Episode 163 Black Market Tour (2)
163. Black Market Tour (2)
“Huh? What did you say..?”
Kang Hyun blinked in confusion.
“One billion.”
“Didn’t you say that was a C grade?”
“you’re right.”
Typically, C-grade equipment was sold for around 100 million won.
There are some that are occasionally traded for 200 to 300 million won, but those are truly exceptional cases.
‘Whew… This sucker is really…’
Kang Hyun roughly ran his hand through his hair and sighed deeply.
“where are you?”
“yes?”
“Where did you buy that?”
When Kang Hyun tried to go to the place where he bought the items, Shin Sung Ah waved her hand.
“Mr. Kang Hyun. It’s okay.”
“What’s okay about that? It’s a total mess.”
“Ah… Even though it looks like this, they say it’s a luxury item that was handcrafted by a craftsman, one drop of sweat and one drop of sweat.”
Shin Sung-ah made a sewing gesture and proudly held out her leather clothes.
“ha…”
Kang Hyun shook his head while holding his forehead.
“That’s not all. When I return to Korea, I’ll also have the Badds logo engraved in red on the back.”
“Logo?”
“They say they will provide special service.”
“The seller was Korean!?”
Kang Hyun naturally assumed that it was sold by a foreigner.
If you work in a capable job in Korea, you can’t help but know about the Baddest Guild.
‘You knew that Seong-ah was a member of the Baddest Guild, and yet you did something like this?’
This wasn’t simply Kang Hyun’s excessive self-consciousness.
Objectively, the Baddest Guild is considered one of the best guilds in South Korea along with Dangun.
A Korean who swindles the guild leader, even the vice-guild leader.
Kang Hyun felt that he would feel better only if he personally found out who that big-headed person was.
“Let’s go right now.”
“yes?”
“That swindler might get away. Let’s go right now!”
“But, Kang Hyun…”
“hurry!”
Shin Sung-ah nodded as if she had no choice but to follow Kang Hyun’s urging.
Choi Si-hyeon, who was watching the scene from the side, sighed.
‘I wish it could just pass quietly…’
I had an ominous feeling that something was going to happen.
And unfortunately, this kind of premonition turns out to be quite accurate.
**
Park Jong-su was a merchant with considerable experience in the black market.
Park Jong-su, who has been in business steadily since the very beginning, before the large-scale crackdown on black markets in Korea.
There are probably few merchants who have been in the black market as long as he has.
“Should I start leaving work soon?”
If I had to sum up what he does in one word, it would be distribution.
Purchasing items from manufacturers and selling them to consumers.
Originally, small-scale distribution business was not particularly profitable, but since it was done targeting wealthy and powerful people, it was quite profitable.
“Twenty million won… This isn’t bad.”
Currently, Jongsu Park earns a net profit of about 200 million won per month.
Although this job is said to be a life-threatening one, Jongsu Park thought that 200 million won a month was worth risking his life for.
Besides, sometimes you hit the jackpot on the black market.
Just like today.
“How much is this?”
Park Jong-su’s eyes lit up as he watched the woman choosing items.
A woman of tall stature, beautiful appearance, and a sharp impression.
‘It smells…’
Park Jong-su intuitively sensed Hogu’s energy.
The woman in front of me seemed clumsy, even in the way she chose the items, despite her appearance.
“It’s handmade, so it’s a bit expensive. It costs well over a billion.”
Park Jong-su deliberately set an unreasonable price.
‘If you ask, it’s fine, if not, don’t ask.’
Anyway, I’ve already earned enough for today.
There was nothing particularly regrettable if the woman left.
“It’s too expensive for a C grade… Could you lower the price a little?”
A woman answers with regretful eyes.
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Park Jong-su covered his mouth to prevent himself from screaming.
‘This is awesome! You’re a great king!’
A leather clothing set that Jongsu Park bought with great courage for 100 million won.
Originally, we were going to trade it for around 200 million won, but that’s not the case anymore.
Even though Park Jong-su had quoted a price that was 10 times higher, the woman showed that she was willing to buy it.
From then on, Park Jong-su’s tongue moved without rest.
“Look at this fabric. It’s made of monster leather, but it’s processed with modern technology to make it comfortable and durable!”
“Oh…”
“Do you see the finishing touches? This is what you call luxury. Not something you wear for brand value like some stupid people, but a true luxury!”
“That’s amazing…”
The woman’s eyes began to blur.
“A talented person like you, who is both handsome and skilled, is in fact a luxury item in his own right. However, the more so, he should wear clothes that fit his dignity.”
The woman nodded as if she had lost her mind at Park Jong-su’s words.
“If you wear this, wouldn’t it be like you’re literally giving an angel wings!? Hahaha!”
Although it was an unfamiliar word, the woman scratched her head with a red face as if she didn’t mind it.
“Customer. Are you currently in a guild?”
“yes…”
“Then I will engrave the guild logo as a service.”
The woman’s eyes, completely swollen, sparkled.
“Then, is it possible to have a personal design?”
“Of course!”
