Time passes quickly in the surface world.
Everyone is looking forward to that moment three days later.
…
Underground at this time.
The same comes in the evening.
Lu Wen and Jin Xiong waited all day in the commercial area near the third floor.
This is a real business district.
There are dozens of streets around.
There are them in all walks of life.
Retail transactions, catering, accommodation…
Busy and lively, with complete projects, there is even a special fighting ring.
Crimson and light pink lights were lit in the evening, pieced together, shining on the broken clockwork and nostalgic bearings on the ground, and the deep rust stains glowed with a barren color.
Various races were mixed and crowded on the relatively wide road, with low rooms still on both sides.
He was sitting in a small teahouse along the street. A huge rusty metal gear was embedded in the door of the teahouse.
People are coming and going outside.
The owner of the teahouse is a deformed man with regular facial features, well-coordinated limbs, and just the right height. However, he has a third arm growing out of his back. This arm cannot be controlled and cannot make any movements. It is just a pure burden behind his back. Swinging around.
The arm behind his back was smaller than a normal arm, like a baby's, and the color was abnormal, pale and bloodless.
"How to sleep?" Lu Wen asked.
"Lying on your stomach or side is fine, but it will be more uncomfortable."
The boss is very talkative and smiles all the time.
He does not shy away from talking about his physical flaws and has a cheerful personality, so he must have been used to it.
"I see that your arm is far away from your spine. You can do a simple small operation. After the removal, you can return to normal activities in just half a year."
"No, distinguished guest, I am different from you..."
He smiled and expressed his unwillingness to become purely human in appearance.
Simply put, not qualified enough.
His identity and status, money and power made him dare not amputate the arm. It would be better to live as a deformed person.
Pure humans who fall into the mixed zone will receive a lot of unnecessary attention. In the end, they can only choose to transform themselves, become transformers with certain combat effectiveness, and use their strength to fight for their place.
Time passed by minute by minute.
eight pm.
Night falls completely
The prosperity of the mixed zone reaches its peak.
Robots and modified people fight in the ring, slippery dwarves shuttle among the crowd, the metal eaves are illuminated by pink lights, under the eaves stand the defending giants, and the rusty electronic dog runs around wagging its tail, transformed The man stretched out his bronze metal arm and pinched the young girl's chin...
The streets were a little slippery and there was an artificial rainfall in the afternoon.
The ground reflects a world of intertwined colors.
"Mr. Xia, it's time to go to the third floor."
"Um."
The tall building is not far away.
More than three floors.
It was a building made of discarded steel, with rusty steel beams criss-crossing the building and pink light projected from the interior.
The building is crooked and irregular.
Raindrops cling to the potholes on the building's surface.
Lu Wen looked up and felt that based on the normal height, this building should have exceeded five floors.
In fact, it was pretty much what he thought.
After the metal door opened, the first floor was filled with sound, color, light and shadow, gorgeous and charming, and alcohol was the accelerant of excitement and madness.
"Gentlemen, please follow me."
The waiter led the two of them.
At the very back of the first floor, the elevator has buttons marked on one side for the 2nd to 5th floors.
When the strength exceeds the second floor, you can control the height of the floor at will.
The owner of this three-story building probably prefers the number 7.
"Twelve of the fourteen area leaders are here, and they are waiting for two."
Fifth floor.
The elevator door slowly opened.
What you see is a world of splendor, gold and white intertwined. It is clean and bright, and the pure white light is very dazzling, forming a strong contrast with the old and broken outside world.
This is a feast.
Huge sparkling chandelier.
Under the light is a long table, which is covered with dishes.
Fifteen plates, cutlery, and forks.
The gap with Lu Wen's imagination is a bit big.
He thought it would be like what was shown in the movies, with a big boss sitting in a high position at the end of the hall, with smaller bosses standing around him on both sides.
The atmosphere was much more harmonious than Lu Wen had imagined.
At least it's very harmonious on the surface.
The owner of the third floor is named Ivan. He is in his thirties. He is a big fat man. He is very fat. He cannot tell which is longer than his body width. He can only wear specially made clothes.
I saw two people climbing the stairs.
Ivan smiled and raised his glass, wearing a close-fitting white suit, and greeted him.
"The two brothers are here. If you don't come, the food will be cold."
The flesh on his face trembled slightly with his expression, but the flesh on his body didn't move at all.
Lu Wen took a quick look and determined that Ivan was a special transformation person. The "meat" under the suit should be all machinery.
The old man Jinxiong walked forward, his signature smile appeared on his face, he looked amiable, and he opened his mouth to respond.
Although Lu Wen didn't like this kind of scene, he still responded with a few words.
"Is this new brother actually a pure human race?" Ivan smiled and narrowed his small eyes, which were squeezed into gaps by the fat on his face and were almost invisible.
He smiled and patted Lu Wen on the shoulder.
