The Mysterious World Under Steampunk

After entering the alley, Leo walked straight up to a group of children, took out five bia banknotes, and said, "I'm going to the Helmet and Fish Tavern. Whoever takes me there will own the five bia."

Hearing Leo's words, these children all looked eager to try, but with a cough, a little boy in a blue shirt and a three-cornered hat came out, and all the children restrained themselves.

The little boy dressed as an adult with a dirty face walked up to Leo, imitated some adults and saluted Leo, and said: "Dear sir, I know the location of the Helmet and Fish Tavern, I can take you Go, but I need ten bia."

"Yes, this is a deposit." Leo didn't say much about this kind of behavior of sitting on the ground, and directly stuffed the five biya banknotes in his hand into the little boy's hand, saying: "The remaining five biya will arrive I'll give it another place."

"Please follow me." The little boy stuffed the banknotes into his pocket, turned around, and ran towards the depths of the alley.

Leo followed, and under the leadership of the little boy, he shuttled back and forth in the maze-like alleys, and quickly headed towards the center of the Yucheng District.

About ten minutes later, the little boy led Leo through a small alley, and stopped after arriving at a small square. Pointing to the tavern with helmets and fish painted on the signboard ahead, he said, "Here we are."

Leo took out the remaining five bia, handed it to the little boy, and said, "Next time you lead the way, just take it directly to the destination. There is no need to deliberately take a ten-minute detour."

"I'm not worried that you think the road is too short, so it's not worth spending ten bia?" The little boy quickly took the remaining 5 bia, without any embarrassment after being exposed, and said with a smile.

It turned out that the little boy deliberately took Leo for a ten-minute detour between the houses in the Yushi District just now. Leo, who had already built a topographic map through the spiritual network, naturally found it out easily. It's just that he didn't expose the other party at that time, he just wanted to see what this little boy wanted to do? Are you going to lead him into a trap?

Unexpectedly, the result was only because this place was only a few houses away from the entrance of the alley he entered, and it could be reached by two steps.

Although being led back and forth for no reason in the dark alleys with sewage flowing across the ground and feces pouring from their heads at any time is a bit annoying, but it is not without benefits, at least those who follow are easily Get rid of it, saving him the trouble of killing these people himself.

The little boy put Wubia away carefully, and when he was about to leave, he stopped again and said to Leo who was walking towards the tavern: "Sir, you are a straightforward person, you not only gave the money happily, but also didn't blame my little one." Wrong, so I will give you another reminder, after entering, hit harder, even if you kill someone, it doesn't matter, because it will save you a lot of trouble."

After finishing speaking, he was seen taking small steps, quickly getting into a group of drunkards, quickly stroking their waists with his hands, and disappearing into the crowd.

"Interesting little guy!" Leo smiled when he saw this scene, feeling that the little boy seemed to know the purpose of entering the tavern, but he didn't think about it, turned and continued to walk towards the tavern.

When he came to the entrance of the tavern, Leo pushed the door open and entered, a heat wave that was completely different from the cold outside rushed towards him, and it was also mixed with the smell of low-quality beer, men's and women's sweat, and cheap perfume.

Leo's arrival did not affect the carnival that was going on in the tavern. A group of coolies in rough canvas trousers and sleeveless pullovers were throwing away the money they earned all day on the poor-quality beer and plump waitresses. On Ying's big ass, they only want to be drunk once, and they don't care about other things outside.

There were only a few burly men wearing pullovers sitting in the shaded corner of the tavern, but they could echo each other and monitor every part of the tavern. When Leo walked in, their eyes glanced at him. Putting their hands under the table or on the weapons in their clothes, it was obvious that Leo had put a lot of pressure on them.

Leo ignored these people, walked directly to the bar, took out the black market access card from his pocket and put it on the table.

The reason why Leo knew about Yushi District, Helmet and Fishmeat, a slum tavern that even the locals of Miria City might not know about, was all because of this black card.

When Leo left the building of the Velen Medical Association, the black card on his body seemed to be activated, releasing a wave of spiritual energy information, and Leo who was closest to him naturally became the recipient. The section of information is very short, just two place names, Fish City and Helmet and Fish Tavern.

Obviously, these two place names refer to the location of the black market in Miria City, so Leo came up with the idea of ​​going to the black market.

He came to the black market not only to see what this mysterious black market was buying and selling, but also to find a suitable buyer for the Ability God cells in his body.

In addition, let's see if we can buy a batch of special bullets, because the current situation will be a drop in the bucket if the queen transforms the ammunition alone, and it will need to be purchased in large quantities for storage. And this kind of special bullet is a controlled product in any country, and it is impossible to buy it on the market. You can only try your luck in this black market.

Finally, there is another thing that I just thought of on the road, which is to see if I can collect information about the house that the villa old man mentioned in the black market, which can save him most of the time and can be collected in more detail.

After showing the black card in front of the bartender, the bartender put down the wine utensils in his hand, turned around and found a hidden pull ring on the wine cabinet, and pulled it twice.

After a while, an old man in a tuxedo and a top hat came out from the small door leading to the back of the tavern, which was incompatible with the surrounding environment.

He walked to Leo's side, looked at the black card on the table, saluted Leo, and said, "Guests, please follow me."

After finishing speaking, he turned around and led the way. Leo picked up the black card and followed behind. After entering through the small door of the tavern, he walked up the stairs to the second floor of the tavern, and walked to the adjacent house from a small bridge on the second floor.

In this room, the old man stopped and said to Leo: "Guest, please give me the black card for inspection."

Leo didn't say anything, he took out the black card and handed it over.

