Chapter 23 The Black Market
"Hey? Didn't you say that you can be resurrected from the Life Archive after you die?" Moria asked blankly, "Why will she die?"
"That's also limited." Delia was in a low mood, as if she remembered some bad memories. "I didn't explain it to you clearly on the way. From the time we were born, we would implant a chip in our brain. All memory backup and writing were carried out through the chip and the Life Archive. One-on-one, without my own chip, it would be impossible to export my memory."
"After abnormal death, the doctor will take out the chip, implant it into the newly cultivated body, and then export the memory, but if the whereabouts of the body are unknown, or the chip in the brain is destroyed, then..."
"I will never come back?"
"Well, that means the person is completely dead." Delia sighed, "It is said that this is how my parents died."
When she sat back at the table, the girl was stunned for a while, then she forced a smile to everyone: "Sorry, I feel a little sad when I think of my parents. It's okay now. I haven't finished talking just now, so I'll continue."
"Because of the characteristics of the Sky City, the residents of the city are divided into several types of forces. The military is responsible for protecting the city and resisting mechanical beasts. The city has the largest municipal organization and is responsible for the operation of the city. It is mainly the normal operation of the institute. It is the most important department of the city. These two departments are concentrated in the inner city and are also the best and most prosperous locations in the Sky City."
"The East Outer Ring District is an industrial area, where the residents are skilled in their jobs, and their daily lives are relatively closed, which is considered a one-of-a-kind system. The West Outer Ring District is here, an agricultural area. Although agricultural production is also relatively important, due to its low irreplaceability, most people can do this job. Therefore, their status is the lowest in the Sky City and is very unrespected."
"It's not that simple." Mina was not confused at all, and snorted coldly, "I have noticed when I was in contact with other people before. Their attitude towards you is not contempt, but disgust and disgust. If one or two people act like this, it can be said that they have job discrimination, but all of them are like this, I'm afraid it's not just the reason you said."
"Well, indeed." Delia said with a wry smile. "Originally, when she first fled to Sky City, the residents of the West Outer Ring District were just ordinary farmers. However, as time went by, some criminals who committed serious crimes but were not yet executed for the death penalty were exiled to the West Outer Ring District for life. Gradually, residents of the West Outer Ring District became synonymous with criminals, and their contacts with other districts have become less and less. Now, in addition to collecting daily necessities, we rarely have contact with other districts. Even if there are, they will enter other districts just like the past few days, in order to squeeze out some credit points from those people," she said.
"Mia." Shur shook his head at the mountain elf, stopped her from asking Delia's past intentions, and thoughtfully changed the topic, "What about the black market?"
"The Black Market is a very mysterious organization. They have a lot of goods, weapons, armor, armor, luxury goods, daily necessities, and even various news, as well as scientific and technological achievements that you are interested in."
"How did they get it?" Shuer asked, "Didn't it mean that it can only be transported through shuttles? Even if they have the means to communicate remotely, how do they transport those physical items? The shuttle passage must be controlled by the municipal government, so it is impossible for them to use it."
"That's why they are said to be mysterious. No one knows how the black market transports these goods. Some people also doubt whether they have a relationship with the city's top leaders and directly smuggled some goods from the city's government. But this is obviously impossible, because many of the goods controlled by the black market do not even have the municipal government, let alone the scientific research results of other cities."
"Most of these black market businessmen are dressed in the same dress, black suits, ordinary figures, ordinary appearances, and almost no presence. No one knows where their headquarters are, nor what their real identities are, and they can't find them even if they want to find them."
"Ha?" Militi looked at the little girl with a squint eyes, "Their purpose is to do business, no one can find anyone, so what else can they do?"
"This is how the black market is." Marca Jaylen gathered beside Militi and explained attentively, "Most of the business with the black market are not about you looking for them, but about asking them to come to you. But our guild sells stolen goods, and they are more careful than their colleagues here. If the transaction object does not observe for ten days and half a month, he will never show up."
"Well, if you want to trade with the black market, you only need to write a message on the message board of the city network that you hope to trade, without indicating your identity and address. In a short time, people from the black market will come to you. Municipal people have always wanted to destroy the black market, and set traps many times to try to trap them, but they have never succeeded. Military people also showed hostility to the black market some time ago, but several levels were mysteriously destroyed, and the destroyers showed combat effectiveness that was no less than the military. This strong style has also restrained the military and is not willing to be involved in the dispute between the municipal and the black market."
