After some ideological struggle, Lao Xu finally chose to turn off the flight mode, and the truck immediately landed smoothly and vertically on the ground, stopping in front of the gate of Greedy Town, and the four jets also turned back into four ordinary wheels.

However, Lao Xu did not immediately step on the gas pedal and enter the greedy town, he just looked ahead in silence and motionless, as if someone had captured his soul.

Qiu Qiong, who was sitting in the passenger seat, saw that Lao Xu's face was getting darker and darker, and her expression became more and more serious, and she didn't dare to shout anymore for a while, so she could only purse her mouth, straighten her neck, and look ahead curiously as she learned from Lao Xu. It's okay not to look at it, this time, Qiu Qiong only felt that her heart was tight, and she immediately understood the reason why Lao Xu was so silent.

Greed is completely different from Lazy Town, first, there is no tall and wide wall on the border of Greed Town to completely isolate the outside world from the town, and as far as the eye can see, you can see countless patina-colored buildings with high and low levels; Second, the town gate of Greed Town is not a "gate" in the true sense of the word, but a brown-red, all-wooden arch building, with seven big characters engraved in the center of the façade: Welcome to Greed Town.

The arch, which is about 60 meters high, 50 meters long and 20 meters wide, stands out among the patina-colored houses, and is covered with elaborate carvings on the surface. In particular, the reliefs on the feet are the most amazing, the left hand side is carved with the appearance of the citizens of Greedy Town welcoming customers, and the right hand side is carved with the scene of people from the other six towns picking up goods and visiting, which undoubtedly shows the open and welcoming attitude of Greedy Town.

Such a spectacular and beautiful town gate deserves extraordinary protection, however, the town of Greed seems to be different from what it seems.

——Half of the huge town gate has collapsed, and the seven big characters on the façade are now only the words "Huan" and "Greed"; The feet of the arch were smashed into pits, and the exquisite carvings were almost invisible. Behind the town gate, there was a lot of smoke billowing up, and there was a foul smell of rot in the air.

The streets are empty, the ground is full of garbage and silt, and in such a picture, there is no prosperity as Lao Xu once talked about, and some are more dilapidated and depressed.

Qiu Qiong frowned slightly, blinked slowly, and asked in surprise, "Old Xu, why is this greedy town different from what you said?" ”

Lao Xu sighed, his expression was also confused, and he saw his hands on the steering wheel, shaking his head and saying, "This ...... Alas, three months ago it wasn't like this...... I'm more worried about what might be going on in Greed Town? ”

Qiu Qiong nodded secretly, and sure enough, as she guessed, the reason why Lao Xu did not enter the town immediately was because the atmosphere in Greedy Town was really weird, although there was no warning "Danger, please do not enter" erected at the door, but the dilapidated scene in the town was enough to scare off all the people who came here.

"Lao Xu, do we still want to go in?"

"Of course, you still have to enter, if you don't enter, how can you buy milk powder for Xiaonuo. It's just that I have to figure out what's going on inside. ”

"How do you figure it out?"

After thinking for a while, Lao Xu's eyes suddenly lit up, and he hurriedly took out a business card from his waist bag. Immediately afterwards, Lao Xu opened the communication system in the control panel, and after entering the number on the business card, a line of words "Calling" immediately popped up on the screen.

At this time, Qiu Qiong secretly glanced at the business card, only to see two black characters [Achai] printed on it, and she couldn't read the rest of the small characters clearly. Seeing Lao Xu's anxious look, she couldn't help but be a little curious, and asked, "Lao Xu, who is this Achai?" ”

Lao Xu handed the business card to Qiu Qiong, took a deep breath, and slowly explained: "This Ah Chai is the manager sent by the Commodity Management Association of Greedy Town to receive the goods from Lazy Town. He is a shrewd man, and he can choose the most advantageous and most suitable order for us out of countless orders, so all the intelligent equipment in our town is sold by his hands. At the same time, I will also do some shady business with him. ”

"Not the light? Lao Xu, shouldn't you be ......" said Qiu Qiong cast a contemptuous look at Lao Xu.

Lao Xu pursed his lips and said with an unhappy face: "What do you want!" The little girl's family, why is her brain so unclean! The business I made with him will see the light of day in Greed, but not in the town of Laziness! ”

Hearing Lao Xu say this, Qiu Qiong suddenly remembered the scene where the shelves of the transfer station were full of supplies, and suddenly said: "Oh! It turns out that in the past five years, the goods you smuggled back were bought from this Achai! ”

Lao Xu sneered, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Xiaoqiong, you are mistaken, I didn't buy it from him, but entrusted him to buy it from other merchants." He is just a small manager, and he has no right to hold the goods. Every time I come back to Greed, I make a list of the supplies I need, and then give him the list. When he comes back next month, he'll have everything I need. ”

