Chapter 695: The Embarrassing Black Market
Although the conflict between the two sides has subsided, and the Yasha County garrison no longer holds the rebels accountable for the trouble, there is still no room for negotiation about the train crossing, so the rebel soldiers have to get off the train and find a way out of the small border town of Yasha County.
However, the Governor's Office of Yasha County seemed to have guessed that similar trouble would arise when the Governor's Office issued this injunction, so they arranged a large number of animal carts in various cities with steam train stations.
Although the rebels were outnumbered, there were still enough pack wagons to transport them, but they were not as comfortable or fast as the trains.
After Leo got off the train, he didn't immediately hire a car to go to Moonlight City, because now the situation in Yasha County has changed suddenly, and Fat Robert needs to learn about the situation in Yasha County from the local black market.
Sherf did not leave with the team of fighters who changed guards, but chose to travel with Leo and the others, and it seems that his destination is also Moonlight, the capital of Yasha County.
Although the fat man Robert was a little reluctant to follow Sherf, he felt a little unsafe when he thought that the dark world of Asa County had become a little unfamiliar, so he also felt that it would be good to have a powerful person around him, and Leo did not object to Sherf's move, so he acquiesced to Sherf's decision.
Yasha County is the largest county province in the Maris Kingdom, and the entire county occupies one-seventh of the land of the Maris Kingdom, but the available land in Yasha County is also the smallest of all the counties, accounting for less than five percent of all the land in Yasha County, because most of the land in Yasha County is part of the Visvi Forest.
The Visvi Forest is the largest forest in the Minsk mainland, which originates from the border between the kingdoms of Mares and Dalyat, and the Minsk Mountains, which are the root of all the mountains of the Minsk mainland, run from west to east through the forest, and also isolate the warm air from the south and the cold air from the north.
So while the Maris were still in the throes of summer, the northern Delriats had entered the winter under the image of the cold air.
The Visvi Forest is located at the southern foot of the Minsk Mountains, and the northern edge of the forest is almost close to the mountains of the Minsk Mountains, and it is no exaggeration to say that the northern edge of this forest is almost the northern border of the Kingdom of Mares.
Just like the Black Forest of the Viron Continent, the Visvi Forest is also a forest with magical powers, and many extinct species can still be found here, many of which are psionic creatures.
It's just that in the dark world of Veron, this forest is famous because it is the hiding place of most of the cultists, out-of-control clans, and evil transcendents in the world.
It is no exaggeration to say that nearly seventy percent of the world's most wanted people in the dark world who have not been caught or executed are hiding in this huge forest, and some people who have gone deep into the forest even say that those cultists, dependents, and evil transcendents have built an evil city of their own in the depths of the forest.
Strangely enough, just as the people of the Orthodox Church would never enter the Black Forest, they did not intend to enter the Visvi Forest to hunt down the evil beings.
However, they did not intend to indulge these evil existences, so the Orthodox Church forces, mainly the Church of the Hill Kings, deployed a lot of men in several counties and provinces of the Kingdom of Mares on the edge of the Visvi Forest.
However, in this line of defense, Yasha County is a gap like a zone, which is outside the influence of the Church forces, and the roads here are in all directions, and it is difficult for the power of the Orthodox Church to completely control each passage, so Yasha County has become the only area in the Visvi Forest where those evil beings can contact the outside world.
However, because of the two major races of vampires and werewolves, those evil people who regarded ordinary people as ants and came to blood sacrifices from time to time did not dare to make trouble here, and this became the safest place in the surrounding counties.
Despite this, the battle in the underworld here is the opposite of what appears to be peaceful, with a large number of bounty hunters who have been offered huge bounties by the Church gather here to hunt down those wanted who have escaped from the forest to breathe the wind.
For the black market, Yasha County is definitely a prime location, whether it is so many resources in the Vesvi Forest, or the huge commercial gold mines contained in the dark world of Yasha County, it is worth investing a lot of people here.
Therefore, a long time ago, the black market sent a large number of people to establish a station in various cities in Yasha County, and even set up the headquarters of the black market on the mainland of Minsk in Moonlight City in Yasha County for a long time.
However, this move of the black market obviously annoyed the two major controllers of Yasha County, and almost overnight, all the black market strongholds in Yasha County were destroyed, and all the members were killed, including the head of the black market in Minsk mainland.
It was also officially this loss that caused the black market in Minsk to collapse for a long time, and it has not been restored until now.
Although the new person in charge of the black market negotiated with the controller of Yasha County to allow the black market to re-enter Yasha County, the price paid was very huge, and it has always been suppressed by the two races of Yasha County, even if Yasha County took the right to auction from the black market this time, the black market could only comply and dare not object.
Naturally, these unfortunate things about the black market were not said by the fat Robert, on the way to the black market in the city, Shelf deliberately told Leo that these days on the train, the two of them often exposed each other like this, and it has become a daily norm.
Leo would have liked to see this kind of thing, because in the course of the two of them exposing each other's affairs, he could hear a lot of secret things that even money could not buy.
The group soon came to the entrance of the black market in Tranquility City, which was a bit unpopular compared to the black market in Dry Steel City, because this black market was built in a sewer.
He swooped into the sewers, walked through a dirty passage, then turned a corner, and climbed a small slope, and there was a noise ahead, and the ground around him was much cleaner, and the stench of the sewers seemed to be blocked by an invisible force, blocking the bottom of the slope.
The three of them walked some distance when an iron door appeared in front of them, and two guards with hooded faces stood in the doorway.
They looked at Leo and the others, their eyes lingered on the fat man Robert for a moment, then they stepped aside and knocked on the iron door, which slowly rose, and the noisy sound was immediately amplified several times, and it was accompanied by a cloudy aura.
