Vol.3 Adventures in the Neutral Zone Chapter 17 Adventure is a Man's Romance (2)
"It's no wonder that we chose to do our first hands-on class here. Yang Haohui looked around, it was really like what Yeyin said, although the order was chaotic, but like gathering crowds to fight, gangsters holding mountain knives and slashing each other are really not seen. On the surface, at least, the Forest of the End is quite harmonious.
The crowd walked down the middle of the stall to the depths, and after a while, they were led to a stall.
A tattered wooden table, no more than two inches larger than a desk, was loosely covered with a white rag, and a bell covered with patina was trimmed on the top. A wooden sign that has been eaten through insects leans against the corner of the table, and if it weren't for the words "equipment trading" written on it, anyone would think that this is a charlatan who helps people read palmistry.
Compared to the stalls I saw on the way, this stall is a little pitiful, and even a little bit less like a stall, more like a small cart selling ramen on the streets of Japan.
A majestic man was staggering his legs on the table, his trouser legs in tatters, his rough curly leg hair sticking out of the holes, and his flip-flops emitting a terrible stench. The upper half of his body was leaning on a small chair that was also in tattered pieces, and a black round hat was over his head, making it impossible to see his face at all, and he could only roughly guess that he was taking a nap.
"Teacher, what is this?" asked Han Shihao.
"An old-timer in the maintenance department of the Dream Soul Academy, if you think it's acceptable, you can call him a teacher. Nightshade said.
Han Shihao looked at the strong man's demonic feet hanging flip-flops, and silently covered his nose and took a few steps away.
"Chu Xiao. Nightshade patted the small brass bell on the table.
The strong man was unmoved.
"Chu Xiao. Nightshade patted again.
The strong man remained unmoved.
"Chu Xiao, get up for the old lady!" The third time she called, Yeyin was already impatient.
The strong man finally spoke, but it was nothing more than a loud snoring.
Nightshade stepped out of her long legs and kicked on the small chair below the strong man. The leg of the chair snapped, followed by the dull sound of buttocks touching the ground.
"Ahh
It was only at this time that everyone could see Xiao's true face clearly, with yellow skin and black eyes, and a tough Chinese face. The chin is prominent, the masseter muscles on both sides are developed, and the slightly taut muscles make the lines more stiff. Except for the mouse-whiskered mustache that is a bit funny, it has a rather tough guy feel overall.
Chu Xiao stood up, almost more than two meters tall, his majestic muscles were tense, and a pair of tiger eyes looked at Yeyin. This extremely sloppy man seemed to be full of majesty all of a sudden, although he knew in his heart that he was not an enemy, the five of them were still affected by the sense of oppression on Chu Xiao's body and subconsciously took a step back. The strongest of them was Han Shihao, but compared to the teacher in the maintenance department in front of him, he was nothing in comparison.
"Yo~~ Isn't this the director of the night sound. Chu Xiao suddenly pulled out a flower handkerchief, and said hello with a long voice while swaying, like an old bustard picking up customers.
Everyone was stupefied.
Yeyin turned her head and shrugged helplessly: "Don't be afraid, Teacher Chu Xiao is male and hobbies....... It's just a man, you just think he's a girl with a handle. β
Chu Xiao cleaned up the fragments of the chair that had been kicked and broken by Yeyin, moved out two new small stools, one for Yeyin to sit on for his own use, and chatted across the shabby small table. Yeyin went from asking for money from He Chu to reorganizing the ghost class, and explained the situation in detail but concisely. Chu Xiao listened with relish, and pursed his lips from time to time to steal fun. Except for the slight change in face when he heard the three words of the ghost class, but he quickly returned to normal. The five people in the ghost class stood behind Yeyin, and they were stunned when they listened, especially Yang Haohui, he still remembered that Yeyin and he had mentioned that the chief financial officer of the Dream Soul Academy was called Chu Yan, combined with the content of the chat, it was obvious that Chu Xiao and her were brother and sister.
The others looked at the flower handkerchief in Chu Xiao's hand, and a deep sense of powerlessness appeared in their hearts, the Dream Soul Academy Palace really didn't follow the usual path, and even the teacher was a freak. Chu Xiao is such a strong man is actually a sissy, if they hadn't heard the chat, Yeyin and Chu Xiao would have sat opposite each other like two women chatting at home........ Because Chu Xiao even touched out the melon seeds.
