Chapter 1 So, the Quickest Way to Make Money Right Now is Through Underground Boxing?

Hu Yue suppressed the nausea in her stomach and patiently inquired about the rules of the underground city from the butcher shop owner.

"Yeah, if you're new to the underground city and have nothing, fighting in the black market boxing ring is the fastest way to make money," the butcher shop owner said, happy to chat with her since she provided him with a fresh supply of goods, even though she was human.

Although, he despised guys who preyed on their own kind.

"Otherwise, alone and without connections in the underground city, you'll be immediately targeted if you go up. Besides... you're still injured, aren't you?"

As for how she got injured, the butcher shop owner could guess with his toes. Such a fresh supply of corpses must have come at a price.

"Yes, that's why I chose to come here."

Hu Yue recalled the knowing look in the guard's eyes when she handed over all her energy crystals and brought in a few corpses. She couldn't help but feel embarrassed.

Corpses weren't considered property, but they were valuable here.

Selling these few corpses of space pirates would at least cover her living expenses in the underground city for a while, but she needed to plan ahead.

"Once you recover, you can go to the underground boxing arena. Whether you gamble on fights or become a fighter, the benefits are pretty good."

As he spoke, he picked up a sharp cleaver and chopped the meat on the cutting board into pieces, then stopped talking. Hu Yue thanked him softly and turned to leave.

She felt she needed to learn more about the underground black market boxing arena.

She had a terrible headache and needed to find a place to rest and sort out everything that had happened in the past two days.

Robbery, being held for ransom and hunted, and then infighting over the spoils in the outer star sea. If she hadn't been careful, she might have been the one sold on that platform today.

Hu Yue still felt nauseous when she returned to her assigned room and sat on the small bed, thinking about the underground city and the butcher shop mentioned in her character's memories.

These space pirates had done this before.

When Hu Yue realized that the original character wasn't a good person, she really wanted to curse the game designer for creating such a dark and cruel character for players to play.

...

After watching the three leave, Mingmei and Mu Chen returned to their room. Mu Chen thoughtfully installed a curtain next to Mingmei's bed. Mingmei watched him the whole time, and finally stared at his back and suddenly asked, "What exactly does your character do?"

Hearing Mingmei ask this, Mu Chen paused slightly, but quickly realized that Mingmei had discovered something.

"A little bit of everything."

"A little bit of everything?"

"Yeah," Mu Chen turned around. "Selling information resources, assassinating and investigating targets..."

"So your optical brain..." Mingmei glanced at the optical brain on the desk. Mu Chen replied, "Yes... it's connected not only to the StarNet, but also to the outer star sea's internal network. It contains many tasks and information that ordinary people can't access."

Hearing Mu Chen's answer, which was similar to what she had thought, Mingmei didn't express any displeasure or dissatisfaction. But when she thought of the StarNet, she noticed something was wrong.

"The StarNet is supported by Daddy Main Brain. Do they have anything to do with this kind of local network?"

Mingmei believed that the local networks within the Federation and the Empire were controlled by the main brain, but even if Daddy Main Brain didn't care about this outer star sea local network, these people themselves would probably mind, right?

Mu Chen shook his head, he didn't know who created the outer star sea local network either.

"Maybe this is a clue in some direction?" After a while, Mingmei offered her idea. "Even if the information peddlers in the outer star sea sell their news casually, there must be traces left online. And the person who manages this local network, do you think they wouldn't know?

Do they know that information peddlers selling information to the Zerg will attract the anger of the Third and Sixth Legions?"

Mingmei's suspicion was indeed something to think about. Mu Chen listened and pondered for a moment, then affirmed that Mingmei's line of thought was indeed a direction worth investigating.

"Then I'll have to trouble Meimei next."

"Huh?" She had only offered the idea and wanted Mu Chen to see how to operate it, but he suddenly said that he was going to trouble her?

"Starting today, I will teach you how to use this optical brain to browse information and check tasks on the internal network."

"What about you?" Mingmei was confused by Mu Chen's behavior of seemingly wanting to pass the buck.

"I will be working to achieve better results as a real fighter in the arena."

When they were chatting earlier, Mu Chen had expressed his desire to contact higher-level figures by showing his strength, which was approved by everyone.

However, his previous character's identity was also valuable, and Mu Chen felt that Mingmei could completely take on those tasks.

"Then, can I not accept those assassination missions?" Speaking of this, Mingmei seemed to remember something and stared at Mu Chen and asked, "Did you deliberately kill that fighter in the third match today?"

"Yes, I accepted a mission beforehand."

After admitting his previous actions, Mu Chen told Mingmei that she certainly didn't have to do those things. However, Mingmei was still curious about Mu Chen's assassination mission.

"When we were watching the match, many people were unhappy that you killed that fighter in the last match. It could be seen that he was not only popular, but he was also well-liked by the audience."

"To be honest, I'm not very clear about it either. It's just that this mission was accepted by the character beforehand, so I naturally had to complete it." Mu Chen had also interacted with the fighter he killed in the rest area.

The person below the stage seemed very gentle and not as crude and barbaric as the lizardman earlier. Mu Chen was curious about the person who placed the bounty.

"Was it a vendetta?" Mingmei thought. Mu Chen rarely misjudged people, and his judgment of whether a person was good or bad was mostly accurate.

Since Mu Chen also thought that the fighter he killed was not bad, then the person who placed the bounty had a story.

"Most likely. And that person is likely from the underground city." Mu Chen remembered the rule in the underground city that fighting and killing were not allowed as if it was engraved in his heart.

"Maybe it's someone from above, but their strength is not enough, so even if that person went up, they wouldn't be able to do anything to him."

"So, how did you get paid after completing this mission? Although your mission exploited the loophole in the underground city's rules, it shouldn't be something that can be put out in the open, right? How was your transaction completed?"

Mingmei couldn't wait to explore the source of this mission with Mu Chen.

But just as the two were chatting in the room, the door of their treehouse was suddenly knocked on...