owlsbooks Chapter 1887 Business is business (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please rec
Chapter 1887 Business is business (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please rec
Chapter 1887 Business is business (Please give me a monthly ticket!!! Please subscribe!!! Please recommend!!!)
Keith used to be the main supplier of these "rats". All the gas masks, gas detectors, and various strong flashlights flowed out from her. The most important thing is that the merchants on the market will not extend their market to the underground world.
So, everything depends on Case's hand-made, such as gas masks. The gas masks on the market are either too expensive or not good enough. What about Case's? Cheap and easy to use. After all, Case's are made from scraps!
Anyway, there is no supervisory agency in the underground world, and no one will say anything about her products, so she is very free.
This makes Case a bit like a green-skinned technical tycoon. The main feature of his products is that they can be done at will, in all kinds of strange shapes and special customization. No two products look the same.
"Jin? You haven't been here for a long time. What's up? Where did you go to make a fortune?" Keith was still sitting in her "shop" waiting for customers to come. Some time ago, she upgraded Liz's Nightingale and installed a new type of sonic cannon, which caused Keith's small coffers to run out. And her big money sponsor Kai didn't come home for many days. She could only work hard to make money to make up for the gap in her small coffers, otherwise, many of her researches would not be able to proceed.
The person visiting Keith at this time was a black man, who was short and fat, with a short flat head and a big face. His most obvious feature was his teeth. When he grinned, there was a gap between his two most conspicuous front teeth. His two front teeth seemed to be about to separate, and the gap between them was particularly large.
Jin is a very special person. He always makes himself look harmless, so he smiles to everyone. Especially his funny front teeth, which greatly reduce his threat. Even if he is a homeless person, not many people will pay special attention to him.
But today, his signature smile is gone.
"Keith, you still have those things here, right?" Jin said in a low voice with a serious face.
Keith was stunned. She looked at Jin carefully, probably wanting to see if the man in front of her was someone she knew. Then she looked behind him and found no one. So she immediately pressed the button under her desk.
The entrance to the underground passage was blocked by a thick steel door.
"Where...did you get the news, Jin? I don't remember spreading such news to the outside world." Keith said with a serious expression.
Keith rarely made such an expression. You know, this girl is a little crazy. Seriousness has never been her thing.
"Who am I? Case! I'm the Beggar King!!"
Beggar... and a king? What is that? Of course, he is still a beggar.
But Jin said it seriously, even with pride.
Bowery King, this is King's real name. He is different from ordinary people. He is not an outsider, but a native underground person! The main population of the underground city in New York does not rely on natural reproduction... In fact, giving birth here is basically seeking death. So in addition to gas masks, the most popular product in the underground city is actually rubber sleeves. After all, this is an underground city. No matter how mysterious and interesting you describe it, you can't avoid one problem, that is, the sanitary conditions here are ten thousand times worse than the toilets outside!
So it's not uncommon for people here to have any diseases, especially AIDS. So it's good for everyone to prepare some rubber condoms. Even if you force yourself to have sex here, you will automatically wear that thing.
There's nothing we can do, there are no words engraved on the sick person's face.
Therefore, there are very few children in the underground city... because it is difficult for ordinary children to survive. Whether it is the bad conditions or the evil of human nature, a child can die silently. Of course, there are exceptions, that is, children who are protected by others can survive with difficulty.
Therefore, most of the people in the underground city came from the ground, and only a very small number of them were local natives. Bowery King was one of them. His parents fled to the underground city for some reason a long time ago... As for the reason, no one knew. After all, no one here came to record history. To them, even the future was not important, let alone the past. No one would dig deep into the matter.
In short, Bowery King was born here, grew up here, and built his own underground kingdom.
He called himself the Beggar King.
This name has gradually been recognized in the dungeon. He is indeed quite capable. He controls the dungeon's external trade, and he can get a lot of scarce materials in the dungeon. It is said that this guy also controls some underground fortresses.
During the height of the Cold War in the 1950s and 1960s, the United States, under the pressure and threat of world war, took a step ahead of China and launched a nationwide campaign of "digging deep holes and storing up food". At that time, driven by fear, many American families funded the construction of various "fallout shelters" in their backyards.
The US government immediately introduced a corresponding tax exemption policy and began to mobilize the public to take the initiative to build basements as nuclear war shelters. At the same time, the US Civil Defense Department began to distribute various engineering manuals to the public for guidance. For a time, American families started a trend of "digging pits in the backyard to build shelters". Almost every household would mobilize on Saturdays and Sundays to build in the backyard. It is conceivable that not all Americans are DIY fanatics with strong hands-on skills. Many commercial construction companies have taken a fancy to this business opportunity and have been selling various nuclear war shelters to the American people. The appearance and built-in equipment of these shelters are different, but their purpose is the same: to let the American people live in the basement for two weeks. This requirement comes from the survival manuals issued by most US government departments. After statistics and estimates, officials believe that the war will come to an end within two weeks, and the people who take shelter underground can be successfully rescued. Therefore, when the American people build basements, they not only dig a pit, but also build toilets, drinking water and food storage rooms in the basements. In order to be informed of the situation on the ground in a timely manner, the guide also recommends that people equip their basements with small radios so that they can listen to the latest broadcasts in a timely manner.
Even today, many people in the United States prepare some emergency food, water and medicine in their basements. This habit comes from that era. Of course, the US government was not idle during the era when everyone was digging holes. They also developed many similar projects. For example, in many large cities, the government prepared many shelters and stored a lot of supplies underground!
These are the so-called underground bunkers.
As time goes by, many underground fortresses have been abandoned. But the facilities and materials inside have not been dealt with by the government... because it costs money to deal with these things! In this case, it is better to leave them there.
