Chapter 48： Cursed Crystal

"This guy's bloated body is not a disguise, but is it really a physical change caused by aberration?"

Su Lun looked at the dazzling words [Semi-distorted Human] that appeared on the head of the cloak stall owner, and felt a little weird.

Distortion is distortion, and there is also the term "semi-distortion"?

What kind of state is this stall owner now, a person, or a monster?

This again involves Su Lun’s knowledge blind zone.

But thinking, sensible, should be regarded as human.

He didn't think too much, and instead focused on the potion on the booth.

Things are good things, and the prices are really cheap.

At this moment, if Su Lun has money in his pocket, he will definitely buy these potions. The packaging is so simple, it is impossible to sell it, but it is also excellent to keep it for yourself.

Unfortunately, he has no money.

...

Su Lun did not intend to give up this opportunity to "leak up". When watching the crowd scattered around the stall, he walked over and said directly: "I plan to take all of you medicines, but I didn't bring enough. Cash. Can you leave another contact method and contact you when I find the money? Of course, everything is done in accordance with the rules of the black market."

There is nothing wrong with that.

People in the black market are very vigilant, and most of them don’t keep their own contact information, but you can leave a middleman. For example, some pubs have a special service to send messages to guests. The two parties agree on a secret code, get it by themselves, and complete the transaction without seeing each other, which is safe and concealed.

Because he has no money for the time being, he wants to talk about the contact information of the stall owner first, and then think of a way to hook up.

Pharmaceuticals are still secondary, no matter how expensive the price difference is, there are only four. If these medicines were refined by the stall owner himself, it would be a continuous supply, and this would be the real "big leak". Rather than a one-off sale.

The owner of the black cloak was overjoyed when he heard that someone wanted to buy his own medicine.

After listening to Su Lun's words, he immediately shook his head and said, "No, I only need cash."

"..."

Listening to his tone, Su Lun seemed to be in urgent need of money.

But when I thought about it, I suddenly realized that such a good medicine is sold at a low price, and it must be an urgent need for money.

This also made him even more curious about the identity of this guy. The pharmacists who can refine this kind of medicine are all the elites of the upper class society in the inner city. Dare to show up, 80% of them are wanted criminals or something.

After another nearly a minute, Su Lun racked his brains and talked about a few plans, but the stall owner stubbornly had to make cash transactions now.

He knew that if he continued speaking, he seemed a little bit ill-informed, so he could only retreat and said: "That's really a shame... If you change your mind, you can leave a message at the "Three Muskete Tavern" on Green Street at any time. The code is 'Pigeon'. I get news and will contact you as soon as possible..."

"This..."

Hearing this, the stall owner seemed to hesitate.

Obviously, he also knew that his potions were not easy to sell, and finally met an interested buyer, and he didn't want to just give up like this.

Just when he was hesitating whether to agree, suddenly he seemed to have seen something in the crowd, and a panic flashed in his eyes: "Sorry, sir, I have to go in a hurry..."

said, before Su Lun had any reaction, he put away a few potions in the booth and mixed into the crowd in a panic.

...

Su Lun had noticed that the stall owner's eyes were erratic before, and he seemed to be afraid of being recognized.

Watching him leave suddenly, Su Lun was a little surprised, and he glanced at the crowd in the black market, and didn't know who the stall owner saw so panicked.

咦...It seems that you have met those two windbreakers before?

Su Lun didn't look much, narrowed his eyes, and mixed into the crowd.

His own identity is not visible, and staying for a long time is useless.

But with this brief exchange, Su Lun also guessed that the stall owner was young and polite, and the tutor should be good. Eighty percent came from the inner city.

An urgent lack of money, a deformed body, and a lot of accomplishments in pharmacy...

Thinking about it in Su Lun's mind, there is a rough guess in his mind about the origin of the stall owner, maybe it was from a family of doctors in the inner layer?

Although people are gone, he has done everything that should be done, and he didn't bother to worry about it anymore.

Looking at the lively black market in front of him, Su Lun sighed slightly: "I hope he will contact me..."

...

I have been here several times before, and Su Lun has roughly figured out what the various shops on the black market sell.

He didn't waste time in the shops with savvy bosses, wandering all the way, and slowly walked to the temporary shed area at the bottom of the black market.

The black market today is probably because of the emergence of relics and treasures, and many rich people have come to hide the bigwigs. As a result, many speculative vendors have come.

