5:00 PM.
After working for three and a half hours straight, Yu Gong Lian finally reached the end of his shift. By this time, all the children had been picked up by their parents, and his job as a costumed character was practically done.
This gave Yu Gong Lian an extra half hour of rest time.
“You did a good job, Yu Gong.”
The female store manager was very satisfied with Yu Gong Lian, the employee.
“You've been working hard all day, you hardly even took any breaks.”
The female store manager wasn't blind, she could see that Yu Gong Lian, the quiet, hardworking, and occasional slacker, was actually doing a good job.
“Yu Gong, you have half an hour of rest time now.”
“Is that okay?”
“No problem.”
The female store manager glanced at the condition of the store, considering the customer traffic and how busy it had been today, she happily nodded.
“The customer traffic today is quite high, even for a weekend. We've already sold out of many ice cream flavors. It's safe to say your work today has done a great job bringing people in.”
Ice cream shops were mainly targeted towards children.
After all, girls were concerned about their weight, so they rarely came to eat ice cream. As for boys, they rarely came without a girl accompanying them. On the other hand, adults bringing children were quite common.
When adults accompanied their children, it wouldn't just be the children who ended up making purchases.
The work of handing out flyers and balloons with the costumes had been quite effective. Even if the flyers only worked within the amusement park, as long as they had some effect, those who saw them would come to the ice cream shop to make a purchase.
A comparison between the usual weekend traffic and the traffic today made it clear. Today's costume flyer distribution work had been done well, it had truly drawn in customers.
The female store manager withdrew her gaze.
“Today's work is almost complete. After half an hour, check the situation. If the remaining ice cream is also sold out, your work for today will be done.”
“Of course, the agreed salary will be paid in full.”
“Thank you.”
Half an hour of rest time, plus the possibility of getting off work directly after that, forced Yu Gong Lian to express his gratitude.
Arriving at the ice cream shop's changing room, Yu Gong Lian changed out of the heavy costume.
His clothes were now drenched in sweat.
Firstly, the costume was really heavy, and secondly, Yu Gong Lian was truly working hard.
With these two conditions combined, it was difficult to avoid getting sweat soaked.
“Today went more smoothly than I expected.”
“Perhaps I didn't notice, but they’re already around me.”
Indeed, Yu Gong Lian couldn't confirm if anyone had actually seen his diary and was observing him.
“My guts are pretty big, to have done something so crazy.”
Exposing himself now, upon reflection, was a very wrong decision.
However, it was also a form of exploration of the diary's rules.
In fact, Yu Gong Lian didn't know the diary's rules. Of course, the main reason was that the diary itself didn't introduce the rules and really didn't reveal any information at all, as if it were completely unrestrained.
But there must be limitations to diary flow. Either it limited the speech of the diary holder or the person who wrote the diary.
After all, the diary was about his daily life.
The more he exposed his daily life, the more he treated the diary as a diary, wouldn't it also have some impact on his draw today?
Yu Gong Lian was thinking about this problem.
Yesterday, he was blinded by enthusiasm and couldn't help but want to test it out. As a result, he exposed his name. Thinking about it now, it was a very rash decision.
“If I don’t get anything good today, then I’ve really lost big time.”
Was the characteristic he drew yesterday bad?
In fact, thinking about it carefully, it wasn't bad. It's just that “Unbound” was truly a very potential skill, able to accommodate multiple personalities, and could maintain the uniqueness of the main personality.
Actually, Yu Gong Lian himself knew that if “Unbound” was combined with “Persona,” then it was practically cheating.
Others could only use a single Persona, while he could use multiple different types of Persona. If this was a battle, it would be a complete and utter slaughter.
It was all about switching, and it was all about exploiting weaknesses.
It was just a pity that there was no corresponding Persona.
Of course, even lacking the corresponding Persona, it couldn't deny the role of “Unbound.”
To avoid confirming that the characteristic he drew yesterday was useless, Yu Gong Lian could only try his best to find something positive.
Yu Gong Lian was also worried that someone would catch him and restrict his life, turning him into a tool for providing daily diary entries.
But at least he was still safe for now.
“Based on my understanding of the exposure flow, the diary wouldn't be widely distributed at the beginning. It should gradually increase as the progress goes on.”
“If this diary exposure flow also follows this principle, then at least the few people who saw my diary wouldn't do something so direct.”
“This time, taking such a dangerous initiative, I've truly shortened my life.”
“Hopefully, the final outcome will be as I guessed.”
“Yesterday's reward wasn’t trash, maybe today will give me a matching surprise.”
Of course, this was based on his guess being correct.
But that was something he could only know after completing today's diary at night. For now, Yu Gong Lian just rested comfortably in the changing room.
He looked forward to being able to go home and rest after half an hour of rest.
But this expectation was completely shattered half an hour later.
“Beep! Woah!”
The sound of a police siren suddenly came from the entrance in the distance. Yu Gong Lian, who was still in the changing room recovering his strength, heard it clearly.
A strange bad feeling suddenly surged up in his heart.
About five minutes later, the changing room door opened, and the female store manager stood outside.
The female store manager was full of gloom.
“Sigh… Something happened. Yu Gong, you can pack up your stuff, you don't have to continue working after this.”
“Store manager, what's going on outside? Why are there police here?”
Although Yu Gong Lian instinctively didn't want to get involved, since it had happened, he still wanted to know what had happened.
“What else could it be, a murder. Something happened at the roller coaster.”
“Damn, a murder on the roller coaster… The starting case of the plot.”
Yu Gong Lian now knew why the police cars were outside.
PS: New book, looking for data