Remembering the Gray Snow Record at the End of the Year Alexander's Memoirs - Under the Rule of the Rat Chapter 2 Sand Lizard: First of all, I didn't provoke any of you
Alexander's Memoirs - Under the Rule of the Rat Chapter 2 Sand Lizard: First of all, I didn't provoke any of you
The four of them walked towards the so-called slum street through a small road that was not wide enough for three people to walk abreast. They saw many workers carrying large bags on their shoulders on the spacious main road on the other side. After all, it was after dinner and they were ready to start work.
Perhaps it was just after dinner, but there was not a single pedestrian on this narrow street. The four of them endured the stench coming from the alleys on both sides and arrived at a hut that looked no different from other one-story slate bungalows.
.
"The rain forest... is here." She took out the key and opened the weather-beaten door. At this time, Qiu Demi had no expression on her face. But she knew that this must be a source of a lot of money. Because in Duer Town, a piece of wood is good.
Things. And due to Pai Weng's special needs, the three of them even used sand lizard excrement to light the fire. Fortunately, there was no smell.
There is only one outhouse and one inner room in the small house. The outhouse only has two slate beds, a fireplace and a stone table.
"The decoration is quite simple and nice." Alexander sat on the edge of the bed. She frowned and rubbed her temples and said, "Well, I can't repay you for saving my life. This is the only thing I have that might be worth some money." Alexander took off his clothes.
Leather armor, and took out the skin that Qiu Demi put in again from the backpack. "This set of leather armor is made of the scales and skin of the giant python. It should be of good quality. I peeled this piece of skin from a dead horse."
, Sigh...I'm not very good at skinning. If you can use these, take them first? Then, if you can help me, just say so. Anyway, I didn't have any other specific goal when I left the rainforest except to send a message.
"
"You can exchange it for a small amount of money... Do you know about the sand lizard?" Pai Weng paused and introduced Alexander, who showed his ignorance: "The sand lizard is a very common beast. It is dark green all over and is usually five feet to five feet long.
Between eight feet. Although it has a huge body, it is docile and timid. It feeds on plant roots and is afraid of humans. In most cases, it will dig holes and escape."
"Sand lizards are hunted mainly because they are edible and have high reproductive capacity, and they are raised because they can carry heavy goods. Some of the weak, old and frail ones will be slaughtered. In a place like this, this kind of stable and
Rich meat, even if the taste is quite ordinary, but no one will dislike it. There are even chefs who specialize in lizard meat as a dish, although the delicious part of the meat is very small. Why don't you help us catch the sand?
Lizard, how about some living expenses?"
"Well, that's right." Alexander nodded. "Well, it's hard to catch anything that's not alive, even if it's just a wild animal."
"According to the market price." Qiu Demi knocked on the table and continued: "With the current resources, it is possible to catch the sand lizard, but we do not rule out the possibility of losing everything. Ah, I'm sorry. You don't understand. I said
It’s a medicine that can be used to assist in catching wild beasts.”
"Hmm...actually, the resources we have are enough to exchange for some weakness potion, right?" Pai Weng poked the horsehide.
"Well, that's it. How about buying some of those weakening potions first, or simply killing some dead ones first, solving the immediate difficulties first and then thinking about catching the alive ones?" Alexander suggested.
Raphael also expressed his thoughts: "The black shop I am most familiar with... is the grocery store on the city wall. The shops on the commercial street and the countercurrent merchant association are more upscale and probably won't accept these things. Setting up a stall in the square depends on your luck.
And it’s easy to be targeted. Let’s just take a gamble and replace these things with weak potions from the grocery store. Even if you can’t catch them alive, you can prevent the sand lizards from burrowing and escaping, so you won’t lose everything.”
"Then let's take action first." Alexander stood up, checked his belongings, and prepared to leave.
"Go to that place first and see if you can get a weakening potion." Raphael took the lead and went out to lead the way.
