Chapter 146, Life on the Black Market
Six o'clock in the afternoon.
Seaside Road:
A man and a woman pedal on a skateboard, driving gently in the astringent sea breeze. The girl walks in front, her hands naturally open, her eyes closed, as free as dancing, and the girl lets the skateboard under her feet carry her forward.
At this moment, it is almost dusk, and Coco, who has just finished the project, is like throwing off tons of burdens on his shoulders today, and his mood is indescribably comfortable. The A-level project received from the military, since the beginning of the school year, after several months of sleepless work by coco and Hex, has finally come to an end.
The A-class project is now 13% complete, and the next thing Coco and Hex have to face is another area of difficulty.
It was a completely foreign place to Coco. Even the erudite Hex, wanting to pass this copy of hellish difficulty alone, is definitely no less difficult than skating on a river in winter with leather shoes.
The sun sets on the palm trees and reaches to the tiptoes, filling the air with the residual warmth of the day.
The sun gradually returned to the sea beside the two of them, and the faint light shot from the end of the sea, struggling through the branches and leaves, between the fingers, leaving a lively and noisy, free and free silhouette on the ground.
"Hex......
Coco stood on his skateboard and turned slightly, turning back to face Hex. However, the skateboard under his feet is still moving smoothly along the originally set destination. "What do you think about the Yuzu thing?"
"I don't know much about the past, but I heard my grandfather say that the people of Planet 24 should not be treated like that, and we owe them a lot......" Hex recalled the things about Planet 24 around him, and came one by one.
"Is it indebted?" Coco stared at Hex's eyes quietly, raised his right index finger, interrupted Hex's words, closed his eyes and shook his head at him slowly, "That's not it, Hex, I said this from my own perspective. Yuzu she ...... It's my friend, I want her, get back to everyone soon. ”
"Yuzu is a frank and informal girl, I like her character, Nana, everyone, I like her too. Although we haven't been together for a long time, Nana and we have already regarded Yuzu as our own during that time.
So, I'm not going to sit idly by and watch the Yuzu thing, it's just that there are some things...... It may affect Hex in the future, and I want to say sorry to Hex in advance. "It's no longer the girl who has always been cute before.,Coco is unusual.,Suddenly said seriously.,It's like she's grown up all of a sudden.。
Even Hex, it's been a long time since hex's seen such a serious coco.
Hex sighed softly and took off the goggles he often wore on his face, revealing the fair face that had been cultivated by staying indoors for a long time, and letting the sea breeze blow his short hair, which had been tied up by glasses.
A pair of clear eyes shot straight at Coco through the scattered hair, and met Coco's gaze in the air with the last rays of the evening. “coco…… I've always been on your side......"
Coco was in the wind, smiling at the boy.
……
Black market, in an unmanaged café. Streamer and Nangong, Cola and Elena are all here, because this is the place agreed with Hex.
"This place looks so depressing!" Elena sat comfortably on the sofa and looked out of the glass window at the street. The street is full of lights, and the black market has recently become a mess because of the assignments given by some big gangs.
"However, the underground black market will become like this every time it's time to grab a cake."
From time to time, there were screams and screams in Elena's ears, as well as the sound of guns and fights. All this that was happening around her made Elena's heart hang again and again.
"Hex, haven't they come yet?" Nangong glanced at his watch, then looked out the window at the gangsters who were chasing the mission target on a motorcycle, and then poured a black drink into his mouth. "The black market isn't going to be flat tonight."
The streamer on the side of the table, in front of which there is a holographic projection extending from the watch, which is a structural drawing of the vector, which records the detailed data of all aspects of the vector, and the streamer toggles the projection, which is checking the damage of the vector.
Coke, who had nothing to do, noticed the broadsword that Nangong had placed on the table, and took it to look at it carefully. "Oh, Nangong, your sword blade has been rolled up, it must be a bargain, it has only been a few times to cut people and become like this, tsk!"
Nangong recalled that when he was fighting with the guys in the black market, those strange knives in their hands were able to emit high-frequency vibrations.
"What bargain? I had been on a mission for a long time, and that stinky old man had almost exploited all my belongings in exchange for this broken sword! If it's so simple that it breaks down and can't be used, I'll go back to Polwater and find that profiteer to preach...... Alas! Little Orange, is there a blacksmith shop around here? ”
Nangong grasped the hilt of his sword and looked at his combat partner with cherish. "This sword needs to be re-polished!"
Cola held his cheeks in the palm of his hand, and when he saw the distressed expression on Nangong's face, he couldn't help but feel happy and laughed. "Forget it, Nangong, we have all kinds of new weapons here, I suggest you change them. If it's broken, fix it once, that's a lot of trouble. Oh, by the way, there seems to be a lot of watermelon knives in the supermarket next door, why don't you take a look? After the gangster's test, those knives are actually quite easy to use to cut people......"
