my age of magic

Chapter 318 118. The prototype of the underground market

The young goblin saw the doubt on my face, so he grabbed the small piece of wheat cake from the little goblin beside me and put it in front of me, and quickly took out the cuprite from the wooden bowl and put it in front of it. , and said to me, "The bread... is yours, and the copper is mine."

The little goblin at the side saw the young goblin snatching the food in his hand, and jumped up anxiously, but he dared not speak out, so he could only look at the piece of food in front of my feet that was full of tooth marks. Oatmeal, my mouth is watering all the time.The young goblin took the small piece of wheat cake back again, and continued to say in vague imperial language: "The cake... she gave... me, and the copper is a gift."

After the young goblin finished speaking, he pushed the copper piece to my feet again, and then I understood that this piece of red copper was a gift from the young goblin to Ying Li.So he readily picked up the copper block and said to him, "I will pass it on for you."

I was a little sleepy, so I was going to get into the tent to rest.

But I was stopped by the young goblin again. I thought it was worried about handing over the red copper to me. I was worried that I would steal the red copper, so I simply handed the red copper to it and said to it: "Send you the broth The person is resting!" I was afraid that it would not understand what I said, so it made a sleeping motion, and then continued: "I will pass it to her when she wakes up, or..."

I knelt down and looked at the young goblin at the same level, handed the red copper back, and continued to say to the young goblin, "Maybe you want to hold it first. When she wakes up later, you give it to her personally. I think she will be very happy."

The young goblin can obviously understand a lot of imperial languages, at least it understands all of what I said, and then waved his hands again and again, but instead of taking back the piece of red copper, he took out another piece from the pocket on his waist The big red copper came out, put it carefully in front of me again, and said: "Copper... mine, here you are, a gift... I want it."

After it finished speaking, it returned the piece of dusty wheat cake to the little goblin. The little goblin screamed excitedly, hugging the young lean and thin thighs and refused to let go. The young goblin lifted the little goblin up , put it aside, and then looked at me expectantly.I was a little embarrassed. When I came here, I didn’t bring much dry food, and I didn’t have any food like pork floss bricks brought back from the Pai Plateau. The only thing I had was a few wheat cakes, especially here. In the mine, any accident may happen. I am a water magician, so I don't have to worry about running out of water, but I can't create food with magic, so I have some hesitation.

Perhaps seeing me hesitate, the young goblin took out two smaller pieces of red copper from the bag. These copper pieces are naturally formed red copper, not ore, and the surface is very irregular.It pushed the red copper in front of me, stood in front of me and looked at me eagerly.Seeing that it was a little pitiful, I touched the magic pocket again, and suddenly realized that there was still a large piece of fresh tiger meat in the pocket, so I took out a piece and handed it to it.

I thought it would prefer thick soup made of meat floss and wheat cakes, but I didn't expect the young goblin to scream and dance with the piece of fresh meat, it was crazy with joy.Seeing that it had fulfilled its wish, I picked up the three pieces of red copper and put them in my pocket, turned around and got into the tent, took off the magic jacket and trousers that were stained with dust and a trace of blood, folded them and put them aside, Get into a fluffy sleeping bag.

At this moment, I thought: "I don't know what Hank will think when he sees this scene. They worked so hard to dig those poor red copper mines, but they didn't expect that I got three pieces of red copper just by using a piece of fresh tiger meat."

Thinking of this, I made it all at once, and looked through the magic pockets. I have two magic pockets in total. One belongs to me, and the other is picked up from that crazy alchemist. The daily necessities and scrolls and other sundries brought by Sloit City, the other backpack has a slightly larger capacity, and the mustard space is enough to hold ten neatly folded saber-toothed tiger skins, which are full of ten saber-toothed tiger skins. The skin, some scattered tiger teeth and the unpeeled magic core, and then the whole saber-toothed tiger meat that was peeled off, filling up the rest of the space.

In comparison, the magic metal red copper is more valuable and easier to store. I am thinking that if I meet a goblin in the future, should I give it a piece of fresh meat as a gift...

In this way, amidst the constant cranky thoughts, I fell asleep in a daze.

...beautiful dividing line...

It was Darwin who woke me up. He winked at me. I knew it was almost time. I didn't expect that I had slept for so long.His eyes were always looking out, looking admiringly at the mouth of the tent.

Then I saw Helena with a long ponytail and a beautiful face, coming in from outside the tent holding a stack of washed clothes.I rubbed my eyes and looked carefully at the stack of laundry, only to realize that it was the dedication suit I was about to wear. I don't know when it was taken away by her, and it seemed to be dry now.The magic jacket and lantern trousers were washed very clean, and they felt dry and warm to the touch. In such a humid and cold cave, keeping the temperature of the body can also save some energy.

