Chapter 35: The Second Round of Training
"Guest, don't you have the upper authority yet?" asked the old man, putting on a pair of round-rimmed glasses.
"Nope. Zhou Ming replied absentmindedly, and said in his heart: "I'm just a hunter apprentice, and it seems reluctant to say that I have the authority to be lower, but it's still too early to get to the top." β
"Distinguished guest, the materials you sold this time have reached the price of promotion, this is a one-month temporary upper authority certificate, if you can prove that your personal strength has also reached the upper level, we will upgrade you to permanent upper authority. The old man beckoned a waiter and said to Zhou Ming, "With this certificate, you can enter the third floor to sell or buy materials within a month, and the purchase price is 10% off." β
"Sir, please go this way, there is our professional high-level material appraiser on the third floor to identify the value of these beast materials for you, the waiter will sort out the materials and send them up, before the identification, you can also take a stroll around the trading hall on the third floor, maybe there will be a surprise discovery." The old expert led Zhou Ming to the stairs, bowed, and returned to his post, while the waiter who had just followed Zhou Ming came to the counter to sort out and pack the beast materials, and sent Zhou Ming directly to the third floor.
Zhou Ming casually flipped through the certificate given to him by the old expert just now, this thing like a token is densely engraved with many clauses, rights, obligations and the like, Zhou Ming is too lazy to look at it, the back is the logo and date of issuance of the Leiba Business Group, and there is a small piece of dense things like a QR code in the lower right corner, which is a special anti-counterfeiting logo for the Lei Ba Business Group, and it is precisely because of such a small logo that the certificate of the Lei Ba Business Group has never been successfully imitated.
With the certificate, Zhou Minghe came to the third floor with the waiter who Zhou Ming brought the beast materials, as the largest business group in the entire Northeast Territory, the Lei Ba business group is very tyrant in each city's sub-group to prepare the ownerless space spars, so the waiter who followed Zhou Ming did not carry a large bag of fierce beast materials, but just borrowed an ownerless space spare, and easily packed all the materials to the third floor.
Coincidentally, when Zhou Ming came up from the second floor, it was just in time for Hong Menglong to come down from the fourth floor, and when he saw the redness in Zhou Ming's eyes that had not completely faded, Hong Menglong only thought a little to understand Zhou Ming's attachment to home, he patted Zhou Ming lightly when he came over, and did not speak, but invisibly gave Zhou Ming a sense of security, in this completely strange city, there is at least one person he can rely on.
"Hunter friend, what do you want to identify?" came to the counter on the third floor, an old man with a long white beard received him, the counter on the third floor is much more advanced than the second floor, and the countertop has also doubled, Zhou Ming's materials can already be tiled instead of stacked on it, in general, the more advanced the beast size, the larger the beast material, the more likely it is to occupy more space, this arrangement not only reflects the privilege of the high-level hunter, but also has its rationality.
"Yes, I'm sorry for you. After Zhou Ming answered, the old man beckoned another material appraiser in the next window and began to analyze the fierce beast materials brought by Zhou Ming, knocking and tapping and observing with a magnifying glass, and after ten minutes of tossing, the two finally quoted the accurate price:
"Six pieces of fierce beast materials, a total of 1,246 gold coins, please put them away, the gold coins will be counted in person, and you will not be responsible for it later. Whitebeard's material appraiser issued a receipt, and the waiter on the side checked it and handed over two silver tickets and a small bag of gold coins, "Thank you for coming, and welcome to visit the Leiba Business Group again in the future, we will serve you wholeheartedly." β
Zhou Ming took the silver ticket and the gold coin bag, nodded seemingly casually, waved his hand, turned around in a dashing manner, and walked out of the Lei Ba business group with Hong Menglong, but the calmness he pretended to be could only be maintained until this, it was more than 1,200 gold coins, Zhou Ming had never seen so much money when he was so old, and his two eyes directly turned into a gold coin shape, it was really good to have a master, oops, saliva should be left out.
