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Chapter 56 Custom Shop, 02:35 am
The voicemail immediately began to play. To be honest, the girl's sweet voice came out of a mouse, and the scene was a bit scary.
"Dear bionic man," Tsukino Yukina recorded in an extremely quiet space, the voice echoed, "I think I must have disturbed you, other adults kept persuading me to give up this invitation, but IIt is clear that you are a good person. Besides, when I asked the jellyfish if she would like to invite you to my house, she happily circled in the water, so I decided to extend an invitation to you."
The first paragraph she said was particularly formal, and she seemed to be trying her best to keep it serious, but she immediately revealed the truth:
"I'm so grateful for what you did for us that day, my father said you were just an android, I don't think so, you're closer to a human being than many people I've met.
"I said to my father a sentence that my mother taught, and he agreed to invite you here.Because you remind me of my mother, I know it's weird, but please, please, don't say no to my request..."
Rosie smiled slightly. He hadn't expected that he could remind a human girl of her mother.
He put the mouse on the table and listened to the whole recording, and the girl chattered on and on and said a lot to him nervously. She just wanted to invite him to her place as a guest, and it was no big deal.However, after the recording ended and the picture letter was opened, Rosie realized that something was wrong.
It was a map showing Tsukino Yukina's current residence - underground in Kabukicho.
The image projection only appeared for a short moment before it was automatically destroyed, and Rosie memorized it silently.The picture clearly marked the way to the underground. The entrance passage was located deep in a custom shop. He consulted the government's official map, and there was no so-called underground structure at that coordinate.
He understands what Tsukino Xue Nai said about the adults persuading her to give up the invitation. I am afraid that it is a dark place. She wanted to reveal the secret and was opposed by everyone.Gave it to him, which shows that she is the one who really makes up her mind.
Rosie opened the door and let the mouse out.After all, he was very curious, what kind of place is that, where a group of adults would allow a girl of fourteen or fifteen years old to have the right to speak?He was thinking, and when he turned around, he almost bumped into a figure leaning against the door frame——
"Look at the way?" Rosie folded her arms around her chest, tapped her arm with her index finger, and looked at him with a half-smile, "You use my body, don't always look stupid."
Rosie wanted to argue, since the other party appeared out of nowhere, and he bumped into it, then he was stunned, realizing that this was another hallucination.
Rosie lazily said: "I don't recommend you to go to Kabukicho during the day, the government controls it during the day, it's not safe. At night, it's all gangsters, you can wait for the hunter to sleep before sneaking out, there will be gangstersCome get in touch."
"You seem to be familiar with it?" Rosie speculated.
"It's so strange," Rosie laughed outright, "The division of underworld forces there was decided by me more than ten years ago."
After he finished speaking, he disappeared, and there was nothing in the place where he had stood before.Silence returned to the apartment, and Rosie sat by the window, planning to go out without telling the administrator.
Deng Huailing will definitely not allow him to meet with Yue Ye Xue Nai. If this matter is discovered, it is impossible to predict how Deng Huailing will react, and making the administrator angry is a taboo in the program, so simply don't let the other party find out.
Rosie didn't feel that his logical chain was wrong. He should have rejected Xue Nai's invitation, but in the end he came to the conclusion that he went out without telling Deng Huailing. The way of thinking had been modified in the dark, but he was ignorant and ignorant.Sleep.
Deng Huailing arrived home at midnight and did not need an alcohol test at all. Rosie could smell the strong smell of alcohol in the air.
He was about to protest that the other party was drinking while the wound was healing, but Deng Huailing gave full play to his acting skills of pretending to be stupid, hugged him nonchalantly, fell directly on the bed and fell asleep.
Rosie had no choice but to push her up to take a bath and change her dressing, forgetting to complain about Deng Huailing.It was early morning after everything was cooked, he looked at the sleeping face of the other party in the pillow, and said "good night" softly, he wanted to touch Deng Huailing's forehead but withdrew his hand, turned and left the bed.
The apartment door opened and closed very quietly, and Rosie slipped out.He didn't make any noise, but the person on the bed moved their eyelashes and woke up.
Deng Huailing hugged the blanket and sat up, without any sleepiness in his eyes.The bounty hunter quickly put on his clothes, picked up the Tang Dao in the corner, and went out the door silently, trailing behind the bionic man far away.
Rosie didn't realize it, he has always lacked awareness of Deng Huailing's comprehensive ability, because those methods have never been used on him.In fact, he lost to Deng Huailing the first time he competed in the slums - in terms of tracking ability, maybe ten Rosies are not as good as one Deng Huailing.
According to the address given by Tsukino Yukina, Rosie stepped into Kabukicho again.The area where prosperity and corruption coexist left a deep impression on him. At two o'clock in the morning, the forest formed by the signboards was dazzling, and the night sky seemed to be slightly lit up. Walking on the street, he had an unreal feeling.
Last time he only entered a small hotel, but this time he was going to a medium-sized custom shop.In stores where this kind of sex service has become a standardized industry, customers only need to be led into a private room, and they can choose their favorite bionic person on the screen with their fingers, and of course there are slightly more expensive human beings.
