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Chapter 510 Black Shop
"Black, endless store..."

Several people looked at the gloomy plaque at the end of the fork in the road and couldn't help swallowing.

The black endless store, unlike the white one, is not a window, but a dilapidated and rusty iron door. You can feel the ominous atmosphere at a glance, and you don’t know what will come out when you knock on the door.

"Would you like to go and take a look?" Ma Qiao looked at Old Yuan and Luo Jun. The former was an old senior and a strong man, and the latter was just a junior, but he was the one who made the plans along the way, and unknowingly, everyone became dependent on him.

"Let's not do it..." Sun Xiaowei was a little scared: "Didn't the fat businessman warn us that we might get eaten..."

"The fat businessman may not be telling the truth." Old Yuan shook his head: "For us, there are still too many unknowns in this endless maze. If you ask me, for the sake of safety, it is better not to disturb them..."

"But maybe there will be other clues..." Luo Jun took out the gold ingot. He saw all the treasures in the white shop from the product catalog. Apart from the indicator, there were no other clues about the exit. At present, even with the indicator, the chance of finding the exit is very slim. So it seems that the death Xiao Min saw may mean that she will be trapped to death in the maze...

The black shop is the only clue at the moment...

As for being eaten?
Two top-level fighters are here. If they can be killed, then this endless maze cannot be a Class A mission...

"Then I'll go." Old Yuan wanted to snatch the ingot, but Luo Jun dodged him: "Let's not fight over it. It's safer. Let's go together."

"Together..." Sun Xiaowei took a look at the door that exuded an ominous aura and couldn't help swallowing.

"You and Ma Qiao wait at the intersection, and be ready to respond if anything happens." Elder Yuan kept them outside, not only to protect them, but also because he was worried that something might happen. Without these two around, Luo Jun would have fewer concerns when he really needed to take action.

The master and the disciple came to the rusty door. Old Yuan, wearing the Bagua Brass Knuckles, supported them from the side, while Luo Jun went forward with the ingot and knocked on the door.

To be on the safe side, I rolled the dice to indicate that there would be no conflict before knocking on the door. As a result, the difficulty was very low and I succeeded easily.

However, the difficulty is low, but it is not zero, which means that there is still a possibility of conflict.

After knocking on the door, there was a noise from inside. After a while, the iron door slowly opened, and the hinges made a harsh friction sound.

"Who?"

An old head popped out from the door. It had sparse, messy white hair, a face full of wrinkles, cloudy eyes, and it was impossible to tell whether it was a man or a woman. There were several tumors on its forehead and chin, and it exuded a disgusting stench.

"Is this the Endless Store?" Luo Jun directly showed the gold ingots: "I'm here to trade."

When the old head saw Yuanbao, his eyes lit up and he nodded: "Come in."

Go in?

Old Yuan frowned. It would be fine to do the transaction outside the door, but going in... could it be a trap?
"What? Are you worried?" The old head sneered: "Then I'm sorry, we can't receive you..." As he said that, he pretended to close the door.

"Wait..." Luo Jun grabbed the door and said, "Let's go in and talk."

Old Yuan looked at Luo Jun with some concern, and Luo Jun gave him a reassuring look. The two of them followed him into the store and then closed the door.

"They went in?" Sun Xiaowei asked in surprise, "They won't be unable to come out, right?"

"It's okay, we have Elder Yuan!" Ma Qiao encouraged, "It's said that he has top-level combat power. Facing those monsters along the way will be as easy as chopping melons and vegetables. He will be fine!"

Sun Xiaowei looked at the tightly closed iron gate with a look of worry on her face.

After entering the house, Old Yuan and Luo Jun finally saw the full appearance of the old head. This guy was not a person, but a huge hand. The head actually grew on the tip of its middle finger. The other fingers constituted hands and feet, supporting its body to move. It looked weird and disgusting, which made people shudder.

"Come and see my goods." The giant hand monster let out a creepy laugh, and his eyes never left the gold ingot in Luo Jun's hand.

The room was very messy, with dusty debris piled up everywhere, cracks and bloodstains on the walls and furniture, and a strange smell emanating from everywhere, making people physically uncomfortable...

