Chapter 171 – 171. Black Market Full Course (2)

After leaving the food alley, they soon arrived at the poacher’s hut.

Han Ah-ram was dizzy at the scene inside the crazy store. Countless various items were packed tightly into the display case, and all kinds of objects and iron bars were hung on the floor, walls, and ceiling, so there was no space to step on.

“Come on. Huh? You’re a person I’ve never seen before.”

Han Ah-ram, who had been following Jo Jun with ignorance like a baby duck following a mother bird, was startled by the sudden voice and looked ahead.

There, a black being with only an abnormally large mouth and white mouth was sitting at the counter. He was washing the mosaic monster’s head.

‘That’s… What the hell…’

Han Ah-ram looked at the poacher and bowed his head. He could understand the words of the poacher, probably because he was classified as a merchant NPC.

“Is that woman… Your cultist?”

“Yes. I have some work this time, so I brought it.”

Jo Joon didn’t even mention that he was going to get Cheshire out of the black market. It’s probably more accurate that he couldn’t bear to say it.

Jo Joon knew that the poacher was very fond of Cheshire and wanted to make him his successor. Jo Joon couldn’t even imagine what would happen if he told him that he was going to take Cheshire.

“Right. Be careful. Ordinary people are easy targets.”

The poacher stopped his hand from wiping his hair and looked directly at Han Ah-ram, warning him. At the chilling warning from the poacher, Han Ah-ram instantly felt a chill in his spine, and his body trembled. Then Cheshire shouted at the poacher.

“Mister! No problem! Drink nonsense! And stop staring at other people’s women!”

“Joy. Even if you warn me…”

Han Ah-ram calmed down a bit as Jo Joon squeezed his hand. Poachers are opponents who are slightly afraid of even Aim Joon. It was the poacher who made Jang Jo-joon of the world tremble just by living, so Han Ah-ram was directly exposed to his gaze and had no ability to endure.

“Haha… Cheshire. You too, stop chasing after the kids and continue the store now. It will help you much more in the future.”

“Ah, thinking about it. And it’s not my future, it’s just that you want to rest. Is not it?”

“Keuheum.. What did you say so… Phew, that’s it. Everyone follow me It is the recommended menu of the day.”

After having a fruitless conversation with Cheshire, when it seemed that he was about to be pushed back, the poacher quickly opened the sliding door and invited his party inside.

In the room were placed an iron bar, two flower pots, and a leather bag soaked in blood.

“Now, take what you want. I wish I could have taken them all.”

“Oh..”

Joon began to examine things carefully. Han Ah-ram, who was following him, also followed the items Jo Joon was looking at and observed them.

She first looked at the beast in the cage on the far left.

‘Ugh…’

There was a small animal curled up in the cage. However, the beast had a rather grotesque appearance. The animal’s face was shaped like a nautilus head, and its body was hairless, revealing all the red veins on its pink skin.

[Cub of the Beast: It was an existence that should not have been born. Everyone wants the death of this beast. Feed the blood of the beast and make a master-servant contract. All curses, diseases, and poisons that would apply to the owner are transferred to the beast. The beast will humbly accept its fate.]
[Caution. It evolves into an adult when 9 stacks of negative effects are applied to the offspring of the Beast. The moment they evolve into adults, the master-servant relationship is reversed. Kill the animal before it reaches adulthood. You cannot die by any method other than beheading. If you cut open the belly of the beast, a new baby will be born.]
[Price: 90000C]

“This…”

“It’s a joke. I will buy it.”

Jo Joon purchased the offspring of the beast without hesitation. The baby of the main beast is an item with a clear purpose. For Jo Joon, who had to go to the Forest of Corruption to obtain Nous’s Deer Crown, as well as the underground levels of the black market infested with demons and fanatics, there was no reason not to purchase a slaughter beast that could remove negative effects.

I had to get it now even if I had to spend a huge amount of 90,000 coins.

‘If I buy this… I won’t die even if others poison me.’

It is not an exaggeration to say that Jo Joon treated his teammates halfway with poison in the thrilling mansion. That means Aim can also fall into similar ways.

However, if you have a master-servant relationship with the offspring of a beast, even if someone feeds the amnestic and gender reassignment to Joon, the effect will be transferred to the offspring of the beast, and Aim will be safe.

In fact, while holding the offspring of a beast, it was no different from being cursed and immune to diseases.

Of course, if more than 9 negative effects were stacked, it was the end, but…

“Next…”

The beast in the cage was purchased at once. All that remains are two flower pots and a leather pouch stained with blood.

Among the two pots, Joon identified a seedling with a human face on the stem.

[Card tree sapling: A tree that grows by feeding on the blood and flesh of a dead person, or the semen of a man. As the tree grows, it spreads roots around it and builds up its territory. Seeks out and absorbs discarded corpses and remains within its sphere of influence. The fruit of the pine tree is very sweet.]
[Price: 12000C]

The corpse tree was a tree that was easy to dispose of. Up until this point, Jo Jun had burned or threw a corpse as food for the Black Wheel. In fact, to Jo Joon, the corpse tree was something he didn’t really need. However, Jo Joon decided to purchase an incense tree after reading that it had a relatively cheap price and that it produced sweet fruits.

Perhaps the fruit of the incense tree could be used as an ingredient when Hellus made an elixir with a high probability.

After Joon bought the cedar tree, he looked at the potted plant next to it. In the second pot there was a slender red plant growing. Its appearance was disgusting, resembling roundworms.

