As soon as Sun Yan heard that Kunkun was auditing at the University of Science and Technology, the eight provincial leagues in the Central Plains Dark City had reached the day of assembly. Shopkeeper Feng and Gu Bo, who he knew last time, both called him, and Sun Yan put aside other things first, asked for leave, and greeted Li Jinnan and Zhou Jie respectively, preparing to go to Henan with the group.

The meeting place was in the city stadium, but it was not where Jinxin was tied, when Sun Yan arrived, the three buses were already full of people, only Gu Bo had been waiting below because he had made an appointment with him.

"I'm sorry, I'm late, let Brother Gu wait for a long time."

Gu Bo saw that Sun Yan didn't even bring a backpack, and said with a smile while beckoning him to get in the car and sit down: "Brother Sun looks like a person who often goes out, and he can be so leisurely. ”

Sun Yan also smiled: "My girlfriend has clothes and kettle snacks, and she has prepared a big bag, and she is not happy if I don't bring anything, so I simply asked the shopkeeper Feng to pretend to make a phone call and say that she is not allowed to carry any items." ”

"Oh?" Gu Bo looked envious, "I don't want my brother to have such a blessing, you have used this roundabout tactic well." ”

The three buses are the eighty people selected by the dark market, Liu Qi is in the back car, and there are two commercial vehicles in the front, which is estimated to be the person in charge of the dark market.

Sun Yan and Gu Bo chatted all the way, and also learned some about the eight provincial leagues from him. The so-called eight provinces are actually the four provinces of Northeast China, Inner Mongolia, and Shanxi, Hebei, Shandong, and Henan, including Beijing and Tianjin. Although this event is unknown to outsiders, it is a rare event in the Central Plains and the Northland Magician Realm, in addition to the contestants selected by the dark markets in various places, some small family forces will also gather here to jointly hold a large-scale spell exchange meeting.

There was nothing to do all the way, Sun Yan didn't feel tired when he looked at the scenery, but Gu Bo took a nap from time to time. The venue of the league was arranged in Dengfeng, and the team entered Zhengzhou at night, and Sun Yan came for the first time, and he was even more interested in browsing the hometown of the Yellow Emperor, one of the eight ancient capitals, until the car drove into the parking lot of the hotel, and he did not feel hungry.

The banquet hall of the hotel has already prepared a buffet, the dishes are extremely rich, everyone has chatted well along the way, three or three according to the age of the group to sit down, while praising the host's thoughtful arrangement, on the other hand, they have also sighed Zhu Jia's handwriting.

There is no charge for this competition, how many people will come from the eight provinces and cities? A few days of food and lodging alone is a staggering expense, and it is said that all of this is borne by the Zhu family.

The leader of the dinner team arranged the accommodation for everyone, and when everyone registered, they asked who they would share with them, as long as the gender was good, they were also allowed. Gu Bo naturally lived with Sun Yan, and after announcing the schedule, he could go back to the room to rest.

Sun Yan heard that he was going to Dengfeng early tomorrow morning to participate in the spell exchange meeting, and the day after tomorrow was Dabi, so he wanted to go to Zhengzhou City at night. Everyone else had the same idea, but they were dismissed by the team leader at the time, they were all sorcerers, and if they got into some trouble, it would not only be a matter of shame.

Autumn is coming to an end, and the country road has shown a depression, but looking at Songshan from afar, there is a quiet and distant painting. Sun Yan and the others did not walk fast, because the venue was chosen in the open space between the villages, and the convoys from various provinces also lined up in the country roads.

It was already noon when the contestants arrived, and despite hunger, people were first attracted by what they saw. The site is a huge camp enclosed by a log fence, and rows of hard tents are erected at the outermost periphery. The surface of the tents is all painted in different colors, which is enough to accommodate all the personnel in the eight provinces.

From the outside in, the tent area is further inside to the trading market. It was similar to what Sun Yan saw in the dark market last time, except that there were many more things for sale, and even the exercises and spells were being sold.

