9, Chapter 9
"None of them." An Zhe took another step back and pressed his back against the plastic board: "I took the wrong step.
"Wrong way?" Woman: "The second floor is the casino's Gold Cave. Do you want to go there?"
She held a cigarette between her right fingers, put it between her red lips, took a puff, and said with a smile: "Be careful of losing yourself."
An Zhe looked around, but he was forced into a corner by the woman and had no way to escape. This gorgeous-looking human being was more difficult to deal with than the monster in the abyss.
"Don't be afraid," she exhaled a puff of white smoke and said, "I won't eat you."
An Zhe: "Then can you let me go?"
The woman laughed again.
"Go?" She raised her eyebrows: "Only those who are desperate will come to the third floor. If you leave, where can you go?"
As she said that, she held his shoulders and led him forward: "Are you scared by this place? You don't have to stay here. I'll give you a big room."
"Thank you." An Zhe lowered his head and said, "But I really made a mistake."
"Um?"
"I was just looking for a normal job," he said, "and someone told me to come to the third basement level."
"You can only see people on the ground floor of the black market." After hearing his words, the woman blinked her eyes with a look like flying smoke, "Don't you even know this?"
An Zhe: "I know now."
He also learned about the "free market" in the "Base Manual", which is called the black market in people's mouth.
"The base law does not protect the black market." The woman was leaning against the wall and smoking. She no longer pressed An Zhe tightly into the corner, but made way for a gap.
An Zhe thought this was a signal that she was going to let him out. As soon as he took a step outside, he saw two tall men in black stepping out from behind her, one on the left and one on the right, blocking all possible directions for him to go.
"When you get to the third floor, no one can get out." The woman's voice was no longer sweet and charming, but filled with coldness and chill: "But you are lucky."
An Zhe looked up at her.
"Give you a chance," she said, "Boss Xiao's workshop is short of manpower. If he wants you, just follow him. If he doesn't want you -"
Her words stopped abruptly, and she turned around and walked in one direction: "Come here."
An Zhe thought for three seconds and followed her deeper.
The compartments were so densely packed that he seemed to be walking in a maze built by a honeycomb, and the lights were getting darker and darker.
Finally, at the end of this space, a door appeared on the gray wall.
The woman raised her hand and knocked on the door: "Boss Xiao, I want to discuss a business with you."
With a creak, the door opened.
He was an old man with snow-white hair, wearing black clothes and a bow tie at the collar. He squinted at the woman and said, "Dussel, you are a rare visitor."
The woman smiled, finished smoking a cigarette, and put it out on the wall: "I need to see you if I need anything."
"How big is the business?" The man called "Boss Xiao" looked at him and then turned to look at An Zhe.
That woman - Du Sai put his elbow on An Zhe's shoulder: "It's not big, but it's difficult to do. I was afraid that you wouldn't agree, so I specially found a meeting gift for you - I heard that your apprentice died of drinking, and I'm looking for you."
Next. Let me be a woman, because you find it ugly, and a man, because he is easily stupid. Take a look at how this child of mine is doing."
Boss Xiao's gray-blue eyes rolled and stopped on An Zhe: "Looks like he's obedient."
"In fact, he is obedient." Du Sai flipped his hair: "The first time I saw him, I felt that Boss Xiao liked him."
Boss Xiao smiled.
Then, he said to An Zhe: "Reach out your hand and let me see."
An Zhe stretched out his hand. His fingers were white and slightly pink.
"Du Sai, where did you get this person?" Boss Xiao said: "How can a kid like this be willing to go to the third floor?"
Ducey: "I cheated."
An Zhe: "..."
Just listen to Boss Xiao saying to him: "Make a fist and slow down."
An Zhe slowly closed his five fingers.
Boss Xiao: "Do it again, slower."
An Zhe slowed down.
"Slower down."
By the end, An Zhe had slowed down to the point where it was difficult to detect with the naked eye. Although he didn't know why Boss Xiao did this, it was not difficult for him. When he used the mushroom form, he had to control his body at the same time.
Thousands of tiny hyphae, but now there are only five human fingers.
In the end, even Du Sai joined in.
"Boss Xiao, you have found a treasure." She lit another cigarette and said, "His hand is steadier than your last apprentice."
Boss Xiao looked at his hand, smiled "Hey" and said, "Lend it to me for a few days. It's useful, so I'll take it."
Du Di Dao: "You have to give your children wages."
Boss Xiao said: "Sure."
An Zhe frowned. It was true that he needed the wages, but hearing the words "easy to use", he always felt that he was a little dangerous.
"Don't be afraid - although Boss Xiao is indeed not a good person," Du Sai seemed to see through his worries and patted him on the shoulder, "but his craftsmanship is very expensive."
