Struggle in the Steam Age

This underground black market known as Hot Spring Villa is located at the foot of a hill far away from the lake in Sword Bay City. It is the earliest place where intelligent creatures gather in this area.

For those local aboriginal tribes, these hot springs can not only treat their various injuries and diseases, but they can also use the warm areas created by those hot springs to raise their livestock and plant various species that are scarce in winter. Plant green fruits and vegetables.

And with the arrival of the colonists of the old continent, the intelligent races of the old and new continents soon united together. Then, with this hot spring as the core, it began to expand around.

It's just that the local terrain is too rugged, which is really not suitable for building cities. That's why the city center moved south to the Sword Bay area near the lake, which is where the main city is now.

Soon the carriage came to a place close to the urban area, but the difference was that this time the carriage did not go to the urban area, but directly turned north from a fork in the road.

Soon, the scenery on both sides of the road improved a lot. Although the buildings on both sides of the road look old, they are generally well maintained.

Especially after Lawrence and the others found that there were one or two sanitation personnel in gray clothes with brooms and trash cans appearing on both sides of the road from time to time, they had a certain liking for the local management personnel in their hearts.

After all, the management level of urban areas in this era is really bad, or in other words, most people have no so-called awareness of urban management at all.

At least Lawrence himself had seen similar cleaning people in the wealthy areas of several cities, and he had only carried out overall cleaning work on New Sauer Island for the sake of hygiene and epidemic prevention.

And in Sword Bay City, whether it is the urban area that is dominated by tourism here or the urban area that is not far away that is dominated by industry. Lawrence could see many such sanitation workers busy at work. Under such circumstances, it was difficult for him not to have a certain liking for the managers of those cities.

"Why are there such cleaning workers on the side of the road here?" Safiel also saw the situation here, so he directly asked Bach who was driving ahead.

"I always thought that apart from our island of Shaw, even if there are workers responsible for environmental cleaning in other cities, they will not be in non-rich areas."

"This is actually directly related to Your Excellency." Bach said while driving the carriage, "Before, people only thought that the issue of cleanliness was only related to politeness and face, but since you put forward a series of papers on microbes, especially It was after the large-scale typhoid fever in Fort Eagle that everyone realized the importance of a clean environment."

"It's just that because of economic problems, most cities can only hire some people to clean certain areas regularly. Only a wealthy city like Sword Bay can hire a group of workers to clean up for a long time."

"It seems that I did a good thing." Hearing this, Lawrence smiled quite complacently. This should be regarded as one of the greatest contributions he has made to everyone since he came to this world.

"Your Excellency, we will be there soon." The carriage continued to drive forward for five minutes, then turned to the left, and then came to a small road.

"It turns out that although this Extraordinary Market is also called Hot Spring Villa, it is not the same as the real Hot Spring Villa." Watching the carriage start to move away from the building on the way to the hot spring resort halfway up the mountain, Lawrence realized that this undisclosed Extraordinary Market did not With those hot spring resorts, but just around the area.

After going around half a hill, the carriage stopped. After getting out of the car, Lawrence and Safiel found a lonely villa in front of them, and there was no one at the gate of the villa, only two stone monsters quietly guarding the door.

"In a moment, each of you prepares three silver coins of one federal dollar and puts them under the claws of the stone monster on the left, and then takes out two masks from the mouth of the stone monster on the right and puts them on."

Bach said before leaving. "This door can only be entered by people wearing masks."

"Understood." After watching the carriage driven by Bach drive towards the parking lot down the mountain, Lawrence prepared a mask for himself and Safir according to the method he described. Then he reached out and opened the door.

Lawrence had tried to open the door just now when he was not wearing a mask, but the whole door was as solid as a wall. Unexpectedly, after putting on the mask, the door opened with a slight push.

"New customers, go to the hanger in the house over there to get a robe and put it on, and then you can enter the market through the other door in that room. Remember, don't run around after entering the market."

After entering the door, what appeared in front of Lawrence was not the small garden he saw from the outside just now, but a small room with only a dozen square meters.

A middle-aged man in his 40s or 50s who looked like a common face was sitting behind the only table in the room and spoke in a hoarse voice.

Although this person looked very ordinary, Lawrence's Bai Ze blood brought him the feeling that this guy's extraordinary level should be similar to his own.

It seems that this extraordinary market is indeed one of the largest extraordinary markets in this area. That's why it's only now at the gate that a Transcendent of this level can be seen as a guard here.

Of course, the phantom magic that was deployed outside just now was supposed to be for safety reasons.

Soon, Lawrence and Safir came to the next room and took off a cloak from the hanger and put them on. Then they left the dressing room together through the small door at the end of the room. And walked along a dark passage towards the underground.

"Ha, I'm a little excited." Safir said to Lawrence as he walked down. "I've never been to a place like this before."

"Really?" Lawrence asked curiously. "I remember you had a super teacher, didn't he bring you to these places?"

"Indeed not." Safir said helplessly. "At that time, my teacher only thought of me as a student of a noble girls' school who was interested in these things, so he didn't think it was necessary for me to touch these things, so naturally he wouldn't bring me to this kind of occasion."

"Well, I can understand this." Under the mask, Lawrence raised his eyebrows. There is only one requirement in this world for the ladies trained by noble girls' schools, and that is to have a noble temperament and be suitable to be a good wife. So it's normal not to tell Sai Feier such unusable rules of the rivers and lakes.

Going around, I went out about seven or eighty meters and went deep into the ground about three or four stories high. A small door appeared at the end of the corridor.

After gently turning the doorknob and opening the door, the eyes suddenly became brighter. "I didn't expect this underground black market to be so big." Safir said, and this sentence also expressed Lawrence's inner thoughts.

This underground black market is obviously a real underground black market, probably located in a huge cave 13~15m below the ground.

Judging from the cave walls and the traces on the stone pillars left behind, this place should have been an underground cave in the past, but it was discovered and transformed into what it is now.

The entire underground space seems to be 6~7 hectares in size, but it is not a whole large space, but composed of multiple caves, large and small.

And many black market merchants built some small caves on the walls of those caves and tunnels, and built their own stalls with some wooden boards and cloth.

"Let's see where it's better to go first." After exiting the tunnel, Lawrence immediately looked at the booths, hoping to find something he was interested in. But soon a few people leaned over after spotting them standing at the entrance and looking around.