Struggle in the Steam Age

The tauren in the shop obviously wanted to shop, and the new musket that the dwarf was going to sell was a very good magic weapon from a certain point of view.

So after five or six minutes, the tauren decided to pay for this special rifle.

"Okay, I want this rifle. By the way, help me with the flamethrower." The tauren took out a thick stack of banknotes and handed it to the dwarf, then turned his head and looked around. As a result, I happened to see Lawrence and the others who were curiously looking at the goods on the shelves in the store.

"Ha, we actually met again. Thanks to your generosity just now, I can now replace myself with a new set of weapons."

After hearing what the tauren said, Lawrence immediately realized that this tauren was the one who had just sold the goods to him.

But just when he was about to say hello, he suddenly saw a female magic gunner in black clothing coming in from outside the room, then rushed into the shop and said to the tauren: "Brother Hammer , How many people did you sell the information about that map to?"

"I swear I only sold it to three batches of customers, and they all looked richer." The tauren said with wide-eyed eyes. "After all, Priest Hannah told me that this item can only be sold to three batches of customers at most. Of course, I can't go against her request."

"There are some accidents in the situation now." After hearing what the tauren said, the expression on the magic gunner's face became more tense.

"Because I saw information about a dozen people selling this map outside, so after seeing it, I wanted to come over and ask you how the situation is here?"

"A dozen people!" After hearing what the gunman said, the tauren immediately showed a look of shock.

"It's impossible. I came here directly after setting off from our station, and didn't even stop in the middle. So in theory, it's impossible for someone to take our things and copy them and sell them."

"Uh—I'm very sorry." The tauren said to Lawrence and the others with an embarrassed look on his face after he finished speaking just now. Since he didn't say anything about this before, there is nothing inappropriate about selling more than one item. .

But in any case, this kind of thing is always a bit unkind, so the tauren naturally felt a little embarrassed when he found out that Lawrence was a customer.

"Now is not the time to say sorry." Lawrence, who knew their characters well, did not show any dissatisfaction with the tauren's slowness because he had tauren under his command. Instead, he just waved his hand to interrupt the obviously inappropriate words of the tauren in front of him, and then looked at the female magic gunner with short black hair and asked.

"You just said that there are maps of treasure places outside, and now they are everywhere. Can you tell me about the specific situation?"

"Well—the situation is like this." After learning the specific identity of Lawrence from the conversation just now, the magic gunman thought about it for a while, and quickly introduced the situation outside to Lawrence.

According to her, today their team came here specially to cash in all kinds of spoils after going through an adventure, but what she didn't expect was that there were several shops selling this map in this market.

As for why the tauren didn't notice that the situation was wrong, it was also very simple, that is, the stalls in the underground market were basically fixed.

So for the tauren who set up a stall over there, it was basically impossible to know what was being sold in the market if Lawrence hadn't bought his goods just now.

"You just said that you bought the previous map in Huguang City, so could it be that your seller sold this item to many companies?"

After the gunslinger roughly finished describing the situation, Lawrence asked. "As far as I know, the market in some places is like this, by putting fake products among all kinds of real cultural relics to get extra benefits."

"Probably not." After hearing Lawrence's words, the magic gunman lowered his head and thought for a few seconds, then raised his head and shook his head.

"If that's the case, the counterfeiters must have something to ask for. But in fact, when we bought the wood carvings, we didn't need to pay extra, so it shouldn't be the reason."

"If that's the case—could it be the previous guest?" Lawrence raised another point of view at this time.

"We were the last ones to buy the map, so there must be no time to copy this map and sell it everywhere. But you should have sold two copies before, maybe those customers copied the map and sold it."

"Our captain also considered this possibility before, but after thinking about it, I think it should not be."

"After all, the people who sold this map came from several teams that had no connection with each other. Even if Brother Hammer's first customer got the map and immediately copied it, it would be impossible to distribute the goods in less than two hours. So fast."

"This is indeed a problem." Lawrence frowned, but at this moment Safiel said as if he suddenly thought of something.

"I remember that selling this kind of treasure map should not allow customers to watch it before paying, so how do you know that so many merchants are selling your map?"

"That's because there are many ways to buy and sell treasure maps," said the magic gunner. "It's one way to pay directly before seeing the goods at all, but that's only for some top treasures."

"The ordinary magic map like the one we sell now needs some means to show part of the treasure, otherwise no one will buy it."

"I was determined by them being responsible for the entrance of the treasure on the side of the treasure map, because the stone carvings at the entrance of the cave are very special, at least I have never seen anything like it before."

"Ah, so that's the case-then do you know how much other companies charge for selling maps?" Safir nodded, then suddenly changed the subject and asked.

"That group of people may know that many people are buying it, so the price is quite uniform, basically they all offer about 15 federal dollars per piece." After hearing Safir's question, the magic gunman said immediately .

"If that's the case, we can buy a few and see the situation." As a childhood friend who grew up together, Lawrence immediately understood his fiancée's plan.

"You guys wait here first, let's go to the market to have a look." As he learned more about the incident related to the map, Lawrence found that this incident became more and more interesting, so he also planned to spend some money to watch it. Let's see how it goes.

Although this market offers a variety of magical concealment measures, those who frequent here can still roughly recognize each other. That's why when you need to buy a map, you need Lawrence and Safir to buy it.

Soon, the two of them bought a map from three completely different merchants, and then went out of the underground market together to meet the tauren outside.

The team that the Tauren Hammer was in was composed of four people, except for the Tauren and a magic gunman that Lawrence saw just now. There is also a warrior in his forties who wields a two-handed sword and short spear and a priest of the goddess of wealth. In short, this seems to be a very common extraordinary team.

"The secret of this map should not be leaked from you." After a brief self-introduction, Lawrence said and took out the few maps he bought just now. "Look, these maps are the same as your maps only in the final destination. But the patterns on them are different from your maps."

"But the problem now is that those people sell maps for the same reason now." Seifel answered at this time. "It's all about finding this place and sharing it with everyone after it's vacated."