NOVGO.NET Chapter 855 - 314: Items in the Black Market
Chapter 855: Chapter 314: Items in the Black Market
He asked, "How are women traded?"
"Depends on quality. The younger, the more expensive. For those aged twenty to thirty, you can take one with these packets of instant noodles in your hand."
"Those aged sixteen to twenty are twice the price."
"Under sixteen, four times the price."
"What about weapon materials and the like?" Liang Yuan asked.
The young man in the baseball cap said, "You’ll have to go upstairs for that. Usually, it’s all bartering."
Liang Yuan said, "Let’s take a look at the mutant materials and weapons first."
He led Tu Long and the others directly upstairs.
Wang Xiaoya gritted her teeth and said, "They really are engaged in human trafficking."
Chang Yan also felt a wave of humiliation, saying, "In their eyes, the price of an adult woman is only four packs of instant noodles! These animals!"
Ni Qi couldn’t help but say, "Mr. Liang, what do we do? Are we just going to let these animals go?"
Liang Yuan didn’t speak. Tu Long patted Ni Qi on the shoulder and said, "Don’t rush. Let’s understand the situation here and then settle the score later."
Ni Qi took a deep breath, suppressing the anger in his heart, and followed Liang Yuan upstairs.
They didn’t stop on the second or third floor and went straight to the fourth floor.
Between the floors, superpower users guarded the area, and there should be superpower users stationed in every room.
Upon reaching the fourth floor, Liang Yuan saw many people entering and exiting different rooms.
The guard was a burly man with a beard. He glanced at Liang Yuan and the others indifferently, without wasting words.
It seemed the young man in the baseball cap downstairs was the one taking the cut.
They didn’t charge anything upstairs.
Liang Yuan and his group entered the first room, where they saw four or five big men sitting or standing.
The room was filled with bone spears, bone whips, and bone shields made from gigantic fish spines.
There were also many bone sabers, bone swords, and bone hammers, all with unique designs, giving off a primitive vibe.
A sturdy man at the door said, "These bones are all from mutated creatures, tough and well-polished, with good sharpness and toughness. Once you mount a superpower stone, they can trigger special effects."
"However, we only sell the weapons here. The superpower stones need to be bought separately next door."
After finishing the introduction, he said no more.
Hearing this, Liang Yuan’s heart stirred slightly. Weapons made from mutant beast bones that could trigger special effects with superpower stones?
He hadn’t tried designing or conceptualizing this aspect before.
He walked into the room and casually picked up a bone sword.
This seemed to be made from the rib bone spikes of a mutant fish.
The sword tip was exceptionally sharp, the sides polished smooth and keen, coated with some non-lethal oil.
Liang Yuan sniffed it, and it seemed like fish oil.
As he examined the bone sword closely, he suddenly noticed special patterns on it.
The patterns seemed like they were engraved later.
The patterns extended to the handle.
At the guard of the handle, there was an openable groove where items could be embedded.
Liang Yuan immediately understood that this was where the superpower stones should be embedded.
He caressed the bone sword, looking at the patterns with a surprised expression in his eyes.
"This is rune technology."
"But it’s different from any runes disclosed by the military."
Liang Yuan’s interest was piqued. He put down the bone sword and went to look at a nearby bone hammer.
The hammerhead of the bone hammer was made from the head of a mutant fish, and the handle was fish bone.
In the fish-eye position on the hammerhead were two grooves, the places to embed superpower stones.
The runes were carved on the surface of the hammerhead and also linked to the grooves.
Liang Yuan examined the runes, which were identical to those on the bone sword.
He put down the bone hammer and looked at a bone whip.
This bone whip was made from the spine bone of some mutant creature.
The special structure of the spine allowed it to fold and bend, enabling the creation of a weapon like the bone whip.
The runes on the bone whip were embedded on the spine bone, but since the bone whip is not a single piece, the creator ingeniously threaded a tendon-like elastic cord through the joints of the bone whip.
Some rune connections were maintained by this major tendon.
Liang Yuan inwardly praised the intricate craftsmanship of the bone whip.
