Chapter Seventy-Three: The Dark Street and the Traffickers
"Uncle Kemidis, it looks like it's going to rain!" Yan Tielong and the others walked out of the barbecue restaurant, and they found that the sky had become a little gloomy, and Yan Tielong was a little worried.
"We're going to the black market now, and even if it rains heavily, it won't affect us.
But wait a minute, there should be a few grocery stores on our way to the black market, where can we buy some rain gear. Kemidis looked at the sky.
"That's the only way to go!I hope it doesn't become a soup chicken!" Yan Tielong muttered when he heard Kemidis decide.
"Leader, what is a soup chicken?" Ospine asked Yan Tielong curiously as he walked.
"Hehe, Ospine, have you ever seen a chicken getting wet from the rain because of the rain?" Yan Tielong asked Ospine beside him while following the pace of Kemidis.
"No!" Ospine replied with a straight shake of his head.
"Ospine, if you haven't seen it, then you can't understand it, and when you have time to buy a chicken, you'll know. Yan Tielong heard that O'S Pine hadn't seen it, and he said helplessly.
After a while, the sky began to rain, and the density of the raindrops increased.
"Damn! I'm almost going to become a soup chicken!" Yan Tielong and the others entered a grocery store, and a lot of their clothes were wet with rain, Yan Tielong looked at his clothes and saw that many of his clothes were wet from the rain, and he was glad.
"The owner brought us some cloth and four raincoats. Kemidis said directly to the grocery store owner.
"Yes, guest!" the grocery store owner heard Cmidis say, and he was glad to go and prepare what Cmidis had ordered.
The grocery store owner handed the cloth to Yan Tielong and they went to the raincoat, and Yan Tielong wiped the rain on their bodies with the cloth.
After a while, the grocery store owner put four raincoats woven from special long grass on the counter, and the grocery store owner said to Kemidis: "Guest, this is your raincoat, do you want to see if you are satisfied?"
After checking the quality of the raincoats, Cmidis asked the grocery store, "Boss, how much do these four raincoats cost?"
"Guest, four raincoats for a total of 80 silver coins. The grocery store owner rubbed his hands together and smiled.
"The boss is looking for money!" Yan Tielong directly took out a gold coin and asked the grocery store owner to say when Kemidis was still bargaining with the grocery store owner.
"Tielong, I know that you have money now, but you can't spend money so indiscriminately! Kemidis frowned and looked at Yan Tielong, who paid generously, and reminded.
Yan Tielong touched his hair and replied embarrassedly: "Uncle Kemidis, I will pay attention to it in the future." ”。
When Kemidis heard Yan Tielong's response, he was slightly satisfied, and then everyone put on raincoats and ordered directly: "Go!"
Kemidis took Yan Tielong and the others to a somewhat dilapidated wooden house on Xiaoshui Street in the civilian area, which had a sign that read real and fake antiques.
Kemidis said to Yan Tielong behind him: "All the things in this antique shop are fakes, wait a minute, you can use a gold coin to pick an animal-type item and put it on the counter, don't talk much, by the way, if you don't have money, you can ask me to borrow it." ”。
Yan Tielong and the others glanced at each other, and they all took out their gold coins separately, and when Kemidis saw the gold coins in Yan Tielong's hands, he said directly: "Then go in!"
Kemidis led Yan Tielong and them into the antique shop, and when Yan Tielong and the others entered the antique shop, they saw all kinds of ceramics in front of them.
The owner of the antique shop was an old man with gray hair, and when he looked at Yan Tielong, he closed his eyes and dozed off.
Yan Tielong and the others listened to Kemidis's previous reminder, and they directly picked out an animal-shaped ceramic.
When Kemidis and Yan Tielong picked out the animal-type ceramics and put them on the counter, Yan Tielong looked at the animal-type ceramics they picked out and his face was expressionless, but he muttered in his heart: "I'll wipe it! All the ceramics that are obviously sold in this house are actually called real and fake antique stores, and this animal-type ceramics are all made by children!
The owner of the antique shop looked at the customers under the counter who were picking up animal antiques, and he said to the cabinet on one wall: "Ahh
The wall cabinet slowly moved away: Zi~, Zi~. When the wall cabinet was moved out of a passage, a very strong man came out, and he said directly to them in a loud voice: "Follow me!"
Yan Tielong and the others followed the strong man through the dark passage and came to a gate, the strong man opened the gate with great difficulty, he was a little out of breath and said to Yan Tielong and them: "Welcome to the dark street!"
Zi~, when Yan Tielong entered the dark street, the door behind them slowly closed, Yan Tielong and they were shocked by the scene in front of them, because this is a street, and it is a very prosperous and lively street, this road of nearly 500 meters or so is full of vendors on both sides.
