Her appearance was completely different from when she first visited the ghost market.
This was Zuo Ling's first time in Ancheng, and she didn't know how safe the city was, so she didn't dare to be careless.
After living in Kyoto for a long time, I always feel that the safety situation is pretty much the same everywhere.
I witnessed several street fights and realized that the outside world was far less peaceful than Kyoto.
With everything prepared, I strolled leisurely toward the ghost market.
Not far away, I saw people setting up stalls, selling daily necessities, fruits, snacks, and a lot of clothes and bags.
Zuo Ling was puzzled. Shouldn't vendors selling daily necessities, fruits, and snacks sell during the day?
Is this the ghost market? It's not quite what she imagined.
As you continue walking in, the light gradually dims, and the people become increasingly furtive.
Looking back at the vendors setting up stalls in the light, the line between light and shadow is surprisingly clear!
The people who just passed by were struggling to survive, without fixed stalls and trying to avoid raids by urban management officers; they were not from a ghost market.
As the light grew dimmer, Zuo Ling had to stop and wait for her eyes to adjust to the darkness before continuing.
I really wanted to wear night vision goggles, but they look very different from regular glasses, and it would look strange to wear them in a crowd, so I had to give up on the idea.
In the West Emperor Ghost Market, the flickering of a flashlight is often used to indicate whether a transaction has been completed or is in progress.
The vendors at Ancheng Ghost Market like to place two antique-style, dimly lit lanterns on each side of their stalls, creating a wonderful atmosphere.
Walking through it feels like stepping back over a thousand years.
Since they cannot speak, they communicate through gestures or numbers on a calculator.
It's not the kind of hand gesture where you cross your arms in your sleeves and engage in close combat; that's a language only seasoned veterans understand.
Three fingers pinched together, two fingers raised, or fingers curled into horn shapes—this is the language currently popular in the ghost market.
Aside from being able to read numbers on a calculator, Zuo Ling knew nothing about the old-school language or new gestures.
After absorbing dozens of energy crystals, Zuo Ling's five senses were much sharper than when she first visited the Ghost Market.
She can tell whether the goods on the stall are what she wants without using a flashlight.
After looking at each stall, I found something on the seventh one.
The stall displayed goods such as jade pendants and crystal and agate bead strings.
The stall owner was thin and short, and like Zuo Ling, his face was covered up so that his features were not visible, but it was clear that he was a young man.
Having learned from her mistakes, Zuo Ling picked and chose two items from the stall after browsing the stalls.
A jade pendant, a bracelet.
The jade pendant is a low-grade cyan energy crystal, while the bracelet has only two orange low-grade energy crystals; the other beads are ordinary crystals.
Zuo Ling typed 300 on the calculator.
The man's eyes flickered slightly, he shook his head, and dialed 1200.
After some back and forth and some calculator exchanges, they finally settled on a price of 550.
The West Market Ghost Market is larger than the West Emperor Ghost Market in Kyoto. I found something again when I visited the second to last shop.
An antique-style ring, its surface crafted from top-grade green energy crystals.
I've collected nearly 200 energy crystals in total, including 16 green energy crystals, of which only three or four are top-grade green energy crystals.
When Zuo Ling encountered the top-grade green energy crystal again, she remained incredibly calm.
After pretending to pick and choose for a long time, I finally settled on a green ring.
The stall owner was also a man, whose age was hard to discern, and he was also fully armed, obscuring his features.
In the ghost market, it's not uncommon to see people completely covered up; no one finds it strange.
If you go around with your face completely bare, with your features perfectly defined, it will actually look strange to others.
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