Arknights is too real, right?

the next day.

Xia Feng got up early. Because Brother ACE was not leaving, the stone in his heart was easily put down. This made him feel very good. He hummed a little tune all the way and ran downstairs. .

Hurd and his aunt, who were preparing breakfast, looked surprised.

"Xia Feng, why are you still on the ground?"

Xia Feng lifted up his trousers.

"Second uncle, my injury has healed. If you don't believe me, look at my thighs. Are they white?"

Looking at Xia Feng's regrown pink skin, Hurd frowned.

"Hey, this kid's body is really weird."

After breakfast, Xia Feng called Guigui and the others to his room for a meeting, and told everyone that he was planning to start his own business.

Turtle was the first to raise his hands in approval.

"I agree. Although I also like Sister Weena very much, I still want to live in my own home."

Ifrit also raised her hand with excitement.

"I also agree that you can have a BBQ party if you have your own place, hehehe."

Turtle continued to echo.

"You can buy snacks when you make money."

The two little girls sang and discussed their future plans.

"Yeah, I want to buy a lot of candies."

"I want to buy Wangzai milk."

"I want to buy one of those extra-large princess beds in the book."

"I'm going to plant a Christmas tree in the yard."

Xia Feng immediately waved his hand.

"Stop, stop, stop, you guys are just playing house. Besides, you can't buy Wangzai milk no matter how much money you have. It's a specialty of my hometown."

Among everyone, only Brother ACE calmly gave advice.

"I think whatever we buy is a later matter. The most important thing at the moment is that we need a headquarters, or what we call a stronghold."

Yes, this is what Xia Feng thought of. Although his second uncle was very kind to them, it was limited to life. He couldn't set up his headquarters in the yard of his second uncle's house.

This seems to be an insignificant thing at this stage, but it will become very important in the future. The existence of the headquarters involves many things, such as business negotiations, material reserves, the construction of security and detection, and even its own medical system, etc. .

Of course, with the money he has now, it is impossible to build a headquarters like Black Steel International, but at least it must be worthy of the word "headquarters" and not a farmyard.

"Guigui, take out all our funds."

"oh."

Because the denomination of Terra coins is relatively large, all the money together does not seem to be much.

After excluding the expenses along the way, there was still 75,000 left in Hemer's envelope. Because he bought mobile phones and other things a few days ago, the 50,000 the Platts brothers gave him still had 46,000 left, plus the ACE brother. With 7,000 yuan in their wallet, they now have a total of 128,000 yuan.

In addition, they also have two S-class source stones.

After breaking up the pieces, Xia Feng gave the extra 28,000 yuan to his second uncle to leave a way out.

Then he took 100,000 yuan and set off to find the headquarters.

The specific location of the headquarters has many considerations, such as transportation, strategic significance, available surrounding resources, etc., but these are not considered for him, because the headquarters can be changed.

Without thinking too much, the headquarters must be located in Hapi City. There are three main reasons for this.

First, light manganese ore is very attractive.

Second, the privileges of infected people.

Third, he is too lazy to go to other cities anymore, it is very tiring.

Since it was determined to be in Hapi City, the first choice location was undoubtedly the Kilt neighborhood where infected people lived together with ordinary people.

According to Xia Feng's idea, the headquarters they need now does not need to be too luxurious, but the venue must be large enough, with business areas, logistics reserve areas, restaurants and accommodation areas, and possibly a medical area. These areas must be separated. of.

The development of an organization cannot be based on just four people. New members will definitely join in the future. At least for a certain period of time, this headquarters must be enough for them.

Before leaving, he briefly asked Hurd that the housing prices in the Kilt neighborhood were not too expensive. District C was the cheapest, District A was medium, and only District B was slightly more expensive because District B was considered a business district, but that was not the case. It doesn't matter, they won't buy it directly, but rent it.

After determining the general direction, Xia Feng and his party began to search for the "headquarters" in the Kilt neighborhood.

Three hours later.

Xia Feng squatted under a big tree and stuck out his tongue.

"Turtle, give me water."

"Give."

Xia Feng took a few gulps of water and wiped the sweat from his head.

Throughout the morning, they walked around the entire A area several times under the sun, but unfortunately, they did not find a suitable house. The biggest reason was not that it was too expensive, but that it was too low.

To put it bluntly, the houses in District A are all civilian housing. They are too small, too dilapidated, and too shabby. Occasionally, I encounter decent families who don’t rent them, and I haven’t even found one like my second uncle’s house.

Gritting my teeth, it seems I can only go to Area B.

Four hours later.

It was almost dusk, and they spent the whole afternoon wandering around Area B, omitting the process and talking about the results directly, but nothing was suitable.

There are four main streets in the entire Kilt B area. The first three streets are close to area A. There are many various shops and shopping malls, which look relatively prosperous.

And their current location is the fourth street. For some reason, this street looks very deserted. The further they go inside, the sparsely populated the spacious road becomes.

Guigui followed Xia Feng listlessly.

"Big Windmill, there is no one in this place. If you go further, you will have to leave the city."

Xia Feng stopped and sighed helplessly. Indeed, this was already the end of the fourth street, and there were no decent houses further on.

"How about we go back first."

"Hey! Yo-Yo, you see this yard seems empty."

Xia Feng looked along Ifrit's finger, and on the other side of the street, a row of neat storefronts appeared in his field of vision.

