Chapter 16 Chapter 15 The first commission

"Ah!" Hill felt the darkness in front of him, and then he lit up and returned to the warehouse where he had inspected before.

The shoes were held in her hands, and the coldness and hardness of the floor were transmitted through the flesh-colored stockings, which made her shudder. Behind her, a sense of surveillance still came from the direction of the camera in the corner of the wall, and the gaze made her feel disgusted.

This is the environment she is familiar with, and she is back! Hill lowered her head and quickly checked her body. Except for her slightly embarrassed clothes, she was indeed unscathed. She breathed a sigh of relief, while sighing that she was lucky in the end, while turning her eyes to the crocodile craft cultural relics that once shone green.

It was a small ornament with ceramic texture. The crocodile stood with its short hind legs, its body was round, chubby, and it looked cute. From the outside, no one would associate it with the pink skull and the ancient hall filled with black fog. But things were so magical. 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 ornaments, raised her hand and wiped the tears from her cheeks with the root of her palm. "I'm scared to death, but I have to overcome it! For myself, I must seize this opportunity! Whether it's the pink skeleton or Dr. Bucker, they are the steps for me to leave this broken place."

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

Hill put on her shoes again, tidied up her clothes, and pretended that nothing had happened. She quickly ended her inspection of the warehouse, and while making plans in her mind, she walked towards the monitoring room. She needed to view the whole thing from another perspective, and also know the situation of other witnesses.

"If it is reported, it will be troublesome to let the company know." Hill frowned and walked in the empty corridor. The entrance to the monitoring room was at the end of the corridor. She had heard that in order to avoid being discovered to be peeping through the monitoring head, the Pervert Director demolished the surveillance in the corridor at the entrance of the monitoring room. There was a blind spot, and it was a paradise he enjoyed alone.

No more.

Just on the right wall of the corridor ahead of her, a fire axe was lying in the closet of the fire water dragon.

She pulled out the axe from it by chance, held it in her hand, and the tip of the axe rubbed against the ground.

The sound is surprisingly pleasant...

Meanwhile, in another city, another research center, Dr. Bucker staggered and knocked down the chair and fell to the ground in a mess. The coffee and breakfast boxes spilled all over the floor, and the rumbling sounds formed, and then turned into a whimper mixed with a light smile.

"Haha, oh...haha, it just hurts a little." The old man grabbed the table with one hand and supported the floor with the other, and carefully got up. After standing up straight, he rubbed his heart, looked around at the room where no one belonged to him, and took a breath and said, "Oh, it hurts so well, the pain is real."

Dreams are a comfortable numbness, and reality is called the thorn garden of pain. Happiness only understands that pain is the truth of living and gaining. Dr. Bucker never doubts the authenticity of the pink skeleton. He has surpassed that question and began to think about the principle of all this happening and the meaning of its representation.

He looked at the workbench and reached out to the bridge of his nose habitually, and then he realized that he had lost his glasses; fortunately, when he got closer, he saw that the fragment of parchment was still intact, so he breathed a sigh of relief. He lay down and hugged the parchment, brushing his trembling fingers across the surface.

"My, my baby..." he murmured to himself, and coughed, "I will be ready. Even if I don't have the secret of ascension, I can live for another five thousand years, even if I become a skeleton, I am willing..."

Different people have different desires and will be driven to do different things. In fact, they are still everyone's own choice. A little later than Hill and Dr. Bucker, Zhuang Xuteng quickly returned to "reality" and stood in the living room of the middleman Lucy, holding a comic book. He stretched forward, and the scream that had just begun to start when he saw the slowdown of time.

"ah!"

Gogongdao and Lucy turned their heads together, one frowned and the other was full of vigilance.

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

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

"So that's the case, my ears are very good." Lucy turned her head and looked at the clock and said, "It's probably the one who sends the commission details. You guys stay here, I'll go and have a look."

Lucy walked out with a brisk pace and soon came back, 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, fearing that Lucy would see his nervousness.

The nervousness came from the previous "dream". He had not completely recovered from the shock of experiencing such an event. By comparing memories, Zhuang Xuteng found that he entered the Stone Pillar Hall, transformed into a skeleton, and talked to the doctor and the woman. These things took almost no time.

If it is more accurate, it is actually a little more than 3 seconds to use it, which explains why Lucy and Dao Ge are completely unaware of it. From the perspective of the two of them, Zhuang Xuteng has been reading comics, and he may have been stunned for a few seconds in the middle, and then suddenly shouted. The two people did not see the sudden dark sky at all, nor did they know that the black fog and the slowdown of time.

