"… Director Fan in Fuhai City had been meticulous all his life. When he rejected the engagement with Zhang Tie in the daytime and thought that he had escaped from a big trouble, he had not imagined that Director Fan was deceived by his cleverness. As a result, a catastrophe fell on his home in the blink of an eye. In the evening when Zhang Tie left Fuhai City, a weird shadow arrived at Fuhai City like a wisp of cyan smoke. In the blink of an eye, it had avoided batches of patrollers and came to the outside of the courtyard wall of Director Fan's home. In front of the weird shadow, the 6 m high courtyard wall was like a 7-m tough man striding over the threshold of this boite. With a 'swoosh', the shadow had disappeared outside the wall and appeared in the courtyard of Director Fan's home …"
The boite was in silence. All the guests at the table were gazing at a storyteller in front of the 8-m screen in the middle of the lobby on the first floor. They were all pricking up their ears and listening to the brilliant plot of the "Legend of Black Iron Hero" vividly.
For those who liked to listen to stories, many of them had heard the latter part of the story more than once. However, this was the interesting part of storytelling. Even if it was the same plot, it could be interpreted differently by different storytellers. Therefore, everyone still listened with great interest. Many people held their breath and listened attentively.
On the second floor of this restaurant, a young man in his twenties with thick eyebrows and big eyes, dressed in embroidered clothes, was also in a private room on the second floor. He was drinking tea while listening to the storyteller's performance downstairs with great interest.
Two strong bodyguards were standing behind the young childe like two iron towers with crossed arms at the door.
When the storyteller told the story of Director Fan's home guards being beheaded and covered with blood, the door of the private room behind the young childe was forcefully pushed open, causing a sound of "bang". The young childe who was immersed in the scene of the "Legend of Black Iron Hero" was so scared that he quivered all over as he spilled half of the tea in his teacup onto his hand. Closely after that, he drew in a cold breath.
The young childe was driven mad. The moment he turned around and wanted to scold the young childe, he was stunned by the words of the manservant in cyan clothes who rushed into the private room with sweat all over his forehead, "Childe, that grocery has just opened …"
"What? You mean that grocery has just opened?" The young childe instantly forgot about the tea in his hand as he grabbed the manservant, asking, "Are you sure?"
"Yes, of course, I'm sure!" The manservant nodded as he wiped the sweat off his forehead. He then said breathlessly, "I've been there for half a month. I'm sure. Just now, I saw that grocery was opened. Therefore, I hurriedly came here to tell you, childe!"
"Let's go!" After hearing that the grocery store was opened, the young childe became delighted at once. He even dropped a gold coin on the table. After that, he turned around and rushed out of the boite along with the young manservant in cyan clothes and his two bodyguards. Closely after that, they came to the street outside.
The young childe came to Blackhot City for that grocery. However, as the grocery was always closed, it was only open for a few days a month. The boss was always absent. Therefore, the young childe waited in Blackhot City for over half a month.
The avenues were crowded with people, making it pretty boisterous. Among every 10 people, there were only 3-4 Hua people; however, there were 6-7 foreigners from the Western Continent or other continents in different skin colors and costumes. Even barbarians, ascetics, pioneers and jungle female warriors from subcontinents could be seen.
The stores on both sides of the avenues were covered with various slogans. Besides Hua characters, there were also Hebrew characters, Slavonic characters and some rarer characters on the Western Continent. The items and commodities in the stores were even more bizarre. You could almost buy everything that you could imagine.
People of different races gathered here. Different products and different cultures converged here. The noisy streets were filled with all sorts of strange accents.
Across Taixia Country, there were foreign people besides Hua people. Take Guizhou Province, Taixia Country as an instance, there were many foreign people. However, there was only one place where so many foreign people could gather in a common street in a city — — Blackhot City in Youzhou Province.
This was Blackhot City in Youzhou Province, a new city based on the same name in Waii Subcontinent which was full of western architectural colors. Besides the same name, many buildings and streets in the two cities were very similar. This city was also the most charming and legendary city in the eyes of all the "foreigners" in Taixia Country. The castellan of this city was called Barley, a fatty who was loved and hated by people. Barley and his famous brothers ruled this city.
However, it was the main character in the Legend of Black Iron Hero that made this city famous among humans. Almost anyone who heard that name would come to Blackhot City to have a look.
