Lao Xu quietly moved to the door of the grocery store, glanced at the end of the aisle with a sneaky glance, and felt uneasy in his heart, faintly feeling that something terrifying would suddenly appear there. However, after a long time, the entire twenty-sixth floor was still silent, and the uncles who were open to watch the excitement saw that it was nothing more than a misunderstanding, and they all snuffed out their cigarette butts, said that they were extremely bored, and went back to the store to take a nap.

At this time, Uncle Qian took a long breath, picked up a bottle of water on the countertop, and drank it together. But halfway through the drink, he remembered the preciousness of these bottles of water, hurriedly took away the water bottle, licked every drop of water on the mouth of the bottle, and then tightened the cap, and smiled bitterly at Ah Fu and Qiu Qiong: "Miss Xu, misunderstanding and misunderstanding, blame me for my bad eyes!" You're not the girl named Qiuqiong, that ...... That's good. ”

Qiu Qiong took a breath of air, pursed her lips and nodded with a chuckle, then turned her head and stared at the goods on the shelf, her eyes becoming more and more dull. Inadvertently, she discovered that although the store is called a grocery store, it is actually not miscellaneous at all, and now there are only some metal products and mechanical products left in the store, and anything with moisture, such as sauces, drinks and alcohol, has been snatched up, and there are also foods such as cereal, milk chips and instant noodles that only need a little water to fill the stomach.

Qiu Qiong looked deeper into the store, and saw a small drip device in a dimly lit corner, and under the pointed spout was a transparent, slender cylindrical storage jar, which contained about five milliliters of brown liquid. At first, Qiu Qiong thought it was tea or coffee, but she thought about it, people here don't even have water now, how can they still have the leisure to drip tea and coffee? That's a waste!

Just when Qiu Qiong was puzzled, Ah Fu happened to turn around, he thought that this lower level was full of dangers, and he was going to tell Qiu Qiong and Lao Xu that it was not appropriate to stay here for a long time. But when he saw Qiu Qiong's lonely eyes and found that her attention was all on the drip device, he suddenly swallowed back what he was about to say.

"It's a small condensation device, a product of the town of Arrogant."

"Condensate?" Qiu Qiong was shocked, only to realize that she was completely crooked, "But why is the dripping water brown?" ”

Just when everyone's attention was on the drip device, Uncle Qian hurriedly received the four bottles of water into the dark compartment under the stage, and all of them came to the corner with a calm face, patted the device twice with one hand, and the device immediately restarted and began to extract water from the control buckle. For a while, everyone felt that the grocery store was much drier, and even the clothes and skin were rubbed with static electricity. After two minutes, a small brown droplet finally appeared at the pointed mouth, but the droplet was so small that it would take at least another ten or two minutes to condense into a drop of water. But by that time, everyone's skin should have been drained.

Uncle Qian endured the joy in his heart, sighed helplessly, and cursed: "It's all to blame on that Ah Chai, that damn speculator, if he hadn't made that identity card competition, the water in this silver ring would not have been polluted!" My brothers and men are dying because of him, and so many die every day, so why don't I see him die! ”

Lao Xu frowned, raised his hand, and asked, "Wait, Uncle Qian, what did you just say?" What contest? ”

Uncle Qian pursed his lips, slowly returned to the front of the stage, supported the table with both hands, and pretended to say in a deep voice: "Body, part, card, big, race." ”

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After monopolizing the drinking water resources of the copper ring and the silver ring, Ah Chai not only pulled out a layer of wool from everyone, but also ruthlessly stripped a layer of skin on those dignitaries.

In their eyes, he is a person who is smaller than an ant, and he is the cheapest laborer, who can be called and scolded at will. Although Ah Chai eventually became a brass ring manager with his own efforts, this did not earn him a trace of respect. Since then, Ah Chai has been swallowing a breath, and he told himself that one day, he will trample all those who look down on him and bully him under his feet, and let them also taste the taste of being at the bottom and not seeing the light.

Therefore, Achai created an identity card competition that is enough to subvert the pattern of greedy town, which is divided into three divisions: the bronze medal competition "King of the Jungle" in the copper ring, the silver medal competition "King of the River" in the silver ring and the gold medal competition "King of the Sky" in the central area. But the reverse is not allowed. If a person with bronze status wants to participate in a more advanced division, he can only get the "King's Seat" in the "King of the Jungle".

There are three "King's Seats", but they are guarded by Bronze, Silver, and Gold Treasures stationed in the three divisions, and those who participate in the Identity Badge Contest must defeat them in order to gain the Identity Badge Promotion. If they are defeated by the three of them, or eliminated by the other participants, the loser will face the consequences of downgrading the identity card and emptying his personal assets. Despite the tragic consequences of the defeat, and the fact that no one has defeated the three Guardians since the start of the tournament, there are still countless people rushing to join in every tournament.

