Pokémon: World of Wonder

Chapter 331 Pawn

A white light flashed, and Jiang Ye, floating in the air, opened his eyes tentatively. Then, for the second time, he felt that he had traveled through time and space, from the modern times to the ancient times in one breath.

In the bustling ancient city of Huangyan, Jiang Ye's outfit made him look like a foreigner from the Western Regions or other places. There were huge archways on every street, and inside them were all kinds of bustling shops and markets.

Jiang Ye and Machado stood next to the city gate. The ground was covered with all kinds of disgusting-looking mud. Under the mud was a road paved with huge bluestones that looked like they had seen years of history.

Glancing at the streets around him, he saw that most of the mud was brought in by peddlers and farmers from outside the city who came to sell goods. The ones that brought the most mud were the heavy mud-drawn horses and Kentaro that pulled the heavy mud into the city.

Looking up at the sky, I saw small bird Pokémon like Pidgeot flying around wearing vests and with mailboxes tied to their feet. I couldn't see any wild bird Pokémon. It seems that even in ancient cities, unknown Pokémon are prohibited from flying inside the city.

At the busy city gate, most people looked at Jiang Ye with a curious expression as if they were looking at a monkey. However, after looking for a while and realizing that Jiang Ye was no different from them, they quietly went about their own business.

【Follow me, this way. 】

As Jiang Ye spoke, he felt an invisible tentacle grabbing his wrist. Then Machado led the way in front of him, and Jiang Ye walked along the street that looked very spacious but actually had a very crowded sidewalk.

【Walk along the roadside, there is a sidewalk, walk slowly and don't cause trouble. 】

[The middle lane is where cars and horses will not slow down just because of people passing by. If someone gets trampled to death, he deserves it. His body will be confiscated and sent directly to the market.]

Although he couldn't see Machado, Jiang Ye kept listening to Machado instilling some ancient common sense into him in his heart.

Jiang Ye was pulled by Machado's tentacles along the street, passing through seven or eight streets with different functions, including the cloth market, food market, horse market, gambling market, brothel market, bamboo art market, and blacksmith market.

Finally, Jiang Ye turned left at the Artisan City and walked into a street that looked very green, the Vegetable Market.

The first thing you see when you enter the vegetable market is a butcher's shop. Inside the shop, a skinny butcher with bloodshot eyes is dissecting a human corpse, peeling off the flesh skillfully and carefully.

In no time, a corpse was dissected and placed on the stall.

Jiang Ye glanced at the three crooked big characters written next to it, "Cai Ren Pu". This shop was really popular. At this time, Jiang Ye was standing at the gate of the city and could barely see the scene inside from the side.

The front was packed with people. As soon as the vegetables were put on the shelves, a group of people rushed to buy them with red eyes. On the contrary, the authentic butcher shop opposite the vegetable shop only had two or three sparrows of different sizes.

It's so weird.

"Liu San! It's time to honor your master."

"Hey, hey, Brother Li, here I come."

Jiang Ye turned his head and saw a guy with a long knife on his waist holding a big wolfhound in his hand. The butcher in the butcher shop had a flattering smile on his face and cut two pounds of pork without hesitation and threw it out.

The big wolfhound quickly shook its head and opened its mouth, and two pounds of pork were gone.

[The little devil is troublesome, let’s go now. 】

[Yeah.] Jiang Ye lowered his head and walked away quickly.

Walking past a street corner, Machado seemed to have foreseen the situation and talked to Jiang Ye in his heart, [With Warcraft rampant and no powerful technology and Poké Balls, meat is very expensive, and vegetable people are relatively cheap, but eating too much can easily lead to evil spirits. ]

Passing through the vegetable market where vendors were constantly hawking their wares, Jiang Ye finally saw Machado standing next to an archway at a street corner.

They can't see you?

So I'm going to take you with me.

Jiang Ye followed Machado all the way to the middle section of the street and stopped in front of a tall, narrow door with a curtain. He glanced at the flag hanging next to it. On it was clearly written an ancient Huangyan character: "Dang".

[Pawnshop? Sister, do you want to pawn something? ]

[I don't know if it's a pawn or not, but there's something I need in there, so you have to buy it for me.]

Jiang Ye was silent for a moment and then asked, [It seems like this kind of local alliance currency cannot be used, right? How can I buy it? ]

[Don't be so pretentious. If you have gold, you can buy it. ]

Jiang Ye spread his hands and said, "Let's go in and ask first. Let me make it clear first, if he wants my hands and feet, I won't give them to him."

[I'm not that bad. You bought it for me. I'll give you a reward. Let's go.]

Machado walked in front, Jiang Ye lifted the curtain and walked into the pawnshop with her.

The overall appearance of the pawnshop was similar to what Jiang Ye remembered, with two tea tables and a tall counter in front. If you wanted to handle business, you had to look up.

Jiang Ye glanced at the table next to him. A guy who looked like a shopkeeper was counting the accounts with an abacus, seemingly unaware of Jiang Ye's arrival.

Jiang Ye walked forward and knocked on the table. The man then raised his head with the help of his reading glasses and looked at Jiang Ye.

As soon as he saw Jiang Ye, the man's eyes lit up, as if he had seen a rich man. He immediately picked up the teacup and poured Jiang Ye a cup of tea with a smile.

Jiang Ye took a sip of tea slowly, thinking back to the Huang Yan language he had learned in school, and asked with some unfamiliarity, "Are you the owner of this store?"

Listening to Jiang Ye's lame Huang Yanyu, the man couldn't stop smiling. "Yes, yes, customer, are you here to buy something? We have a lot of rare things here!"

Jiang Ye paused for a moment and barely understood what the store owner meant, then nodded and said, "Yes, I'm here to buy pawn items. Can you take me to the pawn shop now? I'm in a hurry to go to the next store."

Hearing this, the man became even happier. The rich man from other places was in a hurry, which meant he was too lazy to bargain. Isn't this a big profit?

"Lazy boy! Come and see the shop. I want to take customers to the counter!"

As the man shouted, a boy who was a generation younger than the man and about the same age as Jiang Ye walked out, and then sat down where the man had sat before, bored.

"Unlucky guy!"

As he said this, the man slapped the boy named Lazy Baby in the face, then smiled and took Jiang Ye to open the locked door at the side, and then walked along the inner corridor of the house.

Finally, they walked around the cabinet and came to a huge stone door with three layers of locks. A sleeping Roentgen cat lying next to it saw someone coming, and silently raised its head, with its eyes emitting light like a flashlight that swept over Jiang Ye.

As if after confirming Jiang Ye's situation, he turned around and bit a special stone pillar mechanism next to the door. At this time, the man had already unlocked the three locks on the door.

The Roentgen cat was seen making crackling sounds of electricity all over its body, and the powerful electricity turned into pale yellow lines that extended from the stone pillar mechanism all the way to the entire door.

Boom, boom, boom! The door that seemed extremely heavy slowly rose up automatically.