How to become a mermaid

Chapter 350 Black Market
"Boqi, I'm going to the black market now. There are a lot of people with bad intentions in this city. Just stay on the boat and don't go down. Do you hear me?"

"Yeah, Pochi knows!"

After communicating with the port staff, Moni drove the boat into the dock, and after telling Pochi not to disembark, he disembarked with two trusted crew members.

The black market is a bit mysterious, but it is not difficult to find for an old world like Moni.

There is a seafood market only two or three kilometers away from the port of Sais, where countless fresh fish products are traded every day. Both those that can be traded and those that cannot be traded are traded here, but one is on the ground and the other is underground. .

Bringing the two accompanying crew members to the gate of the seafood market, Moni heard a burst of enthusiastic yelling.

"Tuna! Freshly caught tuna! You can still move your tail!"

"Saury, sell saury! Ten copper coins a catty!"

"A giant squid that is bigger than a carriage, the biggest squid in the whole market! You can take it away with only [-] gold coins!"

Hearing these complicated yells, Mooney frowned in disgust.

It was noisy and smelled like fish. He hated this kind of place the most.

Moni is tall and well-dressed, and his temperament is also incompatible with this complicated fish market. Some vendors around him have noticed him and approached him proactively.

"Sir, would you like a few catties of freshly picked clams? Make sure they are plump and juicy!" A short middle-aged man in gray-black cloth asked Moni.

Money glanced at him and asked casually, "When did you pick the clams? Where did you pick them? How much do you sell for a catty?"

"Of course it was picked at noon today. It came from the reefs [-] miles away from Sais Port. It only costs one gold coin per catty!"

"Three catties!" Mo Ni beckoned, and asked the two accompanying crew members to pay.

The black market here is also graded. There are three floors in the entire underground black market. The lower you go, the more precious things are, and the higher the price. Moni is directly hinting to the contact that he is going to the third floor.

"Clang..." Hearing Moni's order, the accompanying crew took out a big bulging bag from their arms, fished out three of the dazzling gold coins, and threw them to the clam dealer.

Seeing such a big bag of gold coins, the clam dealer's eyes brightened instantly, and the smile on his face became even more obsequious.

He nodded and took the gold coin, took out a black sign from his pocket, and handed it to Moni.

"Master Captain, here is your manifest, just take the sign and go to the clam shop at the end of the street to pick it up!"

Don't ask him how he knew Mooney was the captain, because Mooney looked like one.

"Hmm..." Taking the black card casually, Mo Ni walked towards the end of the street with two of his men.

"Da da da…"

Amidst the lively yelling around, Money walked to the end of the street.

This is a dead end, and there are no shops around. There is only a sign on the ground that says [Vincent Clam Shop].

Two sturdy sailors with full beards leaned against the wall and chatted. When they saw the arrival of the three of Moni, they immediately stopped them, and stretched out their hands rudely, "Manifest!"

"Shhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Money threw the sign in his hand to one of the burly men.

After carefully checking the authenticity of the item, the strong man winked at his companion.

The two bent down together and worked together to lift a bluestone slab on the ground.

It can be seen that behind the bluestone slab is a winding path.

Although it is a winding path, it is not dark at all, because the brick walls on both sides are made of gold!
Under the illumination of the wall lamps, the golden light keeps flickering, exuding the extravagant light that tempts crime.

Oh, how superficial!A nouveau riche who can only show off with gold!

Squinting his eyes stung by the golden light, Moni cursed in his heart.

If he didn't have important things to do now, he would pry all the gold away tonight!
"Da da da..." With a feeling of criticism of the nouveau riche, Mo Ni walked into this path and walked to the end slowly.

Seeing the exit, he turned his head and glanced reluctantly at the Golden Avenue behind him, as if he was dazzled by these gold bricks for a moment.

Thinking that Boqi was still waiting for him to go back, he walked into the black market cruelly.

Unlike the resplendent and resplendent ones when you enter the door, the real trading place in the underground black market is still very low-key.

