Tokyo underground city

Chapter 258 Epilogue

"This is my accommodation fee before and for the next three months."

Tanya respectfully placed a wad of bills in front of Lin Huaien.

Looking at the thick dozen rubles, Lin Huai'en couldn't help but rub his forehead——

"Major Vaskov taught you this again?"

"Yes, did I do something wrong?"

Tanya tilted her head, not apologizing for what she had done wrong.

The current hunter girl is like a young wolf who has just come into contact with a strange world. She is constantly testing the way to survive in this new world in her own way.

But in this way, she also showed her determination——

When Tanya knocked on the door of Lin Huaien's house carrying large and small bags, he was both surprised and somewhat expected.

Tanya arrived in Shangdu one week after he and Hara Yumu returned to China.

And the choice of "flying" is very common sense.

According to Lin Huaien's understanding, with Tanya's brain circuit, it is very likely that she could climb up from Kadchan Dungeon.

"The explorer visa is too inconvenient, and many non-dungeon areas are inconvenient to enter."

And Tanya's explanation was basically in line with his guess: "So Captain Vaskov suggested that it would be better for me to go through formal assignment procedures, get an association visa, arrive in Shangdu, and become a member of the daytime thief squad. …”

Tanya spoke slowly and calmly, but her articulation was very clear, and they were all in Chinese.

Yes, during this time at Lin Huaien's house, Tanya has been learning Chinese. Although there are special language skills in dungeon skills, they often have various flaws, unless they are at the purple card or black card stage. Among advanced explorers, few would waste a skill slot just for the sake of learning a foreign language.

Tanya doesn't speak very fluently yet, but after preparing a lot of lessons, she can already have a normal conversation with Lin Huaien.

And this aspect also reflects Tanya’s fighting characteristics——

Calm, thoughtful, perseverant, and predictable.

Although difficult to understand, this is also the best character for a sniper.

"You are quite serious about living in Shangdu...haven't you considered going back? I think Vaskov treats you quite well."

Lin Huai'en looked at the banknotes on the table and pushed them back: "It's not convenient for me to collect this money. You first learn how to deposit it in the bank, and then transfer it to me after exchanging currency."

"Is this a test?"

Tanya looked at Lin Huaien, tilted her head and asked.

"Hmm...that's right?"

Lin Huai'en looked at his increasingly cramped "single apartment"——

"Aren't you considering renting a house next door? I can call the property management company and ask if there are any new rooms available."

"No need." However, Tanya said decisively: "I am used to living here. A place without people will make me feel uncomfortable."

"Is this rhetoric also prepared in advance..."

Lin Huaien looked at Tanya, a little speechless.

But the hunter girl really nodded, her blue eyes showing seriousness——

"I asked Captain Vaskov what I could say to keep him from moving out."

"What about your own thoughts?"

"Feel?"

Tanya looked away slightly: "Although I can't find a reason, I don't want to move out, because I don't want to move, so I don't want to move."

Tanya is obviously able to express her thoughts clearly and logically.

But the hunter girl's brain circuit is still the same emotional drive system.

Full of hunter's unique wildness and intuition.

So Lin Huai'en couldn't convince her.

But after more than two months of traveling to Siberia, Lin Huaien was able to reach some "emotional" resonance with Tanya -

"Hunter's cabin..."

Tanya raised her head and glanced at Lin Huaien in surprise.

But he just stared silently at his crowded room.

Compared with Tanya's empty and lonely "village house", Lin Wynn's apartment was more like the hunter's cabin in Siberia.

Although it is crowded and cramped, and even sleeping can only be done in the narrow gap between the equipment and the wall, it has a sense of life like a "hunter's cabin".

Especially the Salt 10 dungeon is right next to the bedroom. For Tanya, it feels like "you can hunt right away".

Unlike Lin Huaien, Tanya does not have any daily entertainment.

