The Post Sky Tipping Era
Chapter 666 - 469: Store

Chapter 666: Chapter 469: Store

The death of the golden mouse attracted all the residents within the building. They quickly gathered on the first floor to collect the scattered gold coins, which were quite numerous, over a thousand in total. After they collected the coins, they didn’t keep them for themselves but instead piled them all on the golden mouse skin.

The golden coins emitted a tempting sheen.

Everyone desired them greatly but still followed the building’s rules.

Only the adventurers who hunted the monsters were qualified to distribute the spoils, and the adventurers must adhere to the rules, distributing the spoils to all those who participated in the action and provided assistance.

Li Yi was unaware of these rules, but he could see the longing for the coins in everyone’s eyes.

However, to him, these coins were of no use.

Since he wasn’t a permanent resident here, just an outsider, he didn’t need to live here for long. He merely wanted to understand this quirky place, so he casually grabbed a handful of coins and then said, "You can split the remaining coins among yourselves; consider it my gift to you all for our first meeting."

"That’s wonderful."

Everyone cheered joyfully, and immediately several elder people stood up to start distributing the coins before them.

They had their own distribution principles.

Which was to distribute by headcount.

Each person received a dozen or so coins, and some families with four or five people suddenly gained dozens of coins; this amount of money was undoubtedly a tremendous fortune for them, enough to sustain their lives for a long time.

Once the coin distribution was finished, only the golden mouse skin remained on the ground.

A complete golden mouse skin here also seemed to be a treasure.

But this golden mouse skin was untouched, as if by default, belonging to Li Yi.

Seeing this, Li Yi picked up the golden mouse skin.

He reached out to feel and sense it.

Indeed, it was somewhat mystical.

Soft and comfortable, very warm, and appeared to have not a weak defense. Of course, that was for ordinary people; for an outsider cultivator like Li Yi, the defense was negligible.

At this time, the girl named Bai You holding a dozen coins walked over and said, "This golden mouse skin is very rare. Wearing it can allow you to enter a room and take away the treasure inside, but it can only be used once. After that, it will be damaged. I once saw someone wearing a golden mouse skin enter a room and took out a battle axe, which he later used to slay many monsters."

Li Yi recalled the branches and rooms he encountered in the passage before.

He didn’t expect the golden mouse skin to be used this way.

"Interesting thing."

Li Yi then put the golden mouse skin away and asked, "Are there many monsters in this building?"

Bai You said, "There’s still a soul monster on the twenty-fifth floor, also trapped in a room. But the soul monster is hard to deal with; you need to use a soul scythe to kill it."

"Soul monster? The kind that floats around in the sky?" Li Yi immediately remembered the strange thing from before with her description.

Bai You nodded, "Yes."

"How do you get a soul scythe?" Li Yi asked again.

"You can snatch the soul scythe after killing a soul monster," Bai You said.

"..." Li Yi thought this answer was really good.

Without a soul scythe, you can’t kill a soul monster, and without killing a soul monster, you can’t get a soul scythe.

What a perfect loop.

"But you can go to the shop and have a look, they might have stuff to deal with soul monsters," Bai You said, mentioning the shop again.

Li Yi weighed the coins in his hand, "Alright, I’ll go check out the shop on the tenth floor."

He didn’t hesitate, immediately heading upstairs again. To avoid drawing too much attention, Li Yi chose not to use the Cloud Soaring Technique.

Quickly.

He reunited with Xuan Yuezi, then arrived at the tenth floor.

The tenth floor was entirely within the shop’s scope, but many shops were closed; only one shop still had its lights on.

The shop’s style was a bit old-fashioned, resembling that of the eighties.

Strangely, though, the shopkeeper was not a living person, but a dried-up corpse. The corpse sat unmoving in front of the counter, with an old television next to it, emitting only static noise as it had no signal. Yet, the shop displayed many things inside.

They had rice, soy sauce, salt, clothes, fabric, and other essential life supplies, as well as scissors, kitchen knives, and other tools, even cold medicine, anti-inflammatory drugs... it was like a large-scale supermarket where you could meet all your life needs.

In addition, there were many weapons, including cold weapons like knives, spears, and swords, as well as firearms, shotguns, and explosives.

However, these things were all within Li Yi’s realm of understanding, and nothing noteworthy.

However, some things have already transcended the ordinary, involving the transcendent and cultivation.

For example, Li Yi saw a magic book on a shelf, chained and looking old and mysterious, and he also saw an elf in an iron cage. However, the elf was not as beautiful as those in fairy tales; it was emaciated, shriveled, full of sharp teeth, and extremely ugly.

