Picked up a deep sea lord

Walking along the market, a mottled direction sign appeared in front of Ye Jian and Luo Ling.

The direction sign points to a downward road on the left, and two big words are painted in red paint——District D.

Ye Jian remembered that Gu Chuxiao, who exchanged crystals with him in the afternoon, said that if he still wanted to exchange money, he could go to District D to find her.

He really wanted to exchange some of the crystals in his hand for coins, because living in a human city required money, and they would have to go to the Twilight Garden later, and the price of goods in an S-level city might be far higher than here.

District D is noisier than the market just now, with buzzing voices everywhere, transactions and quarrels are happening all the time, and it seems that the smell of gunpowder will spread at any time.

Luo Ling didn't like it very much here, and lay quietly on Ye Jian's shoulder without saying a word.

After a while, he caught sight of Ye Jian's soft black hair that was hanging down.

As Ye Jian walked, those strands of black hair swayed slightly.Luo Ling was like a cat fluttering butterflies, staring at it for a while without blinking, then suddenly reached out quickly and pulled Ye Jian's hair lightly.

Ye Jian lowered her head.

Luo Ling looked at him innocently.

Ye Jian: "..."

Such a scene is so familiar, it only happened once not long ago.So he was very calm: "I won't pull it for you, just play with my own hair."

Luo Ling: "Oh."

He leaned back on Ye Jian's shoulder again, his eyes still dangling along with those few strands of hair.

Ye Jian's hair color and eye color are beautiful, they are both a calm and flawless black color.

In fact, black hair is rare in the mermaid clan, just like Luo Ling's eggshell when he was born - a pure black eggshell, which the mermaid clan has never seen before.

Humans have different hair colors, but Ye Jian's hair is the same as his, all black.

He likes black.

Luo Ling pulled Ye Jian's hair lightly again.

"..."

Ye Jian found that this little mermaid always seemed to like to play with his hair when he was bored.When meeting Chen Rao and his party before, Luo Ling also grabbed him while he was not paying attention.

weird.

But when Ye Jian lowered his head and Luo Ling looked back with that innocent look, he was silent for a few seconds, and finally said nothing.

Do you want to buy some dried fish for Luo Ling next time?

Ye Jian let Luo Ling gently fiddle with her hair, thinking to herself.

In this way, when Luo Ling was bored, he could still eat small dried fish.

The two walked through the streets of District D. It was unknown whether Luo Ling, the little mermaid, was too eye-catching, or Ye Jian was already eye-catching enough. In short, they attracted a lot of extra attention.

"You are so embarrassed, it's your first time here, do you want to sell a mermaid?"

A man stopped Ye Jian suddenly: "Are you interested in participating in the underground auction? Tonight at eight o'clock, we provide proxy auction services and only charge 30.00% of the service fee."

Luo Ling: "..."

Ye Jian: "Sorry, this mermaid is not for sale."

The man's gaze stayed on Ye Jian's face for a few seconds, and he smiled with an unclear meaning: "Then, are you interested..."

Luo Ling: "?"

"No," Ye Jian gently pressed Luo Ling who was about to emerge, "Goodbye."

He walked around the man and walked forward quickly.

Luo Ling raised her face and frowned, "I don't like that person."

He didn't like the city even more.

In this human city, everyone regards him as a commodity that can be sold at will, a novelty.

"I don't like it either." Ye Jian said, "So we ignore him."

Luo Ling wanted to say something else.

Ye Jian patted his head: "You are not a commodity, you are a little mermaid."

Luo Ling's eyes curled up.

They came to District D to exchange for crystals, so they also paid special attention to this kind of storefront.

Soon, Ye Jian found it.

It was an unremarkable small shop with a small "Dui" character on the signboard. Someone went in with a spar and came out with an extra stack of banknotes.

Ye Jian carried Luo Ling into the store door, and the old man behind the counter wiped his glasses with a cotton cloth, and raised a vicissitudes of face in the dim light.

"Do you want to change the spar?"

"The market price of white spar today is [-] to [-] coins. If your quality is good, I can offer you a higher price."

A question mark appeared on Luo Ling's head.

He remembered very clearly that the woman who exchanged spar with them this afternoon patted her chest and said that she was absolutely honest and innocent, and finally exchanged 150 coins for Ye Jian's spar.

Could it be...they were tricked?

Luo Ling looked at Ye Jian, Ye Jian didn't say anything, and took out a white and a blue spar respectively: "I want to exchange these two."

The old man obviously didn't expect Ye Jian to take out two crystals at once. He was stunned for a few seconds, put on his glasses, and looked at him through the lenses: "I haven't seen you before... Are you the new watchman?"

Ye Jian didn't answer.

The old man lowered his head again, took out a piece of black cloth, and carefully placed the two crystals on the black cloth: "The white crystal is of average quality, I offer 210 coins, but your blue crystal is rare, complete and without blemishes , It’s just a little small...I’m willing to pay a thousand coins.”

One thousand coins, this number shocked Luo Ling a little.After all, he is just a little fish who doesn't know much about the human world and hasn't seen much of it.

Ye Jian's face remained unchanged, and she didn't immediately agree: "I'll take a look."

"Whatever." The old man wiped his glasses again, "I am the highest bidder on this street, you can look elsewhere, no one has a better price than me."

There is not only one spar exchange shop in District D, Ye Jian and Luo Ling found two other shops, and finally found that the old man was right, the price he gave was indeed the highest.

The old man's name is Bourne, and he runs this small shop by himself.Seeing Ye Jian go back and forth, he had already prepared to take out a money bag, which contained a total of 1000 two hundred and ten coins.

Ye Jian handed the money bag to Luo Ling, who immediately stuffed it into the blanket for fear of losing it.

He actually had no concept of human currency, he only knew that the money could allow them to stay in that hotel for many days and buy a lot of candied haws and bread.

Bourne carefully put away the spar, and heard Ye Jian asked, "How much money can the purple spar be exchanged for?"

Bourne paused, and when he raised his head again, his gaze became different.

"It depends on the quality of that spar," he lifted his glasses, "but the price I will give you will never be less than two thousand coins."

Ye Jian nodded slightly. He only had two purple crystals, and he didn't plan to exchange them for the time being.

"Welcome to come next time," Bourne said with a smile when leaving, "If you have a higher quality spar, I will be happy to accept it."

During this trip, Ye Jian's wallet soared from the original [-] coins to [-] coins, and became rich all of a sudden.

More importantly, he paid attention to the information around him along the way, and learned more about the world.

In the human world, alien beasts and spars have the same level division.The blue spar represents a c-level beast, and its price is more than double that of the white spar, which is below the c-level and is the lowest d-level.

The purple spar represents a more powerful b-level beast. I heard that there are a-level beasts above b-level, and the most powerful s-level beast... But Ye Jian has never seen it.

It is not easy to obtain spar, the higher the level of spar is, the more difficult it is to obtain, and for ordinary people, killing a strange beast, even the lowest d-level strange beast, is like a fantasy.

Therefore, a piece of the lowest grade white spar is also worth two to three hundred coins.

The weight of the purse containing more than 1000 coins is reassuring. Luo Ling covered the blanket, full of joy: "We have a lot of money."

Ye Jian: "Well, do you want to eat candied haws?"

Luo Ling: "I want to!"

"Uncle Bourne, I..."

A soft female voice fell into her ears, and Ye Jian, who had just walked out of Bourne's store, stopped and turned her head to meet a pair of light brown eyes.

It's Gu Chuxiao.

This afternoon, someone who exchanged 150 coins for Ye Jian's fine white spar worth at least 250 coins.

"..."

Gu Chuxiao probably didn't expect to meet Ye Jian again here, he was stunned for a second, and then blinked at Ye Jian.

Luo Ling showed a vigilant look, and Ye Jian decided to ignore her.

"Wait," Gu Chuxiao took a step forward, "You come here again to exchange crystals? With so many crystals on you, could it be...you are the watcher?"

Watcher, this is the first time Ye Jian has heard this word.

He didn't know what a watcher was at the beginning, but now he could vaguely guess that a watcher should be someone with special powers, able to kill strange beasts and hunt crystals—that's why when those people saw that he had crystals, they only Consider him a watchman.

However, Ye Jian didn't know whether he was a watcher or not, just like he didn't know who he was or where his power came from.

Ye Jian's silence became an answer to Gu Chuxiao, she chuckled lightly: "It's so strange that there are foreign watchmen like you in a small place like ours... Which B-level city did you come from? "

Ye Jian still didn't speak. 250 coins minus 150 coins equals [-] coins. He was wondering how many candied haws he could buy for Luo Ling with [-] coins.

Gu Chuxiao: "Are you here to exchange money? Do you want to exchange money with me? My price is very fair, no one is fooling you."

"..."

Ye Jian looked at her expressionlessly.

Gu Chuxiao looked at him for a few seconds, and finally realized that this person didn't seem to want to talk to him very much, folded his hands on his chest, and let out a soft "huh".

"Man, I admit that your indifference has seduced me."

Luo Ling: "?"

"Give me a contact information." Gu Chuxiao said reluctantly, "Don't force me to kneel down and beg you."

Ye Jian: "No."

Gu Chuxiao: "Why?"

Ye Jian: "You cheated me, one hundred coins."

Gu Chuxiao's eyes widened: "How can you insult people's innocence out of thin air!"

"Besides, can the matter of one hundred coins be considered a scam? One hundred coins... At most, it is the normal fluctuation of the market price!"

Ye Jian and Luo Ling were expressionless together.

Gu Chuxiao: "..."

"Okay, I was wrong." She clasped her hands together, "Just cheat this time, and I will definitely not cheat you next time."

"So give me a contact information?"

Ye Jian said, "I haven't."

Gu Chuxiao glanced at his empty wrist, and turned a white bracelet on his left hand: "Forgot to bring the communication bracelet? Or you can buy one now."

Ye Jian: "No."

Gu Chuxiao was silent for a second: "You rejected me again, I remember you, man."

"Next time we meet—"

"There will be no next time," Ye Jian interrupted, "I will leave here soon."

He wanted to leave after speaking, but Gu Chuxiao's next sentence made him stop.

"Leave?" Gu Chuxiao was a little puzzled, "You don't even have a communication bracelet, so I guess you don't have a pass either?"

"People without a pass cannot leave this city."

Ye Jian: "What?"

He and Luo Ling turned their heads together.

Gu Chuxiao: "Hey, didn't you know about it before you came in? Although this is only a C-level city, there is no entry restriction, but if you want to leave, you must have a pass with an ID attached, otherwise you won't be allowed to go."

Ye Jian quickly thought of something: "Don't you need a passport to go to other cities?"

"Of course," Gu Chuxiao said, "c-level cities have loose management, but cities above b-level will have strict identity checks, and pass inspection is required for entry and exit."

When she said this, she spread her hands: "So many people choose to stay here, not only because they have no money, but also because they don't have a pass for some reason and have to stay."

Ye Jian was silent.

If what Gu Chuxiao said was true, then he and Luo Ling would definitely not be able to get out.

This is not good news.

Luo Ling was also stunned. He didn't expect things to turn out like this. In a blink of an eye, both he and Ye Jian were trapped in this city, unable to go out, let alone find any source of water that could heal his injuries.

Oops, will Ye Jian...

Luo Ling's heart tightened suddenly.

Sensing the little mermaid's emotions, Ye Jian patted him on the back and turned to Gu Chuxiao: "Then, how can I get a pass?"

Gu Chuxiao: "Well, the easiest way is to join a team of explorers. As long as you stay for three months, you will naturally be issued a pass."

Ye Jian was no stranger to the word explorer team.

Chen Rao's team he rescued today was a team of explorers.

"I see," he said, "thanks."

Gu Chuxiao chuckled: "No thanks, the explorer team is stationed in Area C, you can go there and have a look."

"If there is a chance, we will meet again. Remember to do business with me next time."

Ye Jian: "Yes."

I'm not looking for you.

After separating from Gu Chuxiao, he hugged Luo Ling and walked back along the road in District D.

Luo Ling lowered her head, rubbing her soft face against Ye Jian's shoulder, with a listless expression, without saying a word.

He wandered all the way, not paying attention to what was happening around him, until Ye Jian stopped and waved something in front of him.

The sweet and sour smell came over his nostrils, and Luo Ling raised his eyes.

It is a bright red and crystal candied haws.

Ye Jian: "Eat?"

Luo Ling stayed for a few seconds, took the candied haws, and took a light bite.

This little mermaid gnawed on a candied haws, but also suffered bitterly and had no love in life.Ye Jian was amused by his little expression, and just about to speak, Luo Ling lowered his head and said in a voice like a mosquito, "Brother, I'm sorry."

Ye Jian: "Why do you say sorry?"

Luo Ling: "I made my brother unable to get out."

Ye Jian weighed the corner of the blanket for him: "If you can join the explorer team, you can go out after staying for three months."

"But, that's so troublesome." Luo Ling's ear fins drooped limply, "Living in the city requires money, not only to buy food, but also to find a place to live... If it's an S-level city, will you have to spend money?" Spend more money?"

The more he talked, the more he felt that he was a little mermaid with a lot of things, always causing trouble for Ye Jian.

So even more sluggish.

Ye Jian thought for a while: "There is always a way."

Luo Ling was silent for a moment, gripped the corner of the blanket tightly, and said in a low voice, "It's really impossible...Brother can sell my scales."

"My scales are beautiful and should be sold for money."

It just hurts a bit when you take it off.

But it doesn't matter, he can bear it for a while.

Ye Jian: "..."

Ye Jian: "Do I look like a bad guy?"

Luo Ling shook his head immediately.

"Then I won't treat you like this," Ye Jian said, "Poor little girl."

After speaking, he raised his hand and squeezed Luo Ling's face.

Feels good.

Pinch again.

The fingers that landed on his face were warm, Luo Ling stayed for a few seconds, buried his head without saying a word, and gently rubbed Ye Jian's palm with his soft face.

No matter what time it was, Ye Jian was always gentle with him.

Ye Jian also said that she would not abandon him.

Luo Ling stared at the slender and pale hand beside her face, and suddenly felt much more at ease.

So he gently hugged Ye Jian's hand, refusing to let go.

The lights of the streets in District D gradually faded away, and Ye Jian walked back with Luo Ling in his arms.

"Don't worry about money, as long as you get the pass, you can go outside to get crystals."

Luo Ling thought this was a good idea, but then thought of something else: "It's just that there are dangers outside, if you encounter a strong alien beast..."

Ye Jian: "Don't worry about that, at worst, you can scare them away by singing."

Luo Ling: "?"

Ye Jian: "...Well, at worst, if we can't fight, we will run away."

Luo Ling didn't say anything, and after a few seconds, she muttered softly: "I think I sing very well."

Ye Jian: "Yeah, you're right."

The two walked past a wall covered in papers of various colors.Ye Jian glanced at it, and noticed that one of the papers had the words "recruiting workers, only 120 hours a week, [-] yuan a month" printed on it.

"Look, there are also jobs here." Ye Jian said, "We can still go to work."

Luo Ling thought to herself: The monthly salary seems a little low, and she looks very tired.

He remembered a piece of white spar, which was also worth a full two hundred coins.

Luo Ling gnawed on the candied haws. A few seconds later, she had an idea and raised her face.

"It's really not possible, Ye Jian can set up a stall on the street and put a fish tank in it."

The little mermaid said confidently, wagging her tail.

"Let me do singing and bubbling!"

Ye Jian was silent.

A second later, under Luo Ling's expectant eyes, he said softly:

"I'd better go to work."