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After asking to no avail, when he heard what she said, Fangran had no choice but to follow her with her bag.

Then the two came to a dark and deserted street corner nearby.

"Remember not to be caught on camera."

With just such a simple explanation, Celica jumped onto the roof in the night where the lights couldn't shine.

She felt ashamed for a second. She didn't even use her strength. Fangran looked at the height of six or seven meters, took two quick steps and stepped on a window sill to climb up.

Specializing in dark places without lighting, he uses his extraordinary physical ability to leap over various buildings.

The bustle of downtown Houston is far away at night.

Fangran followed Selika's figure without activating his ability. Although he couldn't 'fly' thirty or forty meters high like her to the top of another building,

But occasionally walking through narrow passages, barbed wire fences, behind buildings and other hidden corners, using a method that is a hundred times more intense than parkour, I can still barely keep up with the B-class pace.

This way of moving seems particularly like a participant,

Reminds Fangran of the memory of that foreign maze at night...

"arrive."

It seemed that the destination was nearby, and because of the reason of 'walking in a straight line', it didn't take long for Fangran to hear Selika's words,

Then he found that she had led him to a remote place in the middle of nowhere.

The two people were originally located in the northeast of Houston, about 10 kilometers away from the ring road that represents the urban area, passing through the last block of chaotic buildings.

They have reached the no man's land on the edge of urbanization.

Under the premise that almost no one will come, the door is locked tightly in front of a place that most people can't find.

Is this to prevent people other than participants from approaching...

"Put this on."

At this time, he saw something thrown by Celika. Fangran caught it and saw that it was a pair of sunglasses. He looked at the darkness around him and saw that he could not see his fingers.

Um... Is it not dark enough to wear sunglasses in this kind of environment...

Although she complained like this, Fangran still put it on as she asked.

"Let's go in."

Relying on the participants' own powerful night vision, they followed Selika into the high wall in front of them.

Then after landing, Fangran saw the scene inside. Except for a small four-story office building, there were only piles of building materials and sundries and a half-built factory.

A dilapidated look that had been abandoned for a long time.

But the moment he entered here, Fangran instinctively felt that it was not as simple as it seemed.

"This is it..."

"The entrance to the black market."

Celica answered him simply.

Then at this moment, a sound came,

A figure came in from a different direction than the two of them. Needless to say, he was also a participant. He was wearing a hat that could also cover his face.

He only glanced at Fangran and Selika, then walked towards the abandoned office building without saying a word.

"Let's go."

She also didn't pay attention to him. Selica just said this,

After following her into the building, Fangran realized that the place was not as deserted as it looked outside. It was obvious that someone had been cleaning and using it.

Behind the same desk as the front desk in the entrance lobby,

A man was leaning on the sofa with his head folded in his hands, as if he was sleeping.

But when the man who came in before Fangran and the others came near, he suddenly said, looking drowsy:

"Tickets."

Not surprised by this, the man took out a wad of ten thousand US dollars in banknotes from somewhere, threw it on the sofa next to him, and then walked directly inside.

After seeing this scene, Fangran seemed to understand why Celica withdrew the money.

only...

This is too expensive! ?

Even with the experience of spending a lot of money in Las Vegas, Fangran couldn't help but feel ashamed for a second because of the 'ticket' of ten thousand dollars per person.

Following Selika, he took out two wads of ten thousand dollars and threw them towards the pile of banknotes on the sofa.

But unexpectedly,

The man on the sofa caught a bunch and threw it back.

"She doesn't need a ticket."

Although the lights were not turned on in the lobby, Fangran still caught a hint of caution and vigilance towards B-level superiors in the way the other party looked at Celica.

But compared to this, he was slightly stunned.

Wait, did I spend $10,000 in vain...

The first thing that comes to mind is that although this is considered mission funding,

But for a moment, Fangran was still so painful that she couldn't breathe.

Resisting the urge to take out the floating sequence and shoot him in the face, Fangran told himself to take the overall situation into consideration. Fangran continued to follow Celica and walked inside. The small office building was shabby and there was nothing worth mentioning.

But there are four elevators,

This scene wouldn't be strange in any tall building, but it seems particularly abnormal when it appears here.

Suppressing the strange feeling of the unknown experience that followed, Fangran followed Selika into the elevator, and then he realized that it looked like the most ordinary elevator from the outside.

The interior has an indescribable sense of high-end technology.

There are no floor buttons, no cameras, no billboards or posters,

The difference between the inside and outside of the elevator was so strong that it was like two different worlds, which made Fangran find that his heartbeat had accelerated slightly.

The elevator door closed, and an almost imperceptible feeling of falling came. In the elevator space that was filled with a sense of technology, he and Selika were the only ones.

Looking at the other party's usual dull expression, Fangran deliberately did not ask.

And then the thirtyth floor? Fifty floors?

The descent did not last long. Less than a minute later, the elevator door opened again.

In Fangran's eyes raised at this moment behind his sunglasses,

It reflected a scene that made him fascinated.

Even though I guessed that it was underground and made some mental preparations, I still couldn't suppress the surprise in my heart when I saw this scene.

An underground mall? A large exchange? Or even a shopping street?

neither.

All Fangran's previous guesses about the 'black market' were wrong. The scene that appeared in front of him 120 meters underground was...

A whole block of buildings!

Above is a dark dome with no lighting like night, while below are rows of houses that are no different from the city on the ground.

It's like moving the city to a small underground world!

But this was actually only a small part of the reason that surprised Fangran.

What really made his eyes slowly widen in disbelief at the moment the elevator door opened was that in this 'underground neighborhood',

There were so many participants that he could not count!

tens of? One hundred or two hundred! ?

Fangran felt that there might be hundreds of participants, although compared to the area of ​​​​this block, the number of people was extremely sparse.

But I never imagined that I would see so many participants gathering together.

Coming to North America, he felt at this moment like never before that he had entered the world of the participants.