Chapter 4: Lasseter
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What is the most painful thing in the world?
It's when something you dream of comes to you and you don't have a chance to get it.
When the host shouted the words "Electrocatra's Fragments," Huey sighed, knowing he couldn't go.
The temptation of this thing to him is like the flame of a moth, the beauty of a pervert, the gambler who loses in the eyes of a usurer......
Turning slowly, Huey looked at the simple pages, which looked so charming in the light of the magic lamp.
However, this thing did not arouse the fanatical pursuit of high rollers, in fact, many people did not even want to raise their hands, and seemed completely uninterested.
It's not surprising that this is true, it can't be said that Electra's legacy is not attractive, it is entirely because of Electra's bad note-taking habitsβthe problem of writing where to write in a mess.
When he first came into contact with Electra's notes on Infernal Island, Xiu Yi realized that the great alchemist had a fatal problem when taking notes. He never took neat notes, was always vague when explaining problems, and often wrote down a hammer in the east and a mallet in the west. Often you see a sentence on this page, and you have to turn to more than ten pages before you can find the next sentence. This can even spill over between different notes.
There are inaccurate records of flesh puppets on Purgatory Island, and the remnants of the two notebooks that can be found in Winrington and Ribbon City are really speechless.
In other words, in order to understand Electra's notebook, you need two basic conditions: one, you have enough Electra's notes. Two: Have enough patience to play the word splitting combination game.
That's why a treasure like this can only call out a thousand Jinwit in the end, and no one answers. Who can read three fragments of a notebook?
But for Huey, all the confusion is not confusion. Even if it was just a random sentence written by Electric, he had to do everything he could to get it. Who knows if that sentence is an addition to something that is not fully documented in other notes?
Xiui raised his hand, he was about to make a bid, but saw Clark coming back from the front door again, it seems that this guy's consciousness reaction is quite fast.
Seeing that Xiu Yi had indeed returned to the auction hall, Clark smiled fiercely and strode towards Xiu Yi.
He came to Huy's side and whispered in an unquestioning tone, "Come out with me, boy, and I'll be softer if I'm obedient!"
"Are you sure?" asked Huey.
Clark was about to say something, but the host on the stage had already shouted, "That gentleman, aren't you going to make a bid?"
Xiu Yi was still in the air, his hand was still in the air, and with a twist of his mind, he turned back to the auctioneer and said, "Of course, I will ask for three hundred gold wit." β
Everyone froze.
The host stammered a little: "Sir, I don't think you heard clearly, the reserve price of these fragments is one thousand gold vetts. β
"That's right......," Huey mused, "Well, I'll give four hundred, and I can't go any higher." β
The host was a little angry: "Sir, I don't think you have figured out the situation, this is not a place for you to play." The reserve price of this thing is a thousand gold vetts, which is a thousand!"
"Five hundred!" Huey waved his hand again, as if I was very talkative.
The host couldn't bear it, even if the other party had already bought a piece of goods from him, he couldn't so openly challenge the honor of the auction house.
"Get that guy out!" the host shouted.
Several samurai approached and stepped forward to grab Xiui. "Hey, hey, you can't do this to a noble guest, do you know who I am?" "Hey, hey, I'll give you a thousand goldwits! a thousand!" but I want that now!"
The host's face finally looked good: "It's pretty much the same." β
This sentence is very ambiguous, in fact, he is saying that the price is about the same, but in other people's understanding, it also includes the host's agreement to give the fragment to the other party now.
Xiu Yi was about to come to the stage, Clark grabbed Xiu Yi and said viciously: "Hand over Feng Yu, or you will die!"
Huey pointed to Clark and said to the few warriors who were close by, "Someone doesn't want me to spend here." β
The samurai pressed towards Clark together: "Boy, let go of your hand, I think you know where you are standing right now." β
Clark reluctantly withdrew his hand and stepped back.
Xiu Yixun jumped on the stage, put the three fragments in his arms, and then bowed to the host: "Thank you very much for your generosity, but I have something to tell you." β
"What?" the host said.
"I didn't bring that much money. Xiui said seriously.
Then he straightened up, saluted, and punched the host in the face.
The host plopped down the stage, and Huey shouted in an echo, "Don't do it yet!"
"Damn!" Clark yelled at Huey bastard.
But the next moment, several samurai had already stepped forward to try to capture Clark, and several more samurai rushed towards Xiui.
Hue sprang through the side door and into the collection room, where he bumped into a maid with an antique vase.
"Ah!" the maid screamed, and the vase flew out of her hand, and the man fell down.
