The trip to Shadow Wolf Mountain is finally thrilling, and what will happen to the greedy people in Wolf Hidden Town, who like to glorify the ugliness of human nature and comfortably justify their crimes, is not interested in the bounty hunters, because their employers are not interested in it, and the commission has been completed, and the first big order in their lives is worthy of their congratulations.

The journey home is always heartbreaking, especially for the dwarven warriors. The merchant's carriage had everything he needed, but the only regret was that he lacked Gerke's "soul mate", and after a few days of back and forth, he felt as if he hadn't drunk for centuries.

The dwarven warrior's memory automatically cleared the few sips of wine he had drunk in the Hayman store in Wolf Hidden Town.

Pierce wiped the new weapon he had obtained this time over and over again in the carriage, the snow-white sword body reflected his silly face with a grin, the quality of the short sword was so good that there were not ten or eight gold coins that could not be bought, and Pierce, who had never used it for more than one gold coin, cherished this short sword very much, and decided that if he had the opportunity in the future, he must go to the smelting city to enchant his love sword.

Laura still sat next to the coachman and merchant, and she seemed to be in a good mood, with a smile on her lips from time to time. Thirty gold coins, for the current Laura, this is an "astronomical amount", and this "astronomical amount" is still in her pocket, and before that, she only dared to think about it when she was lying in bed at night.

Merchant: "You seem to be in a good mood because you're about to return to Devonburg?"

Laura is a little embarrassed, is she acting so obviously?

She replied, "Of course, Mr. Merchant, it is a great pleasure to complete the commission without incident, and I have received a surprise. As he spoke, he shook the quiver behind his back, "Thank you again for your gift, I like it very much." ”

Merchant: "You deserve it, without your protection I would have been a pile of rotten meat in the belly of that monitor lizard." ”

The black horse shook the horse's face and screamed as if in protest, and the merchant pulled the reins, and the black horse regained its composure.

For the words of the businessman, Laura does not think so. This antique man who does not seem to have any combat power is not so weak, he is very skilled in controlling the situation and speaking, this kind of people are generally in the upper echelons of power, although they cannot raise their wands to give birth to a fireball to burn a large number of enemies like a magician, nor can they charge into battle with martial arts like a warrior, but they only need to give a command, sit on a comfortable sofa, and taste red wine, a word that can be said, hundreds, thousands, or even thousands of people will die instantly, this is the power of power.

In fact, on this journey, Laura herself is nothing more than a bow that can be drawn with a single command.

The weather was still very hot at the end of summer, and the sun's rays baked the ground so hot that it was as if you could see the rising heat with the naked eye, and the heat distorted the scene.

The walking carriage came to a sudden halt, and the merchant tightened his reins and looked ahead. Laura was puzzled, and looked at the other party's line of sight, and waited for a while before seeing a small black dot appear, which seemed to be a ...... Child?

Pierce and Gerrak, who were in the carriage, also leaned out to see what had caused them to stop.

Laura: "Mr. Merchant, what ...... Is it a child?"

Grack: "What, kid, in a place like this? It's too big a parent's heart. ”

Pierce looked at it carefully before he said, "I don't think I have my parents with me, and I ...... There's something around my neck. ”

Something around his neck? Gerak had already had bad expectations in his heart before he saw him. He got out of the car and walked to the front, shielded his hand from the fierce light, and after squinting to see a scrawny little boy who was staggering down the road, with a heavy iron ring around his neck and a chain that almost hung to the ground.

Grak chuckled in his heart, the good guy really guessed correctly for himself, it was really a good thing to miss, and a bad thing to be right.

Laura asked the merchant again, who seemed to be still making up his mind, "Mr. Merchant, what do you think should be done?"

The merchant didn't say anything, waved the reins, and the black horse moved forward again.

Gerak was thinking about how to explain the situation to the other three, as far as Pierce was a nerd, he certainly didn't know the seriousness of the matter, and Laura was a woman, and she would definitely be kind when she encountered this situation, and she was even more impossible, and the best way was to leave it to Mr. Merchant.

After thinking about it, Gerak noticed that the carriage had already left him alone, and he raised his hands and said in astonishment, "Hey!

When the carriage stopped again, the child was exhausted and fell to the ground. Laura was the first to jump out of the carriage and pick up the child, only to find that the child was not only skinny but also covered in bruises, blood marks drawn from the leather whip, and his unshoed feet were festering and covered with bloody scabs, and new wounds were mixed with old wounds. The iron rings around the neck strangled the skin red, and the weight of the two was heavier than the child itself, including the chains.