After the three of them walked in, they saw that the one standing at the door and opening the iron door was a deformed giant with a height of five meters, judging from his various performances, his IQ should not be very high, but he had a lot of strength, this situation may be innate, or it may be the degradation caused by the mutation of the bloodline and the stimulation of the original power.
The eyes of the three of them only lingered on the deformed giant's body for a moment, and then shifted to the lively square in front of them, which was still quite large.
This black market is very lively, the square is full of all kinds of stalls, you can see a large number of strange items on the stalls, a large number of people are moving slowly in the gap between the units, most of these people are wearing a layer of black robes and masks, hiding their appearance and figure, and some people are not covered, as if they are not afraid of their appearance being seen.
"...... here" Leo frowned as he swept his gaze across the square, turned to look at Fat Robert, and asked, "This is the black market?"
The fat man Robert naturally heard Leo's questioning, he also frowned, and said with some uncertainty: "It should be, right?"
Sherf also hesitated a little and said, "There are too many people here?"
It was no wonder that the three of them were suspicious of the black market in front of them, because this black market seemed to be extremely prosperous and lively, and some large transactions were completed in front of the stalls from time to time, and its prosperity was far greater than that of the black market in Dry Steel City.
But even the most obtuse people can find out that something is wrong with this black market, because there are at least a thousand people on both sides of the transaction here, such a huge number of transcendents and bounty hunters, even the black market in those big cities cannot appear, you must know that the black market in Dry Steel City is already the largest gathering place for bounty hunters and transcendents in the northwest, but the largest number of people there is only in the early two hundreds, how can there be thousands of bounty hunters and transcendents in a small marginal city like Tranquility City?
Compared to the fat Robert and Sherf, who only made judgments based on numbers, Leo's spirit network directly investigated the situation of everyone present, and he found that except for the two guards at the door and the giant who opened the door, there were only five people in the entire black market who had energy fluctuations, and they were very weak, so weak that they were not much better than ordinary people, and the others were all ordinary people.
The ordinary people mentioned here do not refer to those bounty hunters whose physical fitness has reached the normal limit, but real ordinary people, and his extraordinary hearing allows him to hear the conversations of those in the market, which also makes him quickly understand the situation of the black market in front of him.
It turns out that the so-called black market here has simply become an underground market selling all kinds of strange items, and their customers are no longer those bounty hunters and transcendents, but ordinary people with a strong curiosity mentality.
In the past, there were not many customers who went to the black market to buy things because of the curiosity mentality, and there were only more than 100 people at most, but with the rumors of various monsters around the world, the number of ordinary people who came here increased sharply, and there were thousands of people who came here to buy things every day, so that the black market here had to limit the number of people.
If the Keepers hadn't recognized Fat Robert just now, maybe they wouldn't have let Leo and them in.
Because the nature has changed, the items sold here look strange and seem to contain some mysterious powers, but in fact they are all fakes, not only that, but it also provides services for ordinary people to contact mysterious things, that is, to take some ordinary people to carry out a so-called demon hunt, but depending on the situation, I am afraid that it should be a play written and directed by people in the black market.
"Damn! What the hell is that woman doing in Katje?" the fat man Robert cursed the doctor with some unacceptability, and then quickly glanced around the market, as if he was looking for someone.
Leo then raised his hand and pointed to the woman who looked like a soothsayer in a corner of the market and said, "I think the person you are looking for is there." ”
Looking in the direction of Leo's finger, the fat man Robert's face became extremely ugly, and he walked quickly towards the divination stall over there against the flow of people, and then directly drove the couple of men and women in front of the stall away, and said, "Sorry, this stall is temporarily closed, you can go somewhere else!"
The men and women who were driven away were still very in a very mood and were about to say something, but when they saw the tall Leo next to the fat man Robert and the fierce-looking Sherf in military uniform, they swallowed the words that came to their lips and hurriedly walked away.
The woman sitting on the other side of the divination booth lifted her hood, revealing a beautiful face full of wildness, and said angrily to Robert: "Robert, it's not good for you to sabotage my business like this, according to the rules, you have to compensate me three times the reward." ”
"You'd better explain your own business first! Robert stretched out his hand and pointed to the market behind him, and said angrily: "A good black market has been run like this by you, if your situation here is known from above, you ......"
"Not only will I not be punished, but I will be rewarded. The woman smiled disdainfully and said, "Don't worry, the black market is allowed to become like this." ”
Robert was stunned and said with a look of surprise, "Why?"
"Naturally, it's to be able to maintain a stronghold in the black market!" the woman glanced at the fat man Robert angrily and said: " We can't compare to you here, whether it is the outside world or the dark world, it is ruled by those two races, they will solve anyone who dares to make trouble here, and they will not give any bounty hunters a chance to make a move, and now the bounty hunters in the entire County of Yasha are all concentrated in Nightfall Town on the border of the Visvi Forest, as for the other cities, even the black market in Moonlight City, it is the same as me here. As she spoke, she smiled self-deprecatingly, and said, "But this is fine, not only do you have to risk your life to earn a small bounty, and the money you earn here every month is much more than that of the pure black market, even if you pay the tax agreed upon by the two clans, you can still save a large amount." ”
Hearing the woman's words, the fat man Robert opened his mouth, not knowing what to say.
Leo, who heard the conversation between the two on the side, didn't show any unusual expression, and in his eyes, whether vampires and werewolves were powerful or not had much to do with him, provided that he didn't provoke him.
After hearing this, Sherf next to him restrained his mocking smile at Fat Robert, and his face became serious, obviously the two major ethnic groups in Yasha County were much more than he knew, which was not good news for the rebels bordering it.