The old man took the black card and walked to a half-person-high mechanical device next to the house, and saw that he inserted the black card into a specific slot of the device and pulled a small push rod next to the device. There was a mechanical sound unique to the steam engine, and the gears on the device began to rotate automatically, and bursts of steam burst out from the pipe next to it from time to time, and then the ten test tube-shaped things at the top of the device were injected with some fluorescent gas, one by one. Lights up and stops on the eighth.

Seeing that the eighth test tube was lit by fluorescent gas, the old man was also a little surprised. He was stunned for a while, then pulled the push rod back, turned off the machine, pulled out the black card, and handed it back to Leo.

At this time, Leo saw that there were eight extra stars on the black card that had no patterns, and according to his inspection, these eight stars did not seem to be engraved, but more like It exists, but it is covered by something, and the operation just now should be to remove the cover.

The old man said to Leo very respectfully: "You are an eight-star guest of our black market, and you can enjoy corresponding discounts when you buy items from us. In addition, you can get an 80% commission reduction for any items you sell with us."

After finishing speaking, the old man led Leo down the stairs, walked through several rooms, and came to a door, and motioned Leo to choose a cloak and a mask from the wardrobe next to the door.

Leo randomly picked a black cloak to cover his body, and then picked a bird-shaped mask similar to the beak mask used by the doctor, and put it on his face.

At this time, the old man opened the door and led Leo in.

Behind this door is a place similar to a small theater, showing a funnel shape, surrounded by boxes, and each box has a special entrance and exit.

In the center of the bottom of the funnel, where the stage should have been, there is now a round stone platform, and the light from dozens of special crystal lamps around it is all gathered on the stone platform, so that people in the surrounding boxes can easily see the stone platform clearly on something.

"Please wait a moment, there are still twenty-three minutes before this black market transaction." The old man motioned to Leo to sit on the chair near the window of the box, and then asked, "Do you want to drink anything?"

"No need!" Leo walked over and sat down, then looked around, and asked the old man standing beside him with some doubts: "Is there no list of items to buy?"

"Guest, this is the first time I've come to the black market, so I'm afraid I don't understand the rules of our black market." The old man explained carefully: "Our black market only provides a safe and reliable place for customers who need to trade items, and provides a way to test the value of the items." Professionals, we do not directly participate in the transaction. If the customer is not willing to sell or buy items here, you can also tell us, we will help the customer to contact the appropriate seller and buyer, and the customer will negotiate the price of the transaction and be responsible for it Item inspection. Of course, we will take a part of the commission for every transaction in the black market."

"I have an item that I want to sell, see if it's not difficult to arrange it first." Leo took out a box from his backpack, took out the Ability God Cell inside, and placed it on the table next to him .

"It's a different god cell, I haven't seen this thing for a long time." The old man easily identified the different god cell, and then saw him walk to the side of the room, opened a cabinet, and took out a typewriter-sized Put the mechanical box on the table, put the Ability God cell on the tray on the box, and then grab the lever next to the box and slowly turn it.

I saw that the gears of the mechanical box began to engage with each other with the rotation of the lever, and then some small mechanical arms protruded from around the tray, and each mechanical arm had a prism that was constantly flashing light.

As the speed at which the old man rotates the lever changes, these mechanical arms seem to be constantly rotating around the Ability God cells on the tray according to specific rules, and from time to time, some rays of light shoot out from the prism, drill through the Ability God cells, and fall to the On the edge of the tray are metal beans that can respond to light.

These metal beans will produce some color changes after being hit by light. When all the little beans had changed, the old man stopped turning the lever, and the little beans and the surrounding prisms sank into the box, and then a graduated test tube on the box began to be filled with fluorescent gas, which rose straight up to five to five At the position between six, it stopped, and the color of the fluorescent gas also changed from red to light green.

"It's a fifth-level alien cell, a mutation of the human body, but it has some defects and failed to reach level six." The old man found a delicate small box, took off the alien cell on the tray, and put it in it. Then he wrote the result of the inspection just now on a card, and then asked: "Guest, are you going to trade money or return the item."

"Trading money." Although Leo did not lack money for food, clothing, housing and transportation, he did not have the money to buy precious items such as special bullets.

Hearing this, the old man wrote these requirements on a piece of paper, then inserted the piece of paper into the slot on the box cover, sealed the box cover, put it on the small platform of the window, and pulled the pull ring.

After a while, someone came up to take the item away, and left a contract to prove the item.

While waiting for the black market to open, Leo wanted to release the spirit net and check the surrounding situation, but soon he discovered that there was also a disturbing energy field similar to that of the old man in the villa in this house.

It's just that the interference energy field here is much weaker. He felt that if he increased the input of psionic energy and increased the penetration of the spiritual network, he should be able to break through the influence of the force field, but he didn't do so after thinking about it.

Because since these people can open a black market in a place like Miria City, they are naturally fully prepared. If he breaks through the influence of the force field, but touches other arrangements of the black market, it will cause extra troubles and unnecessary troubles.

As the mechanical clock in the house rang, a middle-aged man also wearing a top hat and a tuxedo walked to the platform, and then said some scene words to the surrounding boxes, and then started to get to the point, putting the Ability God Cells in full bloom. The box was taken out, placed on the platform, and the card on the box was drawn out to read the contents above.

Although these rooms are equipped with sound-proof wall panels, Leo's sensitive ears can still hear some surprised sounds from the surrounding rooms when the black market host mentioned that the boxes contain Ability God cells.

Afterwards, there was no sound of quotation similar to that of the auction house, but the people in each box wrote their prices on the cards, and handed them over to the waiter in charge of receiving the guests in the boxes, and finally sent them to Leo. , and at the same time, the host also started a black market transaction for the second item.