"Where are the goods?" Luo Jun looked around and was unwilling to believe that those messy things were the props he wanted to buy.

"It's really not convenient to look at it this way. Here, I have a product catalog." As he said that, the giant hand monster stretched out his index finger. The end of the index finger branched out into five fingers, as big as an average person's hand. He took out a dusty book from the pile of debris and handed it to Luo Jun.

Luo Jun took the book and blew on it. The dust on it rose up and it seemed as if a sandstorm had blown up in the room. After shaking it off a few times, he could finally see the whole book clearly.

This book seems to be made of some kind of leather, but it is not regular. The cover is full of messy stitching, and there are color differences between different leathers. Although it should be the skin of the same creature, it is obviously from different individuals.

Opening the album, you will see pictures and descriptions of various props drawn in black and dark red ink.

Like the white store, there are also supplies here, but looking at the food inside, they are all raw, cold and fishy things. Some dead fish, rotten meat, and insects are still good, while some are twisted and weird, and you can't tell what kind of biological tissue they are. What's worse, some can clearly see the shadow of human organs... Although theoretically this stuff is indeed edible, using this as a supply is really a bit...

The following, including various daily necessities, are also full of weirdness. For example, hand sanitizer made from the eyeballs of unknown animals, bedding made from bloody skin, and medical equipment made from worms such as maggots...

Looking further back, there were all kinds of weapons, which were also different from the standard equipment in the white shop. The cold weapons here were obviously made of animal bones or insect keratin shells. There were also hot weapons, most of which were rusted and twisted, and almost all of them were twisted shapes fused with metal and biological tissues... Although Luo Jun did not doubt the power of these weapons, to be honest, he would not want to use them even if they were given to him for free.

Let’s take a look at the key special props.

Luo Jun flipped through the pages directly, skipping over the cheap items that cost tens or hundreds of dollars, and started looking at the treasures with special effects.

There are sacrifices for summoning monsters, and magic scrolls that can curse opponents...but Luo Jun is not interested in these battle items. What he really wants are those functional props for the maze itself.

Hmm? This can permanently remove the wall?

Luo Jun noticed an interesting prop. The picture showed that it was a large glass bottle filled with thirteen blood-red beads. According to the instructions, one had to take out a bead and throw it at the wall. After it exploded, the liquid inside would permanently corrode the wall, leaving a passage for people to pass through.

This function is similar to the prop that can open the door in the white shop, but the difference is that the prop is disposable, and it costs one thousand yuan to open a door. But this bead, a bottle of thirteen beads, only costs five thousand yuan in total.

By this calculation, isn't this a much better deal than the white store?
Wait... I'm not sure whether the currency of the black store and the white store is universal. At least the gold ingots cannot be used in the white store. Thinking of this, Luo Jun directly took out the banknotes and asked the weird hand: "Can I buy things with this?"

The excavator took a look at what Luo Jun was holding and laughed, "It seems that you have already met the guy who opened the window to do business... No problem, I will accept anything here. Not only this kind of money, but also anything you find in the maze, anything you bring in from outside the maze, even yourselves, can be exchanged for money here!"

As he said that, he glanced at the gold ingot in Luo Jun's hand again: "Of course, my favorite is still this one. As long as you are willing to pay, I can exchange it for 10,000 yuan for you, how about it?"

This attitude of wanting everything is very black market style.

Luo Jun nodded: "Let me take another look at your goods."

As he spoke, he and Old Yuan continued to flip through the product catalog and discovered that the functions of many of the props here overlapped with those in the white store, but the forms of expression were slightly different.

In the white shop, it was just like a normal game skill, simple and direct. In the black shop, when the function was used, it was usually accompanied by some disgusting and twisted special effects.

In addition to corroding walls to open doors, there are also giant worms' big mouths for teleportation, rotten smells for directions, etc. In short, although the functions are similar, they just make you feel uncomfortable.

Another point is that for props with the same function, the black one is usually used multiple times, and the price per use is cheaper than the white one.

From this perspective, it’s much more cost-effective to buy things on the black side... Luo Jun is a little itchy.

By the way, do you have a portable map?

However, Luo Jun searched for a long time and did not find any function exactly the same as the portable map. There was a similar map function that also lasted for one hour, but it could not indicate the encounter locations. In addition to being able to see the terrain, it could only indicate two things, one was the black shop, and the other was the monster that could drop gold ingots.

