Lake Maracaibo is located in the northwest of Venezuela. It is the largest lake in South America and the only lake connected to the sea. It is connected to the Gulf of Venezuela with a 35-kilometer-long and 1-kilometer-wide waterway. The climate here is hot and the lakeside is a tropical scenery.
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On the west coast of the waterway from Lake Maracaibo to the Gulf of Venezuela is Maracaibo City. In real life, Maracaibo City is the second largest city and port in the country after the capital Caracas. In the game
The city of Maracaibo is also quite lively, gathering a large number of players from Venezuela and other Latin American countries.
Lao Bai wandered around Maracaibo for a whole afternoon, and finally found the residence of Antonio's nephew Chiro in the slum area. It was a small dusty house that looked like it was about to fall down at any time. It seemed that it was going to fall down at any time.
Chilo's life was not good while he was hiding from debts.
Lao Bai walked to the dilapidated door and heard a sound inside, so he knocked on the door.
"There's no one around, so there's no need to knock on the door." A man's voice came from inside.
After hearing this, Lao Bai smiled and said: "I am a debt collector!"
After saying that, he kicked open the broken door and broke in.
Inside the room, an unkempt man was getting dressed, and a charming blonde girl was sitting on the bed. The girl was not wearing any clothes. It seems that sex is a sport that both players and NPCs like, and everyone wants to do it when they have free time.
.Lao Bai looked this girl up and down, and suddenly felt that it was a mistake to think that Qiluo was not doing well before entering the door.
Qiluo frowned and looked at Lao Bai, and after a long time he said: "I shouldn't owe you money. I didn't remember that I borrowed money from Indians."
Lao Bai smiled and said: "Am I an Indian or not? I am Chinese. But it doesn't matter to you. Your name is Qi Luo, right?"
Qi Luo said in surprise: "You don't know me?...Oh, you have found the wrong person. Of course I am not Qi Luo."
Lao Bai said: "Don't worry, I'm not here to collect debts. Your uncle Antonio asked me to come to you, and he asked me to bring you money."
Qi Luo said: "Is there such a thing? Then give me the money. I know Qi Luo very well and will help you transfer the money to him."
Lao Bai took out Antonio's letter, handed it to Chiro, and said: "Your uncle's letter."
Qi Luo read the letter carefully, then looked at Lao Bai in surprise and said, "Lord of Lily City? You want to invest in my mine?"
Lao Bai said: "Didn't you say you are not Qi Luo? I want to find Qi Luo, and what I want to acquire is his mine."
Qi Luo chuckled and said: "I am Qi Luo. You know, I owe a little bit of money, so I am afraid that others will recognize me."
Lao Bai moved a chair and sat down, and said: "Then we can talk about it. I will buy your mine and invest in helping you pay off your debts?"
Qi Luo said: "My mine is a rare and rich mine, which is extremely valuable. If you want to acquire it, we have to discuss the price carefully."
Lao Bai smiled and said: "If your mine was not still occupied by monsters, your creditors would have divided your mine up long ago. You should stop bargaining with me. I am the only one who can help you now."
Lao Bai and Qi Luo talked for a long time. Qi Luo was very reluctant to part with his mine. However, he had a lot of debts and there was no way he could refuse Lao Bai. Finally, the two signed an agreement to transfer the mine.
After signing the agreement, Lao Bai heard the system prompt again.
Ding dong, the system prompts: Your Lily City will pay its debt of 20 million in installments, and your Lily City will receive an abandoned emerald mine.
Ding dong, the system prompts: If the emerald mine operates normally, it can provide commercial emeralds for the city.
In the game, goods and specialties are not the same concept. Only goods with a large output and an advantage in price compared to other cities can be called specialties. There may be many goods sold in a city, but the city's specialties can only be so many at most.
There are three or five types, and some cities don’t even have specialty products.
Lao Bai has taken over a mine, and the output is limited, so he can only add one commodity to the city, but not one specialty. However, with the emeralds in the city, Lao Bai can use his power as city lord to keep them all.
For personal use, this is enough to give Hui Yu the skills.
After signing the agreement, Qi Luo let out a sigh of relief and said, "It's great. With you helping me pay off my debt, I can finally go home. I have been wandering outside for five years and I don't even know what my family is like."
Lao Bai said: "Don't forget our agreement, you still have to help me manage the mine."
Chiro scratched his head and said: "It won't be a problem to help you manage the mine, but the monsters in my mine are a bit tricky. If you can't take them down, don't blame me. Our agreement will still be in effect."
Lao Bai said: "Of course."
Qi Luo said: "Okay, let's set off right away. I'll show you the situation."
Lao Bai and Qi Luo hired a carriage and rushed to the location of the mine. In the Age of Sail game, except for a few cities, other places on the land are dangerous wilderness. However, most places in the wilderness have roads.
Yes, you generally won't encounter ferocious birds and beasts when walking along the road.
The Muzo mining area is in the Cordillera Mountains. It is not very close from Maracaibo, and the road has to go through high mountains. The country roads are not smooth, and the carriage is bumpy along the way. Lao Bai is sitting in the carriage.
