Returning from the abyss

Chapter 181 Black Market
At dawn, the black market in District [-] officially opened.

Here, different transactions are going on every day, and most people will use various means to cover their faces to prevent their identities from being exposed.If it is more serious, the whole body will be wrapped in loose clothes, the kind that I wish my mother would not recognize when she came.

The black market naturally has all kinds of illegal goods traded, but there are many others.There is no grandiose way like auctions here. After the two parties bargain with each other and reach a consensus, it is the most common way to take the things and leave. When they meet next time, they still don't know who the other party is.

Wearing a metal mask she found from the boss, Lu Ning walked slowly into the black market area with a windbreaker wrapped in a pullover.

No one is prohibited from entering or exiting here, nor is any transaction prohibited. About 70.00% of the vendors are all itinerant vendors, and they will open by squatting on the side of the street with a sign.And in this way, anyone who can own a store here must have a lot of background.

As soon as he walked into the entrance, Lu Ning saw a three-story building with a red roof. A red target sign pierced by bullets was hung at the door of the store. It had no name, and the windows were sealed with iron sheets, but the meaning was different. It's obvious.

arms.

Turning right from here is a potholed loess street with low sheds on both sides. Someone has already written something on a wooden sign and is sitting under the shed waiting for customers to come to the door.Lu Ning looked all the way, everything from jewelry and jade to forbidden drugs for slaves.

At the end of the street is another shop, which is more grandiose than the peddlers on the side of the road.On a black cloth was painted silver paper scorched by flames, on which a packet of white powder was emitting a wisp of smoke.

The business of this store is obviously better than that of the previous arms sellers. There are even some skinny people who are wearing something on their faces and come out of the store with small bags in their hands. It seems that they will not live long.

Turn left from here, and it's another road similar to the one before.As Lu Ning was walking, she saw a sign saying "Poison Sold", so she knelt down and asked the price.

"What poison do you want to buy?" The vendor's voice was hoarse and unpleasant. He only wrapped his face in a black cloth, leaving slits in his eyes, and looked at Lu Ning with somewhat crazy eyes.

"Have you seen blood sealing your throat?"

"Hey... I like people like you, yes! Of course!" The vendor turned his head and took out a dirty bottle from a tattered leather bag next to him, and put it in front of him.

"Nature will tell us a lot of knowledge, and poison is one of them. The poison dart frog and the king of the poisonous tree are the representatives. The poison extracted from it only needs to scratch the skin, and it is guaranteed to disappear within a few seconds. It's over."

"Is this your bottle?"

"Don't believe it? It doesn't matter..." The vendor took out a thin needle, opened the cap of the bottle, dipped the needle in, then took out a cage of mice from behind, reached in and grabbed one, and poked the mouse with the needle for a moment.

Immediately, the mouse began to twitch violently, and then collapsed after only three seconds.

"How is it?" The vendor handed the mouse to Lu Ning, and then he took out a small bottle, threw the needle into it and carefully corked the bottle, "It doesn't matter if you kill or commit suicide very quickly."

Black market transactions pay attention to on-site inspection, and the vendors are probably veterans who are so well prepared.When Lu Ning left the booth, the small bottle was already in her pocket.

After walking some distance, she found another special stall.

A white tent was pitched here, and a little old woman was sitting in the tent, with crystal balls, copper coins, tarot cards and other miscellaneous divination tools in her hand. The most special thing here was the old woman. Without a mask, a deeply wrinkled face is wrinkled with a sadness that seems to never fade away.

This is a divination house.

There are actually four or five people queuing here, which is hardly seen in the black market.

"What do you do here?" Lu Ning walked over and asked the person at the end of the line.

The man turned his head, and a skull mask was stuck in front of Lu Ning.

"The ghost mother-in-law is a fortune-teller, and her fortune-telling can be tried and tested. Unfortunately, she is old and lacks energy, so she only opened it for a while in the morning."

After finishing the skull mask, he tilted his head and stared at Lu Ning's mask, and suddenly asked, "Where did you buy your mask? It looks good, and I'm going to get one like this too."

"I don't know if someone else gave it to me." Lu Ning said.

