Chapter 91: Books were picked up, and the slave girl Zerikan [Qiuzhui Order Ⅱ]
heard Rebecca’s voice.
Chen Xuan gathered his thoughts and looked at the street ahead.
It's not so much a street as it is a stall.
Almost every open space in sight is occupied by various stalls.
Garrisons wearing light armor and carrying halberds patrolled inside and outside the streets.
To set up a stall here, you only need to pay a certain fee to Bangcheng, and there is no strict entry threshold.
Compared to those big trading houses, Crooked Bones Street Market is more popular among adventurers.
Many of the people who come here to set up stalls are adventurers themselves.
This feature reminded Chen Xuan of a flea market.
Because the threshold for setting up a stall is low, and the goods sold have different origins.
Among them are various unknown items produced in ancient ruins.
This makes this place a famous "treasure hunting" place in Magatan City.
Most of the people who hang around here are cash-strapped guys.
Everywhere you look, you can see groups of halflings, dwarves drinking strong alcohol, troglodytes with lizard heads covered in scales, and even Dax lobstermen from the distant swamp ocean...
those The Lobster Man is two meters tall and looks exactly like a large lobster walking upright.
It's just that their pincers are more flexible, and their tails have changed into a shape suitable for moving on land.
Such ethnic groups living in the swamps and oceans are rarely seen in Magtan City.
But these giant lobsters are indeed members of a multi-ethnic alliance.
Chen Xuan's first thought when he saw these guys was whether their meat could be eaten...
In addition to "Taobao", all kinds of materials, magic scrolls, weapons, armors and other items sold here are also cheaper than in the trading house. some.
Of course, if you want to gain something in Crooked Bones Street, you need a smart mind and shrewd vision.
This is why Chen Xuan came here from the West District with Kitty Girl.
The effect of [Insight] ability can help him overcome obstacles here!
After walking into the market, it feels like you have entered another world.
All I could hear were the sounds of shouting, insults, and bargaining.
The air is turbid and smells bad, and you can smell every stink you can imagine here.
After a few casual glances, most of the stalls in the entrance area were mainly about monster materials.
There are all kinds of weird fur, claws, and bones.
There was even a large string of dried Goblin x-devices hanging on one of the stalls.
It is said that if you stew these ghost things and eat them, you can get strong lust and physical strength comparable to goblins.
Several highland barbarians with grass skirts around their waists, looking like upright brown bears, were negotiating prices in front of the stalls.
Those fancy things are obviously not among Chen's purchasing goals.
Fortunately, after walking along the Crooked Bones Market for a while, the master and servant finally passed through the "Material Stall Area" and entered the "Ancient Relics and Cave Products Area."
The "ancient ruins" here refer to the ancient ruins of Naroa itself.
The "catacombs" are tower-type and ruin-type burrows.
Different from the common burrow types, these two types of monster burrows will evolve and reproduce certain ruins and sacrifice sites from the monster world, and some strange items will appear in them.
This is also the main place where "Taobao customers" hang out.
Most of the products placed on the stalls are still stained with hardened dirt.
Broken figurines, broken rotten swords, shields, and unknown parts abound.
Who knows where these things were dug out from.
Chen Xuan stood in front of a stall and glanced at the things placed above.
Immediately, lines of golden subtitles appeared in my mind
[A rune sword that decayed in battle and time, from the 2,700-year-old Macanha armored dwarf swordsman]...
[
Heavily worn magic puppet parts]
...
[Fossilized feces left by an ancient soldier]
...
[Old alchemy glass]
...
Chen Xuan curled his lips, the so-called ancient relics on the stall were basically garbage.
But he didn't give up. As he walked, he activated [Insight] and scanned every stall in front of him.
The kitten girl Rebecca was also looking at it with interest.
She was going to follow her master's advice and buy a rune sword to replace the original iron sword.
...
More than ten minutes later, Chen Xuan sighed leisurely.
Don't even think about picking up leaks or anything.
The so-called ancient relics sold here are basically from an ancient mountain stream battlefield near Magatan City, which was a battle more than two thousand years ago.
It is not the product of ancient tombs or large civilization relics.
Therefore, all that can be dug out there is garbage, waste products from the battlefield.
But Chen Xuan also discovered that many people are still buying ancient "waste products."
And just like buying a lottery ticket, I pick and choose, hoping that good luck will come to me.
I heard that a lucky guy once found a precious high-level magic skill in the hilt of an ancient broken sword.
Someone also discovered a gold-level frost magic gem in a statue wrapped in a shell of earth.
