when the alien joins the escape game

At this time, the grandma finally counted the big bag of money like counting coins, and then began to wipe away tears for some reason:

"Hey, my baby, grandma can't accompany you to the shopping mall anymore. Grandma is going back to the nursing home to see her husband. His nursing fee should be paid... You and this handsome young man have a good time here, do you hear? If If you miss grandma, write to grandma, understand?"

"Grandma, do you want to go back to... the nursing home?" Little Alien was a little confused, watching the old grandma hang the nameplate tied with a red string back around her neck, stand up tremblingly on crutches, and was about to walk outside the mall.

"Go back to the nursing home, go back to the nursing home!" The old lady turned around with great difficulty and hugged Xiaoyi several times before wiping her tears and waving a handkerchief:

"Don't worry, grandma knows how to get there by herself. It takes half an hour to get there by taking two buses, but the road in the city is slow, and this trip will take another half a month... My old man can't wait!"

Just as the little alien was about to drag the old lady back, Huo Li secretly pulled his arm: "The old man has been here for more than 80 years, so he should have his own plans."

The little alien watched as he walked out while wiping his tears, still muttering about how good his grandson is, and it was hard to explain clearly, so he had to use his mental strength to ask:

【But the grandma forgot that her wife has cancer!Even if there is the best treatment in the real world, more than 80 years have passed...]

【So you want to rush over and tell the old grandma that her wife has passed away? 】

The little alien got stuck, and finally stood still, waving to the old grandma in the distance.

The two of them were not worried about any accidents to the old lady. Even if only one person survived in Happy City, she must be lucky to come to the old man's house.

Then Huo Li took the little alien to the second floor. The two carefully avoided three claw machines, two drink shops, a cake shop, a magical mirror house... and so on, they might be killed if they stepped on it. Pulling into another trial storefront, I finally stepped on the escalator leading to the second floor.

At the moment they stepped on the escalator, a colorful reminder was displayed on the black rubber handrail beside the two:

"The escalator in the shopping mall is a public facility, and there is no mandatory escape test. Do you need to activate the test?"

A. Yes B. No need (10 gold coins elevator operation fee required)

The little alien who was eager to go upstairs slapped the letter B with his paw, and nothing happened after that. Although it was an escalator that was running, the position of the two of them was so weird that they didn't seem to be approaching the second floor at all.

Huo Li took out 20 gold coins and pressed them in like black rubber. These glittering gold coins seemed to have fallen into a swamp, and disappeared in an instant, and the elevator started to operate normally.

Because the shopping mall is an open building that is transparent up and down, there is a circular hall for tourists to enter and exit in the center of the first floor, and from the hall you can see the distant top floor roof.

While the other floors are much more compact and prosperous, it is a large ring structure with a hollow in the middle.As soon as the two stepped onto the second floor, dozens of exquisitely decorated small shops came into view: Doll House, Reversed Experience Hall, Horror Movie Skewers, Linlang Manicure, Dark Cuisine Small Shop...

Even the imaginative little alien can hardly guess the specific form of these escape trials.

Huo Li pulled the little alien forward in a fast zigzag, bypassing a soliciting NPC wearing the shop's signature clothes, and went straight to the listed rental shop.

Taking a closer look, it is not difficult to find out why this shop is rented out. A generous pillar on the second floor, which replaces the load-bearing wall, squeezes the corner shop into an L-shape, allowing it to be seen in the entire building. It sounds very classy.

Besides, it's hard to imagine what kind of escape trial can be designed for this irregular area of ​​less than ten square meters...

Behind the counter in the shop, a cheap NPC with half a face and one leg missing stood expressionlessly.The whole small shop looked as if the previous shop owner had gone bankrupt and couldn't even afford to hire normal NPCs.

Seeing the two people coming, the NPC opened his mouth and said mechanically: "Pure store rental, 5000 gold coins per day, 10 days minimum rental, no retail sales."

After finishing speaking, he closed his mouth as if the phone had been turned off, and stood there blankly with no expression on his face.

The small flame of Little Alien's own shop was extinguished by half in an instant.

Huo Li took a few steps forward, leaned over the counter and looked in.

"Do you two want to rent a store? Let me tell you, most people think that finding a store for rent in Lanxing Commercial Center is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. After passing this village, there will be no such store! Know!"

A small man with wicked eyebrows and mouse eyes suddenly came out from behind the small shop, looking at the two with sparkling eyes.

"Is this shop yours?" The little alien asked a little strangely.

