Chapter 9 Appointments
When Alan took the badge made of solid gold with a carriage on it from Murray and wore it on his chest. A golden light suddenly emanated from his body, and in this short moment, Eren felt that he had some kind of connection with the badge.
Although Alan himself couldn't explain this feeling, he clearly knew that from this moment on, he could be regarded as a real businessman, a real businessman affiliated with the Imperial Royal Chamber of Commerce.
Coming out of Murray's office, Alan followed Lido into a small room that looked inconspicuous from the outside, but there was nothing in the room except for a device that emitted a faint purple light and didn't know what it was for.
"Put your hand here, and aim the ring at where it glows. Lido pointed to a tray-like spot on the instrument and said to Allen.
I don't know why, but Alan did as she said and put his hand on it.
Immediately after Lido pressed the mechanism, the device was activated, and the storage ring in her hand rotated, while a series of obscure inscriptions were engraved on the ring through the place where the ring came into contact with the machine.
Less than a minute later, as the ring stopped turning, the instrument stopped working, and it was back to the way it had been when the two of them had first entered.
"Okay, the communication magic has been successfully attached to your storage ring, and in the future, you can communicate with each other as long as you use your mind, of course, provided that you know the other party's key!"
As she spoke, Lido gently touched her storage ring with Allen's, and a voice sounded in her head: "Get the key and successfully add Lido Chrissy to the communication directory!"
"Then, Mr. Allen, Lido is honored to announce to you that from now on, you will officially join our Imperial Royal Chamber of Commerce as a transport merchant!"
"Transport merchant?"
"That's right, even though you've already earned the status of a merchant recognized by the Empire, as a newcomer to join, you'll have to start as a transport merchant with the lowest privileges, and earn points by completing the Chamber of Commerce's commissions, and as long as you accumulate a certain number of points, the corresponding high-level permissions will be available to you. ”
After listening to Lido's explanation, Alan nodded in a sudden understanding, it turned out that this businessman, like other professions, also has a strict hierarchy. Really responded to that sentence: there is really no easy job in this world!
After coming out of the Chamber of Commerce, Alan followed Lido's suggestion to the transport beast cart trading market just across the wall, that is, the mule and horse market in another world. Although the transport merchant was the least powerful of all the merchants, he was also the first class with the largest number of people, so it was natural that the other shrewd merchants would not miss such a large market, and even opened their business directly next door to the general chamber of commerce.
But just when Alan turned left and turned right to see that he finally took a fancy to a large beast car equipped with three polar snow demon deer, the price of the owner of the car dealership directly forcibly strangled all the desire to buy in the cradle.
"Forty silver coins, why don't you grab it?"
"What does a newcomer who only has the right to transport know? Do you know how difficult it is to get this polar snow devil deer? From capture, transportation to indoctrination and domestication, which one does not cost anything? This is still the friendship price given to you for the sake of you and I are the same chamber of commerce, if it were someone else, you can buy at least sixty silver coins, believe it or not?"
Just when Alan wanted to bargain with the boss further, YUMA couldn't help but say, "I really don't understand, the storage ring with a large storage space is on your hand, why do you want to come here to buy any beast carts?"
LISTENING TO YUMA'S COMPLAINTS, ALAN DIDN'T IMMEDIATELY EXPLAIN TO HER, BUT POINTED TO THE BODY OF THE BEAST CAR, "DO YOU SEE THE MAGIC MARK ON IT? THAT'S A MARK THAT CAN ONLY BE FOUND BY A BEAST CAR REGISTERED IN THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, AND ONLY BY USING SUCH A BEAST CAR TO COMPLETE THE COMMISSION CAN YOU GET POINTS." ”
"How do you know so well?"
"It's all from that book!"
"Oh...... But even so, there's no need to buy such an expensive one right away!"
"Do you think I want to? Do you see the number at the bottom of that mark? That represents the level of the beast cart itself, the higher the level, the more likely it is to receive more advanced commissions, so that you can get more points and open higher permissions!"
"That's it?"
"Or else?"
"Say it sooner, then you just have to ......."
……
"What? fifty cars? Are you sure? Not kidding?" exclaimed the owner of the car dealership, who had thought Alan was going to bargain with him, after hearing his words.
"No joke, of course, fifty carriages, the lowest of the ranks. No problem, right?"
"If you really want it, there is no problem, the lowest carriage is fifty copper coins each, and if you have fifty carriages, you will be twenty silver coins. However, it is stated in advance that once the animal car in our store is sold, it cannot be returned without a special reason, and the quantity you want is too much, and it will not be delivered until three days later at the earliest. ”
"No problem!" said Allen, putting a small money bag on the counter, "pay you half of the deposit first, and settle the rest after delivery, and send it to my personal container after it is ready." ”
"Deal! Thank you for your patronage!"
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"I've done what you said, what's next?" asked Alan a little impatiently as soon as he came out of the store.
Didn't the shopkeeper say that it would take three days to deliver the goods? ”
"Cut, I'm still selling the guanzi, I want to see what kind of moth you can make when the time comes. With that, Alan strode to his next destination.
With the magic map in hand, Alan easily found the location of the "cat house" that "Xiao Yueyue" said.
"Welcome to the cat house!, please sit casually!" As soon as he entered the door, a girl dressed in a maid's costume greeted Eren warmly.
On the other side, "Xiao Yueyue", who seemed to have been here for a long time, stood up and beckoned to him as soon as he saw Allen, "Little brother, you are here!"
As soon as she sat down, the maid girl brought a wet towel and a glass of ice water, and placed a beautifully crafted menu in front of Alan.
"How's the service? It's my favorite restaurant, every dish on the menu is delicious, but my favorite is the manager's secret tonkatsu, would you like to try it?"
As soon as he heard the word "store manager", Alan immediately remembered the uncle who sold cold drinks who gave him the magic map, presumably the "store manager" in his mouth was the owner of this store, right? No wonder there was a strong sense of disobedience as soon as he entered. Although he had been mentally prepared for this after learning that he was not the only traverser, Alan never imagined that the encounter with the other traversers would come so quickly and so suddenly.
"Xiao Yueyue" was still telling Alan Anli about the pork cutlet, but Alan didn't seem to hear it, just silently looked at every dish on the menu, until he read the whole menu, and then said to the maid pretending to be a girl: "Let's have a staff meal!"
As soon as these words came out, not only "Xiao Yueyue", but even the girl was stunned, "I'm sorry guest, what did you just order?"
"A staff meal, thank you!"
"You're really strange, even if you don't like my recommendation, you can't order food indiscriminately!" As he spoke, "Xiao Yueyue" picked up a large piece of tonkatsu stained with sauce as if he was angry, and chewed it with a clatter.
"Compared to this, isn't the reward you promised me ......" said Allen, and stretched out his right hand and rubbed his fingers towards "Xiao Yueyue".
"If I wanted to pay my bills, I wouldn't have waited so long for you. It's just ......," he said, taking out a beautiful brocade box from his bosom and putting it in front of Alan.
"What is this?" Seeing that "Xiao Yueyue" didn't take out a money bag, Alan said with a little displeasure.
"Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to pay the bill, on the contrary, thanks to your help, I was able to get back in time, or the devil knows what would have happened. That's why I thought the reward I promised you was too little, so I changed the reward to this without permission. ”
Hearing this, Allen's face looked better, but when he opened the brocade box, the whole person was a little uneasy, Alan never thought that the inside of the brocade box was ......