A thin figure stood in the cold snow and shivered.

It was a boy about eight or nine years old. He was covered in oily, thick numb hoodie, and wrapped his thin body below his knees. He wore a black cloth shoe with a worn gap on his left foot, but his right foot was wearing a rubber rain boot. He clasped the thin hoodie tightly with his hands and stomped his feet back and forth on the ground, hoping that this simplest method could be used to add a little heat to the cold body to resist the cold.

He has yellow skin unique to Asians. The black hair that falls in the cold wind and the same color in his eyes proves this.

Seeing Lin Xiang from afar, the boy quickly trotted to meet him. His face was frozen and purple, with a smile full of expectations or signboard: "Sir, this is your first time in Emma City, right? Please stay at the Regent Hotel, we will provide you with the most enthusiastic and satisfying service."

Black and thin is a common appearance characteristic of almost all children in this era. Insufficient food all year round, it is difficult to find a region with clean water sources like Yinyue Town. In order to support themselves, adults must try every means to find food. Children's needs are naturally thrown to the edge.

Looking at the tender figure in front of him, Lin Xiang nodded gently. If he agreed to go with this boy, he should be able to win him a relatively sumptuous dinner as a reward!

Anyway, I do have to stay overnight in Emma City.

The boy walked in front excitedly, his face full of joy.

As the city approaches, more and more people gradually become. A few open gasoline barrels were burning with raging flames. People in various varied clothing gathered together to form a circle, and with the help of the heat of the flames to fight the severe cold caused by the wind and snow.

Everyone was looking at Lin Xiang who was brought over by the boy. Indifferent, surprised, greedy, jealousy, curious... Various gazes with different meanings intertwined into an extremely complex net, covering two black figures, one tall and one short, tightly.

"Little mouse, it seems that you are lucky today. You can get at least two pieces of bread tonight." A voice that was indescribable to say was goodwill or jealousy.

The boy's lips were raised upwards, forming a beautiful crescent moon, leading Lin Xiang onto the main road to the city.

Unlike other cities, there are no armed guards at the entrance of Emma City. This is an unguarded trading city. With this as the center, people in all the surrounding towns will exchange and trade with their own special products. No one will break this unwritten rule. After all, in this world, humans cannot survive alone.

Suddenly, two men huddled in front of the fire to keep warm from the hut by the roadside, blocking them in front of the boy. Among them, the tall and burly man, who looked like a bear, stretched out his arms and dragged the boy to the side without any effort like a chick. Another man with a thin figure and a piece of grid-patterned felt on his shoulders made a hoarse smile from his throat: "Hehehehe! Little mouse, your guests are my. If you can't stand it at night, I don't mind giving you the bread plate to lick it clean."

He didn't even look at the boy struggling desperately, turned his body to Lin Xiang, bent his waist slightly, and said in a slightly pleasing tone: "Please check in at my hotel! The price is very cheap, it only costs twenty yuan a night."

As he said that, he tiptoed and looked at the huge g180s behind Lin Xiang's back. His eyes that emitted his shiny light showed unconcealed greed.

"He is my guest, you dirty sick man-"

Suddenly, the strong man who twisted the boy let out a scream like a pig. A row of clear tooth marks oozing out of blood were added to his muscular arms. The boy who broke free rushed to Lin Xiang regardless of everything, grabbed his clothes, and dragged them desperately in another direction.

"Boy, you're looking for death-"

The angry man suddenly rose up, clenched his fists and roared and smashed it hard at the boy's back.

"boom--"

The harsh sound stopped abruptly. Looking at the shotgun opening in Lin Xiang's hand that had not yet dissipated, the strong man who had made a huge wound on his chest was thrusting his muscles desperately, with a ferocious expression that was almost solidified, slowly leaning back.

The thunderous gunshots shocked everyone nearby, including the thin man who kept chattering and soliciting guests. He opened his mouth wide, revealing dirty teeth full of yellow dirt, and stared at the dead bodies on the ground in a daze.

Lin Xiang, with a cold face, quickly turned around. Before the other party could react, the thick and hot gun barrel had already penetrated into the man's mouth.

"Sorry, in order to eliminate unnecessary trouble, you should also die-"

Hundreds of iron sand blew the fragile heads, and warm brain matter splashed on the ground, quickly melting loose snow, and oozing out an irregular light black soil surface.

The people nearby were still burning fire. They did not show any surprises, and they were obviously used to such emergencies. Dozens of ragged thin men and women flocked out of their respective houses, staring at the two bodies that were not yet cold and hard in the snow with greedy and surprise eyes.

"Lead the way! I'm very tired and need a rest." Lin Xiang patted the boy's trembling shoulders, took out a rough corn bran cake from his pocket, and stuffed it to the palm of his hands that was almost frozen.

The boy stared at him in a daze, with a hazy liquid covering the surface of his black eyes.

