182 Capitalism Ho! – Part 1 (2/2)
”What's this?”
”Aphrodisiac pills.”
”…”
The guild staff gave Cao Mao an odd look. His mouth curved upward into a sneer, ”Sir, aphrodisiac pills are common in the black market. They are indeed expensive, but your items won't be selected.”
The unique pills couldn't meet up the standard of these merchants. These people didn't care about pills that already circulated in the markets.
”Oh, I see,” Cao Mao took the pills back, but he offered new items instead. ”How about these?”
Cao Mao brought out a transparent bottle with one thump-sized pill inside.
The receptionist squinted his eyes. He glanced at Cao Mao again, ”Could you tell me what it is?”
”Superior Orc Strength Pill!”
Cao Mao decided to reveal its true name.
This pill was merely a mutated pill that had the same effect as a medium-grade healing pill, but it also contained a strong aphrodisiac effect. If a commoner without a cultivation base were to consume it, he/she would be able to have sex all day as if he had an orc bloodline. Moreover, the bodily fluid of the pill consumer would also temporarily give an aphrodisiac effect and would intoxicate the partner.
However, Cao Mao chose not to explain this part to the receptionist since he didn't want the guy to interpret this pill as another aphrodisiac pill in the market.
”That's the first time I hear it,” The receptionist was interested.
Cao Mao shrugged, ”It's an original pill. You can't find it anywhere other than buying it from me.”
”That's quite a confidence. Well, I'll ask the experts from our clan to evaluate your pill. For now, do you have other things to offer?”
Cao Mao placed five different bottles with five different pills on the tray. He grinned and challenged the staff, ”You'd better call your guild's alchemists or appraisers here. These five pills are also original pills that you can't find in the market.”
”…Sure.”
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Ten minutes later, Cao Mao was standing in front of the Tang Merchant Guild building.
Due to the massive amount of customers and sellers, the staff asked Cao Mao to deposit the unique pills with the guild. After their experts examined the items, the guild would contact Cao Mao later on.
Since it would take time for the merchant guild to process through everything, Cao Mao proceeded to another place, where he had learned from Qiang Han.
The Slum
Every city had a slum.
Similar to the southern district of the Mountain Goose City, this place was a gathering den of outlaws and hoodlums. Illegal products could also be acquired here.
In a way, this place was the center of the black market. Whatever Cao Mao wanted to find, he might find it here.
Still, this place was also a territory of the Qiang Clan. Their subsidiary clans and organizations were managing this district and sent back their profits to their lords.
If Cao Mao wanted something, he could have asked Qiang Han to get it for him. However, as there were many new visitors in town, it would be a waste not to dip his hands in this shady world and get something out of it.
With the Qiang Clan's VIP guest medallion, Cao Mao walked straight to one of the vessel clans of the Qiang House, the Pang Clan.
Cao Mao had a funny feeling about this clan.
Pang Lingming, the only fighting force of the Ma Clan, had the same surname as this clan's name. There might be some kind of complication going on behind the scenes.
The Pang Estate was a rundown 2-story building in the middle of a 2-acre courtyard. 2-meter-high brick walls surrounded all four sides of the territory, but there was only one entrance gate.
In front of the Pang Estate's gate, two guards with the strength of 3rd-stage were standing, yawning and dozing.
Cao Mao walked toward them.
”Hello,” Cao Mao flashed the medallion to the guard of the Pang Clan's estate. ”I'm here to discuss some businesses. I heard that the Pang Clan is managing the local stores around here. I wish to rent a storefront so I can sell my ware.”
The guard nodded and rushed to the estate.
Five minutes later, the guard came back with a scroll, ”We have no empty booth for you at the moment, but we're willing to give you one of our reserved booths. However, the rent fee is 1,000 refined stones per day.”
The rate was extremely expensive. Unless someone could earn more than 1,000 refined stones a day, they wouldn't be able to rent a place to establish their booth or store here.
However, the Pang Clan set this rate for a reason. Currently, an influx of foreign cultivators came with a massive amount of spirit stones. Any store could attract more customers than usual during the month.
For Cao Mao, 1,000 RSS a day was nothing. He had a lot of cheap pills that could be sold here.
Cao Mao nodded and accepted the offer. He signed the contract scroll that the guard had brought and paid 1,000 refined stones, reserving the booth for a day for now.