But this will help them find their target rats more quickly, as the rental disc will be recorded.

If, as the soothsayer said, the target rat had a soft spot for the CD, it would be a regular customer of the disc rental shop, and getting the rental registration form would help him lock in the target faster.

However, it was not easy to get the rental registration form, but they still had to find a way to rent the disc according to the original plan, and then use the skills of the Piper to gather the rats in the town and listen to the music on the blue CD to observe their reactions.

But in this "civilized" rat town, they can neither steal nor rob, and if they want to rent a disc, they have to use cheese as a bargaining weight, and they have to keep a hand to earn some cheese......

Qi Ji said thoughtfully, "Let's go to the disc rental shop first to see the situation, if we can successfully get the registration form for disc rental, it will save a lot of trouble, if not... You have to find a way to make a little cheese as a fund. ”

There is no map of the rat colony, and the surrounding lanes are narrow and crooked, and the road surface is full of mud and filth, so it is easy to get lost while walking.

Qi Yan and the Magic Piper questioned the passing mice several times before finding a disc rental shop in a shop near the square.

Fortunately, although they are both notorious rats in human society, they are warm and polite enough to treat their "kind".

The store is no different from all the surrounding buildings, built from discarded cans, express cartons and animal bones, and has a fist-sized doorway on the exterior wall where customers can lift the plastic sheeting curtain to enter the store.

The shop is dimly lit, and the shelves for discs are made of scrap metal, which is carefully treated to look much cleaner than the chaotic buildings on the streets.

However, there is no rental price list posted in the storefront.

A red-robed rat sorts through the shelves, with its pointed gray tail and seems to be overly focused on tidying up and ignoring the guests who visit it.

"Hello," the Pied Piper asked, standing at the counter, but the waiter rat didn't respond.

"Hello?" The Magic Pied Man raised his voice and asked again, but the other party still did not respond, and the Magic Pied Man and Qi Yan glanced at each other, "I'm afraid I'm not deaf." ”

Qi Yan set his eyes on the service bell at the counter, he pressed it, and the deafening bell rang immediately.

The Magic Piper and Qi Yan couldn't help but hold their ears, and then the waiter rat finally reacted, and it raised its head from the shelf: "Hello, is there anything you need my help with?" ”

Qi Jiu: "Excuse me, we want to find a CD with a blue cover, do you have it here?" ”

The waiter was silent for half a second, revealing a unique smile from the waiter: "Yes, you are very lucky, this CD is usually very popular, and it just happened to be not lent out today, if you need to come and register, and pay three pieces of cheese, but remember that the CD cannot be rented for more than 1 hour at a time." ”

The Magic Piper gave Qi Yan a nervous look, as they couldn't even get three pieces of cheese right now.

Qi Ji nodded calmly: "No problem, where is the registration book, I'll register it." ”

"Here." The waiter pointed to the location of the counter, and Qi Yan, who had been allowed, stepped forward, he casually opened the registration book, and made a beautiful appearance to read the contents recorded in the registration book.

But unfortunately, Qi Zhen turned several pages and didn't see any information at all.

Either because the rental shop was doing poorly, or because the waiter happened to have a new registration book.

"Is this the only registration book?" Qi Yan took out a pen that had broken down a long time ago, pretended to scratch it on the paper, leaving no traces, he deliberately frowned and muttered, "Mine doesn't seem to be able to write on it, probably because the paper is stained with wax..."

The waiter stared at his every move, as if he had been successfully blinded by his acting skills, and did not notice anything unusual.

The waiter took out a pen from the drawer and handed it to Qi Jiu: "Sorry, we only have one registration book in the store, you can try it with my pen." ”

"Well... Thanks a lot. ”

Qi Yan took the pen handed by the other party, and his heart sank slightly, it seemed that the way to find the target mouse from the registration form was not working.

Isn't the target mouse interested in this CD?

Qi Yan didn't think that the soothsayer had given the wrong information, and he moved his gaze back to the pen in his hand and had a new guess.

Chapter 157: Highway Circus (51)

But speculation is just speculation, and Qi Zhen needs stronger evidence to turn speculation into answers.

