Chapter 313 Greedy Miners (1/3)
"God said that light will pierce the darkness, so the demon will be defeated, and the city of Gouguang will be liberated..."
An enthusiastic voice kept coming to Zhang Yuan's ears. He looked back and forth and found that there were not many people in the passage. Except for the two of them, there were only a few more than twenty people in total. These people looked the same, all of whom were blind, thin and ragged.
Lu Meng whispered: "The areas near Mole Lane are all miners at the bottom. The living conditions here are very harsh, the water and food are quite scarce, and the hygiene is also very poor, so unless necessary, there are basically no urban managers around here."
Zhang Yuan was still a little surprised. After thinking about it, he asked the coachman in front of him: "Brother, do you know what's going on over there?"
The driver pedaled his bike hard, staring at him: "I saw nothing and knew nothing. You should not ask too much for foreigners, so as not to cause trouble."
This was a bit strange, and Zhang Yuan became more and more curious: "Brother, it's not important to talk about it, and we won't say it out."
The driver pedaled faster and faster, and the speed of the rickshaw increased a lot: "Don't ask, if you ask again, you will kill me. Those people are so cruel!"
Soon, the rickshaw drove over a corner, and the situation in the small square disappeared. When we arrived here, the coachman relaxed a little, and then he said, "Foreigners, I have to advise you, you can see some things, but don't be curious. The mine in Youguang City is a place where people eat and don't spit bones. I think you two are here to buy and sell, don't make money by then, and you will lose your life."
Judging from this, the coachman should be threatened. Such a small person in the city should have liked chatting the most. The only thing that can make them resist talking too much is real fear.
He knew that he could not find the result even after asking, so Zhang Yuan could only remain silent.
The rickshaw walked forward a few kilometers and finally stopped at a very low and dark passage entrance: "At this, there is Mole Lane in front."
The passage is very low, less than 4 meters high and 5 meters wide, with few street lights. Every 20 meters there is a small mine lamp with extremely low wattages. Looking inside from the entrance of the alley, it is pitch black inside, and you can see some figures wandering like lonely ghosts. A gust of wind blows out from it, cool and cool. The wind blows in the passage, and the "whimper" sounds like crying and complaining, like a ghost.
Zhang Yuan looked at Lu Meng, and Lu Meng nodded: "This is Mole Lane. After passing through this alley, there is a mine channel like a spider web inside, which is the cornerstone of the existence of Youguang City."
The two got out of the car, and the driver immediately turned around, pedaled hard, and left as if he was running away.
"This passage is too narrow and you can't use the mecha at all." Zhang Yuan whispered.
"It's true, hold this." Lu Meng handed Zhang Yuan a small laser gun and a fighting dagger.
Zhang Yuan hid this thing under his clothes, and then he took out two small things like dentures and handed them to Lu Meng: "This is a bionic backpack I made, anti-scanning, and the space can put at least 5 mechas. You put the important things inside and then bite them on your teeth."
As he said that, Zhang Yuan opened his mouth and bit the little thing on his teeth. He had transferred a series of important items such as the Night Demon and the Dark Night Duke to this bionic backpack in advance, while some ordinary items continued to be placed in the space folding bracelet.
This idea comes from Yu Linglong, but Yu Linlong swallowed the thing into her stomach, while Zhang Yuan put it on his teeth, so he would not worry about losing the item.
Lu Meng's eyes lit up, he took the dessert thing, then walked to a remote corner, transferred his Dark Night Princess and important items into it, and then bit the thing on his teeth.
She praised: "The craftsmanship is really good, and there is basically no foreign body feeling."
After they were ready, the two walked into Mole Lane one after another. As soon as they entered, many of them turned their heads and looked over. With the dim light, Zhang Yuan found that these people were pale and blue in skin, thin and skeleton-like, and their eyes looked large and unsightly. Most of them were not wearing clothes, only a pair of dirty and greasy trousers.
After walking for a while, Lu Meng walked towards a middle-aged Om man. The man was wearing stained clothes, with a stronger figure than others, and a better mental state. He was standing in the dark, eating something.
When he got closer, Zhang Yuan saw clearly what was in the man's hand. It turned out to be an air-dried mine mole.
Lu Meng spoke and asked in a low voice: "Brother, do you have any goods on hand recently?"
The man raised his head, turned his eyes between Zhang Yuan and Lu Meng, and smiled: "There are goods, but the price has increased a lot recently."
Lu Meng asked calmly: "What's the price now?"
"100 grams of ore, exchange for 50 sparrow laser guns, and bring 1,000 nutritional paste."
To be honest, it is not expensive to buy spiritual ore at this price, but Lu Meng's face showed obvious 'anger': "It's okay to forget about nutritional cream, why do you need a laser gun? This thing is an embargoed material. If it is found, we will be done!"