I got up from my sleeping bag, Helena didn't expect me to wake up, she gave Darwin a hard look, then put the clothes next to my sleeping bag with a blushing face, turned around and went out, she walked very softly, like Darwin was fascinated by the exquisite face of a Persian cat even without any modification, until her figure completely disappeared outside the tent, and Darwin looked away resentfully.

Then he looked at me with some envy and said: "No wonder no one in our Warrior Academy has been able to catch the most beautiful crabapple flower in the Freshman Academy. It turns out that she likes you, Ji Jia. If the group of seniors in our Warrior Academy I see, people who want to duel with you may be lined up from the gate of the city hall to the teaching building."

I quickly said: "Don't talk nonsense, we have a fateful friendship, I still want to hang around until graduation, if I am chased by a group of flower protectors all day, Shouting to fight me for love and freedom, how can I bear it!"

Darwin still praised twice, and then lowered his voice and swore to me: "If you take good care of me in Xinliu Valley, if I can't keep this little secret, how can I be a friend!"

I got up and began to get dressed, and he came close to me and said to me: "But you are still not the way to go, you can't hold fire in paper, not to mention that Helena and Yingli are very good friends, there must be One day it will be impossible to hide this matter, if you don’t do it well, brother, you will be beaten, and neither side will get a good one, this matter must be decided in advance.”

I didn't realize that Darwin was actually a gossip boy in his bones. I thought he was an introverted kid who didn't like talking very much.But after getting acquainted with him, he discovered that there was a restless heart hidden in his body.He even admits that he is still a virgin, and he likes a senior in the academy, but he has been trying hard to pursue him but has not succeeded.But people who always claim to be successful will often bring out the examples he knows and tell us.

It's just that the examples he can learn from are very limited, nothing more than his father's romantic affairs, but it seems that Darwin has already regarded his father as an idol.Just when Darwin was talking vigorously, Ying Li opened the curtain of our tent, poked half of his face in, his eyes were bent like crescent moons, and the corners of his mouth curled up and said to me: "Jia, come out and have a look, outside There is a group of goblins who want to exchange red copper for food."

Darwin saw Ying Li suddenly opened the curtain and poked his head in curiously, as if he was very interested in the conversation between the two of us, he quickly kept silent, his face was a little flushed, and he found an excuse to slip out of the tent.

Seeing the figure of Darwin running out in a panic looking for an excuse, Ying Li covered his mouth with a smile, came in from the tent with a short body, sat across from me and looked up at me with a smile, without speaking, just smiling all the time , makes people feel very cute, I like his gentleness and easy-going.Regarding Helena's ambiguous relationship, I felt a little guilty when facing Yingli, and the things I talked about with Darwin also made me a little embarrassed.

"Why didn't you tell him, did you find it very hard?" Ying Li asked me with a smile. "Walking into the ordinary life of a princess, I found that she was not as beautiful as I imagined. She was not only bound by many rules and regulations, but also worried about the dignity of the royal family. She had to do something against her own wishes. Things. Sometimes I think, in fact, I really want to be an ordinary person, even a commoner or a magician, but I don’t want to be a princess.”

"Why?" I asked her a little strangely.

Ying Li lowered his eyelashes, looked at the patterns on the wolf fur mattress, and said softly: "I don't know why, I just think you are like a bird that wants to fly freely and have a wider sky, but I It may become your shackles, your bondage."

She spoke a little sadly, and felt that the atmosphere was a little bit wrong, so she immediately closed her eyes, squeezed the tears from the corners of her eyes, and looked at me with a smile.

I buttoned the last button of my clothes, leaned over and held her tightly in my arms, and said to her: "I don't want to fly alone, the world is so big, I hope I can watch the outside world with you." Scenery, go on an adventure with you."

"Are you telling the truth?" Ying Li's eyes were full of sparkling water vapor, and he asked me happily.

"En." I nodded seriously. "Let's go, go out and see what's going on outside."

Ying Li seemed to have suddenly remembered something, and immediately remembered the reason why he came over to wake me up, and quickly said: "Oh, by the way, Ji Jia, those goblins in the village brought a lot of metals and ores, right in our camp Set up a stall outside and want to make a deal with us..."

"Ah! Before I went to bed, that young goblin came back from the village and brought you this!" I remembered what happened before I went to bed, took out the young goblin's red copper, handed it to Ying Li and said : "It said this is a gift for you, you gave it broth and wheat cakes, and it asked me to give you a piece of red copper."

Ying Li covered his mouth in surprise, and said, "Is this piece of natural magic metal for me?"