Laura couldn't imagine what the child had been through, she just knew she had to help him. Laura looked at the businessman in the car and asked for help with her eyes.

Merchant: "Pierce, bring me the medicine box inside." ”

Pierce: "Okay, Mr. Merchant. ”

Laura breathed a sigh of relief, she felt that as long as the merchant helped, everything would be fine.

Gerak was late, and by the time he caught up with the group, the merchant was already helping the unconscious child with his wounds, and Laura looked distressed, while Pierce assisted the merchant. Grak opened his mouth, but stopped talking, and finally just stood aside and waited for the merchant to finish his treatment.

After a simple application of medicine and bandaging, the pain seemed to be relieved, and the child's frown was relaxed.

The merchant packed up the medicine box and said, "That's probably it, if you want to be completely cured, you still need to take it back to the city and take care of it carefully for a while." ”

"I understand. ”

Saying that, Laura wanted to pick up the child, but Grak, who had been silent, stopped: "Laura, are you going to take him back to Devonburg?"

Laura asked, "Why don't you want to leave such a child here and die?"

Gluck: "Well, do you know what an unwise move it was?"

Laura: "It's my personal decision, and it's none of the others, if you're worried about the slave chains on him." ”

The attitude is resolute and tough, and it is already a matter of decision for her.

Grack: "So your decision is that you will take care of this child in the future? Why? You will pay for the treatment and living expenses and what he may encounter in the future? Where are you going to get some money to settle this big problem?"

"He's a badly wounded child!" Laura doesn't like Gluck calling the child in his hands "big trouble," "and I'm good enough to feed him and heal him, and don't forget that half of the pay, thirty gold coins, is mine." ”

Laura glanced at the businessman, who had not expressed any opinion.

Gerak gritted his teeth, he felt irritated, the other party clearly misunderstood what he was trying to say. Pierce was at a loss, and it was clear that this time the two were not arguing verbally, and both sides showed serious attitudes.

Grak: "So when the time comes, when the owner of this child, a slave owner who has a relationship with the powerful, comes to the door, you can settle it?"

Laura didn't take a step back: "Yes, I'll solve my own affairs myself." ”

As the smell of gunpowder grew stronger, Pierce suggested, "Maybe Laura can buy him from the slave owner, and if the money isn't enough, I've got some ...... here."

"Buy, hehehe, buy it and pay for it, you can solve this matter?" Grad interrupted the other and laughed angrily, "You think it's that simple?"

The dwarven warrior paced back and forth, and Laura's expression of "no matter what happens" made him more and more angry, but he couldn't find anyone to vent to.

Grak: "What do you think slave owners care about most? Hmmm? It's majesty, it's their majesty as masters. To put it bluntly, the slave owner needs all the slaves under his command to be afraid of him and afraid of him, so as to achieve the effect of making the slaves obey him. Do you think that the slave owners who are in charge of dozens or hundreds of slaves rely on their mouths to reason to make them obedient? Do you think those people are willing to become slaves and obediently listen to your reasoning, and take the initiative to help you sell themselves to make a deal? Are you kidding me?

Pierce kept her mouth shut, and Laura softened, but still, even though Gerak was so direct, she wouldn't budge.

This made the dwarven warrior even more angry: "Okay, okay, okay! If you do what Pierce said, the owner of this child will find Devonburg in the future, and then you pay for him, whether the money is enough or not, why do you think that the slave owner will smile and nod and let you buy him? In order to set an example for the other slaves? Tell them that if they can muster up the courage to escape, they will be free when they meet a good Samaritan, and they will have a better life than they are now? Will the slave owner not know the seriousness of the matter? This kind of thing will only follow in the future once it starts, why should the slave owner leave so much trouble for yourself in the future for your few dollars? If it were me, I would only make an example of the rest of the people, and tell the rest of the people that there is only one consequence of escaping, and that is to die without a corpse!"

Under Gerak's naked and stern attack, Laura began to be a little unable to hold her position, but she still didn't want to give up, Laura didn't want to just give up the life in her hand that had been abused to such a weak level, and she wanted to try again.

"He met me this time, and I met him, since this is the case, I can't give up this child easily!"

