Block 97, District I893, Mangxing City, is an old shopping city called "Forest City" that is shaped like a mountain. Even under the bright sunshine, it looks full of gloom and is particularly dilapidated.
This mountain-like shopping city is rarely visited because it is close to the lowest neighborhoods. 40 years ago, there was a trendy urban forest park here, with various tall trees planted on hundreds of high-rise buildings.
A long and wide wooden staircase spirals up. Many families with their children come here to play on weekends or holidays. The "Forest City" shopping city was part of the supporting buildings at that time.
However, with the rise of new entertainment projects, the number of tourists has decreased year by year. This once popular attraction was demolished 10 years ago and new buildings were built, leaving only the increasingly dilapidated "Forest City" shopping mall alone.
stand.
The neon signs of various shops shine with colorful lights during the day. In the various internal corridors built like chaotic building blocks, all kinds of lively music floats from the cracks in the doors of old shops.
A spaceship of the privileged class flew over the "Forest City", causing a few guests to look back, and its shadow was projected on the transparent curtain walls of each shop in the shopping city.
"This is the most unexpected shopping place in Star City, my lady." Mira, the female official, also followed.
She sat on her seat and looked at Xuanji sitting opposite her with an arrogant attitude. She put on khaki military pants, a white T-shirt, a baseball cap, and a travel bag. If she wasn't naturally beautiful,
Seems extremely ordinary.
"This is a distribution center for illegal businesses nearby. Illegal firearms and drug transactions are carried out secretly..."
"The clothing wholesale street on the ground floor here has a large number of works by independent designers, as well as many handmade ancient skin care products from small private workshops, which you can't find anywhere else in Mangxing City." Xuanji explained calmly.
"Oh, are you going to use your little backpack to carry these fashion products?" Mira teased.
Xuanji lowered her head and instinctively hugged the backpack in her hand tightly.
"Wait for me on the spaceship! Don't follow me, I want to shop alone!" she ordered.
"You only have 30 minutes of free time. If you don't come back after 30 minutes, don't blame us for demolishing this poor place." Mira stood in front of her and warned her almost sternly, "You don't want to
Just one shopping trip and destroy tens of thousands of shops."
Xuanji was stunned for a moment, then she ran out like a rabbit carrying a small bag.
She ran quickly, and the dazzling display windows and formatted signs of various shops turned into flashing lines in front of her eyes. She quickly ran onto the pedestrian speedway, and then jumped onto a tube-shaped lifting platform.
"G706." She read a familiar store number, and the elevator immediately took her to the far end.
Among the various crowded shops, there is a huge Chinese sign "CIA" that shines with a tacky color. The neon of the English name is completely deflated, and many strokes of the Chinese store sign are also incomplete.
It's incomplete, or it's struggling to make the final flickering struggle. This is really ridiculous.
Boss Lei has a lot of business, but the store he puts on the public eye is this "CIA". A store that displays all kinds of interstellar antiques on the surface, but in fact it is a store that can carry out secret transactions.
Trading, whether it's poison or banned weapons, as long as you are willing to bid, the "CIA" can get the goods.
This is a store with a simple and even tacky decoration. There are only rows of glass shelves filled with various items labeled with various incredible years and light-year distances, from the large dung fossils of Tyrannosaurus rex in the Cretaceous to the Princess Andromeda.
A fake hood made of silver hair, a shiny cloak made of tens of thousands of interstellar beetle armor pieces, the weird long-hat-like skull of the Arcturians, or some rare and peculiar interstellar mineral crystal clusters. Due to neglect, they have accumulated in many places.
There was a layer of dust, and there were even flies buzzing around on the brown mummies of some alien monsters.
As time went by, Boss Lei really fell in love with a dirty shop where most of the goods were fakes. He liked to hang out in the forged remains of ancient civilizations, letting a trace of culture blow into his head full of copper odor.
meaning.
"Ah, the civilization of our ancestors is so great!" He stroked a 4,000-year-old Shang Dynasty bronze and muttered to himself, "I must sell it for a good price."
So, he hired a clerk who would occasionally appear in the "CIA" store. Xuanji, who had completely lost contact with her friends because of her loss of identity and skills, could only hope to find the powerful Boss Lei in this store.
She gasped lightly and rushed in without hesitation.
As soon as the sliding door opened, Boss Lei happened to be admiring a strange-looking bronze sunbird. When he turned around, he saw the guest's face.
"Xuan...
Xiao Zhang, the waiter with a Taoist bun, rushed over immediately, holding a piece of yellow paper with a red Chinese character written with flying dragons and phoenixes "Order the general to be here". She pasted it at a speed that she couldn't even react.
on her forehead.
"Evil ghosts retreat! Hurry up like a law!" Xiao Zhang sweated on his forehead and then made a gesture, looking very nervous.
Xuanji was stunned for a moment, "Boss Lei, it's me! Xuanji!" she said quickly.
"Xuanji?! It's really a ghost! Oh my god!" Boss Lei's duck voice screamed in horror, even the products in the entire store were shaken.
Seeing that the "suppression" failed and the "ghoul" in white was chasing the boss, Xiao Zhang quickly held the peach wood sword in one hand and Bagua in the other, preparing to fight the ghost.
"Boss Lei! It's me! Don't you recognize me?"
Xuanji tugged at his collar anxiously, but the timid Boss Lei was already trembling all over, his legs were weak with fear, and he screamed for help.
"Help! You are already dead! I still owe you some balance...but don't hurt me! I will burn the paper for you!"
"I'm not dead! Of course I'm alive!"
"Ah...ah..." Now he dared to look intently at the beautiful girl in front of him.
"Boss Lei! She is a living person!" Xiao Zhang said awkwardly, "I confirm that this girl is a living person."
“Ah!
How could he not be so happy that he was "resurrected from the dead"?
"I..." She didn't know how to explain it for a moment.
"Ah! At first it was said that your pilot was wiped out and you disappeared. Then it was rumored that you were dead. Our convoy even held a memorial meeting for you. Romeo and Juliet both cried over tofu rice..."
Boss Lei was so excited that he spoke very fast with a Zhejiang accent.