Mercenaries and Adventurers

After that, Gere took out some other small art objects that seemed to be valuable in his backpack and asked Mr. Simmons to take a look and roughly estimate the price.

"You'd better melt this human-shaped silver statue and exchange it for money. The church stipulates that people are not allowed to cast images of gods privately, no matter what."

Keir was sweating profusely at this.

"This necklace that looks good is fake. Use a dagger to cut the corners. It looks like a necklace made of gold, but it is not gold. Gold is not that hard. You can give it to the red house. Which girl is there 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. Your uncle doesn't seem to be a loyal man who cares about the family, and he is still a young boy!

Regarding this fake jewelry necklace, the thieves must have been able to tell that it was fake, so why didn't they throw it away?

"This wood carving. Well, this smell." Little Mr. Simmons was holding the last item whose value was difficult to distinguish. It is an animal wood carving. A doe is vividly carved out of white wood, with expressive, delicate and dexterous movements. However, it seems that this thing is very fragile. In fact, this wooden sculpture is very tough. Kiel simply wrapped it with a piece of soft cloth and could safely put it in his backpack without fear of it getting damaged in the backpack.

Little Mr. Simmons closed his eyes and smelled the white doe wooden sculpture carefully. After a while, he said: "This thing is amazing, Kil. This thing is made of a material produced by a foreign race. When you smell it, do you feel like you can feel the forest all around you just by smelling it?"

Kil didn't know that this wooden sculpture had such a big background, so he closed his eyes and smelled it.

Sure enough, it was obviously a wooden sculpture, but the fragrance it exuded made him immediately think of a lush and vibrant forest when he smelled it. There seemed to be a group of wild deer in the forest. When he moved the bushes, he seemed to see a docile and agile doe behind the bushes.

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

Opening his eyes, Kil was filled with admiration.

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

Keir smiled: "So do you have any channels? I am in urgent need of money recently and want to sell them all for money. Of course, excluding the jewelry in the bone box. I will return this to the Palace of the Dead God's church, by the way, should I return it to the church in Bingxunguan or the church in Kendall City? Mr. Simmons, do you know?"

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

I see.

Afterwards, Mr. Simmons thought for a while and told Keir that he knew several wealthy businessmen, and it just so happened that they were all in Bingxunguan at this time. He can be busy today, talk to them about this matter, and sell these things in the Chamber of Commerce Hall of Simmons Chamber of Commerce tomorrow.

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

These two items are sure to be something they like.

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

Little Mr. Simmons immediately went out with Keel, dressed and with a follower, to find his friend. Keir went to the main street of the checkpoint, found a large shop and walked in.

As soon as you enter the store, there are two thugs with iron rods wrapped around their waists sitting behind the door. The rest of the store is divided into several areas, and each area has clerks responsible for different tasks.

Kil did not bring a long sword, and only had a short dagger at his waist, so he did not attract attention when he came in. He found a table responsible for currency exchange and quietly placed the sterling silver statuette on the table.

"Good day, young man, what can I do?" The clerk, who was more than one year older than Keel, raised his head and said to Keel.

Keir pushed the sterling silver figurine on the table forward: "Excuse me, I want to exchange this directly for coins. You can take a look, it is sterling silver."

The gray-haired clerk took the sterling silver figurine and muttered something, but still picked it up and looked at it carefully.

"Well, are you sure it is pure silver? If you want to exchange it for coins, I have to remind you that making statues for yourself without permission will annoy the churches, each church."

Keir smiled casually: "I know, so I plan to convert it directly into coins."

The clerk rubbed his hands on the statue: "I mean, because it is a privately cast statue, the value I give it must be lowered?"

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

"you sure?"

"I'm sure. Please do as you please."

After receiving Kiel's approval, the old man called a younger clerk. The young clerk took a thick iron pliers, clamped the middle of the statuette, and then clamped it down hard.

The figurine, which was indeed made of pure silver, was snapped in the middle by the clamps of iron pliers.

The deformed statue had a single silver color in the middle. Gere picked up both sides of the fallen statue and handed it to the clerk.

"You see, it is indeed pure silver inside. Moreover, now it is not a complete statue. It has no other purpose except for melting." Kil raised his eyebrows and said with a smile.

The gray-haired clerk glared at Keir: "Smart boy." In fact, an experienced clerk can tell whether the silver product is pure silver by just holding it in his hand and shaking it twice, without cutting it open to check. .

Immediately afterwards, the clerk carefully wiped the two-sectioned statuette and placed it on the rooftop next to it to weigh it. After calculating the weight, he called the steward of the store. After inspection, the clerk took it out from the cash box deep in the store. Here comes a small bag of silver coins.

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

After Kircher passed, he picked out some silver coins from his own purse and pushed them to the other party together with the new silver coins, asking the other party to exchange them for gold coins.

