
As the fish hit the ground it began to run about the deck on all six legs and its four heads began to scream like a duck with its neck stepped on and its tail flapped on the deck.
The sounds of running, screaming, and knocking, this fish is like a symphony orchestra all by itself, making some exciting and huge noises.
However, despite the noise, the fish did not attack Lu Ren, but was just focused on its noisy panic.
When Lu Ren shifted his gaze to the two salesmen, he found that they took out two wooden sticks from somewhere, and when the noise became increasingly intense, they quickly knocked out the three heads of the carp, very neatly.
The two salesmen smiled and said to Lu Ren, "Congratulations, you caught a carp. This is a good thing. Eating it can make people forget their worries. If you don't have any special needs, our supermarket can be responsible for slaughtering it."
The reason why the salesperson asked this is because some monster customers like to eat live fish, and they usually ask the supermarket to give them live fish directly.
But Lu Ren didn't have this hobby: "You guys should come."
After hearing this, one of the salesmen picked up one of the carp's legs and dragged the half-dead carp away. The scene looked extremely bloody.
At this time, Junfang's fishing rod also moved, and it seemed that he had caught a big fish, so the fishing rod was bent badly. But Junfang was very strong and successfully retrieved the fishing rod by himself.
When the big fish came ashore, Lu Ren leaned over to take a look and actually saw a human face. It was an extremely beautiful face. Her eyebrows were like willow leaves in February, and her mouth was like peach blossoms in March. The slightly furrowed eyebrows contained the mist of distant mountains, shrouded in a hint of sadness. No matter what dynasty she was in, she would be a top-notch beauty. However, this beauty had green scales growing on her skin from her neck down, and her lower body had directly turned into a fish.
This is clearly a mermaid.
Lu Ren was dumbfounded when he saw this. Is this even sold in the seafood market?
Before he could say anything, the remaining salesperson at the side spoke first. He asked politely, "Excuse me, do you need us to help kill this one as well?"
