197. The Value of a Slave (Part I)
I hurried back to the entrance of the slave market, almost all the way was running fast, through the hypocritical faces hidden behind the mask of indifference, my heart was a little regretful at the moment, I was so numb that I could see the werewolf of the beast clan, to the point of being indifferent, time had worn out the last bit of attachment to my childhood to the point that there was only one layer but like the mark of the light veil, thinking of this, my heart did not know why an inexplicable tremor rose, I don't know when, even after this layer of light veil disappeared, what could be left in my mind at that time!
Bobby behind me was far behind me, he panted and chased after me, puzzled to see me run to the door of the slave market like crazy, standing in the endless stream of people, silently looking at the wall not far away, at this time there was a group of slaves waiting to be sold, the original children who were racing the sun had disappeared, I stood helplessly in the flow of people, I didn't know where to start. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Bobby caught up with a gasp and put his arm around my shoulders and said, "Forget it, Jia, if you miss someone in the slave market, the chances of seeing her are very small, and the population here is extremely volatile, who do you want to know?"
"People from my tribe!" I said, somewhat frustrated.
"People from your tribe?" Bobby looked a little puzzled, he turned his head to look at me carefully, and then said, "You never told me that you still have a clan tribe, you are an exile from the wilderness?"
I shook my head and looked far away in the direction of the Pai Plateau, a few hundred miles west of the city, in the mountains at the eastern foot of Pai, there was a hidden river called Ulutu, where the water was below freezing all year round, and all animals that jumped into the river would be frozen into ice lumps in a matter of minutes, and there was a town in the liveliest part of the orc tribe, its name was Gurudin, which should be considered my childhood home.
"No, my hometown is in the Pai Plateau, there is a beautiful and rich town of Gurudin, my brother lives there, he probably has his new territory now, his territory is drowning, it is full of undead and dangerous monsters, and it is also the best hunting ground for the adventure group, if I have the chance, I can take you there for a walk. I shook my head vigorously, shook the frustration out of my head, looked at Bobby's concerned gaze, and said to him sincerely.
Although Bobby, the fat man, has no talent for magic, is lazy, and is only a second-level magic apprentice until now, and is one of the worst in our class, his extremely sincere eyes and enthusiasm for his friends fill my heart with warmth.
"It's no wonder that your hometown is in the orc tribe! no wonder your body is always burning with infinite war spirit, did you actually live there when you were a child?" Bobby said to me in amazement, as if he had discovered a new world.
The two of us walked back shoulder to shoulder at the slave market, and he said excitedly: "If you grew up in the orc tribe, you must be interested in the food of the orc tribe! I know that there is a restaurant near the slave market, which is the best at making the exquisite dishes of the orc tribe, and I remember that their most delicious vegetable dumplings are one of the few vegetarian foods I like to eat, which is great!"
The softest side of my heart suddenly seemed to be touched, how could I not know? In the most difficult days of the Lai Tu tribe in the wasteland, we survived by eating vegetable dumplings, but even though I missed it in a thousand ways, I definitely didn't want to eat it. I'd love to know who would dare to open an orc-style restaurant in this little town of El and sell food from the famine in the wasteland.
"The restaurant is doing a lot of business, I think about it! The best thing they have there is a strange food called 'vermicelli', and a plate of guinea pig stewed vermicelli is enough to buy two silver trowels, it's so dark. Bobby had clearly suffered and was unhappy with the high price of the cupboard. Then he said to me, "Jiga, when I finish buying slaves, I'll take you there for a good meal of your hometown, but the slave auction in that venue is only available in the morning, and the slaves there are definitely the best in the whole market." ”
He put his arm around my thin shoulders, put his head close to my ear, and asked me in a low voice, "Tell me what type of slave you want to buy, and I'll help you later." ”
I didn't know how to answer him, I didn't want to deceive him, but I couldn't tell him the secret about Sue, and if I did, I would be doing him harm.
Bobby thought I couldn't speak, and he thought I should be ashamed to say it, so he asked me directly: "Do you want to buy a slave who can fight, the kind that can act as a guard, and I hope to be a female slave?
