booktalesy Chapter 3800 Bounty List
Chapter 3800 Bounty List
Chapter 3800 Bounty List
Angel narrowed his eyes slightly.
Could it be that Zuniga is not from Modern City?
"Mr. Zuniga?"
Angel came back to his senses and saw Xiaolu staring at him in confusion. He was silent for two seconds and said, "This is my first time in the Deep Underground Black Market. I didn't expect the architectural style here to be so unique. I gained a lot."
Xiaolu chuckled: "I understand. If you want to find such pure wasteland style in Modern City, the only way is to go to the deep underground black market."
"Every blade of grass and tree here, the location of every house, and the mottled marks on every wall were created by the Black Emperor."
"Don't be fooled by the crooked appearance here, which looks like it will collapse at any time. But in fact, the Black Emperor has already designed the internal interconnection structure..."
At this point, Xiaolu walked to the cracked wall next to him and gently touched the rusty steel bars exposed outside: "These cracks and the appearance of the steel bars were all calculated by the Black Emperor."
"This place has been in use for a hundred years, and no risks have ever occurred. This is enough to show the level of the Black Emperor."
So these were specially designed? Angle's eyes flashed with confusion: "The Black Emperor is a figure from a hundred years ago?"
"Yes, the Black Emperor was invited here a hundred years ago to build the Deep Underground Black Market."
Angel: "Sounds like he's a very important person."
A trace of longing flashed in Xiaolu's eyes: "The nickname dares to be called 'Emperor', so he must be extraordinary. It is said that he is from a real wasteland world and is a master of wasteland style."
Only the wasteland-style houses built by those who grew up in ruins can have the purest flavor.
The Black Emperor is like this.
"Unfortunately, after the Black Emperor built the Deep Underground Black Market, he left the Modern City and never came back." Xiao Lu sighed softly: "However, the black market he left behind has benefited many style magicians."
“Many magicians who want to go into wasteland style design will rent rooms here and appreciate the charm of wasteland architecture all the time.”
Xiaolu said this and casually pointed to a few rooms nearby: "These rooms are occupied by magicians who come to comprehend the wasteland wind, and a large number of them are from the surface."
The rooms that Xiaolu pointed out were the ones that Ingres had seen before. They were authentic residential houses.
Angel was originally confused as to why the houses and shops in this black market were mixed together. It turned out that they were magicians who came here to comprehend the wasteland style...
However, is this kind of insight really useful?
Hearing Angel's sigh, Xiaolu looked over with a smile: "You are not a style magician, right?"
Angel did not refute and nodded: "I am more proficient in the heat series of magic."
Xiaolu nodded as if he had understood something. "Now that you put it that way, I can understand. The popularity department and the style department are very different. One is better at public opinion, and the other is more skilled in technology. It's normal for you to have doubts about this."
"Compared to your insights from the manipulation of public opinion, style magicians often gain insights from places with a strong sense of style."
"Also, places with strong styles are more likely to attract style-related fashion monsters." Xiaolu: "In the past two days, this place has attracted several style-related monsters."
This is why style magicians are willing to rent a house here even if it costs a huge amount of money.
As soon as Xiaolu finished speaking, Angel's mind automatically translated the text: This is most likely also a "daily task distribution point", but it is limited to a department, and it is the "style department" daily task distribution point.
record it.
Angel had heard from Laplace before that many tribes seemed to be planning to establish a Wonderland strategy group in order to clear the Wonderland dungeon. After the strategy groups of each tribe started to operate and discovered the "Modern City", these distribution points for different daily tasks would all be exchangeable senior strategies!
When Angel was in a daze, Xiaolu looked over with a smile:
"I wonder if you are satisfied with me as your guide now, sir?"
Angel nodded.
Seeing this, Xiaolu smiled even brighter: "Then sir, are you willing to spend a little bit of Modern Coins and let me travel with you for a while?"
"It only costs one hundred modern coins~"
"Of course." Angel took out a hundred Modern coins and handed them to Xiaolu.
One hundred Modern Coins had decent purchasing power in the Modern City, but for a fashion magician, this amount was really negligible.
However, Xiaolu didn't care about it at all.
She works as a guide here not just for the small tip, but for connections and favors.
She was able to thrive in the deep underground black market by constantly expanding her network of contacts, including both visitors and local shops. She made much more money than tips by being good at dealing with people.
To her, tips are just a little extra, or in other words, a small transaction she makes to put her guests at ease.
After receiving the money, Xiaolu smiled even more and his tone seemed even sweeter: "Mr. Zuniga is new to the Deep Black Market. Do you need me to show you around first? Or do you want to satisfy your own needs first?"
Angel: "You know I have my own needs?"
Xiaolu pointed to his eyes and said, "As a guide, I do have some vision."
Angel smiled and said nothing, "If it were in the past, I would have no problem strolling around. But today I have something urgent to do, so..."
Ingres made known his intention to sell the pages.
Xiaolu raised an eyebrow: "It is indeed a book page transaction."
"Did you guess it?" Angel looked at Xiaolu suspiciously.
Xiaolu: "Mages are generally good at one system, so when they get pages from other systems, they naturally tend to trade. This is also the most common transaction in the deep underground black market."
"Eight out of ten people who come to the Deep Underground Black Market are either selling book pages or buying book pages."
Xiaolu's words also made Angel feel a little relieved. Since the trading volume of book pages is so large, it means that the market for both buyers and sellers here is very mature.
If you want to sell it, there shouldn't be any problem.
"Sir, you are here to sell book pages, so I can give you some advice." Xiaolu: "Sir, if you want to sell at a higher price, you can rent a temporary stall in the book page market and sell it yourself. This method is suitable for those who have a lot of book pages and want to face the buyer directly."
This method can indeed sell at the highest price because there is no third party to make a profit from the price difference. But the premise is that it takes some time to set up the stall.
Moreover, the temporary stall fees in the book market here are not cheap.
Ingres personally does not prefer this method because it is too time-consuming.
When Xiaolu saw Angle frowning, he understood his idea and changed the subject, "If you want to sell the book pages as soon as possible, then go through the book page dealers."
"There are many book page shops in the deep underground black market, with at least hundreds of them opening every day."
"They generally have three business models. The first is consignment sales, where you entrust the pages of a book to a book page merchant and ask them to help sell it. This method can save you the time of setting up a stall yourself, and you can also sell it at a good high price, but you need to pay a portion of the agency fee to the book page merchant."
"The second way is to sell directly to book page merchants, but their purchase price will not be too high, generally the median price of the market. But the advantage is that you can get the money quickly."
Ingres actually felt that neither of these two options was ideal.
If you sell on consignment, it will take a long time if you can't find a buyer.
Although selling directly to book page merchants can quickly realize cash, the price is likely to be cut in half.
Angel looked at Xiaolu: "What is the third one?"
Xiaolu smiled and said, "Since sellers can consign books, buyers can also put forward their own requests and offer a reward for the corresponding pages."
"Each book page store has a corresponding bounty list, which contains the book pages that buyers have offered a bounty for. If you happen to own a book page on the bounty list, you can directly contact the buyer to make a deal. Of course, the book page store will also charge a portion of the agency fee, but it is much lower than the agency fee for consignment, because the buyer will also bear a portion of the agency fee."
After Xiaolu finished speaking, he noticed that Angel's eyes lit up and a smile appeared on his lips: "Sir, do you want to try the bounty list?"
Angel did not deny it and nodded: "I have this intention."
"Since you are curious about the bounty list, I can give you a small suggestion."
"What advice?"
"There are many book page shops in the deep underground black market, and many of them open on different days. If you want to check the bounty list one by one, it will take a lot of time. However..." Xiaolu changed the subject and pointed at himself: "If you don't mind spending a little money, you can get information about the bounty list from me."
"Our guide team has a record of the bounty list of each store, and it is updated in real time twice a day."
"Sir, you don't have to waste time and energy running from house to house. You can check directly with us. In fact, if you are willing to register with us, we can help you check for free."
When Xiaolu finished speaking, her tone was lowered a bit and her expression was mysterious.
Angel: "Register? Register for what?"
Xiaolu: "I'll keep this a secret for now. If you're willing to check with us, I'll tell you later."
Faced with Xiaolu's suggestion, Angel thought about it and did not refuse.
Although Angel can view the bounty list of each book page shop from a bird's eye view, it is actually time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is obviously more convenient to directly throw the problem to the guide to solve.
Moreover, since Angel has already appeared, he will definitely solve the problem by showing up.
Seeing that Angel agreed, Xiaolu was even more delighted: "Sir, please follow me. All the information is recorded in our headquarters."
Headquarters? Sounds pretty official?
Angel followed Xiaolu and climbed up the house tower, but after reaching the second floor, Xiaolu walked towards the suspension bridge on the side.
The suspension bridge was very long, and the place it led to was far away from the house tower, and seemed to be in another area of the deep black market. The appearance of this area was more like a slum with tall and short buildings.
After walking a few dozen meters in the slums, Xiaolu led Angel to the entrance of an alley.
"Please wait a moment, sir. I need to go in and contact the branch manager."
Division manager?
Angel murmured something in his heart, without saying anything, just nodded, and let Xiaolu walk into the alley and disappear.
Although Angel did not follow in, he saw the situation inside from a God's perspective.
Xiaolu walked forward for a distance, then knocked on a window and whispered, "The guests are coming, hurry up and clean up. Remember to wake up the little witch, she is grumpy when she wakes up, you have to cover her mouth tightly, so as not to scare the guests away."
"Also, change the 'Headquarters' sign at the door to 'Branch'. We can't let our guests look down on our Hermit Society."
After Xiaolu finished speaking, there was a crackling sound from inside, and then a weak voice came out: "Why can't we open a normal business? Why do we have to lay out such a fake and empty structure?"
Xiaolu snorted and said, "You know shit. This is called a marketing strategy. If we tell others directly that we are a newly established hermit society, those cunning people will not believe us."
"We must demonstrate our professionalism, not just in conversation and service, but also in our 'branches'. They must also be full of mystery and let them use their imagination to the fullest. Only then can we have more customers!"
A faint voice continued to come from the window: "But if the guests are all smart people, they should be able to see that we are strong on the outside but weak on the inside..."
Xiao Lu snorted coldly, "That only shows that you are strong on the outside but weak on the inside, not me. I am a professional... Let's not talk nonsense. I'll give you two minutes. Hurry up and pack up. I'll bring people in right away."
"Remember, don't show up by yourself. If you really have to show up, have Karen come in a suit, otherwise he'll definitely find out... Anyway, leave it to me to receive them, and you guys take care of the logistics."
After saying that, Xiaolu listened to the noise inside and calmed herself down a little. Then, she maintained her elegant image and walked out slowly.
Angel looked at Xiaolu's calm appearance, but his heart was silent.
When Xiaolu came here before, Angel felt that she was in a strange mood. He followed her from a bird's eye view and realized...it turned out that they were just doing a face-saving project.
The so-called headquarters and branches are all in the same place.
The people inside are also a makeshift team that has just been established.
Angel took a quick glance and found that this "grassroots group" was really very "grassroots". Almost all of them had clear and stupid looks in their eyes.
No wonder Xiaolu asked them not to come out and that she would be the only one to receive the guests...
Although Ingres felt that this "hermit society" was a little bit strange, he had no intention of turning around and leaving. He decided to just let it be a makeshift group.
Just like Xiaolu said, as long as they handle the matter professionally enough, they will naturally gain the trust of their customers.
Once they have more clients and can maintain their appearance and substance, they can directly transform from a makeshift team into a secret society.
This is much faster than those community organizations that climb up step by step.
Angel didn't care about their background. As long as their abilities were up to par, he wouldn't bother to expose them even if he knew they were just superficial efforts.