Chapter 69: black market
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The Mysterious World Under Steampunk
- Jiu Cheng Jun
- 2590 characters
- 2021-01-30 08:17:33
After entering the alley, Leo walked straight to a group of children, took out the paper currency of Wubia, and said, "I'm going to the helmet and fish tavern. Whoever takes me to this country is who it is."
Hearing Leo’s words, these little children were all eager to try, but with a cough, a little boy wearing a blue shirt jacket and a little triangular hat came out, and all the children were converging.
The little boy with a dirty face on his face walked to Leo, learning how to salute Leo with the appearance of some adults, and said, "Dear Sir, I know the position of the helmet and fish tavern. I can take you Go, but I need ten bia."
"Yes, this is a deposit." Leo did not say much about this price-setting behavior. He directly stuffed the five-billion banknotes in the hands of the little boy and said, "The remaining five-birth Give again."
"Please follow me." The little boy stuffed the paper money in his pocket, turned around, and ran deep into the alley.
Leo followed, and under the leadership of the little boy, shuttled back and forth in a labyrinthine alley, and quickly marched towards the center of the fish city.
About ten minutes or so, the little boy led Leo through a small alley, came to a small square, and stopped. Pointing to the tavern where helmets and fish are painted on the signboard in front, said, "It's time to go."
Leo took out the rest of Wubia and handed it to the little boy, saying, "The next time you lead the way, you can just go directly to your destination. There is no need to deliberately take a ten-minute long way."
"I'm not worried that you think the road is too short, it is worthless to spend ten Biya?" The little boy quickly took over the remaining Wuba, without any embarrassment after being disassembled, and said with a smile.
It turned out that the little boy had just taken Leo around a ten-minute long way between the houses in Yucheng District. Leo, who had already constructed a topographic map through a spiritual network, was easily discovered. It's just that he didn't take it out at the time, just to see what the little boy wanted to do? Are you going to lead him into a trap?
didn't expect the result just because the place was only a few houses away from the alley where he entered and could be reached in two steps. The other party worried that he was too close to the road and he was unwilling to pay, so he made a round trip.
Although it was annoying to be carried by people in the dark alleys where the sewage flowed across the ground, and the stool would fall down from the head at any time, but it was not without benefits, at least those who followed behind were easily Tossed away, saving him the trouble of shooting these people himself.
The little boy packed Wubia carefully. When he was about to leave, he stopped again and said to Leo who was walking towards the tavern: "Sir, you are a cheerful person, not only giving money, but also blaming my little one. It’s wrong, so I’ll give you another hint. After you go in, you’ll take a harder shot. Even if you kill someone, it’s okay, because it will save you a lot of trouble.
finished, he saw that he took a small step, quickly into a group of drunks, his hands quickly touched the waist of those people, disappeared into the crowd.
"Funny little guy!" Leo, who saw this scene, smiled, feeling that the little boy seemed to know his purpose in entering the pub, but did not think about it, and turned to continue walking towards the pub.
came to the door of the tavern, Leo pushed the door in, and a heat wave that was completely different from the cold outside was rushing face to face, and it was also mixed with the smell of poor beer, men's and women's sweat, and cheap perfume.
Leo’s arrival did not affect the ongoing carnival in the tavern. A group of drudgery workers in crude canvas trousers and sleeveless pullovers are throwing away all the money they have earned all day, thrown here at the inferior beer and waitresses. On the big ass, they only want to dream and die once, and they don't care about other things outside.
Only a handful of burly men in pullovers sitting in the shadowy corners of the tavern who could monitor each other in the tavern looked at him as Leo walked in. They looked at him silently Looking at the hands under the table or the weapons in the clothes, Leo obviously put a lot of pressure on them.
Leo ignored these people and went directly to the bar, took the black market access card from his pocket and put it on the table.
The reason why Leo knows the fish city, the helmet and the fish meat is a slum tavern that even the locals of Miria City do not necessarily know, it is because of this black card.
When Leo left the building of the Wei Lun Medical Association, the black card on his body seemed to be excited, releasing a psionic message, and Leo, who was closest to him, naturally became the receiver. The paragraph information is very short, just two place names, Yucheng District and the helmet and fish tavern.
Obviously these two place names refer to the location of the black market in Miriam City, so Leo moved to the black market to take a trip.
He came to the black market not only to see what this mysterious black market is buying and selling, but also to find a suitable buyer for the alien cells on his body.
Also see if you can buy a batch of special bullets, because the queen’s transformation of ammunition alone will continue to develop now. There will be a lot of money, and it needs to be purchased in large quantities and used as reserves. And this special bullet is a tube product in any country, and it is simply not available on the market. You can only try your luck at this black market.
The last thing I just thought about on the road is to see if I can collect information about the house that the old man of the villa said in the black market, so that he can save most of his time and collect more detailed information.
After showing the black card in front of the bartender, the bartender put down the wine set in his hand, turned around and found a secret tab on the wine cabinet, and pulled it twice.
After a while, from the small door leading to the back of the tavern, an old man wearing a tuxedo, a top hat, and the surrounding environment went out.
saw that he came to Leo, looked at the black card on the table, saluted Leo, and said, "Guests, please come with me."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and led the way. Leo picked up the black card and followed. After entering through the pub gate, he walked up the stairs to the second floor of the pub, and walked from a small bridge to the neighboring house.
In this house, the old man stopped and said to Leo: "Guest, please give me your black card for inspection."
Leo did not say anything, took out the black card and handed it over.