On the 928th year of Black Iron Calendar, almost all the demons on the earth's surface had been driven back to the underground space. It was said that human knights and powerhouses were still fighting demons in the Earth-elements Realm and clamoring that the holy war had not come to an end yet. However, in many people's eyes, this holy war would almost come to an end when demons were driven back to the underground space.
It was April 5th, the 945th year of Black Iron Calendar. Youzhou Province was in the transition between spring and summer, when everything was vigorous.
The young childe finally arrived at a neither boisterous nor remote alley near the railway station of Blackhot City in half an hour with a manservant and two bodyguards of his mansion.
Not far from this alley was a spontaneous flea market in Blackhot City, which was bustling. The avenue outside the alley was crowded with a large number of people coming off the railway station. At the corner of this alley, the grocery which the young childe had been waiting for for half a month finally opened its door.
At the sight of the grocery, the young childe let out a deep sigh as he slowed down his pace on purpose. After that, he leisurely walked towards the grocery with his bodyguards.
There was a rocking recliner in front of the grocery store. A middle-aged man who looked extremely rough was lying on the recliner with his clothes half open and slippers. He was basking in the warm sun while rocking the recliner leisurely.
Undoubtedly, this coarse middle-aged tough man was the owner of this grocery.
"All the goods are sold according to the marked price. We don't accept credit..." the tough man said while lying on the recliner with his eyes closed. Facing the young childe and his bodyguards, he just slightly opened his eyes. After throwing a glance at them, he closed his eyes once again. He didn't get up from the recliner at all.
The young childe didn't say anything. He just entered the store and started to browse casually.
The grocery was not large, only covering 70-80 square meters. It contained various items, crystals, common low-level medicaments, some exploration equipment and maps, etc.
The young childe pretended to browse through the sundries in the store and took three crystals which were worth 15-16 gold coins. After that, he walked to a corner and started to glance at the items there stealthily.
In that corner, there was a huge coarse iron cabinet which was higher than 1 m. There were some rust stains on the iron cabinet. Right above the huge iron cabinet, there was a plate, on which was written — — Anyone who bought goods worth more than 10 gold coins would be gifted a lucky gold ore in the iron cabinet by the boss.
In the eyes of those who knew a bit about the industry, the so-called lucky gold ore was simply a gimmick for coaxing fools. Although the goods in the iron cabinet looked shiny, they were just some extremely cheap pyrites. If it was a promotional method of the grocery, it would be extremely clumsy.
Spending a huge sum of 10 gold coins in the shop only to get a piece of pyrite that could be bought for a dozen copper coins as a free gift, unless one had a cramp in the head and was ignorant, he would never fall for such a trick.
Perhaps this was the reason why the grocery store's business was so poor.
However, the young childe's eyes shone when he saw those cheap pyrites. Last year, an honest cousin of his bought something in this grocery and gained a pyrites as a gift. However, it was out of his cousin's imagination that the pyrites which were used as a paperweight in the study were broken by an accident a few months ago. As a result, a nanobead rolled out of the pyrites.
It was a nanobead, a space-teleportation equipment among silver secret items. Facing such a big pie, his cousin was scared out of his wits.
This matter was originally a secret. After obtaining the Nanobead, his cousin had kept it a secret and kept everyone in the dark. It was only a few days ago when he and his cousin got drunk that his cousin couldn't help but tell him about it secretly.
After hearing this news, the young childe kept it a secret for his cousin; at the same time, he admired his cousin very much. Therefore, he couldn't wait to take a look at this grocery in Blackhot City.
This grocery store was ordinary. The prices of some goods were a bit overpriced. The boss was a rough uncle. There was nothing special about him. It seemed that the boss didn't know that there were treasures in those pyrites. If he knew, he wouldn't have put those pyrites there as gifts.
"Boss, our young master wants these 3 crystals. Here's 15 gold coins …" the young master threw a glance at his manservant. Closely after that, he walked to the front of the boss of the grocery store as he fished out 15 gold coins and gave them to the boss.
Only when he was doing business did the boss become a bit spirited. He climbed up from the lounge chair and put the 15 gold coins into his bosom like a miser. After that, he pointed at the big iron cabinet at the corner, saying, "Your childe can choose one piece of lucky gold over there. Haha, it's okay if he doesn't want it …"
"I think these pyrites are pretty good. I wonder if you're willing to sell them. I would like to take them back to teach the juniors of my clan how to differentiate between gold and pyrites, so that they won't be cheated in the future!" the young childe said calmly as he waved his fan.
