To the west of Tangus, in the gravel wasteland bordering Norton, a massive stone fortress towers over, and protective barriers ripple in the moonlight.

The stone fort juts out through a long passage that extends beyond the protective barrier by a special magic gate, connecting to a smaller fortress. A blue halo overflowed from the center of the fortress, like a sign that a portal was activated.

The two dwarfs walked out of the magic gate, surrounded by the prison guards, and staggered towards the fortress.

The halfling in the dwarf said, "That syndica is late, you have to squeeze him!"

The goblin who walked in front with his hands behind his back said: "This is a matter for professionals, Gomis, you don't talk too much." ”

The halfling took up his arms, which were much stronger than those of his kind: "If you don't handle it well, I, the professional, will take care of the rest of the matter, and don't forget how that Benuin slave trader handled it." ”

The goblin shook his pointed ears and said, "The Benuin are barbarians, and they don't know what business communication is......

After entering the fortress, he met with a fat-brained merchant in the hall, and apologized with a flattering smile: "There are a few northern hillbillies in the house, and it took some time to deal with them. It's really a shame to delay Lord Nasgai's time, and this windfall is half price. ”

The merchant guards dragged the tall warrior with empty eyes covered in blood, and the slave merchant Syndica stretched out her arm and spewed out a lot of words like introducing a heirloom treasure: "Fourth-level warrior, less than thirty years old, strong body, no hidden diseases and no bad blood, still in the good camp, it is rare." ”

"What's even more valuable is that this kid is strong-willed but clear-headed, and knows the times very well. Very good at patience.,In order to delay time to protect his companions.,Even if it's a grass bear in public, you can still be tough.。 My guard should have posted the mirage on the dark web.,It's under my account.,It's a little interesting, adults can take a look when they're empty.。 ”

"This kid has a lot of potential, and is suitable for being a bodyguard for big people and noble ladies. However, I suggest that it is better to sell to the Colosseum, the warehouses of the Colosseum have recently been cleaned by the Inquisition, and a large number of gladiators have been captured by the Holy See, and they are short of men. ”

"Of course it's Nasgai-sama's choice, I shouldn't talk too much......"

"The starting price of a transcendent slave is one hundred gold ears for the first level, and then doubles for each level, and the fourth level is eight hundred. According to age, occupation, experience, and quality, it is calculated to be 1,300 Jinpuer. However, this is a gift to Lord Naisgai, and he only charges 700 gold ears at half price. ”

The personal assistant to the warden of Tangus No. 4 State Prison, Goblin Nesgai, with his hands behind his back, his eyes scanning the warrior like a scalpel, said with a blank face: "This is indeed a good cargo, I will forgive you for being late, remember that there is no next time." For people like us, mistiming is the most intolerable fault, everyone is the existence of Jinpu Er every minute, and mistiming is to make money and kill people!"

"As for the half-price or something, don't come to this set, you see he is covered in injuries, and the treatment costs hundreds of gold and ears. He had just been captured, and it would cost him to teach him obedience, and it would be difficult to say how much it would cost. I'll give you half price too, 100 Gimpoo. ”

"Also, it's a ...... The Northerners, right? I just came out of the cage circled by the Holy See, and I want to teach him the rules outside, and this hard work will be bottomless, and I am giving a discount, two hundred gold ears. ”

Syndica opened her lips to argue, but it can be seen that even if the goblin is relieved and does not speak, at least three hundred Jinpu ears have been credited.

The goblin continued, "Three hundred kinpu ears, I took it on behalf of the prison master, but it is ......."

He clicked a few times on the wrist guard-style personal assistant, and then said: "Your installment interest for the previous month is also due, and this goods is just deducted from the handling fee, and the interest is calculated separately." ”

Looking at the long line of slaves held by the guards behind him, the goblin nodded with satisfaction: "Looks like you can afford it." ”

Syndica's fat face twisted: "I use those slaves to deduct the handling fee and interest, I'll ...... this first." Is it okay to talk to an adult after a little training?"

The goblin's pointed ears trembled, and he let out a rising tone, and the halfling man behind him hugged his arms and snorted coldly: "In other words, you don't want to apologize to Lord Nesgai!?"

The prison guard behind him also shook his body, making the armor and weapons on his body rattle, making Syndica's fat body a little more stiff.

"Good...... Well......"

Syndica said with a bitter face: "Then ...... the payment deducted this time?"

The goblin smirked, "Don't be scared like that, Cindyka, you're our warden...... Partners, we are doing business and not collecting taxes. I'm scared of you, you don't do business with us anymore, can we still arrest you?"

"Don't worry, what should be yours must be yours! Elsa is on top, and business dealings are the most honest!

Syndica breathed a sigh of relief, straightened her chest and nodded.

The goblin said again: "But we have a new product here, are you thinking about updating your equipment?"

