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"What?! You are suspecting that there is something underneath my store?!" the store owner of the stationery store exclaimed after he heard what the police officer told him when they invited him for a talk. He abruptly rose from his seat, causing his chair to overturn, due to agitation. "If there is something there, then, shouldn't it be me or my employees who should be affected first and not our customers?" he asked. 

The police officers also feel helpless for this. Not only is the matter of something underneath the store unscientific, but the store owner and his employees being unaffected, too, is more unscientific! Not to mention that they actually believe in science than feudal superstition, which actually shouldn't be spread or promoted, this entire case is truly strange! 

One of the two police officers coughed to hide his embarrassment. "Sir, shouldn't you feel elated that you yourself, as well as your employees, are fine?" he asked him.