Chapter Twenty-Five: Camp of the White Moon
There is a lake in the north of Mingyue Island, it is more than ten miles wide, the lake water is clear and blue, so it is called Blue Moon Lake; there are people camping on the side of Blue Moon Lake, the scale has become more and more in the past few decades, but it is called Baiyue Camp.
Nine teenagers walked by the lake, smelling the fresh air that they had not seen for a long time, and they also swept away the gloom of the past few days. After walking along this road for a short time, they successively met two other teams from Nanming Academy, and they naturally walked towards the legendary White Moon Camp together, anyway, the area around this Blue Moon Lake is so open and there are many pedestrians, and it is impossible to find the bright moon flower in these few steps.
Along the way, of course, the teenagers also saw other passers-by who were much older than themselves, and they either glanced at the teenagers who should not have appeared in this dangerous place and hurried away, some showed warm and encouraging smiles, and some looked the teenagers from head to toe with extremely uncomfortable eyes, and then let out a malicious laugh, like a fox staring at an innocent and ignorant white rabbit.
"These thieves!" the boys hated with itching teeth, but they knew that they could not easily conflict with them, so they had to endure this evil breath for the time being.
After walking like this for half an hour, the teenagers finally saw a color different from the surrounding jungle, and the camp built not far from the Blue Moon Lake had already appeared in front of them.
This camp is not big, it is not small, it is not enough to be a class as a space for activities in Nanming Academy, but it can be placed in the dangerous dense forest, this area can be described as extremely swaggering, it is not only erected on the periphery of the camp with antler fences, arranged guard patrols, and even arranged feng shui formations to resist the invasion of demon beasts, just like a military camp, so that poisonous insects, tigers and leopards dare not approach lightly, but this majesty is extremely precious in the eyes of travelers who have been trekking in the jungle for several days.
"I finally have a place to rest!" Zhou Chi said happily, these days of eating and sleeping in the open, and he has to worry about being attacked by wild beasts while sleeping. He had been looking forward to getting to the only camp on the way to get some rest.
"I'll be the east in a while, please have a good meal!" A confident voice came from the side, and everyone looked over, but saw Leg, who was alongside Shi Bao, and walked out of the bushes next to him with a smile: "Brother Ling, Brother Meng, long time no see!"
Ling Qingyun and Meng Shan returned the salute with a smile, but the reason why they smiled quite brightly was because Leger, who was usually personable, was also reduced to the point of being dusty and disgraced like everyone else at this time.
"How can you call Brother Lai to be the east, although we are not from Mingyue Island, but we are more east than Brother Lai!" a young man said with a smile, but everyone couldn't help but laugh.
Laughing and laughing, the teenagers who had gathered into the five teams walked towards the entrance of the camp lively, and the guards with the strength of the Stone Spirit Realm did not dare to slack off when they saw that although they were teenagers, they did not dare to slack off, but they just raised the steel spear in their hands lightly and asked: "Are you from Zhulu Academy and Nanming Academy?"
"Yes!" Ling Qingyun, who had unconsciously become the leader, and his companions all took out their identity jade cards and held them for the guards to see, and it was expected that there would be no other teenagers on Mingyue Island, which was thousands of miles away from the mainland, so the guards just glanced at it and smiled: "Welcome to the White Moon Camp!"
"The man before was more like a restaurant boy than a guard. Entering the camp gate, Zhou Chi couldn't help muttering.
"This White Moon Camp is a profit-making camp rather than a military camp, and it's not wrong to say that they are businessmen!" Leg, who was from a wealthy family, said with a smile while looking around: "But the prosperity of this White Moon Camp is really unexpected!"
The teenagers were amazed as they looked at the sides of the road, and the small camp was filled with stalls and shops, and the market-like atmosphere made one almost forget that they were deep in the forest.
"The person who created this White Moon Camp is really a strange person!" Ling Qingyun couldn't help but sigh, but after thinking about it carefully, he felt that the appearance of this White Moon Camp was a matter of course.
Although Bright Moon Island is known as a desert island, it has attracted many cultivators to land and explore because of the value of Bright Moon Flower and other medicinal materials and treasures, you must know that for many Thousand Forging Realm cultivators, the value of a Bright Moon Flower is enough to accumulate for several years or even more than ten years, and the benefits here are enough to make people desperate. When there are more people coming and going, some people naturally make up their minds, and instead of picking bright moonflowers, they entertain explorers from all walks of life for profit, and at the same time provide a safe resting place for cultivators who are exhausted in the dense forest, which is naturally a good idea to kill two birds with one stone.
The teenagers walked in the jungle for three days in fear, and now they felt that they were back in the world when they stepped into the White Moon Camp, and although the sound of selling in their ears was noisy but quite tempting, Meng Shanzhi saw the meaning of everyone and smiled slightly: "Since everyone is interested in this market, why don't you disperse first, and meet in the center of the camp in half an hour?"
"That's a good idea!" Legge smiled.
"Just as Brother Meng said!" Ling Qingyun also nodded in agreement, he also sensed that the others were about to move, not to mention that he was also interested in this market.
As if a trick, the group of more than 20 teenagers disappeared from the street without a trace in an instant under the attraction of interest, and turned to each of them to observe and ask the price in front of the shops they were interested in.
"Such a small bottle of gold sore medicine costs a thousand yuan? Are you crazy about money!"
"My price is quite cheap in the White Moon Camp, do you like to buy it or not, but it's no wonder that there is no medicine to save your life when the time comes!"
