Gunfire, Punk & Necromancers

Chapter 399 Chapter 396

"Have you lost your mind? Run away!" Lucy yelled into the phone, "Gangs gather around you on a large scale, and normal people will be scared away. Stay and not go! You idiot, your thinking is reversed!"

Sometimes, it makes sense to say the opposite of one thing, and you can only make a decision based on the consideration of interests.As Lucy said, regardless of suspicion or not, the most important thing is to escape from the dangerous area and save your life.It is better to be a living person with suspicion than a dead person without suspicion.

"I hope he can escape in time." Lucy put down the phone and sighed. "The gang activities have escalated. I can't just persuade others, I have to take action myself. Before the security company is established, the third activity base must be settled. But what is this Canghuo Gang doing... What are they doing from outside the city? Is something coming?"

After thinking about it again and again, she made up her mind and called Zhuang Xuteng who was waiting at the door. "Something happened temporarily. The Canghuo Gang gathered on a large scale, and there may be trouble. I hope you go to investigate and see what they are doing. If you find something unusual, it may be related to the convoy they escorted in from outside the city."

Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and said, "Just 10 minutes ago, you asked us not to get close to the activities of the Canghuo Gang. Why did you suddenly change your mind? Well, it would have been fine if you had said it 10 minutes ago, but now I have to refuse you. "

"Eh? Why?" Lucy asked, tilting her head.

"Morgana came to see me just now. There is an event tomorrow night—it was rescheduled, and changed to tomorrow night—the two of us will participate together, and I have promised her." Zhuang Xuteng said: "At the event, she will The circle that introduced me to her, if I'm unlucky, I might even meet her parents. I'm a little nervous now, my heart is pounding, and I'm not in a state of mission today."

"Oh! So it's like this, understandable, completely understandable!" Lucy thought for a while and said, "You should be participating in the 'Holy Light Bridge' charity auction, right?"

"Yes, it seems to be the name. Morgana was a little vague. She didn't like this auction, but she had to go, so she pulled me away." Zhuang Xuteng reminded Lucy, saying: "Sister Lucy, you The investigative operation against the Canghuo Gang..."

"If you don't go, I won't send mercenaries to avoid accidents. Find some monitoring first, and then investigate after the event is similar, and it can be safer." Lucy rubbed her hands, looking very excited, Said: "The charity auction is more interesting, and it is not easy to get an admission ticket there. Before the PCPD was bombed, the auction had to be postponed later. Eh? No? The date was changed to tomorrow, and the news was announced four days ago. With that, how did Morgana know?"

"She hasn't been home for a while and has been busy at the new house, so she got the news a little late." Zhuang Xuteng said, "I have to send her back today so she can prepare her clothes. I'll have another at noon tomorrow." Pick her up in the car and we'll go to the arena together—huh, hopefully we'll do better."

"You must be fine! Don't be afraid of strong winds and waves, this little thing... just treat it as a bodyguard-type mercenary mission." Lucy walked over and patted Zhuang Xuteng on the shoulder twice to show encouragement. "The protagonist is not you, but Morgana, so you just need to remember to make Morgana feel comfortable. By the way, which car do you drive?"

"Armored Ferret, safe and comfortable. It looks low-key without being too shabby to get banned, so all in all, I'd stick with that car."

"Okay, as long as it's not your armored car." Lucy thought for a while, and said, "Tomorrow... still have some time. I'll give you a call to the refitting factory, and you will go there after delivering Morgana tonight. Two Things: One is to change the appearance of the armored car, and the other is to upgrade the interior of the armored ferret. It should be more luxurious, so that Morgana can sit comfortably and not lose face. In the future, as long as you use the armored car in action, you can go to this company to do it For exterior decoration. It doesn’t cost much, but it works. It’s only open at night, and it’s useless during the day, you know?”

"Okay!" Zhuang Xuteng nodded, took a signed note with the address and contact information of the modification shop from Lucy, and went out happily.

When he got downstairs, Nightingale was lying on the sofa and yawning. Morgana had packed a meal with soy sauce and meat and was waiting for him there.Zhuang Xuteng had a few words with Nightingale, especially telling them not to go to the place where the Canghuo gang was infested in the near future, and it was best to stay at home, and then he left with Morgana who had been carrying food.

"Sorry, my family thought I would go back two days ago, and they planned to wait until I went back, but they forgot about it. The auction will be held at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon, and it will take about three or four hours, followed by a dinner and a dance. Interspersed with a reception..."

