Chapter 510 Black Store
"Black, endless store..."
Several people looked at the gloomy plaque at the end of the fork in the road and couldn''t help but swallow their saliva.
The black endless store, unlike the white one, is not a window, but a dilapidated and rusty iron door. You can feel the ominous atmosphere at a glance, and you don''t know what will come out when you knock on the door.
"Would you like to go take a look?" Ma Qiao looked at Mr. Yuan and Luo Jun. The former was a senior and a strong man. Although the latter was just a junior, he had always been the one making suggestions along the way. Unknowingly, everyone Also became dependent on him.
"It''s better not to give it up..." Sun Xiaowei was a little frightened: "Didn''t that fat businessman remind me that he might be eaten..."
"The fat businessman may not be telling the truth." Mr. Yuan shook his head: "For us, there are still too many unknowns in this endless maze. Let me tell you, to be on the safe side, we''d better not disturb..."
"But maybe there will be other clues..." Luo Jun took out the gold ingot, a treasure in the white store. He had seen it all from the product catalog. Apart from the indicator, there were no other clues about the exit. At present, even with the indicator, the chance of finding the exit is slim. From this point of view, the death scene Xiao Min saw probably means that he will be trapped in the maze...
The black store is the only clue at present...
As for being eaten?
Two peak-level combatants are here. If they can be killed, then this endless maze cannot be a Class A mission...
"Then I''ll go." Mr. Yuan wanted to **** the Yuanbao away, but Luo Jun dodged it: "Let''s not argue with each other. Be safe and go together."
"Together..." Sun Xiaowei glanced at the door that exuded an ominous atmosphere and couldn''t help but swallow.
"You and Ma Qiao are waiting at the intersection. We will respond at any time if there is any situation." Mr. Yuan left them outside, not only to protect them, but also to worry about causing trouble if something happened. Without these two people around, Luo Jun would have less scruples when he really needed to take action.
The master and the apprentice came to the rusty door. Mr. Yuan put on the Bagua Zhihu to support him. Luo Jun took the ingot and knocked on the door.
To be on the safe side, I passed the dice before knocking on the door so that no conflict would break out. As a result, the difficulty was very low and I succeeded easily.
However, the difficulty is very low, but it is not impossible, which means that there is still the possibility of conflict.
After knocking on the door, there was a noise inside the door. After a while, the iron door slowly opened, and the folds made a harsh friction sound.
"Who?"
An old head popped out of the door, with sparse and messy white hair, a face full of wrinkles, and cloudy eyes. It was impossible to tell whether he was a man or a woman. There were several tumors on his forehead and chin, exuding a disgusting putrid odor.
"Is this an endless store?" Luo Jun directly showed the gold ingot: "I''m here to trade."
The old head''s eyes lit up when he saw Yuan Bao, and he nodded: "Come in."
Go in?
Mr. Yuan frowned. It was enough to trade outside the door. Going in...could it be a trap?
"What? Are you worried?" The old man sneered: "Then I won''t accept you..." With that, he made a show of closing the door.
"Wait a minute..." Luo Jun held the door open: "Let''s go in and talk."
Mr. Yuan glanced at Luo Jun worriedly, and Luo Jun gave him a reassuring look. The two of them walked into the store and then closed the door.
"Did they go in?" Sun Xiaowei said in surprise: "They won''t be able to get out, right?"
"It''s okay, Mr. Yuan is here!" Ma Qiao encouraged: "It is said that he has peak combat power. When facing those monsters on this road, he is just like chopping melons and vegetables. There will definitely be nothing wrong!"
Sun Xiaowei looked at the closed iron door with a look of worry on her face.
After entering the house, Mr. Yuan and Luo Jun finally saw the whole picture of the old head. This guy was not a person, but a huge hand. The head actually grew on the tip of its middle finger. The other fingers formed hands and feet respectively, supporting its body movement. It looked weird, disgusting, and made people shudder.
"Come and take a look at my goods." The giant-hand monster let out a scary laugh, its eyes never leaving the gold ingot in Luo Jun''s hand.
The house was very messy, filled with dusty debris everywhere, the walls and furniture were full of cracks and bloodstains, and there was a peculiar smell everywhere, which made people physically uncomfortable...
"Where are the goods?" Luo Jun looked around, not wanting to believe that those messy things were the props he wanted to buy.
