After passing through the enthusiastic vendors area, Bai Qiyun arrived at the center of the Grand Bazaar.

In the center of the Grand Bazaar stands a stage like this.

It is made entirely of logs, with a height of about three to five meters and an area of ​​about 500 square meters. The area near the stage is mostly decorated with flowers, and there are no exquisite decorations.

Under the stage, there are no exclusive viewing seats, but people are allowed to stop and watch.

Even when selling tickets, fees are only charged based on people's wishes. If someone really watched a whole song and dance from a distance, no one would charge him.

Bai Qiyun is exactly like this now.

He stood on the street corner in the distance and watched the people gathered around him cheering for the girl performing on the stage.

There is a girl on the stage who is dancing gracefully and gracefully, showing her youthful and beautiful figure to everyone present.

The girl had long bright red hair, wore aqua blue clothes, a white scarf on her head, and two horn-like decorations on the top of her forehead.

The girl's clothes have a strong Xumi zone color, and simply put, they leak too much.

The entire upper body of the person is like wearing a bra, leaving the entire abdomen exposed.

The lower body was also in a short skirt that did not reach the knees, completely exposing her fair and jade-like skin to the air.

Showing the hot style of Xumi area.

After a while, the girl finished her dance, and the crowd around her immediately burst into deafening cheers, which shocked Bai Qiyun who was standing far away.

"Nilu! You dance so well!"

"One more, Miss Nilu!"

From the enthusiastic cheers of the audience, Bai Qiyun learned the girl's name.

I think this must be one of the members of the Zubair Theater that Pigal mentioned.

Moreover, he felt a strong elemental fluctuation from the girl's body, indicating that she was also a holder of the Eye of God.

Accompanied by a burst of loud applause, Nilu on the stage gently grabbed the hem of her skirt, bowed to everyone in the audience, and stepped back with a smile on her face.

I have to say that Nelu's looks are quite impressive, even compared to Mondstadt's idol Barbara.

And compared to the attire of the praying priest, Nilu's clothes are more eye-catching.

Perhaps this is one of the reasons why the business of Zubair Theater has been so long-lasting.

"Then, the next step is..."

Bai Qiyun emerged from the street corner, only to find a figure suddenly flashing across the crowd in front of him.

Unlike the rest of the cheering audience, that person was in a hurry and didn't seem to be an audience coming to watch the performance.

Moreover, his physical strength is not something that ordinary people can possess.

With a thought in his heart, Bai Qiyun immediately chased after the man.

In order not to be discovered, he deliberately hung a hundred meters behind the man, relying on Yandora's elemental power to continuously track the man's traces.

Soon, he passed through the busiest neighborhood in the Grand Bazaar and came to a slightly remote alley.

Bai Qiyun stopped outside the alley, and with a flash of water on his hand, an extremely delicate bird flew out of his hand and flew towards the alley.

The little guy passed everything he saw to Yandora, and Yandora passed it into Bai Qiyun's mind through a contract.

In an instant, Bai Qiyun had a panoramic view of everything in the alley.

A man wearing a turban was talking to the person he was chasing in the alley.

Because pure water creatures cannot transmit sound, he can only roughly judge what they said through their conversation movements.

Fortunately, the message conveyed by the picture was not just that. Bai Qiyun saw the conspicuous symbol on the turban man's turban.

If he remembered correctly, it was the logo of a very prestigious local chamber of commerce in Xumiru.

Combined with the sneaky actions of the two people, the answer is self-evident. The force that wants to target the Zubair venue is probably the Chamber of Commerce.

Unlike Liyue Mondstadt, Xumi's Chamber of Commerce controls, in a sense, the entire Xumi's eating, drinking, and eating.

Although the Imperial Academy is very prestigious, they actually don't care about fields other than academics.

Even the Disciplinary Officer, another major branch of the Order, only pursues those very serious and dangerous incidents that can endanger the people.

Therefore, the Imperial Academy has never really cared much about people's livelihood.

However, the development of productivity brought about by technological innovation through knowledge is real.

Therefore, even when they are indifferent, the quality of life of the people in Xumi is still maintained at a good level.

But it is precisely because of this that many gray areas of wealth and power have arisen.

The Imperial Academy doesn't care about these aspects, but that doesn't mean it doesn't care about the wealth it brings. After all, experiments and other things require funds.

