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Chapter 297 Special Site

Above-ground shopping mall, underground bazaar.

Here's a summary of what's going on in Watson District in an online forum.

But few people know another sentence that may sound unbelievable: the underground market in Watson District is not in Watson District!
No matter how you say this, it sounds like a sick sentence. Since it is an underground market in Watson District, why is it not in Watson District?

As a foreigner, Zhu Jue undoubtedly had little knowledge of the situation in this city. When he heard this from the store manager, he reacted like most people who heard this fact for the first time, with a dazed expression on his face.

Fortunately, Zhu Jue has an old resident of Shuguang City who is willing to introduce him in detail.

Even if the latter is voluntary.

As the elevator sank, the surrounding light gradually fell into darkness. After a certain critical point, a large piece of strange-shaped fluorescent coating suddenly appeared on the four walls that looked plain. Zhu Jue, who was about to continue asking, saw In this scene, he subconsciously stopped talking, and took Feng Ling, who was a little anxious due to the change in the surrounding environment, from his shoulders to his arms.

The moment the elevator door opened, a mechanical clown stood beside the door, with exaggerated oil paint smearing the fuselage. Its right hand looked like Edward Scissorhands, full of sharp blades, and its left hand was holding an inactive With a large chainsaw on his shoulders, he opened his mouth to show his fangs and shouted: "Welcome to the Underground World!!!"

slap~
The startled Wind Chime stretched out its paws and slapped the clown's head, and immediately turned it over, sparks sprayed out from the split fault.

Seeing this scene, the store manager next to him burst into a cold sweat, and twisted his neck uncomfortably.

"Hey, what are you doing in a daze, let's go!"

Zhu Jue saw that the wind chime had torn down his things, so he quickly walked a few steps away from here, for fear that some strange guy would rush up and make him lose money.

However, before running a few steps, Zhu Jue stopped in place.

It wasn't that he was stopped by someone, but that he was confused by the surrounding situation.

The subway station here is extremely dark, and basically the distance between the two is more than 5 meters, and the face and clothes of the other party have been blurred.

The rhythmic and compact drums combined with the low roar and some incomprehensible tunes filled the entire subway station here, just like the lighting in the Heywood area before. There is no incandescent lamp, it all depends on The searchlights with a steel cover hanging on the surrounding walls and the fluorescent coating lighting on the walls, not only does not look like a serious subway station, but more like a night scene.

Few of the crowd were dressed normally. Some had weird patterns painted on their faces and swaggered around wearing a pair of orange night vision goggles. Some wore only a sleeveless leather jacket. The colorful tattoos on the chest followed his pace. Even Zhu Jue, who doesn't know much about this aspect, knows that he has made illegal modifications. If it is placed on the ground If caught by a surveillance camera on the Internet, he will be sent to prison immediately.

They are here to be unscrupulous!
What's even more bizarre is that Zhu Jue also saw a few gangsters with Mohican hairstyles, each with a long gun, patrolling back and forth at a pace that no relatives recognize. Those who didn't know thought this was their territory.

What Zhu Jue doesn't know is that this subway station store is really their territory.

"As we all know, there are six subway lines in the entire Dawn City, which respectively connect the six urban areas of the city, but currently only five of them are open to the public, because the gang problem is extremely serious, leading to Pasifika, the slum area of ​​Dawn City. The subway line was abolished five years ago, and all stations on Line 6 have ceased to operate, but this is just a superficial phenomenon. Please follow me, the waiting area is here."

The store manager took Zhu Jue to the platform, avoiding several groups of gangsters in a row, and stood still in front of the dilapidated full-height screened door. The ambiguous gasps and two entangled voices came from the darkness not far away. The figure proves that there should be no cameras here.

"You mean to say that this is the abolished subway line?"

Feeling the special atmosphere around him, Zhu Jue asked directly.

"That's right, this line was abolished by the Shuguang City government on the bright side, and all the original line stations were out of service, but under the operation of the underground forces in Shuguang City, this line was reactivated three years ago. However, it has become a special train, which is only in charge of traveling between two areas, Watson area and Pasifika area."

The store manager, who was reluctant before, knew that he couldn't run away, so he just concentrated on explaining, hoping to win some impression points in Zhujue, just don't be that donkey that has unloaded the mill.

Under the narration of the store manager, Zhu Jue gradually became familiar with the situation in Watson District.

The so-called underground market in Watson District is actually located in the slums of Dawn City. The adverse effects there are much smaller than in conventional urban areas.

