The Wilderness of Atonement, the City of Atonement.

Located due west of the Wilderness of Atonement, the City of Atonement is the city with the highest concentration of population, the most elite area of the Wilderness of Atonement, and the western gateway of the Wilderness of Atonement. Only eighty miles west from the city of atonement is the prison gate fortress that guards the western wilderness, it can also be called the prison gate pass, this pass has an excellent strategic location, similar to the famous customs cities such as Hangu Pass and Tongguan in Chinese history, it is located at the mouth of a large canyon, and there are as many as tens of thousands of more than a dozen allied troops stationed in the pass for a long time, to be precise, the sixteen allied forces of Hedong, which is specially responsible for monitoring and guarding the criminals exiled in the western wilderness.

Therefore, the entire Wild West can be said to be a huge prison guarded by tens of thousands of jailers, and Atonement City is the most luxurious VIP room in the entire prison.

And when Yang Pingwei and his entourage knew this information, they were all shocked by this kind of 'big deal', which can't be said that they have never seen the world, mainly because of the living environment. Whoever has kept China's land in a state of tension has never been wide, let alone directly like the Sixteen Kingdoms of Hedong, where the local tyrants have zoned such a large area of nearly 100,000 square kilometers of land as a big prison, even if this land is barren and barren in their eyes, with no development value.

If Yang Pingwei and his entourage were Europeans who had experienced the Age of Discovery, there would not have been such a big reaction, saying that John Bull could divide the entire Australian continent as a penal colony, and compared with Niu Niu, the performance of the sixteen countries in Hedong would be a small thing.

"Tsk, what a waste, if this is our territory, how good it would be!" Li Jiao said wistfully.

"Yes, these natives are really not the sons of people! If we had so much land in our hometown back then, we wouldn't..." Wang Gui looked even more unkind, and his emotions were a little out of control, "but they... Damn it! Kill it! Damn it! Hate it!"

"Wang Gui, you're in love!"

Seeing that everyone's emotions had a tendency to be provoked by Wang Gui, Yang Pingwei hurriedly spoke out to stop this sign, although others are unlikely to understand Chinese, and they are not afraid of having ears across the wall, but if their own people are impulsive and do something irrational, resulting in a conflict with the locals, it will not be beautiful, after all, there are only fourteen of them - when they fought with people on the road, one died - they are unfamiliar with the place, and it is easy to defeat them with two fists and four hands. Therefore, Yang Pingwei didn't want to bury himself here because of a few reckless people.

"What's the use of thinking about this now! Could it be that you think that you are the Monkey King with a stick?" can you single-handedly take on 100,000 heavenly soldiers?" Yang Pingwei glared at Wang Gui and shouted angrily, and the face of the other party who said it bluntly turned even redder, and kept shrinking his neck.

Seeing that Wang Gui was instigated, Yang Pingwei changed his tone and said with a smile: "If you can't do it, if you can't do it, shut up first—— besides, according to the lord's temperament, do you think the lord's eyes will not see here? It's just a matter of time!"

Everyone's eyes lit up when they heard this, and Wang Gui straightened up with excitement and said, "What does Lord Yang mean... The main guild sent troops to occupy it..."

"Just you talk a lot!" Yang Pingwei said angrily, "Okay, this matter is over!" At this time, he continued a little frustratedly: "We have been out for more than a month, but the task can only be regarded as barely passing - I have bought more than a dozen kinds of local seeds, but unfortunately the number is not large - I wanted to open up local relations and establish long-term cooperation, so as to prepare for the next outpost to buy grain seeds or grain in large quantities...... I just didn't expect it to be so much harder than I thought!"

"Hehe, this can't be blamed on us, it's really the people here, well, in the words of the lord, it's the arrears of character, and short-sightedness, either they are talking nonsense, full of lies, and they are simply slaughtering us as fools and are not trustworthy; or they are honey-bellied, and they make small moves behind their backs, and they want to eat the 'overlord meal'; or they are not strong enough to ensure that the goods pass through the wilderness safely and hand over to Huaxia - hey, this is also our own strength, otherwise, we can escort it ourselves. Qin Han sat at the table, boredomically shaking the wine jug in his hand - well, this is also the welfare of those who go out, there is no shortage of wine in the Atonement Wilderness - while talking, he took a sip from time to time.

The corners of Yang Pingwei's mouth twitched when he saw this posture, and he was quite speechless.

