study.

[C. Spend 5,000 gold (personal property) to purchase a luxurious tombstone (there is a chance to meet investor Cobert)]

To be honest, Weiwei was quite curious about how this chance encounter happened.

There is still more than 70,000 yuan left, so she has the capital to give it a try.

【You chose C. 】

After pressing the select button, the system panel suddenly began to vibrate, and then a huge phone icon occupied Weiwei's field of vision.

She raised her eyebrows, propped up the bookcase with one hand, and answered the phone consciously——

"Hello, this is Iceberg Restaurant. Please confirm your order. Is it gin, tomato salad and shrimp with mayonnaise?"

[Please read this sentence: "No, I ordered meal set 5..."]

"No," Weiwei said, "I ordered the number five, rum, thank you."

The other party replied: "Okay, what else do you need for meals?"

[Please read this sentence: "Triple high purity mercury, traded at ____ (time and place)"]

Weiwei stared at the reflection on the bookcase glass and slowly read a line of sentences: "Three high-purity mercury, tonight at nine o'clock, under the third manhole on Assell Street in the Diamond District."

"Good guest, we will deliver your meal to your door on time."

The call was disconnected.

The mayor selects the "Millie" dialog box and starts typing——

[Where can I buy mercury?]

Secretary: [ACE Chemical Factory, as well as some of the companies in our city, such as Dagaite Enterprises and Wayne Company. Dagaite is a pharmaceutical company, while Wayne Company is a comprehensive company, including large and small laboratories. These are all companies that can legally purchase mercury, but their purchase amount has a certain limit. After all, this is a dangerous chemical.]

Secretary: [In addition, the City Hall has a certain amount of mercury in stock, and we can also legally purchase various metals. Ms. Alec, how much mercury do you want to buy?]

Factories, enterprises and laboratories...this does not include the Penguin Man's Iceberg Restaurant. It is obvious that the Penguin Man is engaged in smuggling business, and now his business has reached the level of the mayor.

Smuggling is generally not taxable.

Vivi stroked the hair of the corpse beside her thoughtfully. She felt that the information she had collected so far seemed useful in dealing with the penguin people, but it was not enough.

But back on topic…

Why does it take three liters of dangerous mercury to deal with a corpse? Is it to prevent corpse theft?

This amount of water should be enough to soak the body, right?

And this mercury will not suddenly appear on her desk, but she needs to go and get it from the penguin man's men in person.

Take the opportunity to kill the other party? But how many people can be killed with this method? Weiwei immediately rejected it in her heart. Besides, fighting and killing are not good. As the mayor, how can he do such an uncivilized thing?

After all, Hongming is also her reserve laborer.

She stared at her own corpse and found that the selection panel had not disappeared yet.

There are still four options: ABCD, and option C seems to be available for selection again.

For some unknown reason, Weiwei pressed it again.

"Hello--"

"Number five, rum," she interrupted, lowering her voice. "I heard that I can buy everything I want at the Iceberg Restaurant, right?"

"Of course, sir, what do you need?" The voice on the other end was a little smiling.

Weiwei repeated her request: "Three liters of mercury, okay?"

The operator's voice paused.

"Of course you can, but..." said the penguin man's subordinate, "We need some time. After all, this metal is not easy to store and is very dangerous. We don't have enough in stock. Three days later, okay?"

The call was disconnected.

But Weiwei got at least two messages from the phone call:

The operator didn't realize that she was the previous buyer, and the penguin man's mercury inventory was not very sufficient.

Weiwei was keenly aware that there was something that could be used, but the information...the information she had obtained was not enough.

There was a knock on the door.

Weiwei stuffed the body back and pushed the door open. Sure enough, it was Millie who came with Sheila.

Sheila squatted on her chair, holding the big gray rat in her palm, looking over with shocked and slightly confused eyes——

"Mr. Scott thinks we should get to work as soon as possible."

There was a bottle of spray paint on the table, and the mouse named "Scott" had a little red at the corner of his mouth.

"Then I'm happy to provide you with a job opportunity," Weiwei paused, "By the way, do I need to pay it a salary?"

Sheila: "Of course not. It can take care of itself."

Weiwei: Wow—

She thought she had hired an army of rats for 2,000 gold coins.

Looks like a good deal.

"In that case... let's start with cleaning."

[You get a side quest: Is there still eavesdropping? ]

[Mission Description: When you find the first eavesdropping device, you will find a bunch of eavesdropping devices in the corner of the room]

It's not a good experience to have a group of rats crawling around in the town hall - fortunately, everyone else has gone off work, and Millie, with a pale face, stays by Sheila's side, although the one next to her is the real little queen that the gray rats surround.

Broken nails in the corners, once-used razor blades, and various tiny eavesdropping devices, only the size of buttons, emitting a faint metallic luster. Even Millie could only mutter, "Why are there so many buttons missing?"

The colors are also different.

Weiwei picked it up and looked at the [Rainbow Button Disguise·Micro Eavesdropping Device], but there was no other introduction.

Who needs to bug City Hall?

——The manufacturing technology of these eavesdropping devices seems to be very advanced.

