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Chapter 231 Are you biting me?

As a western city built on the edge of the desert and the Gobi Desert, Tacoma City cannot compare with Yecheng in terms of its size and prosperity.

But as far as the city style is concerned, it has its own unique scenery.

Perhaps because it is in the western region, there is almost no winter here. In other regions, April is the end of spring and early summer. The temperature in Tacoma City has exceeded 25 degrees Celsius, the hottest day of the day. Sometimes it can even reach the beginning of 3.

The buildings here are not as tall and magnificent as in Yecheng. Most of them have abandoned reinforced concrete, but turned to steel structures. Steel buildings tens of meters high and mechanical elevators hanging outside can be seen everywhere.

The social level is obviously only at the lower middle level, and even the outer city of Yecheng may not be comparable, but the people living here do not have the numbness of those in the outer city of Yecheng and the old city. Straightforward and wild.

After Zhu Jue and his group put their luggage in the hotel, they naturally wouldn't just stay there. After finally going out to play, of course they had to look around.

I asked the people in the hotel what places to visit in Tacoma, and the answers were surprisingly consistent.

Tacoma Bazaar!
Walking through two tall porches, you can see a large trading market in front of you. The street is still the original yellow land, and you can see many mixed footprints on the dust when people come and go. .

Different from the online transactions in Yecheng, the trading form of stalls is still respected here. There are a large number of vendors downstairs in the yellowed mechanical house. On the top of the market, there are still pieces of tan sunshade cloth, which are useful for mechanical supports. Those that are propped up are also hung perfunctorily by bamboo poles.

There is a stall owner wrapped in a turban but shirtless on the upper body sitting at the back of the stall, holding a strange chimney in his hand, white mist spewing out from his mouth from time to time, crossing his legs, chatting with shoppers one after another .

A burly man over two meters tall, who had obviously undergone mechanical transformation, shuttled through the crowd on the street, pushing passers-by on both sides, but he was tripped by someone who stumbled and fell to the ground, causing a burst of laughter.

There are also orange sparks bursting out from the room behind the booth selling mechanical parts, causing many people to frown and walk around, and occasionally some grumpy ones even swear.

"Lizard, look, there's a lizard!"

Li Qinglian tugged at the corner of Zhu Jue's clothes, and locked her eyes on several iron cages placed on a booth in the front left. Inside were some gray-white hard skins. There was an umbrella-shaped bone plate at the neck, and the body was nearly 30 centimeters long. A nasty lizard.

The pictures on the Internet are naturally not as wild as the actual ones, Li Qinglian took out her mobile phone to take pictures again and again while talking.

"Do you want to raise one? You have to ask Feng Ling for advice. It is the person who talks about the mascot position of our studio."

Looking at a booth full of guns not far away, Zhu Jue, who heard Li Qinglian's voice, turned around and grabbed one of the claws of the wind chime in his arms, pressed the meat ball, and immediately five sharp claws were exposed come out.

Obviously, the speaker does not agree that there are other pets besides it in Weird Studio.

"Are the goods sold here so casual?"

Wu Tong's gaze was also on the firearms booth that Zhu Jue had seen before. This was the first time he had seen such a blatant peddling of weapons. Although the sales volume of weapons in Yecheng was much larger than this, they were operating secretly in the black market anyway. There is no such thing as selling Chinese cabbage.

"Takema City is located in a remote area, and the western region has always had a tough and strong folk style, and there are large deserts and Gobi deserts outside the city. What's more, even in Yecheng, the prestige of the federal government may not be as good as that of Yuanfan Machinery Group, and even more so. Needless to say here, the laws of the federal government are not as effective as the guns in hand, it seems that these are just things sold outside the market, and there are probably more powerful ones inside."

Olivia had heard about this city in school, but she never imagined that she would come here one day.

"Is it dangerous here?"

Li Qinglian looked at the crowd around her and asked nervously.

"Don't worry, Tacoma City is the safest city in this area. As long as we don't provoke others, there will generally be no troubles. Moreover, there are law enforcement officers in this city. The use of hot weapons is absolutely prohibited in the city, and a fight is at best a knife, with him around, who do you think can get close?"

After knowing the whereabouts of Zhu Jue and the others, Olivia joined them as a matter of course. Chu Yun held Li Qinglian's shoulder and said in a relaxed tone.

