Chapter 147 The Black Stone Society (two chapters in one)(1/2)
"What's the secret in that private room?" Lin Dong said in his heart.
Lin Dong was not in a hurry to go in, stuffed the last piece of rib into his mouth, took out a handkerchief and wiped his mouth. At this time, a small man came in from outside the door. He looked about thirty years old, with a small body, and a pair of small eyes moving back and forth alertly.
Like the person who came before, the little man plunged into the private room and was about to bring it to the door when Lin Dong suddenly reached out to open the door, walked in in a big way, and stood beside him.
The small man looked at Lin Dong and frowned. Lin Dong picked his teeth with a toothpick and ignored him at all. The small man hesitated for a moment, reached out and pushed it gently on the wall, and a secret door was pushed open.
This is a long corridor, narrow and wet, and a lighting fixture is set up every ten steps. The dim light can barely illuminate the narrow passage.
The small man walked into the passage with his head down. Lin Dong followed him calmly. The small man was obviously a little worried. He took a few steps and looked back at Lin Dong. After walking about a hundred meters along the downward passage, he suddenly became clear in front and came to a larger passage.
Based on his feelings, Lin Dong judged that this passage should be more than ten meters below the ground. The passage was about twenty meters wide, and in the middle was a stinky river about ten meters wide. Various domestic waste floated on the river surface, which was stinking.
There is a road on the left and right of the Snow Water River, and there is a rusty metal bridge every other section, which facilitates the roads on the left and right.
Lin Dong pinched his nose, followed the short man and walked for about a hundred meters. Seeing that Lin Dong was not threatening, the man took the initiative to come beside him and talked to Lin Dong.
"Little brother, are you here to participate in the Blackstone Club, too?"
Lin Dong nodded, "Yes, the road is delayed, it's too late." Lin Dong replied to him casually.
"It's not too late, it's not too late. Black Stone will start at about 10 o'clock, and it's just enough. I wonder if you have any good things, you want to take off your hands, little brother?" asked the small man.
Lin Dong chatted with him for a while. The little man turned out to be a thief, nicknamed Squirrel, and the Black Stone Society is simply a thief trade fair on the mainland. It is held once a month, and thieves from all over the country will come here to sell stolen transactions.
"Why did the god of the god of the card come to participate in the thieves' trade conference?" Lin Dong felt very surprised. Besides, in this imperial capital, he actually allowed the thieves' trade union to exist. Does the local security department have no idea at all?
There are more and more people around. These thieves like to dress themselves up as ordinary people. In terms of appearance, they really cannot tell the difference between thieves and ordinary people.
When Lin Dong thought of mingling with thousands of thieves, he couldn't help but touch the valuable things on his body. If they were stolen, they would lose a lot.
After walking about two miles below, the front suddenly became bright and spacious, just like a town built underground, with shops and crowded with people.
"Thief City." Lin Dong said in his heart.
"Brother Ziya, this is Black Stone City. The trade fair is held in the square. If there is no suitable thing in the square, just go around these shops. These shops have a history of hundreds of years and there are many good things." Squirrel excitedly introduced to Lin Dong.
Ziya is the font of Lin Dong in his previous life. The name Lin Dong has been spread throughout the mainland, so it is naturally not convenient to show it here.
The squirrel seemed to be very familiar with this place. Many people greeted him along the way. Out of natural alert, they looked at Lin Dong with a very alert look. The thieves also had to observe people's abilities. Experienced thieves could see at a glance that Lin Dong was not a person from the industry. Black Stone often had some ordinary people from mainland China come here to pick up bargains, and these people were also called fat sheep.
In the eyes of these thieves, Lin Dong is undoubtedly a very tender fat sheep. I believe many people are secretly making up for him.
"Brother Ziya, I'll go and handle some private goods. You can take a look here. If you use my place, go to the Old Oak Tavern to find me. You have to keep a close eye on your wallet and stop talking." The squirrel said to Lin Dong with kindness, but a thin and flexible hand had already reached Lin Dong's pocket.
Lin Dong smiled, "Brother Squirrel, your hands are very flexible."
The squirrel pulled his hand back and touched his head, without any embarrassment, "I'm reminding you to be more vigilant. Okay, if someone bullies you, you can claim my name as a squirrel. If you have your brother covering you, don't worry."
After saying that, the squirrel crawled into the crowd with a small package under his armpit, and disappeared without a trace after a few strokes.