“Then, here, like this… .”
The woman’s explanation continued for a while.
“Okay. What would you like for the guild logo?”
“You can just write BADASS in English.”
Park Jong-su’s face hardened for a moment at the woman’s words.
“Baddess…? Are you a member of the Baddess Guild?”
“Yes. Any problem?”
Park Jong-su’s head rolled quickly.
‘I’ve seen you a lot. What the heck! What should I do?’
This was the first time that Jongsu Park had caught a giant fish of this size.
It’s like a once in a lifetime opportunity.
He didn’t want to miss this.
‘Yeah. Is Bedes a big deal? It’s not Kang Hyun-do anyway, right?’
Although Kang Hyun’s notoriety is well-known, he is a veteran black market merchant.
‘If I just get in trouble and then disappear, that’s it. If something goes wrong, I’ll just die, right?’
Jongsu Park, who had finished his worries, smiled with trust.
“Customer, is it possible to trade with Magic Stones? We are currently selling them at a 10% discount as part of a special event.”
Of course it was a lie.
It was just a comment thrown out there because there were no records of magic stone transactions.
“I was planning on buying it with magic stones anyway. That’s good.”
Park Jong-su screamed in joy inside.
‘Choi Gu-ya! Choi Gu! The strongest fool!’
Everything was going just the way he wanted it to.
Now all he had to do was take the billion-dollar money and go back and disappear.
“Would you like to pay right away?”
“Yes. Then when will the design and logo be completed?”
“Oh! Don’t worry about that. Here is my business card. If you contact me from Korea, I will repair it for you at any time. It’s not that it’s hard to learn the technique, but once you know it, it’s easy to apply. Haha!”
“Thank you. Here…”
Park Jong-su handed over his fake business card along with the leather clothes.
The woman who received it smiled brightly and handed over the magic stone.
A huge amount, enough to hold in one hand.
“This is enough. No. If I calculate again, there is a little left over.”
Park Jong-su even had the leeway to return some magic stones, saying that he had some money left over.
“Please use it again!”
After sending the woman away, Park Jong-su started laughing like a crazy person.
“Hehehe. How much is this?”
A pile of lovely money! No, magic stones!
Park Jong-su stared blankly at the magic stone, then quickly put it in his inventory.
“This is not the time. Let’s get out of here quickly.”
There might be a group of women there.
If so, there is a high probability that a woman will notice that you have bought her a bowl.
I had to leave this place quickly before something like that happened.
“Okay. Let’s go.”
Park Jong-su quickly finished cleaning up the stall and put on his backpack.
“This is awesome. This is awesome! Hehehe…”
Then, I raised my head absentmindedly, and at that moment, someone caught my eye.
An impressionist face that can be clearly seen even from a distance.
‘Kang Hyun…!?’
At that moment, Kang Hyun-do opened his eyes wide as if he had discovered Park Jeong-su.
“Oh, shit!”
**
Park Jong-su, who discovered Kang Hyeon, ran like crazy.
“Hey you little shit! Stop right there!?”
A thunderous scream was heard from behind, but I didn’t have time to look back.
‘If you were me, would you stand there?!’
Park Jong-su was one of the people who intuitively saw Kang Hyun beat Reagan, who was famous in the past, in the duel arena.
‘If you get caught, you die instantly!’
Park Jong-su was a capable person, but he didn’t have the confidence to last even 10 seconds after being caught by Kang Hyeon.
“Whew, whoosh, whoosh!”
Park Jong-su was breathing heavily.
‘You can do it! You have to run away!’
Although his physical specifications were lacking, Park Jong-su was confident that he could run away.
This is a black market that is as tangled as a maze.
Unless he lived here like Park Jong-su, it was unlikely that Kang Hyeon would be familiar with the geography of this place.
‘Do you think I’ve only seen one or two of you?’
When dealing with people who can make a living off of their knives, chases like this are quite common.
And whenever something like this happened, Park Jong-su always successfully escaped.
‘Did you get pushed away?’
I ran like that for a long time.
Park Jong-su stopped, thinking that Kang Hyun had probably let him go.
“Phew… Thank goodness.”
The moment when Park Jong-su sighed in relief.
-Bam, bang! Bwaaang!
There was a commotion and the sound of something breaking was heard.
I turned my head in a hurry and saw Kang Hyun running towards me like a rhinoceros, destroying everything that stood in his way.
“What a crazy guy!”
Kang Hyun, who ran while destroying everything that stood in his way, whether it was a stall or a person, looked like a bulldozer.
Kang Hyun’s evil face was getting closer in real time.
“Hahahaha! If you get caught, you’re done for!”
Although fighting is prohibited within the black market and there are guards everywhere, the black market is ultimately a lawless zone.
That’s why even criminals who do nothing outside tend to hide here.
“If you stand now, I’ll kill you halfway!”
But Kang Hyun didn’t seem to care about such facts at all.
Even the guys who would have grabbed him by the collar and started a fight were all busy getting out of the way.
“Ugh… eww! Help me!”
Park Jong-su kicked his feet and shouted at the top of his lungs.
