ACT241: Starry Sky Temple Fair
The triennial Starry Sky Temple Fair is the largest trade event between the Shattered Star Region and the outside world.
Although it is barren and treacherous, it is not suitable for human life, but the magical gravity-free environment has also given birth to a large number of exotic beasts, plus the boats and pirates can always get some "good things" outside the normal channels. This is an extraordinary attraction for the elites in the outside civilized society who have too much money to spend.
The earliest starry sky temple fair can be traced back to 150 years ago, when the largest ship group in the Broken Star District, a black merchant who was familiar with Guò, passed on the news that he wanted to hold an "auction", and attached an auction list full of all kinds of rare and exotic beasts, which immediately attracted the interest of many national dignitaries!
The first temple fair was also quite successful, the boat group used some rare animals and plants from the outside world, from the local tyrants who came to exchange a large amount of money, and then used these tickets to buy a large number of daily necessities and weapons and ammunition from the black merchants, so that the strength of the boat group was even stronger.
Since then, the Starry Sky Temple Fair has been held every three years, in addition to the earliest organizers, some small and medium-sized boat groups with good relations with them will also bring their own things to dip in the light, so the scale of the temple fair is also larger than the previous one.
Even when the group was divided into five due to a dispute over heirs, the tradition of holding regular temple fairs was inherited by them. These five ship owners who are related to each other form an organization called the "Star Committee", which is responsible for organizing and managing the holding of each Starry Sky Temple Fair, and there is a faint hint of the "autonomous government" of the Star District.
By the way, although the current owners of these five boat groups are no longer very pure, they are indeed all Chinese.
In this year's Starry Sky Temple Fair, the number of "tourists" has not decreased in the slightest due to the disaster on the other side of the earth, but the number of boat groups that came to participate is one-third less than the previous one, and the members of the committee know very well why!
Although the rapidly expanding "unstable elements" kept them on their backs, in order to fight this new threat. They needed the income from the fair, so all the boats who came to bring out their carefully prepared "goods", especially those black merchants who brought arms to barter.
The venue for the temple fair is formed by the merger of 50 large 10,000-ton cargo ships provided by the committee, and other small and medium-sized boat groups can only bring their own things to rent the venue, and 10% of the income must be handed over to the committee. Fortunately, this percentage is quite acceptable, and everyone has no complaints about it.
Just like the opening of an ordinary market, the opening of the temple fair did not have any red tape except for some fireworks, and the five major ship owners of the committee did not even show their faces. This is also a major feature of the Starry Sky Temple Fair. Whether it's a business or a guest, both sides try to keep it as mysterious as possible.
Many of the wealthy people who come from all over the world are well-known figures in China, and if they are caught participating in such a large-scale black market, their reputation will definitely be damaged. As a result, many of the guests who come here wear a variety of masks as if they were attending a masquerade ball.
"At first, I thought it was some kind of tall auction, but it was similar to a flea market! But not to mention, these guys are selling these things that are really interesting. ”
relied on the invitation letter that Boss Dai helped him get. Zhao Jian, disguised as a black merchant, successfully infiltrated the temple fair. Compared with those rich people who only came with cash, black businessmen like Zhao Jian with real things were more popular with the boat groups. Especially when the receptionist learned that he was a weapons dealer, his attitude immediately changed to extremely warm. took the initiative to arrange a convex and backward tour guide for him, but was rejected by Zhao Jian. He didn't want to have a committee eyeliner by his side.
Like many people present, Zhao Jian also wore a mask, which was a full-coverage Sun monkey face, and the other subordinates who came up with him were also wearing black suits with various monkey faces. For this reason, Zhao Jian jokingly said before departure. They are almost like the Huaguoshan Corps that is about to go to the Heavenly Palace.
The men who came up with Zhao Jian included four special forces bodyguards, including Di Rui, as well as Jia Na and Ali, two ship girls who could provide heavy armor protection. Even if the twin sisters are wearing suits, they can't hide their bumpy and beautiful figures. But fortunately, there are many rich people with female companions at the scene, so Zhao Jian and his party are not eye-catching.
"Admiral, how can I see that so many stalls are selling people!"
"There are also some people who don't seem to be people, look over there."
Following Ali's finger, Zhao Jian found that in a stall not far away, a lot of "sub-races" were being sold.
Perhaps because of the artificial intervention of the ancients, the world under this time and space is not only the human race, but in addition to the ancient people who have disappeared, there are more than a dozen subhuman races in the known star field. Most of the civilizations of these races are still in a very primitive stage, but they are indeed one level higher than the average beast.
"Oh...... This is the first time I've seen a living Barak Bugman. ”
I saw that in the human trafficking booth, the most eye-catching thing was not those unclothed female ~ slaves, but a brother and noble insect man who was locked in a huge iron cage. The other party has a strong body that is unspeakably strong, dark green insect skin, and a terrifying locust face, and the disgusting appearance of Bara alone can make many little girls scream.
The Barak Worm Man is a subhuman creature evolved from insects, and its intelligence is at the bottom of the known subhuman species, but its body is extremely high! Insects are already stronger than other creatures, and even if they increase in size to the level of humans and the magnification decreases, their strength is far greater than that of humans.
Zhao Jian had a little insight into this creature, as they had found similar biological characteristics in German modified soldiers. Therefore, Zhao Jian believes that those modified soldiers should be mutants implanted with the genes of the Barak worm.
Out of curiosity, Zhao Jian walked to the booth and took a closer look at this insect man, the other party's insect face could not show any expression, but the two smart tentacles could better reflect its emotional fluctuations.
At this time, Zhao Jian noticed that the tentacles of the insect man suddenly shook violently, and turned his head to look straight into the distance. As soon as Zhao Jian followed its gaze and looked over there, Jia Na behind him stepped forward and leaned into his ear to relay the information that had just been obtained from the maintenance station to him.
"Target AKY, appeared!" (To be continued......)
PS: There have been a lot of things at home in the past two days, forgive me!
In addition, Big Eyeball's new book "Abnormal Creature Sights" is currently in Sanjiang, help him ask for a Sanjiang ticket (laughs)!