Chapter 1 Fire Dragon City "Hao Qi Grocery Store"
In May, the Fire Dragon Plain of the Shenzhou Continent ushered in the hottest time of the year, the scorching heat made people a little lazy and didn't want to move, even if the sun hadn't risen from the East Mountain, but the feeling of being in a steamer still made people a little breathless.
An ancient beast-shaped city like a dragon's body crawls quietly in the middle of the Fire Dragon Plain, and the dark red city walls are covered with traces of time weathering and swords and axes, majestic with endless vicissitudes. Fire Dragon City, which is also the only Terran city in the entire Fire Dragon Plain, is also one of the oldest cities on the Shenzhou Continent.
In the south of Huolong City, Honglian Street, among the many shops, a shop with "Hao Qi Grocery Store" hanging at the end of the street is particularly shabby compared with the brightly decorated shops around, and even the old plaque is missing a corner. At the moment, the shops on both sides of the street had opened for business an hour ago, and only this grocery store was still closed.
Nearly two hours later, the sun was already showing its power in the middle of the sky, and finally, with a loud noise, the doors of the grocery store were pulled off piece by piece, and the doors were opened. A young man in a blue coarse cloth shortcoat stood in front of the door and stretched out his waist, yawning at the same time.
When the grocery store opened, a girl wearing a white dress, a sweet appearance, and a slightly baby fat face came out of the small restaurant next door. The girl was still holding a large rice bowl in her hand, which was mixed with rice and vegetables, and there was a faint white smoke, obviously not long after the pot.
"Brother Hao Yi, you only get up at this time every day, how can you look like a businessman, if you continue like this, I am afraid that the small shop left by Uncle Hao will really let you open and close the door. The girl held the rice bowl and glared at the front of the grocery store, and the teenager, who had obviously not woken up yet, complained angrily.
"Sister Yunge, how many times have I said it, don't call me Brother Hao Yi, call me Brother Hao!" the young man teased the girl with a cheap smile on his face.
"Don't!" the girl refused a little coquettishly, but then she stuffed the rice bowl to the boy and ran back to the small restaurant next door with a smile.
Looking at the rice bowl in his hand, the young man smiled warmly, hugged the rice bowl, grabbed his hair like a chicken nest, and turned around and walked into the grocery store.
The teenager's name is Hao Yi, and he is the owner of this grocery store, the only employee, and at the same time a time-traveling party. As for the name of this small grocery store, it is the product of his father and his mother's show of affection, his father's name is Hao Ren, and his mother's name is Qi Lan, so this grocery store is called "Hao Qi Grocery Store", but Hao Yi doesn't like this name very much, Hao Qi?
Of course, that's not the point!
This place is called the "Soul Summoning Star", and the Fire Dragon City is located on the Shenzhou Continent of the Spirit Calling Star, and there is a group of people in this world, who are called
"Evoker". Soul callers all have the ability to summon all kinds of spirit pets to fight, and they are strong enough, in Hao Yi's opinion, they are very high-energy, and their combat ability is much more than the superheroes in the hero anime he has seen in his previous life.
Super combat power naturally represents a transcendent status, his parents are soul callers, but the weakest type of chicken, this shop was bought by the two with half a lifetime of savings, and then the two of them took care of the grocery store, from time to time with familiar spirit callers teamed up to go to the fire forest outside the fire dragon city to fight a wild or something, until Hao Yi was eight years old, the two went out and never came back, and it was from that time that Hao Yi started to be a small boss.
The business of the grocery store is not good, otherwise his parents would not have to go out to fight from time to time to supplement the family, and when it was handed over to Hao Yi, they really almost opened and closed the door, but fortunately, with the help of Uncle Lu's family next door, Hao Yi would not sell the shop and house to live.
The little girl who brought him food just now is named Lu Yunge, who is Hao Yi's childhood sweetheart's playmate, and also the pearl of the big boss of Lu's restaurant next door. This small restaurant is an ancestral old shop, Lu Yunge's father Lu Mingsheng is the owner of the restaurant, and he is also a good friend of Hao's father, and he has taken good care of Hao Yi over the years, but Lu Mingsheng is just an ordinary person, and Lu Yunge's mother Sun Jingyi is a spirit summoner, but her combat effectiveness is also the weakest chicken's first-class, and since marrying Lu Mingsheng, he has almost never gone out to fight.