Including the service content and duration, and the environmental projection can also be adjusted according to preferences. As long as the customer is willing, it is no problem to set the projection to an active volcano that is about to erupt or the Mariana Trench. The principle of private customization has been brought to the extreme.
Rosie walked through the revolving door, dazzled by the splendor of the store.He managed to find a uniformed clerk who he could convince him he wasn't a lost sex android, but she wouldn't take him to meet the store manager.
During the stalemate, another group of people broke into the door. They were all wearing black trench coats, exuding the coldness of the night. The leader had white hair. When his eyes swept over his face, Rosie paused for a moment. Subconsciously, Rosie touched his face.When you touch your face, it feels like a knife cut texture.
He immediately realized that this is the so-called "underworld person".Before he could move, the white-haired man stretched out his hand first, and gave him a rough shake, as if he was completing some task: "Bai Shijin. An A+-level bounty hunter, and the manager of the order in Kabukicho East."
Rosie was stunned, and looked at the tall man in front of her—A+ rank, bounty hunter?The combination of these two words caused him to miss the second half of the sentence at all.
He heard from Igor that there are indeed three hunters with A+ titles in Cesina City. Due to the relationship between the other two who have been hidden behind the scenes for a long time, Deng Huailing, who is active in the front line, is particularly popular. He did not expect that one of them has an A+ title.In Kabukicho, he was also a member of the underworld organization.
"Ah, hello." It wasn't until Bai Shijin showed an impatient look that Rosie realized that she had lost her composure, and quickly smiled friendlyly, "I'm Rosie, and I'm here at the invitation of Miss Yue Ye..."
Bai Shijin had already let go of his hand and said, "Come with me." He walked straight to the end of the corridor, leaving him with a cold back.
Rosie quickly followed them, they stepped on the velvet carpet silently, Bai Shijin pursed her lips tightly, and looked like she didn't want to say a word, which made Rosie think about whether all A+ hunters are so indifferent.In fact, Deng Huailing talked more than the ice sculpture-like man in front of him, and treated him much better.
When the two entered the elevator, Bai Shijin raised his wrist to verify his identity, pressed a certain combination of floor keys, and the elevator took them down slowly.Rosie habitually looks at each other through the surrounding mirrors: there are gun calluses on the base of the fingers and the hypothenar, two guns and countless cold weapons are hidden under the windbreaker, and an old scar spreads on the side of the face, but it is covered by the blue stubble.I can't see clearly...
Then he heard Bai Shijin's hostile voice: "Have you seen enough?"
"I just don't trust you very much, Mr. Shiraishi." After being exposed, Rosie didn't panic, and said politely, "This is a friendly visit. I didn't carry any weapons, but you armed yourself to the teeth."
"Are you bargaining with me?" Bai Shijin sneered, "Xue Nai proposed to invite you here, and I was the first to object. Deng Huailing is a greedy person, and his bionic man is definitely not safe. ButShe insists on this, and I have nothing to do, I can only warn you, if you dare to tell Deng Huailing a word, I will grind you into a pile of scrap iron."
"Mr. Deng is not that kind of person." The bionic man ignored the rest of the words, singled out this sentence and retorted, "He..."
"We're here." Bai Shijin said.Rosie paused, not because she was interrupted by the other party, but because she was shocked by the scene in front of her.
They were in a huge mine, and the elevator with the exquisite decoration of the custom shop led them to the underground cave, where the boundless darkness spread.The top of the cave cannot be seen at a glance, because it is beyond the limit of human eyesight, and the top is buried in a mass of chaotic darkness.
There is almost no light here, but it is not completely dark. A round of fluorescent jellyfish like a bright moon is suspended in mid-air. She drags a long and soft streamer and slowly cruises, dissolving the darkness, making the whole cave look like a piece of transparent ink.Jade.Where her streamers swept, Rosie saw rows of houses, like a town under the moon, breathing quietly with jellyfish floating.
"This place is called 'God's Residence'." Bai Shijin reluctantly introduced, probably Tsukino Yukina forced him to do so, "It was rebuilt from an abandoned underground city, and the electricity is completely supplied from the custom shop above, soYou can’t consume too much electricity every month, so as not to be discovered by the government.”
"Xue Nai, she..."
"Tsukino Yukina is the priestess here, who can order everyone." Bai Shijin glanced at Rosie's puzzled look, "In other words, this is a religious organization, and she is the religious leader here, understand?"
"But she's only a teenager, and the group is obviously, uh, obviously not that formal—" Rosie mumbles worriedly.
Bai Shijin finally smiled. To be precise, the corners of his lips changed by a tiny 10 degrees: "She can handle it. Her mother, Miko Nagase, was only at this age when she took over the role of shrine maiden."
He lit a cigarette, and the fire flickered in the dark, "It is said that when the government purged religious forces, a certain leader in the second district helped Miko find this secret residence, but it was just a stopgap measure, and she never thought of living in it forever."Here, they planned to follow the leader's advice and wanted to escape to the second district. But the leader himself was in danger and died in the end, so Miko took the congregation to live here."
Rosie suddenly felt that this experience was very familiar, and she couldn't help asking: "Can I ask the name of that leader?"
"I think... it should be called," Bai Shijin exhaled smoke, "Rosie."