Chapter 10: Antiques
Xiao Qiao was asleep, Zhang Sheng went to the balcony and found her brother to smoke a cigarette.
He also tried the mirror in the apartment, and none of them could form the entrance to the mirror world. Open the secondary interface of the entrance to the mirror world, and only see a very small map, drawing his bathroom.
Without opening the second entrance to the mirror world, you will not be able to obtain one hour of mirror world time every day.
The time value of mirror world is huge. Zhang Sheng has used the remaining time to remove the scars on his chest, supplementing his skill consumption, and restoring his own health.
Or, go to the antique market tomorrow to try your luck?
"Zhang Sheng!"
Xiao Qiao called him in the room, and Zhang Sheng agreed to go back to Xiao Qiao's bedroom. Xiao Qiao lay lazily on the bed and said I was thirsty. Zhang Sheng brought her water, Xiao Qiao sat up and drank water, and asked Zhang Sheng why he didn't sleep.
“A little hot.”
"I'm afraid you're uncomfortable, so I didn't dare to turn on the air conditioner."
"It's open, otherwise mosquitoes will bite people, and you won't be able to sleep well."
"Then you go and close the window." Xiao Qiao handed the water to Zhang Sheng. Zhang Sheng went to close the window. Xiao Qiao turned on the air conditioner, Zhang Sheng went to turn off the lights, and came back to lie on the bed.
Xiao Qiao hugged him and said, "You can't sleep?"
"What clothes do you want to buy tomorrow?" Zhang Sheng answered the question irrelevantly.
"It's getting cold, add two coats." Xiao Qiao's words made Zhang Sheng's thoughts a little more floating. In the wasteland and the end of the world, clothes were also precious materials, and there was not so much land to grow cotton. The resources were mainly controlled by the old nobles. The following were the extraordinary people who were genetically modified, and then the people of the old nobles like him were trained since childhood.
The old nobles jointly formed a company, and outside the company, humans almost degenerated to the point of eating raw meat and drinking blood.
There are only a few places to grow. Most people live similar to those in the primitive era, relying on hunting and gathering to fill their stomachs. People go to cities in the old world to hunt monsters and sell them to companies in exchange for necessities in daily life. Food is very expensive, and most people can only eat the meat of mutant creatures, even if it is polluted.
If the temperature changes, you have to buy new clothes, which is unimaginable in the future.
Zhang Sheng closed his eyes and the world fell into darkness. Only a square black bird seal was suspended in the void, which made him feel at ease. I hope I won’t have nightmares tonight. I am Zhang Sheng, an investigator in the expansion department of the Foreign Affairs Department of Tianjin Company. I come from Northeast China and work for the "New Movie" magazine, a third-class Ranger...
It was quite late the next day. Zhang Sheng and Xiao Qiao were hanging out all day, having dinner, buying clothes, going to the park, and watching movies.
Zhang Sheng challenged two green goals, but still did not choose his lifespan. The first person added 0.12 to his health, and the second person chose 1.3 to his waist and abdomen strength. One of the two random gains is swimming (dog planing type), and the other is typing skills (Wubi).
The degree of world integration increased to 13.24%. Zhang Sheng did not hear the sound of brakes even when he crossed the road today.
After delivering Xiao Qiao, I bought ten scalpel handles and two boxes of No. 18 blades at a pharmacy near my apartment. I bought a few more plywood as a knife target at a hardware store near my home. After I got home, I nailed the nails with a claw hammer and hung them on the wall at the end of the kitchen. In the living room, the distance was almost eight meters.
The first knife was on the target, and it was stabbed very steadily. The original body could easily hit a mobile target of fifteen meters, but now the body is a bit weak, but the feel is still there.
He kept throwing the scalpels out with various techniques, barely hitting all ten. He pulled them down one by one to check. It was perfect on the surface, but in fact the blade had been slightly deformed. If the movement was wrong, the blade could be damaged in one go. If you use the skill, the blade of the scalpel would not be able to withstand the impact and would be scrapped in one go.
After practicing for half an hour, more than a dozen blades broke. Zhang Sheng was sweating, so he went to the bathroom to take a shower.
He did not go to the mirror world to test the degree of strength of the scalpel, but used today's time in the mirror world to repair the hidden diseases in the body. Many injuries are invisible, and going to the hospital for examination will not allow you to treat them. For example, some bones are worn, a certain organ is slightly deformed, or underdeveloped, or it is a bad life injury.
These are the big deals that Zhang Sheng has to deal with a little bit every day.
Go to bed early, with floating blades and skull opening on your hand, and you will have no dreams all night.
The next Sunday, Zhang Sheng got up very early and turned on the computer to check the information of the ancient mirror. He didn't care whether it was true or false. As long as the mirror could open the mirror world channel, it was mainly because he didn't get slaughtered too much and understand the antique market.
When I came out, I went straight to the familiar hardware store. When the young boss saw him, he greeted him warmly.
"Get stainless steel gaskets to show me." Zhang Sheng pulled a bench and sat down. The boss took two of all the gaskets for Zhang Sheng. Zhang Sheng quickly chose the model he wanted and picked it out for the boss to show it.
"I want 12,000."
"What?" The boss thought he had heard it wrong.
“Are there many?”
"There is no in the store, so you have to go to Curry to get it." Of course, more than 10,000 gaskets are not a big business, but business is better than a stranger when it comes to being a mature customer. The boss didn't even ask Zhang Sheng to pay the deposit, and Zhang Sheng said he would come to pick it up at noon.
After leaving, he took a special car to the military supplies store, bought military cotton jackets, cotton pants, combat boots, and armed belts. Unexpectedly, there was a paratrooper rope. Zhang Sheng originally wanted to find a private military store to buy it, so he did it here. He also bought a large-capacity backpack and steel helmet, and stuffed everything in his backpack and took it away.
