Chapter 35: Charm Fragrance Qilan
When he returned to the Atlanta forest, the red moon had already fallen again, and Leon was not polite, he put his ragged leather coat directly on the outside of the green aristocratic suit, although his body was no longer afraid of the cold, but the comfort of the clothes was still better. Seeing his actions, the black forehead quietly draped the old wolf skin over the monk's robe, which made his image look even more weird.
Three days later, the four of them arrived at Chapel Hill, the largest gathering place between the boulder and Gael.
It was a large gathering place with a population of more than 1 million, and in Lyon's experience, it was never before in Lyon's experience that so many people gathered together and lived within iron walls not much larger than the Nine Domains.
Chapel Hill is only 20 square kilometers, but its population is nearly one-third more than that of the Nine Domains, and the degree of congestion can be imagined.
The iron gate of Chapel Hill is open all year round, and the mercenary group responsible for guarding the gate is very lazy, and will not deliberately lift the gate for those who need to enter and exit, and of course will not receive a "retention fee", so they will "collect taxes" on the heads of everyone who enters the gathering place, which increases the income of the mercenary group, and also obviously makes all kinds of bazaars in Chapel Hill active, after all, it is easier to enter the door, and a person only needs to pay two metal coins.
The Red Star Guild has also put due attention to Chapel Hill, and the number of mercenaries delivered to this gathering place is staggering, and these mercenaries have indeed brought more vitality to Chapel Hill.
As long as you are patient enough, you can find all the equipment, weapons, metals, ingredients, and seeds you need in the church black market...... Even mutant beasts, even half-blood women. But then, you have to be strong enough to get the business done, otherwise you won't just end up with a few metal coins on the black market in the church, but maybe even a finger or even a half-life.
However, the defense mercenary group and the security mercenary group on Chapel Hill are very annoyed by this, because the composition of all kinds of people coming and going is complicated, and the whole gathering place is often messy, and the most important thing is that once a powerful mutant beast attacks, they not only have to "look ahead" but also "look behind", and in the open door behind them, there are their own nests, as well as their poor property, and even the girls in a small shop, which also makes them a little worried.
As a result, there are often armed fights between the mercenary groups on Chapel Hill, and everyone is angry, and they will kill people for a trivial matter.
It's a crowded, chaotic, complex gathering place with a sordid Lyon never before. Whether it's the environment or human nature.
The four teenagers stood inside the gate of Chapel Hill, facing this huge noisy hornet's nest, a little stunned. Chapel Hill has four streets, but the increasingly crowded population has made the roads that were once wide and narrow, all kinds of iron-wheeled carts and mercenaries wearing strange equipment, filling these groundbreaking roads, and some domesticated tall mutant beasts, camels carrying huge boxes and trekking through the flow of people, there are lead-bone deer, there are rare cone horses and camels, and there is an exaggerated golden-crowned dolphin, the old one has lost its long big teeth, and it is still showing off its might. But what makes Leon secretly proud is that few people have ever seen a rockhorn bear.
The dwellings here are not made of stacked shipping containers, but are built of stone.
The heavy raw stone was bonded together by some kind of artificial glue, stacked crookedly at a height of ten meters, but it could be divided into five to six layers, and then stuffed into dozens of people, each with a living area of less than three meters, four teenagers looked at these stone houses, and deeply doubted whether those people could only sleep standing up.
And more people live in the pits, and all kinds of strangely decorated holes are covered with the left and right of the stone houses, of course, they can only stand upright and descend ten meters before they dare to expand to the side, otherwise the houses above will be dangerous again.
The four of them walked all the way to the southeast side of Chapel Hill, where the famous church black market was located, where Gehr was a regular visitor, of course, he rarely spent the metal coins he had, but came out with what he wanted.
Leon wants to turn the characteristic metal in the backpack into metal coins, and then by the way, he will see if there is any progress in the mission sent out by Gehr.
