120. Trade in the Gathering Ground
By the time we returned to the mountain rock gathering site with a full load, it was already two days later. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
Marvin and Spee, who greeted us, looked at us in amazement, they didn't know what we had been through, and they were so embarrassed. And when I saw a huge rock behind us, Gao Lun, standing quietly behind us, I was full of curiosity for a while.
It's clear that this elemental creature construct is a pet that belongs to one of us.
The tired faces of the soldiers of Hank's team, sweat and dust washed out black mud marks on their faces and necks, everyone was almost covered with heavy ore, and along the way, we stopped and stopped, and I needed to constantly apply 'Wind Walk' to the members of Hank's team, even so, almost an hour, we needed to take a break.
On the way, there are constantly sprains or muscle strains, which requires me to constantly use 'hydrotherapy' to treat such simple small injuries for them, perhaps it is because of me, a very talkative water-based auxiliary magic apprentice, that makes the members of Hank's team so ruthless and not afraid of injury. You must know how serious it is for an adventurer to be injured in the wild, but these young expedition members don't think about it at all, anyway, there are auxiliary therapists who accompany the group, and they increase the weight of their luggage to the maximum.
In this way, we returned to the mountain rock gathering place very roughly, and Hank's team (seven warrior apprentices, including Hank) was completely exhausted. Only Theresa, who can control Rock Gaolun, has a relaxed expression, but her demon pet Rock Gaolun is not so lucky, her whole body is carrying a huge net pocket full of nearly 1,000 catties of red copper ore, and the two earth elemental light clusters in the eyes on the huge rock head have become extremely dim.
Theresa explained to us that the big guy was just a little tired and could recover after half a day's rest.
Compared to Hank's team, only my team is much more relaxed, because everyone in our team except Rita has a magic fanny pack, and even the most basic luggage is in the magic fanny pack. Rita's luggage was a bit heavy, and Ying Li offered to help Rita pack some of the red copper she had retrieved, but Rita refused. Her small body, carrying a large hiking bag, staggered to the back.
Darwin's eyes were hot for each of the members of Hank's team to carry a huge piece of luggage behind him, and Rita also carried a huge hiking bag, so he decided to try it himself, so he forcibly shared half of the copper ingots in Rita's backpack, and now he is like a dead dog, lying on the ground with the members of Hank's team, gasping for breath. Unburdened, the team members collapsed to the ground, not even wanting to move their fingers.
Spee brought them a jug of water, and the tired boys didn't even bother to lift their hands, and Spee even opened his mouth to accuse Hank: "Did you even treat your team members as human beings?"
"I didn't even take myself seriously!" Hank didn't even untie the backpack behind him, and just lay on his back on the huge backpack.
That's right, who else can calm down when they see these red coppers worth more than gold?
I helped Theresa unload a net of ore weighing thousands of pounds on Rock Gaolun's body, I have been in the caravan for a long time, and I am used to seeing the people in the caravan unloading those large thunder rhinos, at this time, with only Teresa was busy for half a quarter of an hour, it can be regarded as unloading the weight on Rock Gaolun's body.
Ying Li and the others didn't seem so embarrassed, they only chose some valuable red copper ingots, and put them all into the magic waist bag, all the way back, compared with when they went, it was no different, but for these noble ladies who have been pampered since childhood, such a wild adventure process is a very hard thing.
Back at the mountain rock gathering place, the four girls sat on their duffel bags and knocked their legs, also looking very tired. Only Rita's spirit is still good, put down the burden and start to set up a tent, this adventure, everyone needs to take a good rest, and building a tent is the top priority. I helped Rita set up the girls' big tent and went back to set up our little tent with Darwin.
Halfway through, I was called by Helena to the big tent.
Unless it's time to set up a tent, I rarely go to the girls' tent, because I'm worried that the tent will be littered with the girls' personal belongings, and some of them will embarrass them when I see them, even if it's an invitation from Win Li, I can avoid it as much as possible, although Helena and Becky listen to Win Li, but after all, they have to take into account Rita's feelings!
This time, I was dragged by Helena, and I was a little dumbfounded when I got into their tent. The whole tent was empty, the felt and leather mattresses had not yet been spread, and in the center of the tent there was a large bath tub, which was two meters in diameter, and several girls went in to bathe at the same time, and the space inside was enough.