A teenager as old as me is when he feels infinitely mysterious to the opposite sex, ignorant and naïve to the uneven and delicate curves is incomparably yearning, Bobby thinks that I am the kind of thin-skinned and full of curiosity about women like him, and naturally thinks that I want to buy a female slave, but for a magic apprentice, the slave around me is best a melee combat slave, which can greatly protect the magic apprentice who is better at long-range attacks.
I am just choosing a slave for Sue, and the slave who can accompany her all day long is naturally a female ** subordinate, if she has a certain combat effectiveness and can respond to emergencies in a timely manner, then it would be the best, so what Bobby said at this time was exactly what I was thinking, I nodded without hesitation, and signaled to him: He said exactly what I wanted.
When we re-entered the slave auction room, the round of young human slaves had been completely auctioned, and it seemed that the purchasing power of these nobles in the venue was very high! We slipped in through the back door again, there happened to be a beautiful elf slave girl standing on the circular booth in the center of the stage, under the light of the candles all around, the whole elf slave girl was wrapped in a thin layer of light veil, the graceful and delicate body was like a dream in the haze, the spring water was as clear as the big eyes with Chu Chu moving sorrow, she shyly crossed her hands on her chest, covering herself was covered by a light veil like a jade snow peak, a dark green long hair draped behind her head, two ears as white as jade, the shape of a pointed point, under the bright light is actually transparent, the blood vessels inside are clearly visible。
The aristocrats in the audience, who were originally sitting comfortably on their chairs, began to talk about it in pieces, and the popularity has spread to the audience.
"Wow puppet, this kind of superb goods are not often seen in the auction houses of the slave market! Are you interested, the elves are naturally very good marksmen, and many of them even have magical talents, if you can have such a slave girl by your side all day long, it will not make all the men in El City go crazy with jealousy!" Bobby muttered to me with a smile when he saw the slave girl standing on the table.
I also looked at the elf slave girl on the stage without blinking at this time, I am afraid that this is the first time I have seen the elves with pure blood, their bodies are obviously a little thinner than us humans, the white skin and dark blue eyes, slender and pointed ears make them obviously different from us, elves are elves, there is no need to distinguish carefully, those natural physical characteristics are very obvious.
To tell the truth, I don't covet the beauty of elves, compared to the beauty of elves without a little bit of human fireworks, I prefer Kig or Helena, Sophie and other beautiful girls in the world, but among these girls, the only one who really touched the heart of my soul is Ying Li, her faint eyes at the back door of the magic academy, shyly smiling with intoxicating dimples, made me unable to breathe.
If Nichols, the half-elf, is seven points like us, then the elves are completely different from us.
Just as I was carefully looking at the rare elf slave girl, Bobby rubbed his hands beside me with some embarrassment, and hesitated to think about it, but after three seconds, he gritted his teeth fiercely, slapped his thigh with his hand, and said with some regret: "This is really a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity! If I miss this time, I don't know when I will meet such a pure and good goods, and I will be cheaper than those old rabbits......"
"Ahem!" someone next to him was so angry that Bobby's words were so angry that he coughed violently.
Bobby craned his neck in fright, then immediately turned around and said, "...... Old lords and nobles, it is better to create a little opportunity for our young people, Jijia, don't worry, this time even if it is ten years of pocket money, I will help you snatch her back, if you really want to refuse me, that is if you don't want to be friends with me sincerely, true friends never care about this, especially our magic apprentices, we don't need to put money in our eyes!"
"......" He choked my words straight down my throat, what else could I say.
A middle-aged man sitting on the right side of the front row next to us in a noble dress with exquisite workmanship finally couldn't hold back any longer, turned his head to Bobby and said with a wry smile on his face: "Hey, little Bobby, why don't you listen to the opinions of your friends, maybe people don't like elf girls, but they like orc girls, maybe the way to get along with friends is to accept what they think, don't jump to conclusions!"
It was he who had just heard Bobby's words and coughed violently. He was wearing a beautiful hand-embroidered tuxedo, and even his hair was meticulously groomed, and the way he looked at Bobby made people feel extremely familiar.
Bobby was also smiling all over his face, his big fat face was like a blooming sunflower, and he smiled and said obediently to the middle-aged nobleman: "Uncle, why are you here!"
