Chapter 45: The Pawnshop on the Top of the Mountain

"In other words, I have to summon the pen fairy within 48 hours, or I'll be forced to terminate the game?!" Li Gan's eyes widened. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info

"yes, that's the price of using a magic weapon." Tao Qian said, "You have just passed the mortal level, and you have ten years of cultivation as an envoy on your body, and anyone with a discerning eye can know that it is cheating at a glance, not to mention a game system with an accurate investigation function." ”

"The plug-in is not allowed to be used, and the magic weapon is not allowed to be used, how can I play with this?!" Li Qian was so angry that he wanted to smash his phone, "I really don't believe in the plots written in those game novels more and more, anyway, I haven't encountered anything good since the beginning of this cheating game." ”

"I really don't understand you." Tao Qian said, "Obviously, you have a great advantage yourself, but you still have to stubbornly rely on the help of external forces, it is a waste of talent. ”

"Talent? Do you mean the phenomenon of high spiritual power in my body, Brother Tao? Li Gan said, "I don't think this talent is useful, isn't it just a little more spiritual power than ordinary people, and I can't even resist the demon curse." ”

"It's just a little bit more." Tao Qian's expression was between ridicule and jealousy, "I have struggled for hundreds of years to reach the level, and you haven't worked hard to have it, God is really unfair." ”

"What's so fair about that." Li Gan said, "It doesn't make any difference to me how much spiritual power is worth, and it's not that I have to rely on other people's cultivation to suppress the demon curse." ”

"I think it's necessary for me to explain to you the two concepts of spiritual power and cultivation." Tao Qian pushed his glasses upward, "You've completely confused them now. ”

"Huh?!" Li Gan was surprised, "Isn't cultivation spiritual power?" ”

"Of course not." Tao Qian said, "Do you know 'wool'? ”

"Wool? Jadeite rough? Tao Qian asked rhetorically.

"Well, you even know this, it seems that you know a lot." Tao Qian said with a smile.

"I used to know it from antique appraisal books." Li Gan said, "I was very uncomfortable at that time, and I bought a few copies of the five-yuan book sold at the stall and read it at home, and after reading it, I felt quite interesting." At that time, I wanted to work as an appraiser in an antique shop when I grew up, but now the antique shop is basically gone. ”

"If you want to do it, you can go to the pawnshop." Tao Qian said.

"There are no pawnshops, right? What age is this? Li Gandao.

"It's called a pawn shop now." "Oh, I've heard of this, but it seems that all the people who buy and sell are famous watches and table clocks or something, and there aren't many real antiques, right?"

"No, there are, and there are quite a few." Tao Qian corrected his statement.

"yes, that's a good idea." After going around in a big circle, Li Gan brought the topic back on track, "What does the jade rough have to do with spiritual cultivation?" ”

"'Wool' is the uniform term for unprocessed jadeite rough." Tao Qian said, "The wool full of green is called 'color goods', the uneven green is called 'flower pai', and the large pieces without high emerald are called 'bricks'." The jadeite wool that is wrapped in weathered stone skin and has not been cut or opened is called 'gambling stone'. ”

"So am I a 'gambling stone' now?" Li Gandao.

"Count." Tao Qian nodded and smiled, "From the outside, you have a lot of potential, but no one can tell how much potential there is." You are now like a piece of jadeite wrapped in weathered stone skin, you can't know what is inside, you have to cut it to know what the quality is. A piece of jadeite wool has a colored skin and a good surface, and it is green when it is cut for the first time, but it may not be there when it is cut for the second time. Therefore, there is a saying in the jewelry world: gambling on stones is like gambling on life. If you win a bet, you become a rich man overnight, and if you lose your bet, you will go bankrupt overnight. ”

"That's why you said that you staked all your wealth on me......" Li Gan groaned.

"Well, the so-called spiritual power value is the jade rough stone wrapped in stone skin, which is your potential." Tao Qian said, "And cultivation is the part of the spiritual power that has been carved and can be used for use." ”

"I see." Li Qian kind of understood.

"Now you are a mine, with a lot of mineral deposits, but because it has not been fully mined, the power you can use right now is extremely limited." Tao Qian said meaningfully, "No matter how much potential you have, if you can't properly explore it and use it in the right way, you are wasting resources for no reason." ”

"yes, how many things that can't be used are in vain." Li Gan understood, "Listening to you say so much, it means that I have spiritual power now and have not cultivated." ”

"Yes." Tao Qian nodded.

"Then how can the cultivation go up? Is it the same as Xiuzhen? Li Qian asked.

"It's not." Tao Qian said, "There is a set of cultivation and improvement methods in the ghost go game, you will slowly understand it in the future, and it is inconvenient for me to say more to you now." ”

"Let's put this kind of thing aside for a while." The facestealer said, "If you don't participate in the foundation war, these things are in vain. ”

"I agree, the top priority now is how to help my eldest nephew summon the pen fairy." Xiong Jing said.

"You need the corresponding props to summon the pen fairy." Xiao Ke said, "We don't have anything now, how can we summon?" ”

"This shouldn't be difficult for our Tao Da tyrant." Black Boy's inflatable head swayed in front of Tao Qian, "It's been open for so long, you should have collected a lot of that kind of props, right?" ”

"There were some before." As soon as he heard that Heizai called him a local tyrant, Tao Qian's glasses began to reflect again. "But it's out of my hands now."