"It''s really inconvenient to look at it like this. Come on, I have a product brochure here." As he said that, the giant hand monster stretched out his index finger. The end of the index finger was divided into five fingers, which were as big as an average person''s hand. From the pile of debris, He pulled out a dusty book and handed it to Luo Jun.
Luo Jun took the book and blew on it. The dust on it rose up, and it seemed like a sandstorm was blowing in the room. After shaking it off a few times, he finally saw the whole book clearly.
The book seems to be sewn with some kind of leather, but it is not regular. The cover is full of messy stitches, and there are color differences between different leathers. Although it should be the skin of the same creature, it obviously comes from different individuals.
Opening the album, there are portraits and descriptions of various props drawn in black and dark red ink.
Like the white store, there are supplies here, but the food inside is all raw, cold, and fishy. Some dead fish, carrion, and insects are relatively good, and some are twisted and weird, and you can''t tell at all. What kind of biological tissue, what''s more, some can clearly see the shadow of human organs... Although in theory, this thing can indeed be eaten, but using this as a supplement is really a bit...
Everything in the back, including various daily necessities, also looked weird. For example, hand sanitizer made from the eyeballs of unknown animals, bedding made from skin dripping with blood, and medical equipment made from worms such as maggots...
Looking further back, there are various weapons, which are also different from the standard equipment in the white shop. The cold weapons here are obviously made of animal bones or insect **** carapaces. There are also hot weapons, most of which are rusty and twisted. Almost all of them are twisted shapes that are a fusion of metal and biological tissue... Although Luo Jun does not doubt these The weapon is powerful, but to be honest, he doesn''t want to use it if it''s for nothing.
Let’s take a look at the key special props.
Luo Jun flipped back, skipping the bargains worth dozens or hundreds of dollars, and started looking at the treasures with special effects.
There are sacrifices to summon monsters, and magic scrolls that can curse opponents... But Luo Jun is not interested in these things for combat. What he really wants are the functional props for the maze itself.
Um? Can this permanently remove the wall?
Luo Jun noticed an interesting prop. The picture showed that it was a large glass bottle containing thirteen blood-red beads. According to the instructions, he took out a bead and threw it against the wall. After it exploded, the contents inside were revealed. The liquid can permanently corrode the wall, leaving a passage for people to walk through.
This function is similar to the prop in the white shop that can open the door, but the difference is that the prop to open the door is one-time use, and it costs one thousand yuan to open a door. And these beads, a bottle of thirteen beads, cost only five thousand yuan in total.
In this way, isn''t this much more cost-effective than a white store?
Wait... I''m not sure yet whether the currencies in the black shop and the white shop are the same. At least gold ingots can''t be used in the white shop. Thinking of this, Luo Jun took out the banknotes and asked the strange hand: "Can I buy something from you?"
The strange hand glanced at the things in Luo Jun''s hand and laughed: "It seems that you have already contacted the guy who opened the window to do business... No problem, I accept everything here. Not just this kind of money, you guys Anything found in the maze or brought in from outside the maze, including yourselves, can be exchanged for money with me!”
As he said that, he glanced at the gold ingot in Luo Jun''s hand again: "Of course, my favorite is this. As long as you are willing to take action, I can exchange it for you for ten thousand yuan, how about it?"
This attitude of wanting everything is very black market style.
Luo Jun nodded: "I''ll take a look at your goods again."
As he said that, he and Mr. Yuan continued to flip through the product albums and found that the functions of many props here overlapped with those in the white store, but the form of expression was different.
The white shop side is just like ordinary game skills, simple and direct. As for the black shop, when functions are performed, they are usually accompanied by some disgusting and twisted special effects.
In addition to corroding walls to open doors, they also use the giant worm''s mouth to teleport, use putrid smells to guide the way, and so on. In short, although the functions are similar, they just make it less comfortable for you to use.
And another point is that for props with the same function, the black one is usually used multiple times, and the price per time is cheaper than the white one.
It seems that it is much more cost-effective to buy things in black... Luo Jun is a little itchy.
By the way, do you have a portable map?
However, Luo Jun searched for a long time and didn''t see anything that has exactly the same function as the portable map. There is a similar map function that also lasts for one hour. However, it cannot indicate the encounter locations. In addition to being able to see the terrain, it can only indicate There are two things, one is a black shop, and the other is a monster that can explode gold ingots.