Chatting with Qi Luo just felt extremely boring. I thought back to those days when he took his pets out for a carriage ride, and the carriage shook all the time. Nowadays, things are really going backwards.
After finally climbing over the last ridge and reaching a wide canyon, Qi Luo said to Lao Bai: "My mine has arrived...well, now the mine is yours."
Lao Bai smiled slightly and got off the carriage with him.
Standing at the mouth of the canyon, Qi Luo said: "There is a mining area inside, but I advise you not to get close."
Lao Bai said: "What kind of monster is there?"
Qi Luo said: "Aradillo."
Armadillos are rare animals endemic to South America and Central America. They look like a big mouse, but they are covered in armor. This armor is divided into two parts, the front and back, by several rows of movable horizontal bands. The bands are elastic.
The skin is connected and the body can be rolled into a ball to protect it from natural enemies, so some people call it "armored rat".
However, in Lao Bai's impression, although armadillos look ugly, they are just small animals and have no offensive power. So he asked: "Why can't you deal with armadillos?"
Qiluo said: "The armadillos here are completely different from ordinary armadillos. The largest ones are bigger than pigs, with sharp claws more than a foot long, and the scales on their bodies stand up like blades."
Lao Bai asked: "How did they appear?"
Qiluo said: "I don't know what's going on. I've been here several times to explore the mines and I've never seen them before. But one day not long after my mine opened, they seemed to suddenly appear in a group.
I'm afraid there are nearly a thousand of them. Hundreds of miners in our mine put down their work and tried to drive them away, but they rushed up and bit our miners to death. I and several other people managed to escape with great difficulty
Come out."
"We didn't dare to enter the mine anymore, and we just prayed that they would move away in a few days. But after waiting for many days, they still occupied my mine and refused to leave. Later, I borrowed money from everywhere and hired a large number of servants.
The soldiers came to destroy them, but the mercenaries were no match for them. More than half of the mercenaries died in the mines. The remaining ones escaped, returned my commission, and refused to fight anymore."
Lao Bai looked towards the mine, and then said: "I'll pass."
Qi Luo pulled Lao Bai nervously and said, "Look at them from a distance, and then quickly step back. Don't get too close to them, otherwise your life will be in danger!"
Lao Bai smiled and said, "Don't worry."
Just as he was about to move forward, Qi Luo pulled him back and said, "I'll go with you. You've never seen them, so you don't know how scary they are."
Chiro gritted his teeth as he spoke, and his face turned a little pale.
Seeing his appearance, Lao Bai smiled and said, "You are very brave."
Qi Luo puffed up his chest and said, "I can't let you die. If you die, no one will help me pay off my debt."
Lao Bai said: "Don't worry, I can't die, I am an adventurer."
Adventurers are what players habitually call themselves in front of NPCs. NPCs know that players are different from them in many ways, and they have gradually become accustomed to this group of adventurers who have traveled from another world.
However, when Qi Luo heard that Lao Bai called himself an adventurer, he did not back down, but continued: "I don't care whether you die or not, anyway, we came together, and you are not familiar with the situation, so I let you go in by yourself, and I feel bad.
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Lao Bai didn't expect that Qi Luo was quite interesting. He smiled and nodded: "Okay, let's go there together."
Qi Luo warned Lao Bai again: "Be careful, be careful, these guys are very clever."
The two people slowly approached the mine. After walking for a while, Lao Bai saw many huge "rats" - armadillos - lying in the thatched mine.
However, these armadillos do look very different as Qi Luo said. Each of them is as big as a wild boar. Their armor is glowing green, and their eyes and teeth are all green. They look very special.
Weird.
"Oh my god! How could this happen?" Chiro exclaimed in a low voice, with a look of disbelief on his face.
Lao Bai turned around and asked, "What's wrong?"
Qiluo said: "These armadillos are here and have mutated! Have you noticed that their carapace have all turned green! This was not the case before!"
This was the first time for Lao Bai to see these armadillos. Of course, he didn't know what they looked like before, so he just looked at Qi Luo with puzzled eyes.
Qiluo added: "In the past, they were just bigger than ordinary armadillos. They were not green at all and they did not glow. And when I said bigger than pigs, they were just the larger ones among them, not this kind."
He pointed at an armadillo in the mine and said: "Look at this one. It has three moving strips on its body. It is a three-trip armadillo. There were three kinds of armadillos that came to our mine. They are three.
Three-trip armadillos, six-trip armadillos, and nine-trip armadillos. Among them, the nine-trip armadillos are as big as pigs. The six-trip armadillos are much smaller than the nine-trip armadillos. As for the three-trip armadillos, they were originally just like cats.
Same size! I didn’t expect that the armadillo, which was as big as a cat at first, is now as big as a pig!”
As Qi Luo was talking, a six-trip armadillo emerged from the mine. This six-trip armadillo was actually as big as a pony. Compared with its companions, its armor was greener and brighter. Two
The eyes also glowed green.
It got out of the hole, and its green eyes looked towards where Lao Bai and Qi Luo were.