Chapter 517 Disappointing Outer City

"I'll give you another chance now, do you need me to take you for a medical examination?"

Yakumo guessed that he would let Li Zheng act alone, and he didn't know how much disaster would be caused. The rare open side gave Li Zheng another chance to choose.

In the past, if someone rejected her once, she would be too lazy to deal with it.

"I want it! Of course I want it!"

Li Zheng nodded again and again, and then he asked inexplicably: "Actually, you took me for a medical examination, just to make some extra money from me, right? Then I will give you the money directly, and you will provide me with a little help. Does one less middleman make the difference?"

"Do you think I don't want to?"

Yakumo took Li Zheng to the end of the street: "But I have official duties. If I accept gratuitous gifts from others privately, it is a bribe. Do you want me to lose my job?"

"so serious?"

Li Zheng was surprised, is the management of the outer city so strict?

"No, then you earn extra money by taking a commission, is it different from accepting bribes?"

No matter how you look at it, it feels the same, and even the latter's behavior seems to be worse...

"Of course there are differences."

Yakumo explained: "Taking you for a medical examination is equivalent to a part-time 'intermediary' for me. As an intermediary, isn't it normal to get commissions from services? After all, I paid for the labor."

"It's... how reasonable is it?" Li Zheng always felt that there was something wrong with her remarks, "No! Your job is a novice receptionist, so if you work as an intermediary during your work, is it considered a divorce without permission? duty?"

"Yelan is my immediate boss." Yakumo explained without thinking.

"Then what?" Li Zheng didn't react.

"...He's my immediate boss, so I can ask for leave as long as he approves. You still don't understand?"

"learn!"

Li Zheng nodded vigorously, it turned out that he was still using the public for personal gain.

In fact, it's just accepting bribes in disguise.

"Exactly, the place I want to take you to is far away. If you have any questions along the way, feel free to ask, as long as I can answer your questions, I will answer your questions." After being silent for a while, Yakumo spoke again: "But I can't. Said, or the relatively high-value information needs to pay a certain price, the value ranges from one hundred white crystal coins to ten thousand white crystal coins, so you think carefully before asking, don’t waste my time.”

In fact, after staying in the outer city for a while, Li Zheng has already discovered that this place is a society that recognizes money. As long as you have money, you can do anything.

It really demonstrates what it means: it is impossible to walk without money.

Yakumo is quite generous, and is willing to answer a few questions for himself for free.

Although it is for the sake of earning extra money from myself...

After thinking about it for a while, Li Zheng listed several questions and asked them one by one: "The first question is, where should I go if I want to exchange white crystal coins?"

"Well, I thought you would ask where the terminal is."

Yakumo said this with some sarcasm, indicating that the first thing most people did when they came to the outer city was to see the matrix terminal.

"First of all, you have to understand that there is a difference even in the place where you can exchange white crystal coins in private."

"In some places, the exchange ratio is relatively large, but the corresponding risk is also very high."

"Don't see that all dangerous goods in the outer city must be turned over for safekeeping. In fact, you can see from the conflict just now that there are many ways to kill people without weapons."

"So, if you find a black market to exchange white crystal coins, you'd better keep your eyes open and don't exchange too much under the same force at one time, otherwise you will be targeted by others."

"In some corners of the outer city, some corpses are always found every day. Most of them were assassinated and robbed after their wealth was exposed."

"Besides, since you know that there is a private exchange point, it must be Delta... Oh, it's the guy at the registration office just now, did he tell you?"

Li Zheng nodded.

Yakumo continued: "Don't look at him as if he has a good heart. He told you in advance not to reveal his wealth. In fact, this guy is very dark. Believe it or not, look back now. You can see the faces of at least three people outside the registration office. Pass?"

"!!!"

Li Zheng was shocked when he heard the words, and held back the thought of looking back.

"You are very smart, you didn't startle the snake, but you are stupid because you exchanged a white crystal coin at Delta." Yakumo seemed to shake her head, and she could only see the hood she was wearing swinging from side to side. When you first entered the outer city, you did not hesitate to exchange a white crystal coin, indicating that you must have a lot of good things in your hand.

