The little crow jumped and jumped around me with joy, like a bird that cried out for joy in excitement: though she was indeed a bird. This kid still has a bad brain, but he also knows that the treasure he found has been recognized, so he is very happy.

I rummaged over and over at the silver-white metal plate in my hand, which the little crow had found in the "garbage heap" in the corner of the yard, where the other party's were all unknown items that Sakina and Sona had found from the ancient ruins, and because they couldn't find their use for the time being and no one could identify their value, they were piled up in the corner. This piece of silvery-white metal, which is the size of a palm, is as light as a thing in the hand, and has a low density and high strength that is completely inconsistent with its material: I just tried it, and if I didn't need to use the external force to break it with my hand, I couldn't make this metal plate a few millimeters thick any deformation. Its outer edge was irregular, but there were no signs of tearing, and it seemed to have been machined like this, smooth on one side, but with many neat and regular dents on the other, inlaid with crystals of unknown purpose, and a neat column of small characters on the lower edge of the metal plate, which looked as if it were some kind of serial number.

It's hard not to associate it with high-tech machinery, and although I can't see the purpose, I guess it's some kind of part: from a device that is beyond the level of technology in this world.

In fact, even if it is not a part, it is definitely not something that should appear in this world, this piece of metal is quite high-tech, and the composition is strange, such a strong but light thing. It's not that easy to process.

"Where did you get this?" I asked, holding up the metal plate to Sakina.

"Well, I'd like to think about it," Sakina frowned, there were a lot of things piled up in the yard, and they would go to a certain ruin every once in a while to go on an expedition, it was really not easy to remember where this inconspicuous metal plate came from, sure enough, after recalling for a long time. Sakina could only shake her head apologetically, "Time seems to be running out, I forgot where I found it." ”

Seeing the look of disappointment on my face, Sona immediately added, "But I have a slight impression: it seems that we wanted to sell this in the market at the time, because it looks lighter and stronger than any metal, and the alchemist might be interested, but the alchemist who bought it came to return it within a few days." He said that the metal was completely unworkable and did not guide demons. Nor can it be melted. It also doesn't react with any alchemy material, it's useless except it's hard, and it can't be imitated. I don't think it's going to be very useful, but if you're interested, you can take it, it's useless to put it with us. ”

Sandora took the metal plate, looked at it over and over for a moment, and shook her head, "We're not interested in this piece of metal. Rather, they are interested in where it comes from. This thing...... It shouldn't be in this world. ”

"Sorry, can't help." Sakina smiled awkwardly, then clapped her hands. "By the way, there is one person who may know the way!"

Sandora immediately narrowed her eyes: "Who?" Can you find it now? ”

"I'm afraid not now, he should have gone to the bazaar," Sona shook her head, "this is the time for explorers to go to the bazaar to sell things, and we should have gone too." If you're not in a hurry, you can come with us, the man is also an adventurer, and he has a lot of experience, and he usually explores a similar area to the two of us, maybe he's seen something like that. ”

Sagina nodded again and again: "That's right, Sona, let's go to the market, it's still early today, maybe we can buy something, the stall we rented is not too far from the old-timer's stall, just so let's go over together." ”…,

She spoke the second half of her sentence to us, with a look of hope on her face. Of course, we had no reason to refuse, so we nodded in agreement.

Sakina and Sona went back to the house to pack their things, and then came out with two huge backpacks, and it seemed that the "goods" they were going to sell at the market were such two big bags. Sakina smiled proudly at me, "Although I don't dare to say anything else, we are still very confident in our strength." Let's go, that's all there is to deal with today, all of them were obtained from the last expedition, and the harvest of this expedition has not yet been sorted. ”

You said that the two girls were carrying such two big bags in front of them, can I go with my heart? Of course not, so I decisively patted Lynn on the shoulder: "Go over and help." "I don't know what Lu Dao is for, but I didn't feel guilty at all when I handed over this kind of work to Lin recently.

"Ah, don't bother, this is a very heavy ......" When Lin went to pick up the backpack, Sagina suddenly exclaimed, but the next second she didn't move: Lin "pinched" both huge backpacks as if she were pinching two feathers, and then ran to the front of the group with a bouncing of water. Sakina watched from behind in amazement, and suddenly cried and mourned: "The only strength I am proud of......"

Bing Tisi patted her on the shoulder: "It's okay, the only thing that stupid girl is proud of is her strength, you don't lose." ”

The Explorer's Market gave me the impression that it was very similar to the vegetable market with open-air rental stalls, with no good facilities and no big rules, dividing a large area into neat stalls, each separated by iron stakes and wooden planks, with simple wooden countertops for goods, which were rented to explorers at a very low price, and according to Sagina, it was about the same as free use. It can be seen that this kind of market is more inclined to public facilities or welfare facilities. As one of the largest transit points in the Lost Realm, Sentu has attracted a large number of scholars and magicians as well as a large number of explorers, so the Esoteric Society here is also quite large, and for the Sentu authorities, the Esoteric Order and other high-end academic facilities are the backbone of the economy, so they do not charge much for this kind of market for explorers.