So now, even the government itself has forgotten about these things. New York naturally has some, and some of them are occupied by Bowery King. These underground fortresses have very good conditions and are perfect places to become nests. In addition, those supplies, for people outside, are some unpalatable canned food or biscuits and the like, which are not worth mentioning at all, but for the people in the underground city, this is a rare treasure.
After all, this stuff doesn't expire easily, it's clean and safe, what else can you ask for? It is said that Bowery King has enough supplies to feed tens of thousands of people for several years. Just think about how outrageous it is.
With these riches, Bowery King quickly became the most powerful force in the underground city, and also expanded his power to the ground. He controlled many homeless people. These people seemed useless, but in fact they were everywhere and not taken seriously. They happened to be the best spies, which made Bowery King a donor of underground intelligence! He knew a lot of things that others didn't know, and he could also transport some things that were difficult to transport outside.
Bowery King now has a business of being a mule.
Mule is the jargon among drug dealers, referring to the kind of people who specialize in transporting drugs. Bowery King does not deal in illegal drugs because there is too much competition. Although he is known as the King of Beggars, the problem is that they are all beggars, so don't expect any fighting power. If he rashly goes out to compete with others for the market, isn't that just delivering food?
So just be a mule with peace of mind, you can make a lot of money and there is little risk.
Because he holds the most powerful power in the underground world, he knows everything about the underground world, so it is not surprising that he knows some secrets about Keith's past.
Strangely, facing the arrogant Bowery King, the crazy Keith did not retort, but just said in annoyance: "Damn it! You... actually endured until now to say anything. What a terrible guy!"
Of course, Keith knew what the 'those things' Bowery King was talking about were.
Chitauri weapons.
But after knowing this, Bowery King did not show any abnormal reaction for such a long time. It was still the same as before. It was conceivable how cunning this so-called beggar king was.
"What do you want to do?" Keith said helplessly, "You know this thing is not one of those gadgets on the market. If something goes wrong, it will attract the attention of superheroes. You don't want Kai to look at you, right?"
Of course, Keith still had those things. In fact, Keith had never given up on researching these things over the years. Kai disagreed at first, but later, seeing that Keith didn't cause any big trouble, he stopped caring about her.
After all, it's science after all. Kai doesn't understand much, but he is willing to support it.
Bowery King waved his hands quickly, and immediately retracted his aura as the Beggar King! Are you kidding me? What is the Beggar King? He is still a beggar! Even if he was ignorant, he knew what would happen if Kai targeted him.
He was hiding underground, so he didn't really need to care about the police station, but the superheroes kept him under control. No matter how dark your underground world is, can you stop those superheroes?
Give me a break.
The last time a group of vampires caused trouble in the underground of New York, even Bowery King almost got caught, and many people died. They were much better than beggars like Bowery King. They directly built a secret base deep underground, but what was the result?
They were all taken down by a group of superheroes.
He didn't think he could hide better than those vampires. So even if the Beggar King wanted to expand his power, he would only do intelligence work and be a mule, which was not a big crime.
"No, no, no, I know your dad is powerful. I don't mean to threaten you."
Everyone in the underground world knows that the person you should never mess with is not the Beggar King, but this little underground shop... because Keith's dad is Keith!
Of course, more people still don’t quite understand why they have to stay in this dark underground even though they recognize Kai as their daddy.
Keith didn't really refute the rumor. After all, Kai was indeed her guardian and treated her very well. Apart from not liking to call Kai "Daddy", Keith didn't disown this fake dad.
"Then why do you want those things? Can't hold it in anymore and want to get a big one? Then you can go to those arms dealers. You definitely have connections."
It is really not difficult to buy arms in the United States. Any gang can do it.
"No... Ordinary munitions definitely won't be able to handle it this time." Bowery King said seriously, "In just these few months, I have lost dozens of my men! At first I thought it was done by my competitors, and I fought with them a few times, but later I found out it wasn't them, and their people were missing too. Someone is cleaning us out!"
Dozens of subordinates... In any gang, this level of loss would be enough to disband them on the spot. But for the Beggar King, it was not particularly painful. After all, apart from the core backbone, the other subordinates were all homeless people and rats in the dungeon. You really don't want too many of these things. If you give them to the stutterer, you can attract a large number of them.
But if he continued like this, the Beggar King's career would be ruined! After all, no one wanted to die in obscurity.
"A few days ago, I teamed up with a few bosses to set up an ambush, intending to see who was causing trouble for us... As a result, our people suffered heavy casualties. We all brought weapons, but we couldn't do anything!"
The underground world is huge, and even the Beggar King cannot think of unifying the world, so there are still many groups, some of which have long-term competitive relationships with the Beggar King.
"So powerful?" Keith was a little surprised. Who would be so blind as to come underground to grab territory? Although the underground city is a bit profitable, it depends on who you compare it with. Any criminal activity on the ground is more profitable than underground! Who is so blind?
"Well, I suspect someone is deliberately cleaning us out...so we must fight back! This is our home, we must protect it! So I ask you to sell me some alien weapons, I will fight them to the end!"
Bowery King might be one of the rare people who has a strong sense of belonging to the underground city. After all, most people who come here are forced to do so. Who would be a good person to live down there? Anyone who can live a normal life would never stay here!
But Bowery King was an exception. He rarely left the underground in his life. He was even afraid to appear on the ground during the day because there was nothing above his head, which made him feel particularly insecure. Even though he had become the Beggar King and his wealth was enough to live a very rich life, he still liked to live underground.
Keith understood this idea very well. She just liked living here. There was no other reason other than that she felt comfortable.
and so.
"Then how much do you plan to pay?"
Although she understands, she will definitely not be lenient when it comes to making money!
(End of this chapter)