Chapter Twenty-Six: Jessica Jones
The rough knocking on the door made Li Ran, who was in the antique store, subconsciously frown.
He turned his head, and the first thing he smelled was a pungent smell of alcohol.
"You're the owner of this shop?"
Immediately afterward, I saw a woman wearing a hoodie and messy hair, carrying a wine bottle, staggering in.
"It's me, that's right."
Li Ran looked the woman in front of him up and down, the other party had a thin appearance, but he always frowned, as if he was irritable.
"Show me how much this thing is worth."
As she spoke, the woman took out a ring from the pocket of her shirt and threw it on the table in front of Li Ran, and then raised the wine bottle and took a sip of it nonchalantly, completely acting like a drunk.
Li Ran raised his eyebrows and picked up the ring that jumped in front of him, looked left and right, looked up at the drunk on the opposite side, and then replied: "A hundred at most." ”
Bang Dong –
"One hundred, hiccup~"
There was a big hiccup, the woman heard the price given by Li Ran, and immediately put down the wine bottle in her hand with some dissatisfaction, the collision between the bottom of the bottle and the desktop made a big noise, and the woman immediately reached out and pulled Li Ran opposite her to her eyes, and asked with a drunken face: "You guy, do you want to take advantage of me when you see that I am drunk, and deliberately lie to me!" ”
Li Ran turned his head, avoided the pungent smell in front of him, moved his body and struggled, but found that the woman's strength was unexpectedly huge, and he couldn't get rid of it easily. This made him stare at the sudden guest in front of him.
"This ring is not in good condition, there are still obvious scratches on it, and one hundred is already the most reasonable price I can give."
Although he was surprised that the strength of the woman was different from that of her thin appearance, Li Ran did not show too much panic, but calmly gave the results of his own appraisal.
"If you don't think you're satisfied with the price, you can go somewhere else and take a look, but I don't think it's too much of a difference."
The woman opened her drunken eyes and looked at Li Ran silently, then pouted and let go of her hand with an impatient expression, grabbed her messy hair, and continued to pour wine: "F****K, okay, a hundred is a hundred, that damn guy, he dares to use this kind of goods to deceive me, don't let me run into him again!" ”
After scolding for a while, the woman took the banknote handed over by Li Ran and put it in her pocket.
Then she looked at the layout of the antique store with her drunken eyes, when she walked in before, she just saw the shop on the side of the road, and she didn't think much about it, but now she looks at it again and realizes that there are actually a lot of things in this antique store.
Although, most of them are counterfeits.
With the acumen of a private detective, the woman could see at a glance that most of the things in the store were just so-called appearances.
Eyes swept around the antique store, the woman quickly lost interest, she touched the one in her pocket that she had just gotten in her hand, which was also the only one hundred dollars left on her body, and then turned her head to look at Li Ran in the store, hesitated for a moment, and then said, "Boss, are you interested in cooperating with me?" ”
"Cooperation?" Li Ran raised his head and looked at the woman in front of him.
"That's right." After taking the last sip of the bottle, the woman threw the bottle in her hand: "My name is Jessica Jones, and I am a private investigator based in Hell's Kitchen, and my usual job is to solve some disputes between men and women, such as whose wife cheats on me or whose husband has a lover outside......"
Jessica Jones, a private detective, and the extraordinary strength he had just shown in himself, heard the name reported by the woman, and Li Ran finally remembered the identity of the other party.
One of the members of the League of Future Defenders, a female superhero with a tragic past.
Of course, this is not important, the main thing is that for Li Ran, the appearance of Jessica Jones undoubtedly represents a new legend acquisition target.
Moreover, it is the kind that is delivered to the door by itself.
“…… Seemingly, I'm talking a little too much. After babbling for a while, Jessica Jones seemed to react that she had become a little too nagging under the influence of alcohol, she rubbed her faintly swollen head, and then continued: "Actually, my purpose is very simple, if there is a reward like a ring in the future, the boss can help me exchange it for money like today." ”
Because of her own experience and personality, Jessica Jones's job as a private detective is not smooth, and the occasional job is often discounted due to excessive performance.
"If you can get something, I don't have any problems with that."
Considering Jessica's identity and the legend she can bring to herself in the future, Li Ran categorically has no possibility of refusing.
"That's it, boss!" Successfully determined a way to exchange money, Jessica Jones's frowning brows couldn't help but stretch a little, took the initiative to reach out and shake Li Ran, and then took a plate from the antique store shelf with a wine burp, looked back and forth a few times, and said: "This thing is good, I'll take it away, just as a symbol of our happy cooperation." ”
"This plate isn't cheap......"
Seeing Jessica Jones actually taking away the things in her store in such a grand manner, Li Ran subconsciously opened his mouth and wanted to say something, but saw that the other party ran out of the door without looking back.
“…… It cost me a dollar. ”
Looking at the back of Jessica Jones leaving in a hurry, Li Ran silently said the second half of his words.
As mentioned earlier, most of the things in Li Ran's antique shop, nay, 99 percent of the things in it, are all wholesale goods from Chinatown, including the plate that Jessica Jones took in his hand.
……
Withdraw his gaze from Jessica Jones' back.
Although he has recognized the identity of the other party, he knows that he will become a member of the poor version of the Avengers-Defenders in the future.
But Li Ran didn't have the luxury of expecting to get the legend from Jessica Jones as soon as they met.
There are many ways to get the Legendary degree, and the easiest of them is naturally to fight directly like the previous battle against the Hulk. Although Jessica Jones's superpowers are good, there is obviously still a big gap between them and Hulk, so if Li Ran makes up his mind, he can obviously get a lot of legends from her.
However, as soon as it came, this reckless approach at every turn was obviously not in line with Li Ran's plan.
Second, he is very satisfied with his current identity as the owner of an antique shop, and he doesn't want to be exposed so soon.
So, shaking his head, Li Ran turned around and picked up the empty wine bottle that Jessica Jones had thrown in the store and was about to dispose of it.
I heard a jingle of bells.
With the bell at the door, a man in a purple suit walked in.