“Guard! What is the guard doing! Help me quickly! Quickly!”
Every time I looked back, Kang Hyun’s fierce face was getting closer and closer.
‘No, I’ll catch up!’
If you get caught, that’s the end.
At that moment, someone blocked Park Jong-su’s path.
“Stop.”
Their true identities are black market guards.
Park Jong-su breathed a sigh of relief when he saw the guard.
**
Most of the guards at the black market were Korean.
It was natural, since the black market here started with a Korean organization.
“What’s the fuss?”
“Guard! Save me. I’m going to die.”
Park Jong-su grabbed the guard’s clothes and shook them.
“Why are you suddenly asking me to save you…”
The guard was able to quickly understand what Park Jong-su was saying.
“Hey, you little shit!”
A muscular man with a fierce expression was running towards me.
The guard’s face hardened when he saw Kang Hyun.
‘Damn it! I got the wrong number.’
Since it was a matter of resolving a dispute between people with abilities, naturally the guards were also very strong people with abilities.
His level is a whopping 68.
He was one of the highest level guards and was receiving a huge salary accordingly.
‘But it’s not Kang Hyun!’
If Kang Hyun’s notoriety was known to the world, it was obvious that he would be eaten alive.
“Whew… Where are you running away to?”
Kang Hyun finally arrived and grabbed Park Jong Su by the collar.
“Guard! What are you doing!? We need to protect the customers!”
“What? Customer? What is this scammer talking about?”
“No! Save me! Save me!”
Park Jong-su screamed, almost causing a fight.
“You two… please calm down first.”
“What are you again?”
“I am a guard at the black market here.”
“guard?”
“Mr. Kang Hyun. Fighting is prohibited in the black market. You don’t know that, do you?”
The guard swallowed hard and spoke cautiously.
‘Haa, how did I get involved in something like this?’
He said this, but the guard knew it too.
In this underworld where power is maintained by the power of the fist rather than the judgment of the law, power is truth.
It didn’t seem like calling all the guards currently on duty would be enough to stop Kang Hyun.
“Ah… I’m sorry. This scammer tried to take your money and run.”
“A fraud! I sold the goods legitimately! What on earth are you basing your claims on?”
“This kid is still a flipper?”
“Guard! Subdue this man immediately! Don’t you know the rules of the black market!? This man is causing a commotion!”
I wanted to shut Park Jong-su’s mouth right away, but in fact, what he said wasn’t wrong.
At that moment, when he was so lost in thought, a lifeline was lowered to the guard.
“Choi Si-Hyeon!?”
Choi Si-hyeon, a black market executive, approached Kang Hyeon from behind.
“Uh huh. Leave this to me and the guards take care of their business.”
“All right!”
The guard left without looking back.
“No! What are you going to do if you go like that? Don’t go! Come back!”
Park Jong-su’s desperate voice echoed through the black market.
**
In the end, not only did Park Jong-su spit out the magic stone he had received, he also had all the money he had taken taken.
“Why are you taking this!?”
“Because of you, there were people who suffered damage in this market, you punk. You have to compensate them.”
It was about the things that Kang Hyun broke while chasing after Park Jong-su.
“Why should I compensate for that?”
“Then shall I do it?”
“…”
The swear words were rising to the tip of his tongue, but Park Jong-su desperately held them back.
The law was far away, but the fist was close.
“Live a good life from now on, Inma.”
“…”
“Huh? Aren’t you going to answer?”
“yes…”
After patting Park Jong-su on the back, Kang Hyeon returned to the group.
“Mr. Kang Hyun. It’s bad if you cause an accident like this.”
Choi Si-hyeon sighed as she watched Kang-hyeon coming with a bright look.
“Ahem… I’m sorry. But this is all his fault. If he hadn’t cheated, none of this would have happened.”
“Whew…”
“That’s because I told you to ask for everything that was broken. Lighten up a bit. Haha!”
Of course, it was paid with Park Jong-su’s money.
“Did you buy everything you need?”
After a while, the commotion died down and the group that had obtained all the items gathered.
“Everyone says it’s over.”
“Haa… Can I go now?”
Choi Si-hyeon seemed to have aged ten years in a few hours.
“Yes. Let’s go.”
It was at that time that Kang Hyun was about to return.
-An announcement will be made. In three hours, at 18:00 UTC, the 2nd Black Market Strongest Arm Wrestling Competition will be held. We hope for the active participation of many capable people. Let me say it again. In the future, at 3 o’clock… .
Guidance sounds coming from all directions through large speakers.
The voice continued to provide guidance in several languages, including Korean, English, and Chinese.
“What is that?”
Choi Si-hyeon made a troubled expression at Kang Hyeon’s question.
“It’s literally an arm wrestling competition… nothing special. Haha!”
“Sounds fun. Let’s go too.”
“yes…?”
“Let’s join in. Can we?”
Choi Si-hyeon forced a smile at Kang Hyun’s words.
“No. Let’s go right away. Hahahaha…”
Her beautiful eyes began to get moist.
