fairy family

Chapter 35 Black Market Paper House
midnight.

Yu Que arrived at the gate of the Alchemist Guild as promised and saw Huang Guishan.

At this time, Huang Guishan was wearing a black robe, which covered his body completely. If Yu Que had not remembered his tall and thin figure, he would not have dared to recognize him for a moment.

The other party looked at Yu Que, made a buzzing sound, and took out a stack of black robes from his sleeves and handed them to Yu Que:
"Put it on."

Facing this scene, Yu Que felt strange. He thought he had been very cautious when he was at the ghost fair, but he didn't expect Huang Guishan to be even more cautious than him.

However, he did not resist. After greeting the other party, he put on the robe as he was told.

"Let's go." Huang Guishan was very frugal with his words at this moment. He called Yu Que and walked straight to the area with the most concentrated yin energy in the city.

Soon, the two walked into the thick fog and appeared above tonight's ghost gathering.

A lively hawking sound rang in their ears, and there were as many people in the ghost gathering as ever.

Yu Que followed Huang Guishan and wandered around the ghost town.

He did find quite a few good items that could be used for refining on the street stalls, and many of them were items unearthed from old mines.

However, Huang Guishan's eyes only swept across the stall without lingering for long, and then he continued walking forward with Yu Que.

After going around in circles like this, the two still had nothing in their hands.

Suddenly, Huang Guishan led Yu Que to the gambler's territory again.

Just when Yu Que thought that this person was planning to join in the fun tonight, or to see how his luck was, the other party went straight to the back of the gambling shop.

After passing through a large crowd, the two came to a paper house. At the door stood two paper boys and girls, with rosy cheeks and lacquered eyes.

When Yu Que and Huang Guishan appeared, the two paper boys and girls suddenly turned their heads and stared at them with strange expressions.

Fortunately, Huang Guishan waved his hand in time, and a wooden sign appeared in his hand.

The wooden sign was waved in front of the two paper boys and girls, and they returned to normal, standing peacefully at the door of the paper house, returning to their appearance as dead objects.

"This place only welcomes regular customers, so follow closely."

Huang Guishan stepped forward and whispered to Yu Que:
"If you gain anything tonight, I will give you the whole sign later, and you can come here on your own in the future."

Listening to what the other party said, Yu Que's face was suddenly filled with interest, and he nodded towards this person with gratitude.

The place where the other party led him tonight was obviously a ghost market among ghost markets, which must be a place for trading good things.

Regardless of whether he could buy good things later, the fact that Huang Guishan was willing to bring him here meant that he was acting as his guide again.

Otherwise, Yu Que would never have access to such channels before becoming a ninth-rank alchemist or being admitted to the county school.

After a while, they appeared in a building made of paper everywhere. It was similar to a restaurant, but the railings, window frames, and floor were all colorful and shiny, and the texture was like oil paper.

In the center of the building is a space, similar to a patio, with paper-made boys and girls standing on the periphery, hung with lanterns and filled with dim light.

When Yu Que and the other person walked in, there were already many people in the venue. Most of them were wearing black robes, veils, or bamboo hats, and no one dared to reveal their true face.

Yu Que walked closer to take a look, and after listening to the voices coming from the courtyard, he immediately understood what this place was used for, and why the people coming and going were more mysterious than those in the ghost market outside. "We need a pair of mother and son ghosts, and they must be fresh. It's best to place an order tonight so that they can be delivered before dawn."

I saw those paper-made boys and girls sticking their tongues out and shouting from time to time:

"Ten strong and healthy corpses, which have been carefully prepared. They are guaranteed to be those who died in vain. They can be parasitized by ghosts at any time, making it convenient for raising ghosts."

"Professionally building haunted houses, no haunting or death, compensation guaranteed! I have been doing this for ten years."

This place is apparently where ghosts gather to exchange information, recruit customers, and post rewards.

If customers needed anything, they could write down their requests or product information on a piece of paper and put it into the mouth of a paper man, and the paper man would then help them shout.

In addition, the rewards and goods posted here are obviously different from those in the outside world.

Yu Que only listened a few times and was sure that if the people doing business here were caught by the government, two out of three would be imprisoned.

As for the other one, he would not be innocent even if he was beheaded on the spot.

He was shocked in his heart: "My goodness, the ghost markets outside are all considered legitimate businesses, at most a gray industry, but what is bought and sold here is the real black industry!"

Yu Que looked around and immediately realized that all the guests coming and going were ferocious and mysterious. No wonder Huang Guishan specially put black robes on the two of them.

Not long after, Huang Guishan took him around the paper house again, and he found quite a few objects that made him look at them several more times.

For example, some fresh tube-bone lamps, tender leather paper, eerie human claws and fingers... they all look very good and weird at first glance.

If these objects are used to arrange rituals, the effect of summoning ghosts and monsters will be amazing.

However, Huang Guishan did not take action on these things, nor did he ask Yu Que to buy them. Instead, he gave a low warning:
"The quality of the goods here is guaranteed, otherwise it would be hard for the paper man to eat them. But the sources of nearly half of the goods are too unknown, so don't buy or sell them unless necessary."

Yu Que nodded.

His eyes swept across the skull cups held in the hands of the paper people. Even though he had seen blood and killed monsters before, he suddenly felt a chill on the top of his head.

It's obvious that the buyers and sellers here don't treat people as human beings, but as consumables and raw materials. It's very weird.

Yu Que was shocked, but he was also secretly thinking: "Didn't the government ever think of closing down such a place that is so harmful to the heaven and earth... or was it left there on purpose?"

He couldn't help but look at the guide Huang Guishan in front of him, guessing that it was probably the latter.

Watched the excitement for a while.

Suddenly, a living person finally appeared in the courtyard.

But they were not completely human. Instead, they had heads of foxes, monkeys, sheep, and cows. Although their bodies were human, they were covered in blood and red, with some fur remaining, as if they had just been skinned.

At this time, a fat shopkeeper with rosy cheeks walked into the courtyard with a bulging belly and shouted:
"Top-quality male and female yin, with intact bodies. The seller has traveled thousands of miles to get them, freshly taken from the skin. Pre-order now, the highest bidder wins!"

Not only do they buy and sell weird goods here, they even auction living people, and they are all boys and girls with pure auras!

(End of this chapter)