Hao Yi sat at the counter and thought about his thoughts, while he was weakly picking up his meal. Most of the goods in the grocery store were collected by him at a low price in the streets and alleys, but the pills in them were all refined by himself, but what he could refine were all basic pills such as blood pills, jasper pills, and analgesic hemostatic powder, after all, the alchemy was all self-taught, and there were no more advanced pills in his hands, but even so, it made him have a small reputation on this Red Lotus Street.
However, these are not what Hao Yi wants, and he finally crossed into a world that is more explosive than Saint Seiya, is it just to be the owner of a small grocery store? That's too salty.
In order to become a glorious soul caller, Hao Yi learned everything he could know about the spirit caller at a very young age. On this Evoker Star, there is a God-given summoning book hidden in the soul of every newborn child of the human race, but only a very few people can manifest their summoning book from the soul, and similarly, the embodiment of the summoning book is also one of the prerequisites for becoming a spirit caller.
It's a pity that Hao Yi has not been able to complete this step so far!
Not qualified?
Hao Yi is not afraid of this, it has been proved that as long as there is money, it is possible to fill the deficiency in this area, no matter what level it can reach in the future, but there is no problem in obtaining the identity of a spirit summoner, this is common sense, there is no need to inquire at all, he is also working in this direction. What he is afraid of is that because of the crossing, the rules of the world will classify him as a "black household". Since it is a black household, it is naturally not in the scope of "divine gift", and there is no summoning treasure book in the soul, how to manifest it?
"What about the little boss?" Just when Hao Yi was worrying about his future road while picking up rice in his mouth, an uncle with a slightly chubby figure and two mustaches walked into the store, and the leather armor on his body was shiny.
Not every Soul Caller can mix well, like the one in front of you!
"Uncle Wen, you just came back from outside, what good things did you bring back this time?" Hao Yi This small grocery store not only sells to the outside world, but also buys some things at a low price, buys them low, packages them and then sells them at a high price, which has always been the main business of the small grocery store.
After being the boss for so many years, Hao Yi has also met a lot of soul callers who are mixed in the bottom, every time they go out and come back, there will always be something to deal with in their hands, Hao Yi's price is not too dark, and he will give a certain discount when shopping here, so naturally many people will choose him here.
"Yes, I helped you collect a lot of the medicinal materials you asked for before, and by the way, I will buy some necessities from you, and I will have to go to the Earth Fire Forest again soon. Uncle Wen said as he embodied his summoning book in front of him. The treasure book is in a quaint bronze color, and the cover and back have a picture of a hundred beasts with a dark wind, and they are half armed, which is full of envy in Hao Yi's eyes.
The summoning book is equivalent to a large-scale space equipment, which can not only be used as a free-range spirit pet and a warehouse to store items, but also can be used to create a summoning space in depth, and develop planting, breeding, manufacturing and other industries, it is a small space that belongs to an individual, and it will also grow with the growth of the spirit caller.
It is precisely because of this characteristic of the treasure book that many goods have no market here.
"So urgent?" Hao Yi was a little surprised, the Earth Fire Forest was the largest resource point in the Fire Dragon Plain, located under the Earth Fire Ridge in the southeast of Fire Dragon City, it was an underground forest. It is true that the resources in the Earth Fire Forest are abundant, but the number of spirit beasts is equally terrifying, even if it is only the outermost part, there is still a lot of risk for these lowest-level spirit callers, everyone has a strong desire to survive, except for a few battle maniacs, few people will go to the Earth Fire Forest for a long time, or in a row.
"Yes, I took a temporary commission, I'm in a hurry, you will bring me three of your gift packages. As he spoke, Uncle Wen had already taken out a small pile of various medicinal materials from the treasure book space, all of which were low-grade goods, and Hao Yi needed to refine several basic pills.
"No problem!"
The so-called gift package, the full name of which is "Essential Gift Package for Survival in the Wild", contains five commonly used elixirs, special containers that can be used to preserve some special materials, ordinary insect repellent powder, and some simple tools. Wrapping everything together, plus a nice gimmick, sells for more than 10% more than selling these things alone.
But this trick is surprisingly good for these spirit callers!
One out and one in, Hao Yi still has to make up fifty gold coins, but this transaction can make Hao Yi a small profit.
"Good luck with your trip!" Hao Yi smiled and sent Uncle Wen out of the store, his small shop was not competitive with other large pharmacies, so he had to spend more energy to maintain the relationship with these old customers.
This batch of medicinal materials must be processed as soon as possible, refined into finished pills, and replenished the store's inventory, and there must be no accidents at this point.