This does not mean, however, that explorers would have much real benefit from such a system, as a socially disadvantaged group, and as a loose class without the slightest organization. Explorers always suffer - they do business with the dominant intellectual class, they are in a position of being subjected to domination, and they also have to deal with prejudiced market managers and other miscellaneous departments, which are the main reasons why explorers are living the hardest.

"If there is a conflict with the scholars, no matter what the reason. We're all going to suffer, and when the city guards come, they're going to put most of the blame on us," Sakina said with a look of annoyance, "After all, a lot of people think so, explorers are a bunch of uneducated and unskilled vagabonds, and all of them have violent tendencies, and if something happens, it happens. It's definitely us who are at fault, as for the scholars. That's the cultured class. Who would doubt them? Sona and I have been captured several times by the city guards, and each time it has been because of an argument with someone......"

"It's not that you're too stubborn," Sona glanced at Sakina dissatisfied, "and you're very impulsive." ”

I immediately felt the same way, Sagina is indeed a person who is not very good at suppressing feelings, and it is normal for her to write all her thoughts on her face and be prone to conflict with others.

We've arrived at our destination. Sona found the stalls she rented, and I found that the only difference between them and the wet market was that each stall was huge: the walls could be used as shops. But after looking around, I realized why I had to reserve such a large space here - a few dozen meters away, there was a team of explorers selling animal bones, the ancestral elephant. …,

"There are some older explorers who form big teams. It's much more powerful than the two of us," Sagina noticed my gaze and said casually, "In addition to exploring the ruins, they sometimes even go to the wasteland of the Lost World to hunt fierce beasts, those beasts are full of treasures, but they can't adapt to the environment of the mother continent, so they are still a specialty of the Lost World Realm, and they are often sold at a very high price. Of course, the two of us don't think about that, we're pretty inconspicuous here. ”

In addition to the explorers in different races in the stalls, the rest are the "customers" in high-end clothes wandering between the stalls, they are coming down to purchase alchemy materials or research materials, Sagina may have realized that we don't know anything about the explorer's business, at this time I took the initiative to explain, I realized that except for a small part of these people who came down to purchase things are scholars themselves, the rest are basically their apprentices and assistants, and scholars don't run errands by themselves. And they don't like the clutter.

"A lot of alchemy materials produced in the Lost World are fixed, and after explaining what they need to buy for their apprentices, they don't have to run errands on their own," Sakina said as she put her things on the table, "Only when those old men are interested in looking for novel materials will they come in person." After all, there are still many lost worlds that have not been fully explored, and there are often new things in the hands of explorers that no one has ever seen, oh, for example, the piece of metal you found, this rare thing no one knows what the road is for, and the scholars will be interested in this kind of thing, and they call this kind of activity of going to the market to find novel materials 'Taobao' (I would like to interject: will you be praised if the customer is satisfied?). But I still held back for a long time), under normal circumstances, this is the greatest opportunity for explorers to make a fortune, but it also depends on luck, sometimes you think it is very valuable, it may be worthless in the eyes of the scholar, and the price is very low, which is also no way. ”

The corners of Lin Xue's eyes twitched slightly, and she pouted and said: "Actually, it was cheated, although the thing was found by you, but except for those trick houses, who knows how much value that thing is, it must have been pitted." ”

Sagina smiled, obviously she knew about the situation herself, but what could she do? Explorers basically don't have much knowledge, if they have a little more ability in addition to courage and strength, they will not do such a dangerous job, especially a race like the half-dragons: born unable to learn magic, in this era when the magical intellectual class rules the world, never being able to learn magic is equivalent to being destined to be illiterate forever, everything of high value in the world is beyond their grasp, what could be worse than this?

"Actually, we're lucky," Sona smiled wryly and spread her hands, "I was once used as a test by that mage master, and there are also blessings in disguise, although I can't learn magic, Sakina and I also know a lot about pharmacy and materials science." It's all secretly memorized at the beginning, and although it can't be compared with a real scholar, it's often useful to judge ordinary and strange materials, and this knowledge has also helped a lot when I first started 'working'. We're not so easily deceived. ”

"Now, where is the old explorer you are talking about?" Shallow went outside for a walk, and then went around again.

