Chapter 96 Are you biting me?
As a western city built on the edge of deserts and Gobi Deserts, Takma City cannot be compared with Yecheng in terms of size and prosperity.
However, in terms of urban style alone, it has its own unique scenery.
Perhaps because it is in the western region, there is almost no winter here. April in other areas is late spring and early summer. The temperature in Takma City has exceeded 25 degrees Celsius, and it can reach the level of 3 at the hottest time of the day.
The buildings here are not as tall as Yecheng. Most of them abandon steel and cement, but instead turn into steel structures. Steel buildings dozens of meters high and mechanical elevators hanging from the outside can be seen everywhere.
The social level is obviously only moderate, and even the outer city of Yecheng is probably not as good as that of the people living here. However, the people living here are not as numb as those in the outer city of Yecheng and the old city. Instead, even the people and the city are full of wildness.
Zhu Jue and his group naturally wouldn't stay there after they put their luggage in the hotel. They finally came out for a while, so of course they had to look around.
I asked the hotel people what is worth visiting in Takma City, and the answer was unexpectedly consistent.
Takma Market!
Walking through two tall porches, what is revealed in front of you is a trading market with a very wide area. The street is still primitive yellow land, and people can still see many mixed footprints printed on the dust.
Unlike the online transactions in Yecheng, the transaction form of stall hawking is still advocated here. There are a large number of vendors downstairs of the yellowed mechanical house. Above the market, you can also see tan sunshade cloths, some supported by mechanical brackets, and some are hung with bamboo poles.
There was a stall owner who was wrapped in a headscarf but had a shirtless upper body sitting behind the stall, holding a strange chimney in his hand, and from time to time, white mist spit out from his mouth, crossing his legs, and talking to the shopping customers in a mess.
He had a strong man with a figure of more than two meters and was obviously a mechanical transformation shuttled through the crowds of people on both sides, pushing passers-by on both sides. As a result, he was stumbled and fell to the ground, causing a burst of laughter.
There are also orange sparks that keep bursting out in the room behind the stall selling mechanical parts, which makes many people frown and occasionally have to scold those who are irritable.
"Lizard, look, there are lizards there!"
Li Qinglian pulled Zhu Jue's clothes corner, her eyes locked on several iron cages placed on a stall in front of the left. There were some gray-white hard skin inside, and there were umbrella-shaped bone plates on the neck, nearly 30 cm long, and a vicious lizard.
Naturally, the pictures on the Internet are not as wild as they actually see them. Li Qinglian said as she took out her cell phone to take pictures.
"Do you want to raise one? You have to ask the Feng Chime for your opinion. It is the person who is in the location of our studio's mascot."
Just as he was looking at a stall filled with guns not far away, Zhu Jue, who heard Li Qinglian's voice, turned around and grabbed one of the claws of the wind chime in his arms, pressed the meat ball, and immediately five sharp claws were exposed.
Obviously, the person in charge did not agree that there were other pets in the weird studio.
“Is the goods sold here so casually?”
Wu Tong's eyes were also on the gun stall that Zhu Jue had seen before. It was the first time he saw such blatant hawking weapons. Although the amount of weapons sold in Yecheng was much larger than this, it was still secretly operating in the black market. How could it be sold like selling cabbage like this?
"Takma City is located in a remote location, and the western region has always been a tough folk custom. There are large deserts and Gobi deserts outside the city. Moreover, even in Yecheng, the prestige of the federal government may not be as good as that of Yuanfan Machinery Group, let alone here. The federal government's laws do not work well here. It seems that they are just things sold outside the market, and there are probably even more powerful inside."
Olivi had heard of this city at school, but she didn't expect that she would come here one day.
“Is it dangerous here?”
Li Qinglian looked at the crowd around and asked nervously.
"Don't worry, Takma City is the safest city in this area. As long as we don't provoke others, there will generally be no trouble. Moreover, there are law enforcement officers in this city. In such crowded markets, thermal weapons are absolutely prohibited. Fighting is at most a knife. With him, who do you think can get close to you?"
After relying on Olivi, he learned about Zhu Jue and others' whereabouts, and naturally joined them, Chu Yun put on Li Qinglian's shoulder and said in a relaxed tone.
