Chapter 103: Conversation in the Carriage
After asking passers-by about the location of the Mercenary Guild, Fang Zhen walked a long way and came to the Guild Avenue in Har Chicheng. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
It seems that in every big city, a guild avenue will be specially built so that the guilds can compete and gather together in an organized manner.
The mercenary guild in Har Chicheng is still so simple and large, with a wide area of rectangular box-like buildings, and the hall on the first floor can accommodate tens of thousands of people, how spacious it must be!
It is worthy of being the central city where mercenary hunters and adventurers gather, and the area of Guild Avenue alone occupies one-seventh of the area of Harchicheng.
Fang Zhen came to the bar counter of the bar open by the mercenary union and ordered a bottle of green rain dew.
"Girl, a bottle of Green Rain Dew costs 50 gold coins, it's really expensive, I can be ashamed to buy a bottle!" Fang Zhen tasted the mellow aroma of Green Rain Dew and muttered to himself.
"Mr. Magician, the green rain and dew here are all transported from Saya City, and only the rain curtain forest in the north of our eastern continent can grow the dew fruit that makes this wine, so the price is a little expensive. The bartender explained slowly as he wiped the crystal glass.
"Hulu fruit, no wonder the natural breath is so strong, Hulu fruit is a medicinal material for making natural magic potions, and natural elements are concentrated in it. Fang Zhen nodded suddenly.
Suddenly, Fang Zhen heard a commotion, and was turning around strangely, when he saw that half of the mercenaries in the hall were gathered on a mission bulletin board, discussing noisily.
"What's going on? What mission is so charming, hundreds of people are surrounding it, is there a beautiful woman undressing in front of the task board?" Fang Zhen quipped.
"Hehe, sir, is joking, but there are a number of ladies in this hall. The bartender was amused. "If I'm not mistaken, that mission must be about Hongguo Mountain City. Specifically, it is about the mission of the Hengduan Mountains. ”
At this, the bartender was silent, and seemed to be wiping his glass intently.
But Fang Zhen knew very well that the cup in the bartender's hand had been wiped for several hours.
Fang Zhen took out a gold coin and threw it on the counter, and then did not speak.
The bartender was unmoved, still focused on wiping the crystal cup.
"Yo! too little?" Fang Zhen said with disdain in his heart.
However, he still took out three more gold coins, and then put the green rain dew wine bottle in his hand with a wine stopper and put it in the back pocket of his waist.
This move was to tell the bartender that Fang Zhen had lost his patience, and if he said it, he could take away these few gold coins. Don't say it, pull it down, the master went out to play.
The bartender's "focused" face was finally impressed and he smiled with satisfaction. Then he said slowly: "Seven days ago, someone discovered the entrance to a new montage mausoleum, and the specific location seems to be near the Nakmu River. Therefore, some powerful people and big forces issued tasks and gathered more people to explore the way. ”
Fang Zhen nodded, then turned around and left without saying a word.
After leaving the Mercenary Guild, Fang Zhen stretched out in the westward sunset.
"It's been an up-and-down day, with good things and bad things coming together. Fortunately, the clue to the pair of rings is there, and the experience task of the pit daddy!"
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Dusk, Central Square of Harchicheng.
In the corner of the square, a tall building, Fang Zhen sat quietly on the roof of this building, overlooking the entire square.
The central square of every city, although not a trade center, is an excellent meeting point. The place is not only big enough, but also has many benches, small flower beds, fountains, etc.
Fang Zhen was very amazed at the city's urban construction concept, how humane it is!
Feeling the slight evening breeze at dusk, Fang Zhen finally saw the employer he needed to wait for.
Old Manny took young Arthur's hand, and beside him he led an ordinary carriage pulled by two long-eared horses.
Fang Zhen stood up, jumped forward slightly, and fell to the ground lightly without making a sound.
This move fell in the eyes of Old Manny not far away, but it seemed to be an ordinary thing, so Old Manny was not surprised at all.
But in the eyes of young Arthur, it was different.
In the eyes of the child, he was innocent and curious, so the young Arthur looked at Fang Zhen with curiosity and excitement, and seemed to have lost his previous sense of timidity.
"This, old Manny, Har Chicheng doesn't know how to do it, the magic guild's prop shop and the magic prop shop in the city, their lighting tubes and lights have been sold out, and they won't arrive until tomorrow. Fang Zhen said a little apologetically.
After all, it is a dereliction of duty that the things that were told by the employer were not completed.
"Well, did you buy any other lighting items?" asked Old Manny, frowning slightly.
"Yes, look!" Fang Zhen took out two oil lamps.
The oil lamp is a branch of a crimson tree that is used as a combustion medium and is fueled by oil (the slurry of a fire elemental plant) and then covered with a crystal cover. For the night use of the common people, a fire oil lamp can be used for five days and five nights.
It's just that old Manny is puzzled, because he usually doesn't use oil lamps when driving at night. Because the oil lamp can only illuminate the surrounding area for a few meters, and the distance is not more than 10 meters, it cannot be used for long-distance lighting.
"It's okay to put the oil lamp in the carriage, but how can you let the long-eared horse rush outside? The long-eared horse is not a black king horse, and it can't see the surroundings at night. ”
"You don't understand this, I have my own way, believe me!" Fang Zhen suddenly said confidently.
Old Manny nodded.
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It's night, and April hangs high in the night sky.
The carriage galloped under the gallop of two long-eared horses.
A beam of light shone out from the front of the carriage, and the beam shot out of a range of tens of meters, enough for a long-eared horse to see the road ahead.
It turned out that Fang Zhen placed an oil lamp in the driver's position of the carriage, and then covered the oil lamp with four square mirrors, revealing only one direction.
