Chapter 3 New Residents of the Town
Thinking back to what happened two months ago, Xu Yue smiled with a little emotion, then walked to the table, opened his backpack, took out a notebook, and recorded what he saw and heard today, including the information heard in the tavern.
It was a habit he had only recently developed, and the time left of Oward's life was so short that the information he told him was quite general, and the specific information was not discussed at all. So he had to record some information about the world, which could help him quickly understand the world and integrate into it.
Fortunately, in order to be able to communicate, Oward used the only third-level magic item on his body, which was also the most valuable on his body, the "Language Proficiency Scroll".
This scroll contains constant information about the 6 lingua franca of Talumia, allowing a person who does not know the lingua franca at all to master the language in a matter of moments.
As a result, Xu Yue now knows almost nothing about the world here, except for being fluent in Talumia's lingua franca. That's why he was so cautious before.
Before, he was most worried about whether there were Oriental people like him in this world. After all, Ovaud's own appearance is typical of the Western race. And Ovaud had forgotten to tell him about this before, and let him come here to see the problem.
Before, in the tavern, he took off his hood as a kind of temptation, testing the reaction of the people around him. In this way, we can determine whether there are Oriental people in this world who are the same as ourselves.
This is a more risky behavior, and no one knows if there is no Oriental race in this world, and the people around him will cause any trouble when they see his appearance.
But this risk must be taken, and he cannot walk in this world forever with a hood on his head.
Fortunately, the result was quite satisfactory to him, and according to the hostess's reaction, he knew that there was a place or race in this world called Chattner with the same skin color and appearance as him, although it seemed that people of that race or place rarely appeared here, at least he would not think that he was an anomaly.
After writing down everything he saw and heard today in his notebook, Xu Yue looked at his surroundings, and then saw him close his eyes and concentrate. In an instant, a ray of light rushed out of his eyebrows, stopping in front of him to form a fist-sized light cluster, and then this light cluster extended outward in a plane, forming an oval light gate.
This light gate was formed by him by dropping blood into a silver object like a droplet in Oward's relics according to the method described by Oward, and the object was integrated into the brain. Even Oward himself doesn't know what it is, and it is said that he accidentally obtained it during an expedition to ancient magical ruins.
Xu Yue stepped into the closed door and disappeared into the room. This situation is not unlike what happened to Old.
In a relatively remote house in Earth B City, the same light door appears in the bedroom of the room. Xu Yue walked out of the light gate, and then the light gate shrank back into a ray of light and flew into his eyebrows.
Looking at the familiar bedroom, Xu Yue's spirit relaxed.
In fact, this is not the first time he has crossed over. After a brief study of the space gate, he realized that this thing can only connect the two spaces of Earth and Talumia 6, unlike those space-time gates in the novel, which can travel back and forth between multiple spaces at will. The position of the door can move with its own movement, but each time it crosses the past location, it is the last place it left.
After a month of careful preparation, he made his first crossing.
God knows what Ovod thought, the chosen crossing location turned out to be in the big forest, and Xu Yue had to find a road for people to walk on for a day after crossing the past.
In the following period, he did not rashly look for contact with humans in this world, but took a telescope to observe the pedestrians on the road from a distance for a long time.
After learning about the simple habits of people in this world, I found a tailor shop and made a custom costume that was more common in the world under the pretext of saying that he was going to perform a show. And the costume must be the clothes worn by long-distance travelers just by looking at it.
After another month-long observation, Xu Yue judged that there would be a town along this road for about half a day's journey, based on the clothing of the people who came and went, the items they carried, and the time they traveled back and forth. After careful planning and repeated deductions in his mind, today he finally set out on the journey.
Fortunately, Yiqiē was as he expected, the only surprise was the bad weather today, and the sudden snowstorm almost made him give up his plan to find the town today.
Lying on the bed he was familiar with, Xu Yue began to think in his heart. At present, his plan is very smooth, and the first thing he will focus on is to find a stable foothold in that world. Only in this way can you slowly get in touch with the people around you to understand the various situations of that world, including people's living habits, common sense, social structure, power system, etc.
"The most important thing after finding a place to live is that the idea is to make money!" Xu Yue thought with a wry smile as he took out a golden, a dozen silver, and two dozen brass-colored coins from his pocket.
The coins were left to him by Oward. According to Ovod's description, the coins of Talamia are divided into copper, silver, and gold coins, and it is said that there are also very few gold coins in the market. The ratio of these coins is that 10 copper coins are equal to 1 silver coin, 100 silver coins are equal to 1 gold coin, and 100 gold coins are equal to 1 Austrian gold coin. And the purchasing power of a copper coin is about equal to a penny on earth, which is a little less.
This looks like Oward left him more than a thousand dollars, which is already a lot.