Lin Dong wandered aimlessly along the street. This place was a bit like a medieval European town. The houses were low and dark, the roads were covered with mud, and mice were not afraid of people. They walked in a big manner on the road. A tall shrew came out of a [Wang Laoshi Jewelry Shop] next to the road. He carried a bucket of dirty water and poured it on the road. He ignored the pedestrians on the road. The pedestrians around quickly avoided the invasion of dirty water, and no one blamed the shrew for being unhygienic.
The mutton skewers and the skewers were close together. The aroma of the grilled mutton and the stinky smell of the skin were mixed, and it was so bad that it was so bad that it smelled so bad. In this way, there were two exposed women sitting there chewed mutton skewers, and two large glasses of beer were placed on the dirty table.
There are also many people like Lin Dong who do not belong to the thief circle. It is easy to tell from their expressions that thieves are accustomed to the dirty and messy here, and those who pinch their noses and look helpless, look like fat sheep who come to pick up cheap ones.
Thieves usually like to walk on both sides of the road, with their heads slightly lowered and their eyes kept observing around them, making them look very low-key, while fat sheep from outside usually walk in the middle of the road, with their heads raised, and their eyes were dull.
After some observation, Lin Dong quickly grasped the key points of pretending to be a person in the industry. In addition, Lin Dong himself has the ability to integrate himself into the environment. He only needs to pay a little attention to his behavior, and no one can see Lin Dong's true identity.
The products sold here are not attractive to Lin Dong. He wants to figure out what the hell of the mainland card god wants to do in such a place.
No trace of the three card makers was found along the way, and Lin Dong followed the road to the central square of Blackstone City.
The circular square has already set up stalls. There will be a wooden table in the big stalls, and the tables are filled with various stolen goods. More thieves stand on the side of the road with the stolen goods, waiting for someone to trade.
There is a black stone more than one person in the center of the square. The surface of the black stone is evident. From time to time, thieves walk to the black stone and touch it with their hands on the stone, and then pray devoutly in their hearts.
It seems that this black stone represents a certain belief of the thieves, and you will know it by looking at their pious eyes.
Lin Dong walked up to the black stone curiously and looked at it with his eyes. The stone was like a huge black egg, with a dense concave and convex bottom. The upper part became as flat as a mirror due to the years of friction, and he could see his shadow.
"Lin Dong, you sent it." Old Gui said in surprise in his consciousness.
"What? Is there a wallet on the ground?" Lin Dong asked in confusion, lowered his head and looked around the ground. The surroundings were covered with gravel, and there was no shadow of the wallet.
"Hasn't you not have any handy equipment?"
"Old Gui, what do you mean?" Lin Dong asked anxiously. The equipment is a big problem. Could it be that the equipment is a big problem? Lin Dong's level has reached level 9, and the current equipment in mainland China is also level 9. In theory, there is no problem with the equipment of level 9 for the nine-level combat card divisions to use the equipment of level 9, but the key is that the cards made by Lin Dong, Lin Dong's magical painting skills can increase the level of the card by at least two levels. In this way, whether it is equipment, blank cards and pigments, it requires at least eleven levels to be used.
After traveling to the Western Regions, I was lucky enough to get some blank cards and pigments, but there was no one Lin Dong could use them. When Lin Dong thought of this problem, he felt that he was too immense. Without a handy card, Lin Dong could only use less than half of his strength.
Lin Dong can already make a level nine fantasy beast card, but Lin Dong didn't do it because he didn't have the card machine. Anyway, he can't use it if he did it.
"Do you know what this big black stone is?" Mr. Turtle kept a secret.
Lin Dong shook his head and reached out to touch the black stone. The surface of the black stone was cold, as if it was touching the metal.
Lin Dong thought about it, "Old Gui, can this stone be used to make card machines?"
Old Gui laughed, "It's not just OK, it's just too good. This piece is iron, high-end metal falling from the sky. According to your level, this piece is about level 14 raw material!"
Level 14!
Lin Dong was shocked. He was so excited that he could find everything without any effort when he searched for it. Unexpectedly, he found materials to make machine tools here.
"That's great. I'll bring my troops to carry this big stone back to build card equipment!"
"Don't be too happy too early. This piece of iron is not something that can be refined by an ordinary furnace. It's useless to take it back." said Mr. Gui.
Can't be refined!
This blow was really too big for Lin Dong. "Old Gui, don't joke. I'm crazy about wanting advanced card machines these days. What should I do?"