"No, no way!" The little man smiled and waved his hands again and again as if he had heard some great compliment: "It's okay for little people like us to live in such a high-end building in the city center." It's not easy..."

He looked at Huo Li and Xiaoyi with a bright look in his eyes, as if he had finally met a rich man: "Did the two adults just come to Lanxing Business Center? I'm just an inquisitor, and the price is clearly marked 50 Gold coins, let me tell you for half an hour, I can explain to you clearly about the twists and turns in this rental shop!"

Then I was afraid that you would think it was expensive, so I quickly added: "I'm not the same as those nurses who are so dark-hearted. The same, and there is no support from those forces behind you... adults, if you find it inappropriate to hear this, just kill me."

The short man stuck out his chest, as if he wanted money rather than his life.

Huo Li directly took 50 gold coins and handed them to him.

The short man froze for a moment, as if he couldn't believe that he got the money so easily.Then he snatched the gold coin, turned his wrist and didn't know where he hid it, and then he talked enthusiastically and eloquently:

"My lord, you know that the center of Happy City is very expensive. Although the price of this small shop is 5000 per day, it is absolutely impossible to open an escape trial field for only 5 gold coins to rent for 10 days." .This owner has a bad NPC here who doesn't know anything. It's really bad-hearted...It must be trying to take advantage of it, no no! Sir, I'm definitely not talking about you!"

The short man dug out the 50 gold coins out of nowhere again, and made a gesture as if he was about to drop the money and run, his eyes fixed on Huo Li's next move.

"Stop rambling, hurry up." Huo Li said.

The little man who looked like a frightened rabbit took a few steps forward with Bu Bu, and continued talking:

"If someone rents such a place for 5 yuan, they will find that they have to deal with additional space expansion to open the business! Think about it, except for the most remote places in the suburbs, the space in the trial field is 1:1. Which of the other expansions doesn't make much effort? How could it be possible for the storefront to hold an escape trial..."

Huo Li: "Just talk about the price."

“好的！欢乐城规定，所有试炼场面积不得小于200平米。20倍的空间扩展是1万金币十天、50倍2万、100倍4万……最高1000倍30万。”那矮小男人连忙点着头语速飞快的直接说出了答案：

"To open a proving ground, you generally have to pay four major items: rent, space expansion fee, proving ground design equipment cost, and NPC hiring fee. The other three items are okay, but as a proving ground, things that can hurt people The more powerful you are, the more profit you will make! Like in the city center, where land is expensive and all superhumans are masters, the design of the proving ground is the most expensive... and there is no way to invite people."

The little alien thought silently: what needs to be designed?Put an alien among a group of testers, can they escape?

The short man paused, and said earnestly: "So two adults, listen to my persuasion, this small shop was rented directly from the mall by a group of speculators before, and the one-year lease period has not expired, so I lost the bottom line." Now they don't expect others to continue driving, they just want to cheat others to pay rent...My lord, I am worthy of these 50 gold coins, please don't tell others that I said it! If this If it reaches the ears of those speculators, the little ones will have to be skinned!"

Little Xenomorph and Huo Li looked at each other, then nodded: "It's true that everything is true."

However, the little man seemed to realize something, and then he slapped his thigh excitedly: "Adults have psychic abilities? Can you see it? The little one is really sincere!

"If you are renting a storefront to escape the trial, then I advise you not to rent it! Because Joy City has regulations that unless you own the real estate, all other trialists need to participate in the escape... and even the real estate holders can You cannot rest for more than three consecutive days at the premises you own.”

This short man seemed to have found a confidant, and he had to talk about 50 gold coins today!He cleared his throat and continued to persuade with some pride:

"Actually, if you have a little extra money, it's the most cost-effective to rent a store in the suburbs. There are many newcomers there, and the abilities of the supernatural beings are weak. It doesn't take much space to hire a few extremely cheap NPCs even if they are insane and defective. Expansion and additional trial equipment, as long as you break an electric lock or a door, you can leave a few lives!"

At this moment, a loud shout came from behind the beaming little man: "Why did you come out again, you bloody rat, you don't want to live anymore, do you?"

Immediately afterwards, the little man was kicked and flew out by the big tattooed man behind him!He threw down the stainless steel trash can in front of him all at once, and rolled forward seven or eight meters before hitting a pillar and stopping.

The next second, Xiao Yi walked over straight, stretched out his hand and grabbed the leather collar of the big tattooed man and flung it outwards, only to see that the 1 meter tall man fell across a semi-circular parabola without any defense. First floor lobby...

