Chapter 8

'Little Sun, this is the 'market'.' Li Chi said as he clipped the cigarette roll that the Han had just handed over behind his ear. The place behind the iron gate was not the kind of cyberpunk scene that Sun Yuan had conjured up in his head - colourful neon lights flashed, and all kinds of strange and bizarre devices and equipment stuffed the entire space. In fact, the shopping mall upstairs was closer to this description, and this 'market' looked more like an antique market or a tea market: the ceilings were high, the space was divided into small storefronts, and there were no counters inside, but generally only a computer, a set of mahogany furniture, and a complex set of equipment on the coffee table, which looked like an artisanal tea set. Looks like it should be a set of work tea set, teapot tea cups are complete, but a lot more do not know the purpose of the parts.

The whole 'market' is not noisy, surprisingly quiet, only a low background sound of human voices, occasionally two bursts of loud laughter. Every shop they passed had one or two people sitting or standing, staring at them as they approached. Sun Yuan soon realised that all of them wore that guarded gaze, but it seemed that most of the people in the shops knew Li Chi, and it soon switched to a continuous greeting, but that guard wouldn't go away. Li Chi usually just nodded briefly or said a word or two in response. Some of the people who were talking in low voices in the shop immediately stopped talking when they saw the two people coming.

Sun Yuan was curious as to what kind of business these people were talking about, but thinking about it, he knew that it shouldn't be anything that could be spread out on the floor. He suppressed the urge to ask Li Chi and just followed him forward.

Li Chi led Sun Yuan to a door at the side of the 'market', and after some inspection by the guards, the two of them walked through the door and up the stairs, and behind another door was the office of the supervisor of the 'market', Peng Sao.

Sun Yuan thought that the supervisor's office was a bit funny. The mahogany bookshelf was backed against the wall, behind a large mahogany desk was a huge boss chair, and next to it was a set of mahogany sofa and coffee table similar to those in the shop below. There was also a large globe on the desk, and the overall combination was a look of a township business owner's office. One side of the office is a huge floor-to-ceiling glass window, from which you can see the whole 'market' panorama. The market director Peng trace is sitting on that chair, before they enter the door, Peng trace is obviously on the phone. When he saw the two of them, he immediately hung up the phone.

'Captain Li! What a rare guest! Sit, sit. Introduce this one next to you?' Peng Trace was a middle-aged fat man, bald, smiling, and spoke with a distinct Cantonese accent. Combined with the layout of the office style of this particular township enterprise boss, Sun Yuan felt that he was like a township dirt boss.

'Sun Yuan, also from the bureau, my partner, we've been working on cases together recently.' Li Chi introduced. Sun Yuan went up and shook hands with Peng Mirage, then sat down with Li Chi on the mahogany sofa. Peng Miracle took out a box from the cabinet behind the desk and dragged a chair to sit in front of the coffee table. 'Big Red Robe from Wuyi Mountain. For a rare guest like Captain Li, I wouldn't dare fool around with poor tea.' There was also a tea set on the coffee table, the same as the one in the shop outside. Peng Mou picked up a clip and carefully clipped the tea leaves in the box into the jar of the tea set, and then the whole set started to run.

Only then did Sun Yuan understand that this model of tea set was fully automated. Those parts were a complete set of small robots that could complete the whole process of pouring water, boiling tea, skimming, filtering and pouring tea. Sun Yuan watched this set of fully-automatic Gongfu tea equipment running, somewhat fascinated. The robot deftly grabbed the teapot, moved to the bottom of the water pipe, began to fill the water, and then put the teapot on the electric stove to boil. Afterwards, the robot rotates, changes the filter parts, then pours the water out of the teapot, wets the water cup, and then grabs a few handfuls of tea leaves out of the pot, puts them into the teapot, and starts pouring the tea. The whole process was deft and elegant, no better than a real tea doctor.

'Drink tea first, drink tea!' Peng Signs personally brought up the two cups and handed them to the two. Li Chi hadn't said anything just now, and only after taking a sip of tea did he slowly speak, 'Old Peng, I haven't seen this set last time I was here, you're quite up to date with the times.' Sun Yuan also took a sip, the tea is good, but he is not an expert in this field, he can not drink good or bad. He still prefers carbonated drinks.

'Captain Li, don't be sarcastic.' Peng trace still had a fawning smile on his face, 'I'm not going to hide it from you, this set of things is something that my own factory has only recently come up with, I'm going to try it out on myself for a while before pushing it out into the market.'

'Then I see that the shops downstairs have a handful of them, and they are all trial versions as well?' Sun Yuan felt that ever since Li Chi entered this market, his whole temperament had changed. Although he still had the same lazy tone as usual, for some reason, there was a certain fierce and dangerous aura hidden underneath the laziness.

'Captain Li, where are the words! Of course it's a trial version, I sent a set to each shop so that they could give me advice. I assure you, there is absolutely no hidden agenda, if you don't believe me, go ask. If Captain Li is interested, I'll also send you one to play with, gadgets, not worth it.' Peng trace had a righteous face.

'Spare me, let's just trust you for now.' Li Chi said indifferently, taking a sip of tea, 'What's going on in the "market" lately?'

'What does Captain Li want to ask?' Peng trace asked cautiously.

'What else can I ask? What's the latest tip? Tidbits of information are fine.' Li Chi emptied his cup of tea in one gulp and placed the cup back on the tea set, his dexterous mechanical hands then grabbed the teapot to refill the cup. He stood up, pulled out his cigarettes and lighter, lit them, and walked over to the floor-to-ceiling windows to gaze at the 'market' below.

'This ...,' Peng trace hesitated for a while in embarrassment, "There's been news in the "market' recently that someone is auctioning off a piece of NSA got out of the traffic analysis software, and the starting price is said to be two hundred bitcoins.'

'Hmm.' Li Chi was noncommittal. Sun Yuan suddenly felt as if he had touched some dark secrets. NSA's traffic analysis software? There seems to be a case related to this some time ago... ... 'What else is there?' Li Chi didn't seem to care much about this, sitting back on the sofa again and exhaling a mouthful of smoke.

'By the way, Xiang Da that kid said he has a set of Arabic corpus on hand, 4PB big, it is said that there are one hundred and sixty billion corpus in it, I don't know where to get it, and there are already a lot of companies interested in it.' Peng trace brightly on the door of the brain, has begun to beads of sweat.

'Oh. That's something to keep an eye on, I'll go back and talk to the bureau.' Li Chi continued to respond carelessly. This wasn't something he wanted either.

'Ah ... ...' Pang Mou suddenly tapped his head, 'Come to think of it, I've recently met a biohacker who is into biohacking, and he said he's going to sell this.'