Chapter 6: Vulnerable Guests
At nine o'clock in the morning of the next day, Jo Xiu'an drove a magic car to the temporary base set up by the Engineering Office of the Infrastructure Promotion Department of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce near the east gate of Flantis City, and met Taylor as promised.
As soon as I got out of the car, I saw a middle-aged man standing next to Taylor who looked to be about forty years old, wearing a black magic robe, with equally dark skin and a somewhat dull temperament.
"Let me introduce you, Sodak Magician, these two are the colleagues I mentioned to you yesterday. This is Joshuaan, this is Winnie. It's ......" Taylor's puzzled gaze fell on Havat.
"This is my little nephew. Winnie explained. "Come, Hawat, call Aunt Taylor. ”
"Hello Aunt Taylor. Hawat immediately shouted obediently.
"Call me sister, I'm not that old. Taylor immediately smiled, reached out and pinched Hawat's face, then turned to Joshuan and said, "Joshuan, this is what I told you yesterday, I want to take your ride to the Sodak Magician of the Chamber of Commerce." ”
Joshua smiled and held out his hand to Sodak, "Hello, Sodak Magician. I heard Taylor say that you want to join our Xinfei Chamber of Commerce, and I am here to welcome it on behalf of the Chamber of Commerce. ”
Sodak took the kind of woodenness and unsociability that most traditional magicians have always had, just stretched out his hand and shook it casually with Joshuaan, then immediately retracted, barely squeezed out a smile on his face, nodded and said, "I don't know if I can be favored by your Chamber of Commerce yet." ”
Joshua glanced at Sodak's chest without a trace, and found that there was only a rank badge representing a third-level mage hanging on his chest, and he couldn't help frowning slightly.
Judging by the appearance. Sodak is at least forty years old this year. Even those who say that he is fifty years old believe him. But at his age, he was only a third-level magician. It's enough to prove that his magical talent is not outstanding at all.
Generally speaking, at his level, it is probably not enough to enter the Magic Research Institute of the New Flying Chamber of Commerce.
However, if you just enter the Chamber of Commerce as an ordinary magic array depiction technician, it shouldn't be too much of a problem.
However, everyone knows that entering the Magic Research Institute of the Xinfei Chamber of Commerce is much better than just working as an ordinary skilled worker, so even if Jo Xiu'an is not optimistic about the prospects of this Sodak magician, he will not directly say that it is impossible for him to join the Magic Research Institute of the Chamber of Commerce.
So he just smiled and said, "Don't worry, our Chamber of Commerce welcomes a magician who is interested in joining the magic industry, I think Sodak magician, you will definitely be able to find your own place in the Chamber of Commerce." ”
Taylor on the side was obviously aware of Sodak's magic level, and when he heard this, he showed a meaningful smile on the side. Then he said to Winnie, "Since you are here, shall I invite you to have lunch before leaving?"
Winnie shook her head, "I'm afraid it won't work." It takes more than ten hours to get back to the main base of the Chamber of Commerce from here. If we leave now, we might be able to rush back in the evening, but if we have lunch and then leave, we won't think about it today. ”
"Why are you in such a hurry? you can rest in Anweimar City for the night and then go, and you won't have to be so tired on the road. Besides, I remember Winnie, you haven't gotten your driver's license yet, right? You'll have to let Joshua drive alone along the way, and rest for the night in between, so that he won't be too tired alone. Taylor wondered.
"It's okay, I'm used to it. Joshua shook his head. "For the past two years, I've been driving around like this, and it's common to drive for more than ten hours at a time, it's nothing. ”
Taylor glanced at him. couldn't help but shake his head: "In the past two years, in order to promote infrastructure construction, you have really been running around all over the place. It's really hard. There are benefits, though. You see, if it weren't for your job, how could the Chamber of Commerce equip you with such a latest, high-end magic car? The original price of this car is 2,300 gold coins, and if you buy it yourself, I'm afraid it will take years to afford it. ”
"I'm afraid I can't afford it for years? Joshua smiled and shook his head. "Alright, let's not talk about that, Taylor and I are in a hurry to go. Sodak Magician, are you ready for a piece of luggage or something?"
Sodak lifted the bag in his hand: "Just these things, they were ready yesterday." ”
"Okay, put the bag in the trunk and let's get in the car and go. ”
Joshua helped Sodak put his shabby salute in the trunk of the Magic Rubber, then sat him in the front row, and waved goodbye to Taylor with Winnie.
It didn't take long for the Magic Car to re-drive out of Flantis City and head southwest.