When passing by another hardware store, Zhang Sheng bought a bundle of fine iron wire and sent all the things home. After a while, he went to get more than 10,000 stainless steel gaskets.
In the afternoon, Zhang Shengcai arrived at Panjiayuan. He wandered around the stall area, without looking at the appearance of things, only seeing if there were any messages. After walking in the stall area for a short while, he soon saw a bronze mirror. When he passed by, a string of bright red handwriting popped up.
"How much does this mirror cost?" Zhang Sheng was happy.
"Three thousand."
Zhang Sheng looked at the boss for a while. The boss was slightly fat, greasy in his skin, and was wearing a fancy T-shirt, and a flat mirror on his nose. He was not myopic at all, just to pretend to be a cultural person.
"Is it sold for two hundred or not?"
"Where are you kidding?"
"There are a lot of these things in the Qing Dynasty." Zhang Sheng didn't know which era it was. He didn't remember the information he read yesterday, and he was just talking nonsense.
"It's a good thing to look at. This thing is worth a thousand yuan. If you don't want it, I'll want it." An old man came over next to him, with a goatee on his chin and a civilized stick in his hand. Compared to the fat man, he is more like an antique boss.
"Please." Zhang Sheng turned around and left. The market price of ancient mirrors was not that inflated.
"Oh, don't leave!" The boss called him from behind, but Zhang Sheng waved his hand without looking back.
After walking around for more than half an hour, Zhang Sheng felt a little regretful. He didn't see any more challenge prompts. He planned to go back. If the old man was a nurseryman and the mirror was still there, he would buy it for a thousand yuan. It would be expensive. After challenging the mirror demon's mirror, he could always open the mirror world channel, right?
Moreover, with the floating blade and the skull opener, it is much easier to kill the Mirror Magic than the first time.
Just as I was about to go back, another line of red handwriting appeared in front of me.
There is a small silver ancient mirror on the stall in the corner. He has never searched the style and the diameter is only eight centimeters. The back of the mirror is a dragon and tiger pattern, but it is very different from the ancient mirrors of the Han Dynasty he has seen. Some of them look new and too small. If it weren't for the challenge prompt that they appeared in their left eye, Zhang Sheng would have suspected that this thing was a modern fake.
"How much?" Zhang Sheng asked with his head down.
A young man from behind turned out, wearing a white jacket and cloth shoes, holding a string of Buddhist beads in his hand. He saw Zhang Sheng pointing at the silver mirror and asking for the price, and said, "This thing is an underworld weapon. If you want to buy it, don't bring it with you."
"Just collect and play."
"You can't lose money if you have a price of 800 yuan."
The young man sounded honest, but Zhang Sheng knew that there was a rhetoric in it, and that silver was not sterling silver. If the things from the Ming Dynasty were fine, the mirror would not be sold for money.
"Can you swipe your card?"
The young man shook his head slightly, and Zhang Sheng said, "Pack it up for me, I'll get the money."
The young man in white coat agreed and went to get a velvet bag to put the mirror in it. Zhang Sheng had already withdrawn the money. He walked back to find the first stall to find the challenge information. When he came back, the bronze mirror had been bought. Zhang Sheng had no choice but to come back to find the silver mirror.
He just thought the silver mirror was too small and was afraid that the opening passage was not big enough.
After taking the silver mirror home, Zhang Sheng first made a bracket for the silver mirror with wooden boards. After trying it out, he took the paratrooper rope to wear stainless steel gaskets. Someone in the wild settlements did this and the chain armor created was quite good. Zhang Sheng was skillful and quickly woven a complete set, including the chain armor hanging outside the helmet, which could block the neck from the side.
Turn on the bedroom air conditioner to cool down, Zhang Sheng put on a cotton jacket and cotton pants, a face mask, military boots, and then put on a homemade chain armor and buttoned up his helmet.
This thing is quite heavy, but fortunately, it is very flexible after tying the armed belt. The floating blade is inserted into the belt, and the skull-opener is hung. Zhang Sheng moved his body. As long as he doesn't fight for too long, it will not affect his attack. This chain armor not only prevents chopping, but also puncture attacks are difficult to destroy.
The cotton jacket inside is for shock absorption, and Zhang Sheng was also afraid that his bones would be broken by a monster's punch.
Last time he used plastic cutting boards to make armor, but this time he turned into iron armor. With two pieces of equipment and three skills, Zhang Sheng was full of confidence. The main reason was that there was still an hour of time in the mirror world that was useless, and he could survive even if he was injured.
Zhang Sheng couldn't wait, so he took the silver mirror bracket and wore this outfit, climbed over from the bathroom in the mirror world, and came to the bathroom in the mirror world. He put the bracket on the bathroom, faced the silver mirror, and looked at the string of bright red characters-
Does the mirror owner challenge the current target Mirror Magic? This target is extremely dangerous, and failure to challenge will cost a heavy price.
Zhang Sheng lowered his head, and on the ground, the ashes of the Mirror Demon disappeared at some point, as if they had never existed in this world. Under the ashes, the two words became more and more dazzling.
Xiao Qiao!
yes!
Zhang Sheng activated his tenacity and danger at the same time, and strange energy poured into his body. At this moment, he felt that he could do everything, and the chain armor on his body seemed to have become much lighter. He took off the skull-opener and pulled out the floating blade with his left hand.
The scenery ahead disappeared, and darkness spread out. In the darkness, a pale face was extremely eye-catching, like a light column casting in the center of the stage, illuminating the mirror demon.
On his pale face, red lips were like fire, and a wisp of singing came and penetrated his mind. An extremely sad mood surged, and Zhang Sheng fell into despair in an instant.
Chapter completed!