I'm trapped in a block

Chapter 847: Small Shop in the City
It seems that life in Mengdu is quite comfortable, and the existence of the Terrorist Forces also gives residents a great sense of security.

Staring at the electronic sign that read "Self-service Shopping", Li Luo's pupils flickered.

"It seems that I haven't seen such a sign since I left Dawn City..."

The abyss was too dangerous, but Li Luo actually felt the long-lost comfort in this small shop.

The scenes of life in Dawn City overlapped vaguely with everything in front of her eyes. Her past life flashed by, until she caught a glimpse of the block squeezed into the shop out of the corner of her eye, and Li Luo came back to her senses a little.

"I was distracted..."

Li Luo didn't expect that this small shop she found by chance would evoke her memories.

"Unknowingly, we have reached the fifth level of the abyss?"

She shook her head and walked towards the unattended shop.

She took a few cans from the shelf and looked at the packaging carefully, which was marked with the Mengdu logo.

"Was it produced by Mengdu?"

Li Luo was a little curious about how Mengdu produced these materials.

The supplies here are not only sufficient, but also complete in variety. Li Luo even saw things like hand sanitizer on the shelves, which were also labeled Mengdu.

In the abyss, it is already difficult to ensure normal physiological needs. These cleaning supplies are not necessary, and it takes a lot of manpower and material resources to transport and manage them. No one will make these things.

But in the small shop in Mengdu, it was placed on the shelf just like that. No wonder she felt familiar with it.

"It's no different from the supermarket in Dawn City."

Although some rare categories are still missing, it is already quite complete.

For a city in the abyss, it is even a bit too "luxurious".

"Dreams have actually developed to this extent."

It was not until now that Li Luo began to appreciate the prosperity of Dream City.

Thinking of the human settlements in the abyss that he had passed by before, Li Luo couldn't help but have a question in his mind:
“Is it really better for cities to be managed by data than by humans?”

At the same time, Li Luo thought about the posts he saw in the Zhuang Zhou Forum, and suddenly he felt that it was understandable.

After all, only when materials are abundant can ideas flourish. Although the direction of the flourishing ideas in the Zhuang Zhou Forum is a bit problematic, it also indirectly reflects that the material supply in Mengdu is "excessive".

Only when people are "full of things to do" would there be so many boring netizens.

Such a colorful online environment must have a good material foundation. If people can't even get enough food to eat and can't even guarantee safety, they will definitely not have the mind to surf the Internet recklessly.

Apart from the strange architectural style and the outer isolation bubble, this city is almost indistinguishable from the human cities above the abyss. In some places, it is even better than the cities on the surface.

At least, the residents here are happy...

While sighing, Li Luo started looking for the supplies he was missing.

After wandering around the shop for a while and getting the supplies he needed, Li Luo connected to DreamNet and planned to make a payment.

What she didn't expect was that Mengwang was directly connected to several accounts she frequently used, and she could also use these accounts to pay directly.

Li Luo looked at the ceiling and couldn't help feeling confused. How on earth was DreamNet connected to the surface network?

Even though it’s so far away from Dawn City, they can still ensure signal connection and have sufficient supplies. How do they do that?
Perhaps, it was achieved with the help of some relics or confidential technology.

While thinking, Li Luo completed the payment, stuffed the purchased supplies into the bag, and walked out.

She didn't actually need much. When she was in Hongguang City, Lan Xin's supplies had already filled her backpack to the brim. This time she just needed to replenish it a little.

After leaving the store, Li Luo opened the DreamNet map again and searched for the location of the Dream City Research Institute. At this time, Mo Ling also had the same feeling as Li Luo.

Looking at the goods on the shelves, he recalled his ordinary life before being trapped in the cube.

Those street shops are very similar to this shop.

However, the shops in this dream city are still different from the small shops in his memory.

“I always feel something is weird, but I can’t tell why.”

Ever since he entered this shop, he felt something was wrong, but after observing it for a long time, he still couldn't figure out what went wrong.

"Is it the placement of the merchandise? Is it the layout of the store? Or is it a problem with the decoration? None of them seem right..."

Mo Ling vaguely felt that there was some subtle difference between this place and a normal small shop, and there was a big gap in some details, but if you asked him what was wrong, he couldn't tell.

It was not until he followed Li Luo out of the shop that he suddenly realized where the problem lay.

He quickly looked into the store again, found the shelf where the hand sanitizer was placed, and carefully observed the liquid level of each bottle of hand sanitizer.

"It's all the same!"

But this didn't mean anything, so he quickly started looking in the store again.

Soon, he found the shelf where food was sold.

"That's it... sesame biscuits. This should be able to compare."

He stopped the cube in place, looked into the biscuit package, and began to carefully count the number of sesame seeds on the sesame biscuits.

"Thirty-three!"

"Thirty-three!"

"There are thirty-three sesame seeds on every sesame cookie!"

Not only that, the sesame seeds are arranged in the same way.

“These cookies are exactly the same!”

Morling came to a horrible conclusion.

If the consistent liquid levels of those hand sanitizers can be explained by excellent product control, then there's no way to explain these cookies, right?

He finally knew where his weird feeling came from.

When his vision passed through those goods, he saw the same items as if they were copied and pasted, so he subconsciously felt that there was something wrong with this shop!
In normal stores, even the same products will have various differences, but this small store is different.

The products on the shelves of the small shop, as long as they are of the same kind, all look exactly the same:
The number of sesame seeds on the cookies is the same and the arrangement is the same.

The number of chips in the package is the same, and the degree of curvature is the same.

The liquid levels of various liquids, including beverages, toiletries, fuel... are all the same, without any error.

Various vacuum-packed meat products, chicken legs, beef jerky, squid shreds...the shapes of the food inside are exactly the same.

……

This can no longer be fully explained by "quality control".

There are many such cases in this small shop. Mo Ling does not have time to identify them one by one, and he cannot identify some categories of goods, but this is enough for him to make a judgment:
"These products are indeed 'copied' in some way."

(End of this chapter)