Regan actually didn’t want to go to the Star Forest Ruins at all. But he just let the two Gods of Wealth die. Firstly, he was unwilling to let the benefits that originally belonged to him fall into other people's pockets. Secondly, he was even more afraid that if something happened to the Gods of Wealth, their ancestors would come to settle the score with him. He kept nagging him along the way. Not finished, he tried to persuade Yun to come to Xinglin for a look and then leave.
The cabin of the passenger-cargo spaceship they boarded was narrow and dilapidated, with more than thirty young aspiring people crammed into it. It may be the first time for the girls and boys to travel away from home, and they are trembling with fear after being brainwashed by the hard-talking old liar for hours. Regan kept nagging. Apart from repeatedly emphasizing that Big Fish City, an airport in Xinglin, was a relatively safe trade protection zone, he just enumerated the man-made disasters he encountered after leaving Big Fish City. There was nothing new. Yunlai concentrated on playing the game console, with a casual aristocratic air, and did not take Regan's nagging seriously at all. Bai Zhi wrote down the key points with notes to inform her friends, while she concentrated on pretending to be the little white rabbit and looking around to observe the environment.
Dongting said in the notes that Wang Zhiba fought all the way to gather the team members. Now there are six of them living in a big hotel near the airport. He met many races. The tallest one was nearly three meters tall, and the shortest one was less than one meter. However, all human skin colors are yellow, white, black and red.
Zhang Tianzhao said that Haifengqiu discovered that the owner of a bar in a settlement was a comrade who disappeared during his early missions. They wanted to find out how Haifengqiu's comrade left the earth, how many people in Jiu Xu knew about the earth, and planned to temporarily stay in that settlement. Stay for a few days.
Viewed from mid-air, the surface of Star Forest is very desolate, with large patches of farmland more yellow than green.
The shape of Big Fish City, which is getting closer and closer, does indeed resemble a fish. The head of the fish is the airport where spaceships take off and land, and the body and tail of the fish are buildings converted from abandoned spaceships. With Bai Zhi's eyesight, she could clearly see the garbage and cesspools on the ground in this city. There are unplanned and dirty streets, a patchwork of dilapidated spaceship buildings, and ragged and disheveled children running around. Passers-by see these children either kicking them or beating them with sticks they carry.
The living environment here is far inferior to the East China Sea base during the end of the earth. And here is a well-known gold mining holy land, and outstanding young people from dozens of galaxies around it all yearn to try their luck here.
Bai Zhi looked at the group of young people in the cabin whose eyes and hearts were full of various emotions, sighed in her heart, put on a filtering respirator mask, and put on a hooded cloak.
After the spacecraft landed, the rookies spontaneously gathered in a group on the tarmac near the cabin door. Most of them had blank expressions. There were two or three who carefully and vigilantly observed the surrounding environment. There was also a girl with delicate features who looked pitifully "begging to be taken away". Looking at Grandpa Regan.
Grandpa Regan spread his hands and made a helpless expression. He led Yunlai and Bai Zhi across the sewer ditch. After walking for more than two hours in the dusty and smelly streets, they stopped at a plane with half of it exposed on the ground. the gate of the huge cargo spacecraft.
"It's been hundreds of years, and Xinglin Department Store is still the same." Regan lamented.
Both Bai Zhi and Yun Lai were used to Rui Gen's outbursts of emotion from time to time, and they habitually ignored them.
From the outside, the department store looks as rusty and dusty as its neighbors. There is a space as big as six basketball courts, with metal folding tables arranged into large and small stalls, with a variety of clothing and use, all of which are placed on the table. The most exquisite thing is probably the storefronts built with metal plates against the wall. The people guarding the store are obviously more neatly dressed than the people guarding the stalls. The products on display are all large items such as motorcycles. .
Yun Lai has always been interested in mechanical toys. He would stop and look at the strange machine parts that were covered with dirt and rust. Jiang Chuzhao focused on the necessities of life.
There are so many stores, but only one store on the left hand side sells food. Behind the cashier is a display cabinet with cereal powder, nutritional supplements and bottled water. More than thirty people lined up at the cashier. Bai Zhi paid attention. The person who just left paid with market gold. He was holding a box of twenty nutritional supplements in his left hand and ten bottles of bottled water tied into a bundle in his right hand. The woman who was taking her turn was about forty years old. She had very charming peach blossom eyes and was dressed neater than the clerk. What she handed to the cashier was a card with a grid on it, and the cashier stamped a Little poke, give her a pack of cereal powder, several boxes of nutritional supplements and dozens of bottles of water. When the woman put this pile of things into the space bag, the cashier and the men and women queuing behind looked at her with envy.
