Around noon, during negotiations with the Wizards' Guild, Crocodile Collar proposes a cement trade. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info The other party didn't expect this at all, but seemed to be very interested, and after asking a lot of advertising words, he cut off the communication without waiting for Sémill to exhaust his strength.

"Is this done?" Jiao Ming was a little puzzled.

"It's nothing more than to do an investigation and ask the people of Xuqin how effective our cement is. Binglian pursed her lips, her expression seemed to be disdainful of the Magician Association's unruly style, but in fact, she had no bottom in her heart, after all, the Xu Qin people had been fighting with the crocodile for many years, and the blood feud was deep, so it would be strange if she could give the crocodile any good words.

"The Wizards' Guild are all smart people. Cement, Xu Qin people still buy under the vendetta, which is in response to the sentence of integrity, indicating that our products are superior. Jiao Ming comforted.

Binglian first nodded, and then asked the meaning of the Chinese "poem" of 'mouth suspicion and body integrity'. Jiao Ming smiled secretly in his heart and said: "Although this is five words, it is not a poem, but an abbreviation. Then give a light version of those five words.

This explanation doesn't match your expression. Binglian was a little suspicious. Jiao Ming was stunned, waved his hand and said, "Don't care about these details." ”

Sémill could keep the message three times a day, about half an hour at a time, so there was still one chance today, but in the evening there was no response from the Wizards' Guild. Although Jiao Ming and Binglian were nervous, they also understood that this was a good sign, if the Magicians Association was not interested, they could politely refuse after a little investigation for half a day, but now this situation should be an argument and hesitation.

Sure enough, in the next few days, the Wizards Association inquired in detail about the yield and quality of cement, and finally said that a magician who presided over the matter was already on his way to the magic tower in Sardinia City, and asked the crocodile to receive him and discuss the details in detail.

"Is this a bit of an overstatement? The last time I asked the crocodile leader to send troops, I just sent a messenger, Semeel. In the leisure time of negotiation, Jiao Ming expressed his doubts to Binglian. Binglian had the same idea in her heart, but she had no answer, so she had to shake her head and say nothing. Three days later, Ms. Ziyu and the two went to Sardinia City to meet them, and Semill naturally followed, along with the cement sample as agreed. When the two sides met, they didn't know soon that the one who had been sent was an unsuccessful person looking for a project for his own spells.

After a short greeting, they introduced each other, and the identities of the others did not need to be repeated, but Jiao Ming, a young fifth-rank lord, was a little eye-catching, and was noticed by the other side a few times.

And this negotiator is an eight-ring qi magician named Kino, nearly fifty years old, five short figures, short gray hair, high eyebrows and deep eyes, burgundy skin and this pair of green pupils, revealing a bit of shrewdness. Dressed in a milky white gown with sparkling hoops, perhaps the fabric was precious, Jiao Ming only remembered the reflective vests that kept traffic on Earth.

There are two assistants. A thin man with black hair and black eyes, named Bazel, a three-ring fire magician. A blonde and blue-eyed maid with an explosive body, named Ah Tu, who does not know the rank. In fact, it is not difficult to guess that one of these two is a work assistant and the other is a 'life assistant'.

And when Jiao Ming noticed that when this old man glanced here, his gaze stayed on Luohua's face for a few more seconds, which made Jiao Ming very unhappy and secretly remembered it in his heart.

There were no more pretenses, and after introducing each other, they went straight to the point and examined the cement samples. Keno, his assistants, and the magicians of the Mage Tower in Sardinia City examined them in silence, and there was no more attitude on their faces. Finally, Keno said in a strange lingua franca: "I would like to see evidence of production." ”

The crocodile leader and everyone were immediately shocked, Ice Lotus and Jiao Ming had indeed falsely reported the output of cement, not to blow the atmosphere, but to calculate the maximum output based on the number of existing fire magicians, removing the restrictions of transportation, production lines, raw materials and other factors.

But this is not the real reason for the accident, after all, the output that is blown out is sure to be reached within dozens of days. What really caught the Crocodile Leader off guard was that this request was completely out of the scope of negotiations. After all, how can the 'output' thing be proved, and what evidence can be captured, it is nothing more than taking people to the production workshop to watch it and prove it. But this inevitably involves the core secret of cement production, just the heating of the high temperature environment can reduce the difficulty of inducing magic, this principle is really easy to see, there is no secrecy at all.

