"Everybody's out! It's a holiday today! When directing the apprentice, Luo Qinglan regained her usual loud voice. Pen %Fun %Pavilion www.biquge.info A woman is no different from a man in all other respects except for her beautiful face, except in the presence of her brother.

This is the woman's forge workshop, just behind the Hunter's Taste kitchen, the restaurant's signboard has been cleaned by apprentices and men after being trampled on by Luo Pingyang, but it seems that this shabby little shop will not have a signboard for a long time.

"Boss?" An apprentice said to Qinglan in an unknown dialect, "This pair of twin knives is being quenched, and if you leave it alone, it will be ruined?" ”

"If you are told to take a holiday, you will take a holiday!" The hostess said angrily, "If it is destroyed, it will be melted and forged, and the loss is not your money, what are you afraid of?" ”

Only then did the apprentices extinguish the fire, stop the equipment, disperse in a hurry, and leave happily. There were already a few young people who were pleading with each other, wanting to buy two scalper tickets to watch today's hunting competition.

Seeing that there was no one in the shop, the woman straightened her hair and opened the back door of the narrow workshop.

There were already four or five people waiting outside the door, and Lawrence stood at the last to watch the wind, but seeing that he looked like he was asleep with his eyes closed, it was hard to believe what he could see.

"Come in." The woman gestured, and the people outside the door glanced at each other, and the stream entered.

The men were dressed in humble manners, led by a man in his thirties, wearing a dark brown trench coat and covering his face with a scarf, leaving only his eyes to see. The man whispered a few words, and two men stood guard outside the back door, and the other two stood still inside the back door.

"Aren't these two little brothers coming in for a while?" Luo Qinglan threw her eyes away and said to the two guards inside the door.

"What I want to say is a confidential matter, and no one can hear it except you and me." The man at the head said in an urn voice.

"Well, I also made good tea, and it seems that the two brothers are blessed." The hostess smiled and led the way into the forge.

"I'm talking about anyone." The man stopped in front of her, his eyes looking at the big-bellied Elu with her eyes closed.

"All I have left is half an eye and an ear." Lawrence didn't open his eyes, but he could see the man's small movements clearly, "Don't you even leave me a place to sleep?" ”

The man's eyes changed, and he raised his hand.

Luo Qinglan took the first step to stop his hand: "Lawrence is my comrade-in-arms in life and death, and he has the right to know about me." Moreover...... This time it's you who asks me, and I have to decide who will be present on my side. ”

Although the woman's eyes exuded a hint of charm, the man was still unmoved, but the determination and coldness conveyed between Luo Qinglan's eyebrows made him unconsciously think of the legend about this woman he had heard. He shuddered imperceptibly, and his tone softened: "Okay, but if something goes wrong, you have to take responsibility for it." ”

Seeing Lawrence collapse and close his eyes by a furnace that had not yet fully cooled, his stomach purring as if he had fallen asleep, the man carefully took out a dark stone from his backpack, "The ore I am talking about is this thing." ”

Luo Qinglan took a forging plier from the shelf on the side and clamped it, and put it in front of her eyes and kept looking at it: "It looks like it's just ordinary iron ore, but it's a little darker than iron ore, and the surface is much brighter." ”

She poked the surface of the ore with an awl: "It's softer than expected, it's very suitable for forging, there is a pure white metal hidden in the frozen soil of the southern snow-capped mountains, it's no less soft than it, just a little more brittle than it, where did you get this thing?" ”

The man's face changed: "You don't need to know, your job is to help me recognize what this ore is called, where it comes from, and what it is for." ”

"Any of information about this ore will help me deduce its origin, and you're hindering your claims." Luo Qinglan's face was a little gloomy.

"As I said, this information doesn't matter what you're doing." The man repeated.

"It doesn't matter whether the intelligence is important or not, I have the final say." The shopkeeper parted her head, threw the forging pliers in her hand onto the workbench beside her, and the mysterious and precious ore bones rolled onto the table, "The origin of this thing can't be contrary to the glory of the hunter, right?" Or even breaking the laws of the Kingdom? ”

"It was seized from the airship of a group of air pirates." Seeing that the negotiations were about to break down, the man had to say that now he was asking for help, so the whole rhythm of the meeting was in the hands of the other party, "So I said, this information is not of much value." ”

"Huh, air pirates?" Marauders in homemade airships could get their hands on the ore from anywhere, and while it makes sense, it really has no value. The woman snorted with her nose, not knowing if she felt disgust for this source or didn't believe the man's statement, "The air pirate's hand can actually touch this high-grade ore?" ”

"How?"

Luo Qinglan picked up the tongs again, picked up the small pieces of ore that fell on the workbench, and put them on the furnace that had not yet cooled down for a while, and then picked up his hammer and was about to smash it: "No problem, right?" She asked the man with a look in her eyes.

"Please."

"Bell!" With a crisp sound of gold and iron, only a little roasted ore was smashed into a piece of ore cake, and fine pieces of sand overflowed from the anvil, which was a large particle of magazine wrapped in the ore.

"The ore is so malleable that it can be easily forged into almost any shape, and if I'm not mistaken, it's extremely tough."

Just after a simple touch, Luo Qinglan seemed to have an eyebrow about its identity. The shopkeeper took a thick punching cone, put it on the mining cake, and punched it with a casting hammer, leaving a deep depression on the mining cake, but the bottom still maintained a certain thickness.

"I've seen this ore...... Where is it......" Luo Qinglan thought as she looked at the hole in the ore.

The man was silent, waiting quietly, although the woman in front of her was not at the top level in forging and hunter skills, but in the hunter circle of the past, she was extremely famous - the steel succubus Luo Qinglan, not only said that her fighting style was rough and evil, but also that she had an almost paranoid thirst for metal and mineral knowledge, on the other hand, it also made her a museum-like figure in an era who treasured all kinds of ore materials on the continent.

Although this woman surnamed Luo has announced that she is retired, knowledge will not be broken in her head, which is why the man's family is looking for this woman by name.

"I think it's called 'Black Vein', and I've seen it used to forge weapons for dragon ships." The woman licked her lips, "The bass gong on the bow of the ship, as long as a black vein stone the size of a fist is mixed with a cage of copper water, the made gong will vibrate at a frequency that cannot be heard by the human ear, just like a large sonic boom jade, and the service life will be extended several times." ”

"Is this thing valuable?" The man asked.

"It's not expensive, because it's a very out-of-the-way ore, and it's rarely used in ordinary weapons - although it's tough, it's very soft, and if you use it to make swords, guns, and armor, you will be deformed immediately. Although the melting point is high, it becomes as soft as fur when heated slightly, and it is of little use except for a few special-purpose alloys. ”

"That's the case...... the man looked at the deformed ore on the anvil and fell into deep thought, "What do they want this ore for?" (To be continued.) )