Chapter 311: This Team Is Sponsored By 【hage Medicine Group】!
The van borrowed from the Frog Factory construction site suddenly braked hard, leaving four long black tire marks on the ground, and came to a wild stop near the entrance of an old abandoned warehouse.
Then the car door was pulled open, and one by one, tall, robust, black-skinned orc burly men got out. Their faces were full of fierce flesh, their eyeballs bloodshot, and there were traces of simple stitching and medical tape on their foreheads and mouths.
Their ferocious evil, maxed-out angry appearance looked just like a gang coming to pick fights and brawl. Unfortunately, they were empty-handed and hadn’t brought any weapons.
Next, the passenger seat door was opened. Yuan Tang, who looked like a 6-year-old loli, jumped out, bounced curiously on the ground with her feet, then looked around left and right, full of curiosity about the old buildings in Running City urban area.
Immediately after, Nie Yin, dressed in a business suit, also got out from the passenger seat. Following closely were Yuan Zhu, who was in charge of driving, and A Tiao, the last one to crawl out of the vehicle.
A group of 9 people appeared at the entrance of the ‘underground arena’ that was very familiar in the previous body’s memory.
The young man in charge of greeting guests, leaning against the wall smoking a cigarette, was drawn from afar by the van, then recognized Yuan Zhu and quickly stamped out the cigarette butt, happily coming over waving his arms to greet him: “A Zhu, you’re back?!”
At this time, Yuan Zhu had a big and a small female secretary on each side of his body. Nie Yin was dressed as a professional businessperson, while Yuan Tang this little girl was all mismatched, like a young lady out for a trip.
Behind Yuan Zhu was A Tiao, who was inseparable, with a childish face but thick eyebrows and big eyes, serious and vigilant attitude. They looked like an inexperienced but dutiful bodyguard.
Further back were five sloppy-looking ones looking around curiously, unable to hide the curiosity in their eyes, ‘devil muscle orcs’.
Each of them had glossy black skin, a pair of buck-toothed tusks in their mouths exposed to the air. Their muscles were exaggeratedly swollen, sharply angular, to an exaggerated degree that seemed about to burst their skin.
Just looking at them filled with a sense of intense beauty, they were very popular ‘heavyweight durable blood cows’ in the underground boxing gym.
Due to this group’s extraordinary presence, the door greeter young man who came up to show closeness to Yuan Zhu awkwardly stopped his actions, showing an embarrassed smile: “It’s been a long time since I’ve seen you, what are you here for this time…?”
Yuan Zhu tilted his head slightly, gesturing to the orc people behind him, and simply explained: “Introducing a few newcomers to the arena, to fight some matches, earn a bit of broker fee.”
“Oh? You’re not fighting punches anymore, switched to being a broker?”
Candle nodded: “How much can fighting punches earn? Commission, can take from five at the same time, higher efficiency, and safer.”
The door greeter young man’s gaze quickly swept over Nie Yin, Yuan Tang and others again, then nodded: “Come in, there’s half an hour until the boxing match starts. You know the rules.”
Yuan Zhu nodded, leading the group into the suddenly bustling with voices, noisy and crowded arena interior.
At this time, inside the underground arena modified from an old warehouse, the air was noisy and stuffy, mixed with a lot of second-hand smoke and alcohol smells, with a very poor ventilation system.
On the ceiling above, alchemy lamps were hanging, releasing strong warm lights, illuminating the indoor space brightly. At a glance, the fairly spacious warehouse had at least 300 people. Most were spectators, vendors hawking snacks, alcoholic beverages, cigarettes, and staff wandering around collecting money and taking bets.
Seeing these familiar scenes, Yuan Zhu vaguely remembered that these lamps were products from the previous body’s former workplace, the Lamp Factory.
The opportunity to get to know the ‘boxing match broker’ and fight amateur matches in this arena came from delivering goods (alchemy lamps) here one daytime. Then he was attracted by the huge arena in the center of the warehouse.
Out of curiosity, he casually asked a few questions, and was spotted by the other party. After probing that the previous body had learned boxing and had rich street brawl experience, with a mentality far stronger than ordinary people.
The broker issued a strong invitation, and after several entanglements (wealth temptation), the previous body believed the other’s lie about providing more systematic training, and began to collude, fighting amateur matches…
Eventually, unknowingly, he transformed into a professional [Strength Tester + Fixed Match Empowerer]:
Through his own exquisite acting skills, he regrettably lost in rounds of desperate entanglements. Through performance, highlighting the indomitable spirit and strength of both sides in the match.
Every match strove to present exciting, hot-blooded, eye-catching performances, with no KOs, only evenly matched pulling, showing both sides’ solid foundation and tenacious endurance.