A muffled bang came from below, accompanied by several exclamations:

"Oh my God!"

"Damn, scare me!"

Huo Li helped his forehead helplessly, and stood beside the guardrail on the second floor with the little alien, looking down together.

I saw the big tattooed man fell with blood all over his face, he groaned for a while and didn't get up, and the trainees and tourists next to him didn't want to meddle in their own business, so they walked away from him and went about their own business.

"You, you, you..." The short man looked at the little alien with horror on his face, ignoring the dirty plastic bags and drinks all over his body, and couldn't even speak.

Xiao Yi didn't want to care about the two people lying upstairs and downstairs, but turned to Huo Li and asked in a low voice: "I have more than 2 gold coins now, plus yours, is it enough for 6?"

"Then we have more than 7 gold coins in total. If you like this small shop, we can rent it out." Huo Li said indifferently.

At the same time, a pleasant radio sound suddenly sounded in Chengdong Shopping Center:

"Tourist No. 4265 used violence, causing the stainless steel trash bin on the east side of the second floor to dump, polluting the ground, and making continuous noise! ​​Now Lanxing Shopping Center has imposed a fine of 500 gold coins. Please arrive at No. 4265 within 5 minutes The service center submitted a fine! I wish tourists and friends a happy life."

"Visitor No. 24424 was fined 30 gold coins because of throwing objects from high altitude, causing the floor on the east side of the first floor to be slightly polluted with blood stains..."

Before the broadcast stopped, he saw the big tattooed man with blood all over his face, jumping up like a carp!Pointing to the upstairs, he began to yell: "You boy, don't let me catch you again! Just now you deliberately threw the garbage can, do you think I can't see it, Grandpa? Damn it! 500 gold coins, who can afford it..."

The little man shook the garbage on his body very proudly, and muttered angrily: "You are just a running dog at the bottom of the Opportunist Alliance. How can you not let you bleed if you beat me?"

The little alien looked at the metal plate showing 24424 in his hand, and asked with some regret: "Slight blood stain... If you just broke his neck just now, wouldn't you not have to pay a fine?"

The short man froze, and squeezed out a sentence through his teeth: "Yes..."

Then he didn't dare to talk anymore, and watched the two big men go to the front desk to pay the fine, and went through the rental procedures by the way.

6 gold coins, rented this 10-square-meter store in a corner for 20 days, and purchased another 10 times the space expansion.It is exactly [-]:[-] am, and if the arrangement is fast enough, the small shop will be able to open normally in the afternoon.

The short man came up timidly again: "My lords, the younger one is actually called Haozi, the decoration of shops nearby, the price of paint..."

The little alien, who was obsessed with planning the future, waved his hand without looking back: "No, let's go."

Haozi shut up immediately when he heard the words, turned around and blended into the crowd for a few seconds before disappearing.

A very thin black thread was stripped from Xiaoyi's hand, quickly climbed up the original blank plastic signboard, and began to absorb it...

In less than half an hour, the 3-minute hot-blooded little alien started to breathe out of boredom. He looked at the black vines that had covered the entire shop, and looked greedily at a bathtub-sized inflatable on the ground ten meters away. There are dozens of small colored goldfish swimming in a small pool, and there is a sign next to it: Fishing Paradise (15 gold coins once)

Xiao Yi turned to Huo Li and said, "Anyway, you can control these black filaments, so let you decorate them, okay? 200 square meters will be expanded into ten small rooms, arranged in different decoration styles, as long as they are of that kind The form of breaking through the level is fine, what kind of bloody laboratory, dark basement... There is a monster hidden in a room, that is..."

The little alien danced with excitement, jumping and jumping in front of his human nanny!

Huo Li helplessly stroked the little alien's forehead, and took over the task: "Okay, I know everything now, you can go and play for a while."

"Haha, you are so kind!" The little alien jumped up happily, gave Huo Li a big hug, then turned and ran towards the inflatable fish pond over there.

Here, a boss with a red miniature fish in his hand is sitting on a ponytail next to the inflatable fish pond and reading a newspaper.

Xiaoyi handed over 15 gold coins.

The boss raised his eyes: "Just step in, just step in."

"Step in?" Xiaoyi raised his foot to signal, thinking that this way of fishing might be different from what he thought...

"That's right, that's it." The boss nodded again and again, and then turned another page of the newspaper.

So the little alien raised his feet and stepped into the inflatable fish pond where dozens of small goldfish were swimming.

In the next second, the sky was dark for a while, and Xiaoyi fell into a huge, pitch-black lake...