Therefore, the Apostolic Council opened up the power of these matters to various chambers of commerce. While allowing them to allocate Xumi materials, it only required them to pay taxes based on a certain proportion of their income every year.

This undoubtedly delegates huge power to the Chamber of Commerce.

You must know that even the Chamber of Commerce in Liyue, which has extremely developed commerce, must accept the supervision of Liyue Seven Stars.

But in Xumi, the Chamber of Commerce is a huge entity to ordinary people.

For example, for daily necessities in a region, they have the power to price and ration them.

If a resident of an area offends a big boss in a certain chamber of commerce, the other party can adjust the prices of goods in that person's area, or even cut off the supply of goods for a period of time.

And if someone says, "Ah, why don't you go to other chambers of commerce to buy it?", then they actually don't understand Xumi's chamber of commerce system.

Precisely because the Order completely delegated power to the chamber of commerce, the chamber of commerce within Xumi was divided into several systems led by large chambers of commerce.

Gradually, with the "tacit understanding" of several major chambers of commerce, they achieved commercial monopolies in different fields and did not infringe on each other's tracks.

For example, the Killer Whale Chamber of Commerce, which is in charge of the Sumeru fishery, and the Herbaceous Grass Chamber of Commerce, which is in charge of agriculture, will never sell the products sold by the other party.

Therefore, every chamber of commerce is equivalent to an insurmountable business peak in its own field.

Normally, this is not a big problem for an ordinary person.

But if there is a conflict between the two, or if the market changes, consumers will have no say at all in front of the chamber of commerce.

After all, the major chambers of commerce have a tacit understanding to avoid each other.

Without competition, consumers are at the mercy of others.

But fortunately, Xumi's productivity is really developed, and the Ecclesiastical Council is nominally watching over it, so large-scale commercial turmoil has never happened.

But secretly, there are endless attempts to target Zubair Theater to benefit themselves.

Although Bai Qiyun didn't stay in Xumi for a long time, he felt deeply about the local atmosphere filled with dirty transactions between chambers of commerce.

Because he had seen the stall owner before when he went out to buy alchemy materials. He looked respectful to people from the chamber of commerce to which he belonged.

That kind of appearance is definitely beyond the respect of ordinary business partners.

It's almost like kneeling down to be someone's grandson.

After all, your financial lifeline is completely in the hands of others, so you can't be disrespectful.

After remembering the face of the turbaned man in his heart, Bai Qiyun did not choose to alert the enemy, but once again escaped and returned to the Zubair Theater.

At this time, a new dancer has been replaced on the stage, and the girl named Nilu from before has gone nowhere.

Although he accepted Bigal's commission, Bai Qiyun did not choose to contact the people at Zubair Theater immediately. Instead, he found a small restaurant nearby where he could eat and drink and sit down.

After seeing the sneaky behavior of the man in the turban just now, he guessed that the other party would make further moves soon.

Sure enough, before he could finish the curry rice in front of him, a group of people rushed towards the theater from the other side of the block.

That look reminded Bai Qiyun of Rolfo from before.

But unlike those street gangsters, the leader this time was polite and polite, and did not have the aura of a gangster. On the contrary, he looked somewhat similar to the scholars in the Imperial Academy.

But Bai Qiyun could tell that this man was definitely pretending. Compared to the scholar, he could smell the smell of copper from that man's body even though he was far away.

If nothing else, this person should be from that chamber of commerce.

The arrival of the unexpected guests made the theater audience even more excited.

This group of people had been here once before and had a conflict with Zubair Theater staff.

But at that time, people from the Grand Bazaar helped, so the other party could only escape in despair without sufficient preparation.

But when I came today, it seemed that I was well prepared.

"Sheikh Zubair."

The man who led the Chamber of Commerce stood in front of the owner of Zubair Theater and called out his name.

The middle-aged man named Sheikh Zubair had a slightly melancholy look on his face, but he still acted extremely tough when facing people from the Chamber of Commerce.

"Wells, you have disturbed the normal operation of our theater by bringing so many people here. If you don't leave, I will notify the guards."

Sheikh Zubair spoke righteously and had a firm look on his face. He was not afraid of these large chambers of commerce in Sumeru, which could be said to cover the sky with one hand.

Upon hearing this, Wells smiled contemptuously, glanced at the audience with his brown eyes, and waved his hand.

"Surround this place for me."
To be continued...