Chapter 293 Dangerous Temptation

7 o'clock in the evening, deep anchorage area.

Chen Ke was not hungry, but he still bought a box of pizza and chewed it slowly.

Summer is coming, and in July, the heat wave of the inland sea will sweep across the entire Opportunity City, like God's anger that has nowhere to vent. The red clouds in the evening are burning on the horizon, half of the dark red sun has sunk into the sea level, and the sea is sparkling with red light. , as if filled with blood.

Chen Ke leaned on the wooden guardrail beside him. Behind him was the residential area of ​​Shenmao District. Low independent houses were piled together, with five or six houses forming a square unit. Narrow roads intertwined among them, and there were vehicles from time to time. Passing by, there were only a few pedestrians on the road.

The night was not suitable for fishing, and some fishing boats were honking their horns as they entered the harbor. Strangely enough, Chen Ke couldn't find the Innsmouth Bar on Google Maps. It sounded like a name Lucina made up at random.

"You think I haven't read that story..." Chen Ke threw the half-eaten pizza into the trash can nearby. It was not to his taste, it was too greasy.

"Hey, sir, are you free?" A woman's voice came from behind. Chen Ke turned around and saw a woman wearing a dark windbreaker.

She has orange-red shoulder-length hair with golden tips, a pair of narrow eyes, and a mole under her left eye. The woman was about the same height as Chen Ke, and she just looked at Chen Ke bathed in the dark red sunset.

For a moment, she mistakenly thought that the other person was Diana. She had a business-like aura about her, but the difference from Diana was that this woman gave him a more cold and direct feeling.

"Um...who are you?" Chen Kedao said, looking at the details of this woman.

"I am a lost traveler." The woman said, she seemed to be aware of Chen Ke's restless eyes.

The collar under this woman's neck didn't look like everyday clothes, but it couldn't be seen clearly even if it was wrapped in a windbreaker, and she must have dyed her hair blonde before.

Judging from the woman's stance, she didn't look like she was traveling.

"Don't you have Google Maps installed on your phone? What do you want to ask? I still have some time." Chen Ke stretched his waist to make himself look lazy.

"Thank you. What I want to ask is...what year is this year...?" The woman frowned slightly, as if she also thought this question was weird.

Chen Ke looked at the woman without saying anything. He realized something but didn't want to tell her.

"It doesn't matter. If...it troubles you, then I'll ask someone else," the woman said.

"No...it's nothing. It's the same when I drink too much. This year is 2009, if I'm not mistaken." Chen Ke said with a smile.

"Damn... it's off track..." The woman cursed softly.

"Eh?" Chen Ke asked confused.

The woman frowned and relaxed, as if she was thinking about something, and then continued: "So... did anything happen in the past few years?"

"What are you referring to? Massive unemployment? Financial crisis?" Chen Ke asked.

"No...I mean, something strange." The woman explained.

"Hmm... These days, strange things happen every day. People turn into monsters, and monsters turn into people. What strange things are you referring to?" Chen Ke tried to formulate words.

"Sir... recall, in 2006, did you experience any strange things at that time, such as... something suddenly appeared one day... or something like that?" the woman asked.

Chen Ke was silent for a while, in 2006. If his guess is correct, this woman should be referring to the one in 2006...

"You know... if people live a smooth life, they will forget a lot of things. Nothing happened in 2006. For me, it was a year with no surprises." Chen Ke shook his head.

"Are you sure?" the woman asked, grabbing Chen Ke's wrist.

Chen Ke looked down and the woman quickly let go of him.

"I don't know what you are talking about, so why don't you disappear from my eyes so that I can have time to go to Innsmouth Bar and have a few fucking drinks?" Chen Ke said deliberately.

"I'm sorry, sir, to disturb you." The woman said, a satisfied smile appeared on her cold face for a moment.

The woman turned around and was about to leave, but Chen Ke called out to her.

"Hey, what's your name?" Chen Ke asked.

"This has nothing to do with you, we will never meet again." The woman said.

"Because of this, you have nothing to lose by telling me your name." Chen Kedao.

The woman smiled, looked up at Chen Ke, and asked, "Tell me your name first."

"My name is...Chen Ke." Chen Ke said.

"My name is Eliza." Eliza said.

"Oh." Chen Ke responded.

"Chen Ke, enjoy your life now, it's hard-earned." Elisa said. After saying that, she walked towards the end of the street.

Chen Ke looked at Elisa's leaving back and then looked at the sky, feeling that the world was a little different.

At 8:30 p.m., Chen Ke finally found the Innsmouth bar near the port on a less busy street after asking passers-by.

This bar is not called Innsmouth, but the Fisherman's Bar. Innsmouth was just a name given to it by a regular customer playing Cthulhu Terrier.

Chen Ke was not interested in those nagging horror stories. Just like the surrounding environment of the bar, it did not leave a good impression on him at all.

The bar floor was covered with dirty fish scales and sewage, and the stools were still wet. It seemed that the customers here were mainly dock sailors. They worked at the dock during the day, drank alcohol at the bar at night, and went home to sleep until dawn, repeating the cycle.

Of course, dock sailors in modern society are naturally very different from those before the Industrial Revolution, but the fishery in the deep anchor area is at the bottom of the industrial chain, and the most work done by sailors is still some physical work.

When Chen Ke entered the bar, a large group of sailors were gathered inside. They were very strong, and most of them were bald, with tattoos on their bare arms.

Although they are all bars, the Fisherman's Bar looks more old-fashioned. This is the territory of workers, which is completely different from the bars in big cities. At night, it is their home ground. The noisy and vulgar words make the bar very lively. I didn't realize that Lucina actually likes this kind of place.

Chen Ke felt that many people were secretly looking at him with ill intentions. These muscular bald men seemed to want to find something to fight with him at any time, but Chen Ke knew very well that they were just show-offs and had no murderous intent at all.

He approached the bar, and the bartender was a black strong man, wiping the cup in his hand that was so small that it could only fit his thumb.

"Give me a glass of the strongest wine here." Chen Ke said.

As soon as the voice fell, the originally noisy sound in the pub disappeared, and everyone looked at Chen Ke.

The black bartender glanced at Chen Ke with a disdainful look, but still took out a large black bottle of wine from under the counter.

"This glass is my treat." The black man smiled, and he filled Chen Ke with the small wine glass he had just wiped clean and handed it to him.

"Oh? Thank you." Chen Ke picked up the wine glass and poured it into his mouth.

It was as if his mouth was suddenly burned by thousands of degrees of molten iron. Chen Ke's eyes turned red and he covered his mouth and coughed. This wine is really fucking spicy! It is far beyond the level of XO!

He held onto the bar and coughed violently, looking at the glass in his hand with red eyes. A burst of heated laughter broke out in the bar, and the atmosphere became extremely cheerful.

Chen Ke had never drunk such a strong drink before, and he felt that his mouth had lost all feeling.

At this time, the bar suddenly became quiet again. Chen Ke heard the sound of the bar door being pushed open, and Lucina walked in.