Chapter 74: The Winter Sacrifice of Pezaros (Part I).

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"Open the door! Open the door! Hammer Tower banged on the small door under the city gate with his huge fist, a place that is generally reserved for messengers who need to enter the city at night in case of emergency, but during the winter festival, even large caravans can enter Pezarus as long as there are tokens that can enter and leave the town, instead of waiting until the next morning. (The first text is published in the reading room biquge.info)

"Who!" The soldier guarding the door was obviously very upset, and opened the observation hole in the small door and looked at Hammer Tower with very angry eyes. It's just that he was stunned for a moment when he saw Chen Kai behind Hammer Tower, who could only see his thighs, because Chen Kai's height was much taller than Xiaomen. Therefore, the soldier subconsciously grabbed his weapon, and after the first sentence, he shouted in very vigilant words: "Who are you!" ”

"Merchant! Mercenary! Hammertower's words were very simple, and then he beckoned Chen Kai and motioned for Chen Kai to take out the letter from Count Zaf. He had to rely on the seal on the letter, and only then could Chen Kai's goods be exempt from tax.

"We are the men of Count Zaf, a redstone fortress! Deliver the goods to Kazmodo for sale, and this is a letter to Count Hufele of Hansting, Kazmodo, which is also our voucher! Remember not to open the letter, or you will die a terrible death, I promise! Hammer Tower slowly handed the letter to the soldier, in fact, when he saw the golden seal on the letter that exuded a special luster, the soldier knew that this seal was very true. Only the seals of the great nobles will use this special material to make the sealing mud, and the golden sealing mud represents not only the meaning of the closure of the letter, but more importantly, such a seal is equal to a small protection spell. The magic contained in the ink makes the letters waterproof and moisture-resistant. However, when the envelope is opened, these effects disappear, and only such protective measures can ensure that the letter will not be opened by others first.

In fact, after hearing Hammertower's words, the soldier did not reach for the letter, but glanced at the seal on it, then turned his head to look at the small book located under the gate. This small book is full of the seals of various nobles, most of course, native to Pezarus. Only a small number are from other territories. As Hammertower said, only nobles above the rank of lord are exempt from taxes, and in order for the gates of Pezaros to open after the sun goes down, there must be a title of nobleman above the rank of lord.

The Count is naturally qualified, and as the current supreme commander of the Redstone Fortress, Count Zaf has absolutely the right to ask Pezaros' gates to be opened at night, only for the entry and exit of the caravans, of course. If it was an army, then give this soldier ten guts, and he would not dare to open it, because he was afraid that he would be hacked to death directly after opening the gate.

After nearly ten minutes of waiting, Pezzaros' massive copper-clad door creaked open. It's just that the angle at which the gate opens is very small, and Chen Kai can see at least two rows of hundreds of soldiers standing behind the gate. On the one hand, it is to facilitate the opening of the gate, and on the other hand, if Chen Kai is an enemy, these soldiers can resist a little.

Of course, the convenience of these soldiers is a little redundant, because Chen Kai is not a bandit or any other enemy. On the contrary, they caught robbers. Looking at the robber captives who were tied up with ropes and followed the caravan into Pezaros, the eyes of all the soldiers were round and round. That's more than two hundred robber captives, and that number doesn't include the robber heads that were placed in the back of the wagon in exchange for bounty. According to the soldiers' estimates, there were at least three or four hundred heads piled up on the last wagon, and the top ones were the leaders of the robbers. Among them is the Night Hunter Bamezawa. Of course, these soldiers had not seen the Night Hunter Bamezava, but they had seen his helmet, and when the helmet that must have represented a special meaning appeared in the eyes of these soldiers, many of them were directly stunned.

As the last of the robber captives walked into Pezzaros. The door closed again with a loud thud. All the soldiers watched Chen Kai walk into the city, and of course they were supposed to report it to the local sheriff. But everyone knew that the sheriff was busy picking up girls at the city lord's banquet now, and he didn't bother to take care of Chen Kai and them at all. Therefore, it was not until the next day, when the sheriff went to work with lip prints on his neck, that he knew that Chen Kai and they had brought more than 200 robber captives into the city. When he ran to the hotel where Chen Kai and the others were renting. The robber captives had been packaged and sold by Chen Kai to a local iron ore merchant. Of course, this merchant only hired these robber captives to mine, but in fact he bought them as slaves, and he was the most pitiful of mine slaves.

As for the sheriff named Frank, he originally wanted to win over some robber captives so that he could resell them to the slave mine owners. As a result, when he arrived at the hotel, all he received was a bunch of heads handed to him by Chen Kai, and the worst thing was that he had to accept it. Of course, after handing over those heads, Chen Kai and the others received a large amount of experience, and the experience points were so rich that an ordinary player could cry with joy. Because all the experience points add up to enough to make a player above level 60 improve by one level, but because it is divided by six people, the experience points that each person gets in the end are 30%. This is a very rich experience, so rich that it directly makes Su Wan rush directly to level 61. Only the other three have been wiped out of experience points several times because they have been in battle, and they have not reached the level of upgrade, but everyone feels that if such a good thing comes a few more times, it is estimated that by the time they reach Kazmodo, basically everyone will be upgraded by one level.

