Gunfire, Punk and Necromancer

With Ge Gongdao's unremitting efforts and Zhuang Xuteng's additional financial support, the new operations base was finally completed. The two built a two-story self-service laundry shop in the hub area. After simple renovation, it has relatively complete functions.

Ge Gongdao has a wide range of connections. He found out that there was an auto repair shop that wanted to sell out due to poor management, so he found this place. It must be said that they were lucky. The owner of the auto repair shop not only owned the entire building, he was also the owner of the land. Ge Gongdao and Zhuang Xuteng purchased the shop and land with a deposit and installment payments, turning the place into their own property.

I can make this determination because the environment here is so good.

The building has two floors above ground and one underground floor. The construction area of ​​each floor on the ground is almost 500 square meters. Excluding the entrance and exit slope, the usable area of ​​the underground garage is also nearly 300 square meters, which is a large usable space. Originally, the boss used the first floor as a vehicle repair and maintenance area, and built a car wash area underground. The second floor was used as a rest area for customers, a product sales area, and an office area. Originally, the business here was pretty good, but with the relocation of the coal and water station next door and the old and disrepair of the surrounding roads, many car owners no longer like to come to this place. Coupled with the increasingly rampant local gang activities, the boss persisted for a while, but couldn't bear the bleeding all day long, so he decided to take action.

Unlike the original shopkeepers, Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao dared to take action against the gang. They were just worried about not having suitable opponents to practice with, and they were not afraid. If it is a big gang, such as Blood Bat, Blue Fire, Cemetery and Liying, they will have to think more. Right now, a medium-sized Yellow Turban group controls the surrounding neighborhoods. There are no particularly powerful characters. Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao can avoid trouble, but they are definitely not afraid of it.

If it had been half a year ago, Zhuang Xuteng would have suggested that Gonggong Road retain the setup of the garage, and then ask Kelly and Buck to take care of it. Nowadays, things are changing. He believes that the car repair shop needs a lot of employees and it is inconvenient for people to come and go. It is best to change it to the now popular unmanned self-service shop.

A coin-operated washing machine is installed on the first floor, which just uses the cheap treated water from the original car wash. All it takes is to reconnect the pipes and move the water meter. At the same time, install a dryer and ironing machine, and sell laundry detergent and other items by the portion. The charge does not need to be expensive, as long as it can cover the cost.

Create a smoking room and game arcade on the second floor, install some slot machines, and place coin-changing machines here. The above-ground facilities only need to employ a total of two or three people, which can help Lucy solve the placement problem of some disabled employees. Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao are the best thugs and security guards, but on the surface they have to hire someone else.

Zhuang Xuteng thought of Doyle, and Ge Gongdao also thought it was a good idea. They asked Lucy to help find Doyle, and found that he now had a new job, working as a security guard on Glow Street in the new city...

Hearing the news, Ge Gongdao thought that Doer was in despair, and hurriedly took Zhuang Xuteng to find him. When he met Doyle, he was very enthusiastic towards the two of them. Judging from their clothing and mental outlook, although they could not be said to be wealthy and radiant, they certainly had nothing to do with their abjection. The two people were very puzzled. They thought Doyle would definitely fight with drug dealers. Why did he look like a retired man with nothing to do?

"That's true on the surface." Doyle punched the air several times, and the sound of breaking through the air proved that he had not stopped exercising. "I don't want to go back to Hongxiu Town, I have to find a place to live..."

Although I don't know what kind of state he is in, as long as Doyle is healthy and has no mental problems, he will satisfy the two people's requirements. Ge Gongdao invited him straight to the point: "Surface work... We have a good superficial job and would like to invite you over."

"I'll ask and I'll give you an answer tomorrow morning."

"I haven't told you how much it will cost yet!"

"Do I care?" Doyle answered with a rhetorical question, then said he would go find the boss and dismissed the two people.

Early the next morning, Doyle called to confirm that he had accepted the new job, asked for the address—still without asking about the salary—and went to the laundromat with a bag of luggage. It was only then that he told the truth to the two of them: he was employed by Morgana before, and the so-called street security was actually the bodyguard of Morgana's family.

"Uh...you've been working for Morgana since the highway parking area?"

Doyle threw the luggage into the laundry room first, and then said: "I didn't do it with her right away. She came to me and said that Nike recommended me to her, and she needed an informant who was willing to fight drug dealers. I met She is a PCPD, and I didn’t want to cooperate with her at first, but she gave me some information, which indeed helped me find some enemies. I saw that she was not playing around, and felt that such a person should live well, so I wanted to protect her, so I Got a job as a security guard.”

"Uh, did we mess up your plan?"

"What plan? I have no plan. I will take action when I have the opportunity. I will wait for the opportunity at other times." Doyle looked at Nike and said: "I told Morgana, she agreed to my coming, and she opened the business for you without notifying her. Expressing dissatisfaction with his behavior. I brought the words to you, how to solve it, Naike, you can figure it out yourself."

