Chapter 92 Black Market

Mingmei first went to the shop from yesterday and sold boxed lunches for half an hour.

Actually, Mingmei didn't want to sell them for even half an hour; she was mainly there for Mu Chen's convenience.

Regarding this, Guigui was already too tired to comment on Mingmei's behavior.

Mingmei herself had said that she also needed time to investigate the culprit behind the sabotage of the Outer Star Sea's stability as a player.

Listening to Mingmei sighing and saying that this round was too difficult for her, requiring her to play two roles at once, Guigui didn't know what to say for a moment.

It was true that she was playing two roles, but these two roles weren't exactly hindering each other!

On the contrary, Mingmei could even learn information about other players by using the role of the boxed lunch seller, which showed how perfunctory Mingmei's reason was.

[Host, although you don't get a share of the boxed lunch profits this round…] Guigui watched as Mingmei sold four boxed lunches to Mu Chen and quickly closed the shop.

Immediately afterward, when the two of them left through the back door, it couldn't help but advise, [But Mr. Yan Hui is making money, and he'll let you spend it~]

[If my uncle relied on me selling boxed lunches to make money, he would have starved to death long ago.]

Mingmei was very clear about her own abilities, so she couldn't help but say to Guigui silently, [Hey, I'm just opening for a shorter time tonight, okay? I haven't met many players yet. You have to let me look around, see acquaintances, and remind them about the mysterious merchant, right? Wouldn't the business be even better then?]

Being coaxed by Mingmei like this, Guigui really couldn't refute it. Indeed, if its host used the identity of a player to tell others about clues to the mysterious merchant, it would be even more convenient to go back and sell boxed lunches later.

"Where are we going?" Mingmei looked at Mu Chen. Today, when she went from the residential area in the underground city to the black market, Mingmei realized how tortuous the routes in the underground city were.

She had walked the route once, but she wasn't very familiar with it. Now, she felt that the route Mu Chen was taking was one she hadn't walked before.

"Another black market. The one where you sell boxed lunches is the outermost layer of the black market. The things sold there are very ordinary. The real good stuff is further inside. There will be more..."

As for what good stuff there was, Mingmei thought that this should still be divided. Maybe they didn't think it was good stuff, but others would, like—corpses.

"Ugh—!!"

Lu Xiaoyao leaned over on the street corner and started retching. Dong Lei had the same reaction. Sun Yunzhong stood aside, his face pale, his eyes full of suspicion and uncertainty.

The scene just now meant that the three of them would definitely have nightmares tonight.

How could there be people chopping up human corpses and selling them like livestock there!

"Oh my god… This, this…"

Lu Xiaoyao stood up after vomiting, her eyes full of horror, but she still couldn't help but look back at the meat stall. The more she looked, the more she felt that she had to go further away to throw up…

Just as Lu Xiaoyao and the others were running away, disgusted by the scene of selling human meat at the stall, Mingmei and Mu Chen arrived here. When she saw a familiar head on the meat stall, Mingmei's expression also became very unsightly.

This was the person Mu Chen had kicked off the building that morning, who had fallen to his death.

At this moment, his pale face still wore an expression of unwillingness to die. Mingmei couldn't help but take a step back until the person behind her supported her shoulder, and Mingmei stopped.

Even though Mu Chen had said before that the corpse was likely to be sold to others to be eaten, she still couldn't control the churning in her stomach when she saw it with her own eyes.

She couldn't help but glance at the meat stall owner again, but saw that the other party's hand was not a human's five-fingered hand, but more like some kind of beast's furry paw.

It should be some kind of beastman.

Mingmei thought as she followed the other party's hand to look at the meat stall owner's face, but it was covered tightly by a black cloak, and she couldn't see what it looked like after all.

"Don't block the way if you're not buying!"

Suddenly, the meat stall owner shouted at Mingmei, who was standing in front of his stall, in a low voice that was hard to tell whether he was happy or angry.

"Ah…"

"Human, are you deliberately causing trouble here?"

Obviously, even though Mingmei was also wearing dark clothes, the other party could tell that Mingmei was human. Because of this, he naturally felt that Mingmei was trying to cause trouble.

"No, I was just looking…"

Mingmei had a good temper and didn't retort. She asked casually, "Where did you get this human meat from?"

"It's definitely not from the underground city. What? Someone you know? Want revenge?"

"No, no, no, I'm just, just curious."

That person naturally wouldn't say where his human meat came from. He only said that he hadn't violated the rules of the underground city. Mingmei also waved her hands quickly, expressing that she didn't mean that.

Immediately afterward, Mu Chen grabbed Mingmei's hand, signaling her not to ask any more questions.

The two of them moved to the side. Sure enough, several people appeared behind Mingmei and started buying.

Mingmei stood aside and quietly watched those trading people. Some people were covering themselves very tightly, even wearing gloves on their hands so she couldn't really see what kind of creatures they were;

Some didn't cover their hands, and Mingmei saw several who were indeed not human.

This was really the first time Mingmei realized that the Outer Star Sea wasn't just for humans.

The war between humans and the Zerg had been going on for too long, to the point that they were about to ignore the fact that in this vast universe, there were other races besides humans and the Zerg.

Mingmei didn't want to waste any more time at this stall. The two of them walked to other places. As they walked, Mingmei remembered what Mu Chen had said about the underground boxing ring.

