Chapter 546 Black Market
After slaughtering the Vulture Gang, Yang Ming was not harassed again along the way. Obviously, compared with reasoning, the deterrence of force can make the desperate criminals in the slums "know the current situation" more easily.
Soon, they arrived at the entrance of the underground black market. Compared with the underground black market "Black Street" in Manjin City, the underground black market in Miare City was larger. The entrance was bustling with people coming and going. The air was filled with a pungent smell of sweat, blood and metal. Yang Ming bought a voucher at the entrance and continued to go deeper.
As soon as he entered, a variety of stalls came into view, some selling rare Pokémon items, some selling evolution stones, and even some illegally trading Pokémon. Yang Ming's eyes stopped at a stall selling potions for a moment, and then he asked, "What is this?"
"Brother, you are from another place, right? You don't even recognize this?" The stall owner raised his eyelids and sneered.
"This is indeed my first time here, and I hope you can help me solve my doubts." Yang Ming asked patiently.
Seeing that the other party was really interested, the vendor immediately changed his expression and introduced it nonstop: "The one on the left is the 'energy potion', which can greatly enhance the combat power of Pokémon in a short period of time. What's the price? Hehe, you will find out quietly over there."
After saying that, he pointed to a small path nearby. He saw several people in white coats carrying a stretcher. The stretcher was full of dying Pokémon. Their eyes were empty and their limbs were twitching constantly. It was obvious that they had suffered great pain.
"Are we going to send them for treatment?" Yang Ming asked.
The stall owner sneered: "Treatment? Hehe, there's a sewer in front. These consumables that have been used with 'strengthening agents' are used as feed for the toothfish in the sewer."
The stall owner went on to explain, "The Pokémon that will be given Strength Potions are basically trash with poor qualifications. They have no value other than participating in the daily 'underground competitions' to earn money for their owners. After they lose their usefulness, their owners will naturally not waste money to save them."
"I see," Yang Ming nodded, "Then what is the potion on the right?"
"The one on the right is medicine for humans," the stall owner laughed mysteriously, "Once injected, this medicine will make people feel like they are in heaven and forget all their troubles, just like him."
After that, he pointed to a fat man running naked in the distance. The fat man had blurry eyes, an excited look, and was talking nonsense, but the people around him just looked at him indifferently, as if they were already used to this kind of thing.
"Is it a highly addictive hallucinogenic drug?" Yang Ming understood clearly. There were also such drugs in his original world. They were usually contraband banned by various countries, and illegal smuggling would result in the death penalty.
Thinking back to the crazy men and women and lunatics I had seen in the slums before, they were probably also squeezed dry of their money because of their addiction to these drugs, and finally became insane useless people and were thrown on the roadside.
"By the way, I actually have another medicine here that I think you must be interested in."
Seeing that Yang Ming was not interested, the stall owner took out a pink potion from his pocket.
"What is this?"
"This is a medicine specially for women," the stall owner lowered his voice, his eyes flashing with obscene light, "As long as you feed women this thing, they will be as obedient as puppets, and when that time comes, hehehe..."
"Oh? So the gang leaders here all use this thing?" Yang Ming suddenly realized.
"Why would they want such cheap stuff?" the stall owner curled his lips in disdain. "Compared to making women obey their orders, these big men enjoy the pleasure of conquest more. They like to tear off their clothes while their prey struggles and begs. This is more exciting and more satisfying."
"By the way, after asking so many questions, are you going to buy it or not?"
In the end, Yang Ming still let Alex pay for the three kinds of medicine. Although he didn't need these cheap things, Yang Ming still planned to buy them back and test their ingredients in case of emergency.
"Alex, have you arrived at the place you mentioned?"
"Boss, I'm very familiar with that place, you can rest assured." Alex followed closely, afraid to take one more step than the "Boss". "Don't worry, that's the best shop for repairing equipment in the entire black market."
"I hope so." Yang Ming did not comment.
"Don't worry, sir. If you are not satisfied with the final repair result, I will voluntarily let you light the sky lantern!" Alex patted his chest and was extremely confident in the craftsmanship of that shop.
Finally, after going around several small roads, the two finally found a simple shop in a remote corner. The owner was yawning lazily, and when he saw a customer coming, he greeted lazily: "Master Alex, it's a rare guest. What do you want to repair this time?"
It can be seen that the owner is very familiar with Alex.
"Shut up! I'm not the one who has to fix the things this time," Alex said seriously, "It's the big guy next to me who has to fix the things this time. If you dare to make him unhappy, even Xerneas can't save you!"
Upon hearing this, the shop owner's face suddenly became respectful. He knew Alex's background. Although this young master was not favored by his family, he was still a noble young master from a local wealthy family. The person who could make such a person so respectful must be no simple person!
"This is what I want to fix," Yang Ming handed the broken Rockets gear to the shopkeeper, lowered his voice and threatened in a cold tone, "Don't do anything tricky, you don't want to know the consequences."
"Sir, as you command!" The moment the Rockets' gears turned, the shop owner's face suddenly changed, but soon he recovered and started repairing it in front of Yang Ming. It must be said that the shop owner was very honest and his movements were very skillful. It didn't take long for him to finish the repair.
Yang Ming checked and tested the repaired Rockets gear repeatedly, and only let Alex pay after he was sure there were no problems.
“No, thanks, it’s free this time…” The owner kept refusing.
"I don't have the habit of taking advantage of others. You must accept this money."
After forcibly throwing down a stack of money, Yang Ming walked away, leaving the shop owner sweating and gasping for breath.
"What a close call! I never thought that Team Rocket would show up in Kalos," the shop owner said with lingering fear. "Luckily they didn't tamper with the items, otherwise I might not be able to see the sun tomorrow."
"No matter what, this matter must be reported to the higher-ups and decided by the bigwigs. I hope the Rockets' appearance this time won't ruin Team Flare's plans."