Chapter 201 - They are the humans!

Inside the noisy customs house, a yellow-furred fox struts up to two wolves. At first the fox was a little scared when he saw that they were wolves. But then he assumed his authority: "Hey, hand over the stuff. I'm not one of those useless underground people who can't see that you've hidden things in your belt, your teeth or the soles of your feet. Give it up now!"

This is just a perfectly ordinary process of collecting items.

In front of him, the wolf in the yellow waistcoat narrows his eyes and stares coldly at him. The yellow fox cowered, not daring to be too arrogant.

Pete looked at the fox expressionlessly, as if trying to see if he was a player or not. After a few seconds, the corners of his mouth curled up and, to the fox's eyes, he opened his bloody mouth.

"We did have the desire to smuggle things in."

The fox was stunned, not expecting the wolf to be so cooperative. The next moment, however, Pete said, "You must have paid the gnome when you collected the stuff on his behalf." So much time had passed that Pete had realised that the reason these monsters, with Fox as their leader, were helping the Underlanders scavenge their fellow monsters was to report the stowaways for a reward.

"That Underlander just looks greedy. You'll be bleeding money if you work with him." The blonde foreigner sneered and spoke a number, "Four or six, or five or five?"

The fox was surprised at the wolf's cleverness, and his eyes rolled, "What are you trying to say?"

There is no need to answer, this is already the default.

Pete took a bottle out of his sleeve: "I'm going to smuggle this in."

The yellow fox laughed: "The duty on alcohol and tobacco can be frighteningly high, especially when you dare to smuggle in banana wine from the Banana Tavern, which is very expensive! No wonder you're smuggling it in!" With that, the fox pretended to report in a loud voice, but moved very slowly and did not speak immediately.

Pete didn't know what he was trying to do, he said, "Well, The black tower monster is just as greedy and selfish as the idiots on Earth."

Pete knew, from talking to the other monsters earlier, the approximate price of the bottle of wine. He said lazily, "This bottle is worth about 10 silver coins, and to smuggle it in, you have to pay 5 silver coins. I'll give you 3 silver coins now, and you can pretend you didn't see anything."

The fox rebuked, "Am I such a monster? We foxes are good, honest and trustworthy people! And after you search your stuff, that underground man will come and search you."

"Don't worry, I can hide it from you. The underground people are blind, aren't they?"

The fox hasn't said a word.

Pete sneered, "4 silver coins!"

"Yes!"

The fox was happy to leave with 4 silver coins and went on to scavenge the next monster. After Pete's gaze never left his body, a male voice rang out from beside him, "Is that fox the guy from monster team one or not?"

Pete licked his teeth and gave a bloodthirsty grin, "Guess."

David : "Not quite."

"The intelligence of the Underlanders is generally not very good. We have participated in so many The black tower games and the higher the level of the boss the higher the IQ, or the higher the intelligence, so to speak, and the lower the level the dumber the boss. The average IQ of monsters is lower than that of the underground people."

David suddenly understood: "You mean, that fox is too smart? Then he's the player!"

"Yes, he's too smart. But he's not the player. He's a fox and it's normal for him to be a little smarter than the other monsters, but if he really was that asshole, he wouldn't have taken my advice. He would have reported me and collected my items up. Now that my items aren't in the loot, the players on the customs team won't be able to find them at all." After a pause, Pete chuckled wryly, "Would the Monster I guy be that stupid? He's smart, but only a little bit. Don't let me catch him, I'll break him to pieces!"

Pete guessed rightly that Chen Shanshan was standing in a mountain of stolen goods, looking carefully for something unique. However, as she looked for a long time, everything was at least in pairs and nothing existed alone.

The little girl clutched her lollipop and licked it while looking at it with a calm expression.

After a few moments, she saw the fox and the other monsters gathered over, ready to turn in to the gnome officer. The monsters were checking what they had searched for, taking out a bit of copper and silver coins in the process and slipping them to the fox to thank him for pulling them into the group. At that moment, however, a faint female voice rang out, "Did someone take the money privately and not deliver the stolen goods."

The monsters froze, and the yellow fox's body stiffened, "Bunny, what are you talking about, that we are such monsters?"

It took the monsters a moment to respond, "Ah, there's a way to do that?"

Indeed, most monsters would not have thought of this move.

Unless you reach the level of a wolf grandmother, you will not be wise. The black tower monsters are mostly simple and naive. They like to eat humans and underground people, but are very stupid and don't know how to change their ways. If the people they scavenge are really monsters, those monsters will only be foolish enough to be reported and will not even think of bribing them.

The only people who can think of this and be bold enough to implement it are the players.

The yellow fox was not about to reveal that he had accepted a bribe, and he rightly rebuked Chen Shanshan. Chen Shanshan looked at him and guessed that he had taken a bribe from Monster Team 2. Looking at the yellow fox, Chen Shanshan said, "I'm not trying to blame anyone, we all make money, thanks to the fox, you've helped me make a bit of money too."

It was Chen Shanshan who suggested the idea in the first place, but she gave all the credit to the fox, and everyone was grateful to the fox for giving him all the money.

The fox has a bit of weakness.

Chen Shanshan continued: "But if it does happen, I have another idea and would like to ask that person to tell the monster of bribery. Don't look at me like that, I hate that sort of behaviour so much. When I lived in the Elven Savannah, it was Granny Eagle who bribed my clan leader, causing me to be nearly eaten when I went out for food. But I made the fellow speak up just so he could make more money."

When the fox heard this, he narrowed his eyes, "What do you mean?"

"Since someone would bribe, it means that what he was trying to smuggle in was so important that he didn't want to hand it over to be found by those damned underground people."

The fox thought: yes, with something as delicious as banana wine, those underground people would probably just drink it and give the empty bottle to the wolf.

One had to admit that the Underlanders were much more cunning than their monsters, always pulling all sorts of tricks. He, Mr. Fox, was very clever to spot these tricks, and that wolf looked so stupid at first glance that he certainly couldn't spot that it was an empty bottle.

Chen Shanshan : "Give us information about that monster, can't the rest of us ... charge him something too?"

The fox looked at Chen Shanshan in dismay: "You can still do that?"

The fish has already taken the bait and Chen Shanshan smiles, "Why not. All we need to do is say that a few people didn't search clearly and we need to search again. When we search again, someone else will search for the monster, so we can collect the bribe again? Mr. Smart Fox, this is not a money-losing deal. Just give me the information, I promise, I'll search and I'll give half the bribe, thanks to the monster who shared the information with me!"

Chen Shanshan winked cunningly and the fox was moved. However the fox said greedily, "Why can we only search once more and not more times? What's the point of searching a few more times if we haven't given the stuff to the Underlanders yet anyway."

Chen Shanshan says it doesn't matter.

The fox swallowed and whispered, "Guys, it was actually me who received the bribe. Eh don't you glare at me, I didn't mean to. Now I'll share the information with you all so we can each have money to earn! Although those two wolves might get impatient after a few searches and decide to be reported by us. But until then, we'll still get an extra amount of money, which is great!"

Three minutes later, Pete is leaning against the wall, blowing the breeze coming in from the window. He saw a stocky gorilla thumping his way up to him. A sense of foreboding welled up in Pete's mind and soon in his afterglow he saw a few more monsters coming up next to him and standing in front of the other monsters who had collected their belongings.

The gorilla opened his mouth at him and the stench of his breath hit his nose, "Just now ... cough cough, I didn't search clearly just now, I missed something, we need to collect it again!"

Pete didn't react for a second.

The gorilla was thin-skinned, he couldn't act this kind of bribe grabbing, and blushed, "Hey, I said I want to search again!"

Pete : "..."

With a thud, the blonde foreigner's fist slammed hard into the wall of the wooden hut, smashing a large hole.

The gorilla was startled by the wolf and almost tried to turn back.

Pete slowly lifted his head and said through gritted teeth, "Oh ... say, how much do you want?"

...Fuck that monster of a team of assholes!

Three monsters in a row came to Pete's place to scam him for money and David couldn't look away any longer. "Damn it, that bastard must have known we were players, but he's still hiding in those 20 monsters and we can't find him. Pete, what should we do, we don't have much money left, a few more monsters and we won't be able to bribe them. And the guy already knows who we are, there's no point in us giving any more money, why don't we just turn in the loot?"

"Stupid! What do you know! Hand the stuff over and it's out of our hands. The guys in Customs 1 won't have much difficulty getting it, just sneak it away. But if we have the stuff, even if they know we're players and the loot is this bottle of wine, they'll have to beat us to take it, and they'll reveal their own identities."

David : "So what the hell to do!"

Pete let a mocking chuckle escape from his nose, "Do you really think I can't catch who that guy is?"

A minute later, a short, skinny rabbit, holding a lollipop, approached David and Pete. David took four silver coins out of his money bag and bribed them. The rabbit took the coins, cowered in fear and turned and ran away in a huff.

Pete glanced at the rabbit and withdrew his gaze, tapping his fingers on his arm, "There were twenty monsters, and that bastard was hiding in those twenty. That fox isn't, and I don't think that gorilla was either earlier."

David added: "That rabbit doesn't look like it either."

