Text Chapter 1409: The Moon-Defining Inn

Underground city, the city is in the water, the water is in the city, the lights and the fluorescence of the star sand of the associated minerals add a bit of psychedelic color here, which is a scene that cannot be seen on the lifeless ground.

The streets are opened without rules, there is no reason to explain, and they turn when they encounter houses dug out in the stone wall. The width of the streets is large or small, and you will walk into a dead end if you are not careful. And every shop in the underground city is connected from underground to the ground. This has an advantage, that is, it is more confidential. If something happens, there will be no crowd of people watching, unlike Tianjie, where a crowd of people can immediately squeeze in to watch the excitement.

The underground river is also wide or narrow. Small boats can be sailed in narrow places, and building ships can be run in wide places. Most of the larger building ships are places of entertainment, and there are even inns with lights and decorations wandering on the underground river.

There are all kinds of shops on the street, and the messy miscellaneous items will not be less than Tianjie, but only more than Tianjie.

However, the consumption here is not comparable to that of Tianjie. To keep secrets, one has to pay a price. Ten times higher than the consumption of Tianjie is not enough, and it is possible to be more than a hundred times higher. Therefore, this ghost market can only hide in the dark, and upright traders will not come here at all.

This underground area is really big and chaotic like a maze. After walking around for more than an hour, the group was really eye-opening. It is not a good idea to wander around like this without any clue. We have to find a place to stay and take a good look at the ghost market map given by Gu Duogui, otherwise we really can't find the way if something happens. Besides, there are a lot of people waiting for them to arrange outside, so the first thing to do is to find an inn.

When they reached a bridge that spanned the two banks, Miao Yi stopped and said to Zhan Ruyi, "Let's split up and find an inn to stay in."

"Split up?" Zhan Ruyi was stunned for a moment, and said, "Let's stay in the same inn, so that we can communicate in time if there is anything."

Miao Yi frowned and said, "It's not good to squeeze into one inn. The people of the two tiger flags coming in and out may easily arouse suspicion."

Zhan Ruyi: "You worry too much. If there is something to discuss, just gather a few backbones. After the arrangements are made, we will rely on Xingling to contact us later. How can the people below always contact us? That will easily arouse suspicion."

She insisted, and Miao Yi was a little suspicious of her intentions, but he didn't say much, wanting to see what tricks this woman wanted to play.

The group continued to move forward to find an inn, and soon after bypassing a street. The wide river surface suddenly appeared again, and two stone-carved carps with their heads held high and their tails raised attracted the attention of the group. Two carps were in front of the left and right gates of a business. The carps raised their heads and spit out two streams of water, which were thrown across the street in an arc like an arch bridge and fell into the river. It was obviously formed by the water pressure of the river on the ground. The water column was high enough, and the people coming and going on the street below were not affected at all.

This is an inn. The sign says "Queyue Inn". The group was looking for an inn. Zhan Ruyi asked Miao Yi for his opinion. Miao Yi had no objection, so the group checked in.

Zhan Ruyi's men came forward to ask about the check-in. The price was ridiculously high. Check-in was calculated per person. A room was allowed to accommodate a maximum of two people. Each room cost one million red crystals per day. Other food and use would be charged separately if needed. The inn only maintained basic safety, but only maintenance, no guarantee, and if there was an accident, it was responsible for itself.

The so-called maintenance of basic safety is just to keep out idle people. It is just not allowed to allow outsiders to enter the inn without permission. If someone uses some tricks to break in and cheat the guests, the inn can do nothing and is not responsible.

The conditions are like this, you can stay or not.

There was nothing to choose from. The ghost market was like this. Several people were mentally prepared. As for the price, there was no need to say more. Anyway, they were helping the Right Supervisory Department. As long as they were not doing anything wrong, the Right Supervisory Department would reimburse them for reasonable expenses.

Zhan Ruyi was a woman and it was inconvenient for the six of them to live with the other five men. They asked for four rooms, one for each of Miao Yi and Zhan Ruyi. The four followers had two rooms each.

Pay first, no credit. After paying, they were led to the third floor. Four rooms were arranged side by side, with Miao Yi and Zhan Ruyi occupying the two middle rooms, and the two rooms on the left and right were for the four followers. When they entered and opened the window, they could see people coming and going on the street outside and boats on the river. The furnishings in the house were mediocre, slightly better than the basic living facilities, but not much better.

Looking inside the house, Yang Zhaoqing checked the two rooms here, and Miao Yi led Yan Xiu out, ready to take a look around the inn, so that they would know where to go in case of any problems. It turned out that the specifications of each floor were the same, and there was nothing to see. Who knew that when they walked to the ninth floor, they were stopped by two waiters blocking the stairs.

"Sorry, the upper floors are temporarily closed to guests. Please go back." A waiter stopped them and raised his hand to signal them to go back.

It was not easy to force this matter, so Miao Yi and Yan Xiu had to turn around and go back. However, there were light footsteps coming down the stairs, and at the same time, a woman's gentle voice came, "What's the matter?"

The two turned back again after hearing the voice, and saw a woman coming down from upstairs.

A woman in a flowery dress, a long flowery skirt, watery and charming peach blossom eyes, her eyes seemed to be able to speak, her eyebrows and eyes were expressive, extremely beautiful, and she walked down the stairs with a willow waist.

