"Do practitioners also have to work as laborers?"
Su Xiaofan shook his head, thinking about his father's cultivation in the later stages of the golden elixir and working as a coolie. The picture was really beautiful.
But according to what Mr. Yang said, these things are most likely true.
Because according to overseas rules, cultivators are not allowed to attack ordinary people. Everyone who wants to enter overseas restricted areas must make such a commitment.
Although there is no one to supervise this kind of thing, if a cultivator cultivates his mind, once he violates the promise he has made, it will probably be difficult for him to make any progress in his future cultivation.
"Worldly money is still important."
Su Xiaofan didn't bring much money with him when he came out this time. He decided that the next time he went back, he would have to ask Brother Gang to exchange for a US$1.8 million knife, lest he didn't even have the travel expenses to go back.
The airport is not very far from the pier, and there is never a shortage of people in these two places.
Although it was completely dark at this time, the cafe was still very lively with many people coming in and out.
It was not until after eight o'clock in the evening that the number of people coming to the coffee shop gradually became less and less.
Su Xiaofan discovered that there were only three of them left in the cafe at this time, and the waiter had hung a closing sign outside the shop.
He came over and asked if the three of them wanted dinner. After getting a negative answer, the waiter didn't say much, cleaned up the cafe, and made a gesture to Mr. Yang.
Picking up their simple luggage, Su Xiaofan and the other three followed the waiter and walked out of the back door of the cafe.
There was a car parked at the back door. The middle-aged man who had taken off his waiter's clothes smiled and turned around to say hello to Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu.
"My name is Frank, are you two new here? Please pay more attention to my business from now on."
As if he was afraid that Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu wouldn't understand his Dan Mandarin, Frank used English, but his speech was a bit stumbling.
"My name is Tom, nice to meet you."
Su Xiaofan stretched out his hand and shook it. He didn't have an English name, so he thought of Tom Cat and named himself this one.
"My name is David!"
Obviously, Yang Xiu's name was chosen casually. It is not very convenient to use his real name abroad. It is difficult for others to remember him when he is called by his real name.
"Guys, William and I are old friends. If you have anything to do on Green Island in the future, you can come to me."
Frank pointed at Mr. Yang, and then Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu realized that the old man had given themselves the foreign name of William.
"Frank, let's talk in Danish."
Su Xiaofan had a hard time listening to the other person's English. This guy just jumped out word after word and had to put it together by himself, and the pronunciation of the words was not standard.
"Anthracene, God, you Chinese people are so awesome, almost everyone can speak our Dan Mandarin!"
Frank whistled in amazement, then started the car, "No matter what you need, it's always right to find Frank on Green Island..."
"That's right, Frank's charges are also the most expensive."
Mr. Yang next to him added quietly, Frank would charge two thousand dollars at a time just to show the way to the servant.
"Oh, William, I'm so sad when you say that. On Green Island, only Frank will accept your credit..."
Frank's tone and expression were exaggerated, but not annoying. Mr. Yang was also joking with him.
"Foreigners can't be trusted, but Frank is quite trustworthy here."
Mr. Yang used his spiritual consciousness to transmit messages to the two of them, "If you are really in a tight situation, you can ask him for a loan to buy a flight ticket back home, but the handling fee will be very high."
Greening Island is considered to be the only foothold leading to the overseas glacier restricted area. After negotiations between many countries, no country is allowed to station its service department on Greening Island.
Therefore, these natives of Green Island have made a lot of money in recent decades, and Frank is one of them.
He does almost everything, and the cafe is also one of his main businesses, where Frank works as the owner and waiter.
The business of the cultivators does not happen every day. They usually engage in tourism and take tourists from all over the world to see the aurora. Their small life is very nourishing.
"Mr. Yang, how many beautiful knives did you bring this time?"
Su Xiaofan sent a message, "Can you give me more later? I may have to take someone back."
"Take someone back?"
Yang Lao was stunned for a moment when he heard this, and then suddenly said: "I almost forgot that your father is also in the Glacier Restricted Area, but we don't use his real name there. I really don't know which one is your father."
