The newly erected tent was surrounded by fresh soil.
Four ropes extend outward from the top of the tent, firmly fixing the rawhide tent.
Standing in front of the leather merchant's tent, there is a faint smell of salted fish floating in the air. Many newly ripe leathers are being dried. The smell here is naturally not good, but it happens to be the rainy season at this time, and the leather is not dried.
Good season.
When the leather merchant saw a visitor coming, he quickly put down his work and asked the apprentice to continue stirring the leather in the big wooden barrel, and then walked towards us.
He rubbed his hands on his leather apron, saw that Suldak was wearing heavy armor, and knew that he was a soldier in the military camp, so he enthusiastically asked Surdak and He Boqiang: "What do you two need?
"
In the eyes of the empire's merchants, every soldier is a high-quality customer. In order to save the military expenses incurred in logistics supplies, the Green Empire's military encourages the empire's merchants to do business with the army on the war plane, and in order to avoid disputes during transactions
, and also introduced a series of protection bills.
The reason why the military does these things is to fundamentally solve the big problem of logistics and material transportation.
Therefore, when trading around the camp, merchants are protected by the military, and forced buying and selling rarely occur.
Surdak spoke very directly, pointing to the devil antelope heads on the shelf over there, and said to the leather merchant: "I want to buy some antelope heads..."
The magic antelope head is not very precious. Apart from the occasional magic core being cut out of the head, the most valuable thing on the sheep's head is the pair of antelope horns, but a cut magic antelope horn is only worth 1
silver.
Not to mention that the chance of a magic core being opened from the head of the Demon Antelope is less than one-fifth. Even if the magic core is opened, the chance of a first-level monster like the Demon Antelope containing a magic crystal in the demon core is pitifully low, even ten percent.
Not one remains.
Fifty magic antelope heads, if you are unlucky, you may not even be able to touch the magic crystal fragments. If you want to bet on magic crystal, the risk is quite high.
When the fur goods merchant saw that He Boqiang and Suldak were not buying fur goods, most of the enthusiasm on their faces disappeared.
But they were still brought to the shelf. The shelf was made of simple wooden boards. The rough texture on the wooden board was clearly visible. It was filled with devil antelope heads. The blood stains on these devil antelope heads had been removed, and the skulls were not intact.
If it is opened, there should still be a magic core inside.
Seeing Surdak looking at the head of the devil antelope, the fur trader asked:
"Are you going to bet on the magic crystal?"
"Yes, our brothers are very interested in gambling on magic cores."
After speaking, Suldak put his arm around He Boqiang's shoulder.
He Boqiang turned aside and looked at the magic antelope head on the shelf.
The fur trader hesitated for a moment and seemed not to want to sell these devil antelope heads. He said, "Well, the rate of magic cores produced by these devil antelope heads is actually very average. Do you want to think about it again?"
Suldak and He Boqiang looked at each other, and then Suldak smiled and said:
"We just like to gamble. There are so many magic antelope heads. As long as...as long as...I don't believe that we can't get a magic crystal. Are you collecting these magic antelope heads to bet on the magic crystal?"
?”
Seeing Surdak asking this question, the fur trader explained:
"Oh, I originally planned to make these devil antelope heads into specimens and take them back to my hometown. Some nobles like to hang these things in their living rooms."
Surdak rubbed his nose and muttered: "The hobbies of those nobles are really unique."
The fur traders were not angry after hearing this. They smiled at Suldak and said, "They just want to brag to their guests that this thing was brought back from a hunting ground when they visit. This is probably a wealthy person."
It’s a kind of fun.”
"Actually, I don't know much about it. I just brought these devil antelope heads back to Bena Province. I don't have to worry about selling them, and the returns are higher..." the fur merchant said sincerely.
Of course, Surdak didn't want to miss these devil antelope heads. With these sacrifices, everyone in the second team could receive the blessing of the sacrifice ceremony, so he decided to give a high price.
Surdak said to the fur merchant:
"Do you want to think about it again...I will exchange twenty silver coins for a magic antelope head. We want all the magic antelope heads!"
Twenty silver coins to buy a devil antelope head is not a high price for a fur trader, especially since the horns on the heads of these devil antelopes are very well preserved, but selling fifty sheep heads at the same time is still profitable.
Moreover, this thing was not easy to transport. Since someone was willing to buy it, the fur goods merchant readily agreed without even thinking too much:
"Okay! There are fifty-two magic antelope heads on the shelf. Take all ten gold coins."
Ten gold coins can be exchanged for one magic crystal, which means that as long as one magic crystal is found among the fifty-two magic antelope heads, Surdak and He Boqiang can make a sure profit from this transaction.
"Boss, you are really refreshing."
After saying that, Suldak took out a magic crystal from his wallet with a smile and handed it to the fur merchant.
Since what Surdak took out was a precious magic crystal, which is only a token for large-scale transactions and is mostly used for the transaction of magic goods, the fur merchants were very cautious.
He first took it in his hand and rubbed it against his leather robe until the magic crystal was polished until it was shiny and even the dots of crystal threads inside were exposed, then he nodded slightly.
He took out another magic rune board and stuck the magic crystal on the gem base. When the patterns on the magic rune board lit up one by one, he took a breath and confirmed that this magic crystal was of perfect quality.
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The leather merchant took off the magic crystal and carefully put it into his personal purse, his eyes full of smiles.
He Boqiang and Suldak put the heads of the devil antelope into linen bags, but only a few of them filled the bag.
The leather merchant found a few linen bags from the tent and helped pack all the devil antelope heads. It wasn't until he walked out of the leather shop that Suldak took a long breath and said to He Boqiang: "Xiao Da
Ke, how on earth did you discover this leather shop? Now we seem to be more confident in the evil ghost hunting game!"
The two men carried the heads of the devil antelope back to the military camp, where the soldiers of the second team were sitting in the tent preparing for their trip tomorrow.
Seeing Surdak coming back from outside carrying a linen bag, Augustus came over to help take the linen bag from Surdak's shoulder, and asked curiously: "Captain, what's in it?"
What is it? It’s pretty weighty!”
Red Sock put down the long sword in his hand, came over and untied the rope at the mouth of the bag and said with a smile: "I guess it's a bag of canned luncheon meat. I've been tired of the marching rations recently, and the captain wants to give us all a change.
"
He didn't pay much attention when he was talking. He opened the bag and reached out to touch inside.
Suldak hurriedly stepped forward, took Red Stocking's hand, and shouted: "Hey! Be careful."
Red Socks froze on the spot with a confused look on his face.
As the mouth of the bag fell, all kinds of devil antelope horns were exposed inside, only half a fist away from the red sock's hand. If the red sock's hand dropped a little further, it might be pierced by the sharp antelope horns...
In the sweltering tent, the soldiers of the second team saw a bag full of devil antelope heads, with very rich expressions on their faces.