Chapter 1046: The Edge of the Sea
The secret market that Leo is destined for is located in a dock warehouse controlled by the Poseidon Church, and the people in charge of the security here are also armed personnel of the church, which has already shown almost everyone that the supporters behind this market are the church.
Because of this, although this market is called a secret market, it is actually not secret at all, and many people can obtain the market address through various channels, such as Leo who only obtained this market address from a store that sells transcendent items, which shows the degree of openness of this market.
Although the address of the market is semi-public, and almost anyone who knows the address can come here, it is not a simple matter to enter the market, and there are only two kinds of passes to enter the market, either the person himself has extraordinary powers, or he has a mysterious item that can be traded.
Facing the guards of the warehouse, Leo casually took out a monster wreck from the Mountains of Despair and passed through without any problems, while Sean showed off the necklace he was wearing around his neck.
After entering the warehouse, Leo and Sean instantly felt a strong black market atmosphere surrounding the entire market, the random but orderly stalls, the market managers who walked back and forth between the stalls, the neat builders on the walls of the warehouse, the rows of simple shops, even the most discerning people could see that the items sold in those shops were much better than those on the stalls.
"Do you know what I think?" said Leo to Sean after seeing the market in front of him.
Sean seemed to understand what Leo meant, nodded, and said, "I think so too, this place is too much like a black market." ”
"It seems that the person behind this market should be the princess Chrissy. Leo guessed.
Although there is no evidence to prove that this market has anything to do with Princess Chrissy, the atmosphere and construction mode of this market alone are enough to judge that the market builders are imitating the black market, and this world seems to find no one else except Princess Chriss, who has settled here, who has enough ability and power to build such a market, and the inference related to it is logically formed.
The two of them took a look at the market for a moment, and then began to wander around the market like ordinary buyers.
Compared to Sean's casual look at the goods on the stall, Leo seemed a lot more serious, he first used the spirit net to check the energy fluctuations of the items on each stall, and then started from the stall with the strongest energy fluctuation in turn, and gradually moved towards the stall with weak energy fluctuations.
While some of the stalls had no energy fluctuations, they still caught Leo's attention, as most of them were pieces of meaningless ornaments, while others were the remains of some high-tech items.
When distinguishing these goods, Leo found something interesting, all the items emitting strong energy fluctuations in these stalls came from nearby islands or seas, while the fragments with obvious civilization characteristics and the wreckage of those high-tech items came from the outer seas.
Leo picked a high-tech wreckage that looked fairly intact, judging by its appearance and some of the corroded markings on it, it was supposed to be a concussive energy generator device of some kind of weapon.
Although the exterior of the device has been corroded in many places, making it look like a sealed scrap metal box, Leo examines the internal structure through the spirit web and finds that the inside is still intact, and the device's hidden trigger button is still working, which means that the device can still be used as usual.
Leo didn't know what the device's counterpart was, but judging by the four energy boxes placed inside the device, the device, if detonated, would be destructive enough to shatter an island, create a massive tsunami, and create an undersea earthquake with immeasurable effect.
The only flaw is that this device does not have a coordination system to control the energy output, so the energy is released at one time, and the use is also one-time, after use, not only the energy is completely consumed, but even the device itself will be completely damaged.
However, even so, the device could still be considered an artifact, but such an artifact-like item would cost Leo a small amount of money, which would only be enough to buy a nice drink based on the price of the price.
The stall owner who sold it to Leo obviously didn't know that he had just sold an artifact for the money of a drink, and if he did, he would have found a random wall here and crashed it to death.
However, what he didn't know was that Leo decided to buy this device not because of its power after use, but because of the stall owner himself.
When shopping, Leo has already used various words to easily get out the details of this stall owner who only has a little mutation on his body, knowing that the other party is from the most marginal island in this world, he came here for the pilgrimage of the Templar, and he sailed at sea for more than a year before coming here, and happened to encounter the Long Spirit Festival, so he decided to go back after the Long Spirit Day.
However, the money he had with him was not enough, so he had to come here to set up a stall and sell some of the various items he had collected on the islands where he was already on his way.
Because he comes from a marginal island, the people here naturally discriminate against him, so that his stall business is very mediocre, and the things he sells every day barely allow him to pay for the hotel and the day's meals.
Therefore, when he meets Leo, a semi-fellow countryman from a pseudo-marginal island, he naturally feels some intimacy and talks more.
Under Leo's deliberate guidance, the stall owner said a lot of information that was very useful to Leo, such as that the edge of the world is not gray fog, a cliff that goes vertically down, and once the ship approaches, the turbulent current will pull the boat over and eventually fall off the cliff.
All the ships that fell off the cliff never appeared, so there is also a legend that under the cliff is a place called the Sea of Eternal Silence, and all living beings in the world will enter the Sea of Eternal Silence after death, until the sea god wakes up from the temple, and all the creatures who enter the sea of eternal silence will also wake up and accept the final judgment of the sea god, and only those who pass the judgment can follow the sea god to his kingdom and obtain eternal life.
Although Leo was curious about the situation at the edge of the world, at the edge of the ocean, he did not have the idea of exploring it, he was more interested in a legend that appeared in the seas of the edge.
Legend has it that there is always a mysterious silvery-white metal monster hovering the sea, and that monster does not generally attack nearby ships, but if anyone tries to get close to it, it will cut through the ship directly with its blade-like back.
