Chapter 67: The Ant Colony
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There is a black sofa, a heavy glass coffee table, bright red wallpaper on the walls, and even a thick carpet on the floor.
The hair of this carpet is smooth and delicate, and there are many beautiful patterns on the surface, if you look closely, it should actually be the skin of some kind of demon beast.
Even in the ruined city full of demon beasts, such a large and complete demon beast skin can be regarded as the best, but here, it is used as a carpet for people to step on, showing the wealth of the owner of this bar.
As soon as Da Gang came in, he turned on the TV directly...... They called it a video, and then they ate the nuts on the coffee table and watched it with relish.
In the video, there is a woman with long curly hair and a gorgeous long dress singing, and Dagang says that this is his dream goddess Shaya. And the reason why he wanted to come to this bar was to come here to watch the video.
Because, in the entire Jiuxu, it is only here that you can receive video signals from the outside world...... Well, it seems that Rob used to like to watch striptease with Da Gang, and the idea of never forgetting this place was wrong, and now it seems that this guy really doesn't play cards according to common sense, and wants to come to this kind of bar, but it's just to watch videos?!
It's like accompanying a girl out to open a room just to be able to chat together, which is unbelievable, but in fact, it really happened.
Bai Mei picked up a nut the size of a fig from the coffee table and gently pinched the shell, revealing the flat kernel inside.
"I remember telling you before that the boss of the herder is the one who runs the bar......" Throwing the nuts into her mouth, Bai Mei said, "...... This is it. How do you feel?"
Rob thought for a moment and said, "It's too noisy, it's too noisy!"
Bai Mei didn't expect Rob to understand her question like this, she was slightly stunned, and then laughed: "Little brother, you are really getting more and more cute." ”
Bai Mei smiled happily, attracting Dagang's attention, and he turned his head to look, just like Rob with an innocent face. Dagang quietly gave him a thumbs up and compared to him, and Rob felt more innocent. What the hell is he doing to be cute? He's just telling the truth!
"Okay, no kidding you. Bai Mei laughed for a while before retracting her smile: "I knew that Da Gang would bring you here sooner or later." ”
Rob glanced at Da Gang, who only smirked and didn't speak.
"If you like it here, it's okay to come here and walk around, but you must remember ......" Bai Mei said, her face became serious: "...... The customers of this bar are mixed, and it is the contact point of many outsiders in Jiuxu, and some people such as cows, ghosts, gods and snakes are also mixed here. The people you just saw may be members of the rebels or the cult of demons. Such people should have less contact with them, lest they be sold, and they will not know about it. ”
After speaking, Bai Mei leaned on the back cushion of the sofa and continued: "Uncle Nine is afraid that Da Gang will cause trouble here, so he is forbidden to come here to play, otherwise...... We're all grown-ups, so it's okay to look at those things. ”
Although the latter sentence is not elaborated, it is self-evident, but it makes Rob feel that this white plum is quite open!
"But then again, the air here is so bad that I don't usually come here when I'm fine. If it weren't for the eldest sister coming here to negotiate today, Jinsi would not want to come, otherwise, how good it would have been for me to stay at home. ”
"The eldest sister is also there?" Rob was a little surprised to hear that Manju Sawa was also here.
Bai Mei stretched lazily on the sofa, and the already tight cheongsam fabric became even tighter because of this, completely highlighting her attractive figure. Rob stole a few glances, but didn't dare to look at it anymore.
"It's not for the share of the ant group!"
"Ant pack share?"
Seeing Rob's curious look, Bai Mei smiled: "It's been quite a long time since you came here, but the time hasn't come, and no one has talked about it, so it's normal that you don't know." Now that I'm free, I'll explain it to you, and you'll understand. With that, she began to tell Rob about the so-called ant colony.
The so-called ant colony is actually a smuggler.
As we all know, the Ruined Forest is rich in items such as monster crystal nuclei, furs, herbs, and ores, but it is very lacking in daily necessities.
In this case, it is the opposite in the big cities, where there is no shortage of daily necessities, but there is a lack of monster crystal nuclei and fine furs that are very common in the ruins of the forest.
Such an obvious relationship between supply and demand naturally attracted a large number of merchants to transport goods one after another and resell.