The middle-aged aristocrat looked at Bobby lovingly, sighed, and said, "If I hadn't happened to be here, would you have given this elf slave girl that I had worked so hard to collect to your friend? Do you know how much trouble I have gotten this elf girl, and how much trouble I have paid? Not to mention how much trouble this girl has? If you want to give it to your good friend recklessly, you will only make him a big trouble!" I don't expect you to understand this now, but in the future, when your friend gets into some trouble because of this elf slave girl, please don't complain that your uncle didn't warn you!"
"Jia can be said to be my best friend, in the Academy of Magic, he has always been the one who stood up for me, when I was on an adventure in the Xinliu Valley, if I didn't have Ji Jia to help me, I don't know how much I would have to suffer, who made you not collect enough 'hydrotherapy' magic scrolls in the first place, I was almost killed in the valley because of this, it wasn't Ji Jia who helped me at that time, and it wasn't Ji Jia who helped me ...... at that time" Bobby faced the middle-aged nobleman's questioning, and he didn't flinch in his defense.
In fact, we want to say that the elf slave girl on the stage is not what I want, I want to buy a war slave who can accompany Su, even if the elf slave girl has a talent for fighting, but a female slave who is proficient in bow skills is far inferior to a melee slave girl!
The middle-aged arist's tone seemed to be powerless to stop Bobby's willfulness, and finally waved his hand and said, "Forget it, I don't want your pocket money for ten or eight years, and you won't come to me when you're short of money!"
Bobby nodded busily at this time, and I twisted my brow and wanted to say to Bobby: You should listen to my opinion!
At this time, there were already people on the field who kept bidding, and the initial starting price was not traded with gold coins, but the direct starting price was: a magic crystal. When the old man in white on the stage burst out the reserve price, a small number of people cursed in a low voice:
"Damn, it's a magic crystal!"
"Is that elf made of gold? and it doesn't even sell it for gold, oh my God!"
Those wealthy nobles were complacent about this, and when they first called for the price, there were more than a dozen nobles shouting at the same time, and the old man in white shouted at the same time, and quickly found the nobleman who shouted the earliest and bid the highest at the same time, and announced: If no one raises the price, the elf slave girl will belong to the nobleman!
Of course, the competition is extremely fierce, in the end, the price of the elf slave girl has been fried to fifteen magic crystals, which is almost an astronomical amount, and there are only a few nobles who insist on the end, and every time they increase the price, it is very difficult for them to increase the price, and each additional magic crystal is to pay seven or eight more gold coins, for the nobles in this small city, it is impossible to have a balance of a few magic crystals a year, such a superb elf slave girl will cost a year or two, or even more income, which is unacceptable to the average nobles。
After all, the aristocratic family also had a huge expense, the maintenance of the manor, the salary of the servants of the manor, the daily luxury life, etc., each of which was piled up with gold coins.
At this time, a nobleman sitting in the front row of the theater suddenly raised his hands, lowered his headache and made up his mind to shout: "Twenty magic crystals!
The auction room was as silent as a moonless night.
The middle-aged nobleman beside Bobby finally sighed, and said with some regret: "It seems that Elcity is still a little too remote and barren after all, and its purchasing power can only reach such a point, if it is in the imperial capital, such an elf slave girl will cost at least fifty magic crystals, and if it is Sloit City, it will cost at least forty magic crystals, hehe, here is only twenty to want to sit on a beauty, what a joke!"
The middle-aged nobleman snorted coldly, and whispered to Bobby behind him: "It's probably because there hasn't been an elf with such pure blood in El City for a long time, Bobby, tell them how much this elf should be worth!"
The old man in white on the stage was still determining whether anyone had raised the price again, and the middle-aged nobleman had quietly left the table......
At this time, Bobby, who was standing beside me, obviously stood up with great confidence, and when the old man in white had not finished speaking, his smile became very cheap, his round face was shiny, his eyes were squeezed into two thin lines by the fat on his face, and he shouted with a smile: "I have fifty magic crystals!"
The entire auction hall seemed to fall into the abyss of extreme cold at this moment, and there was not even a breath on the field. (To be continued.) )