"What are you looking at?" Yun Lai's eyes came into contact with the woman, and his body suddenly stiffened for a few seconds, and his smell suddenly shrank.
The last time Yun Lai reacted like this was when Mi Ping fell headfirst from a tree into a lake. He was frightened.
Bai Zhi approached him and asked softly: "What's wrong?"
Yun Lai squeezed her hand tightly and said, "There are a few things I want to buy, but there's no rush. Let's look around and see if there's anything better."
The woman left the store and did not go out. Yun Lai slowly looked around, then followed the woman upstairs leisurely.
Bai Zhi looked at Rui Gen, who seemed to have noticed nothing, and read the notes.
Yun Lai wrote: I seem to have seen my eldest sister's daughter Yang Ningning, let's follow her and take a look.
The last time Yun Lai mentioned his family positively was when the end of the world had just begun. He said that his family were all abroad. For a family who didn't know that the end of the world was coming, it was indeed a surprise that the whole family went abroad except for their only son. But decades after the end of the world, Sister Yunlai's daughter is not only alive, but she is also living much better than ordinary people in a place where the old Jianghu is reluctant to come back. So the Lin family left Yunlai alone in the country in the first place. It's really not an accident.
Moreover, Sister Yunlai's child may not have much affection for Yunlai, the uncle who has not lived with her since childhood.
Bai Zhi wrote: "What will happen if she recognizes you?"
Yun Lai stopped in front of the stall next to the stairs on the second floor, playing with a piece of gear made of unknown metal. He smiled and shook his head, making a pun: "I can't recognize it."
When Yang Ningning walked to the corner of the stairs on the third and second floors, she happened to be facing Yun Lai. The look between her and Yun Lai was emotionless, purely to see the stranger's reaction.
The boss guarding the stall started to fool the newcomer who looked like he had a lot of money. Yun Lai smiled and said he didn't understand, and pulled Bai Zhi up to the third floor.
The layout of the second floor is similar to that of the first floor, but the third floor is completely divided into stores. The front of the store is a wall made of something like transparent glass. You can clearly see the products inside from a distance, and of course you can clearly see the goods inside. people. The products sold in these stores are mostly the same. They are either suspended motorcycles and spare parts, combat uniforms and spare parts, or various machines for digging trenches and holes. The space is filled with the unpleasant smell of engine oil.
Yang Ningning walked into the largest store on the third floor and turned straight into a small cubicle separated by several pieces of cloth. There was a man about her age and three children in the store. The oldest girl was probably eleven or twelve years old. , the middle boy is about seven years old, and the youngest girl is five years old. The three children looked at Yang Ningning eagerly from the moment she entered the door.
Bai Zhi followed Yun Lai's rhythm and visited several stores. When she stepped next door to this store, Yang Ningning was bringing out five bowls of paste on a small tray. The five bowls are all the same size, but the paste contained in the bowls varies in thickness and thickness. The two bowls with the largest and thickest contents are served to the middle-aged man and little boy first. The remaining three bowls were actually only three and a half bowls, and they were very watery. The little boy drank his own porridge in two or three gulps, rolled his eyes a few times, and then grabbed the bowl of the older girl. The older girl held the bowl and approached Yang Ningning. Yang Ningning kicked her impatiently, and the little boy grabbed the porridge. The bowl also kicked its feet in the same way. The older girl didn't dare to cry out the pain, so she sobbed and huddled beside the man's chair and kept swallowing her saliva.
Both the man and the little girl concentrated on drinking the paste, turning a blind eye to the boy's domineering behavior from the beginning to the end.
It's really hard to describe how well this family gets along. Bai Zhi felt that if Yang Ningning were her niece, she would not recognize her. She turned her head and looked at Yunlai. Yunlai still maintained his nonchalance and asked Regan: "What is sold on the fourth floor?"
"It's almost the same as the third floor. It's not interesting. Let's go directly to the fifth floor." Regan's white beard stood up in excitement.
Bai Zhi felt that Yun Lai was not in a good mood. She wrote in the note: The time for the old liar Rui Gen to collect the agency fee is coming soon. Let us wait and see.
When Yun Lai saw the note, he smiled and gently held Bai Zhi's hand.
In the middle of the fifth floor facing the stairwell are two large display cabinets. One cabinet contains more than a dozen spherical random star gates, and the other cabinet is layered with large and small bags and hanging jewelry. commodity.