This kind of thing was originally an open secret for a period of time, but later the new government was very dissatisfied with the ruins, after all, many criminals were hidden in the ruins, and if they wanted to exterminate, the cost was too great, and it was not worth it for a few criminals, and if they were not exterminated, they were very unwilling, so they simply forbade merchants to trade with the people in the ruins, and tried to use this way to force the ruins to dissolve.
However, as the saying goes, there are policies at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, and it is completely impossible to completely eradicate this phenomenon, just as someone said, with 50 percent of the profits, you can take risks, with 100 percent of the profits, you dare to trample on all the laws of the world, and with 300 percent of the profits, you can commit any crime.
A 400-gram bag of salt is only two or three bucas in a big city, and if it is successfully transported to the market, it can be exchanged for a medium-quality fur. Take this fur back to the big city and sell it for a thousand bukhas!
The difference in price is enough to make anyone red-eyed, even if there are policy restrictions, but it still can't stop those businessmen who want to get rich and want to be red-eyed, even if the new government prohibits it, there are still smuggling groups that go back and forth between the market and the big city all year round, but this kind of trade has turned from the open to the dark.
The ruins and forests are vast, and there are countless large and small market towns dotted with them, and every market town where people live depends on these smuggling groups to come here and exchange salt and other necessities for fur crystal nuclei and other things.
As far as the vicinity of Jiuxu is concerned, there are several large and small market towns, among which the most prosperous market city, called Daxu, has a population more than ten times that of Jiuxu, and is almost a small town.
Such bazaars are usually contracted by large smuggling groups with powerful and military connections, and they directly drive transport empty boats every month to buy and exchange supplies.
As for the distribution of the exchanged materials, it is naturally impossible to talk about any fair distribution, and it is all agreed upon by several organizations within the Great Market that they got together in advance and negotiated and discussed.
And at this time, the strength of an organization also determines how much it can cut on this cake, as for those small organizations? Sorry, if you want salt or something like that, you can only go to the stores opened by these organizations to buy it, and the price will naturally rise again, otherwise won't you lose money?
Such a set of patterns is basically the same in all bazaars, and Jiuxu is no exception.
It's just that compared with the big ruins, a small market city like the Nine Ruins, if you want to get enough items, it is a little difficult, and even some depend on luck.
After all, the Great Market City has a large population, and the large smuggling group can transport it all at one time, and several organizations can eat them all, and then transport the exchanged materials back, one round trip, clean and neat.
On the contrary, it is a small market city, because the population is small, and the resources that can be exchanged are also few, so it is naturally not looked at by those large smuggling groups, but there is a good saying, no matter how small the mosquito is, it is meat.
After those large smuggling groups contracted all the large bazaars, these mosquito meat became the nest heads of some small smuggling groups.
The quality and strength of a small smuggling group like this are uneven, and some of them are even put together temporarily, but generally speaking, the minimum number of people is three or four, and the maximum number is only seven or eight people.
If there are more people, a little money, buy a small transport boat, and the goods transported at one time are a lot, and those with fewer people can not afford to buy a transport boat, so they can only use artificial backs, how much can be carried, just like ants moving, little by little to transport materials over, so there is the title of ant group.
Up to now, this title generally refers to smuggling groups with less than 20 people, and smuggling groups with more than 20 people are generally medium-sized smuggling groups, and there is no small market city like Jiuxu.
Within two or three days at the end of each month, the first batch of ant groups should arrive in Jiuxu, and whenever this time comes, it is the busiest and most vigilant time for the members of the three major organizations in Jiuxu.
Not only do they have to go out on patrol every day, but the patrol area will also be doubled or two, in order to detect the ant group as soon as possible, prevent the ant group from being robbed by other small organizations, and protect them from reaching Jiuxu safely.
And after the transaction is completed, the three organizations will also send people to escort the ant group for a while, which is also to prevent other small organizations from robbing the road, so that they can leave the Nine Ruins safely.
This kind of mutually beneficial way can be said to be the unspoken rule that the ruins can survive, no one dares to break it, because, if a bazaar city does not pay attention to the integrity of the robbery and killing of the ant group, then in the future, there will be no ant group dare to come to the market to trade, and without the goods transported by these ant groups, the people living in the market will have no salt, no comfortable cloth to wear, and all kinds of daily necessities.
Eventually, the ruins will be doomed and will dissipate forever.