1 Transaction (Change)
"Yes, distinguished guest. Excuse me, what would you like to trade with me? The middle-aged man heard the man in front of him in the clown mask asking him a question. And in front of him, there are four cards lying on them, which are written: family, friendship, love, and life.
The middle-aged man had some difficulty deciding, and he remembered half an hour ago...
Half an hour ago:
In front of me is a house with a combination of Chinese and Western styles, and in front of me sits a man wearing a clown mask.
"Why am I here?" The middle-aged man remembered that he was lying in bed thinking about something just now, and who knew that as soon as he opened his eyes, he had already appeared here.
The middle-aged man looked at the person wearing the clown mask in front of him, and felt very weird and a little scared.
"Excuse me, where is this?" The middle-aged man asked cautiously at the masked man.
The man in the clown mask smiled, and the laughter made people feel like a spring breeze.
"Distinguished guest, take a closer look, don't you think there is something familiar here?" After laughing, he asked the middle-aged man rhetorically.
Familiar?
The middle-aged man was puzzled, and the brief exchange made the middle-aged man feel that the person in front of him did not seem to endanger his life, so he got up from his seat and looked around the room.
The left and right sides of this room are full of cabinets with items on them.
He looked to the left hand side of the room, where there was a bar, and a lady in a gothic costume was wiping down the counter, and she turned her head and smiled when she felt the middle-aged man's gaze.
The middle-aged man smiled back politely, and then looked at the other place suspiciously.
He saw that the room was facing outward, with a wooden door with glass, and looking outward, he could see that there was a counter selling watches on the opposite side.
It's getting late outside, and although it's early to go to bed at this time, if you're tired, you can go to bed now.
Where is he now, and it's a store?
He approached the door of the store and looked back from time to time at the reactions of the two people in the store, but the Goth lady was still wiping down her bar, and the man in the clown mask made a "please" gesture indifferently.
"What does this mean? What the hell is going on? Why did this boss with a clown mask ask me if I was familiar? I've never been here at all. The middle-aged man pushed open the door with doubts and walked out.
Because it was too easy to leave, it gave him the idea of exploring.
He looked left and right first, and it was on a commercial street.
There are shops on the left and right for all kinds of clothes and shoes, and although it is already 9 o'clock in the evening, there are still many people on the streets, and people still come and go from the store from time to time.
Those people have shadows.
It's all normal.
"However, as soon as I closed my eyes and left the house, it was too abnormal!" The more they looked, the more confused the middle-aged became.
Then he looked up and wanted to see the store's sign.
"DEVIL Buyers Club". That's the name of the store.
"D-E-V-I-L" has not been in English for many years, and middle-aged people do not know what this word means at all, and even forget how to pronounce it. So he took out his phone and clicked on the 10-degree search.
"devil, meaning: devil, guy, naughty ghost... Wait a minute! Devil? The middle-aged man read the meaning of the translation of the word, but he suddenly thought of something, and stopped reading the meanings that appeared later.
"The Devil's Buyers Club? Trafford Buyers Club! The middle-aged man, who suddenly thought of something, shouted excitedly, ignoring the surprised eyes of others, he looked at the signboard vigorously again.
"Is this actually the place? The combination of Chinese and foreign decoration style, the boss with a clown mask, the lady who likes to wear gothic clothes, and the signboard of 'devil'. Is this really that place? How could such a place exist? The middle-aged man muttered to himself excitedly.
The place he was talking about was mentioned in a novel he had read on the "End" fiction website.
The novel is called "Trafford Buyers' Club", and that place is also called Trafford Buyers' Club, and "Trafford" is a transliteration of "devil", which means that the club is actually called the Devil's Club.
In that novel, it is mentioned that this place is not visible to everyone, not everyone can come to it, but when you really feel that you need something in particular, you can see this place and come to this place.
It is said that when you come to this place, you can trade everything you want with the shopkeeper with everything you have.
The things you have may be love, family, friendship, lifespan, and other things that cannot be exchanged for money in real life, or they may be some rare treasures in the world.
You can use these to exchange for the ethereal "opportunity" you have always wanted, the "luck" that has always wanted the same mysterious, and the "lifespan" that you have always wanted but even if you have money, you can't buy it exactly... In short, the items that this store can provide are what you want most in your heart.
Even, if you have enough "things" and you want to buy the Big Bang, that's fine!
"I'm going to be here." After calming down, the middle-aged man stood at the door of the club.
Although, this place, it is true that everything can be sold, but this is indeed the "devil's" club.
Although, as mentioned in the novel, after the new owner with the clown mask took office, the style of the Devil Buyers Club changed.
However, if you trade family affection, friendship, and life, will such a life really be better?
"But this is my chance. I can only focus on the present, but I can't see the longer term. ”
Thinking of this, the middle-aged man pushed open the door of the club.
So, there is the scene we saw at the beginning.
The middle-aged man who sat back at the negotiating table said affirmatively to the clown boss in front of him, "Boss, let's start trading." ”
"Yes, distinguished guest. Excuse me, what do you want to trade with me? ”
ps: Revised again, this is already the most simple and clear I can write, and I can't help it if I don't understand it anymore. Then to explain the meaning of club, encyclopedia is a place where people gather to have fun. Usually, it's a place where one type of entertainment is concentrated. For example, this place is called the Novel Club, so this place is a place where novels are mainly used as topics and entertainment. For example, this place is an esports club, and there is no doubt that this place is mainly a place where esports is entertainment and topics. "Devil's Buyers Club", buying and selling, then it can be understood as a store. "Club" can be understood at this time as just a more advanced-sounding word, nothing more.