Pai Weng pulled the scarf that was strangling his neck and followed, while Qiu Demi and Alexander followed silently. The two of them always maintained a high degree of vigilance.
The slum grocery store is located near a sewage pipe under the city wall of Silver City. You will see dirty stray dogs from time to time along the way, and you may step on dog poop if you are not careful.
The aroma of fried food and toast mixes with the stench of rotting garbage and dog feces, and in some places these smells are overlaid by the pungent smell of exposed sewage pipes.
The four people held their noses and came to the base of the city wall. It was said that the grocery store owner was a down-and-out businessman, and that seemed to be true. He had a head of greasy blond curly hair hanging randomly, which should not have been trimmed for a long time. And he had narrow green pupils.
Small eyes give people a cunning impression.
The frustrated businessman lit up a slender metal tube with a wider tail and stuffed some unknown herbs into it. Then white smoke began to slowly come out, and he sat leisurely outside the shop and puffed away the smoke.
"Boss, please help with the eyes. Please give me a price for these things." Raphael walked up to him and took out the snakeskin armor and horsehide.
He took the hand, looked at it carefully and said, "A total of two hundred and twenty mel."
"Boss, just tell me, this kind of leather armor craftsmanship is rare. It's hard to get the stuff in the rainforest, so the price should be higher." Qiu Demi stepped forward to bargain with dissatisfaction.
The down-and-out businessman narrowed his eyes and said: "Don't tell me this, it's still a women's model. This is a small business, and it's not easy to sell. It's not profitable at all. I'm drinking muddy water? I can tell you the latest information at most, love
To sell or not.”
"And look at the skin, although I also want to chop and peel it, but the color of the hair..." Before Qiu Demi finished speaking, Alexander tried to smooth things over: "Well, the most important thing in doing business is to treat people with sincerity. I
I think there will be opportunities to do business in the future anyway, otherwise I just want to listen to the news, and it will be easy to catch the sand lizard and die anyway."
"Tsk, okay. Boss, what is the information?" Qiu Demi knocked on the door frame.
"Okay." The boss accepted the leather armor and horsehide and said, "You know the news about the shutdown of the silver mine, right? It's because there are many unclean creatures under the mine, and there is a very powerful guy inside.
.The soldiers who usually clean up unclean creatures and the first wave of adventurers have died, but I think you can give it a try. Although there is no adventurer's guild here, the Countercurrent Chamber of Commerce has given a reward of forty paise.
gold."
"Four - forty paise! It's equivalent to four thousand mel! This is enough for a long time." Pai Weng was shocked!
"It's a big sum." Qiu Demi raised his eyebrows, obviously a little moved, but still very cautious.
Raphael turned around and was about to leave: "Okay, this can be considered an opportunity. Let's go and see if we can find something missing."
"Do you have more information about that unclean creature?" Alexander frowned: "For example, does it look different from other unclean creatures?"
The down-and-out businessman touched his chin: "It seems like there are still some pieces of flesh on the body. It doesn't look like an ordinary skeleton. I don't know about the rest."
"A skeleton with a few pieces of meat?" Pai Weng seemed to have some doubts.
"Well...that's right." Alexander nodded: "Thanks, I thought we should give it a try."
The down-and-out businessman stood up and tucked his leather armor and horsehide under his arm, then opened the door and walked into the grocery store. When they opened the door, Pai Weng and Qiu Demi noticed that the stone cabinets had been replaced by wooden cabinets, and there were a few more items on the cabinets.
and other decorations. This boss is usually very stingy and rarely spends money once.
Then the boss turned around and came out and handed out two small glass bottles with green concoction inside: "For the sake of taking care of the business, I will give you a discount, two hundred and twenty mel for two bottles."
"Thank you, then." Qiu Demil was stunned for a moment and said, and Alexander stepped forward and took the glass bottle: "Sure enough, the most important thing in doing business is to treat people with sincerity. Thank you, senior."
