Chapter 233: Nine Refinements (2/3)
Bookstore clerks aren't actually too busy with their jobs.
Basically, it is to tidy up the bookshelves that have been messed up by customers, and then clean up the bookstore to prevent some customers from stealing books.
The price of books in bookstores is not expensive, and in general, it is a small profit and quick turnover.
The boss is usually responsible for the cashier, the bookshelves and hygiene, and there are many customers during the day, so he is very busy.
When Chen Yiming came to apply for the job, he claimed that he only needed five white crystal coins per month, plus he could read books for free in his spare time, and then he could eat and live.
This price is quite low, and the workers in the city have a minimum of twenty or thirty white crystal coins a month.
The purchasing power of the white crystal coin is still very sufficient, and a white crystal coin will go to the restaurant for a family of three to eat.
Boss Zhou, who is more salty, thought about it and agreed, this bookstore is inherited from his father, because the location is good, so the business is very good on weekdays.
Since then, Chen Yiming has been relieved to begin to understand this alliance in the bookstore, and the books in the entire bookstore have become his nourishment.
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Supervising the guests is easy to handle, and Chen Yiming asked the Calamity Crow to act as his "eyes".
Calamity Crow said it didn't matter, it had an indifferent personality, did not fight or grab, and was happy to be leisurely.
So in this small bookstore, there is a pitch-black crow standing on the top of the bookshelf, looking down on the entire bookstore.
In just these dozens of square meters, the two eyes of the Doom Crow locked on every corner like a radar, and there has been no more book theft since Chen Yiming came.
It's the end of September and the weather is cool.
In the bookstore, there are a few customers in front of the bookshelves slowly picking up books.
Chen Yiming had a broom and dustpan next to him, and he was holding a book of mainland chronology in his hand and reading it carefully.
"In 1625 years before the alliance, Zhou Qu subdued the epic giant beast Ba Snake in Yaoshan, and then conquered Yaoshan in the northern ......"
"One thousand six hundred and twenty-one years before the alliance, in the seventy-sixth century, Chen Guangdong chased the orcs for three thousand six hundred miles......"
Every fifty years is an era, and it is rumored that it has been the hundredth era so far, that is, the group of people Chen Yiming and his people are exactly the hundredth era, according to the book.
Life is extremely difficult for people who have just come out of the forest to this continent, because there is no trace of human activity on the continent in the first place.
The people who thrive and thrive on this continent today are people from all parallel worlds and generations.
It has been found in the book that the history of each era is different, and there are slight differences in details.
It has been speculated that the pioneers of each era came from different and similar worlds, and this theory has been accepted by many mainland scholars.
Chen Yiming doesn't care much about these historical things.
All you need to know is a little bit about it.
He mainly consulted information about the alliance itself, as well as things related to customs and customs.
Before the establishment of the alliance, it was basically the Warring States period, and the various city-states were divided into factions based on the number of epochs of the family name, that is, they conquered each other, and they also joined forces.
In the process, some of the ages of people even went extinct, and in others, only a few old and weak women and children remained.
At that time, history was abstract, and the history that could be handed down was either passed down by word of mouth or recorded in the historical documents of the various city-states.
But the historical documents of that time were all abstract to a certain extent.
Theoretically, it can be seen as a mythological story.
Because some of these characters are over-mythologized.
There is a custom in today's league β and that is group hunting.
Because of the background, the people of the alliance advocate good martial arts, and the folk customs are considered strong, and the alliance is generally proud of being strong, respecting and revering the strong.
And the strong will also protect the people in the city protection alliance.
In Chen Yiming's view, collective hunting is very similar to the activity of each community leaving Shanshui City to hunt for the team.
Group hunts are sometimes teamed up by class, sometimes by workplace, and sometimes even by neighborhood neighbors.
The monsters near the city will be cleaned up regularly, and the basic mountain of monsters with more than a certain level of quality will be killed, plus most of the collective hunting will not be too far from the city, and the hunters will generally choose the area to explore according to the strength of themselves and others.
Anyway, in Chen Yiming's opinion, this so-called collective hunting is an activity to enhance feelings and brush the level of summoned beasts at the same time.
Although large numbers of people can make individual hunting less efficient, it also means safety.
Collective hunting is just one of the many customs of the Union.
Chen Yiming is also constantly getting to know them in the process of reading books.
"Manager, why didn't I find the complete map? β
Chen Yiming finished reading the books in his hand, put them back on the bookshelf, and asked Zhou Yi, who was sitting at the front desk reading the newspaper.
Zhou Yi said casually: "Isn't there a map on the second bookshelf from top to bottom?" β
"There are only a few nearby cities, and I can't find them even further away. Chen Yiming said.
