Orange Town is a medium-sized port town that was originally just an ordinary town until it was chosen by the Navy as a logistics base.

The town covers an area of less than ten square kilometers, has a naval logistics base, and a civilian port, and is barely prosperous in the East China Sea, and is somewhat remote.

Merchants in the East China Sea often used the town's harbor as a supply point, and little-known pirates frequented the town.

It can be said that Orange Town is mixed, and when the navy is responsible for patrolling in broad daylight, it is only barely maintaining order.

There are many stalls on both sides of the market, and the voices of people are endless.

Many vendors are selling fish skins, seafood, weapons, ancient relics, and more, including some known as treasure map fragments.

Many strong men with five big and three thick, with swords across their waists, are scolding and bargaining, and they are not good people at first glance.

In addition, you can occasionally see fish-people with fish fins on their bodies and strange heads dangling around the streets, and most of them also carry swords and weapons, and their appearance is a little infiltrating.

In the early days of the Sea Pirate Era, the East China Sea pirates were rampant enough to dare to hang out under the nose of the navy.

This also proves that the control of the world government and navy over the East China Sea is weak, so that pirates are running all over the ground in front of the navy.

Unfazed by this, Martin made a beeline for a large grocery store in the center of town, with a sign reading "Kim Trade" hanging in front of the grocery store.

This large grocery store resembles a small supermarket, with a cabinet full of all kinds of food on the left, a variety of nautical equipment on the right, and a mixed aroma, and a counter in the middle full of weapons and consumables such as swords and ingots.

Martin tapped the table top with his index finger: "Boss Kim, bring me 100 dried shrimp, 10 large hams, 10 turkeys, plus 100 catties of white fish, 200 catties of rice and flour, three cans of pepper, chili, salt, caviar, blueberry jam, and plum jam." ”

After hearing this, the fat boss Kim, who was fiddling with his abacus behind the counter, immediately raised his head, and his fat face was full of smiles: "It turned out to be Warrant Officer Martin, welcome welcome ......"

"I'm resigning from the Navy, just call me Martin in the future."

Martin reminded.

With the crackling sound of the abacus, Kim quickly raised his head: "A total of two hundred eighty-four thousand eight hundred and fifty Bailey!" ”

"What? Twenty two hundred eighty four thousand eight hundred ...... Bailey? ”

When Martin heard this, his expression almost froze: "Hey, Kim, are you kidding?" Why is the price suddenly increasing so much? Usually, so much food can be bought for 150,000 Baileys, which is almost doubled. ”

Kim hurriedly explained: "You don't know, the price of raw materials in the town has risen too much recently, and the price of all ingredients has risen, and I have no choice but to do it, now the price is on the market, if you don't believe it, you can go to other places to ask." ”

"I heard that the sea monster often attacks fishing boats and grain boats, many people are afraid of capsizing, so they simply reduce the transportation and fishing, and the number of pirate attacks on merchant ships has increased a lot recently, resulting in the poor transportation of many goods, so they can only increase the price on the spot."

......

In addition to the sea monster, the pirates also made trouble, which was the rhythm of disrupting the entire East China Sea.

It is estimated that the sea monster is the king of the near sea who bit off one of the arms of the red-haired Shanks of the future Four Emperors.

I don't know if Shanks has been bitten off one of the other party's arms now.

Having said that, getting married cost him a lot of money, but now the money for buying food is not enough, and he instantly becomes the rhythm of a poor egg.

This world is really chaotic.

"Martin, do you still want this food?"

Kim looked at Martin, whose forehead was bulging, and asked tentatively.

"I want it, wrap it all up, and let someone send it to my home."

Martin gritted his teeth: "Also, look at my knife." ”

Kim sighed a little embarrassed: "Martin, as I said before, our store does not accept ordinary knives, there are too many of them. ”

Martin handed over the knife wrapped in strips of cloth: "I have two knives here, both are fast knives. ”

"It's all quick knives?"

Kim reached out and took the bag and weighed it, with a look of great surprise on his face.

He opened the cloth bag, picked up the two blades lying in it, looked at them carefully, his eyes gradually widened, and then stretched out his fingers and flicked the blades, making the blades make a light and crisp sound, while listening intently.

"This knife pattern, this material, this sound, this smoothness...... It's really a fast knife, one of which has a good knife pattern and a better sound, which can be regarded as a high-quality fast knife, and the other one is also good in a fast knife! ”

After Kim carefully examined the two knives, his eyes lit up, and a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Martin, how are you going to sell it?" ”

Martin said casually: "You look at it, we are all old acquaintances, as long as the price is fair." ”

Kim raised his hand and crackled the abacus: "According to the market price, a high-quality fast knife is 350,000 Bailey." ”

"The price of an ordinary fast knife is usually 10 to 150,000 Baileys, the quality of this knife is okay, I will charge you at the price of 200,000 Bailey."

"It adds up to a total of 550,000 Baileys, and I'll give you a fraction of the money to buy food to calculate 280,000 Baileys, so if you calculate it, you can get 270,000 Baileys."

"Do you think it's okay?"

"Okay, let's trade."

"Martin, take the liberty of asking, you suddenly took out a fast knife this time, and even forged a high-quality fast knife, could it be a breakthrough in forging skills?"

Kim asked with a smile as he counted the bills.

Looking at the other party's face full of smiles, Martin nodded: "Yes, a lucky breakthrough!" ”

Kim smiled even brighter: "Martin, I really didn't see the wrong person, congratulations and congratulations......"

"To tell you the grapevine, the navy has recently controlled the transportation channels of iron ingots and steel ingots, especially the control of military materials such as steel ingots, which will become more and more strict, and there will be a lot of room for price increases in the future."

Martin understood that Kim wanted to curry favor with himself and sell his favors, he thought about it, simply pushed back a few wads of banknotes, took out all the money on his body, and asked Kim for 400,000 Baileys for some iron ingots, a large number of steel ingots and two hundred catties of coke.

Iron ingots are not valuable, 100 catties of iron ingots are 20,000 Baileys, and the price of steel ingots has begun to rise, which is several times that of iron ingots, and now it is about 80,000 Baileys for 100 catties.

Iron ingots need to be quenched by themselves, and are generally only used to forge ordinary swords, and steel ingot knifesmiths can directly use it, and coke, which is the main raw material for fast knives, may also be out of stock recently.

This time I came out with empty pockets and destitute!

Fortunately, the supplies are in place.

"Martin, come back to our store often in the future, I will give you discounts that others don't have......"

Before he could finish speaking, a large black shoelace flew through the air, and Martin felt a strong wind coming behind him, and immediately turned his head sideways to dodge.

As a result, the shoe hit Kim's front door, smashing the opponent's face all over the mud, and he took two steps back.

Who?

Dare to engage in a sneak attack?

Martin turned around suddenly, his hand pressed the hilt of Chibon Sakura's knife at his waist, and prepared to draw the knife!