Chapter Twenty-Nine: The Black Gold City
In the small courtyard of the Zhang family, Zhang Ling'er helped her mother Zhang Luo have dinner, Huang Ling went to Yixiao Space to have a private meeting with Yu Ni, there were three men sitting in the courtyard, Zhang Sai father and son and Yan Xiao, Yan Xiao was stared straight by the two pairs of scrutinizing eyes, and was thinking about how not to violate the agreement with Zhang Ling'er, and to analyze things clearly.
Zhang Sai's nine-year-old son Zhang Qian was the first to speak: "Brother-in-law, I also want a wolf cub." ”
"Huh?"
Before Yan Xiao could react, Zhang Sai became angry, and gave his son a violent shudder: "The wolf cub is the life-saving money in the village, do you think it's a toy?" Zhang Qian hugged his head and ran out, not forgetting to throw a self-righteous flattering glance at Yan Xiao.
There were only two people left in the hospital, and it was not embarrassing to stare at each other for a while, Zhang Sai raised his breath several times, and wanted to say something, but he was forced to go back. finally stayed up until dinner, Zhang's mother eagerly let Yan Xiao and Zhang Ling'er sit together, and also served Yan Xiao with vegetables from time to time, so that Yan Xiao did not have to be restrained, saying that this was his own home, and his expression was obviously very satisfied with this future son-in-law.
After Xiao Li Qian got a Stacked Cloud Sword, he was even more of a brother-in-law, and his brother-in-law kept shouting. Even Zhang Sai, who had been bored with his head and cooking, said tightly under Zhang's mother's soft eyes: "Xiao Yan, I know that you are not an ordinary person, our Ling'er followed you, it is her blessing, I only hope you can be more attentive to Ling'er in the future." ”
Zhang Ling'er was afraid that Yan Xiao would say too much, so she immediately took Yan Xiao's hand and said, "Old man, you don't have to worry about this, if he dares to bully me, I will go home." ”
The meal was so enjoyable that Yan Xiao even really accepted his new identity for a moment.
The next day, Yan Xiao, Huang Ling, Zhang Sai, Zhang Wu and Zhang Ling'er set off for Black Gold City. Zhang Ling'er left Xiao Jin at home, naturally afraid that his father would regret it after knowing the truth; Huang Ling, who originally wanted to choose a wolf cub to accompany Yu Ni, dismissed the idea after Yan Xiao said that raising wolf cubs would increase energy consumption, and said that the two old men would not tame beasts, and raising a wolf cub was also troublesome.
The black gold city is a new city that has not experienced catastrophe, there are wide streets in the city, and there are all kinds of means of transportation on it, some people control swords, some people drive, some people ride domesticated beasts, a few people who just arrived at the city gate were amazed by the prosperity of the city, and the performance of several people did not seem abrupt, because they entered the city and got other people were mostly stunned, and the people in the city were already surprised by this.
When Yan Xiao entered the city, he found that the people here were completely different from the comfort and leisure in the village, they were all in a hurry, their brows were tightly locked, and even the woman at the city gate who helped the hotel to solicit business was also after listening to the demands of several people, so she hurriedly picked up everyone's luggage and led the way, urging everyone to go faster from time to time. The woman hurriedly led the group to a small inn called Heshun, and then hurried to the city gate to continue to solicit her next guest.
After a few people settled down in the hotel, Huang Ling and Zhang Sai went out to understand the market, Zhang Ling'er pestered Yan Xiao to go out for a stroll, and Zhang Wu stayed behind.
Originally, the agreement between Yan Xiao and Zhang Ling'er had been reached, and on the way to Black Gold City, Yan Xiao wanted to tell the truth several times, but Zhang Ling'er stopped him for various reasons, and later Zhang Ling'er also took his hand and said coquettishly: "Now if my father knows the truth, he will definitely teach me a hard lesson, and if I don't do it, I will regret it, anyway, you won't stay long, don't demolish me." Yan Xiao had never been able to refuse the girl's request, and besides, he also enjoyed the relaxed state when he got along with Zhang Ling'er, so the relationship between the two became more and more unclear.
