Chapter 1092: A Small Border Town (First Update)
Kingdom of Shahan, Tolia City.
A thin black boy of fourteen or fifteen years old was trying his best to sell goods to a tourist from out of town: "Your Excellency, this is the most famous handicraft of the Shahan Kingdom, the sand mirror, and it is the best product for female dependents. I am here to ship directly from the boutique pavilion, only charge the cost price of four amethyst coins on one side, if you buy three, it is more discounted, only ten amethyst coins. You won't find it anywhere in town. β
The foreign traveler is Chen Rui who came all the way, the Black Hell Desert is located in the southwest of the human Shijie territory, the area is extremely vast, but due to the remote geographical location and harsh environment, there are only two barren small countries near the periphery, and the Shahan Kingdom is one of them.
Tolia City is the largest city in this kingdom except for the capital, the area is small, and the population is not large, in Chen Rui's opinion, this second largest city is at most equivalent to a small town in the Dark Moon Territory.
Seeing Chen Rui's general interest, the young man rolled his eyes and took the mirror back into the small bag in his hand: "My lord should be the first time to come to Tolia City, although the girls here are not as good as the big city, they have a different style, do you want me to take the adults to a good place? The girls there are the cleanest and hottest in the city, and they are satisfied with the storage! The adults only need to give me a little hard money." β
Looking at the young man who spared no effort to pimp, Chen Rui shook his head secretly and asked rhetorically: "I'm not interested in souvenirs or women, you are very familiar with the desert area?"
"Back to my lord, I've grown up here, and there's no one here who doesn't know my little Jim. Known as a jack of all trades, he even knows how many sand dunes there are in the Black Hell Desert. Little Jim said politely.
"It's really my first time in Tolia. So first tell me about the Black Prison Desert, known as the jack-of-all-trades little Jim. β
"Uh......" Little Jim blinked. looked at Chen Rui and didn't speak.
Chen Rui smiled, flicked his fingers, and an amethyst coin was thrown high, and little Jim hurriedly caught it, nodding his head for a while, but he secretly thought that he had met a generous outsider today, and it seemed that he could fool around and cheat some more money.
Just as he was thinking about it, another amethyst coin appeared in the other party's hand, and little Jim was overjoyed. I saw that the hard amethyst coin instantly turned into powder in the other party's fingers: "I will ask others about the same question, if what you say is not true, I don't think I need to talk nonsense." β
Little Jim shuddered, and immediately put away some superfluous thoughts, and honestly introduced the situation in the desert. Chen Rui asked about a batch of materials, including condensation crystal sand. Little Jim is a jack of all trades, knows a lot about ordinary materials, and can name where you can buy them in the city, but he doesn't know anything about fire crystall. I've never heard of anything like this at all.
Chen Rui could see that the young man was not lying, but the Light Elemental Monarch Del Ruth would not lie to him, the Condensed Fire Crystal Sand must be in the Black Hell Desert.
There is also a legend about the dream oasis. Long ago. There was once a mysterious and remote kingdom in the desert called the Red Dou Kingdom. The king is mediocre and favors an ambitious prime minister. Under the tyrannical rule of the prime minister, the people mostly believed in brutality and inhumanity. There are fewer and fewer people who believe in the light.
This prime minister not only covets the throne, but also covets the beauty of the princess. The princess is a devout Illuminati. Her fiancΓ© is a young and promising general in the kingdom. Unfortunately, the general was killed by the prime minister's slanderous words to the king, and the princess was re-married to the prime minister. The grief-stricken princess went on a hunger strike for three days, prayed to the god of light, and died.
The princess's piety and infatuation moved the god of light, and unleashed a terrible storm to engulf the kingdom of Akato, only the place where the princess was martyred turned into an oasis, and the believers of light were spared in the oasis.
The soul of this princess entered the kingdom of God under the guidance of the light, and was given the name "Tesanelle" by the god of light, which is the ancient "messenger of the desert", and over time, she was worshipped as the goddess of the desert.
"My lord, this goddess is a real being, and every few or hundreds of years she performs miracles to help the lost in the desert to return safely, so that those who believe in her can turn evil into good fortune. Little Jim took out an ornament from his clothes, and a small idol was engraved on it, "This is the idol of the desert goddess Thesaniel, although it is only a small deity under the seat of the god of light, but in this black prison desert, she is the real god." If you really want to go to the desert, then please be sure to wear this goddess statue and get the blessing of the goddess, my high-level god statue only needs ten amethyst coins......"
Hearing that little Jim was selling goods again, Chen Rui shook his head and said no: "You all believe in the goddess Tessanelle?
"Only the royal capital has a church of the Temple of Light, but the goddess of the desert is a deity under the seat of the god of light, and this place is located on the edge of the desert, and the church of the royal capital also recognizes that this belief does not conflict. β
The Church of Light admits that Chen Rui is a little more curious about this so-called desert goddess.
According to little Jim, it is rumored that the Red Dou Kingdom has left many treasures, and the key breakthrough is in the dream oasis, many adventurers once flocked to it, but unfortunately not only did they find nothing, but the treasure hunters did not return, and the popularity of adventure and treasure hunting was greatly reduced, but the dangerous name of the Black Hell Desert has spread since then.