But there are not many such good things after all, not every place has so many robbers who can be used to pay for tasks, and not all the time you can meet so many robbers, and the most important thing is that if you encounter robbers, you will not be able to successfully repel them every time. Once the battle is lost, Chen Kai and the others will lose far more than these experiences.

"Huh! This Frankish sheriff is rich, and he carries a dozen White Devil Crystal Coins with him! Chen Kai weighed the money bag in his hand, and then threw it directly to Hammer Tower without opening it. Hammertower looked at the money bag that had been thrown over, and opened it and counted it. Then he took out two crystal white magic crystal coins and threw them to Chen Kai.

"If we take it all, it will be too greedy! After all, you have also put in a lot of effort, and as mercenaries, it is your duty to protect your employer, so these belong to us, and these two belong to you! "Twenty thousand gold coins is already a lot of money in the eyes of ordinary people, although Hammer Tower knows that Chen Kai basically will not lack twenty thousand gold coins. But he knows better that you can't be too greedy.

"That's fine! I'll take it! Xiaofei, take it to buy food, buy a little better and eat it on the way! Xu Fei took the two white magic crystal coins in his hand and handed them directly to Xu Fei beside him, asking him to use them to buy various ingredients to eat on the road. On the eve of the Pezaros Winter Festival, the entire Pezzaros market is filled with fresh ingredients, from freshwater fish and shellfish to mountain game. As long as you have money, even dragon meat can be bought, at least Chen Kai saw a restaurant called Dragon and Beauty put out a menu of roasted dragon meat. The price of the dish is 9888 gold coins. Of course, the so-called dragon meat is definitely not a giant dragon or a flying dragon, but some kind of large dragon lizard, which lives in the steppes northeast of Pezarus. It is said that the strength is about the eighth order, and due to the scarcity of quantities and the quality of the meat, it is very unique. It has always been a top-notch ingredient in top restaurants in Pezzaros. But this kind of top-notch ingredient is not something that everyone can afford to eat, that kind of dragon lizard is so strong that ordinary mercenaries can't beat it at all, even if Hammertower thinks that his strength has reached the ninth order, he will be able to walk around that kind of dragon lizard as much as he can.

Known to the inhabitants of Pezarus as Pephas, the dragon lizard possesses both lightning and toxin powers, and contains terrifying lightning powers and toxins that can paralyze the entire body. But when these two forces are cooked, they form a unique and delicious food that makes every bite of meat tingle on the tip of the tongue. Then the whole body trembled slightly, but it was extremely refreshing. Of course, you can't eat too much of this food, and if you eat too much, paralyzing toxins will accumulate in the body, and finally poison people directly into a vegetative state. Only powerful professionals or priests who have mastered the art of body purification will use it for a long time, but only if they have money, of course. The dragon meat worth 9888 or the Pephas dragon lizard meat was only half the size of Chen Kai's palm, and Chen Kai wanted to fill his stomach with at least a dozen pieces. Ordinary professionals have to eat three or four pieces to be full. If you eat it every day, even if you have a lot of money, you will lose it all in a few months.

Of course, many high-level professionals don't go to restaurants to buy them. Instead, they went directly to the grasslands northeast of Pezaros to catch them directly, but the strength of the Pepas dragon lizard was very strong. The power of lightning and toxins can torture a tenth-order knight to death. Without the strength of the Holy Domain, running alone is completely looking for death, and a team of twelve eighth-order mercenaries may not be able to overturn a dragon lizard, and the worst thing is that this kind of lizard lives in groups. Either it doesn't appear, and when it appears, it will definitely be a family of all ages, so there are not a few Sacred Domain powerhouses to do it together, and it is completely wishful thinking to want to eat dragon lizard meat.

Chen Kai: They just took a look at such dishes, and even if Chen Kai thought that he was a full foodie now, he might not be able to eat such an expensive thing, and according to Hammer Tower, the dragon lizard meat sold in this store was basically not very fresh, and the taste was far from the fresh dragon lizard, and it was still stinky if it was not good. Of course, in his heart, Chen Kai thought that Hummerta's words were used to prevaricate the little wife beside him, so as not to spend all the money in his pocket with the other party's greed. However, relatively speaking, Chen Kai paid more attention to his little sister, so he directly dragged out Chen Yi, who wanted to run to see what the dragon lizard meat was like, and left the restaurant.

In addition to selling the most bread for daily needs, the most prosperous area of each city is the market area. All the large chambers of commerce and blacksmith shops are located in the market area, but most importantly the market area also houses all the ingredients that the whole city of Pezaros needs every day. Although the cities in the game resemble the buildings of medieval city-states, the prosperity of the market is not necessarily worse than that of the real-life town market. Every city lord wants his position to be firm enough, and he needs to care about the three things of the residents of his territory, food, clothing, and housing. This is true even in reality, but there is just one more line of words in reality than in the game. Many of the lord's lords in the game have stayed in one territory for generations, and the communication between them is limited to the previous urban area, so the lord does not have to think about the travel of the residents at all, and the only thing to do is to deal with the problem of food, clothing and housing.