Although this man is fat, his height is unambiguous, almost as tall as Lu Wen.
This slap on the shoulder was very strong.
But Lu Wen didn't move at all.
So Ivan then laughed and said: "It seems that they are not purely human. No wonder after cooperating with the Golden Bear brothers, they were able to kill that idiot from Hebrew in one night."
Fourteen areas around it.
The other twelve second-floor owners were all looking at Lu Wen.
There was no malicious intent in those glances, and everyone acted relatively calmly.
Lu Wen does indeed seem to be a pure human race, with no traces of mechanical covering on his body, and no characteristics of other races.
But the weak physique of pure human race cannot sit on the second floor.
"Come on, come on, sit down first and chat while we eat."
Ivan pulled Lu Wen down and sat next to him.
His smile can actually be described as naive. Fat people are always easy to like.
Dishes are unveiled one after another, exquisite dishes rarely seen in the mixed area outside.
"Brother Xia, how long have you known Brother Golden Bear?"
"soon."
Lu Wen and Jin Xiong did not talk in advance.
Jinxiong didn't tell Lu Wen anything he needed to pay attention to in advance, so he probably just had a simple meal.
"Actually, we should try not to fight back and forth on the second floor in our area. It will hurt the peace. Brother, I am often laughed at on the other three floors, saying that I can't even sleep peacefully in this area. good."
Ivan seemed to have no airs, he put Lu Wen's shoulder and talked and laughed.
Downed a few glasses of wine.
There was a burst of red light on his plump face, and he introduced Lu Wen with a smile: "The person on your right is my old friend Kate. He is a blue man, and he also sits here on the second floor. The longest…”
"Further to the right is the robot Allen. Don't underestimate his metal frame. He is the fastest among the robots in this area..."
"And that one, he's from the giant race, he's been transformed, and half of his body has turned into metal..."
“…”
The banquet was quite lively.
Everyone has a smile on their face, although no one knows what the other person is thinking behind that smile.
Many of you here have actually had minor frictions.
Among the other twelve people at the scene, four had had friction with the old man Jin Xiong.
After all, areas are adjacent, and some conflicts will inevitably occur.
Some are verbal and some are physical.
But this is Ivan's territory, so even if they don't like each other, they all have to laugh.
The wider your smile, the better.
And while laughing, they toasted to each other and said some words that were offensive to each other.
Lu Wen also got some less important information.
for example.
[After the blue man Kate took the seat on the second floor, he did not give any preferential treatment to his own race. Instead, he intensified the policy and raised the price of medicine. Many blue people in his area fled to other areas. go]
[After the giant Baz took this position, he ordered the dwarves in the entire area to be driven out, and those who did not want to leave were directly slaughtered]
[…]
The hands of every second-floor owner are stained with the blood of the same race or a foreign race.
The Golden Bear's ascension didn't go smoothly either.
He had failed many times at the hands of his previous master on the second floor of that area, but he was lucky enough to survive every time. He only won once until the previous master got old, his fighting power declined, and he was no longer young.
So he is particularly sensitive to aging.
…
The time came to ten o'clock in the evening.
Full of wine and food.
Lu Wen also got to know all the owners of the second floor.
These people are almost all physically modified, and they do not trust the abilities of their subordinates.
Only by being strong can you secure that position.
Ivan enthusiastically sent Lu Wen outside and expressed the hope that he could get used to the life here.
The night breeze blew away a lot of the drunkenness.
"Brother Xia Wen, you can come here for a walk when you have nothing to do. Just say hello if you need anything."
"no problem."
Lu Wen smiled and nodded, and then left with Jin Xiong.
The two of them were sitting in a black car, and the lights outside were bustling and noisy.
The receding scenery is reflected on the car window, like a shooting star.
Not long after, the two returned to the area controlled by the Golden Bear.
Jin Xiong sent Lu Wen to that dilapidated street.
There were several sleepless blue people around, all of whom looked at Lu Wen in awe.
"Brother Xia Wen, please contact me often in the future."
Golden Bear stood in front of the car and stretched his hand forward.
"Can."
Lu Wen also stretched out his right hand and shook it with him.
After a few brief greetings, Golden Bear drove away.
The car started and slowly drove away with the golden bear.
Lu Wen always had a smile on his face.
His right hand dropped to his side.
On the inside of the palm of the hand, where ordinary people cannot see, there is a scratch that is neither deep nor shallow.
This is what the blade scratched across the palm of Golden Bear's hand when we shook hands just now.
The golden bear reminded him.
The old man knew that Lu Wen was going to the high-level world soon.
And others don't know.
So his message to Lu Wen was: keep in touch in the future.
Some people want to keep Lu Wen here forever.
Of course he can't keep him alive.
[Danger]
…
Good night, fellow book friends!
Thanks to book friends Octopus xfy and book friends Starry Sky and Big Size for their rewards;
(End of chapter)