"Can't I buy them separately? That's a bit difficult."
Kaede Sato heard the stall owner's words, his face under the mask suddenly frowned as he thought reluctantly.
Now, he only lacked 25 grams of Toxic Essence. The Toxic Essence in front of him was very large, at least 50 grams.
However, the price of Toxic Essence was too high. 1 gram would cost millions of Alliance Coins, and that was the normal market price. If it was in a place like the black market, the price would be at least several times higher.
Therefore, Kaede Sato estimated that he would have to spend at least 100 million Alliance Coins to obtain this Toxic Essence.
"You must be joking. How can a person like me, who is cash-strapped, swallow such a precious item? I don't want much, just 25 grams is enough."
Although Kaede Sato knew that he might expose the amount of Toxic Essence he had, he still told the stall owner the amount he wanted since there was no possibility of forcing him to buy it.
"That won't do. My rule is to sell them as a whole. Customer, you have your difficulties, but I also have my difficulties. I don't need to say more about the effects of the Toxic Essence. This kind of thing is naturally easier to sell, and the price will also be higher. If I sell them separately, my losses won't be small."
The stall owner heard Kaede Sato's words and his face suddenly showed some displeasure. He then stared at Kaede Sato as if he had lost tens of millions of Alliance Coins.
"Sigh … That's a pity. I might be able to afford half a piece, but if it's a whole piece, there's really nothing I can do."
Kaede Sato awkwardly avoided the stall owner's dissatisfied eyes, then sighed and thought regretfully.
As soon as he finished speaking, he began to turn around and leave.
At this time, Kaede Sato was prepared to take a step back and force the stall owner to comply. After all, even if he only sold half of it, the stall owner could still get tens of millions of Alliance Coins. This was a big deal, and it would be a pity to miss it.
Unfortunately, Kaede Sato's strategy of retreating for the sake of advancing did not cause the stall owner to waver. Even when Kaede Sato was about to leave his sight, he still did not compromise.
"Seems like it's a fishing fella. The Toxic Essence is indeed a good thing. So many people are coveting it."
Kaede Sato thought self-deprecatingly as he observed the stall owner's every move with his Spirit Power. He realized that the stall owner had no intention of keeping him.
What he hated the most in the black market were people who didn't lack money but took out treasures to sell.
Obviously, the person just now didn't really intend to sell this piece of Toxic Essence. Even if he really took out enough money to buy it, the other party would definitely continue to raise the price with the reason that it was a rare commodity.
If Kaede Sato's guess was correct, the other party's real goal was the same as his, to find enough Poison Essence.
Now, the Toxic Essence in the stall was a piece of bait, specifically to lure people like Kaede Sato who had the Toxic Essence in their hands.
As a matter of fact, Kaede Sato, the fish who couldn't resist the temptation, had taken the bait himself.
Sure enough, as soon as Kaede Sato left the stall owner's line of sight, he found that there were several small tails around him.
Double-crossing was a common occurrence in the black market where there were no rules or regulations. Kaede Sato didn't mind it at all. Instead, he was a little happy about it.
If he couldn't get something the normal way, then he would just change the method. Kaede Sato didn't want to cause trouble. After all, he was still a very orderly person.
But if someone came looking for trouble with him, then he didn't have to hesitate. As soon as the other party stretched out their claws, he would chop off the person along with the hand.
Soon, he pretended not to know anything and walked out of the black market. He even deliberately walked toward a quiet place in the middle of the night.
However, to Kaede Sato's surprise, the few people who had been following him turned around and ran away when he was about to turn the tables.
"That's strange, these guys actually ran away."
Kaede Sato saw this situation and his mood didn't improve. Instead, he felt a little depressed, as if he punched the air.
"Big brother, why did they leave so easily? That guy has something the employer asked us to give him."
At the same time, a few hundred meters away from Kaede Sato, a big man with a fierce face said with some dissatisfaction to a sickly man who was as thin as a bamboo pole in front of him.
"Yeah, big brother, we've already been paid. If we break our promise, we can't continue doing business."
The other thugs with the same fierce face heard this and also asked the sickly man in the middle of the crowd. Their eyes showed a trace of malice.
"A bunch of idiots, what do you know? Didn't you see that my baby was scared to death just now? That guy is definitely not someone we can afford to offend. Is money more important or your life more important? "
The sickly man also sensed the dissatisfaction and malice of his subordinates, but he did not care at all. He directly slapped the face of the thug in front of him who was baring his teeth at him, and said with a vicious expression.
The baby that the sickly man was talking about was actually a loach that was born on his arm. Just as Kaede Sato was about to attack the sickly man and his men, he began to tremble all over and bit the sickly man fiercely.
The sickly man had done some research on how to cultivate mudskippers. He was lucky enough to read from a book that mudskippers had the ability to avoid harm. His mudskipper had this magical ability.
It was precisely because of this mudfish that he had managed to avoid several major disasters, and then step by step, he had formed a rather famous small team in the black market.
The loach's frightened behavior just now really scared him. He knew that the loach was warning him that he had encountered an enemy that he couldn't defeat. Therefore, he ignored the objections of his men and fled.
It was obvious that the small team that the sickly man had formed had a lot of internal conflicts. With his frail body, he was unable to control his group of strong and strong subordinates. As soon as he made his move, the remaining subordinates immediately showed their ferocious side and prepared to attack the sickly man.
"So that's how it is. No wonder big brother told us to leave. Ah'Bao is scared. It seems that person just now is really troublesome."
However, Fierce Face calmed down at this time. He nodded at the sickly man and then stood beside him.
Fierce Face was one of the thugs that had been with the sickly man for the longest time. He had a certain understanding of the loach that the sickly man treated as his lifeblood. He knew that the man wouldn't choose to leave for no reason.
When the others saw that Fierce Face, who was the strongest among them, was supporting the sickly man, they looked at each other and could only give up on the idea of pulling the sickly man off his horse. Then, they all retreated.
"Big brother, why is your loach shivering again?"
Just as the sickly man was thinking of an excuse to explain himself, the Fierce Face man suddenly said.
When the sickly man and the others heard this, they immediately turned their gazes to a basin filled with water nearby.
The loach couldn't stay away from water for too long. It had secreted a large amount of mucus due to its fear and was in a slightly dehydrated state.
In order to be able to see the loach's condition immediately, the sickly man didn't put it into a pokeball. Instead, he put it into the basin to rest.
Now, the loach that had recovered was shivering at the bottom of the basin. Large amounts of water rippled on the surface of the water.
When the sickly man saw this, his expression changed. How could he not know that he was in danger again? He looked in the direction that the loach was looking at with a face full of fear.
"This is bad. Everyone, run!"
In the next second, he immediately grabbed the loach in the basin and turned to run. After running for some distance, he shouted.
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