Chapter 40: The Winged Man
Recovering from the shock caused by the sudden appearance of the Floating City, several people from the Dark Moon Temple noticed that the ground directly below the Floating City was not empty.
Before, perhaps due to the deflection of light, the facilities under the city were also obscured, and there was nothing left but the barren wilderness, and only after getting close enough that the spell of light deflection failed, the true face of the floating city could be discovered.
It can be said that underneath the shining capital, a fully functional town has been formed.
More than a dozen sturdy stone buildings make up the main body of the town, and if you look closely, you can see that they are all shops of various types.
Most of the products used for the trip can be found here, but the price is good, so it is better to be mentally prepared first.
Of course, it is extremely expensive, except for the most basic dry cakes and bread, which are only 50 percent more expensive than in normal cities, and the prices of other goods are simply unbearable. Common dried vegetables and fresh meat, at least three times the market price, fresh vegetables are five times higher, as well as fresh fruits, a purple heart melon sold for a gold coin, in the city I am afraid of being beaten to death by angry guests, but here, it is already the cheapest fruit, buy it or not? If you don't buy it, get away, don't hinder us from eating melons ourselves.
The price of food is already so exaggerated, and other supplies are even more outrageous, especially combat materials, and even the mercenaries who are paid for civilians in distant cities will show a horrified expression when they hear the offer.
Have you ever seen a bottle of basic healing potion for ten gold coins? Have you ever seen a magic recovery potion for twenty gold coins? Have you ever seen a bottle of spiritual calming potion for fifty gold coins? These are the most basic combat potions, one or two gold coins a bottle in the alchemy shop, if you are lucky enough to encounter a discount, you can even buy two or three bottles of gold coins.
Potions, spell scrolls, magic items, small needles and threads for sewing equipment, large and sturdy ordinary carriages, all the travel supplies are available, and the price is estimated to burst the blood vessels of customers who need it urgently.
And, of course, the most terrifying hedrons.
As a combat resource, hedron is not cheap in the first place, and as the capacity increases, the price will also rise exponentially. The problem is that a piece of fifty terrs crushed spar with the lowest capacity, you can buy a piece with a small silver coin in the city, and sometimes even give away a few pieces of bargains directly with the transaction, and you can sell it for a gold coin here, which makes people weak, after all, in the face of a hundred-fold price difference, not everyone can stay calm.
"Why don't you rob heretics, absolute heretics. Just walking past the door of the store and accidentally seeing the price of the goods, a certain steady and wise battle priest could no longer control the beating of the blood vessels in his forehead, "Enemies of the gods, that's right, you are all enemies of the gods, and I want to judge you on behalf of the gods." ”
"Hee-hee, brother, don't make trouble. Lisa snickered as she pushed Shuer's back with both hands, "Hurry up, go quickly, you won't feel heartache if you can't see it, hehe, and people didn't force you to buy it." ”
As for the knight who has a deep hatred with the battle priest, with a sinister smile, the rose is dancing on his fingertips, hum, I finally won you bastard once, your biggest weakness, I have already figured it out!
Lisa's words are actually right, the merchants themselves have said it, clearly mark the price, don't rob or cheat, buy if you like, get out if you don't buy, think it's expensive, you have the ability to go back to the city to buy it, you want to buy cheap materials in the wilderness, why don't you dream?
There is no room for rebuttal, for this is the wilderness, the wilderness of Parvatiga and the danger, the wilderness that devours countless lives every year.
Although it is just below the floating city, it is not protected by the heart of the city, where all kinds of dangerous magical beasts can come and go at will, and strange natural phenomena are not contained, and it belongs to a high-risk wilderness area. Running out of supplies and food in such an environment will only end in a tragic death.
It's impossible to replenish food and supplies in the wilderness, but here it does, like venturing deep into the ruins, about to break through the last guards in the deepest areas, and suddenly find that there are no supplies, and as a result of despair, you see a traveling merchant when you look back. An encounter that borders on nonsense is meaningless to those who are well supplied, but to those who need it, it is simply a chance of survival that no amount of money can get back.
In fact, in the early days, there was only one building in the town under the city, the largest building in the central area, where the office of the floating city was stationed on the ground, and it was specially used to handle the entry procedures for the important task of visiting the floating city. However, as time went on, being prayed for by many travelers who were often passing by, and the fact that only a few Winged Terran clerks were really boring, the higher-ups of Floating City simply decided to build a market around the office.
That's right, the so-called town under the city is essentially a large market.
All the buildings here are shops, and the staff are bored wingmen, whose task is to sell supplies to travelers in the dangerous wilderness, and to add a little security to their lives as much as possible, and this guarantee is exchanged for their own safety. Although each of them has a certain amount of self-protection strength, and there are winged people guarding outside the town, it is still much more dangerous than a safe city, and it is not incomprehensible that it is a little more expensive to risk such a risk to provide convenience for intelligent creatures of other races.
"Of course I can't understand it!" the already crazy battle priest roared to the sky, "This is the enemy of the whole world, I want to ......"
