Chapter 50: The mysterious iron box, the countdown to the execution begins.
When the wall was fully opened, the people who were blocking Anson stepped aside, and when Anson saw this, he walked directly inside.
"Hey. ”
Anson had not taken two steps forward before the bald man called out to Anson.
When Anson heard the voice, he turned his head to look at the bald man, only to see that the bald man was staring at him at this time.
"Have I seen you?"
The bald man looked at Anson and asked with a smile.
"Maybe. ”
"Take your hat off and I'll take a look. ”
As soon as the bald strong man's voice fell, the few people who had blocked Anson's way just now immediately surrounded him.
Anson looked around at the people, then at the bald man.
"It's not in accordance with the rules. ”
"yes, hahahaha. ”
The tense atmosphere was lifted by the laughter of the bald man, and the people surrounding Anson stepped aside again, and Anson didn't say anything, and walked inside.
"Inside the notice, keep an eye on this person. ”
After Anson entered, the bald man gave a command to his subordinates beside him, and then got up and left the alley.
After Anson entered the inside, he had not gone far when he heard a louder noise, and he followed the alley to the end, only to see a larger market appear in front of Anson.
It's just that the merchants and buyers here are wearing cloaks to hide their appearance.
After entering the market, Anson walked leisurely in the direction that Leon had told him, and at the same time he looked at the stalls on both sides of the road, and saw that there were not many things on each stall, but many of them were contraband prohibited by the state.
This is the black market, a place where no one can say exactly how long it has existed, where as long as you have money, you can't buy anything.
As for the ambiguous question of why the black market can exist so far, even if all kinds of contraband are sold, they will not be pursued by the state, in fact, everyone is tacit.
Because the biggest source of customers in the black market is the nobility of the country.
Although you can buy and sell anything in the black market, there is one thing that is forbidden on the black market, and that is the slave trade.
The idea of the kingdom is to advocate human rights, so slavery was abolished hundreds of years ago, but in the beginning, there were still many people who secretly traded slaves, including the black market.
However, at that time, the merchants in the black market spontaneously made a major decision, that is, to respond to the state system and completely resist the slave trade.
Since then, this rule has become the only rule in the black market.
And like the kind of entrance when Anson came in just now, there are ten in the black market, and at each entrance, there are people who charge tolls.
These people belong to the administrators of the black market, a joint organization called Fist, this organization is formed by the eight very famous underground forces in the kingdom, and among these eight underground forces, the dominant force is a force named Yin.
This force is very mysterious, according to legend, before the establishment of the kingdom, the hidden already existed, and some people speculated that the hidden power had already penetrated into the kingdom system, and even the empire and the Shang country, there were also hidden people, which showed how big the hidden energy was.
"This guest, do you want to come and see what I have here? ”
Anson, who was hanging out, was suddenly stopped by a businessman, listening to the voice, this businessman should be an old man.
After hearing the voice, Anson walked to the man's stall and saw that there were more than ten kinds of goods on the stall, although these goods were difficult to find outside, but for Anson, there was nothing unusual.
"The things placed here are just for people to see, and the really good things will only be taken out when I meet someone who is destined. ”
As if sensing Anson, who was not interested in what was in his stall, the merchant said to Anson.
"Really? Then take it out and I'll see what the hell is good. ”
Hearing the merchant's words, Anson was slightly aroused.
You can buy everything on the black market, but there is no guarantee of the authenticity of the goods, so there are many merchants in the black market who mainly sell fake goods, so Anson doesn't take the words of the merchants too seriously.
After hearing Anson's words, the merchant slowly stretched out his left hand, and then said to Anson.
"Ten gold coins. ”
"Do you want to pay your taxes upfront?"
"Exactly. ”
In addition to collecting tolls from buyers at the entrance to the black market, Boxer also set a transaction tax for merchants.
The transaction tax is basically 10% of the transaction price, but this is only for the goods registered by the merchants, and for those goods that the merchants do not want to register, the first payment tax of 10 gold coins is charged, otherwise the goods are not allowed to be sold on the black market.
"You're so confident in your product, what if I don't want to buy your stuff after seeing it?"
"Don't worry, as long as you've seen my products, you'll want to buy them. ”
Seeing this, Anson directly took out ten gold coins and handed them to the merchant.
The merchant put away the gold coin, and then took out a package under the stall, and he opened the package, only to see a small broken wooden box appear in front of Anson.
