Chapter 237: The Value of Slaves
"Take off all your clothes first. When the slave trader who led the way said this, the children of the abyss, who were surrounded by nearly twenty human men, instinctively thought of breaking through by force once again in their hearts.
Male half-elves are naturally not a popular "popular" commodity in the slave trade, but the words of the slave trader at this moment still remind André of something unpleasant, if the culture of "picking up soap" has begun to flourish among human city-states......!
Just when the children of the abyss secretly gathered the magic power in their bodies and prepared to forcibly prove to the world that they were no different from most mortals in terms of aesthetic tendencies with clear violent and uncooperative methods, the slave trader's subsequent additions temporarily calmed Andre's thoughts of going berserk.
"As a merchant, verifying whether the 'goods' have defects and defects is a process that must not be omitted, what if there is a dispute over the details after all the details have been explained clearly in front of the person who delivered the goods?" ”
The reason for taking off his clothes to check his body for anything unusual seemed reasonable, and the Children of the Abyss vaguely remembered that in the other world, there was a rule that public baths refused to allow people with skin diseases to enter. Just words in plain sight......
Andre glanced at the three orc girls behind him, who should not be able to avoid this "inspection" as "commodities", but these slave catchers and slave traders did not seem to have any intention of doing anything to them.
The more important hot commodity categorically did not relax the reason for the inspection to skip this step, and the scruffy human men around him just stared at themselves and did not attack the girls, and did not even have the slightest intention of taking the opportunity to rub oil, probably because these slave traders strictly forbade men to touch the goods?
If so, then there should be a special person among the slave traders who are responsible for "inspecting" important goods, and the reason why these guys want to verify themselves on the spot is probably that the inspectors are usually not responsible for "cheap" men.
"I have never been in the habit of bare my body in front of men!How dare you lowly and ignorant men offend the glory of the great name of the Windchaser!?" Like the elves, the half-elf rangers also bear the name of the Windchaser, and they are often the leaders of armies with real power, just like the "Windchasers" in the Whispering Forest.
As the Children of the Abyss had predicted, the guide didn't dwell too much on these details, but he didn't know if it was because he was afraid of the ethereal "Wind Chaser" in Andrei's mouth, or because he didn't want to continue to entangle with the overly self-righteous half-elf in front of him.
Of course, it's possible to have both.
"Take them all to the back and let Anna take care of it. The guide commanded impatiently.
Then the slave catchers remained in the hall, and nearly a dozen guards escorted the "merchandise" around for a while in the conspicuous half-timber, half-masonry building in the market, and then came to a room with a curtain hanging at the door.
"All of you go in. The guard urged with his weapon in hand.
So the son of the abyss, who lifted the curtain and took the lead to walk in, saw a body that made his eyes shine.
Between the light pants and the corset, a large area of fair and tender skin is exposed, the shoulders and calves are round and plump to just the right amount, and the plump but not bloated long legs unscrupulously show the unique beauty of the girl, revealing the subtle and mature beauty in the youth.
André said that he was very useful but not messy, so the Son of the Abyss cleared his throat ten steps behind the coolly dressed girl, to show that he had entered the wide room, not some sneaky, sneaky voyeur.
"How did you get in!?" the girl with long brown wavy hair turned back in a panic when she heard the sound and asked, her hands were at a loss to cover the spring color that the corset and obscene pants could not envelop, but a large white and soft waist was exposed, and the rounded arc of the constriction almost made it impossible to see the shadow of the ribs, and faintly revealed the inconspicuous but reverie vest line.
The girl's appearance did not disappoint the child of the abyss, who had been expecting it in her heart, compared to the elf's delicate but mostly too slender face, her face showed a more feminine roundness, and the slender chin and nose, the clear blue eyes and the trembling long eyelashes made her young girl's face to a stunning degree.
Perhaps because of the fact that he has been looking at the orc girls' dirty faces in the wind and sun of the wasteland these days, the Children of the Abyss feel that the human girl in front of him has a strong attraction that fascinates all males and even some of the female creatures.
Andre pointed to the curtain behind him without hesitation, and his calm face carried a lazy scoundrel: "Of course I came in from the door." ”
On the contrary, the orc girls behind the Children of the Abyss blushed with shame, but they didn't know if it was because of the subtle atmosphere in the room, or because of the overly dazzling and incomparable beauty of the girl in front of them.
