"Gah!"

The sound of brakes sounded, and the Hongye Gang's large truck stopped at the outermost edge of the α restricted area, at the foot of an inconspicuous sand dune.

"It's me! Open the door quickly! That idiot Thunder Monkey is going to catch up!"

After taking a look at the thunder monkey three to four hundred meters away, the fire snake directly identified himself and transformed into a red flame python, roaring at the rocky mountain wall.

"Ka! Ka! Ka!"

The mountain wall made strange noises in response.

Then, when the dust was flying, the originally completed mountain wall was suddenly cracked from the mountain, creating a passage about ten meters wide and six meters high.

"Hurry, hurry! Drive!"

Under the urging of the fire snake, the truck drove into the dark passage that suddenly appeared.

Then, after driving in the darkness for tens of seconds, the truck drove out of the passage and entered a small city built on a mountain.

After entering the city, there is a main road made of soil that winds inward. The houses on both sides are mostly built of wood and stone and filled with loess. The architectural style is very rough.

The roofs of the houses are also made of openable and closable wooden boards, which is very characteristic of the Crescent Age.

The new moon does not revolve around the blue star, but is always behind the blue star and revolves around the sun with the blue star.

That is to say, the three are always in a straight line, and the sun and moonlight divide the blue star equally - the hemisphere in the daytime will only be exposed to sunlight, and the hemisphere in night will only be exposed to moonlight.

Therefore, in order to allow cursed people who like to bathe in moonlight but do not like to see sunlight, as well as animals and plants that need to bathe in sunlight and avoid contact with moonlight, they can enjoy the light they need at the corresponding time period and avoid another kind of light.

Retractable roofs have become the mainstream of Blue Star.

After walking through a winding dirt road of about a few hundred meters, the road turned into a straight avenue made of cement, and the buildings on both sides changed from simple earth-timber houses to exquisite reinforced concrete workshops.

Different from the housing area which is full of green plants, herds of livestock, and extremely comfortable and quiet, the workshop area is busy with loud noises and cars passing by. When you drive in suddenly and the scene changes, you will feel that you have suddenly changed from farming.

The illusion of time traveling to the industrial age.

Continue walking along the cement road, and at the end is a villa with a yard and a large area.

A projector was used on the top of the villa to project a huge red leaf mark onto the mountain wall behind it.

Yes, this small city built in a valley basin and hidden in the mountains is the headquarters of the Hongye Gang.

The villa built in the innermost part is the core building of the Hongye Gang and the gathering place for key members - Hongye Villa.

After the truck passed through the gate with the red leaf logo printed on it, it stopped in front of the playground of the villa.

"No. 2 kicks higher!"

"No. 8 waist needs to work harder!"

"No. 13, keep your movements consistent!"

"No. 17, pay attention to the coordination of breathing and movements!"

…

At this time, on the playground, a middle-aged man with a horse face, about 175 years old, wearing sunglasses and a black gown, was teaching a group of teenagers to practice boxing.

"Ten minutes of free practice!"

Seeing the truck stop, the horse-faced middle-aged man temporarily stopped teaching and walked towards the truck.

"Meet the deputy gang leader!"

The two big men who came down from the cab first saw the middle-aged man and immediately bowed to him and saluted.

"Second uncle! Why are you personally leading the boxing practice today?!"

The fire snake jumped directly from the roof of the car and stood firmly in front of the middle-aged man.

"You changed your hairstyle again?!"

The middle-aged man looked at the afro of the fire snake and frowned.

"No!" Fire Snake quickly took off his wig, revealing his short red hair that was permed into instant noodles, and explained:

"The simple disguise decoration taught by Master."

"Where is your master?"

"It's in the car!"

"Nothing happened on this trip today, right?" The middle-aged man suddenly lowered his voice.

Although Fang Rui would occasionally go out for a walk with Fire Snake and Thunder Monkey, it would usually be in the middle of the night when dawn was approaching. The situation like today where he followed the car right after the sun went down had never happened.

Therefore, he was a little worried that there would be a monster if something went wrong.

"What accident could happen with Master here?" Fire Snake failed to understand what the middle-aged man meant.

"I'm not……"

"Uncle Lin, are you looking for me?" Fang Rui, who put on his hood and hid himself completely in his robe, walked out of the cargo box and asked the middle-aged man to stop what he had not finished saying.

