Chapter 486: Investigation

"Dawn Guard? Okay then." The shopkeeper reluctantly agreed. However, as the two sides communicated, he seemed to have more confidence:

"Don't mess around! We at Yuguang's Flavor are the top stores in the entire wasteland chain, and we are not easy to bully!"

Yelan smiled and nodded.

"That's natural."

"Okay." Seeing that these people were easy to talk to, the shop owner asked distressedly: "What do you want to check?"

Yelan didn't answer his question immediately, but quickly scanned the entire store.

Afterwards, Ye Lan was thoughtful.

"The upper and lower floors are both dining areas?"

"Yes." The shopkeeper nodded, looking suspicious: "Aren't you from Qianguang City? Have you never been here?"

Ye Lan paused and smiled awkwardly but politely:

“Not everyone likes buffets.”

Immediately, Ye Lan looked at a glass-connected area on the left.

"Then let's take a look at the kitchen." Ye Lan turned her head and said, "Manman, come with me. Old doctor, find a good seat first."

This is Yelan's preliminary layout plan. I will first explore the area outside the kitchen, the only public area, and the old doctor will first check the entire room with the owner accompanying me.

After all, no one knows where and in what form the clues are hidden.

After taking Yelan into the kitchen, the owner was still confused.

What does this mean? Isn't it a Qianguang guard? Why go to the kitchen to check food hygiene?

As soon as she entered the kitchen, Ye Lan frowned.

"No food prepared today?"

The whole kitchen was empty, nothing.

"The city is under martial law, why should I prepare food?" The shop owner spread his hands, and Ye Lan, who had good reasons, could not refute.

"Are they open normally during this period?" Ye Lan asked as she walked around the large kitchen.

"Of course." The shop owner kept chattering: "Do you know how expensive the rent here is for a day? Do you know how expensive it is to order ingredients from all over the wasteland every day? Do you know how much money you lose for one less business day?"

Ye Lan had already looked around the entire kitchen, raised his eyes slightly, and pointed at a door at the back of the kitchen.

"Where is it?"

"Oh." The shopkeeper glanced at it, but his tone did not change: "Warehouse."

Yelan paused, smiled and nodded.

"Okay, then I'll finish reading."

After saying that, he walked out without stopping, causing Xia Manman to look a little strange.

Walking back to the restaurant, Ye Lan found that the old doctor had found a seat on the first floor to sit down, so he walked over and sat opposite Xia Manman.

Before he could say anything, the shop owner had already followed him.

Looking at the three people cooking at the table like the customers, the shop owner had doubts in his eyes.

"Have you finished checking? What are you doing?"

"It's noon, we want to eat something." Ye Lan said with a smile.

"..." The store manager didn't know what to say for a moment: "But this is a buffet! I haven't prepared any food, so why..."

"You don't need to prepare so many dishes, just two small stir-fry dishes." Ye Lan placed five 20-face value fog blue coins on the table:

"Is this enough?"

"This..." The shopkeeper's expression was uncertain, and finally he sighed softly and collected the money.

"Okay then, just wait."

As he left, Ye Lan's expression quickly became serious and she looked at the old doctor:

"Have you noticed anything?"

"I don't know if it counts as a discovery." The old doctor sounded very humble when he said it, but in fact he was proud to show off his harvest: "I can be sure that there has been no food on the table in this store for at least seven days. "

Yelan nodded slightly. Sure enough, this was inconsistent with the store owner's previous description.

What he expressed is that it has been operating normally every day recently.

"Manman?" Ye Lan looked at Xia Manman.

Xia Manman's expression was a bit ugly.

"I didn't feel his presence."

Yelan's pupils shrank, and her expression quickly returned to normal.

"Then my guess is correct. The key clues left by Wandering Balance can be found in that warehouse."

Is that the warehouse behind the kitchen...

Xia Manman was a little confused:

"In that case, what did you just do..."

"Since you can't feel his existence, then what is he?" Ye Lan just asked this question, and Xia Manman fell silent.

"If I don't know what he is and what Qianguang City is now, I don't know how to deal with him."

Ye Lan shook his head and quickly thought of a countermeasure.

Soon, Ye Lan finalized the plan.

"Manman, go to the second floor now and set a fire farthest from the stairs. It must be burning brightly and will spread if you don't put it out quickly."

"..." Xia Manman only felt that this behavior was a bit inconsistent with the character and status of the people at this table, and had to ask: "Isn't this bad? What if..."

"The situation is urgent, there are not so many chances." Ye Lan shook his head: "If everything is really a misunderstanding, I will compensate him ten times, so don't worry."

Xia Manman nodded, stood up quickly, and ran to the second floor.

After waiting leisurely for tens of seconds, Ye Lan, who was paying full attention to the situation upstairs, heard a slight "whoosh" and immediately shouted:

"It's on fire, it's on fire! Boss! There's a fire upstairs!"

"What?" The owner rushed out of the kitchen in panic, his face full of panic: "Where? Where?"

"Upstairs!"

Swoosh!

Without saying a word, the owner rushed upstairs.

Snap!

As the owner disappeared at the corner of the stairs, Xia Manman had already climbed down from the second floor with climbing claws and walked back into the restaurant from the main entrance.

The three of them met up, and Ye Lan immediately took the lead and rushed to the kitchen.

"Go!"

Crack.

Crack.

After opening the kitchen, Ye Lan, who had already rehearsed the route, quickly pushed open the door of the warehouse and flashed in.

As soon as he entered, Ye Lan felt a strong smell of spices lingering at the tip of his nose, and for a moment he couldn't help but imagine the taste of food that could be made from these spices.

Looking around, Ye Lan didn't know where to start for a while.

It was very clean and hygienic here. There were all kinds of shelves for food, as well as transparent refrigerators, freezers, etc., with all kinds of precious ingredients.

But at this time, the old doctor moved his nose.

"What's that strange smell?"

Strange smell?

Ye Lan was slightly startled, sniffed carefully, but didn't feel any strange smell: "What's wrong? Are you allergic to spices?"

"Of course not!" The old doctor said uncomfortably: "It stinks!"