"I'm not a good person?" Boss Xiao chuckled: "I am the biggest good person in this base."
After that, he turned to Anzhe: "You go shopping in the store first, I have something to say with this crazy bitch."
An Zhe was the most obedient. He turned to look at the nearest shelf - some strange-shaped vials filled with liquid or solid, with some naked human bodies printed on the bottles. Further inside, there were some books with similar covers -
-He does know this kind of thing. A large part of the reason why the base department that Anze contributed to before collapsed is that no one cares about the reading materials published by the base, and the pornographic reading materials circulated on the black market are very popular.
Under the shelf, a transparent glass drawer is filled with cigarettes, and in another drawer next to it are many mechanical USB drives.
At this time, the conversation began on Boss Xiao's side.
"The kid is nice. Mrs. Du has always been generous, so she actually gave me a big gift. The business she wants to discuss with me must be extraordinary." The sound of a lighter came from Boss Xiao's place, and the density of smoke in the room doubled.
"You're a kid, I picked it up by chance," Du Sai chuckled a few times, "It's really not easy to ask Boss Xiao to make something."
"Anything is fine," Boss Xiao said in a casual tone, "As long as you have enough money."
"You may not dare to do it." Ducey said slowly.
Boss Xiao: "As long as you add more money, I'll do it."
Du Sai sneered and said three words.
"Judge," she said, "Does Boss Xiao dare to do this?"
An Zhe was stunned. He didn't know how the three words "Judge" could be related to these two people in the black market.
Boss Xiao was also silent for a while.
Finally, he said: "I only want to be a dead person, not a living person, just for fear of causing trouble. You want to cause me the most trouble."
"To tell you the truth, I have a friend who is madly in love with the colonel and insists on getting him." Du Daduo said: "You also know that no living person dares to come within three meters of the judge. No.
The only way is to buy a fake one from you. Let it be played at home and it will never cause trouble. The price is up to Boss Xiao."
Boss Xiao just smiled and said nothing.
At the same time, An Zhe slowly moved inside the store.
He paused and kicked something.
He lowered his head and saw a pale human hand lying alone on the concrete floor. Judging from the condition, it had just been broken, but the break was smooth and clean, and no flesh and blood could be seen.
An Zhe squatted down and poked the skin of the arm. It was soft, like a human arm, but not.
This is a prosthetic hand.
He stopped exploring and stood up.
——At this stop, I met the eyes of a person standing in the glass case again. Under the dim light, a pair of dark eyes looked straight at him, half of his body was hidden in the darkness, which was a little scary.
An Zhe looked at him for a long time. Three minutes later, he still didn't see any movement in this man's breathing.
Maybe, like the prosthetic arm, this was a dummy, he thought.
"Are you scared?" Boss Xiao's voice suddenly sounded behind him.
An Zhe: "It's okay."
Boss Xiao: "Does it look like it?"
An Zhe: "Like."
I heard Boss Xiao's hoarse voice and smiled. He pressed the switch on the side and the lights here became much brighter.
An Zhe finally saw the full face of the man in the glass showcase. He was a tall, slender man wearing black clothes, with clean and good-looking facial features. The light hit his face, reflecting a thin layer of white shimmer, adding a few traces of light for no reason.
It has a harsh meaning.
"Have you heard of Hubbard, the leader of the AR137 mercenary team?" Boss Xiao said.
An Zhe didn't speak. Only Boss Xiao's voice continued to ring in the room: "One of the most powerful people among the mercenaries, he leads the team to places with five-star danger levels, just like playing. Is he rich?"
An Zhe: "Yeah."
He knew that the supplies brought back from outside could be exchanged for base currency at the military supply station, and those powerful mercenaries were not short of money.
Boss Xiao pointed to the man standing in the window: "This man is his deputy team. We grew up together when we were children and became mercenaries together as adults. We have been friends for more than 20 years. The last time we went out in the wild, he died.
, not a single body was left behind, how miserable.”
At this point, Boss Xiao laughed "Hey" and continued: "Three months after this man died, Hubbard came to see me. He lost his soul and spent more than half of his net worth to buy this from me.
Man, if you ask me, I can’t make a single mistake.”
"As for me, I definitely don't dare to make mistakes. Except that it's not alive, everything else is the same." Boss Xiao sighed: "After all, I have to live with such a dummy for the rest of my life."
"I used to make this thing for people's fun, the inflatable kind. Later, everyone thought I made it like a living person - the easier it is for people to die outside, the easier it is for people to go crazy, so my skills are valuable.
." Boss Xiao patted him on the shoulder: "You should learn from me. In ten years, you will be richer than all mercenaries."
An Zhe looked at him, remembered his previous conversation with Du Sai, and asked, "Then do you want to be the judge?"
Chapter completed!