Chapter 280 News about the Masked Stranger
The specialty of China—people.
There was a huge crowd outside the pharmacy, and the crowd was so crowded and there was a sea of heads. Looking down from a high altitude was enough to trigger claustrophobia in some people.
This spectacular scene reminded Su Xia of the time when the World of Warcraft Classic server was first launched...
It was so crowded that he couldn't land for a while.
Unfortunately, with the passage of time, the popular nostalgic server has quickly become unpopular.
What people miss is not the games, but the days of their youth when they stayed up late with their brothers in black Internet cafes, bragging and fighting monsters.
Not only has the game become unpopular, but now even many Internet cafes have gone out of business, taking with them the youth of countless people slowly disappearing in the long river of time.
Su Xia thought of the news that Blizzard and NetEase terminated their cooperation not long ago, and couldn't help feeling sad. Some things will eventually fade away.
“Crack—”
Another glass shattered, and transparent fragments flew all over the ground. The sound brought Su Xia back to reality from her emotion.
The few windows on the side of the pharmacy facing the old street were all broken, causing considerable damage.
Countless players' hands stretched out from the broken windows and waved wildly. The scene was very strange, feeling like a zombie siege.
This small pharmacy was built several decades ago and is very old.
Under the crowding and pushing of the players, the main structure of the store began to creak like a dying patient. The front wall kept shaking, as if it would collapse at any time, and the dust on the ceiling fell down.
"It seems like I need to find time to upgrade the pharmacy." Su Xia thought thoughtfully.
There are many excellent architects in the city. With Su Xia's current ability and status, it is easy to invite them.
Since we want to expand our business and recruit apprentices, the current store area is naturally not enough.
Su Xia also plans to buy the land from his neighbors on both sides as part of the expansion of his pharmacy.
"Brother Su, these guys are trying to take advantage of the situation!" In the shop, Bing Lei's face turned pale from being squeezed around, and he hurriedly reminded Su Xia.
He saw with his own eyes that a dishonest player took advantage of the chaos and crowds to secretly put a row of potions on the lower shelf of a shelf into the storage space.
It wasn't just him. All the players who squeezed into the store, even those who were against the alliance, had ulterior motives.
It is so chaotic now, people are so crowded that no one can tell who is who.
"brush--"
Several rows of medicine shelves collapsed, and all the medicines inside disappeared.
Soon after, more than a dozen glass bottles containing Zerg organs on the shelf in front of the store disappeared.
"Everyone is taking it, wouldn't I be at a loss if I don't take anything?" some players thought.
"Pharmacist Su is a rich man, he definitely won't care."
"Even if he cares, he doesn't know it was me who took it..."
More and more players have similar ideas, but the goods displayed in the shops are getting fewer and fewer, and even the scrapped medicine residues are stolen by some people.
"Stop it!"
North yelled, looking furious, as he actually saw a member of his team stealing something.
But his voice was not enough after all, and it was soon drowned out, and he was pushed around in the surging crowd.
The potions disappeared one by one, and many players who stole the potions were secretly happy.
Not long after, Bing Lei was squeezed next to Su Xia again and said anxiously: "Pharmacist Su, what should we do now?"
"rest assured."
Su Xia had a smile on her face. The goods displayed on the first floor were just a drop in the bucket compared to the goods stored in the basement, so even if they were all stolen, it wouldn't be a big loss.
Of course, he wouldn't just sit there and do nothing.
He stood up from the counter, waved his hands, and several poisons appeared between the fingers of his two hands, and then he slammed it down.
"bump!"
Several poisons of different colors instantly exploded in front of him, and the container debris splattered everywhere.
Gray, dark black, and dark red poisonous fogs dispersed in an instant, floating everywhere in wisps. The picture was surprisingly beautiful, like a crushed paint palette.
The group of players in the front didn't have time to react before their eyes went dark, their bodies went limp, and they all fell down.
Bing Lei wailed: "No way, Brother Su, here you go again..."
Before he could finish his words, he leaned against the wall and lay down.
Behind him, row after row of players fell like dominoes, from front to back.
This was not the end. Su Xia took out more than ten potions and threw them into the air with swift movements. More poisonous fog surged out, filling the entire first floor of the pharmacy.
The poisons that Su Xia threw out were "Withered Rose", "Sleeping Potion" and "Black Ghost", which were third-level poisons he obtained from previous missions.
Withering roses will cause people to become weak.
As for the sleeping potion, you can tell what it means just by looking at the name.
Under the combined effects of these two potions, players inside and outside the store fell one after another, and the scene was quite spectacular.
More and more poisonous fog was leaking out of the store. The toxic gas was thick and the color was strange.
"What happened?"
The players behind were all stunned. They stopped and didn't dare to push forward.
