It seemed like none of the residents in the stronghold knew that the Experimentals had disappeared from Stronghold 113. Everyone on the streets behaved the same as before. Those who needed to go to work went to work, those who needed to buy groceries went to buy groceries, and those who needed to do plaza dancing did so.
At night, Ren Xiaosu, Wang Fugui, and the others had already assigned their respective tasks. But to their surprise, a black off-road vehicle stopped at the entrance early in the morning. Two young men got out of the vehicle and said to Ren Xiaosu, "We're here to take the goods away. Yang Xiaojin said she already made an appointment with you."
The goods they were talking about were probably Dong Funan. Ren Xiaosu did not doubt their identities because only he and Yang Xiaojin knew about this.
He asked, "Are you two Yang Xiaojin and Luo Xinyu's companions?"
The two young men looked at each other and said with a smile, "We're not qualified yet, so you don't have to ask."
What was going on? Ren Xiaosu was a little puzzled. What was the structure of Yang Xiaojin's organization like? It seemed like there were many levels to it.
But it was not time yet. Ren Xiaosu still had not heard the voice from the palace announcing the completion of the mission. He glanced at his watch and saw that there was still more than half an hour left until the seventh day.
Ren Xiaosu looked at the two young men and said, "You two can't take her away yet. You'll have to wait a little longer."
The two young men wondered, "Why do we have to wait a little longer? Is there anything else that's very important to you? "
Ren Xiaosu thought to himself that he could not tell them it was because the mission had not been completed yet. He thought for a moment and said, "Yes, it's very important. You two can wait in the backyard first. I'll give her some more instructions."
Less than five minutes later, the two young men saw Dong Funan sitting obediently on a small stool in the backyard. Ren Xiaosu, who was sitting across from her, said in a serious tone, "I believe you've realized your mistakes through hard labor, so I'll be handing you over today. I hope you'll be a good person over there and be a person who contributes to society and a supernatural being who contributes to society."
More than half an hour passed with the instructions.
The two youths from the Thugs were shocked. Wait for a while?!
They had originally thought that Ren Xiaosu would only say one or two sentences, but they had never expected Ren Xiaosu to speak for so long.
What kind of heinous crime had Dong Funan committed that she had to go through such a long period of ideological education …
Seeing that Dong Funan's expression was gradually breaking down, Ren Xiaosu finally heard the voice from the palace say, "Side quest completed. The new item in the vending machine has been unlocked!"
Ren Xiaosu heaved a sigh of relief. He had finally managed to stall for this long. When Dong Funan saw Ren Xiaosu finally stopping, she nearly burst into tears of excitement. When Chen Wudi said Ren Xiaosu was his master, Dong Funan did not believe him. But she did not expect Ren Xiaosu to be as long-winded as Tripitaka!
Ren Xiaosu chuckled and said to the two youths, "Alright, you can take her away now."
When the two youths saw the look of anticipation on Dong Funan's face, they thought to themselves that they might not even need to go through the early stages of persuasion. They felt that as long as they could take Dong Funan away from Ren Xiaosu, she would already be very touched.
After Dong Funan was taken away, Ren Xiaosu finally had a chance to look at the vending machine in the palace. He saw a new slot in the transparent window of the vending machine.
Ren Xiaosu was a little puzzled as he looked at the item in the window. That thing looked like a deck of poker cards?
It wasn't easy for me to complete this quest, so why the hell did you give me a deck of poker cards? You want me to play Fight the Landlord with Wang Fugui, Yan Liuyuan, and the others?
Poker was also one of the popular forms of entertainment in this era. So when Ren Xiaosu saw that the new item in the vending machine was a deck of poker cards, he was a little confused.
He saw an introduction written at the bottom of the slot: Explosive Poker!
Ren Xiaosu tried to insert a gratitude token into the vending machine. However, the vending machine only produced a Three of Clubs at the exit!
Wait a minute, there didn't seem to be anything special about these poker cards, so why was it Explosive? Besides, people usually sell poker cards in sets, but you're only selling one for one gratitude token?!
Ren Xiaosu could not believe it. He inserted another gratitude token into the slot, but a Five of Diamonds came out this time. He looked up at the vending machine in shock.
As though he had thought of something, he quickly inserted more than a dozen gratitude tokens into the slot. This time, more cards came out.
Meanwhile, Ren Xiaosu took a look at the words "Explosive Poker" on the vending machine. Then he looked at the four Three of Clubs he had just formed in his hand and fell into deep thought.
…
The next day, Ren Xiaosu and Wang Fugui went out and split up. Stronghold 109 had two gates, one on the east and the other on the west.
Stronghold 113 was northeast of Stronghold 109, so if the Experimentals were to arrive, they would definitely reach the east gate first. Meanwhile, Ren Xiaosu got Wang Fugui to rent a courtyard house next to the west gate. They would move in there tonight.
This way, if anything happened, it would be easier for them to escape from the west gate.
After that, all that was left was to purchase supplies!
Knowing in advance that a disaster was imminent, Ren Xiaosu felt they could not afford to run away in a panic like the previous time. This time, they had to prepare all the supplies they needed.
But before that, what they needed to prepare the most was … cash.
Actually, they did not have that much money on hand. The black medicine had only just started selling, and Old Wang had not had time to convert all of his anti-inflammatory drugs into cash yet. Therefore, the most urgent thing for Ren Xiaosu was to convert them into gold!
Previously, he was worried his identity would be exposed if he exchanged for gold and he would be investigated by the Public Order Division. As such, he had delayed converting the gold into cash.
After all, what would he do if Luo Lan suspected him?
But now, Ren Xiaosu did not have to worry anymore. He was going to leave the stronghold soon, so what else was there to worry about?
Moreover, Xu Xianchu had already shown himself in the stronghold, so wouldn't it only make sense for him to convert the gold into cash in Stronghold 109?
Over the course of the day, Ren Xiaosu visited more than a dozen gold shops with his cap on. The gold he sold at each shop was only a small gold bar that weighed about 100 grams. Based on the price of gold in the stronghold, it was worth about 40,000 yuan.
Although the 100 grams of gold bar he sold was not much to the gold shops and would not attract much attention, it was a little more eye-catching.
However, the non-official smelted gold bars were a little eye-catching. Ordinary people would not smelt gold bars for no reason. Usually, people who came to sell gold would directly sell jewelry.
But what choice did Ren Xiaosu have? If he did not melt down the gold bars, the oxidized gold jewelry would probably be even more eye-catching.
Therefore, the moment he left the shop, some of the owners of the gold shops immediately reported this matter to the Public Order Division. The owner of the last gold shop looked at the gold bar in his hand with some hesitation. "You are … Xu Xianchu?!"
Ren Xiaosu turned pale with fright. "How did you know?!"
With that, Ren Xiaosu turned around and ran out of the gold shop in a panic.
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