the only savior

Chapter 1048 The Fading Spirit Guardian

"make a deal!"

Following the stall owner's words, several people present were stunned for a moment.

Ziwei immediately realized that she had been tricked and was about to explode.

"Guest, guest, this is what you said just now, two hundred star coins, are you trying to cheat?"

The lizard man handed over the book while talking.

Ziwei didn't intend to do anything, she was just being tricked by someone, and she just felt very uncomfortable.

Seeing the booklet that the other party brought over at this moment, she had a strange expression on her face, as if she had choked on something, but she still took the book after all.

"Guests are really discerning. Old Crocodile, I'll treat it as a friend of yours. You can see what else you want. I'll give you a [-]% discount!"

As the lizardman spoke, he skillfully took out another "Soul Tracking" from the package and placed it in the position just now.

Zhang Xiaoman's eyes twitched.

Good guy, this is really a wholesale sale, no wonder the two hundred star coins were sold directly.

Seeing this, he suddenly had the feeling that he had come to the antique market on Shuilanxing.

Wandering around the nearby small stalls again, Zhang Xiaoman was attracted by the variety of goods here, and was a little reluctant to leave for a while.

"The bones of the Enlightenment-level savage dragon beast are a level 2 material. They have a high density and poor circulation of dark spiritual power. They are not suitable for energy-guiding weapons. They are suitable for forging into blunt weapons..."

"But it's a pity. The shape of this animal bone is curved and its volume is relatively small. It's not the best part, so the price shouldn't be very high..."

Zhang Xiaoman looked at a curved animal bone on the booth in front of him, and compared it with the data in his personal terminal for analysis.

Although the mercenaries at these trading booths like to cheat newcomers, in fact, as long as you pay more attention, there are still ways to avoid it.

Just like now, Zhang Xiaoman has logged into a community called "Newcomer Shopping Exchange Center", where he can directly analyze item information to obtain basic evaluation information, which can sort out some minefields.

"Toxoprofen herb, a grade 2 material, will cause coma if the skin comes into direct contact with it without protection. In severe cases, it can cause sudden cardiac arrest... It can be diluted to make toxoprofen medicine, which can play a role in The effect of ignoring the pain for a short time..."

"Huh? This is the tenacious silk of the star beast spirit spider? I remember that this thing seems to be the main material for making the dreadnought...it seems to be a level 2 material..."

"And this... This is the core of the Bernini scout drone, a level 2 material, which has a probability of containing three dark spirit circuits of 'quick', 'secret' and 'flash', among which the value of the 'flash' circuit is the highest , but as long as any kind of circuit can be obtained from it, the value of this core will be multiplied by dozens of times..."

Zhang Xiaoman looked at a broken black chip in front of him, and shook his head secretly.

"It's just...the damage to the core of this drone is too high, and the outer melanized layer is almost falling off. Under such circumstances, it is difficult to guarantee whether the internal core circuit has been taken away, even if the material itself It has already reached Level 2, but compared to this price, there is no need to buy it..."

Through the information provided by the personal terminal, he knew that the drone core in front of him had lost its true value.

The core of this kind of drone is a specialty of the Bell family, similar to the brain of the other party.

There is usually a black protective layer around the core, called the melanin layer.

This black fading layer belongs to the natural coating of the core of the drone, and it cannot be restored and repaired at present.

That is to say, as long as the black fading layer has not been destroyed, it means that the dark spirit circuit inside is still intact, or it has not been taken away by others.

Of course, not all drones have dark spirit circuits inside their cores.

This is a game of luck. If you are lucky, all the cores you buy can open dark spirit circuits, and you can make a lot of money and get rich overnight.

Speaking of it, this is somewhat similar to betting on stones.

It's just that the core of the drone in Zhang Xiaoman's hand now, the outer melanized layer is almost damaged, and the chip inside can be vaguely seen, so the probability that this thing still has a dark spirit circuit is not high.

"Poor ghost, don't move around if you don't buy it!"

