"Cough! Cough!!"
After hearing Mu Cheng's smiling words, Fang Ran immediately coughed loudly twice.
Worried that Qing Ning would ask what she meant, Fang Ran hurriedly changed the subject, sweating profusely.
"Of course, those unusual things are ultimately in the minority. The main goods in the black market are all kinds of equipment for combat."
"Ammunition, vehicles, reconnaissance devices, shield systems, weapons ranging from D-Rank to B-Rank, modified and enhanced real-world weapons, and all kinds of energy weapons built purely on Night Battle technology."
"I even saw a complete set of technological armor, including shields and weapons, displayed outside one shop as a Holographic Projection."
"You only had to walk up and activate it to see detailed specifications for every component, along with combat footage."
Continuing his account of the black market's goods, Fang Ran now talked about all the more legitimate things he had seen there.
He spoke of transaction boxes, online channels, advertisements, and discounts.
And that ten-thousand-US-Dollar admission ticket.
Having listened to Fang Ran's string of descriptions, Gou Yu found the novel things he described—and that Cyberpunk-like vision of the future in reality—quite astonishing.
Based on what had been said at The Cabin before, he had never expected Fang Ran to have visited such a place.
Gou Yu spoke up inquisitively.
"I suddenly got curious. Is equipment bought from black markets in North America really reliable?"
"Wouldn't there be hard-to-detect trackers, security loopholes, or backdoors? What if you ran into its creator and it malfunctioned immediately?"
Learning of the existence of black markets for the first time, Gou Yu's thoughts had been stirred by Fang Ran's description, and he curiously asked about this point.
"Hehehe, it's not strange that you'd think that way, Gou Yu. That's good precautionary awareness."
Hearing his question, the Magician chuckled with impeccable