Chapter 65 Black Market
◎Luck is also a part of strength◎
Xu Wen: “…”
Omir: “…”
It can be seen that Qin Shu really dislikes this man.
"Then - ask Yun Shangjun to cast another confusion spell?" Xu Wen suggested.
Before Qin Shu could react, Omir rejected the plan. "While I can't guarantee this spell won't work, the black market's detection equipment is far more rigorous and high-tech than your Interstellar Federation's. Furthermore... I can't even trace the true owner of the black market. So, it's better to be safe than sorry. I'm afraid a simple confusion spell won't be enough."
"How long does plastic surgery take?" Qin Shu asked in a deep voice.
"Is it so cruel?" Omir was almost scared to death by Qin Shu.
Xu Wen actually replied seriously, "It's probably too late. And if the black market wants to check your biometric information, even plastic surgery won't help."
Qin Shu thought about it and nodded: "Then don't be a human being."
"Ah?" Xu Wen didn't react for a moment to what Qin Shu meant.
Qin Shu remained calm, even smiling at the bewildered Xu Wen and saying, "Have you ever experienced the feeling of your soul leaving your body?"
"What's out-of-body experience?"
"Don't be afraid, you just need to fall asleep, and leave the rest to Hei Wuchang." Qin Shu, who had experienced this, reached out and patted Xu Wen's shoulder.
"Okay?" Xu Wen still felt that everything was unreal.
How come you suddenly stop being a human?
Almost when Xu Wen and Qin Shu arrived at the prepared starship, Hei Wuchang was already waiting for them on the starship.
Without Qin Shu even asking, Hei Wuchang took the initiative to explain, "When a soul leaves the body, it's easily impacted. You'll be safe only when I'm around."
"Thank you for your trouble, Lord Wuchang." Xu Wen hurriedly thanked him upon hearing this.
Qin Shu was very practical and directly gave Hei Wuchang some achievement points as overtime pay.
The two fell into a deep sleep on the starship. After an unknown amount of time, Qin Shu felt someone tap her shoulder and say, "Wake up."
Qin Shu opened her eyes skillfully and stood up from herself.
On the other side, Xu Wen was still staring blankly at his body still sleeping on the chair, somewhat unable to recover.
Hei Wuchang tapped Qin Shu and Xu Wen's eyebrows respectively and said, "Avoid collision."
Almost at the moment when Hei Wuchang completed this action, the starship stopped steadily at the starport of planet A9011.
Because they did not want to reveal their identities, they did not board the official starship of the Interstellar Federation, but instead used a small starship registered under a private name.
"Wow, this starport is quite prosperous." Qin Shu and her companions had just gotten off the starship when they saw at a glance that there was a super starship next to where they were docked. The size of the super starship was comparable to that of the second-level starships of the Interstellar Federation Fleet.
Xu Wen frowned upon seeing this: "This symbol... is it Poison Wolf and the others?"
"Poison Wolf?" Qin Shu looked over when she heard that, and saw a symbol on the starship that looked like a beast's head.
Ah, Qin Shu had actually seen this logo before.
The fifth time Lu Yishen died was in a starship hijacking incident. The hijacked starship seemed to be the one in front of him.
"It's an unofficial, purely non-profit, independent rescue organization within the Kopra Empire. It primarily engages in interstellar rescue, disaster prevention, and post-disaster recovery. Its work isn't limited to the Kopra Empire, but the entire galaxy."
"Isn't this great? Why are you frowning?" Qin Shu didn't understand what Xu Wen's reaction just now meant.
Xu Wen was silent for a moment after hearing this, and then he replied, "Do you still remember the Arachi insect?"
"Oh, the one in Yu Xiaoqing's necklace?"
"Well, when that planet was in trouble and needed evacuation, Poison Wolf and his crew's starships also came to help." Xu Wen's brows furrowed a little deeper as he spoke. "And when Radiation Planet was evacuated, Poison Wolf and his crew were also present. Originally, none of this was a big deal; interstellar rescue missions are a common task for them. But—when I was reorganizing this information recently, I discovered that they've been involved in many major events of the Interstellar Federation. While it doesn't seem unreasonable, it just feels... too coincidental."
"Your sixth sense?"
"Well, I really don't have any basis to support my current guess. I hope I'm just overthinking it."
Qin Shu didn't say anything. She just kept thinking about Lu Yishen's death, as if she wanted to find some useful information from it. Unfortunately, she didn't pay much attention to Lu Yishen at that time and couldn't recall any useful details for the time being.
"Let's go to the black market first." Qin Shu put aside her doubts and took the initiative to speak.
"Well, let's go." Xu Wen also withdrew his gaze from the starship and responded.
As soon as the three people left the star port, they saw various types of hovercraft parked there.
