I saw a gray horse. The one riding on the horse was named "death". The underworld also followed him and had the authority to give them the power to kill one-quarter of the earth with swords, famines, plagues, and wild animals. - The Bible? Revelation

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The emergence of the black market is an inevitable part of the game "Edge". In the past, in general games, people would complain that the black market had broken trading rules and caused the trust between people to collapse. However, in the game "Edge", fair transactions also mean serious losses.

In addition to the seven major areas, there are still four specific areas in the "Edge".

These four areas are collectively called the Fourth District of Apocalypse.

The word "Apocalypse" is taken from the four knights of the Apocalypse in the Bible Revelation, namely, war, famine, plague, and death.

War Zone, also known as the gambling zone, is to put it bluntly, or the Colosseum. The loser will force a quarter of his currency to be deducted at the end of the duel and reward the winner.

If the currency is zero, the resurrection times are forced to be deducted to offset the debt. The bet requires extra money but death does not consume the resurrection times. If it is a life-and-death duel, the amount does not need to be spent, but death requires the resurrection times. If the resurrection times are not enough to pay, the character will be deleted.

Every day, players who make desperate bets go to the war zone to participate in gambling, trying to fight with their resurrections as their only capital. There are successful people and more losers.

Some people have made an agreement with their enemies and launched a duel function in the gambling area to resolve mutual grudges.

What attracts players the most is the Plague Zone, which is once again the foggy area by players. All players entering the map will not be divided into factions. Everyone can attack each other. The players killed may drop any items and consume the resurrection times. The resources contained in the foggy area have extremely high value, which may be rare equipment and materials, or even extremely precious props that can increase the resurrection times.

Next is the "death zone" that players are least willing to get involved in and the "famine zone" that they must get involved in.

The Death Zone, as the name suggests, is full of death atmosphere. The designers have not disclosed too much about the purpose of designing this area. The entire Death Zone is actually a large public cemetery, buried by the player characters who have died in the game. That is to say, once a game character dies due to exhaustion of resurrections, there will be an additional corresponding tombstone in the death zone.

As for the famine area, there is another alias called the trading area.

In the trading area, transactions are absolutely fair, and there is absolutely no forced buying and selling. However, once players enter the trading area, they will continue to consume their own game currency. When deduction is completed, they will forcefully leave the famine area. 50t is deducted per hour. If it is less than 1 hour, it will be calculated as 1 hour.

50t, Gu Bin felt pain even after thinking about it. He could stay in a hotel for three days at 50t, and it was only an hour's cost. If you accidentally stay in the famine area for an extra second, you will be deducted 100t, which is a sky-high price.

Gu Bin, who originally planned to do a business in the trading area, after carefully understanding the rules of the famine area, Gu Bin directly gave up the idea of ​​going there.

Although the town is not 100% safe, once someone attacks another person, the punishment will come soon. The NPCs in charge of public security will arrive at the scene less than two minutes after the conflict occurs.

But the effectiveness of this insurance measure is limited after all, so the emergence of the black market is inevitable, and those who make a living by unscrupulous means have emerged.

And these people are the targets of Gu Bin's action this time.

The alleys next to the black market were mostly pitch black. Gu Bin followed the middle-aged man. The two were less than two meters apart, but they could only see one back.

Neither of them spoke. The person walking in front had a ulterior motive, while the person walking behind was extremely calm. Everything that happened now was in his expectation.

When the two walked to the middle of the alley, Gu Bin suddenly stopped.

"What's wrong?"

The middle-aged man turned around and asked.

Gu Bin was too lazy to answer. He looked back and saw that someone had already been blocking behind him. In front, in the shadows of lights, several figures were shaking and approaching.

The middle-aged man turned around, took out a short knife, waved it twice in front of Gu Bin, and smiled and said, "Friend, it's best for you to know the situation yourself. For the sake of our compatriots, we won't do it too much. 200t, just think of it as having a friendship. What do you think?"

This is a force snatch.

