landbeastnovel Chapter 18 Shadow Alliance Club
Chapter 18 Shadow Alliance Club
This is a twelve-story building that combines Eastern and Western architectural styles, similar to the architectural style of Daxin Department Store.
It covers an area of approximately 30,000 square meters and is roughly rectangular in shape, about 200 meters long and 150 meters wide.
The first floor houses restaurants, bars, casinos, and shops.
The first and second floors are mainly for bronze members. Visitors can browse freely after filling out the bronze membership registration form and paying an annual fee of one hundred silver dollars.
The third and fourth levels are for silver members.
Five levels are for members at the Gold level and above.
The sixth floor is the office.
Floors seven through twelve are the hotel.
An escalator was installed between the first and second floors.
In addition, it is said that the club has installed six vertical elevators.
This place is open 24 hours a day.
Guards in blue-black uniforms patrolled every floor and on the ground floor.
Dong Guanfei really felt like he had returned to a modern shopping mall before time travel.
I estimate that most members are night owls, so there aren't many people here at this hour.
Dong Guanfei now looks like an ordinary thirty-year-old man.
He walked straight to one of the four registration points next to the escalator on the first floor.
The registrar was a young woman from the Xia ethnic group. She was pretty and quick-witted, and she quickly helped him complete his bronze membership.
The registration information was shockingly simple—only a name and a specialty.
No checks are required, just pay the annual membership fee.
Dong Guanfei played with the bronze badge he had just received.
At the center of the emblem is a skeleton warrior wearing a cloak and a windbreaker, with his arms crossed, holding a blood-dripping demonic knife in his left hand and a revolver-like demonic gun in his right.
The skeleton warrior has a ring of characters engraved around his body: BZE167928544.
The badge is made of a very special trace metal that will appear as a different string of characters on certain testing equipment, making it virtually impossible for other people or forces to forge.
This specific string of characters is the holder's true identity credential, and the holder must remember it.
If the holder has their badge stolen and is forced to reveal the specific string of characters, the badge and the bronze membership it represents will be transferred to the person who forced them to reveal it.
Will the Shadow Alliance pay attention to this kind of thing?
If the holder loses the badge, they can verify their identity by presenting two strings of characters, one visible and one hidden, and then pay fifty silver dollars to replace it.
Dong Guanfei first browsed through all the shops on the first floor.
One-third of the shops are directly operated by the Shadow Alliance, including gold and silver coin exchange points, gun shops, potion shops, material shops, antique shops, artifact shops, jewelry shops, and so on.
The other shops sell similar items, but there are no gun shops.
Firearms and magical artifacts are the exclusive domain of the Shadow Alliance.
There are no magic gun or magic weapon shops on the first floor.
The gold and silver coin exchange point operates an exchange business for gold and silver coins issued by the Shadow Alliance and the currencies of various empires.
When exchanging gold coins for silver dollars, one gold coin is worth 10,000 silver dollars.
When exchanging Indian Eagles for gold coins, 11,000 Indian Eagles can be exchanged for one gold coin.
There is a daily limit to the amount that a single member badge can be redeemed, and the limit is determined by the member's level.
He focused his visit on the gun shop and the pharmacy.
In addition to a wide variety of pistols and rifles, the gun shop also had shotguns and light machine guns, but no grenades or explosives.
The pharmacy sells common medicines, including various poisons, liniments for bruises and sprains, cold medicines, first-aid kits, and more.
The Shadow Alliance guarantees that all items traded in the club's shops are genuine.
If they discover counterfeit or substandard products, they will be severely punished, and in severe cases, the business owners will be physically removed from the business.
Then Dong Guanfei went up to the second floor.
In the center of the second-floor lobby was a huge bar, behind which stood more than twenty young men and women, about 30% of whom were foreigners.
The lights in the lobby were deliberately dimmed.
Dozens of sets of dark solid wood tables and chairs are scattered around the bar, cleverly separated by screens and green plants, creating relatively private meeting spaces.
The receptionist at the bar also serves as a task negotiator.
Members who want to post or accept tasks can go directly to the bar to talk, or they can find any chair in the meeting space to sit down, and a liaison will come up to ask them.
There are about one hundred receptionists in the entire hall.
A row of blackboards hung above the bar, with ordinary tasks for recruiting large numbers of people written on them.
For example, recruiting a large number of bodyguards to escort goods, protect personnel, collect materials, and so on.
A notice board stands on one side of the bar, with the words "Precautions for Bronze Members" written on it.
Two things are particularly important:
First, any killing is strictly prohibited in the club; violators will be executed.
Second, robbing members who have just left the Shadow Alliance Club is strictly prohibited within a 500-meter radius of the club. Violators will be prosecuted and executed.
Dong Guanfei already knew these two rules from the book left by Dong Guotao, so he found a hotel less than 500 meters away from the club to stay in, even though the room rate was two silver dollars more expensive than similar hotels elsewhere.
In addition, many members stay in the hotel on the seventh to twelfth floors here to avoid their enemies, even though the room rate is ten to twenty times higher than outside.
There are many private meeting rooms on both sides of the hall, and beyond that are shops similar to those on the first floor.
Dong Guanfei went straight up to the third floor via the staircase marked "Visitor Access" on the east side of the building.
There is a large iron gate at the top of the stairs on the third floor. Above the gate, on the left and right, there is a device that looks like a camera. The camera is a crystal ball the size of an egg.
The moment he stepped onto the third floor, the crystal ball on his right flashed white light, somewhat like a photographer flashing a camera on a subject during an interview.
Then, the crystal ball on the left flashed red, and an invisible wave swept past Dong Guanfei.
Two or three seconds later, the large iron gate slid open about a meter from left to right with a "click".
It was obvious that the Shadow Club had detected that Dong Guanfei was a "Transcendent" level expert, so they let him pass.
The "Ruyi" can currently simulate the peak aura of "True Qi" or "Spiritual Energy".
Dong Guanfei just didn't want to be so high-profile.
Moreover, he has only reached the peak of the initial stage of "Lingji" in terms of combat strength. He might not be able to escape safely when facing a true "Zhengang" or "Lingji" master.
Because experts at the "True Qi" or "Spiritual Qi" levels must possess powerful secret techniques, magical artifacts, or demonic weapons, enabling them to unleash combat power at the level of "True Intent" or "Divine Intent".
Therefore, he will not be carrying out gold-level missions for the time being.
Keep in mind that just 24 hours ago, he was just an ordinary person.
Don't take too big a step at once, or you might accidentally tear your balls.
The third floor is entirely comprised of shops.
He immediately went into a magic gun shop.
Inside the magic gun shop were three Xia clan members and two young Western women, all dressed in dark blue cheongsams and of above-average appearance.
They did not approach Dong Guanfei to inquire about his needs, leaving him to look at the magic gun in the shop window.
In fact, he didn't need any purchasing advice from them at all, because the gun's performance was clearly stated on the brochure, and the price was the same.
Prices are non-negotiable here.