Ying Li was excitedly watching the three girls, Becky, Lagertis and Rita put the big bathtub steady, and when they saw me coming, they smiled and said to me, "Jia ......"
I said directly with a bitter face: "Don't say it, I know what to do!"
They called me for nothing more than water, and I used my 'water gathering technique' to help them fill a bucket of water.
If you bring it back with a bucket from a mountain spring next to you, you will have to carry at least twenty buckets, and it may not be able to fill it. The biggest advantage of having a water magic apprentice in an expedition team is that no matter where you go, there will be no shortage of water. I placed the rune circle of the Water Gathering Technique in the space above the tub, and the pale blue magic pattern circle was like a cumulonimbus cloud, countless water droplets condensed in the air, and then some small raindrops began to fall into the barrel.
Ying Li pouted, watched the raindrops fall into the bathtub, and coquettishly pushed me and said, "How long will it take for this to be full!"
I grinned, and the mana injected into the circle increased a lot, and the blue halo of the magic pattern circle suddenly increased a lot, and the water droplets also increased instantly. In an instant, a shallow layer had accumulated in the tub. The girls on the side watched with great interest as I worked my magic. Becky stuck to the edge of the tub, reached out to catch some droplets falling from the air, and exclaimed, "The water is so cold!"
I said in my heart: If it weren't for the Ice Flame Talent in my body suppressing the power of the thunder and lightning of the 'Thunder Seed' in my body all the time, the water condensed by the 'Water Gathering Technique' might be able to condense into ice directly.
Rita had already helped Darwin set up our little tent when she came out of her tent, and when she saw me come out, she asked me expectantly, "Okay?"
I nodded, and Rita cheered, and ran back to the tent without paying attention to Darwin.
Darwin looked blankly at the vanished Rita, then at the large tent, and asked me curiously, "Jia, what are those girls doing mysteriously?"
I whispered to him, and he looked at me with straight eyes and said, "They're really willful!"
...... Beautiful Dividing Line......
Mountain rock gathering place.
It's always busy, there are teams coming back here to repair, and there are constantly some teams ready to go, they all have their own gains, and with Marven and Si Pei in the gathering place, there are a few more services here, making this place more like a gathering place.
The first is to accept the wounded here, usually as long as the injured team members can recuperate in the gathering place, and there is no need to leave anyone else to take care of them, if it is just for meals and dressings, Spee can take care of them.
The second was that the gathering place began to serve delicious food, including hot soup, wheat cakes, and braised pork, and the industrious Spey was loved by all the expedition teams, just open his mouth and say to her: Hey, do you have anything to eat here, I'm a little hungry, but I don't have any money. She would bring out some wheat cakes and hot soup and say, "Eat, you're welcome!"
When she's not too busy, maybe she will be comforted: it's just bad luck now, this jungle is abundant, but you need to be careful, there will always be a harvest!
The third and most important thing is that it can be traded, and bartering is accepted, whether it is herbs, ores, or game from the forest, it can be exchanged for some other items. There are a lot of things that can be exchanged, the best of which are some rare magic scrolls, and the magic apprentice Marven who broke his hand always has some 'hydrotherapy' scrolls and 'fire gathering' scrolls that can't be sold out.
There are also those hemostatic bandages and detoxification bandages, I don't know when every expedition team has a very cheap and easy to carry first-aid bandages, these bandages are stained with ointment, some can disinfect and stop bleeding, some clear heat and detoxify, are very useful necessities when traveling in the field.
The main thing is that these first-aid bandages are very cheap, and in the past, the members of the squad had some minor injuries, and after a simple bandage, they were ignored. But now, with the first aid bandage, these minor injuries have been properly treated, making the expedition much easier.
Now in the dense forest, which is a little closer to the gathering place of the mountain rocks, even the small beasts have migrated to other places, and all the low shrubs in the dense forest here have been trampled flat, and the herbs that can be mined have been hollowed out, and if you want to find the herbs, you must go farther away. However, the expedition team still returns here every few days, and they pile up the materials they have collected neatly, make some simple markings, and let Marven manage it on their behalf.
