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Chu Yun grasped the key point and enlightened him.

"Master, I haven't received my salary for the past few days yet?"

Where's the daily pay he was supposed to get? He's been so busy playing the role of the boss's mistress these past few days that he even forgot something as important as paying him. How unbelievable!

Mo Heng's eyes lit up, as if he'd been waiting for this moment for a long time. His slender fingers reached into his pocket and slowly pulled out a card as black as ink. He said in a steady tone, "All your future salaries will be deposited into this card. Take it."

Chu Jun took the card curiously, feeling a cold, hard, and unique texture against his fingertips. The card resembled a pre-apocalyptic bank card, but it wasn't made of ordinary material. Instead, it looked like it had been meticulously carved from a single block of pure black crystal, radiating a mysterious and luxurious sheen as the light refracted through it.

It looks so noble no matter how you look at it!

"This is a common trading card used by all bases now," Mo Heng explained patiently, his voice gentle. "Large amounts of energy crystals will be stored digitally on it, and daily wages will be deposited on time."

"Thank you, Master!" Chu Jun smiled widely and held the card tightly in his hand, thinking of it as a "reward" paid in advance by the sponsor. He happily planned to go shopping in the city in the afternoon, without considering whether there was any other deeper meaning behind this card.

After receiving his salary, he planned to go shopping in the city in the afternoon.

"Ahem, tonight..." Mo Heng hesitated to speak, his eyes lingering on Chu Jun.

"What's wrong?" Chu Jun's shining eyes moved away from the trading card and looked at Mo Heng.

"Nothing..." Mo Heng hastily looked away, as if he had done something wrong. He casually picked up the work report on the table and pretended to read it carefully. However, he had been staring at that page for a long time, never turning it.

Chu Jun looked at the research report that Mo Heng had been reading for several hours without turning the page, but did not expose him. He turned around and smiled secretly and continued to water his flowers.

Behind him, Mo Heng's ears, hidden in his hair, turned red. He pursed his lips and secretly looked at Chu Jun's back for a while. Finally, he sighed, unable to say anything.

He didn't even dare to take the step of sleeping in the same bed with her.

"Five jing for a box of bread! Five jing for a box of bread—" The hoarse shouting voice, wrapped in the aroma of wheat, floated over the crowded market.

At another stall not far away, a vendor shouted at the top of his lungs, "Nearly expiration date meat jerky! It still has a whole month left! Come and grab a bargain if you know what you're getting!"

Amidst the constant hawking, a voice suddenly broke out in a flirtatious tone: "Handsome man, beautiful woman, looking for a bed companion? Ten crystals a night, and a monthly subscription will also provide special services~"

Chu Jun wrapped his hood tightly around his neck as he mingled with the crowd. Only then did he realize how exorbitant the salary his husband had offered him for a small air conditioner at home was!

Looking around, five crystals could buy a full box of bread, enough for an average person to survive for a week. As for hard-to-find meat, even if the price was ten or twenty times that of bread, it wouldn't even be enough to cover his hourly income.

The bread stall was packed with people, shouting and shoving in the background. In contrast, the meat jerky stall had only a few neatly dressed people standing around, with the occasional low-level psychic stopping to stare.

As for those who provide special services and stand at the outermost corners of the street, only a few lustful men or those who look wealthy will pay attention to them. Once the price is agreed upon, they will directly take people away for pleasure.

In fact, it’s not that these residents are so moral that they don’t resort to coercion, or simply pull up their pants and deny it.

The main reason is that Aurora Fortress has its own patrol team, and the penalties for incidents such as non-payment or robbery are very strict.

If you sleep with someone and don't pay them, and take the ten crystals, the patrol will make you pay back dozens or even hundreds of times the money. Except for the compensation to the victim, the rest will be confiscated.

Ordinary wealthy people naturally don’t have the courage to gamble with those few hundred crystals. That money requires them to complete tasks and go through life and death for a month to save up. No one wants to waste their hard-earned money like this.

Here, the most reliable rule of survival is to settle the payment and live in peace.

As for those extremely rich and powerful people, they would not hang out in this kind of market. Someone would deliver their daily necessities to their door.

As for sleeping partners, it's as simple as changing clothes. It's normal to spend some money to keep a few people around.

For example, Chu Jun’s current situation is that he holds a position but actually only collects the salary without doing any work, and he also lives in Mo Heng’s City Lord’s Mansion as if it were his own home.

"Hey, little guy, are you alone?" Before Chu Jun took a few steps, a middle-aged man with a pointed chin and monkey cheeks blocked his way.

Chu Yun's face was hidden under the cloak. Adhering to the principle of not causing trouble, he asked in a gentle voice, "What's the matter?"

The man who stopped Chu Yun was a middle-aged man. His eyes were dark and his face looked exhausted. He had probably been drained by alcohol and sex. However, there was a deep scar on the side of his face, which made him look particularly tough.

The sharp-nosed, monkey-faced man pulled a yellow trading card from his pocket and threw it at Chu Yun without any hesitation: "This card contains 100 crystals, which will cover your entire night."

"100 crystals?" The man's voice was loud. The bargaining sounds around him stopped abruptly, and dozens of eyes focused on him like searchlights.

"Oh my God! How many bounties are we going to have to work so hard to take on!" The crowd erupted in excitement. Some people clutched the corners of their wrinkled clothes and shook their heads, "I can't even scrape together a fraction of six months' wages!"

"100 crystals for one night, that's too..."

"This must be a high-level psychic. Only a high-level psychic can come up with so much money at once."

"Not everyone can get a trading card. Even the most common yellow card requires a certain amount of tax to be paid to the city lord before it can be issued."

"This hooded boy is so lucky to be noticed like this."

Chu Yun took in the discussions of the people around him. Some of them were worried about Chu Yun, but more people were just watching the fun.

After all, selling one's body is a normal transaction here. If the pointed-faced man gives money, there is nothing to complain about.

"Sorry, I'm not short of money." Chu Jun told the truth and politely returned the trading card.

The middle-aged man obviously didn't expect that the huge sum of 100 crystals could not impress the person in front of him, and his expression was very ugly.

He had been keeping an eye on Chu Jun since he entered the market. Although the boy was wearing a hood, his fingers exposed outside were slender and beautiful. His eyes that accidentally appeared from the hood were also very alluring. Based on these two points alone, he could conclude that the boy was definitely good-looking!

The man immediately became horny and wanted to sleep with her at all costs. He had to try it no matter what.