Observing carefully, he found that these were three facades connected together. Because the stone bricks on the facades were dark in tone, he did not notice it at first and thought they were old and dilapidated houses. Now when he took a closer look, he saw that these houses It looks really good.

Seeing Xia Feng's concerned look, ACE spoke up.

"Xia Feng, how about we go over and ask?"

"But, they didn't say that they wanted to rent it out."

It is true that these houses do not have signs for rent, but if you look closely, you will find that except for the one on the far right that seems to be occupied, the other two are obviously empty.

"It's okay. It's not a big deal to ask."

"All right."

Xia Feng and his group walked across the road. At this time, in front of the house, there was a boy with a shaved head playing ball alone.

Seeing a group of people walking towards him, the boy put down the football with some confusion.

Walking up to the young man, Xia Feng pointed to the house behind him and asked first.

"Little brother, are you from this family?"

"This is my home, what's wrong?"

"Are these two buildings next door the same?"

"yes."

"Oh, that's good. We see that these two houses of yours are vacant, and we wanted to ask if you have any plans to rent them out."

Hearing Xia Feng's words, the young man shouted over his shoulder, using the voice of a male duck who was in the process of changing his voice.

"Mom, someone is renting a house!"

Soon, the boy's mother received them. She was not an amiable and good mother, but an old woman with a strong body and a somewhat careless appearance.

After talking, she found out that these three houses all belong to her, and the two houses next to them are now vacant and can be rented at any time.

Xia Feng took a brief look around. He didn't know it until he saw it. It was really a surprise.

The structures of the two houses are basically the same. The facade on the outside of the street has two floors and an area of ​​nearly 400 square meters. Although there is no gorgeous interior decoration, the halls and partitions are very reasonably divided, no matter what industry they are engaged in. can use.

Walking inside, there is a large courtyard paved with marble roads. There is a hidden basement in the corner of the courtyard. At the end of the marble road, there is the main building for living, a small four-story building. Building.

Xia Feng and others visited around and stood at the door. There was a spacious sidewalk between the facade and the road. Although the neighborhood was not as prosperous as other streets, there were still several open shops. Xia Feng saw a Restaurant, a grocery store, and a photo studio.

Xia Feng looked at Turtle next to him who looked excited.

"How's it going? Do you like it here?"

"kindness."

Turtle nodded desperately.

It can be seen that everyone is very satisfied. They did not expect to find such a suitable house in such a remote place.

After talking, the landlady gave a price of 88,000 per year. This price shocked Xia Feng.

"Sister, we don't want two buildings, I just want the middle one."

"That's right, it's the price of a building, 80,800. Oh, by the way, you don't need to bargain with me. The price is fixed. If you agree, I will give you the key. If not, I will leave. I am still in a hurry to cook. Woolen cloth."

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Xia Feng could tell that this was not a trick or bullying because he didn't understand the price. The landlady's attitude was very firm. Anyone with a discerning eye could see that the price was too high. However, for some unknown reason, even if the two houses were kept, If it's empty, she won't lower the price.

Xia Feng gritted his teeth. Money is earned, not saved.

"Snapped!"

88,000 tera coins were slapped on the table.

"I rented it, give me the key!"

After signing the contract and taking the key, they now had their own house. Turtle and Ifrit held hands and happily walked around in circles.

ACE smiled and patted Xia Feng on the shoulder.

"This time we are going to work together."

Turtle looked at Xia Feng with red eyes.

"Big Windmill, we finally have our own home."

"kindness."

While it was still dark, everyone simply cleaned up the leaves and debris in front of the door.

Afterwards, Xia Feng ran to the photo studio across the street and called the photo studio owner over.

This is the first day that they have truly stabilized, and it is also the beginning of a new journey.

Standing in front of their "headquarters", Xia Feng, Guigui, ACE, and Ifrit leaned together and took a memorable photo.

Xia Feng had a pleased smile on his face.

ACE gives a thumbs up.

Turtle gestured to scissor hands.

Ifrit grinned heartlessly.

As the sun sets, the figures of four people are frozen in this photo.

Several years later, someone held a yellowed photo in his hand.

In the photo, the expressions of the four people are still bright, as if they had the most precious thing in the world at the moment the photo was frozen.

Everything seems like yesterday.

"Bata!"

Blood dripped on the yellowed photo, and mixed with the blood, there was also a drop of cold tears.

The road to kingship is destined to be accompanied by blood and sacrifice, he has known this for a long time.

Somehow, he seemed to have saved something, and also seemed to have changed something.

"Windmill!"

He turned around blankly, but there was no one behind him.

He seemed to have accomplished his mission.

However, those who have passed away will never come back, just like the friendly call that he can no longer hear, it only echoes in his mind, but can no longer be touched in this life.

Unless, everything goes back to where it started.

Thank you all for your recent tips, thank you. In fact, I have been thinking about a question recently, just like when I first created this book, should I write the story that others want to see, or the story that I want to write in my heart. Recently, many people have given me opinions. I feel like I am standing at a crossroads now. Some people have asked me to change direction and turn left. I wonder if those who have not spoken out want to tell me to stick to my original intention. Don't change direction. Now I have decided, just like Amiya, I will tell this story completely even if it is not understood by some people. If this story happens to fit your mind, that would be the happiest thing