Returning from the abyss

Chapter 171
Lu Ning roughly browsed around the tasks.

The website's level restrictions on tasks depend on the client. Lu Ning found that many tasks have certain level restrictions, which seems to be the reason for fear of making mistakes. The client would rather find a seasoned executor than let a rookie ruin a good job.

However, most of the tasks that a zero-level rookie can see are expensive.

For example, bringing some contraband into Vice City, including going to the outside world to kidnap or abduct someone, or stealing secrets as a spy, and even appointing a female executor to seduce a certain person. I wonder if this is a different way to trick the executor.

Lu Ning deliberately found a few newcomers' posts on the executor's side and looked at it. It seems that some executors have indeed disappeared. I don't know if they quit or were killed during the task. The executor also warned that when receiving tasks and executing You must pay attention to inquiring, anyway, there is no penalty for breach of contract here, at worst, it is better to give up than lose your life.

But there is no more detailed content, permission restrictions.

After much deliberation, Lu Ning chose two tasks with no special requirements, which were to set fire and seriously injure a target.

Since the task lists this as mandatory, there will inevitably be some beneficial information released on it in the future. The "spoiler" style task release method of the distribution center always implies and traps coexist. Lu Ning has reason to think that the behind this website is likely to be the " The Heavenly Council" is playing tricks.

She got up, took out a few banknotes from her wallet and stuffed them into her pocket. She took the keys and prepared to go out to see what the city really looked like.

The first goal is the shopping mall that can be seen from the apartment, and the scenery along the way is not bad compared to most cities. There are wide driveways and sidewalks between tall buildings, some buildings are being renovated, and they are close to the bustling On one side of the street, there are various restaurants, clothing stores and service shops, even young people standing at the intersection handing out leaflets.

Lu Ning walked downstairs, raised her head and looked up.This building is thirteen stories high. Facing the street, there are several large screens that are playing advertisements. The higher place is a dark blue glass curtain wall. There are two rows of sightseeing elevators installed outside the building. Straight to the observation deck on the roof.

"This beauty, would you like to come to our place to try aerobics? The newly opened event is holding an event. During the event, sign up for a [-]% discount!" Suddenly there was an enthusiastic voice next to her. Lu Ning turned her head and found that It was a boy holding a stack of leaflets and wearing a "Longfu Fitness" peaked cap. He seemed to be an official staff member of the gym.

"Do I need to exercise?" Lu Ning reached out to take a leaflet and asked with a smile.

"Beauty must be in good health, but fitness is not only for this moment of health. Besides, people pay attention to maintaining their body shape now. We have professional staff here to provide you with advice, and it will save you from doing research at home, which is useless." Male Seeing that Lu Ning seemed interested, she immediately began to introduce it endlessly, "The other one is moderation. Many people think that the harder you practice, the better. This is actually completely wrong. Fitness should be a reasonable way of keeping in good health." , Our gym has always been very famous in this city, this time it is also because of a new project that we will deliberately promote it more, it is a rare opportunity."

"Well, it sounds interesting. Is your gym here?"

"That's right, on the tenth floor, I can find someone to take you up right now."

"Okay."

Hearing that Lu Ning agreed so simply, the boy was stunned for a while, then showed a happy expression, took out his mobile phone and made a call.Their work efficiency was quite good, and soon a slender woman came out of the building, said hello to the boy, turned her head to look at Lu Ning, and smiled: "Is this the one? Please tell me I'll go upstairs together."

Of course Lu Ning agreed.The two walked into the shopping mall, took the elevator inside, and quickly went up to the tenth floor.

"There are many offices for training courses here, but our courses will not be here-after all, there is no suitable practice room here, by the way, what's your name?"

"Lu Ning?"

"It sounds nice. My name is Jiang Shanlu, an active athlete."

"athlete?"

Jiang Shanluo heard the question in Lu Ning's tone, and replied with a smile: "Competitive gymnastics has changed to rhythmic gymnastics, but it's not very famous, and I have to find something to do when I'm older. Apart from making up moves for people, the gymnastics here The boss also promised me to take two aerobics classes and let me use the practice room here. I have to keep moving when I am old."