When the stall owner saw that Zhang Xiaoman was checking the novice guide in his personal terminal and looking up and down at the core of his drone, he was quite upset and his tone became very bad.

Most of the mercenaries who set up stalls in their area don't like customers to buy things according to those novice guides, because this will indeed affect their selling prices.

And most importantly, many people think this is a kind of disrespect for themselves, and it is clear that they don't believe in themselves.

"Watch your words, Rancodo!"

Arcatus took a step forward, looking at the stall owner with a fierce look in his eyes.

Now, after walking around the market with Zhang Xiaoman, he has a certain understanding of the people here.

The guy with blue skin and no ears like this one is considered to be a race with a large number of people here, called the Lankdo tribe.

"What, do you want to make trouble?"

The Lancado man showed no sign of fear at all, he stood up as soon as he clapped his hand on the floating floating board in front of him, and stared fiercely at Arcatus as well.

This man was originally a space mercenary, and being able to come back from hunting drones in the Bell Starfield also showed his extraordinary strength, so naturally he couldn't be the one willing to suffer.

Several stall owners around saw that there seemed to be a lot of excitement here, and they all shouted loudly, with smiles on their faces when they were eating melons and watching a show.

"Humph."

Arcatus didn't speak, but snorted coldly.

With a height of more than two meters and a pair of ferocious black armor, he puts tremendous pressure on people.

With his cold snort, cold air flowed out from under his visor and spread over the Lan Kedo stall owner.

The man couldn't help shivering, his mind seemed to be clearer, his pupils were locked tightly, and a chill couldn't help rising from the soles of his feet.

"Control level..."

Lan Kedo man trembled all over.

Just the cold breath that the other party exuded just now made him feel as if he had fallen into an ice cave, making him almost out of breath.

On the side, Hilna also took a step forward, staring at the stall owner without saying a word.

"Control level!?"

The few onlookers around who were eating melons and watching the show were all taken aback. They didn't expect that the strong man in black armor in front of him turned out to be a strong man at the control level.

At this moment, they also felt tremendous pressure from the aura exuded by Arcatus, and they knew that he was indeed a strong man at the control level.

The eyes of everyone subconsciously fell on Zhang Xiaoman again.

Judging from the situation just now, the strong man and the cold-faced woman beside him seemed to be the man's attendants. Obviously, the woman should also be at the control level.

Being able to bring two control-level guards at the same time, the status of the man in front of him must be very high. It is unexpected that he would come to such a place to buy things.

"Okay, all restrained!"

Zhang Xiaoman spoke.

He called Arcatus and Hilna back, looked at the stall owner, and said:

"We are the ones who affected your business, sorry."

As he said, he put the core of the drone back, turned around and prepared to leave.

The stall owner was frightened by Arcatus and Hilna, and it was only this time that he came back to his senses.

Just about to say something to make amends, but the three of them had already walked away, and they could only pat their heads full of annoyance.

If I had known that those few were in control, I would have had a better attitude.

This is not to say that you want to make a deal from the other party, but if you offend such a strong man, then mercenaries like yourself are easily retaliated by others.

It's okay to say that on Skull Star, after all, it is the administrative planet of the Dark Spirit Star Field, and its safety will be guaranteed.

But what if he was targeted by the other party, and if the other party came to retaliate against him during a certain outing, then there was really no place to cry.

The stall owner started to panic, he seemed to have something to do with the stall.

"Lex! You idiot!"

"Snapped!"

A slap came.

Another Lan Kedo man came over angrily, and slapped the stall owner on the face.

"team leader……"

"Idiot! I'm not your captain! You've been kicked out of the team now. How many times have I told you that your stinky mouth and bad temper should have been changed a long time ago. Sooner or later, the trouble will come out of your mouth! Now I know I'm afraid It's too late!"

"Captain...I..."

"Okay! I'll send you the part of your trophy funds. The Dementor Hunter Squad has nothing to do with you in the future. You can do it yourself!"

