Chapter 185: Terminator
Gold!
The natural color of gold is not so dazzling, but polished gold jewelry is different.
"Su Xia has become a bad person. He has only been an official for a few days, but he has already started accepting bribes!"
Lan Bafu thought so, but his eyes could not leave the golden color.
When the box was opened, the glittering golden light became even more dazzling, giving the quaint pharmacy a touch of luxury.
"This thing is not valuable. It is just a handicraft made by a craftsman in the town."
Liu Liangmu chuckled and said that it was worthless, but everyone understood what he meant.
The box was not filled entirely with gold. There were also various silver ornaments, crystals, gems, etc. It was obvious that all the things that should have been given to Wang Teng that day were sent directly to the pharmacy.
In troubled times, gold and silver are both hard currencies.
"This is actually real gold!" Lan Bafu picked up a small object that looked like a pendant and bit it hard, leaving tooth marks of varying depths on it.
This is soft gold of very high purity and is very valuable.
Su Xia did not refuse this time and accepted it directly.
Then, he politely declined Liu Liangmu's invitation to dinner, chatted casually for a few minutes, and finally sent him away by saying that he was in a critical stage of breakthrough.
He let Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu pick out some treasures from the two boxes, then took them upstairs and knocked on his father's door.
A voice came from the room: "Take it away, Dad is not interested in these things."
"good."
Su Xia didn't bother them any further and put the remaining things back into her room.
After going downstairs, he saw the two guys looking at themselves in the mirror. Both of them wore a big gold chain, and immediately turned from mysterious pharmacists into nouveau riche.
Hong Bafu's obese body is simply tailor-made for the nouveau riche.
However, during lunch, my father said calmly, "They are an eyesore, so pick them all off. Learn from Su Xia."
"oh……"
The two reluctantly took off their big gold chains and returned to their simple ways.
After finishing the meal in the game, Su Xia logged off again and returned to the real world to have lunch.
The fact that he killed An Lan has caused quite a stir in the gaming community, with countless posts on the gaming forum discussing the matter.
The most popular post was posted by one of the eyewitnesses.
About my personal fight with the Terminator this morning
The post contains first-person screenshots, videos, and long text descriptions.
The powerful mechanical soldiers in those videos do have similarities with the Terminator T800 in the movie, and the movie also mentioned that the mechanical race used humans for experiments.
All I can say is that game art and film art are the same.
“It’s an immersive experience, an absolutely perfect audio-visual enjoyment.”
"I was so excited that I turned into John Connor and stabbed a robot to death with my own hands!"
"If it can be edited, this battle will definitely be as good as any action movie, especially the part where Commander Beifeng fights An Lan..."
“…”
In this post, a large number of replies are words like “wow” and “awesome”.
This is the first time that players have directly fought against the mechanical race at this stage, and they are not just playing auxiliary roles, but actually causing a lot of damage.
Even though the equipment were temporarily given to them by Cheng Ping'an, it was enough for them to brag about it for a while.
"It's true, I was there!"
Among the countless replies, Su Xia actually saw Lin Shan's name.
After lunch, he took his textbooks to the new district teaching building.
The public classes in the afternoon are quite boring.
The old professor on the podium spoke like hypnosis, without even raising his head, and read stiffly from the PPT word by word.
No one knew which archaeological site that PPT was excavated from, but the content was so ancient that it could be called a living fossil, and it did not match the textbook in Su Xia's hand at all.
This kind of course requires complete self-study, and sitting in class is almost like being in prison. One-third of the students in the classroom were lying down and sleeping.
"Oh……"
Su Xia also counted the seconds out of boredom and waited in agony for the entire afternoon, finally waiting until school was over.
When the school bell rang, everyone on and off the stage breathed a sigh of relief. The old professor walked away even faster than they did.
College life is completely different from what Su Xia imagined in high school.
Of course, it may also be because he did not do well in the college entrance examination and went to a crappy university.
Here, all knowledge has to be learned by oneself, the only connections are in the dormitory, and the legendary love is even more distant.
Su Xia carried her schoolbag, walked out of the classroom, and walked towards the cafeteria in the setting sun. Her shadow behind her was stretched out very long.
After having dinner in the cafeteria, he packed five lunch boxes and took them back to the dormitory as usual.
"The food is here. Today we have chicken steak. Eat it while it's hot."
Every time he brought food back to the dormitory, he felt like he was visiting a prisoner.
Li Defu was so hungry that his eyes turned green. He rushed over and said, "Oh, Brother Su, you are like my living parents! I am almost starving to death!"
"The cafeteria is downstairs."
Su Xia was speechless and didn't know what to say.
Li Defu chuckled and said, "I can't walk when I'm hungry. Going downstairs is too much effort."
“…”
Su Xia was too lazy to pay attention to these roommates. She dropped her schoolbag and climbed onto the bed.
