Chapter 26 Jessica Jones

The rude knock on the door made Li Ran in the antique shop subconsciously frown.

He turned his head, and the first thing he smelled was a pungent smell of alcohol.

"You are the owner of this shop?"

Immediately afterwards, I saw a woman wearing a hoodie with messy hair, carrying a wine bottle, and staggered in.

"It's me, yes."

Li Ran looked up and down at the woman in front of him. The other party had a thin appearance, but he frowned all the time, as if he was irritable.

"Help me see how much this thing is worth."

As she said that, the woman took out a ring from the pocket of her clothes and threw it on the table in front of Li Ran. Then she raised the bottle of wine nonchalantly and took a sip, acting like a drunk.

Li Ran raised his eyebrows and picked up the ring that had jumped up in front of him. He glanced left and right, then raised his head and glanced at the drunken man on the opposite side, and then replied, "Up to one hundred."

bang-

"One hundred, hiccup~"

After a big burp, the woman heard the price Li Ran gave, and immediately put down the wine bottle in her hand in dissatisfaction. There was a loud noise when the bottom of the bottle collided with the table, and the woman immediately stretched out her hand to face her. Li Ran, who was in front of him, pulled it in front of him, and asked with a drunken face: "You guy, do you want to take advantage of me by seeing that I'm drunk, and deliberately lie to me!"

Li Ran turned his head, avoiding the pungent smell coming in front of him, moved his body and struggled, but found that the woman's strength was unexpectedly huge, and he couldn't get rid of it easily. This made him stare, and he began to face the sudden guest in front of him.

"The condition of this ring is not good, and there are obvious scratches on it. One hundred is the most reasonable price I can give."

Although he was surprised that the woman's strength was different from the thin appearance, Li Ran didn't show too much panic, but calmly gave the result of his appraisal.

"If you don't think you're satisfied with the price, you can look elsewhere, but I don't think it will make much difference."

The woman opened her drunken eyes and looked at Li Ran silently, and then she pouted and released her hand with an expression of impatience. While scratching her messy hair, she continued to drink wine and said: "F****K, well, 100 is 100, that damned guy, dare to use this kind of thing to deceive me, don't let me touch him again!"

After cursing for a while, the woman took the banknote that Li Ran handed over and put it into her pocket.

Immediately afterwards, she looked at the arrangement of the antique shop with her drunken eyes. When she walked in, she just saw the shops on the side of the road that were pleasing to the eye, and didn't think much about it. Now she looked at it again and found that this antique There's actually a lot of stuff in the store.

Although, most of them are fakes.

Due to the keenness of a private detective, the woman could see at a glance that most of the items in the store were just so-called slogans.

Her eyes swept around the antique store, and the woman quickly lost interest. She touched the one she just got in her pocket, which was also the only one hundred dollars left on her body, and turned to look at the store. Li Ran hesitated for a moment before saying, "Boss, are you interested in cooperating with me?"

"Cooperation?" Li Ran raised his head and looked at the woman in front of him.

"That's right." After drinking the last sip of wine in the bottle, the woman threw the bottle in her hand: "My name is Jessica Jones, I am a private detective resident in Hell's Kitchen. The job is to resolve some disputes between men and women, such as whose wife is cheating or whose husband has a lover outside..."

Jessica Jones, Private Investigator,

As well as the extraordinary strength that he just showed on himself, Li Ran finally remembered the identity of the other party when he heard the name reported by the woman.

A member of the Future Defenders, a female superhero with a tragic past.

Of course, none of this is important. The most important thing is that for Li Ran, the appearance of Jessica Jones undoubtedly represents a new target for gaining fame.

Moreover, it is the kind that is delivered to the door by yourself.

"...It seems that I have talked a little too much." After babbling for a while, Jessica Jones seemed to realize that under the influence of alcohol, she became a little too nagging, and she rubbed herself With a vaguely swollen forehead, he immediately continued: "Actually, my purpose is very simple. If there is another reward like a ring in the future, boss, you can help me exchange it for banknotes like today."

Because of her own experience and personality, Jessica Jones's work as a private detective is not smooth, and she occasionally receives a job because of excessive performance, which makes her final remuneration discounted.

"If you can bring the things, I have no problem at all."

Considering Jessica's identity and the fame she could bring to herself in the future, Li Ran had absolutely no chance of rejecting it.

"Then it's settled, boss!" After successfully determining a way to exchange money, Jessica Jones' frowning brows stretched a little, and she reached out to shake Li Ran's hand, and then burped again. He took a plate from the shelf of the antique store, looked back and forth a few times, and said, "This thing is good, I took it away, and regarded it as a symbol of our happy cooperation."

"This plate is not cheap..."

Seeing that Jessica Jones took the things from her store in such a grand manner, Li Ran subconsciously opened her mouth to say something, but saw that the other party ran out of the door without looking back.

"...It cost me a full dollar."

Looking at the back of Jessica Jones leaving in a hurry, Li Ran silently said the second half of his words.

As I said before, most of the items in Li Ran's antique shop, no, it should be said that 99% of the items are wholesale goods from Chinatown, which naturally includes Jessica Jones's hands. to the plate.

...

Take your eyes back from Jessica Jones' back.

Although the identity of the other party has been recognized, it is known that in the future it will be transformed into a poor version of the Avengers - one of the members of the Defender Alliance.

But Li Ran didn't expect to get fame from Jessica Jones as soon as they met.

There are many ways to obtain fame, the easiest of which is naturally to directly play a game like the previous Hulk battle. Although Jessica Jones' superpower is good, there is still a big gap between the comparison and the Hulk. Therefore, if Li Ran makes up his mind, he will obviously be able to gain a lot of popularity from her.

However, in the first place, this reckless approach is obviously not in line with Li Ran's plan.

Come, he is very satisfied with his current identity as the owner of the antique shop, and does not want to be exposed so quickly.

So, shaking his head, Li Ran turned to pick up the empty wine bottle Jessica Jones had thrown in the store and was about to dispose of it.

Just heard a jingle.

With the sound of the doorbell, a man in a purple suit walked in.