Walking inward from the corner at the entrance of the "Sherlock Market", the shops are becoming more and more dense, and there are fewer and fewer holographic signs like the entrance.

Perhaps, the shops at the entrance are very powerful, so they can be so unscrupulous.

The further you go inside, the more low-key the shops seem to become, and many of them don't even have signs, or even the shops themselves; Only a lot of drowsy-looking people gathered together boredly, standing, squatting, or sitting, observing the passing of pedestrians in certain areas.

However, Lu An is familiar, and he knows that these people who seem to be chatting about nothing are actually the "snakeheads" of some trading networks. Those trading networks are often extremely large and secretive, and without these people, even if you turn the whole planet upside down, you will not find any trace of the existence of these underground trading networks.

This kind of battle made Lu An feel that he had really come to a certain black market; The shops at the door were really arrogant and made him a little uncomfortable.

However, the fact that the "smugglers" of these underground trading networks are still so cautious in this black market that exists in the open black market, the so-called "Sherlock", is enough to say a lot.

The trading networks behind them are probably not just illegal and prohibitive, but they are already very taboo, and everyone is taboo. Therefore, even they themselves are habitually cautious and low-key, even with the protection of the anti-smuggling team.

These people are doing some brainless business, this is the answer Lu An got when he first entered the black market and asked the big black man curiously.

Lose your head? If you are afraid of death, why come to this black market to eat?

At that time, Lu An didn't understand very much, the black market itself was illegal, and many transactions were obviously headless transactions, but those people were all calm and did not shy away from it.

For example, the bounty on the head of billions of dollars, the arms trafficking that obviously leads to dozens of hangings after being caught, and the heinous trade that is considered heinous to outsiders.

These transaction information are not uncommon in the black market of Shanghai-Hangzhou Union City, but those people are bright and undisguised, not as low-key and cautious as those "snakeheads".

Therefore, Lu An was very confused, what else did he need to be more cautious? Aren't they all dead?

However, Lu An later realized that there were more terrible things in this world than death.

Those people probably don't mind dying for the sake of food, as long as they can get enough benefits. To put it simply, as long as there are enough money points, human life itself can be marked with a price.

However, there are many things in this world that cannot be priced, and for a person, death is often not the most terrible sometimes, or even the least terrible.

For example, taking Lu An as an example, he doesn't mind breaking the law and prohibiting these things, and in order to support his sister, he doesn't care whether he breaks the law or not.

Even, even if he was hit by the surface patrol team, although he was desperate, the pain was not unbearable; was slapped by those members of the surface patrol team, although it was a little humiliating, it did not make Lu An feel unacceptable.

However, what if his sister Anna is involved because of these things? If those guys dared to touch one of Anna's hairs, Lu An would have to fight with them.

As Lu An became more and more familiar with the black market, he gradually understood this truth.

So, even if he never asks what those people do, he always stays away from them, but he understands why they are low-key and cautious.

Of course, there are many people who have been involved in the black market, and in fact, many people understand this truth, so it is not without reason that those people are bored.

The pedestrians on the road are far away from them, and there are even some who deliberately avoid them, and they themselves will not take the initiative to solicit customers, but will only wait for the rabbit. For them, most of the year may also be spent waiting, and patience is not a virtue for them, but just a professionalism.

Lu An understands this truth, and so does Su Ruyu.

When she saw Lu An glance in the direction of those people, she also whispered: "If you are far away from those people, if you don't want to die, don't even look at it." ”

"Well, I'm sorry."

Lu An smiled slightly, without justification.

After walking through the dazzling center of the "Sherlock Market" for more than thirty minutes, the bored crowds of people gathered gradually disappeared, and the shops on the side of the street began to increase, and even holographic signs began to appear everywhere, as if they had become the same as those at the entrance.

The only difference is probably between the pedestrians on the street and the customers in the shops.

At the entrance and center of this dome building, although it is not bustling with pedestrians, there are still pedestrians within ten meters of walking on the street, but the deeper you go, the fewer pedestrians become on the street.

No pedestrians can be seen within 50 meters, and no pedestrians can be seen within 100 meters,......

When Su Ruyu took Lu An to a shop in the depths and stopped, there were no pedestrians in sight on the street as far as Lu An could see, except for the two of them.

It's so deserted!

Lu An looked around, "In other words, the shops here are either extremely secluded shops or extremely shady shops, but they can't be as low-key and cautious as those people before, so they will hide in the depths of this market." ”

What can't be seen, but can't be as low-key and cautious as those before them?