What's more, this is still a magician of the Eight Rings, and even hearing the gossip of the cement kiln magician, you may guess it, and in anticipation, the Crocodile Leader even decided not to let him get close to Changteng Town.

The second is that the output has nothing to do with the Wizards' Association, as long as the trade volume is agreed upon, the transaction can be made on time, and you don't care how much cement I produce. Just like Zhong Guo sells steel, foreign countries must also inquire about production and seek empirical evidence, which is not ill-intentioned.

Although it was unexpected, it couldn't be cold, and Lady Ziyu also asked expressionlessly, "I don't know what kind of evidence the master wants to see, what if he can't see the evidence?"

The atmosphere suddenly became more antagonistic, and the posture of these two sentences about to start a fight made Jiao Ming very uncomfortable.

Kino raised his eyebrows, he didn't expect such a tough answer at all, his upper lip trembled, he suppressed his anger and didn't attack, frowning and muttering for a moment but chose to turn in: "The cement sample meets the requirements and can be negotiated in the next step." ”

Although everyone was slandered in their hearts about such a blunt change of topic, no one spoke nonsense, whether it was the crocodile leader's side, or the mage stationed in the Mage Tower in Sardinia City, they all just silently packed up their things and moved to the conference hall inside the magic tower. This time it was the messenger magic presided over by Kino, which was not at all comparable to the three-legged cat kung fu of Semeer, the negotiations went on for several hours, and the frequency of sending letters was extremely high, but Kino didn't even sweat, if it was replaced by Semeer, I am afraid that he would have been tired and vomited blood.

Similarly, as a result of the accelerated exchange of information, negotiations proceeded equally rapidly, with consensus reached on some basic conditions and a see-saw negotiation of some specific details.

'This girl is so thick-skinned' Jiao Ming scolded secretly in his heart, and at the same time stared at Keno to cast spells, Jiao Ming, who was barely an expert, saw some doorways, but also had more doubts.

At dinnertime, when the negotiations were over, Kino approached him as an individual and had a separate meeting with Ms. Purple Feather. Binglian and Jiao Ming were both a little inexplicable, speculating about the cattiness. After the secret conversation was over, Ms. Ziyu summoned Binglian and Jiao Ming to ask about the yield.

"It can be done!" both patted their chests and reassured, and then curious about the content of the secret conversation, trying to reveal a thing or two.

Ms. Purple Feather had no intention of keeping it a secret from outsiders, and poured beans into the bamboo tube and said it all. As a well-known eight-ring qi magician, Kino does not like to fight, and claims that he only has two hobbies in his life, beauty and studying magic. Ms. Ziyu pursed her lips when she said this, Binglian's face darkened, and even Jiao Ming, who was not deeply involved in the world, heard the meaning of asking for a bribe, and smiled helplessly, sighing at the similarities between the two worlds.

Keno then claims that he has developed a 'permanent teleportation circle', and blows up the hardships of the development process, and finally laments the mage's incompetence.

Binglian nodded again and again when she heard this, but Jiao Ming couldn't hide the surprise in her heart, Keno looked at the soft and was afraid of the hard and lustful, and he was able to develop such a bull coin shiny thing. If this circle can really have a literal function, it is definitely something that has infinite effect.

"This can't be a swagger and a fraud, right?" Jiao Ming interjected.

Binglian frowned when she heard this, but immediately stretched out her mind and said, "No, after all, the identity of the project manager of the Magician Association can't be faked." ”

Jiao Ming wanted to explain the difference between a liar and a high-level liar, but he heard Lady Zi Yu say, "Don't worry about this, Archmage Keno didn't ask us for anything, he just wanted to determine the yield of cement. ”

The two of them stopped talking, and listened attentively.

"The permanent teleportation circle he developed is not perfect, and one of the fatal flaws is that it will damage the teleportation items, so it is not favored by the Wizards Association, nor by the various kingdoms, so he can only hold it in his hands and entertain himself. This time, I heard about the cement trade of our crocodile collar, so I hope to revive it and come to preside over this matter in person. ”

At this point, Jiao Ming suddenly realized. Thinking of the countless chickens and ducks that were killed when he designed the teleportation box to destroy the Wall of Sicorton, as well as the terrible slash that Duke Crocodile suffered, he naturally understood Keno's predicament. Such unstable and insecure transmission is indeed completely incapable of competing with existing transmission technologies.

