Chapter 227: The Black Market(1/2)
Although I had to rest well and recover my strength, the atmosphere would be too awkward if the three of them were in the hot spring without saying a word.
So, soon Ronin broke the silence, looked at Serena who was inexplicably nervous, and asked, "How is it going on in Atlanta?"
Serena was soaking in the hot spring, curling her body slightly, relying on the warmth and protection of the spring water to dispel the tension in her heart, and it certainly relieved a lot.
After gradually adapting, Serena also returned to her former state and appearance. When facing Ronin's question, she replied directly: "The situation has basically been controlled, but there are still some remaining forces from the vampire kingdom and the Satanic church that need to be cleaned up."
“The Church of Satan…”
Luo Ning murmured, then asked, "Are there any big moves in the Holy Temple?"
Serena shook her head and said, "I don't know this, but you can call Frank, who is still in Atlanta, and you should know more about the situation there."
There was a little depression and a little confusion in Serena's words.
Is she a vampire or the adopted daughter of Vampire's Great Lord Vadoc? She joined a federal agency like BPRD, and was also due to the needs of the vampire clan. They wanted to infiltrate the federal agency, master stronger power, and gain more voice.
Although the Federation is well aware of this, due to various reasons and its own needs, the Federation has not given up its cooperation with the vampire clan, acquiesced or even allowed them to infiltrate various organs of operation.
Because of this reason, Serena joined the BPRD and served as the leader of the special operation team, leading a team of vampires to serve the federal agencies.
It’s just that the acquiescence is acquiescence, and the Federation is still prepared for the vampire clan.
It seems Serena, the leader of this special action team, sounds nice, but it just sounds nice.
She doesn't have much power and cannot get in touch with the core of BPRD, even the core of the branch.
This time, the operation against the vampire kingdom directly excluded her and her vampire team. Obviously, she did not believe her at all, or the vampire clan behind her.
Serena did not have any resentment in this regard. If the federal authorities want to attack the vampire kingdom, they naturally have to guard against the sequel counterattacks of other vampire forces. As a vampire, it is reasonable to not gain trust.
Serena was not angry because of this, but just felt a little confused, especially after her physical transformation and no longer feared the sunshine, she never knew which camp she should belong to.
Human or vampire?
...
Looking at Serena who was silent, Ronin shook his head and stopped continuing the topic. Instead, he asked: "Have BPRD received any special cases during this period?"
“Special case?”
Serena frowned, then she understood what Ronin meant, shook her head, and said, "That curse is the most special case. Several elite teams in the branch were lost there. In the next period of time, BPRD may not be able to control the situation in this city."
"So I'll have a business soon?"
Luo Ning smiled and said, "Go back and tell Frank that if you have any needs, you can come to the office to find me at any time. It seems that for the sake of an acquaintance, I can give him a 10% discount!"
Serena: “…”
Christine: “…”
"Why are you watching me like this?"
Facing the speechless eyes of the two, Luo Ning looked calm and said righteously: "The hunter also wants to eat. How can he live without business?"
"BPRD won't come to you casually. After all, you are a high-level extraordinary person now, and the price is not cheap, and..."
Serena looked at him, then withdrew her gaze, stroked the milk-like spring water and said, "The dragon-blood hunter team of the Hunter Guild has been evacuated from Atlanta and is now stationed in this city."
"Dragon Blood Hunter!"
Luo Ning frowned and asked, "Is it from the Dragon Blood Family?"
"It's not the Dragon Blood Family, how can you call it the Dragon Blood Hunter?"
Serena looked at Ronning in confusion and asked, "Have you seen them in Atlanta last time?"
Luo Ning shook her head and said, "They won't arrange for me to meet with the people from the Dragon Blood Family."
"Um?"
Serena frowned and asked, "Do you have any conflicts with the Dragon Blood Family?"
A little helplessness flashed in Luo Ning's eyes and said, "I don't know much about the grudges of my father."
Serena: “…”
Seeing Serena stop talking and unable to get in, Christine took the conversation and asked, "What is the Dragon Blood Family?"
Luo Ning looked at her and asked in surprise: "Have I not told you?"
"What do you think?"
Christine replied with some resentment and said, "In the past month, in addition to training, there is no such thing as the Dragon Blood Family."
"Sorry, I forgot."
Luo Ning shook his head and smiled and said, "The Dragon Blood Family is an internal force of the Hunter Guild. The Hunter Guild is controlled by the four major blood families, namely Dragon Blood, Storm, Poisonous and Thunder."
"Dragon Blood, Storm, Poisonous, Thunder?"
Christine looked at Ronning in confusion and asked, "Why do these names feel so strange?"
Luo Ning smiled and said, "Of course it's strange, because they are named after the bloodline of monsters. Dragon blood is a dragon, Storm is a tiger, poison is a snake, and Thunder is a bear."
Kristen was confused and asked, "Why do you want to name this?"
