Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Chapter 16 Chapter 15 The First Commission

"Yeah!" Hill felt his eyes go dark, then light up, and he returned to the warehouse he inspected before.

Holding the shoes in her hands, the coldness and hardness of the floor was transmitted through the flesh-colored stockings, which made her shiver.Behind her, the faint feeling of being watched still came from the direction of the camera in the corner, and that kind of gaze made her feel nauseated.

This is her familiar environment, and she is back again!Hill lowered her head and quickly checked her body. Except for the slightly messy clothes, she was unscathed.He breathed a sigh of relief, lamented that he was lucky after all, and turned his attention to the crocodile handicraft cultural relics that once emitted green light.

It was a small ornament made of ceramics. The crocodile stood on two short hind legs, with a round and chubby body, looking cute and cute.From the outside, no one would associate it with pink skulls and ancient halls filled with black mist.But things happened to be so miraculous, and Hill only felt that his experience was like a dream.

"No, it's not a dream. Dreams won't take off my shoes." She looked at the little crocodile ornament, and raised her hand to wipe away the traces of tears streaming down her cheeks with the heel of her palm. "It scares me to death, but I have to get over it! For myself, I have to seize this opportunity! Whether it's Pink Skull or Dr. Booker, they are my steps to leave this broken place."

This must be an opportunity and a secret that only belongs to me!

Hill put on her shoes again, tidied her clothes, and pretended nothing happened. She quickly finished her inspection of the warehouse, and while making a plan in her mind, she walked towards the monitoring room.She needs to see the whole thing from another angle, and also to know the situation of other witnesses.

"If it gets out, it will be troublesome to let the company know." Hill frowned, and walked down the empty corridor. The entrance to the monitoring room was at the end of the corridor.She once heard people say that in order to avoid being caught peeping through the surveillance head, the satyr director removed the surveillance in the corridor at the entrance of the surveillance room. There was a blind spot, and there was a paradise for him to enjoy alone.

Not anymore.

On the right wall in the hallway ahead of her, there is a fire ax reclined in the fire hose's closet.

She accidentally pulled out the ax from inside, held it in her hand, and the tip of the ax rubbed against the ground.Crack la la la.

The sound is surprisingly pleasant...

At the same time, in another city, another research center, Dr. Booker staggered and knocked over his chair and fell to the ground in embarrassment.The coffee and the breakfast box spilled all over the floor, and there was a sputtering sound, and then it became a whimper mixed with a smile.

"Haha, whoops...haha, it just hurts a little." The old man grabbed the table with one hand and supported the ground with the other, and climbed up cautiously.After standing up straight, he rubbed his heart, looked around in the room that was empty and only belonged to him, took a breath, and said, "Oh, the pain is so good, the pain is real."

Dream is a kind of comfortable numbness, reality is a garden of thorns called pain, happiness is just understanding that pain is the truth of living and gaining.Dr. Booker has never doubted the authenticity of the pink skull. He has moved beyond that question and started thinking about how it all happened and what it represented.

He looked at the workbench, and habitually reached out to touch the bridge of his nose. Only then did he realize that he had lost his glasses. Fortunately, after he got closer, he saw that the piece of parchment was still intact, and he let out a long sigh of relief.He hugged the parchment on his stomach, brushing the surface with trembling fingers.

"My, my baby..." He muttered to himself, coughing and said: "I will be ready. Even if I don't have the secret of ascension, I can live another 5000 years, even if I become a skeleton, I am willing... "

Different people have different desires and will be driven to do different things, but in fact they are still everyone's own choice.A little later than Hill and Dr. Booker, Zhuang Xuteng also quickly returned to "reality", standing in the middleman Lucy's living room with a comic book in hand.He stretched his hand forward, the scream of seeing time slowing down had just begun.

"ah!"

Ge Gongdao and Lucy turned their heads together, one frowning, the other full of vigilance.

"What's wrong with you?" Ge Gongdao asked, "Why are you yelling?"

"I..." Zhuang Xuteng didn't know how to answer.At this moment, footsteps were heard on the stairs outside.So he pointed outside, indicating that someone was coming.

"It turns out that's the case. Her ears are quite good." Lucy turned her head to look at the clock and said, "It's probably the person who sent the detailed information of the commission. You stay here, I'll go and have a look."

Lucy walked briskly out and came back soon with a yellow envelope in her hand.She shook the envelope and said to Zhuang Xuteng, "This is your first commission, are you nervous?"

Zhuang Xuteng shook his head, and quickly looked away, for fear that Lucy would see his nervousness.

The nervousness came from the previous "dream", and he hadn't fully recovered from the shock of experiencing such an event.By comparing memories, Zhuang Xuteng found that he entered the stone pillar hall, turned into a skeleton, and talked with doctors and women. These things hardly consumed time.

If it is more accurate, it actually took a little more than 3 seconds, which explains why Lucy and Brother Dao didn't notice it at all.From the perspective of the two of them, Zhuang Xuteng had been reading the manga, and he might have been in a daze for a few seconds, and then suddenly yelled.Those two people didn't see the suddenly dark sky at all, and they didn't know the black fog and time slowing down.