Along the way, they visited the magical pit shop on Chapel Hill, where the odd decorations were actually the signs of small shops, such as the machinery shop, where huge gears were embedded in the stone at the entrance of the hole, the metal shop, where liquid metal was cast around the pothole, and the weapons shop, where countless broken metal knives stood in front of the shop. There is also a very special weapon decoration shop, which can quench swords, guns, swords and halberds with various patterns and colors, and there is a steel pillar full of patterns erected at the mouth of the pit.
No one will touch those decorations, because every pit shop or even every church black market stall has a mercenary group as a backstage, even if it is broken, it will definitely not be able to get out of the gate of Chapel Hill, and that unlucky thief will also leave his life behind.
But even so, Gehr and Keane used to bring back all kinds of in-demand supplies from Chapel Hill, and after seeing the fierce customs of the people here, Leon admired the two old thieves even more.
The church black market is underground, but it cannot be said that it is completely underground, and part of it is in the mountain, which is now hollowed out on Chapel Hill, which is also the origin of the name of the gathering place.
The four of them sneaked into the underground part of the church's black market in a low-key manner, and Gehr said that they should find a woman named Qilan, who was Gehr's "informant" in this black market, whether it was a buyer placing an order or something good coming from the black market, it was this woman who collected news for Gehr.
After entering the underground tunnel forty meters, Leon found a phospholipid lamp on the wall, this lamp is very special, it is the shape of a flower, although Leon has never seen a real flower, but the shape of this phospholipid lamp, he knows that it is called "orchid". The direction of the orchid's rhizome is the area where they are going. Qilan was there waiting for them.
Gradually open up in the tunnel, lit everywhere phospholipid lamps, this cheap lighting material is very poor, the tunnel completely turned into a gloomy green trap, those on both sides of the tunnel concave small earthen kiln, also all black, a little deeper, you have to add a lamp in it to let customers see the goods. However, phospholipid lamps are cheap enough and very easy to distract buyers, so they are deliberately used in the black market.
At the moment, there are not many people in the black market, and it is said that it can only be lively at night, although there is not much difference between day and night in this era, but people here still seem to retain the habit of "night life".
Some vaguely outlined figures wandered around the small earthen kilns, and the occasional flickering reflection of weapons in the darkness made Leon nervously grasp the illusion of the wind on his lower back, and habitually asked the squid to inform everyone, two to observe the flanks, and one to pay attention to the rear. He didn't want to disappear into this underground black market.
Leon looked at the thick pus-like green around him, and secretly sighed in his heart, they are all green, Gael's green and the black market green, why is it so different.
Finally, they went all the way to the depths of the tunnel, and saw another phospholipid lamp in the shape of an orchid, and then a wild laughter came from their ears. How to describe it? It was a mixture of uninhibited and profligate, confident and flattering, and if Lyon's experience was deep enough, if the four boys were already men, they would have heard a lot.
It's a pity that what they heard at this time was just a coquettish woman, selling her goods, or herself.
The owner of the laughter is none other than Qilan, Gehr's informant. If anyone has ever heard what Gehr bragged about in the cream bar, they would know that Kiran seems to be his woman too. Although no one will believe it.
When Leon first saw Qilan, he blushed a little, although he had been trained by Lina to increase his stamina a lot, but he still couldn't look at this woman directly.
Because she was wearing too little.
Qilan is not a genetic agitator, but her hardiness is simply extraordinary, and she only wears a few blue giant armored crocodile scales on her body, which can block the key parts. Most of the round breasts, slender and powerful waist and abdomen, and strong buttocks are all neatly exposed, and only a few strips of soft white leather hang on both sides of the thighs.
Surprisingly, she wore a blue metal visor on her face, with delicate and strange patterns, which made her look more like a beautiful little beast, which was really a strange dress, and among the women Leon had seen, although there were also women who liked to cover their faces, they would definitely not just cover their faces tightly, but expose all the flesh on their bodies.
At this moment, a pair of eyes exposed on the blue armor were also looking at the four teenagers, they were a pair of beautiful eyes, and the essence light in them swept over the objects on the four people from time to time, such as the squid on Leon's head, such as the old wolf skin on the black forehead, and the dark gold purification suit of Locke Dorjee. But in the end, it fell on Hua Wei, and the young man's strong physique obviously interested her more.
