Meng Lei and his party rented an apartment in the eastern part of Modo City, near Gryfin Laneway, at a fairly cheap price.

At this time, it was already past eight o'clock in the evening and almost nine o'clock.

The landlord of the Meltwater Apartment, a native of Modo City and a member of the Moken family, wears the eye-catching Moken family crest on his chest, always showing his identity.

In fact, establishments such as hotels, apartments and hostels are themselves fixed properties of the Alliance.

As the representative of the alliance of Modo City, the Moken family is also the local head snake, so it is naturally impossible for these properties to flow into private hands.

And the landlord of the meltwater apartment is not very old.

It seems that he is only seventeen or eighteen years old, and he is a very cunning and shrewd big boy.

He wore an old gray coat, perhaps inherited from his father's style, very broad, completely inconsistent with his figure, a black bowler hat, and a pair of deep brown eyes.

In his words and deeds, he is full of the true character of a cunning businessman.

After meeting Meng Lei, the boy immediately took out a brochure and introduced it in a frenzy.

According to the brochure and the boy's description, the Meltwater Apartment has only recently been renovated and refurbished in a lavishly decorated Moluok bone style.

However, due to the fact that the renovation progress has not been completely completed, there are still some details that have not been polished.

In order to attract business, it has to be rented out in advance, so the price is so low.

However, the boy still patted his chest and promised that the renovation of the apartment as a whole had been finalized and would not affect the stay experience in any way.

Of course, for these statements, Meng Lei and others naturally will not believe it.

But since there are cheap apartments to move into, Meng Lei doesn't bother to go too much screening, after all, it's not too early, and several apartments in the neighborhood are either too expensive or have been rented out.

Due to the lockdown, a large number of tourists are now stranded in the city, and the availability of housing is already tight.

So, after much hesitation, Meng Lei finally chose this apartment.

In his opinion, even if the interior decoration is not yet completed, at least the environment should not be too bad, as long as there is a place to stay.

However, when the boy happily accepted the rent, led them outside the apartment building, threw down a bunch of keys and left in style.

The moment Meng Lei opened the door of the apartment with the rusty key, he regretted it on the spot.

The previous indifference disappeared in an instant under the impact of the stench.

Instead of the clean, retro and luxurious interiors of the brochures, the crowd was greeted by dark, damp corridors and old light bulbs that were clearly in disrepair.

The air was filled with the sweet and pungent "fragrance" of rotten flesh.

"Holy! Is this special apartment? It's almost like the lair of an alien sea monster! Can this place be inhabited?! ”

Huo Ye covered his mouth and nose, and kept raising his hand to beat, his face full of disgust and disgust.

Meng Lei also frowned slightly, and there were 10,000 alpacas roaring past in his heart, realizing that he had been pitted on the spot.

It stands to reason that the landlord is not lying, and the apartment looks like it was only recently renovated. However, they did not use the precious, meticulously polished bleached bones.

The various decorations in the room are actually made from some leftovers on Moluoke's body, such as the inner shell, organ diaphragm and cartilage!

As a person who truly understands the value of Moluoke's bone carving, Meng Lei can fully understand that using the bones of the large alien sea monster Moluoke as a decorative material is a very luxurious but very stylish behavior.

That kind of expensive luxury, if done properly, will look quite beautiful.

And the extremely expensive price is only a trivial flaw in this luxury.

You must know that there were a group of Moluok bone carvings left by pirates on the Sea Locust.

The appearance is exquisite, and the atmosphere is classy.

After changing hands and selling, he also earned the first pot of gold for the development of the fleet for Meng Lei, which shows the preciousness of this bone carving decoration.

However, if you don't use delicate tools to polish them, then these bones are not malleable.

Therefore, Meng Lei and the others stood at the door of the apartment, and the final result they saw was,

The floors and walls of the house were covered with horrible and irregular moluok inner boards, and large quantities of rotting flesh were hung from them.

Judging from the rough incisions around the edges, eighty percent of them were cut by hand from a crumbling molok corpse using a plasma cutter, without further processing at all.

As for the "decorations" made of cartilage in Moluok's tentacles and organ diaphragms.

Even Goldfinger couldn't stand it anymore and gave a very pertinent evaluation.

(Moluok cartilage decoration: This thing has no value or reason to exist in the world except for forcibly increasing the foul smell in the room, so throw it away!) ）

The corners of Meng Lei's mouth twitched, and he immediately couldn't help but want to burst into foul language.

But in the end, he forcibly suppressed his anger and walked into the apartment building speechlessly.

However, when the rest of the team saw this, they couldn't swallow this breath anyway.

"Damn, go get that grandson back and let him return the money!"

Zhang Chao roared angrily around, with anger in his eyes, and he was about to explode.

"Damn, the pit has been abducted and deceived to our heads, this shit is really not a thing!"

As soon as the words fell, the entourage, who had long been dissatisfied, immediately lifted the corners of their clothes, pulled out the knives, guns and sticks that were dangling from their waists, and turned around and left violently, ready to pull the landlord back to ask for an explanation.

"Alright, don't go!"

At this time, Meng Lei waved his hand, with a touch of helplessness on his face, and said in a deep voice:

"That guy is from the Moken family, the head snake here, if a conflict breaks out with him, the result will not be beneficial to us anyway, so don't cause more trouble."

Hearing this, everyone looked at each other.

Although he was annoyed, Meng Lei's words were not unreasonable, and in the end he had no choice but to give up.

"Come in, clean up this place first, let's stay here tonight, the money is paid, and don't run around anymore."

Meng Lei admonished, and then stepped into the house.

This duplex apartment is located in the middle of the Eastern District complex, with a floor height of about 70 or 80 meters, and is not a separate building. The room of Meng Lei and others is located at 402 on the first floor, at the end of the corridor.

