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The two continued to walk down the stairs.

Lu Qing tried to illuminate the end of the spiral staircase with the glowing stone in his hand, but the little light was completely swallowed by darkness.It seems more and more that the bottom is bottomless.

"There are no railings on this staircase, what if someone rolls down?"

Shen Yi: "Someone will collect the corpse for free."

Oh, that's kind of... thoughtful.

Lu Qing didn't know how long she had gone down, the limited light of the stone in her hand made it impossible for her to see how deep the stairs were.Black market, oh black market...

Lu Qing finally knew why the black market was so hidden. It was estimated to be under the entire underground world of Central City, and it was not part of the underground construction plan.There are no perfect ventilation ducts, no energy lines, and the lack of breathing depends on oxygen inhalation, and the lighting depends on lighting stones.

After going down hundreds of steps, Lu Qing was caught off guard and stepped on the flat ground, and still didn't realize it.But it's not her fault, the spiral staircase leads to only a small platform, surrounded by black walls.

"Is no one going to find this place? What shall we do next?"

"What you are stepping on is ore with a special force field, which can shield most electronic equipment. Moreover, a black market certificate card is required to open the mechanism." Shen Yi opened the oxygen bottle and took a few deep breaths, as if he was alive again.She took out a black card with the words "Black Market Pass" written by the Aurora Empire on it. Below this line of words was the words of the God Sect, which also meant a black market pass. "Follow me, come back if you have any questions."

"Okay. Is the black market huge? This shouldn't be the only entrance, right?"

"It's very big. The black market in Central City should be the largest.——Lu Qing!" Shen Yi subconsciously answered Lu Qing, and then realized something was wrong. She called Lu Qing's name rather angrily, "From now on Start, shut up! Can you be a curious baby when you get home?"

"……OK."

Shen Yi held the black card and groped around the corner of the wall opposite the stairs for a while, only to hear a very slight "click" sound, and the wall sank back a few inches, opening another closed space. "It will reach the black market soon."

This is an airtight black box, which can accommodate five or six people at most.Lu Qing went in with Shen Yi, opened the oxygen bottle and inhaled like Shen Yi.The door on the wall closed slowly, and Lu Qing seemed to hear a "crack" sound, and then the black box fell down suddenly!

The sudden weightlessness made Lu Qing raise his hand to press the metal wall inside the black box, while the other hand wanted to protect Shen Yi.But before she stretched out her hand, Shen Yi's voice sounded: "Don't panic, this is a direct passage to the black market, it's very safe."

It's really safe.

After falling at extreme speed for a period of time, the falling speed of this machine slowed down quickly.Finally, it stopped firmly—five seconds later, the door of the black box opened automatically, and a faint light came in from the outside.

Is there a light here?Lu Qing swallowed back the question she just wanted to ask, and silently followed behind Shen Yi, keeping her face expressionless.

Shen Yi took Lu Qing's hand and skillfully led Lu Qing through the aisle.After twisting and turning and finally pushing open a door, Lu Qing seemed to see a lively market.There are many booths under the bright lights, and there are a few superpowers standing in front of many booths.

Shen Yi directly led Lu Qing to an empty stall owner. As soon as he approached, the stall owner stretched himself: "Buyers are getting slower and slower these days~"

"I'm not late." Shen Yi snorted, "Where's the goods? Where's your 'exclusive warehouse'?"

"He's going to the bathroom. Later...he's here." The stall owner stood up and looked around, saw his partner sharply, waved his hand, and then looked at Lu Qing behind Shen Yi: "The newly hired Superpowers? Since the price of storage superpower potions has dropped, there are more and more superpowers who can be used as 'warehouses'."

"It costs money to chat with him." Shen Yi obviously didn't want to talk nonsense with this guy, "Thirty percent off things."

The stall owner shook his head, raised his hand in a gesture of zipping his mouth, and said nothing more.

The transaction of explosives, grenades and bullets went very smoothly.The four of them came to the special trading area of ​​the black market, and the stall owner swiped his card to enter. The man called "warehouse" took out many boxes and piled them on the ground. Shen Yi opened them one by one for simple inspection, and then handed them to Lu Qing to put them away.The whole process is estimated to take less than 10 minutes.

After the arms deal was over, the warehouse took out a silver metal rod about two meters long. "This is a weapon developed by Zhou."

The stall owner took the stick, "Next, I will briefly demonstrate the function of this thing. The material is a special alloy developed by Leshi and Lushi. It is extremely hard and indestructible." The stall owner pinched the center of the metal stick, Twisting and pressing with both hands, "Look here!" The ingenious buckle clicked, and the stall owner held both hands flat, so that they could clearly see that the long stick was divided into two.At the place where the middle is separated, the almost transparent blade is slowly pulled out. In order to let them see more clearly, the stall owner pressed a slight protrusion on the end of the long stick. The two ends separated in the middle of the metal rod are the transparent blade. The tip of the blade glowed white. "This can be used as a lighting, the color of the light can be adjusted. The only drawback is that it needs to absorb and store solar energy."

