Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 142 Jinshan Ghost Market

After seeing Todd off, the next day was the first day of the fifth lunar month.

Due to time constraints, Xie Zihao needed to get to the target location in the early morning, or he had already set out last night.

Because the name of that extraordinary market is Jinshan Ghost Market, and it opens in the early morning of the first and fifteenth day of every month.

The entrance to this ghost city is located on the side of the Nevada Mountains in the Golden State near Nevada. It is in the north direction of Los Angeles, roughly level with San Francisco and Oakland, and belongs to the central region of the Golden State.

Since it was Xie Zihao's first time to go there, he did not bring anyone else with him this time, but drove there by himself.

A few hours later, the car drove into a small town called Mariposa, which translates to Butterfly Lily. The name is beautiful, but it was actually a town that was mainly based on mining.

This is also the county seat of Mariposa County. Like many towns in the central region, it was a settlement that arose during the gold rush. As the gold mines depleted, population loss here also became serious, and the entire town currently has only

There are less than 2,000 residents, but there are many foreign tourists.

Because there is a State Mining and Mineral Museum in the town, and not far to the north is Yosemite National Park, so many tourists who visit Yosemite National Park will also stay and stay in this town.

More than 90% of people are engaged in service industries related to tourism.

Xie Zihao's destination was not a small town, but an abandoned gold mine in the northeast of the town.

It is not unreasonable for the Golden State to be named the Golden State. The rise of the gold rush that year further triggered the westward movement, which not only brought many immigrants, but also brought a devastating blow to the local indigenous groups.

Most of the native North Americans who once numbered in the tens of millions disappeared from history, leaving only a handful of survivors numbering in the tens of thousands.

And these people are still trapped in so-called reservations by the federal government, and are raised like pigs and sheep, and may be slaughtered at some point.

The ghosts of the indigenous people who lost a large number of their compatriots are wandering in the forests and mountains and refuse to leave, forming forbidden areas for strangers in the western part of the Federation, and this is one of them.

According to Liang Ruian, the aboriginal undead here broke out the undead disaster for unknown reasons and directly devoured a large local gold mine. Fortunately, this gold mine was already about to be mined out, so the insiders

It wasn't too much, so it didn't cause much loss of life.

Since then, this gold mining area has become a dead place that humans and animals cannot enter.

In the 1930s, Hongmen sent representatives to negotiate with the Golden State Council, in exchange for sending hundreds of extraordinary beings to work together to purify the innocent souls in this gold mine, and then obtained the ownership of the land.

The Golden State government did not suffer. After the forbidden area disappeared, they were able to further develop the tourism industry in nearby national parks and established a mining museum in Mariposa. Over the years, tourism has become a pillar industry in several surrounding counties and cities, making

Mining areas that have been abandoned for many years are coming back to life.

Because people in the Tang Dynasty used to call Jinzhou Jinshan, which was a lie promoted by slave traders during the piglet trafficking period, so this place was named "Jinshan Ghost Market" by Hongmen.

Jinshan Ghost Market is a trading market built by Hongmen to organize the Tang Dynasty forces on the west coast and imitate the ghost market story in folklore to provide communication for extraordinary people.

It is said that the original ghost markets were secretly held at night, so they were called ghost markets. However, it was later discovered that there were basically no obstacles on the federal side. In addition to the government, the extraordinary forces also wanted to have a place where they could conduct such activities.

It is a place of free trade, and the Tang people are a disadvantaged group in the Federation and are relatively honest in their work. It is more suitable for them to run it than other extraordinary forces.

After all, those extraordinary forces basically obey no one, and some of them are naturally hostile races, such as vampires and werewolves.

So over time, everyone agreed that Jinshan Ghost Market would become the largest extraordinary trading center on the west coast and even in the entire federation.

As for the idea of ​​a federal paranormal agency?

What they think is not important. Many big figures and families behind the federation think this is good.

After all, the Special Investigation Bureau is nothing more than a tool that can be called upon by those big shots.

It was nearly midnight, when Xie Zihao parked his car at a hotel in Mariposa, put his luggage on his back and quietly walked into the mountains alone for more than half an hour, before arriving near a mountain forest.