"It's not far from here. We can go take a look. It's quite interesting over there."

Mu Chen didn't stop Mingmei and took her to the edge of the boxing ring. Before they even went in, Mingmei heard the roaring cheers of the entire arena. From the outside, she could tell that it was very lively inside.

Mu Chen paid the entrance fee for himself and Mingmei. As soon as Mingmei and Mu Chen went in, she asked, "Do you have to pay to get in?"

"Yeah, otherwise, where would the boxers get their income from?"

"Oh, I almost forgot…"

"Besides tickets, there's also betting. Want to place a bet?"

Mingmei looked up and saw that Mu Chen had brought her to a small window again. She looked up at the odds and felt a little dizzy from all the numbers.

"Do you have any suggestions?" Mingmei wasn't sure how much Mu Chen had absorbed and learned after just one night.

"Give us a ticket for fighter number nineteen, three wins in a row."

When Mu Chen heard Mingmei ask for his suggestion, he used his actions to tell Mingmei his suggestion.

He saw Mu Chen handing a small bag of underground city currency exchanged for energy crystals into the window, and Mingmei heard the person in the window mutter something.

She didn't hear exactly what it was, but she could feel that the other party didn't seem to be optimistic about Mu Chen's bet.

"Later, you need to watch carefully when number nineteen is on stage. Other than that, you don't need to pay too much attention.

Wander around the boxing ring more, and you'll find that it's actually very interesting here."

Mu Chen took the betting chip and led Mingmei towards the depths of the arena. Mingmei suddenly pulled her hand away from his and then grabbed his hand back.

"You, you're not that number 19, are you?"

After Mingmei asked, she saw Mu Chen nod. When he nodded, Mingmei was a little angry. "Are you crazy?! This boxing ring…"

Even though Mingmei had never seen what an underground black boxing ring was like, since it was a black boxing ring, the level of danger must be very high. Why would this guy do this?

"Meimei." Mu Chen sighed softly and explained unhurriedly, "The boxers' win rates also have points. In addition to being able to exchange them for living supplies here, they can exchange them for other things, such as information."

The reason why Mu Chen was fighting in the black boxing ring was to get access to more information that couldn't be found on the surface.

"Not even with a quantum computer?"

Mingmei thought that Mu Chen had said earlier that he also used the quantum computer to make money, which was actually just doing some information and resource exchanges.

"I always have to… have information that others don't know."

Mu Chen said helplessly, but his eyes shone when he mentioned fighting in the black boxing ring. He looked at Mingmei calmly and said, "Meimei, trust me. You'll see many people in this boxing ring who aren't here to watch the boxing match. Pay attention to them."

After saying that, Mu Chen handed the betting chip to Mingmei, turned around, and went to the place where the boxers prepared, leaving Mingmei alone.

In such a popular boxing ring, amidst the uproar, Mingmei couldn't help but observe the people around her who were all wearing black robes and concealing their identities, as Mu Chen had suggested.

In the center of the arena, a boxing match full of bloody and violent aesthetics was being staged.

However, Mingmei saw that some of the black robes were not facing the stage but were looking around. The voices of their heads lowered and whispered with others were drowned out by the surrounding noise.

[We sometimes send people to the black market in the Outer Star Sea to sell things quietly.]

Mingmei suddenly remembered that Doron had mentioned the issue of the black market to her when she went to the Outer Star Sea.

Because Hu Mingli had been cracking down on the pirates and underground criminal forces in the Canglan Star Region too much in recent years, basically uprooting them wherever he went and "exterminating the entire clan," sometimes the Sixth Legion would also find people to secretly run to the Outer Star Sea to sell things that were not good to deal with in the open.

Mingmei had also seen the things sold in the black market outside the Outer Star Sea these past two days. There were no particularly scarce materials, but those materials were somewhat scarce for the Outer Star Sea.

Remembering the things that Doron said they bought and sold, Mingmei couldn't help but become more curious about the constantly clashing sleeves under the black robes around her.

Would she meet people from outside the Outer Star Sea here?

…

As an Outer Star Sea player, but with the ironic identity of a legion soldier in the game, Tianma was speechless at the moment.

Following the NPC senior to "sneak" into the Outer Star Sea, Tianma really wanted to say, "I'm familiar with this, bro, hang out with me!"

But what he didn't expect was that what this NPC did on this round made Tianma even more silent.

This NPC is a legion soldier, right?

Isn't that even more legitimate than him, a mouse pretending to be a cat?

How could he be more familiar than him, a guy who grew up in the Outer Star Sea?

Why?

Tianma stood next to his senior, watching him and a well-known speculator in the Outer Star Sea's black market haggle over the exchange of materials seized from the pirate crackdown. Tianma couldn't help but reach out and pull down the hood on his head.

Why did he feel inexplicably embarrassed?

It's not that he hadn't exchanged materials and information here before, but he had never bargained like this. The faces of those who sold information and peddled materials were always high and mighty. He had never seen this kind of anxious tone with a difficult expression today.

Tianma was even a little angry, feeling that the game design was deliberately vilifying the people in the Outer Star Sea.

Thinking this, Tianma suddenly stopped and suddenly felt a gaze falling on him, a gaze that was both staring and probing, which immediately made him tense up…