After walking nearly two hundred meters, Su Yu finally saw a crossroads. In addition to the long road he had just walked, there was another horizontal passage with no end in sight.
Su Yu walked to the right according to the "it doesn't matter" guidance, and saw a man in a red sweatshirt looking over here a few storefronts away.
"Hi? Are you classmate Su?" The red sweater waved.
"Yes, it's me." Su Yu replied quickly. She walked a few steps quickly and came to the red sweater:
"You 'don't care'?"
"That's my online name. Just call me Wu Xu."
The red sweater grinned, showing a pair of white and neat teeth. He looked to be in his mid-twenties, with dyed black and yellow hair, and was wearing a red shirt and white pants, which made him seem a bit out of place in the dark market.
"Come into the store." Wu Xu greeted, turned around and approached the room behind him, sighing as he walked: "There haven't been any students from the Zombie Research Academy here yet."
Su Yu followed him into the room. The lights inside were much brighter than in the dark market. There were computing devices of different sizes scattered everywhere. A two-meter-long black box was placed on a long wooden table. .
"Let me take a look at your screen first." Wu Xu walked to the black box and motioned for Su Yu to come over.
He took out a cuff-like thing and wrapped it around Su Yu's forearm screen, wrapping the entire screen. Then he sat in front of the wooden table and opened the black box.
"Do you want to upgrade the system to the latest version?" He clicked on the black box a few times and raised his head to ask Su Yu.
"Best, how many C coins are needed?"
Wu Xu held out three fingers to her: "Three hundred C coins, the lowest price in the whole market, no, in the whole Central City."
Su Yu lowered his head and looked at his tightly wrapped hand screen. He wondered if Wu Xu had seen it in the black box. He now only had more than 280 C coins, which was very poor.
"Can it be cheaper? I also need a display board with writing function." Su Yu asked.
Wu Xu did not respond to her, but fiddled with the black box and told her: "It is being updated, don't move it yet."
Then he got up and rummaged through a pile of messy equipment, and finally found a rectangular white box. He held it up and said to Su Yu: "You came just in time. Someone asked me to help him put in the latest tablet, which was delivered." But then he said no, I'll give you a fracture price, which is 300C coins."
"Cheaper." Su Yu insisted.
"Student Su, this is the latest model. It has not been opened yet." Wu Xu held up the white box and showed it to Su Yu.
"I don't have that much money, two hundred and seventy C coins, just give me an update." Su Yu said straightforwardly. She still had to leave some C coins for herself to take the light train back to the academy. After all, it is too far away from the academy, isn't it? I can walk back the distance in a while.
"Okay, two hundred and seven is two hundred and seven." Wu Xu was a little disappointed after hearing this, but he still casually threw the writing pad into the pile of messy equipment.
Su Yu didn't expect him to be so easy to talk to. Something suddenly occurred to him and he asked casually: "What does your market do?"
Wu Xu chuckled: "We do everything. Every business you can think of and can't think of is done here. You've come here, don't you know this is the largest black market in Central City?"
"Can we sell perfume here?"
"Perfume?!" Wu Xu suddenly became interested: "You mean zombie perfume? The one that isolates zombies?"
"Yes, is that okay?" Su Yu asked.
"Of course! Do you want to sell it? This stuff is only available at your Zombie Research Institute. The ones on the market are too expensive." After Wu Xu finished speaking, he added: "Did you prepare it yourself? Actually no. Pure ones are okay, but the price will be slightly depressed.”
"It's pure, but there's only half a bottle." Su Yu thought of the perfume that Chen Yiqian said he wanted to return to him. Even if he could sell it to save money, he couldn't really borrow C coins from Hao Tian.
"Yes, I can help you sell it, but I have to take a commission."
Wu Xu spoke frankly and was already calculating how many C coins he could earn from it. He took out the latest tablet from the equipment pile:
"Now, I'll give it to you. Think of me as a friend. I've never had a friend from the Zombie Research Academy. If you have any great inventions in the future, just let me drink the soup."
"Thank you." Su Yu took the writing board and said, "When I sell the perfume, I will give you the C coins for this. Next weekend, I will bring the perfume."
"Okay," Wu Xu clicked on the black box a few times and removed the cuff from Su Yu's arm, still with a talkative smile on his face:
"The system has been updated. You have to go through official channels to activate network services. If I break your bones again, just give me 200 C coins."
Su Yu did not shirk. After all, she did not have generous capital now. After thanking her, she transferred 200 C coins to Wu Xu's account.
Wu Xu sent her out and told her, "Don't forget, next weekend, perfume."
"Okay, thank you very much." Su Yu raised the writing board.
Wu Xu smiled: "You are a poor student, and I am a poor merchant. We are mutually beneficial. When you come next time, I will take you underground to gain experience. Maybe it will be helpful to you in researching new gadgets."
"underground?"
"That's right," Wu Xu stamped the ground beneath his feet, "Down here, under the black market..."
On the light train back to the college, Su Yu no longer had the intention to look at the central city scenery outside the glass window. She kept thinking about what Wu Xu meant by the black market underground.
Such a prosperous and tidy central city may not be as bright as the surface. In the shadows behind the bright lights, there is still an unknown amount of darkness growing...
*
Su Yu paid the fee to open the Internet and downloaded all teaching textbooks and common chat software.
The most commonly used chat software on mobile screens is called "call me", and you have to pay 30C coins per month to use it. Su Yu gritted his teeth and paid the money, adding Hao Tian, Zhao Dacheng and Zheng Wang as friends one by one.
After thinking about it, I added Chen Yiqian and Wu Xu.
Hao Tian was still at home in Central City and had not returned to her dormitory. She was the first to reply to Su Yu:
[Is it going well? It's just the right time for you to open it. There's a class of online election monitors. Come to the group. ]
Su Yu clicked on the link sent by Hao Tian and entered the group of Class 1.
Inside, Teacher Song Zaihu is presiding over the election. Candidates are recommended by classmates or self-recommended.
When Su Yu entered, there were already several self-recommended candidates. Apart from them, the one with the highest voice was Wang Pu, who both self-recommended and was recommended by everyone.
At this time, someone suddenly sent a message:
[I think Su Yu, who stayed calm when Teacher Hu was in danger, should be recommended. She has the strength to protect the whole class. ]
Su Yu's eyes widened.
Before anyone responded, Hao Tian received:
[Strongly agree. ]
So Su Yu, who originally had nothing to do with him, was elected as a candidate.
Teacher Song Zaihu presided over everyone's voting, and the result was unexpected. Su Yu defeated Wang Pu 16 to 8. Among Wang Pu's 8 votes, Su Yu voted for him. It seems that heroic colors carry more weight in everyone's hearts.
Inexplicably, Su Yu became the monitor of Class 1. Before he could refuse, Teacher Song Zaihu’s friend application was immediately sent over.
After passing the verification, he sent another voice message: "Su Yu, the teacher is not here recently, so I need to ask more of you. The college club is recruiting new students tomorrow weekend. I'm looking forward to the students in Class 1..."
Another voice message came, and Teacher Song emphasized each word:
"Be sure not to let them join some weird societies!"
