Chapter 157: Revealed

After the three of them entered the yurt, the person who had just opened the curtain carefully looked at the door for a few seconds before retracting his head, walked to the stone platform in the yurt without hurry, and lit the oil lamp. It is noteworthy that after the proposed bronze lampstand was lit, the flame did not stop at the wick satisfied, and a tongue of fire burned all the way down the oil-stained twist of the lamp, lighting up the copper track that surrounded half of the yurt. But that wasn't all, as the lamp twisted and set off the traps along the way, causing the heavy fur curtain to hang down from the roof of the yurt and cover the walls of the inner chamber, including the door, and then the flames swirled up the channel, and finally the bronze chandelier was lit on the roof. The chandelier is made in the form of two snakes intertwined and overlapped, with the snake's head parting in both directions and hanging downward, and the snake letter spit out is above the chandelier's lampstand.

"Oh. Lothar had heard of a similar technique called a mechanism in a distant land, but this was the first time he had seen it in person, so he couldn't help but sigh. But for Cheese and Nuisa, what the intelligence merchant showed wasn't really amazing. Needless to say, this simple mechanical principle is something that the Grey Tower has discarded, and for the Grey Robes, it is a trick that only craftsmen play by using the superficial properties of things without stimulating their inner properties and energy. And Nuisa, as the daughter of the Wolf Lord, a member of the most honored family in the tribe, had clearly seen something far more elaborate and beautiful than this set of organs.

While the three of them reacted differently to the mechanism, the person who triggered the mechanism was also watching them, and as an intelligence merchant, he obviously wouldn't just be just fun when he got such a thing in his yurt. There are three reasons for this. First, and most intuitively, he wants to test his guests. Knowledge is a kind of capital everywhere, and sometimes just the amount of what you see and hear can bring about two people with completely different abilities and attitudes, and businessmen who live by information are well aware of this. They are always trying to test their customers in a similar way while trading, trying to draw out the depth of their knowledge and use it as bargaining capital. There's no question of morality or not, it's all business.

The second reason is character. When will people reveal their truest character? Other times it's hard to say, but fear or fright, and it is easy to take off the veil of disguise on the true character. Of course, the real startled reaction can only be seen if the subject has no similar experience, i.e., those who have shown to have seen such mechanisms in the first test will not be affected by this level of temptation. But even with such a lineup of the cheese trio, Lothar still sighed. Not to mention that most people don't even think about it.

The third reason is not to the businessman himself, the purpose of his establishment of this set of organs is also to show his own ability. Intelligence, in the final analysis, is to be passively sold, because when it is actively disseminated, its own uniqueness and confidentiality lose its meaning, although timeliness is also one of the important sources of value of intelligence, but obviously no intelligence businessman will tell others the news he has for free. It's like a chef in a restaurant, no matter how kind he is, he won't feed the stray dogs with the food he makes.

However, this tried and tested method did not have the effect it should have on today's guests, except for the slightly surprised expression of the man who looked like a guard when he saw the mechanism, whether it was a woman from the prairie or the man in the gray robe, there was no change in expression, especially the gray robe, he seemed to show a little disdain when this mechanism was operating. This made the merchant begin to feel the pressure, and he had a hunch that today's deal would not be easy. But the thought of the gemstone pendant made him swallow and control his face.

"Let's talk about my rules first, I'm just a businessman, and I'm absolutely neutral in my position, so I won't sell things that get me into trouble. ”

Cheese exhales, which is a very reasonable opening statement, and this is probably the case for information dealers who can operate in one place for a long time. They are also burdened with the risk of terror while obtaining high profits, and if they do not understand the scope of their business, they can easily get into trouble. And for those who sell their information for profit, no one will like it. Cutting off ears and tongues, cutting off the pot alive, these are the real punishments that have happened to intelligence traffickers. In this line of work, prudence is more important than anything else.

But this does not mean that the news of businessmen is limited, profit-seeking is an instinct that is difficult to remove, especially for businessmen, as long as there is enough profit, they can invest all their net worth and life. Besides, the information they were going to get was not so outrageous, and it seemed to the Cheese that the information they could get from such a merchant might only be time-saving, and they could not be expected to get really important news or facts about something so easily. However, before the mage could speak, the people around him had already taken action.

"Tell me what you know about what the Wolf Lord's sons have been doing over the past few weeks. Nuisa's voice was cold and hard, which surprised the other two, who had not shown any similar emotion before entering the yurt. This means that perhaps she knows how to control her emotions more than they think.

The merchant's eyes narrowed, and his gaze quickly jumped up and down on Nuisa, but it was useless, at this time Cheese and the others had already changed into the clothes they had bought from the bazaar earlier, as long as Nuisa herself did not say it, unless she knew her identity before, it was not easy to deduce her lineage from her appearance.

"Guest, you seem to be mentioning sensitive issues as soon as you open your mouth. He rubbed his hands together as he spoke, and took a few steps back. Lothar noticed an unnatural wooden pole on the platform behind the merchant's right side, and a shadow above the chandelier that could not be illuminated. It seems that these mechanisms have other purposes besides insulating the inside and outside of the yurt.

"Yes, I don't think I'm sensitive to inquiring about my own family affairs. Nuisa said, flipping a waist tag out of her sleeve, which was engraved with a few steppe characters. But the most obvious is the number twenty-four, and the flower pattern on it.