Hold on, the system and I have never been angry

Yu Mo thought about it for a long time and finally agreed to the proposal to uproot the hotel and its foundation and transform it into a small mobile fortress.

The port is a place where he has important memories, but the port will not disappear. He can wait until things calm down before returning here.

Once the house and courtyard decorated by the young lady herself are damaged, they can never be restored.

Unfortunately, the news of the port monster injuring people has spread all over the world in a short period of time, and no mechanical engineer dares to risk his life. And the two of them can't afford the huge reward that will make people choose money over life, so they can only rely on their own modification, which is a lot of work.

Lu Jinzhao exchanged points for corresponding skill points in the system space, and bought a transformable motorcycle. He rode it to buy materials everywhere and started to build a mobile fortress by himself.

Even though most of the basic physical labor can be done by robots, more complex weapon systems, hybrid engines, stealth modules, etc. will take at least ten days to half a month to complete.

The few news items about him on Starnet disappeared overnight, leaving no trace.

"Hey, hey, hey, what the hell is going on at the hotel next door? There have been construction noises every day since three days ago. What are you doing? Are you going to let us sleep?"

"I'm talking to you! Don't play dead and keep silent! I know you are in there!"

There was a commotion downstairs. Lu Jinzhao stopped what he was doing, took out a screw from his pocket, and threw it down. It hit the ground with a "crack", creating a dent in the ground, scaring the muffled man downstairs so much that he trembled.

After the middle-aged man finished screaming, he seemed to have just noticed it, and poked his head out, grinning without any apology: "Did it hit you?"

The middle-aged man below pointed at him and couldn't say a word for a long time: "You...you!"

Lu Jinzhao tossed the large wrench in the air, stuffed it into his lower back, took out the grass in his mouth, raised his wrist slightly and threw it at the middle-aged man's head, until it stuck straight into the man's hair and stood up, then he said lazily: "Don't bother with you or me, it's not like your house doesn't have a silencer module installed, don't come here to cause trouble, otherwise I'll tear your house apart."

"Just wait for me!" The middle-aged man picked the grass on his head, threw it to the ground angrily, and walked away cursing.

"Ever since you rejected this uncle's offer to give you a ride and 'consider his home as your private fortress', he has been looking for trouble every few days. The main thing is that he didn't even come up with a good excuse. We didn't even do any work during our break time, okay? I give up." Qiansui brought a towel and put it on Lu Jinzhao's forehead: "Brother Chao, wipe your sweat."

Lu Jinzhao smoothed his hair, removed the construction-specific protective bandage wrapped around his hands, turned over, went downstairs and returned to the ground, all in one smooth move.

"Where are you going, Brother Chao? Are you not going to decorate the house?"

"I'm done with the outfit, let's go hang out for a while."

"Hey, wait for me!"

Underground black market near the port, Brody.

This place is like a huge maze, hidden in the dark corners below the Xinghai Port. All kinds of contraband, smuggled goods, and even illegal creatures can be found here, forming a mysterious and dangerous world.

As soon as the man and the cat entered the underground black market, they saw a huge circular hall. In the center of the hall stood a huge black crystal ball, surrounded by various strange creatures and robots. These creatures and robots were frequent visitors to the underground black market. To be more precise, they were one of the disguises used by frequent visitors to conceal their true identities.

The hall was surrounded by stalls filled with all kinds of strange and bizarre goods. There were rare minerals from distant planets, high-tech weapons and equipment, and very rare plants and animals. The vendors came from different races and cultures, spoke a variety of languages, and all accepted universal currency.

In a corner of the underground black market, there is a mysterious area where contraband goods are sold. Goods include various genetic weapons and even banned technologies. The transactions of these contraband goods are usually carried out in secret, and only those who are familiar with the underground black market can find this place.

In this area, there is another kind of seller who is hard to describe: human traffickers. They display the abducted creatures like goods and let buyers choose.

Some of these trafficked goods come from Earth, and some come from other races. The smaller the population of a race, the higher the price.

Although the black market was in a slump due to the slaves mutating into monsters a few days ago, the traders have begun to emerge again now that the storm has subsided.

Qiansui saw Lu Jinzhao walking straight to the corner without stopping, and was extremely curious: "Brother Chao, are you going to buy slaves?"

"Just take a look."

"I don't believe it. You must have some purpose, otherwise you would be sleeping in your room right now! And you even changed into a hooded outfit to cover your face. You definitely didn't just come here to take a look."

Lu Jinchao didn't say anything, but smiled and scratched its chin.

In the transparent cages, various handsome boys and girls were separated into two rows and lined up on both sides of the road. Seeing the guests coming, each of them had an inexplicable expectation on their faces, just like the kittens and puppies waiting to be adopted at the pet rescue center, trying their best to show themselves.

