There are only two solitary tasks, and no useful information is revealed at all.
The first of the two tasks is from the previous plane conquest or should be included in every plane conquest. This is also the real way for the main world to absorb the benefits from the astral plane that descends and intersects.
As for the second task, it is the same as not being mentioned. It can only mean that this time the trial players should be allowed to choose to join a local force to compete with other forces. However, there are several camps, and the situation of each camp is the same.
Nothing is known.
"So this time the plane battle mission is far more difficult than the last time."
It was also the astral plane that was discovered for the first time. John guessed that it was because the middle demon plane was more difficult than the low demon plane.
The plan to arrest people for questioning was rejected, so John waved and called the landlady who was responsible for greeting the guests to come over.
"What are your instructions, guest?"
When John opened his mouth to speak, it sounded like a familiar local language to the other person's ears. This is the magic of glib.
"Does the boss lady know any bookstores nearby where I can buy books?"
"Ah, guests only need to walk two hundred steps to the north and they will see a shop that sells the Four Treasures of the Study. There are books and picture albums for sale..."
After hearing this, the proprietress enthusiastically gave John directions. She didn't mind John's identity as a foreigner. As expected, he was so handsome that he was popular everywhere. Of course, he was also neatly dressed like John. He was not like those foreigners with messy beards and hair, and they exuded...
Related to odor.
John dropped a piece of silver bar the size of a finger, and the couple in the wine shop were both surprised and worried.
"Guest, we don't need so much..."
John: "Change the rest into copper coins for me." This is already the smallest silver ingot he brought.
"This is a small shop with a small business, and we don't have that many copper coins. Please wait for a while..."
As she spoke, the proprietress discussed a few words with her husband who was in charge of cooking, then twisted her waist and evened out some copper coins from two nearby stalls. John took a look and saw that they were all high-quality Kaiyuan Tongbao and Yongle Tongbao, so he didn't take any.
The strange-shaped copper coins minted by the local government fooled me into thinking that these two people were real people.
The quality of those special-shaped copper coins is far inferior to that of Chinese copper coins. Even though many Chinese copper coins are minted privately, no wonder the locals don't like the copper coins minted by their own country.
After collecting two large bunches of heavy copper coins, probably over a thousand dollars, he spent only a few dozen coins on food and drinks. According to this calculation, his silver bars were close to two taels, and they were of excellent quality. After all, this was the main world with more developed industries.
Refined.
One tael of silver can be exchanged for six hundred copper coins. This refers to fine copper coins. Local low-quality copper coins can be exchanged for more than a thousand coins.
Carrying a bunch of copper coins, John headed towards the bookstore pointed out by the landlady with some ostentation.
He was not wearing the broad-sleeved robe that the locals wore in the style of Tang Dynasty clothes, which could hide the copper coins in his hands. The reason why he did not receive them in the space was because he deliberately exposed them in order to attract people with ill intentions. In this way, he
Then you can legitimately teach those people a lesson and then extort some information from them.
Unfortunately, I don’t know whether it’s because the local gangsters are of very good quality, or because they don’t like the more than a thousand copper coins, or because the government in the area is very strict and no one dares to go against the government.
In short, although John could feel a lot of malicious eyes along the way, when he arrived at the bookstore location mentioned by the landlady, there were no money-hungry gangsters who came to rob him.
A somewhat disappointed John let out a breath, took the money and entered the shop directly.
After a few dozen steps away from the wine shop, there are no longer stalls built with bamboo poles and linen on both sides, but wooden street-facing shops.
If the location he landed in before was a busy market like a vegetable market, then the area John came to now should be a higher-end commercial district.
In front of each house, there are lanterns and flags that represent the business and characteristics of the house. Most of them have Chinese characters on them. But John is not surprised. He has been to an island country for a business trip in his previous life. He knows that the specialty shops on the streets of the island country basically have their signs.
They all carry a lot of Chinese characters, so Chinese people can figure out what is being sold even if they don’t understand the language.
After entering the bookstore, John truly understood what antique style meant.
Speaking of island culture, many are the same or similar to China. The furnishings in this bookstore do not have the same feeling as Western bookstores. Instead, they are all surrounded by wooden counters. In addition to the counters, there are also seats for guests to rest and drink tea.
, it feels like an ancient high-end club.
Moreover, John's sharp eyesight swept around and discovered that most of the books here were in Chinese characters, which saved him a lot of trouble. Although with the talisman provided by Helena, the power of the universal language allowed him to understand all the words.
But it’s not as easy to understand as the culture you’ve been familiar with since childhood.
"Welcome to Jinyuzhai, it's your first time here, please let me introduce you..."
A young man in a blue Tang Dynasty suit came forward. Although he was not tall, he had beautiful eyes and white flowers on his temples. He looked very much like the handsome boys who were popular in his previous life. A waiter like this would obviously be more able to attract customers.
You can tell by just looking at the store that in addition to male customers, there are also many female customers.
You must know that in both East and West, before mechanical printing became popular, ancient cultural items were very expensive. For example, in ancient China and before the Ming and Qing Dynasties, a book, even a printed version, generally required a lot of money, which was more than one tael of silver.
.
If it is rare or simply a unique copy, the price will be even higher. Not to mention famous paintings that can easily cost dozens or even hundreds of taels.
Through the young waiter's introduction, John got a rough idea of the prices in this bookstore. As expected, they were all beyond the reach of ordinary people. But it was nothing to his current net worth.
It was rare to come to an ancient world similar to Middle-earth, and he didn't know when he would be able to come back again. John was so happy to see that he purchased a large number of supplies that were not available in the main world.
Every kind of fine rice paper from China across the sea is available for several knives. The well-known lake pens from China are also available in large and small sizes. There are also ink blocks, inkstones, cinnabar, and sealing stones from China and the local area.
I bought a lot of things commonly used by literati. Cinnabar is a high-quality material for making ink pads and pigments. In addition to drug stores, shops specializing in the four treasures of the study must also be indispensable.
As for seal stones, in later generations, chicken blood, Tianhuang and other items may be sold here. Although they are all imported, they are sold very cheap now. John just bought some and took them back to carve for fun. After all, in the main world, nobles
Ring-shaped seals are still popular to represent status.
It looked like he bought a lot, but in fact it only cost him two gold bars.
I also purchased dozens of books such as history books and county annals, literati's essays recording local customs, various currently popular books, and abbreviations of imperial palace newspapers, etc.
These are all to facilitate him to better understand the situation in this world.
It was rare to meet such a wealthy guest. The owner of the bookstore, a gentle middle-aged man, personally came to entertain him, arranged a donkey cart for John to be delivered to an inn or hotel not far away, and booked a room for John.
Of course, John still had to pay for the room himself, and the boss just said hello to the hotel owner.
This ancient hotel has the feel of an island-style B&B from a previous life, with tatami-like beds and paper sliding doors.
But there is no hot spring, bad review!
After sending away the clog maid who came to serve, John lay down in the most luxurious room in the hotel, drinking tea and reading the books he bought.
"Here we can finally find bubble tea from China instead of sencha from the island country. It is not unreasonable to say that sencha was eliminated in China. No one wants to drink soup all the time, right?"
The kind of sencha with salt and spices brewed is almost like a decoction to John, and this kind of tea was indeed used as medicine in ancient times.
"Interesting, well, this world is very interesting. It not only maintains the style of the Ming Dynasty, but also has many settings like the comic world, so let's call this world the ninja world!"
After reading several books and having a general understanding of the world's history and people's livelihood, John gave this world a name that seemed more appropriate to him.
The Ninja World, as the name suggests, is a world of ninjas.