It is these examples of bad luck that attract "Taobao customers" who want to get rich.
After Chen Xuan's [Insight] "scan", it can be confirmed that there are no good goods hidden among today's ancient relics.
But when he came to the stall of underground cave products, he suddenly saw a very familiar symbol on a broken stone slab.
It was a broken stone slab the size of a palm, with unknown words the size of a mung bean engraved on it.
There is also a carving of the Rose Key on the edge.
Although only half of it was left, Chen Xuan recognized it at a glance.
Staring at the fragment of slate, his eyes jumped at the golden reminder.
[The incomplete slate that records the ritual of the monster's shuttle]
[The content is as follows: The great power divided into billions of parts opens up countless channels... The children of magic cross... Isolation... Sucking... Naroa...] ...
He
squatted down and picked up... Pick up this slate.
His fingers caressed the only half of the Rose Key carving left.
Some speculations arose in my mind.
Putting down the slate, he unconsciously touched his forehead.
Except for this stone slab, the other items on the stall are also waste.
Even the greatest value of the stone slab itself is only the unknown words written on it.
The Naroa natives cannot decipher it, but [Insight] can do it.
Without stopping, he walked forward.
Not far away are stalls selling various books.
Naroa also has papermaking technology, and books are mainly divided into paper and leather.
Those rare and unique copies are often cast with various protective spells.
Ordinary books are not so particular.
Moreover, for many books, even the author does not know who they are, so a large number of copies appear inexplicably.
Poems and novels dominate bookstalls.
Chen Xuan is going to buy a few geography-like books here and take them back to have a look.
While he was carefully selecting, there was an angry shout from another stall not far behind him.
"Damn profiteers!"
"This is what you call a fine book from the Dachlan City Library!"
"The book has been eaten away by booklice!" "
Only half of the content can be read. !"
"Refund!"
I saw a bearded dwarf warrior waving a book angrily.
Jumping up and down with a loud voice.
The stall owner was a young human dressed as a bachelor, but he did not wear a badge on his chest.
"You have read half of the content..."
"So I can only refund you ten crowns."
"No! At least twenty crowns!"
...
Chen Xuan listened to their quarrel and glanced at the book in the dwarf's hand. .
I didn't see the title of the book clearly, but I subconsciously activated [Insight].
[A "Romani Love Adventures" came from the old book collection of the library in Daklan State City. It has passed through nineteen owners. Under the cover, there is a page of a book of undead magic that is considered taboo, sealed in three books. Hands of the fourteenth owner of this book years ago]
...
"Oh? Undead magic book pages?"
Chen Xuan suddenly became interested.
Speaking of which, he seemed to have never seen undead magic in the city.
Spellcasters mainly use various elemental magics, supplemented by powers such as shadow, holy light, and nature.
Originally, he thought it was because there was no undead magic in the Naroa continent. He also thought that when his magic skills were higher, he would go to the Blue Star Slaughterhouse to buy hundreds of kilograms of bones and try to study them.
Now it seems that Naroya is not without undead magic, but has long regarded it as a taboo.
Chen Xuan didn't know the specific reason, but if this taboo could be upheld and implemented, it must be because something happened in the undead magic that made the Naroa natives extremely fearful.
After all, manipulating corpses and playing with death are inherently rebellious.
But Chen Xuan didn't have so many scruples.
Just at this time, the dwarf who returned the book took more than ten black iron coins and left cursing.
He walked to the stall.
I picked up the book "The Adventures of Romani" and flipped through a few pages.
"How much does this book cost?"
"This is a fine book from the Dachlan State City Library. The minimum price is thirty kronor..." "
I heard it just now. I want fifteen kronor."
"Damn dwarf, best wishes. All his enemies will live long and healthy lives!"
"Deal, this book is yours, but I won't accept returns!"
"No problem."
Chen Xuan took out a small handful of black iron coins for the transaction.
After clearing the money and goods, he stood up and left neatly.
Looking at the old book in his hand, Kitten Girl blushed again.
Because any book with the word "love" in it is an out-and-out erotic book, with a large number of indescribable plots in it. There are no such restrictions in the continent of Naroa.
The authors are bold and shameless people, and the plots they describe are quite obscene.
Therefore, this type of book has become a vulgar pastime book that adventurers often take to the wild to pass the time.
Chen Xuan just turned through a few pages and saw at least ten erotic scenes.
But he still just smiled and said nothing, without explaining much.
Immediately afterwards, the master and servant selected several books on common sense.
Not long after, the cat girl had in her hands: "The Grand View of Naroa", "The Illustrated Book of Monster Weaknesses", "The Adventure Diary of the Legendary Adventurer Angos Fasse" and other large books.
The Waigugu Market is very large, with a small square in the center.
When Chen Xuan and Rebecca were preparing to cross the square and go to the weapons and armor area at the other end.
Both of them were attracted by the lively shouting in the square.
"Rare to see! Rare to see!"
"Mezerin Slave Trading Company is honored to meet you all in Magtan City!" "
The items to be auctioned below are treasures!"
"Zerikan twin slave girls from the far east!"
As soon as these words came out, the adventurers who were watching suddenly became excited and whistled loudly.
"Everyone must know that there is a mysterious kingdom, Zerikan, in the Serikania Desert in the far east of Naloa, southeast of the Blue Ridge Mountains." "That is the
homeland of the Gobi Gila Monster, which gave birth to There are countless creatures as terrifying as it."
"Zerikan women are born wild warriors and superb swordsmen!"
The host's eloquence was excellent, mixed with witty remarks, making the big bosses at the scene "haha" laughing out loud.
...
A slave auction is actually being held in the square.
Because of the widespread existence of contracts, the bad behavior of catching and selling slaves was once very common.
It was not until the multi-ethnic alliance announced that large-scale slave capture and contracting to sell slaves within its jurisdiction would be severely sanctioned, and decisive countermeasures were taken, that the rampant slave trade was curbed.
Private master-servant relationships like Chen Xuan and Rebecca are equally common in Naroa.
It just basically has a clear age limit.
At first, Kitten Girl chose to exchange for the chance of survival by using a three-year servant contract that came with various restrictions.
I just didn't expect that Chen Xuan could modify the contract.
This kind of contract-buying method is not uncommon anywhere in Naroa.
The two-way restriction clause requires both master and servant to abide by the bottom line.
As for the slave trade, that's another story.
Businessmen who can auction slaves on the street basically have a license issued by the alliance.
To obtain a legal license, one must sign a treaty swearing to abide by the restrictions on slave capture within the jurisdiction.
In such an environment, slave traders will always choose ethnic groups that are not part of the multi-ethnic alliance to capture.
Most of those marginalized ethnic groups live in remote areas.
Zerikan is one of them.
It is famous for Eastern alchemy and desert, and is home to many violent monsters.
It is one of the few areas where local monsters can suppress the burrow monsters.
The Zerikans are brave and good at fighting, especially the local women, who are particularly good at fighting with knives.
The knife is like their third arm.
Therefore, Zerikan's female slaves are very popular and suitable to serve as escorts.
In contrast, the price paid by the slave-catching team has also risen.
You may not see a Zerikan slave in Magtan City for several years, so everyone at the scene was very excited.
The lively atmosphere also illustrates this point.
Chen Xuan, who was just passing by at first, took one look from a distance and couldn't move his eyes anymore.
He forcibly pulled Rebecca from the side and squeezed into the side of the auction house.
There were two young women with black hair and brown skin, each wearing a loose cloth robe and tied to a wooden stake.
They lowered their heads, and their black hair covered most of their faces with tattoo marks.
Chen Xuan on the sidelines looked excited and his eyes were wide open!
Because the faces of the two women on the stage all have Blue Star-standard oriental faces.
But there are some obvious differences from Xia Guo's style.
It’s more like the appearance style of Mongolia near Central Asia!
Coupled with the tattoos on their faces that have obvious clan characteristics, these two Zerikan women look very enchanting.
The kitten girl Rebecca was a little surprised at first and didn't understand why her master was so excited.
It wasn't until she took a few glances at the woman's appearance that she suddenly realized.
This was the first time she had seen a Zerikan, and now it seemed that the two slave girls and their master had some similarities in appearance and style!
"Do you want to participate in the auction?"
Chen Xuan heard her ask, first nodded, and then shook his head.
"Let's take a look at the situation first."
"They are not from my hometown."
"This is just a coincidence."
At this moment, he had already regained his composure.
There is still a big difference between the Zerikans and the Easterners of Blue Star.
The first is skin color. The former is a darker wheat color, while the latter is light yellow.
Another point is that the Zerikans' eyebrows are sharper, looking like vigilant hunters.
There is nothing similar to Blue Star's Eastern culture in his body.
This made Chen Xuan, who originally thought that a fellow villager was meeting a fellow villager, quickly returned to calmness from the surprise in his heart.
But he was still very interested in the Zerikans.
Be prepared to use your discretion as to whether or not to participate in the auction.
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If nothing else, there will be another chapter tonight.
(End of chapter)