Chapter 56: The Raccoon Girl
Ian turned his head, and the person who spoke was an evolutionary, petite raccoon-man girl with a facial features that resembled that of a human girl, but still had fluffy raccoon ears and a thick tail. She was carrying a mountain of baggage behind her back, and she was looking at Ian with great regret and even pity.
"Stinky girl, go, don't get in the way of my business!" the stall owner immediately tried to coax her away.
Although the girl spoke quietly, as if she were talking to herself, it was just enough for the stall owner and Ian to hear.
"Who is the stinky girl?" After being scolded by the stall owner, the girl's face turned red, and she defended: "I just, I just can't see anyone spending money in vain......"
"What do you mean by unjust money?!" the stall owner was furious and stood up, "The business in the color market is all in charge of each other, and each sells at its own price, you can't grab the business from other people's stalls, right?"
"What business am I robbing? I don't sell you this thing......" The girl seemed delicate, but she was never slow to talk.
Now the stall owner's face also turned red: "It's even more excessive if you don't sell this thing, are you just here to disrupt my business?" Suddenly, he paused, as if he thought of something, and shouted: "Okay, wow, wow, I know, your local raccoon chamber of commerce can't see that our business is good, so they come to make this disgusting trick!"
"Don't talk nonsense!"
Ian saw that the raccoon girl's tail had become thicker, and the burrs exploded into a ball and stood up behind him, "It has nothing to do with our Chamber of Commerce, I just can't get used to seeing you like this...... Profiteers!"
"Bah!" the stall owner was furious, and rolled up his sleeves to come over and do something. Ian was a little embarrassed, and the argument was entirely caused by him.
But the-man girl dragged Ian's hand and said, "Let's go, I'll take you to buy a cheap one!"
She spoke very briskly, and as soon as she finished speaking, she turned around and ran as if she were flying. The burden behind her was exaggerated, bulging, and she almost knocked Ian down when she turned around. She was carrying such a big burden and could still run like the wind, Ian was stunned and found that he had been thrown off by her, and hurriedly took steps to catch up.
The raccoon girl really didn't care, carrying a big burden all the way to the passers-by and rushing forward, causing a lot of screams and scolding.
Ian and Sid followed her closely, and the owner of the wood stall didn't dare to chase his goods far, so he scolded behind his back.
At an intersection, the girl turned into a side alley, leaning against the wall and waiting for Ian and Sid to come.
"Don't worry, he won't dare chase us. The raccoon girl laughed.
"You ......" As soon as Ian spoke, the girl's slender but sharp voice immediately interrupted him, "I'll take you to buy wooden traps, I know who sells them cheaply." ”
"Why don't you say toot...... The raccoon man spoke at the end of his voice...... "That's what Ian wanted to ask."
"Ah......" the girl was stunned, "I will, Dulu." She forcibly imitated it.
Ian: "......"
Sid: "......"
"Hahaha," the-man girl laughed mischievously again, "I grew up with humans, so I don't have this accent. ”
"Let's go, I'll take you to buy a wooden mechanism. She stopped laughing, and walked deeper into the alley with the two of them, shivering from her sneering joke.
Turning left and right, Ian realized that this Bafang Lottery Market was not only on that street, but also the surrounding alleys were crowded with vendors, and the Rainbow Market occupied a large block.
"My name is Lena, what about you?" the girl who walked in front spoke briskly, each word was very short, and her voice was very thin, sounding very special.
"My name is ......" Ian was about to answer, but saw Sid shake his head at him, knowing what he meant, so he had to change his name to a fake name: "My name is Barn." ”
"My name is Hictus. Sid said calmly. Ian couldn't help but glance at him when he found out that he had casually made up a new pseudonym.
"Hello, we've arrived. Lena said, leading the way to a booth and standing still.
Ian saw a lot of wooden traps piled up on the stall, and although they were scattered, most of them looked similar to the ones he had just seen.
"Uncle!" called out in Lena's slender voice, "how much is this?"
Ian looked at the wooden mechanism that Lena was pointing to, and it was the one he wanted to buy.
"A gold coin purr. Uncle Raccoon replied lazily, as if he wasn't very interested in the business.
"Fifty silver coins!" Lena picked up the trap and looked at it, then put it back in her hand.
"Eighty, can't be missing!" Uncle Raccoon glared at her, looking unhappy.
"Seventy, all of them are raccoons!
The stall owner was stunned for a moment and scratched his head: "Forget it, seventy is seventy." ”
The girl smiled, and without waiting for Ian to pay the money, she preemptively paid the bill and accepted the agency.
"Let's go!" said Lena, happily leading them a few more steps forward into the next alley.
Then she turned around and handed the trap to Ian, "Barn, I'll sell you this trap for a gold coin." ”
"Well, wasn't it seventy silver coins?" Sid chimed in.