"It turns out that this is how it works...... Qiu Qiong sighed, and suddenly remembered a more critical question, "But I haven't been able to figure it out, how can I get by on the books?" Laziness may be too lazy to check the accounts, but Mia won't! She doesn't have to think about these numbers to see that there is a problem! How did you do that? ”

Lao Xu tilted his head sideways, raised an eyebrow and looked at Qiu Qiong, and laughed: "Ha! Are you stupid, of course I can't! Actually, Ah Chai has always been the one who made false accounts for me, he is too shrewd, looking at the entire Greedy Town, few people dare to do it like him, taking advantage of all kinds of loopholes to save me a lot of money. With this money, I can buy whatever I want, and I don't feel distressed at all. ”

Qiu Qiong couldn't help nodding, and admired this Achai who had never met before, after all, if it weren't for him, Lao Xu would probably not be able to smuggle so many reserve materials and raw materials, and the rebels would have no way to compete with laziness. Turning back a little further, shortly after they left the town, they would have starved to death if it hadn't been for the supplies that Lao Xu had brought in.

Qiu Qiong thought to herself: "Be bolder, if it weren't for him, I'm afraid my consciousness would have been transplanted into the body of a bionic person by laziness now." ”

At this time, the words [Calling] on the screen suddenly disappeared, Lao Xu was secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly leaned over to the communicator, and was about to ask questions, but a red light flashed on the screen, and then four big words [Call failed] popped up.

"This!" Lao Xu suddenly frowned, revealing a look of disbelief, "I'll try again!" ”

However, after another burst of calling, the light was still red. Lao Xu hurriedly picked up the business card, corrected the number twice, and exclaimed: "There's nothing wrong with it!" How could the call fail! ”

Qiu Qiong smiled bitterly and comforted softly: "Hehe...... Maybe he's not free right now......"

"Impossible!" Lao Xu replied with great certainty, "These managers value money the most, so the communicator must be by your side, ready to take over the work at any time." ”

"Since you can't contact him, you can contact other managers."

Lao Xu shook his head, and collapsed on the seat with all his strength for a while, staring at the communication system with a gloomy face. In that huge greedy town, Lao Xu only has Achai's friend, and there is no one else to contact except him.

Lao Xu can't be completely blamed for today's situation, because the nature of their lazy people is lazy. In Lazy Town, they handed over all the work to Zhiji to deal with, while in Greedy Town, Lao Xu handed over everything to Ah Chai to do, and he only cared about staying in the inn to rest and enjoy, and did not spend time and time to make friends with other people.

In this case, it is impossible to figure out what happened in Greedy Town for the time being. But if he stays outside the town gate because he is worried about the danger, then Xiaonuo's milk powder will never be found.

In desperation, Lao Xu had no choice but to restart the car, slightly step on the accelerator, and let the car slowly drive into the greedy town, while constantly nagging: "Xiao Qiong, let me tell you, we don't listen to anything, don't look at anything, don't care about anything, okay." When we come here, we only care about buying milk powder, and we don't care about anything else. As soon as we got the milk powder, we left right away! Otherwise......"

Qiu Qiong only felt that her scalp was numb, and her brain was about to explode, and in the end, she couldn't stand it anymore, pinched Lao Xu hard, and said disgustedly: "I know!" You still need to say it! Hurry up! ”

Gradually, the two of them came to the heart of the brass ring. Qiu Qiong looked up and was surprised to find that everything she could see was all patina-colored, and even the sky was faintly yellowed by them.

On both sides of the road, buildings are close together, and each floor used to have at least twenty windows. Qiu Qiong secretly calculated, every unit in this building should be very small, and she couldn't help but wonder: How can this be suitable for people?

Lao Xu raised the corners of his mouth and said with a wry smile: "Their people call these buildings Ant Tower. Those who hold bronze medals, they can only live in such buildings for the rest of their lives, because of their status, because they are people at the bottom. Although they were the most numerous, they had to be crammed into the smallest copper ring of the three areas, and the room naturally became smaller and smaller. Even people with some conditions are just moving from a small ant house to a less small ant house. ”

"They're too pitiful." Qiu Qiong was cold for a while, and she couldn't raise a good impression of Greedy Town, and thought to herself: This kind of ghost place is really not for people, so let's buy milk powder quickly and go back to Lazy Town quickly!

Qiu Qiong looked out the window with a blank face, but at this moment, she suddenly saw three weird, blood-red characters written on the wall of an alley: Give me my life. Lao Xu drove the car very slowly, which also gave Qiu Qiong enough time to confirm those three words repeatedly.

That's right, it's "give me my life".

And just when she looked away a little, she suddenly found that in the distance of the alley, there was a pair of resentful eyes staring at her.

Qiu Qiong couldn't help but shudder, turned back in panic, and then looked ahead blankly. Lao Xu saw that something was wrong with her, and asked worriedly, "Xiao Qiong, what did you see?" ”

After a while, Qiu Qiong swallowed a mouthful of water, and replied with trembling lips: "I seem to have seen one, person?" ”