"Yes, Naike, you can figure it out yourself!" Ge Gongdao pulled Doyle into the store and introduced him to the situation inside, especially the staff dormitories on the second floor.

"I thought I would tell her after everything has been arranged!" Zhuang Xuteng shouted at the backs of the two people, but the two strong men ignored him at all. Zhuang Xuteng sighed and said to himself: "I really don't want to hide it..."

Doyle came to live in the store and left all the situation on the ground to him. Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdao were very relieved. They did not pay Doyle a salary, but gave him one-third of the profits from the ground segment. In fact, the three men together don't know how to make money by opening a store, and they have no idea how much they earn and how much they lose. However, none of the three people particularly care about these details. If the general direction is certain, the store will open.

They also thought that if they really lost money, they would go rob gangs to supplement their family income.

The two floors on the ground are used as surface industries, and the original underground car wash room can be "repurposed for other purposes." They remodeled the entrance and made it steeper to allow for a larger underground area. Except for two people's vehicles, the rest is fenced off. This is their base of operations.

——The first phase of the project.

A base of operations with only a front exit is the equivalent of a man missing a leg. The reason why the car wash room dares to be built underground is mainly because deeper underground is Peicheng's comprehensive sewer, which has complete pressure steam pipes, sewage pipes, tap water pipes, electric power pipes and communication line pipes. The original owner spent some money to connect the basement water to the sewage pipe, and also left a construction channel for this renovation. Now that this passage is reused, they can directly enter Peicheng's underground pipe network.

It is well connected in all directions and connects most areas of the city. Indeed, the environment inside was very poor and it was very difficult to move around. In fact, they couldn't go very far. The two people explored in various directions. Ge Gongdao's body shape could only travel within four nearby blocks, and Zhuang Xuteng could only walk two more streets before they were blocked by a narrow passage filled with pipes.

In essence, this is still an underground space closed to people, and this is exactly what the two people intended. The underground passage can be used as an emergency entrance and exit, and as long as they find another house within four blocks, it can become a "second base of operations." There are two places on the outside and one inside, one is used daily and attracts firepower, and the other is used as a shelter to store their valuable and confidential things.

It's just that they haven't chosen a "base of operations" yet.

From the perspective of ordinary people, a vicious-looking old man (Doyle) took over a car repair shop and turned it into a self-service laundry and entertainment room, which has nothing to do with mercenaries. On the gang side, Zhuang Xuteng went first to be polite and took the initiative to pay the protection fee, and Doyle took care of the rest. Doyle has extensive experience dealing with gangs. If it weren't for the drug dealer's dirty tricks and the trapping of the purple-skinned man, he had almost succeeded in integrating the local forces in Hongxiu City and would have wiped out the Spirit Leaf Plantation.

By leaving the surface work to Doyle, Zhuang Xuteng and Ge Gongdaotu have peace of mind. Next, the two will focus mainly on the practice of super calculation and five dodge, striving to bring their strength to a new level as soon as possible.

The Deer Hunter training device is still placed in the rented warehouse in the dock area, and that place is still their base of operations. Apart from the two of them and Doyle, only Lucy and Morgana know about the laundry base at present, but in the future "Operation Base", the number of insiders will be limited to two.

I’m digressing again… let’s get back to the topic of “Five Flashes”. When Zhuang Xuteng used the super-cache martial skill and the Wraith Servant spell, his battlefield awareness was stronger, which increased his control range. The essence of super-computing martial arts is to increase the reaction speed so as to gain time to see the move. Zhuang Xuteng expanded the range of his perception - this expansion included not only distance, but also the types of perceptible information - which in disguise increased the time he had available to react. Therefore, when Zhuang Xuteng fights with all his strength, he has the effect of half dodge to one dodge.

Zhuang Xuteng is a very cunning person. He did not maintain this part of the effect - that would have seemed too fake - but used it randomly. Especially before the skeleton phantom was about to attack, Zhuang Xuteng could detect the omen earlier than Ge Gongdao, so he chose this time to take action, and together with the skeleton, he frightened Ge Gongdao, creating huge pressure on him.

Clay figures will get angry if they are bullied too much, let alone Ge Gongdao. Under repeated shocks, Ge Gongdao reached the five flashes first, reversed the training pattern, and began to beat Zhuang Xuteng. The distinctive feature of the five flashes is to "scare people", or to put it more bluntly, it is a fake action. After reaching five flashes, because the reaction speed is fast enough, it can already selectively use small movements to trigger the opponent's conditioned reflex according to the opponent's body posture, perception range and movement habits, thus guiding the enemy's movements.

