This world, shadows quietly enveloped it, and unseen horrors spread among the populace.
The world seemed to be falling into an abyss.
Fang You, who could only stay home to survive, obta...
Da Mi Luan City, District 10.
The wide road was big enough to accommodate twelve chariots, and on both sides were buildings of varying heights, some seven or eight meters high, and some twenty or thirty meters high, but all of them were built in an extraordinary style. Some of the buildings were built with the main body of a strong old tree, some looked like giant beasts with their mouths opened, and some were pagodas and palaces.
This really opened An Jianyou's eyes.
It is indeed the most prosperous city in the Broken Sea region, with so many things she has never seen.
Because he had handled many affairs in the Mission Guild, An Jianyou's knowledge of this magnificent city was much broader than that of many local residents of Dayiluan City - ordinary people who were born and raised here, many of whom could not leave the digital area where they lived throughout their entire lives, and they were almost always in the outer city area.
Even the low-level awakeners can only make a living across several regions.
In order to run the guild, An Jianyou traveled to many places in Dayiluan City in just two months. This huge city was much larger than their Shuize Base City, but its population was far less.
There is no such thing as demographics here, but we can make some guesses from the information compiled by the guild.
It won’t exceed 50 million.
Most of them are still concentrated in the outer city, well, to be more precise, in the slums of the outer city. Thinking of the scenes she saw in the slums, she felt a little bit reluctant and couldn't help sighing, but there was no way to change it.
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This is the Great Miluan City.
The poor are very poor, and the rich are very rich.
Just like the 10th district, this entire district is the "commercial street" in the city, yes, a high-end commercial street, a piece of land is extremely expensive, and Mrs. An opened her mouth slightly when she heard it.
"Many of the people who opened shops here are from other places! If our Burning Mall could rent out so many shops, we would be rich!"
Liuying's head turned left and right, she was overwhelmed and there was a shape of ¥¥ in her eyes.
She was amazed.
The Ranhuo Mall is indeed far from comparable. Not only is the number of shops less than one thousandth or one ten-thousandth of that here, even the rent per square meter is much lower than here.
This is a prime area, every inch of land is worth a lot of money!
Why was the original Hidden Killing Pavilion's large base located in District 11? Wasn't it because District 10 was too expensive? Of course, there was no need for it, as this was a large commercial district after all.
Not only that, the stronghold land left by the Hidden Killing Pavilion was only leased by them, not purchased, and it seemed that there would only be one or two years left before it was transferred to the Burning Chamber of Commerce.
Bad review.
An Jianyou nodded and clenched his fists with high morale. "So, we have to work hard to make the mall bigger and stronger, and make it as good as here."
"I have no doubt that our mall will be able to grow bigger. When the shops are open for purchase, I will buy one and wait for it to appreciate in value. Hahahaha, I am so smart~!
"Hey, Youyou, you have such a good relationship with the instructor, why don't you ask for some inside information for the sisters?"
Liuying poked An Jianyou's slender waist with her elbow and got a chestnut in return.
Wow!
Seeing that Liuying was so interested, An Jianyou thought, "The business in Dayilan City is so prosperous, there must be something worth learning. Ying, why don't you write a research report?"
Firefly: “???”
The more An Jianyou thought about it, the more she felt that she had to write this report. Her supervisor often asked her to write experience reports. Now, it was time to pass on this organizational culture.
Of course, she can write, but she is a little uncomfortable with writing so much that her tutor doesn't ask her to write for a while.
One was full of fighting spirit, one had her head down, and a few had wide eyes and curiosity. The ignorant girls broke into the noisy street.
It wasn't the first time for the people from District 10 to come here, but they were busy with official duties before, and it was not until today when they had a day off that they could leisurely stroll around and experience the customs and practices of the "other world".
There are so many alien elements here, the girls were amazed. Xu Yun's little mouth remained half open the whole time.
However, when they gradually got used to these novel elements, they found that there were too many exotic customs here.
The styles of two shops are very different every ten or dozens of meters. Each building seems to be built completely by each force without any unified standard.
There are still ancient wooden buildings here, and not far away is a fireworks-style building with countless towering torches. That's fine, at least in An Jianyou's opinion, these two buildings are very novel, but what's going on with the one more than 200 meters away?
The entire exterior wall of the building is carved with hundreds of huge fish heads. These fish heads are blue-gray in color, with wide-open eyes, staring at passers-by, as if saying, "Come on, come on, customers..." That's weird!
Seeing these hundreds of dead fish eyes staring at her, An Jianyou got goosebumps.
Liuying also hugged her arms and shuddered, "How could there be such an anti-human design!"
"Because the owner of that shop is not human."
An Jianyou turned sideways and saw that the person who was speaking was a man wearing a turban, accompanied by several servants.
Judging from his appearance, he is either rich or noble.
However, in the Tenth District, it is normal for nobles and wealthy businessmen to have servants accompanying them, and they may be the exception.