Although the price of 200t is quite large, if you want to buy them for a "ordinary" level equipment, it is nonsense, and you can only buy parts for this little money.

In the eyes of the middle-aged man, Gu Bin's aura seemed to weaken in an instant, and his whole body became even more trembling.

He shook his head silently. He had done such things many times. Whenever the players who were deceived into the darkness began to tremble, whether they were scared or angry, the matter was actually half successful.

They are still unwilling to kill people at will. After all, this is a game. You cannot be sure whether the players you killed will run back to seek revenge on you. And once these actions despised by the players are too much, they will definitely suffer a catastrophe. Public anger is not so easy to solve.

Therefore, for these "prey", the way they choose is to buy at a low price and coerce it. If they cooperate, it would be fine. Once they find that the bones are hard, the scene of bullying the less will inevitably occur. Even worse, they will record the other party's ID to facilitate future revenge.

Gu Bin now plays a role that is not planning to resist.

Looking at the people who were pinched up front and back, Gu Bin swallowed, took out the folding crossbow from his backpack, and said in his mouth: "Brother, don't go too far... 200t can't even afford a hair."

The middle-aged man took out a flashlight and turned on the switch. His face looked extremely gloomy under the light. He smiled and looked at the folding crossbow, suppressing the greedy light in his eyes, and said, "Indeed, 200t is really nothing compared to this weapon, but I only have this little money on me."

As if he had thought of something, he said, "Why not do this? This time, I will give you a discount, I will add 50t, and at the same time I will give you a better weapon. What do you think?"

Seeing Gu Bin stammering there, the middle-aged man's face suddenly rose and said coldly: "My people are not as easy to talk to as me. When they come over, it may not be the result."

"make a deal!"

When the middle-aged player heard the words roaring in a nearly collapsed voice, he also breathed a sigh of relief. It was really impossible to make enemies with a player for a piece of equipment. They have been hated by many players recently and must measure me.

250t and a broken-level machete are actually 300t. Although it is much more than what you have paid before, the profit is still quite large.

Gu Bin took a purse, stuffed it into his backpack, and then took a long machete with rough workmanship. He held it directly in his hand, threw the folding crossbow to the other party, turned his head and ran away.

When the business was completed, no one stopped him. The player responsible for intercepting him went to the side and Gu Bin easily passed through and disappeared quickly into the darkness.

The middle-aged man looked at the killer in his hand with satisfaction, with an attack power of 20-150 and an effective range of 85 meters. This kind of data can scare people to death wherever he put it.

"Come and see, this thing..." He was very excited because just now, he had contacted a buyer, and the 700t bid was enough to make him ecstatic.

People next to them came over and stared at the folded crossbow body and burst into admiration. One of the players' long-range weapon mastery had reached level 2. After taking it, they found that their strength score instantly increased to 55, and their equipment score even increased to 40. They were so excited that they didn't want to let it go.

However, just when he wanted to have fun again, in just a moment, he felt that his hands were empty.

You should know that in "Edge", it is impossible to seize props that a player has equipped with unless it is a special skill.

The player looked at his hand foolishly and found that the folding crossbow was indeed missing. Then he looked at the side with a puzzled look and asked what was going on.

"Take it out quickly. There are already buyers in this thing, and you can't afford it. What does it mean to put it in your backpack?"

A player next to him urged him twice.

"It's gone, I don't have it in my backpack..."

The player's whole brain was in chaos and said with a sad face. After saying that, he also took a picture of his inventory and showed it to everyone.

The middle-aged man jumped in an anxious manner, grabbed a person's collar and cursed twice, calling them to find the thing, then pushed the short knife to the unlucky player's neck, his eyes were already red.

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As time was being pinched, Gu Bin quickly ran out of the alley, circled around the crowd for a long time, and came to a stall.

He urgently needs to change his clothes now. Even if those people are stupid, they will sooner or later doubt themselves, and they will put away the masks for him.

The bargaining process was completed as fast as possible. A simple black priest robe came to Gu Bin's hands, turned to a place with few people, and chose equipment casually.
Chapter completed!