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Harmon did not necessarily try to actively expand the village.

It was difficult to do so because most of the surrounding forces had already been absorbed by Flora, but there was also no need to put in the effort to gather people.

When the Guldari Guild went far away and spread the rumor, people would wander the wilderness, desperately trying to find Guldari Village and flock there.

The size of the village would grow on its own if left alone, so there was no point in wasting effort and energy on such a place.

What Harmon cared about was making sure the town could create its own economy.

The Guldari Guild sends out collectors to fetch supplies for the village, distributes them to the village, and receives money for doing so.

When the primary producer, Guldari Guild, distributes the supplies, the secondary producers, technicians including Harmon Maintenance, disassemble the machines they have acquired, clean the dirty ones, melt down the unusable ones, remake them into new ones, and redistribute them.

Some places make and sell the necessary tools from it, while others produce parts and provide parts and equipment so that collectors or villagers can do simple repairs themselves.

In this way, tertiary producers produce various items while managing the tools necessary for production with the help of secondary producers.

Candy’s clothing store. A restaurant that makes food. A popular oily shop, Safe Maker.

Primary and secondary producers who have earned a lot of money enjoy luxury and pleasure with the goods made by such tertiary producers, supplying money to the town market, and all primary, secondary, and tertiary producers pay money to the workers they hire, and these workers in turn spend money in the market, making money roll over.

A constant flow of money.

A stable and fully maintained capitalist market.

As soon as the flow of money stabilized to some extent, other flows began to emerge.

A person who wants to buy things at a cheaper price.

People who want to get something that isn’t sold in bulk like drugs.

Anyone who wants to equip themselves with dangerous weapons.

Or, there are those who say that the mechanical transplant surgery at Dahlia’s hospital is too expensive and would rather get it done by a quack doctor.

The dark flow of money.

Black market.

It was an inevitable cancer that would arise as the market grew larger.

The black market is a different picture from the typical Guldari town. It is a more primitive and primal scene, closer to a wilderness era.

The place where such a black market is located is inside the second wall, where a big shot of a safe maker who rules the black market has set up a black market by deploying his subordinates while avoiding the eyes of others.

“There was a place like this.”

“Is it strange?”

Rupert, a young man who came to the black market to play, was amazed by the unique appearance of the market and said to his friend,

“Yeah. You found this place, right? Rice.”

“I work at Safemaker.”

They are two young men whose conversation Harmon had previously overheard, and Rice, who works at Safemaker, invited his friend Rupert here after he accidentally leaked a story about the black market.

“This is the center of the barrier. The walls are thicker than the rest, and there is nothing there except for the power sources that maintain the machinery installed in the barrier.”

“Ah. So this empty space… … .”

“That’s right. What did they say? They said they made an empty space to dissipate the heat from the power source, right? That’s what we’re using.”

“Aha.”

Rupert finally realized why it was so hot. Wiping away the sweat, he looked around and saw that, unlike the village with its neatly arranged buildings, there were shabby tents made of old cloth and iron pipes.

“What do you usually do here?”

“They sell just about anything. Banned drugs… They sell regular drugs, and other things… Hey, that store sells some unidentified drug.”

Rice points to the blue tent as an example.

“They say it’s a medicine that was kept in a safe. They took the medicine they bought there and died, but one of them gained great power and is active in the cage these days.”

“Ah! Could that be the guy who came to mind recently?”

“That’s right. That kid is a huge hit at that store.”

Cage.

It is a place where hot-blooded people wager money and open a gambling table to fight each other, which has become a culture since the old fighting festivals.

As interest grew to a certain extent, a trend began to develop players by gathering all kinds of people, such as those who were not brave enough to become scavengers but were good at fighting people, those who had enough skills but did not want to suffer as scavengers, or those who were just loafing around with nothing to do.

Although the market is still small, it has developed to the point where nearly 100 people can make a living centered around cages.

“Use it.”

“Why, are you interested?”

“If you get stronger, you can find work more easily and make more money.”

“Haha. Shall we go once?”

“… Your face has brightened up a lot. Is that because you work in the black market?”

“Well, that’s right. Since I’m less tired now. Sir, show me some stuff.”

As Rice approached, the store manager looked at the Safemaker overalls he was wearing, then looked at Rice’s face.

The moment he confirmed that it was not a scammer wearing Safemaker clothes, but a Safemaker employee whose records he had checked, the store manager smiled brightly and handed over the items.

“Oh my, welcome! Where, is there something you want?”

“Oh wow. You’re really bowing down.”

“If you get caught by us, you won’t be able to do business. Is there anything you want to buy?”

“Um.”

Rupert looked over the potion and said,

“Use it.”