Sun Yan noticed that the eighty people who came over were basically the least, and in some places there were almost two hundred people. Arrange meals, divide tents, and make a noise until more than three o'clock, and then allow the contestants to move freely.

Although it is a tent for five people, the beds are divided into single rooms, and there is a bathroom in the tent where you can take a bath.

Sun Yan saw that there was not only a generator here, but even food and water were specially delivered by special vehicles, and couldn't help but ask Gu Bo: "We can't live for three days in total, how can we make such a show?" ”

Gu Bo said with a smile: "In addition to keeping this out of secrecy and not letting ordinary people know, this is mainly for standardization." The arrangement for unified management here was given instructions to show that this was not an illegal assembly and that it could not violate the law and order regulations. There are a lot of plainclothes in the venue, you just watched it for a long time, there are no contraband sold in the market, right? ”

Sun Yan thought about it, although there were a lot of items here, they were basically charms, magic weapons, pills or something, and he couldn't see anything illegal.

"By the way, why are there fewer people coming here than from other provinces?" Sun Yan asked again.

Gu Bo sighed: "That's no way, the level of each province is different, you just take the charm as an example, why don't you choose someone who is good at brushing down, it's good to be able to give you a quota." Look at Inner Mongolia, I don't know if there are enough 50 people. ”

Sun Yan has not let go of his thoughts since here, and when he heard him say it, he didn't feel that he glanced at the station of the contestants in Inner Mongolia, and sure enough, there were only three dozen people in a bunch.

"Shen Nanjing!?" Sun Yan was stunned, and took a closer look, isn't this kid, why is he here?

Sun Yan remembered that he saw Shen Nanjing on the day he asked for leave, but he didn't know why he became a contestant in Inner Mongolia. The entire camp was covered with shields, and mobile phones were not allowed, so Sun Yan said hello to Gu Bo and walked to the Inner Mongolia station.

"Sun Yan? How did you end up here? Shen Nanjing couldn't believe it when he saw him, and hurriedly greeted him.

"I want to ask you." Sun Yan really couldn't understand, this Shen Nanjing usually didn't hear of any ability, and then look at his information - male, 21 years old, a boy's body, no exercises. That's all there is to the league?

Shen Nanjing smiled embarrassedly: "I won't do anything else, Inner Mongolia has archery, I'll go to the dark market over there, but you hide it deep enough, tell me, which subject is selected?" ”

"I came up from Wudou," Sun Yan didn't hide it, and said: "Nanjing, the archery you are talking about, is it archery?" ”

Shen Nanjing nodded, "That's right, it's archery, in fact, to put it bluntly, it's just to look at the head, unlike you, martial arts competitions are all hard kung fu." ”

The first time Sun Yan heard that archery was also in the subject of magic. He chatted with Shen Nanjing for a while and realized that Shen Nanjing was actually one of the four major families, and the branch of the Shen family was just the kind that was selectively forgotten by the descendants. Shen Nanjing's father is hard-boned, he never takes the initiative to pull relationships, and he never borrows the name of the Shen family, so Shen Nanjing is the same, if Sun Yan asks him, he won't say it.

Originally, Shen Nanjing didn't care about the opening of the ghost market, and he could distribute vouchers to the clans in the lineage, but he didn't receive it this time. Later, the sister of another branch told him that the descendants had been notified by the family, and asked the branches not to participate in the ghost market this time.

Although Shen Nanjing didn't know what the reason was, he was angry when he heard it, this is really not treating them as clansmen, and he didn't even bother to say hello when he had something. That's why he found another way, got a recommendation sign and assessed himself from the dark market, thinking that since you didn't inform me, then I don't have to listen to you, and if you don't let me go, I'll go.

