Beauty Comprehensive 1999

Chapter 142 Jinshan Ghost City
Todd was sent away, and the next day was the first day of May in the lunar calendar.

Due to time constraints, Xie Zihao had to arrive at the target place in the early morning, or he had already set off last night.

Because the extraordinary market is called Jinshan Ghost Market, and it opens in the early hours of the first and fifteenth day of every month.

The entrance of this ghost city is located on the side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains in the Golden State near Nevada. It is in the north direction of Los Angeles. It belongs to San Francisco and Oakland. It belongs to the central area of ​​Golden State.

Since it was the first time Xie Zihao went there, he didn't bring other people with him this time, but drove there by himself.

A few hours later, the car has driven into a small town called Mariposa, which translates to Butterfly Lily. It has a beautiful name, but it was actually a mining town.

This is also the county seat of Mariposa County, and like many towns in the central region, it is a settlement that emerged during the gold rush.With the depletion of the gold mines, the population loss here has become serious. The residents of the entire town are currently less than [-] residents, but there are quite a lot of foreign tourists.

Because there is a State Mining and Mineral Museum in the town, and Yosemite National Park is not far to the north, so many tourists who go to Yosemite National Park will also stay in this town, so the town More than 90.00% of the people are engaged in service industries related to tourism.

Xie Zihao's destination was not a small town, but an abandoned gold mine in the northeast of the town.

It is not unreasonable for the Golden State to be named the Golden State. The rise of the gold rush that year further triggered the Westward Movement, which brought many immigrants and also brought a devastating blow to the local indigenous groups.

Most of the North American aborigines who were once counted in tens of millions disappeared into history, and only a few survivors in the tens of thousands remained.

And these people were trapped in the so-called reservation by the federal government, raised as pigs and sheep, and might be slaughtered at any time.

The native ghosts who lost a large number of compatriots wandered in the forests and mountains and refused to leave, forming a forbidden area for strangers in the western part of the Federation, and this is one of them.

According to Liang Rui'an, the aboriginal undead here broke out the undead disaster for unknown reasons and directly swallowed a large local gold mine. Not too much, so it didn't cause much loss of personnel.

Since then, this gold mine area has become a dead place where humans and animals cannot enter.

In the 30s, Hongmen sent representatives to negotiate with the Golden State Assembly, at the cost of sending hundreds of extraordinary people to purify the ghosts in the gold mine, and then obtained the ownership of the place.

The Golden State government did not suffer either. After the forbidden land disappeared, they were able to further develop the tourism industry in nearby national parks, and established a mining museum in Mariposa. Over the years, tourism has become a pillar industry in several surrounding counties and cities, making The mining area that has been abandoned for many years has been revived.

Because people in the Tang Dynasty used to call Jinzhou Jinshan, which was a lie preached by slave traders in the time when piglets were trafficked, so this place was named "Jinshan Ghost City" by Hongmen.

Jinshan Ghost Market is a trading market established by Hongmen to provide exchanges for supernatural beings by imitating the ghost market stories in folklore and organizing the Tang forces on the west coast under the leadership of Hongmen.

It is said that the original ghost market was held secretly at night, which is why it is called a ghost market, but later found that there is basically no obstacle on the side of the federation. Except for the government, those extraordinary forces actually hope that there can be a place like this. It is a place for free trade, and the Tang people belong to a disadvantaged group in the Federation, and they are relatively honest in their work. It is more suitable for them to operate than other extraordinary forces.

After all, those extraordinary powers basically do not obey anyone, and some of them are naturally opposing races, such as vampires and werewolves.

So over time, everyone acquiesced that Jinshan Ghost City has become the largest extraordinary trading center on the west coast and even in the entire Federation.

As for the idea of ​​the federal extraordinary agency?
Their thoughts are not important. Many big figures and families behind the federation think that it is good.

After all, the Special Investigation Bureau is nothing more than a tool that can be called by those big shots.

