The two followed behind the crowd, walking down the winding metal staircase.

An Baichen found that the people walking on the stairs had one or two positions between each of them, and they would not get too close to strangers except for each other's partners.

Even if there are acquaintances, they just nod their heads from afar, and there is no more communication.

Everyone was walking towards the depths of the stairs, anxious to get back to deal with the harvest this time.

Without saying a word all the way, the two turned a corner, and a spacious hall appeared in front of An Baichen.

It is an underground hall about half the size of a football field, with metal slabs on the floor and dim metal lamps hanging around the ceiling and walls.

The hall was full of pedestrians, and at least hundreds of people lingered in the hall, looking at a metal electronic panel in the far center of the hall, with information and data written on it.

"Master, this is the underground square of the gathering place, the underground square was not so big originally, and it has only reached its current scale after several renovations. ”

Meizi explained in a whisper beside An Baichen to be a qualified tour guide: "The underground plaza connects most of the streets and other areas of the gathering place, and there are eight passages near the central square, and the streets connect the commercial area, the residential area and the core area. ”

"The commercial area and the residential area are places I often go to, I have not been to the core area, only the big people in the gathering place can enter it, usually there are many soldiers patrolling near the core area, and it is strictly forbidden for unqualified people to mix in. ”

Meizi asked, "Master, where are we going now?"

"Go back to your house and see your brother. ”

An Baichen's words made Meizi's heart warm, it turned out that the master still remembered what I was worried about.

An Baichen really doesn't have any ideas at the moment, he doesn't know anything about the situation in the gathering place, it is better to go and see Meizi's younger brother first, so as to save her from being distracted all the way.

Meizi's home was in the residential area, and An Baichen followed Meizi and walked straight through the hall.

As he passed in front of the huge electronic screen in the center of the hall, An Baichen glanced up curiously.

"Rules for the Residents of the Sea Dungeon: No Private Fighting, Stealing ......"

"A median level 1 monster was found in C-14, and the City Lord's Mansion purchased information about the monster and offered a reward of 1,000 Caron for the corpse. ”

"The blood moon has arrived, the Whirlwind Squad has gathered an alliance to meet powerful individuals and teams to develop Haiti City together, contact information ......"

On the large electronic screen, all kinds of information scrolled slowly, including bounties, calls for teams, and valuables for sale......

The rules of the gathering place were hung on the top, and An Baichen only learned the name of the gathering place from the electronic screen.

"The sea dungeon?"

An Baichen smiled, there is no problem with the underground gathering place in the dungeon, where does this sea come from?

The founder of this gathering place is also an interesting guy.

The hall has eight street entrances and is located in different directions of the hall.

The two of them walked through the hall into one of the streets, which was lined with rooms, many of which had opened their windows, like a simple shop, and on the windowsills hung all sorts of things.

However, most of the things are not very precious, they are just some knick-knacks from the wild.

"The patrols don't allow people to set up stalls in residential areas, so everyone will put their windowsills facing the street and use them as makeshift stalls when they have nothing to do. ”

"Aren't they afraid that someone will climb into the windowsill and steal?"

"When selling things, there are people watching the house, and after closing the windowsill shop, each household will pull up the anti-theft net, and ordinary people can't sneak in along the windowsill quietly. ”

The two of them asked and answered, and walked deeper into the street amid a heap of shouts and greetings.

The street is very long, and along the way, Anbaichen found that there are many forks in this street, connecting different areas, and after reaching the end of the street, there are several more street entrances.

Meizi took An Baichen around all directions, but fortunately, each street has a special street sign as a guide building, so that people will not be unable to distinguish their direction.

However, An Baichen estimated that if outsiders entered the gathering place, they would definitely be confused by the complex terrain structure in the gathering place.

Just one residential area is so complex, and it is not as simple as any other area.

According to Meizi's introduction, the entire gathering place covers a large area, which is not much larger than the area of those deserted towns and villages on the dust-free blue star ground.

Transforming an air-raid shelter into an underground town should take a lot of time and resources. However, it has been three hundred years since the disaster, and it is not surprising that the Sea Dungeon can be on the scale it is today.

"Anning Street. ”

An Baichen glanced up at the street sign, and Meizi said that this was where her house was.

This is a small street, the whole street is only 100 meters, there are only a few families living in it, and Meizi's house is in the innermost door of the street.