However, what Qin Han said made sense, and this was also the most helpless part of their group. After all, it is difficult to gain the trust of others in such a sinful place, let alone find someone with energy, credibility, vision and ambition.

"Anyway, this City of Atonement is here, you can't just go home without doing anything, right?" Zhu Yi frowned and said, "The road ahead is gone, and it's not bad for the last trembling." Not to mention the task, the City of Atonement is so close to the civilization circle in the Hedong region, there must be a lot of valuable news, and our Coordination Department has the obligation to collect them for the Lord. ”

"Zhu is not in a hurry!" Yang Pingwei said with a smile, "It's rare to come to this largest city in the west, how can you let the brothers be happy, otherwise wouldn't it be a waste of a great opportunity?"

Hearing this, everyone burst into laughter, which meant self-evident.

"Just stay for three days, and if there is no progress within three days, then pack up and return to Xin'an Town. Yang Pingwei thought for a moment and decided.

"No!"

But the reality is often more coincidental than the story, and the day after Yang Pingwei and his party arrived in Atonement City, the task problem that had made them entangled for more than a month was simply solved.

Moreover, it was someone else who took the initiative to come to the door, which made Yang Pingwei and others feel very fortunate and at the same time have some complicated feelings.

What is it called?

Happiness came too suddenly?

Still is......

A hundred times the effort is not as good as a hint of luck!

How much this discourages people's enthusiasm for labor!

But then again, how can you not have the luck that comes to your door, right?

Yang Pingwei and others were not so brainless, on the contrary, after a short period of emotion, they immediately raised their hands and feet to welcome this good luck with a smile, and they wished to 'make persistent efforts' in the future.

My face almost laughed!

Here's the thing, before this, except for Yang Pingwei casually rewarding Chilongguang (the running hall of the Red Dragon Inn in Chaos City) with a dime coin, the team's expenses were all paid for in gold, and they did not use Huaxia currency.

But after arriving in the City of Atonement, there is not much gold left, so some people use Huaxia coins to try the market, not to mention, the City of Atonement is really any strange currency, of course, the premise is that your currency must be made of precious metals, and the coins of the Republic are placed in this similar ancient world, isn't that material a proper precious metal?

The one-dollar coin (material steel core nickel-plated) is shiny silver, seductive, it is a black eyeball that immediately turns red when you see it, and a dime (material aluminum-zinc alloy) and a cent (material aluminum-magnesium alloy) coins, the texture is light and not soft or brittle, the surface is not as reflective as the one-dollar coin, but it is also silver-white, silver, that represents the intoxicating beauty.

Even if people can't recognize the specific material, but with that exquisite craftsmanship, it is not a few roads stronger than those shoddy national currencies!

What's more, there are people who really 'recognize' the material of the coin!

Therefore, after some inquiry-in fact, he asked Xiao Er and the shopkeeper--took the initiative to find Yang Pingwei and his party.

In the box on the second floor of the Red Rose Restaurant in the west of the City of Atonement, six people sat opposite each other, three people on each side of the dining table, they were looking at each other at this time, no one spoke, and the atmosphere was inevitably a little awkward.

These people are naturally Yang Pingwei and others and the distinguished guests who came to the door.

On Yang Pingwei's side, Yang Pingwei sat in the middle, and Qin Han and Zhu Yi sat on the left and right.

Opposite, sitting in the middle is a short-haired middle-aged man, with two mustaches, a pair of bright and deep eyes, a resolute face, sharp edges, and gorgeous clothes, extraordinary materials, at first glance is a person who has been in a high position for a long time; , Different from the man in the middle, this person has a kind face, always smiling, and his small eyes have become two slits, but well, it looks like he has to sit there with a body of more than 200 pounds, like a big scale, a big hand like a fan unconsciously touches his round bare brain, and four of his left and right ten fingers have rings on them, gold and jade, and the breath of the nouveau riche can be smelled ten miles away. And those who dare to show their wealth in such a high-profile place like Atonement City are either stunned or people with great energy.

Obviously, this group of people belongs to the latter.

This made Yang Pingwei very interested.

People who talk about business know that in this case, the first to speak often suffers, and it is easy to be caught by the other party and passively fall into the rhythm of the other party.

Therefore, most of the first party to speak is the weak party, or the party who wants others. But if the two sides are evenly matched, it will depend on who can't hold their breath first.

