Chapter 407: The Middleman

Zhang Heng followed the little boy to a nearby Carrefour, where he bought a quilt and pillow, a toothbrush cup, a change of underwear, socks, and a razor. The little boy also helped him choose a cologne, but Zhang Heng waved his hand to signal himself No need for that kind of thing, but then he stopped as he passed the knife rack and picked up a pocket knife on it.

The rosewood knife handle, brass end, and stainless steel blade are good in toughness and hardness. What's more, it is only 11cm long, which is suitable for carrying on the body. With Zhang Heng's lv3 knife skills, it can provide him with more Strong melee ability.

"You want it?" the little boy asked.

"May I?"

The little boy glanced at the 35 euros on the label, "It's a bit expensive."

"I can change it too."

"Forget it, let's take this one, anyway, it will be deducted from your salary."

"Thanks."

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After leaving the supermarket, the little boy brought Zhang Heng to a second-hand clothing store, where he bought a black suit, shirt, and leather shoes for ten euros, and put together a set.

Zhang Heng changed his clothes and walked out of the fitting room.

The little boy took two steps back and looked someone up and down.

Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows, "How is it?"

"It's half a size too big, but overall it looks good." The little boy took a pair of black eyepieces from the shelf next to him while talking, and handed them to Zhang Heng, "You don't need to bring them, just put them in your pocket."

After Zhang Heng followed suit, the little boy finally nodded, "This should be more or less the case."

The little boy didn't say why it was like this, and Zhang Heng didn't ask.

The two took the things they bought home, and then bought two hot dogs for dinner at a roadside stall, and night had already fallen.

"Let's go, it's time for you to start working."

After eating the last bite of the hot dog, the little boy wiped his mouth and led Zhang Heng to the subway station.

It was time to get off work, and there were quite a lot of people at the station, and it took the two of them a little effort to get on the bus.

When the carriage door slowly closed, the little boy spoke again and introduced Zhang Heng, "The guy we are going to meet in a while is called Fox, and he is the most famous middleman in the vicinity."

"middleman?"

"Yes, he is a guy who helps matchmaking and makes a living by taking commissions. To put it simply, if you have any troubles, you can go to him. As long as you have money, he can help you. Of course, he didn't come out by himself. It’s about finding the right people for you.”

"Like an intermediary?"

"It's very similar to the intermediary's profit method, but the biggest difference is that the intermediary only does legal things, while the fox has no taboos, normal entrustment, illegal, or in a gray area... as long as he has money, he will accept it."

"Ha, I thought the city would have no more criminals after connecting to CTOS."

"The crime rate has dropped significantly, but the criminals have not disappeared. The people in Black Nest are very smart. If criminals really disappear, then some people will definitely question the necessity of CTOS. The public is willing to sacrifice part of their privacy for security, but if They realize they're already safe, and their focus shifts to privacy, so Black Nest has to have a degree of proof that CTOS is working, but it won't actually make crime disappear from the city."

"If there were no criminals then there would be no need for the police."

"That's right, that's pretty much the same logic," the little boy said, "But the establishment of CTOS did have a great impact on the dark world of the entire city. The previous rules of survival no longer apply. Outdated old-timers go out, and newcomers like Fox start to emerge quickly."

"What about 01?"

"We are not criminals." The little boy said seriously, "Although Black Nest has been smearing us so much, 01 has been a non-profit organization since its establishment. Even the funds obtained by some technical means are used to fight against CTOS. Among them, it did not fall into the pockets of the members."

"It's awe-inspiring." Zhang Heng said.

"Are you mocking us?"

"I haven't ridiculed you before, but you... No matter when I meet you, you will always doubt my motives. Is this the inertia of history that everyone often says?"

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An hour later, the two came to the other side of the city, near the outskirts of the city. They could clearly feel that there were fewer cameras on the street and fewer people.

When he was about to reach the destination, the little boy warned again, "Don't talk after you see the fox, just let me communicate with him."

"You decide."

The two went down to an underground garage. After the third floor, there were no cars, but the sound of the stereo came from the bottom floor.

There were two short-cut men smoking at the entrance. When they saw them, they got up and made a gesture of no entry.

"We are here to find the fox," said the little boy.

The inch-cut men glanced at each other and sat down again.

"Their guards don't look very good. You can come in with just one name." Zhang Heng said, the two walked into the garage on the fourth floor, which was different from the empty upper floor. After buying a luxury car, there are many hot beauties in sight.

"It's just a small party organized by a group of rich second-generation people who think they are very social, to satisfy their sense of novelty and curiosity. In addition, some of them brought some soft [river crabs], so they don't want to be targeted by the police."

The little boy said casually, her eyes looked around, and finally stopped in a certain direction, "I found the fox."

He was also the only two people in formal attire in the whole party, and the other was Zhang Heng in a suit. However, unlike Zhang Heng, Fox was strictly speaking in half-length formal attire. With hairy thighs, although the temperature is not high now, he doesn't seem to feel cold, and it can be seen that he seems to be in a good mood. He is hugging two French sweethearts from left to right, leaning back and forth with a smile.

"Sorry babes, work is coming, how about you go get me a glass of champagne?"

The two girls reluctantly left his embrace, and one of them raised her eyebrows in a demonstrative way when passing by the little boy.

"Don't take it to heart, Sophie is very jealous, and Anais has a cute cobra in the garage of her home." The fox said, "Long time no see, I haven't heard from you for a long time. Encrypted email to me, when I told you to come to me, I thought I heard it wrong, this is... your boyfriend?"

"No, it's just a tenant. He needs money to pay the rent now, so I brought him to see you."

"It's a pleasure to meet you." The fox reached out to shake Zhang Heng's hand, and then looked at the little boy, "So you haven't found a boyfriend yet?"

"..."

"People who talk a lot of nonsense usually die earlier in movies." The little boy said coldly.