Chapter 50: The Little Doorman
Xiaomenmian is the name of a restaurant located on the east side of Blood Lane, not far from the clinic, next to grocery stores and tailors. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info for business, this is a very good location, of course, provided that you ignore the coffin shop twenty meters away.
The face of the small door face is not small, maybe more than 70 years ago, when this hotel first opened, the door face was indeed very small and inconspicuous, but after more than 70 years of operation, it can already be regarded as a medium-sized hotel.
A restaurant can operate for more than 70 years, and it must rely on it, and what Xiaomenmian Hotel relies on is the cooking skills that have been passed down from generation to generation. Ask anyone in Blood Alley about the taste of the food in the Little Door Face Restaurant, and they will get the same answer, the taste of the Little Door Face Meal is definitely the best in the Blood Alley, because there is only one restaurant in the Blood Alley.
Of course, this is not because no one wants to compete with them, but the food in the small door face restaurant is indeed first-class and genuine, plus it has been entrenched in Blood Alley for more than 70 years, and the old customers in the neighborhood have long been accustomed to the taste here, so that other restaurants have no competitiveness at all, so they can only withdraw from Blood Alley.
At noon, at least two-thirds of the residents of the alleys gather in Xiaomenmen, and everyone is accustomed to ordering a few dishes and drinking a few glasses here, enjoying a leisurely lunch life.
Here, you can see all kinds of people, who often represent the ordinary people of the entire chaotic city.
The bald man with tattoos on his face and arms may be the carpenter in the carpentry room who had to quit the ranks of mercenaries because of an arrow in his knee, and the old woman with wrinkled face and kind eyes on the other side, who may have been beautiful and charming to countless people of the opposite sex in the past, but now she can only sit in the tailor's shop, twisting needlework and thread to reminisce about the past.
The goatee ordinary man on the left who pours himself to drink, usually trapped in a boring grocery store, and spends his days with firewood, rice, oil and salt, but it is difficult for outsiders to see that he is the richest ordinary person in the blood alley, in his shop, you can buy all kinds of strange and rare items, and once someone even bought a set of intact pre-disaster equipment in his store, which is a rare Maple Leaf Imperial Praetorian Guard special operations special operations personal terminal, no one knows where he got it from.
The low-level ability on the right, who spins two chopsticks around his fingers and is dazzling, always carries all kinds of electronic devices, which are always expensive in the post-disaster era, and his job is to make, assemble, and repair these expensive things, and then sell them at a high price to those who need them.
In short, everyone you meet here may have their own stories behind them, after all, people who don't have stories are afraid that few people are willing to live in the mercenary city.
Because compared to ordinary cities, mercenary cities are too dangerous for normal people, of course, this danger does not come from the outside world, on the contrary, the danger comes from the mercenaries who live together.
It is conceivable that if the mouse and the elephant live together, even if the relationship between the two parties is good, maybe the elephant moves in his sleep, and the mouse becomes a rat cake, and the same is true for mercenaries and ordinary people, sometimes the normal behavior of mercenaries is fatal to ordinary people.
Therefore, mercenaries often bring danger and trouble, and the most important thing in the city of chaos happens to be mercenaries.
There is also no shortage of mercenaries in the small door face restaurant, among the more than 20 tables of guests, at least four or five tables are mercenaries who come and go, although Blood Alley is the base of the Gun Spark Office, there is only one mercenary group, but other mercenaries also have to eat, and there will always be passing mercenaries coming in to eat every day, which is impossible to avoid.
Therefore, trouble is also unavoidable, especially when there are several tables of mercenaries in the store at the same time, the possibility of trouble is geometrically increased.
With a "bang", someone slapped the table and stood up suddenly, it was the mercenaries at the two adjacent tables, and they quarreled for some reason. The person who shot the case didn't say a word of nonsense, and threw himself directly towards the other party, the person was still in the air, and the dagger on his waist had already been taken out.
"Ping Pong", the two groups of people quickly got into a mess, and the surrounding diners were quite calm, this kind of thing didn't happen one or two times a day, and they were sorry for the name of the city, so no one cared, just gave them a little space, so that they could have a good time, as for the diners, they still ate their own food, and didn't even look at them a few times.
Because their fights are really nothing worth watching, the people at both tables are not masters, just a group of low-level mercenaries, living in the city of mercenaries, and seeing a lot of battles between masters, even if they are just ordinary people, their vision is also high, and this level of melee is not as attractive as the food on the table.
But in fact, sometimes the melee of low-level mercenaries is more dangerous than that of high-level mercenaries, and the high-level abilities far exceed the low-level abilities in their control of power, although they can kill the ordinary people around them only with the aftermath of the energy during the battle, they know how to restrain their strength, and most importantly, the people who can go to the high level are trained between life and death, and they know how to be balanced. However, low-level abilities are different, although their energy during combat is not so destructive, they will occasionally do some brain-dead behaviors that high-level abilities can't do, such as using thermal weapons in a crowd and not being able to control their own head is one of them.
"Da-da-da-da. A crisp gunshot rang out, and a mercenary who had fallen into the wind lost his mind, and took out a slight charge and began to strafe the enemy, and the bullet with a weak source energy was still slightly lethal to other abilities, so his enemies had to retreat and dodge, and at the same time forcibly took the bullet that could not be dodged. As for the bullets that missed the target, they became the biggest problem, they would not distinguish whether the person on the other side was the target or not, and flew directly towards the surrounding diners indiscriminately.
Fortunately, the diners have long been accustomed to how to live in the chaotic city, as soon as the gunshots rang out, ordinary people subconsciously shrank under the table and lay directly on the ground, while the mercenaries and non-mercenaries among the diners took the initiative to protect them in front of those ordinary people. It's not that the mercenaries are kind, if they encounter this kind of thing in other cities, they will only sit on the sidelines and watch the excitement, but there are a total of seven or eight thousand people in the chaotic city, and everyone looks up and doesn't look down, and on the premise that there is no conflict of interest, they are really embarrassed to see death and not save them.
It's a pity that the timely response of the other diners did not completely prevent this crisis, because the mercenary with an overheated brain, seeing that he failed to cause damage to his opponent, subconsciously threw a high-explosive grenade.