Afterwards, those wisps of dark poisonous fog began to merge in the air, transforming into one BOSS-level third-order ghost monster after another with extremely strong combat power.
These monsters screamed together, and their appearances were terrifying, as if they had crawled out of hell.
They picked up the unconscious players, threw them casually, and threw them to the other side of the street.
“Bang…Bang…”
The bodies of the unconscious players, like footballs, drew elegant parabolas in the air and finally fell heavily to the ground. Many of them lost half of their blood after falling.
At this time, Su Xia also came outside the store.
He did not walk out, but stepped on a black cloud-like ghost monster, passed over countless unconscious players, and flew out slowly.
This third-level black ghost is an upgraded version of the second-level grey ghost. It is loyal and powerful.
The only downside is that it's too short-lived.
Su Xia has recently been trying to find ways to improve it, integrating the knowledge from the two experience books to create a higher-level poison gas monster suitable for himself.
"There's no need to throw these guys out, they are our own people." Su Xia stood on the black cloud, his robe fluttering, his bearing extraordinary, and carefully arranged the actions of those monsters.
Every time the poison gas was about to disappear, he would throw out a dozen more.
Not far away, at the corner of the old street, several teams of patrol members responsible for maintaining order hurried over.
Seeing this scene, the soldiers all widened their eyes, unable to believe what they saw. After a long while, someone loudly asked, "Master Su, do you need our help?"
"No need."
Su Xia replied with a smile.
A few minutes later, a group of media teams who came to interview Su Xia were also stunned.
They were all standing at the street entrance, holding their guns and cannons. No one dared to enter the old street because the entire street was covered in poison gas.
Looking down from the sky, poisonous fog of different colors entangled together, floating up and down, like a ferocious dragon.
"Oh my God, is this the strength of a top pharmacist?" The city news reporter exclaimed in front of the camera.
They were instructed to make Su Xia and his pharmacy famous in a very short time.
They are still wondering what to do.
Now, the existing news materials are right in front of us, so there is no need to edit them.
After today, Su Xia's fame is bound to spread throughout the city, and even the wanderers in the corners of the city will know his name.
At this time, outside the store, a ghost monster grabbed Sijidao and shook it casually. The meaning was self-evident: Should we throw this guy out too?
Sijidao does have some skills. While the other players were asleep, he was still awake and was not greatly affected by the weakness.
It seems that his master should have given him a lot of general high-level antidotes.
After being poisoned by Su Xia several times before, Sijidao became much more cautious and took the antidote before entering the pharmacy today.
"Su Xia!" Sijidao gnashed his teeth, full of hatred, "Just wait! Just wait! Sooner or later, I will return this humiliation to you! Double it!"
"Huh? Why are there flies again?"
Su Xia looked up at the sky with a puzzled look on her face.
Sijidao was so angry that he was shaking all over and almost vomited blood: "You..."
Before he could finish his next words, he was thrown out by the ghost monster. His body was like a rag doll, flying farther than the other players, and finally landed in a trash can several streets away.
With a bang, several plastic trash cans were smashed into pieces, and the smelly garbage was all over him.
Sijidao was so angry that his eyes became bloodshot. He couldn't bear it anymore and his body disappeared.
He was once again so angry that he went offline.
I came to the pharmacy today, intending to disgust Su Xia and attack the members of the resistance alliance, but I didn't expect this result.
Once Su Xia starts recruiting apprentices, the pharmacy will soon become a factory that mass-produces potions, providing a steady supply of cheap potions enough to support the entire alliance.
“Damn it!” Sijidao punched the wall of the VR room to vent his anger. “I can’t let him have his way. If he can accept a disciple, so can I!”
With Sijidao's identity, it is not difficult to open a pharmacy on his own, but the difficulty lies in the teaching.
He himself had just become a second-level pharmacist, what could he teach others?
In this regard, his greatest reliance is naturally the fifth-level pharmacist teacher.
Sijidao's face was gloomy. His teacher subjectively did not want to be involved in any dispute, but now he had no choice. He had to agree even if he didn't want to!
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In the game, the poisonous fog over the old street gradually dissipated.
When clearing out the players, Su Xia took into consideration the feelings of the residents on the street, and had the ghost monster deliver antidotes and several large-denomination banknotes to each resident to make them understand.
The neighbors around had some complaints at first, but after seeing a few big bills, they all expressed their understanding and even hoped to come more often.
When the poisonous fog completely dispersed, the captains of several patrol teams hurried over and said apologetically, "Master Su, I'm really sorry. The whole city is under martial law recently. There are too many areas that need to be patrolled. We are short of manpower and cannot rush here in the first time."
Su Xia is now on the rise. After all, he is a person valued by Yu Tuo, and no one wants to offend him.