"Stop" Leon spoke out in time, stopping Qilan's pair of slender hands stretched out to Hua Wei, "We were introduced by Gehr"
"Oh?" Qilan didn't mean to be embarrassed at all, she naturally withdrew her hand and put it on Leon's shoulder, she was about the same height as Leon, and her masked face was only ten centimeters away from Leon. This is a very ambiguous distance, a little farther away, it is a friend, a little closer, more like a lover.
"It's really amazing," Qilan said suddenly, and then rubbed Leon hard, so that the bouncing chest fully showed the majesty, and then twisted her thin waist and walked into the earthen kiln. Her charm didn't work on Leon, which made Qilan feel a little unwilling, although the other party was just a little kid, but it was enough to hit her self-confidence, but it was only a little bit.
Qilan believes that he just hasn't grown up.
"Hehe, let's talk about business" Leon grinned and unloaded the backpack behind him, he didn't quite understand why the woman was suddenly a little angry, but he believed that whoever saw the contents of the leather bag would regain their smile.
"Special metal!" Qilan screamed quietly, and then nervously pulled all four teenagers into the earthen kiln, easily extinguished the orchid phospholipid lamp at the door, and closed the small door of the earthen kiln.
This fist-sized pile of metal is enough to bring her a bloody disaster, although she Qilan is a well-known figure in the black market of the church, but she can't resist too many greedy mercenaries, these metals together, will make those soldiers crazy.
Three pieces of boiling metal, four pieces of dark iron, five pieces of ice crystal gold, one piece of high-density metal, two pieces of memory metal, and one piece of carbon silver......
Qilan was dazzled and fiddled with this pile of things, although not long ago Geer showed her the task cards of the boulder, which were all small pieces of characteristic metal, but they were all gadgets engraved with tasks, in Qilan's understanding, that thing directly became a task deposit, and it didn't seem to be a big deal.
However, now she was facing a pile of large enough characteristic metals, each of which could add up to a weapon for a bone intensifier, and the addition of mass and quantity was the most precious.
Leon knew this very well, and the piece of soluble metal he had in his hand was too small to make any difference. Now he was pinched into two metal rings, and the semicircle was not flattened on his wrist, which was the first gift given to him by the black forehead, and he would always wear it.
Qilan is a seasoned black market merchant, so she also strictly abides by the rules of the black market, and never asks about things that should not be asked, such as the origin of the goods. Although at the moment she really wanted to ask about the origin of these precious properties of the metal.
"Say, handsome guys, how much does it cost?" After being shocked, Qilan restored her essence as a profiteer, no matter who the other party was, and no matter how handsome the other party was, the price still had to be asked first.
"You look at it" Leon smiled and looked really handsome, that childish face was always full of manly charm by his bright smile,
"Oh, roar, roar...... I like it" Qilan laughed again, and this time Leon at least heard that she was tempted,
"If the price is right, we will come back in the future, what Gehr can bring, we can too" Leon said deliberately, as if he wanted to steal business with Geer, he didn't want people from the outside world to know about Gehr's relationship with the boulder, including Lina, should hide this relationship as much as possible.
Through the destruction of the Lake Mercenary Group, he felt that the biggest lesson he had learned was not to trust any outsiders, not to reveal his details to any outsiders, and to keep his partners in the shadows, which was the greatest protection for them.
"Little thing, it's quite shrewd, it's embarrassing~" Qilan's hand stretched out again, but this time not only brought the charm fragrance, but also a pocket of metal coins, Leon took it and checked it, there were about 4,000 of them,
"Okay, Sister Lan, we will get some things to sell in a few days, and this business will be done with you in the future" Leon smiled more carefully, this is an excellent business channel, safe and fast, and ...... Qilan's figure is also really good.
"Well, Sister Lan, that's a good name, so what should I call you?" Qilan's charm fragrance was still unwillingly emanating, and the slender eyes behind the blue mask were also full of strange light,
"Call me 'Vision,'" Leon's face lit up.