Hearing this, Wang Xin hoisted his machete and stepped forward, his tone vicious. “You reckless little brat, still turning your nose up at our boss?”
“Ah! This supermarket has so much stuff.” Zhang Peng’s eyes were glued to the goods on the shelves.
Li Dahai spat on the ground near his feet. “You two go pack it up, leave the little girl to me, heh heh…”
At those words, the other two lit up and crowded around the shelves, grinning stupidly, reaching out to tear open a bag of cookies first.
“System, as the owner, I have the right to refuse service to customers, right?” People this disgusting, she had no intention of selling them anything.
【Yes, Host, do as you please.】
Still trying to steal, huh, no idea just how out of their depth they were.
“Ah, uh, uh, ugh…”
“Ugh…”
Li Dahai hadn’t even taken two steps before the two brothers behind him collapsed to the floor with a thud, unmoving.
“Huh? What happened?” Seeing the two of them lying there, faces gone blue, Li Dahai hurried over to check on them.
The pair had been shocked black, in no state of mind to answer him, lying stiff on the floor like a couple of rods.
Shan Nai pulled the golden baseball bat out from the cabinet beneath the checkout counter, propped it on her shoulder, and walked up to Li Dahai.
“Clean up whatever you spat, exactly the way you spat it.”
Li Dahai let out a low snort. “What? Ha, what a joke…”
“Bang—”
Shan Nai raised the baseball bat and unleashed a furious assault on Li Dahai, fast, and brutally hard-hitting.
Before Li Dahai could even process what was happening, an iron hammer crashed straight into his face, bending his nose sideways, blood gushing out instantly. Under the relentless barrage of blows, all he could do was curl up, arms over his head.
He couldn’t understand it, this little girl looked so delicate, barely reaching his chest, yet how was she landing hits he couldn’t even fend off?!
Every joint down his back burned with pain, he wasn’t sure how many bones had cracked.
“Stop… stop… damn it!” Unable to bear the pain any longer, his joints creaking, Li Dahai suddenly grabbed hold of Shan Nai’s bat and roared, “You’ve got an ability, don’t you? Who doesn’t these days!”
Li Dahai figured he’d seize the chance to unleash his own ability, he was a tier-two sand-type ability user, and he’d done plenty of rotten deeds relying on it in the past.
But no matter how hard he tried, again and again—
His ability simply wouldn’t respond. Not a single grain of sand appeared!
“What’s going on?” Li Dahai panicked. “What kind of place is this! My ability’s been disabled??”
That’s right, inside the supermarket, abilities were as good as nonexistent.
Three minutes later, the two men on the floor gradually regained consciousness, trembling like leaves as they staggered up, eyes rolled back, staring blankly at Li Dahai.
Seeing his brothers in this state, a murderous urge welled up in Li Dahai, and he reached out to try to snap Shan Nai’s neck.
But just as his hand reached her, Shan Nai raised the bat to block those filthy hands and slammed down hard.
“Crack.” A crisp sound.
His wrist snapped.
“Aaargh—!” Li Dahai’s whole body seized up from the shock of pain.
“Since you don’t understand the rules, let me teach you.”
Shan Nai didn’t care whether he lived or died, kicking Li Dahai straight next to the spit he’d left, forcing him to roll his body back and forth over it to clean it up.
“Ah, ah… it hurts, it hurts, I was wrong, I was wrong, ancestor! Please spare us this once, little ancestor! Topping up, is it? I’ve got crystal cores, I’ll pay!”
Li Dahai wept, his whole body beaten black and blue, his face swollen like a pig’s head, his hand broken clean through, he bitterly regretted his impulsive actions from moments ago.
Impulsiveness truly was the devil.
Even a fool would understand by now that this supermarket was no ordinary place, and this little girl was far beyond someone he could afford to provoke.
Shan Nai looked at him with disgust. “Too late.”
Wang Xin still wasn’t quite convinced, maybe he’d been shocked too fast to process what happened. He turned and tried again, reaching for an apple on the shelf.
“Zzzt—”
Another jolt of electric punishment.
【Detected two individuals repeatedly violating shop rules. Erasure sentence now applied.】
A sudden, icy electronic voice rang out through the supermarket, and before Li Dahai and Wang Xin could even react with surprise or confusion, they vanished on the spot.
Zhang Peng rubbed his eyes, looking left and right for his companions.
He was shaking with fright, this little shop owner with the cat-ear headband had abilities far too powerful.
There was no way to remove these goods without her permission, try to force it, and you’d get shocked. “I… where’s my boss and the others?”
“Thrown out to feed the zombies,” Shan Nai said casually, matter-of-factly.
Terrifying, two violations and you get fed to the zombies. Good thing he’d only stolen once, his sorry life was still intact!
With that, he held his breath, tiptoed along the wall, and carefully made his way toward the door.
Trying to sneak off.
This supermarket was too terrifying, way too terrifying.
“Trying to leave? No rush, let me send you off properly!” Shan Nai mentally had the system open the door for her, then swung the iron bat up and aimed it squarely at Zhang Peng’s backside. “Bang!”
“Aaaaah—!”
Zhang Peng screamed like a pig being slaughtered, sent flying out the door, tumbling across the ground several times, his tailbone fractured.
“Come back again and I’ll beat you to death on the spot!” Shan Nai stood at the door, hands on her slender waist, shouting loudly.
Zhang Peng, not far off, shuddered in fear and scrambled away on all fours.
【Host, you’re really… something else.】 Even if the Host hadn’t stepped in herself, those people could never have hurt her anyway.
“Heh, they had no idea who this cat is!” Shan Nai rubbed her nose, picked up her bat, and closed the supermarket’s front door.
She went to the bathroom first to wash her hands, cleaned up the floor, and then sat back down.
【For those who break shop rules like this, the supermarket will teleport them straight into the highest-tier zombie horde or a black hole, the Host doesn’t need to lift a finger herself, why tire yourself out?】
“Beating them up first lets off some steam, doubles the fun~”
Anyone who dared act wild in her supermarket had better be ready to accept a double dose of punishment.
【Understood! The Host is truly mighty.】 This little kitten’s personality really was likable.
Shan Nai didn’t feel tired at all, people like that deserved a good beating before being tossed into a zombie horde, just to see how much swagger they had left.
Meow-ha-ha-ha.
She really was a clever little cat.
To avoid having more people burst in and start grabbing things without a word, she thought about making a sign to put up outside the supermarket door!
No sooner thought than done, she wandered around the area near her supermarket, hoping to find some kind of wooden board or the like, but came up empty.
The Lucky Supermarket sat on a street corner in the city center, surrounded by dilapidated office buildings, and the ground-floor shops nearby had long since been picked clean.
In the end, Shan Nai dug up a stainless steel classroom hand-held sign and a can of red spray paint at a school.
“Forget supplies, even scrap junk is hard to come by these days…” Shan Nai muttered under her breath, carrying the hand-held sign back to the supermarket entrance.
【Some bases send people out to gather useful supplies. Would this be useful to the Host?】 If someone tries to steal, just punish them directly, no need to warn them first, the Host really is too kind.
“Saves me the trouble of talking.” Shan Nai said with a smile.
The sign’s original surface had been covered with stickers. Shan Nai wiped it clean, shook the can of spray paint, and sprayed a few large characters onto it.
「WARNING: Exchange for points before entering the shop. Vandals and thieves will be fed to the zombies!」 Bold red letters, striking and stark.
Shan Nai looked at the warning sign now standing at her front door, breaking into a satisfied smile.
As for the two men who’d been teleported into the zombie horde, they’d already joined the ranks of the undead amid a chorus of anguished howls.