"Oh, that little girl is still so frizzy. Chu Cai sighed while sipping melon seeds.
"She supported me and I'm grateful to her. "Even though I've let her down once." β
"Speaking of which, is that Nizi still wearing that green army coat?" Chu Xiao asked suddenly.
"I guess I haven't seen her change her clothes. Yeyin was stunned by this unrelated question, but answered anyway.
"Tut-tut......." Chu Xiao's tone revealed a kind of helplessness of "an old mother can't put on makeup for her daughter when she is an adult", "How can you do it if you don't pay attention to your image?" We women should pay attention to maintenance. β
"Off topic, I'm not interested in the topic of 'you women'. Yeyin stroked his forehead, "The previous set, five copies, is there still any stock?"
"Oh yes, Director Nightshade shouldn't be so serious. Women want to enjoy life, and they are always nervous and not good for their skin. Chu Xiao said slowly, and touched his bearded face with pity, "People have not been well maintained recently, and their skin is wrinkled." Speaking of skin care, Director Yeyin, there have been a lot of good skin care lotions in Utra Province recently........."
"Stock!" Yeyin was helpless and had to knock on the table to pull back the topic.
Chu Xiao was like this before, no matter how serious the scene was, as long as he participated, the topic would begin to unfold in the aspect of "we women". Thinking about the Chu cuisine who is always shrunk in the chair to make money, full of swearing, and yellow jokes are very manly, sometimes Yeyin really wonders if these two brothers and sisters are reversed.
"Hmm~~~ You hate it, don't be so fierce. Chu Xiao twisted his body and complained very resentfully, "Yes, yes, I'll take it for you." β
After saying this, Chu Xiao twisted his huge buttocks and walked into a small tent behind the stall. There was a faint noise coming from inside, and it was not hard to imagine that he was rummaging through something.
"I'm throwing up. Feng Haogeng took advantage of this opportunity to poke Ye Ruohua and whispered.
"Me too. Ye Ruohua swallowed, "The human race is much more terrifying than I imagined......."
"The teacher said he was a girl with a handle....... Do you girls talk like that?" asked Feng Haogeng.
"I'm going to speak like this one day. Ye Ruohua looked directly into Feng Haogeng's eyes, and said very seriously, "Don't be polite to break the fan, beat me to death!"
After a while, Chu Xiao came out with five small leather bags. Yeyin didn't talk much nonsense, threw him a bag of gold coins, and led the five people to leave.
"Won't you stay a little longer? I haven't seen you in a long time. Chu Xiao suddenly asked behind him, and this strong man who had always been embarrassed suddenly had a deep look in his eyes.
"No, we're in a hurry. "Nightshade didn't reply.
"Director Yeyin......." Chu Xiao seemed to want to say something, but he was stunned for a while, and finally just said dryly, "It's all good." β
"I will. Yeyin turned her back to Chu Xiao and nodded gently, "We will all do." β
Yeyin left Chu Xiao's small booth with the ghost class, and the two didn't say a word more.
The time can already be counted as evening, and Yeyin led everyone to find a small restaurant to sit down, and ordered some dishes casually. It's not too rich, the dishes are very rough, and even the taste is a fight with Lan Borou. Most of the small restaurants in the neutral zone are like restaurants in the original world tourist destinations, which are expensive and unpalatable, purely for the sake of stealing customers. However, everyone is quite happy to eat, after all, after a day of hunger, the elemental's body also needs food to replenish energy.
"You guys are eating and listening, and now you will release the actual combat class mission. Yeyin tapped his chopsticks, and the task of the actual combat class was to enter an amethyst cave in the depths of the Forest of the End and take out a secret treasure inside. The name of the secret treasure is 'Exploding Yuan Dan', and it is a blood-red pill with a frosted surface, the size of a pill. The mission is completed, and you can evacuate. β
She thought about the time again, and then said: "Today is November 9th, and the actual combat class lasts for one week, if you don't complete the task within a week, you will return unconditionally, that is, you must withdraw before November 16th, understand?"
"Understood. The five of them spoke in unison, and it was really not an incomprehensible task.