"Does people in the black market have any characteristics besides being unable to find them even if they get into the crowd?" Shuer kowtowed to the table and thought for a while before asking, "For example, strange behavior patterns or common characteristics."
"Uncle, do you want to find them?" The question blurted out, but the girl immediately smiled bitterly, "That's right, you still want to go to other cities. The black market may be the only hope. After all, they can get goods from other cities, so there should be other ways."
"Don't worry, Delia, in addition to being interested in other cities, we are not very interested in Tower of Babel. Before going to other cities, we must go to Tower of Babel first." Shuer smiled and stretched out his hand and rubbed the girl's hair. "And, it's not whether I want to find them or not, but now they want to find us."
"It won't take long." Mia looked at the sky outside the window, "It's almost two hours since we've been here."
"Let's go ahead." Without explaining anything, Shuer said to Delia, "Do they have any characteristics?"
"Well, most of their traders are very cold. Apart from business, they will never show up in front of others. Even if they show up during trading, they will not be mixed with personal feelings. Everything is done in public, and they can't even bargain. Even when facing poor customers, they will not be merciful and will not give in at all. Therefore, everyone thinks they are very greedy." Delia seemed to remember some bad memories and said angrily, "Even if it is like this when purchasing goods, they will not change the price. It is useless to say anything. If they say too much, they will turn around and leave, which will make people angry."
"I suddenly have a good impression of you, little girl." Marca Jaylen looked Delia up and down, and made several difficult moves with a clever finger. "I can get people from the black market to purchase goods here. I think the chances of us being a peer are very high. I am also one of the suppliers of the black market in our world, hehehehe."
Delia looked at the dazzling movements of Marca Jalen's fingers, and was stunned for a while. She suddenly covered her mouth and laughed softly. She nodded vigorously, as if she had untied some knot in her heart. She naturally showed more in front of everyone.
It is actually Marca Jaylen's colleague. The view that the West Outer Ring District is a place of criminals is probably not just because this is an exile place. No wonder the black market and the West Outer Ring District have a good relationship. No wonder people from this place are warned and hostile to the residents of other districts. There is really a reason.
"Delia, you just said, most traders?" Shul did not delve into the identity of the girl thief, "In other words, there are some that are not like this?"
"Well, I've seen one of their senior figures once, and they were disguised as they looked, but they couldn't see it, but they were not as cold and ignorant as those traders, and they were rigid like machinery. The senior figure in the black market was very gentle and could bargain. At that time, he was discussing a big business with the mayor of our West Outer Ring District..."
"What business?"
"It must be food."
"Ha?" Shuer was stunned. "In your city situation, the food must be handed over to the municipal agency for unified distribution."
"Yes, but who knows how much we collected?" said the girl proudly. "Every month, every time I deduct a little, a large amount of food will be a few months. The batches we deduct are consumed by ourselves. Now we save a little and sell them to the black market, which can be exchanged for a lot of credit points or gold."
Tsk, your city is still real, everyone sighed in their hearts. However, as long as it does not affect the normal operation of the city, it is understandable to plan for themselves. I guess the upper level of the city cannot be unaware of it, but the number of detentions did not exceed the bottom line, so the city hall pretended not to see it.
"When the man came to the town mayor to discuss business, I happened to be arguing with a trader about the price of goods. The price he offered was too low and he refused to give in. I originally planned not to sell it to him, but the man scolded the trader for me and ordered him to accept the price I offered, but I..."
"Make a big profit."
"Hehe, I just made a little more money." Delia smiled brightly, obviously not as modest as she said.
"Shul." Saf's face suddenly froze while teasing the little girl, "Someone is here, the goal is to look at this house."
"several?"
“Only one.”
"Yeah." The air in the room suddenly became solemn, but Shuer shook his head to the worried Delia and said, "Don't be afraid, I said just now, it's not that I want to find them, but now they want to find me, haha, it's a little faster than I thought."
"The black market people?" the girl was a little nervous, "Yes, uncle, you pretended to be them. I forgot to tell Little Evan and the others, don't tell you about your affairs."
"I haven't forgotten, I did it on purpose." Shure smiled, and his smile calmed Delia's nervous mood.
"Dangdangdang", the light knock on the door was very rhythmic, "May I ask, is Mr. Shuer here?"
Hearing this voice, the faces of the shadow-chasing people suddenly changed, and their expressions were filled with surprise.
No one has heard of this sound, but people are familiar with similar pronunciation methods.
Straight, stereotyped, without any ups and downs, this is how Wei pronounces it.
Chapter completed!