Yan Xiu was better, but Miao Yi stared at the woman and was stunned for a moment. He actually knew this woman. He had seen her in the black market of Wusheng Land when he first participated in the assessment. She was the owner of the Butterfly Pawn Shop, Hua Hudie. I didn't expect to meet her here again.

How could this woman appear here? Miao Yi was speechless when he saw the two waiters' respectful attitude towards Hua Hudie. Could it be that this 'Crescent Moon Inn' was the Kou family's black market operation? If so, it was quite a coincidence.

The two guys whispered a few words to Huadie, and Huadie, who was staring at Miao Yi and the others, nodded with a smile.

Miao Yi turned around and led Yan Xiu away. He was here to carry out a secret mission this time. He had changed his appearance. He believed that Huadie would not recognize him so easily. After all, the two were not too familiar with each other, and they were not able to recognize each other by looking at their eyes and body shape. Moreover, he did not want the Kou family to know that he had discovered the Kou family's shameful things again.

Looking at the figure going downstairs, Huadie narrowed her eyes slightly. She just noticed that Miao Yi looked at her with a strange look, as if he knew her. This was exactly what she thought was strange. She was in charge of the black market and generally did not show up to see people. If there was anything, it was the subordinates who came forward. If she wanted to go out, she would change her appearance. Those who could directly interact with her in the black market should be very familiar people. She could probably recognize those who knew her, but she didn't seem to have any impression of this person from the appearance.

For her who had lived in this kind of ghost place for many years, any abnormality could arouse her vigilance.

"Watch out, there are people from 'home' living upstairs during this period, don't let anyone disturb them." Hua Hudie warned.

"Yes!" The two waiters took the order.

Hua Hudie turned around and went upstairs again, and stopped after a few steps and said: "Go check which room the two people just now stayed in."

"Yes!" Immediately a waiter hurried away.

A few hours later, Miao Yi and Zhan Ruyi each sent a person to the door of the inn to pick up several backbones of the Black Tiger Flag and the Blue Tiger Flag to enter the inn. If they didn't respond, the inn would not let them in. A group of people gathered, Miao Yi and Zhan Ruyi distributed the map of the ghost market, and began to make arrangements, ordering 5,000 people to enter the ghost market, and dispersed to various places in the ghost market in groups of five, waiting for tasks at any time, and familiarizing themselves with the route of the ghost market as soon as possible.

Not long after the group of people dispersed, Hua Hudie came from the other end of the corridor, but her face was also disguised, holding a tray in her hand, with wine and food on the tray, and walked to Miao Yi's door and knocked on the door.

As soon as the noise was heard, Yan Xiu immediately appeared from the next door. Although the other party had changed her appearance, her general clothes and appearance had not changed. Yan Xiu recognized it at a glance as the woman he had met upstairs before, and asked in a deep voice: "Who is it, what's the matter?"

Zhan Ruyi on the other side of the next door also opened the door and appeared, staring at Hua Hudie with a little vigilance.

Hua Hudie smiled and said: "I am the proprietress of Queyue Inn, and I will give you some free drinks to try."

Miao Yi also opened the door and showed up. Seeing that it was this woman, he was a little speechless and smiled back: "I appreciate the proprietress's kindness." It was considered a polite refusal.

Hua Hudie gave him a charming look and said: "Is it too ruthless for you to refuse so cruelly?"

Zhan Ruyi's eyes showed a disgusted look when she saw her foxy look, "He doesn't want it, but I do. Send it to my room."

Hua Hudie rolled her eyes at her, "We are all women, how boring." After saying that, regardless of whether Miao Yi was happy or not, she squeezed her body and squeezed into the door directly, squeezing Miao Yi's body.

Miao Yi turned around, feeling a little bit of pain. Seeing the other party like this, could it be that he had already recognized him?

Zhan Ruyi and Yan Xiu followed in, and the other followers soon showed up, all looking at Hua Hudie with a vigilant look.

Hua Hudie ignored everyone and set up the wine and food, poured wine, and then sat aside with his legs crossed, and made a gesture to Miao Yi to ask him to sit down.

Miao Yi hesitated for a moment, walked to the other side of the table and sat down, and asked: "What advice does the boss lady have?" He didn't believe that the ghost market merchants would give away free drinks. Would they have such a conscience?

Hua Hudie smiled and said nothing, just nodded at the group of people blocking the door.

Miao Yi hesitated again, waved to Zhan Ruyi and others, "You guys leave first."

Yan Xiu and Yang Zhaoqing were very obedient. They knew Miao Yi had a good idea when they saw his steady look, and turned around and left. Zhan Ruyi, however, said with a vigilant look in his eyes: "Miao Yi, be careful that someone has bad intentions." He didn't want to leave.

Everyone here uses a pseudonym, but Miao Yi uses his real name as a pseudonym.

Hua Hudie looked at Miao Yi and joked, "I care about you a lot. Is she your woman? It doesn't seem like it. Your woman should live together. There's no need to spend this money."

Zhan Ruyi was embarrassed, but fortunately she had a disguise on her face. Miao Yi coughed dryly and waved his hand again, saying, "Retreat first. I'll see what the boss lady has to say."

Not listening to advice! Zhan Ruyi was inexplicably a little angry, turned around and left with her people.

Hua Hudie waved her sleeves, the door closed, turned back and smiled and extended her hand to invite, "How about trying the wine and food in this inn." (To be continued.)