"Okay, okay, brother, hug. Little Lisa blushed, hugged Shuer's waist, and rubbed behind his back, "Don't make trouble, calm down." ”
This is definitely a high-powered weapon of destruction, and no matter how powerful the battle officer is, he will definitely succumb to Lord Lisa's gentle attack. As a result, His Excellency the powerful priest immediately regained his composure, and the expression on his face was soothing and calm, well, but let's wipe the saliva from the corners of his mouth first.
In the town below the city, there were not only winged people, who drove the carriage and walked in the town, and actually saw dozens of members of other races before and after.
A few ragged guys, of all races, who looked ordinary, were sitting on the side of the road, helping each other to bandage their wounds, these should be low-level mercenaries who came out to perform the mission, and they were chased by the surrounding monsters and fled in embarrassment, and finally they could only run to this safe area to rest briefly.
There were a dozen or so people on the side of the street, all human, and a dozen or so attendants were browsing from shop to store, surrounded by two owners who looked like they were rich and powerful. These people should have just come down from the floating city, and the mercenaries escorting them hadn't arrived yet, so they were waiting in the town, the problem was, they were asking the price, and they dared to ask the price, and a certain battle priest almost fell into a rage again.
On the other side, five or six wagons, a dozen or so men, apparently a small caravan, were now weeping and receiving the suspected axle-like parts from the shopkeeper's hands, well, it was a sad story for the caravan of the merchants who risked their lives to exercise the last spare axle in the wilderness.
Hahaha, it's really sad, a certain battle priest looked at the money bag handed to the shopkeeper by the caravan, and showed a heartfelt smile while sighing, puffing up, at least dozens of gold coins, it's really gratifying, no, no, no, sad ending.
"What if someone really can't afford it?" As an apostle of the Dark Moon, Lisa still relented.
"If you can't afford it, you won't buy it. Xiu'er finally returned to normal, and replied indifferently, "You can also rob openly, as long as you are not afraid of being chased and killed by the winged people in the upper half of the city." ”
"My brother is making trouble again. "It's a pity that I can't pounce on it and bite my hair," Lisa sighed regretfully, "I mean those who really need it. ”
"If you can't afford it, you can negotiate with the sellers, anyway, everyone is playing, and you don't really expect to make much money with those things. Seeing those who have no money and really need it, most of the shopkeepers just give it away for nothing, anyway, they are all bargains, and they don't feel heartache when they are sent out. ”
Hearing this sudden female voice, Shuer's face changed instantly, as if he had seen a fierce beast of natural enemies.
In all fairness, the voice is quite good, slightly hoarse and magnetic, with a unique charm.
As soon as he turned his head following the voice, he saw a white-feathered female winged man, leaning against the door of the office, looking at the people who came along the way with a smile. Very beautiful winged women, elegant manners, atmospheric manners, dress, appearance, posture, all exude the charm of mature women.
"Long time no see, Shure, Dark. The female wingman waved her hand to the two of them very casually, "Passing by here, you don't come to my house to sit, it's too ruthless." Especially Shure, I wouldn't have known you were going to pass if Duck hadn't come to me in the morning to inform me. ”
"Damn, duck, you count on me. Shure glared at Duck viciously, "You wait for me." ”
"Whoa," Duck whistled and looked up at the sky, looking like he didn't know anything.
"You're still the same. The female wingman pursed her lips and smiled charmingly, "Or hide when you see me." ”
"Hmm, this person...... It's kind of weird. Lisa looked at the female winged man who suddenly appeared with vigilant eyes, except that she was prettier and more adept at dressing up, there seemed to be nothing special, but for some reason, the girl always felt that something was wrong with this woman, it was like a sense of hostility brought about by fate.
The girl's intuition is very sharp, but it's a pity that her eyesight is still a little short.
The traditional long skirt of the Winged People on the body is obviously cut by a famous artist, and it fits the body decently, showing the beautiful curves of the body, and the material of the skirt seems to be ordinary, but this occasional glittering unique luster can only be cut from silk spun from expensive sandworm silk. On the fingers, the two rings look like they're made of ordinary silver, but only the insiders can spot that they're actually precious mythril that's been specially treated to make it look like silver.
The chalcedony bracelet on the wrist worth thousands of gold coins, only look at the appearance and cheap jade, the exquisite and chic necklace on the neck is just ordinary gold as raw material, the visual effect is almost the same as most gold necklaces, only open the pendant under the necklace can be seen, this is the contemporary jewelry master Martini made by himself, the high heels under the feet, the belt on the waist, the hair ornament on the head, the earrings on the earlobes, and even the color on the lips, the light makeup on the face, everything seems ordinary, but in this ordinary, revealing low-key luxury.
"Lisa, come here. Shuer looked at the female winged man vigilantly, and protected the girl behind him, "Let's not talk to the kind of person who says that he has a simple meal and eats five hundred gold coins. ”
"That's you!" Lisa's eyes widened as she hid behind Shule, "I've been eating salted bread for ten days." ”
Well, poverty and luxury, as expected, are the hostility of fate.