Chapter 20 Anka’s Black Market
When Hetty went to find Liz again on the same day, she found that she was no longer at the original location.
The people next to me heard that the other party had probably gone to find her father who was fooling around outside. After hearing this, Hetty left with a bit of disappointment, and it was not easy to get involved in other people's family affairs.
But what she didn't know was that the place Liz went to was not an underground casino or a lively pub, but a black market hidden in Anka City that many people didn't know about.
A strong gloomy atmosphere enveloped this narrow alley, which is where all illegal transactions in Anka City gather. The dark alley is filled with the aroma of mixed spices, but if you look carefully, you can tell that it is the smell of Manlami potion, which is listed as a banned drug by the empire.
Although Anka City itself is a place that many people do not want to live in, because the war itself brings many different opportunities, who cares about laws and regulations during war?
The entrance to the black market is separated by an exquisite hallucination magic rune. If you don't know how to enter in advance, a normal person will only think that this is a dead end even if you happen to come here.
As for how Liz knew, it was naturally because of her father.
Her father left her nothing, except for the painful memory of throwing his biological mother into the river with his own hands, and the beatings, kicks, and verbal abuse over the years. All that was left was the note that said how to enter the black market. .
Originally, she wanted to find the murder weapon used by her father to kill her mother, but she did not expect that the murder weapon was not found, and she found the address of the place where the murder tool was purchased.
It was a few years ago when I first found this place following this address.
Unlike that time when she was ignorant and didn't understand anything, Liz now covered herself tightly. Unless someone deliberately took off her disguise, no one would know that she was a beautiful girl in her teens. .
As Liz's shadow continued to lengthen under the light, she finally entered this market full of mysterious atmosphere. The vendors shouted in low voices to attract potential customers.
There are not many people dressing up like Liz, so she didn't attract too much attention.
Along the way, various types of goods were placed on the stalls in front of each vendor, from rare herbs to weird magic tools, to some refined forbidden medicines and unknown books, everything was It smells of danger.
However, she asked several people one after another, but it seemed that she did not get the answer she wanted from them, until she followed the instructions of a certain vendor and walked behind an old curtain in the corner of the black market.
Behind the curtain sat a potion dealer whose face could not be seen clearly. He was dressed somewhat similarly to himself, and he was obviously very concerned about hiding his identity.
Liz walked to the stall in silence, scanning the various items with her eyes, looking for the one thing she needed. Finally, she pointed to a bag of powder placed in the corner of the linen and asked softly: "Can this end a person's life?" "
Of course."
The man smiled slightly, but before he could quote the price, Liz said again He shook his head and changed his words:
"Forget it, it's too easy to poison him directly..."
"This lady."
Because Liz couldn't use the magic to change her voice, the man naturally recognized her gender.
But he was not too surprised by this. After all, it was not surprising for anyone to appear in a place like this. They did not even exclude races other than humans from coming to trade.
It's all about money, caring too much will only block your own path to wealth.
At this moment, since Liz took the initiative to express her needs, the highly professional potion seller also scanned his stall, finally grabbed the small medicine bottle containing the colorless liquid, and explained lightly. :
"Lim potion, 1 gold coin."
"..."
This price is obviously a bit expensive. After all, in Anka, a gold coin can help a family live for a long time.
But for a medicine that is strictly prohibited from being sold by the empire, it is good to be able to buy it. Why would Liz care about the price of these two gold coins? But she still had to inquire in detail about the specific effects of the potion.
"Colorless and odorless, it is difficult to be discovered."
The dealer who took the gold coin nodded slightly, and then took the initiative to introduce it without waiting for Liz to ask: "The effect is that it can cause people to fall into general paralysis, unable to exert force but their consciousness is still there. Semi-crippled state."
"Yes, I like this effect."
Rather than letting the man die in his sleep, she wanted to see the man's wide-eyed expression of disbelief, and to witness with her own eyes her daughter who could not fight back. Point stabbed the knife into his heart.
"By the way..."
Liz thought for a while, she might still need something that could allow her to escape perfectly.
Although this is Anka, it doesn't mean that she can really kill her father and not suffer any punishment.
After all, she is just a civilian. Patricide has always been a serious crime in the empire. She does not want to ruin her life just because of revenge.
"Do you have a potion here that can permanently change a person's appearance and voice?"
"Change a person's appearance and voice? Forever?"
Upon hearing this, the man was stunned for a moment, and then let out a weird laugh. There was even some mockery in the look he looked at Liz.
"Miss, are you not sober? Changing someone else's appearance and voice is a magic that at least a green-robed magician can master. Do you think this effect can be achieved with just a bottle of potion? ?
And if there really is such a potion, do you think you can afford it?"
"Then..."
"If you just want to kill your enemy and escape, I don't think you need to change your medicine at all. Appearance. Just use this to get rid of the corpse."
As he said that, the man picked out a bottle of pink liquid potion from the pile of medicine jars, "Then after the corpse is completely eaten by the micro monsters inside, treat everything as a matter of course. Just as long as it didn't happen?"
"How much is this...?"
"10 gold coins."
"You!"
Looking at Liz's angry eyes, the man smiled and didn't mind her rudeness to him at all.
She didn't explain whether her medicine was worth the price. She just tapped the sign with words on the side with her finger and repeated what it said:
"Fair trade, no forced buying or selling."
Liz was silent. Not only because she now knows very well that her thoughts have been seen through by the somewhat sinister man in front of her, but also because she really can't afford so much money now.
After thinking for a long time, she could only leave the potion stand without saying a word, leaving the man who was touching the potion with his hands as if touching a woman's skin, silently looking at Liz's back and then said to himself with a teasing look on his face. He said to himself:
"Stupid girl is so easy to deceive. She just gave me 1 gold coin for a bottle of ordinary tranquilizer."
(End of Chapter)