But Oward had described to him what a money-burning profession a magician was, not inferior to those research institutes on Earth. Often, an ordinary magic item is around a few tens of gold coins, and it is not uncommon for a good one to be hundreds or even thousands of gold coins.
There is a saying in Tarumia 6 that "a magician is definitely the richest profession, but a magician is always the profession that is most lacking in money." ”
Magicians can easily make a lot of money by making and selling various magic items, but they need more money to buy the magic materials they put into the magic process.
As a magician, Ovaud only carries a little more gold coins, which is no different from a beggar. This is mainly because he spent all the money on his body in preparation for exploring the other world, and he only had food money left.
"But this money should be enough to rent a house in Talumia for the time being!" Xu Yue estimated and breathed a sigh of relief.
He had been busy planning and preparing for many days, and then he had traveled three or four hours in a blizzard. In the end, he was highly nervous and calculated to contact the aborigines of that world all the time, and he was exhausted at this time.
After washing his face, he fell asleep directly on the bed in his rental house.
The next day, Xu Yue didn't get up until noon, and he was shocked when he opened his eyes and saw the time. You know, on Talomia's side, he's disappeared into the room, and it would be bad if someone didn't show up for too long. So he hurriedly got up, changed into otherworldly clothes, opened the space door, and walked in.
The waitress Mary saw Xu Yue push open the door and walk out of the room and said hello.
"Hey, how was the rest? It looks like you're tired from the journey, it's almost noon. How about it, do you want to eat something? ”
Xu Yue shrugged his shoulders and sighed, looking like he had just woken up. In fact, he did, and he didn't have to pretend.
"No, thank you, I'll wait until it's time for lunch." I'm still in a hurry to rent a house. Do you have any good information to discuss?"
Mary's age seems to be about the same as Xu Yue's, and the two of them just chatted for a while yesterday to shorten the distance a lot, and there is no politeness when they just met.
"Well, I think about it. Uncle Ma Rui's house is a bit big, and it's not suitable for you to live alone. Uncle Jason's family recently moved to the city, and the house is vacant for rent, which is just right if you live alone, and the price is relatively cheap. You can speak directly to Uncle Kate. ”
After hearing this, Xu Yue smiled and said, "Oh." I'm in luck! Thank you, you've helped me a lot!"
At this time, there were a lot of people in the tavern, and Kate was busy entertaining guests, so he asked Mary, who was just going downstairs, to take Xu Yue to see the house.
Mary was also very happy to be able to come out and stroll, and took Xu Yue to walk down the street while enthusiastically introducing him to the town and the shops on both sides.
"This is Aunt Lylis's tailor's shop, if you want to make clothes or anything you need to do, you can come here for a fair price. ”
"This is Uncle Mohand's cobbler's shop, ordinary mercenaries and adventurers often come here to repair their leather armor, and the people of the town often come to customize leather products, Uncle Mohand's craftsmanship is good. ”
"There's Uncle Copperhammer's weapons shop over there, where you can go if you need a weapon. Uncle Copper Hammer is a dwarf, so the weapons in his shop are very popular, but the price is relatively expensive......"
Hearing Mary say that the owner of the blacksmith shop turned out to be a legendary dwarf who had stored on the earth, Xu Yue suddenly perked up and became interested. You must know that on Earth, dwarves and elves are the most representative races in Western mythology. However, he didn't show anything unusual on his face, just listened to Mary's introduction with a smile.
As he passed the blacksmith shop, he quickly glanced inward, and saw a bearded dwarf about one meter and two meters tall and with thick limbs standing at the counter in the open blacksmith shop, and his voice could be heard from a distance.
"What! Do you think this sword is more expensive than the one in the city?! You don't even look at whose work it is, you even compare the two-handed sword made by my copper hammer with the garbage made by the half-hangers in the city who can only fight kitchen knives!
Mary obviously also heard the roar of the copper hammer, and stuck out her tongue at Xu Yue and said, "Actually, Uncle Copper Hammer is very good, but the premise is that you don't laugh at his beard or doubt his craftsmanship!"
Shaking his head and smiling, Xu Yue thought to himself that this dwarf was really the same as in those novels, with superb iron-striking skills and a short temper, and sometimes he even wondered if the legends about magic or those magical races on the earth were the people of this world who strayed into the earth, and finally the earthlings slowly became legends after seeing all kinds of magic.
After Mary's introduction, Xu Yue gained a layer of understanding of this town and the world here.
Yesong Forest is a huge forest with an area that is even more than ten times larger than the Xing'an Mountains in the northeast. The forest is home to many magical creatures called Monsters, as well as many magical plants.
There are often quests to obtain various magical beasts and plants in places such as mercenary guilds, so many teams of mercenaries or adventurers will come here to do quests.