The black marble paves a long street about 600 meters long. There are stalls on both sides of the long street, ranging in size from small to large, and selling strange goods.

It is not as chaotic as most people imagine, but it is very orderly.

Most of the goods are directly and clearly placed on the ground, but there are still a few things covered with black cloth, and only when someone stops in front of the stall, they will be opened for customers to take a look.

These black cloths are exactly those sea creatures that are prohibited from being traded by law.

In the cold and narrow transparent fish tank, one after another of marine creatures that were forcibly captured by humans was imprisoned. With horrified and helpless expressions on their faces, they kept beating the fish tank in an attempt to escape, or cursed the surrounding humans hysterically and viciously.

"Bang bang bang! Let me out! Let me out!"

"I will curse you! Curse all of you to die!"

"Woooooo...Mom! I miss you so much!"

Surrounded by a higher-pitched shrill scream, Mooney frowned uncomfortably.

No matter how many times he came, he didn't like the atmosphere of the black market, and he didn't like seeing these dirty things.

However, recalling the things he did to Shamanleir back then, he felt that he seemed to be the same as the people around him, so he couldn't help laughing at himself: "Humans are really dirty creatures..."

"Heh, I came to the black market and said such nonsense. I was a kid who didn't know the heights of the sky and the earth. It turned out to be the honorable Master Moni~" Suddenly, a strange voice sounded in Moni's ear.

He looked back and found that it was his "old friend", Johnny Claudie, a famous fish dealer in the black market of Port Sais.

The fish here refers to those illegally traded sea creatures.

Johnny's boat was specialized in poaching marine life, and he had dealt with several times during the years when Mooney fanatically pursued mermaids, and they were fairly familiar with each other.

Johnny had one of the props that could hide the identity of a mermaid that Mony had seen before.

Noticing that Mooney was looking at himself now, Johnny showed a disgusted expression on his face, and taunted again: "Why did our honorable Master Mooney come to this damn place like the black market again and again, and our morals Corrupt scum mixed together?"

"Are you looking for me to buy tools for catching mermaids again? Or have you finally given up and want to buy a live one?"

"Tsk tsk tsk, it's a pity that the one in my hand has already been reserved. If you need it, I will go to sea in a few days to grab one for you?"

Hearing Johnny's sarcasm, Mooney took a deep breath.

He suppressed the anger in his heart, and said in a displeased tone: "If you want to do business, shut up your stinking mouth! If you have new tools, show me to see them, and if you don't have them, go away!"

"Heh... After working so hard for so many years, I can't even catch a mermaid. I have no skills and a temper!" Hearing what Monny said, Johnny muttered in disdain.

Seeing that Monny's face gradually turned black and his expression became unfriendly, Johnny finally stopped his flirting.

He waved to Mooney and said in a rude tone, "Come with me, boy!"

……

Johnny's stall was also on this street, and as soon as he approached, he could see several huge glass jars.

Two strong companions stood guard on both sides, one on the left and the other on the right. All the glass tanks were not covered with black cloth, but were exposed to the outside with big thorns.

The captured marine creatures floated quietly in the water, their eyes numb and lifeless, as if they had lost their souls.

Mooney took a quick look and found that there was no mermaid inside, he was relieved for a while.

As if he noticed that he was looking at these fish products, Johnny turned his head and said to Money in a joking tone: "Why, do you want to see mermaids? I am reluctant to sell that kind of big baby. I really want to see me to the boat."

"The mermaid I caught this time is beautiful, with a rare fiery red tail!"

"This guy is hard to catch, it took me more than half a year to catch it!"

Hearing Johnny's ostentatious words, Mooney gave him a disgusted look, and said sarcastically, "Is anyone talking to you? You talk a lot, just like a noisy sea monkey!"

The potion that Johnny drank was related to monkeys, which made him grow sharper and sharper. The hair on his body was also golden and thick. In addition, there was a ball of curly hair like yellow straw on his head. Like an enlarged version of the sea monkey.

"Pfft ha ha ha!" Just after Mooney finished saying this, the two crew members who came with him burst into laughter.