The vendor saw that although Lu Jinchao was dressed in ordinary clothes, he had solid muscles and a tall figure, and he was obviously extraordinary. In addition, the wealthy people who came to the black market rarely bought in person, and most of them bought on behalf of others. He did not dare to neglect him at all, rubbing his palms and smiling, "Boss, what do you need? A beautiful beast girl? A giant cub? Or do you like elves? We also have mermaids!"

"Oh?" Lu Jinchao seemed to be interested: "Mermaid?"

"Elves?" Qiansui leaned over his shoulder and poked his head out from under the big hood. "Are they the kind of elves with pointy ears, blonde hair, blue eyes, transparent wings, and particularly good-looking ones?"

The vendor saw Chitose was visibly stunned for a moment, but soon put on a professional smile again: "If you like blondes, we have them in stock, too, please follow me."

He led Lu Jinzhao to the inner path and whispered, "Does the elf race have anything to do with good looks? Is there a difference between this person's aesthetic taste and that of ordinary people?"

Qiansui heard it clearly, and a puzzled look appeared on his face: "The elves are obviously a race that produces beautiful women, what is this dealer talking about?"

"Guess why I didn't choose elf when I chose my race?" Lu Jinchao looked at it with a smile.

The thousand-year-old monk was completely confused until he saw those elves.

"My goodness, you call goblins elves??? I thought they were those elves with slender bodies and beautiful figures that were difficult to tell whether they were male or female... They are at most monsters, okay!"

Goblins are short and strong with well-developed muscles. Their skin is usually brown or gray, rough and wrinkled. Their limbs are very flexible and have sharp claws. They have messy hair, pointed ears and long noses. They are cunning, greedy, cruel, good at fraud and stealing, but good at digging and casting.

Qiansui looked at the goblins in the room with drooling eyes and shone red, and shuddered, "They look like they have been hungry for many days. Could it be that they want to eat cat meat..."

Lu Jinchao raised his head slightly, and the pupils hidden under his hood suddenly shrank, turning into the vertical pupils commonly seen in cats, wide in the middle and narrow at both ends, emitting a faint blue light, successfully scaring the goblins with fierce eyes back. He reached out and rubbed Qiansui's head, retracted his gaze and said to the vendor, "Take me to see the mermaid."

Seeing that this unfamiliar new buyer seemed to have no interest in the elves, the vendor closed the cell door and turned to walk in another direction: "Boss, please follow me."

He led Lu Jinzhao to a huge aquarium, took out a shell-shaped object from his sleeve, put it to his mouth and blew it. Soon, more than a dozen mermen with human-like upper bodies and fish-like lower bodies gathered in front of the aquarium.

The vendor explained: "They seem to communicate by emitting various sound waves. Due to the small number of mermaids and their ferocious personalities, their language has not yet been deciphered. Boss, don't get too close, or they will change their expressions."

Chitose: "Change your face?"

The vendor clicked on a video on his light brain. It showed a beautiful female mermaid swimming in an aquarium with her eyes closed. Just as Chitose was about to express admiration for her beauty, the mermaid suddenly sensed someone approaching, and she opened her eyes with frighteningly large pupils, revealing ferocious fangs in her mouth, and the respiratory glands on both sides of her cheeks opened and closed. In a second, the beautiful woman turned into a female ghost, which gave Chitose a fright.

"She's so pretty, why is she so scary after her face transformation!!!"

Lu Jinzhao stared at the mermaid in the aquarium and felt that something was missing. He tilted his head and looked at the vendor: "You should have better goods, right?"

The vendor's eyes lit up immediately: "Yes, yes! Please wait a moment!"

Watching the vendor walk away, Qiansui wagged his tail and said, "What do you mean, you want to buy a mermaid?"

"Yes, I heard that mermaids are the most beautiful in the world, but they are ferocious by nature and like to eat raw meat. I'd like to buy one and place it as a live security guard outside our mobile fortress. We can also watch it from time to time. Why not? Now that the vendors are in a hurry to reopen, the prices can be lowered again and again. It's a good time to make a move."

Qiansui disagreed: "Let alone the fact that you have no money now, aren't you afraid that the mermaids will eat the people in the fortress first?"

"You can make money now. There are two androids and one cat in the fortress. You are not a real cat, so who is it going to eat?"

"That's right! You are not in human body now. Buy, buy, buy!"

The vendor came over with a man-high aquarium, covered with a black cloth, looking mysterious. The moment he lifted the cloth, long hair like seaweed spread out in front of him, and its owner was sleeping quietly in the transparent box filled with water, so beautiful.

"This is my treasure, which I will never show to anyone. It just so happens that it is dormant today, so I dare to take it out and show it to you."