In this way, when those people rob, they will be more evil than others, so you have to be mentally prepared. "

"Aren't he afraid of breaking the rules?" Li Zheng couldn't help but ask, wouldn't these public officials be punished by the terminal?

"Hehe, as long as he doesn't do it himself, there is no reason for the terminal to punish him." Yakumo dismissed Delta's approach, with no technical content at all. Like a bandit, he only dared to do something to the weak.

"Then how did he benefit... oh..." Li Zheng reacted: "Those people grabbed things, and the share belonging to Delta will be consumed through the official exchange window, and then Delta will receive regular commissions from it?"

"That's right." Yakumo nodded.

"No one cares about this kind of thing?" Li Zheng was in a complicated mood. He thought that the rules of the outer city would be more orderly, but now it doesn't seem to be much better than the so-called wilderness.

Maybe it's just a detour when doing some dirty things, peace on the bright side.

"Of course someone is in charge. That's what the law enforcement team does."

For some reason, when Li Zheng heard Yakumo mention the law enforcement team, he didn't mean much respect.

It seems...with a bit of contempt.

"Well, did you see that guy with the armband?"

Yakumo turned his head to the side, and Li Zheng looked in the direction. It was a beetle-like guy with six arms. One of the arms was tied with a black cloth on the chitin shell. The surface of the cloth was embroidered with a long handle. Abstract pattern of crossed swords and pistols.

"That's the law enforcement team?"

Li Zheng narrowed his eyes because the beetle was leaning lazily outside a shop, ignoring passersby on the roadside.

Yakumo nodded lightly: "Can you expect this group of wine sacks and rice sacks to perform their duties? But they don't really care. If there is a battle above the junior level in the outer city, they are still willing to move.

It's not because they want to fulfill the responsibilities of the law enforcement team, but those who make trouble often have good things in them, and they can use the public to seek personal gain, rob them, and enrich their own pockets. "

"It means that people below the primary level usually don't care if they make trouble, just because there is no oil and water?" Li Zheng couldn't believe it. For people with primary strength, there is almost no way to survive in the outer city?

"Not necessarily." Yakumo said here, his tone became complicated: "Every once in a while, the terminal will conduct assessments for those of us who hold public positions. If the assessment is not up to standard, their positions will be dismissed."

"So there may be periodic chaos in the outer city. When the assessment period is approaching, law enforcement will be strengthened. Once the assessment is over, the outer city will fall into a short-lived carnival?" Li Zheng understood the meaning.

"If you want to avoid the 'Carnival', you can honestly find a building to stay in during that time." Yakumo said: "The outer city rules, all buildings, non-special places are not allowed to have any illegal activities. No. If you rule out that someone will provoke you, you must endure this kind of thing, as long as you do it first, you will be finished."

"What's the special place you're talking about here...?" Li Zheng is now a curious baby, and can't wait to know everything about the outer city.

"a lot of."

Yakumo introduced to him: "For example, there are places with underground boxing gyms, casinos, smoke shops, prostitution houses, etc. Because of the special circumstances of these places, it is difficult to ensure that there will be no danger.

After all... the fights of boxers, the red-eyed loss of gambling dogs, the outbreak of smokers' addiction, and the jealousy of clients, these are all unstable factors. If you want to avoid them, it is best not to go to these places. "

"It turned out to be these places..."

For a moment, Li Zheng almost thought that he had returned to the earth. What is the difference between such pornography, gambling, and poison?

The so-called smoke shop is probably the place where drugs are sold. This kind of thing that erodes people's will, the terminal doesn't care?

Well……

Maybe the terminal can't control it if it wants to. If you dare to touch these things, there must be a very terrifying force behind it.

It is hard for Li Zheng, who was born on Earth, to imagine that every business that is a felony on Earth is actually a 'legal' act in an outer city.

It simply shocked him for a hundred years!

Li Zheng knew that with his current strength, he must not be able to touch those behemoths.

But when he heard about these things that hurt others, he already had the idea of ​​​​eradicating these poisonous tumors.

It is our duty to punish the traitors and remove the evil, keep the wind upright, and make the outer city clear and bright!

"Don't you have the idea of ​​fighting against certain forces?"