The image was projected from the bracers, and the goblin enthusiastically introduced: "Grid gun! The effective distance is one hundred meters, and the net pocket is open enough to cover a team! The net hook has a prohibition function, which can make the transcendent below level four lose resistance, without any extraordinary fluctuations, and will not arouse the alertness of the target, 600 gold bolts per piece." ”

"And this, a new type of perceptron! The range has been expanded to a radius of three hundred meters, and the target class and level can be marked! With this, the previous defense system that relied on cameras and spider eyepieces to monitor the environment can be thrown away!"

"This is a model for our prison, and it has just been sent out. I can leave you twenty grid guns, a set of perceptrons, and a total price of 25,000 gimpoo ears. ”

"If you want to buy it outside, it's not at this price, at least double it!"

Looking at the projection, Syndica swallowed her saliva, and the guards behind her were muttering, "If you want this thing before, that team of northern hillbillies don't want to run away." ”

Syndica struggled to squeeze out a smile: "I'll take another look...... Look, it's good, but it's too expensive. ”

The goblin smiled genuinely friendly: "Syndica, you are a good friend with us, you can pay in installments, and you can also use slaves to deduct it." ”

Hearing the "installment payment", Cindica shook her head again and again: "After the installment payment of that business last month, I feel ...... Somewhat...... Not very cost-effective. ”

"Are you saying that I borrowed this thing to trick you?"

The goblin shook his head and sighed, erasing the weapon projection and replacing it with a large number of numbers: "Syndica, now I can figure it out with you." Installment payment means, I lend you a sum of money first to help you pay the bill. Then you can postpone it a little bit more. ”

"This is a great thing, isn't it? But what about business, it is about having dealings, loans with interest, installment procedures, and then repaying the principal on time, which is also a matter of course. ”

"You just stare at how many Jinpu ears you have in your pocket, don't you care how many men you have, what kind of equipment, how many and how strong slaves you can handle?"

"As long as you make sure that you have enough Jinpu Ear to repay the principal, interest and handling fee in your pocket every month, you can enjoy the treatment that you can't enjoy even if you have all your Jinpu Ear. ”

"Think about it, when you have saved enough Jinpu Ear to buy these equipment, it will be half a year later. But if you get these equipment first, how much more can you earn in half a year?"

"I know you're embarrassed to call merchants who are heartbroken by interest and fees, and only stare at expenses and don't look forward?"

When she heard "how much can you earn in half a year", Cindyka's eyes lit up.

However, after doing the math with his assistant, his brows were still furrowed.

While hesitating, Syndica suddenly took out a board from the leather bag on her waist, which was the magic mobile phone.

After feeding her phone for a while, Cindica stared at her and exclaimed, "Damn it!

He gritted his teeth and said to the goblins, "Lord Nesgai, I want equipment!

Looks like who attacked this guy's home again......

Then Cindyka still twitched and said, "Well, the price can still be negotiated, right?"

After receiving a large number of slaves and selling some equipment, the goblin Nessgai led the halfling Gomis and the guards out of the fortress and back, carrying tens of thousands of Jinpul installment contracts signed by the Syndica.

The contract was witnessed by the goddess of commerce, and the leather bag around Nesgai's waist exuded a faint fluctuation of divine power, gently blowing his soul, making him extremely comfortable.

On the way, Gomis said with emotion: "I still haven't figured out what kind of installment payment is this, why can you trap people like Cadiga and let them desperately send us slaves?"

"It seems that I am really not as good as the old fox of the prison warden, but he appreciates you very much, more than I am the one who can make all the prisoners obedient. ”

Nesgay patted his purse, "Gomis, when you looted all the prisoners and scraped together ten silver els to exchange for vegetable soup from the guards, someone lent you ten Jinpu ears for a big meal, would you like to?"

Gomis swallowed: "Eat it first, then say, what do you want to do so much, of course you want to." ”

He suddenly said, "Yes, it's very simple. ”

Naisgai sneered: "Everyone understands the truth, but the reality will not be as extreme as I said, and the other party is not you who had no choice at that time." ”

"Why did the warden appreciate me? Because I tied up the slave traders with installments, and not only did they do business with us for a long time, but also made them always take out their idle Gimpours and buy all sorts of things from us. Because installment payments are very cost-effective, you can use all kinds of good things in advance. ”

"To do this, it's not enough to understand this truth. ”

"How much is the best interest, how to set the handling fee, and the various installment plans formulated can not only ensure that we do not suffer losses, but also that customers do not feel that they will not suffer losses, which depends on the technology. ”

"In the end, it is very complicated to make the customer feel that the installment is worth it, and he can easily earn back the cost paid, which is much more cost-effective than saving enough money to buy without installment. ”

Gomis frowned: "Technology...... Isn't your merchant's technique just a mouth that can turn mud into gold?"

Nesgay patted the leather bag on the other side of his waist, which contained the books he had gotten from the black market from a merchant, one was "The Principles of Fate" and the other was "Computing is Everywhere".