The falling snowflakes slowly covered two large and small series of footprints lined up in rows.

Behind him, the tyrannical and excited voices became more and more noisy. The hungry laughed and quarreled, scolded and accused, and the broken bones of metal sharp objects, and the unique tones of sharp blades cutting meat pieces mixed, bringing an extremely fanatical smell of blood to the cold city.

Wooden boards of varying heights are inserted vertically into the ground to form an irregular wall. They are tied with cloth strips to form a semicircular corner. Scattered stones sandwich the shaking walls in the center from the front and back sides. When the wind blows, the plastic film and various tile and rags covering the roof beams will always roar like a sob.

A corrugated baffle left over from the old era has turned into two-thirds of the wall on the front of the shed. The mottled and rusty surface is written with a few crooked words - "Recine Hotel".

At this point, the boy at least didn't lie.

The room was very small, except for a clean bed, leaving only a narrow space that could barely turn around.

The room price for five yuan a day includes two simple meals for morning and evening.

Lin Xiang sat on the bed, his fingers gently slid across the gray sheets, and a slight tactile sensation came from time to time on the surface of his skin. Although the hay laid underneath was not too thin, it was not soft.

A thin woman with a dish-like face stood in front of the door, looking at him with a slightly nervous expression. In order to hide her expectations and anxiety, she twisted her hands back and forth, bringing up tiny white scales from her rough, dry and hard skin.

She is the boy's mother and the owner of this small hotel.

Lin Xiang opened the pocket on his chest and took out a half-wrinkled five-yuan bill and handed it over. The woman's uneasy eyes suddenly showed a happy look after relief.

"Sir... do you... need me to serve you? I have no radiation disease, it's very cheap, just... two dollars."

The woman leaned against the door pieced together with bamboo and wooden boards, slowly retreated backwards, and used her thin hands to pull down the clothes on her shoulders with a little hesitation, revealing her high clavicle and a slim yellow skin with obvious dirt and gray.

Shaking his head, Lin Xiang straightened up from the bed, raised his sniper rifle leaning against the wall, flashed through the gap between the woman and the door panel, and turned around and walked out of the room.

The boy squatted in the alley not far away, pulling the snow on the ground with a small wooden stick. The expression on his face was indescribable or indifferent. Seeing Lin Xiang coming, the gaze in his pupils instantly turned into surprise and secret joy. Compared to this, it seemed that the latter occupied more components.

"Do you know the way to go to the auction house?" Lin Xiang touched his head, his hair that had not been washed for a long time was so hard that his palm hurt.

The boy nodded heavily, and turned around and walked in front of him just like when he came.

On the clearings in the central area of ​​Emma City, several tall gray buildings stand.

The surface of the straight wall is covered with clean white tiles. The floor adjacent to the main building is painted with cement and is painted into a grid of equal spacing. The floor above three floors is inlaid with huge glass with a length of more than two meters, which reflects dazzling reflections in the faint sunlight.

This is a real reinforced concrete building. Although the desolate new world lacks all supplies, it is the same as the old days - as long as you have enough money, you can buy what you want.

Hundreds of guards were wandering around the building, thick wool coats separated the body from the cold, and the hard high-top rubber military boots stepped on the condensed ice slag, causing a slight crack.

The ground a hundred meters away was piled with earth and stone, about ten centimeters high, surrounded the entire building area completely. Countless half-naked, trembling in the cold wind, standing under the eaves of low sheds, staring at the guards patrolling back and forth with their nearly fire-breathing eyes. They bared their teeth, sucked the air conditioner, wishing they could rush up tightly, smashing the heads of some leisurely guys, peeling off the clothes that were jealous and wearing them on themselves, and feeling the warmth of being tightly wrapped in soft clothes.

Of course, this kind of thing is just an illusion. If anyone is really angry and crosses the yellow line that can be crossed by raising his feet in a wild manner, he will be immediately shot into a human-shaped sieve filled with blood holes on the spot.

This is definitely not intimidation. A few corpses that fell near the death restriction and were already cold and formed into ice were the best proof.

On the front of the building, two semicircular copper-cast doors engraved with European-style patterns are open, with smooth blue-gray fine-grained ceramic tiles, which are spread from the hall to the door for more than ten meters. From the inside, bright lights and food aromas that are irresistible to the stomach. They seduced the hungry and cold people's eyes again, and they were hesitant to grit their teeth. Should they use their fragile bodies to fight for happiness that is close and seemingly within reach?

This is a branch of the Sosbia Auction House and a material trading center that all nearby cities must rely on to survive.

Lin Xiang and the boy split up in front of the inspection port on the yellow line. After carefully checking the hundred-dollar bills he handed over, there was no problem with the armed soldiers guarding behind the triangle-shaped repelling wood moved away the heavy obstacles and made a not-so-wide passage.

