Mercenaries and Adventurers

Afterwards, Keel took out some other small works of art in the backpack that seemed to be worth some money, and showed Mr. Simmons Jr. to estimate the estimated price.

"It's better for you to melt this humanoid silver statue for money. The church stipulates that folks are not allowed to privately cast the image of a god, anything."

Keel was sweating profusely.

"This necklace that looks good is fake. Take a dagger and cut the corner. Find out, it looks like a necklace made of gold, but it is not gold. Gold is not so hard. You can give it to the red house The girl from here is used to please them for a while. But you'd better not go to that red house again in the future. "

Keir was speechless, he never went to those places. You uncle doesn't look like a loyal man, but he is still a young boy now!

Regarding this fake jewelry necklace, the robbers must be able to see that it is fake, so why didn't they throw it away?

"This woodcarving. Well, this smell." Mr. Simmons Jr. was holding the last thing whose value was hard to discern. It is an animal wood carving, a doe is vividly carved in white wood, the movements are vivid, slender and dexterous. However, it seems that this thing is very fragile. In fact, this wood carving is very resilient. Keel only needs to wrap it with a soft cloth, and then he can put it in his backpack with confidence, not afraid of it being damaged in the backpack.

Mr. Simmons closed his eyes, sniffed the white doe wood carving carefully, and said for a while, "This thing is amazing, Keel, this thing is made of a material produced by a different race. When you smell it, does it feel like you are surrounded by forests just by smelling it?"

Keir didn't know that the wood carving had such a big background, so he closed his eyes and sniffed it.

Sure enough, it was obviously a wooden sculpture, and when he smelled the scent, he immediately thought of the lush and vibrant forest. There seemed to be a herd of wild deer in the forest. When he touched the bushes, he seemed to see a docile and dexterous doe behind the bushes.

The eyes of the two met, and the sudden appearance of Kiel frightened the timid animal. It jumped a few times and quickly fled into the depths of its mind.

Opening his eyes, Keir was amazed.

Mr. Simmons patted Keel on the shoulder: "This thing is worth a lot of money. Not only does it have this magical fragrance, but it is also a rare work of art of a different race. If you want to sell it, many people will want it."

Kiel smiled: "So do you have any channels? I am in urgent need of money recently, and I want to sell them all for money. Of course, the jewelry in the bone box is not included. I will return these things to the dead. The church of God, by the way, should I return it to the church in Bingxun Pass or the church in Kendall City? Do you know, Mr. Simmons?"

"Idiot, of course it is the Church of the God of the Dead in Kendall City. The level of the two is the same. If you give it to Kendall City, you will have the opportunity to meet higher-level church priests, and the rewards given to you by the other party will be the same." better."

I see.

Afterwards, Mr. Simmons Jr. thought for a while, and told Keel that he knew a few wealthy businessmen, and it happened that they were all in Bingxun Pass at this time. He can be busy today, talk to them about this matter, and sell these things in the hall of the Simmons Chamber of Commerce tomorrow.

Rubies of good color and size, and animal sculptures with mysterious scents.

These two things are sure to get their liking.

After agreeing to distribute 20% of the final sale price to Mr. Simmons Jr., Keel put away the things and made an appointment to come back before noon tomorrow.

Mr. Simmons Jr. immediately went out with Keel, fully dressed, and with a valet to his friend. And Kiel went to the main street of the checkpoint, found a big shop and walked in.

As soon as the store entered, there were two thugs with iron rods strapped to their waists sitting behind the door. The rest of the store was divided into several areas, and each area had shop assistants responsible for different tasks.

Keir didn't bring a long sword and only a short dagger at his waist, so he didn't attract attention when he came in. He found a table in charge of currency exchange and quietly placed the sterling silver statuette on the table.

"Good day, young man, what's the matter?" The clerk who was older than Kiel raised his head and said to Kiel.

Kiel pushed the sterling silver figurine on the table forward: "Please, I want to exchange this for coins directly. You can take a look, it's sterling silver."

The clerk with gray hair took the sterling silver figurine, muttered something, but still picked it up and looked it over carefully.

"Well, are you sure it's pure silver? If you want to exchange it for coins, I have to remind you that casting statues without authorization will annoy the church, all churches."

Kiel smiled casually: "I know, so I plan to exchange it for coins directly."