[Corse parasite: A parasitic plant that takes root in the body of a dead creature. Manipulate the body of a dead creature to consume nutrients. Gain intelligence by absorbing the brains of parasitic corpses. The more brains you get from highly intelligent creatures, the more cunning and brutal they become. It is asexual reproduction.]
[Price: 23000C]

The corpse parasite was an item that made it possible to enslave all the zombies scattered along the roadside. Making an army of corpses with this actually meant that the reason for the existence of Son Ha-eun, a rich man, would disappear, but Jo Joon didn’t care much.

This is because Son Ha-eun, a necromancer and an undead himself, was growing up by raising an elite unit rather than a mass offensive. In a word, it was growing in a way to make one Death Knight rather than making a skeleton unit, so the concept did not overlap very much with the corpse parasite tree.

“The problem is this guy…”

Joon stared at the last remaining bloodstained leather pouch.

[Henry’s Head: The head of Henry, the loud hitman. Even though only his head was left, Henry did not die!! Henry’s body, having lost his head, is still alive, abandoned somewhere at the bottom of the abyss, slicing to death any who come nearby. If you find Henry’s body, he will swear allegiance to you for life. Henry is the last survivor of the lost ‘Cult’.]
[Price: 1000C]

“Huh… Are you selling something like this?”

Jo Joon asked the poacher as if he was embarrassed. The poacher replied as if it didn’t matter much.

“Anything that is alive will be sold. They sell corpses, so what could they not sell? But he’s useless with just his head, so he’s only worth a thousand coins. Is it cheap? Take her as a companion. It’s bad stock.”

If it wasn’t to go down to the bottom of the abyss and find his torso, it was really useless. Noisy, chattering head. Unless you are an extremely lonely person, there is no reason to buy it.

‘But… I have a way to get to the bottom of the abyss…’

Jo Joon, who possesses the cracked ankh, thought of going down to the bottom of the abyss someday. But what I never thought I could get items for sub-quests here.

After going down to the bottom of the abyss, I thought I could find Henry’s body.

“Good. It was a good deal. It feels good to buy everything every time I come. Of course, there’s nothing I can do to make you feel good, but if Cheshire manages the store, you might be able to clear out the warehouse. How is it?”

The poacher wrapped his arms around Jo Jun’s shoulder and whispered softly. If he had nothing to do with Cheshire, he would have persuaded Cheshire at the poacher’s favor, but unfortunately Jo Joon had chosen the option of taking Cheshire out of the black market.

In the end, Jo Jun could not come up with an answer, but he replied that he would talk to him next time, and then he got away from the poacher.

“Then come again next time.”

“Yes. I will come again.”

“Oh, good-bye…”

“Hello uncle!”

Leaving the store, they headed straight to the sewer where the drug dealer was.

******

Han Ah-ram had another hellish time. This is because those who were strewn about in the sewer and demanded medicines and coins grabbed Aram by his legs and stretched out.

Han Ah-ram became nervous and used his skills at their hands stained with blood, and when many of the trash-like drug idiots were trampled on by Han A-ram’s feet, no one approached until then.

“Ha.. Rotten..”

“Let’s go back and wash up later.”

“Yeah… Damn it.”

Han Ah-ram sighed as he watched the drugged guys engage in an orgy by biting and sucking each other. It was a place only for rotten people. If the food alley was a rampage to eat each other, here it was just guys who had gone crazy with drugs.

For example, if a drug addict in a shack secretly drinks medicine, the guy next to him kills him and covets his blood. In order to receive even a little bit of the energy of the medicine that permeated the blood.

If that person dies while under the influence of drugs, drug addicts gather at the corpse to suck his blood, and the drug addicts who gather at the corpse lick each other’s blood that is full of drug substances on each other’s bodies and do all sorts of dirty things. It was going on.

There was no hesitation. They were just pleasure-mad scum. There were even a lot of non-bikinoids, so the mosaic treatment was not done properly.

“Dogs are disgusting.”

“Hehe.. This is a bit like that. Let’s hurry.”

“Huh..”

Still, Han Ah-ram did not feel anything more than disgust, perhaps because he had already passed through the worst food alley. That was her, and her proud aim encouraged her and quickened her steps.

Soon, a drug dealer’s shop, Drug ‘n’ Rush, came into sight.

“Welcome.”

Jackson, the bartender, was cleaning the glass. From the moment Han Ah-ram entered her shop, Jo Joon kept repeating the words, “Don’t eat anything.” Her education was very good.

“Oh, Cheshire. And it was Jun.”

Han Ah-ram frowned at her two-headed man. She, of course, was wearing a gas mask, so her expression didn’t show through.

‘That bastard.. What is it…?’

One of her heads was muttering strange words as if on drugs, while the other was intact as if it had been neatly decorated. It was disgusting to have two heads on one person’s body, but it was even more disgusting because one head was completely tasteless.

“Mr. Jackson. Please recommend today’s menu.”

“Sure. I knew you would come and I prepared with special people.”

Jackson skillfully took out four bottles of alcohol from the counter.

“They are special guys.”

The drinks Jackson brought out were dazzling. First, a wine as red as blood. A liqueur as blue as sapphire. A bottle of rum dyed in cosmic colors. And one honey whisk that shimmers golden.

Joon checked the bottles.

In the meantime, Jackson took out one of his candies and handed it to Han Ah-ram with a benevolent smile. Of course, Han Ah-ram shook his head and refused the candy.

Jackson suddenly became sullen.