As a western city built on the edge of the desert and the Gobi Desert, Takma City cannot be compared with Yecheng in terms of size and prosperity.

However, in terms of urban style alone, it has its own unique scenery.

Perhaps because of its location in the western region, winter is almost non-existent, and in other parts of the world, April is in late spring and early summer, and the temperature in Takma has already exceeded 25 degrees Celsius, and by the hottest time of the day, it can reach the beginning of 3.

The buildings here are not as tall and gorgeous as Yecheng, most of them have abandoned reinforced concrete, but have been converted to steel structures, and there are steel buildings dozens of meters high and mechanical elevators hanging from the outside.

The social level is obviously only below the middle, and even the outer city of Yecheng may not be able to compare, but the people who live here do not have the numbness of those in the outer city of Yecheng and the old city, but even the people and the city are full of a sense of capable and wild.

Zhu Jue and his party naturally didn't just stay like this after placing their luggage in the hotel, and finally came out to have a trip, of course, they had to look around.

I asked the people in the hotel what is worth visiting in Takma City, and the answers were surprisingly consistent.

Takma Bazaar!

Walking through the two tall porches, you will see a market with a large area, the street is still pristine yellow earth, and you can see a lot of mixed footprints on the dust in the coming and going.

Different from the online trading in Yecheng, the trading form of stall selling is still respected here, there are a large number of vendors downstairs in the yellowed mechanical house, and you can also see a continuous patch of tan sunshade cloth above the market, which is supported by mechanical supports, and some are hung perfunctorily with bamboo poles.

There is a stall owner wrapped in a turban, but the upper half of his body is shirtless, sitting at the back of the stall, holding a strange cigarette pipe in his hand, and from time to time white mist is spit out of his mouth, crossing his legs, and talking to the shoppers.

A strong man with a body of more than two meters, obviously a mechanical transformation, shuttled through the crowd on the street, pushing away passers-by on both sides, but he didn't know who tripped him, and one fell to the ground, causing a burst of laughter.

There are also orange sparks bursting out of the room behind the stall selling mechanical parts, which makes many people frown and walk around, and occasionally a grumpy one has to scold a couple of sentences.

"Lizard, look, there's a lizard there!"

Li Qinglian tugged at the corners of Zhu Jue's clothes, and her eyes were locked on several iron cages placed in a stall in front of the left, in which were some gray-white hard skin, umbrella-like bone plates on the neck, nearly 30 cm long, and vicious lizards.

The pictures on the Internet are naturally more wild than the actual ones, Li Qinglian took out her mobile phone and took pictures again and again as she spoke.

"Do you want to raise one, you have to ask the opinion of the wind chime, it is the person who is the mascot of our studio. ”

Looking at a stall full of guns not far away, Zhu Jue, who heard Li Qinglian's voice, turned around and grabbed one of the claws of the wind chime in his arms, pressed the meat ball, and immediately five sharp claws were exposed.

Obviously, the person disagrees that there are other pets in the grotesque studio.

"Is the goods sold here so casual?"

Wu Tong's eyes were also on the gun stall that Zhu Jue had seen before, it was the first time he had seen such a blatant sale of weapons, although the weapons sales volume in Yecheng was much larger than this, but it was also secretly operating in the black market, how could it be sold like this.

"Takma City is located in a remote area, coupled with the fact that the western region has always been strong, and there are large deserts and Gobi deserts outside the city, not to mention that even if it is Yecheng, the prestige of the federal government may not be as good as that of Yuanfan Machinery Group, let alone here, the laws of the federal government are not good to use the guns in their hands here, this seems to be only the things sold outside the market, and it is estimated that there are more powerful ones. ”

Olivia had heard about the city at school, but she didn't expect to be there one day.

"Is it dangerous here?"

Li Qinglian looked at the crowd around her and asked a little nervously.

"Don't worry, Takma City is the safest city in this area, as long as we don't provoke others, there will generally be no trouble, and there are law enforcers in this city, such as this kind of crowded bazaar is absolutely forbidden to use hot weapons, fighting and brawling is at most a knife, with him, who do you think can get close?"

After relying on Olivia to know the whereabouts of Zhu Jue and the others, it was logical to join them, Chu Yun took Li Qinglian's shoulders and said in a relaxed tone.

