"It's here." said the thin man, taking two steps ahead, and looking back at me in confusion, "What's wrong?"

I was turning my head and watching the way I came.

"When we go here, it's our school, right?" I asked.

"Uh? Yes. Then I will be the east gate of the old campus." The thin man replied, still wondering.

"So close..." I said again.

"Brother Qi?"

"It's too close..." My voice was so faint that I almost muttered silently in my heart, and recalled the surroundings of the university.

Snack Street, small commodity street, home appliance stores, large supermarkets, express cabinets, express business points, training companies, communications business halls...

I looked at the shop with the signature Dreamweaver Shop, and looked at the shops on both sides, fronts and backs. Through the window glass, I could almost see the full view of the inside of these shops.

Very normal.

These stores are normal.

There should be similar stores near any university.

It was only then that I suddenly realized what kind of environment I might have lived in in the past.

My heart beat faster and I felt dizzy.

The whole street and the small shops on the street were rotating around me. My body stayed in place, my soul had floated up and kept rotating, and there was also a feeling of rising to the sky and looking down at the entire street.

"Brother Qi!" the thin man shouted, grabbed my shoulders and shook my body hard.

Everyone on the street looked over. Many of them looked like students, looking at the two of us curiously and whispering.

I staggered two steps before I stood firm.

"What the hell is wrong, Brother Qi?" asked the thin man worriedly.

I covered my head and pushed the thin man away with a wry smile, "It's nothing. No... nothing..." I exhaled, looked at the thin man again, and stared at the small shop for a while.

The aura of both has not changed, without any abnormality.

"Go in and have a look." I said to the thin man.

The thin man was still a little worried, hesitated for a while before walking to the store.

The store door is very ordinary, just a glass door. The store is very crowded, and the goods racks are made of wood, very low, and the tops are filled with all kinds of dolls. Most of the shapes are not cute, but they are weird. The lights in the store are bright, and small light bulbs are also installed on the partitions of the shelves to illuminate the dazzling array of small commodities. Those products also maintain the same style as the dolls, all of which are weird and a bit alternative.

The clerk stood behind the counter opposite the door. He looked a little older. He dressed simply and didn't match the style of this store.

She said "Welcome" and ignored us.

I looked at the thin man.

He looked normal and did not have the strange state he had before.

He walked directly to the clerk and said he wanted to enter the inner room.

"There are our office and warehouse inside." The clerk looked at the thin man in confusion, "What are you going to buy? Order something?" As she said, she started operating the laptop on the counter, pausing the originally in progress mini-game, and opening a file, "What's the name?"

"No, I've been here many times. Qi Bai introduced me, and I have been here many times since then. You brought me in a few days ago." said the thin man, "I bought a lotus in front of Buddha from you, two flowers, two pieces...uh, bag?"

The female clerk frowned and said, "Wait a moment."

She operated it on the computer, as if she had searched for the previous transaction records, looked up and said to the thin man, "Did you buy it from other places? We don't have records here."

"You still have a branch?" I walked to the counter.

The thin man looked at the female clerk in surprise. It was obviously the first time he heard that this store had a branch.

The clerk nodded, "There are both in the Foreign Studies University and the University of Science and Technology." She knocked on the counter, and there was a QR code for membership on the counter, "Have you ever added a membership? If you have added a membership, you can find the purchase record on the mini program. I can only check the records here. You may have bought it from other stores."

The thin man kept a shocked expression.

I continued to ask, “Can I buy lotus before Buddha now?”

"Some. Do you want it? The inventory is not large. If you want more, I can transfer the goods here and wait for two days."

“Transfer from other branches?”

"There shouldn't be many other branches. Our storefronts are very small."

"You have a head office?"

My problems may be a bit more.

The clerk looked at me in confusion and answered the question, "There is a warehouse in the bonded area..."

"Bondable area?" the thin man exclaimed.

"Uh, yes." The clerk was even more puzzled.

The size of this store is obviously beyond Slim Man's original imagination.

"You have stores abroad?"

The clerk looked at me, "I originally opened from abroad. The headquarters is abroad. There are many products here in our country, and they come in directly through customs. There is definitely no problem with the things, they are all real goods. You have to look at logistics information and customs clearance information. If you think there is something wrong with the things, you can also return and exchange. There is a process for returning and exchange..."

The thin man couldn't help but interrupt the clerk's conscientious introduction, "Can that kind of thing pass the normal procedures? The skull, and blood..."

The clerk looked at us and looked at the store door, "You two, you all know how to use it. Things are definitely real. We have our methods for customs clearance procedures. Let me say that, when transporting it in, of course, it cannot be said that it is real skulls. Some blood products are special customs clearance channels, medical, scientific research, etc. It is absolutely fine to be found. We have been in this industry for many years. We had to smuggle before, but now they are regular. Besides, those who are familiar with it know how to use these things. If you don't understand, you won't take it seriously at all. They all think it's such a gadget." She pushed a skeleton ornament on the counter with her fingernails. The skull of the ornament shook, and it looked like a weird-style shaking doll. She smiled and gave an example: "You said that there are so many small shops outside selling plastic crystals, and jewelry stores selling real crystals, and we also sell crystals. But we only know what crystals we sell. Right?"

The thin man was speechless and didn't say anything else, but just looked at me for help.

I had expected it, but now it has been confirmed from this ordinary clerk.

This cannot be considered a proof.

The clerk said this, as if she was sure that the things they sold were "real materials". She also knew some supernatural knowledge, and might even know some magic and other things. But it is also possible that she was just like the clerk who used this kind of fraudulent psychics and magic props store, using this as a sales strategy.

I looked at the smile on the clerk's face, wondering how much she knew about her profession.

What is certain is that what I am looking for is not in this store.

It has escaped.
Chapter completed!