Hong Menglong looked at Zhou Ming, who was completely exposed, and smiled, the more he looked at his apprentice, the more satisfied he became, at first, he just wanted to complete the agreement with Zhou Ming's father, and saw that Zhou Ming's qualifications were good, so he accepted Zhou Ming's apprentice, as a consistent lone ranger, even if he was the first person below the heaven level, people who wanted to become his apprentices could fill the street, but he was stunned and didn't accept an apprentice.
In fact, the experience of the Silver Moon Forest is also a test for Zhou Ming by Hong Menglong, if Zhou Ming chooses to give up here because he is too hard, then anyway, Zhou Zhantian asked him to teach Zhou Ming the white sand style he also taught Zhou Ming, and the master-apprentice relationship between the two ends here. However, what Hong Menglong didn't expect was that Zhou Ming not only persevered, but also improved his strength far beyond his expected goal, which in itself made Hong Menglong very satisfied, people are always like this, after looking at a person pleasing to the eye, no matter what this person is doing, he always feels that the more he looks, the more pleasing he is, just like now, Hong Menglong first saw Zhou Ming because of the excitement of returning to the city, and then saw him sad because of homesickness, and finally saw the joy when he was paid, I only felt that Zhou Ming was a lover, joy, anger and sorrow were not pretentious, this straightforward character was always very good for the appetite of hunters, and accepted an apprentice who was willing to work hard and have good qualifications and good character, Hong Menglong really thought about it more and more beautifully, and couldn't help grinning.
So, in the eyes of passers-by, it was the old man and the young who stood side by side in front of the gate of the Lei Ba Business Group, smirking vigorously at the same time......
Zhou Ming and Hong Menglong didn't wander around the street for too long, they slept in the Silver Moon Forest for so long, both of them had long missed the "bed", an artifact that could make people sleep very comfortably, and found a hotel at random, Zhou Ming fell directly on the bed as soon as he entered the room, and now he is the five bodies that the brother who invented the bed admires, and he has not experienced the kind of hard work in the Silver Moon Forest, and he really doesn't know that sleeping in bed is such a happy thing.
After settling down, Zhou Ming came to the Hunters Guild under the leadership of Hong Menglong, the Hunters Guild has its own back kitchen, and will sell meals to hunters, Hong Menglong took Zhou Ming to lunch, and at the dinner table, Hong Menglong arranged the next training task for Zhou Ming:
"Xiao Ming, we will spend the next month in White Rock City, I will go and customize the props for you to practice the next sword technique, but for you, this month is not used to rest for you, you also have a task. Hong Menglong tore off a mouthful of fragrant barbecue, enjoying the aroma of the barbecue spreading explosively in his mouth, "In this month's time, your only goal is to hunt, you can set out to hunt alone, or you can find companions in the Hunters Guild to hunt together, anyway, within a month, I want you to hunt at least four fierce beasts with a lower rank of three stars or more, and at least one high-ranking fierce beast." β
Zhou Ming decisively sprayed rice, the next three stars, is that what he can kill alone, and even hunt a high-ranking fierce beast? Teacher, you said that you have been hunting alone for so many years, are you not afraid that your newly acquired precious apprentice will be buried under the clutches of the fierce beast?
Hong Menglong's idea is to let Zhou Ming go hunting in teams with other hunters, and learn some old hunters' hunting experience through cooperative hunting, and now Zhou Ming can be said to have earth-shaking changes in physical fitness from before, but when it comes to hunting experience, it is pitiful, in the Silver Moon Forest, he has not dealt with a few fierce beasts in total, and Hong Menglong's way of dealing with fierce beasts has always been a one-knife kill, and he does not give Zhou Ming a chance to learn hunting experience at all, which has caused Zhou Ming to have a strong body, and the actual combat level is still stuck in the way when he just left Silver Moon Cityγ Let Zhou Ming go hunting with those old hunters who are equal to or slightly stronger than him, observe and experience the hunting skills of those hunters and old birds from actual combat, and then apply these experiences to their own actual combat, this effect is definitely hundreds of times better than the hunting theory that Hong Menglong gave Zhou Ming for a month, so there is also Zhou Ming's second round of training plan.