The restricted area of the glacier is very large, and the people who enter here are the strong ones who are unruly and pursuing their own evolution, and most of them don't like to be restrained.
Therefore, the influence of relevant departments in overseas restricted areas is relatively weak, and only people like Mr. Yang will put national interests first.
Mr. Yang has formed an alliance with several Chinese cultivators, but this alliance is relatively loose, and it may not be able to help much when encountering serious problems.
Furthermore, the restricted area of the glacier is really too big, and many cultivators can only occupy a small area.
Most places are the territories of extraordinary creatures within restricted areas. If you want to connect all directions, you must travel through those extraordinary territories, which can easily lead to fights, so there is not much contact between cultivators.
"By the way, where is your father in the penalty area?"
Yang Lao's consciousness fluctuated and said: "Near the entrance to the restricted area, cultivators are usually not allowed to occupy it. Is your father on the outer periphery of the east or the west?"
"This, I really don't know."
Su Xiaofan laughed bitterly when he heard this, "I only know that my father is very outside the restricted area, and the territory he occupies is not very eye-catching. I don't know the specific direction."
Su Xiaofan regretted that after talking so much with his father at that time, he did not ask him where he was in the penalty area.
Su Xiaofan also had a headache when he thought about finding people in an area with millions of square kilometers that was comparable to a big country.
"Then let's look along the edge of the restricted area. It's not too dangerous..."
Mr. Yang nodded and explained it to Su Xiaofan and Yang Xiu.
The layout of all forbidden areas in the world is basically the same.
The space crack is the core and center of the restricted area, where the spiritual energy is the most abundant. It is also the place where all powerful extraordinary creatures and strong human beings compete.
Su Xiaofan heard from his father that there were strong human beings who once occupied that place, but were later driven away by extraordinary creatures. Now the core area of the restricted area is basically dominated by extraordinary creatures.
However, there is another force, which is what Dad once said. It is a creature that is suspected to come out of the space crack. It also occupies a zone in the space crack and can vaguely compete with extraordinary creatures.
Su Weixuan entered the restricted area mainly to save his wife's life, so he always stayed on the outer edge of the restricted area. Most of these things he heard from others.
"I mainly stay at the eastern edge of the restricted area, where most of our Chinese cultivators are."
Mr. Yang is not afraid of exposing his shortcomings. He is a cultivator in the early stage of Yangshen and cannot walk sideways in the restricted area of the glacier. However, cultivators who stay in the edge areas are basically not provoked by anyone.
Occasionally, Mr. Yang would join some teams and go to the inside of the restricted area to hunt extraordinary creatures, seize training resources, and then retreat to the outside after a battle.
Those extraordinary creatures who want to keep their inner position often rarely pursue and kill the human cultivators after repelling them.
One side attacks and the other defends. Usually the attacking side takes advantage, but usually both sides suffer casualties. This kind of battle has lasted for nearly a hundred years.
And every twenty years or so, there will be a war that engulfs the entire restricted area.
It was a battle for the core area, a battle between human and supernatural camps. If you didn't want to participate in the battle, you had to exit the restricted area.
"Huh? I haven't heard my father talk about this."
When Mr. Yang said this, Su Xiaofan was stunned for a moment. This was a big event in the restricted area. Why didn't his father mention it?
"Your father is probably a lone ranger, so he doesn't know."
Mr. Yang did not agree with Su Xiaofan's questions.
Judging from Su Xiaofan's age, his father should not be too old. He had not experienced the last camp battle, so he naturally did not know these things.
"There are still two years left, and it's time to fight for the core of the penalty area. Xiaofan, you'd better take your father out of the penalty area."
Mr. Yang's face became a little serious, "Cultivators without power are often the first to be killed in such battles, even if they hide outside the restricted area."
In the battle of factions, both cultivators and extraordinary people will gradually encroach on each other's living space, forcing those loners or small forces to join forces. Failure to join forces will lead to death.