He chuckled and said, "A businessman who only has a good mouth can only earn a lip in the eye." ”

Gomis sighed again: "Two months ago, you were stupid, just a goblin who only knew how to move. ”

Nesgai shook his head: "I'm still the goblin who only understands machinery, the problem is that business is actually a huge machine, hiding endless mysteries, by the way, you don't understand this." ”

Gomis, of course, didn't understand, and he was bored fiddling with the warrior the prison guard was dragging behind.

"Big man, what's your name?"

"I heard that you even have grass for bears, can you ask how you feel, can you reach it?"

"Hey, if you don't please me, you'll end up miserable! Beware of selling you to the kind of lady who asks for thirty times a night!"

..................

On the grassland, the violent flash in the rear and the slight tremor of the earth made Tasmi and his party stop in astonishment.

Looking back, you can still see Syndica's manor in the light, just in the mountains behind the manor, the flames flickering and the smoke and dust soaring into the sky.

It seems to be a meteor falling, and there is still an orange arc in the night sky, as if the air is still burning. A few pieces or something were still floating in the air.

"Maybe ......"

Tasmi wanted to say that while it wasn't clear what was going on, it looked like the manor was in shambles, and maybe there was a chance to rescue Bollard and Leona.

The eldest sister said in a deep voice, "We can't take any more risks!"

Ankaret and Ciali looked at the manor, and fire danced in their eyes, but they didn't act.

The eldest sister is right, since the team still has a mission, then you can't trap everyone for those two teammates.

The eldest sister murmured again, "The light of the dark moon needs to be re-...... To start, we have to go to Valentine. Mynie, Rupock, Bollard, and Leona, their blood should not be shed in vain, and we must pay the blood debt for them. But it requires us to understand the world and adapt to it. ”

With their backs to the flames, the team moved on.

At the Syndica Manor, the guards who were busy in the courtyard around the large pool of blood and water were hiding in terror. Countless strange fragments fell from the sky, more terrifying than the cannonballs of the magic cannon, turning the entire manor into a terrifying place no different from the battlefield.

An ovoid fell in the courtyard, but instead of blowing up smoke and dust, it stuck to the ground like a slime, and then hardened into a crystal-like substance, crumbling and shattering.

The fragment revealed a figure wrapped in simple full-body armor, huddled in a ball with his knees huddled, and he remained on his knees in this motion, next to the mass of half-skinned bears, but the lower half of his body was human flesh.

The guards huddled in the corner of the courtyard were about to come over to check, when the man suddenly stood up, and the armor on his body made a subtle clicking sound, and it was unclear whether it was a puppet or a human.

In the restored vision, a terrifying face with no skin and two eyes still slowly turning appeared, which frightened the person into a breath.

"It's ......"

Seeing the upper half of his body that had lost his skin, and the hints given by the Void Spirit in his enhanced vision, anger rose in the man's heart.

"Where did I land......

"Originally, I was worried that I would not hurt the civilians, but now, there is no way to take revenge on the enemy for the time being, and the shame of being sunk is up to you. ”

"By the way, it's better to save people first......"

Ignoring the dozen or so guards around him, this person took out a medical kit from the magic guide armament and treated the half-skinned woman.

The slime universal filler wraps the body and temporarily acts as the skin, the life potion hangs the life force, and the painful holy water stimulates the soul and resists the pull of the power of death.

The man muttered, "It doesn't seem necessary to use a head cutter......

It should be extraordinary, to be precise, the druid woman is extremely tenacious, and she still remains sober. Of course, it could also be the trick of the guys who tossed her, who seemed to be playing the trick of skinning the bear, but they were too heavy to make the woman turn back into human form.

The eyelidless eyeballs rolled, and Leona's blurred vision became clearer. She felt that the fire of purgatory that burned her whole body was mostly extinguished, and her body began to sense, and she was wrapped in a layer of coolness, which made her feel much better.

It's good that she can continue to persevere, at least not die in front of Bollard, maybe there will be a chance to save Bollard, and then laugh at his shortness and weakness.

Then she heard a few pops, and the blurred figure in her eyes exploded into a few balls of sparks.

The figure stood up and turned his back to her, opening some barrier, but it was covering her body.

More and more violent sparks bloomed on him, and there was a thick arc bombardment, bursting with brilliant electric sparks, making him shine like an angel.

He didn't make any big moves, just raised his hand.

In the humming whisper, light golden light shot out, each with a scream.

After a dozen screams, the courtyard fell silent.

The figure turned and crouched down, and said in a tone that sounded like a southerner, "You should rest, don't hold on." Sleep in peace, you won't die. ”

"Oh, I forgot to introduce myself, I'm Captain Bailin of the 10389 ship of the Red Union Navy. Unfortunately, my ship was sunk, so I have to wait with you for rescue. ”

The man's hand lit up with a faint golden light, and he rested lightly on her leg, which was still intact skin.

The power of both coolness and warmth seeped into her heart, blurring Leona's consciousness.

Before falling asleep, a few distracting thoughts flashed through her mind.

The people of the Red Union?

Isn't that the Red Devil!?

It's over, I'm better off alive than dead!

I'm sorry, Pollard, big sister......