"Gang leader." Lin Bo nodded symbolically towards Fang Rui, and then said bluntly:

"The cursed objects sent from District 25 have been delivered to the door of your courtyard. They are pressing hard, so I ask you to sort out the conditions for recognizing their owners as soon as possible."

"I understand. Is there anything else besides that?"

"Gone."

"Then I'll go back first. Tomorrow morning you have someone come over to collect the batch of cursed objects and the conditions for recognizing the owner."

"Thank you for your hard work, Master, walk slowly..."

"Compared to you, it's hard for me to be a hands-off shopkeeper." Fang Rui waved his hand to Uncle Lin, and then left slowly.

When passing by the playground, the young people who were practicing freely looked at him sideways, but none of them saluted him. They seemed not to know that the person in front of them, who had hidden himself in his robe, was the leader of the Hongye Gang.

"Second Uncle, I will withdraw first. In more than an hour, I have to go to the 23rd District with Thunder Monkey. I need to advance..."

Seeing Fang Rui leaving, Fire Snake was about to leave, but was interrupted by Uncle Lin before he could finish his words.

"boom!"

There was a dull knocking sound, and Lin Bo suddenly gave the fire snake a violent shudder, which caused the latter to squat down directly holding his head.

"You brat! Why are you running away in such a hurry? I will die if you follow your second uncle later, right?" Lin Bo complained while slowly putting his shiny metallic right hand back into his gown.

"Second uncle! If you want to knock someone, just knock them! But don't use your iron-clad mechanical arm!"

Fire Snake rubbed his head, glared at Uncle Lin with bared teeth, curled his lips angrily and said:

"I won't die if I stay with you, but I'm sure I'll get into a fight, so why bother?"

"You know what I want to say?"

"Aren't you just saying bad things about my master and advising me to be careful about him..." The Fire Snake rolled his eyes helplessly and continued:

"You know I won't listen, and I know you won't give up, so why don't we skip this step and save ourselves unnecessary quarrels?"

"He is not worthy of your trust!" Lin Bo frowned with a deep knot.

He managed the Red Leaf Gang for Fang Rui for more than a year. He thought he would get to know the latter better as the contact deepened, but he did not expect that the more contact he had with the latter, the more he discovered that he was a mystery and had many secrets.

Simply outrageous.

How could such a person be trustworthy? Worthy of entrusting his only nephew to follow him through life and death?

"I can tell whether it's worth it or not."

The fire snake didn't want to say anything more and chose to turn around and leave.

"I have a hunch that you will be killed by him sooner or later!"

"Just kill me." Fire Snake clasped his hands behind his head and responded calmly as he walked:

"Anyway, he saved my life. Even if I was killed, I would have lived for several more years, which is not a loss at all."

"Alas..." Looking at the back of the fire snake gradually getting smaller, Lin Bo sighed helplessly and laughed at himself in a voice that only he could hear:

"I know you're not afraid of death, but I'm afraid I won't be strong enough to avenge you..."

…

Behind the main villa of Hongye Villa, in the backyard of the restricted area of ​​Hongye Gang, there is an independent exquisite courtyard.

Although the courtyard has a small yard, it does not cover a large area, just enough to plant some small flowers and grass for decoration. There are also very few buildings in the courtyard, only two wooden houses, one large and one small.

At this time, Fang Rui was in the larger wooden house and picked up one of the cursed objects sent by Lin Bo - a small black glass bottle with a picture of a green swimming cap on it.

"To obtain the sealed E-level cursed object 'Drowning Swimming Cap', do you want to spend ten curse points to obtain the ownership conditions of the E-level cursed object 'Drowning Swimming Cap'?"

The familiar system prompt sounded, and Fang Rui chose yes without any hesitation.

"The conditions for identifying the owner of the E-level cursed object 'Drowning Swimming Cap' are: the host is good at swimming and is in a cramping state in the water (the success rate of identifying the owner can be increased to 95%). The subsequent mission is being generated..."

[Task 1: Become the host of the E-level cursed object ‘Drowning Swimming Cap’; Mission reward: F-level cursed object ‘Stinky Mud’. 】

[Task 2: Help the E-level cursed object ‘Drowning Swimming Cap’ find its host; the task rewards twenty curse points. 】

"Accept mission two."
To be continued...