"Haha, if young master wants them, of course, I will sell them!"
"How about the price?"
The boss glanced at the young childe for a short while before revealing a cunning smile, "If young master wants them, you could buy them with gold coins of the same weight!"
"What?" Before the young childe spoke, his two bodyguards had been furious, "They're just pyrites. How could they be sold at the price of gold? Why don't you rob them?"
At first glance, the pyrites in the big iron cabinet weighed 700-800 kg. If he really wanted to exchange them with gold, he would lose a lot of gold coins. Even though the young childe came from a major clan, he could never spend gold coins in this way.
"How could robbing be so safe and fast?" The boss rolled his eyes as he said confidently, "No matter what, this is my price. It's up to you whether you want to buy them or not!" After saying that, the boss yawned as he lay back on the lounge chair, rocking leisurely while basking in the sunshine.
The young childe kept staring at the vulgar and cunning boss of the grocery store. After thinking for a long time, he still couldn't figure out how he had given himself away. 'Could it be that there's something wrong with the excuse that I made just now? Therefore, the boss of the grocery store noticed something wrong and demanded an exorbitant price. Yes, it must be so. These small figures in the marketplace might have no other abilities, but they are good at observing people's words and hoarding. Given my identity, I have already given myself away the moment I said that I wanted to buy these pyrites.'
Finally, after thinking for a while, the young childe gritted his teeth as he took out some gold notes and spent as much as 16000 gold coins to buy all the pyrites in the big iron cabinet. After that, he had his two bodyguards pack all the pyrites and take them away.
Of course, nobody knew whether they could find anything in the pyrites or not. No matter what, that young childe didn't come to this grocery anymore. After that, soon after the young childe left with his bodyguards, a large pile of pyrites had appeared in the big iron cabinet of the grocery.
The boss was still lying at the door of the grocery as he basked in the sunshine with his eyes closed. At the same time, he couldn't help revealing a faint smile...
When the sun was about to set and the last ray of sunlight left the boss's body, the boss who had been lying on the lounge chair stretched himself and stood up, preparing to close the door.
A common black car parked at the door of the grocery. After the door was opened, a fat man got off the car. After looking around, he smirked and rubbed his hands as he helped the boss close the door.
After a short while, another car parked at the door of the grocery. A tall black tough man and 4 middle-aged men got off the car respectively and entered the grocery.
After they entered the grocery, a black-clothed man walked out from the other side of the lane and drove the car away rapidly.
After a short while, the grocery had been filled with the cheerful voices of those old men when they were drinking. It seemed that they were arguing about who was the most handsome one in a photo...
"Bagdad, you're just showing off your pectoral muscles. I admit that you're the most muscular one; however, you're still not as handsome as me..."
"Leit, you look like a pimp in a brothel with your hair..."
"That's enough, Sharwin. You always have that childish smile on your face. Don't participate in this kind of adult discussion …"
"As for the two guys, they don't need to express their opinions at this moment due to the obvious reason..."
"And the one who made the scissor hand gesture, do you know that I felt ashamed of you when I saw your scissor hand gesture? I even wanted to ask the photo studio to process your scissor hand gesture. The moment you made the scissor hand gesture, our Hit-Plane Brotherhood immediately became inferior. Have you ever seen any big shot making the scissor hand gesture?"
"And that brat with black hair, I remember that he was not circumcised at that time..."
It was an old photo in a frame. After a group of old men drank too much, it was taken down from the wall above the grocery store and placed on the table full of food and drinks. It was then passed around by the group of people so that they could comment on it while drinking.
The photo had already turned yellow. In it, the seven young horny men were standing in a row. Bagdad, who was standing on the leftmost side, was crossing his arms and sticking out his well-developed pectoral muscles. Leit had combed his hair with water, making him look a bit mature. Sharwin was smiling shyly. Doug was grinning and hugging fatty Barley with one arm. Barley looked a bit sad, but he still forced a smile. Hista was stupidly making the scissor hand gesture. Zhang Tie, who was standing on the rightmost side, looked a bit depressed and stiff.
Behind them was the gate of the Seventh National Middle School of Blackhot City and a line of words — Welcome to the Age of Black Iron!
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