Seeing the walls parting like tissue paper, Zhou Yu felt no surprise at all. This is how it should be, a voice in his mind whispered.
"Then, I'll go find him."
His lips opened and closed on their own, and he said in a gentle and gentle tone: "No need to make any deal, I will go and pull the money snake out of its hole."
"Oh, the little girl now is really proactive."
The short fat man said with a smile: "Then please. It's okay if the princess wants to go with us, but I can't tell you my master's address directly."
Hongye gave him a cold look and said nothing in the end. The short fat man suddenly raised his hand and threw a hard object to Zhou Yu.
"Please, this is your identity certificate, little girl. If you bring it to Osel, you will win the bet."
Zhou Yu caught what he threw and then opened his palm to examine it. That was the bargaining chip that the short fat man held in his hand earlier. Heavy silver trim, the milky white crystal on the inside is engraved with a butterfly pattern.
He turned the chip over, and the face value engraved on the front was 1.
"Fancy stuff."
He put his palms together into his pockets and walked to the gaming table. The short fat man was still smiling, looking at him with his eyes that seemed to emit a ghostly light.
"Please. Gambling here is voluntary."
"I understand. But before that, there is one more thing to explain."
Click. The switchblade pops out the blade cleanly.
He stepped onto the table and sent the sharp metal into the opponent's eye socket.
The slight shock when the ball burst, the warmth of the aqueous humor mixed with the blood, made him feel elated. Even the screams of the women around him turned into beautiful music.
"This time it's a warning."
He drew the blade and stepped back from the table.
After the blade broke away from the wound, the flesh and blood around the opponent's eye sockets began to squirm violently. The cracked and shriveled eyeballs swelled and became round again like a water-filled plastic bag. Within half a minute, the other party's eyes returned to their original state.
Zhou Yu didn't feel surprised at all about this. He smiled and ran his fingertips over the blade.
"Next time, if you look at food like that at me, your eyes will freeze."
The words he spoke were no longer composed by his mind, but were directed by his body and flowed naturally out of his lips. The short fat man rubbed the pierced eye and laughed.
"Yeah, the little girl has a bigger temper than my mother..."
"Stop talking too much, Ferris." Hongye interrupted him and said, "If you keep talking openly, you will only suffer in the end. Give me a chip too."
"You don't have to be like this, right?"
"Bring it here. You asked for it."
Humpty Dumpty's face wrinkled. He spent a long time rummaging around on the table with his stubby fingers, and finally threw in a dark purple crystal chip. The face value on it is 1,000.
"There is nothing more suitable for the small place, so you can just use this one."
Hongye didn't object. She silently put the chips into her pocket, then walked through the hole in the wall and walked towards the ramp leading to the night market.
The short fat man was still smiling, but when Zhou Yu looked at him, the green light in his eyes seemed to disappear.
"Please." He made a farewell gesture to Zhou Yu.
Zhou Yu looked at the five skull rings on his fingers, turned around and followed Hong Ye.
The slope that emerged from behind the wall was not a rough mud tunnel, but a brand new and clean asphalt road. It looked like the entrance to an ordinary underground tunnel. The slope of the road is extremely gentle, but the bottom is indeed a private room leading to the underground casino, so the journey is longer than an ordinary slope. At the end of the ramp, the accumulated water on the street was slowly flowing down, forming dark spots in the shape of rust.
Above the etched mark hangs a crescent moon as bright as a scimitar. When the two of them approached Silver Moon, they seemed to be climbing the stairs leading to the guillotine.
"...Hongye, what does this chip mean?"
When I reached the middle of the ramp, the throbbing pain in my skull gradually subsided. Zhou Yu seemed to suddenly wake up from sleepwalking, took out the chips from his pocket and asked.
"This is a voucher... it can also be said to be a kind of ritual. Holding it is equivalent to holding a certain oath made by the other party in advance. In short, it is something to ensure that the other party will not default on the bill. However, once you accept it, , it means that you also agree to the other party’s request.”
"Is there any difference between what we got?"
"The binding force of the two is different. The lightest oath cannot bind me. They don't want me to violate the rules."
"In other words, the above value is equal to the difference in combat effectiveness."
Hongye coughed lightly and said a little unnaturally: "It's not that exaggerated. Rather than saying it's ability, it's more like age... Forget it, don't ask."
The two reached the top of the ramp while talking. Zhou Yu looked around and found that they were on a completely unfamiliar street. There are tall buildings all around, bright lights, and the noise of crowds can be heard from a distance.
Everything is the daily scenery of Hongsen Business District, except for the street itself: not only are the doors on both sides of the road closed, there are not even street lights, and only the moonlight shines on the dark road.
Zhou Yu took out his cell phone and took a look. It's now nine o'clock in the evening. For people with a rich nightlife, this can only be regarded as the beginning of the warm-up time.
"Let's go to Ausle Road first."
He greeted Hongye and walked toward the tall building in the distance. However, Hongye didn't follow him, he just stood there and sighed.
"Zhou Yu, please look back."
Zhou Yu turned around as he was told. Behind him and Hongye was a flat and straight asphalt road. The ramp protruding from the casino wall had disappeared without a trace.
"This is……"
"This is the reason why the alley disappeared, Zhou Yu. I'm really sorry about this matter. Originally, I thought I would find another person tonight. I didn't expect that Osier sent this guy out... This will make comparisons Trouble."
Hongye kept sighing while explaining. Zhou Yu looked at her troubled look and couldn't help but said: "He doesn't seem to dare to do anything to you."
"Indeed, if he wants to harm me, he doesn't have the ability. But he is not my father's servant, but belongs to Auster. I can't directly order him to do anything without Auster being found. .”
"...Does your family use some kind of medieval vassal relationship?"
"Why vassal?"
Zhou Yu just shook his head. Now is obviously not the time to give Momiji a history lesson. He asked: "Is Auster the person you are looking for?"
"Yes. He was my father's former butler."
"What's his relationship with Oslo Road?"
"He chose the name...that guy is terrible at taste. Don't worry too much about it."
Hongye kept sighing again.
"Let's explain it this way. This city is jointly managed by many people - I don't mean police or officials, but more real managers. Each manager can only control a specific area. For example, Oss Er, his management scope is the Hongsen area. In this area, he has absolute command authority."
"Like a lord? Have a small independent fiefdom in the entire kingdom? Have the taxation and army in your own hands?"
"Hmm, this statement is also very appropriate. Yes, they are lords. Although the person with the title of lord is Ausir, he continues to transfer his power to his subordinates, like the person you just saw , that is, having the power to 'change the urban terrain'."
"Is there any reason for transferring such an important ability to a fat man casually? What kind of professional urban designer is that fat man?"
"No, maybe just because I'm bored."
Red leaves lightly brushed her hair. Under the moonlight, her eyes seemed to become light and bright.
"...Because my own design can't bring me any freshness, I just throw it to a completely different person to see what the other person will make. This is the logic of Osler's actions."