The clerk rubbed the statue with his hands: "I mean, because it is a privately cast statue, the value I gave it has to be lowered?"

Keir stopped laughing immediately: "Why don't you break it off in the middle and see if it's all sterling silver?"

"you sure?"

"I'm sure. Take your time."

With Kiel's approval, the old man called a younger clerk. The young clerk held a thick iron tongs, clamped the middle of the statuette, and then clamped it down hard.

The figurine, indeed made of sterling silver, had been snapped off in the middle by the jaws of iron tongs.

The center of the deformed statue was a single silver color. Keel picked up both sides of the fallen statue and handed it to the clerk.

"Look, it is indeed made of pure silver inside. Moreover, it is not a complete statue now, and it has no other purpose except for melting." Kiel raised his eyebrows and said with a smile on his face.

The grey-haired clerk glared at Kiel: "Smart boy." In fact, an experienced clerk can tell whether a silver product is pure silver by shaking it twice in his hand, and there is no need to cut it open for inspection. .

Immediately afterwards, the clerk wiped the broken figurine carefully and weighed it on the nearby patio. After calculating the weight, he called the shop steward. After the steward inspected it, he took it out from the cash drawer deep in the shop. Here comes a small bag of silver coins.

In front of Kiel, counted out thirty-three silver coins and pushed them to Kiel.

After Kiel thanked him, he picked out some silver coins from his own purse, pushed them together with these new silver coins to the other party, and asked the other party to exchange them for gold coins.

The old clerk patted his forehead with his hands: "It's really unnecessary." Keel shrugged, not worried that the other party would not accept it. After all, no matter how you look at it, when the store converts coins, it is actually making money. After all, shops do not look at the number of coins when converting coins, but only count the weight of coins.

In the end, after Kiel made up two more silver coins, the other party handed him five gold coins.

The losses caused by the wear and tear of some silver coins are all borne by Kiel himself, and the store only calculates based on the standard weight. They will never lose money.

Tightly put away the five gold coins, declined the clerk's intention to take Kiel to the shop, and Kiel walked out of the shop quickly.

After hurriedly returning to the hotel room he rented, Keel carefully packed up his things and took the important things with him, and then went to the backyard to clean and feed his horses.

He also rode a horse without a saddle and bridle, lying on the horse's back and wrapping the horse's neck, and walked around the backyard of the hotel for a while, letting the horses take a walk.

But it seems that his horse prefers to stay in the warm stable than the freezing outside.

In the evening, Keir borrowed the kitchen of the hotel, lit a fire and cooked some food himself, and ate some meals with the hotel staff. Keir's cooking skills in his previous life were still good, and there was nothing he could do in the wild, but in a kitchen with sufficient kitchen utensils, he could still show his skills to meet the diet of him and the hotel Keir's clerk.

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The next morning, Kiel patted the clothes on his body clean, wiped his warm boots with a dry cloth, and tidied up the wolf fur cloak on his body. After that, Kiel put two things that he would sell to the merchant today into his waist in the cloth bag.

Then he rode out of the hotel on his horse, and soon came to the Simmons Chamber of Commerce run by the family of Mr. Simmons Jr.

The Chamber of Commerce is just like yesterday, the entrance is very lively. It seems that the business enthusiasm of the merchants has been completely detonated recently, and they all want to do business safely when there are no bandits on the road.

Keir couldn't figure it out, since they needed safe trade routes so much, why didn't they just hire a group of professional mercenaries from other places to force and suppress the bandits from making trouble on the trade routes.

As soon as he greeted the people from the Simmons Chamber of Commerce, he was taken to the hall of the Chamber of Commerce by a member of the Chamber of Commerce who knew him.

"The vice-chairman said that there are some changes in the things he made an appointment with you. You wait here, and I will call the vice-chairman." The clerk of the chamber of commerce asked Keir to wait a while, and he went to the warehouse on the other side of the chamber of commerce to find little Simon. Mr. S.

Keir was inexplicable, he didn't know what would happen to what he said yesterday, so he had to wait where he was.

After a while, the busy figure of Mr. Simmons came over. He was followed by two chambers of commerce who were in charge. Each of them held a notepad, various paper documents and wooden certificates in their hands. The three of them checked various things while walking.