Because before entering, the soothsayer had reminded them that, as with the previous rules for finding the soothsayer, they only had one chance to identify the target mouse, and the wrong one would be expelled from the mouse-town for "harassment".

So he had to be cautious, and the best way to confirm his guess was to verify the answer with the clue "a mouse that dances to CD music", and he had to get his hands on the CD.

While thinking quickly, Qi Yan filled in personal information in the registration book.

It was the first time that the Magic Piper next to him had done such a thing, and he watched Qi Yan's every move uneasily, although he was trying his best to hide his emotions, the tense muscles on his face had already revealed his nervousness.

After filling out the registration book, Qi Yan reached into his pocket and fumbled for pretending to pay, and suddenly, his brows furrowed, and a look of great apology flashed on his face.

"Ahh I was in a hurry to go out just now... It seems that I forgot to bring cheese..."Qi Ji rummaged through the pockets of his clothes again, and said with a wry smile, "I'm sorry, I really forgot, can I take credit?" ”

The waiter stared at him expressionlessly, and after a moment shook his head: "Sorry, we don't allow credit here." ”

"Ah, I'm really sorry..."Qi Zhen scratched his head in embarrassment, and then turned to the Magic Piper decently, "Did you bring it?" ”

The Pied Piper was visibly stunned: "Huh? ”

Qi Zhen blinked at him with the waiter behind his back: "Did you bring cheese?" ”

The Pied Piper shook his head stiffly: "No..."

He came back to his senses and was stunned by the young player's improvisational acting.

"That's right, there's no way...", Qi Yan looked at the waiter's unwavering eyes again, "Then I have to wait a while, I'll go home and get some cheese." ”

The waiter said with a straight face: "Then please as soon as possible, we do not have the service of reserving discs for customers." ”

He was not very enthusiastic, but he did not seem suspicious.

"Okay, thanks, we'll be back as soon as possible." Qi Yan glanced at the Magic Piper, who came back to his senses a little and quickly walked out of the rental shop following Qi Yan's pace.

The Pied Piper wondered, "What's next?" You can't steal here, you can't rob here, all violent means are prohibited, where are we going to get some cheese? ”

Qi Jiu: "Since cheese is a trading currency, it's good to earn it." ”

Pied Piper: "But just now on the notice board in the square, I didn't find any job opening..."

Qi Yan looked at him and smiled: "Are craftsmen still afraid that they won't be able to find a job?" ”

The Magic Piper was slightly stunned, confused: "What do you mean..."

Qi Yan patted him on the shoulder: "Such a task is entrusted to you, what era and what country is the profession of street musician, especially such a depressing and boring country." ”

Qi Yan took off the pointed top hat on the head of the Magic Piper, let him hold the top hat with the brim facing up in one hand, and pick up the small trumpet hanging from his waist in the other hand to play it along the street.

In less than two minutes, the Pied Piper was bustling with a large group of rats behind him.

"Thank you all for your support, the performance is not easy, please be generous and support our street performance art, only enough cheese can make today's performance last!" The Magic Piper is an introverted NPC, and he shouted and begged for a reward while playing according to Qi Jiu's explanation, and his whole face turned red in an instant.

But the rats couldn't refuse his music, and in less than five minutes, the Pied Piper's top hat was filled with fresh cheese.

"Thank you, Mr. Magic Flute." Qi Yan glanced at him, took three pieces of cheese and walked towards the rental shop.

With plenty of cheese, the process of renting the plates went very smoothly.

Three minutes later, Qi Yan raised the blue CD he had received towards the Magic Piper, who was playing "enthusiastically", and motioned for him to use the Magic Flute to lead the rat army towards the square.

At this time, the whole mouse town was boiling in the music of the Magic Piper, and the rats who were addicted to the music forgot the rules and the "education" they received, and rushed out of the plastic garbage holes along the street, merged into the noisy and neat army of mouse music, and walked towards the central square of the town under the command of the Magic Piper.

The Piper's music activates the instincts in the rats' genes, and they can't refuse the call, dancing to the music.

Qi Yan blended into the army of rats, because the music attracted all the rats along the street, Qi Yan was able to sneak into the radio station near the square.