"The Monster I team's mission is much less difficult than you and I. The Customs team's mission is no less difficult than ours. So most likely, we're on the same level as the Customs team, and they're also raiding the fifth level, or at least four levels. And the bastard on team one, he's raiding level three, four at the most." Pete grinned grimly, "Dear David, as stupid as you always are, can you tell me what you think a player on the third level of The black tower would be like?"

Inside the glass hut, the examinations of the Underlander officials are at an end.

Tang Mo doesn't leave questions empty on purpose, he looks like he's got it all figured out and fills in the blank lines for even the oddest questions, so there's not a single mistake to be made.

However, eventually, the paper has to be handed in.

Seeing that the items outside were almost searched, the dwarf officer told his assistant to prepare to collect the roll. But just as the assistant was getting down to collect the roll, a shrill cry was heard from outside the glass window.

"Aaaaaah you really are human, you really are the damn human!"

Among the monsters, a yellow-furred fox slumped to the ground in terror, pointing fearfully at two wolves standing by the window.

There was an uproar from the monsters, staring warily at the two wolves. David and Pete looked at each other in confusion at first, and after a moment Pete glared angrily at the dozen or so monsters to one side, "FUCK THAT FUCKING BASTARD!!!"

The customs hut was in chaos as David shouted "I'm not human", but the other monsters didn't think so.

A thousand wrongs must not be spared.

The weaker monsters rushed out in fear, just in case they were killed by the humans. They could not defeat the humans. But the monsters, who prided themselves on their strength, formed a circle and came a little closer to the two wolves. No one noticed the fox that had just screamed creeping into the crowd.

The yellow-furred fox muttered, "Hmph, paying twenty silver coins for a bottle of banana wine would have been suspicious. Besides, who cares if you are human. Let's get you all in jail for a few months first. I'm the one who made you pay so much more, and you think I don't know that you'll want to get back at me when you get through. I, Mr. Fox, am not going to let you take revenge!"

After walking out of the crowd, the fox pulled out five silver coins and shoved them into the rabbit's hand, "Ahem, that's payment for reminding me."

The rabbit dutifully accepted the coin and stood quietly by, watching as the monsters surrounded the two wolves.

The fox said suspiciously, "Huh, you're so smart, you're not human, are you?"

Like a frightened rabbit, Chen Shanshan trembled in fear: "Am I, am I smart? I didn't do anything at all. Did you not organise the collection of money yourself, Mr Fox?"

The yellow fox looked at her for a few moments and took a big step aside, "Also, where are humans as weak as you are, hahaha."

Inside the glass hut, the dwarf officer said angrily, "What's the situation?"

The dog-legged gnome ran in like he was afraid, "Report! Sir, I think we've found humans, we've found two humans!!!"

Tang Mo turned his head quickly and locked eyes with Fu Wenduo. Two words resounded in both their heads -

Shanshan!

The officer was delighted, then his face fell, "No, those humans are very powerful, I've informed Mr Peter Pan to come and help, but he hasn't arrived yet." At these words, the dwarf officer turned his head to look at his subordinates. His assistant was still trying to collect the rolls when the gnome officer snarled, "What do you care about the rolls, there are two ready-made humans now. Quickly, come with me and get those two humans! Catch them and eat them!"

The Underground Man had long since stopped wanting to do the rolls, and on hearing this, roared excitedly, "Catch them and eat them!"

The whole customs office, instantly, was abuzz with excitement.

The monsters tried to grab the humans and the underground people swarmed out of their glass huts and jumped straight at the two wolves.

The papers were left behind them and Tang Mo, without moving, tore his and Fu Wenduo's papers into pieces and took the papers of the four underground people and tore them into pieces as well. The pieces piled up so that it was impossible to tell who had written them.

Fu Wenduo raised his eyebrows at him.

Tang Mo replied, "Just in case."

The two men followed the other underground men and quickly made their way out of the gate.

In the midst of the monsters, David is still arguing that he is not human. Pete, however, is no longer struggling. His eyes were fixed straight on the dozen or so monsters. From now on, he suspected anyone but the fox.

This is the time when the guy from Monster Team 1 is most likely to reveal his weaknesses. He might not be able to help but pay attention to the Underground Man officials and try to identify the Customs team players from within.

This is the heart.

No one, no matter how intelligent, can avoid their subconscious actions.

At this time of year, all the monsters would just look at them, and the only ones looking at the groundlings could only be a team of bastards.

Chen Shanshan clutched his lollipop and cautiously observed the officers as they emerged from the glass huts. Just then, a sorrowful voice suddenly rang out in the crowd of monsters, "Oh, bastard, I've found you!"

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The author has something to say.

Shanshan : ... I'm still too stupid to do the math QAQ.

Tangtang & Mr. Fu: Next, I will carry you~