In the reception room of Luo Lan's auction house, Xiwei was bored and sipping coffee.

To be honest, he is still not used to drinking coffee in this world, although the refreshing effect is much better than that of the earth, but the bitterness is also stronger, and there is no convention of adding milk sugar to coffee in this world, in addition to the coffee cup, there are only a few pieces of fruit similar to lemon on the tray, even if you want to relieve the bitterness in your mouth, you can't do it. Because of this, Sivi still prefers instant coffee from the earth to this freshly brewed pure black coffee......

After drinking half a cup with a bitter face, the main owner he came to find this time finally appeared.

Alina walked in from the outside in a panic, and it could be seen that the girl's professional costume similar to that of a bunny girl had also been changed in a hurry, and Sivi could even see the snow-white that was not properly pulled under the stockings.

"Mr. Edric, I'm so sorry!" The girl first apologized to Xiwei: "Because there have been many other things recently......"

"Is it something to do with that giant sign outside?" Sivi asked curiously.

Before entering the auction house, he saw a huge wooden sign erected outside the door, like a billboard, with something very abstract drawn on it, and it also said that the Celestial Ball Game of the People's Federation or something.

"Yes, that's right." Alina nodded, with a proud expression on her face: "The full name of that is 'Pan-Human Unification Alliance Pure White Holy See Cup Celestial Ball Competition', although there is a Pan-Human Unification Alliance in front, but it is actually just a traditional activity for Julianne, but recently there are indeed some foreign teams who will come to participate." The competition is held every three years. This year happens to be held in the province of Quirin, but the lord here has just invested in the establishment of a new trade route to Simolo, and he can't afford to hold the Celestial Ball Tournament......"

"So you're delegating the right to hold the competition to your chamber of commerce?" Sivi asked.

"How is it possible, although it is not good to say this, but our Luo Lan Chamber of Commerce does not say that Huoli is safe, and even the top three in the Kuilin Province alone can't be squeezed in." Alina sighed, probably thinking that something like this couldn't be hidden. So he told Xiwei generously, and at the same time observed Xiwei's expression: "We are just one of the investors that the lord has found, and we don't have much decision-making power in many aspects. ”

Obviously. If Sivi shows any different colors, she will also reconsider her cooperation with Sivi.

But it turned out that she was overly worried.

"That's right." Sivi nodded with a clear expression, and then brought the topic over. After all, this kind of thing is not uncommon for the earth to pull sponsorship. Sivi didn't care.

Although many people will hollow out their minds and pursue the maximum profit as much as possible, Xiwei is obviously not among them.

If he didn't go to the academy, Mace's treasure alone would be enough for him to live a life. Even if he went to build the academy, Xiwei did not plan to build the foundation of the academy on external forces, for him, it was best to make the academy self-contained and all the resources self-sufficient. The money earned from selling equipment like this is just a start-up fund for the academy to solve the urgent need.

"Speaking of which, what about the iron that you said the day before yesterday?" Sivi put the coffee cup back on the plate and began to get back to the point: "You guys shouldn't have put my business in the corner just to prepare for the outcome of that game, right?" ”

The reason why Xiwei is so anxious is not for no reason. Half of the underground of the island has been hollowed out, and the load-bearing structure has been made of steel to prevent it from collapsing. In fact, because the size of the sky island is very large. Just the part that has been hollowed out now can already contain the mana pool, the star vein furnace, and the magic energy engine. However, of course, Xiwei will not build several of the most important buildings on the entire island together, just like not putting all his eggs in the same basket, the necessary precautions are indispensable, not to mention that he has experienced two monster sieges also shows that Xiwei's current worries are not groundless. …,

That's why he was in a hurry to get the rest of the iron, because only after the materials were in place could the excavation beneath the empty island start again......

"How so. You're too careful. After not finding anything unusual about Sivi, Alina breathed a sigh of relief, and she said with a wry smile: "It's just that the construction of the stadium also requires a lot of steel, and it is not our Chamber of Commerce that is responsible for collecting steel, and now the purchase price of steel has doubled several times compared to before." If you're not in such a hurry, can you wait a little longer? ”

If I had waited a while, I wouldn't have come here.

Sivi sighed. He wanted to finish the academy before his students returned. After all, after Alyssa's return, it should be difficult to accept that strange construction scene.

Thinking of this, Sivi asked with a glimmer of hope, "Is there really no other way?" Didn't your chamber of commerce stock up on a little steel? ”

"I did collect some stock before the lord prepared to put the ball game down, but I didn't receive much in a day, if you want, I'll ask them to transport those to the last pick-up."

Xiwei looked at the girl for a while, and felt that she should not be lying, and finally could only stroke her forehead and sigh: "Alas, then let's do it." ”

Sivi always felt that all kinds of things would happen when he built his own academy, and if it weren't for the fact that there were no new tasks in the system this time, maybe he would have thought that the system was playing tricks again.

