Wu Yun did not take the words of the stall owner seriously at all. After eating the noodles, he went for another walk and got a pot of cactus from the florist, a lemon from the vegetable seller, and a bottle of undiluted alcohol from the stall owner on the side, which was said to be authentic Erguotou.
People who could open stores there may not be strong in fighting, but information was still better than ordinary people*.
*Not sure: 能够在这里开店的人，打架的实力也许不强，但是消息还是比一般人灵通。
To be precise, almost everyone who had lived in this city for more than five years knew about Wu Yun"s existence in this city*. If the newcomers knew a little bit about it, they should know that a beautiful Chinese man wandering aimlessly in the street, with an easy to deceive face and no accidents, was already an “anomaly”.
*Unsure: 几乎都知道乌云对于这个城市来说是怎么样的存在。
When Qing Tian opened the door, the first thing he saw was not Wu Yun"s beautiful emotionless[1] face, but the pot of cactus in his hands and the pile of things he was carrying.
Qing Tian wanted to say something, but suddenly found that there seemed to be nothing to say.
Where should he start complaining?
“You take this.” Wu Yun put the cactus pot in Qing Tian"s hands and said solemnly, “In a crisis, you can use it as a weapon.”
―So that"s why you came back with a basin of cactus?
Qing Tian didn"t know how to face the cactus, which was not as big as his palm.
What kind of weapon can this be used as?
Probably seeing the doubt on Qing Tian"s face, Wu Yun kindly explained, “It is very useful to use its thorns to force a confession.”
“Stop it. I don"t want to know.” Qing Tian prevented Wu Yun from continuing to talk. After listening, he would have nightmares, so he didn"t want to listen.
Wu Yun rarely had some regrets.
Qing Tian didn"t have any big problem in any other aspect, that is, he was not paying much attention to “learning”.
After putting everything down, it was customary for Qing Tian to ask if Wu Yun had heard anything outside.
Wu Yun"s instantaneous memory was very good, basically what he head today would not be forgotten. But when he slept tomorrow, it will be forgotten, and will not be remembered until he needed it.
Therefore, every time Wu Yun came back, Qing Tian would ask him something to see if he could find any clues from it.
Qing Tian was different from Wu Yun"s “living by feeling”. He followed the “cautious” style and liked to know all the information he could learn in a limited range.
Wu Yun simply said what he saw. By the way, he talked about the matters of the ramen noodle and the topic of Lanzhou noodles which would be better. Finally, he simply announced the news that he had recently received a bounty on his head.
“That"s all.” Wu Yun was sure he missed nothing.
“Wait, the last part where you said you had a bounty.” Qing Tian didn"t miss it. “What"s going on with that?”
“170 million.” Wu Yun blinked. “Then the intelligence charge starts at 1 million. Do you want I say it again?”
Such a simple number should not be repeated.
“Wait, wait.” Qing Tian rubbed his head. “Is the price unit in Korean won, the number you"re talking about?”
“The international reward is in US dollars.”
170 million!
Dollars!
Qing Tian thought he might have a hearing problem.
This… Such a high price?
Just the man in front of him?
Qing Tian wasn"t convinced.
When he was sold, what was the price? Was it around three thousand dollars or five thousand dollars? Forget it, but it should be a very high price for his parents to sell him.
“No wonder, no wonder so many outsiders have come to town recently?” Qing Tian felt as if he understood everything. People outside thought that Wu Yun had Dushe"s formula. Now he was afraid that Wu Yun had become the target, so the price will soar all the way.
After all, if the "Nushen" formula could be reproduced, it would be a big shock to the drug industry all over the world, and wouldn"t the profits be more than 100 million at that time? A hundred million was just a little bit of change.
Excuse me.
Qing Tian instinctively knew that the matter could not be so simple to end. Two punches were difficult to beat four hands, not to mention that the gangs a.s.sociated with Dushe were not fuel-efficient lamps.
If Wu Yun wanted to live a good life, there was no safer place than Sasimu City. He had to live here with Wu Yun, at least until the limelight was over. Otherwise, he would be subjected to all kinds of ambushes as soon as he went out.