"Why did even men come to me today!?" a visibly dressed young woman poked her head out of the curtain-enclosed compartment on the other side of the room, frowning and looking impatient, but turned to wonder when she realized the child of the abyss.
"You go inside and wait. The young woman pointed to the cubicle and said to the red-faced girl, who fled in as if it were an amnesty, and then the woman went up and down André's side and looked him up and down very carefully, and finally stared at the pointed ears of the children of the abyss from their hair and concluded to herself, "The skin is good, but the elven blood is too obvious...... If you are in the city, it may become a very rare and sought-after item, but here...... Anyway, tomorrow's finale has already been booked, but it can be used to heat up the scene. ”
The young woman, though she was pretty, was the first to dare to judge André in front of him, and wondered how the citizens of Andrarui would feel if they learned that their wise lord was being picked and picked by an ordinary human like a commodity for sale.
Suppressing the strange thoughts in his heart, the children of the abyss tried to use words to find a little bit of the initiative on the scene: "You are Anna......"
"Give me less of a set, go to the room over there and clean yourself up!" As if all Anna's patience had been exhausted in a few moments just now, she impatiently pointed to a small door on the other side of the room, and turned her head to examine the orc girls behind Andre again.
Although the Son of the Abyss was fully sure that he would be able to kill this ordinary woman who dared to turn her back to him in an instant, considering that he had not yet planned the future arrangements, Andre finally suppressed the small impulse in his heart and walked into the next room...... He very much wanted to teach this "inspector" who seemed to him completely incompetent.
Probably because he has been the focus of people's attention for too long, the apprentice demon king from the other world has also begun to become self-conscious.
In a small, shady room, there are simple wooden buckets filled with water and scrubbing utensils that seem to be made of some kind of melon pulp.
With the cold water pouring on his body, Andre finally felt much more comfortable after wandering along the Emerald River for a long time and basking in the wind and sun on the wasteland for half a month, as if he had turned back into the revered son of the abyss in the towns of the river valley, and no longer a commodity for sale who could not control his own destiny - the young lord of Andrarui had no intention of trying to experience becoming a slave from the beginning to the end.
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"It turns out that a man without hair can be so good-looking, why didn't Nanali know it before...... Or is Mr. Mephistopheles really different from mortals?" the orc girl blushed and whispered as she saw the child of the abyss walking out of the bathroom with only pants on, but she didn't know that her blushing words had faintly reached the ears of Andre, who had sensed people.
"Sir, what about the magic pattern on your chest!?" asked the little girl who suddenly noticed the anomaly in a slightly excited whisper, Nanali craned her neck as if she was a little afraid that the human woman in the compartment would hear her words.
"I don't have that kind of thing!" Andre looked innocent and stupid, although he didn't know why it disappeared, but the absence of these conspicuous features naturally helped him hide himself, if it weren't for the fact that the characteristics of his heterochromatic pupils had already spread throughout the slave catcher team who picked him up, he would have even hidden his gray left eye at this time.
The two orc girls beside Nanali were also full of doubts at this time, they had naturally seen the coat of arms on Andrei's chest with their own eyes after being in the same car with the children of the abyss, and the pattern of the vines and the gray snake entangled in a ring was obviously so unique...... Is it really painted like the totems on the tribal warriors!?
The orc girls are even beginning to doubt their memories.
Just as Nanali and her sisters were thinking more and more confused, a touching human girl in a bright red dress stepped out of the cubicle. Probably ashamed to see the shirtless man, or perhaps remembering the completely opposite situation before, the girl's face was as red as the sunset on the wasteland.
"She told you to go in......" After saying this, the girl turned her head and behaved like a textbook standard tsundere, as if she didn't want to see the young man in front of her anymore.
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After being carefully examined by the quilt, the Children of the Abyss sneaked a glimpse of the "inspector" Anna writing in her notebook in lingua franca, "Half-elf male, age unknown, healthy, starting price of five gold coins......"
Just above this line of text, a string of messages also recorded by Anna made Andrei's eyes widen because of a sufficiently conspicuous number:
"Human girl, nineteen years old, healthy, virgin, has received a relatively complete aristocratic education, the starting price is five hundred gold coins......"
Ignorant woman!
The Children of the Abyss secretly emphasized with indignation in their hearts.