Lin Sanjiu switched off her camouflage mode after she came up with a plan with the help of Ji Shanqing's intelligence. Her innate determination took over again, and she immediately cast aside all her hesitation and worries and started to act.
The correct answer must be in the mountain of snacks.
Even though she believed that the shopping list should be the best choice, if she used her Higher Consciousness to search for the correct answer, she would follow in Puppeteer's footsteps before she could even finish half of the shopping list.
She had no choice but to take a gamble.
When this thought flashed across Lin Sanjiu's mind, a surge of Higher Consciousness surged out from her body. This time, Lin Sanjiu did not hold back her strength.
Like a strong gust of wind, Lin Sanjiu unleashed her Higher Consciousness without holding anything back. Her Higher Consciousness swept through the small hill and the various packages, sending them tumbling through the air. Then, another wave of Lin Sanjiu's Higher Consciousness caught up with her. Like an invisible palm, it swept forward and revealed the ground once again. Lin Sanjiu had sent all the snacks flying out of the aisle.
The remaining force did not diminish. Countless snacks slid across the floor until they hit the cashier counter. Then, they stopped one after another and scattered all over the floor.
When the noise of the bags colliding with each other finally disappeared, the hope in Lin Sanjiu's heart vanished. Just as the grand prize had predicted, she couldn't get the correct answer just by punching the bags out of the bag.
"Oh, my god!" The Indian accent rang out almost immediately. It was obvious that he was greatly shocked. "What the hell happened?"
"This is great! This pocket dimension creature is reacting!"
Lin Sanjiu did not dare to waste a single second. She pushed against the ground and slid to the back of the shelf. Then, she pulled Puppeteer to her side. She used her Higher Consciousness to "climb" up the edge of the shelf bit by bit. She struggled to pass through the dense forest of arms and returned to the top of the shelf. She seized the opportunity when one of the arms retracted and slid over. The moment she steadied herself, the arm stopped moving forward.
Before she took the last step, she told herself that she could not use her Higher Consciousness anymore. The amount of Higher Consciousness she had left was dangerously low.
The goose stopped moving after losing the command, so they could only let it continue to stand there blankly.
"Why is there a spill in aisle A?" The Indian voice continued to grumble. "Mrs. Cleveland? Mr. Griffin? Why is there no sound? Forget it, I'll go see what's going on … "
Lin Sanjiu tensed up.
Ever since the two of them entered the shop, they had only heard the voice of this pocket dimension creature, but never seen it. She didn't expect it to show up this time.
What kind of thing was about to appear?
Lin Sanjiu sat on a high vantage point and waited anxiously. She used her willpower to fight against the numbness that was slowly consuming her.
The sound of someone shuffling through the stacks of merchandise and kicking open plastic bags filled her ears. For a moment there was only noise in the store.
Lin Sanjiu looked up and was stunned when the noise finally reached the entrance of the passage.
The crossing was empty, not a single person could be seen.
"Oh my god, who did this?!" The Indian voice was still coming from the loudspeaker. It echoed in the store, full of surprise. "Why are people nowadays so uncivilized?"
Lin Sanjiu stared hard at the crossing. Her gaze pierced through the air, but she didn't see anything except for the merchandise on the ground.
"Other than one packet, they threw everything down here!"
The Indian voice continued to speak, but Lin Sanjiu couldn't help turning her gaze back to the empty space in front of her. Her instincts sent chills down her spine. She could sense that something invisible had just appeared in front of her.
"I remember this type of potato chip is 6 RMB," the voice mumbled. "How did it end up in the 15 RMB area? You're quite ambitious. "
Lin Sanjiu felt a chill run down her spine when she heard those words. She couldn't use her hypersensory right now, but just like how an ordinary person could sense someone staring at them in their sleep, she could clearly sense that the invisible pocket dimension creature was reaching out its hand to her. It was an indescribable sensation.
"Is it trying to move me away?" Lin Sanjiu's heart leaped into her throat.
This was the spot that Ji Shanqing had chosen when he was in his camouflage mode. It was the best vantage point, and he could see everything in the aisle if he lowered his head. If she was moved away, all his efforts would be in vain.
Just as the invisible thing was about to touch her, the air suddenly stopped moving. It was as if the thing had stopped its hand.
"It's too troublesome to put the packets on the shelves according to the label," he mumbled. "Let's put them down first and change the label later."
Lin Sanjiu let out a long sigh of relief. The store fell silent.
After a while, the rattling sound of the plastic packaging continued, followed by the muffled sound of rolling wheels, a few shopping carts were pushed into the aisle by something invisible. They slowly stopped in front of the shelves.
All the products that were sent flying by Lin Sanjiu were now piled up in the shopping carts. They were so full that they almost popped out. A bulging bag of potato chips suddenly deflated a few times. It looked as if someone had picked it up and then it floated into the air and was placed back on the shelf.
In less than two seconds, Lin Sanjiu could see everything clearly. She couldn't help feeling ecstatic. "My grand prize's plan worked!"