But what An Jianyou cared more about was the statement that he was "not human".
Is he a foreign race?
Aliens do exist, she already knew from various sources. For example, the Falling Star City has several fantastic creatures such as "Flower Fairies", "Blue Elves", and "Tauren", but there are not many of them. Rather than being aliens, they are more like rare protected creatures.
There are also relatively powerful alien life forms, such as the Snake of Imagination.
The meditation and contemplation she practiced required the consumption of snake brains and snake scales.
But she had only seen these in the information; she had never seen any living fantastic life.
Without even opening her mouth, Liuying couldn't wait to ask the question she was curious about, "What race is it? Does Dayiluan City have any foreign vassals?"
An innocent, naive girl.
It was obviously his first time in Dayiluan City, and maybe even his first time traveling far away.
But they seemed to have considerable financial resources. After all, the strange weapons they were wearing looked extraordinary.
A faint light flashed in the deep pupils of the turbaned merchant. He smiled and said, "You guys guessed wrong. The Siren Palace behind the Ten Thousand Fish Pavilion is the dominant force in the entire Broken Sea region, and is not inferior to the Great Mi Chaos City."
"It's just that alien forces like the Siren Palace rarely interact with humans, and it's hard to see them in big cities. Of course, in our Damilan City, aliens are not uncommon."
An Jianyou saw it.
The receptionist at the Wanyu Pavilion in the distance was still a human, but looking through the gate, one could see several strange "figures" with huge fish heads and wide human-like sleeves, which was an indescribable sense of disharmony.
Are those the sirens?
Similar, but not entirely.
An Jianyou remembered that the Sea Monster Palace seemed to be a dominant force that brought together many kinds of fantastic life forms. She had seen some of them in the information of the Hidden Killing Pavilion. However, there was very little information. The Hidden Killing Pavilion said that it was spread all over the place, but it was limited to the scope of human influence and had little contact with aliens.
What they took over were just scattered strongholds, not the core of the Hidden Killing Pavilion, so it was difficult to find many high-end secrets.
However, it seems that in addition to the Siren Palace, there is also an alien overlord force - Fengling Island.
An Jianyou saw it soon.
They were a group of people who were about three or four meters tall, in human form, and their bodies seemed to be made of a whirlwind and appeared translucent. They walked by floating... bah.
Obviously, people who have lived in the royal city and upper city of Dayiluan City for many years have become accustomed to the existence of this kind of fantastic life.
An Jianyou and the others were just looking out of curiosity, but after looking at it, they thought that it was just like that, they all had two hands and two legs, so even if it had four or eight hands, it wouldn't be surprising if they thought about it carefully.
She can grow eight or ten arms by herself.
Hmm... He couldn't help but recall his appearance when he was not in human form. An Jianyou shook his head fiercely, "Go away from me, monsters and demons!"
They did learn a lot of new things from the man wearing a headscarf and calling himself "helpful businessman Aquino". As they could not refuse Aquino's recommendation, they came to a large store.
"Here we are.
"This is the stone gambling shop I mentioned - the Broken Rock Stone Gambling Shop.
"If you want to buy some rare treasures, you don't have to go to various treasure pavilions to choose. Just come here. The raw stones here can not only produce high-grade strange crystal mines, but also various treasures. Some time ago, someone opened a divine crystal here! Divine crystal!
"The poor young master who got the divine crystal became rich overnight and has become a legend. If you don't believe me, just ask the passers-by around you."
At first glance, this stone gambling shop does seem extraordinary.
First of all, it is big. In District 10 where every inch of land is valuable, the area occupied by this broken rock gambling shop is two or three times that of the previous Wanyu Pavilion.
Moreover, the gambling stone industry is extremely lively, and exclamations can be heard from time to time.
Accompanied by the halo of treasure that blooms as the raw stone is broken.
An Jianyou also saw it. Indeed, many of them were rare and strange things. She could hardly recognize them. She could only judge that they were extraordinary based on the brilliance of the treasures.
I heard from people around me that some of these raw stones came from ancient ruins and could reveal the secret inheritance methods of ancient civilization.
"Ladies, you may want to try it out. You can start with a small amount." Businessman Aquino introduced enthusiastically.
An Jianyou and his companions took a look around the gambling stone business and saw many people opening up rare items, which made them tempted.
He spent thousands of strange crystals and bought a few small pieces of rough stones with holes all over them.
Don’t underestimate a few thousand ghost crystals; this is already the price of a blue ghost weapon. Some non-human-level beings only have one or two blue ghost weapons on their bodies.
And they are not human, but they are elites even in a place like Dayiluan City.
They bought several pieces of raw stones based on their preference and opened them on the spot. Some of them only yielded sporadic strange crystals, which was a big loss. But when the last piece of raw stone was opened, it actually revealed a faint purple glow.
“It’s epic!”