Gerak laughed, but his voice was extremely terrible: "Hahaha, amazing, really amazing! It turns out that the world is full of 'Laura', I really didn't expect this." Do you think that every slave who escapes can meet a kind 'Laura'? If we hadn't happened to pass by here, this child would have died on the road before the sun even went down! And don't forget, which slave owner has nothing to do with the people above, maybe this child has already been favored by someone, when did you Lara have the power to compete with the powerful?!"

Laura hugged the child in her arms tightly, and this time she could not continue to stiffen her mouth. Pierce no longer knew how to control the situation, and he could only pin his hopes on the businessman who had been silent so far, but fortunately the other party did not let him down.

The merchant suddenly asked, "Pierce, how did you three meet in the first place?"

It's a good thing to finally be able to speak, but the unrelated questions really didn't make Pierce react for a while.

Pierce was stunned for a moment before he replied: "It's just a normal acquaintance during the trip, and it's nothing special." ”

Merchant: "And then we teamed up together until now?"

Pierce: "Uh...... Yes. ”

Merchant: "Well, in that case, leave this child to me, and I'll take him back to the store to take care of him." ”

As he spoke, the merchant glanced at Grad, but the dwarven warriors present were a little angry and didn't notice the merchant's thoughtful gaze.

But Laura asked the other party, "Mr. Merchant, are you sure?"

Intuition was telling her that there seemed to be something wrong with handing over the child in her hand to the merchant, and the inexplicable feeling made her can't help but ask, because her attention was all on the child, Laura didn't notice that there was no pity in the merchant's eyes when he looked at the injured child, only scrutiny and exploration, which was not the look that a life should have.

Merchant: "Well, I'm sure, leave him to me, and I'm better at healing than you." ”

Or thinking of the bowl of medicine after the previous battle against the Lizard King, Laura trembled unconsciously, but after all, she was relieved, in fact, Gerak was right, whether it was the situation or the strength, she could not guarantee that she would be able to take care of this slave child.

Grak secretly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, this is good, only this is the best solution, fortunately Laura, the woman, did not stick to the end, otherwise I don't know how to end. He firmly believes that only Mr. Merchant, who can take out sixty gold coins casually just to go to Shadow Wolf Mountain, has the strength to make the slave owner accept the money with a smile and not be held accountable in the past.

It's just that the dwarven warrior didn't know at this time that the strength of the merchant next to him was even stronger than he imagined.

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The three bounty hunters were visiting the antique shop for the first time, and it was not far from what they had expected, the wealthy merchants did not live in the upper town, but in the lower part of the city, even more "down" than the residential area in which they lived, and the antique shops were opened in the market alleys, dark, damp alleys full of rats.

However, after pushing the door open, they soon realized that they still couldn't just look at the surface. The display and decoration of the items in the antique store are completely worthy of the merchant's money bag, which is completely the standard of the upper town.

Laura: "Mr. Merchant, where do you want to put this child?"

The merchant looked at a table that was empty and said, "Let's put him on it first, I'll take care of his injuries first." ”

Laura: "Okay. ”

After putting the child down gently, Laura looked at the other party again, but at the age of eleven or twelve, she had experienced such hardship, and in the face of such a child, no one could help but not help.

Pierce was curiously looking at a specimen of a bird with no feathers on the display case, a species he had never seen before, and it was strange that there were only no feathers on the wings.

Mr. Merchant still has this strange taxidermy hobby?

Grack's eyes lit up, even if he was as experienced as he was, it was difficult to estimate the value of this antique shop, except for some things that seemed to be relatively broken, of course, these were probably Mr. Merchant's personal hobbies, and they had a value that he did not understand, and the rest of the antiques that were intact and fully displayed their own value, in the eyes of the dwarven warriors, this was much more fragrant than fine wine, and there was indeed a paradise on earth.

The merchant who had disappeared for a while returned, still with a money bag in his hand, which Gerak and Pierce were very familiar with, and was a good thing to fill thirty gold coins.

The merchant handed the money bag to Laura: "This is the promised other half of the reward." ”

Although Laura would love to be reserved, the huge sum of money is too ...... It's too much for her to describe, all she can do is try to control her smile and don't make herself look too silly.

Laura: "Thank you very much, Mr. Merchant, thank you!"

The joys and sorrows of people are not shared, especially for the dwarven warriors who love money as much as their lives.