This function is obviously to encourage players to collect gold ingots. In terms of convenience, it is much worse than the white one. The price is also very cheap, a map only costs 1,000 yuan.
Although the price is very beautiful, it cannot meet Luo Jun''s requirements. He continued to flip back, trying to find props related to the exit.
But even after flipping through to the end, I couldn''t find any clues related to the exit, not even a replacement for the exit indicator on the white store side.
Luo Jun glanced at Mr. Yuan and saw disappointment in his eyes.
"Do you have a way to find the exit here?" Since you haven''t found it, you might as well ask directly.
"Oh, you want high-end goods?" The giant-hand monster chuckled, "Just unfold the last page."
"Expand the last page?" Luo Jun opened the album, and after being reminded by the monster, he discovered that there was actually a mezzanine on the last page. With a twist of his hand, a hidden page could be unfolded!
"This is..." Seeing the content of this page, Mr. Yuan''s eyes widened: "Everything on this page must be exchanged for gold ingots?"
The giant-hand monster chuckled and said: "Yes, I saw that you only took one gold ingot, and you thought you couldn''t afford the good stuff... This is my treasure at the bottom of the box. Although I can''t directly help you find the exit, there should be some. Help?"
The master and apprentice took a closer look and found that the price of the treasures on this page was as low as a whole gold ingot. Correspondingly, the effects were also extremely powerful, such as a teleportation device that could be used multiple times and moved to a designated location at will, and another that could directly There are scrolls that summon shops right in front of you, and there are even treasures that can convert monster corpses into money, which greatly increases the efficiency of killing monsters and making money!
Of course, the most eye-catching one is the last one.
Pass to nothingness.
Within one hour after activation, it turns into a state of nothingness, ignoring any physical collision and not being blocked by walls.
This thing goes perfectly with the exit indicator on the white store side!
One indicates the direction of the exit, and the other is nothingness, moving straight through the wall. As long as you are fast enough, you will definitely find the exit!
And this Void Pass is the most expensive among the props on this page, costing ten gold ingots to exchange for it.
Is it equivalent to 100,000 yuan? That''s the same price as the exit indicator on the other side... It seems like these two things are designed to be used together.
It seems that this is the way to leave the maze. The final solution is to match the indicator with the pass. With ten gold coins and one hundred thousand yuan, you can leave this endless maze!
The master and disciple looked at each other and saw excitement in each other''s eyes.
Now that you have a goal, you can''t spend your money indiscriminately. The two finally left the ingot and chose to leave the black store. But before leaving, I spent 2,000 yuan in exchange for two maps. With this thing, not only can you easily collect gold ingots, but you can also find other black shops.
Somewhat unexpectedly, the weird monster shop owner didn''t hold back too much and cooperated by opening the door and letting the two of them leave. Although it looks scary and the store is full of weirdness, it doesn''t seem to be as dangerous as the owner of the white store said.
Seeing Mr. Yuan and Luo Jun coming out, Sun Xiaowei and Ma Qiao immediately came up to them: "Are you okay? Is it scary in there? Are there any monsters?"
The two briefly talked about what happened inside. When they heard that there was a way out, they were both very excited!
Now that basic survival is guaranteed, it is only a matter of time to save money. With 200,000, everyone can leave this hellish place!
"By the way, is the pass effective for individuals or groups?" Sun Xiaowei discovered a blind spot: "If it can only make one person void, doesn''t everyone have to get one?"
"We have confirmed this with the shop owner." Mr. Yuan nodded and said, "This pass can be valid for a group. With one, everyone can go out."
"That''s great!" Sun Xiaowei cheered.
"I''m afraid it''s not that simple." Luo Jun shook his head: "If you say that you can escape the endless maze by finding these two props, that''s a bit too simple..."
"Isn''t this simple?" Ma Qiao complained: "We have worked so hard for so long and only made more than 20,000 yuan. One hundred thousand yuan plus ten gold ingots. How can this be so easy?"
"But we have found a way to break the situation, haven''t we?" Luo Jun said: "Although the difficulty is still very high, I don''t think this will make this maze a desperate situation that no one can conquer!"
Mr. Yuan frowned: "You mean..."
"I suspect that the wealthy businessman is hiding something..."
(End of chapter)