"Isn't the funeral shop a place to sell paper money, why do you still collect props to attract ghosts?" It's a little puzzled.

"Because there were many ghosts that were summoned by humans but could not be sent away, after using the power of the ghosts, humans could not send them back to the netherworld in a practical way, so they had to resort to the underworld." Jing Xin, who was sitting on Xiao Ke's shoulder in the form of a little fox, said, "After sending the ghost back to the netherworld, the Hades Envoy will retrieve the summoning props in order to prevent humans from causing such trouble again. I think it's because of this that Lord Tao Qian can have props to summon Saucer Immortals. ”

"And where did all these props go?" Li Qian asked.

"I threw it into the pawn shop to exchange it for the Dead Coins." Tao Qian said.

"Pawn shop?" Li Gan's eyes widened, "Netherworld? ”

"Like my shop, I wander between the two worlds of yin and yang." Tao Qiandao, "It's just ......"

"Just?" Li Qian waited to hear the following.

"This pawnshop boss is a little troublesome...... Tao Qian said in a low voice as if he had something unspeakable.

"What's the trouble?" Bai Tuan, who was lying on Uncle Xiong's head, asked curiously.

"I'll take you to his shop."

"This shopkeeper's name is Bai Xun, and he has been my best friend for many years."

On the way to the pawn shop, Tao Qian introduced the background of the boss to them.

"He likes gold and jade very much, and he has a lot of money, but he never embarrasses people who do business with him, and he is often accommodating as appropriate, and he is a well-known good gentleman in the netherworld." Tao Qian said, "You look at him as if he is very lazy, and he doesn't take the things in the store to heart at all." But in fact, he has never made a mistake in business, and many transactions that seem to be miscalculated and will lose miserably, will be recouped with interest after a while, and this kind of foresight that others do not see is quite impressive. ”

He seems to be an unruly but rather shrewd person, Li Qian thought to himself.

"That, Master Tao Qian." Xiong Jing also followed Jingxin's tone and added the word "adult" after his name, which is considered an honorific. "Is the pawnshop owner you mentioned really setting up shop here?"

A group of people walked on the wooden bridge of the promenade at night, stepping on the wooden bridge slabs creaking, and there was still flowing water under the bridge.

"Yes, it's been on that mountain for the last month." Tao Qian said.

"But this is the park." Xiong Jing said, "Aren't you afraid of inviting all the lonely souls and wild ghosts here?" ”

"No, it won't." Tao Qian walked a few steps and went up the hill first. "Lonely souls and wild ghosts can't even cross this bridge."

It is said to be a small mountain, and the altitude is more than 400 meters. Li Gan stood at the bottom of the mountain and looked up, a cool breeze blew from the woods on the mountain, carrying the fragrance of leaves.

"Shall we climb up from here?"

Looking at the rugged slope on the mountain, Xiong Jing's cold sweat came down.

"What's wrong, Uncle Xiong?" Xiao Ke asked with concern.

"Sir, he hasn't exercised at home for too long, so he's afraid of group activities like mountain climbing." Bai Tuan explained.

"It's easy." Hei Zai said, "Wouldn't it be nice to let Xiaobai hump you up." ”

"I'm afraid not." The little fox looked at the ramp with some concern, "It seems that there is a spell to block ghosts here. ”

"Really?"

The black boy walked up the stairs in disbelief, and as soon as he took a step, a rune appeared at his feet, emitting a dazzling golden light.

"Meow Meow Mia~!!"

Heizai was so frightened that he screamed and ran to Li Gan's side, and went straight back to his mobile phone without even saying hello.

"Yes...... Is it so powerful? The group was speechless.

As a result, in order to protect Bai Tuan, Xiong Jing had to drive 11 roads up the mountain by himself.

"Slow down, you guys...... It's going too fast...... Wait for me ......"

Xiong Jing panted and crawled heavily.

"Uncle, we've just reached the halfway point of the mountain......" Li Gan stopped and looked back at him speechlessly.

"The sea and altitude are too high...... I'm hypoxic...... "Hypoxia, fart, this is more than 200 meters high!" ”

Ten minutes later......

"Hmm...... It's much more comfortable now......" Xiong Jing showed a satisfied expression.

"Of course you're comfortable." Li Gan sweated profusely and said, "There is a human flesh mount carrying your old man, where can I enjoy this blessing?" ”

I saw Li Gan trotting all the way up the mountain, carrying a bear mirror with a sweet smile on his back, and Xiao Ke behind him to help support his legs.

"You said you're too old to exercise." Li Gan said without wheezing, "When you get older, you have to find any problems such as osteoporosis, high blood pressure, heart disease, etc." ”

"I'll do a good job of exercising in the future." Xiong Jing smiled.

"Actually, I should have left you on the mountain road right now, so that you could exercise well." Li Qian joked.

"Forget it today......"

Xiong Jing hugged Li Gan's neck tightly, like a koala grasping a tree trunk.

It didn't take long for the three of them to reach the top of the mountain. I saw an ancient high pavilion standing in the bamboo forest surrounding, a round of silver moon shining on the Xuan tile, the lights in the pavilion were bright.

"It's slow, you guys."

Tao Qian has been waiting at the gate of the High Pavilion for a long time.

"The shopkeeper hasn't come back yet, so let's go in with me and wait for him."