“It’s shipped!”
People gathered around and talked at once.
Another appraisal expert assessed the value of this epic material on the spot, with a preliminary estimate of 30,000. In other words, they easily made 20,000 to 30,000 ghost crystals from gambling on the stone this time!
Big profit!
The people around him showed envy, and some encouraged An Jianyou to take advantage of his good luck and pick a few big ones to broaden their horizons.
At this time, shouts were heard from a distance.
A new batch of raw stones has arrived, fresh raw stones just shipped back from outside.
"This batch of rough stones has not been picked yet, so it is the easiest to ship!"
"Yes, if I had enough money, I would have given it a try today."
"Take your time to hesitate. I will pick it first. If you are slow, you will miss out on the good stuff."
Many people became anxious, and it seemed that the quicker the better.
Seeing this, Liuying, Xiong Tianshuang and others also became a little anxious, "Youyou, let's go together."
An Jianyou hesitated for a while, but finally nodded.
This batch of raw stones are large in size and high in grade, and the price is much higher than the previous scraps. The cheapest one costs hundreds of thousands of strange crystals, and the expensive ones cost hundreds of thousands or millions.
As if noticing An Jianyou and the others' hesitation, Aquino said, "Don't you guys have that many ghost crystals on you? That doesn't matter. This gambling stone shop also provides mortgage services. You can use the items on you to get an appraisal, and when the raw stones turn out treasures, you can use them as collateral."
As they were talking, wealthy businessmen, young masters and young ladies not far away had already started to make their selections.
One piece, two pieces, three pieces...several pieces of high-quality raw stones were picked up one after another, and the atmosphere on the scene became more tense and heated.
In such an atmosphere, An Jianyou couldn't help but make a move and bought a piece of raw stone worth millions of strange crystals.
Liuying and her companions had a stronger desire to buy, but they did not have hundreds of thousands of ghost crystals in their pockets, and the price of all the ghost weapons on their bodies combined might be just this.
After some hesitation, I still couldn't bear to take the gamble.
An Jianyou was also worried that he might get too excited, so he took the raw stone without even opening it, and left with Liuying and the other two.
After they left, the lively atmosphere in the gambling stone business cooled down strangely.
Businessman Aquino and a manager of a gambling stone company walked together, both of them had a look of regret on their faces.
“I didn’t expect that they could restrain themselves.”
"What a pity! A rich lady who can easily take out millions of ghost crystals, if she were to use this as collateral, wouldn't she be able to make tens of millions?"
"It's not a small amount to earn a million ghost crystals now. After all, we have no cost. All the money is waste rocks collected from all over the place."
"So, these waste stones have never produced any treasures?"
"That's nonsense. Even a mythical being can't reveal any treasures in person."
The two looked at each other and gradually laughed out loud.
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"Youyou, I feel like we've been fooled!"
As he walked on the road, Liuying thought more and more that something was wrong.
The atmosphere just now was so exciting that people couldn't help but get excited, but now that their brains have cooled down and they think about it again, they feel that passers-by, businessmen, rich young men, etc., are all actors, and they are the only passers-by in this stage play.
Furthermore, giving people a little taste of sweetness first and then enticing them to make large purchases, isn't this a trick they have had on Blue Star for a long time?
Think about it carefully, that's a million ghost crystals! Even in Dayi Luan City, there aren't many wealthy businessmen who can throw out a million ghost crystals casually, right?
"Yes, indeed."
"You knew that already?"
"No, I just realized it vaguely a moment ago, and then I used my memory to reconstruct the scene, and then I found that there was something slightly wrong with those people's expressions, but I didn't observe them carefully before."
An Jianyou shook his head.
Liuying and the others hung their heads and stamped their feet, wishing they could run back to the gambling stone shop to argue. As for An Jianyou, who had actually lost millions of ghost crystals, he did not have much emotional fluctuations.
After all, this kind of deception cannot be undone.
One million ghost crystals was a lesson learned. Fortunately, it was only one million ghost crystals. After sighing, she also breathed a sigh of relief. It was okay. The loss was not big.
Thinking of this, An Jianyou took out the raw stone that cost her millions of strange crystals from the Ring of Storage.
I hope I can come up with something.
She thought.
He used his incomparably precise strength to unlock layer by layer this huge raw stone that was flowing with chaotic energy and that even divine thoughts could not penetrate. Suddenly, wisps of golden light bloomed.
When the debris fell off, what appeared before their eyes was a diamond-shaped crystal with a golden halo.
She was no stranger.
This is……
"God Crystal!"
"Can a divine crystal really be found in this raw stone?"
"A divine crystal is worth at least 20 million, right? Even at 20 million it's hard to buy!"
Liuying and the others widened their eyes.
Could it be that they had wrongly blamed the gambling stone industry?
An Jianyou also fell into deep thought.
It seems like she has become rich again.
Look up at the sky.