After saying that, the man left in a hurry, leaving the stall owner alone in a daze.

Zhang Xiaoman didn't go too far at this time, he could vaguely hear movement behind him.

He shook his head slightly, but didn't take it seriously.

"Arkatus, Hilna, without my order in the future, you are not allowed to be as impulsive as before."

"Lord..."

Zhang Xiaoman sighed.

"I know you are here to protect me, but this is a strange place after all, and you are no longer the top experts on the Irene continent. We must keep a low profile and try not to cause trouble, understand?"

Arcatus nodded helplessly.

"I understand……"

Hilna also echoed.

With her temperament, Zhang Xiaoman doesn't have to worry.

After such an episode, the three of them lost the intention to continue shopping for the time being.

It's not that their mood has deteriorated, but that they can only watch but not buy, which is really uncomfortable.

In a sense, Zhang Xiaoman is indeed a penniless "poor ghost".

He just came here yesterday. Although he has a lot of materials on him, he hasn't had time to exchange them, so his current personal fund account is still 0.

Ziwei went out to buy materials by herself just now, and she hasn't come back yet.

Moreover, Zhang Xiaoman didn't want to ask others for money for everything, so he looked at the nearby exchanges and decided to exchange some money by himself.

"Hey, Ji Xing, you are here! I found you!"

Ziwei's voice came from behind.

Seeing her sizing up slightly, Zhang Xiaoman suddenly smiled and said:

"I said Ziwei, what the hell did you do just now? How much did you spend? From what you're looking like, it looks like you're bleeding profusely?"

The corners of Ziwei's eyes twitched.

"Can you see that?"

Zhang Xiaoman was happy.

"Heh, you've written the pain all over your face, okay?"

Ziwei was a little speechless and had no choice but to speak truthfully:
"Didn't I blow up all my equipment when I was fighting those reapers? All weapons and armor were damaged, and there were some recovery potions, all of which need to be replenished..."

"Just now I went to find a few stalls. Those are relatively famous in this generation and have a good reputation. I bought some materials I needed from them. It's a bit far away, so I didn't call them. You come."

"Oh, then your spirit protection organization won't reimburse you for the money?"

Zhang Xiaoman asked curiously.

"What's the reimbursement? How can there be such a good thing..."

Ziwei fiddled with her hair subconsciously with her fingers, looking listless.

"Our Shadow Sentinels are almost disbanded, where is the funds allocated to us..."

"Oh? What do you say?"

Zhang Xiaoman became interested.

Ziwei pouted.

"It's okay to tell you, anyway, it's no secret anymore."

She scratched her hair, her tone quite helpless.

"Our Shadow Sentinels belong to the Guardians, and the Guardians are under the direct jurisdiction of the Protoss Council. Their main duty is to track down dangerous Darkspirit criminals."

"On the surface, it looks really good. Even high-level officials of the Ministry of Consolidation can arrest it directly."

"It's just that this profession itself is very dangerous, and it is also difficult to train new people. The addition of new blood has become very rare."

"The most important thing is that the Protoss Council is now in name only. Everyone is not united, and they are all competing for the position of the Great Elder. As a result, we have also been greatly affected... The members of the Guardians are getting less and less attention. There are fewer and fewer people, and now there are only three captain-level people, including me..."

"Damn it, it's not the guys from the Coordination Department, they got a psionic guard, I think it's because they are so wicked, they want to replace our Shadow Sentinels!"

"..."

Blah, blah, blah, Bigvea, like pouring out bitter water, talked about the current situation piece by piece, and there were some places where there was no beginning and no end, and the listeners were very puzzled.

But Zhang Xiaoman was attracted by a piece of information he said.

"Ziwei, you just said that the Protoss Council is not united, and everyone is vying for the position of Grand Master. What's going on?"

he asked.

Ziwei was taken aback for a moment, and then an unnatural smile appeared on her face.

"Aha... Did I say that just now? You heard it wrong, how could I say that kind of thing, you must have heard it wrong..."

(End of this chapter)