Zhou Yi helped his glasses, put down the newspaper in his hand and turned his head to look at it.
"How big a map do you want?"
"There is no whole continent. β
"Then you may not be able to find it in the entire city, my map covers most of the alliance's range, and I am afraid that there is no map that can compare with mine. Zhou Yi said with a smile.
"The big map is not for sale, and I only have one, so I can borrow it for you to see, but don't break it for me. Zhou Yi advised.
He is still quite satisfied with Chen Yiming, and he works seriously and steadfastly.
So he was willing to lend his treasured map to Chen Yiming for a look.
There is a separate cubicle in the bookstore, which is piled up with some miscellaneous items, and there is a second floor further up, and the second floor is Zhou Yi's bedroom, and Chen Yiming has never been there.
Zhou Yi took out a map that looked like a parchment roll.
The map unfolded, and an extremely exquisite and complex map was drawn with colored ink, the area was very huge, and even Chen Yiming saw a corner of the Forbidden Forest on it.
"This was drawn by my grandfather. Zhou Yi said.
Chen Yiming quickly found their current location on the map.
Then Chen Yiming's gaze moved to the north, and finally he saw a large area painted with darker stains at a great distance.
The area of this area is not small, if you calculate the distance between the Forbidden Forest and the city where he is now, the area of the polluted land is the size of a continent in the previous life.
Chen Yiming was silent, only feeling that his head was big.
In such a large area, he alone has to find the Year of the Monkey and the Moon?
And it would take months to walk from his current place to the polluted land, to say the least.
This is the time it takes to ride a two-headed golden manta dragon.
Chen Yiming saw the alliance headquarters on the map again: Chao Yujing.
Chao Yujing was northwest of Nanling City, where he was now located, near the border of the Alliance.
"Eh Lao Zhou, are you going to go to this month's neighborhood hunting activity, I heard that Miss Zhang Jiaer came on purpose, and asked you to go by name, and said that as long as you go, she will also go. β
Outside the bookstore, a man wearing a melon-skin hat and a sallow horse-faced face rubbed his hands and smiled to show a mouthful of big teeth.
"Don't go. Zhou Yi shook his head.
"Eh, Lao Zhou, what's going on with you, anyone with a discerning eye can see that Miss Zhang Jiaer is interested in you, the Zhang family is a well-known family in our Nanling City, her own grandfather has a nine-refining superb summoning beast, it is said that it can be a monarch-level monster, if you can get involved with the Zhang family, then what kind of bookstore do you open, you have no problem opening a library!"
The man in the melon skin hat was in a hurry and hurriedly said.
"If you want to go, then go...... What does her Zhang family scenery have to do with me. Zhou Yi shook his head.
"Then I'm not worried about you. β
"I think you're greedy for her to participate in hunting activities, so you can share a little more monster experience. Zhou Yi said.
"You-" Ma Lao'er's face changed suddenly.
"Alright, don't stand in front of my bookstore and block my business. Zhou Yi waved his hand to drive people away.
Ma Lao Er took two deep breaths and walked away a little stubbornly and unwillingly.
In the afternoon, several neighborhoods came to persuade Zhou Yi to participate in the hunting activities.
Zhou Yi was tired of hearing this, so he simply pulled the door of the store and suspended business.
"Do you want to go hunting, if you want to go, I'll help you register. Zhou Yi suddenly said to Chen Yiming.
Chen Yiming shook his head and declined Zhou Yi.
He doesn't have the time to play with these people.
I didn't have time to read, and I went to play at home, and I was full of food.
"Store manager, why don't you go, I see that Miss Zhang is still very attentive to you, and she has begun to lobby your neighbors. β
Zhou Yi shook his head, "It's impossible for me to do it with her." β
Chen Yiming said: "That Miss Zhang's grandfather really has a Nine-Refining Superb Summoning Beast?"
Chen Yiming has a superb summoning beast, but he doesn't have a nine-refining one.
The most is the dragon vein kobold man three refining.
"What, do you want to be the Zhang family's fast son-in-law?" Zhou Yi teased.
"How could it be ......" Chen Yiming smiled dumbly. "I'm just curious about how strong the Nine Refinements' masterpieces really are. β
"The masterpiece of the Nine Refiningsβ" Zhou Yi groaned. "That depends on the quality of his soul refining, if every soul refining can be level ten, then it is not impossible to cross three stars after nine soul refining, but how difficult it is to be ten levels every time, generally speaking, it is very good to let the summoned beast have eight levels of soul refining every time. β
After a while, Zhou Yi suddenly said that he had something to go out, so he handed over the key to the bookstore to Chen Yiming, saying that if he had something to go out, remember to lock the door with the key.
Chen Yiming didn't care, the bookstore was closed just so that he wouldn't delay his reading.
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