Only two types of people will not have to pay the entrance fee when entering the auction house.

One is a guest invited by the auction house.

Another type is that there are special licenses issued by Sosbia Company or holders of large groups such as the "Doctors Association".

The spacious hall is filled with hundreds of auctioneers waiting for transactions. In front of the five "t"-shaped auction tables one meter above the ground, a large projection screen several meters square is erected. Thousands of transaction information are broadcasted on it. If someone gives the corresponding sale price to the items they are interested in, the information will immediately be converted from plain white font to eye-catching red characters. Once the specified time is exceeded, no one will continue to bid, the information column will turn golden and a black "o"-shaped mark representing the end of the transaction.

Dozens of strong-bodied soldiers holding weapons stood on the platform connected to the second floor of the hall, looking at each trader with vigilant eyes. Whenever an abnormality was found, they would aim at the target and pull the trigger without mercy.

Lin Xiang walked into the hall and carefully observed everything in this luxurious building.

All soldiers are reinforced people. Although the level of promotion is not high, they are basically the first level. This shows the strong strength of the Sosbia Company.

Lin Xiang has not been in this world for a long time. The escort mission he had experienced before made him know more about the ability to strengthen people. Hiring evolutionary people or strengthen people requires extremely high costs. If all the soldiers here are subordinates trained by Sosbia, at least millions of dollars will be required at a price of more than 10,000 yuan in a single red enhancement potion.

Shaking his head lightly, he tightened the belt of g180s on his shoulders, turned around and walked towards the verification window on the left side of the hall.

With such a simple action, Lin Xiang noticed that at least more than five gazes were projected on him from different directions. When he took out a homemade biological potion from his arms and handed it over in front of the verification window, those eyes full of vigilance also reduced by half.

All auction items must be verified. This is to prove the company's credibility and to protect the interests of the auctioneer.

Behind the window, there was a young woman with a hot body. Her decent uniform was cut, perfectly showing her proud body-line proportions. Through the slanted "V"-shaped neckline, a pair of half-naked breasts could be clearly seen. She didn't seem to mind that the man gathered at the window looked at herself with unscrupulous eyes, but instead deliberately twisted her waist to make the exposed part even bigger.

"No. 106, please take your brand." With a tempting magnetic tone, the slender and white fingers handed out a black nameplate marked "106" from the window, and a charming look full of seductive meaning.

Most men who can enter the auction house have a lot of money in their pockets. It is indeed a good choice to spend a passionate night with these savage and violent guys and empty every child in their pockets.

Both are selling, and actively selecting customers and being selected by customers are all two concepts.

Putting away the cold iron sign, Lin Xiang walked to the wooden bench next to him, took out a piece of corn bran cake from his pocket, broke off one piece and put it in his mouth, and chewed it slowly.

He is not a devout believer with a pure heart and a desire, but he is not interested in this blonde woman of European descent.

Although, she is indeed very beautiful.

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Half an hour later, a young girl wearing a light gray pencil skirt with a standard "S" shape, stepped on slender high heels and walked down the spiral stairs on the right side of the hall with light cat steps. With unconcealed indifference and arrogance on her face, she looked straight up to Lin Xiang with hungry desires like hungry wolfs all over the hall, and stood up to her big breasts that were somewhat lost in proportion, and asked humbly in a sweet tone: "May I ask, are you the holder of the No. 106 Verification Ordinary?"

His eyes went up from the exquisitely crafted high-root shoes, sliding across his straight legs wrapped in black stockings. Lin Xiang calmly looked on the other party's unscrupulous face: "Yes, it's me."

"Please come with me." The girl smiled sweetly and turned sideways and made a "please" move: "Mr. Gliffiz wants to see you."

In Emma City, to be precise, Gliffiz is definitely a famous person in the entire area covered by Emma's business network.

At any time, whenever you walk into the office on the third floor of the auction house, you can always see Gliffitz's fat and lazy figure, and the head with a bald top like an egg, leaving only a circle of messy black hair around the side of your ear.

The moment Lin Xiang walked into the office, Glifiz looked at him with a sharp gaze that could almost see through the hearts. Unexpectedly, this young man who looked too handsome did not avoid his eyes and fought back with the same sharp gaze.

This made Gliffiz feel uncomfortable, but he did not show any expression on his face. Instead, he stood up with a smile, walked out from behind the desk, and with a passionate attitude that could melt the ice, he held Lin Xiang's slender and cold hand hard.

"A common man without strengthening or evolutionary ability."

The moment they touched each other's palms, Lin Xiang had quickly made the most basic judgment of Gliffiz, and his brain started to operate quickly in the most vigilant state.

Those who can manipulate hundreds of strengthening people to work for themselves are usually a combination of hypocrisy, cunning, sinister and viciousness.
Chapter completed!