Basement Level Four

Chen Miemie had an encounter with Cicada.

Due to the demolition of Fairy Tale Road, he went to Scholar Academy to have a "friendly" exchange with Cicada and successfully persuaded Cicada to change the demolition plan.

This time, Li Liang, a direct subordinate of Cicada, was the one who was given the order to assassinate Chen Miemie. It may not be clear yet who gave the order, but from his words, at least the motive of Cicada was revealed - Cicada already knew that it was Chen Miemie who had kidnapped him before.

In the view of Chen Miemie and his think - tank.

Having kidnapped and blackmailed Cicada and then being found out by him later, it was reasonable for Cicada to send someone for the assassination. If Cicada did nothing and just obediently followed the rules, it would be rather abnormal.

Chenpi didn't seem to want to explain further. She started to immerse herself in her experiment.

Chenpi was also a researcher. Once she got into the research state, she wouldn't pay attention to anyone.

Anyway, since he was already there, Chen Miemie continued to wander around other areas on the fourth basement floor.

Because he had befriended Silence, the librarian, Chen Miemie's access permission hadn't been revoked. Except for the deepest fifth basement floor where no one was allowed to go, he could access other places without any problem.

"Who designed this fourth basement floor? It's like a maze," Chen Miemie got lost again within ten minutes.

Along the way, he met several research - type personnel, all wearing the same white - lab - coat - style uniforms.

The researchers were curious when they saw him, but they weren't meddlesome. Since he could come here, it meant he had the permission, so no one bothered to talk to him.

After wandering around for a long time, Chen Miemie didn't find the anomalies he wanted to see. So he grabbed a passing white - coated researcher.

"Where are the anomalies? Could you show me the way?"

The white - coated researcher was an honest scientist and didn't cooperate just because he had permission.

"I don't know you. Since you don't even know the place, please leave."

Chen Miemie thought for a while and said, "Then I'm looking for Xiumu."

At this, the white - coated researcher changed his attitude. "So you're looking for Lord Xiumu. Come with me."

After passing through more than a dozen laboratory doors, Chen Miemie was led to the door of a new laboratory.

"Lord Xiumu, Chen Miemie is here," the white - coated researcher wasn't blindly leading the way. He had sent a message on the way and received a reply.

"Come in," came Xiumu's somewhat lazy voice from inside the room.

Chen Miemie pushed the door and entered.

Just like the last time he saw Xiumu, this was a room for observing anomalies. Behind the large glass wall inside, there were anomalies imprisoned.

Xiumu was lying on a folding chair, covered with a blanket. It seemed that she had been taking a nap just now.

Familiarity breeds ease. Chen Miemie casually grabbed a chair and sat down on it.

"Xiumu, it's already 3 p.m. and you're still sleeping. You're so lazy. You have absolutely no sense of organization and discipline."

Xiumu's hair was still in a mess and she didn't bother to tidy it up. She yawned as if there was no one else around and said, "Why do you say I'm lazy? I've clearly done nothing."

Chen Miemie nodded secretly. It was still the familiar style, the genuine master of nonsense literature.

Chen Miemie said with a pained look on his face, "You still have time to sleep. I really feel sorry for you. Do you know that every time you waste 60 seconds, one minute of your life has passed."

Xiumu felt challenged and became a bit more serious. "If what I'm doing is considered a waste, then the word 'if' in this sentence can be removed."

Chen Miemie thought for a few seconds and couldn't come up with a response. So he had to admit defeat in this area.

"I'm here to take a look at the anomalies. Could you introduce them to me?"

Xiumu rubbed her sleepy eyes and woke up completely. "Why should I show you the situation of my project?"

Chen Miemie started to pull rank. "I can walk around freely. Doesn't this permission explain everything? Do I have to make a 'Chief Inspector' badge?"

"But before, the librarian never interfered with the internal affairs of the project group."

"Before, I didn't come. Now I'm here. I just want to take a look at the anomalies, not your research results. You're so resistant. Are you secretly conducting some shady research?"

Xiumu sneered. "You're young, but you're quite good at throwing big accusations around. Fine, then I'll let you take a look. Anyway, you have enough permission and I can't stop you."

"Very kind of you," Chen Miemie achieved his goal and immediately changed his attitude, smiling all over his face.

"Look, this is the first anomaly," Xiumu pointed inside the glass curtain wall.

While Chen Miemie was talking, he had been looking inside for a long time, but he didn't see anything.

"Is there an anomaly in here? Where is it?"

"That shopping cart in the corner inside is the anomaly."

"Aren't it just an ordinary supermarket shopping cart with several boxes in it?"

When it came to matters in her professional field, Xiumu never joked.

"This is a new anomaly we captured in the city. It doesn't like to communicate very much. We named it the Shopping Cart Abandonment Wraith."

"Interesting. Could you introduce it?"

"This anomaly is composed of the shopping cart and the items inside.

The items inside are the goods that were added to the shopping cart but were ultimately refused to be paid for and abandoned.

These goods will form small, semi - transparent wraiths in the cart, whispering 'Take me home'. They will increase the probability of people's impulse consumption.

Only by completely forgetting about them or having a 'purifying shopping' that is completely based on needs can these wraiths be dispelled."

"Sounds like it's not very harmful."

"For ordinary people, it is."

"I sense there's something behind your words," Chen Miemie said.

Xiumu looked at the shopping cart inside the glass window.

"Its harmfulness doesn't depend on itself, but on human desires. Even if an ordinary person has impulse consumption, it's just wasteful and they'll lose a little wealth. But if it meets a person with great ambition, it's hard to say what's in his shopping cart."

Chen Miemie wasn't very convinced by this view. "It seems to be a powerful characteristic that it becomes stronger when facing the strong. But the manifestation of the 'mystery' still depends on the degree of mystery. With the ability of this anomaly, it can't drive too great an ambition."

Xiumu was quite surprised. "Unexpectedly, you can say such a professional thing."

"No one knows more about anomalies than me."

"Ha, you're getting carried away just because I praised you," Xiumu said.

"Are there any other anomalies?"

"Currently, there are only three. Besides the Temperature Thief last time and this Shopping Cart Abandonment Wraith, there's one more left."

"Then lead the way quickly," Chen Miemie urged.

Xiumu led Chen Miemie on a long detour and came to an observation room that was more than 90% similar to the previous one.

The 10% difference was that the glass in this room was almost twice as thick.

"Here it is," Xiumu said.

Chen Miemie leaned close to the glass curtain wall. "A little elf?"

"Don't get too close to the glass. Even the special - material glass can't completely block the passive effect of this anomaly," Xiumu warned.

Chen Miemie stared at the little elf inside through the glass.

The little elf inside opened and closed its mouth as if it was saying something, but due to the glass barrier, its voice didn't come out.

Chen Miemie heard Daidai's voice ringing in her ear: "This is my good friend, Chacha."

Xiumu was about to start the introduction:

"Elves are extremely rare anomalies.

We still haven't fully figured out the abilities of this particular elf. Generally, we know that it can see through the value of some items. It doesn't activate its price identification ability every time, and we haven't yet studied the specific rules for when it takes effect."

Chen Miemie gave Xiumu a disdainful look and began to parrot what Daidai had said:

"This is the Gift Price Recalling Sprite, or the Price-Checking Sprite for short."