Su Xia smiled and said, "It's okay. Didn't I tell you that I can handle it myself?"
"Don't take it to heart."
"No." Su Xia shook her head and asked, "The masked man has disappeared for a long time and there has been no news. How long will the city's martial law last? I'm worried that it will affect my business."
"Well, it's hard to say." The patrol captain sighed.
"What's wrong?"
"We thought that the masked man had disappeared for so long and was probably killed by the Zero Tavern," the patrol leader explained. "The superiors told us that we could rest easy for a few days, but today we suddenly received news that the masked man had appeared again."
"oh?"
Su Xia was stunned. He was right here and hadn't moved.
Is there anyone impersonating him to cause trouble again?
Last time, Mercer arranged for a psychic creature with special abilities to impersonate him, intending to let the fake infiltrate the resistance organization.
Fortunately, Su Xia knew the news in advance and killed the faker in public.
That was his first nominal death.
Later, there were several more reports of his death, but he came back to life each time, so the rumors about him became more and more bizarre.
" What exactly happened?" Su Xia asked.
"Early this morning, news came from Kaiba City in the south that someone photographed a masked man appearing."
"What did he do?"
"He didn't do anything, he just showed up for a while." The patrol captain told the truth, "But you also know that with the ability of the masked man, just showing up is enough to make us nervous. Who knows if he will return to Coral City?"
"Yeah, that's true..."
Su Xia's heart moved slightly, but his expression did not change. He thought about the movements of his father and others.
Dad and the others were heading south, and judging by the time, they should have arrived at Seahorse City.
Could it be them?
Dad knows Su Xia’s identity.
Maybe he just did it for the sake of convenience, helping Su Xia spread the smoke bomb to deliberately mislead the enemy's direction.
"The masked man is very dangerous. Master, you must pay attention to your safety." The patrol captain suddenly said, "You know, with your current identity, it is easy to attract the attention of that person."
"I understand." Su Xia nodded.
In the past, the masked man had always been targeting Zhao Si.
Now, Su Xia's status and position are gradually approaching Zhao Si's. From the outside, even the means by which they got to the top are similar.
The patrol captain was worried: "If you need, we can send soldiers to patrol this area 24 hours a day to ensure your personal safety."
"No need." Su Xia smiled, "If he really comes, you won't be able to stop him, and you will just sacrifice your lives in vain."
"Yes... you are right."
The patrol captain was somewhat touched. He never expected that a big shot like Su Xia would treat them as human beings.
In the eyes of many bigwigs in this city, the lives of these soldiers are not worth living at all, they are just consumable materials.
After chatting for a few words, the patrol leader took his men to patrol other areas.
And the piles of players on the ground slowly woke up.
Before this, although their characters were asleep, they were awake and saw Su Xia's actions clearly.
After waking up, no one dared to rush forward.
They understood that if Su Xia wanted to kill them, it would be as difficult as killing a few ants.
The scene was quiet for a while. After a long while, Bing Lei spoke up on behalf of many players: "Brother Su, when are you going to start accepting disciples?"
"Today, please."
"What? Now?" Bing Lei was delighted.
"Yes, you can come and register first." Su Xia smiled, "The pharmacy needs to be expanded, so we can't accept too many people for the time being, but anyone who is interested can come and register. I will contact you after the expansion."
“That’s great!”
“Get in line first!”
Su Xia glanced at everyone and turned back to the pharmacy.
After what happened before, these players became well behaved. No one dared to squeeze in anymore, and they lined up outside to register.
Bing Lei and North sat at the door of the store, doing hard labor for Su Xia and were responsible for registering the members.
"Brother Su, shall we only register our own people for now?" Bing Lei asked.
"Well, naturally we have to let the people of the alliance become apprentices first."
"That's good."
Soon, the conversation in the store was heard, and bursts of wailing sounds were heard outside.
There are many individual players, as well as some players who rely on the mechanical clan, and they are all excluded.
In order to become apprentices, many individual players joined the alliance on the spot, including the one who had the little ant clone, as well as other players with good strength.
The alliance was gradually growing stronger, and Binglei, North and others were happy to see it. They happily recruited people and registered them.
When the ninth player was registered, Su Xia suddenly said, "Wait, this person cannot be registered."
"Brother Su, what's wrong?"
Bing Lei was surprised and looked up to ask.
This player is a member of his own team and has been following him for some time, so there should be no problem.
Su Xia said calmly: "He stole something before."
"What?"
Bing Lei was stunned. It was so chaotic at the time that he didn't notice it.
He frowned, his expression serious, and looked at the player and asked, "Sixth Brother, did you take Brother Su's things?"
The player named Lao Liu turned pale, and under Bing Lei's gaze, he stammered, "I... I didn't take it..."