“Why?”

“Would it hurt if I got hit?”

“I guess so?”

“Okay then.”

Rice nodded, saying she understood what Rupert meant.

In the first place, they had stopped by the black market today for another purpose.

“Let’s go to the hospital first.”

At Rupert’s words, Rice led him to a hospital in the black market.

The hospital was very different from Dahlia General Hospital, which had a neat and clean exterior and was kept clean without a single speck of dirt or blood.

First of all, since it was a hospital, they did show signs of concern about cleanliness, but all they did was use clean tents and deodorizers so there was no smell. In the operating room, which was clearly visible from the outside, there were three patients waiting for the next surgery and one patient undergoing surgery, as if they were receiving patients continuously.

The patient undergoing surgery had his leg cut open, the leg bone was removed, and a machine was inserted into it. The doctor, who quickly and neatly completed the transplant surgery, used a laser suture machine to close the wound, and then sent the patient away, moving on to the next patient.

customer.

It wasn’t a doctor-patient relationship.

Doctor and guest.

“Okay, over here. Hey! Chunsik!”

When Rice called the doctor, the doctor turned his head from injecting the guest with a drug that would also be an anesthetic, and greeted Rice happily.

“Oh! It’s you. What’s up?”

Rice approached Chunshik and wanted to have a quick chat, but then introduced him to Rupert.

“My friend brought me here because he wanted to transplant a new machine.”

“Oh~. Really? Hmm. Wait a minute.”

Chunshik sat the two down at the table for a while and brought out some tea. After quickly finishing the guests’ surgeries, he closed the tent and chatted with the two.

“Okay, what would you like to transplant?”

“Hmm. Rupert, where have you been?”

“Here. This is something I got from Harmon’s repair shop. It’s a gun that can be mounted on your finger.”

“Hmm. Is it because of recent events?”

Drug war.

In the aftermath, people increasingly wanted something that could protect them, and Rupert was one of them.

When Rupert nodded, Chunsik nodded, saying he understood, after measuring the length of Rupert’s body and the machine he had brought.

“The size is roughly right. It should be able to be transplanted without any major problems. Now, lie down on the table.”

It was not long after Rupert’s surgery began.

As they were carefully removing the bones, starting with the fingers, to insert the machine into Rupert’s body, the door to the tent, which had been closed, suddenly opened and someone came in.

“Hey, hey! I said no trespassing! Who are you!”

When someone came in without even leaving the tent door open, Chunsik got annoyed, and Rice frowned at the fact that her friend’s surgery was interrupted.

“[I’m sorry.]”

The man who opened the tent and came in spoke in a voice that sounded very mechanical, then turned his head and looked at Rice.

“[Excuse me.]”

“Hey, hey, my friend’s in surgery right now? Sorry, after he’s done… … .”

“[If someone saw this, they would think this was Dahlia General Hospital.]”

When Rice tried to send him back, the man laughed incredulously and grabbed Rice by the neck.

“Ugh! Ugh!”

“Okay, wait! Wait!”

Chunsik is embarrassed and approaches the man to stop him.

“Hey! We agreed not to make a big fuss in return for the surgery!”

“[I also asked you to fully cooperate with my surgery.]”

“Ugh! … I’m not saying I won’t do it, but I’m saying you’re a friend of a friend! Just take care of it a little and give me the surgery, and then I can take care of you!”

“[… Okay, next time, explain the situation in detail and ask for understanding. Be polite. Got it?]”

The man who had put down the rice finally sat down as if satisfied, and Rice, whose throat was tightly choked, looked at Chunshik while wiping the blood flowing from his torn skin.

“Hey, what the hell is going on here?”

Rice usually didn’t care much about the circumstances of her guests, but judging from the meaningful conversation between this man who suddenly appeared and Chunshik, she felt like she had to know the circumstances between these two.

“No, that’s, ha… .I, I’ll do the surgery first.”

Chunsik, who was about to say something, noticed the man’s expression and ran away to the surgery room, and the man snatched the tea Rice was drinking and drank it.

“Chunshik, that kid. Hey, you say it. You… … .”

Explain the situation.

Rice, who was about to say that, closed her mouth.

“[Why is that?]”

Rice places her hands under her eyes and covers the man’s lower body in front of him, looking puzzled.

The upper part of the face, exposed after the machine-made lower body was removed, revealed the man’s true impression. In contrast to his intimidating attitude and huge size, his youthful face was…

“You.”

It was a face that Rice, who loved and enjoyed cages, could not help but recognize.

“Domino. Yeah. That was the name. Didn’t he die then?”

“[… Phew. I didn’t wear a suit because I was so stuffy, damn it.]”