Yakumo seemed to be able to see through other people's thoughts, she said Li Zheng's thoughts without looking back, she chuckled lightly: "I advise you to put this thought away, I have seen many righteous people, but They either die, or they join forces."

"I won't, at least I won't join forces!" Li Zheng restrained his expression: "What do you old players think about this?"

"us?"

Yakumo was silent for a while, then laughed out loud: "In your words, it's rotten, what else can you do? Life will pass, the best you can do is to restrain yourself from touching it."

Is this a typical case that cannot be resisted and can only be rotten?

Li Zheng frowned, if everyone didn't know how to resist, what's the point of staying in this outer city?

Do you just stay here and get drunk?

What about emotional storms?

What about the home?

Just ignore it?

Li Zheng found that in less than four hours, the more he knew about the outer city, the more disgusted he became.

If it wasn't for the terminal to force him over, he really wanted to get out of here and go back to the matrix.

At least in that place, he has a certain ability to constrain the rules to a relatively less cruel range.

Li Zheng only felt a little depressed, as if all his doubts suddenly disappeared.

"Are there any other questions to ask?" Yakumo noticed his silence and asked after a while.

"There were a lot of them, but suddenly I lost interest." Li Zheng sighed.

"Are you disappointed in the outer city?" Yakumo said with a chuckle: "Actually, you don't need to be so pessimistic. Although the outer city is a bit chaotic, there are still certain rules, and you will understand when you get in touch with them.

And... not everyone is rotten here, there are still people trying to survive. "

It's not that they didn't resist, but they all failed.

Otherwise, it will not be trapped in the outer city, lingering on.

At the end of the day, the out-of-towners are just a bunch of bereaved dogs, living on in a way they consider themselves dignified.

It is also unclear who is right and who is wrong, who is legal and who is not.

Just as rolling your eyes means disrespecting people on earth, it is the highest etiquette in the black and white tapir family.

"Let me tell me where I can exchange white crystal coins." Li Zheng was silent for a while, and then asked again: "I was distracted by you just now, and the topic suddenly drifted away."

"Don't worry, we can change it wherever we go."

Yakumo took Li Zheng to turn a corner and entered a deep alley. The number of pedestrians here became sparse in an instant. The sides of the alley were full of debris, and there were all kinds of messes in it.

Li Zheng even saw an eyeball of unknown race rolling out from a pile of debris, and looked at him dribblingly, very strange.

"Go away!"

Yakumo kicked him mercilessly, and there was a scream of pain from the junk pile next to him.

But apart from the scream, there was no more response.

Li Zheng followed Yakumo further, and couldn't help but ask curiously, "What happened just now?"

"It's just a tramp from a multi-eyed clan. When you walk in the future, be careful with your feet. If you accidentally step on the eyeballs they threw, and don't cheat you, don't think about it better." Yakumo explained: "Like me It's the best way to deal with it just now, without stepping on your eyeballs, and letting them know that you're not easy to mess with."

"..."

Li Zheng was amazed that there is such a race that doesn't care about his organs at all?

"Do you think they don't care about their organs?" Yakumo sneered, "Then you really guessed right, they really don't care.

The multi-eyed people have a very strange feature. All the eyes on the body can quickly regenerate, and if one loses one, it can grow back in up to 24 hours.

It is a pity that these eyeballs are special and cannot be transplanted to any living body except the owner who produced them.

Otherwise, they would not become homeless by selling their eyeballs. "

Hearing this, Li Zheng couldn't help but ask: "In addition to the exchange of white crystal coins in the outer city, is there no other way to earn white crystal coins?"

Yakumo stopped, and the two had come to a door with a strange lamp, and slapped a strange face lamp.

"Ow~"

Lighting actually opened his eyes and said something in a complaining tone before opening the door.

"Here, come in."

Yakumo beckoned, let Li Zheng follow her in, and explained the problem to him by the way: "Of course there are channels to earn white crystal coins, and there are many.

In addition to all kinds of business, the most well-known is the task.

As for where to pick up the task, after completing the physical examination in a while, we walked straight forward along the road we came in. This is the building with the most exaggerated style and the largest area. "

At this moment, Li Zheng saw a small door open in the brightly lit building, and a figure came out.

"It's you!?"