This way they didn't have to take a taxi. When they saw a car heading to the "Sakab Market", they knew it was going to the black market, so they just got on. If there were no seats, they just lay down on the luggage rack. It was much more convenient than usual.
The passenger sitting below these three souls was shivering with cold and kept complaining quietly: "Is the temperature control system in this car broken?"
Qin Shu originally thought that they were just taking a ride and there was not much information to be gained.
Unexpectedly, the two men sitting below them, after complaining about the temperature control system, actually started talking about important things.
"Did you get the invitation to tonight's dinner?" the slightly fatter man asked in a low voice.
"What dinner?"
"Tsk, can you please be more careful? Didn't you see the new announcement from the black market intelligence dealer? The planet master is holding a so-called appreciation banquet tonight, but only those who spend enough can get the standard invitations. As for those more special invitations, I can't imagine who will fall into the hands of them."
"One billion!?" The thin man gasped. "Even if we add up our previous spending, we still can't come up with that amount. I think we should just forget about the invitation."
"But this planet master is hosting a banquet for the first time. Aren't you curious about what good things will be there?"
"You may be curious, but if you don't have money, you don't have money. Face the reality."
As the two talked, the conversation turned to other things.
Qin Shu, who overheard this, couldn't help but raise an eyebrow: "The good stuff Omir mentioned, wouldn't it be at this banquet?"
"You'll find out when you go tonight."
This way they don't have to spend money or go through the trouble of getting invitations, but it is very convenient for them to find out about the banquet.
"Yeah." Qin Shu tried hard to lean her head forward, and while the two of them confirmed the information from the intelligence dealer, she also wrote down all the information about the banquet.
"I just wonder if the mysterious planet master will show up?" Xu Wen was a little curious.
Just as Qin Shu and Xu Wen were chatting idly, the hovercraft finally stopped and a pleasant intelligent voice announced: "We have arrived at the Sakab Market. Passengers, please disembark in an orderly manner and take your carry-on belongings with you. Have a pleasant journey."
"Let's go." Qin Shu floated directly over the heads of the crowd, wanting to see what this legendary black market looked like.
However, she was soon disappointed.
Because this market looks no different from markets in other places.
They sell food, drinks, clothes, electronic products, cosmetics, etc. There is everything, but there is nothing special.
"Follow those two people." Xu Wen said when he saw this.
He doesn't think this is the so-called black market.
Hei Wuchang had no intention of getting involved in these things. He only considered himself to be Qin Shu and Xu Wen's life-saving talisman. He would just follow whatever they wanted to do.
But Hei Wuchang didn't know why, but for the first time, he felt uneasy in his heart.
"Hurry, they entered a garment store." Qin Shu did not notice Hei Wuchang's abnormality. Seeing the two men they had just talked about walked into a garment store as if they were familiar with it, she hurriedly called Xu Wen and Hei Wuchang to follow.
The two people walked into the store, picked out two sets of clothes, and then entered the fitting room.
Qin Shu had no awareness of being a girl at all. When she saw the two men enter the fitting room, she followed them in without any hesitation. This made Xu Wen a little embarrassed. Was he bringing a girl into the men's dressing room?
Fortunately, the taking off of clothes that Xu Wen expected did not happen. The two men directly hung the clothes on the hooks in the fitting room and then knocked on the mirror three times.
Two long and one short.
Very rhythmic.
Soon, Qin Shu felt that the space was sinking, and then as the mirror flipped, a place completely different from the market above appeared in front of Qin Shu.
"Black... market?" Even Xu Wen was shocked.
Because this is not a market at all, but an amusement hall similar to a gambling hall.
There are all kinds of games here, such as retro playing cards, roulette wheels, dice, etc., as well as some very novel electronic products, such as robot fighting, gold digging, etc. There is even a racing track on the far right.
The lights are colorful, people are coming and going, and it is very lively.
No matter how you look at it, this place doesn't look like a market.
"Are we in the wrong place? They don't want to go to the black market, they just want to come down and have some fun?" Xu Wen asked doubtfully.
Qin Shu disagreed: "The casino can be opened above ground. Even if it is opened underground, there is no need to use this method to enter."
This is a numbered planet. We don't have to obey any national or federal laws. The words of the planet's owner are the law.
Therefore, there is no need to hide a normal casino like this.
"Those two went over there, let's go and take a look." Xu Wen noticed that the two brothers walked directly to a machine, then touched the machine with the terminal in their hands, and the machine immediately spit out a box of chips to them.
The fat man sighed when he saw this: "5 million star coins only exchanged for such a small amount of chips. I don't know if I will be lucky today and whether I can win a ticket to the black market."
"No choice, let's try our luck. After all, this planet master said that luck is also a part of strength."
Good job.
Qin Shu finally understood.
"This planet owner really knows how to make money."
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