In Lin Xi's 19 years, she has experienced unwelcome shopping festivals. When she went abroad, she and her friends once rushed into crowded crowds to grab special packages. Although the scene was chaotic, overall it was still very fun.
However, no shopping festival or carnival can compare with the current scene. Numerous investigators, more than three times the number of people allowed, poured into the venue, using hard qigong, golden bell mask, magic fighting skills, and various exercises.
His skills were fully displayed, and he grabbed the goods with the force of catching ghosts. The scene was so thrilling. Lin Xi even saw that some customers had their heads bleeding and were still shouting to the boss, "Wrap it up for me!"
Customers are going crazy, but businesses are struggling to survive. Their stores have been renovated three days ago. All counters are reinforced with titanium alloy, expansion bolts as long as the palm of your hand are driven into the ground, and triangular steel bars are used as supports.
The shop was transformed into a bunker, and a machine gun was mounted on it.
Even those who sell goods in this way cannot withstand the repeated attacks of the funny craze, and some shops are still flattened into rubbish.
Compared with the crazy scene in the shopping area, the snack street is a little more relaxed. At least there are no idiots fighting to the death for a bowl of Yangchun noodles.
When they arrived at the place, Shisan gently unhooked the hook and took Lin Xi to land gently in front of a shop selling steamed buns. A customer saw Lin Xi and asked directly, "Boss, how can this woman sell?"
"If you want to buy it, buy it with me, uncle." Thirteen raised the handcuffs on his hands and shook them.
"Uh, he's actually a Wannian temporary worker?" The low-level investigator walked away knowingly.
"Temporary worker, what can you eat?" the boss asked diligently, "I'll give you a 20% discount today!"
"Okay, here are two sugar triangles." Thirteen smiled.
"Just one, I want fans." Lin Xi added, she had eaten so much sweets these days that she wanted to kill the candy seller.
Thirteen seems to be very popular on the snack street. These vendors come here temporarily to join in the fun. There are only two festivals every year that have such a scene in Black Eden. Many people come from thousands of miles away to bring them with them.
They are all traditional craftsmanship from various places, and the taste is absolutely authentic. Some delicacies have been lost outside, but you can enjoy the original taste here.
There is only one reason why these snack vendors are so happy to come here, and that is profit. For example, the two buns bought by Thirteen were paid with performance points, which are much cheaper than commodities, and are calculated using 0.1. But
Even so, the two buns bought by Thirteen can earn the merchant 00 yuan.
Who is called a rich man? Only those who can walk from this snack street to the end of the street are truly rich. Investigators' performance points are earned by risking their lives, and not many people are rich enough to eat them all.
However, Thirteen is an exception. During the shopping festival on New Year's Eve, he never buys discounted products, but he lingers on the snack street and is particularly fond of it. A caring vendor has calculated this foodie, and after one event, he can eat up 10 performance points.
This is equivalent to spending 500,000 to eat snacks.
Others think it is a waste, but Thirteen does not think so. These snack vendors collected by the Underworld Bureau from all over the country bring with them almost lost craftsmanship. Many of them are already gray-haired but have not found successors to pass on the inheritance.
In line with the purpose of protecting Chinese culture and allowing good things to continue, the Underworld Bureau specially allows them to open a snack street in Black Eden once a year. On this day alone, an average vendor can earn nearly 300,000 yuan, which is enough for those who
A year's worth of expenses for a master craftsman, and with the temptation of such income, they can recruit willing and talented children and pass on the craftsmanship from generation to generation. They do not seek to carry forward the craftsmanship, but as long as they survive, they will have a taste of the times.
Thirteen is a popular rich man in the snack street. Everyone calls him "temporary worker" affectionately. He doesn't think it's sarcastic. Only when some investigators call him a temporary worker for ten thousand years, he will glare back at them.
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"Does your mother know that you are so popular?" Lin Xi ate a bun that was as expensive as gold and looked at Thirteen with great confusion.
"Maybe I'm more handsome?" Shi Santian said shamelessly.
"Seriously, what is the annual skills training for? Why are the investigators so crazy?" Lin Xi could still see the purchasing frenzy outside like a savage beast through the gaps between the vendors in the snack street.
Thirteen explained while eating...
In fact, the annual skills training is a competitive duel among investigators. In ancient times, this kind of competition was called "Sword Discussing". In the new society, the Underworld Bureau felt that this name was too revealing of the investigators' character, so it changed it to "Sword Discussing".
Annual skills training".
Every year, a large number of outstanding investigators are selected as representatives from the local branch of the Underworld Bureau and sent to the imperial capital to participate in this event. Under normal circumstances, nearly ten thousand people can gather.
The competition lasts from the first day of the Lunar New Year to the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the lunar month. Within 15 days, 2 winners will be competed among nearly 10,000 people. They will win the highest annual award of the Underworld Bureau. And the participants also
Can obtain corresponding performance points as compensation through their respective performances.