When the oil lamp is lit, the lamp is focused and reflected, and the light that emits the light gathers a strong light and becomes a distant beam.
"It seems that the oil lamp will sell well in the future. Fang Zhen sat in the carriage, looked at the dancing flame of another oil lamp, and said leisurely.
"Mr. Magician, you are very clever, and you use four mirrors to bring the gap between the oil lamp and the lighting tube closer. If it is promoted, I am afraid that the price of the lighting tube will be reduced, which is a good thing!" said Old Manny with a smile.
"Good thing? do you mean the benefit of civilians and mercenaries who can't afford to buy lighting tubes? Perhaps, there should be those who are in a hurry and the more stingy merchants. Oil lamps are simple to make, inexpensive in materials, and more extensive and practical than lighting tubes for alchemical products. Fang Zhen nodded and said.
In fact, this is just a very ordinary physical experiment, especially a very common technique in adventurous life.
"More than that, let the oil lamp replace the lighting tube, you have slapped the Magic Guild in the face!hahaha!" Old Manny laughed a little heartily at this. "Lighting tubes and lamps have always been mass-produced and provided by the Magic Guild, and there are alchemy products of the Magic Guild in every city on the mainland, and with just these two products, they can use the gold coins they earn to wipe their butts. Fortunately, oil lamps can be made everywhere, and even civilian families can produce them themselves. ”
"Actually, it's not how smart I am, it's that this ordinary method can no longer be ordinary, that is, it comes from life. For thousands of years, people have been accustomed to the simplicity of alchemy and relied on magic items, which has led to a decline in their creativity. The alchemists who had raised the level of alchemy had never thought about what would happen to the world without magic and alchemy. ”
Hearing this, Old Manny fell into deep thought.
Fang Zhen also opened the floodgates of thinking. As if from this little thing, it is possible to associate larger social philosophy and political and economic ideas.
Allowing civilians to produce the necessary lighting items on their own can not only reduce the dependence of civilians on the magic guild, but also trade the items produced in exchange for daily needs. This is the road to riches.
Moreover, crimson trees and fire elemental plants with sustainable burning properties are everywhere in the continent, and they are also the food of some fire-type demonic beasts.
Thinking about it, Fang Zhen was a little fluttering, as if he felt that he was comparable to the two great men of Marxism-Leninism, creating a certain idealism for the benefit of the people.
Suddenly, Arthur, a young man who had been silent, finally spoke in front of Fang Zhen.
"Mr. Magician, how did you manage to jump off a five-story building without making a sound?" Young Arthur's voice was crisp, and although his tone was a little scared of life, his language was very polite, and he seemed to have been trained in etiquette.
Fang Zhen woke up from his thoughts, looked at the handsome young man Arthur in front of him with a curious expression, so he explained with a smile: "Because there is an instantaneous force removal function in my boots. Therefore, when you land, your footsteps will not collide with the ground and make a sound. ”
Then Fang Zhen lifted Erlang's legs and presented the boots in front of Arthur.
"Huh, these boots are a little familiar. However, this instantaneous power release function, it is said that most magician-level boots do not have it, could it be that your boots are master-level?" Old Manny also woke up from his thoughts, and when he heard this, he glanced at Fang Zhen's boots and wondered.
"No, my boots aren't even at the wizard level. The function of this instantaneous unloading does not require much advanced alchemy technology, when making this boot, I asked to add this function into it, after all, this function is too practical, and it is not very difficult to make, it is to depict thirty-six wind miniature magic arrays, in alchemy, the magic guide is combined and the magic guide is mixed and connected, and finally these magic arrays are embedded into the key parts with spiritual power. Fang Zhen suddenly had the desire to explain. "Since I wore these pair of boots, my feet don't hurt, my waist doesn't hurt anymore, I have the strength to jump off the building, and I will never jump to death, haha!"
"Hee-hee!"
The last sentence amused the young Arthur.
"I don't know much about alchemy, but I can know that the function of instantly unloading is indeed very useful, especially the professional killers of the Killer Guild, whose boots almost all use this function. Old Manny said slowly.
"Killer Guild, is there such a guild, why can't I find it on Guild Avenue?" Fang Zhen was puzzled.
When he was in Sayaru, Fang Zhen specially walked around the Guild Avenue several times, but there were no buildings of the Killer Guild and the Thieves Guild.
At the beginning on Earth, Fang Zhen was a person who played very well in the dark world, as a tomb robber, the killer organization and the thief organization were Fang Zhen's source of intelligence.
"In the Baimeng Continent, the Killer Guild and the Thieves Guild are guild forces that are not visible, but these two guilds are very powerful, so although most people know about the existence of these two guilds, they often don't know the location of these two guilds. Manny Sr. explained.
"Yo, are you afraid of being captured by the city guards? As far as I know, under the laws of the Aslan Empire, murder and theft are punishable by imprisonment. So these two guilds can't see the light?" Fang Zhen couldn't help but think of the laws of the Aslan Empire.
"Yes, not only the Aslan Empire, but also the Theocratic Empire of the Northern Continent, the Hasari Empire of the Western Continent, and the Binus Alliance of the Southern Continent have enacted such laws and do not recognize the existence of these two guilds. Therefore, the Killer Guild and the Thieves Guild can only be organized and gathered in secret. Old Manny nodded.
It seemed that seeing that Fang Zhen and Old Manny were chatting more and more, Arthur, who was originally very curious, was a little anxious.
"Mr. Magician, I don't know what kind of magician you are?Are you studying magic at Samikina Academy?," Arthur suddenly asked several questions.
Fang Zhen was stunned for a moment, and before he could answer, Old Manny's face turned a little stiff.