Chapter 42: The Mystery Shop
"Ding, the first stage of the main quest has entered Spartan City, and it has been completed. You have earned 1500 bonus points. β
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"Hurry, hurry, hurry."
"Come into town, don't stop!"
The soldiers on the tower shouted, and a thick chain slowly opened the gate to a gap that allowed the convoy to enter.
Wang Chen and others rushed in.
Bang~~~
The gates fell again.
The defenders finally breathed a sigh of relief, and everyone was careful about the danger of being invaded by those evil creatures every time the dark creatures descended.
The city gate is the heart of the city of Spartan.
As long as the city gate is not lost, then it is easy to say. It has a natural barrier that allows human soldiers to repel most enemies at a fraction of the cost.
Therefore, although the overall human beings are much weaker than the dark creatures, there are still many city-states that are still standing.
However, the city gate cannot be opened, and the study of dark creatures will continue to promote the birth of strong people in the city, and some special dark biological materials are necessary to make sophisticated weapons, so it is very necessary for the survival of the hunting team.
"Captain Simpson, this is a good harvest, this big car is enough for your team to squander for a while." A soldier defending the city quipped.
"Yes, this cart of two or three boxes of goods can be exchanged for seventy or eighty gold coins." Another soldier chimed in.
After entering the city and completely relaxed, the fatigue of the days was swept away, and Simpson was obviously in a very good mood at the moment.
He laughed, took out a few silver coins casually, and threw a few silver coins into the hands of a soldier guarding the city, he smiled and said: "I did make a lot of money this time, and this money is used to buy wine and drink for my brothers." β
"Haha, then thank you Captain Simpson." Those soldiers were smiling and not pretentious, obviously not once or twice dealing with Simpson, knowing that he was not only strong enough, but also generous.
"Brothers, I'll see you later, let's go."
"I'll see you later."
Then they departed.
As soon as I entered the city, there were immediately more people, and from time to time there were vendors selling strange food and items on the street. Wang Chen saw the novelty all the way, the city here has the atmosphere of the ancient medieval period, but it is more prosperous, which makes Wang Chen eye-opener.
Such a scene is not visible when it is on Earth.
Although the invasion of dark creatures killed many people, the establishment of the human city-state also gathered the vast majority of people, so although it is backward and war-torn here, it is still prosperous.
No way, there are a lot of people.
According to Bagu, the city's population is at least one million or more. Gathering a million people in a city may not be a big deal for modern civilization, but what an incredible thing it would be if this happened in this era.
Wang Chen was amazed by this.
The group walked to a place dedicated to the purchase of dark creatures' limbs, and this was a bazaar.
The streets of the bazaar are filled with samurai in armor, most of whom resemble the costumes of a hunting squad, or occasionally a few men dressed as merchants. Wang Chen nodded, it seems that the buyers who often haunt here are either the warriors of the hunting squad.
"Molars of the Tooth Beast, 5 silver coins each."
"Buy the Black Stone Grass, collect ten copies, two plants each, and one gold coin."
"Dark Werewolf Mane ......"
"Bloodline ......"
There are people selling on the side of the road, and many people sell the small amount of goods they get to the owners of these stalls.
Bagu said to Wang Chen: "These are reselling dealers, if a certain item purchased by the big merchants is saturated within a certain period of time, these people will come to collect it, and then stock up on the goods, and then sell them to the big merchants every once in a while, so as to make some small profits." β
Wang Chen chuckled: "Can it still be like this?" β
"Of course." Bagu said: "And they are also safe in this way, and they don't need to go to the city to work hard." Although it is a little hard to shout here all day, there is no freedom. But some hunting squads that are in dire need of money and can't sell their goods are still willing to sell their goods. β
"Although these people's bids are lower than those of regular merchants, they are still very responsible, and the low will not be low. They only make a small profit, everyone knows the price, and they can't do it if they want to. β
Wang Chen couldn't help but look at the vendors on both sides of the street again, and found that most of them were elderly.
He was a little curious, this kind of work that seemed to be hard, but it didn't need to risk his life, and it wasn't too tiring. If you put it in an environment like the earth, there should be a lot of people competing. But here there is an orderly order among the vendors, and not a single young man has been found.
This is not surprising.
Could it be that the sentiments of people in this world are so noble, and they still know how to respect the old and love the young? Wang Chen didn't believe it, there must be some article in this.
Wang Chen said: "Why are the vendors here all old people?" β
Bagu blinked his eyes and asked, "Isn't that the case with you?" β
He didn't have a beginning or end to what he asked, but it was easy to understand when translated. It means that in the city where Wang Chen stayed before, why wasn't it the same as them here. Wang Chen was speechless for a while, thinking to himself, buddy, I used to stay in the City of Death, and I am not on the same level as you at all.
But you can't say that.
Wang Chen had no choice but to say: "I don't know, probably." What's wrong? β
Bagu rolled his eyes and said angrily: "Then your city will definitely not be united with us." Sue you, these old people are not ordinary people. β
"When they were young, they were all warriors of the hunting team, and they spent their lives in the wilderness, but now they are old and decrepit, and it is impossible to go outside the city, and when they were young, they fought with dark creatures, leaving a body of dark wounds, and they hurt badly at every turn, so naturally they can't do rough work."