"Old?" Lu Ning carefully looked at Jiang Shanluo's face, and felt that she was about the same age as herself.

"Don't you usually care about sports? The golden age of rhythmic gymnastics is around, and you will be old after twenty." Jiang Shanluo smiled a little bit bitterly, and then she stopped outside an office.

"Old Tan! I brought people up!"

"Okay, okay, I heard you, Miss Jiang." A man in camouflage short-sleeves opened the door, and when he saw Lu Ning, a warm smile appeared on his face.

"My surname is Tan, and my name is Tan Xiao. I'm the head of this fitness trainer. Hello!" Tan Xiao's voice was loud and full of energy, and he was not vain. Lu Ning's eyes alone could tell that he was a real man. A talented martial artist.

"Hello, I met your people downstairs..."

"Ah, I know! The aerobics class, right? It was led by this coach Jiang! Don't worry, all the students we arrange in the same class are all female students, and the time slots are all on weekends, so your normal work will definitely not be delayed. Study!" Tan Xiao said hastily.

"Old Tan, you're making it sound like no one is in my class." Jiang Shanluo teased him with a smile.

"Hey, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the customer is God, we have to give people a satisfactory service, don't we?" Tan Xiao pulled over a chair, enthusiastically asked Lu Ning to sit down, and sat by the window by himself, then asked, "Then what questions does this girl have? Don't worry, I will definitely answer you!"

"That...the fee..."

"[-]% off, this won't lie to you. I have other fitness courses and other fitness club leaflets here, you can compare them horizontally and vertically!" Tan Xiao immediately took out a stack of colorful leaflets from the drawer.

"...Can you stop being so embarrassing? You really went to the street to collect flyers from other houses?" Jiang Shanluo couldn't bear to look directly at her.

"This is called legitimate commercial inquiry! Who can't pick up the leaflets right there?"

"I still picked it up..." Jiang Shanluo covered his face.

Tan Xiao looked a little embarrassed, and quickly said to Lu Ning: "Don't worry, it's all clean, that, if you're worried, I can show you..."

"I see." Lu Ning was amused by Tan Xiao's flustered look, but she still maintained her expression.She glanced at the above photos and knew that what Tan Xiao said was true, and this was not something she had to ask for proof.

"Since I want to apply for this class, it's also because... I don't feel safe here." After asking a few questions, Lu Ning began to cut into her own topic, "I think fitness can at least make me feel that I won't die for no reason."

"Huh? Is there any trouble recently?" Tan Xiao suddenly became serious.

"It's just uneasy, after all, you know this city."

"That's true. There is no police and no law. Although the basic stability is still there, a little girl like you may become the target of those people at some point. Where are your parents?" Jiang Shanluo asked with concern.

"not around."

"The family is not here?"

"If I were here, I wouldn't be allowed to come here. But I still have some self-defense. Now it's just...too insecure."

"That's right, but what we do here is to provide some protection in the classroom. After all, we are not a bodyguard company..." Tan Xiao frowned, leaned forward slightly, and lowered his voice a lot, "You can I will go upstairs when I leave, yes, the [-]th floor. There is an electronic equipment store without a signboard. You can buy monitors, bugs and the like, and it is easy to install. In addition, if you want to buy something for self-defense The guy, tell the boss directly that he is in this business."

"That was a real help, thank you very much."

"We don't want to lose customers either. Haha, I'll look for it... This is an agreement. It's a two-month, eight-week course. You can see if it's reasonable. If you agree, we'll sign the contract and pay the deposit!" Tan Xiao immediately The businessman's attitude was restored, and Lu Ning signed the contract readily.

After Lu Ning left, the room became quiet.

"Basically confirmed?" Tan Xiao's cheerful and clumsy look was gone now. He leaned on his leather chair and took out a cup of protein powder from the drawer.

"Almost, newcomer, unaccompanied, unfamiliar with this place... These are in line with the characteristics of the distribution center's arrangement of identities for crows, and she has no intention of pretending." Jiang Shanluo leaned against the wall, reached out and pinched the muscles on her thighs, revealing With a slightly disgusted look, "I thought I'd never have to think about it again."

