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In the mountains on the north side of the basin plain.
Old Hao's figure quickly shuttled through the dense jungle and soon stopped in front of a natural cave.
Suddenly, a man wearing a hooded cloak appeared.
"Who introduced you here?" the cloaked man asked coldly.
"Shang Huan." Mr. Hao said carefully.
The cloaked man looked Mr. Hao up and down, paid special attention to the package behind him, and nodded slowly: "Go in."
Hao Laosong breathed a sigh of relief, then slipped into the cave and disappeared.
……
Not long after, another person appeared with a small gray cloth bag on his back.
The cloaked man who had been hiding somewhere reappeared.
"Who introduced you?" the cloaked man asked coldly.
"Shang Huan." Chen Mu said calmly.
The cloaked man looked at Chen Mu suspiciously.
Two of them were introduced by Shang Huan, so there shouldn’t be any problem, right?
Chen Mu's heart skipped a beat. Wasn't that what Old Man Hao said just now?
He pretended to be nonchalant and asked casually, "The fat guy with small eyes didn't come today?"
The man in the cloak felt relieved. He could accurately describe Shang Huan's appearance and figure, which meant he really knew Shang Huan.
"Go in." The cloaked man said calmly.
Chen Mu nodded calmly and slipped into the cave.
"The entrance inspection is not as strict as expected."
Otherwise, how can you let people pass just by asking a question casually?
"Is there someone behind you? Aren't you afraid of trouble?" Chen Mu understood.
As you enter the cave, there is an immediate downward slope.
We walked down for seventy or eighty meters before reaching the bottom of the cave, and the further we went down, the more spacious the cave became.
Standing at the entrance of the cave, Chen Mu looked around.
The underground cave is like a large square, with fluorescent algae lanterns everywhere, making the underground cave seem like daytime.
"The underground market is really underground."
"There are people coming and going, and the lights are on. How can they do it so blatantly?" Chen Mu was surprised.
It seems that the person behind this is not simple.
"Could some big shots in the House of Commons be involved?" Chen Mu guessed.
……
Soon he began to wander around the underground market.
In front of a stall.
"What's the price of yellow sprout rice?" Chen Mu asked.
"One hundred and twenty kilograms." The short and thin boss said with a smile.
A white jade coin? It is indeed cheaper than in Tongtianfang.
"Can I take a look?" Chen Mu was suspicious, wondering if it was inferior product.
"Look around." The short and thin boss opened the sack.
Chen Mu grabbed a handful and checked. The grains were full and it was indeed top-quality yellow sprout rice.
He was just about to buy it when something suddenly occurred to him and he reached his hand into the bottom of the sack.
The short and thin boss who had been calm and composed just now suddenly froze.
Chen Mu speechlessly pulled his hand away, turned and left.
Put the good products on top and the inferior products at the bottom.
If he didn't look different, Chen Mu would have thought that Jie Jia had come.
"This underground market is really a mixed bag."
Chen Mu no longer had the intention to buy anything, he just came here to broaden his horizons.
……
In front of a street stall, several familiar objects caught Chen Mu's attention.
"Isn't this the same leather wristband that Shang Huan wears?"
"How much is it?" Chen Mu came forward and asked calmly.
"Thirty-six white jade coins." The boss was an old man with gray hair and a devil mask on his face.
Chen Mu shook his head slightly and said calmly, "It's too expensive."
The gray-haired old man looked up at Chen Mu and said calmly, "Get lost."
Chen Mu: “…”
How can you still curse at me?
At this time, a tall and strong man suddenly came over and glanced at Chen Mu. Then he skillfully handed the old man a cloth bag and said, "Give me a mustard seed talisman."
The old man shook the cloth bag, put it into his sleeve with satisfaction, and picked up a leather wristband and handed it to the burly man.
The sturdy man took off the wristband, looked at it carefully, nodded with satisfaction, and glanced at Chen Mu: "New here, huh..."
He immediately turned around and left.
"It's exposed already?" Chen Mu was surprised.
"What is this?" He stopped pretending and asked directly.
"The mustard seed talisman." The old man said calmly, "It is something that puts Mount Sumeru into a mustard seed."
"My mustard seed talisman can be opened and closed thirty-six times, so I will sell it for thirty-six white jade coins."
After saying that, he glanced at Chen Mu.
"So it's so revealing." Chen Mu suddenly realized.
But, a mustard seed talisman? Something that could contain Mount Sumeru in a mustard seed? A space storage device similar to the Five Ghosts Bag?
"Is there something in Shang Huan's mustard seed talisman?" Chen Mu was immediately happy.
After all the fuss, the leather wristband is the real treasure.
"How do I open and close it?" In order not to bother two people with the same question, Chen Mu started asking directly.
The old man looked at Chen Mu in surprise, and his pupils shrank slightly.
You don’t know the Mustard Seed Talisman but you have it?
This new guy is also a tough guy.
I don’t know which unlucky guy fell into this guy’s hands.
This is a vicious man. The old man sighed and said helplessly: "One white jade coin."
Chen Mu: “…”
……
Putting a palm-long scroll into his sleeve, Chen Mu left the old man's stall unwillingly.
I always feel like I've been cheated.
I walked around the underground space square again and saw Mr. Hao bargaining with a vendor on the way.
Chen Mu also discovered that the underground market not only had individual vendors, but also fixed shops.
There are dozens of entrances around the square, and behind them are passages that extend in all directions like a spider web.
Those fixed shops are located in these passages.
The things sold are varied, both decent and not-so-decent.
Chen Mu didn't look closely, returned the same way and left quickly.
It wasn't that he didn't want to keep watching, but the ghosts that stayed in the hills sent him some bad images.
……
In the yellow rice field at the foot of a low hill, a group of emerald green beetles the size of a fingernail suddenly flew over.
It pounced on the yellow rice leaves and started to bite them into big bites.
The tough, rubber-like yellow rice leaves were bitten into a big hole in just a few bites.
And after the beetle eats a leaf the size of two palms.
Suddenly it split into two and became two beetles.
One became two, two became four, four became eight, and a flock of beetles as big as a flat bamboo basket suddenly became as big as a double bed.
Chen Mu looked at the bumpy leaves of the yellow rice with a grim expression.
Although it seems that it can only transform three times, the worm never stops eating.
He reached out to grab a emerald green beetle, but the beetle turned around angrily and bit Chen Mu fiercely.
Chen Mu's neck and scalp tightened, and he instinctively contracted his muscles, preparing to endure the pain.
quack!
The mouthparts, which glowed coldly and looked like weapons, were broken in an instant.
Chen Mu glanced at the silvery skin on his fingers in surprise.
He didn't feel the slightest bit of the blow that was powerful enough to crush the stone.