"Come again next time." Raphael, who was so excited that he forgot to collect the money at first, turned around after hearing the conversation and expressed.
In the end, the four people exchanged Alexander's leather armor and the poor horse's hide for two bottles of Sand Lizard Weakening Potion and the latest news about the silver mine.
At this time, the drain valve was pouring sewage into the stinking ditch, and a more disgusting smell than before was emanating from the drain. The owner of the black shop covered his nose in disgust: "If there is nothing else, I will close the door."
"It's okay, thank you boss." Alexander bowed his hand.
The boss held his breath and held the metal rod in his mouth, then entered and closed the door. The four of them heard the sound of the black shop being chained from the inside and the sound of people walking into the house. Could it be that they were about to take a nap.
"What should we do next? Try to get rid of the sand lizard first? Or go directly to the silver mine?" Alexander followed seemingly carelessly.
"Sand Lizard." Qiu Demi made a simple choice, and the previous conversation showed her status in the previous three-person team.
"Go kill the lizard." Pai Weng repeated Qiu Demi's choice. Alexander always felt that he was weird, so he continued to ask with ulterior motives: "Then let's go. You know where the sand lizard is, right? I can't do it along the way.
never seen it."
"I know." Qiu Demi still answered simply.
"We have a rough understanding. In fact, we found that the place where you fell is where the sand lizard may appear." Although it is strange, Paion's character can allow Alexander to quickly integrate into the team.
"Replenish some water before setting off." Qiu Demi stopped when passing by the hut, opened the door and went in. Qiu Demi took out a loaf of dry and hard black bread from the inside, broke it and gave it to Raphael and Alexander, and
A cup and a half of dew. The three of them made do with lunch, and Pai Weng set off first to the place where he was hunting sand lizards.
When the three people came to the downwind, they saw Pai Weng chewing a weed in his mouth. He pointed to a sand lizard eating Gobi plants more than a hundred meters away.
Judging from the vegetation cover at the feet of the sand lizard, one of them is almost full, while the other has just started eating. The success rate of dealing with the latter should be very high, even if no medicine is needed. But generally speaking, it is necessary to capture it alive.
It's time to use a debilitating potion.
"Um...how to use this potion?" Alexander asked in a low voice.
"Drive them away first, then sprinkle it on the grass, and then wait for them to come back?" Raphael made an unreliable guess.
"Just secretly sprinkle it next to the sand lizard's food. The plant they eat is called rotroot grass, and it is very difficult to chew." Paion gave another strange knowledge. Alexander noticed that the grass in his mouth had disappeared.
But she didn't think much about it and thought she had vomited it up. After all, no normal person would think this thing could be swallowed.
"I'll go take a look first. Give me a bottle." Alexander handed a bottle of potion to Qiu Demi and whispered: "Then you go and try it first. If you are discovered, call us. But I'm pretty good at it.
Sneaking, how about I go?"
Qiu Demi shook his head and held his breath, then slowly moved toward the sand lizard, taking advantage of the terrain of the large rock wall downwind.
Raphael drew out his heavy sword in advance and crouched in the current hiding place, ready for battle and just waiting for information from his teammates. Paion lay down behind a cool rock wall to escape the sun, waiting for instructions.
When Qiu Demi walked around sixty feet to the side of the sand lizard, the wind direction suddenly changed slightly. She helplessly made a tilting gesture towards Alexander who popped up to observe.
Alexander roughly guessed what she meant, and approached from the other side with the remaining bottle of potion. During the process, the sand lizard shook its head and looked back. Alexander was lying down behind a low rock in danger.
Make as little noise as possible.
Alexander waited for the sand lizard to turn its head, quietly poured the medicine onto a pile of weeds that seemed to have enough moisture, and then touched back to the low rock. He just used his hands and feet to gently push behind the cover of the rock.
Lying down, the other sand lizard turned its head. This sand lizard stared at the rock where Alexander was hiding for almost half a minute before lowering its head again and starting to eat grass.
