Chapter 40 – HR Alliance Mall
Jiangnan base city, one of the six major base cities in China, extremely rich, in the main downtown area, there was a skyscraper with 88 floors, on the wall of this skyscraper there were the two English letters ‘HR’ which were very dazzling, around the first floor of the skyscraper, there was a beautiful plaza as well as the largest fountain in the entire Jiangnan base city, and around the plaza, there were enough people to make a living. Around the square, there were more than a thousand soldiers with real guns and bullets patrolling the area, forbidding any outsiders from stepping inside.
Passersby walked by and looked at the skyscraper with curiosity and envy.
In the entire Jiangnan City, the vast majority of people had never been inside in their entire lives.
“Drop!”
An electronic voice rang out.
The soldiers standing guard and patrolling immediately stepped aside, and a military SUV with ‘HR’ printed on its body drove in and stopped at the entrance of the skyscraper’s hall, wow, the door opened, only to see three heavily armed martial artists, either carrying iron guns, or carrying battle swords and shields, or carrying two large iron boxes.
“Sir, please come in.” The porter at the entrance of the skyscraper’s hall bowed respectfully.
These three martial artists directly stepped inside the skyscraper.
“Come on, Luo Feng, let’s go sit at the bar next to us and wait for the captain and the others to come over.” Chen Gu laughed.
“I haven’t met the captain yet, I don’t know what kind.” Luo Feng smiled, at the same time carefully observing this HR alliance mall, this was an underground alliance that various super families and consortiums from all over the world had teamed up to form, as their headquarters in Jiangnan base city, the entire building could be described as extremely luxurious.
The floor of the hall was light and bright, and some of the simple decorations were extraordinary.
The waiters in the hall, the men were handsome, the women were slender and moving, each of them wore a smile that made people feel like spring breeze.
Luo Feng, Chen Gu, and the other team member, ‘Zhang Ke’, were all sitting on the sofa.
“Three gentlemen, what would you like to drink?” The waiter bowed slightly and asked with a smile.
“Iron Guanyin!”
“Pu’er tea with a bit of jasmine flavor!”
Firecracker Chen Gu and Zhang Ke, these two senior martial artists both spoke directly, Luo Feng was a bit surprised to hear that, when he was in the extreme club, these two were regular drinkers. The Zhang Ke whose arms appeared to be lean and strong, as if he was a gibbon, smiled and said, “Luo Feng, you can’t enter the wilderness area sloppily, you can’t drink alcohol.”
Luo Feng suddenly realized, yes, one cannot be careless at all times in the wilderness area, how can one drink now?
“Give me, a cup of pu’er too.” Luo Feng said with a smile.
The hall echoed with the sound of quiet music, it was a flute playing tune, as for what tune it was, with one’s taste, one wouldn’t be able to recognize it at all. However, the sound of the flute playing was sometimes melodious and soothing, sometimes fast and light, refreshing the entire mind for much more.
“Luo Feng, the first floor is where the welcome guests rest. The second floor upwards is where the mall sells items.” Chen Gu smiled, “This underground alliance mall, the prices of items. It’s usually a bit lower than the full price of items in the ‘House of Limits’ online mall. Of course, it’s higher than our half price.”
Luo Feng nodded, half price, that was for the insiders of the Extreme Martial House to enjoy.
“The biggest benefit of the underground alliance mall, is that …… we can sell some of the materials from the bodies of the monsters we hunt, at a high price.” Chen Gu explained, “The materials of the monsters we hunt, if we sell them to the Martial Hall. The price is lower, but the Martial Hall will give us contribution value. Selling it to this Underground Alliance Mall, the price is high, but there is no contribution value. How to choose is naturally your own decision.”
Luo Feng smiled, for this point, he had read some of the posts on the martial artists forum and knew this already.
Selling to a martial arts center, there were contribution points and money.
Selling to the underground alliance, there was merely money, but at a high price.
“Brother Wang, you have stayed up most of the night, rest. Leave this place to me.” A clear and gentle voice rang out, Luo Feng, who was originally carrying a cup of tea, as if electrocuted, jerked his head around to look.
Only to see that within the bar, a young girl in a white shirt and black suit pants was changing posts with another manager.
Inside this bar, there were a total of twelve waiters as well as a manager, 24 hour business, eight hour changing of the guard, three shifts rotation.
“Xu Xin?” Luo Feng looked incredulously at the female manager within the bar, a professional woman with a very natural nobility in her demeanor. To be able to work as a manager in a bar in the Underground Alliance’s welcoming hall, this was definitely not something an average person would be qualified to come in. This was a place that specialized in entertaining martial artists!
Even an ordinary waiter, I’m afraid, would have to graduate from a prestigious university and go through a lot of training in etiquette and so on, let alone a bar manager.
“Xu Xin she ……”
That plain high school girl from the past, how come her temperament was completely different all of a sudden?
“Brother Chen, Brother Zhang, I’ll go over.” Luo Feng’s backpack, shield, and battle knife were placed on the sofa, while he himself got up with a smile and walked towards the bar there.
Inside the bar.
Xu Xin was looking down at some of the drinks and other reserves within the bar, when suddenly-
“Xu Xin.” A familiar voice rang out.
“Hmm?” Xu Xin was taken aback, in this first floor hall those who knew their real name generally addressed themselves as ‘Manager Xu’, while the average martial artist did not know their name, how could someone address themselves as ‘Xu Xin’, and the voice was so familiar. Xu Xin looked up –
At this moment, Luo Feng was outside the bar looking down inside, while Xu Xin who was half squatting to check the drinks happened to look up.
