NOVEL WEB Chapter 26 - Delicious Minced Beef
As He Gu was pondering, he suddenly noticed that the parrot’s spirit had weakened again.
Not only that, the white feathers on the parrot’s back turned red before his eyes, as if stained with blood!
He Gu was shocked. He hurriedly opened the birdcage and took out the parrot to examine it carefully.
Only then did He Gu realize that the parrot was not bleeding at all. Its feathers had really turned red!
Including the strands of red He Gu saw on the parrot before leaving the dorm, they were not blood either, but some red mixed into the white feathers.
After the back feathers turned red, the parrot’s condition deteriorated. It drooped its head, and its eyes seemed to be barely open.
Could it be that the parrot would suffer some kind of backlash after revealing information to him?!
He Gu was a little anxious. He carefully put the parrot back in the cage.
After thinking for a moment, He Gu turned and left the dorm again, heading straight to the cafeteria diagonally across from the dorm building.
He Gu had just seen the parrot’s condition improve significantly after eating meat earlier. Maybe letting it eat more meat would help.
Even if he couldn’t make it recover, at least He Gu could still try to ask a few more questions!
However, when He Gu rushed to the cafeteria door, he was dumbfounded.
At this time, the cafeteria door was closed. It was actually closed!
He Gu took out his phone and glanced at the time. It was 9:18 in the morning. The cafeteria should still be serving breakfast!
How could it close so early?
He Gu’s heart sank, but he was helpless.
After thinking for a moment, He Gu turned and ran towards the store.
More than ten minutes later, He Gu arrived at the store entrance again.
Still the same as last time, there were a total of three stores, and only one was open.
He Gu went to the door, first checked that he had no parrot feathers on him, then peeked inside. He saw a clerk standing behind the checkout counter wearing a white uniform.
Reassured that he would not violate any rules, He Gu walked into the store.
“Welcome.”
The clerk behind the checkout counter greeted him perfunctorily without even raising his head.
He Gu ignored him and went straight to the shelves to start selecting.
However, He Gu searched around and discovered a startling fact.
The store had a wide variety of goods, even roasted goose legs, steaks and other cooked food, but he couldn’t find any meat snacks on the shelves except for ham sausages!
He Gu wanted to get some meat for the parrot to try, but Store Rule #3 stated: If you want to purchase cooked food, please finish eating it in the store, do not bring it back to the dormitory.
Therefore, He Gu could not bring cooked food back to the parrot, and could only try to find meat snacks.
Who would have thought there were none in the store?!
As for ham sausages… it was well known that ham sausages contained almost no meat.
However, He Gu did find a “Delicious Meat Store” label on the shelves, but that spot was empty with an out-of-stock sign.
Left with no choice, He Gu could only take a few ham sausages and went to the checkout to pay.
The clerk still didn’t look up, scanned the ham sausages, bagged them, then asked in a stiff tone: “Our store is having a promotional sale on our new ‘Delicious Minced Beef’. Would you like to try some?”
He Gu was delighted to hear this and immediately nodded: “Yes, give me more!”
Store Rule #4: Do not accept the clerk’s recommendation of “Delicious Minced Beef”
But He Gu had just seen the hidden message in Rule #5: You and the parrot can safely purchase and consume any food from the school.
Therefore, He Gu could determine that Store Rule #4 was wrong!
Not only could He Gu accept the clerk’s recommendation of “Delicious Minced Beef”, this minced beef might even have unexpected effects!
After all, behind the incorrect rules, there were often hidden useful information or mechanisms for clearing the game.
He Gu began to look forward to it. At this time, the clerk took out a palm-sized packet of minced beef in transparent plastic packaging from under the checkout counter: “That’ll be 108 yuan total.”
The ham sausages were 8 yuan, and the minced beef was 100 yuan.
He Gu took a look. There were only seven or eight beansized pieces of minced beef in the palm-sized plastic package. He immediately said, “Give me more of that minced beef, I want 10 packs!”
With the 2000 yuan Zhang Chao had left behind, He Gu had no shortage of money.
Unexpectedly, the clerk stiffly shook his head: “Promotional items are limited to one per customer.”
Upon hearing this, He Gu was a little speechless, and too lazy to argue with him. He paid and took the items back.
…
At the same time.
On Earth.
In the Dragon Nation Strange Tales livestream room.
Seeing that He Gu had actually purchased the clerk’s recommended Delicious Minced Beef, the bullet screen instantly exploded.
“Oh my god! How could he accept the clerk’s recommendation of minced beef? Doesn’t the rule say you can’t buy that?!”
“Did he forget about this rule?”
“It’s over, it looked like he was about to clear it tonight, but he actually made such a low-level mistake!”
“Sigh… I thought this young man was quite reliable, but now it seems… he’s still too young after all…”
“Wait no… He clearly violated the rule, but nothing happened after he bought it?
“Maybe that’s not an instant death rule?”
“Even if it’s not instant death, shouldn’t there be some reaction? Nothing happened at all?”
“No way… Don’t tell me that rule is wrong? But how did he know?!”
…
At the Dragon Nation Strange Tales Event Command Center.
The group of elites watched the screen with faces full of tension and anxiety.
However, after waiting for a few minutes and seeing everything seemed normal in the video, many of them looked surprised.
“This… is that rule wrong?”
“It appears so. Otherwise, even the slightest rule violation would not have no reaction at all.”
“I don’t understand how he determined that the rule was wrong so decisively!”
“I also don’t understand. I’ve been here the whole time, without missing any details of the game, but right now aside from confirming food other than bird food can be given to the parrot, I haven’t discerned the authenticity of any of the rules!”
“Even for the parrot being able to eat non-bird food, we only knew after seeing him feed the parrot meat…”
“What exactly is going on here? Did we miss some important details? Why did he suddenly become so certain in identifying two incorrect rules?”
“It’s a bit difficult to comprehend… Maybe his talent played a role?”
…
In addition, the teams of the other two surviving countries were also panicking.
They had previously copied many answers from He Gu and conveyed them to their own candidates through hint messages, allowing their candidates to survive until now.
But now, they had long used up their chances to send hint messages to their candidates!
And now He Gu had suddenly identified two fake rules in succession, while they could only watch with wide eyes but had no way to notify their own candidates!
Although it looked like all they had to do now was survive until night time to clear the game, after seeing He Gu’s performance in Dragon Nation’s livestream, everyone realized things might not be so simple…