Oh, damn it, the money that should have fallen into Lao Tzu's hands, hey, the meat in his hand just flew away, Gan!

But the dwarven warrior is a man of long-sightedness.

Grack: "Mr. Merchant, your antique shop is really golden, shiny, radiant, and ...... Good...... It's so good, I don't think you can put down so many antiques. ”

It's still the same old way, only reusing the words of praise, and Pierce doesn't want to complain anymore.

Merchant: "Well, it's okay, I sell some of it every time something new comes in." ”

As he spoke, the merchant brought an ointment that had just been mixed and applied it evenly to the slave boy, which had a good healing and analgesic effect, and everyone could see that the boy had slept more deeply and at ease.

Merchant: "You should treat this as if it didn't happen, and don't have any contact with this kid in the near future, I think it will be better for you." ”

didn't give Grack more opportunities to get close, the merchant's words almost also contained the meaning of "chasing customers", and the dwarven warriors had no choice but to smile and respond, the coming days are long, they all live in Devonburg or are all in the lower city, there will be opportunities in the future, he is not in a hurry, Grack will not let such a rich "thigh" disappear.

After leaving the antique shop, the three bounty hunters were about to go to the guild, and Pierce thought that they should go to see if there were any other bounties suitable for them, while Gerak mainly wanted to show off the achievements of his own journey, and by the way, to teach the old vulture, it was not a trivial matter to step on the corpses of the priests and take advantage of them.

Laura turned around in three steps, but she was still a little worried about the child, and the merchant specially told them not to have any contact, so what to do if the slave owner came to the door and the merchant couldn't cope with it alone, which made Laura feel very worried.

Aware of this, Grack said, "Don't worry, Mr. Merchant will be fine, just look at his antique shop and know that our boss is not short of money." ”

Laura: "Don't you keep saying that the slave owners have something to do with the nobles, and you don't worry about the slave owners using the nobles against the merchants?"

Grak: "Yes, I did, but I forgot to tell you that it's not just the slave owners who have a relationship with the aristocracy, but the antiques as well. The rich don't mess with the rich, the rich don't mess with the powerful, and the merchant, Mr. Both? Come on, what slave owner would be so stupid?"

Although what the other party said was very reasonable, in fact, Gerak was generally more correct in what he thought when he was in trouble, but Laura just didn't like the other party's smug look, especially when she showed that "things are as I expected".

So Laura is going to stimulate this guy.

She deliberately approached Grad, and the sound of the gold coins in the money bags in her clothes colliding into the ears of the dwarven warrior came to the ears of the dwarven warrior, and before she could do so, Gerak looked at Laura with a look full of resentment.

Laura only felt a lot more comfortable all of a sudden, and even walked briskly.

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Gerak risked his life to go back and save his two companions, though he didn't know at the time that they had been taken under Vessenny's control.

The merchant thought that the relationship between the three bounty hunters was generally a matter of profit, because from the first time he saw Gluck, he knew that he was a money-hungry man, and that Pierce was a man who did not have much of his own opinions, and whenever he spoke or asked, Pierce would always look at Gluck with a blank look. As for Laura, the merchant originally had a somewhat special impression, that is, an ordinary person who takes money to do things, if you want to add a little more, she is a person who is conscientious enough to think about the employer, which is normal, after all, it is thirty gold coins, so the merchant naturally divides her into the scope of ordinary people.

It's just that what happened on the way back to Devonburg made him understand Laura a little, an emotional person, it should be said that he is extremely emotional in certain situations, which is not a good thing for his companions, but the merchant as a bystander does not mind more emotional expressions.

It would allow him to understand humanity better.

The slave child lying on the table was an opportunity.

In Pierce's mouth, the reason why the three of them teamed up together was because of an ordinary encounter, but there was a good side between them, Grack was willing to come back to save the other two with the word "Holy See", Pierce was willing to trust his companions to rush out first when he was fighting, Laura seemed to be tough and showed that she would definitely take in the slave children on the road, but in fact she was observing her companions' opinions and understanding their attitudes. All of these things are showing the merchant something different from his previous contacts, the "good" side, the positive side of humanity.

He has always been curious and wanted to know about the side.

So, is there anything you can gain from relationship building?

That's right, like the kid in front of you.

A furball was rolling on the floor, and it stopped at the table and arched, as if asking if it could eat the "thing" on the table.

The merchant fingers intersected, and he was thinking.

How do you get along with this human child?