Dragonfire Islands.

Redthroat Harbor.

"Wide Dolphin" walked barefoot on the hot sand, the dry sand rubbing against the soles of her feet - she also wanted to have a pair of shoes to wear, but just thinking about it, as a traveling merchant who can be said to be rich and also has some "friends", of course she can get herself a good pair of shoes, but whether it is tough cowhide shoes, or wooden shoes that keep ringing, or light and soft silk shoes, they will be worn and corroded in a short time because of the sand and seawater to the point that they cannot be worn. So in the Dragonfire Islands, shoes were not used as a necessity, but as an expensive ornament and status symbol - she was not illustrious enough to sustain the honor, and a pair of delicate and beautiful shoes would only summon a deadly calamity to her.

She was followed by a slave, half as tall and wide as she was, but carrying a heavy, damp, almost "wide dolphin" on her back Such a large basket, in the basket is a large green-bellied hermit crab that has been overlapped and tied up several times is spitting foam dissatisfiedly, the back shell is yellowish-brown, the abdomen is sea blue to milky white from the outside to the inside, two pairs of legs and a pair of chela, the two chelae are not symmetrical, one big and one small, but even the small one weighs a pound, and when it stretches out all its feet, the whole body is three feet long, they live in the caves they dug out, the entire Dragon Fire Islands were once overwhelming with these six-legged monsters, large and small caves- They are not very common now, because the meat is so sweet, tender and juicy, that humans are the hardest predators to fight against, and then, as if by some kind of magic, most of them suddenly disappear overnight.

No, they weren't killed. They just hide smartly, their burrows are deeper, more numerous, more hidden, and they don't crawl on the ground and pick up the fruit that is easier to obtain. Instead, they climb coconut palms and palms dozens of feet high to feed, and although they are inevitably disturbed by huge seabirds, snakes, and monitor lizards, they can avoid the nets and iron forks of humans - catching the green-bellied hermit crab has gradually become a job that requires strength and skill, this strange and strange creature has dagger-sharp claws, teeth are as poisonous as pit vipers, and many people have either had their feet or hands cut off by them, or their venom has been ruthlessly pushed into the territory of Kranvo - The green-bellied hermit crab is not as benevolent as the pit viper, and its venom causes swelling all over the body of humans...... Unusual swelling. It's like all the water has run out of the internal organs, blood vessels and muscles, the gannet is the size of an egg, and the silky and transparent lumps are next to each other, even if you just look at it with the naked eye, you can see how the transparent water flows slowly in the skin, and if someone pokes it with a sharp object at this time, the whole person will be like a jellyfish thrown on the deck to quickly drain all the water and shrink into a thing that resembles a drum skin.

Fortunately, in the Dragonfire Islands, the price of a slave is always the lowest of all goods. Giving the lives of three or four people in exchange for a blue-bellied hermit crab worth 70 to 80 silver coins was not an unacceptable deal for the "wide dolphin", not to mention that she had recently found a few rather generous customers. They had just come from the mainland, and they weren't so clear about the prices of the Dragonfire Islands, of course, she wasn't greedy, and she only added a few silver coins to everything, anyway. Among them was a mage, and the bad guys were all quiet - because of this, no one wanted to test if the mage's fireball was as hot as they thought it would be until they knew where they came from and what they were going to do.

And these strangers don't seem to want to have more branches, they can be said to live in seclusion. There was only one thief who regularly roamed the hotels and streets of the port, and the eyeliner of the "wide dolphin" had been determined, and yes, the guy was a thief, which made a lot of people less nervous - at least not all of them were dressed in white robes. As far as the "wide dolphins" are concerned, they are more like those nobles who come to the Dragonfire Islands to enjoy the sun, sea and food, they are extremely wealthy, they have nothing to do all day and have a physique and appearance that ordinary people can hardly match, but most of the nobles in the past were invited by a lord of the Dragonfire Islands to come, and when their ships entered the port, the lord's messengers and soldiers were already waiting on the docks. They will be picked up by sedan chairs, carriages, or more extravagant - floating saucers, and spend what is likely to be the sweetest time of their lives in the lord's mansions, islands, and estates, under the service of thousands of slaves and servants.

Perhaps they were indeed just here to see, or perhaps they wanted to seek a position with the lord, for everyone knew that the lords of the Dragonfire Islands were never stingy with their courtiers and subordinates, and that there were countless obedient and dull slaves, and that many warlocks and grey robes were here for them. There may have been slaves in other places, but they could only be said to be inferior to the servants, and some of the slaves even considered themselves human beings, and what a ridiculous and terrible idea and practice that their masters would indulge them instead of rewarding them with whips and nooses!

A whip for complete amusement, the "Broad Dolphin" could swear to Tyre that the whip was not of cowhide, that there was no hook at the end, and that the body of the whip was not wrapped in the tentacles of a jellyfish, but that it was a rope with some spines on it, but those thorns were not as long as her fingers.

But the stupid and sluggish slave fell, and his face was bloodied—the sand of Redthroat Harbor was as rough and sharp as the rest of the Dragonfire Islands, and they were either fragments of shells or the calcareous remains of coral, but his hands were firmly on the ground, not contaminating the basket on his back with the flying sand.

"Wide Dolphin" rolled her eyes, but time was running out, the sun was getting hot, and the goods in the basket were not fresh enough, so she just gave him a perfunctory whip and ordered him to get up and go.

When the deal was over, she thought to herself, she would have to buy another slave. As for the current one, she hadn't decided yet, if she just sold him back into the hands of the old miser, of course, he would probably be ground into meat sauce, but she might only get back a silver coin or two, so should she sell him to the thieves and mercenaries, who liked to bet on slaves, for example, a game called "stacking wood"— They would take turns cutting holes in the slave's body with a short knife or a dagger, and the depth of the knife and the length of the cut were limited but not in a limited position, and if the slave died while one of them stabbed him, that one would lose—and they would always be willing to pay a few silver coins for one or two slaves, which was more than the old miser.

Of course, the gray robe and the red robe would have been more generous, but their business was monopolized by some people, and even if they didn't, the "wide dolphin" would not dare to approach those monsters, and moodiness was simply a fixed symbol printed on them.

Except for the black-haired, young and handsome mage who always wore a knee-length white robe instead of a black robe, looking more like a priest.

He was even amiable, perhaps because he was half-elven, and "Wide Dolphin" thought that she didn't mind having a relationship with him, even though he had a priest of Frow.

Almost at the same time, the "Wide Dolphin" saw the woman who made her feel very uncomfortable, a priest of Flo, dressed in an emerald silk robe, curled up in a round wicker chair with her feet lifted, a pair of golden sparkling slippers half-buried in the white sand.

Mei Mi also doesn't like "wide dolphins".

Perhaps because they were in the same profession, although the "Wide Dolphin" was not a priest and Mei Mi was not a traveling merchant, they were both extremely good at dealing with men.

"Wide Dolphin" is a nickname, but this nickname comes from her appearance and hobbies, "Wide Dolphin" is a plump woman, the most impressive thing is her round huge breasts and buttocks, as well as her seductive fat lips, it is almost one and a half times the average person, you can put a wine glass on it when rolled up, rough light brown skin and powerful limbs make her look like a rough flesh, very favored by the crew and soldiers, so when selling goods "Wide Dolphin" She never forgot to sell herself, she looked down on the delicate and slender Priest Flo, and declared more than once that those weak beauties could only be used to see and not to use.

But this Flo's priest had shoes, a pair of beautiful shoes that she would never forget when she saw them. (To be continued.) )