Angel came back to his senses and saw Xiaolu staring at him in confusion. He was silent for two seconds and said: "It's my first time to come to the Deep Black Market. I didn't expect that the architectural style here is so unique. I gained a lot."
Xiao Lu chuckled: "I can understand. If you want to find such a pure wasteland style in the modern city, the only way is the deep black market."
"Every plant and tree here, the position of every house, and the mottled marks on every wall are all created by the 'Black Emperor'."
"Don't look at this crooked place. It looks like it will collapse at any time. But in fact, the Black Emperor has already designed the internal connection structure..."
At this point, Xiaolu walked to the cracked wall next to it and gently touched the rusty steel bars exposed: "These cracking marks and the appearance of the steel bars were all planned by the Black Emperor."
"This place has been in use for a hundred years without any risk, which is enough to illustrate the level of the Black Emperor."
So these were specially designed? Angel's eyes flashed with confusion: "The Black Emperor was a figure from a hundred years ago?"
"Yes, the Black Emperor was invited here a hundred years ago and built the deep black market."
Angel: "Sounds like a very important person."
A trace of longing flashed in Xiao Lu's eyes: "It's natural for his nickname to be commensurate with the title of 'Emperor'. It is said that he comes from the real wasteland world and is a style master who is proficient in wasteland style."
Only the wasteland-style houses built after growing up in ruins have the purest taste.
This is the case with Black Emperor.
"It's a pity that the Black Emperor left the modern city after building the deep black market and never came back." Xiao Lu sighed softly: "However, the black market he left behind has benefited many people.
The style of magician."
"Many magicians who want to pursue wasteland-style design will rent rooms here and appreciate the charm of wasteland architecture all the time."
When Xiao Lu said this, he pointed to several nearby rooms: "These rooms are occupied by magicians who came to experience the wasteland style, and a large part of them are from the surface."
Angel had seen these rooms that Xiao Lu pointed out before, and they were pure residential houses.
Angel was still confused at first as to why the houses and shops in this black market were mixed together. It turned out that they were magicians who came to appreciate the style of the wasteland...
However, is this perception really useful?
Hearing Angel's emotion, Xiaolu looked over with a smile: "You're not a style magician, are you?"
Angel did not refute and nodded: "I am more proficient in the heat series magic."
Xiao Lu nodded with enlightenment: "I can understand what you said. The heat system and the style system are very different. One is better at public opinion, and the other is skilled in technology. It's normal for you to have doubts here."
"Compared to you gaining insights from the manipulation of public opinion, the most common place for style magicians to gain insights is in places with a strong flavor of style."
"Moreover, places with strong styles can easily attract style-based fashion monsters." Xiao Lu: "In the past two days, several style-based monsters have been attracted here."
This is also the reason why style magicians rent a house here even if they spend huge sums of money.
As soon as Xiao Lu finished speaking, Angel automatically translated the text in his mind: This is most likely a "daily task distribution point", but it is limited to the department, and it is the "style department" daily task distribution point.
record it.
Angel had heard from Laplace before that in order to clear the Wonderland dungeon, many ethnic groups seemed to be planning to establish a Wonderland strategy group. After the strategy groups of each ethnic group started running and the "Modern City" was discovered, these different daily tasks would
The distribution points are all exchangeable senior strategies!
When Angel was stunned, Xiaolu looked over with a smile:
"I wonder if sir are satisfied with my guide now?"
Angel nodded.
Seeing this, Xiaolu's smile became even brighter: "Sir, are you willing to spend a small amount of Modern Coins to let me travel with you for a while?"
"Only one hundred modern coins~"
"It's all right." Angel took out one hundred modern coins and handed it to Xiaolu.
One hundred modern coins have pretty good purchasing power in the modern city, but for fashion magicians, this amount is really negligible.
However, Xiaolu didn't care at all.
Her role as a guide here is not just for the meager tip. What she seeks is more connections and favors.