Some of them are even branches of the Chamber of Commerce from the inner city.

After all, although the outer city is poor and the population is dozens of times that of the inner city, the low-end market is also very profitable.

Those low-end goods that cannot be sold in the inner city, second-hand goods, are top sellers in the outer city. Such as textiles, obsolete steam equipment, mechanical prostheses...

Su Lun passed by the stalls with a large number of mechanical prostheses, and took a look, the military mechanical prostheses eliminated from the inner city were indeed good. Although old and detachable parts, they are definitely fine-quality parts in the gang machinery modification shop.

These military machinery are all "prohibited goods", and the inner city will be destroyed in a concentrated manner and will not be shed. I don't know where the speculators get their supplies.

However, waste machinery and prostheses are not cheap, costing tens of thousands. A mechanic with good eyesight may be able to make a difference of 20 to 30% of the price of a disassembled part, but the amount of capital required is huge.

Su Lun doesn't have that much money, and the mechanical parts are not suitable.

turned around again, but didn't want to be attracted by a lively store.

It was the first time that it appeared in the black market in the shop, and the sign of "Rose Ore Trading Company" was directly hung on it.

Su Lun never knew where the memory fragments harvested contained the impression of this firm.

This is a business under the head of the well-known chaebol "Hide Mining Group" in the inner city, which specializes in various rare ore businesses.

Far away, I heard the clamor in full swing.

"Oh, my goodness, this gentleman is so lucky. Three rough stones produced a high-purity ‘cursed crystal’! Nine hundred risos earned ten thousand!"

"Come on, take a look, three hundred liso, free cutting."

"The 801 high-purity cursed rough stones here have a chance to produce the best crystals..."

"..."

approached and saw several large piles of fist-sized gray stones piled on the floor of the shop.

And a group of people are bending over looking for something in the hill-like stone pegs. They are "lighting up" and "watering", looking at the stones back and forth, with enthusiasm in their eyes.

"This thing... isn't it just betting on rocks?"

Su Lun looked at this familiar scene and immediately realized what those people were doing.

......

"Cursed Crystal" is the most important hard currency in this world.

It is a kind of special energy crystal like emerald. The crystal contains a very large amount of energy and has a wide range of applications.

Cultivation, spellcasting, enchanting, gold making, mechanical energy supply...In the field of alchemy, almost all the energy used in the "law of equivalent exchange" involved refers to this thing.

Cursed Crystal is a natural product, derived from mineral veins in underground rock formations. Exposed crystals can be mined from the veins, and some have "cursed rough stones" wrapped under the stone skin.

There may be crystals in the rough stone, or there may be crystal fragments, but the most likely thing is that there is nothing.

Those gray rough skins also have energy fluctuations, so it is impossible to judge from the outside whether there must be "crystals" in the ore.

It is because of this Speculators think of a business opportunity by trick.

Generally speaking, the probability of rare crystallization of rough stones excavated from veins in an area is about the same, for example, 3%.

Then, one thousand pieces of rough stone can cut 30 pieces of crystals, and the market price of one piece of crystal is about 10,000 risos, which is 300,000 risos.

But if one thousand rough stones are sold as a "blind box" for five hundred lisols, then each piece of this pile of stones has value, and the total value is 500,000.

And the value of this batch of ore instantly increased by 200,000.

There is a chance that five hundred yuan can buy a bet of ten thousand yuan. Many people are willing to gamble.

What's more, if you are lucky, there is still a chance that you will get a "Crystal of the Supreme Curse" worth 100,000 li.

Just like buying a lottery ticket, if you don’t lose a small amount of money, you get rich.

This is the origin of this world gambling stone shop.

...

"I remember this thing is not a pastime for the rich in the inner city?"

Su Lun looked at the stone gambling project that appeared on the black market for the first time, and muttered in his heart, "It seems that the guys in the inner city also realize that the poor like to gamble on luck..."

This is why no matter how poor the place is, the gambling stalls must be able to drive away.

The shops are getting more and more lively. In addition to gambling on the rocks, many people from outside cities who are interested in this business have already talked with the stewards of this "rose ore firm". It seems that the people in the inner city also intend to make this business come from the outer city. The two sides talked very happily.

However, none of this has anything to do with Su Lun.

Looking at the rough stones all over the floor, his eyes are radiant.

dignified S-rank talent [All-knowing pupil], at this moment, he seems to have finally found the right way to open...