"That's my purchase price. Thirty silver coins are my labor fee, and I let you see how to negotiate for free. You were supposed to pay two gold coins to buy it, and I saved you a whole gold coin!" Lena said briskly.
Sid smirked evilly: "Ian, we don't want it, maybe we can find one for the same price when we go shopping, you see that uncle just offered to sell a gold coin." ”
Lina's face suddenly turned red again, and her slender and brisk voice said urgently, "How can you do this?
Sid was about to speak, but Ian waved his hand, "Don't tease her," he said, handing over a gold coin, "Thank you." ”
"Thank you for your patronage!" Lina's face changed for the better, and she grinned as she shoved the trap into Ian's hand while she carefully put away the gold coin.
"Do you need anything, I'm a trader!" Lena leaned slightly and pointed to the enigmatic baggage behind her. Ian still couldn't figure out how she managed to run with this burden several times larger than her size.
"We don't need anything yet," Sid said, "we don't have much left, and we have to pay the processing house......" He touched Ian with his elbow, reminding him to stop spending any more money.
"Processing house?" called Lena softly, "Processing house!" she repeated, "Do you have anything to work with? Are you mercenaries?"
"Uh......" Sid was a little speechless at Lena, "We're mercenaries, but ......"
"The mercenary's job is dangerous," said Lena, "and be prepared. Do you want weapons, swords, wound medicine, antidotes, I have them all!"
The tall Sid was powerless in front of her, and he could only wave his hand again and again, unable to interject.
Lena's eyes were slightly disappointed, but she exclaimed again, "Then let's talk about business, shall we?"
Ian asked, "What business?"
"I will pay, and you will contribute, just like the daily work of ordinary mercenaries!"
"What do you want us to do?" Ian asked.
"In three days, I'm going to do business in the Oasis Town," Lena replied, "but I've heard that the road from Babel to the Oasis is not very safe." ”
"Well, the activities of Warcraft are becoming more and more obvious," Sid said, "and I hear a lot of merchants complaining. ”
"Yes, yes," Lena shook her ears, "I'm a girl, a businessman, and I'm not safe." ”
Sid: "So, tomorrow we'll accompany you to the guild to issue a named commission......"
"No, no, no," Lena hurriedly waved her hand, "If you don't go through the guild, the guild will take my commission!"
Sid was stunned: "If we don't go through the guild, we can't count the number of guild commissions, and we don't have any benefit." ”
"Yes, yes," Lena hurriedly said, "The guild wants to earn my money, and this money will be given to you in a part, and if you earn more, I can also save a little!"
"How much ...... can there be," Sid said dismissively.
Lena shouted, "No matter how little it is, it's money!" and then calculated to herself: "For such an entrustment, I will pay at least 8 gold coins to the guild......, but you can only get 5 at most! So I'll give you 6 gold, you earn one more, and I'll save two!"
"What a ......," Ian and Sid thought at the same time.
Seeing that the two of them didn't speak, Lena hurriedly said, "Then it's decided! Three days later, we'll see you at the gate of the West City!"
"Hey, hey......" Ian has been fiddling with the wooden mechanism in the inn room since he returned from Happo, and from time to time he let out a smirk that scared Sid.
He poured a glass of water and looked at Ian with uneasy eyes. The boy put his left and right hands into the left and right brackets of the wooden mechanism, and moved his arms. He looked at his arms in distraction, and then closed his eyes again, as if in meditation.
"Ian," Sid took a sip of water, calling him tentatively, "are you alright?"
Ian opened his eyes, "Ah, it's okay. So saying, he got up and went to the chest of drawers by the bedside to dig out a pen, and then returned to the table and sat down.
The size of the hostel is not small, but considering the economic conditions, they chose the cheapest room. Looking around, there was nothing more in the room than two beds, a table and a chair, a chest of drawers, candlesticks, cups and kettles for drinking, and pens and paper borrowed from the boss.
Ian spread out the paper, laid it flat under the machine's left and right hand holders, pressed the corner with the cup, and held the pen in his right hand.
He looked at the clean table, there were indeed no more pens, so he held his breath and used his mental power to reshape the stones he had picked up on the side of the road into the shape of a pen, holding it in his left hand.
"You want to draw with your psychic powers?" Sid asked when he saw him use his psychic powers.
"That's a good idea, but I'm not. Ian glanced at him, "I just need a pen to help me train." ”
"Training?" Sid was even more curious, "What is it training with this mechanism?"
Sid in the Bafang Cai City felt strange why Ian had to buy a wooden machine to come back, at first he thought it was because he was a child, and he couldn't control himself from spending money when he saw new things in a foreign country.
"Psychic training," Ian smiled mysteriously, "this will work so well for me! ”