"Speaking of which," at this time, Alina suddenly hammered her palm as if she remembered something: "The Mobile Chamber of Commerce, which is responsible for purchasing steel, seems to have been eating a large number of medium- and high-level Yaojing and Demon Cores recently, and their purchase price is not low, if you have medium- and high-level Yaojing or Demon Cores, we can try to negotiate with the other party to see if we can exchange a large amount of steel." ”

"Medium and high-level Yaojing and Demon Core......" Xiwei touched his chin and began to weigh in his heart whether the exchange was worth it.

Magic Core/Flare Crystal with energy levels 10 to 19 is called Intermediate Rank, and those with Energy Levels 20 to 29 are called High Rank.

But for the average person. All magic cores or sparkles with an energy level of 10 or higher can be called high-level magic cores/sparkles.

There are many uses for high-grade magic cores, and because they are relatively rare, they are also more expensive than Yaojing. Just like in the previous auction, Xiwei's level 12 magic core was sold for a high price of eighty gold coins, and if it was exchanged for Yaojing of the same energy level, it would probably only sell for about forty pieces at most.

Admittedly, Sivi, who has a quest as his hole card, doesn't lack a place to farm cores. Even those elemental crystallization fragments can be used to pass off as specialized magic cores, which should be able to fool most appraisers. However, if he only cooperates with the Luo Lan Chamber of Commerce, the risk he is exposed to is not great. But if you try to get in touch with those powerful chambers of commerce behind them, there is a high chance that you, the person behind the scenes, will be dug up, and it is obvious that this option is not happy.

But he couldn't wait until the end of that game. After all, the small actions of the Night Nobles are continuous, no matter how you look at it, it is not far from the time for them to start, if there is no way to complete the construction of the academy in a short period of time, then many plans after that will become very passive.

After thinking about it like this, he hesitated for a long time before making a difficult decision.

He took out a handful of treasures from Mace, whose magic power had declined a lot, but was barely high-grade Yaojing and Demon Core, and pushed them in front of the girl.

"Take these, how much steel can be exchanged, the more the better!" Sivi said to Alina with a serious face.

Since there is a possibility of being dug up again. Na Xiwei simply decided to give up a certain degree of cover, and collect resources to build the academy in the shortest possible time, as long as he has the star furnace and the magic energy engine, even if something really happens, he can drive the academy body flash .........,

Alina looked at the high-grade magic core Yaojing in front of her that was piled up like cheap glass blocks, and the whole person was dumbfounded. Even the image of the lady in the past collapsed for a moment.

She is not a rookie without knowledge, in fact, she has seen a lot of things, and even saw a magic core with an energy level of 31 in an auction, which was named super rank!

It's just that even with her knowledge, she couldn't help but be stunned when she saw the person who carried a large number of high-grade magic core Yaojing in her pocket like a glass ball (actually in a storage box, but she would only make a pocket action in order to take into account the feelings of others).

Then I woke up from a dream. Hurriedly called someone to collect and measure these magic cores and sparkling crystals.

After accepting Alina's assurance, Sivi left Luo Lan's auction house.

Although there is still a long time before the Celestial Ball Tournament, it can be seen that the already lively streets have begun to become more lively.

There are vendors selling armor similar to fencing, with a large coat of arms on the back and front of the armor, and bright red and black numbers on it. Sivi guessed that this should be the jersey of the Heavenly Ball Game.

In addition to this, there are a number of vendors selling balls that look a bit like tennis balls but have many magic circles depicted on them, as well as fishing rackets that resemble tennis rackets but have no net in the middle......

Although the Celestial Ball Game seems to be really popular in the Eastern Plains, there are not many people who love this sport, and most of them like it are those who are princes and dukes, people with dignity and status, but Sivi's predecessor does not seem to have any special interest in this sport, and he has not seen this kind of ball game in his memory.

But now it's clear that the whole city is starting to have an atmosphere of waiting for the game to begin.

Gradually, Sivi was also infected by this atmosphere and decided to go and try a few games when the competition officially opened.

In addition to the goods directly related to the ball game, some other goods also began to appear in the market, at least Sivi saw the prototype of a telescope there, which was equivalent to a glow stick and a huge four-leaf clover that began to glow when he waved, and a whistle that would make an invulnerable sound if he blew it hard, and the content of the swear words seemed to change depending on the strength of the whistle, making it a very interesting magic prop...... It's a pity that the stall of this small prop was later confiscated and banned from sale by people similar to chengguan in the city......

Anyway, it was still early, and it would take a short time for Alina to inform the coachmen that it would take a short time to transport the steel in stock to the floating island, so Sivi decided to go shopping in the market for a while, and relax after a few days of hard work.

Just as Sivi was slowly moving forward. His eyes were attracted by the powerful knife skills of a few Kate people on the side of the road when they cut fish, but they felt as if they had hit something.

