Section 30: The value of spirits

Then the crowd sat down again and ate and drank to their heart's content, until it was almost dawn. After arranging them all in the buildings around the square, the old evil and the old mage returned to the mage tower with the smell of wine.

After going back. The old mage pulled the old evil to a room, asked him to sit down, and then said with a smile: "This time we have made a lot of money! I~"

"Wait!" the old evil didn't wait for the old mage to finish speaking, and directly interrupted: "It's not us, it's me who makes a lot of money!"

"Hey!" the old mage was not happy when he heard this, and immediately said, "Boy, do you want to eat alone?"

"Nonsense, I collected the people, why should I give them to you?" said the old evil disdainfully.

"Don't forget, I rescued them too!" the old mage said angrily.

"You're picking up cheap!" The old evil pouted: "With you and you are not like you, the strongest ones were killed by me in seconds, can't you still slaughter those trash fish?"

"But if you let them go, it will be troublesome, right?" said the old mage unwillingly.

"Trouble fart!" the old evil said disdainfully: "You also know, there are thousands of miles of death Gobi on all sides, and they can't go out at all without luggage and water, even if they hide in the woods temporarily, when my Demon Explosion Spider and Bipedal Wyvern King arrive, they are not dead?"

"You~" The old mage was speechless with anger, and finally he finally found an excuse and said: "Then these people of yours always want to eat and drink, right? A cyclops can eat a hundred catties of food a day, and 36 cyclops need thousands of food a day, where do you go?"

"This, of course you got it!" said the old evil a little weakly.

"Hmph, do you know that I did it, and if you don't give me some good, you'll just wait to starve them to death?" said the old mage angrily.

"Okay, okay!" The old evil also knew that he couldn't go too far, and besides, he wasn't the kind of person who liked to take advantage of nothing, so he immediately took the opportunity to say: "Isn't it a benefit, I'll give you 50 spirits, how about it?"

"What?" When the old mage heard this, he fainted, so angry that he jumped up on the spot, pointed at the old evil nose and scolded: "What do I want those bullshit spirits for?

"Cut!" said the old evil disdainfully, "Can your spirits compare to mine?"

"Say, what kind of spirit is also a spirit, is it possible that your spirit can still pull out gold?" said the old mage angrily.

"Hehe, it's almost!" the old evil suddenly smiled mysteriously, "My spirit can indeed pull out gold!"

"Are you kid playing with me?" said the old mage, furious.

"Hehe!" the old evil smiled slightly, waved his hand and motioned for the old mage to sit down, and then said unhurriedly: "You say, what are the advantages of spirits?"

"They have a fart advantage!" The old mage sat down angrily and said disdainfully: "If you want spiritual power, you don't have mental power, you don't have strength, you don't have any strength, except for being able to make me an experiment, it's useless at all." ”

"Ha, then you're wrong!" The old evil immediately retorted: "They are very smart, they can not only speak, but also make and use various tools, and their intelligence is not worse than that of normal humans!"

"What's the use of that, at most, they can make some simple wooden tables and chairs, can they make a fortune from these things?" the old mage sneered, "You're not crazy about money, are you?"

"What a brainless fool!" the old evil shook his head and sneered.

"What do you mean?" the old mage suddenly said angrily, "Tell me clearly!"

"Well, then I'll tell you where their true value lies!" said the old evil afterwards, "their advantages are actually many, many more, first of all, their eyesight, their eyes are very large, almost the size of a child's fist, not only can they see far away, but they can also clearly spot very small food, such as ants. In fact, ants are among the spirits' staple food. However, since the ants on this continent are more or less poisonous, before eating ants, the spirits must pull out the ant's fangs with their hands in order to be safe and practical. Although the spirits are very short compared to humans, it is not easy to feed their stomachs with ants, so they sometimes have to squat in front of the ant nest for hours. During this time, they have to pay attention to the movement around them, and at the same time quickly grab the ants with their hands, pull out the fangs, and throw them into their mouths. Over time, they have developed agility and precision, speed, and patience. ”

"So what?" said the old mage indifferently, "Their innate strength is too small, even if they have agile skills, they are still scum, otherwise they will not be easily caught as slaves!"

"Why are you so stupid?" the old evil scolded angrily, "Their skills are not used for fighting, they are used for manufacturing, think about it, what kind of assistants do you need when refining potions?"

"Refining potions?" the old mage's eyes lit up, and he said at once, "I need apprentices who are smart, patient, have good eyesight, and have steady and fast fingers!

"Of course!" said the old evil triumphantly.

"Theoretically it works, but in practice, no one has tried it, and I can't have time to teach them. The old mage was embarrassed and said, "So your proposal does not interest me! ”

"What if I said that the fifty spirits I provided to you were all systematically trained to distinguish at least a thousand kinds of drugs and could also do experiments?"

"Are you kidding?" said the old mage, surprised.

"Of course it's not a joke!" the old evil laughed, "I have 245 spirits in my hands now, and 204 of them were from when I came. Over the years, the knowledge you taught me has been passed on to them little by little, and every time you ask for experiments, I always let those new recruits replace me, unless the spirits are particularly smart, or they will not be left behind. Now, after more than ten years of training, most of them can identify and process medicines, and make some simple potions, among which there are more than a hundred smart guys, and the smartest 32 have even learned to draw magic arrays!"

"Ahh

"Hehe, yes, that's right!" said the old evil with a smile.

"No, I want to see it!" the old mage immediately said excitedly, "If it is really as good as you say, I will promise you to exchange these 50 spirits for those guys' food!"

"Hehe, come with me, it's all ready!" said the old evil with a smile.

So saying, he went out, and the old mage hurried to follow. Soon, the two of them came to a laboratory on the third floor, where there were already 50 spirits waiting, they were specially left by the old evil for the old mage. In fact, the old evil did not do this to repay the old mage, but planned to use the old mage to cultivate these spirits for himself, after all, those alchemy knowledge is boring and boring, and the old evil really can't look down on it, but he may still use it in the future, so he simply let these spirits learn for himself.

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