Ji Shanqing's idea was simple. Since she didn't have the ability to go through the shopping carts one by one, she could just ask someone to do it for her, right?
Generally speaking, the employees in a store were responsible for cleaning and maintaining the store. However, in a pocket dimension, no one knew if this common sense would work. Moreover, the Veda could alter the pocket dimension at any time. Lin Sanjiu didn't expect that Ji Shanqing's idea would work so well!
However, what came next was the real challenge.
Lin Sanjiu didn't have much Higher Consciousness left, so she had to save most of it for the last time she activated her [Consciousness Mimicry]. While the invisible employee was putting the products back, Lin Sanjiu had to stare at each packaging without blinking. She had to find useful information in the shortest time possible. Not only that, she also had to memorize all the suspicious targets, information, and locations.
For an ordinary person, this was definitely not an easy task. Other than having a high observation skill and a clear mind, one had to have a sharp memory and a very stable mind. At the very least, they could not afford to lose their composure if they missed a single item. Even though Lin Sanjiu couldn't do everything, she didn't have to memorize all the information of the items. She just had to focus on the suspicious targets.
The real challenge was to memorize the items that were placed in her blind spots. In order not to miss a single item, she had to fall off the shelf a few times. She almost couldn't get back to the best spot.
After much difficulty, Lin Sanjiu finally managed to pick out a few snacks from the thousands of items that might be the right target.
During this process, the third broadcast was also heard. Fortunately, the invisible employee stopped moving his hands when the announcement was made. Otherwise, Lin Sanjiu would have been distracted and would have missed both ends. "Mrs. Cleveland, I heard that you don't agree with my idea of putting a snack vending machine near the elementary school? However, it's a little too much for you to go around telling people that I'm feeding junk food to the children. By the way, Mr. Griffin, your wife, Royce, just came in angrily and asked me if I saw you. We are both men, so I covered for you. I said no … I didn't say anything wrong, right? "
This time, there was even a hint directed at Puppeteer. Unfortunately, he couldn't hear it.
Lin Sanjiu memorized the two notifications. She glanced at the goose and the packet of potato chips that was hidden behind it. The goose flapped its wings in a daze. It didn't seem to realize that its owner was in trouble.
The invisible employee quickly sorted out the large number of items. He threw the extra bag into the shopping cart. Lin Sanjiu's eyes were blurred by the number of items she saw. She could only hope that no one had missed out. After the few shopping carts and the extra bag of chips were pushed away, she waited for a while longer before she flipped over and fell off the shelf.
Lin Sanjiu was afraid that the extra bag of chips that she had occupied was not going to survive.
Before her memory blurred, Lin Sanjiu quickly used her Higher Consciousness to erase the items that she found suspicious. At the same time, she activated her [Higher Consciousness Mimicry]. When she was deep in thought, the aisle became quiet. Under the goose's dark gaze, the few bags of snacks scattered on the aisle remained silent for a few minutes.
On the shopping list, the first and third items obviously had nothing to do with puffed food, so they could be eliminated. As for the second and fourth items, they were ambiguous. Lin Sanjiu couldn't tell which one was the correct answer.
What if she didn't use the elimination method and just deduced from the identity of Mrs. Cleveland?
Since she was addressed as Mrs. Cleveland, she was undoubtedly married. The items on the shopping list were usually for herself or her family members. Therefore, "Brown Drinking Beer" could be an adult son or her husband. Based on the description of "puberty", she should have at least one child who was in puberty. Since the legal drinking age was 21, and the last year of puberty was 19, it was hard to determine the identity of "Brown Drinking Beer" from the difference between the two numbers.
However, based on Mrs. Cleveland's passion for elementary school, it was very likely that she had another child who was in elementary school. She would only be 12 years old when she graduated from elementary school. Therefore, it was more likely that her child was younger than 19 years old. The greater the age gap between her child and Brown, the more likely it was that "Brown Drinking Beer" was her husband.
In other words, she was a married woman whose husband was still around. She had at least one child in puberty and one child who was in elementary school.
The child in puberty was definitely not "Ralo". Therefore, "Ralo who needed to be taught a lesson" could only be a child in elementary school.
When Lin Sanjiu deduced that Ralo was a child in elementary school, she felt a little more confident. She looked at the bags of snacks one last time.
All of them looked very strange. The packaging, the date, and the description seemed to be a joke. There was a reminder that the food could only be eaten after the expiration date. There was a production date of 716462. There was also a picture of poison on the packaging. Even the flavors were bizarre. There was the perverted mustard smell, the cold blade smell, the dung smell, the cumin smell, and the siphon smell.
Indeed, every single one of them looked like they could teach others a lesson.
Lin Sanjiu pondered for a moment. She put back the few packets that she thought were not the correct answers and blocked her pale arms. She steadied her mind and used the last bit of her Higher Consciousness to wrap the remaining packet of snacks in it.
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