"Go in and have a look."

Zhu Jue put the wind chimes on his shoulders and walked all the way in, blending into the crowd. The surrounding yelling, bargaining and discussion quickly created a lively atmosphere, and they bought each in front of a stall selling kebabs. After eating two skewers, Zhu Jue picked up a handful by himself, which is really unique.

As Chu Yun said, the further you walked into the market, the weirder the things on the stalls, as if Zhu Jue soon stopped in front of a stall with a lot of bones and stones.

"Boss, how do you sell these stones?"

With his free right hand, he picked up a palm-sized stone with spiral patterns that resembled a conch, Zhu Jue asked curiously.

"These are all fossils of ancient organisms. A well-preserved one with clear lines costs at least 5 federal coins."

Scanning over the people in front of him, the stall owner said with a weird smile on his face.

"Is this a fossil of an ammonite? Boss, you can't make these stones yourself. You must know that the outside is a desert, and ammonites are completely marine life!"

Li Qinglian picked up another ammonite fossil with some defects, and asked with a frown.

"Hey, it seems that this is the first time for you to come to Tacoma City. You may not know that the desert outside the city was covered by the ocean a long time ago, and the fossils here are also specially searched for. People went to collect it from those scavengers on the Gobi Desert, and 5 federal currency is already considered cheap."

"500, if you don't sell it, get it."

Zhu Jue just thinks this is quite interesting, and he is going to take it back as a collection. This does not mean that he is being taken advantage of. Glancing at the pile of fossils in the store, it is obvious that it is not a rare item. If you spend [-] to buy it, you might as well go there tomorrow. Look for it slowly when you are outside.

"Fifty thousand, buy it now!"

The stall owner killed the price, and it seemed that he was determined to slaughter Zhujue, the "fat sheep".

Putting the ammonite fossils back on the booth, since the price could not be negotiated, Zhu Jue was ready to leave immediately.

"and many more!"

Before Zhu Jue walked a few steps, he heard the stall owner behind him urging him to stay. He thought it was a compromise, but when he turned around, he found that the ammonite fossil he had picked up earlier had been broken into two pieces and was being held back by him. The stall owner held it in his hand.

"This is a fossil, how can you throw it around? Now it's broken in half, what do you say!"

The stall owner, who was still full of fawning faces before, changed his face now, and handed the fossil to Zhu Jue with a sneer.

"I saw with my own eyes that he was still intact when he put it down. I'm afraid you broke it up yourself."

Wu Tong was standing by the side just now, and Zhu Jue didn't use any force at all when he put the ammonite fossil, no matter how brittle the fossil is, it won't break if he touches it twice.

"I don't care. You were the last person to touch this fossil. Now that it's broken, it must be your problem. You have to lose money, 5 federal currency, and you don't even think about leaving if you lose a cent. It's good to be a local. Bullying?"

As soon as the words fell, several strong men surrounded the crowd immediately. Two of them still had short knives hidden in their sleeves, and they deliberately exposed the blades with unkind eyes.

Zhu Jue squinted his eyes. The current situation was obviously a trap prepared by the other party, which was specially used to target tourists from other places like them. As long as he picked up the fossil, no matter how carefully he put it, it might be broken .

"Hey, you just said that hot weapons are not allowed here, so they will attack first, and I will fight back, will I be arrested?"

Zhu Jue looked sideways at Chu Yun and asked softly.

"You are the first-level inspector of the Yecheng Monster Countermeasures Bureau recognized by the federation. People in Tacoma City are not qualified to arrest you!"

Chu Yun rubbed her hands excitedly, and continued,
"Are you going to fight? I haven't tried fighting in this kind of place yet."

"You and Olivia protect them, and I'll handle them."

After confirming that it would not affect his next plan, Zhu Jue immediately went back to the booth, and in front of the stall owner, he picked and picked a delicate fossil the size of a human head. Compared with the ammonite fossil just now, this piece is obviously a real precious things.

Before the stall owner could react, he broke the fossil directly with both hands!

"Fossil fragmentation is my problem? You guessed it, it's really my problem."

Picking up another similar fossil, without saying a word, it turned into a pile of debris, Zhu Jue looked into the eyes of the stall owner, and said slowly
"You bit me?"

(End of this chapter)