"Go in and have a look. ”

Zhu Jue put the wind chimes on his shoulders and walked all the way in, blending into the crowd, the surrounding shouting, bargaining and discussion quickly supported a lively atmosphere, and bought two skewers in front of a stall selling kebabs, Zhu Jue grabbed a handful alone, I have to say that it really has a unique flavor.

As Chu Yun said, the more you walked into the market, the more strange the things on the stalls became, as if Zhu Jue quickly stopped in front of a stall with a lot of bones and stones.

"Boss, how do you sell these stones?"

With his free right hand, he picked up a palm-sized stone with spiral patterns that resembled a conch, and Zhu Jue asked with some curiosity.

"These are the fossils of ancient creatures, like this one that is well preserved and clearly textured, it costs at least 50,000 federal coins......"

His gaze swept over the people in front of him, and the stall owner said with a somewhat strange smile on his face.

"This is an ammonite fossil? Boss, you can't make these stones homemade, you must know that there is a desert outside, and ammonites are complete sea creatures!"

Li Qinglian picked up another piece of ammonite stone that was somewhat defective, and asked with a frown.

"Hey, it seems that these are the first time to come to Takma City, you may not know, the desert outside the city was covered by the ocean a long time ago, and the fossils I have here are specially found to be collected from those scavengers on the Gobi Desert, 50,000 federal coins is already cheap. ”

"500, don't sell to pull. ”

Zhu Jue just thinks this is very interesting, and is ready to take it back as a collectible, which does not mean that he is wronged, glancing at the large pile of fossils in the store, it is obviously not a rare item, spend 50,000 yuan to buy it, it is better to look for it slowly when you go outside tomorrow.

"Fifty thousand, a fixed price!"

The stall owner bit the price, and it seemed that he had made up his mind to slaughter the "fat sheep" of Zhujue.

Put the ammonite stone back on the stall, since the price could not be negotiated, Zhu Jue immediately prepared to leave.

"Wait!"

Before Zhu Jue walked out a few steps, he heard the stall owner behind him shout to stay, and thought that the other party had compromised, but when he turned around, he found that the ammonite stone he had picked up earlier had been broken into two pieces and was being held by the stall owner.

"This is a fossil, how can you just throw it away? Now it's broken in half, what do you say!"

The stall owner, who was still full of flattery before, had already changed his face at this time, and handed the fossil to Zhu Jue with a sneer.

"I saw with my own eyes that when he put him down, it was still intact, I'm afraid you broke it yourself. ”

Wu Tong was standing next to him just now, Zhu Jue didn't use any force when he put the ammonite stone, even if the fossil was brittle, it would not be broken after picking it up and touching it twice.

"I don't care, the last person to touch this fossil was you, now it's broken, it must be your problem, you have to lose money, 50,000 federal coins, don't you even want to leave, when we are locals, are we easy to bully?"

As soon as the words fell, several strong men immediately gathered around the crowd next to them, two of whom still had short knives hidden in their sleeves, deliberately exposing their blades, and their eyes were not good.

Zhu Jue narrowed his eyes, the current situation was obviously a trap that the other party had prepared a long time ago, specially used to target them as tourists from other places, as long as he picked up the fossil, even if he put it carefully, I am afraid it would be broken.

"Hey, you just said that you are not allowed to use hot weapons here, so they will do it first, and then I will fight back, will I be caught?"

Zhu Jue looked sideways at Chu Yun and asked softly.

"You are a first-level inspector of the Yecheng Monster Countermeasures Bureau recognized by the Federation, and the people of Takma City are not qualified to arrest you!"

Chu Yun rubbed her hands excitedly, and continued,

"Isn't it going to be a fight? I haven't tried to fight in this kind of place. ”

"You and Olivia protect them, and I'll take care of it. ”

Confirming that it would not affect his next plans, Zhu Jue immediately returned to the stall and found a delicate fossil the size of a human head in front of the stall owner, which was obviously a truly precious thing compared to the ammonite stone just now.

Before the stall owner could react, he used his hands hard to break the fossil directly!

"Fossil fragmentation is my problem? You guessed it, it's really my problem. ”

Picking up another similar fossil, and without saying a word, it turned into a puddle of debris, Zhu Jue looked into the stall owner's eyes and said slowly

"You bite me?"