Transcendent Ember

Chapter 297 Weights and Measures

The Fire Demon King was gone, and the portal that appeared out of thin air disappeared completely.

A premonition arose in Zhang Jichuan's mind that He would never come back again. In the glimpse just now, he saw the place called 'Boundary', a place filled with gunpowder smoke and war, star debris and broken corpses. filled the sky...

On the Xuetu plateau, the blood waves covering the sky and the sun have returned to calm, and the blood-sucking emperor who has not yet awakened does not know where he is. , proving that everything just now was not an illusion...

Zhang Jichuan was about to fly back to Yujing University, but at this moment, calls sounded in his ears, "Mr. Siliang, Mr. Siliang, Mr. Siliang..."

……

Dimly lit fellowship space.

As soon as Zhang Jichuan came in, he heard Ashina's relieved voice: "Great, my friend, you are still alive, so worry about Ashina..."

"Thank you, Ashina." Zhang Jichuan turned his head and sincerely thanked him, "I'm sorry to trouble you this time."

"No trouble, no trouble..." Ashina waved his hand, and said excitedly, "Ashina wanted to fight him again, and I'm afraid that only Ashina can't beat him...

"Also, the wine in your Palace of the Ancient Moon Kingdom is too delicious, hiccup..."

Zhang Jichuan smiled. Ashina likes to drink. He knew it after the first battle with the Fire Demon King. Crock wine and cow drink...

He nodded and said, "If you like it, I'll find a way to make some for you in the future."

"Really?" Ashina's eyes lit up, and he nodded frantically like a chicken pecking rice (big chicken pecking rice), "I like it, I like it, Ashina really likes it.

"My friend, you don't know that your human's fine wine is really too expensive, Ashina needs to spend 'one bone' of the goods to exchange for a tank."

Zhang Jichuan blinked: "One bone?"

Ashina: "Yes, a bone!"

Zhang Jichuan was stunned: "What is a bone?"

Ashina: "Isn't a bone just a bone?"

Zhang Jichuan: "..."

The two stared wide-eyed and Zhang Jichuan was quickly defeated.

I'm also crazy, to expect Ashina to explain clearly... He sighed, and looked at Ms. Norris on the honorable seat with a full of regret.

Norris smiled happily, and explained: "Mr. Siliang, 'bone' is a unique unit of measurement for the giants, the same as the 'shell' of the sea tribe, oh yes, there is also the 'leaf' of the goblins." ’, but now the goblins have given up the measurement unit of ‘leaf’.”

Units of measurement... Zhang Jichuan was surprised: "I thought the weights and measures had been unified a long time ago. Isn't this the Internet age? Why do we still use different ones? How inconvenient!"

"This..." Ms. Norris' tone was suddenly a little embarrassed, and she gave Ashina a guilty look.

Ashina didn't know...

Zhang Jichuan knew there was something wrong at a glance, and his mentality of watching the excitement was obvious, and he urged: "Ms. Norris, please explain carefully."

Mister Siliang still has such bad tastes... Norris secretly complained, and began to explain: "It's all because of interests...

"In the early days, that is, more than 1000 years ago, when human merchants traded with foreign races, they discovered that their measurement units were very unique, but also very... rough.

"For example, a bone of a giant family refers to the amount of goods that can be bound on a huge animal bone..."

Zhang Jichuan looked at Ashina, who nodded repeatedly: "It's like this..."

This is too imprecise... Zhang Jichuan suddenly realized something.

Norris confirmed his guess, and continued: "However, the giants don't have a strict rule, such as how big is a bone? And what price should be set for animal hide and animal teeth? Rare medicinal materials And how to set the price? Wait, wait, wait...

"The giants don't care about this, they just tie the collected goods to the animal bones, and then carry the animal bones to trade with human merchants..."

What happened next, Norris can guess all kinds of things without mentioning Zhang Jichuan...

With the profit-seeking characteristics of merchants, when they find out that the giants lack this muscle, they will definitely try their best to fool them. No matter whether the animal bones are tied with animal skins, animal teeth or medicinal materials, they will all be counted as animal skins. Big bone or small bone, all counted according to the smallest animal bone...

Noris confirmed this, and continued: "Later, around 900 years of the Extraordinary Calendar, many supernatural items of science and technology were unearthed, and human beings were connected into one body through the Internet. The weights and measures among countries were unified at that time, but , in order to maintain profits, no one reminded the giants and the sea clan...

"The contacts between giants, sea people and humans are not very close, so they have been kept in the dark...

"On the contrary, the goblins, since they gradually moved from the mountains to the human cities, realized how much the previous trade suffered, so they gave up the unit of measurement 'leaf'..."

It was a big mess... After Zhang Jichuan listened, his heart was full of pitfalls. Who would have thought that such a thing could happen in the Internet age...

He looked at Ashina with some sympathy.