In the end, there will definitely be a decisive battle between the camps, with the winner taking all, occupying the core area, the inner circle, and most of the peripheral space.
The loser side can only stay in the outer edge area with thin spiritual energy, which is mostly close to the restricted area shield.
Of course, the so-called thin spiritual energy here is also relative.
In the Glacier Forbidden Zone, even the place with the thinnest aura is comparable to the aura in the cracks in the Qinling Forbidden Zone.
Moreover, there are still very few cultivators and extraordinary cultivators after all. According to Yang Lao's estimation, it would be good to have a thousand cultivators in the entire Glacier Forbidden Land.
As for extraordinary creatures, there are probably only a few thousand at most, and the total number of extraordinary creatures and human cultivators is less than 10,000.
There are less than 10,000 people, distributed in a restricted area of millions of square kilometers. On average, one person can occupy hundreds of square kilometers of territory, which is enough for their cultivation.
Therefore, the battle between factions every twenty years is not a battle to exterminate the opponent's race, but just to compete for training resources.
After every battle, the winning side seizes the time to use the abundant spiritual energy to evolve and practice, while the losing side is also working hard to capture the core area of the inner circle next time.
In the last camp battle, the winner was the extraordinary creature, and human cultivators were pushed to the outside. This time, it is estimated that some powerful cultivators will come back and drive the extraordinary creatures out of the inner circle.
In fact, fighting has begun in the past few years. Fighting between cultivators and extraordinary people in a small area is often seen. Even the outside of the restricted area has not been very peaceful recently.
"No wonder dad said he's been in trouble lately and won't go back to China yet."
When Su Xiaofan heard Mr. Yang's explanation, he immediately understood that the battle between Chaofan and Xiuji was probably related to his father's sphere of influence.
"Mr. Yang, how long will it take for us to reach the restricted area?"
Thinking of this, Su Xiaofan couldn't help but feel a little anxious. As the saying goes, brothers fight against tigers, and father and son go into battle. He has to rush to fight side by side with his father.
"If we can leave the ship tonight, we will have to travel for six days."
Mr. Yang said: "There is no airport there, and many places have to break ice to pass through, so the speed will not be high."
After hearing Mr. Yang's words, Su Xiaofan nodded and said nothing more, but his heart calmed down.
Su Xiaofan's psychological quality is very strong. When encountering something that is beyond his ability, it is useless to worry and be anxious. Su Xiaofan can usually deal with it calmly.
"The icebreakers we took were actually on board through connections. They were not specially made to carry us on this trip."
Mr. Yang was worried that Su Xiaofan didn't understand, so he explained it to him again.
Most of the icebreakers in the Arctic Circle go to the Arctic for some scientific research fleets. A voyage is expensive. Usually only big countries can afford the commission for hiring ships.
As for Su Xiaofan and others, they have established a relationship with the icebreaker and are considered extra passengers.
However, these extra passengers are very generous every time. If they can get three or five at a time, the twenty or thirty crew members on the ship can all get a bonus.
"By the way, William, there's something I have to tell you."
Frank, who drove to the dock, seemed to be unable to bear the silence in the car, "Those damn old guys have raised the price. Every time you take an icebreaker in the future, no matter how many people there are, it will cost you one hundred thousand dollars."
"What? Isn't it based on head count?"
Mr. Yang was surprised when he heard this, "They only want cash. Do I have to bring $100,000 in cash every time I go out? They are breaking the rules!"
To Mr. Yang, money is just a number, and he doesn't care much.
But every time Mr. Yang traveled between the country and the Glacier Restricted Area, he asked the relevant departments to prepare 40,000 to 50,000 U.S. dollars. This time, with three people coming out, Mr. Yang only brought a total of 100,000 U.S. dollars.
"That's right, those old guys are going crazy because they're so broke. They cost one hundred thousand dollars at a time. God, why didn't they take us with them when they robbed us!"
Frank was cursing, and he was obviously jealous. He could only earn two thousand for leading the way, but the old man made all the damn money.