She was able to thrive in the deep black market by constantly expanding her network of contacts. There were both customers and local shops. She relied on her skillful skills to earn much more than tips.
To her, tipping is just a tip, or in other words, a small transaction that reassures her customers.
After Xiaolu collected the money, his smile became even wider and his tone seemed sweeter: "Mr. Zuniga is new to the Shendi Black Market. Do you need me to take him around first? Or does he want to satisfy his own needs first?"
"
Angel: "You know I have my own needs?"
Xiaolu pointed to her eyes: "As a guide, I still have this vision."
Angel smiled and didn't say anything, but said bluntly: "If it were the past, it would be okay for me to go shopping. But today I have something urgent, so..."
Angel made his intention to sell the pages of the book known.
Xiao Lu raised her eyebrows: "It is indeed a book page transaction."
"Have you guessed it?" Angel looked at Xiao Lu suspiciously.
Xiao Lu: "Magicians are basically good at one system, so when they get pages from other systems, they are naturally inclined to trade. This is also the most common transaction in the deep black market."
"Eight out of ten people who come to the deep black market are either selling book pages or buying book pages."
Xiaolu's words also made Angel feel a little relieved. Since the trading volume of book pages is so large, it means that the buyer's and seller's markets here are very mature.
If you want to sell it, there should be no problem.
"Sir, you are here to sell book pages, so I can give you some suggestions." Xiao Lu: "Sir, if you want to sell it at a higher price, you can rent a temporary stall in the book page market and sell it yourself. This kind of
This method is suitable for those who have a lot of books and those who want to face the buyer directly.”
This method can indeed sell at the highest price because there is no third party to make the difference. But the premise is that it takes some time to set up the stall.
Moreover, the temporary stall fees at the book page market here are not cheap.
Angel personally is not inclined to this method, as it is too time-consuming.
Seeing Angel's brows frowning, Xiao Lu already understood what he was thinking. She said in a different tone: "If you want to sell the pages of the book as soon as possible, sir, then you should become a page dealer."
"In the deep black market, there are many book page shops. There are at least hundreds of them open every day."
"Their business models generally have three types. The first is consignment, where the pages are entrusted to book page merchants and let them help sell them. This method can save the time of setting up a stall and can also sell for a good high price, but it requires payment
Give the book publisher a portion of the agency fee."
"The second type is to sell directly to book page dealers, but their purchase price is not too high, usually the market's median price. But the advantage is that you can get the money quickly."
Angel actually feels that both of these are not ideal.
If you sell on consignment, it will take a long time if you can't find a buyer.
Sold directly to book page dealers, although it can be realized quickly, the price is likely to be cut in half.
Angel looked at Xiaolu: "Then what is the third one?"
Xiaolu smiled: "Since the seller can sell it on consignment, the buyer can actually put forward his own request and then offer a reward for the corresponding book page."
"Each book page shop has a corresponding reward list, which is the book page that the buyer offers a reward for. If the gentleman happens to own the book page on the reward list, he can directly contact the buyer to make a transaction. Of course, the book page dealer will also accept some agents.
The fee is much lower than the agency fee for consignment, because the buyer will also bear part of the agency fee.”
After Xiaolu finished speaking, he noticed that Angel's eyes lit up and a smile appeared on his lips: "Sir, do you want to try the reward list?"
Angel did not deny it and nodded: "I have the intention."
"Since you are curious about the bounty list, I can give you a little suggestion."
"What advice?"
"There are many book page shops in the deep black market, and many shops open on different days. If you want to check the bounty list one by one, it will take a lot of time. But..." Xiaolu changed the subject,
Pointing at himself: "If sir, you don't mind spending a little money, you can get information about the reward list from me."
"Our team of guides has recorded the bounty lists of each shop and will update them in real time twice a day."
"Mr. doesn't have to waste time and energy traveling from house to house. He can make inquiries directly with us. Even if he is willing to register with us, we can help him make inquiries for free."
