Chapter 269: Dark Tide' Black Market

Phosphorus fire wandered among the rusted ship bones, confirming that countless corpses were buried among the shipwreck ruins.

Passing through the archway formed by the ship ribs, a deep cave appeared in front of them. It turned out that the group had passed through the shipwreck ruins and arrived in front of the cliff of the crescent bay without knowing it.

The cave was covered with slippery seaweed, and the deep darkness inside, plus the bald man squatting there playing cards next to the cave entrance, completely met everyone's stereotype of the black market.

Seeing Nie Yingying's group coming, the two big men just raised their eyelids and glanced at them before ignoring them, continuing to lower their heads and play cards.

Mei Pengcheng was not surprised at all, leading the group through the cave entrance into the interior of the cliff mountain.

"They... don't care about us?" The good baby Duanmu Xing really couldn't help asking.

"Who? Ah, Miss Duanmu is talking about the two guys at the door. We are travelers, travelers are frequent visitors to the black market. If it were natives, it wouldn't be so easy, there would be introductions and so on." Mei Pengcheng didn't care about this at all. Whether it was a traveler or his pirate identity, he could go unimpeded here.

Passing through the narrow cave entrance, the whole space suddenly opened up.

"The boss of this black market has energy, actually being able to dig out such a large space in the mountain to do black market business."

"That's right! A fixed place, and it has been operating for decades without being checked and sealed by the official! Hehe! With such energy, it must be very safe!"

Mei Pengcheng's cheap words immediately confirmed Nie Yingying's guess.

Unless it was the official's acquiescence, such a large-scale black market could not be opened at all, and it would be checked and sealed soon after it was opened.

The huge mountain was dug out from the middle into a human-shaped passage. The shops on both sides of the passage actually had numbers at the door, which made these shops look like prison cells.

And the central intersection of the human-shaped passage had many temporary stalls.

Pointing to the black-faced men patrolling in pairs in the passage, Mei Pengcheng whispered: "As long as you pay the stall fee to those guys, you can set up a stall on the ground here. Sell whatever you want, no one cares about you at all!"

Mei Pengcheng introduced while leading the way.

"Fake treasure maps, strange jewelry, inexplicable magical items, drugs with unknown effects, sharp weapons, everything is here... except people, slave trading is no longer in Golden Port."

Speaking of this, Mei Pengcheng couldn't help but laugh. After seeing the suspicious eyes of Nie Yingying and others, he hurriedly explained.

"I'm not a pervert. The thing is like this, Golden Port also had slave trading before, not far from here, it was that viewing platform at Xiaxian Kou, those wooden racks before were used to tie slaves."

"Later, a Virgin traveler came to Golden Port and went crazy when she saw slave trading here! That was really a good fight. The Coast Guard died more than half, and those slave traders died even more! But in the end, that Virgin traveler also lost a life!"

"The most exaggerated thing is that the guy came back after being resurrected and saw that the Lisi Kingdom didn't intend to engage in that slave trading field anymore, so it was considered over! Haha, didn't expect there to be such a person, haha... ha..."

Looking at the eyes of Nie Yingying and the four women, Mei Pengcheng's laughter became smaller and smaller, and finally he lowered his head guiltily.

Mei Pengcheng's thoughts represented the thoughts of most travelers. Travelers only treat this world as a giant online game, so no one will empathize with the NPCs in the game. After seeing such a person, they will feel ridiculous instead.

Do whatever you want, but don't hurt!

This is almost the mentality of most travelers!

"Not there yet?"

Nie Yingying's soft inquiry made Mei Pengcheng feel relieved.

"Here, here! Just ahead at number twenty-three, look, just there!"

Almost indistinguishable from other shops, the cell-like shop front was separated by a high counter. A thin and tall man wearing a dark purple velvet robe was sitting quietly behind the counter reading a book, with some marine-style wood carvings, copper ornaments, minerals, herbs, and spices on the shelves behind him.

Except for being a bit cleaner and tidier than other shops around, the whole shop had almost no characteristics.

In fact, Nie Yingying and others had long discovered that the goods in these shops had almost no characteristics and value like those on the street stalls just passed by. In that place, Nie Yingying even found several items identified as 'props'.

And the owners of these shops were almost all natives of the Fairytale World, but there were quite a few travelers setting up stalls on the other side.

However, they soon understood why.

These shops were almost all representing large-scale commodity trading, or simply shops for identification, divination, and a series of inexplicable things. Instead, those street stalls were places to buy or sell personal gains.

"Silvio, Silvio! I'm back, do you still have 'Siren's Tears'? Give me five, no, six, I want six!"

Silvio, whose silver-gray long hair was woven into black obsidian beads and meticulously managed, raised his head and was about to speak, but saw Nie Yingying's group standing in front of the counter.

The words that came to his mouth were immediately swallowed back, and instead, he looked at the travelers standing in front of the counter with a scrutinizing look.

After a long while, the thin middle-aged man spoke slowly.

"Seven gold coins and twenty silver coins, you can give seven gold coins!"

Mei Pengcheng was shocked.

"I, it's me! You still want money?"

"Yes, I know it's you!"

"The payment for the goods on the ship hasn't been settled yet! Deduct it from the payment!"

Silvio shook his head calmly.

"I suspect you want to use public office for private gain, you must pay separately!"

"You..."

Mei Pengcheng still wanted to argue, but was stopped by Nie Yingying on the side, who threw out seven gold coins and watched the black market merchant in front of her quietly.

Taking six sea-blue potions from the shelf behind him and placing them on the counter.

Nie Yingying didn't reach out to take them, just watched quietly.

The air fell silent again.

In the dim light around and the whispering bargaining, cold sweat gradually seeped out on Silvio's forehead.

"No matter what, you still need my existence. My channels have been operated very maturely."

Nie Yingying turned to look at 'Skinny Monkey' Mei Pengcheng. At this time, the little pirate reacted to the secret confrontation just now.

"Silvio, you guy is quite smart! That's right, the old man is about to take the throne, this is my Big Sister, hehe!" Mei Pengcheng, who was proud of himself, grabbed the 'Siren's Tears' on the counter and distributed one to Agasha and the others. "Hmm, I think you have been doing well, follow me obediently in the future, I guarantee that your two percent profit will not be moved!"

After speaking, Mei Pengcheng secretly glanced at the Big Sister beside him. Seeing that Nie Yingying didn't express any objection, he immediately became proud again.

"You did the right thing this time, one yard is one yard. In the future, no matter who is sent to hand over on the ship, you must pay for the goods yourself, and not a single copper coin can be less for the old man." ===== CHAPTER 270 =====