"We're going to have a day off at the Okmi stronghold today, so let's take a break for yourself. ”

Hide and Dess sat in the lobby of the inn eating breakfast and casually told her about the day's arrangements.

"Today is ...... Well, December 15th of the new calendar, that's still a dozen days away......" Head thought about some important information about the ruins and dates of the Golden Tomb as he ate the free breakfast provided by the inn.

"Tsk, this steak is really unpalatable, far less delicious than what you made in the wild. With a casual complaint, Head swallowed the unpleasant breakfast in two or three bites, and got up to leave.

"Well, I'll leave the procurement of supplies to me, and I'll go to the trading floor later to see if there's any information worth buying, and Dess will have a complete vacation and rest today, and you can do whatever you want." Before leaving, Head reminded the silver-haired female apprentice.

Dess nodded slightly.

"I wonder what she's going to do today?" Hide was curious, so he released a few tiny bubbles of magic mercury to stalk Des and prepare to snoop.

However, it wasn't until he had finished his supplies and other chores that the footage from the peeping magic mercury bubble showed the silver-haired female apprentice still in the room in the lodging area, meticulously sorting out her equipment, maintaining her double-edged scissors made of Mithril alloy, and caring for her sets of ghost python leather armor, very delicate and slow. After a while, Shade was bored, and it seemed as if she was going to pass the time like this all the time, so she stopped voyeurism for a while.

Over the course of a few months, the Oakmi stronghold was expanded to a considerable size by the Snekman family, albeit due to environmental constraints. The living facilities are not very satisfactory, but for all kinds of spontaneous or noble family organized adventurer teams. The flow of supplies and information was very thorough, although these things were very expensive.

"Unlucky. I ran into them again. As soon as he transferred to the exchange of the stronghold, Hade saw at a glance the small team of three that he couldn't forget, and suspected that it was a little girl disguised as the Empress of the Empire and two high-level strong guards, a man and a woman. The three of them are in the regional intelligence area, and they are supposed to be preparing to buy map-type information.

Hide immediately turned around and came to the monster intelligence area on the other side, pretending to watch the intelligence of various monster information be sold.

"It's been almost half a year, and they don't seem to have found a way to enter the center of the Golden Tomb smoothly, otherwise they wouldn't still be here. Hade remembered the news from a few months ago that the ailing Empress had returned to the Imperial Capital under the escort of the Praetorian Guard, but not until she left. None of them have ever appeared in public.

"What is it that is worth them to go out for a long time at such a big risk, and even the Empress Bixia is personally involved?" Hade thought about it, and still felt strange, the treasures in the Golden Tomb, such as the countless crystal nuclei in the treasury, a large amount of gold, and rare equipment, were indeed very attractive to ordinary people and even many nobles, but they were not enough for the lord of a country to come to investigate in disguise regardless of his own danger.

"Could it be for the great alchemy of the former Titan Empire, but that thing is actually a very flawed ancient secret art, and the side effects are extremely great. Far less useful than the legacy of Olympian royalty...... Oh, maybe the current royal family doesn't even know this. ”

Thinking about this, Hide shook his head slightly, although he himself also thought about taking the opportunity to go in and fish for some treasures during the special time of January 1 of the new calendar in ten days, but he really didn't have the slightest interest in the so-called great alchemy. It's good that there is no conflict with each other, and it's best not to run into each other in the future to avoid trouble.

Relieved, Hed took a look at the information sold in this monster intelligence area by the way. Countless wooden signs hanging on the walls indicate various types of monsters, which can be very useful for certain groups of hunters who specialize in hunting certain types of crystal nuclei.

Just a casual look at it made Hade inadvertently glance at a piece of information that would be useful to him.

"How much does this piece of information cost?"

"Three fifth-order crystal nuclei. The young snake girl in charge of selling the information replied skillfully.

"Plus these two pieces of information. An area infested by mutant ogres and tin apes. ”

"A total of eleven fifth-order crystal nuclei, I wish you a great success. The young alienated snake girl smiled and closed the simple deal.

After getting three pieces of information that were deliberately made into small scrolls. Hide immediately turned to the corner seat and opened the scroll with information about the high-level slime.

I have to say that although this information is a high price for several fifth-order crystal nuclei at every turn, there are detailed regional maps drawn in it, the level and approximate number of groups of such monsters, the gathering location, the movement route, and even the precautions for other types of monsters and dangerous areas and organs that infest nearby, which can be called very detailed information.

"The Sneckman family is really good at how they do business. Hide was greatly impressed, the members of the Snekman family, who obviously managed the Oakmi stronghold, did not spend much manpower and material resources to investigate these things, and just obtained information from various adventurers, sorted it out, and confirmed it, which can be said to be quite amazing.