Opening the door, revealing a swarthy passage with no metal lights, Umeko walked into the room in the dark, relying on her familiarity.

An Baichen can see at night, he can see clearly, the whole room is a bit like a tube building, there are several wooden doors, and stairs go up, this is obviously the "poor apartment building" of the dungeon.

Meizi groped her way to the attic in the corner of the first floor, which was a small attic of only about seven or eight square meters in size, with a small wooden door of about one meter and a half.

"Knock knock. ”

Meizi walked to the small door, knocked on the door, and shouted in a low voice, "Dongdong, are you at home?"

The plum struck rhythmically four times, then stopped for about three seconds and struck three more times.

Seven times later, the door opened, and a little boy carried a dim metal lamp and poked his head out: "Is it Sister Meizi?"

"Dongdong. ”

Meizi breathed a sigh of relief and touched the little boy's head.

An Baichen looked at the little boy, about one meter three, looking like he was more than ten years old, with a thin figure, cloudy and confused small eyes, dirty little hands and cheeks, and large burn marks on his arms.

He was dirty, looking pitiful and ugly.

"Why did you knock on the door seven times?" An Baichen asked out loud, the little boy could only see his sister in front of the door with a dim metal lamp, but when he suddenly heard An Baichen's voice, he was startled, and he reflexively closed the door.

Meizi grabbed Dongdong's arm, and she turned around and explained, "This is my agreement with my brother, there are many capable people in the gathering place, and some people can imitate other people's voices. So I told Dongdong that I must hear the agreed knock on the door before I can lean on the door, otherwise I can't easily open the door even if I hear my voice. ”

"What if someone else knew the rhythm of your knock?"

"I change the code to knock on the door every day. ”

"That's smart. ”

An Baichen paused and said with a smile: "It's also very cautious." ”

It seems that the environment in the gathering place is not safe, otherwise Meizi would not have needed to do so.

The siblings want to live a safe and stable life in the gathering place, in fact, they can't be too cautious, and it is very difficult for women and children to survive in such an environment.

"Dongdong, this big brother is my sister's benefactor, he is not a bad person, you have to believe in him as much as you want to believe in your sister. ”

"Hmm. ”

Dongdong nodded, and he looked at An Baichen standing in the shadow with some fear.

Dongdong couldn't see the man's appearance clearly, and could only hear his voice.

An Baichen and Meizi did not enter the room, the room was too small to stand for three people, and usually Meizi and Dongdong lived in this room was crowded.

According to Meizi's introduction, this room was rented by her landlord, who is a big man in the core area and will come over every month to collect rent, and this whole street is full of such "poor apartments", all of which are the properties of the same landlord.

People who can have their own independent houses in the gathering place are all big people, and even if they are not big people, they are the best among ordinary people.

The two stood and chatted for a while, Meizi may have felt a little embarrassed, and she whispered: "Mr. An, are you tired? Why don't you go to the room to rest for a while, and Dongdong and I can stand outside." ”

In front of his younger brother, Meizi didn't want to call An Baichen the master, maybe she wanted to retain a dignity in front of her younger brother, and An Baichen didn't care too much.

"No need. ”

"Mr. An, it's not in the way, it's about to dawn, you must have been exploring Haiti City all night, you just sleep in the room, and Dongdong and I can sleep outside the door. ”

Meizi's kindness made An Baichen unacceptable, he did overestimate the living standard of ordinary people in the dungeon, it was not that An Baichen was hypocritical, it was that he really couldn't get used to living in this kind of house.

Letting a normal earthling suddenly come to the world environment of the Doomsday Wasteland, most people will not get used to it.

"Aren't there any other houses here?"

An Baichen's inquiry made Meizi stunned, Meizi hesitated for a while and said: "There should be no more on this street, it is difficult to rent a house in the dungeon, and most of the time you have to make an appointment in advance, because there are really too many people who don't have a house to live in." ”

"If I have to say that there are any empty rooms to live in, there are only independent rooms, but independent rooms need to be bought, and they cost a lot of carons. ”

Caron is the currency unit of the Dustless Blue Star, but it is worth mentioning that Meizi has said before that the Caron of the Dustless Blue Star today has the same name as the Caron coin of three hundred years ago, but it is not universal.

Today's Karon point is a newly issued currency, an electronic credit.