Jim Zuihou mentioned the information about the Dream Oasis - the Dream Oasis is actually active! That is, the oasis does not have a fixed location, but is like a living thing, moving at any time.
Chen Rui frowned secretly, the Black Hell Desert was as huge as the ocean, the environment was very harsh, the magic map could not be used, and it was almost as difficult to find a small oasis in such a huge area as finding an unknown island in the Sea of Death.
It was about Duoduo's safety, and there was a lesson from the previous almost fork in the road in the sea area of Storm Island, so Chen Rui didn't dare to hold it up, and asked: "Little Jim, is there a guide in Tolia City who can find the Dream Oasis?"
"Your Excellency, you ...... You want to find the treasures of the Dream Oasis?" little Jim looked surprised, "It is said that the Oasis moves in the core of the Black Hell Desert, let alone find the Oasis. No one can even go into the heart. In addition to the terrible sandstorms, there are also murderous sandbands on the road. From time to time, those sand bandits would attack the town. Food and goods were looted, and the city of Tolia was attacked last month. β
"You don't have to worry about the reason why I'm looking for Dream Oasis. You just have to answer. Chen Rui had another black crystal coin in his hand.
The price of goods in such a small place is much lower than that of those big cities, and a black crystal coin is already quite an astonishing amount of money, little Jim swallowed a mouthful of saliva involuntarily, but shook his head with a regretful face: "Although I really want this money, it's a pity that I really don't know." β
"It doesn't seem like I've had good luck. Chen Rui didn't look at Little Jim, just looked around, put away the black crystal coin, asked where the hotel in the city was, and walked straight away. Soon the transformation disappeared from little Jim's sight.
Little Jim saw Chen Rui walking away, looked around, slowly walked into the alley next to him, and then turned around, seemed to relax and ran forward quickly. Suddenly, his foot tripped over something, and he fell to the ground hard, blurting out the small bag in his hand. The pain was so painful that I couldn't get up for a while.
Immediately after, several pairs of old cowhide boots came into view, and at the same time, a voice that was least willing to hear rang out: "Little Jim, you're fucking fast." β
Little Jim endured the pain. Looking up at the face full of meat, he smiled and said, "Pino-sama, I'm just worried about Daddy Lal." Recently, the old guy has made the same mistake again. β
The big man who came with Pinault shouted: "Don't pretend to be stupid! Listen to the old Carey who sells cakes, did you just run into a foreigner?" Got a lot of money?"
"Old Carey was so dizzy that I sold him a mirror. Got a few white crystal coins......"
Before he finished speaking, his right hand was tightly stepped on by one of Pino's feet: "Dare to pretend!"
With a hard squeeze from Pino, little Jim finally let go of his right hand, and the sweat-stained amethyst coin slipped out of his fingers and was snatched in Pino's hand.
"That's the money I used to heal Daddy's wounds!Give it back to me!" Little Jim struggled to his feet, trying to retrieve the amethyst coin.
"Where's that out-of-tlander? Say it, and I'll give it back to you. β
Little Jim thought of the scene where Chen Rui crushed the amethyst coin, and replied, "Hotel." β
"Let's go to the hotel. Pinault waved his hand at his accomplice.
Little Jim was anxious: "Give me back the money!"
"Fuck you!" Pino turned around and kicked little Jim's emaciated body away and slammed it into the wall.
"Brother Pino," suggested one of the accomplices, "over at the hotel...... Let's get to the bottom of it?"
"Yes. Pinault flipped the amethyst coin in his hand, "If you want to do it, you have to be as clean as last time, if that guy is not strong......"
Pino smiled evilly, made a knife in his hand, and scratched his neck, but he didn't know that this stroke really rushed out of blood. Pino was stunned until he felt a sharp pain in his throat and his hands were covered with his own blood, and he immediately covered his neck, and made a frightened sound of "lotus" in his throat.
The strange scene looked like a joke, but no one could laugh out loud, when a voice rang out: "You're looking for me?"
Only then did everyone realize that there was already one more person around them, and at the same time, a chill arose from everyone's hearts, and their limbs seemed to be frozen, unable to move.
Little Jim got up and looked with the same horror at the "outsider" who had given him money.
"Who are you!Pino's brother-in-law is the captain of the city's defense forces, if you dare to ......"
"It turns out that it is still a family of officials and bandits, it seems that you are all veterans of killing people and goods, since you dare to kill, you must have the consciousness of being killed. Chen Rui flicked his fingers, and in the horrified gaze of Little Jim, the bodies of the four big men, including Pino, instantly shattered into dusty particles and disappeared without a trace, and there was not even blood left.
Only the amethyst coin that was taken away by Pino automatically floated in front of little Jim, but the young man was frightened by the scene just now, and he didn't dare to take it for a while.
"Little Jim, it seems that luck is not me, but you. Chen Rui shook his head: "Actually, I saw it before, you didn't tell the truth, the person I'm looking for, isn't it...... That Daddy Lal you call you?"
Little Jim trembled, Chen Rui smiled slightly: "Let's go, go to your house, I forgot to tell you, in addition to killing, I will also save people, as long as your father still has a breath, I will have a way to save him." (To be continued......)
PS: I will continue to do two more today and thank you for your support.