Chapter 653: The Great Tang Dynasty. Finding Accommodation
After leaving the mission hall, Chu An discovered a red mark on the back of Gu Ye’s right hand.
Chu An, "What happened to your hand?"
"Ah?" Gu Ye raised his hand and remembered. "Ah, just now someone mistook me for his friend. When I pushed him away, I accidentally scratched his ring. It didn't bleed, and it will heal in two days."
Chu An pulled his hand over and saw a red mark, but there was indeed no bleeding.
She had heard of people hiding poison needles in their rings. However, the poison needed to be injected into the body through the needle tip after the needle tip had pierced the body, and then the ring mechanism was controlled to inject the poison into the body through the needle tip.
She taped the wound with a tissue and sent it into the space for Wang Ce to test it. One should not have the intention to harm others, but one must be on guard against others.
"Do you feel uncomfortable?" Chu An asked.
"No, I didn't feel anything." Gu Ye said with a smile, "This person was very strange, he seemed to know me, he came towards me to say hello, and even wanted to hug me. I just... pushed him away, and that's why I got the scratch on the back of my hand."
"Is there anything on his ring?"
“I didn’t see it clearly.”
An ordinary ring would not have made such a deep cut. Fortunately, Gu Ye was quite alert, so even if there was poison in the ring, it would not have been released in time. However, he still silently urged Wang Ce to hurry up.
Faced with such life-and-death matters, Wang Ce would take it seriously, and every time he would even do it faster than Chu An expected.
"From now on, you can't stay too far away from me." Chu An said very seriously.
"Okay." Gu Ye smiled and showed two little canine teeth.
Chu An’s space is stocked with the latest fast fully automatic blood analyzer, which can produce data in fifteen minutes. Gu Ye was not poisoned in any way.
It was a false alarm, Chu An took out three cups of fruit tea to calm himself down and cool down.
The sun is a bit hot today. The thermometer shows 40 degrees, which has not been this high for a long time. It feels like the residual heat before winter.
"Where to go next?" asked Lao Chu.
"Go get some information." Chu An was also thinking about going to the black market to see if there should be some information that outsiders don't know.
The three of them specifically looked for street urchins and old hands nearby, and within Chu An's sight, they each used their own abilities to inquire.
An hour later, the three people organized the information they had received and, after repeated comparisons, came to a conclusion that was 70% true.
The black market in the night market is at the easternmost end of Sixth Street, beyond the boundary of Sheng 33rd Street, where there is a forest.
Behind the woods is the undulating construction waste, forming no less than a hundred garbage mountains, stretching all the way up the mountain, forming a natural maze.
The black market is next to a garbage dump, and you can only know where it is on the day it opens.
People who want to go to the black market usually stroll around the night market, and when the time comes, someone will leave a special mark of the black market's location at a specific location.
If you don’t understand the rules of the black market or can’t read the special symbols, then I’m sorry, the black market has nothing to do with you.
The night market starts at 6pm and ends around 10pm. News about the location of the black market usually appears between 8pm and 9pm.
"My special symbol is in the shape of lightning." Lao Chu drew the shape he remembered on paper, which was vivid. In addition to the special symbol, there was also a simple map.
"Mine is five circles, one inside the other." The circle drawn by Gu Ye is a real circle, rounder than a compass. "I didn't draw a map, the location is similar to Uncle Chu's."
Chu An looked at what he had drawn on paper based on his memory... Never mind, "I'll trust your symbols. My map is a little different from yours. I entered the woods from Fifth Avenue, No. 33."
"We can choose a place with high probability and wait there. We can't just go there with the three of us and follow the crowd." Lao Chu said, "Even if we go the wrong way, nothing will happen if we go together."
"Okay." Chu An and Gu Ye agreed.
"Girl, what are you drawing? Let me see it." Old Chu said with interest, but was glared at by Chu An.
…
There are still three hours before the night market starts, which is just the right time to fulfill the agreement with those little kids. The timing is just as she calculated, but she doesn't know how many kids will be able to come to her.