But unfortunately, although he has always been responsible for contacting and trading with the local natives, Yang Pingwei is not a merchant after all, he is a literati, and besides, trading with those savage natives does not require much high business ability.

So, after a stalemate for a period of time, Yang Pingwei gave the other party a preliminary evaluation of 'not an evil face' in his heart, and first spoke: "Forgive me for taking the liberty of being presumptuous, the honored guest is not like an exiled sinner!"

He said the lingua franca of the Sixteen Kingdoms of Hedong, and most of the criminals in the Atonement Wilderness were from the Sixteen Kingdoms of Hedong, so the lingua franca of the Sixteen Kingdoms of Hedong was also common in this place, and Yang Pingwei and his entourage used this month to quickly communicate with others simply.

"It's really not!" the middle-aged man raised his eyebrows and said with a smile, "The contemptible people are merchants who have come to the City of Atonement to do business, a little business, just to make ends meet." ”

Yang Pingwei rolled his eyes when he heard it, [It's just a living?

However, this person speaks with one mouth, and has his own momentum, even if his tone is very kind, and he speaks softly, it is difficult to hide his innate nobility.

This further verifies Yang Pingwei's conjecture, the other party must have a background!

Facing the pressure unconsciously emitted by the other party, Yang Pingwei still sat there with a smile on his face, light and light.

In other words, people are literati from the Great Heavenly Empire, and that arrogance and sense of superiority are also innately good? Not to mention that Yang Pingwei is still from the Ming Dynasty, what do scholars of this dynasty like to do the most? Scold the emperor and deceive the court staff! People are not even very afraid of the Ninety-Five Supreme, and they will show timidity in front of a nobleman who does not know where he came from?

Yang Pingwei's calmness also shocked the other party a little, and his value increased a few points.

"Hehe, the honorable guest is too modest!" No matter how much he despises the other party's 'pretend' in his heart, but he still maintains a kind smile on his face, Yang Pingwei raised his wine glass and saluted, and said, "There is an old saying in my family, called 'nothing to do and go to the Three Treasures Palace'..."

The middle-aged man and the 'nouveau riche' fat man next to him unconsciously moved their eyes with the coin in Yang Pingwei's hand until it was rested on the table.

This is really not the poor qi cultivation skills of the two, you must know that in the Hedong region or the entire continent, it is impossible for anyone to be calm after seeing Mithril.

That's right, these people just think that the material of the Huaxia coin is Mithril (don't ask me why there is Mithril here), it should be said that it is close to the material of Mithril.

Mythril is said to be harder than steel, lighter than a feather, malleable like bronze, silvery-white, and never fade!

And what about Huaxia coins, hey, don't you really say it, they are all silver-white, one-dollar coins are as hard as steel, and never fade, although a dime and a penny are much heavier than feathers, but in the metal family, they are extremely light and light, and the two add up, isn't it equal to half of Mithril?

And Mithril is a legend after all, no one has ever seen it—no one has said it—no matter how mysterious it is, it's in vain.

But the coin in front of him is different, although it is not as good as the legendary Mithril, but the conditions are already very good, and more importantly, they are really in front of them, which makes the two not excited.

The middle-aged man at the head was really from an aristocratic background, but his interests were different from those of most aristocratic children, and he was born to run around (adventure) and tinker with strange things, and Mithril, which he saw in a yellowed codex in his family collection, has been fascinated by this perfect metal ever since.

This time, as usual, every time he was transferred to any place, he had to go to the local dangerous place to take a look, and when he was transferred to the prison gate, he naturally wanted to come to atone for the wilderness to explore (travel) and risk (travel), but he didn't expect to just enter the Atonement City, so he saw a group of people directly using "Mithril" to pay for the meal after eating, of course, he just thought it was an ordinary silver coin, and took it from the shopkeeper due to curiosity.

And then things got to where they are now.

As if sensing his gaffe, the middle-aged man retracted his gaze, and the nobility he had maintained before suddenly disappeared, and the three of Yang Pingwei who saw it were dumbfounded, if they hadn't left for a moment, they thought that the person opposite had been replaced by his twin brother.

"Ahem... Since a few people have already guessed it, the contemptible people will not sell it, that's right, we are for..."The middle-aged man nodded lightly on the table, "This kind of coin is here." ”

Yang Pingwei and the three of them glanced at each other, their eyes full of excitement and surprise.

"The honesty of the distinguished customer is admirable, but before talking about business, should the distinguished customer be more honest and introduce himself?"