For example, there is a visual blind spot between human eyes, and people's ability to observe the edges of the visual field is far inferior to that of the front. If emergencies are created in these areas at this time, it will have a more "scare effect." Most people will directly use conditioned reflexes when facing emergencies. This is the so-called "subconscious action". If you already know the enemy's subconscious actions and then induce the enemy to use subconscious actions, this can be regarded as predicting the enemy's opportunity and controlling the enemy.

Zhuang Xuteng used fake five flashes combined with the phantom of a skeleton to scare people, and now he began to be frightened by Ge Gongdao. In essence, he is fighting against his own conditioned reflexes, striving to turn "being used" into "independent and controllable". All their previous super-computing martial arts were to train the "conditioned reflexes" of the nervous system. From the beginning, the five-step flash cannot be completely left to the conditioned reflexes. Instead, it must be put under control. This is quite "anti-human".

Fortunately, Master Famine Stranger has found a complete set of scientific training methods. He not only found a way to overturn the conditioned reflex, but also found a better working model for it. Five flashes are the foundation, and six flashes are consolidation. The conditioned reflex must be completely controlled by the subjective consciousness. When the brain, spinal nerves, and superficial nerves of the skin become a whole, the second threshold begins to be broken: seven flashes.

Qishan asked them to establish another set of conditioned reflexes. It's not a conditioned reflex against the enemy's tricks, but against the enemy - to put it in a more understandable way: from seeing through the tricks to seeing through the person.

The master said that it requires a lot of combat experience to do it, which must include many life and death tests. Because of this, the one who can reach the seventh flash first is the senior brother.

Ge Gongdao thought that Zhuang Xuteng might arrive first, but Zhuang Xuteng had the opposite idea. The older ones think that the younger ones are very smart and always make breakthroughs first; the younger ones know that the older ones are more stable and their own are just little cleverness.

"Brother Dao, you are still awesome." After the day's training, Zhuang Xuteng drank legion juice to restore his physical strength and spirit. "You have been able to stabilize the five-flash state. I am still in and out of control."

"But you should reach Wushan first. Whoever arrives first according to the master's request will be the senior brother." Ge Gongdao wiped his face with a hot towel, and then wrapped an ice pack around his neck. This is his folk remedy. There's no reason for it, but it's just comfortable. "Master said that seven flashes have an overwhelming advantage over six flashes and below. As long as you can raise it for a moment, seven flashes have won. So as long as you take the first step, you will win."

"Maybe it's the truth, or maybe it's just Master's encouragement and encouragement to us. He also said that four flashes are stable and three flashes are stable. Do you realize it?"

"In melee combat, there is no obvious advantage between four-dodge and three-dodge, but you didn't consider one situation: using long weapons or guns. The two of us are more likely to punch to the flesh, so now we start to change weapons."

"Shall we start now? Wait, the phone is ringing." Zhuang Xuteng quickly got up and walked over to pick up the phone.

"Naike, we have a mission." Lucy's voice was very clear and easy to recognize. "You and Ge Gongdao come here as soon as possible. You have an interesting mission."

Before Zhuang Xuteng could ask specifically, the call hung up, leaving him confused. "Brother Dao, Sister Lucy arranged a job. She described the task as 'fun'."

"Fun? What kind of weird adjective is this? Aren't they all easy, difficult, dangerous, etc.? The best missions are very profitable. What does fun mean..."

"Sister Lucy has always been very professional in handling entrusted tasks, but this time it's too strange." Zhuang Xuteng scratched his head and said: "No matter what, let's go there quickly. Bring more white mice and drink more legion juice. Let's use hibernation on the way. Martial arts eliminate fatigue.”

Lucy wears a mask all day long, so everyone can never see her expression; the mask has a sound filter, which always sounds like an electronic sound, and the tone cannot be heard. But after spending time together, you can read her movements and guess her emotions from the way she chooses words and sentences and the pauses in her pronunciation. Today, Lucy's mood was just two words: happy.

She was so happy that she started to talk: "It's a long story, but I have to talk about it, and everything has to start with..."

"If we need to start from when you were a child, then just skip it and just tell us what you are doing." Ge Gongdao quickly shook his head and said, "The way you look now makes my skin crawl."

"As for that!" Lucy raised her tone and said, "It doesn't take long...it all starts when I ask you to find dirty information about Jamil Cannings."

Zhuang Xuteng was stunned and asked: "The PCPD chief's deputy, senior inspector and third-level detective Jamil Cannings? The one who keeps his lover outside behind his wife's back?"

"It's not the third-level detective but the chief detective - but this is not exact. It should be the future former senior inspector and former chief detective." Lucy rubbed her hands and said: "The content of the commission this time is: escort He left Peicheng safely."

Ge Gongdao opened his mouth wide: "Ah???" Ge Gongdao heard the implication and said: "Sister Lucy, you have told us the details of the commission. Is this mission a must?"