It's very simple, across the street where Su Ruyu and Lu An are standing, the one behind them is.

Perhaps, the underground arms trade on the black market is a very "common" type of transaction, and there must be a corresponding transaction network, Lu An believes that a large part of the people who Su Ruyu didn't let him see just now are smugglers who do "arms trade".

But the customers of that kind of bulk trade may not be able to meet one for several years, and there are always some people who come to the black market, not to buy a space battleship, but just to buy a powerful energy gun, or to buy a laser cannon.

Those snakeheads disdain to do these businesses, but there will still be people who can always make money, just like the shop behind Lu An and Su Ruyu, which is a store that retails prohibited weapons.

The reason why they came to the depths of this market with few customers and pedestrians may be because they did not dare to provoke those snakeheads, and deliberately avoided their sight, so as not to misunderstand and make them think that they were deliberately stealing business.

But in Lu An's mind, I'm afraid they don't dare to provoke the anger of the public, no one wants to sit on a pile of powder kegs all day long, in case of any accident, wouldn't everyone be blown up to the sky? After all, this shop is already a little crazy in order to make money, and there are signs on the street with gunpowder shells more than one meter high.

You know, if it's a laser energy weapon, it's good, chemical explosives, it's really crazy to think about it. In this oxygen-laden dome, if it explodes, it would not be a problem for ordinary people to die in the "Sherlock Market".

Next to this frenzied weapons shop, the shop with a sign that says all kinds of chemical poisons must be in a similar situation. Lu An suspected that the reason why it was driven here was that maybe there would be some strange poison for sale inside. There may even be some biological viruses and the like, if these things are really leaked, then the joke is really bigger than everyone being blown up to the sky.

In the past, Lu An had never seen these "interesting things" on the black market in Shanghai-Hangzhou United City, but he had heard people talk about the experience of these distribution patterns.

After all, the so-called "black market" in the Shanghai-Hangzhou joint market is hidden in the normal market, and there is no such openness as the "Sherlock market". However, the hidden shops are in a similar situation, but not as thrilling as the shops in the depths of the "Sherlock Market".

But it's normal to think about it, a domain city with a population of more than 100 million, if there really were such shops, I'm afraid those gendarmerie would have rushed to the door a long time ago.

Of course, there is another situation in the depths of the "Sherlock Market", which is because the goods are too cold to survive, as long as they are squeezed into these inaccessible areas.

This is the case with the shop in front of Su Ruyu and Lu An, this shop that sells smart brains must have been squeezed into this corner because the business was really bad.

After all, the wisdom brain is too common, and the functions are similar, and they are goods that can be seen everywhere on the major planets, and because of the existence of the interstellar quantum synchronization network, the major coalition governments encourage everyone to connect to the network to survive, and the ordinary models of the brain are often very cheap.

Just like Lu An in the past, although the living expenses with his sister were very tight, there was no thing that even Zhizhi couldn't afford it. Moreover, even if that happens, if you apply to the joint government branch of your place of residence, you can enjoy a subsidy to buy a obsolete model of smart brain.

In this case, selling smart brains on the black market is like a joke, and Lu An was also stunned when he saw it, as if he had seen a joke.

It's just that everything that exists is necessarily rational and has its own profound inevitability. Later, Lu An learned that maybe selling smart brains itself must not be profitable, but the existence of this business is not to make money.

Brains can be bought anywhere, but Brains, which can be obtained anywhere, are not really as cheap as its price. There is no such thing as a free lunch, and everything comes at a price.

For example, the Joint Monitoring Association's legal compliance program is a program that every brain must install, but not everyone who uses the brain wants their brain to be installed.

Besides, if it's just these superficial surveillance, no one knows if some unknown secret agencies will install some unknown backdoor programs on every brain.

This kind of thing, with a little deduction, can be imagined.

Then, correspondingly, since there is a need not to want their brain to be monitored inexplicably, then there will be people who provide corresponding services, even if they do not make money.

Because, with these basic conditions, the existence of the black market will be guaranteed.

If cheap brains are the foundation of modern human social networks in the interstellar age, then these cheap black market brains are the cornerstone of the long-term survival of underground trading networks.

Even, even if Lu An didn't look at the price on the holographic signboard at the door, he dared to pat his chest and guarantee that the price of the brain here was much cheaper than the brain sold through normal channels.

And that's exactly what happened.