The old man took the black card and walked to a half-height mechanical device beside the house. Then he saw that he inserted the black card into a specific slot of the device and pulled a small push rod next to the device. A burst of mechanical sound unique to the steam engine came out, and the gears on the device began to rotate automatically. A burst of steam burst from the side pipe from time to time, followed by some fluorescent gas injected into the ten test tubes at the top of the device, successively Lit, and stopped when the eighth.
saw that the eighth test tube was lit by fluorescent gas, and the old man was a little surprised. He froze for a moment, then pulled the putter back, turned off the machine, pulled out the black card, and returned it to Leo.
At this time, Leo saw that there were eight more stars on the black card with no original pattern, and according to his inspection, the eight stars were not as if they were engraved, but more like themselves. Exist, but it was covered by something. The operation just now should be to remove the cover.
The old man very respectful Zhao Leiou said: "You are our eight-star VIP on the black market, you can enjoy the discount of the response when buying items from us, and you can get a 80% commission reduction on any items you sell here."
After speaking, the old man led Leo down the stairs, through several rooms, and came to a door, instructing Leo to choose a cloak and a mask covering the whole body from the wardrobe beside the door.
Leo casually picked a black cloak over his body, and then picked a bird-shaped mask similar to the bird's beak mask used by the doctor and brought it to his face.
At this time, the old man opened the door and led Leo into it.
I saw that behind this door is a place similar to a small theater, showing a funnel shape, all surrounded by boxes, each box has a dedicated entrance.
In the center of the bottom of the funnel, where the stage should have been, there is now a stone round table, the lights of dozens of special crystal lights around all gathered on the stone table, so that people in the surrounding boxes can easily see the stone table On something.
"Please wait, there are twenty-three minutes before this black market transaction." The old man motioned Leo to sit in a chair near the window of the box, and then inquired again: "Do you need anything to drink?"
"No more!" Leo walked over and sat down, then looked around, and asked the elderly man who was standing a little suspiciously, "Is there no list of items to buy and sell?"
"Guests, this is the first time to come to the black market. I am afraid that we do not understand the rules of our black market." The old man explained carefully: "Our black market only provides a safe and reliable place for all guests who need to trade goods, and provides the value of the inspection goods. Professionals, we do not directly participate in the transaction. If the guests are unwilling to sell or buy items publicly here, they can also tell us that we will help the guests to contact the appropriate sellers and buyers. Item inspection. Of course, for every transaction on the black market, we will draw a part of the commission."
"I have an item that I want to sell. See if you can arrange it in the first one." Leo took a box from his backpack, took out the alien cells inside, and placed it on the table next to it. .
"It's alien cells. I haven't seen this thing for a long time." The old man easily recognized the alien cells, and then saw him walk to the side of the room, opened a cabinet, and took out a typewriter. Put the mechanical box on the table, place the alien cells on the tray on the box, and then grasp the lever next to the box and slowly turn it.
I saw that the gears of this mechanical box began to bite together with the rotation of the lever, followed by some small robot arms protruding from around the tray, each of which had a prism that was constantly flashing.
As the speed at which the old man turns the lever changes, these mechanical arms seem to rotate around the alien cells on the tray in accordance with a specific rule, and from the prism, some light is emitted from time to time through the alien cells to fall On the edge of the tray are metal beans that can respond to the light.
After these metal beans are hit by the light, there will be some color changes. When all the little beans have changed, the old man stops turning the lever, and the little beans and the surrounding prism sink into the box. Then a test tube with a scale on the box begins to fill with fluorescent gas. The fluorescent gas rises straight and reaches five to five. Between the six positions, it stopped and the color of the fluorescent gas changed from red to light green.
"It is a five-level alien cell, a human aberration type, but there are some defects, which failed to reach the sixth level." The old man found an exquisite small box, took the alien cell on the tray, and put it into it. Then wrote the result of the inspection just now on a card and asked, "Guest, are you ready to trade money or return the item."
"Trading money." Although Leo is not short of money for food, clothing, housing and transportation, he does not have the money to buy precious items such as special bullets.
The old man heard these requirements written on the paper ~EbookFREE.me~ and then inserted the paper into the slot on the cover of the box, sealed the box, put it on the small platform of the window, and pulled the tab.
After a while, someone came up to take things away, and left a contract to prove the items.
While waiting for the black market to open, Leo wanted to release the spiritual network and check the surrounding conditions, but soon he found that there was also a disturbing energy field similar to the old man in the villa in this house.
It's just that the interference energy force field here is much weaker. He felt that if he increased the input of psionic energy and increased the penetration of the spiritual network, he should be able to break through the influence of the force field, but he didn't do so after thinking about it.
Since these people are able to open a black market in a place like Miria City, they are naturally well prepared. In case he breaks through the influence of the force field, he touches other arrangements of the black market, but instead he will grow out of the festival and cause unnecessary trouble.
As the mechanical bell in the room rang, a middle-aged man wearing a bowler hat and tuxedo walked to the platform, and then spoke some scenes to the surrounding boxes, and began to step into the topic. Take out the box, put it on the platform, and then pull out the card on the box to read the contents.
Although these rooms are equipped with soundproof wall panels, Leo’s sensitive ears can still hear some surprise sounds from the surrounding boxes when the black market host mentioned that there are alien cells in the box.
After that, there was no quotation like the auction house, but the person in each box wrote his price on the card, handed it to the waiter who was responsible for receiving the box guest, and finally collected it and sent it to Leo At the same time, the host also started a black market transaction for the second item.