As long as given enough beforehand, the previous body was never stingy with failure. Often in the third, fourth, or fifth round, he would run out of energy one step ahead and regrettably lose.
If the opponent refused to stuff money beforehand, then sorry, he would strike in [full power form], striving to explode the opponent in the shortest time, completely ruining the opponent’s reputation.
Imagine being violently KO’d by a recognized top gatekeeper, how much gold content would you have? Relying on this trick, Yuan Zhu’s appearance fee kept rising, and he was eyed by the organizers, wanting to hire him as a coach to teach realistic ‘fixed match acting skills’.
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Now, the old acquaintance of this underground arena, [Strength Tester. Yuan Zhu] has returned, looking at the familiar scenes, strange emotions arose in his heart. Life is in reincarnation. This time, he no longer goes on stage, but brought new ‘fighters + actor reserves’.
Yuan Zhu’s appearance immediately attracted a lot of attention. Just like Frog Girl having some face in the Frog School, he was also a ‘celebrity’ of some standing here.
A group of ‘old friends’ Yuan Zhu wasn’t familiar with came up, some hooking shoulders with him, some lightly punching his chest, asking why he hadn’t come for so long? Is he itchy today and wants to fight? Or took money again to show exquisite acting skills?
After a round of perfunctory brushing off with these unfamiliar drinking buddies, he finally found his broker, that old friend who sold him five half-blood orcs.
“Yo, finally showed up.”
The former broker first smiled and greeted him, then leaned close, lowered his voice, and whispered: “Why did you bring them all? Have you settled their identities?”
Candle looked confused, shook his head: “No, isn’t this an underground boxing match? What identities are needed? I brought them to fight some matches, gain experience, adapt to the rules in advance, accumulate some experience. What’s wrong with that?”
The broker frowned: “No problem, but you should be low-key, bring only one or two at a time, then rotate them. I can arrange their appearances. Now it’s good, bodyguards, little secretaries, and 5 orcs all together. How many matches can I arrange in one night? All your orcs, tonight is your exclusive, leaving no chance for others!”
The former broker couldn’t help complaining: “You know trees attract wind? This group has even received ‘supernatural modification’, five together are even more eye-catching! If their identities are settled, fine. But without identities, and so flashy, if they fight tonight, they’ll inevitably build some fame, attracting peers’ jealousy and malicious revenge. A casual anonymous report, and investigators will come to check, then endless trouble.”
This immediately reminded Candle of how after Lu Rang increased acquisition of ‘garbage scrapped goblins’, he immediately suffered malicious poisoning by strangers. Trying to make those low-immunity near-death goblins infect and spread diseases to each other, causing mass outbreaks and deaths.
This kind of harming others without benefiting oneself behavior, everyone loves to do it. Ask and it’s just can’t stand others living better than themselves. You happy, I’m extremely uncomfortable.
Yuan Zhu: “Uh… my oversight. But leaving now seems too late?”
“Forget it, tonight’s fine. Next time, remember to be low-key, bring fewer. By the way, what’s your situation now, how did these half-blood black skins grow to this level in such a short time? Pretty exaggerated.”
The broker, as a professional ‘half-blood orc broker’, had rich experience in orc rental and sales; and long mixed in various amateur arenas and underground fighting circle, seen all kinds of contestants who received [supernatural power modification].
Among them, the ‘power path’ was the most widespread. So he could tell that these 5 orcs, good at picking fruits and fieldwork but clueless about fighting.
Actually completed ‘power modification’ in such a short time, reaching a certain level. Moreover, their every move exuded a bit of ‘veteran martial artist’ temperament, which surprised and puzzled him.
The growth progress speed was too fast! Too fake!
Hearing this, Yuan Zhu smiled, lowered his voice, stepped aside to let pass, revealing Frog Killer Girl Nie Yin standing on his right, in a fitted business suit that outlined her hidden ample bosom, always maintaining a cold, distant, high-class temperament.
He softly introduced: “Allow me to solemnly introduce, the lady beside me, my patron, Rain Courtyard advanced graduate, Hage Medicine Group person in charge, Miss Nie Yin!”
Hearing this string of intimidating titles, the broker looked over, then was slightly stunned, indeed extraordinary!
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Usually, Frog Girl habitually wore her loose Frog School uniform, cheap, comfortable, and durable. Habitually slouching her head, silent and reticent. Cold temperament, no presence, nothing noticeable.
Before going out today, Yuan Zhu specially instructed her to modify the shadow uniform into a women’s business suit style.
Nie Yin instantly exploded! Revealing her hidden vast bosom, visually not inferior to A Miao with the perfect front-convex back-curvy figure.
But the problem was, Nie Yin was the petite campus schoolgirl type, height more than a head shorter than the tall [crime-type underground idol. A Miao].