Weiwei threw the button back into the trash bag, opened the panel to make sure the entire town hall had been cleared, and told Millie to call the guards: "Throw away this garbage as soon as possible."

No matter who is behind this, go and snoop in the trash can!

Sheila followed the mice around obediently. Millie went to the logistics department to get her a uniform. It was a little too big, but she had nothing to wear. Time slowly passed until 7pm, and it was time for Millie to get off work.

Weiwei asked Sheila to stay. The secretary hesitated for a moment, and a few minutes later, quietly placed a cup of hot coffee on the mayor's long table.

"I think you might need this," she said softly, lowering her head. "You don't seem to have had a good rest. Please take care of yourself."

The aroma of coffee lingered in my nose. The office door had been quietly closed. The secretary's footsteps were brisk.

But in the end, Weiwei didn't touch the cup of coffee.

She said to Sheila, "I think you did a good job...so I want to give you another mission, um...and I need to send someone with you."

Sheila's eyes lit up and she nodded sharply.

You are awesome! The mayor loves employees like you the most!

Ten minutes later, Vivi, who had taken off her glasses, and Sheila, who was holding the ring and looking a little nervous, stood together at the sewer manhole in the city hall.

The "other person" she refers to is actually herself.

The first transaction with the Penguin Man, Weiwei decided to go and see it in person, but how could the mayor climb down the sewer? Only [Unknown Person] Weiwei could do it.

"Let's move quickly," Weiwei said quickly, "the guards will be patrolling here in three minutes."

Sheila: “?”

Without explaining to her, Weiwei lifted the manhole cover, climbed down, and called for Sheila to follow.

As the last ray of light disappeared, the two girls walked into the dark sewer.

"You didn't bring a flashlight..."

"Do you need it?"

"Of course not, the mice are my eyes."

"Then I don't need it. I can see it clearly."

"……wack."

"If I'm a weirdo," Weiwei said calmly, "Aren't you a companion of the weirdo?"

The gray rat Scott was running fast through the sewer with a ring in his mouth. Sheila's order to him was to go farther, deeper, to places that ordinary people could not reach. According to Sheila, Scott was her long-time partner and more reliable than the other rats summoned temporarily - this was automatically translated into "this rat will not run away with the ring" by Vivi.

As for the other ring, it was on Weiwei's left index finger. As they moved forward, the map was becoming more and more complete. However, after almost an hour, it had only increased from [1%] to [7%]. Obviously, this was a long job.

This requires patience and tolerance of a bad environment. Weiwei closed her respiratory system so that she could not smell the stench, but Sheila seemed to adapt well. From time to time, little mice would crawl over and touch her toes, then wade through the stinky ditch and go somewhere else.

"The third sewer manhole on Asser Street in the Diamond District, right?" Sheila turned her head at this time and confirmed their destination with the brown-haired girl behind her.

And Vivi nodded.

She didn't notice that Sheila was staring at her.

A weirdo, but not annoying.

Because Sheila found that Weiwei didn't look at her with that kind of eyes, neither sympathy nor disgust. The look she gave her was as if she was looking at a useful tool, full of admiration. Sheila got the value that a tool deserved.

She felt extremely happy.

The two girls trekked underground in the Diamond District, but Vivi pulled Sheila to stop. They were less than a hundred meters away from their destination, but the map reflected on the ring was blurry, and it seemed that there was more than one person. She took off the ring and asked Sheila to control a mouse to hold it in its mouth. When they got close to a certain range, human figures appeared on the map.

More than one person——

It seems that the penguin's subordinates are very punctual. It's not even eight o'clock yet, but they have already arrived.

If you switch the map to the ground, you can see more than one red name gathered nearby, with the words [Penguin Man's Subordinates] written above their heads.

"I'm just buying three liters of mercury," Weiwei said in a low voice, "Is there any need to make such a big fuss?"

Did she really buy out the Penguin Man's inventory?

A not-too-small sealed box has been placed right below the manhole, but if Vivi comes out at this moment, no one knows what the penguin men will do to her as the buyer - it was clearly bought to deal with corpses, but there might be an extra corpse here.

And the dead can't be refreshed. Weiwei turned to look at Sheila...

The SSR she just got can't be lost like this.

All we can do is wait and let the mouse continue to unlock the map.

Fortunately, Sheila was not the type to ask for reasons. When Weiwei asked her not to move, she squatted down with her knees hugged and did not move.

Ten minutes later, at 9:00 sharp, the situation changed slightly.

The red dot a hundred meters away started to stir inexplicably—

A green dot named [Robin] is rapidly approaching [Penguin Man's Men]. At first glance, it looks like a touch of green buried in a sea of ​​red.

Weiwei and Sheila raised their heads at the same time. They were silent as the sound of fist fighting echoed through the walls and reached their ears.

Robin, isn't Robin the name of a bird?

The image of a muscular bird walking upright gradually emerged in Weiwei's mind, and there was a guy who could control mice beside him. It seemed that the citizens of Gotam were so weird.

Weiwei started to speak: "Can the mice...lift a box weighing about 100 pounds?"

Sheila: = =

"I can try."

But that might require more than one mouse.

The rustling sound was hidden in the noise of the sewer, and a pair of dark red eyes lit up.