"No problem, you can't tell by looking at the colorful food and drinks."
"Okay, this is the first time I've seen people bring their own food to eat in a store."
"It's not like I want this. If I don't have money, what can I do?"
"Fortunately, there are no clerks in this store, otherwise I would have been discovered."
"After all, it's cheaper to buy a robot in this world than to hire a person, especially this old, simple robot."
A garbage can-like robot passed by our table. It scanned our table with its probe, but there was no response. It will only clean up the things on the table if there is no one at it or call it actively, otherwise it will not care about the guests.
Totally ignored, no service at all.
"When will the contact person come?"
Baiyanghua was a little bored and kept poking the faces of small animals. Somehow, the child became like a doll. He didn't move or talk, and wasn't even interested in food, but his vital signs were normal.
I don't have the conditions to check her brain now, so I can only keep observing.
"I don't know either. Anyway, I was told to wait here."
"Can they recognize us?"
"It should be okay, the boss has already said hello."
"Then how do we confirm each other?"
"The old way, the secret code."
"What's the secret code?"
"You'll find out later."
"Oh~"
The popularity of this restaurant is pretty good, with all kinds of diners visiting one after another, ordering some weird food that doesn't look like food at all, such as blue-purple jelly, drinks that look like motor oil, and colorful pastes.
It is said that because most of the poisonous things in nature are cold-colored, cold-colored foods are difficult to arouse human appetite, but this theory does not apply here. Let alone appetite, the food here does not have the fragrance of earth food.
, there is only a weird smell emitted by some synthetic flavors. I can't find any food that can be compared to it. I can only describe it with the smell of potion, machine oil, etc. I'm a little lucky that I don't have money to order food, otherwise I would eat these.
Things will definitely come out.
"Is this place occupied? The other tables are full."
A man with smoky makeup and a mohawk came to our table, looking like a diner looking for a seat.
"No, you can sit down."
I closed the lower part of the helmet to cover my face, turned to the man and nodded. Before, I had to open my mouth to eat, but now I have to be careful when unknown people come.
"Why do you let a stranger sit next to us?"
Baiyanghua had already closed the lid because she was coaxing the child, and she asked a little strangely in her mind.
"This person may be the connector."
"Oh~ So that's it."
I moved to the side, keeping a good distance from the man. The man looked around for a moment and focused on the leftover food we had on the table. Just now, in order to avoid attracting attention, I took the cold bread.
They are tasteless things. Because the little animals have no appetite, there are some left here.
"Is this the food you brought yourself?"
Mohawk asked me curiously.
"Yes, our specialty there."
In order to disguise it, I deliberately removed the packaging and placed it on stainless steel plates, so that no one would know that these foods came from another world.
"It looks good, can you give it to me to try?"
"cannot."
Actually, it’s not that I don’t want to sell, but I have no way to collect money! Everyone here uses electronic payment, and I don’t even have a payment device, so how can I sell it?
"Oh~"
"I can give it to you."
I don’t know if people in this world will die if they eat food from the earth, but they are also Cybermen, so they shouldn’t be so squeamish, right? At worst, we’ll save them when the time comes. Anyway, these things have already been opened, and it’s hard to keep them if no one eats them.
"Really? Thank you so much!"
Mohawk did not hesitate to pull the dinner plate in front of him and ordered something on the electronic table. After a while, the food delivery robot delivered a large cup of yellow-green honey liquid and a bowl of industrial pigment-like liquid.
The red sauce. Mohawk picked up the bread and studied it, broke off a piece and dipped it in the sauce and ate it.
"Huh? It's delicious! Your specialties are really good!"
After taking a bite of the mohawk, he started to praise it, with a smile on his dark face, and then he couldn't stop.
"Is it that exaggerated? Is this guy acting?"
Baiyanghua didn't understand the other party's performance and asked in her mind.
"Maybe it's true. You see, the food here seems to be chemically synthesized. It may just be sugary nutritional supplements and the like. It's not really food at all. Although these are just ordinary bread, they are also made by people here.
Delicious food like never before.”
"Then the people here are so pitiful."
"It's pitiful, but it's so happy compared to that world. At least they won't die in inexplicable pain in droves."
"Oh~! Why hasn't the contact person come yet? This guy doesn't look like that either. He probably came here because he saw we had something rare to eat!"
"Observe again...wait."
While Mohawk was eating with relish, he tapped lightly on the table with one hand. His tapping seemed random, but in fact it was very rhythmic, and he kept repeating the same rhythm. I immediately asked Ai-chan to
Translate it into binary and get a string of numbers, which is exactly the connector password that the fat boss told me before.
"He is the one who takes care of us."
"Ah? Are you sure?"
"Sure."
"Then how should you respond to him?"
"Knock the code."
I raised my index finger and tapped the corresponding binary number on the table. However, the other party did not have any obvious reaction. He just stopped knocking on the table and continued to concentrate on eating. When he finished all the bread, he thanked us.
Then he got up and left the restaurant.
"What's going on? Where's the promised connection? Why did the person leave?"
"I don't know, I'll do some research."
I checked where the other person was sitting and didn't find anything.
"Is there any result?"
"No, there's nothing left, but I was really knocking out a code just now."
"Then what does he mean? What should we do now?"
"Don't delay, go chase it, it's not a problem to wait around."
"oh!"
Bai Yanghua and I quickly got up and chased each other out, but we couldn't find any trace of each other in the crowd.
"Bang~"
"Ouch! Sorry!"
A passerby bumped into me, as if he didn't expect our sudden appearance. But I couldn't have been bumped, so although the other person was a man, he was the one who staggered. The strange thing is that he even took the initiative to apologize.
"Sorry, I'm a little impatient."
I nodded towards the other party.
"It's okay, it's okay~"
The man waved his hand and left.
"Amy, be careful, is that a thief?"
"Don't be afraid, I don't have anything to steal... hmm? What is this?"