An Baichen nodded and asked, "What supplies are the most popular in the dungeon, it should be food, right?"

"Food, weapons, metal. ”

Meizi said three things, food is a scarce thing in every gathering place, and the food grown in the gathering place can only ensure that most people will not starve to death, but they will definitely not have enough to eat.

Weapons are the most needed thing for every search team, but these things are generally created by officials or craftsmen with strong backgrounds, and ordinary people do not have the power to make weapons, but can sell the weapons they occasionally get.

Metal is the third type of hot-selling resource, because each gathering place has its own mecha warriors, and the update, maintenance, etc., of mechas, all require a large amount of metal as the starting material. The better the quality of the metal, the more expensive it is to sell, and special alloys can be sold at sky-high prices.

"I see, if I want to sell something, do I need a license or something like that?"

"No, you can go directly to the shopping street, as long as it is not some prohibited items, you can trade freely in the shopping street. ”

"Then take me. ”

An Baichen smiled and said, "I'm going to sell something." ”

If you have money, you can travel thousands of miles, but if you don't have money, you can't walk an inch.

When he first arrived, An Baichen planned to get some Caron in his hands.

Not to mention anything else, at least the problem of living has to be solved, although An Baichen can return to the earth and live in the world of the dead at any time, but in the apocalyptic environment of the wasteland, I don't know how many people are secretly observing others.

Anbaichen didn't want to be too conspicuous, he didn't know enough about the gathering place, and he needed a house to hide his sometimes sudden appearance and disappearance.

"Selling things?" Meizi muttered in her heart, she saw that An Baichen didn't have a package or anything, what were she going to sell?

Although she was curious, Meizi nodded obediently.

"Take your brother with you, it's not safe to be home alone. ”

An Baichen led Meizi and Dongdong, and according to Meizi's introduction, they came all the way to the commercial street.

There are many commercial streets, each of which is very prosperous, the streets are full of stalls on both sides, leaving only a narrow road for passers-by to move forward, the commercial street is full of people, rubbing shoulders, and the stall owners shouting and greeting customers are endless.

According to Meizi's introduction, you need to give money to the street owner to set up a stall in the commercial street, which is also a big man in the core area, and you can't usually see it.

Moreover, it is difficult to buy stalls in the commercial street, and I heard that you need to have a strong relationship to have a stall of your own in the commercial street.

Although Meizi didn't know what An Baichen needed to sell, she still took An Baichen to find a regular stall owner who usually sold materials for the search team.

Most of the search teams are poor and don't have the money to buy a stall, so most of them will find some acquaintance stall owner and regularly sell the resources they have obtained in the field to the acquaintance stall owner at a low price.

The stall owner can earn the difference in price by buying resources and selling them, and at the same time, he can avoid the danger of exploring in the wilderness, and the team members can also save the trouble of selling harvest materials and can directly turn the harvest into caron.

"Edexcel, good morning. ”

Meizi took the initiative to greet the stall owner and was very enthusiastic. An Baichen looked up, this was a strong man with a full beard, brown hair, and a shabby cloth coat, which looked inconspicuous, but the booth in front of him was quite large.

Along the way, An Baichen observed that the booth area of this Edexcel stall owner is the largest, five times the area of the ordinary stall owner, and it seems that his funds should be very abundant.

"Meizi, why are you here?"

Edexcel was sorting out the goods, he heard the voice and looked up, and asked in a hoarse voice, "Captain Wang, why are you here alone today?" ”

"Who is this man?"

Edexcel saw An Baichen, and also noticed that An Baichen's clean and neat clothes, a neat black trench coat, the texture looked very good, and there was not much dust.

An Baichen's dress is different from most of the people in the gathering place, clean clothes always attract more people's attention, and many people have been secretly observing An Baichen along the way.

"He's ..... Hmm....." Meizi hesitated a little, not knowing how to introduce it.

"I'm a businessman. ”

An Baichen took the initiative to introduce himself, looked at Edexcel and said with a smile: "I heard Meizi say, you buy some materials here? I just have a batch of materials to sell." ”

"Oh, do you want to do business?"

Edexcel smiled, sat down on the small bench, and asked lazily, "What are you going to sell?"

An Baichen smiled and said, "What do you need?"

"Huh?"

Edexcel was stunned for a moment, straightened up, and looked at An Baichen seriously.

This kid is kind of funny and has a big tone.