Volume 1 Entering the World Chapter 25 Heading to the Black Market
It is impossible to determine exactly when the black market was established.
However, one thing is at least certain is that before the establishment of the Paradise Settlement, the Black Market had set up a large number of trading points in the wilderness outside the base, which were used to deal with those large and small settlements, and they were widely circulated among the settlements.
Because of the wilderness, there are often herds of animals around the trading points set up in the black market.
If the herd is smaller, the person in charge of the black market trading point will be enough to clean up the surrounding herd.
And if the herd is large, the person in charge of the black market trading point cannot clean it up or the cost of cleaning it is too high. After consulting the black market headquarters, the trading point will be relocated, and at the same time, someone will be sent to leave traces near the original trading point, so as to tell the people in the gathering place the location and opening time of the new trading point.
Therefore, maintaining a large number of trading points outside the base is a lot of pressure for any force, so the person in charge of the black market trading point is the spokesperson chosen by the black market nearby, that is, it is equivalent to the peripheral members of the black market organization.
The loss of these peripheral members has no impact on the black market, and it is a big deal to find a new force nearby. It's just that if it's because of the loss of the beast herd, the black market won't have much action, but if it's a human attack, the retaliation of the black market headquarters is definitely something that most people can't bear.
The trading point that Zhang Dong and the four of them were going to this time was located on a plain east of Base 105, about 200 kilometers away from the Heavenly Gathering Point, which was the closest trading point to the gathering place nearby.
To get there, the four of them first had to cross about 50 kilometers of forest outside the gathering place, and then walk about 150 kilometers on the plains.
It's okay in the forest, after all, the map made by Zhou Gensheng and Xiaoling's daily inspections has clearly marked the places that need to be avoided in the forest, and it is easy to avoid those dangerous places according to the map.
But the 150 kilometers after leaving the forest are completely unpredictable.
But fortunately, Zhang Yongshan's three people have extremely rich experience in wild survival, and they can distinguish the direction of some large beasts just from some traces on the ground. Although it affected the speed of the four of them a little, and there were some extra detours, there was always a thrilling way to the vicinity of the trading point.
And along the way, he killed strange beasts sporadically, and Zhang Dong's three-dimensional attribute also increased by 0.2, which seemed to be a small step away from the dream of pressing Zhou Gensheng to the ground and rubbing it.
"It's about to be a black market trading point, so be on your guard. Holding a piece of bacon in his hand and stuffing it into his mouth, Zhang Yongsheng explained to the three people behind him.
"Shouldn't the alien beasts near the trading point have been cleaned up?" Sitting on the grass, Zhang Dong asked with some confusion.
According to some information about the black market that Zhang Yongshan told him on the road, if the location of the trading point has not changed, it proves that the person in charge of the trading point in the black market has cleaned up the surrounding foreign beasts. It stands to reason that the closer you are to the trading point, the safer it should be.
"It's not the beasts that pay attention. Touching his bald head, Xu Yufei explained with a smile: "If you trade with a trading point, you either have money on your body, or you will have a large number of organs of foreign beasts." The trading time of the trading point is the fixed two days every month, and the large and small gathering places around are concentrated in these two days, and it is inevitable that there will be some ill-intentioned people who want to kill people and sell goods. ”
"Oh, that's what it looks like. Nodding, Zhang Dong gnawed on the bacon in his hand, a little silent.
He is now more and more confused, it stands to reason that when human beings are facing life and death, shouldn't they be twisted into a rope and unite with the outside world? Why after coming to this world, all he heard was the internal struggle between some human beings, but it seemed that he had never heard of the matter of cooperating against foreign beasts?
"It's okay, you don't have to worry about it. It's rare for a gathering place to send a supernatural to trade, and with the strength of our 4 high-level enhancers, the general gathering place wants to attack us, and that is to seek death. Seeing that the expression on Zhang Dong's face seemed to be a little wrong, Li Yang opened his mouth to comfort.
Just as Zhang Dong opened his mouth to speak, he suddenly heard a faint sound of footsteps.
