Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 795 Eighty Six. The Last Exorcist and Merchant

  Wow——

   In the afternoon, the mist-like drizzle obscured the city, the temperature seemed to fall into late autumn, and only the burning fireplace warmed the heart.

  The climate of Wiener Freeze Port is similar to that of Belfast, and the other is similar.

  They have different climates. For example, there will be no rainy season and storms in Wiener Antifreeze, but there will be corresponding winters and severe cold, as well as rain and fog that fall from time to time.

   Wiener Freeze Harbor is either raining or foggy, rarely just cloudy.

   Standing in front of the window, the water marks left by the meandering blurred the street and the harbour, Lu Li watched silently, recalling the contents of the letter.

  【I can't remember when they appeared, they are closely related to us. Companion, parasite? Just know that they appear after we appear]

  【Fortunately, it was the Demon Slayer Association who discovered them, not us, otherwise the merchants might not have been so entangled with us】

   [Unfortunately, the Demon Slayer Association and we have never found their origins, and they may have found them but cannot disclose them]

  【They are different individuals, and they are like a whole, like beehives and ant nests, but there is no queen bee who controls them, or we don’t find them】

   [They are always haunted, and the things they take away will disappear completely in this world unless they are traded out again. We speculate that their lair may be a certain layer of the inner world. This feature was used by the clever Demon Slayer Association, who disliked the procrastination of material delivery and made a deal with the merchant (it may also have existed at the beginning of the transaction), and the content of the transaction is the current merchant framework]

  【Nevertheless, they are not scary, they are shy to some extent. You rarely see them in front of many people, they usually appear silently around you when you are alone or when there is no one around, sometimes they may startle you]

  【Although the source is unknown, one thing can be confirmed: merchants appeared because of us】

  【The merchants themselves are shrouded in mist, and there are many things we cannot understand. For example, why does it appear, and what counts as an "exorcist" as they define it. Now, we may be cautious, but at that time, romance and ideals filled the hearts of exorcists. They truly recognized the human and the weird. We can live together...sorry, I wrote too far]

  [Reading this, you should have realized the usefulness of the merchant, which is its name itself. You can exchange them for supplies with survey points or contribution points, if there are any.]

  【At the last moment of my life, I, Fermi Bond, leave this letter for the merchant to give to the last exorcist, just in case】

  【I hope this letter will never be seen by anyone... wait, it’s better for someone to see it】

  Fermi Bond, legendary investigator after the Slayer Society was split into Investigators and Night's Watch.

   Femi Bond who left the letter didn't know Lu Li, this letter just followed the businessman's deal and left it to the last exorcist.

  Lu Li retracted his gaze.

  The businessman stood in the corner, motionless like a coat hanger.

  Puseus circled around the merchant as if to please, while Katarina kept as far away from it as possible.

  Lu Li took it from the museum, or the merchant followed Lu Li out of the museum.

  If Lu Li is the last exorcist, then he may be the last merchant.

   "When are you going to go?"

  Caterina sat on the soft sofa, flipping through the museum illustrations given by the museum curator, without raising her head.

   She doesn't know how to read, but fortunately there are many photos above. .

   "Because a merchant is an exorcist's best friend!" cried Prius, turning back.

   "Friends? You call this kind of profit transaction a friend?"

  Katerina felt that the merchant was no different from the Mole she met in Mango Town.

   "But...but it's all written like this in the book." Pusius stopped and tilted his head to look at Lu Li.

   "Trade is the rule, and the ubiquity of merchants and the nature of transporting items is precious."

  The merchant is indeed the best friend of the exorcist.

   Leaving the window, Lu Li walked to the fireplace and sat down.

   The beating flames stretched his shadow long and narrow. Lu Li asked the businessman, "How many contribution points do I have."

   The businessman in the corner opened his eyes and turned to Lu Li blankly: "...589 trillion contribution points."

   "589 Trillion Contribution Points?" Katarina moved away from the illustrated book in astonishment: "You are so powerful, so are the Trillion Contribution Points precious?"

"It's a contribution point, not a billion contribution point..." Purseus covered his face with his claws and reminded in a low voice: "Trillion is the number. Ten thousand is one hundred million, ten trillion is one trillion, I am not wrong. Mr. Lu Li?"

"Um."

   Regardless of Katerina, who was caught in the incomprehensible numbers, Lu Li asked the businessman, "Why so many."

Before    fell into the ground, his contribution points were only a few billion.

   "The Exorcist Society bought all the deep sea stones after you disappeared." The merchant after a slight pause.

  Lu Li did allow the merchants to sell those deep-sea stones.

   It seems that the premium of deep-sea stone in the later stage is more serious, even more expensive than gold.

   But now, the deep sea stone has become an ordinary stone that no one cares about.

   "Can contribution points be exchanged for shillings?" Katarina couldn't help asking.

   "10 to 1." Lu Li said.

   "1 shilling equals 10 contribution points?"

   "10 shillings equals 1 contribution point."

  “…”

   "Miss Katerina, what's wrong with you!"

  Puseus panicked and threw himself on the sofa, the picture book in his hand slipped, and Caterina was absent-minded.

   "Is there any inflation?" Lu Li continued to ask the businessman.

  Inflation is obviously inevitable, and the rarer things are more expensive. But the superiority of contribution points makes it always more valuable than survey points.

   The premise is that the merchants still have supplies in their hands.

   But now, merchants have nothing but intelligence.

   "Where did they all go?" Lu Li asked with a frown.

   After a brief silence, the merchant replied: "Lost."

  Before Lu Li continued to inquire, the businessman rarely took the initiative to tell the truth.

  The merchant's backpack is connected to a certain level in the inner world. There is also the source of merchants, their habitat.

  All transactions are stored here.

  The merchant habitat is a whole, but not a whole, just like the houses on the street.

   Some merchant "huts" are larger because they have a lot of storage, and some "huts" are small because they have little storage.

The process of    merchant trading is simple: if the merchant has the item the exorcist needs, it will be taken from his "hut". If not, it will visit the merchant who has the supplies and get the item from there.

   But as the exorcists withered, the merchants fell asleep one after another, and visits became impossible unless the merchants found other merchants.

   Unfortunately, with the long slumber, the "huts" belonging to the respective merchants were stolen - people don't do nothing when they see the bulging backpacks without owners.

  Legendary investigator Fermi Bond said none of these things in the letter.

   This is a secret that even the Demon Slayer Association does not know.

   (end of this chapter)