Chapter 10: Journey to the Underworld
"Lost Memory" When Li Xiang looked up at the inconspicuous signboard, he inexplicably felt a sense of sympathy in his heart.
This world is completely foreign to him now.
The main culprit is the years lost in a coma.
In the dim light, without the luster and magnificence of modern leather, everything looks so primitive and simple.
Li Xiang approached the illusion of an ancient ship's cabin, especially when he saw rusty anchors and old-fashioned foam lifebuoys tied with hemp rope hanging from the surrounding walls.
In a tavern of less than 400 square meters, there are few customers, and even if there are new customers, no one is curious to look up.
Everyone is like a mouse hidden in the dark, whispering.
Behind the bartender, also nailed with boat planks, an old man in his early sixties, with thinning hair, was slowly dialing an old-fashioned abacus.
Next to her, there is a straight, but boring girl in formal clothes, eighteen or nineteen years old, with a small round face, big eyes, thin lips, long ponytail, not tall, but looks dry and neat.
"What do you want to drink?" Seeing the extra hundred yuan on the table, the girl in the dress subconsciously picked up the cocktail in her hand.
"Black Snake, Grace." Li Xiang naturally wouldn't report the name of the second young master of the Li family.
The old man next to him slowly turned his head and looked at Li Xiang, obviously it was the first time he had heard someone directly report the name of the black snake here.
The round-faced girl had already stepped out of the bartender and made a standard lead move, without any superfluous words. "Distinguished guests, please come with me."
The elevator without any decoration is four or five meters long and wide, and in Li Xiang's memory, only for large supermarkets or car elevators will use elevators of this capacity.
The elevator is so worn-out that you can even faintly see the metal fittings behind it.
When it was going down, Li Xiang subconsciously counted silently in his heart, and finally paused for thirty-six seconds before the elevator stopped.
The girl opened the door, made a gesture of please, and after Li Xiang got out of the elevator, she left without saying a word from beginning to end.
Fortunately, a voice soon sounded in Li Xiang's ears.
"Guest, do you want to watch the game or place a bet? I've got the best location here......"
A middle-aged man holding a stack of tickets in his hand, wearing slightly worn jeans, on top of which is a pair of "really good" that has been "lost" for many years, full of cigarette teeth.
Li Xiang wondered if he had met a scalper.
"I'm looking for Black Snake, Grace."
As soon as Li Xiang spoke, the scalper's face changed instantly, and he looked at Li Xiang with one eye high and the other, and his voice became much more formal. "Got an appointment?"
Li Xiang shook his head. "Grace told me to give him his name when I came."
The scalper's face fused, and he suddenly said a few words to the collar of "Really Good".
Although his voice was low, even more indistinguishable from the noisy shouts not far away, Li Xiang could still hear it clearly. "There is an unknown stranger, about 1.82 meters tall, tall and thin, with black hair ......"
After a brief report, he glanced at Li Xiang, "Your name is Li Xiang?" ”
Li Xiang nodded.
"Come with me." The scalper shoved the stack of hundreds of tickets into the pocket of his jeans, and walked around the noisy area not far away without saying a word.
Even if he didn't watch it, Li Xiang could vaguely tell that it should be some kind of competition, and there were at least thousands of people watching.
The sound of shouting, cheering, and cursing came and went.
In this underground area that is hundreds of meters deep, there is a different world.
The scalper took him for a kilometer or two, and along the way there were grocery stores, game halls, billiard halls, and bowling alleys, but they were also disorganized.
Hearing the news of Li Xiang's arrival, Grace, who was still soaking in the hot spring pool, was so excited that he forgot to take a shower, put on his clothes and rushed out directly.
In this underground world, at least more than one-third of the chassis belongs to Black Snake, and Grace, as one of the people who talked about it, is a well-known figure.
The girl who was adding red wine to him next to him was so excited for the first time to see this big guy who didn't fake colors to anyone.
He was almost walking while wearing the suit pants that were already a little narrow.
"Ogu, come with me the." Passing by a gym, Grace almost yelled.
The bald tattooed man wearing only shorts and sweating was holding a big iron ball in his hand, poked his head out, and said aggrievedly: "What's wrong with you?" ”
"Li Xiang, Li Xiang is coming to us." Grace said excitedly.
"When ......" the big iron ball fell out of his hand and smashed on Ogu's foot, he let out a scream, and jumped out of the gym with his foot covered, as if he was stammering a little. At... Where is it? ”
"You fucking get dressed. What kind of system. "Grace looks at him like this, and hates that iron is not steel.
Agu is aggrieved.
"You think with idioms, I don't know you're scolding me?" He pulled a towel over it, as if he were wiping a bowling ball, and rubbed the shiny head.
Although he was not convinced, the action of putting on clothes was very neat.
It's just that he always feels that his scalp is a little numb.
I'm dripping my mother, he's really here.
If it weren't for the stabbing pain in the thumb of his right foot, he wished it was a dream.
"Gunner." The profound language that Grace has learned in this underworld has never been soft-spoken when it comes to sarcasmly mocking the bald head.
