Hearing what she said, I had no choice but to pick up my bag and follow her.
Fangran followed Selika to a dark and deserted street corner nearby.
"Remember not to be caught on camera."
With such a simple explanation, Celica jumped onto the roof in the dark night where the light could not shine,
She felt ashamed for a second. She didn't even use her strength. Fangran looked at the height of six or seven meters, took two quick steps, stepped on a window sill and climbed up.
He specializes in dark areas without lighting, and uses his strong physical ability to leap over the houses.
Walking through narrow streets, barbed wire fences, dark corners such as building blind spots, moving in a way that is a hundred times more intense than parkour, it seems to feel like a participant.
It reminded Fangran of the precious memories of that summer vacation...
"arrive."
It seemed that the destination was nearby, and because of the reason of 'walking in a straight line', it didn't take long for Fangran to hear Selika's voice,
Then he found that she had led him to a quite deserted place.
Is that black market here?
Fangran was a little surprised. The two of them were originally in the northeast of Houston, about 10 kilometers away from the ring road that represents the urban area. They passed through the last block of chaotic buildings.
They have reached the no man's land on the edge of urbanization.
Under the premise that almost no one will come, the door is locked tightly in front of a place that most people can't find.
Is this to prevent people other than participants from approaching...
"Put this on."
At this time, he saw something thrown by Celika. Fangran caught it and saw that it was a pair of sunglasses. He looked at the darkness around him and saw that he could not see his fingers.
Um... Is it not dark enough to wear sunglasses in this kind of environment...
Even though she complained like this, Fangran still put it on as she said. Thanks to the strong eyesight of the participants, she was still able to see.
"Let's go in."
Then after hearing Selika say this, he climbed over the high wall in front of her with her.
After landing, he saw the scene inside. Except for a small four-story office building, there were only piles of building materials and sundries and a half-built factory building.
A dilapidated look that had been abandoned for a long time.
But the moment he entered here, Fangran instinctively felt that this was not as simple as it seemed, and he said in surprise:
"here it is..."
"The entrance to the black market."
Celica answered him simply.
Then at this moment, a sound came,
A figure turned in from a different direction than the two of them. The extraordinary movements showed his identity as a participant. He was wearing a hat that could cover his face.
Separated by a distance of dozens of meters, they only glanced at the two of them and walked towards the abandoned office building without saying a word.
He also turned a blind eye to him, as if meeting a strange participant was nothing worth paying attention to.
"Let's go."
Celica just said this and walked inside.
After following her into the building, Fangran discovered that the place was not as deserted as it looked outside. There were obvious signs of cleaning and use.
And in the entrance lobby, there is a desk like the front desk.
A man was leaning on the sofa behind with his arms folded and his head down, as if he was sleeping.
Then, when the man who had walked in before Fangran and the others came nearby, he suddenly said, looking drowsy:
"Tickets."
Not surprised by this, the man took out a wad of 10,000 US dollar bills from nowhere, threw it on the sofa next to him, and then walked directly inside.
After seeing this scene, Fangran seemed to understand the reason why Celica withdrew the money.
only,
This is too expensive. Are you from Suez?
Even with the experience of spending a lot of money in Las Vegas, Fangran still felt that the high ticket price of 10,000 US dollars per person was a bit outrageous.
Following Selika, he followed the example of the man before, took out two stacks of ten thousand US dollars and threw them towards the pile of banknotes on the sofa.
But unexpectedly, the man on the sofa caught a bunch and threw it back.
"She doesn't need a ticket."
Although the lobby was dark and no lights were turned on, Fangran still caught a hint of caution and vigilance in the way the other party looked at Celica.
But compared to this, he was slightly stunned at first.
Wait, did I spend $10,000 in vain...
First of all, I realized this fact. Although this was considered as mission funds, it still made Fangran, who has always been diligent and thrifty,
Some meats are so painful that I can't suck them.
Resisting the urge to take out the floating sequence and shoot him in the face, Fangran kept comforting himself that the small money was just small money. Fangran continued to follow Celica and walked inside.
The small office building is shabby and there is nothing worth mentioning. The only special thing is,
There are four elevators here,
This scene would not be strange in any high-rise building, but it seems particularly abnormal when it appears here.
Then the moment the elevator door opens,
Fangran discovered that from the outside, this was just the most ordinary and cheapest elevator, and there were even some old scratches on the door.
It has an indescribable sense of high-end technology.
There are no floor buttons, no cameras, no billboards or promotional posters.
The difference between inside and outside was so strong that Fangran found that his heartbeat had accelerated slightly.
The elevator door closed, and an almost imperceptible feeling of descent came. In the elevator space, which was filled with a sense of technology, he and Celica were the only figures.
Looking at the other party's usual dull expression, Fangran deliberately did not ask.
Then thirty floors? Fifty floors?
The descent did not last long. Less than a minute later, the elevator door opened again.
In Fangran's eyes raised at this moment behind his sunglasses,
It reflected a scene that made him astonished and fascinated.
Although I had probably guessed that the 'black market' was underground and had some mental preparations along the way, the moment I actually saw this scene, I still couldn't suppress the surprise in my heart.
An underground shopping mall? A large exchange? Or even a shopping street?
neither.
All Fangran's previous guesses about the 'black market' were wrong. The scene that appeared in front of him one hundred and twenty meters below the surface was...
A whole block of buildings!
Above is a dark dome with no lighting like night, while below are streets and houses that are no different from the city on the ground.
It's like moving the city to a small underground world!
But this is not the reason why Fangran is so surprised.
What really made his eyes slowly widen in disbelief at the moment the elevator door opened was,
At this moment in this ‘underground neighborhood’,
There were so many participants that he could not count!
Dozens? Hundreds? One hundred or two hundred, or more!?
Although compared to the area of this block, the number of people is extremely sparse, but since his awakening, Fangran has never thought about one day.
He will encounter the sight of so many participants gathered together,
At this moment, I felt that I had arrived in an unprecedented and real way...