"The long stick can be divided into two spikes. The long stick is two meters long, and if it is divided into two halves, it is one meter long. The transparent spikes are very sharp and can't even be noticed in the dark. If you can't see your The spikes can turn on the lights, and it would be very cool if the lights were red or blue." The stall owner turned the light to red, and danced the two spiked sticks in the dark... However, as weapons like spikes, A one-meter-long stick does not seem to be danceable, and it is not very convenient. "Of course, the flaws are also obvious. The light-emitting function is very weak, and the spikes cannot be replaced after they are worn out. It is troublesome to split the long stick into two spikes and then restore them. It is difficult for you to align the grooves on both sides and twist the mechanism during the battle. Even if you have to twist the mechanism to draw them away when you start a battle, it is very troublesome, after all, you must draw them evenly."

Cool, fancy, troublesome.

Tasteless, unused, price cut.

"Besides the bells and whistles, it's still great as a pole weapon." The stall owner paused, "The downside is that it's a bit heavy."

After the introduction, the stall owner looked at Shen Yi expectantly, and Shen Yi touched Lu Qing's arm.

"With it, can the total be discounted?" Lu Qing asked.

"Of course, this lady and I are old acquaintances—how about a [-]% discount?" The stall owner felt relieved and handed the long stick over with a smile.

"[-]% off. I even risked being imprisoned to buy arms from you so many times!" Shen Yi felt that [-]% off was not enough.

"...You are risking going to jail if you buy from others. All right, 19% off is 16% off." The stall owner was very helpless, "I hope you can take these and do more tasks to make some money. This time, don’t bargain with me in this small business. The total is almost [-] Shuguang coins, and I will give you a [-]% discount, [-]..."

"Two million."

"...All right, sixteen is sixteen."

Shen Yi took out a stack of 32 Dawn Coins from her bag, carefully counted [-] and put them into the hands of the stall owner.

The transaction was smoother than Lu Qing had imagined, the stall owner did not cheat, and there were no robbers.In this way, they received the goods smoothly, and then returned to the platform through the black box smoothly——

Shen Yi looked very bad.Lu Qing looked up at the revolving stairs, and probably understood what Shen Yi was worried about. "It's okay, I have a solution."

Shen Yi was stunned for a moment, then she approached Lu Qing, "Thank you, you are really—" Lu Qing stuffed a new oxygen bottle into her arms.The smile on the corner of Shen Yi's mouth was stiff, she stared at Lu Qing expressionlessly, and she heard this guy "comfort" and said: "I knew that one bottle was not enough for you to drink."

Little bastard.

Shen Yi squeezed the oxygen bottle tightly, "Thank you. Go back, if you have any questions, we'll talk about it later."

"Okay, but before that..." Lu Qing squatted down with his back facing Shen Yi, "Come on, let me carry you up?"

"No."

"That was just a joke. I don't want you dying on the stairs."

"...Did you always talk to your sister like this before?" Shen Yi pursed her lips, and still lay on Lu Qing's back.

"..." Lu Qing froze for a moment when she got up, and then she carried Shen Yi on her back steadily. Shen Yi's thin body was not heavy at all. "No. But you're not a sister."

"Sorry, I shouldn't have…"

"You are a teammate." Lu Qing said, "Maybe you will be my first friend."

"..." Shen Yi didn't say anything, she put her arms around Lu Qing's neck, rubbed her head sideways against Lu Qing's hair, and whispered "Sorry".

"No matter how quiet you are, I can still hear you." Lu Qing smiled and said, "Hold the lighting stone, I still need to see the steps under my feet."

"……Um."

Everything went very well.When Lu Qing and the others returned to the previous box, the dishes on the dinner table were completely cold.Shen Yi took a few packing boxes from the dark compartment in the secret passage, put the chopsticks in the dishes to make them dirty, then poured these dishes into the packing boxes one by one, and finally handed them to Lu Qing to put them in the space.

These untouched dishes will be their dinner when they go back to heat up.

"You will get familiar with your new weapons after you leave the central city." After returning to the residence, Shen Yi obviously relaxed.Seeing Lu Qing's excitement holding the metal rod, as if a child was eager to try a new toy, she couldn't help reminding.

Neither her family's home nor the residents of Central City could stand Lu Qing experimenting with new weapons.

"Okay." Lu Qing just weighed the stick and got used to the feel, and she put it away as soon as Shen Yi said.Sitting on the stool, he began to seriously ask questions about the black market: "Who is the founder of the black market?"

"?" Shen Yixin said why didn't you ask me who the founder of the Dawn Empire was, she said angrily, "I don't know. There was a black market before the central city was established, but the black market didn't have a stable stronghold back then. No one knows who the founder of the black market is, and no one knows who controls the black market now... The most common saying is that the black market belongs to every superpower who needs an underground exchange."