Chapter Thirty-Seven: The Traps of the Black-Hearted Merchant

"What are you looking at?"

There was a huffing cry from Lorana, and the blue light in El's eyes flashed away, and he withdrew his gaze and smiled self-deprecatingly: "It's nothing, I thought it was an acquaintance, it seems that I made a mistake." {Starter}"

"How can anyone over there, dare to be distracted as a guard!" the girl pouted and pretended to be angry, but the smile in her eyes could not be concealed. Her mood was as sunny as today's, and she didn't bother to bother with Er's questions.

"Hurry up and help, sort these loot!"

With the help of bows and arrows, the mercenary group gained a foothold, and the number of kobolds killed began to climb steadily. The mercenaries who retreated from the mine all wore strings of kobold heads around their waists, not caring about the smell of fishy smell, and all of them were smiling. While they were getting results, Lolana's shop was also very fruitful.

Dirty, worn, and smelly little backpacks filled the back half of the carriage, and Lolana didn't care to sort them out one by one. The kobold's backpack is filled with many strange things, such as leftover bones, grass roots, and skulls. After throwing this garbage away, all that is left is small pieces of metal ore, as well as crude metal projectiles and small slingshots.

"This white color is leucaite, and the red color is hematite, because the iron content is different, and the price is different, so it should be separated. If you find a metallic luster and these two different ores, pick them out for me. ”

Lorana didn't care about her clothes getting dirty, and squatted in the ore pile to patiently explain to El. No matter how good her eyesight is, she is still a weak girl after all, and it is impossible for her to complete such a large workload alone.

El nodded, grabbed a backpack, and threw away the garbage in the same way as Lolana began to divide the ore. The ore in the backpack is all thumb-sized pieces, because he has practiced bows and arrows for many years, his hand strength is stable and accurate, and after distinguishing the color, he will easily throw it into the corresponding ore pile.

Even so, looking at the backpacks piled up like a hill, El was still a little dissatisfied with his efficiency. Taking advantage of the fact that no one was looking, a faint blue light flashed in his eyes, and he glanced at all the backpacks.

Metallic minerals are somewhat resistant to the see-through abilities of the insight runes, but can still discern the difference in density. In El's eyes, each piece of ore is like a translucent honeycomb, and the iron content of marcasite and hematite is different, which can be clearly judged by its transparency. And those ores that are very different in transparency from the first two iron ores, or even completely opaque, must be the rare metal ores that Luo Lana said.

The kobold tribe migrated from the underground, mining along the way, and there were many strange metal ores in their backpacks. Especially the larger backpacks carried by those kobold warriors, which contained more rare metal ores, and they didn't need to think about it to know that they were the fruits of their exploitation.

So far, there were not many large backpacks, and Lolana just quietly added a silver coin to the price, and the mercenaries had no idea that the average value of such a large backpack was at least five times that of a small backpack.

The huge profit difference made the girl find a sense of happiness, and even though she tried to put on a straight face, she couldn't help but show her cute little tiger teeth, and her eyes smiled in the shape of a crescent moon, but soon the smile on her face turned into surprise.

The girl watched in amazement as El grabbed a backpack, and the various ores barely stayed in his hands before they were sorted into categories as quickly as an assembly line. While maintaining this speed, piece after piece of rare metal ore leaked out of his hand and gathered into a small pile in front of him.

"How did you do that?" asked Lolana subconsciously.

"If you tell you the secret, will there be any additional commission?" El asked with a smirk, but his movements did not stop at all.

"Greedy guy, okay, okay, give your commission a 10% increase. Lolana snorted reluctantly.

"Actually......" Er deliberately bought a pass, and only smiled when he saw the girl's eyes widen: "Actually, my eyesight is better, and I have the ability to train since I was a child." ”

"Cut!" Lolana realized that she had been deceived, and turned her head angrily to ignore him.

"Don't be angry, just kidding. Help me see what this is?" said El with a smile, handing over a strange "egg".

It is a palm-sized, tan-elliptical, spherical object with a smooth and elastic exterior that occupies space in a small backpack on its own. Just now, El's vision failed to penetrate its surface, and he thought it was some rare ore. I didn't expect to take it out and look more like the eggs of some kind of creature.

"It looks like a spider egg?" Rolana flashed to the side with a disgusted expression, "Maybe the kobold is going to keep it for himself, maybe the old professor in the academy might be interested in this thing, but let's throw it away." ”

El shook his head and threw the "spider egg" into the garbage heap under the car. Although he didn't know what kind of spider could lay such a large egg, it was obviously not his concern now.