"This kind of iron will not be a single piece, but it is usually accompanied by a kind of red iron. When refining, you must add red iron. Otherwise, even the continent where I grew up cannot refine this iron alone, let alone you. The most urgent thing is to find the accompanying red iron." Old Turtle said in a deep voice.
Lin Dong understood the meaning of Mr. Gui, lowered his head and observed the surroundings carefully. This piece of iron should have been transported here by someone. In this way, the red piece of iron is very likely to be still discovering this piece of iron, or transporting this piece of iron to the hands of people who transported it here.
Lin Dong turned around and left the square to find the old oak tavern that Squirrel said.
It is very easy to get this piece of iron. You just need to bring the army to move it away, but this will alarm the enemy.
Lin Dong has no acquaintances here, so he had to find Squirrel first to find out the situation and then start to do it.
The Old Oak Tavern is easy to find. Lin Dong asked a few of his "comrades" and found it quickly.
Pushing open the broken wooden door, Lin Dong shrank his head and walked into the dim tavern. There was a brass bell on the wooden door, and the door was pushed open and it made a clang.
More than a dozen pairs of eyes in the tavern looked at Lin Dong at the same time. It was obvious that there were few after-life guests in this place. Lin Dong was disguised very well, and his head was lowered and his eyes were flexibly wandering around. The people in the tavern thought they were peers, so they didn't care about Lin Dong, so they started making loud noises again.
There was no sign of a squirrel in the tavern, so Lin Dong went straight to the bartender. The bartender was an old man in his sixties and seventies, wearing a blue and white sailor shirt and a red handkerchief around his neck.
"What to drink?" the bartender asked with a dirty glass on the table.
"beer."
The bartender looked at Lin Dong, "Young people should drink some spirits, and beer is for women."
Lin Dong smiled slightly, "I am so thirsty, let's have a glass of beer to moisten my throat."
The bartender picked up a huge beer glass and took a full glass of beer on the table. The beer was less than two pounds, and the portion was really enough.
Lin Dong picked up the wine glass and raised his neck to kill one-third of it, touched his mouth and said, "I'm looking for a squirrel, do you know where he is?"
The bartender picked up a pipe, used iron tongs to pick up a piece of red carbon from the oven, and pressed it on the pipe, and the fragrant smell of tobacco was everywhere. "Squirrel is behind, wait a while."
Lin Dong looked at the bartender's pipe, his eyes flashing.
"Old man, where did you get this tobacco? Can you sell it to me?" Lin Dong asked.
Lin Dong seemed very excited and his voice was trembling.
In his previous life, Lin Dong had the habit of smoking, and he could not move two packs every day. Now, this is the first time he has seen tobacco in the Double Monthly Continent, which makes Lin Dong not excited.
"Tobacco? You said this?" the bartender asked, pointing to his pipe.
Lin Dong nodded repeatedly, "That's right, you offer a price, I want as much as this tobacco."
The bartender burst into laughter, "Young man, this is not a tobacco, this is a fairy grass. It's not easy for you to buy this, Heizi! Come here!"
The four people in the corner are playing a popular four-season card in the mainland. The four-season card is divided into twelve months a year, with a total of seventeen cards. The largest one is year and the smallest one is January. Each person has two sizes compared to the size, and the gameplay is very simple.
A stout black-faced man said impatiently: "What's the matter? I'm not busy."
The old bartender swallowed another sip of smoke and said, "Stop talking nonsense, your business is here."
This guy named Heizi looked very lucky, and the four of them counted the least chips in front of him. Bang! He still put two cards in his hand on the table, and he lost this hand again, "It's really a fucking back today. No one is allowed to run away. When I come back, we will continue."
Kuroko pushed away the chair and came to the bar a few steps, "What business?"
The bartender didn't say anything and pointed at Lin Dong with his pipe.
"I want to buy some fairy grass." Lin Dong said.
Kuroko leaned against the bar and asked, "No problem, I did this, how much do you want?"
"How many do you have?"
Heizi smiled, with a hint of disdain on his lips, "Who doesn't know that Heizi is a big seller of the fairy grass? I can even take out even if you want a hundred kilograms, but now the official check is tight, so the price is here."
"I don't ask about the price, just give me ten kilograms according to the current market price. And, I'll give me a few of the best pipes." Lin Dong said disapprovingly.
Heizi's eyes were a little straight, "You really want ten pounds!"
To be continued...