He has been addicted to games recently, but his physical condition has not deteriorated, but has gotten better and better. These days, he can go up and down the stairs without even breathing hard, which is in stark contrast to his roommates.
He logged into the game and returned to the Coral City Pharmacy.
People in the shop were having dinner and the aroma of food filled the air.
Since becoming a pharmacist apprentice, Su Xia has started to eat every meal twice a day, but he does not object.
After dinner, I continued to refine the medicine until eight o'clock in the evening.
Su Xia tidied up her lab table, and then said to her father upstairs, "Teacher, my friend has something to talk to me about, so I won't be back tonight."
"Okay, be safe."
Dad still didn't care, which saved Su Xia a lot of trouble.
After dealing with the curiosity of Hong Bafu and Lan Bafu, Su Xia hurried out the door. After taking a few steps, she slipped into the narrow alley next to her and completely blended herself into the darkness.
He changed his clothes and headed towards the slums in the south of the city.
The slums in this city are slightly better than the refugee camps, as most people there have enough food to eat, but they are more chaotic, dirty and violent than the refugee camps.
It is a hotbed of crime and a place that the fragile laws of Coral City cannot reach.
The closer you get to that area, the worse the road becomes, and the more obvious the war-damaged buildings on both sides become. The dilapidated walls of the buildings are covered with colorful and chaotic graffiti, as if the living people are venting their dissatisfaction with the dead buildings.
As the temperature dropped at night, homeless people on the street sat together, lighting large amounts of garbage in old iron barrels to keep warm. The air was filled with an unpleasant burnt smell.
"call……"
As the cold wind blew, the fire flickered and yellowed newspapers fluttered wildly on the quiet street.
Darkness reveals the truest side of a city.
Su Xia had just walked into this low-rise slum when four or five people followed her, the youngest of whom was only twelve or thirteen years old.
"Oh, what a hassle."
Su Xia didn't come here to fight, but just wanted to visit the family of an old member of the North Wind Organization.
The member was called Wu Gui. He grew up in this slum and was bullied since childhood. He struggled in pain every day. Even his biological parents were chopped into pieces in front of him. His friends around him either died or became criminals.
Growing up in such an environment, he did not fall into depravity, but instead vowed to bring equality to everyone.
As an adult, he joined the North Wind Organization, hoping to bring about a change in the city, but he eventually died on that cruel night.
Movies nowadays always like to portray the villains’ life stories as miserable and tragic, as if everyone has their own reasons.
But most members of the Old North Wind organization have tragic life stories, which would make them perfect templates for world-destroying villains in a movie, except that they chose a different path.
That’s not right either…
If Coral City were to film a movie, the North Wind Organization would definitely be the villains.
"stop!"
A skinny man suddenly called Su Xia, holding a gun in his hand.
He looked fierce and growled, "Hand over all the money you have and don't play any tricks, or you know the consequences!"
But Su Xia remained calm and just said casually: "It's only nine o'clock in the evening. Isn't it too early to start robbing now? Do you work 996?"
"Stop talking nonsense and pay quickly! Otherwise, I will kill you!"
"You don't have any bullets in your gun."
"you……"
The man's tone paused, and his hand holding the gun handle trembled a little, perhaps because he was nervous or something, but he still maintained a ferocious look.
His whole body was tense, and he couldn't help but look to the left and right, as if looking for a way to escape.
"Look, I have bullets here."
Su Xia calmly took out a few brass bullets from his pocket, then took out a pistol magazine and slowly pushed the bullets into it.
“Crack—Crack—”
The sound is very clear and sounds quite comfortable.
Seeing his move, the four or five guys who were following him turned around and ran away, without any thoughts at all.
To survive in the slums, besides having enough courage, you also need a sharp mind and the ability to observe what kind of people are ruthless people who you cannot afford to mess with.
People like Su Xia are obviously one of the ruthless ones!
"You can run forty meters first. I'm a very accurate shooter."
Su Xia smiled and inserted the magazine into the gun. That smile seemed to come from the devil in the darkness.
Seeing this, the man in front of him knelt down with a snap and said tremblingly: "Master, spare my life!"
"Get up and talk, and throw away your toy gun."
“Yes, yes…”
The man nodded repeatedly and immediately threw the gun aside.
Cold sweat broke out on his forehead, his body was still shaking as if he couldn't stop, and his face was pale and sickly.
Su Xia could tell that this guy's behavior was not normal fear, but that there was something wrong with his body.
He asked, "Where is the entrance to the underground?"
Many residents of this slum live underground, like maggots, in abandoned drainage pipes in the dark all year round.
Wu Gui's family was also underground. He once sent some money back anonymously, hoping that his family could leave the slum, but when he came back for the last time before his death, he found that his family was still living there.
They seemed to be trapped by the poverty, ignorance and stupidity here, and would never see the light of the earth.
