The end of the world: I am linked to a mobile lottery store

Chapter 524 Something is wrong

She stopped a short distance from the cashier and was stunned. Why did everyone seem so listless?

Luo Mu, Shen Bing, and Zong Xia all looked like they hadn't slept for days and nights.

But I only worked for one morning; I rested all day yesterday.

Not right.

Lu Li sensed something was wrong.

She took a few steps forward, and Shen Bing didn't even notice her arrival? Usually, she would look up as soon as she stepped into the convenience store.

"Shen Bing?" Lu Li greeted him, and Shen Bing lifted his heavy eyelids and looked over.

The moment Shen Bing saw her, her eyes lit up, and she instinctively straightened her back.

"Lu Li," Shen Bing replied, her straight back quickly slumping down, as if all her energy had been drained.

"What's wrong?" Lu Li reached out and touched his forehead, checking his palm and the back of his hand; it wasn't hot.

Shen Bing shook her head, trying to clear her mind, but it had no effect whatsoever; in fact, it only made her more confused.

"I don't know, it's been like this since it opened," Shen Bing said, bewildered.

She stood, he sat; her palm covered her forehead, feeling a slight warmth, as if she had become a little more awake.

He carefully moved the stool closer to Lu Li, taking advantage of his poor condition.

He leaned against her without hesitation, resting his head on her arm. It was warm, soft, and comforting.

He wrapped his arms around hers and pressed his arms against her body.

She leaned almost all her weight on Lu Li, and Lu Li nearly couldn't support it.

Her left hand was firmly held by Shen Bing, so she had no choice but to reach out her right hand to touch his face.

While kneading her, he shouted, "Shen Bing, wake up! You have to go to work."

After waiting for a while without receiving a response, she looked down and saw that the person was fast asleep, with their eyes closed, like a pig.

She pinched Shen Bing's face harder, trying to wake him up, but it had no effect.

She struggled to pull her left hand out, then grabbed his shoulder and rocked him back and forth and side to side.

Lu Li tried her best, feeling like her hands were about to break, but Shen Bing kept her eyes tightly closed.

"Wake up, Shen Bing!"

"Hey Shen Bing, are you dead?"

Lu Li checked his breathing; it was still quite weak.

She breathed a sigh of relief and stopped wasting her energy shaking him; instead, she placed him on a chair.

She pushed the chair out, all the way to the lottery shop.

Since I can't solve the problem myself or wake him up, I'll have to call in someone else.

In the store manager's group chat, he tagged everyone, "Come quickly, meet at the lottery shop."

But no one replied, which Lu Li found strange, since Luo Mu was usually the most proactive.

You always reply to messages immediately, what's wrong with you today?
Feeling uneasy, she got out of the RV again and went to the clinic, where she found Luo Mu asleep at the front desk.

Lu Li stood there, stunned, and asked the system in a flustered voice, "What happened to him? What happened to Shen Bing?"

"I don't know," the system replied.

Lu Li sensed a hint of guilt in his voice and pressed on, "You knew perfectly well."

"How about the host goes and checks on the others?" the system said, shrugging.

Luli:......

She rushed to the nearest hotel, only to find the lobby noisy.

Unlike the quiet and orderly atmosphere of her last visit, her heart began to pound. She squeezed through the crowd and went to the front desk.

Good heavens, he's sleeping soundly on the table, just like Luo Mu. If she hadn't reached out to check his breathing and had the system analyze his body...

He was lying there like that, and at first glance, it was really easy for people to misunderstand him.

Lu Li first evacuated the customers waiting in the lobby, then hurriedly ran to the factory, where the scene was pretty much as she had imagined.

Looking through window number one, you can see Zong Xia sleeping on the table, with only the back of her head visible.

She then went to hardware stores, car dealerships, and bathhouses, visiting all the shops as quickly as possible.

Without exception, they all fell into a dormant state; even Wang Yang, a level 10 zombie, couldn't escape.

Lu Li's legs were tired from running, so she squatted down by the roadside and asked in confusion, "What's going on here?"

Moreover, only the store manager was asleep; there were no customers, which was very strange.

Besides, her store managers are all superhumans, so they shouldn't have all been wiped out.

Even if we take a step back and assume that she, a sixth-level ability user, is unharmed, how come others were affected?

Could it be another case of a mysterious family pulling the strings? That seems unlikely...

This is over a thousand kilometers from the central base; the reach of the mysterious family's collateral branch can't extend that far.

Who is that?
Could it be the base chief of the Wolf Base? Jealousy? Hatred? So he resorted to underhanded tactics?

Lu Li stood up, swung her legs, and then forced all the shops to close.

Customers are now slowly making their way to the base.

[Host, this wasn't done by humans.] The system kindly reminded you.

[Not human, then a zombie? That can't be right either. Wang Yang is at least a level ten zombie; he couldn't possibly lose silently to a zombie.]

[Is that a mutated animal? But that doesn't make sense; there aren't any mutated animals around here! So it must be a mutated plant!]

The system replied with satisfaction: "Congratulations, you finally guessed correctly."

"Can't you just say what you want to say?" Lu Li was speechless. She looked around. "Where are the mutated plants? Step forward!"

"She is everywhere," the system said.

[In the air?] Lu Li guessed, receiving confirmation and encouragement from the system once again.

Lu Li's world has collapsed. [Isn't this the end? It's everywhere; you can't avoid it as long as you breathe!]

[That's how it should be in theory, and it only works on those with special abilities. The higher the rank, the faster they get dizzy.] The system said helplessly.

Lu Li was stunned. [No wonder. Then why am I alright? And why are the base residents alright?]

"You, you're different. Don't compare yourself to them," the system said dismissively.

Lu Li was too lazy to argue with him anymore; the most important task now was to wake them up.

But the air is full of that stuff's toxins, so there's no way to avoid it.

She just saw it and said that not only does it make her dizzy, but it also causes red spots to appear on her body, which is a bit scary.

She had no choice but to return to the lottery shop, where the air was filtered and the toxins should be less.

Sure enough, the red spots on Shen Bing's body had faded a bit after she pushed her back with a chair.

It seems this isolation method is somewhat effective.

She went down again, manipulating Luo Mu's body to carry him through the air back to the lottery shop.

There was no time to walk to the sofa; it was placed directly on the floor.

Because it's within the safe zone of the RV, she can control any object, whether it's a person or something else.

She used this method to move all the sleeping shop owners into the lottery shop.

She walked back and forth, which made her tired, but she got smarter later and moved around in small groups.

After moving everything to the lottery shop, Lu Li sat down to rest and noticed that the red spots on Shen Bing's body had completely disappeared.