Chapter 1: The World
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The whole sky was like a heavy black cloth, sparsely scattered with a few dim stars, as if they were about to be pressed down at any moment.
The deep streets are also full of gloom, and the street lamps on both sides of the road occasionally turn on two, flashing and flashing. A gust of wind blew, rolling up the garbage on the road, rattling, and the dilapidated signs of the shops seemed to be scraped down at any moment, clicking.
Suddenly, a dark shadow appeared on the road in the distance, small. I happened to touch the street light and found out that this black shadow turned out to be a child. The child was wrapped tightly in a black cloak, leaving only a small face.
At first glance, this child is a typical child in the slums. Pale, emaciated cheeks, with unusually prominent cheekbones due to chronic malnutrition, but the child had eyes that did not match her state - large, black, aura!
Suddenly, the child coldly provoked a mocking smile, accompanied by a flash of white light, and a terrifying horror rose from the bottom of his heart.
After a while, two unusually large, strangely shaped black shadows appeared where the child had just walked. As if she hadn't noticed anything, the girl naturally turned into a nearby alley, and the two black shadows quickly chased after them after a pause. The cold wind was still blowing, and the sound of rustling drowned out the sound of two black shadows moving. But none of this affected the girl's judgment, and at the moment when the two black shadows turned into the alley, two blue lights instantly penetrated their bodies, and without even struggling, they immediately turned into points of light and disappeared into the world. If it weren't for the two brown wafers falling to the ground, it would have been as if nothing had happened.
The girl bent down, picked up the two pieces of 'evidence' on the ground, looked at them, and said to herself: "It's a pity that I thought I was wearing leather armor, but I didn't expect this to happen, it's really good luck!"
The girl walked around in the gloomy alley, and it took about fifteen minutes before she finally stopped in front of a shop. It's more of a bar than a shop. A pair of red lanterns outside the door are unusually abrupt and strange in this dark space.
The girl pushed open the waist-high swinging door, and as soon as the curtain was lifted, a lively, celebratory atmosphere suddenly struck.
Drinking, singing, dancing... One Door, Two Worlds!
However, the girl ignored all this and walked to the back of the bar.
As she twisted a candle hanging on the wall, a downward passage appeared in the center of the hallway.
This is the black market in the ghetto.
"Hey!" said the girl, as soon as she entered the room, a man with a bear's back grabbed her by the collar and lifted her up.
"Why haven't I seen you so thin for so long, and you haven't grown taller at all! I didn't listen to your uncle properly when I saw you!" the man put the girl on the ground and measured the height of the girl and himself with his big big palm.
"I don't call Yaya!" the girl puffed out her cheeks and looked at the man with resentment.
"Why don't you have that name?! I personally filled in your name on the federal identification!"
"Cecy!" Behind the counter, an old man with gray hair and a wrinkled face looked helplessly at the man who was still carrying the girl.
This old man is the person in charge of the black market in the thirteenth district, Xu Lao.
"It was—" The man had to put her down under the girl's defiant gaze, "I'm his guardian..."
"Yaya, what good things did you bring this time?" said Xu Lao with a smile.
Yaya patted the folds of the cloak and walked to the counter in front of Xu Lao. She opened the linen pouch from before, mouth down, and with a 'bang', things of all shapes poured out of it.
"Oh boy! There are so many, and there are a few E's! It's a chip!" Then the man suddenly thought of something, and shouted loudly: "No wonder you didn't grow tall, you must have killed them, and you didn't sleep well at night!"
I remember my uncle told you that although we live in the slums, the government's relief money can barely make a life for a child like you. You can earn money later, but your height won't grow in the future! And you hurt my uncle's self-esteem like this! Uncle is good for you, you know..." At this moment, the man's earnest teaching stopped under the girl's movements. He opened his mouth wide as he was about to speak, and his eyes were fixed on what was in the girl's hand.
It was an ordinary-looking ring, but the intricate patterns engraved on the ring and the aqua blue stone at the top of the ring made it a discerning sight to know that it was an extraordinary product.
"You, you... You're still studying! You don't have a good rest for the rest of your time, why are you so disobedient!"
The girl ignored the man's thoughts, picked up the chips on the table and the two monsters that had just been killed on the road and said, "One blow!"
It turned out that this ring turned out to be a weapon, and it was obviously an extraordinary weapon, which could kill two strange beasts in one blow.
"Haha! Don't worry! Bell production, it must be a high-quality product, as long as it is listed, it will be robbed!"
"One last time!"
"Don't worry! Old decay swears in front of you!"
"What are you talking about?!Old Xu, Yaya, did you make any deals while I was away?"
The girl grimaced at the man, then ignored him anymore, and just stared at the abacus beads that kept in Xu Lao's hand for a moment. After a while, Xu Lao calculated the price.
"There are two chips this time, and it's not the first time we've made a deal, and the chips have always been priceless in the market, and I can't give you the price here for a while. I'll let you know when I'm reporting to headquarters. As for the rest..."
"I believe in you, you can transfer it to my account together when the time comes!"
Xu Lao looked at the girl who suddenly turned back into an indifferent girl, and shook his head helplessly.
"If these two chips are not put at auction, the price will definitely double again. Listen to Ceci too, let's have a good rest this month!" As he spoke, Xu Lao also nodded with his chin at the man who was planting mushrooms in the corner.
Before the girl could speak, the man whose name was mentioned immediately turned around, and then ran to the girl's side, "That's it! You're still so young, rest..."
"Cecy!" Before the man could finish his words, another drunken voice came in from outside.
"The boss shouted, Tooth, Uncle is leaving, don't be the same when you come back next month!, Otherwise, Uncle won't give you pocket money anymore!" With that, the man strode out of the house.
"See you next month!" the old man shook his head as he wrote the ledger.
"What?"
Hearing the girl's question, a glint of unknown meaning flashed in Xu Lao's eyes, but when he looked up, his eyes were already clear.
"The new survival game is about to start, you work in the pharmacy every day, why should you have heard about it?"
The girl was expressionless, just staring straight at Xu Lao.
Xu Lao seemed to have been accustomed to the girl's expression, or he didn't care, and continued: "Ceci has always wanted to make your life better, and he just advanced a few days ago, you say, will he participate in this game!?"