"Keil, I'm sorry, I agreed yesterday to sell those two items here for you, but my friends are very busy, as you can see, and I'm also very busy here, everyone is here Taking advantage of this opportunity, all kinds of commodities that have been accumulated for a long time are put into operation. You buy and I sell, and you sell and I buy. Each chamber of commerce is exchanging a large number of materials, and they are selling materials in large quantities with their own business channels. Shipping out. It's not the busiest now, and it will be even busier after the supplies from all over the country are transported to Bingxun Pass by road in a month or two."

Keir waved his hand: "I should be sorry, I came to ask you for help so suddenly. It's just this matter now?"

"Ah, look at me, I'm so busy and confused, I just complained." Mr. Simmons patted his forehead: "It's like this, they can't leave, so we discussed it, and someone happened to be on the main street of the checkpoint There is a long-term rental room in that luxury hotel. As soon as we sum up, we will simply sell your things there. Just after your business is completed, we can just get together to discuss the latest situation and the affairs of each family. Hey, thanks to you, my friends and I can just meet up and maybe we can make some deals."

Keir smiled, as long as the things can be sold, he doesn't care where the place is.

After the two finished speaking, Keir waited for Mr. Simmons Jr. for a while, and waited until the other party's work was temporarily completed, so he was free, and then the two walked out of the chamber of commerce.

Keel led his horse, while Mr. Simmons Jr. took his follower, and the three walked together to the luxury hotel in the center of the checkpoint.

Mr. Simmons looked at Keel's horse: "Keir, you can do it. This horse looks very docile and suitable for beginners like you. But the price of the horse is very high. When did you get it? "

Keir told Mr. Simmons that he had made a contribution in dealing with the monsters, and Knight Lanisa rewarded him with three horses that he had taken from the bandits.

"Speaking of which, it's not easy for you. Pay more attention to safety, Warcraft, is that thing really that scary? I only heard about it from bards when I was a child, but I haven't seen it. You know , In fact, although Kendall County is remote, it is actually very safe inside the checkpoint and Kendall County to the north of the checkpoint. The last time there was news of a monster appearing, I don’t know when it happened.”

Kiel said that when he was dealing with the monster, the monster released its magic, blowing away a large area of ​​snow and land around it, and razed hundreds of meters in front of the monster to the ground.

Keel said it lightly, but Mr. Simmons Jr. and his sidekick were terrified. Among the two of them, Mr. Simmons Jr. was rescued by Kiel himself from the bandits' lair, the Devil's Lair. He knew that Kiel was a man, and he was not a person who would talk about it.

He was shocked when he heard that the monster would release magic and destroy hundreds of meters in front of it.

"Is it so scary? That Warcraft?" Little Mr. Simmons coughed dryly, spoke slowly, and his face turned pale.

Kiel slapped his head: "You think too much. Although we were fighting Warcraft in the forest at that time, we happened to be on a flat land in the forest without trees. The magic of Warcraft is not blocked by anything, so we can fight it." It hit so far. I saw it later, and the force it sent out was quickly blocked after it hit a tree. If you want me to give you an example, if the monster uses that move again in the city, it will probably be exhausted. Destroy half a street. No more."

"Half a street is not too short. However, after all, the monster has been killed by the Lanisa knight you mentioned, so I don't worry about it anymore. After all, the next time a monster appears, I guess I will have to wait until I am old." Time will come. Haha." Little Mr. Simmons came back to his senses, did the math, and felt that the chance of encountering a monster in his life was infinitely zero, so he no longer worried.

The few people were talking, and quickly walked through the streets and alleys, and came to the most luxurious and widest luxury hotel in Bingxun Pass - the Harp Hotel.

Keir didn't know why a hotel used a musical instrument as its name. He asked the little Mr. Simmons next to him. Although the other party didn't know, he knew that this hotel was opened in every important trade center in the kingdom. The power is unfathomable.

Keel handed the horse over to the hotel clerk, and took a sheet metal voucher number from him. Then follow Mr. Simmons Jr. into the hotel.

Compared with other hotels, the luxurious decoration here even reminded Kiel of the description of the hotel environment in the fantasy works in the previous life. The ground is spliced ​​with precious stones, and the ground can even be seen to reflect light where no one walks around.

Compared with other building materials that use a lot of wood, the lobby of this luxury hotel is soaring, and more solid fine stones are used for construction.

