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    The bounty hunter smiled, this time it was a purely juvenile smile, used to his cautiousness and maturity, it often makes people forget that he is only eighteen years old.

    As sunlight streamed through the shuttered panes above their heads, he swallowed his last bite, his eyes resting on Rosie's swirls of hair reflecting the arcs of color."No need." Deng Huailing teased, "My place is too small, if I pick up another cat, I will have to throw you out."

    In a good mood, he propped his elbows on the window sill and stood leisurely.In an instant, his eyes were attracted by something in the opposite building, and his lazy standing posture changed instantly, his whole body tensed up, like a leopard suddenly catching a glimpse of its prey.

    Rosie noticed something strange: "Mr. Deng?"

    It was a dazzling white light, something like a mirror flashed in the sunlight.Opposite is the towering building of "Fence Wall". The white light only appeared for a short moment. Although Deng Huailing had some guesses, he couldn't be sure.

    "I seem to have seen a sniper scope." He looked at the tall building, expecting the reflection to appear again, but the other party seemed to hide again. "Someone is aiming at our window."

    Rosie wanted to get up, but Deng Huailing pressed his head, squatted down himself, and raised his hand to close the blinds: "Have you seen any strange people these days?"

    "I've been here the whole time." Rosie shook her head.After the government broadcast his promotional video throughout the city, Deng Huailing didn't even let him go out to be careful. Rosie made a list of the decorations for the room, and Deng Huailing brought them back after completing the mission.

    "I've seen a lot. But there are always many people following me, so I don't care." Deng Huailing thought about it for a while, and said, "There are indeed more people than before."

    "Is it because of the promo?" Rosie asked.

    "Not sure why, but I think it's hostility rather than curiosity. If you're curious about you because of a promotional video, you shouldn't use a sniper rifle."

    Rosie listened thoughtfully, then got up under Deng Huailing's gaze, ran to the door, opened and closed the door quickly, and came back with a torn advertisement in her hand.This is an advertisement page made of a special material. The sequins generally flicker and can change between several 3D images.

    The bionic man turned the advertisement to the back, and stuck a bug of the same color on the most dazzling part of the image.The size of a grain of rice, it's almost impossible to spot.Deng Huailing took it over and looked at it, then crushed it: "It really lingers."

    "Should I report it to the company for support?" Rosie said.

    Deng Huailing glanced at him: "I thought you've been reporting?"

    "I haven't." The bionic man defended, then lowered his voice and said very unconfidently, "But I'm not sure if the company is monitoring us in real time through my eyes."

    "That's what they do." Deng Huailing said, "CyberRose is a company with no good intentions - I don't mind the other party hearing that. Reporting to the company will not help, because they are only responsible for fighting the fire and want to see how the situation will go."What it has become will not lend a helping hand to us."

    He was silent for a while, looking at Rosie, "I'm afraid you, and I, are just two bottles of catalyst necessary for the experiment, doomed from the Gold and Silver Square. Everything has been arranged properly, the government and CyberRose want to use us to trigger some reactions...Response from District Two."

    "So it's 'jutsu' that's pointing the scope at us?" Rosie understood what he meant.

    "The logic is not very clear, but combined with the tasks of the previous two days, I think it has something to do with 'skill'." Deng Huailing rubbed his brows, "Forget about those flies. Rosie, I need you and me to go to the black market.”

    "Investigate Mary Ellis? Okay." Rosie nodded immediately, and then hesitated, "But will I cause you trouble if I go out?"

    The bounty hunter opened the guitar case with a clatter, and there lay a long and slender Tang knife inside.Just came back from the mission, the blade was not wiped, and dark red clotted blood oozes from the sheath.He wrapped the blade with a damp cloth, wiped off the blood little by little to prevent rust, and asked casually, "Didn't you say that you are as strong as me?"

    Rosie walked up to him, their faces reflected in the clear water of the blade."Yes, Mr. Deng," he said.

    "I didn't want to take you there at first. But the apartment has already been targeted. Without me, you can't enter the battle mode alone. Why don't you take the initiative to find trouble with 'shu'." Deng Huailing's tone sounded relaxed and happy, slowly showing a smile, "Since 'shu' is interested in us, if we just avoid seeing them like this, will we disappoint them too much?"

    The black market of Cesina City is located in the underground residential area. In the early days of the city's construction, the scientist Cesina proposed a plan to excavate and build the entire underground part of the city and establish a complete self-circulation system.It is planned to accommodate a population of 20 million, so that the refugee problem in the second district can be completely solved.

    However, after her death, this huge project was put on hold, and the appropriation originally used for the underground city was divided among the officials, and the unfinished building stood there alone, and eighty years passed in a blink of an eye.

    According to the latest census of this place five years ago, the underground population reached 300,000, accounting for about 3.7% of Cesina's total population, but contributed nearly 20% of the city's crime rate.There was no census in the following years. It was like a primeval jungle, growing wildly in places where there was no light, and poverty and chaos were entangled with each other.