"Let's go down along Sheng No. 21 and find a hotel or apartment first." Chu An said, "Then go to the grave."
Gu Ye, "I think we should go back to Riri Jiujiu tonight. We can't let them get away with it."
Lao Chu, "That won't stop us from looking for an apartment. We can look for one tomorrow in case we can't find one. Anyway, we have nothing else to do right now, so let's book a room first."
Gu Ye nodded in agreement. He didn't actively look for a place to stay because he thought Xiao An was not going to the black market, but to mess up things. Her disaster-inducing physique might not keep her quiet tonight, and it was not certain where she would stay tomorrow.
The three of them drove down along Sheng 21st Street at a slow speed. It was the hottest time of the day and there was almost no one outside.
They saw many apartments but few hotels at the intersection of Fifth Avenue and Sheng 21. There were strange talismans pasted on every store door, and some residential windows also had them pasted on them.
Chu An discovered this yesterday, but only a few families in Ri Ri Jiu Jiu had posted them, but almost every family here had posted them, and some had posted more than a dozen. Sure enough, when science can't explain it, people start to believe in metaphysics!
They passed by many apartments, all of which had signs saying they were full. Many people who could come to Sheng Tang had family backgrounds, but they had to live there for half a year before they could apply for the qualification to live in the inner city, so they could only wait here.
They continued to drive down. Fourth Street was better, with many apartments not fully occupied, but the quality was lower. On Fourth Street, Lao Chu saw a penthouse with a balcony.
The three people immediately stopped the car, got out and walked into the hall.
"Do you want to rent by day, week or month?" The receptionist was a woman in her fifties. Her face was flushed and she kept wiping the sweat off her face.
"How many points?"
The aunt weakly pointed to the pillar next to her, on which the rental prices were posted: daily rental was 15 points, weekly rental was 90 points, and monthly rental was 300 points.
Even if we rent it by the day, it only costs 90 points a month. And this is before we even go to the hotel. Wouldn't the hotel cost 20 points a day?
Chu An didn't lack these points, but she didn't want to be taken advantage of. She wanted to go up and see the room to see if it was worth 300 points a month.
"You can't go upstairs to see the room if you don't rent it. There are photos of the interior on the other side of the pillar... The aunt's voice was hoarse.
The three people turned to the other side of the pillar. There were three types of apartments: one bedroom and one living room of 35 square meters, two bedrooms and one living room of 50 square meters, and suite of 70 square meters, all with independent kitchens and bathrooms.
The suite is not a suite in the traditional sense. It is equivalent to two one-bedroom apartments, but they share a bathroom and kitchen.
"Is there an apartment with three bedrooms and a living room?" Chu An asked.
"No...where can you find such a big house nowadays?"
The aunt's voice became weaker and weaker. Chu An turned his head and found that her lips were purple and her hands could no longer be lifted to wipe the sweat. The next second, she fell down behind the counter with a thud.
Even though Chu An and the others had killed countless people and experienced the cruelty of the end of the world, they couldn't just pretend nothing happened and leave. Besides, this was a peaceful area, people were not so hostile to each other, and there was a surveillance camera at the door of the apartment. If someone died, the Public Security Bureau would have to investigate, and they would have to cooperate with the questioning.
Chu An quickly analyzed the most beneficial approach for himself without being condemned by his conscience - saving people.
She quickly walked up to the aunt, felt her breath, and found that she was still alive. She was most likely suffering from heatstroke!
"Old Chu, go find someone. Gu Ye, help me drag her outside."
Lao Chu hurried out and Gu Ye pulled the man out.
The auntie was wearing a large round-neck T-shirt, which must have been washed many times. It was very thin and should not affect her breathing.
She used Gu Ye's body to shield herself, took out an ice cube from the space and put it into her elder sister's mouth, then tore off the poster on the pillar to fan her elder sister.
Continue read on readnovelmtl.com
