"Yeah!" Hill's vision went dark, then lighted up, and he returned to the warehouse he inspected before.

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

.

This was a familiar environment for her, and she was back! Hill lowered her head and quickly checked her body. Except for her clothes, which looked a little messy, she was indeed unscathed. She breathed a long sigh of relief, sighing that she was lucky after all, and turned her gaze to the past.

Glowing green crocodile craft artifact.

It was a small ornament made of ceramics. The crocodile stood on its two short hind legs. Its body was round and chubby, making it look cute and cute. From the outside, no one would mistake it with the pink skull and black mist.

But things happened to be so magical, and Hill felt that his experience was like a dream.

"No, it's not a dream. Dreams don't take off my shoes." She looked at the small crocodile ornaments and raised her hand to wipe away the traces of tears on her cheeks with the heel of her palm. "It scared me to death, but I must overcome it! For myself,

I must seize this opportunity! Whether it’s the Pink Skull or Dr. Booker, they are the steps for me to leave this bad place.”

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

Hill put on her shoes again, straightened her clothes, and pretended as if nothing had happened. She quickly ended her inspection of the warehouse, making plans in her mind, and walked towards the control room. She needed to look at it from another angle.

Check the whole process of the incident, and also know the situation of other witnesses.

"If this is spread, it will be troublesome if the company knows about it." Hill frowned and walked in the deserted corridor. The entrance to the control room was at the end of the corridor. She once heard someone say,

In order to avoid being caught peeping through the monitoring head, the pervert director removed the surveillance camera in the corridor at the entrance of the monitoring room. There was a blind spot and it was his paradise to enjoy alone.

Not anymore.

Just on the right wall of the corridor in front of her, there was a fire ax leaning in the closet of the fire hose.

She pulled out the ax from it in a strange way and held it in her hand. The tip of the ax rubbed against the ground. It clicked.

The sound is surprisingly pleasant...

At the same time, in another city, in another research center, Dr. Bukele stumbled over his chair and fell to the ground in embarrassment. Coffee and breakfast boxes were spilled on the floor, with a series of spluttering sounds, and then turned into

A whimper mixed with a slight smile.

"Haha, oops... Haha, it just hurts a little." The old man grabbed the table with one hand and the floor with the other, and climbed up carefully. After standing upright, he rubbed his heart, looked around at the room that was empty and belonged only to him, and felt relieved.

He took a breath and said, "Ouch, it hurts good, the pain is real."

Dreams are a kind of comfortable numbness, and 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 transcended that

question, and began to think about the reason why all this happened and what it meant.

He looked at the workbench and reached out to touch the bridge of his nose as usual. Then he realized that he had lost his glasses. Fortunately, when he got closer, he saw that the piece of parchment was still intact, and he breathed a sigh of relief. He lay on his stomach and hugged him.

Hold the parchment in place and brush its surface with trembling fingers.

"My, my baby..." He murmured to himself, coughing and then said: "I will be prepared. Even if there is no 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 choices. A little later than Dr. Hill and Bukele, Zhuang Xuteng also quickly returned to "reality"

, standing in the middleman Lucy's living room holding a comic book. He stretched his hands forward, and the scream caused by seeing time slow down had just begun.

"ah!"

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

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

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

"So that's what happened, my ears are very good." Lucy turned to look at the clock and said: "It's probably the person who sent the detailed information of the commission. Just stay here and I'll go take a look."

Lucy walked out briskly 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, fearing that Lucy would notice his nervousness.

The nervousness came from the previous "dream", and he had not yet fully 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 with doctors and women.

Things take almost no time.

If it is more accurate, a little more than 3 seconds were actually used, which explains why Lucy and Brother Dao were completely unaware. From their perspectives, Zhuang Xuteng had been reading comics, and there may have been a few seconds in between.

They were stunned for a while, and then suddenly shouted. The two people did not see the suddenly dark sky, nor did they know that the black mist and time were slowing down.

It seemed that only he knew the secret of this "spiritual journey". Zhuang Xuteng thought about it and felt that this sentence was not quite right. Hill and Dr. Booker were also participants, and of course the instigator, the pink skull.