"In Des's Giantization formula, the high-level ogre and tin ape information needed in the middle and late stages are also available. Led glanced at the other two pieces of information, and compared the map of the Golden Tomb site in his mind, and got a rough idea of what was worth noting.

When he walked out of the door and was about to return to the inn where he was staying, he turned his head to see the silver-haired female apprentice walking alone in the other direction.

"Over there...... It must be a free market, right? What is she going to do there?" Height's heart moved, and he released a few miniature magic mercury bubbles and followed, and he hurried back to the inn's accommodation room.

Soon after, it was discovered from the scouting of the magic mercury bubble that Des had gone to the free market. There will be some hunters or adventurers in this place who do some small business on their own, such as exchanging crystal nuclei, selling some useful materials such as monster bones, horns, skin scales, etc., there are no special requirements for selling things here, just pay some taxes to the snake guards who manage this place and set up a stall.

"Does she want to buy anything?" Hide leaned against the head of the bed and looked at the somewhat distorted image reflected in the spherical magic mercury bubble, after advancing to the seventh order, his skill can also transmit some sounds, but this free market is noisy, and it is really difficult to distinguish what he wants to hear.

Soon after, a confused Head finally saw Dess stop in front of a stall and seemed interested in buying something...... And judging by the movements and mouth shape of the silver-haired girl, she should be haggling with the stall owner who sells Warcraft meat.

This surprised Hide, who honestly had always thought that Dess was a girl who didn't speak much, at least in the time he spent with her, he rarely heard her speak more than ten words a day. Now she's haggling with the meat seller, and it seems that the bargaining between the two is still very hot.

Hader tried to get the magic mercury bubble that was tracking Des slightly from the edge of the market, and although the sound was still chaotic and indistinct, the conversation between Des and the butcher could still be faintly heard.

The two of them each used reasons to lower or raise the price, although Desi said to the stall owner with a serious face, that the adventurers who came here to rest were too lazy to buy Warcraft meat to cook by themselves, and it was difficult for you to sell it; the stall owner could tell what was the most delicious part of the meat that was cut from the sixth-order polyhorn only an hour ago; the two talked repeatedly and slowly tested each other's bottom line with extremely small price fluctuations.

After listening to it for a while, Hide was simply surprised, he felt that in less than ten minutes, Des had said a lot more than a month's conversation with himself, and that kind of eloquence of bargaining with the other party really made it difficult for him to imagine that this was his usual taciturn female apprentice.

It wasn't long before Des was able to convince the other party to buy a few pieces of the best loin from the hornhorn at a very suitable price. After that, she bought some wild vegetables and began to return to the hotel's accommodation area, where she should have prepared haode in advance, and began to cook with her own cooking utensils and spices.

"Give her a day off, and she still can't be idle. Head sighed slightly, remembering that he had lamented at breakfast in the morning that the food in the inn was unpalatable, and it was probably for this reason that the silver-haired female apprentice had prepared the food for the two of them according to his previous custom. "I originally wanted her to have a good rest day, even if she wasn't interested in other things, and just sleep with her head covered. ”

At this time, it was even more inappropriate to stop Dess in the past, but the silver-haired female apprentice was also for her own sake, and Hand had no choice but to continue to watch the scene of the magic mercury bubble in his heart while continuing to watch the scene of the magic mercury bubble in the next ten days of cultivation and exploration.

As the minutes passed, Hade's face gradually became a little heavy, and his body, which was originally leaning on the head of the bed, gradually sat up straight.

The spherical magic mercury bubble shows that Des has already roasted sliced sliced haode beef with various wild vegetables into a cabbage that Hade has always loved, and then began to cook the most common meat steaks and pastries eaten by humans in the Western Ancient Continent. It's just that for each small piece of meat cutlet, the silver-haired girl carefully cuts the thin slit horizontally and vertically on it with a knife, puts in the sauce, coats it with batter, and then uses heated haode butter to start frying.

A small steak that Hide usually puts in his mouth casually, and it takes Des five minutes to make. This lunch, which is enough for two people, is estimated to take her more than an hour.

And after cooking various staple foods, even though it is already in the cool autumn, tiny beads of sweat appear on the forehead of the silver-haired girl. After taking the towel on the side and wiping the sweat, he poured a small amount of water from the water bladder and washed his hands, and then took out the metal cup that the two of them used to wash carefully, and then took out a few white fruits covered with pink spots from the other skin bag, and carefully squeezed out the juice inside with both hands to make a cup of fresh juice, and the other quilt ...... It is ordinary white water.

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(Hmm,This chapter and the next chapter are more literate.,Hmm,It can also be said to be emotional.,Book friends who don't like to look at details can skip.) (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!)