Qiansui asked doubtfully, "Is it very cruel?"

"Yes, it is very ferocious, and it doesn't even spare its own kind, so I put it in a special tank. But its bloodline is so rare that there are no more than ten in the entire Blue Star Empire in the past five thousand years."

Lu Jinzhao glanced at the vendor, and half of his face under the hood smiled inexplicably: "How dare you take out this treasure of your store and show it to me so easily?"

The merchant laughed and said, "Yes, it is in its dormant period. You may not know that after each dormant period, it will become extremely violent and attack everyone indiscriminately, so I am in a hurry to get rid of it... To be honest, the recent events at the port always make me feel that something is going to happen, and I also want to cash in and leave Retra..."

Lu Jinzhao's eyes fell on the vendor's face, "Do you have a way to leave?"

"To be honest, no. The dome seems to cover the entire Ritra, but I'm thinking that if the army can break through the dome, I can grab the ship tickets with a lot of money at the first time. The more these goods can be sold, the better."

This vendor is also strange. Others only say nice things when selling goods and try to fool as many people as possible, but he seems very honest.

But Lu Jinzhao didn't believe it.

A sincere person would not engage in human trafficking.

Qiansui didn't listen to what the vendor said at all. He stared at the sleeping mermaid in the water tank. He stretched out his claws and patted Lu Jinzhao's face twice: "Brother Chao, look! It's awake!"

The mermaid slowly opened her eyes, her eyelashes fluttering, her pupils like pure and transparent sapphires. She first glanced outside the water tank, as if she had found something of interest, and placed her webbed hands on the transparent water tank, staring at that side without blinking.

He looked like a pure and innocent young man, but being stared at by the mermaid, Lu Jinchao instinctively felt the danger. He walked forward and raised his hand to cover the mermaid's eyes. Suddenly, his bony hand turned into a beast, and a sharp sound like nails scraping a blackboard was heard. His claws suddenly left huge claw marks on the transparent water tank.

The mermaid seemed startled and shrank back. Then, as if she had come to her senses, she stared more enthusiastically outside the water tank and even began to slap the tank wall.

Lu Jinzhao looked at the vendor and said, "Name a price. I want it."

The vendor rubbed his hands together and bared his teeth: "Boss, you are so generous. I can take it home for only 20 billion universal coins!"

Chitose: “How much???”

The vendor held up two fingers: "Twenty billion."

transaction failed.

Lu Jinchao can indeed come up with 20 billion, but it is not a universal currency.

The loot from the previous transport ship would not be enough to make up 20 billion universal coins. After all, the mermaid was just a fancy-looking novelty. Even if he could successfully exchange RMB for universal coins, it was not worth spending so much money to buy it.

He left without any regrets.

Chitose looked back repeatedly until the mermaid disappeared from his sight. He held his face with his paws and said regretfully: "Mermaids are really very charming creatures. Even I am attracted by them. But at such a high price, let's just take a look..."

Instead, the mermaid's movements against the water tank became more and more ferocious. The vendor urgently added several layers of protection to the water tank and injected an overdose of tranquilizer into the water, barely controlling the situation. He couldn't help but curse inwardly: "I should have called less earlier. I finally met a fool who was not afraid of death and wanted to buy the mermaid... No, it cost a lot of brothers to catch it, and the pension is a huge expense. I can't lower the price anymore. I'd better look for other buyers..."

When they reached the entrance of the black market, Lu Jinzhao tilted his head and asked Qiansui, "Is there any smell of that mutant monster?"

Chitose shook his head: "No, I didn't sense anything."

When Lu Jinzhao returned to the half-finished mobile fortress, Yu Mo had already prepared dinner.

He picked up the plate and walked upstairs to the room. When he reached the stairs, he handed Yu Mo a delivery note, which listed some of the materials that needed to be purchased.

Yu Mo took a quick look and found that they were all common ingredients and daily necessities. He stretched his neck and shouted, "How many days do we need to prepare these?"

"The sooner the better." Lu Jinzhao held the dinner plate in one hand and a list several times longer than Yu Mo's in the other. He held the spoon in his mouth and stood in the middle of the stairs. He looked back at him and said, "The second wave of monsters is coming soon."

Yu Mo looked puzzled. "Have you discovered anything? I see nothing unusual happening in the port garrison and the residential area behind."

Lu Jinzhao rolled up the list with a flip of his wrist and stuffed it into his trouser pocket: "Intuition."

Yu Mo: “…”

Qiansui jumped down from Lu Jinzhao's shoulder, rushed to the front desk, and patted Yu Mo with his paw: "Listen to my brother Chao, you won't be wrong. If you are really worried, put all the expenses on his account and give it to you later."