"I'm sorry......" Xiwei just turned around and was about to apologize, but found that the person who was knocked to the ground by him and fell to the ground, covering the back of his head and screaming in pain, was actually the vampire girl who brought Cage to the Floating Island two days ago!

Xiwei suppressed his urge to run away while silently reciting '' in his heart, and apologized to the girl with a smile: "I was distracted just now, I'm really sorry." ”

You must know that when this vampire girl met him on the floating island, he was wearing an artist mask to cover his face. Although it is not ruled out that the girl has passed the unlucky ghost who died at her own hands, she knows that there is a cat on the floating island. But judging from the fact that so many days have passed, it is still calm, and the academy system has not issued new tasks, the other party should not be aware of this.

So. Now that he is showing his true face, there is no need for him to be afraid. …,

The vampire girl was holding a certain small parasol, and the clothes on her body were also a little dirty, and she stared at Sivi in a daze. The look in his crimson eyes, like that of a wolf who suddenly found its prey after three days of hunger, made Sivi's heart furious, and he even wondered if his guess was wrong for a while.

But before Sivi could take any precautions, the girl suddenly fell to the ground, and then began to say word by word with a super fake stick: "Ahhhh I'm hurt! You have to be responsible! ”

"What?" This time it was Sivi's turn to be stunned.

"Woo, mom, dad, brother, sister, aunt, third aunt, fourth aunt, fifth aunt, sixth sister-in-law...... Saran can't even go home to see you! Saran is dying in a foreign land! The girl covered her face and continued to whine and feign crying, and from time to time she secretly observed Sivi's expression from between her fingers.

"You've got too many relatives, hey!" Xiwei, who was still like a great enemy, suddenly became weak, and he complained angrily and funny.

"Anyway, I was injured by you, and you must be responsible!" The girl stopped crying, and her face turned red for some reason, but she still said it.

"......" I don't know what the road is, Xiwei suddenly felt a little sorry for the stupid guy in front of him. Obviously a vampire. The combat effectiveness can also completely destroy most of the law enforcement teams or city guards in this city, but not only did the robbery fail, and they were deceived back by themselves, but they also fell to the point where they had to touch porcelain......

What's even more tragic is that he actually ran into his mortal enemy, and he was stunned and didn't know anything.

Why don't you just take this opportunity to arrest her and force her to ask the Night Nobles about their secrets?

The thought crossed Sivi's mind, and vanished in an instant.

After all, in his mind. A guy who can be so stupid shouldn't know what important things are right, not to mention that he deceived such a stupid girl, and Xiwei also has an inexplicable sense of guilt in his heart......

"Forget it, then you tell me how I should be responsible, right?" Sivi sighed and asked the girl.

It's not that she has good intentions to help the girl, and they're both mortal enemies anyway, but it seems like it's fun to tease this stupid girl without hiding from each other......

Seeing that Sivi seemed to be subdued. The smug girl immediately straightened up her flat chest and said with a commanding face: "Invite me to dinner and send me home!" ”

"Aren't you hurt?" Sivi said with a smile.

The girl's face flashed, 'Ah, oops! Then he immediately withered, and his body collapsed on the ground, but he still did not go beyond the shadow of the parasol, made a painful expression, and said in a weak tone: "Please, invite me to dinner, and then send me home......"

"Well, since the body is weak to this point, you can't eat food with irritating spices, greasy meat, or anything." Seeing that the other party was still pretending, Xiwei simply didn't bother to wear it, and played with her: "So I invite you to eat garlic porridge, which nourishes your stomach~"

"Woo-goo......" The girl's face changed suddenly, but she immediately remembered that she was still 'injured', so she pressed the urge to shout, and said with a weak face: "It's okay, my stomach is fine... It doesn't matter if it's meat...... For example, the hot dog over there is very good......"

Sivi looked at what she was talking about and saw that it was just a small stall with five coppers on it.

What an unexpectedly easy vampire to feed......

However, he didn't plan to let go of this girl so easily, after all, he had suffered a lot from the night nobles, and it didn't matter if he teased the other party a little to get some interest.

"Oh, that hot dog does look pretty good." He made a look of surprise.

"Right, right! I'll just say it! That hot dog ......" As soon as the girl heard Sivi agree with her words, she immediately answered happily, but only halfway through speaking, she saw Sivi squinting at herself, and could only make a weak appearance again, and said slowly: "Yes...... Just that......"

"Speaking of which, I just saw garlic sauce there, and it looks like it's good to eat with a hot dog." With a seamless smile of kindness on his face, Xiwei said gently: "I'll buy one for you~"

"Huh?! etc......"

Before the girl could stop her, Sivi had already floated away, and then flew back with a hot dog filled with garlic sauce, and watched with a gentle smile as the girl tearfully swallowed the hot dog filled with garlic sauce...... (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )