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Stage 42. The Day of Reaching Gaia

The caravan finally arrived at its destination - Gaia.As the transportation hub connecting the central and southern parts of the Human Autonomous Alliance, the importance of Gaia is self-evident.And all kinds of people who come and go from south to north in this city have brought Gaia a rich variety of cultures, just like a colorful palette.

Because of this, Gaia has the most and best troubadours in the Alliance of All Humans. They come from all over and gather here, bringing a lot of legends of all kinds, and taking away a lot of stories from here , spread to other places.

The existence of these troubadours makes the people of Gaia also known as people who live in fairy tales. The people here have a little romance and innocence in their bones that are different from others.They are probably the most receptive group of people in the entire human alliance, there is nothing they can't hear from those magnificent stories.

It's a pity that Louis has basically never heard of Gaia and Gaia's troubadour culture.Because there are very few bards in the Eastern Demon Realm, and Gaia is not important enough to be marked as a military town.

It's just a gathering place for a group of lunatics who love to dream and weave their dreams.

And this happens to be the place where the Split Dragon likes to live in seclusion, and even Andra deduces that the reason why Gaia can become such a city is definitely inseparable from that boring, boring Split Dragon.

After listening to the introduction of the free tour guide Hippo, Louis also has a lot of interest in this place.

"Pull up your ridiculous nonsense, Lu, there's no such thing as Santa Claus, Easter Bunny, or Charlie's Chocolate Factory." Louis remembers his brother saying this, and matched it by the way. A look of contempt.

"But... I'm only five years old," Louis remembered him saying.

"Yes, you are no longer a child of three or four years old." His elder brother replied in this way.

A troubadour sang an interesting story in front of Louis and his party, but it made Hippo, who was not very happy at all, even more unhappy. That is, the troubadour pirated Hippo's story and put it online to make money.

Hippo thought that he probably wouldn't like Gaia, a city full of troubadours, in his life.

Troubadours are divided into several grades, but in Hippo's eyes there are only two types:

One is original troubadours. This is a population similar to Hippo writers. Everyone is cheating money with code words. Heck, no, they are dream writers who create literature.

The other type is troubadours who plagiarize. Under the banner of "love", they tell others about the author's profit-making articles on the Internet for free, causing economic losses to the author. They are not ashamed , saying in a high-profile way that I am right, I am benefiting those who have no money to buy magic core stones on the world network, using the fruits of other people's labor to please others, and counting it as my own, it is really shameless to the extreme, like a tarsus Maggots are disgusting.That's not enough, what's more, there is a fee, of course, it is cheaper than the author's online articles, and if you become a bitch, you have to set up a memorial archway, which is probably what you are talking about.

Obviously, there are very few original troubadours, and most of them are plagiarized troubadours. As the popular and well-known writer who has been plagiarized the most, it is really difficult for Hippo to arouse the slightest interest in such people . "Stealing texts is shameful" is Hippo's consistent catchphrase.

"The most abominable thing about pirated texts is not that they harm other people's legitimate economic interests. What's even worse is that they will affect readers, giving readers a false perception that it's nothing to read pirated texts, and they don't even know that what they read is pirated texts. , This is more abominable than stealing text itself. It will affect the correct world outlook and values ​​​​of young people. Stealing needles when they are young, stealing gold when they grow up! Prevent the erroneous, start from an early age!" Xibo said.

Louis and Charlotte looked at Hippo, who seemed to be a different person. The expressions on their faces were exactly the same. When did Hippo have such righteous sentiments of worrying about the country and the people?

I only heard Hippo continue to say: "My children and grandchildren will have infinite scarcity, and my economic losses will snowball, getting bigger and bigger!"

Louis and Charlotte glanced at each other, exchanged a reassuring look, and saw the tacit understanding of "as expected", this is Hippo.

"Hey! When did you GD become a base?" Xibo was very angry.

Louis didn't find it strange. He and Charlotte were already familiar in the game. Although Charlotte and Hippo didn't know each other in reality, and Charlotte's behavior was very strange, he had a tacit understanding. Things will not cease to exist because of these external factors.

Charlotte's face froze, and Louis hid further away, cough, pretending to be shy was a bit too much.

In the end, the caravan was sent to the destination in the city, the task was completed, and the two teams have parted ways since then.Under the strong request of the team leader, Hippo and the other party exchanged the contact information of the neural connection crystal.

Charlotte despises it in every way.

Hippo said, who knows when it might come in handy, don't bully the young and poor.

Charlotte shrugged noncommittally.She has never believed in the ridiculous dream of a sparrow turning into a phoenix. The genes of the species have been determined from the very beginning. If the sparrow is working hard, at most it can only be the leader of the sparrows. It is too far behind the phoenix. There is no comparison, okay?

Louis glanced at Charlotte's expression, and suddenly at that moment, he had a feeling of deja vu, but he couldn't remember where and when.

The stingy caravan boss ran faster than a rabbit after paying off the employment fee, and completely disappeared before everyone's eyes.

"Could it be that he is afraid that we will be dissatisfied with the commission, so he quietly put him in a sack?" Hippo seemed to have only one truth, "However, he is indeed too stingy, and it is not worth the two mines that hit the road just now." price."

"Either just say it, or shut up." Charlotte said.

Hippo shut his mouth wearily.He also knew that it was useless for him to complain like this, but he couldn't have forced the boss to raise the price just now, because this was breaking the rules.

The employment fee finalized in the Adventurer's Hall cannot be changed. This is a rule that everyone knows, unless the other party violates the rules first and does not clearly describe the danger in the mission. If the other party clearly states how powerful they will encounter bandits, and you accept the quest, then you can no longer raise the price afterwards.This is the behavior of a villain and will be cast aside by the entire industry.

Of course, if your loss is very small, the employer cannot lower the price.

There is also an unspoken rule that, when your side suffers heavy losses, or the force value is particularly strong, the employer will give you more in order to please you, so as to make everyone happy.

However, sometimes you will encounter unscrupulous employers, so you can only consider yourself unlucky and not accept his family's mission next time.

The caravan boss that Xibo and the others met this time was a stingy person who was not so stingy.And what Hippo can do, at most, is never to accept the boss's mission, and to warn other teams to get along with their team. If he has resentment and takes revenge on the boss in private, he will not only be punished. The entire industry despises it so simple, and they will be re-examined by the Adventurer's Guild, and those who are serious will be revoked.

With the status quo of "few people with legal identification" in the [Dining] team, the review by the Adventurer's Guild will become their worst nightmare.

Andra generously gave all the money from selling the robber's equipment to Hippo as a token of comfort.

Hippo looked at the money and said, "Why? It's not enough to buy a button on Lu's clothes."

"Hey, don't be angry, I'll buy you candy." Andra replied.

"..." Are you coaxing me like a child?

"..." That's right!

"Don't stop anyone, I'm absolutely forced to duel with this guy today!" Hippo waved his small fists and said, and then... no one really stopped him, and he didn't really dare to rush forward to a duel.

"Promising." Charlotte said bluntly.

Louis kept looking at Hippo, who he thought was downright funny.It is undeniable that Lord Demon King is cultivating a new goal for himself in the lonely days without Mengmeng, Lier, and the high priest showing off his cuteness.

Andra walked up to Louis and began to explain the necessity for him to take on this task.This not very lucrative quest is the only one on the way from Tartarus to Gaia.After all, such a task as the caravan boss refused to use the magic circle to transport, and there happened to be a gang of robbers waiting on the road, is not so easy to come across.

Louis nodded to understand that he really didn't mind the commission at all.Really, regardless of whether the commission is more or less, Hippo would never really dare to deduct his food and clothing expenses, would he?

Moreover, why does everyone think he is very difficult to talk to?Louis reflected, God knows he is actually very easy to satisfy.

Well, I have to admit that today, when Louis has become a habit of pretending to be X, he really has no self-knowledge at all about how terrible the iceberg aura he imitated his brother is.That is a kind of terrifying feeling that people around him will unconsciously check whether they have made a mistake even if they obviously did not make a mistake, for fear that something will not be well served, which will anger him and cause irreversible consequences.

Next, the task of the [Dining] team is to go to the tavern of the Gaia Adventurer Branch and take on some real money-making tasks to balance the team's expenditure.As a result, Andra saw a very interesting quest posting on the floating quest bar: Can you take a picture of a dragon for me?

This task not only paid well, but also allowed all members of the [Dining] team to see the end of their goals.

Split Dragon probably really lives in seclusion in this city, he is really... so boring, so boring.

The person who issued the task was a girl full of fantasy style, the daughter of the city lord.

But unfortunately, before the [dinner] team had time to meet with the city lord lady and express their willingness to take on this task, the task had already been completed, and they were sent by the nine people who came to Gaia with them. Rookie squad.

Hibbert shook his nerve connection crystal in front of Charlotte in shock: "This is called foresight~"

Louis continued to observe the interaction between Hippo and Charlotte, but found that Hippo, who was still terrified just now, became more obedient after seeing the way he looked at him, and said flatteringly: "I Just contact them now and never waste your time!"

Louis raised his eyebrows, thinking, you really misunderstood me, I didn't say anything TAT...

The gray-haired and gray-eyed Lear turned into a silver dragon and flew in the Human Autonomous Alliance for several days. He had to admit that he seemed...a little lost.Charlotte's nerve connection crystal couldn't be connected. Relying on the smell, Lear was distressed to find that Louis smelled in many places. Where should he go?