What made them lose their minds, of course, was not because the identity card contest was interesting and fun, but because Ah Chai had promised that if anyone won the identity card contest, then he and his family would enjoy free drinking water for a year, as much as they wanted; As well as attaining supreme glory and wealth, staying in the central area.

Who can not be tempted by such a reward? What's more, the nature of their greedy people is greed, that is, they are accustomed to exchanging the smallest cost for the greatest benefit, and in the face of such a huge return, even if the smallest cost is their life and future, they will not hesitate. Ah Chai understands their greed too well, and he wants to use this greed at all costs to take away the property, identity and power they have.

There will always be only one winner in the identity card competition, and that is the evil speculator, Ah Chai.

"But lately, that damn speculator, like our town lord greedy, has also played disappearance, leaving everything related to the identity card contest and leaving it to a 'wealth master' who has no name to take care of." Uncle Qian said with a very distressed expression, "I heard from a friend that he used to be a poor and white person, no one knew his origin, everyone guessed that he was taken to the throne by that Ah Chai or something!" ”

"I'll go!" Lao Xu was stunned, couldn't help but shudder, and pouted, "Ah Chai is actually so good!" Fortunately, he didn't do anything to me! Otherwise, I'm such an innocent big boy, ouch, that's miserable. ”

Qiu Qiong glanced at Lao Xu with disgust, grinned and sneered, shook her head slightly, and muttered: "You are still an innocent big boy, I'm bah!" Suddenly, Qiu Qiong's eyes rolled, and she shouted with a wicked smile, "Old Xu, isn't the healing life refreshed once every three months?" Maybe you were already attacked by him, but you don't remember! Hey hey ......"

Lao Xu's eyes widened, revealing half of his front teeth, and he looked at Qiu Qiong with questions written on his face.

At this time, Ah Fu suddenly shook his head, and then remembered what he was going to say, but he didn't expect it, and accidentally turned the topic away. So, he hurriedly turned around, glanced at Qiu Qiong and Lao Xu, his expression gradually became serious, and he said in a deep voice.

"Mr. Xu, Miss Xu, I'm afraid that this lower level is no longer safe, and it is not appropriate to stay here for a long time. Miss Xu, although you are not their target, those Silver Ring Guards don't care so much, they will definitely come to trouble you. If you go out of the downstairs, it seems that it will definitely not work. So, we'll have to keep going upstairs and find a way out when we get to the middle floor. ”

Qiu Qiong put away her laughter and nodded, "Okay, Ah Fu, listen to you." ”

Lao Xu also agreed with Ah Fu's proposal, but before nodding in agreement, Lao Xu first slapped his palms on the table with a "bang", glared at Uncle Qian in front of the stage, put on a vicious look, and shouted: "Don't think I didn't see it!" Since you took our water, it means that you made a promise! If you dare to repent, you will offend the entire Lazy Town, and intelligent machines, be careful that we will make you a catastrophe! ”

Uncle Qian was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat, the joy in his heart disappeared in an instant, his face was unusually pale and he nodded, his hands were folded as if he was worshipping his ancestors, and he replied tremblingly: "Mr. Xu, the little one will definitely do his best to find the milk powder you want for you, just go back to the town and wait, and I will send it to you in a few days!" ”

Lao Xu smiled proudly, and then ran to the elevator with Ah Fu. When they were all far away, Uncle Qian relieved himself, supported the table with one hand, and lay back on the easy chair with difficulty, fanning the wind and sighing.

"Alas, I thought that those people in Lazy Town were weak and lazy, but I didn't expect that it was not easy to mess with at all! I have to think about it, think carefully, carefully, where should I go to find milk powder for them! ”

In the blink of an eye, the three of them returned to the elevator room, but they didn't know what was wrong, Ah Nu pressed the [Up] button of sixty elevators, but none of them turned on the light. For a while, all the elevators could only go down but not up, which made them even more sure that they were the target of the Silver Ring guards outside the building.

"Mr. Xu, Miss Xu, how is your physical strength?" Ah asked worriedly.

"Strea? I'm in good shape! Lao Xu said confidently.

Although Qiu Qiong couldn't figure out the current situation, she still nodded and said, "My physical strength is quite good." Annoy, you have another way to go upstairs, don't you? ”

"Yes, it's just that it may take a lot of time, and it's not ordinary hard work." As he spoke, Ah Fu led them to the end of the elevator room, pressed a bright light on the wall, and immediately cracked a few regular gaps in the wall, and rotated out a secret door, "Behind this door is a staircase that leads to the middle floor, but it is about a hundred floors to climb." ”

Lao Xu let out a breath and said in surprise: "One ...... 100 floors! Annoying, don't be kidding, you'll die if you climb up! ”

"Mr. Xu, do you want to go downstairs to die, or go upstairs to find a glimmer of life?"

"Ah annoyed," Qiu Qiong took a deep breath, looked at the back of the door with a particularly firm gaze, and said sharply, "Leave him alone, let's go upstairs." ”