bookpower Chapter 190 Time To Eat Their Food
Chapter 190 Time To Eat Their Food
Putting aside our new temporary mechanic for now... We focused on why we were here in the first place...
To find goods that I would be able to buy and sell somewhere else at a much higher price.
So far, I have a few candidates for this including the White Powder I saw earlier but the profit margin for buying and selling them were a little low.
I also thought about the possibility of doing some gunrunning, but I realised that it would be a rather big risk since I was a nobody and the gangs in Denibi wouldn't trust me as much as their current suppliers.@@@@
So unless I intend to make this into a long term commitment, the risk and returns for this venture doesn't balance out.
That's not even taking into consideration that my cargo hold isn't exactly that big either so I'm limited in the things I could buy and sell.
The best materials for me would be anything that doesn't take up a lot of space but has high value.
Something like... Well... I guess the drugs are one... But as I said, it wasn't really worth the effort for the profit we would make from selling that particular thing.
My companions didn't have an agenda like I did so they were simply enjoying their time looking around this 'market'.
I really can't bring myself to call this a market because it seriously looks more like a convention than anything.
That is... If you ignore the things being sold here of course.
I even saw a few stalls that were literally selling harvest organs and I was wondering who would even buy that.
Mara then told me that underground clinics and also what she called 'hobbyists' would be their main customers.
I decided I didn't want to know more about it so I didn't ask.
I've already walked through most of the area but I've yet to find anything that I could potentially buy to trade.
It's not like there weren't any options, but it's just that the options were not good enough in my eyes.
I sighed, "Is there nothing good here at all?"
Mara turned to me, "If you don't find anything that catches your eye, you can always just come back here tomorrow morning. They will have a new lineup tomorrow."
Oh, that's good to know.
Amber grinned, "It's fine isn't it? Even if we don't find anything here, we could just go to the main black market instead to look for stuff."
That's true. I was just so hyper focused on this place that I forgot we had other options.
I guess because of the price of entry, I was expecting this place to be the best choice and if I wasn't able to find what I want here, I unconsciously thought that I wouldn't be able to find better options elsewhere.
I then checked the time on my Codex and realised that we had been here for quite a while and it was already close to dinner time.
"Looks like it's almost dinner time. Should we head out?" I asked.
All of them agreed except for Ries who waved at me, "In that case, I'll meet up with you later?"
I raised an eyebrow at her, "You're not joining us?"
"Of course. Please allow me to guide you to your designated dining space, honoured guests."
The waitress gestured towards the interior of the restaurant before walking ahead of us.
Our dining space turned out to be a private room that was reserved for us, just like the restaurant we had been to when I first ate an organic meal with Amber and Mara.
This one had no windows, however, and the waitress made sure to tell us that the room was soundproof and the food will be brought to us course by course. If we needed anything, we just needed to contact the staff through the use of the intercom by tapping on a specific area under our table.
I took a seat at the opulent round table and rubbed my hands together, expecting the meal to be as decadent as what I imagined a five star hotel would serve.
Who knows, maybe they might have fillet mignons? It's been a long time since I had something like that~
No, I don't know how to make one myself, that's why I'm hoping they have them.
It didn't take five minutes before the door opened and our appetisers were served by a pair of waiters.
Two bowls were placed in front of me and I looked down to see what was our first course.
Hmm... Salad and what looks like mushroom soup?
And the salad looks... Err... Like they just took some random vegetables and tossed them in a bowl.
Ok... I guess this is pretty normal? Let's just try them out for now without judging...
I picked up my fork and stuck it inside the bowl, lifting up a few pieces of the salad to my nose to give it a sniff.
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Umm... There's no dressing? That's odd... Maybe it's meant to be eaten without one?
I was about to open my mouth to eat it when I realised everyone else was just staring at me.
"What?" I asked.
"Nothing. We're just waiting to see your reaction to know how disappointed we should be," Mara answered.
Now that's a little mean, don't you think? The waiters haven't even left yet, you know?
I decided to just try it anyway and brought the fork into my mouth to taste the salad.
I started chewing and... It's fucking tasteless.
It just tastes like I'm chewing on leaves... In other words, it tastes like sadness and disappointment.
I called out to the waiters just as they were about to leave, "Excuse me? Do you have any dressing?"
One of them stopped to give me a look that showed he had absolutely no idea what I was talking about.
"My... My apologies, honoured guest. May I ask what is a 'dressing'?"
Oh you've got to be fucking kidding me...