Yan Xiao, who wanted to go out to buy a map, was dragged by Zhang Ling'er to wander around the market for a while, and he didn't see anyone selling maps, but after buying a bunch of small objects, he found a place called 'Huiyu Xing' from the hawker's mouth.
Huiyuxing is just a small shop on the side of the street, with a place of more than ten square meters full of low cabinets and information symbols on display. Yan Xiao wanted a symbol to check it, but was rejected by the boss, saying that he could only see it after he bought it, and then he introduced the types of maps like Yan Xiao, all kinds of maps with different precisions and different ranges, with different prices, among which the most and cheapest is the map in the Black Gold City, followed by the map within a radius of thousands of miles and several nearby cities, and there is only one map of the entire Heyang Star, and its price is as high as an outrageous 100,000.
Zhang Ling'er couldn't help but ask, "A broken map, so expensive?"
The boss glanced at the two of them and said contemptuously: "There are some things that not everyone deserves to know." ”
Yan Xiao gritted his teeth and pointed to the map of Heyang Star and said, "I want this." ”
When the boss heard this, he immediately became overjoyed: "Sir, swiping a card or cash?"
"What card?"
"Starlink card! It's the same with cash, it's the same. ”
The boss quickly took Yan Xiao's money, and continued with a smile while counting: "Sir, if you still want the 'Purple Ink Star' or the map of the entire Nine Star Realm, I can also transfer it from the headquarters." ”
When Yan Xiao sent his soul sense into the symbol and checked the map, Yan Xiao understood the boss's last sentence, "Once the goods in our store are sold, they will not be returned or exchanged." "What's the intention, it turns out that nearly three-quarters of the entire map is gray, just named with some simple names, such as the Black Wood Forest, the Green Water Pool, the Misty Sea, etc., no matter how he narrows the visual distance, the terrain of these places is almost the same, and its accuracy is not as good as Zhang Sai's old animal skin, only near the cities have detailed identifications.
The boss obviously felt that he was a little wrong, and in order to prevent Yan Xiao from regretting it, he took the initiative to send a fine map of the Black Gold City as compensation. Yan Xiao didn't say anything, since he chose it on his own initiative, even if he was cheated, he would admit it.
What's more, he doesn't feel that he has been pitted, because Yiyi likes this map very much, as soon as Yiyi gets the map, he optimizes it, and marks Qiyuan Village, Zhang Village, and the black wood forest where Yan Xiao has acted on the map, and these places that Yan Xiao has experienced will become extremely fine, and even a single grass and tree can be clearly seen, like an illusory three-dimensional space.
After Yan Xiao opened up the subspace, her understanding of space has been significantly deepened, and she has the ability to directly incorporate objects into Yixiao's space, but it also consumes energy, but it is still far from Yiyi, and Yiyi's innate understanding of space is becoming more and more advanced as she continues to grow.
And Yiyi recently discovered another function of the necklace, it turns out that the necklace not only contains a lot of spatial information, but also has the ability to be invisible, but this invisibility is not an ordinary invisibility, just like at this time, Yiyi, who is floating above Yan Xiao's head, is constantly directing Yan Xiao to go here and there, but only Yan Xiao can see her, if it weren't for not being able to leave Yan Xiao too far, it is estimated that Yan Xiao would not have been able to see her for a long time.
In this way, under the guidance of the two girls, Yan Xiao walked all the way to the beginning of the lanterns before returning to the hotel tiredly, the two girls were having a good time, but unfortunately Yan Xiao didn't have many Star Alliance coins left. And his only gain is that he found that most people in the city will pay their bills with something called Starlink Card when they buy things.
As soon as Yan Xiao, who was shy in his pocket, returned to the hotel and dragged Huang Ling to discuss the plan to make money, he experienced half a day of city life, which completely made Yan Xiao understand the importance of money.