Even Johnny's own brother couldn't help shrugging his shoulders, looking like he wanted to laugh but didn't dare.

"What are you laughing at! Get out of here!" Seeing his companions holding back their smiles, Johnny slapped them away with a slap, walked around the glass tanks, and came to two wooden boxes.

"Click!" Unlocking the lock, he kicked the wooden box in front of Moni, "Choose it yourself! After you've picked it out, ask me to pay the bill!"

As soon as he kicked over, Moni saw what he was looking for - a deformation reformer.

The outside of this thing is a black wooden box with a nightingale pattern engraved on it. There is nothing special from the outside, but there is a lot of space inside.

Money pretended to be casually picked up the box, opened it and took a look.

Several beams of brilliant blue light were emitted from the box, and a cube engraved with characters appeared in front of Moni.

It has three layers in total, and looks somewhat similar to the standard Rubik's Cube on Earth, except that each cube is not so symmetrical.

"Om..." The cube slowly rose into the air, floating in the midair so smoothly.

This cube is the body of the deformation reformer. After the various characters on it are rotated, they can form characters one by one.

[Humans], [Lizardmen], [Fish], [Birds], [Snakes], [Trees].

These are some of the most common creatures in the world. The user only needs to turn the cube himself, return the original messy characters on it, and spell out the complete text to transform into the creature corresponding to the text.

After shuffling the order again, it will change back to the original.

Of course, you only need to turn out one side at a time. If you accidentally turn too much, it may become some kind of "chimera".

Money has seen people use it before, and he knows how to use it. After observing it carefully for a while, he confirmed that this thing should be genuine, then he covered the black box again, and then turned his attention to other things in the box, flipping through it at will. looked up.

While watching, he also asked Johnny some questions in a decent manner, pretending to be about to "do a big job".

After about half an hour, he chose something.

A special fishing net that is said to be invulnerable to a giant dragon, a luminous little jellyfish that is said to be loved by mermaids, and the transforming reformer.

Among them, the fishing net is the most expensive, worth six thousand gold coins.

Although the transforming reorganizer has strange abilities, it is not very useful except for changing its appearance, and it is not unique. Every year, several of them are circulated in the market, so the price is a little cheaper, only four thousand gold coins.

The little luminous jellyfish is even cheaper, the price is only [-] gold coins, and Moni still thinks that it is cute because of its soft and round shape, and thinks that Pochi will like it, so he took it by the way.

After handing over the few things he had chosen to the accompanying crew, Moni took out a Hawkins note with a denomination of [-] from his pocket, and threw it to Johnny, "It's [-] gold coins in total, just a fraction."

He charged a hundred gold coins for a mere rubber toy, so I really thought he was a fool.

Although he couldn't understand Monny's always arrogant attitude, Johnny didn't want to make trouble with money.

He caught the ticket paper with his hand, pulled a fake smile on his face, and said to Mooney: "Then I wish Master Mooney can realize his dream as soon as possible this time, and catch the mermaid he dreamed of! "

"You don't need to talk too much!" With a cold face, Moni left the stall quickly.

The so-called show has to be a complete set. In order to prevent Johnny and others from seeing the fact that he is already a mermaid, Mony took two crew members around the black market twice more, and bought a few from other people. Only then did I leave contentedly with the high-quality trash I used.

"Da da da..." The sound of footsteps faded away.

Looking at the backs of Moni and his party leaving, the stall owners doing business in the black market gradually turned their eyes back and paid attention to the other customers coming and going.

Johnny and his accomplices were also paying attention to Moni, and seeing their figures disappear completely, one of the accomplices couldn't help but said to Johnny: "Captain, since you despise this guy so much, why do you want to do it with him?" What about business? Just grab the kid's money and beat him up!"

Hearing this, Johnny rolled his eyes, patted his subordinate hard on the head, and reprimanded him:
"Don't be so fucking clever all the time! I can't think of what you can think of? Don't look like a disgusting lunatic, Moni, but he still has a little strength. It's not good for us to fight him!"

(End of this chapter)