Bai Zhi saw an acquaintance at a glance. The box on the bottom layer on the side was the Yangzhou fake space wallet produced by the Feng family. On the left side of the middle layer was the space folder bag that the Academy of Sciences wanted to attach wherever it wanted. There were only two items on the top layer. In addition to the Ji family's leather space bracelet, there is also a space bag that looks similar to the space bag made by Bai Zhi, but is made of completely different materials.
That’s a new style that Bai Zhi has never come across before! The seemingly inconspicuous trinkets in the display cabinet also had reference prices. Bai Zhi was so excited that she wrote in the note: Yunlai, create a chance for me, I want to touch them all.
Yun Lai responded to her: Okay, just touch but not buy and make Regan angry.
The bodyguards, who averaged more than two meters in height and had big shoulders and round waists, formed a circle around the two display cases, keeping seven or eight customers who looked up at the display cases several meters away. Obviously the goods in the display cabinet are not so easy to reach.
Yun Lai reached out and touched his head, and the Ji family property space bracelet on his wrist was slightly exposed.
"Aha, Regan!" A muscular man with gray hair suddenly appeared from behind the display cabinet, opened his arms and hugged Regan warmly.
"Harry. You're still alive!" Regan was excited.
Bai Zhi couldn't tell whether these two were really excited or the real movie star. However, Yun Lai asked to see their space equipment, and Harry immediately agreed enthusiastically. He led them to sit in the conference room behind the display cabinet, and used a large plate to take one piece of space equipment from the bottom and middle layers of the display cabinet. come over.
"Two cubic meters, in the shape of a wallet, although it is not big enough, this small wallet has great advantages, and ordinary space detectors cannot detect it at all."
Harry took a box-type instrument to scan the wallet and then went to scan the space clip bag. The green light flashed when the space detector came into contact with the surface of the clip bag. It also flashed when it came into contact with other styles of space equipment including the Ji family bracelet. green light. Finally, Harry picked up the space wallet again, but the detector still didn't light up. He smiled proudly, looking like a naughty boy who stole candy from a food store.
"Good stuff." Regan licked his lips and his eyes widened, "Where did you dig this out?"
Yun Lai pushed the big tray towards Bai Zhi, still playing the game casually, as if he was not interested in anything.
Bai Zhi then played with these space equipment made into small ornaments, watching the recipe list constantly changing, she was so happy that she didn't even bother to write notes.
"I got it from the Feng family of the Han tribe." Harry looked at Yunlai's wrist with a smile, "Is your little friend a friend of the Ji family of the Han tribe?"
Regan smiled and did not answer. Yun Lai raised his eyebrows and asked Bai Zhi: "Which one do you like?"
"This looks okay, but it's too old." Bai Zhi picked out a wooden shield-shaped pendant and showed it to Yun. This space is about fifty-five cubic meters. It is the best-looking among the entire space equipment, but it is indeed old. of.
In fact, none of the products in the display cabinet are brand new and unused. These space equipment are more like stolen goods.
"I don't want the ones that others have used." Yun Lai knocked the pendant in Bai Zhi's hand back onto the plate.
"Oh." Bai Zhi shrank back and waved her head to Harry to indicate that she didn't want it anymore.
Harry raised his eyebrows, looking unhappy, and arranged the things on the plate. Regan whispered into his ear: "They want to exchange the Ji family's bracelet for a random stargate."
If you want to sell bracelets, you will be picky about the recipient and the goods will not be good. Harry laughed twice and said, "Take it out and let me see."
Yun Lai took out a bracelet sealed in a transparent bag from his coat pocket and threw it on the table nonchalantly.
This bracelet Angelica dahurica has never been unpacked since I got it, and there is nothing inside. It is completely new.
Harry carefully checked the detector several times and determined that the volume was one hundred cubic meters. He put the bracelet back on the table and said, "A rare brand new top-grade product that can be exchanged for four random star gates that have been used ten times. But the random star gates are Things, there are them everywhere in the ruins of Star Forest. When you come to Star Forest, you must go out and walk around. If you are lucky, you can pick up dozens of them. It is difficult to get space equipment that cannot be detected by detectors. You all use random stars. The door is such a waste. I suggest you change to two wallets like this..."
"Not interested." Yun Lai was extremely arrogant. He had never used a space wallet since he had space equipment, and he didn't even want it for free.
Bai Zhi also looked uninterested, but she was much easier to talk to than Yun Lai, "Uncle, are random star gates really that easy to pick up?"
