Chapter 46: A Great Person

Cheng Shuili turned and left the police station; after the glass doors of the police station closed, the whole police station let out a collective sigh of relief.

Immediately after, everyone talked about the voice in a babble.

What a terrifying human!

As expected of Chief! You actually have the courage to speak to her!

Chief is so brave! I've been worried that this human might suddenly pull out a dagger and go on a killing spree.

Me too! Me too!

Lang An silently raised his hand and said softly, "I and Xiong Gu don't even have the courage to check her ID."

Yang Jiao nodded, her face slightly flushed; she accepted everyone's praise, but when she turned and saw Lang An and Xiong Gu, her face turned cold again.

You two, you're not doing your job! I'm punishing you by canceling your days off for the next three months!

No, please, Boss!

Cheng Shuili stood on the street, momentarily not knowing where to go; the street was bustling with beasts coming and going, and she had originally planned to first go to the big store to browse, buying whatever she thought she needed.

What she could think of needing right now was just a bowl for eating.

She needed the feeling of home.

No matter what... Cheng Shuili didn't want to use disposable lunch boxes anymore.

But just as she reached an intersection, Cheng Shuili smelled a fragrant bread aroma, also with a sweet cream scent.

Cheng Shuili's feet moved uncontrollably into the bakery.

Too fragrant.

It wasn't the modern bread perfume kind of scent; it was the purest kind, a fresh fragrance with the smell of fermenting wheat.

The cream was the same; this sweet aroma was something Cheng Shuili had never smelled before. It was as if sweetness had been embodied, turning into fine threads that surged forward and backward into her nostrils.

If Wan Yi's cooking is a feast for the taste buds, then the aroma of this bakery is undoubtedly a feast for the sense of smell.

Cheng Shuili pushed open the cute shop door decorated with little flower and grass stickers.

The moment she stepped into the bakery, the aroma instantly intensified, and Cheng Shuili unconsciously began to secrete saliva in her mouth.

Too fragrant!

Behind the counter only a pair of fluffy ears showed, and Cheng Shuili heard a weak greeting: "You... hello, customer, do... do you need anything?"

He spoke that sentence with hesitations, sounding a bit like a stutter.

Cheng Shuili instantly figured out the clerk's nature.

Social anxiety.

She said nothing, walked around the shop, and the transparent display case held various kinds of small cakes.

There were classic styles from the human world: toast, baguettes, buns, donuts, pineapple buns, Danish pastries, various kinds of bread, as well as European buns, Swiss rolls, and tiramisu.

There were also plenty of genuine cakes; the small two-layer, six-inch, eight-inch, fruit, and ice cream cakes she imagined could all be found here.

And they were good quality and cheap!

A bag of ten slices of toast cost only 7 Game Coins!

Cheng Shuili quickly realized this was a business opportunity.

Right now, every living person has 10 Game Coins in hand; if she could bulk-order toast and sell it to other players for 10 Game Coins each...

Cheng Shuili shook her head; this idea was indeed good, but to make big money she needed a substantial capital.

She thought, counting on her fingers; she now had only 407 Game Coins, enough to buy 58 bags of toast, which would let her earn... over a hundred Game Coins!?

That's a lot!

The first-place reward on the leaderboard is only a hundred!

Cheng Shuili's heart stirred.

She suddenly realized she had fallen into a misconception: why did she limit everyone to only 10 Game Coins in hand?

If she waited until tomorrow to sell, wouldn't everyone then have 20 Game Coins?

Cheng Shuili's eyes lit up completely—this was fragrant, soft toast!

One must know that not everyone has Cheng Shuili's luck and strength, encountering Wan Yi, the chef who chose the food cart at the start.

Now most people are still chewing compressed biscuits with mineral water, occasionally swallowing two vitamin tablets to supplement nutrition.

A fragrant, sweet slice of toast placed before them would cost only the Game Coins the system gave for completing mileage.

Cheng Shuili herself was almost convinced by her own words.

One could say 10 Game Coins is not much at all! Selling at 15 would still be worth it!

Cheng Shuili pursed her lips, decided to go ahead with it, and when evening came tomorrow and everyone had 20 Game Coins, she would sell a bag for 17 Game Coins.

Not for any other reason, just to make the profit a round number.

She wasn't some profiteer, was she?

She hadn't even thought of cheating everyone out of their Game Coins.

Cheng Shuili secretly sighed, she really was a great person!

But the source of the fragrance wasn't these things...

Cheng Shuili turned around again, only able to sense that the aroma faintly came from the back kitchen, perhaps something not yet put on the shelves.

The stutterer behind the counter, having heard no reply for a while, couldn't help but poke his head out to see what was happening, only to meet Cheng Shuili's eyes.

Xiao Jieba: "!!!"

"A person!!!"

"Someone has entered his shop!"

"Help! Should he now call the police station people over!"

Xiao Jieba, in his panic, plopped down onto the ground, his hands fumbling about, and accidentally touched the sharp tip of a knife, whereupon he let out a short cry.

Cheng Shuili only then realized that this guy seemed to be a bit too afraid of her.

"Don't be nervous, I have a police certificate, we can do business."

These were originally words of comfort, but to Xiao Jieba they sounded like a threat; he became even more frightened, gripping the dinner knife that had just injured him, and hid in the corner to protect himself, without saying a word.

Cheng Shuili also remembered that in the description of 【Intimidation】 there was this sentence: "When facing certain sensitive and suspicious NPCs, it might backfire."

This Xiao Jieba right in front of me is clearly a sensitive little pitiful thing.

Cheng Shuili sighed, actively changing her title from 【Supreme King】 back to 【Cai Cai Jiu Jiu】, and then said: "I can let you check my ID; I came sincerely to buy things, I've already been to the police station, and Chief Yang personally let me out."

This seemed to soothe Xiao Jieba, who tilted his head and poked out one ear.

Cheng Shuili had noticed earlier that he was a leopard beastman.

Frankly, a leopard opening a bakery doesn't fit human stereotypes, and the leopard is even socially anxious……

Cheng Shuili fell silent for a moment, then suddenly realized a truth.

Reject stereotypes, start with the leopard!

Bao Chi cautiously glanced at the human, and only after seeing the ID sent to him did he calm down.

He trembled as he stood up, "Th… that… very, very happy……"

"Alright, stop saying these polite words." Cheng Shuili had no patience to listen to him utter each word one by one, so she bluntly said: "Just nod or shake your head."

"I smelled a very fragrant aroma outside, but after coming in I couldn't find the source; do you guys not have anything here that can produce that smell?"

Bao Chi shook his head, then nodded, seeing Cheng Shuili waiting quietly, he blushed and said: "Th… there is, still not out of the pot."