In the entire hall on the first floor, there are only two apartments in total, and the other one is directly opposite Meng Lei.

Walking through the long, dark corridor, you can see that the door of the opposite room is locked, and the inside is quiet.

The apartment building was completely closed before, and it was not inhabited at all.

This group of them was obviously cheated by the landlord.

On the first floor of the entire apartment building, there are only their group of residents.

"It's so stinky, it's like a sewer, the landlord can't be squeezed by the door, how can he ruin a good apartment like this?!"

Huo Ye kept complaining while using the machete he carried with him to frantically cut the rotten flesh that adhered to the floor and walls.

Hans shrugged his shoulders helplessly as he cleaned up, and sighed:

"The real Moluoke bone style apartment is too expensive, and I don't know how long it will take to pay off, so many people will use cheap leftovers instead, which is not fraud in the final analysis, but can only be said to be suspected of false advertising.

In addition, in fact, the decoration made from a lot of Moluoke scraps is also quite exquisite.

Even if it doesn't compare to those treasures, it won't be like this.

It is estimated that this batch of materials has just arrived, and before it has time to polish, the landlord directly rented it out in order to make money. ”

Hearing this, Huo Ye continued to scold and scold:

"Damn, this is too unkind, how can there be such a business? It's not a thing......"

While everyone was grumbling, they began to clean up.

It took more than half an hour for more than a dozen people to finally clean up the two-story duplex apartment up and down.

Although the stench in the air could not be completely dissipated for a while, at least the house was much cleaner, at least barely inhabitable.

"That's pretty much it."

At this time, Meng Lei clapped his hands, gathered everyone together, and then cautiously closed the door.

"Commander, what's next for us?"

Zhang Chao brought a chair from the corner and sat down, and just after he was free, he couldn't wait to ask.

"There are two things I need to explain to you before arranging an action plan......

At this time, all the troops entering the city were assembled, and Meng Lei no longer concealed it, and made a brief explanation to everyone about the loss of contact between An Ran and the members of the Chongming fleet, including the divination results of the soothsayer.

Long after his words fell, the room fell silent, and everyone fell silent.

After a while, it was Hans who was the first to ask:

"Captain, you mean that even if we find a guide, we can't leave Modo City immediately, and we have to look for the source of the pollution that causes frequent hallucinatory events in the city, the so-called 'key' to open the core area of the large ruins, before we can continue our journey?"

"That's right, that's what it means."

Meng Lei nodded heavily, affirmed, and then said:

"Putting aside the accuracy of the soothsayer's prediction for the time being, it is an indisputable fact that a large spiritual pollution ruin has appeared near the city of Sir, and some members of our fleet have now lost contact in that sea area. If there really is a 'key' in the city of Modo, or some kind of opportunity to save them, then we must seize it, and we must not let it go easily! ”

Hearing this, Huo Ye frowned and said:

"But Commander, Modo City is so big, and we don't even have the slightest clue at the moment, where should we find that 'key'?"

Meng Lei shook his head, took a deep breath and said:

"That's a good question, but I don't have a clue.

The soothsayer only said that the key word about the opportunity was 'conch', and besides, the location of the appearance was probably east of the city of Modo, so there were no more clues.

Therefore, we need to carry out more investigations, conduct carpet methods, collect all kinds of intelligence as much as possible, and then find out some clues from it. ”

When the words fell, Zhang Chao, who had not expressed his opinion, suddenly said in a deep voice:

"I'm more worried about how we can get the key to the ruins than how to find the key."

After a pause, Zhang Chao continued to add:

"If the existence of the 'key' is the source of a series of large-scale hallucinatory events in Modo City, then it must carry a super spiritual pollution attribute.

Even a city of this size would fall under the influence of its spiritual pollution.

Even if we find the 'key', we won't be able to bring it safely to Sil City. ”

Speaking of this, Zhang Chao looked up at Meng Lei and said meaningfully:

"Commander, you don't want to see us all become crazy during the voyage, do you?"

After saying this, the room fell silent for a long time again.

Zhang Chao's angle of considering the problem is very tricky, it can be said that he hit the nail on the head and directly pointed out the key to the problem.

Everything else aside, how to transport it is a big hassle.

As Zhang Chao said, although the existence of the "key" is extremely unstable, after all, even an entire outpost will be affected, and without the means of suppression, even if the "key" is found, the expeditionary fleet will not be able to take it away.

If you force yourself on the road, there is only one result.

That is, all the people were mentally polluted, dragged into the illusion cage, and finally in extreme madness, leading to the annihilation of the whole army.

The original Kyushu Fleet is a good example.

As an eyewitness of that incident, Meng Lei naturally knew better than anyone the horror of spiritual pollution.

The last time he was reminded by Goldfinger, he and Huo Ye tried their best to finally recontain the relic.

At that time, it happened that there was a relic containment box nearby.

But now, without the protection of the relic containment box, it is impossible to go on the road with a "key" with the same properties as the spiritual pollution relic.

"I've thought about it too."

In the face of Zhang Chao's worries, Meng Lei said in a deep voice: "However, this matter will not be talked about for the time being, our goal now is to find the 'key' first, know what it is, and then discuss the issue of transportation." ”

The reason why he said this was that Meng Lei had his own ideas.

What exactly the "key" is, no one knows now, not even Roger can give a clear answer.

Meng Lei planned to find the things first, and then seek a solution through the hint of the golden finger.

For others, it can be helpless in the face of the unknown.

But he has a golden finger!

And it's also a goldfinger that has undergone a comprehensive upgrade!

As long as that item can be observed, it will naturally be easily resolved, which is his biggest hole card.

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