Some of the drowning men had seen the monster in its entirety in the water, describing it as a huge fish, covered with blades, with several blazing flames burning on its tail, and dozens of eyes, each of which looked like a flame that illuminated the dark seabed. Legend has it that if anyone dares to stare at this monster for a long time, their eyes will be blinded by the monster's curse, and if they are lucky, they will only be blind for a while, and if they are unlucky, they will be completely blind.
After Leo heard this legend, he immediately thought that the so-called huge monster in the water should be a small warship, and the flames on the tail and eyes were all energy light waves and lighting lights generated by the engine. As for the curse that blinded the viewer, it was better understood, in the absence of a light filter, not to mention the natives here who have long adapted to the dark environment of the world, even those civilized races in the universe who rely on their eyes to observe objects will be blinded by engine energy light and high-energy searchlight after looking at it for a long time.
In addition, there is a clue that Leo can judge that the monster is a spaceship, and this clue is that the place where the monster stays can always find some similar concussive energy generator devices, and it seems that this spaceship is searching for the remains of cosmic civilizations here, and wants to repair the spaceship with the parts that can still be used in them.
This made Leo can't help but have an idea, if he still has enough time, then he can go to the edge of the sea to see if there is really a working spaceship wandering in the sea, maybe he can find something related to the changes in the universe.
After all, if someone can control the spaceship, then the identity of this controller must not be simple, whether it is the pilot or captain of the spaceship itself, he has obtained a certain amount of authority to the spaceship, and also has some information related to the spaceship.
So, when Leo revealed that he might also return to the fringe waters after the Long Soul Festival, the stall owner immediately expressed his hope that Leo could accompany him, and even invited Leo to visit his home island.
In this regard, Leo did not refuse, but only said that if time permitted, and asked for the current address of the stall owner, saying that he would go to him if he made a decision.
After that, Leo spent some local currency to buy some useless things from the stall owner, which made up for the real difference in the price of the previous device, and then got up and left the stall to continue shopping.
While wandering around, the two soon saw the sea monster snail in a small store opened by the Spirit Clan.
Before seeing the sea snail, both Leo and Sean subconsciously thought that the sea snail was some kind of creature, through which some unknown monsters in the ocean could be summoned.
But after seeing it, I realized that the so-called sea monster snail is a strange thing made of some kind of sea conch, and the sea monster it summons is not a sea monster in the real sense, but a kind of energy monster produced by using the power of the sea and water contained in this strange thing.
Leo can now imitate the power of the ocean through the power of nightmares to create this kind of sea energy monster, but the size and power of the monster may be far from being compared to this sea snail, because Leo from some of the sea snails that are not completely damaged, the power he feels contains an energy that he cannot analyze, and this energy may be the main reason why the sea snail has such a powerful effect.
Although these sea snails are defective, Leo can feel that except for the energy fluctuations emitted by a sea snail that are quite stable, the energy fluctuations of other sea snails are very abnormal, and once used, unpredictable situations will occur, even if the situation of the sea snail with stable energy is not very good, it is showing energy escape, which means that it will not be long before this sea snail will become a decoration.
However, even if these defective products are defective, their asking price is not low, at least with the cash that Leo has now, he can only buy a spiral cone at the top of the sea monster snail.
If it was before discovering the true effect of the golden scales, Sean might have taken out the golden scales and exchanged them for a sea monster snail, but now he is just passing by, and when he leaves here, he will see if he can contact the people who are resident here in the sea clan, and then exchange this golden scale for the sea monster snail, or even better.
After seeing what the sea monster snail was, the two also lost interest in this place, did not stay in the spirit shop for too long, and left quickly, and then wandered around the market for a while, Leo spent some money to buy a few fragments of ancient ruins that looked very special, and then left the market and walked back in the direction of the dock site.
The two of them walked through the dock area and entered a relatively secluded path that they had walked on, and at this time they both stopped, because there were already several people waiting in front of the path, and when they stopped, a few people also came out of the woods behind.
Seeing the people in the way, Leo smiled and said to Sean, "Look, this is the result of the revelation of wealth. Do you need me to do anything?"
"No! Perhaps because he had found a way to get the sea monster snail, Sean's mood seemed to be a lot more relaxed at the moment, and in the face of these people who blocked the way and looked at him as if he didn't want to return it, he not only did not panic, but was a little excited, he wanted to try how far he could go with the self-defense means that he had not used.
Just as he was talking to Leo, the roadblocks came up one after the other, the leader was the clergy who had been watching Leo before, and the others were some unknown people, but judging from their attire, they should be some low-level staff of the church.
After seeing Leo and Sean clearly, he didn't talk nonsense either, and went straight to the point: "Hand over that golden scale." ”
"Do you want it?" Sean took two steps forward, took the golden scale out of his pocket, and held it up to a place where everyone could see it, and then the bracelet on his wrist gave off a faint glow, and heard him say in a strange tone, "But who am I going to give it to? There is only one piece here, only one person can get it, who am I going to give it to?"
As soon as Sean's words fell, a knife stabbed into the body of the clergyman from behind, directly through the internal organs, killing him on the spot, and it was a subordinate behind him who made this deadly attack, and at this time, this subordinate was also attacked by others, or everyone else was attacking each other.
After a while, only Leo and Sean were standing, and everyone else fell to the ground, lifeless.