The subway station is deliberately placed in the alleyway of Watson District, on the one hand, because Pasifica itself is an extremely poor urban area, and people with a little savings will not live there, whether it is gang members or underground transactions Both buyers and sellers in the market are like this. The purpose of opening this special train is to provide others with a unified and reliable transportation route.

On the other hand, the government of Dawn City also has their considerations in agreeing to the opening of this line in this form. Instead of letting these gangsters run around the city with great fanfare every day, and eventually make other urban areas smoky, it is easy to cause some Followers, why not simply set up an underground station in Watson District, and tell ordinary people that the name of the underground black market is also to divert their attention, so as to achieve the purpose of covering up the real black market in Pasifika City.

Not long after, with a low whistling sound, the train pulled into the station.

The appearance of this train to Pasifica is different from other trains. The outside is covered with strange graffiti. Zhu Jue found a lot of scratches and craters when he got closer. It is obvious that the risk factor of riding this train Should be a bit high.

Zhu Jue even secretly thought that those people made the subway station so dark, probably to prevent others from seeing the serious damage of the train.

"What are you looking at, pay!"

As soon as I entered the train, someone shouted at the door with a square iron box in his hand.

The store manager hurried forward and explained to Zhu Jue after paying the money of two people: "The station here is watched by the Mud Gang. They are responsible for ensuring that no one comes to make trouble, and the people who get on the bus here are There is a fee of 100 federal currency, which is said to be a ticket, but it is actually a protection fee."

"The subway stations are all under the responsibility of gangsters?"

This way of standing at the subway gate to collect money one by one is really rare.

"There are no ordinary people here at all. Even if the government sends people over, it is just asking for trouble. Besides, there is also a fee. It is an abandoned line. To some extent, it is outsourced to this side. gang power."

Those who came to Watson's underground to take this train had only one destination, and that was the poor neighborhood of Pasifika. In the eyes of the government, people who could go there were poor ghosts even if they weren't gangsters.

Let them die?
Regarding the store manager’s argument, Zhu Jue was noncommittal, originally wanted to find a place to sit, looked at the seats with strange stains, thought about it, and still didn’t let his butt suffer, just grabbed the ring, and his eyes stayed on the train A few lights flickering outside occasionally.

After about 30 minutes, the route indicator on the top of the train door pushed to the final station.

Still the same as before, the store manager walked in front, and Zhu Jue followed behind him, and exited from the east exit. There is no elevator here, but a long staircase. The bottom is fine. The stone wall became a dilapidated appearance.

Although I haven't seen the scene outside at this time, the shouts and shouts from around the subway entrance are enough to prove that the neighborhood is lively.

"Mr. Zhu, please stay calm when you get to the ground later. There may be some genetic beasts around here, which were brought in by the gangs that control the black market."

As if suddenly remembering something, the store manager turned around and exhorted.

As if to respond to his words, just as Zhu Jue was about to say that he knew it, two huge wolf heads poked out from the entrance of the subway station, their thick sharp claws clawed at the wall, and the growling order leaked from between the interlaced fangs People feel chills from the bottom of their hearts.

"It's them. The gang members claim that they can smell the police, and they have killed a few people before, but that's actually just their acting, so you don't have to look like I'm thinking too much."

The store manager was still thinking of a few words of consolation, but when he looked at Zhu Jue, he realized that there was not even a trace of nervousness on his face, and he was just looking at the two genetic beasts with great interest.

"Is it only to this extent? It looks much worse than that of the Devogen Group."

Zhu Jue was someone who had seen the finished giant beast project, and killed one by the way. It was obviously impossible for such a low-level genetic beast to scare him.

"Do you know someone from Dewo Gene Group?"

The store manager at the side heard Zhu Jue talking about the name of this genetic group, and continued in surprise,

"Today in the arena of the black market there was a battle of beast tamers. They were all genetic beasts that could compete with the monsters of spiritual pollution in the dangerous area outside. It is said that it was a very exciting battle. If you are interested, I can take you there have a look."

What the store manager thought was that if he couldn't find anyone at his address later, at least he had to find a place to divert the other party's attention, and it was best to escape quietly while Zhu Jue was watching the game.

Zhu Jue didn't immediately reject the proposal. He still remembered the Beast Trainer Project, which was just an idea of ​​the siblings at the time. He didn't expect that the Devo Gene Group would succeed five years later.

(End of this chapter)