"Ding-dong-"
The bell hanging on the door suddenly made a pleasant crashing sound.
Coke and Streamer looked over, and over there, Hex and Coco pushed open the door and walked into Anya's coffee house one after another.
"Oh, here they are!"
"Long time no see!" Nangong got up and said hello, seeing that Coco and Hex were slightly wet. "What's the matter, is it raining outside?" Online eBooks
"It's okay, it's okay!"
"Roar! Nangong, Streamer, Little Cola, the three of you! Yes...... What do you think? Has the matter of Yuzu been settled? "The lively coco bounced from the door to the table and took a deep sip of the mellow aroma of coffee, which helped to calm his mind." Hey, there's a little beauty here, hello, under coco, this one next to me is called Hex, and hex is a cute tech nerd. ”
Coco was introduced to Elena along with his partner, as Coco had always liked to involve the less socially friendly Hex in his social circle.
"Well, my name is Elena, and I'm taken care of by everyone!"
"Let's talk as we go." Hex looked out the window. "Today's black market seems to be chaotic, without further ado, I'll take you somewhere."
The six of them walked along the main road of the black market, carefully dodging the small alleys where gunshots and footsteps were messy. Hex led the way, and Nangong and his party soon came to Area A of the black market.
"Nangong, streamer, if someone kills me, you two must remember to protect me!" Coke drove down the street and looked left and right worriedly, reminding the two of them again.
"Got it."
"It's horrible here!" Coke didn't know where to go, and heard someone screaming again, and couldn't help but pull the corner of Elena's clothes beside her, causing Elena to be speechless for a while.
There were thrills along the way, and the six eventually stopped the slider in a dark place that looked like a motorcycle repair shop.
The front of the shop was dirty, and the black engine oil on the ground had dried up, turning into a black, slimy, unknown object. There are a few red drink and snack vending machines in the corner, as well as simple food vending machines such as burgers and sandwiches.
Occasionally, there was a slow but powerful sound of metal crashing like a "bang, bang".
Streamer noticed that the entire street was surprisingly quiet, and although there were a few gunshots in his ears, it was a pure land compared to the rest of the black market.
In fact, there is no normal gate shape at all, instead a gray-blue wall with the word "machine" printed on it in capital letters. Nangong touched the door, and a red warning window popped up in front of Nangong. "No trespassing!"
"Uncle, let's come!" Hex put away the skateboard and leaned it against the corner. Hex didn't make a loud noise, unlike Nangong's full of expectations, Hex always maintained a normal heart, stretched out his wrist, and opened the watch on his left hand. After entering the secret key into the silver-blue spherical lock of this shop and unlocking the anti-theft system here, Hex took Nangong and a few people inside.
The closed wall automatically moved and separated to both sides, and the six of them walked through the diagonally open gap in front of them and walked towards the dark room.
Black market shops are different from other places in that they are called shops, but they are rarely open to the public to solicit customers.
Most of the shops here exist because of the interest of the owner, and they are equivalent to private research institutes, so they are closed all year round. But if it's to make money to make ends meet, the shopkeeper sometimes takes some light orders from the Internet to take time to complete.
From this point of view, the black market is not all black transactions.
After the light sensed the footsteps of several people, it immediately illuminated the entire floor of the repair shop.
The house was quiet, with bits and pieces of metal scattered on the ground, the largest one the size of a whale and the smaller one the size of a coin. It looks like it's all taken from a big guy.
"Wow! Cruel! What are these things? It must be super spectacular! Nangong looked at the parts scattered at his feet as he walked. I couldn't help but hook my feet and take a piece of the basketball-sized device in front of me to take a closer look.
Coco glanced at the thing in Nangong's hand and explained slowly. "The thing in your hand is probably the equivalent of a screw on a speeding car to its body. Uncle has done its analysis and calculation, and the numerical model generated by the simulation is too complicated. Uncle even felt that with the current level of AI computing in this world, they were not qualified to manipulate machines at that level. ”
"Huh?" Streamer is a little concerned. "And who made this thing?"
"Which company? Haha......" Coco laughed without saying a word.
"Was it inherently broken?" Elena asked.
"Well, when I first found it, it wasn't much better than it is now." Hex replied.
"Where did you find it?" Streamer asked.
"Oh, that place, it's in a ......" Coco, who was unguarded in his heart, was just about to answer the streamer, when he was suddenly interrupted by a rough male voice in his ear.
"You guys have too many questions. Hey, boy, give me the stuff you have in your hands and be honest with me. Hex, get them out of there. ”
"Okay! By the way, uncle, we're going to borrow Lab C on the second floor tonight. ”
"Well, you can just watch and do that little thing yourself."
……
Six people followed the elevator to the second floor. Quite unlike the dimly lit scene on the first floor, the arena on the second floor is surprisingly spacious and bright, about the size of a stadium. This floor is full of laboratories separated by glass, and a curvilinear corridor separates the many laboratories.