Due to the topography, Komodo Town is the best and closest supply point to enter the Nightsong Forest. There are especially many mercenaries here.
The residents of the town live here all year round and are familiar with the forest environment, and many people who think they have some skills are even doing the work of guides, who can lead the mercenary team to avoid some unnecessary dangers, so that they can complete the task faster. Therefore, the mercenaries who come here are accustomed to hiring a local guide.
Because there are a lot of mercenaries coming and going in Komodo Town, the economy of this town is almost entirely related to the mercenary industry. But now, because of the season, I basically don't see any mercenaries to do tasks.
After leaving the tavern, Mary apparently didn't have to worry too much, showing her girlish nature. Xu Yue is very good at talking to her. The town is not big, and the house to rent is not too far, only seven or eight minutes for two people to arrive.
It was a house close to the street, and in front of it was a shop selling alchemical goods. There is a small courtyard fenced off. The house is not big, only about 30 square meters, except for the area occupied by the kitchen and bedroom, the living room is pitiful. However, if it is only one person, it is still very spacious.
After a brief look, Xu Yue was very satisfied with the house, and immediately moved in after paying three months' rent. Because Mary still had a job at the tavern, she didn't stay long, but only pointed him out where to go if he bought the necessities of life, and then left.
In the next few days, Xu Yue basically spent the day on Talumia's side.
Although he didn't have much money left after renting a house, he didn't rush to find something that could make money these days, but kept wandering around the town.
The shops on the street were even more visited by him. Over the course of a few days, most of the town had come to know the polite Chatterner man with a gentle smile.
Because he really can't handle the ingredients he has never seen before, he basically goes to Kate's Nightsong Tavern to eat, and he is more familiar with Mary when he comes and goes.
After this period of observation, I have a more in-depth understanding of Talumia Big 6. He was glad he hadn't taken it lightly.
You know, he had a lot of plans before, such as selling soap or iron products to Da Tan Mia
But after his investigation, he found that the world itself was very well developed, and people washed things with a powder made from the leaves of a plant, which was much more effective than soap.
As for ironwork, he had completely abandoned the idea of halving the steel machete he had made on Earth with a kitchen knife that Talumia had bought.
As for finding magic materials from the other side of the earth to sell them here, he didn't even think about it. Only a high concentration of magical elements can give birth to magical materials. A stone on Taramia's side is considered the best magical material on earth.
"I'm not going to beg in the other world, am I?!" After the thoughts in his heart were shattered one by one, Xu Yue, who was a little disheartened, couldn't help but have a picture in his mind of a yellow porcelain crockpot in his left hand and a dog beating stick in his right hand begging in Komodo Town.
Shivering violently, he hurriedly dispelled the image in his mind, which was too unacceptable.
"Forget it, if that doesn't work, sell some of the magical equipment Oward left behind. Xu Yue thought helplessly.
At the beginning, after Oward now got a space gate that could shuttle to the other world, he began to prepare for the first exploration with all his might.
He spent all his savings to buy a new staff, two magic rings, a bottle of magic potions, and finally a 'language proficiency scroll' just in case. These items almost turned a third-level mage like Ovod into Hanako.
The potions and scrolls had already been used, and the remaining pieces of magical equipment, plus a storage ring that Ovward himself had, and an enchanted mage robe, were all the magical equipment that Ovod had left for Xu Yue.
However, thanks to the magical equipment left by Oward, you must know that the first time Xu Yue crossed into the location of Talumia's Big 6 was the Nightsong Forest, which is famous for its abundance of magic materials. Even if it was only the periphery of the Night Song Forest, it was definitely indispensable for the existence of Warcraft.
At the beginning, Xu Yue wandered in the forest for less than half a day after crossing over, and he encountered the wolf-type beast group that was chasing him before. He now knew that the beast was called the Wind Wolf, and that there were more than sixty of them in that group at the time.
The first time he encountered a wolf the size of a calf, he was stupefied when a large group rushed towards him. After releasing a fireball, he was so frightened that he opened the defensive shield spell on the staff, and opened the space door to escape against the attack of the wolves.
But unfortunately, the fireball technique he made was so good that it blew up the cub of the Wind Wolf Leader.
As a result, the two sides were entangled for more than a month, and as soon as Xu Yue crossed over, the group of wind wolves followed the smell to find them. Fortunately, relying on those few pieces of magical equipment, he almost wiped out this wind wolf pack by hitting and running twice.
"I'm sorry, Mr. Magician! The pure container of the Seven Scales is really out of stock! You know, it's the off-season, and a small shop like ours can't afford to weigh too much. The only pure container with a seven-scale was sold a month ago. ”
Xu Yue, who was full of worries, was attracted by the three words 'magician' in the other party's words, which made him decide to go over and take a look.
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