Time passed, about half an hour passed, and one of them had already left. The other sand lizard finally ate the grass that Alexander had put the medicine on, and it didn't take long for this one to eat much slower.
Alexander lay on his stomach and gestured to these temporary teammates to move forward. He estimated the speed of his teammates, took out his bow and prepared to attack.
At this time, the sand lizard was still munching on the turf leisurely, completely unprepared. The moment his teammates got up and rushed over, Alexander got up, knelt down on one knee, and shot the sand lizard in the abdomen.
This arrow caused the sand lizard to lie on the ground and start struggling. Although the arrow was inserted into the side of its belly, it didn't cause much blood to flow out, so it probably didn't damage its internal organs.
Qiu Demi, who was closer, had already ran over and started to check whether the sand lizard was in danger. When he found that there was no danger, he punched the sand lizard on the head and knocked the beast unconscious. The remaining three people also ran towards it.
"Huh." Alexander wiped the cold sweat on his head. "Okay, it's not life-threatening. It's not suitable to keep long-range weapons in your hands. Let's carry them back first."
Raphael weighed the sand lizard and felt that it was not too heavy, so he put the big sword on his back and carried the sand lizard.
Qiu Demi reached out to pull out the arrow and handed it back to Alexander. But Alexander immediately stopped her and said: "Ah, there's no need to pull it out. That kind of thing won't be useful after being shot once. Pulling it out will easily make the sand lizard
Bleeding to death, that's it." After all, it's not much easier to get a supply of arrows than in the rainforest.
"Is this a fine gold arrowhead? Only the arrowhead contains a little fine gold, but it still costs twenty mel to buy one."
Alexander drew out another arrow and put it on his bow at any time, keeping alert and following the team: "Speaking of which, what is the exchange rate for the money you are talking about?"
Pai Weng took the trouble to explain the monetary system. The name of the copper coin is Mel, and one hundred coins are equivalent to one silver coin. The name of the silver coin is Pais, and one hundred coins are equivalent to one Lindsay, which is one gold coin.
Qiu Demi and Raphael took turns to fight the whole way, and the four of them returned to the town of Dole in the slightly softer sunlight of dusk.
However, the night is the home ground of Duer Town. Compared with the east gate during the day, which is unguarded, four soldiers are guarding the fence gate at this time, although two of them are staring at the Cang Yue Hotel, which is already overcrowded at this time. It is probably
Just in case someone gets drunk and causes trouble and gets punched to death.
After the routine inspection, the four of them headed towards the destination - the Carriage and Horses Market. There were also many cargo lizards and horses unloading the goods. There were also many stalls set up in the square, with the noise of the crowd shouting and selling and the occasional sound of horses.
There were snoring noises, and it was very chaotic. As they were carrying the Sand Lizard, there were many adventurers and miners in the square pointing at the four people and whispering as they walked over.
After crossing the square and approaching the entrance of the carriage house, Pai Weng poked Alexander on the shoulder: "By the way, Alexander, can you give me a little...that...your hair or something?"
"What?" Alexander looked at Pai Wen with a perverted look, but hesitated for a moment and said nothing more, handing him the fallen hair scattered on his shoulders.
"It's not for that kind of perverted thing! It's just a simple record to prevent accidental injury..." After saying this, Paion took Alexander's hair and then opened his mouth to eat it.
Alexander watched Paion eat the hair, nodded in horror. Then turned away, she felt that she might need to change her job.
Raphael shuddered when he heard what was happening behind him. Although he also knew the actual situation, these two people actually did this in public, and it was not yet dark yet. Fortunately.
"Don't worry, there's no harm." Qiu Demi patted Alexander's shoulder gently, then looked at Pai Weng for a few times, and sighed again.
"...Don't look at me like that! I'm embarrassed too!"
"Uh oh..." Alexander's expression was tangled and he didn't know what to say, so he remained silent. This chapter has been completed!