"Oh, wait a minute. Sakina, you take care of things, I'll lead the way. Sona hurriedly put the things at hand, and as she spoke, she led a group of us to a stall more than a hundred meters away: the stall was in the corner, and there was only one old man who looked sleepy, and there were only a few things on the surface, which were very inconspicuous. My heart suddenly moved: according to the usual routine, I wandered in the bustling bazaar like this. Obviously he should have invited guests, but he snuggled up and slumped to sleep. Obviously there are a dazzling array of goods everywhere, but only there are a few tattered old men in their stalls, who are definitely hidden hidden masters, their sleepy eyes hide a lifetime of wisdom, and the stalls are hidden in the tatters of the stalls are rare treasures, and usually they will prepare one or two daughters for you to marry at home - could it be that I have walked the non-mainstream route for so many years, and finally there will be a mainstream plot? …,

Just as I was thinking about it, I suddenly stabbed out of a bare-chested man pushing a flatbed, and the big man rushed to the old man's stall and resisted a large package after bag from the flatbed. began to pour things out in a hurry, and the sleepy old man suddenly became energetic when he heard the voice. Tengdi jumped over to help clean up his things, and muttered, "I said why did you come!" We've been here for half a bag of cigarettes, and you've been there for almost an hour! How many things have been delayed, you ...... When I got up in the morning, I said push the car and you didn't listen. Okay, a big man came directly and bought all the things, causing Lao Tzu to keep an empty stall and watch others sell goods, are you an undefeated thing! ”

The big man lowered his head and hurriedly worked, while accompanying him: "Dad, don't be angry, it's still early today, and I have to sell ...... in the afternoon."

Me: "...... Hehe, the old man is quite energetic...... Hehe......"

It was impossible for a large group of us to stand next to the stall without attracting attention, and the old man just packed up a few things when he saw us at once, and immediately put down the work in his hand and patted the shoulder of the shirtless man: "Eh, what are you talking about, business is coming-you are either scholars or nobles, you must have come to Taobao, right?" We had just picked up a few treasures from the bottom of the box, and two of them were found by the boys from the cave in the Grey Forest a few days ago, and I swear there are no ...... on the market."

The old man's business momentum is probably greater than the end of being an explorer, and in the blink of an eye he began to introduce his collection endlessly, I heard that this should be a semi-"retired" explorer, and now his son and a few teammates have inherited the mantle, but we are not here to listen to him sell things, but Lin Xue opened her mouth a few times and failed to interrupt the old man's words, and finally Sona couldn't help it, and said loudly: "Uncle Vane!" Please listen to others first! ”

The old man was stunned for a moment, as if he had just seen Sona: "Oh, it's Sona, when did you come?" ”

"I've been standing here since now!" Sona looked unhappy, and anyone who was ignored like this would definitely not be happy, "Uncle, have you completely become a businessman now, it seems that you know how to do business." ”

"Nonsense, there's a brainless son, I don't know how to support my family!" The old man shouted angrily, his gray beard trembled, and the "brainless son" stood next to him without daring to come out, this contrast was really eye-catching, on one side was a big man who could win more than a dozen Mr. Bodybuilding Awards by applying some oil to his muscles, and he looked shy with his head down, and on the other side was the old man with gray hair and hunched over, and his voice was like a flood of bells.

Sandora didn't talk nonsense with a single knife, and directly took out the metal plate: "Sakina said that you may know the origin of this thing, do you know this?" ”

The old man muttered, "I didn't leave work last year, but since Sagina said so, it may have been before that......" As he spoke, he took the metal plate, looked at it a few times, and said firmly, "Two hundred so." ”

I was stunned: "What? ”

"Two hundred suo," the old man raised his eyes, "such an inconspicuous thing, others must have never seen it, the information fee of two hundred suo is already very cheap, how many masters still care about this little money?" ”

Sona suddenly looked at us in embarrassment, and said to the old man urgently, "They are my friends with Sakina!" ”

This time it was the old man's turn to be dumbfounded, he looked at the huge "noble parade" in our circle, and suddenly tugged on Sona's arm: "Did you eat the wrong thing?" You're just a ...... You yourself understand. ”

"It's true, they're traveling scholars, and they met us when we were in the ancient city," Sona explained briefly what the other party was surprised by, "Anyway, don't mention the money?" ”

The old man looked at this side incredulously, gritted his teeth and stomped his feet, and seemed to have come up with a good trick: "Otherwise, you will treat me as if I don't know about it, can you give me the money first?" ”

Me: "......" Reimu, I may have found your long-lost father!

Seeing that Sona's steady temper couldn't stand it and was about to go violent, the old man finally deflated and waved his hand at us: "Let's go to the Sky Tower, there's a layer of metal that I remember has a bunch of strange metal, and I don't know anything else-what, you really don't buy something?" Even if you don't need alchemy materials, it's good to find a few beautiful stones and go back and make a few pieces of jewelry......"

In the end, we finally broke the bank, and luckily Lilina had the currency of this world with her, and we exchanged a lot of strange stones to go back, well, Quandang bought a bunch of snacks for Sandora.

Just as we turned to return, we suddenly heard a commotion from not far away, mixed with Sakina's shrill voice. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to (.) to vote for recommendation, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. )