She also doesn't like playing with her mobile phone because her eyes hurt over time. The eyes are the most important body organ of a sniper, so in her free time, her only pleasure is to go to the middle level of the Salt 10 shelter alone to hunt monsters.

Even if she didn't get much experience, she would search every corner of [Salt and Crossroads] and [Soul Sanctuary], and found many treasure spots that Lin Huai'en and the others had missed.

After Lin Huaien bought most of these treasures, Tanya threw them into the team contribution library——

For the hunter girl, apart from buying equipment, she has nothing to spend money on.

"It's so easy to make a living...it's really easy to make a living..."

In this regard, Lin Huai'en can only sigh with emotion.

He can hunt, make money, doesn't need to be taken care of, and has a sharp mind. Except for the occasional paranoia caused by brain circuits, he is perfect.

How many lifetimes of luck did it take him to get such a beautiful girl as his roommate?

But having said that, Lin Huaien still knows that for now, his and Tanya's cohabitation life is still quite awkward.

After all, Tanya is different from Hara Yumu. In terms of daily life, the hunter girl is very unscrupulous.

I often come out of the toilet without my hair drying.

Even using bath towels and pajamas was taught to her by Lin Huai'en.

For a long time, Tanya tried to "sleep naked" -

This is a habit that Lin Huai'en only realized after the heating was turned on in Shanghai.

Therefore, from the perspective of maintaining normal physical and mental health, Lin Huai'en decided to buy the apartment upstairs or next door.

He had gone to the real estate agent to see the design drawings of the apartment before. In theory, the wall between the two apartments could be opened.

After converting two apartments into one, Tanya will still live with him, but their living space will be greatly expanded.

"But in this case... another 600,000 yuan will go out..."

That's why Lin Huai'en seriously considered charging Tanya the rent - after all, the hunter girl is not from Shangcheng and is not qualified to buy a house in Shangcheng.

All arrangements must be made by him as the captain.

Hara Yumu and Tanya are almost completely opposite models.

Hara Yumu has little fighting ability, but other than that, he does not need to take care of anything else - at least according to the girl herself, she has an entire service team that covers everything from finance, administration to law.

The day-to-day operations of the daytime thief team also rely heavily on Hara Yumu's service team.

It can be said that it is precisely because of Yuan Ximu's existence that Lin Huai'en, the captain, is truly like the "explorer team leader" he understands, instead of being named "captain" and essentially being a "general manager".

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"Leave the daily operations of the West Wind Chapter to Cicero."

At a party after Tanya returned to Shangdu, Lin Huai'en and Sen Yan talked about team management.

She flipped her long hair intentionally or unintentionally and said casually:

"Aizen, Cicero, and I each have a division of labor within the Zephyr Chapter: I am responsible for formulating strategies and maintaining external relations; Aizen is responsible for personnel training and internal personnel management; Cicero is responsible for administrative work and intelligence analysis ."

"After all, you are a large team of dozens of people."

After hearing what Sen Yan said, Lin Huai'en took a sip of his cocktail and felt a little emotional.

Originally, given his personality, he disliked interacting with "elites".

But whether it is Minister Xiao, Minister Hong, or Sen Yan and Vaskov on the Chang Ying Xie side, they are exceptions.

Lin Huaien can learn a lot from communicating with them.

And there is no hypocrisy or compromise, all communication is based on "sincerity".

This may be the so-called "comradeship relationship."

After crossing life and death, explorers will develop a serious sense of disgust at the idleness and internal friction that often occur in social life.

There are no polite courtesies or superficial compliments.

When they really feel a problem, either Senyan or Vaskov will point it out to him directly——

Because none of them wanted him or Tanya to die.

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After having a drink with Senyan, Lin Huaien left.

The suppression war in Changying Lower City is proceeding steadily.

Just like Lin Huaien and the others encountered the "White Wolf King", the West Wind Group also encountered a very difficult enemy in Changying Underground City.

The "Mixin Amusement Park" on the 15th floor of Changying has consumed almost all the "new generation" explorers in the entire Changying dungeon.

