The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

Sweeping his gaze across the market, Leo can easily find out from the crowd which are ordinary people who came here with a curious mind, which are newcomers with extraordinary power and know nothing about the cruelty of the future, and who Those are veterans who really understand the cruelty of the underworld.

Those ordinary people are all together in groups of three or four, and they will exclaim in surprise at every item they see on the stall, and then they will negotiate with the stall owner no matter whether the item is dangerous or not. There is no doubt that these people should be money bags deliberately attracted by the black market. These people have both money and strong curiosity. Most of the things that are not dangerous or have no value to supernatural beings will be sold to these people. Maintain the daily operation of the black market.

In addition, some of the family members or other superhumans who had just gained power and were invited put on clothes with hoods, or directly wore masks, or covered their whole bodies with cloaks to conceal certain changes in their bodies. , but they stayed at almost every booth for a long time, pretending to ask about everything they were interested in. Although they have tried their best to disguise themselves and make themselves look like veterans, their identities as rookies are very eye-catching in the eyes of discerning people, so many people who set up stalls here will slaughter them as fat sheep.

As for those old people who already know the underground world very well, most of them will not use clothes and other things to cover their bodies and faces, because they know very well that there are some people whose abilities can ignore these coverings, and most of them will use various The strange objects or special abilities used in camouflage to change the appearance, so as to hide himself, just like now Leo controls the muscles of the face and modifies the appearance.

Obviously, this is not the first time for these veterans to come to the black market. They are well aware that there may be good things in the stalls on the square, but there are more useless garbage and fake handicrafts, so most of them walk in the market. After walking around, I didn't find anything, so I entered the shops dug out of the surrounding walls. The purpose was very clear. Obviously, I had already thought about what I wanted to buy before I came here, and I knew exactly what the surrounding shops were selling.

Unlike the shops outside, the outside of the black market shops are all blocked by special steel plates, and there is no signboard at the door, saying what is sold. Only when you enter inside can you know what the goods are here. It is not an easy task, at least it is much more difficult than the black market in Miria City.

Apparently, there is an official wizard in the black market in Port of Sete, and I saw that this wizard used wizard runes composed of basic Gamori roots at the door of all shops, and arranged a Turing character that belongs to the wizards of the Vinylon world. root. Although the root of this Turing word is very simple and the layout is quite satisfactory, it is very effective in identifying who has extraordinary power and who is just ordinary people.

As long as ordinary people approach this Turing root, their sanity will be immediately affected by the power of the root, and they will lose perception of the outside world and lose their way. In this state, they will turn away from the entrance of the store uncontrollably.

Originally, this arrangement was to prevent ordinary people from entering the surrounding shops, because the things sold in those shops were not suitable for ordinary people to touch, but the effects of these Turing radicals attracted the attention of many ordinary people. Compared with unknown items that look weird but have no power, this kind of mysterious power that can be felt personally attracts these ordinary people more.

Therefore, at the door of almost every store on the wall, you can see some ordinary people full of curiosity. They keep trying to get close to the entrance of the store one by one, and then they are affected by the power, and they stay away from the entrance. It seems that they will have this power, and every attempt will arouse their greater curiosity.

For the controllers of the black market, the descendants of these rich and powerful merchants in Port of Dorset are all pockets of activity. It is in the interests of the black market to attract these people to the black market and arouse their curiosity. After all, only relying on Xiang Chaofan The benefits obtained by the perpetrators from selling all kinds of strange objects and spiritual items are not enough to support such a huge black market organization. It is the black market's interests to sell contraband items that cannot be found on the market to the city's rulers through the descendants of those dignitaries. big head.

Although there are a lot of people in this market, because the market area is very large, more than a hundred people are scattered, but it seems a bit empty and deserted.

After Leo came to the market, he was not in a hurry to go to the surrounding shops to see what good things were for sale in those shops. Like other ordinary people who had just entered here, he walked back and forth among the stalls in the square.

Through the spiritual network, Leo knew very well that most of the people who set up stalls here are ordinary people, and most of the stalls are handicrafts that imitate wizards and some antiques with obvious religious characteristics, but this is not true. It means there is nothing good in it.

Leo stayed in front of a stall near the innermost side of the underground plaza, squatted down, searched among a pile of messy sacrificial objects, and picked out a beautifully carved stone box. After opening the box, you can see An antique knight's war chess set.

Knight war chess first appeared in the French Empire, but it was the Kingdom of England that really carried forward. Even the modern rules of knight war chess were formulated by the War Chess Association of the Kingdom of England. Because of this, knight war chess is very popular in the Kingdom of England. Popular, many nobles who are keen on war chess like to take a pair of exquisite war chess as their funeral objects, and now the knight war chess in Leo's hands is the funeral object of a certain nobleman.

However, this set of chess pieces is different from the current game chess set popular in Vinylon. This set of chess pieces is a set of combat chess pieces.

The flags of ordinary games are 30 fixed flags. There are commanders, staff officers, knights, and attendants. The number of each type of chess pieces is fixed. But combat chess is different. Combat chess has seventy-eight chess pieces with different functions. These chess pieces even include non-combat units such as catapults and porters. Anyone can choose from these seventy-eight chess pieces with different functions. Take out thirty chess pieces, form your own exclusive knights, and fight.

In addition, the most special rule of battle chess is that the types of chess pieces can be superimposed, that is, if the person wants, he can even form a knight group composed entirely of commanders.

There are too many types of chess pieces, the rules are complicated, and the gameplay is too chaotic. Therefore, the War Chess Association of the Kingdom of England wants to change the rules of knight war chess, simplify the rules and gameplay, and greatly reduce the number and types of knight war chess. The reduction eventually formed this more popular knight war chess. And the ancient game of knight war chess is rarely played by anyone except those who are really obsessed with knight war chess.