The old clerk patted his forehead with his hand: "It's really unnecessary." Keir shrugged, not worried that the other party would not accept it. After all, when the store conducts currency conversion, no matter how you look at it, it actually makes money. After all, the store does not look at the number of coins when converting coins, but only counts the weight of the coins.

Finally, after Kiel added 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 looks at the standard weight calculation. They will never lose money.

Collecting the five gold coins tightly and declining the clerk's offer to take Keer around the store, Keer quickly walked out of the store.

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

He also rode the horse without saddles, reins or anything like that. He lay on the horse's back and hugged the horse's neck. He walked around in the backyard of the hotel for a while and let the horse take a walk.

However, it seems that his horse still prefers to stay in the warm stables than in the cold outside.

In the evening, Keir borrowed the hotel's kitchen, made some food by himself, and ate some food with the hotel clerk. Kil'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 off his skills to satisfy himself and the hotel clerk Kil's.

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The next morning, Kil patted his clothes clean and wiped his warm boots with a dry cloth. After arranging his wolf fur cloak, Kil put the two items he was going to sell to merchants into his waist. in the cloth bag.

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

The Chamber of Commerce was as busy as yesterday. It seemed that the business enthusiasm of the merchants had been completely detonated recently, and they all wanted to do business safely when there were no bandits on the road.

Kil couldn't understand. Since they needed safe trade routes so much, why not just hire a group of professional mercenaries from other places to force the bandits not to cause trouble on the trade routes.

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

"The vice-president said that there are some changes in the things he agreed with you. You wait here and I'll call the vice-president." The clerk from the chamber of commerce asked Kil to wait while he went to the warehouse on the other side of the chamber to find little Simon. Mr. Si.

Kil was confused and didn't know what would happen to what he agreed to 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 chamber of commerce stewards, each holding notepads and various paper receipts and wooden certificates. The three of them checked various things as they walked.

"Kiel, I'm sorry, I agreed yesterday to help you sell those two things here, but several of my friends are very busy, as you have seen, I am also very busy here, everyone is not here I stopped and took advantage of this opportunity to put all the various commodities that I had accumulated for a long time into operation. You buy and I sell, and you sell and I buy. Each chamber of commerce is exchanging materials in large quantities, and is selling large quantities of materials that have their own business channels. Transport it out. It’s not the busiest time yet. In a month or two, after supplies from various places are transported to Bingshuguan by road, it will be even busier here.”

Keir waved his hand: "I should be sorry for coming to you for help so suddenly. But is this the case now?"

"Ah, look at me, I'm too busy and just complaining." Little Mr. Simmons patted his forehead: "That's right, they can't leave, so we discussed it, and there happened to be someone on the main street of the level. You have a long-term rental room in that luxurious hotel. Let's work together and sell your things there. Just after your work is completed, we can get together to discuss the recent situation and the affairs of each family. Hey, thanks to you, my friends and I can 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 of them finished talking, Keir waited for Mr. Simmons for a while, until the other party had finished the work at hand and was free, and then the two of them walked out of the chamber of commerce.

Keel led his horse, while Mr. Simons Jr. took his attendant, and the three of them walked to the luxurious hotel in the center of the level.

Mr. Simmons looked at Kiel's horse and said, "You can do it, Kiel. This horse looks very docile and is just right for a beginner like you. But the price of the horse is very high. When did you get it?" "

Kil told Mr. Simmons that he had made great contributions in dealing with the monsters, and Knight Lanisha rewarded him with three horses that he had taken from the bandits.

"So, it's not easy for you. You have to pay more attention to your safety, Warcraft. Is that thing really that scary? I've only heard about it from bards since I was a child, but I've never seen it. You know , in fact, although Kendall County is remote, the checkpoint and Kendall County to the north of the checkpoint are actually very safe. I don’t know when was the last time there was news of Warcraft appearing."

Kil then told how when he was dealing with the Warcraft, the Warcraft released its magic, blowing away a large area of ​​snow and land around it, and razing hundreds of meters in front of the Warcraft to the ground.

Keel said it lightly, but Mr. Simmons and his followers were frightened. Of the two of them, little Mr. Simmons was rescued from the den of bandits by Keel himself. He knew that Keel was not a person who spoke freely.

He was naturally shocked when he heard that the magic beast could release magic and destroy hundreds of meters in front of it.

"Is it so scary? That monster?" Little Mr. Simmons had a dry cough in his voice, spoke very slowly, and his face turned a little pale.

Kil slapped his head: "You are thinking 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 was not blocked by anything, so we could It hit so far. I looked at it later and saw that the force it sent out was quickly blocked after it hit the trees. If you want me to give you an analogy, if Warcraft used that move again in the city, it would probably be choked to death. Destroy half the street. No more."