"So this is it, the way to survive in this building is through this peculiar shop." Li Yi now understood why the people in this building could live here for decades.

As long as this peculiar shop continues to operate, people can manage to live without stepping outside.

Moreover, the giant corpse in the middle of the building emits a strange energy field, nourishing the people inside, preventing them from becoming weak and sickly in this harsh environment, while also warding off dangerous intrusions.

Although the corpse in the building is decaying, and its protective ability is weakening, if they could hunt monsters and pour their fresh blood onto the corpse, it could slow the decay and even allow the corpse to self-repair.

These rules are indeed effective if this system continues to operate like this.

But humans are complex and changeable beings.

From the situation inside this building, it’s not difficult to deduce that this place was once bustling, but over time, it has declined, leaving only over a hundred residents. In other buildings, the situation might be much better, but the decay of the world within the building is just a matter of time.

Because it’s very simple.

Once the number of people inside the building decreases to a certain level, the balance will be broken, and the building’s operations will go wrong. By then, even with the intention to save it, it will be powerless.

But if the number of people increases, conflicts and strife will be unavoidable.

While Li Yi was contemplating.

The residents who received gold coins earlier now all came to the shop, purchasing bulk amounts of daily necessities with their gold coins, carrying away various food and supplies but placing a gold coin down before leaving the shop.

The mummy sitting at the counter would then store the gold coin into the drawer below.

Li Yi saw a man place a gold coin and then carry away dozens of bags of rice, clearly showing that the purchasing power of a gold coin was greater than expected. Interestingly, the rice seemed endless, continually rolling out of the rice bin. He also saw a woman give a gold coin to the mummy, indicating she wanted to pay for electricity and water bills.

Once the mummy accepted the gold coin, lights in a household immediately lit up.

"Is this even possible?" Li Yi was stunned.

Some even brought their sick children along, using a gold coin to ask the mummy for treatment. The mummy raised its withered arm as if performing witchcraft, and a faint green light shone upon the child, immediately healing their ailment.

Moreover, upon observation, he found.

The most basic food and drinks in the shop were very cheap, but the truly expensive items were the weapons and transcendent-related things.

For until now, Li Yi hadn’t seen anyone buy a sword or a gun to protect themselves. Logically, in a place like this, what should be most important is a weapon because only with a weapon can you fight the monsters and have a chance to hunt them, thereby earning more gold coins to live better.

However, recalling the giant rat from earlier, Li Yi understood.

For ordinary people with their strength and power, hunting such creatures was too difficult, and even with weapons, they likely wouldn’t be competitors against the monsters. In the room where the rat was trapped, Li Yi saw many damaged weapons, each stained with dried blood. This was enough to prove that the people in this building had indeed put in efforts before.

It’s just that they failed.

The risk was too high.

Most naturally chose survival as the priority.

While Li Yi was researching these things, Xuan Yuezi was staring at the mummy, thinking that it didn’t appear as simple as it looked; it seemed to be a manifestation of some kind of power, similar to the giant female corpse in the middle of the building, except this place was special.

The darkness eroded, affecting her senses. Otherwise, she could have traced it back to the source of the mummy’s power.

"Is that a map?"

Suddenly, Li Yi found something he was interested in, a sheepskin map, priced at twenty gold coins.

This was a magical map. When he picked it up, the black fog on the map cleared, revealing the image of the building, showing each floor clearly. On the twenty-fifth floor, there was even a special mark depicting a ghostly figure.

This indicated that a monster was lurking on that floor.

It seemed Bai You was right.

However, on the thirtieth floor, there was another mark, depicting a red door, but Li Yi didn’t know what it represented.

Strangely, after picking up the map, Li Yi noticed it also showed his own location, marked by a glowing dot that moved as he moved.

"Good thing." Li Yi decided to buy this map, as it would be very useful in this world.

Taking out the previously obtained gold coins, he placed twenty on the counter. As the mummy accepted the coins, the transaction was completed.

"By the way, let me ask, if I leave the shop with something without paying, what will happen?" Li Yi suddenly asked.

"Then your belongings won’t be able to leave the shop; everyone must follow the shop’s rules," said the man who returned with more rice, adding eagerly, "Thanks to you, our family won’t go hungry this year."

After speaking, the man quickly left with the rice.

Xuan Yuezi said, "A powerful entity has established a series of rules to protect the people in this world; everyone must rely on these rules to survive. Many things seem unreasonable, but the answer has already appeared."

She glanced at the giant decaying female corpse.