This function is obviously to encourage players to collect gold ingots. It is much less convenient than the white one, and the price is also very cheap, only one thousand yuan for a map.

Although the price was attractive, it did not meet Luo Jun's requirements. He continued to flip through the pages, trying to find items related to export.

But even after flipping through the pages to the end, I still couldn't find any clues related to the exit. There was not even a replacement for the exit indicator at the white shop.

Luo Jun glanced at Mr. Yuan and saw disappointment in his eyes.

"Do you have a way to find the exit here?" Since I couldn't find it, I might as well just ask directly.

"Oh, you want high-end stuff?" The giant hand monster laughed and said, "Just unfold the last page."

"Unfold the last page?" Luo Jun opened the album, and with the monster's reminder, he discovered that the last page actually had a layer. If he twisted it hard with his hands, he could unfold a hidden page!

"This is..." Seeing the content of this page, Yuan Lao's eyes widened: "Everything on this page must be exchanged for gold ingots?"

The giant hand monster laughed and said, "That's right. I saw that you only took one gold ingot, so I thought you couldn't afford good stuff... This is my most precious treasure. Although I can't help you find the exit directly, it should be helpful, right?"

The master and disciple took a careful look and found that the price of the treasures on this page was at least one whole gold ingot. Correspondingly, the effects were also extremely powerful. For example, there was a teleportation device that could be used multiple times and moved to a designated location at will, and a scroll that could directly summon a store to the front. There was even a treasure that could exchange monster corpses for money, greatly increasing the efficiency of killing monsters and making money!

Of course, the most eye-catching one is the last one.

Void Pass.

Within one hour after activation, it will turn into nothingness, ignoring any physical collisions and will not be blocked by walls.

This thing is a perfect match with the exit indicator over at the white store!

One indicates the direction of the exit, and the other negates itself, moving forward in a straight line through the wall. As long as the speed is fast enough, you will definitely find the exit!

This Void Pass is the most expensive item on this page, and it requires ten gold ingots to exchange.

Is it equivalent to 100,000 yuan? Then it is the same price as the exit indicator on the other side... It seems that these two things are designed to be used together.

It seems that this is the way to leave the maze. The final solution is the indicator and the pass. Ten ingots plus one hundred thousand yuan can allow you to leave this endless maze!

The master and the disciple looked at each other and saw excitement in each other's eyes.

Now that we have a goal, we can't waste money. The two finally left the gold ingots and chose to leave this black shop. But before leaving, they spent 2,000 yuan to exchange for two maps. With this thing, not only can they collect gold ingots conveniently, but they can also find other black shops.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the weird monster shop owner did not try to persuade them to stay, but cooperated and opened the door to let them leave. Although it looked scary and the shop was full of weirdness, it did not seem to be as dangerous as the white shop owner said.

Seeing Yuan Lao and Luo Jun coming out, Sun Xiaowei and Ma Qiao immediately came over and asked, "Are you okay? Is it scary in there? Are there any monsters?"

The two men briefly recounted what had happened inside, and when they heard that there was a way out, they were both very excited!
Now that basic survival is guaranteed, saving money is just a matter of time. With 200,000 yuan, we can leave this damn place!
"By the way, is the pass for individuals or for groups?" Sun Xiaowei discovered a blind spot: "If it can only make one person become nothing, then doesn't that mean everyone needs one?"

"We have confirmed this with the store owner." Old Yuan nodded and said, "This pass can be used by a group of people. With one pass, everyone can go out."

"That's great!" Sun Xiaowei cheered.

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." Luo Jun shook his head: "If we can leave the endless maze by finding these two items, it's a bit too simple..."

"Is this easy?" Ma Qiao complained, "We worked so hard for so long and only earned more than 20,000 yuan. How can 100,000 yuan plus 10 gold ingots be so easy?"

"But we have found a way to break through, right?" Luo Jun said, "Although the difficulty is still very high, I don't think this will make this maze a hopeless situation that no one can conquer!"

Yuan Lao frowned: "You mean..."

"I suspect that big businessman is hiding something..."

(End of this chapter)