The sound of a quarrel in a small shop made Ling Qingyun set his eyes on that shop, good guy, the price of all kinds of ordinary drugs was ten times or even dozens of times that of the outside world, no wonder the buyers were unhappy, but in the depths of this dense forest far away from the mainland, it was not surprising that life-saving drugs were sold at such a high price.
"A lot of things here are price gouging, but there are also treasures that are good value for money. Ling Qingyun remembered the teacher's introduction to the White Moon Camp before entering the jungle, and the first impression of the explorers from all walks of life on the White Moon Camp was quite good, because the camp environment that can resist poisonous insects and beasts is clean and tidy, there is no admission fee, and even free accommodation and medical treatment are provided, which is like a philanthropist.
But what is the profit of the Baiyue camp? Where does the profit come from? These street vendors pay a share of the money, and although the camp provides free food and lodging treatment, it is the lowest level, and those who have suffered in the forest for many days naturally want to live comfortably, and that is not a small expense, as for medical ...... Free treatment can only deal with flesh injuries, and when their lives are really in danger, they have to pay sky-high life-saving money! There are many cultivators who may not have the cash to pay for medical expenses, it doesn't matter, they can pay the bills with the Bright Moon Flower or other treasures they have picked, or sign a contract to pay off the debts of the White Moon Camp helpers—that is not destined to be easy work.
In this case, the White Moon Camp, which seems to be the protector, unconsciously grasps the large resources of Mingyue Island, but he does not have to go into the dense forest to deal with poisonous insects and beasts, and only needs to manage his own one-acre and three-point land.
The founder of Camp Hakutsuki calls himself Mr. Hakutsuki and is a mysterious figure. Some people say that Mr. Bai Yue is the elder of the Great Cultivation True Sect of the South China Sea Islands, some people say that Mr. Bai Yue is an important minister of the Qinghe Continent, some people say that Mr. Bai Yue is a pirate leader who once crossed the East China Sea, and some people say that Mr. Bai Yue is the son of a dead prince of a small country in the Eight Desolations Continent......
The basis of all this speculation is that Mr. Bai Yue seems to have a large force behind him after his mystery, and he has never left Mingyue Island after sitting in the White Moon camp all year round, which makes people wonder if his appeal is not only the treasures of Mingyue Island, but also on other deeper levels.
Of course, these are not what Ling Qingyun needs to care about at the moment, Ling Qingyun's attention is on the dazzling variety of goods, and a few touches of snow white make him stop: "Bright Moon Flower is also for sale?"
"Eighty gold flowers!" the big man who set up the stall showed a mouthful of yellow teeth and grinned.
"Even if you transport the Bright Moon Flower to the mainland and sell one flower, it will only cost more than 100 gold, and if you sell it here for 80 gold, the price will be higher. A pedestrian passed by, shook his head, and said.
"As long as you buy this flower and bring it back, you can earn more than 20 gold in vain with a boat trip, isn't it cost-effective?" said the stall man with a smile.
"It's not easy to make this bright moon flower not wither in that kung fu!" The pedestrian shook his head and walked away, and the big man turned his gaze to Ling Qingyun: "Childe, are you interested?"
"I'm sorry. Ling Qingyun shook his head, eighty gold is not much, but he didn't bring so much money on this trip, not to mention that Mingyuehua is the assessment indicator of this experience, if he gets it with financial resources, he will inevitably lose his original intention.
When he came to the next stall, what attracted Ling Qingyun's attention was a ball of snow-white silk thread, and the stall owner smiled when he saw this: "Little brother, you really have a vision, this is the spider silk of the black star spider, made of a battle suit that is invulnerable, and water and fire are invulnerable......"
The Black Star Spider Silk is indeed a treasure, and the generous stall owner also offered a very polite low price, but does this spider silk really come from the Black Star Spider? Ling Qingyun smiled, the Black Star Spider inhabits the desert of Southern Xinjiang, but he has not heard of any traces of activity on Mingyue Island.
The next stall owner's goods were even more special, not only with materials from all kinds of wild animals and plants, but also with a living snow-white puppy in a cage, looking at every passing guest with wide eyes and pitiful eyes, and whining softly from time to time, as if he had been enlightened, hoping that a good master would buy him out of the sea of misery.
"This is the cub of the famous demon beast moon chasing dog, and when it grows up, it is the worst second-order demon beast, and it is the most loyal, whether it is to take care of the home or as a hunting dog, it is the first choice, we have three brothers in order to catch it!"
There are two kinds of demon beasts in this world, one is that ordinary beasts rely on constantly absorbing the aura of heaven and earth, and gradually cultivate, and the other is the descendants of demon beasts who have inherited a strong bloodline after many generations of demon beasts, the latter is called a famous species, and they can almost become demon beasts when they grow up, but the former is not, maybe a blue wolf has achieved cultivation, but its cubs are still mortals, and famous demon beasts need many generations of accumulation and inheritance to produce, which is equivalent to the nobility of the beast, and the value is much higher than that of ordinary demon beasts.
Ling Qingyun looked at the snow-white puppy curled up in the cage thoughtfully, he could feel that this little puppy that was only the size of a palm did have demonic power fluctuations in its body, it seemed that it was really a moon chasing dog, the third brother would be very interested in this little guy in the future, but unfortunately the timing was not right, otherwise he could buy this little guy as a gift.
At this moment, a slightly immature but arrogant voice sounded behind Ling Qingyun.
"This moon chasing dog, Miss Ben bought it!"