The old dragon

"Yes, Su Huan will definitely live up to the castle master's expectations and never forget his original intention." Su Huan solemnly stood up and promised loudly.

"You can step back." Zhou He waved his hand and smiled.

As soon as he left the castle master's study room, a waiting servant greeted him courteously and led Su Huan towards the outer castle.

The servant had seen the pet control egg in Su Huan's hand before, and Lu Yu, the well-known chief trainer, personally brought him to meet the castle master, so he guessed his identity.

He kept complimenting Su Huan along the way, but Su Huan responded with a smile on his face, noncommittal in his heart.

In the past three years, he has been used to seeing the warmth and coldness of human relationships, and he has already been able to be flattered or humiliated by others' compliments or contempt, and his heart is as calm as water.

Otherwise, it would be impossible for him to persist for another whole year in the strange eyes of everyone.

After returning to the outer fort, he went straight to the rest area of ​​the special trainer trainees, took his package and all his belongings from his shoe cabinet, and left the outer fort impatiently.

This disappointed many special trainees who wanted to make friends with Su Huan, a future big shot.

Su Huan naturally wouldn't care about their opinions, he didn't care in the past, and it's even more impossible to care now.

What he wants to do most at this time is to tell his sister the good news that he has become a trainer.

It was the end of autumn at this time, and the weather had turned cold. Su Huan slept on the castle sentinel bunker facing the evening wind all night. At this time, his body temperature was still a little low. Fortunately, he was not weak due to years of exercise, and he did not catch a cold.

He tightened his already somewhat flimsy coat, put the pet control egg into the washed white canvas bag, and with the canvas bag slung across his shoulders, he crossed the city gate and walked out of the majestic castle with his hands wrapped in his pockets.

[5.5, sister Su Qing]

Walking out of the castle, Su Huan took a habitual glance at the iconic building of the Black Lantern Gathering Area, the Black Lighthouse, which is also the origin of the name of the Black Lantern Gathering Area.

The original black light gathering place was a simple wilderness camp built around the black lighthouse. The original residents made a living by providing temporary rest and supplies for wilderness travelers, and finally developed to today's scale after hundreds of years.

Outside the outer fort of Castle Black Lantern is the inner area of ​​the gathering place.

Apart from the castle, the Black Lantern gathering place with tens of thousands of residents is divided into inner and outer districts.

The inner area belongs to the more prosperous core area other than the castle, and the black lighthouse stands in the core area of ​​the inner area.

The inner area is also the area where rich people with higher status in the agglomeration live, and the environment is relatively clean.

Although it still can't compare with the outer fort.

But the road is also neatly paved with stone roads cut into squares, and there is not much sewage dust or dirty dirt discarded anywhere on the road.

Compared with the inner area, the environment in the outer area is harsh, and it belongs to the area where the low-level people live in the black light gathering place.

Not only is the environment harsh, but also the efficiency of the sewage system is low, and sewage and garbage can be seen everywhere.

Su Huan's family is in the outer district.

Originally, his home was in the border area between the inner and outer districts, which was the real estate left by his deceased parents, and belonged to the area where most of the middle and lower classes lived in the gathering place.

But in the past three years, he spent too much on participating in the special training of the driver, and as time went by, various expenses even increased rather than decreased.

Relying on the meager income that my sister earned as an agronomist in the plantation, it gradually became difficult for me to support myself.

A year ago, in order to pay the special training fee in full, he had no choice but to sell the house and moved to a low-rent house in an outer district.

On Nongken Street near Plantation No. 5 in the outer district, a dilapidated five-story old house with the outer walls almost peeling off is Su Huan's current home.

Although Nongken Street is located in the outer district, it has a better environment in the outer district.

Residents living nearby are mostly farmers, gardeners, and helpers working in several plantations in the outer area.

The relatively single personnel has created a better environment in Nongken Street. At least there will be no frequent robbery and injury incidents, and it is rare for a fatal incident to occur once a month.

This is a rare situation among the dozen or so blocks in the outer district.

When Su Huan returned home, her sister was not at home, so she probably went to work in the plantation.

He first took out the pet control egg that completely changed his destiny from the canvas bag.

Since waking up after falling asleep accidentally, he hasn't observed this guy carefully, but only roughly tried to communicate the little guy's consciousness twice.

To make the other party break the shell earlier, apart from using special items such as dragon scales, the only way is to completely stimulate the young pet's desire to break out of the shell, which is what is called the desire to break the shell in terminology.

He was going to strike while the iron was hot, and communicate with the little guy more, so that he could work harder to get out of his shell.

The little guy's consciousness at this time is the same as that of a baby, and he is very dependent on Su Huan. Whenever Su Huan sends thoughts to the past, the little guy will always respond as soon as he is not asleep.

Su Huan happily communicated with the other party through spiritual bonds for half an hour.

When I sent the thought again, I waited for a while and did not receive a response.

He looked into the little guy's consciousness, and it turned out that the little guy in the shell was already sound asleep.

At this time, the pet is extremely lethargic, which is a normal phenomenon when the other party is still in the newborn stage, and sleep will help the other party to develop better.

Su Huan decided not to disturb the other party, and waited for the little guy to wake up before continuing to communicate.

He put the little guy in a canvas bag and carried it with him. He planned to take some coins that his sister had prepared for Su Huan as a special training fee, and go out to buy some ingredients. He would cook a big meal for his sister in the evening, and celebrate when she returned home.

Due to the difficulty of distinguishing the authenticity of banknotes, only coins made of precious metals can be circulated normally in various gathering places above the wilderness.

What Su Huan had in his hands were two gold coins with large denominations, a dozen silver coins with smaller denominations, and dozens of steel coins with the smallest denominations.

These coins are imitated by the black lamp gathering place according to the currency system of a super-large human gathering place.

The name of the currency also follows the name of the other party.

Gold coin gold gram, silver coin silver gram, steel coin steel gram.

The conversion ratio of each currency is 50:1.

That is to say, one gold gram is equivalent to 50 silver grams and 2500 steel grams.

One gold gram, which is almost half a month's income of his sister as an agronomist. He remembered that her monthly income was only about [-] gold grams.

With the seven thousand steel grams, she not only supported Su Huan's high tuition for the special training of a driver, but also allowed Su Huan to have a shelter from the wind and rain, and he had no worries about food and clothing.

If you only eat coarse grains, 2500 steel grams is enough for a family of five to live comfortably for more than a month.

But if you want to eat fine grains, meat, and expensive spices and seasonings, you can't eat a few meals with 2500 steel grams.

The coins in Su Huan's hand totaled [-] steel grams, and he took out ten silver coins and five steel coins out of them.

He calculated based on recent prices that this money was enough to buy meat and seasonings for two people, and there was still enough to buy some fruits and vegetables.

He went straight to the market with his canvas bag and money.

Nongken Street is adjacent to the No. 5 plantation where my sister works, and there are several large-scale food distribution markets covering a large area.