"You have to get used to it. What's more, it's not rhythmic gymnastics you hate, right? Otherwise, you wouldn't be so active in treating customers. How about that Lu Ning? Is there any possibility of joining forces? This time it's not a confrontation, it's just a secret one." The scene." Tan Xiao asked.

"better not."

"why?"

Jiang Shanluo glanced at his hands, and slowly exhaled.

"Before we find out our identities, there is a great risk in joining forces with strangers. Since the information of the distribution center this time did not give us a particularly detailed past, it means that there are also traps in it, at least for me. Secondary body..."

"how?"

"I've used the medicine, huh, no wonder I'm in this city." A trace of contempt flashed across Jiang Shanluo's face, "First figure out your own background before considering others. Isn't my brother also in this scene? Do you have time to contact me?" He then asked Wei Wenyang to blackmail a few files to find out our case."

"Understood, are you staying here on duty now or..."

"Stay here, I put a tracker on Lu Ning, she will be our eyes and ears to investigate the city, and I will be in charge of surveillance."

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Lu Ning took the elevator upstairs. After getting out of the elevator, she didn't go to the electronic equipment store first, but went into the bathroom first, and took out a black sticky ball the size of a peppercorn from the back of her neck and under the collar.

She twirled the ball with her fingertips to confirm that there was nothing like a lens in it, then she confidently tore off a piece of toilet paper, wrapped the ball and put it in her pocket.

If this thing came from that equipment store, it would be quite exciting.If she hadn't noticed Jiang Shanluo's small movements, she probably wouldn't have found such a small thing stuck behind her.

Now there is still a question, that is, are Tan Xiao and Jiang Shanluo the "surveillance" personnel in the scene, or the "tourists" who are also trying to investigate?

This question was not in a hurry to find out, Lu Ning walked out of the toilet, walked around this floor, and soon found the shop without a signboard.

"Boss, do you have anything like a camera monitor here?"

When Lu Ning walked into the store, she immediately saw a person lying on the recliner with a book covering his head. After she finished asking this sentence, the person on the recliner didn't move, but raised his arm feebly and pointed Refers to a shelf.

"Thanks."

When Lu Ning walked to the shelf, her eyes lit up.

This row of shelves includes surveillance cameras, wiretapping, tracking and other instruments, and even high-end ones have self-destruction functions and composite device sets, ranging from ordinary models for office buildings to miniature spy-like ones. Of course, the price Not cheap.

The granular ones found on the body before are also available here, with self-adhesive, tracking and eavesdropping functions, and can also self-destruct. Manual and automatic settings can be used, which is very convenient.

"Boss, I heard that you can still buy things for self-defense here?" Lu Ning returned to the boss with several boxes in her arms.Hearing this sentence, the boss lifted the book from his face and sat up from the reclining chair.

He has characteristic gray hair and looks a bit decadent, but his face is well-groomed, and his slightly mixed-race appearance is also in line with the handsomeness in the eyes of the public, and some people can't tell his age.

"what do you want to buy?"

"Poison, explosives, daggers, if you have guns or crossbow bolts."

The boss rolled his eyes and lay down again.

"Why don't you tell me what you can sell me first?"

"Let's not talk about whether I have it. Are you planning to be robbed when you bring so many things home? Armaments are very popular here. Even if you can get them, they are reserved by others."

"What about cold weapons? There are always things like knives? Chemicals? There are also flash bombs and the like..."

"I've convinced you..."

The boss looked at the box in Lu Ning's hand and confirmed to her: "First tell me, do you want to buy the ones you have?"

"I've brought them all, of course I'll buy them."

"Just buy it, wait a minute."

He slowly got up from the reclining chair, pulled on his shoes, walked to a door at the back of the store, opened the door and entered.

After a while, the boss came back with a big cardboard box and put it on the ground.

"Here, it suits you."

Lu Ning squatted down and began to rummage through the things in the cardboard box. As the boss said, there are no such powerful ammunition here. Most of them are bright flashlights, pepper water sprays, and the throwing objects are also flash bombs and smoke bombs. One of the most damaging things is the shocker.

"Having these things is enough to live here. If you get something you can't play with, you will be robbed. By the way, that wooden box is a cold weapon you want. If you can't sell it, if you like it, I will give you a [-]% discount."

(End of this chapter)