"Old Regan, I have lived in the ruins of the Star Forest for half my life, and I have never picked up dozens of them, and they are all useless." Regan's white eyebrows drooped, showing a sad look.
"That's because you can't go far if you don't have the ability." Harry sneered, "Last month, a lucky guy brought back two hundred at a time, and now he is working as an apartment in the Purple Bell Empire. He didn't just rely on luck. He bought a ruins map from us!”
"If the map was so useful, you would have picked it up yourself." Yun Lai sharply exposed Harry's exaggerated lies.
Harry laughed a few times and said, "It's too dangerous outside. It's safer to have a map than not. Of course, harvesting basically depends on luck."
Yun Lai rolled his eyes in a way that was not elegant or noble at all, "If you want to change, just do it."
"You can only exchange three at most. According to industry regulations, Regan and I each charge one-tenth of the agency fee. If you still want a fourth one, just pay us the equivalent amount." Harry's hand was steady. Press down the bag containing the bracelet.
"I really want one-tenth. The price of a high-end random star gate is 50,000 yuan." Regan looked at Bai Zhi pitifully.
Bai Zhi seemed to have no idea, and looked away from the old liar.
"What a pitiful act for such a small amount of money." Yun Lai stretched out a finger to press the corner of the bag, "Go and get the random star gate."
Harry took away the plate, disappeared for a long time, and came back with three boxes and a space bag. He pushed the boxes to Regan first, "Check it out."
Regan was very worthy of one-tenth of the money he wanted to receive. He picked up a box, opened it, and taught Yun Lai and Bai Zhi how to use it. "Turn it gently. When you feel resistance, press this small switch to open the star gate." The star gate opens for about one and a half minutes. The second star gate cannot be opened within a radius of 200 meters, as it will interfere with each other. The energy scale is here, and the pointer will drop one level every time it is used. Now it is full ten times. of."
Yun Lai took it and turned it twice and threw it to Bai Zhi. He opened the two boxes and turned them around before throwing them into the bracelet. Bai Zhi also threw hers into the bracelet.
Regan only needs gold. Harry brought him gold coins one by one from the space bag, one hundred coins in each box. He counted out two hundred boxes in total and handed them to Regan. He counted out another hundred boxes and put them on the table. Then he happily handed the space coins to him. Putting the bag into his coat pocket, he asked enthusiastically: "If you want to leave Xinglin, Regan and I can also help you purchase ferry tickets, and we will also charge only one-tenth of the agency fee."
"Regan, you can buy a boat ticket and leave." Yun Lai swept his hand and a hundred boxes disappeared.
"I'll follow you..." Regan wanted to follow, but his eyes rolled around and his throat rolled.
"If you dare not leave the safe area, how can I safely take you out?" Yun Lai sneered twice, "I'm afraid you'll sell me out if something happens."
Bai Zhi helped Regan step down at the right time, "He already said he doesn't want you to follow him, so just go back."
"Twenty thousand gold! Old Regan, do you really dare to leave the safe zone?" Harry stroked his beard and chuckled, "I will help you purchase the ship ticket without charging any agency fees. Can you board the spaceship through our secret passage?"
"Let's go." Yun Lai grabbed Bai Zhi's hand and pushed open the door of the meeting room.
Regan's shouting was blocked by the closed door, and he still didn't follow him out.
Outside the gate of the department store, several hoverbikes landed one after another. The big man driving the motorcycle and the big man riding the motorcycle both looked at Yun Lai and Bai Zhi, and glared at each other. Yun Lai took out his motorcycle, took Bai Zhi into the air before anyone spoke, and drove straight out of the city.
Bai Zhi kept looking around and back. The motorcycles that had just landed rose back into the air, flying in the same direction as them. At least twenty people came out of the gate of Xinglin Department Store and ran on the street. Some of them were obviously chasing them.
"Fortunately, there are no walls in Dayu City, otherwise we would have been stopped at the entrance and exit." Bai Zhi took off her cloak and took out a toy gun with a scope. The gun is fake. Of course, she will be fine if she is searched in the safe area. , but after leaving the safe zone, the compressed thunderballs launched will not be fake.
"Hold my waist tight, I'm going to speed up." Yun Lai shouted excitedly.
Bai Zhi hooked Yun Lai's waist with one hand, and raised her gun with the other hand to aim at the hoverbike closest to them. In different places in Big Fish City, more than a dozen flying motorcycles took off, with their fronts and guns pointed at them.