Suppose a princess of the kingdom who attends a ball buys a dress from a city next door thousands of miles away, it is naturally no problem to use traditional teleportation, but after using Keno's technology, it is not only more expensive but also faces the risk of destroying the dress, so it is self-evident how to choose. But there is no need to worry about cement, what can be done if it is broken by a space crack, and it will not affect the use at all.

"In other words, this Keno Archmage wants to use this opportunity to prove that his research results are not useless?" asked Binglian.

"If what he says is true. Lady Purple Feather replied.

"So his position is to hope that the cement transaction will start smoothly?" Binglian smiled, her eyes narrowed, obviously planning to make trouble. "I think we can use this to threaten him a little bit, and we don't have to be too greedy, and it shouldn't be too much to take out some of the Wizards' Guild's attitude. ”

Jiao Ming secretly said 'It's too much', but on the surface, he gave a thumbs up to the ice lotus, praising his talent and quick thinking. Lady Purple Feather also nodded in agreement, "You can give it a try." ”

Jiao Ming listened to how the mother and daughter calculated this unlucky bastard, but they were always lacking in interest, and even when they were asked, they didn't make any suggestions. The next day, the process went smoothly, but he missed a little bit of retreat, and when asked about the Wizards' Guild's opinion on the war, Kino spat out all sorts of messy information like a grumbling middle-aged woman.

Jiao Ming was still watching, smiling secretly in his heart, but also giving birth to a rather complicated feeling, and somehow a blank piece of paper with the word 'silly X' flashed in his mind.

Through Keno's mouth, Jiao Ming and the others had a preliminary impression of the inside of the Magicians Association for the first time, after all, this product is also the eighth ring, and no matter how unfortunate it is, the number of rings alone is also a nominal middle-level cadre, just like a small bureaucrat with seniority, even if he has no real power, his official rank is high enough. Therefore, Keno not only knows all the information that is public, but also knows some unimportant secrets.

Concrete fortifications were also one of the plans that had been implemented, and even the Xuqin people's method of building cement fortifications to attack the swampy area was to steal from the Magician Guild. However, due to the production of cement, the fortification project was abandoned after only twenty days of implementation, and now the unfinished project is already in the territory of the Ifusen theocracy, and it is even rumored that it has been 'lucky' to be the headquarters of the opposite side for a while.

Such rumors naturally made the high-level leaders of the Wizards Association lose face, and even the middle-level cadre who proposed to build the fortifications was almost assigned a crocodile collar. Keno was already frowning when he said this, but he didn't notice that the faces of the Ice Lotus mother and daughter turned black in an instant.

After talking about a few hilarious failed plans, he talked about the secrets of several powerful Jiuhuan powerhouses today, advocating that he had a close relationship with so-and-so, and got the guidance of so-and-so.

She had already gotten the information she wanted to hear, and she couldn't let her babble like a complaining woman, and finally Ms. Ziyu, who had heard enough of the gossip, turned the topic back and asked, "So the Magicians Association actually needs cement?"

This question is very much in line with Ms. Purple Feather's simple and direct style, but it is too straight and abrupt, and even the most dull person will realize the meaning behind the question. Keno was speechless for a moment, and then after thinking about what kind of negotiation information had been revealed by the content of the nonsense he had just made, he suddenly turned on his face angrily and shouted: "You guys are actually ......"

At this point, Jiao Ming thinks that if this thing is not an acting genius, he is a simple research-type good mage, and his aggressive attitude when they first meet is just an 'illusion', most of which is caused by the lack of experience in communicating with people.

Bing Lian didn't care about the anger of an eight-ring magician, and said, "Sir, don't be angry, if we are sure of this, we still have a way to make cement production to a higher level, wouldn't it be beneficial for everyone." With that, he stared at Kino's expression with a smile on his face, just waiting for him to sit back in his seat.

Keno's upper lip twitched, his eyes widened, and the expression of Binglian's mother and daughter reminded him of what had happened in the past few decades, and it seemed that some people could always play with themselves in the palm of their hands. He snorted in his heart, made a few sentences with 'someday' as the beginning for psychological comfort, and then took out a small bottle of potion from the pocket of the robe and took a sip, then sat down slowly, and said after a long time: "Yes, the Magician Guild has determined that the cement fortifications are effective, and the only limit is the output of cement. ”

The three of them looked at each other, and they all saw the joy in each other's eyes, and this information will have a huge impact on the conditions reached in the negotiations, and the host and guest will be transposed to a certain extent. From the original crocodile leader begging the Magician Association, it turned into the Magician Association begging the crocodile leader, which is similar to when the army was first dispatched.