"You come with me to meet the true Allah here, by the way, I want to remind you, don't be surprised and don't be nosy when you see anything later, you know?" Kemidis said with a serious expression to Yan Tielong, who was stunned by the scene in front of them, and Yan Tielong nodded in response.
"Then let's go!" Kemidis nodded directly when he saw Yan Tielong, and then he led the way.
Yan Tielong and the others followed Kemidis, and they saw some strange things being sold by merchants on both sides of the street, including the very obedient green-skinned imps, as well as strange beasts, demonic beasts, and medicinal herbs that they had never seen before,......。
"Ospine, don't stop suddenly!" "Ospine suddenly saw something stop, and Yan Tielong noticed that Ospine stopped, he directly hit Ospine, Yan Tielong complained about Ospine's sudden stop.
Yan Tielong saw that there was something wrong with Ospine's expression, he noticed that Ospine's expression was now a wave of anger, and it was about to explode at any time, Yan Tielong looked in the direction of Ospine's attention, and he found that three strong men used leather whips to drive more than a dozen children in tattered linen clothes to the counter, and it seemed that those children were sold by vendors.
Yan Tielong also frowned when he saw those children, but he held back the anger in his heart and grabbed Ospine's hand that was about to rush up and said, "This is the dark street! If you rush forward so recklessly, I suspect that you will be killed before you can save those children!"
Kemidis walked for a while, he noticed that Yan Tielong and they didn't follow, Kemidis only went back to look for Yan Tielong and them, when he saw Yan Tielong holding Ospine's hand and hearing Yan Tielong's words, he walked up to Ospine and said: "Ospine, Yan Tielong is right, if you are so reckless, you will really die here, and don't look at the surface." ”。
"What do you mean, Camides?" Ospine asked, looking at Cmidis with anger.
"The goods in this dark street are all of a certain value, like those children, they are all gifted people, and they are very willing to be bought. Cmidis looked at the children who had been sold at the counter and said to Ospine.
Yan Tielong was a little puzzled when he heard Cmidis say that the children who were sold were voluntary, "Uncle Cmidis, what the hell is going on?", and at the same time, Ospin also waited for Kmidis to answer.
"Those three big men, their profession is called Star Diggers. Kemidis told Yan Tielong about the occupations of the three big men who drove the children to the stage with leather whips.
"Star digger!" Yan Tielong and Ospine both wondered when they heard this profession.
Kemidis looked at Yan Tielong and they were puzzled, so he continued: "They are a group of children who will probe the growth talent of 6~12 children, they will generally look for those children with good quality in the slums, and once they find out, they will use a lot of money to buy children.
In this way, poor families have the money to live, and these children will not starve to death and die of disease, and they will not waste their talents, and most of these children will be bought and trained by powerful families as guards.
Of course, human trafficking is a crime in the kingdom, so these people can only be sold on the black market, but most of these children are trafficked voluntarily, if you don't believe it, you can go and see it. ”。
When O'Spine heard what Cmidis said, he went up to the children's stall, and he asked the children at the counter, "Are you being sold voluntarily, and if not, you can come with me!"
"That bastard boy, dare to make trouble here!" the three child traffickers said to Ospine's words.
"You're Stardiggers, aren't you?" asked Cmidis as he stepped forward, and the people around him heard Kmiddis' inquiry, and they all looked at the Stardiggers, waiting for their answer.
"Of course, we wouldn't be here!" replied, one of the three child traffickers, who was the leader of the three traffickers, stopped his brother's reckless actions with his eyes.
"Since you're stardiggers, you should know the rules of this trade?" asked Kmidis directly.
The leading stardigger looked at Kmidis and the people around him, and he responded, "Of course he does!", and then he walked up to several children, and he directly whipped a few whips directly at those children, only to see that the children's tattered linen clothes were shattered and left, and those children were not harmed, which shows how strong the control of the leading stardigger is over the leather whip.
The leading stardigger pointed to the bodies of those children and said, "These little guys don't have any scars on their bodies, which also means that we haven't mistreated them. ”。
"Wait! These kids are covered in scars, and you say you didn't abuse them. Ospine pointed to a timid little girl, her tattered linen garment faintly visible with scars.
"Hehe, Your Excellency, you can ask her how she was injured!" the lead stardigger replied confidently when he saw the little girl that Ospine was pointing at.
"Little girl, tell my brother how did you get these injuries?" Ospine asked the timid little girl in a very friendly tone when he heard the words of the leading stardigger.
I don't know if O'S Pine has a strong affinity, the little girl stretched out her hands and looked at O'Spine with expectant eyes and said, "Hug." ”。
Ospine picked up the little girl, and the little girl buried her head and cried, as if the little girl had found her long-standing relatives.