Nutrition cream is just food. Kansas City turns a blind eye to this thing and doesn’t care much about it. However, the nature of smuggling weapons is serious. Once caught, the smuggling merchant will be shot and killed directly. The risk is different.
The man ate a bite of the mole and said indifferently: "Then I don't care. If there is one, change it. If there is no one, I will pull it down. If there is more people who want to do business with us, there are more than the two of you."
Lu Meng's face suddenly showed a look of 'hesiness'. After a few minutes, she gritted her teeth and said, "Then you have to let us see the goods first."
"It's OK." The man ate all the mole in his hand, clapped his hands, and took out a stone as big as a fist from his pocket.
The stone is translucent and light green, and looks a bit like jade, but in a dim environment, the surface of the stone will show a faint warm fluorescence, which can attract people's attention in an instant.
Lu Meng reached out to take it over and see it, but the man took it back: "You can only see it, not touch it."
There was no way, Lu Meng could only watch it, and Zhang Yuan also came over to take a closer look.
After watching for more than ten seconds, the man took the thing back. Lu Meng frowned slightly and said, "My man, your fluorescent jade is of average quality, it's not as good as before."
The Omman smiled and mocked: "You foreigners know how to be greedy for cheap things. Don't think I don't know the market. This thing can be sold at a sky-high price on the interstellar world. If it weren't for the vampires of the Landley family, I would have made a fortune long ago."
Lu Meng shook his head repeatedly: "That can't be said. Fluorescent jade is indeed valuable outside, but if you want to truly realize its value, you must process and refine it carefully. These are all costs. Moreover, we have to take considerable risks when we secretly take these things out of Kansas, which is also a cost."
The Om waved his hand impatiently: "Don't talk nonsense, just say a word, change it, get out if you don't change it, don't delay my business."
"That's a pity. We can't afford to buy something as expensive as you." Lu Meng looked "helpless" and turned around and left.
The Om people cursed vaguely behind him: "The poor guy can't afford it."
The two of them pretended that they didn't hear it. Lu Meng kept taking Zhang Yuan to a remote corner of Mole Street, and then whispered: "The situation has changed."
Zhang Yuan kept looking around and saw something strange at this time, but he didn't understand the situation in Mole Street before, so he asked, "What do you say?"
Lu Meng said in detail: "In the past, I only needed to bring nutritional cream with me. 100 grams of ore only needed 50 nutritional cream. Now the price has increased tenfold. I also need weapons. I am afraid that if I save the suffering, I will make trouble in secret."
Zhang Yuan thought for a while and said, "I looked at the fluorescent jade carefully just now. It was about 400 grams. The spiritual power contained in it should be more than 50 units. This is the value of 50 million. If you only exchange it for such a little thing, you can make a sure profit."
Unexpectedly, after hearing this, Lu Meng shook his head repeatedly: "No, no, no, that stone cannot be sold for so much money. These are raw stones, and they are poor mines. It is very difficult to extract the spiritual power from this stone. The loss in the middle is more than 90%, and it is very good to get 5 pure spirit points in the end. If the cost of refining is excluded, the final profit of such a rough stone should be only about 2 million, but the 2 million cannot be lost to us. We cannot refine our spirits, so we can only do a transit. This rough stone is sold at most 500,000 yuan. A sparrow laser gun is 2,000 star shield, and the ore has more than 400 grams, which is 200 sparrow laser guns, which is 400,000 yuan. Including the money for nutritional paste, we can't make much money."
Lu Meng is a conventional algorithm. According to her algorithm, such a rough stone can only earn less than 100,000 star shields, but the risk of smuggling weapons is outrageous. Once discovered by Kansas, he may be sentenced to death.
It is not worth it to earn such a little star shield at such a risk.
However, Zhang Yuan's situation is a bit special. With his master's mind, he can completely absorb the pure spirit in fluorescent jade. Therefore, he can get a pure spirit worth more than 50 million yuan and a 900% profit for less than 50 million yuan.
What risks cannot be taken with such gains?
Thinking of this, Zhang Yuan said, "Let's just stay here quietly for a while and see if anyone else comes to trade?"
Lu Meng nodded: "It's good."
The two of them watched each other in the alley and walked out of Mole Alley. After they arrived outside the alley, they continued to walk forward, until they reached a remote corner where there was no one in front, back, left and right. They were equipped with pure energy invisibility cloaks and walked back to Mole Alley invisible.
After arriving at the alley, the two of them waited patiently in the dark.
About half an hour later, the rickshaw sounded like a rickshaw squeaking again outside the alley. After a while, a well-dressed interstellar merchant walked into the alley. He walked around the alley for a while and soon found a black miner. The two began to talk.
After talking for a while, the interstellar merchant suddenly roared: "This is impossible! Greedy miner, you can't get anything!"
Chapter completed!