The lobby of the hotel is spacious and expansive as soon as you enter the door.

The walls of the hall are hung with landscape paintings from various places in the distance. Although the style is realistic, it also contains the artist's personal emotions. Obviously, it is not the work of an unqualified artist.

While walking around, Mr. Simmons Jr. saw Keir paying attention to the paintings on the wall, so he asked him: "Do you still know about these art paintings?"

Keir shook his head: "I don't know, but I can see the emotions left by the authors of each painting. In any case, compared to simply depicting the scenery, the works with strong emotions in the paintings are at least better, aren't they? "

Little Mr. Simmons blinked his eyes and smiled awkwardly: "I'm ashamed to say it, I have never seen the various emotions left by the painter on them. You must tell me about it when you have a chance, so that I can understand it deeply." Take a deep look at these paintings."

"Okay, no problem." Kiel nodded.

Several people entered the corridor through the side door of the hall. After going up to the first floor, they knocked on the door on the second floor on the north side and entered a room.

The inner floor of the house is several meters high, and the whole house uses elegant bright yellow natural wood as the walls, and the windows facing inwards of the hotel are actually small glass windows.

After seeing the window, Kiel's eyes were dazed for a moment, and he realized that in a magical world with magic, many things may not be available, but they will not be used by the people at the bottom, and a large amount of wealth is concentrated in a few In the hands of the upper class, such as the lords of various places, or the priests and magicians, or the hands of big businessmen.

In the middle of the room is a huge low wooden chair with a back, covered with a thick layer of spotted deerskin. In order to be used for this long wooden chair, many pieces of deerskin are obviously stitched together.

At this time, several businessmen with big bellies were sitting on chairs talking. They were all dressed formally, and their respective assistants were standing behind the wooden chairs.

When Mr. Simmons Jr. came in with his attendant and Keir, they all stopped talking, and several of them stood up to welcome Mr. Simmons Jr., while Mr. Simmons guided Keir to introduce himself to the people present. everyone.

"My friends, this young man is the seller who sold another treasure today." Mr. Simmons introduced Keel, and Keir gave a salute and introduced himself: "Dear gentlemen, I am Joe Keel, A warrior from Kendal City."

"Joe Kyle? I've heard of this name. You seem to be good at dealing with all kinds of monsters?" A fat businessman in brightly dressed said.

Mr. Simmons Jr. took over the words: "Yes, my little friend is very good at dealing with all kinds of enemies, but today he is not wearing his full-body, full-covering hard cowhide armor. Is that what it is called, Keir ?”

"Yes, you're right." Keir replied, he didn't talk much, Mr. Simmons told him before UU reading www.uukanshu.com came, and deal with his business friends to him.

"Not only that, but Keil is better at dealing with bandits hiding in the mountains." Mr. Simmons then said viciously, "For example, the bandits in Pocket Hole!"

Kiel said softly: "Please relax, I followed Knight Crowe and wiped out all those bandits. I even personally killed the leader of a bandit in Pocket Hole. It's a pity that the other leaders are sticking to their lair in the end If they didn’t come out, they were all choked to death in the cave under the order of Crow Knight to set fire.”

Hearing this, Mr. Simmons laughed hehehe: "Good boy, you really gave me a sigh of relief, you did a great job!"

Only then did the other businessmen know that the young man brought by Simmons Jr. had joined the team of militiamen and bandits who had not yet returned, and came back first. They either didn't believe it, or couldn't help but be curious, so they asked Kiel how the militiamen cleared up the bandits.

Little Mr. Simmons didn't hear Keel talk about this matter in detail, so he just talked about this matter that everyone is interested in before the official sale of treasures. Anyway, there is still one person who didn't come, so it's just waiting, why not Listen to this young man talk about what happened at the front where the militia was cleared.

Seeing that everyone was interested in this matter, he began to talk about how he joined the militia camp, was ordered to be dismissed by Knight Crow, and joined in the matter of clearing up the bandits.

The story begins when he followed Lanisa Knight's hunter team to seek support and walked from the deep mountains to Bingyu Pass. Keir and his hunter teammates met a team of former hunters near the bandits' lair in Luobag Cave. An encounter between a melee militia and a small group of elite bandits in a snowy woods.