Norris also looked at Ashina with some guilt.

The latter looked blank: "What are you looking at me for?"

The corner of Zhang Jichuan's mouth twitched: "It's okay, as long as you are happy."

"As long as there is good wine, Ashina will be happy." Ashina said with a silly smile.

It's not for nothing that giants have been fooled for so long... Norris raised her forehead.

"By the way, Ashina, you're still in Yujing, right?" Zhang Jichuan said suddenly, "Please tell Director Darcy that I'll be back to school soon."

"Oh." Ashina slapped his forehead when he heard this, "Ashina almost forgot that Darcy was looking for you everywhere. That's why Ashina asked Ms. Norris to call you..."

"That's it..." Zhang Jichuan nodded. When he was out of the city to fight the Fire Demon King, he had mentioned to Director Darcy that Ash would be there in a while, so that Director Darcy would prepare to leave the city when he saw Ash.

With Director Darcy's wisdom, he must have imagined that there is a special connection between him and Ashina...

He said again: "Then you tell the director so that he doesn't have to worry. I had an accident here, but it's all right."

Ashina: "Oh..."

……

"Mr. Siliang, Mr. Giant Wang..." After Zhang Jichuan finished speaking, Norris said, "Just now, a new upper-rank three extraordinary creature was born, have you all sensed it?"

"Yeah." Ashina nodded, and said angrily, "Isn't it just a third-ranker, and Ashina will break through sooner or later. As for those guys, they won't drink with me any more."

As for, very as for... Zhang Jichuan complained in his heart.

"Do you have any clues as to who this newly born upper third-rank extraordinary creature is?" Norris asked curiously.

Ashina shook his head like a rattle and said, "I don't know."

"I know." Zhang Jichuan said, and immediately attracted the eyes of Norris and Ashina.

"Mr. Siliang?" Norris was very surprised. She was just asking casually, but she didn't expect to have a clue.

"Well, it's quite mysterious." Zhang Jichuan nodded affirmatively, and said after thinking for a while, "Well, Ms. Norris, you might as well call Ms. Baiye, Mr. Black Crow, and Mr. Qingtian together. There are some details that I need everyone to consult with.

"By the way, I also want to know if Mr. Qingtian is safe."

Norris' eyes lit up, she nodded, and began to call the other three members of the boat club.

Ashina took the opportunity to leave the same boat space to help Zhang Jichuan report his safety...

……

Not long after, as Yuan Xiao came to the same boat space for the last time, the members of the same boat club gathered together again.

"A new upper third-rank creature has been born, does everyone know?" Ms. Bai Ye couldn't wait to say without saying hello.

"Understood." Black Crow nodded, with three points of doubt, "I don't know who has filled the gap that there has been no third-rank extraordinary creature for 300 years."

"It's the Fire Demon King!" Zhang Jichuan said, and directly threw a blockbuster.

"what?"

"What?"

Two shocked voices sounded at the same time, one was Yuan Xiao and the other was Ashina.

Yuan Xiao, who was a little depressed, raised his voice: "Mr. Zhang Jichuan, please stop joking, okay, the Fire Demon King has been beheaded outside Yujing City."

"Yes." Ashina said in a low voice, "Ashina personally confirmed it."

"Mr. Siliang, are you kidding me?" Ms. Bai Ye said incredulously, "I have seen the announcement from Gu Yue Kingdom that the Fire Demon King has fallen!"

"Yeah, I saw it too." Norris said.

"It seems that Mr. Siliang knows some secrets?" Mr. Black Crow raised his eyebrows and asked.

"It's true that a Flame Demon King died outside Yujing City, but..." Facing the doubts of the members, Zhang Jichuan didn't give a shit, and said directly, "That should be just a clone of him, his body, I have absorbed the power of the harvested soul, and have been promoted to a third-rank extraordinary creature."

Clones... Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, all of them were shocked.

"Oh my god." Ashina couldn't help getting goosebumps, "There are two fire demon kings? Are you so difficult to deal with?"

"It's quite difficult." Zhang Jichuan looked at him and asked, "Ashina, after you activate the 'Sultur's Demon Sword of Flame' and become the master of flames, do you have an extraordinary ability to control the fire of emotions?"

"I didn't pay attention to this." Ashina was stunned, and recalled, "It seems to be there."

"The master of fire can also control the fire of emotions?" The other four were terrified.

"That's it..." Zhang Jichuan nodded, "He has shown mercy, otherwise, before you came, Ashina, Yujing might have become a dead city..."

hiss……

Everyone felt chilled by Zhang Jichuan's words.

"Wait!" Yuan Xiao suddenly asked, "Mr. Zhang Jichuan, how do you know about this?"

　The weights and measures here are not numbers, but the foreshadowing of the next and next plot. The last piece of the puzzle of the next and next plot is completed, and it can unfold naturally at that time.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)