"Because the root of these bloodline families is the bloodline power of the monsters."
Serena took the speech and explained to Christine: "These bloodline families have a special secret technique that can extract the bloodline of monsters, integrate them into their own bloodlines, gain extremely powerful power, and pass on the bloodlines."
After hearing this, Christine understood and said, "That's why they named the family after the name of the monster?"
Luo Ning nodded: "That's right."
Serena looked at Ronning and asked, "Why do you seem to be full of enemies?"
"This is not my problem."
Luo Ning shook her head, stood up and said, "I'll go and sort out the things. Don't spend too long, the black market trading conference is about to begin."
After saying that, he left the hot spring.
“…”
Serena watched Ronin leave, then turned to Christine and said, "He has always been like this...why are you doing?"
"Soak the hot spring!"
Christine put the untied swimsuit aside and soaked comfortably into the hot spring, then answered Serena's question: "Don't you think it's a very strange thing to take a hot spring in a swimsuit?"
Serena: “…”
...
Luo Ning naturally didn't know what kind of spring light appeared after he left.
After changing into clothes, putting on equipment, washing and stewing his coat with holy water, and doing all this, Luo Ning came to his weapons workshop and began to sort out the results of this month's work.
There are a total of 100 grenade arrows of dark blue quality and various effects. Because of the low success rate of just getting started, a lot of materials was wasted, and the cost was nearly two million US dollars.
The quality of dark blue and various effects of bullets, a total of 500 rounds, wasted a lot of materials due to the low success rate of just now, and the cost was nearly 5 million US dollars.
There is no way, compared to grenade arrows, it is more difficult to make bullets, especially this kind of extraordinary bullet that requires hand-made production and gives them extraordinary power.
Five million US dollars and five hundred bullets, this is definitely a loss to my grandma's house, but this is how it is made for extraordinary items. You must have early investment in exchange for later efforts.
Over the past month, Luo Ning has invested a lot of resources at all costs and finally improved his gun manufacturing skills from LV5 to LV15.
Skill improvement has been improved in all aspects and has also obtained two important characteristics.
"Gunsmith: You are an excellent gun craftsman, and your delicate hands can make extremely excellent guns and ammunition (the quality of the firearms and ammunition is increased by 20%)"
"Stable: Your spirit and body are as tough as steel and as calm as mountains. Therefore, when making extraordinary items, you have extremely high efficiency and success rate (the efficiency of manufacturing extraordinary items is increased by 20%, and the success rate is increased by 20%)
The LV15's gun manufacturing skills also have two characteristics that improve quality, efficiency and success rate. Now Luo Ning has made dark blue quality grenade arrows and bullets, which can at least compress the cost to one-quarter of the original.
In other words, a dark blue-quality grenade arrow costs 5,000 US dollars, and a dark blue-quality bullet costs 2,500 US dollars.
The quality of the dark blue corresponds to the first-level extraordinary, but the damage as a weapon is partially overflowed, so these dark blue-quality grenade arrows and bullets can already severely damage or even kill second-level extraordinary people or extraordinary creatures, plus their various effects...
This is definitely a best-selling product in the black market!
That's right, Luo Ning wants to sell a batch of grenade arrows and bullets in exchange for money.
Although Luo Ning still has tens of millions of dollars on him now, this amount of money will definitely not be able to buy what he wants tonight, because tonight is a black market trading conference and a yearly trading conference.
Things like black markets are absolutely not visible. Major forces led by federal agencies do not allow such chaotic, complex, and difficult to control illegal trading markets.
But the major forces are not gods, and the world cannot be full of light and cannot tolerate any darkness, so the black market will definitely appear. The major forces have slaughtered once, and there will be a second time.
The power of the group is terrifying, let alone a group like the extraordinary. Under the anger of the public, major forces can only make certain concessions, acquiesce to the existence of the black market and secretly control it.
Finally, this black market, which was apparently illegal and severely cracked down, was formed with the acquiescence of all parties, and developed very rapidly and vigorously.
In this black market, as long as you have enough money, you can buy almost everything you want, even this high-sequence holy water, which is explicitly prohibited and some destructive technological weapons.
Of course, after you buy these things, don’t do anything bad in the end, because the behind-the-scenes controller of the black market is a big force like the federal government, the Holy Church, and the so-called banned goods can only be circulated with their acquiescence.
If someone wants to engage in any terrorist attack or robbery, then there is no difference between going to the black market to buy weapons and throwing into the trap, because this thing is the bait released by major forces to attract people to take the bait.
In addition to daily trading, the black market also holds a trading conference every year. The organizers of the black market will send invitations to various forces and famous high-ranking extraordinary people and invite them to participate.
With major forces and high-level extraordinary people taking the lead, the security of the black market will be relatively guaranteed. Therefore, low-level extraordinary people and wealthy and powerful people who are eager to enter the extraordinary world will also actively participate.
To be continued...