Sun Yan sighed, he felt that Shen Nanjing still cared, if he really didn't care, why did he have so much idleness? Maybe Shen Nanjing didn't want to take advantage of anything, but he just couldn't swallow this breath. He hurriedly changed the topic and said, "Nanjing, are your archery skills family heirloom?" ”

"No," Shen Nanjing shook his head, "When I was a child, I met a hunter in the mountains, and he taught me archery, although I only learned it from him for three days, but I practiced my eyesight, waist and arm strength according to the method he said, and I even practiced the ability to pierce the yang in a hundred steps with one hand." ”

Sun Yan knew that Shen Nanjing would be selected for his excellent archery skills, and he had also participated in the selection, and Shen Nanjing would not be much better than him in the written test. Moreover, Sun Yan himself is a top master of playing slingshots with stones, so he naturally understands that it is not easy, and Shen Nanjing must have a talent in this area in addition to hard work. It's just that Sun Yan doesn't understand that legitimate forest rangers have guns, and poachers have guns, so who can use bows and arrows?

Shen Nanjing didn't say that Sun Yan wouldn't ask, but said casually: "Why are there so few of you here, what other subjects do you have besides archery?" ”

Shen Nanjing nodded: "There are three subjects in total, fifteen people for archery, ten people for martial arts, and ten people for witchcraft." There are only eight people who signed up for the witchcraft, so there is no need to compare, all of them are here. ”

"How can it be so little?" Sun Yan was puzzled, thinking that this together may not be as many as those in some provinces and cities.

Shen Nanjing said with a smile: "It's right to be less, the people there are honest and honest, and they don't disdain to fill up the numbers, and everyone who can come is a master." ”

The two chatted and wandered around, and happened to run into Gu Bo, and after Sun Yan introduced them to each other, the three of them walked around the market together.

"Master, how do you sell this talisman?" Sun Yan walked to the front of a larger stall and asked, pointing to a hidden qi talisman placed in a wooden box.

"Sixty thousand." The stall owner lazily agreed, he saw that these three people were not very old, and they had the number plates of the contestants pinned to them, so they didn't expect that they were not from the family, so they didn't need this talisman.

"How much?" Sun Yan thought that the price was about to catch up with Yicheng. He saw that the talisman was made quite neatly, and it was well placed in the carved wooden box and covered with a glass lid, so he casually asked the price, and according to his mind, it was at most three or five thousand to die.

The stall owner didn't even bother to answer, Shen Nanjing and Gu Bo looked at Sun Yan strangely, although they didn't know what kind of talisman this was, they also knew that this kind of box contained spirit talismans made by talismans, which was almost the price. Gu Bo asked, "Brother Sun, do you still know the talisman?" ”

Sun Yan waved his hand to ask him to wait, but continued to ask the stall owner, "Master, is it for sale for 40,000 yuan?" ”

The stall owner shook his head and said: "It seems that little brother you know what this charm is, you go around the market and look around, if you can find a better one than mine, I will give it to you for free." What are we buying this talisman for, we both know it, in case there are zongzi in the tomb, this is a life-saving thing, 60,000 is really not expensive, and it can't be less. ”

Sun Yan's eyes showed excitement, the old man regarded him as a tomb robber, thinking that he was going to buy a hidden qi charm to prevent zombies, but in fact, he was just trying the price, and immediately pulled Gu Bo and Shen Nanjing aside and said, "Two brothers, do you know, can we set up a stall here?" ”

"Why Brother Sun, do you really know Fu? Want to sell talismans too? Gu Bo asked.

Sun Yan nodded, "The junior brother can also make low-level charms, so he should be able to earn some money back." Sun Yan estimated that it was impossible for the stall owner to sell 40,000, and 50,000 could still be said, so he was better than others with the same Qi Concealment Talisman, so he sold it for 30,000, Sun Yan still didn't believe that there was no one here who knew the goods.

Gu Bo looked up at Tiandao: "You can sell it, but the problem is that it's almost dark today, and tomorrow it's a big competition...... It doesn't matter if we do it in vain, if we don't get it, we will have to pay the booth fee, and the rent here is not low. ”

"Dude, how do you rent a stall?" Sun Yan has always been a person who does what he says.