"En!" I handed the piece of red copper to Yingli, and pulled her out of the tent together.

After stepping out of the tent, I found that the outside was like a lively market. Countless goblins came to our campsite with their so-called precious gifts, just to exchange for a bite of food. To be precise, they hoped to be able to Get a piece of meat.At this time, the young goblin who had previously traded with me also stared at the scene in front of him dumbfounded, not knowing what to say.

Perhaps seeing our friendliness, countless goblins swarmed here, and they carried countless precious things from the underground world, but most of them were worthless ordinary brass, and those magic metal red copper were still less after all, and even more What's more, ordinary brass and magic red copper are mixed together to form large copper ingots. In the eyes of the goblins, these yellow metals are similar and can be used to refine chain mail.

But in the eyes of magicians and explorers, there is an essential difference between ordinary brass and magic red copper, that is, red copper is a rare magic metal that can transmit magic power and is the most basic metal for making magic weapons and magic armor. Rare magic metals such as red copper, black iron, mithril, thorium, and fine gold are the cheapest magic metals, but as long as they are magic metals, they are more valuable than gold.

The members of Hank's team seemed to be shopping in the market, picking and choosing the metal ingots and ores brought by the goblins.

In fact, the red copper in the hands of these goblins is not too much. The members of the team searched almost all the pockets of the goblins, and they only found two or thirty yuan of red copper and hundreds of pieces of red copper ore. Mountains of ordinary ore were turned upside down by Hank's team and scattered all over the place.The goblins carefully picked up the common ores scattered on the ground and brought them back to their side. They were very measured and never took things that did not belong to them.

And they hope that their metals and ores will be selected by these explorers. Every time they choose a piece of metal, they can get some corresponding food. Although these explorers can’t produce more fresh meat, those wheat cakes are also delicious. Incomparable.Holding a piece of red copper in his hand, Hank kept repeating to each goblin: "This copper can be exchanged for meat."

Pointing to the piles of ordinary copper mines on the ground, he said, "Those can't!"

He hopes to make these goblins realize what can be exchanged for food, so that these goblins can come up with more red copper.

At this time, Darwin was also among them. In contrast, Darwin was more popular with the goblins, because what Darwin found out from his backpack was fresh tiger meat that goblins loved most, so some goblins took the initiative to put their own Show the ore to Darwin, and whenever Darwin smiles and puts the stone in his backpack, the goblin will cheer accordingly, and he will be even happier than Darwin.

Almost everyone present got something, but Rita got the least. She wandered around the edge of the market, and her luck was not too good. After picking for a long time, she only saw a few pieces of red copper ore, Ji Jia said : Carrying these heavy ores on the back will affect the speed of movement, especially Rita is not like Yingli and the others. Each of those girls has a magic purse on their waist, which can hold a lot of things.Rita didn't have a luxurious magic pocket, so if she wanted to bring the red copper ore back to Sloit City, she had to carry it on her back.The ore is so heavy, so this seems a bit unrealistic.

Becky, Lagertis, Helena, and Rita squatted in front of a little goblin, watching it gobble up a piece of wheat cake.This was given to the little goblin by Rita. She saw the little goblin standing on the edge of the stone, and it was a pity that it had almost nothing on it. Even the linen clothes were extremely fat, and it was worn on it It doesn't fit at all.

Rita was sympathetic for a while, so she walked over and gave the little goblin a piece of wheat cake to eat. Originally, she planned to leave after giving it to the little goblin, but seeing that the little goblin was devouring it, it was so cute, so she just squatted there and looked at it. After it finished eating, it finally broke off a dark red plant leaf from the side of the stone, rolled it into a small cup, and gave the little goblin a glass of water.

The little goblin licked his lips, slowly savoring the delicious taste of the wheat cake, then drank the water in the leaf cup, looking at Rita with some embarrassment.

Rita thought the little goblin was very interesting. At this time, Becky and Lagertis also saw this scene, and they also leaned over to look at the little goblin.

The little goblin thought that since he ate Rita's food, he had to give Rita a gift back. After groping around, he found that he had nothing. The green stone, originally Rita thought it was a piece of rusty copper, didn't want it, but the little goblin insisted on giving it, making a pitiful little appearance.

Rita felt that this might be a way of life for the goblins. All items must be exchanged to be fair. In order to make Xiaodixiu feel better, she took the green stone in her hand, but found that after getting the stone, it seemed to be fair. cold.Lagertis leaned closer and took a closer look at the eyeball-sized stone, and then looked at the emerald green stone ecstatically and said excitedly: "This... this is malachite!"

(End of this chapter)