"Go in and take a look."
Zhu Jue put the wind chime on his shoulder and walked in, blending into the crowd. The shouts, bargaining and discussion around him quickly supported a lively atmosphere. He bought two skewers in front of a stall selling kebabs. Zhu Jue grabbed one by himself, and I have to say that it really has a unique flavor.
As Chu Yun said, the more you go to the market, the more strange the things on the stalls are, as if Zhu Jue soon stopped in front of a stall with many bones and stones.
"Boss, how do you sell these stones?"
Zhu Jue asked curiously with a spiral patterned stone that was similar to a conch with an empty right hand.
"These are fossils of ancient creatures. Such people with complete preservation and clear patterns cost at least 50,000 federal coins..."
His eyes glanced over the people in front of him, and the stall owner said with a strange smile on his face.
"Is this a fossil of ammonite? Boss, you can't make these stones by yourself, right? You should know that there is a desert outside, and ammonites are completely marine creatures!"
Li Qinglian picked up another somewhat defective ammonium fossil and asked with a frown.
"Hey, it seems that these are all the first time you are here in Takma City. You may not know that the desert outside the city was covered by the ocean a long time ago, and the fossils here were collected by people and those scavengers in the Gobi Desert. 50,000 federal coins are already considered cheap."
"500, no selling will be available."
Zhu Jue just thought this was quite interesting and was going to take it back as a collectible. This doesn't mean he was a sucker. He glanced at the large pile of fossils in the store, which was obviously not a rare product. If you spend 50,000 yuan to buy it, it would be better to look for it slowly when you go out tomorrow.
"Fifty thousand, a bargain price!"
The stall owner bit the price to death, and it seemed that he had made up his mind to slaughter Zhujue's "fat sheep".
Put the ammonium fossil back on the stall. Since the price cannot be negotiated, Zhu Jue immediately prepared to leave.
"etc!"
Before Zhu Jue could walk a few steps away, he heard the stall owner behind him speak out and tried to keep him. He thought the other party had compromised, but turned around and found that the ammonium fossil he had picked up had broken into two pieces and was being held in his hand by the stall owner.
"This is a fossil, how can you throw it around? It's broken in half now, what do you think you will do!"
The stall owner who had been pleased with his face before had changed his face and handed the fossil to Zhu Jue with a sneer.
"I saw him clearly intact when he put it down. I'm afraid you broke it yourself."
Wu Tong was standing next to him just now. Zhu Jue didn't use any force when he put the fossil. Even if the fossil was crisp, it wouldn't break after picking it up and touching it for a few seconds.
"I don't care. You are the last person to touch this fossil. Now it's broken, it must be your problem. You have to pay for 50,000 federal coins, no one can leave. Is it easy to bully us locals?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a few strong men immediately surrounded the crowd next to him. Two of them had short swords hidden in their sleeves, deliberately showing the blade, and their eyes were not good.
Zhu Jue narrowed his eyes. The situation was obviously a trap that the other party had prepared long ago, specifically for targeting tourists from other places, such as those from other places. As long as he picked up the fossils, even if he was careful, he would probably be broken.
"Hey, you just said that thermal weapons are not allowed here. Then they will take action first and I will fight back. Will they be arrested?"
Zhu Jue turned his head and looked at Chu Yun and asked softly.
"You are the first-level inspector of the Yecheng Monster Countermeasure Bureau recognized by the federally, and the people from Takma City are not qualified to arrest you!"
Chu Yun rubbed her hands excitedly and continued,
"Are you going to fight? I haven't tried fighting in such a place yet."
"You and Olivia protect them, I'll deal with it."
Confirm that it would not affect his plan, Zhu Jue immediately returned to the stall and picked and found a delicate fossil the size of a human head in front of the stall owner. Compared with the ammonium fossil just now, this piece was obviously a truly precious thing.
Before the stall owner could react, he used both hands to break the fossil directly!
"Is the fossil broken down my problem? You guessed it, it's really my problem."
Picking up another similar fossil, and without saying a word, it turned into a pool of slags. Zhu Jue looked at the stall owner's eyes and said slowly
Chapter completed!