It seems that only I know the secret of this "spiritual journey". Zhuang Xuteng thought about it and felt that this sentence was not true. Hill and Dr. Bucker were also participants, and of course there was also the initiator, the pink skull shadow.

"Regularly speaking, those two people would not tell the company about this, and I did not show my appearance, and my voice was slightly different from usual. They couldn't find me." Zhuang Xuteng sighed softly, only to feel that things were getting more and more complicated. "I originally wanted to sell the movie, but the possibility of this was getting lower and lower. If the pink skeleton told the truth and my life was really being maintained by it, I would not be able to get rid of it for a while."

What is even more troublesome is that Zhuang Xuteng also needs to use shadow servants to feed it and help it restore its strength. He is already financially inseparable, so how much money can he buy shadow servants? Besides, how many shadow servants can heal my body with the same money?

Hey, right, if you have money, treat your body first, won’t you get rid of the pink skeleton? After the body is fine, I can still sell it, and the money I get can cover the treatment cost! This plan looks very feasible!

It is known that pink skeletons can drag people into strange spaces. According to Dr. Bucker, that space is in the demigod world behind the shadow world, and it is still behind the wall of sighs that no one can pass through. It sounds very powerful. Moreover, pink skeletons can also absorb other shadow slaves and directly destroy shadow slaves. No matter who it is, they will be willing to pay a big price...

Wait, can it absorb shadows and destroy shadow slaves? Zhuang Xuteng finally thought of something other than "selling money". He is now a soldier, and he is likely to encounter various shadow slaves in the process of completing the entrusted tasks. Isn't the pink skull their nemesis?

If you can’t buy a shadow slave, it doesn’t mean you can’t touch it! You can’t spend money to buy a shadow slave and feed it, but you have a chance to pick it up for nothing!

This idea made Zhuang Xuteng a little excited for a while, and was soon knocked back to his original form by a more realistic problem: after becoming a hired soldier, the shadow slave he most likely encountered was a gun. The first problem he had to solve was not how to touch the shadow slave, but how to not be killed by the ghost energy bomb!

No, I have to be low-key. The ability of pink skulls does not mean my ability. Being a soldier is to make money, not to work hard, nor is it to work foolishly.

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

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

Although she was going to discuss the details of the commission, Lucy did not show him the envelope. As an intermediary, Lucy first read it and judged whether it was in line with the previous commission introduction. After that, she directly handed the commission letter with a map to Gegongdao, then lit a cigarette, leaned back on the sofa, waiting for the recruitment advice.

Ge Gongdao waved and asked Zhuang Xuteng to check it out together. The client asked them to investigate a construction site that is currently in a state of suspension, find out the environment inside, and see if there are any signs of gang activities. The standard for completing the task is to draw a map, mark suspicious points, and list possible personnel activities.

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

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

Zhuang Xuteng was a worker at the Twenty-One Magic Crystal Factory. He worked there every day, so of course he knew the construction site next door. The place turned out to be a bolt factory. It was closed for more than a year because of the recession. I heard that the debt was paid to others. There was no new construction or renovation there, and some noise of cutting and dismantling was heard all day long. Everyone said that someone was demolishing old machines and factories inside, preparing to sell them as junk.

Several workers Zhuang Xuteng knew had discussed going there to steal some scrap and sell it for money, but they had never really taken action. The next door seemed to have noticed it, and built a high wall around the factory with barbed wire on it, so that no one could go in, blocking the peeping gaze of the Magic Crystal Factory.

However, the place was demolished for more than half a year, and suddenly there was no movement more than three months ago. Everyone guessed that they had finished demolishing it, but the walls and barbed wire were still erected there, and the door was closed tightly. I don’t know what the actual situation was.

After 21, the Magic Crystal Factory stopped operating and fired all its employees. The workers who originally wanted to steal things from the next door began to instigate them to steal the Magic Crystal Factory as part of the revenge. Some other workers who heard the news stopped their actions. Everyone was afraid of making the matter bigger, and the Magic Crystal Factory would not pay compensation. Later... many of Zhuang Xuteng's workers died on the night of 623.

"We have accepted this entrusted!" Ge Gongdao shouted, which scared Zhuang Xuteng. He saw him stuffing the entrusted letter over and let Zhuang Xuteng remember it with care. "After reading it, remember it, I'll give it to Lucy, and then let her register the information for you to hire."

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