Near midnight, when Xie Zihao parked his car at a hotel in Mariposa, packed his bags and quietly walked up the mountain alone for more than half an hour, he came to a forest.

The trees and terrain here look no different from other forests, but Xie Zihao can perceive the abnormal behavior of the environment in front of him, it seems that the spiritual fluctuations are abnormal, there is no tranquility and vitality like ordinary forests, but this fluctuation is extremely small , even he can be easily overlooked without careful observation.

"Here is the place!"

According to Liang Rui'an, the appearance of Jinshan Ghost City is covered by a large illusion, and it is difficult for ordinary people to enter. Only those who hold the pass issued by Hongmen can find the way to enter.

As a knowledgeable person, Xie Zihao quickly observed through Sharingan's spiritual vision that the illusion here is actually a combination of formations and feng shui formations, and there are some other forces in it.

He speculates on this:
"This should be the effect of some large magic weapon."

"It's not surprising to think about it. After all, the Hongmen is a large-scale non-governmental organization inherited from the Ming Dynasty. The gate also gathered hundreds of extraordinary people, so it shouldn't be too difficult to find a few who are good at formation."

He took out the token that Liang Ruian had lent him, which was a small three-inch-long iron plate made in the image of the [-]th General of the Water Margin.

Liang Ruian's is the No. 40 in Liangshan's sixth place, and Xiao Rang, a geographer who ranks tenth among the 72 earth ghosts. It also matches the military position of the ancestors of the Liang family.

And it is said that the one that the Xie family got was the Tiangang star jade unicorn Lu Junyi, the deputy marshal of Liangshan Governor Bingma, who ranked second among the 36 Tiangang, and was considered the most noble batch among this batch of tokens.

Of course, this also has something to do with their Xie family being the supreme leader of this group of survivors of the kingdom of heaven. Although a hundred years have passed, everyone has lost the relationship between subordinates and subordinates to each other, but other old families of the Xie family are participating in the communication of Tang forces. Among them, the Xie family will still be the leader in the name of the head of the family.

"Although these one hundred and eight iron plaques are just tokens arranged by Hongmen for various forces and powerhouses, only the old sect master of Hongmen keeps the first iron plaque of Tiankui Xing Hubaoyi and Song Jiang, and the other Hongmen share the helm. They are all distributed according to strength and status in the world, but being able to occupy the second place among them shows how famous and powerful my cheap grandfather was at that time!"

Seeing that Xie Zihao walked into the forest for a hundred steps or so, after showing the iron sign, the surrounding environment suddenly changed, from the original ordinary forest at night to a noisy and dimly lit mountain flatland.If you look carefully, you can still vaguely see the shadow of the gold mine living area in those days.

In front of him was a bustling scene that was somewhat familiar to Xie Zihao. The periphery of the ghost city was surrounded by wooden fences, and there were wind lanterns hung at intervals. Against the dim lights inside and the dim environment, the red lanterns looked somewhat different. The atmosphere of the supernatural film.

Inside the ghost market, there is a square bustling market formed by rows of green brick and tile houses. It doesn't look much different from the flea market he saw in Chinatown.

Looking from a distance, the area surrounded by the outer wooden fence is a neat row of tents, and people are coming and going in and out of it. Obviously, the tents are the stalls of this ghost market.

And the blue brick and tile house at the back should be a permanent shop in the market.

Seeing Xie Zihao suddenly appearing on the bluestone slab in front of the market, other people around him who were similar to him did not make a fuss. At most, some people would pay more attention to Xie Zihao because of his outstanding appearance and special temperament. , and only so.

On the contrary, there were a few young girls in their 20s in the crowd who would keep peeking at him after seeing him, and then laughed shyly with their companions.

Xie Zihao didn't look timid, but pretended to be a regular customer and walked towards the open gate guarded by two strong men from Tang Dynasty.

Before he got close, he was attracted by the two statues on the gate.

　see you tomorrow!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)