"No, no no." Lucy quickly waved her hands and said, "Of course you can refuse. The reason why I directly revealed the name of the escort is mainly because you are related to this matter, especially you, Nike. Your idea This resulted in Jamil Cannings having to flee."

Zhuang Xuteng sighed and said, "He really has dirty information about the judge's father-in-law? Did you find out?"

"I don't have time to take care of that much. There were more profitable jobs waiting for us to do. I did a brief investigation and found some clues, and then sold the clues." Lucy flipped her hair and looked very proud: "I heard that an intermediary contacted Cannings' wife, created a good commission, and then actually got it done."

Ge Gongdao was unhappy, waved his hand vigorously, and said: "Why don't you ask us for such a task?"

"I have made an assessment. Finding what the Chief Inspector has hidden requires a lot of disguise and intelligence gathering, which you are not good at. The place where the things are hidden will probably require unseen actions, and you will inevitably have to sneak in and pry. You don’t know how to lock or crack shadow slave equipment, and this task will definitely take up a lot of manpower. At that time, the risk of the task was not good compared with the benefits. It was better to help PCPD fight crime. Even if I don’t give it to Other middlemen, this task cannot be yours."

Ge Gongdao smashed his fists on his knees and said angrily: "It would be great if Otter was here..."

"The otter can indeed make up for your lack of ability, but he is not my mercenary, and I will not include him when considering the mission." Lucy said: "You two work well together, and you have your own Features. If the two of you just want to cover everything, that would be too wishful thinking and delusional. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not suggesting that you add other people. It’s not easy to have a partner. If you add more people just for the sake of comprehensive skills, there are often other hidden things. risks.”

"I guess no one understands this lesson better than me." Ge Gongdao clenched his fists and said.

He must have thought of his previous betrayal. Zhuang Xuteng himself knew privately that the team originally formed by Ge Gongdao was very comprehensive, with all kinds of talents, and could take on almost any task. Because of this characteristic, although they do not have strong combat effectiveness, they always have jobs and can approach tasks from multiple angles, thereby reducing the difficulty of the tasks. This is the main reason why they can continue to save money without installing implants.

But after choosing skills, it is difficult to choose character. Ge Gongdao chose skills first and ignored character, so he got a backstab.

"Let's not talk about the tasks that others have completed, but let's talk about the chief inspector who is preparing to escape. Who wants to get rid of him? His father-in-law, a judge?"

"Yes, but more than that." Lucy said: "The overview of the mission is to escort a person safely out of Peicheng. The total distance is about 130 kilometers. Once the mission is completed, each of you will receive 450,000 euros."

"How much? Four hundred and fifty thousand?" Ge Gongdao laughed and said, "The two of us add up to nine hundred thousand. Including your share, the client paid a total of one million eight hundred thousand?"

"You shouldn't ask this question, but this time I can satisfy your curiosity - because this task is so fun." Lucy spread her hands and said: "I and you will get the same money together, and Two hundred thousand is for the other four cover groups, who will act at the same time to confuse the enemy's sight. They don't have much risk, they mainly buy you time to get out of the city."

"I think this mission is good. Escort is better than assassination. Brother Dao, what do you think?"

"Of course I have to do it. If Lucy can say that the mission is fun, then I will definitely have fun. Four hundred and fifty thousand is not hard to come by, but Lucy's fun is so rare, it's a once-in-a-hundred-year chance!"

"Brother Dao, don't tell cold jokes. What do you mean I'm fun?" Lucy snorted, but her body language revealed that she was not angry. Lucy pulled out a document bag from the drawer, threw it to Zhuang Xuteng, and said, "The contents are all in it, take a look."

The content of the document is very simple: time, pick-up location, safety requirements, target location and travel time limit, plus a photo and simple identity information of the protected person. This document was memorized after just two glances. The key to the entire mission was not what was written on the document, but what "gossip" information Lucy had found out. So Zhuang Xuteng looked at Lucy with eager eyes and listened to her next words.

"He provoked a group of judges, but his trump card was eliminated and he could no longer continue to threaten, so a group of people were ready to deal with him. He couldn't survive within the system, and he was afraid of being sent to prison. That's what he is Due to his identity, even if he is not convicted and serves a sentence, but is simply imprisoned awaiting trial, he will still be killed by the people inside."

Ge Gongdao whistled and said repeatedly: "Indeed, indeed."

"His lover, the female manager of the business development department of Today Group, is planning to send him to asylum, but she has no experience in this area. From some source - probably a club or a tea party - she heard that we help people in the company recover lost items thing."

"XAST1? That box?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.

"Yes, that's the thing. So this person found me." Lucy laughed twice and said, "Don't you think it's funny? He went around in a circle and found the person behind the whole thing. Please Let’s save his life.”

"Should we save him or destroy him?" Zhuang Xuteng asked.

PS: Sorry, sorry, late.