Xiu Yi paused on his toes, turned in a circle, and stopped his rushing footsteps, his left hand stretched out to support the maid's waist, and his right hand stretched outward, catching the falling vase, and at the same time cooperating with the maid in a graceful stride and hugging posture.
The maid looked at Xiu Yi with a horrified expression, and Xiu Yi casually put the vase into the maid's arms: "I'm sorry, beautiful young lady. β
With a slight force, he helped the maid up, and Xiu Yi ran out.
Several samurai chased them out of the hall and crashed into the maid who was bewildered by Xiui.
The vase came out of his hand again, and with a bang, it fell to the ground and shattered.
Xiui glanced back, shook his head and sighed, and ran out the door again.
Outside the door, the berserker was still fighting, he had gone berserk, and the muscles of his whole body were as hard as iron, but there were two high-level warriors fighting with him, one of them was an earth warrior, the berserker couldn't bear it, and his body was scratched by the sword qi in many places, and he was dripping with blood, but this guy had a strong fighting spirit, and he didn't retreat.
"Why are you still fighting?" said Xiui, tilting his head.
He casually took out a cloud bomb from the ring and threw it at the ground, sending a large cloud of smoke to the ground.
The berserker roared and shouted, but suddenly someone grabbed him by the arm.
It was a completely instinctive reaction, and he punched the incoming person, but was grabbed by the other party.
"It's me!" Huey chucked, "Come with me." β
The berserker was pulled by Xiuyi and ran.
When the clouds cleared, there would still be Xiui and Berserker.
The earth warrior's face turned pale: "Bastard! Send someone to post a list immediately, you must catch that guy!"
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On the outskirts of Raven City, Huey and Berserkers bake a wildfire in a wilderness. Xiu Yi roasted a wild child in his hand, and when he was almost done, he tore off a thigh and handed it to the berserker: "Here you go." β
The berserker took it, put it in his mouth, and chewed it heavily, and ate one thigh in two or two strokes.
Xiu Yi looked at him gobbling up, obviously hungry for a long time, and the slave owners always liked to subdue those stubborn guys through hunger, both to save food and to weaken each other.
"If it's not enough, you can eat it all. Huey said.
The berserker was not polite, snatched the whole roasted child, and lowered his head and gnawed wildly.
Xiu Yi smiled, took the jerky from the ring, and ate it to himself.
The berserker froze slightly when he saw that Xiui had conjured these things out of nothing, but said nothing, just continued to eat.
"What's your name?" asked Huey.
"Lasseter. What about you?"
"Heinstrick, that's not his real name, though. My real name is Hue Glare. β
"Oh. The Berserker didn't seem to react, apparently unaware of the name.
"How did you become a slave?" Huey asked him.
"A fleet of Nanda 6 ransacked my village. A glimmer of gloom flashed in Lasseter's eyes: "In the name of doing business, they bring a lot of armed forces. If you encounter someone who is stronger than you, you will hide, if you encounter someone with similar strength, you will trade on an equal footing, and if you encounter someone who is not as strong as theirs, you will burn and kill and plunder. β
"I didn't expect a businessman to do such a thing. β
"Some businessmen will, some don't. This auction house belongs to the Born family, who are half pirates and half merchants, and my village was ransacked by them, and many people died. β
"They're powerful in the area?"
"The city lord of Raven City has a very close relationship with the Bourne family. Lasseter looked at Huey with strange eyes, "You don't even know? β
Xiu Yi also pouted slightly, and he smiled bitterly: "Sometimes things are like this, the more you don't want to cause trouble, the more trouble will chase you." β
Lasseter shrugged his shoulders, he was a slave anyway, and no matter how bad the situation was, it couldn't be worse than now, so he didn't care, he just lowered his head and ate wildly, it seemed that he wanted to fill his stomach before he died, and a roast child of more than ten catties was left with only a skeleton in a blink of an eye under his wild gnawing.
Looking down in contemplation for a moment, Hue stood up.
Lasseter asked him, "Where are you going?"
"Where else can I go, of course, back to Raven City. Xiu Yi said lightly.
"Are you crazy, what are you going back to do?" The berserkers of Dongda 6 are not only fierce in battle, but also arrogant in character, but even so, they are not so mad that they know that they have offended the entire Raven City and have to return to die.
"I have to go back to Raven City, I'm going there to buy some materials. Xiui said seriously.
"You're an alchemist?" Lasseter understood.
Xiu Yi nodded: "Yes, just before I met you, I just figured out a few alchemical problems, that might help me solve some problems and make some nice things, I have to implement them before my inspiration disappears." β
"But you're now wanted. β
"Get used to it. Huey shrugged.
Despite his indifference on the surface, Xiu Yi also wondered why he couldn't get rid of the fate of being wanted wherever he went.