Chapter 7 Black Market
"I have a strange stone in my hand."
When Xia Yu saw this private message, he immediately became interested. The ID of this mysterious seller is Crazy August, and there is a photo attached below.
A small stone, emitting dazzling light.
"Evolution Keystone?!"
Xia Yu didn't expect that his luck would be so good that he found the Evolution Key Stone on the Internet in just one day. Suppressing the excitement in his heart, Xia Yu began to bargain with Crazy August.
"This stone is very beautiful. Where did you find it?" Xia Yu asked.
"It's inherited from my ancestors." Crazy August replied, "Do you want it?"
"Yes." Xia Yu replied: "How much is it?"
Crazy August: "Well... I don't know what the market price is. Why don't you sell it when it's suitable?"
Xia Yu: "Fifty, including shipping."
Crazy August: "It's too cheap. This stone is so beautiful. It should be at least 500."
Xia Yu smiled and wanted to make the deal right away, but he knew that if he didn't bargain, it would definitely arouse the other party's suspicion: "500 is too expensive, 100 at most."
Crazy August: "No, look at how beautiful the color of this stone is. Brother, my girlfriend is having a birthday and I want to buy her a necklace. I'm a student and don't have much money. Is 500 ok?"
Xia Yu: "I'm also a student, and my family doesn't have much money."
Crazy August: "480, no less."
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The two of them argued for a long time and finally decided on the price of 399. Just in case, Xia Yu even asked Crazy August to take a photo of the stone.
After finishing all this, Xia Yu looked at the huge sum of 300,000 in his account and other thoughts came to his mind. He decided to go to the black market in Xingguang City tonight.
This amount of money is enough to buy a lot of good things on the black market, especially since he has the system plug-in, which is enough for him to pick up bargains. The only thing he needs to worry about is his own safety.
He had been to the black market in Starlight City once before, and he went with Charlotte. With a quasi-king-level trainer like his brother around, safety was naturally no problem. This time he was going to the black market alone, so naturally he had to consider safety issues.
"Bring dad's giant mantis with you."
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At night, after having dinner, Xia Yu took his father's giant mantis and armored warrior to the black market in Starlight City. Originally, he only planned to bring one giant mantis, but for safety reasons, he borrowed another armored warrior from his father.
The strength of Gigantis is average, only at the lord level, while this Armored Warrior is very powerful and can be considered one of Dad's main Pokémon. It has the strength of a gym leader, and is considered a powerful Pokémon in a fourth or fifth tier small county like Starlight City.
The underground black market in Xingguang City is located on the bar street in the old city. It is also a gathering place for young people. Young men and women in cool clothes can be seen everywhere getting drunk and venting.
Xia Yu changed into a black suit, put on a mask on his face, walked into a bar called Night Star, and went straight to the second underground floor.
The first underground floor is a proper bar, and the second underground floor is the underground black market of Starlight City. Many good things often appear there, and an auction is held every month, where some rare and good things appear.
The last time he came, Charlotte mentioned to him that this bar has a strong background. The major shareholder is the Li family from Xingguang City. Their Xia family also has a stake in the bar and can get a lot of dividends every year.
The Li family can be regarded as a local powerful family in Starlight City. They almost monopolize the breeding house industry and energy block industry in the entire Starlight City. The family has long been wealthy.
However, the Li family has been on a slight decline in recent years. The older generation of top-level trainers are getting older and their strength has obviously declined. The middle-aged generation has only produced one gym leader-level trainer, and he hasn't even opened a gym yet.
This also increased the pressure on the Li family. After all, the family has many businesses. If they don't have enough strength, they may be targeted one day. Therefore, the Li family is very anxious now, and they are madly throwing resources at the younger generation. No matter whether it is the main family or the side branch, as long as you have talent, I will train you.
The Li family is now in urgent need of a trainer above the gym leader level. It would be great if they could produce a top-level trainer.
Because of this, the Li family expressed the idea of marriage to Charlotte more than once, and offered an extremely generous dowry. They had only one purpose, which was to make Charlotte, the youngest quasi-king-level trainer, the son-in-law of the Li family. With Charlotte's qualifications, it was almost certain that he would become a fire king in the future.
However, Charlotte refused without a second thought. He had a childhood sweetheart with whom he grew up, and they had a very good relationship. As for material conditions, the arrogant Charlotte firmly believed that once he became a king-level trainer, everything would be fine.
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Today was the day of the auction. When Xia Yu arrived at the entrance to the second underground floor, he was immediately stopped by two thugs in suits guarding the door. They simply searched him from behind before letting him in.
Entering the second underground floor, the view immediately became wider. There were small stalls on both sides of the street, selling all kinds of things. Xia Yu walked and looked, hoping to pick up some treasures.
He stopped in front of a stall selling elf eggs and used the system to identify the qualifications of these elf eggs.
Unfortunately, there are no Pokémon above the Elite level in this group of Pokémon eggs. Xia Yu was mentally prepared. If Pokémon of the Elite level were so easy to appear, he would not have been without any initial Pokémon for several years.
After passing through the Pokémon Egg area, Xia Yu came to the Pokémon area. This area is divided into two categories, one is young Pokémon and the other is adult Pokémon.
The adult Pokémon were all chained and imprisoned in cages. They were emaciated and starved to a skeleton.
These adult Pokémon are basically only fed once a day, the purpose of which is naturally to control their physical strength so that they do not become too aggressive.
"Strange power..."
“Galala…”
The combat power and qualifications of these Pokémon are generally low, and the strongest one is only a quasi-lord level.
After passing through the adult Pokémon area, Xia Yu came to the baby Pokémon area. This area had the largest number of Pokémon. Most of the baby Pokémon that could appear here were rare Pokémon with poor qualifications, underdeveloped and defects.
As soon as he walked into this area, Xia Yu's eyes lit up.
【Lalulu silk】
Gender: male
Attributes: Superpower, Fairy
Qualification: Lord level
Combat power: Rare
Ability: Telepathy
Skills: Call, Charming Voice, Shadow Clone, Telekinesis, Hypnosis, Absorbing Kiss, Instant Movement, Black Gaze, Strange Light
It was a good start. The first Pokémon was of lord level. This made Xia Yu more excited. Maybe he could really find a Pokémon of king level here.
"Hey, bro, are you here to pick out some Pokémon?" The masked vendor said, "This Ralts is pretty good, and its final evolution, Gardevoir, is pretty good-looking."
The boss said this with an obscene laugh.