Qing Tian had begun to think about how to escape, and turned around to see Wu Yun had carelessly dismantled today"s “food box” and reached for the chocolate.
“You are not allowed to eat.” Qing Tian closed the box. “The Doctor says you can"t have any more sweets these days, or you"ll have to prepare to pull out your teeth.”
Wu Yun"s hand stopped at once and dared not move again.
Although the Bartender and the Priest were more powerful than the Doctor, there was no doubt that of those three people, Wu Yun was most afraid of the Doctor.
Doctor, it was terrible.
“Wu Yun, don"t you feel anything about your bounty?” Qing Tian felt that he could not be the only one who had a sense of crisis. “You are more valuable now than Dushe, you know!”
It was necessary to let Wu Yun,who had no concept of money, have a good understanding of his current situation.
“There are many people here who are more valuable than Dushe.” Wu Yun silently picked up the electric toothbrush and squeezed the toothpaste. “I can"t even rank the top five.”
“Hmm?” Qing Tian was really shocked. “What do you mean?”
“As far as the Priest"s reward is concerned, I remember it was 230 million dollars.” Wu Yun poured himself a gla.s.s of water first. “The Bartender"s price should be 300 million. The Doctor is the highest, but the Doctor"s reward is more than one, combined with it should"ve broken 500 million.”
500 million?
“What did the Doctor do? Why was the price so high?" Qing Tian couldn"t help his curiosity, it was too terrible.
“The Doctor seems to be wanted in 39 countries at the same time, and some financial group families are secretly adding to the amount. I don"t know exactly why, but before settling down on A Street, the Doctor seemed to like doing research with different financial groups for research funding. He says the projects he studies start with a billion dollars and study a variety of things.”
“Later, what happened?”
“Then the Doctor came here.” Wu Yun looked at Qing Tian in surprise. “You should see it.”
So in other words, the Doctor cheated people"s research funds, and maybe even took their research results and disappeared completely. No wonder the reward amount was so high. If the Doctor"s research results were published, the price would probably go up.
Qing Tian could hardly breathe.
Sure enough, the people who can mix well in this h.e.l.lhole must be better out there.
“So, your reward is really not high…” When explained by Wu Yun, Qing Tian was calm.
The Doctor could live and was thriving[2]. Wu Yun certainly no problem.
“Well.” Wu Yun nodded and began to gargle.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz——
The electric toothbrush worked diligently in the mouth, and Wu Yun thought that he seemed to have forgotten something. It seemed that he had a bounty before, but it wasn"t not clear.
Well, it shouldn"t be important to remember.
Bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz——
The noise of the electric toothbrush sounded again.
Bar.
“Only 170 million?” The Bartender pulled out his earpiece from his pocket and was not impressed by the informant"s reports. “Don"t tell me that for a little money, really. If the newcomers don"t obey, you can teach them a lesson. Is it because we haven"t had much trouble lately, so the bounty hunters think we"re easy to bully?"
It is really not fatal for such a small amount of money to come to them to make a fuss.*
*Unsure: 这么点钱就跑来他们这里来大吵大闹的，真心是不要命。
“Brother, this is not less…” One of the informants felt aggrieved, an international reward of more than one million dollars had people on a wild goose chase [3]. The price of one hundred million dollars were not necessarily seen in several years.
“That"s the outside world.” The Bartender grabbed a chocolate bar and said, “Here, the reward for anyone on the street is a million dollars. The price of 170 million is not so high, but it is more troublesome for Wu Yun to have "Nushen""s recipe in his hands. Well, if the hybrid boy around the Wu Yun comes to buy information recently, remember to double the price and ask the boy to sign and deduct money from Wu Yun"s account. ”
Wu Yun had two hundred million dollars stored. It was really annoying that he didn"t spend much money.
In terms of reward, after killing the former gang G.o.dfather under their entrustment, Wu Yun topped the reward list in the name of a mysterious killer. The reward seemed to be five sets of precious stones handed down from the G.o.dfather"s family. The five sets of jewelry, which the G.o.dfather"s grandfather plundered from the royal family during the World War, were priceless.