Yeyin nodded: "It's good to understand." The difficulty of the mission is a red level mission, which is not very high. Therefore, there will be no external support for this mission, and I will not interfere with the teacher, and you can judge and handle any situation for yourself. Contact me with a telecomm snail after the mission, and we'll meet at the entrance to the Forest of the End. β
"Teacher, I have a question. Han Shihao raised his hand and asked, "If it's a combat class, won't we go to the Guards Guild here to report for duty?" β
"You're paying attention, and that's good. Yeyin smiled, "But I said in the first class that the actual combat lessons in the school palace are not recorded in your guard files, as for the tasks, the tasks of the actual combat class are basically released directly by the teaching teacher, and a small part is released through the guild, but that is also the built-in guild in the school palace." β
Han Shihao nodded, indicating understanding.
"Then next. Yeyin took out a cloth bag that he had bought from Chu Xiao before, "There are no external reinforcements for this mission, but you have equipment support." β
The bag opened, and Yeyin reached in and took it out, and placed four things on the dining tableβa parchment roll, two glass bottles, one red and one blue, and a small, crumpled ball of navy blue.
"It looks interesting!" Ye Ruohua's long ears trembled, and she looked curiously at the small equipment that appeared.
"These are only the basic equipment of the guards, and you will be exposed to more and more interesting equipment in the future. Yeyin picked up the parchment scroll: "This is the map of this mission, one for each of you, remember to return it after the mission." If you can't recycle it, remember to destroy it. β
Yeyin took the two glass bottles of different colors again: "The drugs made by the maintenance department, I remember that Yang Haohui and Lan Borou chose this sub-subject, and you will be exposed to these pharmacological knowledge after the sub-department starts, so I won't repeat it now." The red bottle is a healing medicine used to heal injuries and restore physical strength, while the blue bottle is an antidote that can neutralize almost any form of toxin. Both of these drugs are taken orally, they work quickly, and they are specially made by Mr. Chu Xiao, and the effect is very strong. At the same time, because it is specially made, the cost is very high, and the school palace can't provide too much, one bottle per person, don't use it until the last resort. β
"That sissy....... Special?" Feng Haogeng looked at the two bottles in Yeyin's hand and frowned, "It's all of a sudden that people don't dare to drink it." β
"Don't be fooled by appearances, Teacher Chu Xiao is the most outstanding maintenance department specialist in the Dream Soul Academy Palace in the past ten years, there are 37 kinds of his personal inventions before and after, and his appearance is not his original appearance at all. Yeyin paused, "This involves personal privacy, I can't say too much, I can only tell you that he has a very serious head injury, which did not affect his intelligence but caused a great change in personality. I said this to tell you that you don't have to worry about the quality of the medicine at all, if there is a problem with Chu Xiao's medicine, then no one in the maintenance department of the Quanmeng Soul Academy Palace will dare to say that he can make medicine. β
Feng Haogeng was still frowning, but he still nodded.
"The last one. Nightshade picked up the small navy blue ball, "Compress the tent and drip some water on it when you use it." The school palace only provides one, this tent I put in the bag of Lan Borou, you can make water, it is more convenient to use. β
Yeyin stuffed the things on the table back into the cloth bag, gave the one in her hand to Lan Borou, and distributed the remaining four to the others: "Put it in the travel ring, don't take it out and look at it if it's okay." Although there is nothing of value except for those two bottles of medicine, but when you are outside, you must remember the principle of not revealing your wealth, and you must guard against others. β
The five of them took the cloth bag and put it away in the travel ring, nodding at the same time.
"Extra reminder, each actual combat class task of the Dream Soul Academy has a special commissioner, usually your seniors or senior sisters, which is a guarantee for the safety of students on the part of the Academy. Originally, I communicated with the commissioner through the communication snail to meet at the entrance at 6 o'clock tonight, but I don't know why he didn't show up. The commissioner's name is Ling Haoyun, male, from the Middle Metaverse. There is a photo in Han Shihao's cloth bag, so if you can get in touch, please remember to confirm what he looks like. If you still can't get in touch tomorrow, just start the mission. β
"I see. Han Shihao took out the cloth bag from the travel ring, and there was indeed a photo inside, and in the photo was a young man with very gentle eyes.
"Besides, let me say more, what are the dangers of the neutral zone that you need to be aware of during the week?" said Nightshade, "first of all, don't cause trouble. Remember, before the end of this mission, the Academy will not provide any help other than the commissioner, if you have any quarrels or battles here, you will solve them all by yourself, and secondly, pay attention to the primordial beasts in the forest, which can be said to be the biggest security threat in your collection mission. If you encounter a primordial beast, everything is based on Yang Haohui's orders. β
To be continued......