The competition group is divided into two groups, the human level and the earth level. The earth level is a closed competition. Only the sky level investigators and the management of the Underworld Bureau can see the high-end competition. The human level competition is more like an open skill.
Display, and all investigator entertainment items, and the entire process will be broadcast live on a channel-by-channel basis.
Skills training refers to improving the investigators' vision, comparing skills, helping everyone to become familiar with the business, improve their self-cultivation, and accumulate more high-end combat capabilities. But for the participants, this is a good way to show themselves and pursue secret treasures.
Opportunity; and for the watching investigators, this is far more exciting than the 30th Spring Festival Gala.
Especially the gambling odds and the way of betting with performance points make them enjoy it even more. Therefore, almost half of the people participating in the procurement at this moment are investigators who will participate in the next annual skills training. Because of the annual skills training
The themes are all different, sometimes it is a confrontation between investigators, and sometimes it is a competition to complete tasks. No one knows which ones are useful and which ones are not, so just buy them like crazy.
"In a competition of 10,000 people, there are 9,000 people in the human level and 1,000 people in the local level. There are only 2 winners. Only one person wins in the human level. The probability of winning is close to 1 in 9,000, which is more difficult than recruiting project managers among the world's top 500 companies.
Is it even bigger?" Lin Xi and Shisan rarely sat in front of a small stall selling tofu puffs. She was very salty when eating tofu puffs.
"It's a bit difficult, but it's not as hard as I imagined. I've won twice." Thirteen ate sweet tofu puffs as usual.
"Puff! Puff! Puff! Puff!" Lin Xi squirted all over Thirteen's face, looking at the man in front of him like a monster.
"Friend, please pay attention to your image, okay?" Thirteen resentfully took out a tissue and wiped the tofu on his face.
"Are you kidding me? Can you win that kind of competition? The human level is a mixed battle! Investigators regardless of level 1 or level 9 all compete together. How can you, a temporary worker, win?!" Lin Xi only said
I think Thirteen is bragging.
"Please, there was no one-on-one combat in the two times I participated. Everyone was competing on the efficiency and accuracy of completing the task. At that time, I organized a team of temporary workers to coordinate better, and then I won.
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As for rewards, one will be a sword niche ghost, and the other will be a heaven-level skill - Nijin Jue." Thirteen wiped the last bit of tofu on his face.
"It's impossible. You must be fooling me. How could a guy like you win? You still organize a team? Your team members still listen to you? I must be dreaming." Lin Xi still refused to believe it.
"The facts are the facts. I used to work very hard. It's just that I have become a bit old at this job. Have you finished eating? Let's go. I will take you to another place." Thirteen held the handcuffs and asked Lin Xi to stand.
Get up.
Lin Xi still secretly stared at Thirteen from time to time during the next journey. No matter what Thirteen said, Lin Xi did not listen carefully. Whenever he had the opportunity, he would ask Thirteen about Thirteen's winning of the annual skills training. His words remained the same.
Full of doubts.
Thirteen regretted saying this, because now Lin Xi looked at him not only as a pervert, but more like a lying pervert. And he didn't like to talk about the past, and he dismissed many of the questions he asked lightly, which made Lin Xi
It was not enough. They were shopping in handcuffs and quickly left the snack street and entered the lantern street directly.
Like the snack street, there are also many craft masters stationed here. Various shadow puppet shows, dragon dances, and lanterns are all the festive atmosphere that can only be felt during the Spring Festival a long time ago.
A huge colorful dragon lantern danced in front of him, and colorful colors flowed across Shisan's face. For the first time, his smile had no evil thoughts and he looked as innocent as a child.
"It's the New Year, why don't you go home?" Lin Xi finally asked a question that had nothing to do with the annual military training. Lin Xi knew that Shisan had a family and knew that he had no interest in participating in the military training again. That was why he didn't understand the Chinese New Year.
, what does he think when he still insists on staying in the imperial capital?
"I once swore to my parents before coming to the imperial capital..." Shisan scratched the back of his head helplessly, "There are only two situations where I will go home, that is to become a civil servant, or find a wife. If it doesn't work out, I will never go home.
return.
I have been idle here for 8 years, and I have only done half of both, how can I go home?"
"Have you done both? Have you found a girlfriend?" Lin Xi could understand why Thirteen had become a civil servant for half a year, but he was confused when he found a wife for more than half of it.
"No, if you were such a fool and let me sleep, wouldn't I have completed my mission?" Thirteen returned to his pervert nature.
"Then you will be a masturbator for the rest of your life, a bastard who masturbates to death." Lin Xi finally believed that it was a mistake to have a heart-to-heart relationship with Shisan in a normal way. This guy's heart is made of countless evil mosaics.