However, in the field of icebreakers, Lao Maozi's technology is second to none in the world, and other countries cannot build icebreakers to compete with them.
“Aren’t they afraid we’ll go back on our word?”
There was a glint in Mr. Yang's eyes. Cultivators were not allowed to take the initiative to deal with ordinary people, but if it was ordinary people who were looking for trouble, would it be possible for cultivators to have to submit to it?
"They are really afraid."
Frank glanced at Mr. Yang in the rearview mirror, with a look of fear in his eyes.
When Frank faced Mr. Yang, an old man who looked frail, he had many guesses in his mind. The biggest guess was that Mr. Yang was a magician.
That was eight years ago. At that time, a group of outsiders came to Green Island, claiming to be from Sicily and preparing to develop their business on Green Island.
These people were very strong and organized, and soon occupied a large area of land on Green Island, and the cafes on Green Island had to pay protection fees to them.
One time, Frank picked up Mr. Yang from the icebreaker and prepared to send him to the airport, but who knew he was stopped by these people on the way.
In their words, the air on Green Island has to be taxed. If you think about it, you must follow their rules.
Facing four or five men with guns, Frank was ready to give in.
Because he knew that calling the police was useless. The biggest role of the three or five policemen on the island was to mediate the quarrels between the aunts.
But at the next moment, Frank found that these people suddenly fell down and the guns in their hands fell to the ground. Frank was startled and quickly drove away with Mr. Yang.
Since there were no flights that day, Frank arranged for Mr. Yang to stay overnight in a hotel near the airport.
But the next morning, Frank got the big news that all the pizza-loving Sicilians had died suddenly.
That's right, they died suddenly. Of the more than twenty people, four or five died on the road in the suburbs, and the other dozen died in their residences.
The police station received an alarm call early in the morning, and they are currently moving the body out.
Due to a shortage of manpower, Dan State sent more than a dozen police officers to provide support. It is said that the morgue of the island hospital is already full of corpses.
For some reason, Frank immediately thought of Mr. Yang and his smiling face.
Frank knew that such things should not be guessed at random, and Frank had never mentioned it to anyone.
But from that time on, Mr. Yang was able to get credit from him, including the Chinese people who often ran this route, and Frank tried his best to make it as convenient as possible for them.
There once was a Chinese man who looked a bit like the young man in the back seat of the car. At that time, he was so poor that he couldn't even afford a plane ticket.
It was Frank who introduced him to work hard for a few days before he could get enough money for a plane ticket back. Of course, Frank also received a commission from the fishing boat.
"Since they are afraid, they shouldn't change the rules indiscriminately."
Mr. Yang's voice made Frank feel a little cold, so Frank quickly turned up the air conditioning and heating in the car.
"That's not what the bearded captain meant. I heard that his son was getting married, so the fee was increased."
Frank first put aside his own responsibilities. This matter really had nothing to do with him.
"But I heard they won't charge cash this time."
Frank glanced at Mr. Yang's face through the rearview mirror, "They can give you an account, as long as the money is transferred to this account."
"Hmm? That's okay."
When Mr. Yang heard this, he nodded slightly. The difference for him was that it was too troublesome to carry a ten thousand U.S. dollar knife or a hundred thousand U.S. dollar knife.
Someone once came forward to talk to the people on the icebreaker about paying the fare by transfer, but they refused at that time because the crew wanted to receive cash.
Now the captain should have unified his thinking and is willing to accept the transfer, which is actually a good thing for Mr. Yang and others.
"Mr. Yang, it seems I don't need to ask you to borrow money on my return trip."
After hearing Frank's explanation, Su Xiaofan also breathed a sigh of relief.
Although the one-way fare of RMB 700,000 to RMB 800,000 this time is quite expensive, as long as Su Xiaofan brings back one inner elixir, the money he makes will be thousands of times the boat fare.
Therefore, only people like my father who went to sea early and had no idea about business would be forced to work hard at the dock.