"It sounds complicated." Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and said, "I have no experience, so you have to guide me."

"I only have the experience of watching, not participating—I'm not a party animal." Morgana sat in the co-pilot seat, with a packed dinner on her lap, staring at the lunch box in a daze. "On this previous occasion, I can feel at ease as a decoration. Tomorrow, maybe a lot of people will come to visit us - I am very nervous now."

"Just look at it. Could it be that their eyes are implants that can release flames or poisonous gas?" Zhuang Xuteng smiled and comforted Morgana: "Sister Lucy has a very good saying: just treat it as a mercenary." Mission. Your mission goal is to play the you they imagined, and I will be your bodyguard. If you feel uncomfortable, just point your finger, and I will pounce on you and bite you."

"Bite? Are you a bodyguard or a meat bun?" Morgana finally smiled, feeling a lot more relaxed.She said: "You may not know that I can find a way to push down other social activities, but not this one. The Holy Light Bridge - just by hearing the name, you know that it is related to the Holy Light and the church. In fact, it was originally After the gods left, the inheritance auction activities of the successors of the Church of the Holy Light gradually developed into what it is now, and it has become a social activity with auction as a supplement."

Zhuang Xuteng tilted his head and asked, "Is it because things are almost sold?"

"That's not true. The Church of the Holy Light was the number one church in those years according to its size, number of people and financial resources, and left behind a large number of things. The auction method was chosen mainly to control the quantity, create a sense of scarcity, and increase the auction price. So many things really If you release it all at once, it will be worthless immediately." Morgana said: "To put it bluntly, our family also sold the church inheritance to make money, and because we sold it earlier and the investment went smoothly, we have today's wealth .”

"Oh, so there is such a thing. I have never heard of it before, and I don't know it at all."

"Only the so-called 'upper people' know about this kind of thing, and you won't hear it in news reports. At most, you know that there is such a charity auction, and its origin and fundamental purpose will be concealed and not reported. .Oh, by the way, this thing is for you, you want it.”

Morgana took out the small box containing the implants from her backpack, and seeing that Zhuang Xuteng's hands were not good enough to drive, she put it in the drawer in front of the car for him. "If you want, Brother Dao will let the appraiser look at it first. He shares my opinion that this is a customized neural reinforcement implant installed in the spine, most likely in the cervical spine, near the brainstem. It The function is unknown, so don’t ask someone to install it.”

"I'm not going to install it. I'm mainly interested in the box. I have a little channel for implants. It's very convenient to have such a small box."

"I have a box! If you need a box, you can tell me. There are large, medium and small models."

"Thank you, but... Hahaha, do you think I can wholesale implants? I just dump them while doing tasks to make a difference. Mercenaries are my main business, but implant traffickers are not. In most cases, send it out as soon as you get it, and there is no need to save the device. My attitude is to keep it if you encounter it, and it doesn’t matter if you don’t, so I haven’t mentioned this demand to you.”

Morgana nodded, not doubting Zhuang Xuteng's words at all.

The two then discussed the clothes to wear tomorrow, and then shared the cash dividends between the two of them equally.Although Morgana only counts half of the money as a rookie, it is in the team.When Zhuang Xuteng and Morgana are two, they will be divided equally.

Strictly speaking, this is Morgana's first mercenary mission, but from another perspective, this is her third.The first time was in the drainage ditch, where she, Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao intercepted the robbers together; the second time was as the Holy Light Witch, together with Otter, to find clues to the Blue Wilders, and now it is the third time.The activities of her and Zhuang Xuteng tracking the blue wild people's transportation line cannot be counted in any case, because that time she clearly went there with the client as a supervisor.

In the novice period, you can act up to three times. If there is another time, you can't let her only take half of the money.Although Morgana is not short of money, she attaches great importance to the salary she received from PCPD and the reward for this operation. She thinks it is more commemorative that she earned it through her own hard work.

For the novice who just got paid, Zhuang Xuteng will give a few words of concern: "Take your money, don't spend it recklessly, especially don't go to sensual places... Haha, I know you won't go, let me Had a good time. I used to be the youngest, I heard people say that, and now I finally meet someone even more novice! Okay, stop making faces, see you at noon tomorrow!"