    Deng Huailing and Rosie drove to the entrance of the underground city. The traffic flow became less and less along the way, and the fallen leaves on both sides of the road rolled over and stuck to the windshield.The city was smoggy at night. They closed the door and got out of the car. They saw huge buildings hidden in the fog, like a whale opening its black mouth.

    The entrance of the dungeon is designed in a very grand style, which makes people wonder that something great has indeed happened here.But as far as Deng Huailing knows, ordinary residents have already moved out of the underground, and now only the market is still operating inside, which is commonly known as the black market by bounty hunters.Around the black market live arms dealers, drug dealers, wanted criminals, human traffickers, and hundreds of speculators.

    You can buy almost anything - so say people who have been to the black market.This is a paradise of flowing gold, where rare treasures flow everywhere, whether you want to buy a large-caliber heavy artillery or a custom-made bionic girl, or a long-extinct white rhino as a pet, or whose life, as long as you can afford credits,can do it all.

    They walked into the giant mouth of the whale, and after a long passage, a large elevator appeared in front of them.Deng Huailing spread out his hands to the guards, and in his palm was the gold coin that Rolla gave him: "I'm alone."

    The other party glanced behind him, confirmed the chip on the side of Rosie's neck, and then waved his hand: "Go, watch out for your bionic man."

    He looked at Rosie, whose face was covered by sunglasses most of the time, with weird eyes, and stepped aside to make way for them to line up at the end of the long queue.Although the way here was bleak, there were quite a few people gathered at the end of the passage, all waiting for the elevator to come up.

    Rosie pulled up his sunglasses and looked at the group of people through the brown lenses. There were men and women, and most of them had undergone prosthetic modifications. He could easily read the data of everyone's prosthetics.In this city, except for those who have to replace their organs due to illness, there are only two types of people who are keen on bionic prosthetics, one is bounty hunters and the other is criminals.

    There are many others like him, with ID chips embedded in their necks, apparently bionics, following behind their administrators.The relationship between individual androids and administrators is beyond his imagination. While waiting, a female android lay on the male administrator's shoulder and said something, then the two looked at each other and smiled, ignoring the surrounding environment.

    Rosie felt that she was going to blush—fortunately, Deng Huailing didn't notice the couple, and androids were born to control their emotions.He waited anxiously, and with a loud "click", the elevator finally reset and the door slid open.

    "Let's go." He hastily tugged at the corner of Deng Huailing's clothes. The latter was watching the movement behind him, and he didn't know what was unusual.

    The crowd began to surge into the elevator, Deng Huailing reacted, grabbed his wrist and pulled him in: "Don't get lost."

    They squeezed in like two of a school of sardines.The air was filled with the heat and body odor of the crowd, Deng Huailing dragged Rosie to stand on the edge, trying not to get bumped.

    The lift was crudely constructed, or rather unfinished at all.There are suspended railings everywhere, as if a cage is made of steel, and then hoisted with a simple transmission device, making people feel that they will fall at any time.Rosie leaned on the railing, looked sideways, and the glorious scenery spread out in her eyes——

    Dozens of black elevators are running slowly, passing through the deep well-like structure.This is like a three-dimensional tunnel, but its diameter is extremely wide, like the Colosseum in ancient Rome, with golden lights shining layer by layer, casting overlapping shadows on the inner wall.The black market has about fifty floors, and each floor is full of people's voices, echoing in the vast space, forming a buzzing sound like chanting sutras.

    The transmission was rattling above their heads. Rosie was marveling at the sight of the black market. She didn't notice that Deng Huailing suddenly lowered her head and whispered in his ear, "Have you noticed that those people have been staring at us?"

    Rosie was taken aback, and turned around in a panic, only to find that Deng Huailing was supporting him with one hand, blocking the others for him.There was nothing special when he turned his back, but now he turned around... as if the other party was holding him in his arms.

    There was too much noise around, and Deng Huailing didn't want to attract attention, so he stuck very close. Unexpectedly, Rosie turned around and the tip of her nose almost touched his lips.He looked down at the bionic man, those eyes behind the sunglasses were avoiding his gaze in a panic.

    From this angle, Rosie's eyelashes are fully visible, like curled butterfly wings, stirring the dust under the light.

    What kind of creation can possess such exquisite craftsmanship?Deng Huailing was a little skeptical. He had never paid attention to the eyelashes of a bionic human, so he didn't know what they should look like.But that prey-like look of bewilderment made him feel hungry, hunger shrouded in a sense of loss all over his body.

    Rosie was at a loss for a while, and finally turned around, ready to answer Deng Huailing's question.But the other party didn't move, just stared at him blankly.In a blink of an eye, Rosie's mind flashed the scene she saw just now, the scene of the female android lying next to her administrator's ear, and the two kissing.

    He felt his heart pounding wildly, completely forgetting that there should only be a power core there, not a human heart.For some reason, maybe he shouldn't be wanting to think about it, but he actually had an illusion——

    His handler wants to kiss him.

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