These are not too uncommon herbs, and it is not unusual for each team to have more than one stack. No one was willing to risk stealing these worthless magical herbs, and it was just because of this that Marven seemed to have an easy time managing them.
After a week in the wilderness, the students have become accustomed to setting up tents and stoves, and they are skillfully busy with their own affairs, and they can talk and laugh about their adventures, discuss what is lacking, and what they have overlooked in the process of searching. It wasn't until our team came back that we were the focus.
Everyone saw that Hank's team returned with a full load, and the entire backpack was filled with red copper, and these magic metals that made everyone's eyes hot were like cabbage in the vegetable field, all over the place, and some people had even begun to speculate that Hank's team should have found a treasure, and this time, Hank was completely rich. Almost all of Hank's team had their backs bulging, and they piled up the red copper ore they had brought back like a hill.
Marven sat on the pile of goods next to him, squinting at Hank and his team members stacking the copper ore as neatly as a wall, and then asked him with a frown, "Hank, did you really decide to put this copper right here?"
"There are so many, there are so many weights, it will definitely be difficult for us to take them away, why don't you please help me manage them, in two days, we should still have a large amount of red copper shipped back, Jijia, are you really not going to go with me this time?" Hank said to Marven, and finally asked me again.
I sat down next to Marven, shook my head, and just said two words: "Too tired!"
"Well, I despise you noble magic apprentices who don't have to worry about food and clothing, but it's okay, I need to put up with more patience to manage the colony, Jia, I can exchange the red copper for the game you hunted......" Hank listened to my words, like the funniest joke, 'hahaha' was endlessly happy.
Marven heard Hank say this, his open mouth forgot to close, and he lowered his voice and said to me: "Jia, when did magic metal become so cheap, and it is funnier to be able to exchange some wild goods for red copper, which is funnier than buying mountain rabbits with gold, Jia, when the time comes, do you have to catch all the wild rabbits in the mountains to be worthy of a piece of copper ore from Hank's rich man?"
"Hank, maybe you can work with Marven to be more efficient in this matter......" An idea flashed through my mind.
The two of them looked at me with some confusion, and then I began to explain to the two of them: Marven is responsible for buying some of the prey brought back by the expedition team here in the gathering place, and accumulating them together, so that the members of Hank's team can take the prey to exchange red copper with the goblins of the underground world, which should be more efficient.
And the reason why I wanted to stay was very simple, because Ying Li and Helena were no longer willing to get into the cold and wet mines, and Ying Li secretly told me that while I still had a few days to spare, I should wander around the mountains and forests of Xinliu Valley and enjoy the exotic scenery here.
Before entering the mine, Marven told me that he had found a few bottles of Ocean Ink, which he had exchanged with a magic apprentice in order to exchange for five 'hydrotherapy' magic scrolls. This means that I actually want to draw the 'hydrotherapy' magic scroll here in the Mountain Rock Settlement. Now, a 'Hydrotherapy' magic scroll has soared to a sky-high price in the mountain rock gathering place. Why bother doing other hard work.
However, Darwin and Rita still wanted to go to the underground world to exchange with the goblins for cuprite, so they simply let the two of them act together with Hank's team, and Hank had already agreed.
Hank and Marven didn't expect that one day they would be able to exchange food for magic ore, and this business would be profitable, and now what needs to be discussed is how to bring as much copper ore out of the underworld as possible before the portal opens again, and Hank's cooperation with Marven is a very good way.
And I can finally take a break.
At this time, I sat on the pile and realized that the entire pile of magic herbs below was all silver leaf grass, and these magic herbs were piled up like haystacks......
After the girls took a good bath and took a nap, Spee prepared dinner, which was a delicious mushroom soup and meatloaf, and Spee's cooking skills had improved a lot recently, and the mushroom soup cooked was very delicious.
A bad news reached the mountain rock gathering place, Swift and Thomas took one of the most elite teams of our El City War Academy, through the one-way portal, they were unable to defeat the guardian beasts of the one-way portal passage back here, and asked the expedition teams of other colleges to help, and were told by those expedition teams that the price they needed to pay was half of the team's spoils......
The incident is in a stalemate......
(To be continued.) )