Morgana returned home with a large bag of money from the back compartment, and Zhuang Xuteng immediately took out the implant from the drawer, opened it and placed it on the palm of his hand. "Finally..." Master Lich muttered a few words in his head, and then asked him to absorb the shadow energy.

Zhuang Xuteng immediately complied, and the implant in his hand was sucked dry in an instant, completely lost its activity and shrank, and dried up in a short while.Its overall mass has obviously decreased, which means that some of it has been absorbed by Zhuang Xuteng and sent to Master Lich.

The Lich Master quickly sent the next sentence: "I need to study it first, come to me later."

It says "go over later", but it actually means "go over as soon as you have time".This skeleton speaks quite twistedly, not as straightforward as Zhuang Xuteng, so you have to carefully consider its hidden emotions and characters.Zhuang Xuteng has always felt that getting along with the Lich Master is quite brain-intensive-anyone who tries to guess the mood and personality of a skeleton will burn a lot of brain cells.However, as long as he thinks that his brain can be used easily, or by absorbing the intelligence of the Lich Master, his heart will be balanced.

The armored car needs to change its appearance, and the armored ferret needs to change its interior.Considering that the car will be used at noon tomorrow, Zhuang Xuteng went home and changed into the more urgent armored ferret, and found the modification factory according to the address.There was no signboard, and the exterior looked like a warehouse. Only the ruts on the ground could reveal a little information.Zhuang Xuteng pricked up his ears, and he could vaguely hear the sound of beating metal and gasping, so he knew that there was a workshop hidden here.

After looking for the walkie-talkie and saying the code, the warehouse door opened and Zhuang Xuteng drove in.The renovation workshop is underground, and the ground floor is mainly composed of various pipes, which dispose of waste gas, waste water, waste oil and other things without a trace.

Zhuang Xuteng talked about his needs, and the "underground refitting factory" immediately understood, and started working overtime after receiving overtime pay. The efficiency and morale were very high.They promise to work through the night and finish the interior upgrade by six tomorrow morning.

One good thing about this tuner: There's no sales pitch at all.They just listen to the customer's request, don't ask why, and don't take the initiative to give suggestions, but they can always come up with a solution immediately when the customer asks.They don't care what the customers are doing or what their needs will be in the future, so they won't say that this or that car is better, or that a certain modification plan can meet the needs and so on.

A tuning shop that only focuses on the current task behaves like a mercenary that only focuses on the current task, full of professionalism.Zhuang Xuteng really likes the atmosphere here, and he can cooperate with them more in the future.He asked who the owner of this underground refitting factory was, but the people here laughed but did not answer, saying that it had nothing to do with specific work.

"It's pretty good. I pay for the request, and you take the money to do the work. Do the job well! I still have a car that needs to be refurbished, so I'll go back and drive it." Just as Zhuang Xuteng finished speaking, he saw the modification The master of the factory pushed him a small motorcycle and indicated that he could use it for transportation.

It was an all-electric scooter that sacrificed everything for size.A large battery occupies more than half of the volume, the seat is directly on the battery, there are four wheels under the battery, and the front two steering wheels are connected to the upright handle.Overall, it's a suitcase on wheels.Compared with the suitcase, it has bigger wheels and much faster speed, and the box is full of batteries...

This small car was so eye-catching, Zhuang Xuteng immediately sat on it to test the speed and agility.Compared with motorcycles, this thing is not fast enough or strong enough, but it is small enough that the trunk of any car can be put down, and it can be started by picking it up, without the need to preheat the steam engine.I asked about the battery life, and the person from the refitting factory said that it can run [-] kilometers on a full charge. As long as you don't deliberately detour, there is no problem going back and forth in Peicheng.

"I want to buy one, so I will make it like a suitcase, so that the handle can be bent and stretched, and I usually put it on the side of the suitcase." Zhuang Xuteng thought of another need, and said, "Can this car seat two people? I Such a body shape. Strengthen the carrying capacity, get a folding seat at the back, and use a triangle support after pulling it up. Well, the original seat is directly laid flat, and there is no need to leave the shape of the buttocks. In this way, when a double seat is used, I move it forward to ease the weight balance."

The refitting factory thinks there is no problem with this requirement, but the construction period needs to be postponed, and the urgent work needs to be done first.Zhuang Xuteng went out on an electric suitcase, and when he got home, he drove out the armored vehicle.On the way, South, the owner of the wonton shop, unexpectedly called him.

(End of this chapter)