The large-scale suppressive battle involving more than 3,000 people was no less powerful than when the day thieves set fire to the Giant Wood Forest.

Even so, Senyan and the others were tormented by the overwhelming and endless [Chen people].

"If cut in half, it will split. It will also be parasitic on the wound, causing secondary blood loss and ulceration. It is immune to blunt force attacks and has good resistance to various spells."

"There are so many that they are only afraid of fire spells."

"In the end, we found more than a thousand low-level explorers, launched a large-scale area spell, and dried out the entire "Mizhen Amusement Park", and then we eliminated the "King Zhenyu" in the amusement park."

Even though almost half a month has passed, Sen Yan still has a lingering look on her face when talking about the 14th floor strategy battle.

In that battle, the West Wind Chapter, which emphasized its melee combat capabilities, performed mediocrely. On the contrary, the mage explorers represented by Neil showed a great sense of presence.

"If we say the suppression war on the first five levels is the stage for various 'corporate trends'."

"Then the suppression war on floors 6 to 10 is a performance by various 'elite teams'."

“But starting from the 11th to 15th floors, we ushered in the era of ‘a hundred flowers blooming’.”

Senyan introduced to Lin Huaien the current situation of the new generation in Changying——

"Including lone wolves like Neil who left the corporate world, there have been many inconspicuous civilian gods of war——"

"Now in the Wilderness House, this situation is called 'Thirty-six Tiangang vs. Seventy-two Disha'. Your 'Day Thief' and my 'West Wind Chapter' both belong to the 'Thirty-Six Tiangang' One, and Nier's 'Fire Whisperers' and some other new teams that performed well in the 14th floor suppression battle were positioned as the 'Seventy-Two Disha'."

"Where's Ah Jiu's 'Qingliu Expedition'?"

Lin Huai'en thought for a while and asked.

"Disbanded." Sen Yan shook her head unsurprisingly: "Ajiu left the dungeon and stopped being an explorer."

"I heard she was married, but I don't know who she was married to."

"...That's it, that's pretty good."

Lin Huaien nodded and sighed.

Maybe, this is the workplace.

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When Lin Huaien opened the apartment door and returned home, Tanya was wearing White Bear's pajamas and sitting on her sofa.

She put a telescope on the bridge of her nose and looked at Lin Huaien through the top of the lens, which made Lin Huaien's heartbeat skip a beat.

"I'm back."

In spite of himself, he nodded to Tanya.

Tanya tilted her head and thought for a second before she realized that Lin Huai'en was talking to herself.

"お帰りなさい?"

"Why Japanese?"

Lin Huai'en was stunned for a moment and asked.

"Miss Yuan recently recommended a Japanese drama to me."

Tanya put "The Sun Also Rises" at her feet, hugged her knees and said, "I think she is right. Now that I have come to Shangcheng, I should learn more about the behavior of urban people."

"So, she asked you to watch Japanese dramas?" Lin Huai'en couldn't help but shook his head.

"Ms. Hara said that the character interactions in the female-oriented romantic dramas that have recently been released in Shangcheng City are relatively "rough". It is better to watch some old movies in Tokyo. The female characters in them are more in line with the aesthetics of Shangcheng men."

Tanya stumbled and said that she had become accustomed to chatting with Yuan Ximu in Chinese characters, and her Chinese was becoming more and more fluent.

"This guy Yuan Ximu..."

Hearing Yuan Ximu's answer, Lin Huaien paused, feeling helpless.

But at the same time, he was also curious about what kind of chemical reaction Tanya would have with the female characters in Japanese dramas.

So he thought about it and turned to look at Tanya——

"Speaking of which, how do you feel about the portrayal of women in Japanese dramas?"

Tanya looked up at the ceiling and thought for a moment——

"……not free?"

"It's like a wolf in a cage."

"I can only squint my eyes and watch the people coming and going outside the cage."

"I can't help myself."

"The Sun Also Rises" by Hemingway