This made her even more precious, true babyface giant X!
At this moment, she wore a fitted suit, still with bangs covering the right half of her face. But unlike at school, where she habitually lowered her head to avoid others’ gazes.
Tonight’s Nie Yin, per Yuan Zhu’s instruction, maintained a high-cold distant attitude at all times, not avoiding eye contact, but using a cold unfocused way to ignore everything around. Pretending a superior posture that despised everything.
In the past few days of close interaction (cooperation), Yuan Zhu successfully spied the half right face Nie Yin deliberately hid with bangs. The result had nothing to do with his guess of some sealed heaven-defying appearance.
What should have been a clear and beautiful first-love face, well… not only had a ferocious scar running through the eye and across half the face, but also an empty eye socket (right eye missing).
This made Frog Killer Girl’s appearance, which should start at 8.5 and could hit 8.9 with light makeup and styling, plummet to 5~6 under the winding scar and empty socket boost.
If staring long at her right eye’s empty socket, it could even produce inexplicable fear and discomfort, threat index further rising. Fortunately, her hair was thick and smooth, the drooping bangs nicely covered the socket and most scars, quickly recovering appearance to 6~7.
As for why not wear a prosthetic eye? He didn’t have the nerve to ask.
But before going out today, Yuan Zhu gave her a black eye mask. Frog Girl showed no special emotion, calmly accepted it, and put it on.
Hmm… At this moment, under Yuan Zhu’s shaping, Nie Yin presented a bland, even somewhat cold contemptuous ‘one-eyed dragon female executive’ vibe, the scars exposed outside the eye mask adding sharpness, making the broker not dare to look more.
He quickly turned his head, continuing to talk with Yuan Zhu.
Candle felt satisfied about this, and secretly decided to give Frog Girl plastic surgery if possible, to remove the scars. This thing destroyed beauty too much, greatly reducing his evil thoughts towards Frog Killer Girl.
Originally A Miao occupied 65% in his heart, the pure elf schoolgirl image Nie Yin could take 35%. But after seeing her true face, evil thoughts plummeted to about 10%.
Had to admit, her emerald green right eye + submissive pure first-love schoolgirl face + pointed ears + pleasant voice still poked Yuan Zhu. Even with the other half terrifying face dragging behind, still scored 10% affection level in his heart.
Salvageable, still an innately evil soft girl. Can’t waste potential stock, find time to tidy up.
At this time, the broker puzzledly asked: “Hey! Kid, what’s Hage Medicine Group, how come I haven’t heard of it?”
“A newly moved-in ‘medical institution’ in Running, also known as Hage Medicine Six Factory, one-time invested in building six factory buildings (Frog Factory) in the suburbs, not weak strength. They’re developing [new model. Body Tempering Fluid] and biological experiments. I pulled strings to connect with their person in charge (Nie Yin), provided a batch of half-blood orcs as experimental subjects, got cultivation resources sponsorship. Tonight, bringing this batch of experimental subjects to collect data.”
With this explanation, the broker understood. In Running underground circle, there were many big and small miscellaneous institutions, usually leaking semi-finished potions outward for underground fighters to scramble buy, making money while harvesting white mice for free human experiments.
“Then that other little girl, is she also from that Hage Medicine Group?”
He rarely saw minors coming to watch boxing matches. No money to bet, what match to watch?
Yuan Zhu explained: “This is my cousin, following me to gain experience. In the future when I have no time to bring fighters to fight, she’ll act as broker, in charge of match arrangements and fee settlements. Big bro, take care of my little sis more.”
“How old is this kid? Not in elementary school yet, and you dare let her be broker? Not afraid of her being bullied?!”
Yuan Zhu: “Don’t look at her small appearance, she’s already 16 (12), smart and clever. Very good at negotiating, after mixing for a while and grasping boxing match rules, she can handle the job. And that young man is the fighting coach I hired at high price, with him as bodyguard, enough to ensure my sister’s safety.”
The broker glanced at the ‘miscellaneous institution’s one-eyed female executive, the not-yet-elementary-school quasi-broker, and the green inexperienced bodyguard young man… secretly sighed this combo looked hopeless, would disband in less than two months!
“Alright, I’ll arrange their matches, but tonight max 3 matches.”
Yuan Zhu satisfied: “Enough! Little Tang, follow this uncle, listen to him explain the rules here.”
Little Girl completely not stage-frightened, excitedly and enthusiastically came forward, first bowed, then generously said: “Hello uncle, I’m Yuan Tang, please advise! You five, what are you standing around for? Hurry follow! And you, keep up.”
The broker looked at Yuan Tang scolding the orcs like lecturing her little brother, felt this kid had good presence, a bit interesting.
