Traveling through various miniature worlds with a small restaurant

Lin Xiaoqian and the others in the shop had their brows furrowed deeply.

"The person who came here is not a good person."

The people outside muttered a few words, and a middle-aged woman with a mechanical prosthetic arm came out. Half of her head was bald, with a silver metal patch gleaming darkly. She nimbly moved her mechanical joints and then clenched her fist.

"Bang!" The fist slammed into the door with a loud thud.

Although the shop door was made of glass, it didn't budge or crack at all after the punch.

Seeing this scene, Lin Xiaoqian breathed a sigh of relief. This time, the small restaurant underwent a major renovation, and the construction materials were all the latest new materials developed by the country. The material for this glass door was even brought back from interstellar space. It seems that the effect is good.

The woman was surprised that her punch hadn't shattered the glass door in front of her.

The crowd at the door began to curse and swear. The scarred man at the head of the group raised his hand and pulled out a strangely shaped long knife from his back waist, intending to stick it into the crack in the door. Before he could make any move, the door was suddenly opened.

The scarred man looked at the four people in the store, his golden eyes twitching.

"Natural people?"

His tone carried a hint of disdain and contempt.

Lin Xiaoqian scanned the group of people outside and spotted the girl who had fainted at the shop entrance earlier and given her a beef pie in a blind spot of the surveillance camera.

At this moment, she was being supported by someone, her head lowered, making it impossible to read her expression. She was hiding in a corner, her hands hanging at her sides.

Seemingly sensing Lin Xiaoqian's gaze, she slightly raised her head. The person supporting her seemed to sense her movement and tugged at her hard.

Lin Xiaoqian noticed a bruise on the corner of her mouth and bloodstains on her face.

Lin Xiaoqian looked intently at the others at the door and asked, "Who are you? What are you doing here?"

The scarred man tossed over half a beef pie that he hadn't finished eating.

"Is this something from your place?"

Lin Xiaoqian knew from the sight of the beef pie that the girl had taken it earlier.

Lin Xiaoqian frowned slightly, looked at the half-eaten beef pie on the ground, and slowly said, "It's food from our shop, what's wrong?"

The scarred man sneered, "My men got sick from eating this stuff, you need to give me an explanation."

Lin Xiaoqian's gaze fell on the girl in the corner again, and the girl's body trembled slightly.

"What do you want?" Lin Xiaoqian asked calmly.

A glint of greed flashed in the scarred man's eyes. "It's simple. Compensate us, and we'll call it even."

Lin Xiaoqian understood immediately that this was clearly an extortion attempt.

Jiang Shuang and the others looked angry, but Lin Xiaoqian stopped them with a look.

"What if I say no?" Lin Xiaoqian stared directly at the scarred man without fear.

The scarred man's face darkened, and he raised the strange long knife in his hand. "Then don't blame us for being impolite."

The crowd outside started shouting and rushed into the store.

One impatient, big guy even kicked a table to pieces.

Lin Xiaoqian saw this and, seeing that everyone had come in, said something to the system in her mind.

Then everyone except the girl started convulsing.

Many people wear metal prosthetics, and you can see blue electric current passing through them, making a "buzzing" sound.

After everyone else had fallen, only the girl stood there, stunned.

She trembled slightly as she looked at Lin Xiaoqian, her voice hoarse: "I...I was coerced. I just wanted to get food for my sister, but I was discovered by their people. I'm...I'm sorry."

Lin Xiaoqian glanced at her and said, "I know."

Then, Jiang Shuang and a few others took out a bunch of ropes and prepared to tie up the twenty-odd people.

The girl watched their movements and said, "They have mechanical prosthetics; ordinary ropes can't hold them down."

Lin Xiaoqian stopped what she was doing and looked at the girl. "So, what's your idea?"

The girl bit her lip, thought for a moment, and then said, "I know a place where there are electromagnetic locking straps. They can suppress the movement of mechanical prosthetics and make them more secure. I can go get them, or if you're not comfortable with that, you can send someone with me to get them."

Lin Xiaoqian and Jiang Shuang exchanged a glance, both hesitant, as they didn't completely trust the girl.

Zhuang Damao walked over and said, "I'll go with you."

Lin Xiaoqian called out with some worry, "Brother Zhuang..."

Zhuang Damao waved his hand: "Don't worry."

He had actually wanted to go out and explore this cyber world for a long time.

No one would have guessed that beneath this honest and simple exterior lies a heart that loves adventure.

Before he became a cook, Zhuang Damao had been on all sorts of missions and encountered all kinds of dangers. In addition to completing the tasks assigned by the country, he was also excited about the unknown challenges.

Although the cyber world is different from the past, his desire to challenge the unknown still stirs within him.

Zhuang Damao followed behind the girl, running all the way through a shantytown and arriving at an abandoned factory.

Even though there seemed to be no one guarding the entrance, the girl still carefully led Zhuang Damao over the wall in a corner, and then they made their way through the twists and turns to the dilapidated laboratory.

The laboratory was full of dust, and in the very center was a metal bed.

The girl ran to a cabinet in the corner, opened it, and found more than a dozen electromagnetic lock straps inside.

Picking up the electromagnetic lock strap from the cabinet, the girl pointed to the metal bed: "There are a few more on that."

Zhuang Damao looked at her; the girl's body was trembling slightly, as if she was afraid of the bed.

Zhuang Damao looked at the girl's trembling body and a sense of doubt welled up in his heart.

He asked softly, "What's wrong? Is there something wrong with this bed?"

The girl bit her lip, a hint of fear flashing in her eyes. "This bed... used to be where they did experiments. They brought me here, and I saw some terrible things."

Zhuang Damao frowned. "What experiment?"

The girl shook her head. "I don't know the specifics of the experiment, but I've seen people tied to this bed and injected with some strange liquid. Those people became very strange and scary afterward."

Zhuang Damao felt a chill run down his spine; it seemed that this abandoned factory had once hidden some unknown secrets.

Zhuang Damao took two steps forward and reached for the electromagnetic lock strap on the metal bed. Suddenly, an alarm bell rang in his mind, and he nimbly dodged to the side.

Looking back at the same spot, he saw the girl rushing towards him with a thin syringe in her hand.

Zhuang Damao stared at the girl in shock and shouted, "What are you doing?"

The girl's eyes were no longer filled with fear, but with despair and madness. "My sister is in Fiona's hands. You captured Zeon and the others. Fiona will not let my sister go. She will take her anger out on my sister. As long as I capture you and take you back, I will definitely be able to get my sister back."

The girl firmly believed that if she could capture someone and bring them to Fiona, she could definitely get her sister back.