In the past, Ogu must have had a "conversation" with him, but when he thought that person was about to arrive, he suddenly lost this interest.
Later, next to the hot spring pool, the girl who had just received the red wine in the wooden box couldn't help muttering when she saw this scene.
"What kind of sacredness is that person named Li Xiang, who makes 'Golden Ring' and 'Black Belly' so excited?"
Li Xiang had already walked a long way with the scalper, and it was not until Grace and the bald tattooed man stood there with smiles on their faces in front of an open iron gate not far away, that he realized that he had finally arrived at the place.
The scalper walked in front, looking at the posture of the two bigwigs in the underground world in person, and the smile on his face that made his heart go hairy, and his legs were weak with fright.
"It's hard to find you guys here." Li Xiang was not polite.
Grace stepped forward and performed a very formal Western etiquette. "Welcome Your Excellency Li Xiang to guide the work."
Li Xiang was so unsure of his routine that he didn't know how to respond.
As soon as Ogu next to him spoke, he almost gave birth to the idea of leaving.
"Warmly welcome Mr. Li to stay in the cold house."
Li Xiangsheng stopped and looked at the smiles on the faces of the two, and for the first time in history, the muscles on his face jumped uncontrollably.
led Li Xiang inside.
"Shame on you." Grace began to play with the idioms she had learned again.
Ogu was extremely annoyed by his lack of culture, and his voice was full of loss. "Why did Li Xiang react like this, was what I just said bad?"
"Hey, you can't teach your son." Grace could only express her helplessness with a sigh.
Ogu scratched his bald head, still unable to understand these "foreign words".
In the huge room like a KTV, Grace and Ogu had just sat down, and there were already waiters hurrying in.
Grace just waved his hand, and the waiter hurriedly retreated.
Grace herself took on the role of a waiter, opened a bottle of foreign wine, poured three glasses, and immediately became serious. "Come, let's go, welcome His Excellency Li Xiang to the underground world."
Li Xiang took a sip lightly.
Grace and Agu were already bored.
Li Xiang got straight to the point: "I took the liberty to come this time, because I really had something to ask for." ”
"What else can be our Excellency Li Xiang." Grace laughed. Ogu didn't know what they were talking about, but he knew that he just smiled and nodded.
Li Xiang briefly talked about what happened to Mina and Chen Hong, and of course hid the part that Qin Hao warned him, and then said: "Now we basically can't find a job in Area C, and I don't know anyone else, so I thought of the two, and I hope it doesn't feel abrupt." ”
Li Xiang is indeed desperate.
The point is, he really doesn't know anything about this world.
After listening to Li Xiang's narration, Grace almost couldn't hold back her laughter. A congenital strong person who is looking for himself just to find a job for himself and his friends?
"In my opinion, someone should have deliberately manipulated you." Grace thought about analyzing it for him.
Li Xiang smiled and shook his head, "It doesn't matter, I just want to find a job as soon as possible now." ”
"That's easy to do." Grace agreed almost without thinking, and said to Augu, "You go and call Lao Yang for me." ”
Ogu got up and walked out, and after a while, a middle-aged man in a black suit appeared in the box with a smile on his face. "Jin Ye has something to take care of?"
Grace is codenamed the Golden Snake, and in this underground world, most people like it and call it "Jin Ye", while Ogu next to him, codenamed "Black Belly", is pitifully called a big black brother.
It can be seen that among the two, Grace's status is much higher.
Of course, the main thing is that Ogu is not good at dealing with people.
Grace got a glass of wine and got up and handed it to the man in the suit.
The man in the suit was flattered and bowed down again and again to thank him. "Master Jin, don't be so polite, just tell me if you have something."
"That's right, my ...... Well, my friend and his two friends want to find a job here, thinking you should be able to arrange it. ”
The snapping of the man's chest in the suit. "This kind of trivial matter is not a matter of Jin Ye's words, I guarantee that it will be done."
He was extremely interested, and hurriedly bowed down and took the initiative to touch the cup with Li Xiang. "This young master's friend doesn't know what kind of job he wants to find."
"I haven't asked them yet, but Mina's words, I've been in the kitchen management for three years, and Chen Hong, who sang in the KTV of the Shenguang Club before, the boss sees if there is a job suitable for them here, if so, I will go back and talk to them, they should be competent."
Kitchen management?
Resident singers?
Lao Yang wondered if his ears had heard it wrong. Just this kind of work that can't be put on the table, do you still need Jin Ye to speak?
He turned his head to look at Grace quizzically.
Grace's slender eyebrows raised slightly: "What?" Questions? ”
Lao Yang was startled, and for a moment his back felt cold, and he apologized again and again: "No, no, absolutely not." ”
Grace's status in the Black Snake is very high, and the entire underground world basically sells him a few thin noodles, especially in this land that belongs to the Black Snake, and it can even be said that it is a unique existence.
It's just that the two brothers, who have always been high, have never said whose face they have sold.
Lao Yang was guessing who this young man was, when he suddenly heard him speak again. "If it's convenient, you can also arrange it."