Shadow follows.

"It stands to reason that those two people wouldn't tell the company about this, and I didn't show my appearance, and my voice was slightly different from usual, so they couldn't find anything on me." Zhuang Xuteng sighed softly, only feeling that

Things are getting more and more complicated. "I thought about selling the movie, but the possibility is getting lower and lower. If Pink Skeleton tells the truth, and my life is really being maintained by it, then I won't be able to do anything for a while."

Get rid of it."

What's even more troublesome is that Zhuang Xuteng has to feed it with shadow slaves to help it regain its strength. He is already financially strapped, so how can he have the money to buy shadow slaves? Besides, how many shadow slaves are needed to raise a pink skeleton?

?With the same money, can I treat my body?

Oh, yes, if you have money, wouldn’t it be possible to get rid of the pink skull by treating your body first? After my body is fine, I can sell it and the money can cover the cost of treatment! This plan looks very good

feasible!

It is known that pink skeletons can drag people into strange spaces. According to Dr. Booker, that space is in the demigod world behind the Shadow Realm, and behind the Wall of Sighs that no one can pass through. It sounds very powerful.

It looks like. Moreover, the pink skeleton can 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, can it absorb shadows and destroy shadow followers? Zhuang Xuteng finally thought of something other than "selling money". He is now a mercenary, and he is likely to encounter various shadow followers in the process of completing the commissioned tasks.

Weapon, isn't the Pink Skull their nemesis?

Just because you can't buy a Shadow Servant doesn't mean you can't come across a Shadow Servant! You can't spend money to buy a Shadow Servant to feed it, but you have a chance to pick it up for free!

Such an idea excited Zhuang Xuteng for a while, but he was soon brought back to his original state by a more realistic problem: after becoming a mercenary, the shadow weapon he is most likely to encounter is a gun. The first problem he has to solve is not how to get it.

Shadow Servant, but how not to be killed by ghost energy bullets!

No, I have to keep a low profile. Pink Skull's abilities are not equal to my abilities. Being a mercenary is to make money, not to sacrifice one's life, nor to work stupidly.

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

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, he didn't have a wallet. The biggest advantage of work clothes pants is that the pockets are big and strong, making it easy to hide things.

Although she was here to discuss the details of the commission, Lucy did not show him the contents of the envelope. As the intermediary, Lucy first read it to determine whether it matched the previous commission briefing. After that, she directly put the map with the map in it.

He handed the commission letter 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 go and see it together. The client asked them to investigate a construction site that is currently suspended, find out the environment inside, and see if there are any signs of gang activities. The criterion for completing the task is to draw a map.

, mark suspicious points, and list possible human activities.

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

"Industrial East District, No. 32, Power Plant Road... This is the construction site next door to the Twenty-One Magic Crystal Factory."

Zhuang Xuteng used to be a worker at the Twenty-One Magic Crystal Factory. 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. It was closed for more than a year due to the recession. I heard that the debt was paid off to someone else. There is no such thing there.

During construction or renovation, there was some cutting and dismantling noise all day long. Everyone said that someone was dismantling old machines and factory buildings inside, preparing to sell them as junk.

Several workers Zhuang Xuteng knew once discussed going there to steal some scraps and sell them for money, but they never really took action. The neighbors seemed to be aware of it and built a high wall around the factory with barbed wire on top to prevent anyone from entering.

, and also blocked the prying eyes from the Magic Crystal Factory.

However, that place had 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 demolishing it, but the walls and barbed wire fences were still erected, and the door was closed tightly. We don't know what the actual situation is.

After that, the Twenty-One Magic Crystal Factory ceased operations and laid off all its employees. The workers who originally wanted to steal things next door began to encourage them to go back and steal from the Magic Crystal Factory as part of their revenge. Others who heard the news

The workers stopped their actions. They were afraid of making things worse, 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 commission!" Ge Gongdao said, startling Zhuang Xuteng. He stuffed the letter of commission over and asked Zhuang Xuteng to memorize it carefully. "After reading it, remember it and give it to Lucy, and then let

She will give you the mercenary registration information."

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