The two of them looked at each other.
At this moment, both Luo Feng and Xu Xin had a sudden feeling of a flutter in their hearts.
“Luo Feng, why are you here?” Xu Xin reacted and even stood up and smiled.
“Even you, Xu Xin, can be a manager here, why can’t I be here?” Luo Feng said with a smile, looking at the young girl in front of him, Luo Feng couldn’t help but remember the days when he was in school in high school, when he was sitting at the back of the classroom, silently looking at Xu Xin’s back over and over again……. He had been crushing on Xu Xin for a long time, but just hadn’t been able to say it.
I thought it would be difficult for me to see Xu Xin again in the future, but I didn’t expect that I would see Xu Xin in this HR Alliance Mall. And it was before he went to the wilderness area for the first time that he saw Xu Xin.
“Ah, Luo Feng, you’re a martial artist now?” Xu Xin couldn’t help but be surprised to see Luo Feng dressed up.
“Well, going to the wilderness area soon.” Luo Feng laughed.
“Wilderness area?” Xu Xin’s face changed slightly.
The entire world land, except for the area outside of the base city, was commonly known as the wilderness area. For the humans living in the base city, the wilderness area was synonymous with the forbidden land of death, which was filled with all sorts of monsters. There were sinister and bizarre ones, powerful and savage ones, and many nearly invincible existences.
In that kind of place, only the strongest ‘martial artists’ amongst humans could break into it and fight the monsters.
Xu Xin didn’t expect …… Luo Feng to be a martial artist anymore, and was about to enter the wilderness area.
To Luo Feng, to be honest, Xu Xin also knows that Luo Feng likes himself a little bit …… In fact, there is no way to hide this kind of thing, Luo Feng often sneaks a look at people’s backs in class every day, and Xu Xin occasionally turns around and naturally sees Luo Feng staring at himself, naturally, Xu Xin understands Luo Feng’s mind.
It’s just that both sides didn’t point it out.
“Luo Feng, the captain is here, come here.” Chen Gu shouted.
“I’m going over.” Luo Feng spoke to Xu Xin.
“Hm.” Xu Xin nodded.
Luo Feng walked back to his original position, at this time three more people came, two of them looked very similar, at a glance one could tell they were twins, these two were carrying shields as well as a curved sword. The third person on the other hand was incredibly burly, behind him was carrying two black sledgehammers that were glowing with a bit of silver color.
“Luo Feng, these two are the famous ‘Double Moon Scimitar’ Wei family brothers, Wei Tie and Wei Qing.” Chen Gu laughed.
These Wei family brothers nodded to Luo Feng and also unloaded their shields and scimitars and sat down.
“Brother Tie, brother Qing.” Luo Feng greeted with a smile.
The others in this fire hammer squad were all quite a bit older than Luo Feng, at the very least they were all over ten years older, compared to the other five, Luo Feng was indeed a little brother.
“This, is the leader of our fire hammer squad, ‘Twin wind hammer’ Gao Feng.” Chen Gu said, Luo Feng couldn’t help but take a closer look at the captain ‘Gao Feng’, Gao Feng wasn’t too tall, he was just over one meter eight only, the most special thing about him was that his body was just too strong, it felt like a person cast in steel.
Gao Feng grinned, his face muscles were as if they were rocks slightly leaning in, ”Luo Feng, you also use a sword, when you enter the wilderness area, learn more from Wei Tie and Wei Qing to learn from their experience. You have good talent, I believe you’ll quickly become part of our squad.”
“Uh-huh.” Luo Feng nodded.
No matter what, right now his first goal was to not become a liability to this battle general level elite squad.
“Take a rest, immediately we’ll set off.” Gao Feng spoke.
“Yes, captain.”
The five people including Luo Feng nodded their heads.
A mere twenty minutes later, Gao Feng and the others who had finished their tea got up, “Let’s go, set off, go to the wilderness area.” Luo Feng also immediately carried his blood shadow battle sword and shield on his back.
“Luo Feng.” A voice rang out.
Luo Feng turned his head to look.
Xu Xin’s chest was slightly heaving at the moment, she didn’t know how, once she thought that Luo Feng was about to enter the crisis ridden wilderness area, Xu Xin was a bit flustered, perhaps for this boy who was secretly in love with him during his high school days, Xu Xin also had a hint of a special feeling.
“Hmm?” Luo Feng looked at Xu Xin.
“I’m starting school in a few days, but during college, Saturday and Sunday during the daytime, I’ll come here to be the manager.” Xu Xin shouted, “You must come over then.” Shouting these words, Xu Xin’s face turned a little red.
“Okay, I’ll definitely come.”
Luo Feng revealed a hint of a smile.
“So quick to pick up, awesome!” Next to him, Chen Gu slapped Luo Feng’s shoulder and laughed.
“That’s the benefit of being young, beautiful women fall all over themselves.” Next to him, Gao Feng also laughed, since they decided to let Luo Feng join the fire hammer squad, they naturally treated Luo Feng as a brother.
Luo Feng just smiled.
“Let’s go!”
“Get in the car!”
The Firehammer squad, a group of six, boarded the HR alliance special car and headed directly to the train station, taking the train to leave the base city for the wilderness area.
The second episode ended!