Therefore, in order to make a living for these old people who have made meritorious contributions to the city, the city lord deliberately divided this piece of land for them to trade. Do you want someone else to dare to grab this chassis? Unless he wants to be captured in the slave corps to work as a coolie. No one would dare to touch the chassis, and the city dwellers would not come to take it, and the people of Spartan respected these old men. β
Bagu was solemn and respectful when he said this, and he obviously had great respect for these old people who had been fighting with dark creatures all their lives. Especially after he joined the hunting team himself, he has been active outside the city for a long time, so he naturally understands the horror of dark creatures better.
Those who can fight at the forefront to defend the people all their lives, except for the city guards, belong to them as members of the hunting team.
Wang Chen is not a native of this world, and he has not experienced those tragic events, so it is difficult for him to understand this kind of feeling of Bagu. But that didn't stop him from understanding it. For these old people, he also had a trace of pity in his heart.
Maybe they were just NPCs in the quest world, but what Wang Chen had seen and heard, including his communication with Bagu, made it impossible for him to connect these living people with the cold number jΓΉ.
Wang Chen's heart moved, and he found that there were already many limbs of dark creatures in his storage space, plus a large number of black crow beasts that he had hunted, except for a part of them that were distributed to the hunting team, the rest of them could also be sold for a lot of money.
As soon as the hand flipped over, a black crystal had already fallen into his hand.
This black crystal is taken from the body of the crow beast and is said to be sold for a lot of money.
"What are you doing?" Bagu was a little curious when he saw this scene, and at the same time he was even more curious about the identity of Wang Chen's summoner. He just saw that Wang Chen didn't have anything in his hand, and as soon as his hand flipped over, there was an extra crow beast crystal.
Is this the legendary space magic?
Bagu's understanding of the power of magic was one of the few things in his mind that played with his imagination.
"Sell something." Wang Chen threw the spar in his hand with a smile, and then walked towards an old vendor.
Bagu hurriedly followed, and he said strangely: "Because this kind of black crow beast crystal is very versatile, big merchants have been buying it, and it will not be saturated. If you sell it to them, you'll make a lot less money. β
"Do you think I'll care about that much money?" Wang Chen asked rhetorically.
Bagu was stunned.
"You're trying to help them?"
Wang Chen smiled: "It's just a matter of raising your hands." β
The members of the hunting team all stopped and looked at Wang Chen together, their eyes flashing with surprise and respect.
Bagu took a deep breath, lowered his head and said sincerely: "It's my Bagu's honor to make a friend like you. Thank you for your help to our Spartan City Kill Squad. β
At the same time, he turned his head and shouted: "Brothers, we have a lot of goods this time, we don't sell the Chamber of Commerce, just like Brother Wang Chen, let's sell them to these old-timers." β
"Is there any objection?"
The crowd immediately replied.
"Agreed."
"No objection!"
"That's how it should be!"
Wang Chen looked at them with a smile, feeling the enthusiasm of these young people, and his long-standing cold heart couldn't help but warm a little more.
The afternoon was destined to be very lively, and there was such a strange scene in the bazaar, dozens of young people scrambling to sell some precious materials to the old vendors on the roadside, this is not a saturated item, it does not require a lot of time to wait, nor does it require a lot of savings to fill in, but can be sold for a lot of money after receiving it.
This touched the hearts of these old people, who had been living in poverty, how they couldn't see that this strange hunting team was helping them.
And they can naturally see that the reason why these young people of the hunting team are doing this is because of a figure who is faintly leading among them. A strange young man with short black hair and black eyes.
That person is naturally Wang Chen.
Almost everywhere Wang Chen went, there were old hawkers who bought a lot of good goods. And the dark biological materials in his storage space also piled up like a hill and became less and less, in exchange for a large handful of golden coins.
This is the gold coin in the mouth of the Bagu people.
Wang Chen picked up one and looked at it carefully, the texture should not be pure gold, it was hard, and the color was dark. It should have been made of copper and some other metals. Although this gold coin is not minted in pure gold, its purchasing power is not small.
Such a gold coin is even enough for an ordinary person's expenses for two or three months.
After a lot of work, the dark creatures were disposed of, and Wang Chen also obtained about two hundred gold coins. Almost all the old vendors on the street were favored by Wang Chen's action, not only Bagu and the others who were with Wang Chen, but even some other members of the hunting team spontaneously followed their example.
At the same time.
A hint from the Lord God resounded in Wang Chen's mind.
"You have earned the respect of all the senior hunters of Hunt Street, you have started the Hunt Street Mystery Shop side story, and from now on, you have the qualifications to discover and enter the Mystery Shop."
A huge shop with a bright light suddenly appeared not far from Wang Chen, and Wang Chen remembered that the previous place was just an overgrown clearing of ruins......
What's going on here?