Undoubtedly, there were talented individuals in this black market, not only proficient in rune technology but also extremely creative and inventive.
Putting down the bone whip, he looked at the nearby bone shield.
The bone shield came in two specifications: one made with woven fine bone spikes as the shield surface.
The other used a whole piece of bone as the shield surface.
The shield surface made from woven bone spikes required no explanation; it was like a shield woven from vines.
The whole bone shield not only served as protective gear, but its sides were polished smooth, gleaming sharply.
Overall, this shield was elliptical, with pointed ends, reminiscent of the giant white bone found inside squids.
Inside this shield, there was a groove for placing superpower stones, and its handle was crafted from other bones with screws securing it, appearing quite solid.
Liang Yuan looked around at these bone weapons and felt as if his eyes had been opened to a new world.
The creator of these weapons was undoubtedly a person with much thought and creativity.
The question was whether the boss here was Lai Zhiyong.
"Hey, are you buying or not? If not, don’t touch them randomly."
One of the big men inside the room was impatient and coldly scolded.
Liang Yuan looked up, picked up a small bone knife, and asked, "How is this bone knife traded?"
"What do you have to trade?" The big man saw Liang Yuan wanted to buy a bone knife and immediately perked up, asking eagerly.
Several other big men also looked over.
Liang Yuan took out four packets of instant noodles and asked, "Is this okay?"
"Instant noodles?"
"White Elephant brand?"
"Four packs are too few."
They all gathered around, shaking their heads immediately upon seeing the four packets of instant noodles.
Liang Yuan reached into his pocket and pulled out a pack of chocolates, the kind that looks like gold coins and is sold loose in supermarkets.
"What about adding these?"
Seeing these chocolates, the big men’s eyes lit up.
Heaven knows how long it had been since they last ate something like this.
Before the great flood, hardly any adults would eat such a thing.
After all, it was too high in sugar, and adults eating too much risked getting fat or even diabetes.
But children loved it.
Yet after the great flood, with scarcity of food and clothing, chocolate, being high-caloric food, had become a sought-after snack.
One of the big men quickly grabbed the chocolates, saying, "Barely enough."
He eagerly tossed the knife to Liang Yuan, collected the instant noodles and chocolates, then looked at Liang Yuan expectantly and asked, "Do you have more?"
Liang Yuan smiled, "I have some more, but I don’t want to buy more weapons. I’d like to check out other rooms."
That big man quickly said, "Come on, you have so many people, how can one weapon be enough? Look, we also have bone whips, bone swords, bone knives, right, shields. These shields are top-notch. Insert an earth attribute superpower stone into this groove, and even strength-type superpower users would have a hard time with you."
The big man began to excitedly pitch his products to Liang Yuan.
Liang Yuan wasn’t swayed, simply asking, "I don’t need these weapons for now, I’d like to see if there are any other good items."
"Oh, yes, yes! Brothers, what’s in the other rooms is similar to ours, mostly weapons and some mutated beast bones, skins, and meat and such materials."
"By the way, you bought this dagger, don’t you need a superpower stone?"
"These superpower stones are good stuff, hard to come by. Everyone outside is scrambling for them now."
Liang Yuan raised an eyebrow and smiled, "What, do you have superpower stones here?"
"Heh, the way you talk, of course we do, we’re in business. Wait a moment, Old Qi, bring out the goods, this brother is a big customer."
He called over a man in his forties.
Upon this call, the man got up and came over. He had been sitting in the corner silently up until now, and Liang Yuan had hardly noticed him.
As he stood up, Liang Yuan noticed the man was nearly two meters tall and his Qi and blood were very vigorous.
Old Qi walked over, looked at Liang Yuan, and asked, "You want superpower stones?"
Liang Yuan smiled, "I need to see the goods first."
Old Qi looked at Liang Yuan, then at Tu Long and the others, pondering for a moment, then took a small cloth bag from the pocket inside his coat.
From the bag came a clinking sound, like glass marbles bumping together.
Liang Yuan looked toward the bag, yet Old Qi opened the bag and poured out four or five glass-like superpower stones.