At the suggestion of the merchant, Anson opened the broken wooden box, only to see that inside the wooden box was an iron box, on which was carved an ancient totem, and this totem Anson had seen, it was a totem named Sanlai Torasto.
The Sanletolasto are a subspecies of the human race, this race is extremely aggressive, and its physical ability is twice that of the ordinary human race, but for unknown reasons, it has long since died out in the long river of history.
The last time Anson saw this totem was when he was adventuring with Nikolai, when he also found an iron box, but the contents of the iron box were long gone, so Anson was deeply impressed.
Anson looked at the iron box, and inevitably had some mixed feelings in his heart, but when he opened the iron box, the feeling in his heart was instantly dispelled.
"How much does this stuff cost?"
"Three thousand gold coins. ”
Hearing that Anson was interested in this thing, the merchant opened his mouth and offered a sky-high price.
Hearing the merchant's offer, Anson took out a large purse and spoke to the merchant.
"There's a thousand gold coins in this bag, either you take it and I'll take it, or I'll get it in my own hands, Brother Dirouang. ”
Hearing Anson's words, the merchant hurriedly took a few steps back and faced Anson vigilantly.
Seeing this, Anson didn't say anything more, and threw the money bag away, then put away the iron box, left here, and continued to walk towards the agreed place.
"It doesn't seem to be an enemy, a thousand is a thousand, anyway, I don't know what that thing is. ”
The merchant put away the money bag in his hand, glanced in the direction Anson had left, and said to himself.
The place where Anson and Lyon agreed was a very famous shop in the black market, the shop was called Bronze, and the surface was mainly for the sale of collectibles, but most people knew that the real main business of this shop was actually sales intelligence.
When Anson came to Bronze, he went straight into the store, only to see that the display cases on both sides of the store were full of collectibles.
At this time, there were six people in the store, five of them wearing cloaks, and judging from their figures, it was the Morpheus Five, and the other person was not wearing a cloak.
The man who was not wearing a cloak was a young man in his early twenties, with shoulder-length hair in aqua blue, and he was very handsome, and he was smiling at Anson, who came in, and this was the owner of the shop, named Kakasanluo Boya.
"Sorry, this guest, our shop is closed today, if you need anything, you can come back another day. ”
When Anson came in, Kakasanluo said to Anson.
"It's all right, Kakasanluo, he's with us. ”
It was Leon who made the noise, and when Anson came in, he recognized Anson as soon as he could, so he explained to Kakasanluo out loud.
"You're really a lot of people today, Brother Leon, it looks like you're going to do something. ”
"Is there any progress in Rubud's affairs?"
"There is still no news, but it is certain that he is still in the city, because the whole city is now under martial law. ”
"Can't even you find any news? ”
"No news is the biggest news, and now it is certain that after Rubold came back, he has been hiding in a very powerful person, and according to my analysis, there is more than one person who protects Rubod. ”
"I guessed that, but I didn't expect you to find any clues. ”
"There's no message you want, but there's a message that might be useful to you. ”
"What news. ”
"Master Krosa has decided that your teacher, Kyle Dore, will be tomorrow's overseer. ”
Hearing this, Anson, Leon and the others were stunned, obviously they heard the intention, but thinking of Kyle's plan, I am afraid that tomorrow's action will become more and more difficult.
"There's another gossip, though it's not reliable, but you can listen to it. ”
"You say. ”
"Tomorrow there will be someone who will act specifically against you. ”
“.....”
Hearing Kakasanluo's words, Leon and the others were silent.
Thinking of the news that Anson came back yesterday, I thought that Hester and the others would find a way to trap Morpheus and the others in the Brave Mansion tomorrow, and once they took action tomorrow, the label of treason would be firmly attached to the five of them.
"One more thing I've always been concerned about is that Adam's execution was scheduled to start at noon, but the escort time was set three hours before the execution, just deliberately waiting for someone to save Adam. ”
"But as far as I know, tomorrow's troop deployment will be three times more than Your Majesty's travels. ”
Hearing this, Leon and the others were silent again, especially Morpheus, who was now more and more puzzled in his heart, what was his teacher's plan, was it really a plan to sacrifice Adam?
After a few more conversations between Leon and Kakassanluo, he followed the others and left the bronze together.
"Ordinary people, after all, are just ordinary people. ”
After leaving the black market, Leon, who was walking on the street, suddenly said such a sentence, and when the other people heard it, they were silent, only the children on the side of the street, singing old songs.