The reason why Leo knows this kind of knight war chess is mainly because the old man Rembrandt is also one of the lovers of knight war chess, and he is also the honorary chairman of the World Knight War Chess Association. When he was studying with the old man Rembrandt, he was dragged by the old man Rembrandt more than once to play this extremely complicated knight game, and because he still had a second brain at the time, he easily won Time and time again, old man Rembrandt almost completely lost his desire to play knight chess.

Right now, the battle chess set in Leo's hand is formed according to the organization of a regular knight order. Each knight is equipped with two attendant knights, which happens to be ten knights. There are a lot fewer attendants, only seven, and cracks appear on the surface of the seven, which look like they will crack at any time.

Leo didn't pay attention to this set of battle chess because it was particularly beautifully made, but more because this incomplete set of battle chess was actually a set of magical artifacts for wizards. Even without the spirit net or spirit vision, Leo could still It is very clear to feel the strong spiritual energy contained in this set of combat chess.

The moment he picked up the battle chess, he became more and more sure that this set of battle chess was not just a wizard's wonder, but more likely a creation of the tower wizard, because he easily saw through the hidden treasures through his spiritual vision. The Turing radicals under the camouflage pattern, and the arrangement and arrangement of these Turing radicals, made him think of the stone ball that trapped the Eye of Reality, and the two are connected in many ways.

"How much is this set of fighting chess?" After confirming the source of this set of fighting chess, Leo decided to buy it even though he didn't know how to use this set of fighting chess. And the mystery of the tower wizard's magic circle contained in it, it is already worth his money to take it down.

"Fifty golden shields." The stall owner is just an ordinary tomb robber, and he doesn't know the true value of this set of fighting chess, but he has been setting up a stall in the black market all year round, and he has already cultivated a good eye for observing words and expressions. He didn't hide his emotions, so it was easy for the other party to capture Leo's thoughts, and then offered what he thought was the highest price.

After getting the quotation, Leo took out his wallet without thinking about it, took out a cash check for fifty gold shields and handed it to the stall owner, then turned around and walked towards the nearest shop with the fighting chess.

Leo's actions undoubtedly made the stall owner realize that his quotation was too low, and his greed drove him to stop Leo and refuse to admit the deal. After passing through and entering the shop, the greed in his heart was instantly extinguished, because he knew very well who could be provoked and who could not be provoked in this black market.

He didn't want to lose his life in vain because of provoking those mysterious people like some hot-headed unlucky ones.

Leo didn't care about the small thoughts of the stall owner at all. After entering the shop, his attention was already attracted by the various items in the shop.

This shop does not sell any wizards and wonders, but a bookstore, a bookstore specializing in the sale of ancient sheepskin scrolls.

In the past, when there was no paper, people in the Vinylon world mainly relied on parchments as the carrier of civilization. It was only because after the invention of paper that relatively bulky and expensive parchments were gradually abandoned.

It's just that ordinary people have abandoned the parchment scrolls. For wizards, parchment scrolls or parchment-like scrolls are still the carrier they use to record witchcraft.

It is naturally impossible to find ancient books such as wizard's notes in this shop, but other parchments are also very attractive to Leo, because he saw in the notes under some ancient parchment books that many have disappeared from the market. These ancient books come from the record books of some ancient civilization tribes. Some may only record some trifles of the tribe, but they may also record some useful content.

"Are there any parchment scrolls from the primitive tribes on the Mosang Continent wasteland?" Leo glanced at the annotations on all the parchment scrolls in the room, but didn't find what he wanted, so he went straight to the bookcase A man in black robe asked.

"Yes." The black-robed man answered simply.

"How many?" Leo continued to ask without paying attention to the other party's tone.

"Three volumes." The man in black also responded quickly.

"How much."

"A roll of three thousand gold shields."

Hearing this price, Leo frowned, because this price should be the price of spiritual items such as wizards and wonders, and judging from the asking prices of those spiritual items outside, the three thousand gold shield is already considered very high .

Seeing that Leo frowned, the man in black added another sentence, saying, "It's the sacrificial scroll of the tribal priest."

Hearing the explanation from the black-robed man, Leo's brows not only did not loosen, but frowned even tighter, because if it is really an ancient sacrificial scroll owned by the priest of the wasteland tribe, as the black-robed man said, then the three The price of the thousand gold shield is too cheap. According to the information Leo got from the old man Rembrandt, the price of the ancient sacrificial scroll at the latest auction was as high as 60,000 gold flanges, and there were no depreciated gold flanges.

Perhaps feeling the doubt in Leo's heart, the man in black explained: "The ancient scroll is incomplete, and there is a curse attached to it. Anyone who gets the ancient scroll will encounter some unavoidable disasters."

Hearing what the man in black said, Leo didn't feel worried, but became more interested, so he said to the man in black, "Take it out! If it's true, I'll take it."

Hearing this, the man in black turned around and walked to a bookcase, opened a drawer on the bookcase, took out a very inconspicuous box, and placed it in front of Leo.

Although the box looks ordinary, Leo's spirit vision can see a large number of Turing radicals on the surface of the box. These Turing radicals are combined to form a forbidden magic circle. Things are tightly sealed.

Judging from the combination rules of the Turing radicals, Leo could easily judge that the box was probably made by the wizard in the black market, and the Turing radical combinations on the box were more and clearer, which made Leo I couldn't help being interested, so I asked, "Is this box included too?"

The man in black didn't expect that Leo would ask such a question, he was stunned for a moment, looked at the box, but finally did not change the price, nodded, and said, "This box is also included."

Hearing this, Leo didn't even open the box to see if the sacrificial ancient scroll inside really contained curse power, so he directly signed a cash check for 9,000 gold shields, handed it to the man in black, and put the box away.