With his help, most of the backpack on the carriage was quickly cleared, and some places were finally removed. There was a steady stream of mercenaries who took turns to rest, all carrying backpacks to exchange money, but Lolana didn't have enough silver coins.

"The kobolds in the cave are getting more and more cunning. The latest batch of mercenaries who had been rotated rubbed their waists and whispered: "The inside of the mine is full of holes dug by them, and it is impossible to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest when you go in." After killing all the slaves outside, the remaining guards hid deeper, and if they were not careful, they would be ambushed. ”

The mercenaries seized control of the upper levels of the mine with the advantage of their bows and arrows, but at one point they reached a stalemate as they penetrated into the mine. The underground caverns are not as spacious as the upper floors, and they are all dug along the ore veins, which are more tortuous and difficult to navigate, and have been dug into a labyrinth by the kobolds. In such a place, it is difficult for the archers to take care of the front and rear of the team in time, and naturally they cannot show their power.

After several hours of tug-of-war, the mercenary group suffered a large number of casualties, and the results plummeted. Everyone is tired and anxious.

Lorana quietly tugged at the corner of El's coat and winked at the rest of the pile of food. El understood, pretending to be casual and asked, "Boss, you bought these backpacks and smoked all the food in our car, how can you eat this?"

"Who said this was for people to eat?" Rolana snorted, deliberately lowering her voice to the point where the mercenary next to her could hear it, "This is a decoy designed to attract kobolds." ”

"Bait?" El raised his voice in "surprise" and covered his mouth. "You mean to seduce kobolds with food?"

"That's right, these kobolds have just migrated, and there is nothing to eat in the mines, and now this food is a fatal temptation for them. Lolana clasped her hands and looked confident: "Otherwise, why do you think there are always scattered kobolds rushing over after we come?" Look at the corpses under your feet, they are all unlucky people who are hungry and faint." ”

"However, the mercenary regiment also brings its own dry rations, so why buy our food?" El asked, puzzled.

"You also said that it is dry food, what kind of high-end food can the mercenary group have? It is nothing more than brown bread or bread or something. Look what we're carrying?" Lolana picked up a piece of cheese, put her nose up and took a deep breath: "The kobold's nose is as sensitive as our usual hunting dogs, as long as you put this piece of cheese on the ground, the kobold from a hundred meters away will smell the fragrance." ”

"Yes, brown bread has no taste. If you put this piece of cheese in a trap, maybe the kobold himself will run out and jump in. Elqiang chuckled as he watched the mercenary standing by and eavesdropping.

"And I deliberately want to make these foods stink, this is the smell of kobolds themselves, so they will not be precautionary, even if they put poison in it, it is estimated that they will not hesitate to eat it. Lolana laughed wickedly like a fox.

The mercenary, who was still complaining just now, suddenly rushed to the carriage, and his eyes flashed with a feverish light: "Beautiful young lady, kind boss, please sell me that piece of cheese!"

As he turned away with joy in his heart, the silver coins he had just earned from the backpack were back in Lolana's cash box. A large amount of expired and low-quality food purchased wholesale by young girls began to be sold at staggering prices.

"It's just a money grab. El hid behind the carriage and lamented in a low voice, compared with this kind of black-hearted businessman, the hard-earned money he had earned in the mountains and forests all those years was really not worth mentioning.

"Concentrate on your work, or you will be deducted from your wages. Lolana flicked the silver coins in the cash box, and her eyebrows opened and she smiled, and she almost drooled.

"Pay attention to the image, the image. El muttered quietly, met with a roll of the eye from Lorana.

The so-called "kobold hunting secret" spread ten, ten to hundred, and the business in front of the carriage became more and more popular. Seeing hundreds of catties of cheese and ham disappear little by little, the ore and small backpacks are piled higher and higher, gradually filling the carriage.

"Almost, if you continue to buy, it will be difficult for the horse to pull up. The black-hearted girl clapped her hands and stood up, and took off the signboard on the carriage with great satisfaction, when she suddenly slipped under her feet and fell off the carriage.

Lolana subconsciously hugged her head, ready to make contact with the ground, but was held by a pair of powerful hands. El took the girl in his arms and fell to the ground and rolled several times in a row.

Suddenly being hugged by a man, Lorana's first reaction was to struggle desperately, but she immediately realized that El was not trivializing herself. Looking out from his shoulder, rocks of all sizes were sliding down the top of the mountain.

The sudden earthquake shrouded Hongshiling in smoke and dust.

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