Sitting in the passenger seat, Sodak seemed to be riding in the magic car for the first time, and as soon as the car started, he had been sitting firmly in the seat with a slightly nervous expression, not daring to move a little.
It wasn't until the magic car drove out of Francis that he relaxed a little and began to look at the interior of the magic car curiously, asking Joshua a few questions from time to time.
Joxiuan has been driving this magic car around for the past two years, and his driving skills have long been perfected, and the road after coming out of Frankis City is not as dense as the roads in the Lampari Kingdom and the Duchy of Stantin, so it is extremely smooth, so he has been speeding up, almost driving the magic car to the top speed.
Sodak became a little nervous as he watched the scenery on both sides of the road outside the car window rapidly retreat.
On the contrary, Hawat, who was sitting in the back, although it was also the first time to ride in the magic car, became more excited as the speed of the car continued to increase, staring at the speeding scenery outside the window, and kept shouting.
In just about an hour, the Magic Car was a hundred kilometers away from Flantis City.
As soon as the Magic Sedan entered a forest, Sodak's face in the passenger seat suddenly turned extremely pale and ugly, and he violently covered his mouth with his hand.
Joxiuan was driving the car, paying attention to his situation, and now when he saw his appearance, he immediately understood.
This Sodak magician is probably really riding in a magic car for the first time, and then finds himself ...... Motion sickness......
Joshua slowed down the magic car and stopped next to the road.
Without saying a word, Sodak pulled the car door and rushed out, and rushed headlong into the woods, holding a tree trunk in one hand, and lowered his head and began to vomit.
Havat looked at Sodak in the distance in surprise and asked Winnie, "Auntie, what's wrong with him?"
"It's nothing, he's just getting motion sickness and wanting to throw up. ”
"Then how come I didn't get motion sickness?"
"Because everybody is different, some people get motion sickness and some people don't. And you're a child, so you're in better health. Winnie explained.
Havat sighed, looking a little proud, and raised his little arm to Winnie with a smug expression.
Seeing that Sodak might not be able to come back for a while, Joshuan opened the car door and got out of the car, and when he came to the side of the road, he took out a Hanru grass cigarette from his bosom and lit it and smoked it.
After a while, seeing that Sodak had basically stopped vomiting, he took out a bottle of warm water and a pill that had been prepared long ago from the car and walked over.
"Here, Sodak Magician, this is a medicine that can relieve motion sickness, you rinse your mouth first, and then take the medicine and it will be much better. ”
Sodak turned his head and looked at the water and pills in Joxiuan's hand with a weak expression, he didn't even have the strength to make a puzzled expression, he reached out to take the water and rinsed his mouth vigorously, swallowed the pill again, and let out a long breath.
"Let's ......" Joshua was about to say something more, when he suddenly heard a rumbling sound from Sodak's stomach, and he was stunned.
Sodak squeezed an awkward smile at Joshua and pointed to the depths of the woods in the distance.
Jo Xiu'an could only barely control the smile that was about to be held back, and nodded lightly to Sodak.
"Go ahead, we'll wait for you. ”
Sodak immediately ran for his life and scurried deep into the woods.
In a few moments, he had disappeared into the dense jungle, and no one was seen again.
Jo Xiu'an looked at the direction of his disappearance with a strange expression, then took out an identical pill from his arms, looked left and right, and couldn't help muttering: "Strange, can the motion sickness medicine made by those elves still have side effects of diarrhea after taking it? ”
Presumably to avoid embarrassment, Sodak ran so far away that Joshua couldn't hear anything.
Of course, he was not so interested in listening to the sound of diarrhea, so he turned to the side of the magic car, took out some food prepared in advance from the trunk, and handed Winnie and Havat one each.
"Looks like we're going to have to wait a while, so we'll have lunch done now. ”
Winnie took it suspiciously, and asked, "Didn't you say that you would have lunch in Felois City at noon?"
Yoxiuan shrugged his shoulders: "Something is wrong with this guest of ours, I don't think he wants to talk about lunch, I'm afraid he won't want to eat this day." ”
"What's the matter with him?" Winnie frowned and glanced deeper into the forest, but could see Sodak somewhere.
She was about to ask again, but suddenly she heard a sudden sound on the other side of the woods, and a moment later, about twenty people came out of the woods with various weapons in their hands, and instantly surrounded the magic car.
A strong man at the head glanced at the magic car and Joxiuan standing next to the car, and then looked at Hawatt and Winnie in the car, let out an extremely hideous laugh, raised the huge long knife in his hand, and said loudly: "Hey, you two, if you don't want to die, just obey me!"
Joshua and Winnie looked at each other in amazement.
This...... Did you meet a robber?(To be continued......