The number of inhabitants of Pezaros is not large. Compared with Hansting, Pezzaros, which also belongs to the third-level main city, has a population of less than 600,000, which is relatively small. But there are 17 farmer's markets in the city for food trade, and the largest of them is the market next to the south gate where Chen Kai and his family are staying. Because of the large saltwater lake around Pezaros, you can see fish similar to the ocean, in fact many people think that the saltwater lake is directly connected to the ocean. That's why so many marine creatures thrive in this lake. Due to the climate of Pezzaros, the fish in the saltwater lake are generally similar to those in the northern temperate marine environment, and the fish grown in this environment are very tender and fatty, and the most delicious. Chen Kai even saw a sushi sashimi restaurant opened by a player, apparently using fish from that lake.

The most common species of marine fish in the saltwater lakes of Pezaros are not salmon-like fish, but a kind of tuna that resembles the bluefin tuna in real life. However, the flesh is not bright red, but pink, which is very beautiful, and there was even a tuna with a cherry blossom-like texture on the flesh once caught.

When Chen Kai and the others walked into the market, it happened to be a truckload of tuna that had just been caught from the saltwater lake. Seeing the tuna that was not completely dead, Chen Kai felt that the worms in his stomach were beating. He didn't even think about stopping the wagon transporting the fishing goods, and directly took out the gold coins to buy them. Seeing the gold coins shaking in Chen Kai's money bag, the eyes of the fishermen transporting the fishing goods lit up directly. It was only a little faint at the thought of the contract with the merchant, but then he thought that he was carrying twice as much fish as usual. It doesn't matter if you sell some to Chen Kai.

As a result, Chen Kai spent nearly fifty gold coins to buy three still alive tuna from the fisherman, and directly packed them with ice cubes and stuffed them into the space bag he carried. Now Chen Kai has more than a dozen space bags hanging on his belt, these space bags are not large in size, that is, three or four cubic meters and very shabby, they originally belonged to those robber heads, but now they are used by Chen Kai to transport things. But anyone who saw the space bag on Chen Kai's waist would be surprised. Because that's all the reality of being financially powerful. Even a rich mage wouldn't hang a pocket of space around his waist, only an upstart with so much money would do that. Of course, Chen Kai is not an upstart, he just wants to use waste. After all, even if these space bags are sold, they are second-hand prices, and they don't necessarily cost how expensive they are. Rather than letting the owners of those spell supply stores take it and renovate it and then trick people, it is better to let Chen Kai stay and use it himself. Especially at a time like this, the best thing to buy in bulk is these space bags. Not to mention the food of more than a hundred people, even the food of three or four hundred people can be filled. In fact, when a group of people walked into this bazaar. Everyone began to mention the purchase of **, especially Chen Kai who had eaten the barbecue for so long, and now he felt like vomiting when he saw the barbecue. Therefore, seeing so many ingredients in the market, even if only a few of them reached his mouth in the end, it was enough, so he began to happily go on a journey to buy ingredients.

"What is this? Saltwater lobster? Good! Bring me two hundred kilograms! No! Then a hundred pounds! And the king crab will also bring me ten, this one too, and this one! Chen Yi, who loves seafood, is sweeping the stalls of aquatic products, and no matter which boss sees Chen Yi, a girl with a strong sacred aura all over her body, she is full of joy. Not only because the life power on her body is very comfortable, but also because these bosses saw the arrival of the scattered wealth boy.

This kind of thing happened not only to Chen Yi, but also to other people, and after everyone had enough to buy enough or even a little too many ingredients, Chen Kai found that they not only used the two White Magic Crystal Coins that Hammerta had returned to them, but also filled in one and a half more. In other words, they bought ingredients worth 35,000 gold coins, which is a very expensive amount of money in the history of Pezaros, because unless it is the top food, such as the Pefas dragon lizard, ordinary ingredients cannot be sold for more than 30,000 gold coins. Because ordinary ingredients, even if they are expensive, only need a dozen silver coins or one or two gold coins, and the ingredients purchased with more than 30,000 gold coins can basically make more than a hundred mercenaries eat for three or four months.

By the time Chen Kai found out, he had already returned to the hotel, and the final result was that the lobster crabs that could not be stored had entered the mercenaries' stomachs that night, and Chen Kai had eaten the crabs and lobsters for the first time until he vomited. In fact, he had no way not to vomit, because Chen Yi and Su Wan both threw the lobster's big chelae that were difficult to crack open to him, and only ate the meat in the lobster's belly. Chen Kai had to ask Donnie to help him knock with his claws in order to crack those big claws, and as a result, after dinner, his mouth was full of wounds, and Downey became the first flying dragon to learn to peel lobster shells and crab shells. (To be continued......)

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