The skull mask shook his head in disappointment, and turned his head away.The team was not moving very fast, and Lu Ning waited for almost an hour before it was her turn to pass.

"Sit down, little girl."

As soon as Lu Ning walked into the tent, she heard the ghostly mother-in-law's soft voice.

"You are really good." Lu Ning sat in front of the ghost mother-in-law with a smile, "I wonder how much the divination costs?"

"It depends on what you want to divination. You have a lot of confusion in your heart, but time is tight, so let's ask the most important ones." The ghost mother-in-law reached out and stroked the crystal ball, and said slowly.

"Hmm...do you know the murderer who killed my father?" Lu Ning immediately asked a question that has not been given any clues yet.

The ghost mother-in-law looked up at her, then took out a stick filled with bamboo sticks from under the table and shook it twice, one of the sticks fell off.Lu Ning glanced at the bamboo stick, it was long and thin, with only some red dots on it, and nothing else.

"Father? Huh? Isn't your father still alive? Oh... well, you are a bit strange..." the ghost mother stood up tremblingly as she spoke, and took down a chessboard from the shelf behind the tent , and a box of black and white Go pieces.

"Little girl, grab a handful of chess pieces and throw them on the chessboard. Use less strength. When I get older, it takes a lot of effort to pick chess pieces."

She put the chessboard in front of Lu Ning, and then handed the chess piece box to Lu Ning.

Lu Ning grabbed the chess pieces as she said and threw them out. About a dozen chess pieces bounced a few times on the board, some fell outside, and some remained on the board.

"Um, uh... You mean your current 'father', so that's how it is. You are really strange, but you are still alive, and there are no broken or moved, but there are changes and injuries. It's a pity that this Half-in-law relationship can't help you find a clear position. If you go to the Houguan game on the [-]th floor of the Queen's Golden Crown next Friday, you can have a fateful intersection with that person... Although your recent fate is a little bit different... Calamity is not a major disaster, but the future is blurred... Strange, strange." The ghost mother raised her head, and stretched out her hand to draw three cards from the nearby Tarot cards.

"Chariot, tower, world." The ghost mother-in-law gritted her teeth, "Little girl, my old lady's ability is limited, so I can only tell you so much. If you can trust me, you might as well remember what happened today, maybe it will help you. I'm...tired, go out and tell them they're closed today."

"Thank you." Lu Ning bowed slightly to the ghost mother-in-law, and then walked out of the tent. The tent immediately lowered the curtain behind her, and there was a disappointed voice from the people waiting outside.

Lu Ning didn't care about that, and quickly got into the crowd nearby.

In a scene with superpowers, the credibility of divination has been greatly improved.However, Lu Ning is not yet fully convinced. After all, the ghost mother-in-law's divination is too messy, and she can't guess the mystery.Although the other party seems to have revealed part of her "crow" identity, this is not a secret she needs to protect.

It's enough to know that I'm going to the [-]th floor of the Queen's Golden Crown next Friday to gamble.

There is still business to do today.

In the inner part of the black market, there are many crude board houses, which are better than the surrounding sheds. These houses can at least be called buildings.

Black Clinic - This is the favorite place for the scrappy.

Those who dare to practice medicine in this kind of place are not small, because those with poor skills have already been beaten to death with sacks.Moreover, two or three doctors in one clinic can arrange almost all types of medical treatment, from surgery to internal medicine, whether it is amputation or bone setting, and even connected births.

Under such high demands, there are only four clinics that have survived to this day.

Lu Ning stepped into the broken door of one of them.

"Treatment or medicine?" There was a man in a black coat sitting at the door, facing a black and white TV set, watching a video of a funny show from an unknown year.When Lu Ning came in, the person pressed pause and turned to ask.

"I heard there is organ smuggling here?"

"Huh?" The man curled his lips, "Yes, there are, but there are not enough sources. What kind of organ do you want? You have to wait in line for an appointment."

"Well...that's the right place."

Lu Ning hooked the curtain pull ring at the door with her backhand, and slowly pulled it down to cover the door, and the light suddenly dimmed.

The man narrowed his eyes slightly, but suddenly a cold light hit his face.

"Smash the field?"

With a sharp shout, the man leaned back to avoid the flying knife that hit his face, then reached out and pulled out a scalpel from the shelf next to him, turned over and got up.

"The response is good." Lu Ning grabbed the hood and pulled it down slightly, at the same time a metal cylinder hit the ground and rebounded, making a crisp sound.

The flash bomb exploded, and the man was suddenly attacked by a strong light in a dark environment, immediately lost his eyesight, and hurriedly began to wield the scalpel in his hand.

Lu Ning jumped out of the sword cart with a wave of her hand, knocking the knife in the man's hand into the air, and then the flying knife in her left hand and the blade of her right hand pierced the man's shoulder from left and right, and quickly drew the knife and kicked him in the chest.

Bang!

The man bumped into an iron shelf at the back, and the bottles and cans and some iron objects on it fell down, smashing him all over, and some liquid seeped into his wound, which made him scream.

No one has come out so far. Is this clinic not open today?
Lu Ning crippled the man's knee with two swords, then grabbed his collar and asked in a low voice, "Where are the others in the clinic?"

"I, I don't know..."

"You don't know? Who are you lying to?" Lu Ning pressed the sword chariot against his heart, "Tell the truth!"

"I, I really don't know, I'm just the gatekeeper, registering, and calling the boss when the guests come..."

"Where's the phone?"

"Pocket...in pocket..."

With a flash of sword light, Lu Ning tore open the man's clothes and pants. An old-fashioned mobile phone fell out of it. She picked it up and opened the address book. There were only a few code names in it.

"Boss, doctor, informant, merchant?"

"This place will only open if there is business... I knew there was an operating room in the back for interns, but I really don't know anything else... I... Ka..."

The man was talking, foaming at the corners of his mouth, and he didn't move.The blood flowing out of his shoulder had turned purple-black, and his face and lips were starting to turn blue. It was obvious that the potions were highly poisonous.

"Tsk." Lu Ning pushed the man away, turned her head and began to search around.There is no valuable news outside the clinic, but the man's register was found.

There are appointments for the treatment of various diseases, most of which are diseases such as organ failure, cancer, and limb injuries. There is no name of the person who made the appointment, and there is no contact information. There is only an appointment time and a meeting time.

A large part of the back is ticked, which means that we have met each other.Lu Ning was basically sure that the appointment was only the first confirmation, and the more detailed information was discussed after the second meeting, so it seems that this man is really just a janitor.

She picked a few bottles from the shelf that didn't fall off, filled them up, and walked to the back of the clinic.

On the left is a row of about six small operating rooms.Unlike the filth outside, the environment of the operating room was clean and tidy, and even smelled of disinfectant. There were no shadowless lamps, so a few high-power bulbs were used for lighting, and even the floor was covered with tiles.

On the right are two storerooms, a bedroom, bathroom and kitchen.In the last room, there are two disinfection cabinets, and the disinfected towels and blankets are neatly placed in a plastic basket.

"I heard that many surgical tools are disposable, and I don't know if it's true." Lu Ning searched around but didn't see any surgical tools. It seems that many of them have been thrown away, and there are some on the iron shelf in front. , It is estimated that men use it as a self-defense weapon, but unfortunately it is useless.

However, some clues were found in the bedroom.

There is a notepad in the bedside cabinet, which seems to be a notebook of an intern, which records some recent surgery details.The record was until March 22nd, and then it disappeared, and I don't know what happened.However, Lu Ning could see from the diary that this intern doctor didn't know about the organ smuggling at first, but was extremely panicked when he found out.

[March NO.17, Mr. Smith's wound healed very successfully. This is my first major surgery patient. I am also very happy to see him recover.

But what was the cargo he was negotiating with the doctor?I believe in the doctor's medical skills, but I can't guarantee his character.Matching, transplantation, such words are hard not to make me think too much...]

[On March [-], I met the 'tailor. '

Sure enough, the doctor asked me to help him with some things. The things in a big black plastic bag were not very heavy. Liu and I thought we could easily carry them away... But I'm a medical student anyway, see The shape can also guess that there is a person inside.

Or a corpse.

The tailor's house was clean, we put down our things and left, but the place still scares me when I think about it. 】

(End of this chapter)