"Someone is coming. Looking in the direction where the voice came from, Zhang Dong frowned slightly. Did you just say that maybe someone would rob them, and someone would come so soon?
With a stunned expression, Zhang Yongshan followed Zhang Dong's gaze, and then shook his head with a smile: "Xiao Zhang, you are too nervous." What's ......?"
didn't wait for him to finish speaking, but saw Zhang Dong suddenly stand up from the ground and smash his fist behind Zhang Yongshan.
With a scream, I saw a human figure suddenly sink down on the grass, and a thin young man with a long knife in his hand slowly emerged from the void, holding his stomach with both hands and rolling on the ground.
"Stranger?!" Zhang Yongshan's pupils shrank suddenly.
As soon as I finished saying this, the supernatural people don't usually come over, and I ran into one, what do you mean? Slap me in the face?
Standing up from the grass with a black face, Zhang Yongshan stared at the thin young man in the distance, his eyes full of murderous aura. If it weren't for Zhang Dong, he might have been wiped by that guy by now!
"Damn, careless!"
His back was instantly soaked in cold sweat, Zhang Yongshan held a bone knife in his hand, squinted his eyes and walked towards the other party.
But before Zhang Yongshan could walk in front of the other party, a slightly chubby, about thirty-year-old young man was carrying a long knife, grinning in front of the stranger, a long black snake wrapped around his waist, and was spitting out snake letters and staring at Zhang Yongshan coldly.
"Ouch, misunderstanding, misunderstanding, don't get excited, don't get excited. ”
"Another Adept?!"
couldn't help but freeze in place, Zhang Yongshan frowned. Which base is this? They actually sent two Strangers here? Aren't they afraid that the person in charge of the black market trading point will directly kidnap the Stranger?!
Xu Yufei and Li Yang took out their bone knives and stood silently beside Zhang Yongshan: "Brother, the four of us are all high-level enhancers, if we really want to find trouble, it's best to weigh it." ”
With a slight narrowing of his eyes, Pang Yulong glanced at Zhang Dong, who was standing behind the three of them, "Haha, what are you looking for?" I just looked at your appearance and wanted to make friends with you, so I just asked Xiao Zhao to come over and say hello." ”
Stretching out his hand to pull up Xiao Zhao, who was still rolling on the ground, Pang Yulong inserted the long knife back into his waist, and said with a smile: "I didn't expect to misunderstand you, I'm really sorry, since the brothers don't welcome me, then I'll just leave." ”
Holding Xiao Zhao in one hand, Pang Yulong turned around and left without hesitation, but after turning around, a sneer was on the corner of his mouth.
The three of them stared at Pang Yulong's back with their eyes, and they were relieved until the other party completely disappeared from view.
"This guy ...... It's a third-order ability, right?" Wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, Zhang Yongshan muttered: "I've been trading on the black market for so long, and it's the first time I've seen someone with an ability who dares to come here to trade, and one of them is still a third-order!"
"Shouldn't it, right? If it's a third-order ability, he doesn't need to be afraid of us even if it's four high-level enhancers. Shaking his head, Xu Yufei said with some uncertainty.
Although the physical fitness of high-level enhancers is the same as that of ordinary Tier 3 abilities, unless the ability is very useless, otherwise, four high-level enhancers may not be able to beat a Tier 3 ability.
"Do you think it's us that he's afraid of?" Li Yang said.
The three of them turned their heads at the same time and looked at Zhang Dong, who was eager to try behind them, just now, it seemed that this guy smashed the other party out with a punch when they didn't find the invisible ability, right?
"Huh, don't you fight?" looked at the back of Pang Yulong leaving with some regret, since he got the life draw, Zhang Dong has always wanted to find a stranger to try his current combat effectiveness, and that guy just now gave himself the feeling that he should have some ability, but he can fight. But it's a bit of a pity to just leave.
sighed, and just as he was about to sit down and continue to finish the uneaten bacon, he found that Zhang Yongshan and the others were looking at him with strange expressions.
Touching his cheek, Zhang Dong smiled awkwardly,
"What's wrong? Do I have flowers on my face?"