In the afternoon, mist-like drizzle obscured the city, the temperature was like falling into late autumn, and only the burning fireplace warmed people's hearts.
The climate of the ice-free port of Wiener is similar to that of Belfast, and the other is similar.
They have different climates. For example, there will be no rainy season and storms in Vina Freeze Port, but there will be corresponding winters and severe cold, as well as rain and fog falling from time to time.
It's either raining or foggy in the ice-free port of Wiener, and rarely it's just cloudy.
Standing in front of the window, where the meandering water marks blurred the streets and harbor, Lu Li watched silently, recalling the contents of the letter.
[I can’t remember when they appeared, they are closely related to us. Companion organisms, parasites? I only know that they appeared after we appeared]
[Fortunately, it was the Demon Slayer Association who discovered them and not us, otherwise the merchants might not be so deeply involved with us]
[Unfortunately, the Demon Slayer Association and we have never found their origins. We may have discovered them but cannot make them public]
[They are different individuals, but they are like a whole, like a hive and an ant nest, but there is no queen bee controlling them, or we didn't find it]
[They are always elusive, and the things they take away will completely disappear in this world, unless they are traded out again. We speculate that their home base may be a certain layer of the other world. This characteristic is exploited by the clever Demon Slayer Association.
, dissatisfied with the delay in material delivery, they made a deal with the merchant (it may have existed from the beginning of the transaction), and the content of the transaction is the current merchant framework]
[Despite this, they are not scary. To a certain extent, they are very shy existences. You rarely see them in front of many people. They usually appear silently and suddenly when you are alone or there is no one around.
The surroundings may sometimes scare you]
[Although the source is unknown, one thing is certain: merchants appeared because of us]
[The Merchant itself is shrouded in mystery, and there are still many things we cannot understand. For example, why it appeared, and what else qualifies as an "exorcist" as defined by them. Now we might be cautious about approaching it, but in that era, romance
The hearts of exorcists are filled with ideals and ideals, and they sincerely agree that humans and monsters can coexist... Sorry, I'm writing too far]
[After reading this, you should have realized that the usefulness of merchants is its name itself. You can use investigation points or contribution points to exchange for supplies from them, if there are any left]
[At the last moment of my life, I, Femi Bond, left this letter for the businessman to give to the last exorcist, just in case]
[I hope no one will ever see this letter...wait, it’s better if someone sees it]
Femi Bond, the legendary investigator after the Demon Slayer Association split into investigators and night watchmen.
Femi Bond, who left the letter, didn't know about Lu Li. The letter just followed the businessman's deal and was left to the last exorcist.
Lu Li looked back.
The businessman stood in the corner, as motionless as a clothes hanger.
Pusius hovered around the merchant fawningly, while Caterina stayed as far away from him as possible.
Lu Li took it away from the museum, or the businessman followed Lu Li out of the museum.
If Lu Li is the last exorcist, then he may be the last businessman.
"When do you want to transfer?"
Catalina sat on the soft sofa, looking through the illustrated book given by the museum director, without raising her head.
She doesn't know how to read, but fortunately there are mostly photos above...
"Because businessmen are the best partners of exorcists!" Pusius shouted back.
"Friends? You call this kind of interest transaction friends?"
Catalina felt that merchants were no different from the Mole merchants she met in Tangge Town.
"But...but that's what it says in the book." Pusius stopped and tilted his head to look at Lu Li.
“Trading is the rule, and the fact that merchants are everywhere and transport things is precious.”
Businessmen are indeed the exorcist's best allies.
Leaving the window, Lu Li walked to the fireplace and sat down.
The dancing flames stretched his shadow into a long and narrow shape. Lu Li asked the businessman: "How many contribution points do I have left."
The businessman in the corner opened his eyes and turned to Lu Li blankly: "...589 trillion contribution points."
"589 trillion contribution points?" Catalina moved away from the illustrated book in shock: "You are so powerful and you only have these. Are trillions of contribution points precious?"
"It's a contribution point, not a billion contribution point..." Pusius covered his face with his paws and reminded in a low voice: "Trillion is a quantity. Ten thousand million is one hundred million, and one hundred trillion is one trillion. I calculated it correctly.
Mr. Lu Li?"
"Um."
Regardless of Catalina, who was confused by the numbers she couldn't understand, Lu Li asked the businessman: "Why are there so many."
Before he fell into the ground, his contribution points were only a few billion.
"The Exorcist Association bought all the deep sea stones after you disappeared." The businessman paused slightly.
Lu Li did allow the merchant to sell the deep sea stones.
It seems that the premium of deep sea stone in the later period is even more serious, even more expensive than gold.
But now, the deep sea stone has become an ordinary stone that no one cares about.
"Can the contribution points be exchanged for shillings?" Catalina couldn't help but ask after returning to her senses.
"10 to 1." Lu Li said.
"1 contribution point equals 10 shillings?"
"10 shillings equals 1 contribution point."
"..."
"Miss Catalina, what's wrong with you!"
Pusius panicked and threw himself at the feet of Catalina, who was slumped on the sofa, the illustrated book in her hand slipping, and she was lost in thought.
"Is there inflation?" Lu Li continued to ask the businessman.
Inflation is obviously inevitable, and the rarer things are, the more expensive they are. But the superiority of contribution points makes their value always greater than that of survey points.
The premise is that the merchant still has the materials in hand.
But now, the businessman has nothing but information.
"Where have they all gone?" Lu Li asked with a frown.
After a brief silence, the businessman answered him: "It's lost."
Before Lu Li continued to ask questions, the businessman took the rare initiative to tell the truth.
The merchant's backpack is connected to a certain layer of the inner world. It is also the source of merchants and their habitat.
All transactions are stored here.
The merchant's habitat is a whole, but not a whole, just like the houses on the street.
Some merchants' "huts" are larger because they store a lot, and some are smaller because they store less.
The merchant transaction process is simple: if the merchant has the items the exorcist needs, it will take them out from its own "hut". If not, it will visit the merchant who has the supplies and get the items from there.
But as the exorcists died, the merchants fell asleep one after another, and visits became impossible unless the merchants found other merchants.
What's worse is that after sleeping for a long time, the "huts" belonging to the respective merchants were stolen. People will not do anything when they see the ownerless and bulging backpacks.
Legendary investigator Femi Bond said none of this in his letter.
This is a secret that even the Demon Slayer Association doesn't know.