To tell you the truth, at that time, the Bartender was interested in whether or not to hand over Wu Yun, and later thought that he was also one of the clients, so he had to give up the idea.
They were accomplices.
The G.o.dfather should not have focused on their city of Sasimu, the underground world outside was enough for them to fight. This was the garbage dump of the world, a shelter for all desperate people. Many times the United Nations had tried to destroy this place without success, let alone a mafia G.o.dfather?
But after Dushe died, it was a little boring.
If nothing happens, no one would buy information from them, and it will be a lot of money for them to raise these informants.
No.
That way, he would lose money.
Even if you add water to the wine, you can"t make back the money you lost.
“Big brother, big brother.”
Several bartenders came into the room, looking anxious.
“What"s wrong?” The Bartender asked lazily, “You"d better give me some interesting information, or I"ll deduct double the cost of your two missed jobs now.”
“Brother don"t!”
“Brother, don"t learn from the Priest.”
“If you lose face, we"ll go to the priest.”
“Speak human words.”
“Well, big brother, there are two bounty hunters coming out with a box of money. I estimate it to be 1 million dollars.”
“Oh?” The Bartender became a little interested. “It"s worth coming in.”
1 million dollars was not much for them, but it was a little too much for bounty hunters, especially for bounty hunters who come to them with so much money to buy intelligence.
The point was, who"s information did they want to buy?
“They want to buy information about Mr. Wu Yun.”
Coming!
The Bartender"s eyes became bright.
At this point, he knew there was a way to get money quickly.
“1 million is too little to buy Mr. Wu Yun"s information, but the two bounty hunters say they are here as representatives and have a lot of business to do with us, so we have to ask big brother.”
“We are in the intelligence business. How can we not sell when guests come to buy things in advance?” The Bartender smiled at a few of his men. “Of course you have to satisfy the guests.”
“But Mr. Wu Yun……”
“Wu Yun"s information can be given to them.” In any case, it was no longer a secret to people who have lived in Sasimu for more than a certain number of years.
“If you sell it directly to them, not only do you have to sell it, but you have to tell everyone that we sold this information, okay?”
“Big……Big brother……”
“I"ll talk to the Priest.” The Bartender took some clothes for himself and murmured to himself, “They want to kill Wu Yun, so they must buy weapons, and they will get hurt, so the Priest and the Doctor will not worry about the guests. Wu Yun is really easy to use. He can bring benefits to all three of us on his own. These bounty hunters are not weak. A few more should be able to sc.r.a.pe a lot of money……"
With that, the Bartender was gone. He should have gone to the Priest and the Doctor.
“Maybe it"s been a little boring lately.”
“I think so, too.”
“Well, then I"ll sort out Mr. Wu Yun"s information and sell it.”
“Wait, I"ll go, too. I have a lot of information to sell, too!”
The author has something to say:
Reward over 100 million club: Number of members??? What are the faces of the members??? Membership information???
Doctor: Well, these financial groups are so stingy that the amount of reward offered to me is not as high as my [research] funds.
Priest: I seem to be the lowest. It"s true that honesty and trustworthiness do not make people hate me.
Bartender: OJZ I have no income if I don"t do things. It"s easy for me to increase the amount when I do things.
Chen Yong: What do I say when I add up to dozens of ident.i.ties and hundreds of rewards?
Wu Yun: You should also work hard to enter our reward club, Qing Tian.
Qing Tian: Thank you, but no.
Thank you, little angels, for voting for me.
(The author then thanks the readers who"ve voted for them)
Footnotes:
[1] lit. “signboard” in the raws, pretty sure it means emotionless/deadpan, etc.
[2] lit. 风生水起/fēng shēng shuǐ qǐ, wind & water. The wind blew on the surface of the water, and the surface of the water rippled . Describe things to be lively and thriving.
[3] lit. 趋之若鹜/qūzhīruòwù/to rush like ducks (idiom), a mob scrambles madly for something un.o.btainable