I, a Mental Patient, Was Chosen to Participate in AnalogHorror
Chapter 324 - 291: Stepping Out and Losing Face

Chapter 324: Chapter 291: Stepping Out and Losing Face

"Wow, this big brother looks so pitiful~"

A cute child sucked on her finger, gazing at Jiang Xiao with pitying eyes.

"Such a kind-hearted little girl, here, Mommy will reward you with a little red flower."

The woman holding the child kissed her.

Jiang Xiao’s loud complaints about being poor had already attracted quite a crowd.

"Say, is your family’s situation really that bad?"

"Could it be that he’s a poor bumpkin from the countryside?"

"Hey, the countryside is quite wealthy now, every household has so much land, just grow something and you’re set for food and clothing, plus no mortgage pressure."

"Tsk, exactly, I reckon most of them sit in the suburbs, obviously can’t afford a house in town but still insist on squeezing in here, puffing up their faces to look fat."

Those words were like knives, stabbing Fei Yu’s heart one sentence at a time.

Goodness, we haven’t even entered the supermarket yet, and we’ve already lost face?

"Heh, hehe, Xiao, let’s go buy some meat."

"Great! Then I want to eat teddy bear biscuits!"

"Sure sure sure, whatever you want to eat is fine, today we’ll do whatever you say!"

Fei Yu practically gritted her teeth as she said this, but then she thought about how even condemned criminals could eat a hearty last meal before execution.

So, satisfying his small request for snacks wasn’t too excessive.

Besides, he wouldn’t even have a chance to eat these snacks once bought, for the supermarket’s cold storage was to be his final resting place.

Since section nine was located at the very back of the supermarket, similar to the area where live fish and fresh meat were sold in normal supermarkets on the Blue Planet, there was a long way ahead filled with kids’ favorite snack and toy areas...

Seeing Jiang Xiao continuously pile snacks into the cart, Fei Yu already regretted what she’d just said.

She had made up her mind that after dealing with this kid, she would put all these snacks and drinks back in their original places...

Although it was a bit embarrassing, it was better than "puffing up one’s face to look fat."

It wasn’t that she couldn’t afford these snacks, but it just wasn’t as cost-effective as buying Zhenzhen a pair of shoes.

Watching Jiang Xiao, who seemed like a wild dog off its leash, Fei Yu’s smile grew colder and colder.

Hehe, enjoy it while you can, let’s see how long you can keep this up!

...

Dragon Country.

’Dong dong dong~’

Before anyone responded from inside, the secretary hurriedly pushed open Director Wang’s private office door.

The latter was startled, immediately locked his phone screen in a panic, and then switched to a serious face in a second.

"Cough! What’s the matter! Haven’t I stressed several times during the last meeting that you must knock before entering my office, and you can only come in after I give you permission?"

"Director Wang, there’s an emergency. It looks like Jiang Xiao is about to run into trouble. Fei Yu clearly has no good intentions; that sinister look in her eyes is just short of labelling her as a ’bad person’ on her forehead. We suspect something in the supermarket’s meat and oil pressing area could be harmful to Jiang Xiao."

Oh?

Director Wang raised an eyebrow, couldn’t help but ask.

"How are people reacting in the live stream chat? Ah, I mean, the comments in the live stream?"

Comments?

The secretary was startled; she had been watching in clean screen mode, keeping an eye on Jiang Xiao’s every move, without any idea what the comments were saying, but...

"Before coming to you I glanced at the comments, six out of ten are discussing Fei Yu’s long legs..."

"And the other four?" Director Wang pressed on.

"Two are discussing Fei Yu’s devil waist, and one is envying Jiang Xiao’s good fortune with women..."

"What about the last one?"

The secretary hesitated for a moment, her face turning red as she spoke.

"Uh, there are also bullet comments fantasizing about Fei Yu and indulging in dirty fantasies. They’re just obscene, not fit to repeat to you."

Daylight under the clear sky, and such things were happening?

Director Wang opened his laptop to check out Jiang Xiao’s livestream, and indeed, the chat was quite explicit. His secretary’s description turned out to be conservative.

This was also one of the main reasons his secretary watched in pure mode.

Normally it was fine, but as soon as a beautiful woman appeared next to Jiang Xiao, the bullet comments were... just one glance was enough to make one’s face flush with embarrassment!

"Ts, don’t worry, let it be. I feel like there’s no danger."

After watching for a few seconds, Director Wang was reassured.

There wasn’t even any discussion about the plot, and the occasional one or two were shouting for the "Welfare Bureau."

Really, if one didn’t know any better, watching a Dragon Country livestream, one might think Analog Horror was just a playhouse game.

Of course, for Jiang Xiao, the difficulty of Kaidan wasn’t much different from a playhouse game.

"Don’t worry, if there really were danger, the atmosphere in the livestream wouldn’t be like this."

Director Wang waved his hand, signaling that the junior secretary could go now, not to interrupt his lone studying rhythm.

The secretary sighed helplessly. Looking at Director Wang now, where was a trace of his past iron-blooded character?

He was just a laid-back leader, even leading in slacking off.

In just over a month, Director Wang’s waist size had increased by at least three sizes.

With the seasons turning to fall, the last time she helped him shop for autumn and winter clothes, Director Wang had admitted himself to buying three sizes bigger than last year.

Once the secretary had left, Director Wang watched the livestream for a few more minutes before fully letting go of his worries.

According to his many years of acute intuition for danger, Jiang Xiao was definitely not in any peril now.

Don’t look at all these people in the livestream joking around satisfyingly.

But if Jiang Xiao were really in danger and Dragon Country needed to activate the external reminder mechanism, yet it remained inactive, these viewers would definitely be the first to lash out viciously.

...

"I want to buy this!"

Jiang Xiao was pointing at the section that prominently displayed "Prime Select Snowflake Beef" for on-the-spot selection.

Fei Yu didn’t even need to look at the beef. Just seeing that string of characters, she knew this cut of meat was definitely not ordinary...

And the price tag that read "788 for half a jin" also proved that Fei Yu, as a homemaker, had an unerring eye.

Enough was enough, there was no need for tolerance!

"Jiang Xiao! Put it back, listen to stepmom!"

"But, but you just said you’d listen to me today, and I want to eat it tonight."

"The meat is weighed and paid for on the spot. Once bought, it can’t be returned. How can I..."

Uh...

Did she accidentally tell the truth?

Sure enough, Jiang Xiao’s face fell as soon as he heard Fei Yu say this.

"So, you never really intended to buy me snacks, did you? You were planning to sneak them back on the shelf later!"

"No, Xiao, listen to stepmom explain, the, the price of this meat..."

"Yes, that’s right, I know I lost my mother when I was young."

Here he goes again!

As soon as Jiang Xiao said this, he instantly attracted the stares of several nearby shoppers, causing Fei Yu to die of social embarrassment once more.

"Just buy it for the kid if he wants to eat. And you call yourself stepmom? You’re just a wicked stepmother."

"No, I’m not any kind of stepmother! I’m just, ah!"

Fei Yu, unable to defend herself, had no choice but to pull Jiang Xiao away.

"Let’s go, we’ll head to Zone 9 and pick some cheaper meat. We’ll buy this piece... when we come back."

Assuming you can make it back alive!