RPAGF Chapter 278 Black Market Stalls
Chapter 278 Black Market Stalls
"Mmm! It really is delicious!" Xie Yiren knew from the aroma that anything Yufei brought out was good, but she didn't expect it to be this delicious.
Xie Yiren looked at Yufei with bright eyes, full of confidence in what they were about to sell.
She always believed that for something to sell well, the buyer needed to genuinely believe it was a good product; only then would they be convinced.
After dinner the day after finding the black market
He Junlin and Xie Yiren disguised themselves and left the school. He Junlin led Xie Yiren through the winding, silver-colored residential buildings.
We arrived at an unfinished building complex, half-built and for some unknown reason.
Go all the way inside, around a corner, there's a small door.
A short man, only about 1.4 meters tall, sat at the doorway; this was a person in the world suffering from dwarfism.
Logically, there should already be a cure for dwarfism in this world, but perhaps his family couldn't afford it, thus delaying treatment.
He became one of the few people in the world with dwarfism, but it was precisely because of this that he got this job.
Sometimes what is poison to one may be sugar to another; who can say for sure?
He dutifully kept He Junlin and Xie Yiren outside the door, and asked in a somewhat shrill, childlike voice...
"password?"
He Junlin didn't panic; he recited a tongue-twisting code to the person.
It seemed the check was correct, and he stopped stopping them and let them pass.
He Junlin bent over and led Xie Yiren through a dimly lit, narrow space.
Xie Yiren estimated that they had walked for about two or three minutes when the space gradually opened up.
When He Junlin and Xie Yiren emerged from that passage, they found themselves in a punk world, completely different from the silvery-white world Xie Yiren had seen before.
Everywhere was colorful, and the people exuded a non-mainstream vibe.
Everyone wore various strange masks. Yufei felt that the masks looked somewhat like the mouthparts of an insectoid race, ferocious, terrifying, and peculiar.
When they arrived here, He Junlin gave Xie Yiren a mask just like the ones worn by the locals.
It didn't attract much attention from the people here.
There were many people coming and going along the way, somewhat resembling a very bustling market in their Great Xia, with goods displayed on both sides.
Occasionally, shouts of vendors could be heard, selling all sorts of strange and unusual weapons.
They also sell Zerg corpses and mutated plant and animal corpses; if you can imagine it, they probably have it here.
It even contained some illegal drugs and items that were explicitly prohibited by the base.
Neither He Junlin nor Xie Yiren were interested in these things; they were all explicitly prohibited in these alliance bases, especially medicines.
He Junlin could not possibly return Great Xia; he could wreak havoc on the people of this world, but he certainly didn't want to bring disaster to the people of Great Xia because of him.
He and Shay walked four or five hundred meters through the crowded streets, and there was finally an empty spot.
It wasn't that the location was bad or that no one was setting up stalls here; rather, when He Junlin came to investigate yesterday, he specifically looked for the person in charge of the stalls.
They rented the stalls here, so naturally the place is empty since they didn't come.
The stall wasn't big, about the size of a lectern, but it was enough for He Junlin and his team to display what they wanted to sell.
They took out potatoes, sweet potatoes, cabbage, and strawberries from their prepared backpacks.
The strawberries are packaged in boxes, about 12 per box, each one plump and the color of blood.
It looks very appetizing; the other three items are sold in bulk.
Whether it's potatoes or sweet potatoes, they all exude their own unique fragrance.
However, this subtle fragrance was practically negligible in this densely populated area.
"Hmm? What smells so good?" What would normally be a barely noticeable vegetable and fruit aroma can be irresistible to some people with an exceptionally keen sense of smell.
Kaslant caught that very faint scent.
She sniffed, trying to pinpoint the source of the fragrance in the air, but clearly failed.
"There's no fragrance at all! Lant, I still need to remind you, stay close to me and don't fall behind. I regret it now; I couldn't resist your sweet talk and brought you here. My brother will kill me if he finds out."
He bears a resemblance to Caslant, both having red hair, fair skin, deep-set eyes, and a prominent nose.
Unlike Caslant's delicate beauty, this person possessed a masculine handsomeness, though his once beautiful eyebrows were now furrowed into a frown.
His face showed helplessness, doting affection, and indulgence towards the girl in front of him.
"Relax, relax! Second brother, don't worry, as long as you and I don't tell, eldest brother won't know! It's rare to relax, don't think so much! Help me smell it~ There really is a fragrance, and it's a plant fragrance! I'm sure of it."
Kaslant shook the boy's arm, her movements revealing a girlish charm.
"Third sister, do you think I have a nose like yours? You can smell things from a hundred meters away, like a wild beast!"
Anil, Caslant's second brother, looked at his sister helplessly and said...
"Then help me take a look, please! I have a feeling that I'll regret missing this for the rest of my life. I won't be able to eat or sleep properly then, second brother, can you bear to do that?"
As Caslant looked like she was about to cry, even though Anil knew it was his sister faking it, he still felt incredibly sorry for her and quickly said...
"Okay! Okay! Okay~ I'll help you find it! I'm really scared of you."
Anil ruffled his little sister's hair affectionately.
"Second brother! I've told you so many times, don't ruffle my hair! It takes me forever to fix it!"
Kaslant's cheeks puffed out in anger, making him look like a pufferfish—it was absolutely adorable!
Meanwhile, at He Junlin and Xie Yiren's stall
"Boss, are these sweet potatoes, potatoes, cabbage, and strawberries?" A customer glanced at their stall as he passed by and couldn't move any further.
He asked with an incredulous look.
“That’s right, exactly what you thought,” He Junlin replied with a smile.
"These four things look pretty good! But you didn't create this with some kind of advanced technology, did you?"
The customer asked somewhat suspiciously, mainly because there have always been unscrupulous merchants who use technology to disguise agricultural products they can't even name as real crops.
Then they tricked these kinds of customers into buying, and it even had a scandal recently.
His rational mind told him after seeing all this that it was fake and he shouldn't be fooled.
But for some reason, he couldn't resist looking at them. A voice inside him told him, "This looks delicious!"
He wanted to eat it! He wanted to buy it! So, conflicted, he asked the shop owner.
"Don't worry, all our vegetables are 100% green, pollution-free, and organic. I guarantee you'll want to keep eating them. If they're fake or don't taste good, I'll compensate you tenfold."
Xie Yiren gave this assurance with a friendly smile, but asked if she wanted to try it? No way! This stuff is too expensive!
For some reason, the customer's eyes hardened, as if he had made a decision.
"Okay! Boss, give me two potatoes, two sweet potatoes, and a bag of cabbages. Can you sell strawberries separately? If so, I'll buy two; otherwise, I don't want any! How much is it?"