Chapter 18 Purchasing Card-Making Materials, Black Market

Gu Ye didn't take to heart whether Zhao Wuxiao would seek revenge later; how many people who came here to buy things actually showed their true faces?

"This little... sir..."

"Li Feiyu."

"Very well, Mr. Li, these are all the pure elemental card-making materials in our Long Clan Card Shop."

He looked at the dazzling array of card-making materials on the virtual screen in front of him, his fingers sliding across it; to make selecting cards easier, he redefined the grades of the card-making materials.

In Gu Ye's mind, as the four most important elements of the world background, they should at least be blue card creation material, but after seeing the price and looking at his own balance, he silently moved his fingers and changed the grade to green.

The highest limit for a Card Master's first bloodline card is the green grade, but Gu Ye has a cheat, so his first bloodline card could be of the blue grade.

In the end, under Xiao Mei's introduction, Gu Ye selected card-making materials from the same world: four types of elemental crystals.

Gu Ye also picked out some other necessary card-making materials; mainly because his world background was too vast, and he didn't even know if these card-making materials would be able to connect completely.

Xiao Mei took out all the card-making materials and said with a smile:

"We have caused you a lot of inconvenience today, so..."

Upon hearing this, Gu Ye thought he might get a freebie, and his eyes brightened slightly.

"Our young lady has decided to give you the largest discount at the Long Clan Card Shop, 30% off."

Gu Ye took the card-making materials from her hands with some disappointment, but it was normal; even if there hadn't been a discount, Gu Ye wouldn't have been surprised. Getting a discount could be considered an unexpected gain.

Spending money was like water; the card-making materials he had just sold, and his wallet was empty before it had even warmed up.

Gu Ye walked out of the shop, and Xiao Mei and Xiao Qiu watched him leave with tears in their eyes.

Xiao Qiu wiped the tears from the corner of her eyes: "Mr. Li is really a good person; he has completed our entire week's sales target."

Xiao Mei, standing beside her, also said with emotion: "Yes! Usually, if someone comes to buy a single white card-making material, we'd be burning incense in gratitude. Today, Mr. Li alone bought so many white and green card-making materials."

"Sister Xiao Mei, don't you think it would be great if Mr. Li could buy a blue card creation material?"

"Then we would make a fortune."

Xiao Qiu stared in the direction Gu Ye had left with a look of fantasy, when suddenly, a slender finger poked her forehead:

"Stop daydreaming. If he could afford a blue card creation material, he probably wouldn't have been able to leave the card-making material sales market today."

"What do you mean!" Xiao Qiu looked puzzled.

Xiao Mei didn't answer her, just walked calmly back to the shop to continue working.

Seeing that she wouldn't say, Xiao Qiu didn't continue to ask, just buried the question silently in her heart, and she returned to her post to continue working.

On the way home, Gu Ye kept thinking; he still had a blue card creation material but no safe sales channel. Later, as he continued the Refinement of cards, he would produce more high-grade card-making materials, and he couldn't just keep letting them pile up.

If he sold the card-making materials to a Noble Families, he might end up in the Muyun River on the outskirts of Yunlin City the very next day.

"Strength, in this world where force is supreme, power can solve everything."

Suddenly, a sharp light flashed in Gu Ye's eyes, and he muttered to himself: "It seems I have no choice but to go to the black market."

Back home, Gu Ye ate something casually, and when night fell, he set off for the location of the black market.

As for why he had to go at night, since it was called a black market, it naturally had to be open when it was pitch black to be called a black market, and the night was also convenient for escaping and disguising himself.

"Driver, how much!" Gu Ye looked at the taxi in front of him.

"20."

Gu Ye paid the money and was just about to enter the black market when the taxi driver called out to him:

"Young man, do you want a life-protection service?"

Gu Ye heard this and felt a bit interested. He walked up to the taxi, took a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, pulled one out, and handed it to the driver:

"Uncle, tell me about it."

The driver took the cigarette and accidentally saw the cigarette pack in his hand, shouting in surprise:

"Whoa~ Liqun."

Gu Ye lit it for him, and he narrowed his eyes, exhaling a puff of smoke with a look of enjoyment:

"High-end stuff is just different!"

"The black market, anyone who drives a taxi knows about it. The ins and outs inside are very dark; you wouldn't even know how you died in there."

"Hehe! And our life-protection service is for you to protect your life when entering the black market and coming out."

"Uncle, I didn't expect your taxi business to be so extensive. What's the price for this life-protection service?" Gu Ye made a hand-rubbing gesture.

"50,000, no bargaining."

"This is only because you treated me to a good cigarette that I'm giving you a cost price."

"I spend more than this just on bribes, so don't try to bargain with me."

Gu Ye thought for a moment and felt that this life-protection service might be useful. If he could avoid using life-saving cards, he would; after all, purple-grade cards were hard to come by.

Taking advantage of the moment the driver was enjoying the smoke, he secretly used his phone to take a picture of his face, then put his phone away nonchalantly and nodded:

"Fine, but I'll only pay half the deposit first, and I'll pay the rest after I'm safe."

"Deal." The driver agreed readily, and Gu Ye made the payment.

The driver drove away, and Gu Ye could still faintly hear him humming happily:

"Today is really, really happy..."

For a moment, Gu Ye felt it was a little unreliable.

*Sigh.*

He continued towards the black market. A few minutes later, he walked to an abandoned hut. Inside, a man wearing sunglasses saw someone coming and asked out loud:

"Nothing is wrong tonight."

"Technician No. 23." Gu Ye answered steadily.

"Go in!"

Gu Ye pushed open the side door of the hut, which made a creaking sound. What came into view was a flight of stairs leading underground.

He walked to the end of the stairs, passed through a light curtain, and a dim street suddenly appeared before his eyes.

On both sides of the street were scattered vendors, basically all covered in black cloaks, with a small stool and a cloth, on which were placed various cards.

However, Gu Ye observed for a few moments and then looked away; his things were not small-time wares. He walked to a dark corner of the street and took out his phone.

People around glanced at him and hurriedly left. In a place like the black market, some people might just kill you because they don't like the look of you.

No one would meddle in other people's business; even if you defecated in the street, no one would care.

Gu Ye directly searched for which card shop in the black market was the most reliable on the deceitful map. You heard that right, the deceitful map even had roads in the black market, as well as reviews of relevant card shops.

Gu Ye searched for a while and saw a card shop with all five-star reviews:

"Brothers, come to the black market; if you don't go to this shop, you'll lose out big time."

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"The shop's proprietress, Lady Li, that waist, those legs, that little face..."

"Attached is a candid full-body photo!!"

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Under this comment, there was a bunch of people calling him 'godfather'.

Gu Ye curiously clicked to see it, and suddenly felt his nose itch and get a little hot. Immediately, a drop of liquid fell onto his phone. He looked closely, blood? He suddenly realized that he was actually having a nosebleed.

He reached out and wiped the nosebleed away messily, feeling that he hadn't appreciated enough teachers in his previous life, as this little test had already broken his composure.

So he decided to go to this shop to take a look. He wasn't doing it for any proprietress; he wasn't that kind of person. It was just because this card shop was always five-star rated; everything was for the sake of safety.