At the end of Xiao Lu's words, her tone was lowered, and her expression was mysterious.
Angel: "Register? Register for what?"
Xiaolu: "I'll keep this secret for now. If you are willing to check with us, I will tell you later."
Faced with Xiaolu's suggestion, Angel thought about it and did not refuse.
Although Angel can view the reward list of each book page shop from a God's perspective, this is actually time-consuming and labor-intensive. It is obviously more convenient to directly leave the problem to the guide to solve it.
Moreover, since Angel has appeared, he must solve the problem by showing up.
Seeing Angel's promise, Xiaolu became even more happy: "Sir, please come with me. All information is recorded at our headquarters."
Headquarters? Sounds pretty formal?
Angel followed Xiao Lu and climbed the tower of the house, but he only reached the second floor. Xiao Lu walked towards the suspension bridge on the side.
The suspension bridge is very long, and the place it leads to is far away from the house towers, and seems to be in another area of the deep black market. The shape of this area is more like a tall and short slum.
After walking a few dozen meters in the slum, Xiaolu led Angel to the entrance of an alley.
"Sir, please wait a moment. I need to go in and contact the branch manager."
Branch manager?
Angel murmured something in his heart, said nothing, just nodded, and let Xiao Lu walk into the alley and disappear.
Although Angel did not follow him inside, he saw the situation inside from God's perspective.
I saw Xiaolu walking forward for a short distance, then knocked on a certain window, and whispered: "The guests are here, hurry up and clean up. Remember to wake up the little witch. That guy is angry, so you have to
Cover her mouth tightly to avoid scaring away the guests."
"Also, replace the 'Headquarters' sign at the door with 'Branch'. We can't let the guests look down on our Hermitage."
After Xiao Lu finished speaking, there was a crackling sound inside, and then a weak voice came out: "Why can't we open and do business normally, and must we build such a fake and empty structure?"
Little Green snorted in his nose: "You know nothing, this is called a marketing strategy. If we directly tell others that we are a new hermit society, those people will not believe us."
"We must show our professionalism, not only in dialogue and service, but also in our 'branch', which must also be full of mystery, so that they can fully understand, so that we can have more customers!"
Faint sounds continued to come from the window: "But if the guests are all human beings, then they should be able to tell that we are strong on the outside but strong on the inside..."
Xiaolu snorted coldly: "That only shows that you are strong on the outside but weak on the inside, not me. I am a professional... I won't talk nonsense. When I give you two minutes, pack up quickly. I will bring people in right away."
"Remember, none of you should show up to me. If you really want to show up, ask Kalyan to come over in a suit, otherwise he will find out the clues... In short, just leave it to me to receive you, and you can take care of the logistics.
"
After finishing speaking, Xiaolu listened to the commotion inside, calmed down a little, and then walked out calmly while maintaining an elegant image.
Angel looked at Xiao Lu's calm appearance, but felt silent in his heart.
When Xiaolu came here before, Angel felt that she was in a strange mood. He followed her from a God's perspective and realized...it turned out that they were doing a face-saving project.
The so-called headquarters and branches are all the same place.
The people inside are also the newly created Caotai team.
Angel took a general glance and found that this group of "grassroots" was really "grassroots", and almost most of them had clear and stupid eyes.
No wonder, Xiao Lu told them not to come out, just let her receive the guests...
Although Angel felt that this "hermit society" was a little strange, he had no intention of turning around and leaving. The Caotai team will be the Caotai team.
Just like Xiaolu said, as long as they handle it professionally, they will naturally gain the trust of customers.
Once they have more customers and they can maintain face and dignity, they can directly transform from a grass-roots team into a secret society.
This is much faster than those social organizations that climb up step by step.
Angel doesn't value their backgrounds either. As long as their abilities are up to par, he won't bother to expose them even if they know they are superficial.