The trees and terrain here look no different from other mountains and forests, but Xie Zihao can sense that the environment in front of him has abnormal behavior. It seems that the spiritual fluctuations are abnormal. There is no tranquility and vitality like ordinary mountains and forests, but this fluctuation is extremely small.

, even he can easily ignore it without careful observation.

"We've arrived!"

According to Liang Ruian, the appearance of Jinshan Ghost Market is covered by a large illusion, making it difficult for ordinary people to enter. Only those with a pass issued by Hongmen can find the entrance.

As a knowledgeable person, Xie Zihao quickly observed through the spiritual vision of Sharingan that the illusion here is actually a combination of formations and Feng Shui formations, and there are some other powers in it.

He speculated on this:

"This should be the effect of some large magic weapon."

"It's not surprising when you think about it. After all, Hongmen is a large-scale non-governmental organization inherited from the Ming Dynasty. It has a deep foundation that cannot be compared with ordinary folk gangs or legal traditions. It is not surprising that it can master some powerful magic weapons. At the same time, Hongmen was

The gate has also gathered hundreds of extraordinary people, so it shouldn't be too difficult to find a few who are good at formations."

He took out the token that Liang Ruian lent him, which was a small iron plate three inches long, made in the image of the 108 generals of the Water Margin.

Liang Rui'an is the scholar Xiao Rang, who is ranked 46th in Liangshan and ranked tenth among the seventy-two evil spirits. He is the head of the sixteen supervisors of the Internal Affairs Department and the commander of the clerical battalion.

This thing is quite consistent with the military position held by the ancestors of the Liang family.

It is said that the one obtained by the Xie family is the Tiangang Star Jade Unicorn Lu Junyi, the deputy marshal of the army of Liangshan Governor, which ranks second among the thirty-six Tiangang, and is considered the most noble among this batch of tokens.

Of course, this also has something to do with the fact that the Xie family was the supreme leader of this group of remnants of the Kingdom of Heaven. Although a hundred years have passed, everyone no longer has a superior-subordinate relationship with each other, but other old Xie family families are participating in the interactions of the Tang Dynasty forces.

Among them, the head of the Xie family will still be the nominal leader.

"Although these one hundred and eight iron plates are just tokens arranged by Hongmen for various forces and powerful people, only the old master of Hongmen retains the first iron plate of Tiankuixing Hu Baoyi Songjiang, and the other Hongmen are divided into helmsmen.

They are all distributed according to strength and status in the world, but being able to occupy the second position among them shows that my cheap grandfather's reputation and strength were at the peak of his power!"

I saw that after Xie Zihao entered the mountain forest for about a hundred steps and showed this iron sign, the surrounding environment suddenly changed. From the original ordinary forest at night, it turned into a noisy mountain flat with shadows of lights. Look carefully.

You can still vaguely see the shadow of the gold mining living area back then.

In front of him was a lively scene that was somewhat familiar to Xie Zihao. The ghost market was surrounded by wooden fences, and an angry wind lantern was hung at regular intervals. The red lamp shadow looked a bit different against the dim lights and dim environment inside.

The atmosphere of a supernatural film.

Inside the ghost market, there were rows of green brick buildings forming a square and lively market, which looked similar to the flea markets he saw in Chinatown.

Looking from a distance, the area surrounded by wooden fences is lined with neat rows of tents, with people going in and out. It is obvious that the tents are the stalls of this ghost market.

The blue brick building in the back should be a fixed shop in the market.

Seeing Xie Zihao suddenly appearing in the bluestone open space in front of the market, other people similar to him around him didn't seem to make a fuss. At most, some people would take a second look because of Xie Zihao's outstanding appearance and special temperament.

, and that’s just it.

However, there were a few young girls in the crowd who were around 20 years old. After seeing him, they kept peeking at him, and then laughed shyly with their companions.

Xie Zihao did not look timid, but pretended to be a regular customer and walked towards the open door guarded by two strong men from the Tang Dynasty.

Before he even got close, he was attracted by the two statues on the gate.

See you tomorrow!

(End of chapter)