It seems that only he knows the secret of this "spiritual journey".Zhuang Xuteng thought about it, and felt that this sentence was not right.Dr. Hill and Dr. Booker are also participants, and of course there is the instigator, the pink skeleton shadow.

"It stands to reason that those two people wouldn't tell the company about this, and I didn't show my face, and my voice was slightly different from usual, so they couldn't find me." Zhuang Xuteng sighed softly, only feeling Things are getting more and more complicated. "I was thinking of selling the shadow, but the possibility of this is getting lower and lower. If Pink Skull tells the truth, my life is really being maintained by it, then I won't be able to get rid of it for a while."

What was even more troublesome was that Zhuang Xuteng had to feed it with shadows to help it regain its strength.He was already in financial difficulties, how could he have the money to buy a video slave?Besides, how many shadow slaves are needed to raise the pink skeleton?With the same money, can I treat my body?
Hey, yes, if you have money, you can treat your body first, so you can get rid of the pink skull?After the body is fine, I can still sell it, and the money I get can cover the treatment expenses!This plan seems to work!
It is known that the pink skull can drag people into a strange space. According to Dr. Booker, that space is in the demigod world behind the shadow world, and behind the wall of sighs that no one can pass through. It sounds very powerful look.Moreover, the pink skull can also absorb other shadow followers and directly destroy the shadow followers. No matter who it is, they will be willing to pay a big price...

Wait, it absorbs shadows and destroys shadow followers?Zhuang Xuteng finally thought of something other than "selling money".He is now a mercenary, and in the process of completing the entrusted task, he is likely to encounter various shadow followers. Isn't the pink skull their nemesis?

If you can't buy a shadow slave, it doesn't mean you can't touch a shadow slave!It is impossible for me to spend money to buy a video to feed it, but I have a chance to pick it up for nothing!
This kind of thinking made Zhuang Xuteng a little excited for a while, but he was soon brought back to his original form by a more realistic problem: after becoming a mercenary, the shadow follower he is most likely to encounter is a gun, and the first problem he has to solve is not how to touch it. Shadow followers, but how not to be killed by ghost energy bullets!
No, I have to keep a low profile. Pink Skull's ability is not equal to my ability.Being a mercenary is to make money, not to work hard, let alone work foolishly.

"Zhuang, put the comic book down first, come over and discuss the content of the commission!"

Lucy was calling him, Zhuang Xuteng quickly withdrew his thoughts.He rolled up the comic book and stuffed it into his pants pocket.Anyway, there is no wallet, the biggest advantage of work pants is that the pockets are large and strong, and it is very convenient to hide things.

Although she wanted to discuss the details of the commission, Lucy didn't show him what was in the envelope.As an intermediary, Lucy read it first to judge whether it conforms to the previous entrusted brief.Afterwards, she directly handed over the entrustment letter with the map drawn to Ge Gongdao, then lit a cigarette, leaned back on the sofa, and waited for the mercenary's opinion.

Ge Gongdao waved and asked Zhuang Xuteng to watch it together.The client asked them to investigate a construction site that was currently suspended, to find out the environment inside and see if there were signs of gang activity.The standard of mission completion is to draw a map, mark suspicious points, and list possible personnel activities at the same time.

At first glance, the task is very simple, but an address caught the attention of Zhuang and Ge.

"Industrial East District, No. 32 Power Factory Road... This is the construction site next to 21 Magic Crystal Factory."

Zhuang Xuteng used to be a worker at 21 Magic Crystal Factory, and he went to work there every day, so of course he knew the construction site next door.That place used to be a bolt factory, but it was closed for more than a year because of the recession, and it was said that the debt was paid to someone else.There was no new construction or renovation there, and there was some cutting and demolition noise all day long, and everyone said that someone was there dismantling old machinery and buildings to sell them for scrap.

A few workers Zhuang Xuteng knew once discussed going there to steal some scraps and sell them for money, but they never really took action.The neighbor seemed to have noticed something, and built a high wall around the factory area, with barbed wire on it to prevent anyone from entering, and also blocked the prying eyes of the magic crystal factory.

However, that place has been demolished for more than half a year, and suddenly there was no movement more than three months ago.Everyone guessed that they had finished the demolition, but the fence and barbed wire were still erected there, and the gate was closed tightly. I don't know what the actual situation is.

Afterwards, 21 Magic Crystal Factory stopped operating and dismissed all employees.The coworkers who originally wanted to go to the next door to steal things began to persuade them to go back and steal the magic crystal factory as part of their revenge.Some other workers who heard the news stopped their actions. Everyone was afraid that the matter would become a big issue, and the Magic Crystal Factory would not pay compensation.And then... many of Zhuang Xuteng's workers died on the night of 623.

"We've been entrusted to take over!" Ge Gong said, startling Zhuang Xuteng.I saw that he stuffed the entrustment letter over and asked Zhuang Xuteng to remember it carefully. "Give it to Lucy after reading it and remembering it, and ask her to register the mercenary information for you."

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