"By God! Half the street is not short. However, after all, the Warcraft has been killed and defeated by the Lanissa knight you mentioned, so I am not worried. After all, the next time the Warcraft appears again, it will probably be I won't do it until I'm old. Haha." Little Mr. Simmons came back to his senses and did the math. He felt that the chance of encountering a World of Warcraft in his life was infinitely zero, so he no longer worried about it.

The few people talked and quickly walked through the streets and alleys to the Harp Hotel, the most luxurious and largest hotel in Bingxun Pass.

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

Gere handed the horse to the hotel waiter and received a thin metal certificate number plate from the other party. Then follow little Mr. Simmons into the hotel.

Compared with other hotels, the luxurious decoration here even reminded Keir of the description of the hotel environment in fantasy works in his previous life. The ground is made of precious stones, and you can even see the ground reflecting light where no one is walking.

Compared with other buildings that use a lot of wood, the lobby of this luxury hotel is tall and made of more solid and fine stone.

The hotel lobby upon entering is spacious and vast.

The walls of the hall are hung with landscape paintings from far away places. Although the style is realistic, it also contains the artist's personal emotions. It is obviously not the work of an incompetent artist.

While walking around, Mr. Simmons saw Kiel paying attention to the paintings on the wall, and asked Kiel: "Do you still know about these art paintings?"

Keir shook his head: "I don't know, but you can see the emotion that the author of each painting left in the work. In any case, compared to simply depicting scenery, paintings containing strong emotions are at least more outstanding, right? "

Little Mr. Simmons blinked and smiled awkwardly: "I'm really ashamed to say that I have never been able to see the various emotions left by the painter on them. You must tell me about it when you have the chance, so that I can understand it deeply. Appreciate these paintings deeply.”

"Okay, no problem." Kil nodded.

Several people entered the corridor from 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 interior of the house is several meters high. Elegant bright yellow natural wood is used as the walls throughout the house, and the inward windows of the hotel are actually small glass windows.

After seeing the window, Keir's eyes were confused for a moment, and then he realized that in a magical world with magic and the like, many things may not be absent, but they may not be available to the people at the bottom. A large amount of wealth is concentrated in a small number of people. In the hands of upper-class people, such as lords from various places, or in the hands of priests, magicians, or big businessmen.

In the middle of the room was a large, low wooden chair with a backrest, which was covered with a thick layer of spotted deerskin. In order to serve this long wooden chair, many pieces of deerskin were obviously spliced ​​together.

At this time, several potbellied businessmen were sitting on chairs talking. They were all formally dressed, and their assistants stood behind the wooden chairs.

When Mr. Simmons entered the door with his attendants and Kiel, they all stopped talking. Several people stood up and welcomed Mr. Simmons, while Mr. Simmons guided Kiel to introduce himself to everyone present. Everyone.

"Dear friends, this young man is the seller who sold another treasure today." Mr. Simmons introduced Kiel, and Kiel gave a gift and introduced himself: "Dear gentlemen, I am Joe Kiel. A warrior from Kendall City.”

"Qiao Keer? I've heard of this name. You seem to be good at dealing with all kinds of monsters?" A fat businessman in bright clothes said.

Little Mr. Simmons took over: "Yes, this little friend of mine is very good at dealing with all kinds of enemies, but today he is not wearing his full-body, fully covered hard cowhide armor. Let's call him that, Kil. ?”

"Yes, you called me right." Keel replied. He didn't say much. Mr. Simmons had agreed with him before he came that he would leave it to him to deal with his businessman friends.

"Not only that, but Kil is better at dealing with bandits hiding in the mountains." Mr. Simmons then said viciously: "For example, the bandits in the bag hole!"

Kil said softly: "Please relax, I followed Knight Crow and killed all the bandits. I even personally killed a leader of the bag hole bandits. It's a pity that the other leaders seemed to stick to their lair in the end. If they don’t come out, they will all be set on fire and choked to death in the cave under the orders of Knight Crow.”

Hearing this, Mr. Simmons laughed heartily: "Good boy, you really saved your life for me, you did a great job!"

Only then did several other businessmen find out that the young man brought by Simons Jr. had actually joined the militia team that had not yet returned to clear out the bandits, and he had come back first. They either didn't believe it or couldn't help their curiosity, so they asked Kiir how the militiamen cleared the bandits.

Little Mr. Simmons didn't hear Kiel talk about this matter in detail, so he just happened to talk about this matter that everyone was interested in before the official sale of the treasures. Anyway, there was still one person who didn't come, so just waiting was just waiting, so why not Listen to this young man talk about what happened on the front lines of militia clearance.

Seeing that everyone was interested in this matter, he began to talk about how he joined the militia camp, was asked to leave by Knight Crow, and participated in the elimination of bandits.

The story begins when he follows Lanisa Knight's hunter team to seek support and walks from the deep mountains towards Bingxun Pass. Kil and his fellow hunters meet a group of former hunters near the Luo Pocket Cave bandit's lair. How come the melee militiamen and a small group of elite bandits had an encounter in the snowy woods.