The radio station attendant also couldn't resist the music of the Magic Piper, and the broadcast room was long gone.

Qi Zhen opened the outer packaging of the blue CD, although this CD is old, it has obviously been carefully maintained by the administrator of the rental shop, except for the cover is a little faded, the disc itself has not been worn by time at all.

Qi Yan inserted the CD into the player, jumped the volume to the maximum, and finally pressed the play button.

The music belonging to human civilization in the blue CD immediately flowed over the square of the mouse town, and the Magic Piper stopped playing, and the music in the CD filled the gap where the horn disappeared.

The square occupied by the army of rats immediately became agitated, and the rats that were originally immersed in the music of the Magic Piper were stunned, and as the sound of the horn disappeared, the restless emotions in their bodies instantly sobered up, and they were even more dissatisfied than ever, and the sound of squeaky protest resounded throughout the square, and more and more cheese smashed into the center of the square where the Magic Piper was.

By this time, the cheese was already overflowing with the little pointed hat of the show, piled higher than the Piper.

"Why don't you blow it? Is it because we don't give enough cheese? ”

"Cheese is fine, Mr. Virtuoso, please continue your performance!"

"What kind of music is this in the square, it's so ugly, who did this good thing?!"

The cessation of the Piperman's music has made the town's rat residents resentful, protesting that the Piper has stopped playing without permission while complaining about the unintelligible music flowing from the radio station.

The radio station is located at the top of the square, and in addition to a bright floor-to-ceiling window, there are countless cameras that can watch the square from all angles.

During the time when the Pied Piper's performance stopped, Qi Ji carefully observed the movements of the rats in the square, and the music of the blue CD flowed in the square, but there were no dancing rats in the square, on the contrary, all the rats expressed strong dissatisfaction with such quiet music.

Sure enough, the current situation also confirmed Qi Ji's guess.

Because he had already predicted, Qi Yan soon found that there was a key mouse missing from the square, the big-bellied middle-aged mouse in red clothes.

Qi Yan quickly took out the CD in the player, gestured to the Magic Pied Man waiting for instructions in the center of the square, and quickly walked towards the disc rental shop.

Before leaving, he also took a Walkman from the shop downstairs in the radio room, and left a payment for twenty cheeses.

You can't steal or rob here, but you can trade cheese.

Almost all the rats in the town were drawn to the central square by the music of the Magic Flute, and now the streets are empty, the atmosphere is particularly depressed, and the discarded plastic and tin sheets have lost their original luster.

Qi was familiar with the way to find the disc rental shop, knocked a few times and pushed the door in.

"Hello and welcome back."

This time, the waiter didn't seem to be deaf, he stopped cleaning up the shelves, and threw a polite smile at Qi Jiu, who was slightly gasping for running.

"Hello, I'm here to return the CD." Qi Yan held the blue CD in his hand and smiled quietly.

The waiter walked over from the direction of the shelf: "I didn't expect you to move so fast." ”

Qi Yan smiled: "Because the residents of the town are too unpopular." ”

The waiter looked slightly stunned: "The listener chooses the music, and the music also chooses the listener, not all music can find a soulmate." ”

Qi Yan nodded: "So, you're not interested in the music in the square now, are you?" It looks like you're not the same as all the inhabitants of the town. ”

Waiter: "I'm sorry, my ears are not very good, and I can't hear the music in the square." ”

"Is that so? That's a pity. ”

As he spoke, Qi Yan took out the blue CD again, and quickly stuffed the disc into the Walkman and played it outside, and the music in the CD immediately flowed in the cramped and closed storefront.

The indifference on the waiter's face suddenly disappeared, and helplessness and panic instantly occupied its expression.

In the next second, the waiter with a big belly put down the work in his hand, closed his eyes and couldn't help but start dancing to the beat of the music.

Although it has a big belly, it dances to the music softer and more wanton than any young mouse in the square, and you can see that it is enjoying it very much.

Qi Yan put the walkman and the CD case on the shelf, and bowed slightly to the dancing salesman mouse: "Sure enough, it's you, I know that you are well-informed and can understand the language of humans and animals, and I have to trouble you to teach me the language of communication between humans and animals." ”