Volume 6: Chapter 696 Entrustment?
"Well, thank you."
On the edge of the snow-capped mountains, a place that belongs to a large village here, Zheng Yichen stayed in a small tavern, that's right... so there are only taverns, and there are no bars rising from the outside world. As for the tavern culture, Zheng Yichen originally thought that it would decline with the rise of bars. Who knew that the tavern finally insisted on... no, passed this transition period steadily.
In hindsight, Zheng Yichen looked at it later, and felt that this kind of smooth passage seemed to be taken for granted. The culture of taverns has been popular in this world for a long time. After various changes in the mode, the final theme has not changed at all, and the applicability is different. Bars It's a bar, a tavern is a tavern, except that after the first bar appeared, it attracted a lot of people because of its novelty, but now it has gradually stabilized.
For the two, most people have a clear division. Bars can drink and have fun, but they are more social, and there are more rules in it, while pubs are for real drinking and venting. Therefore, the distinction between the two is quite obvious, and the pattern between bars and pubs has been fixed in this way.
If you focus on enjoyment, go to the bar, if you focus on venting, just for the sake of pure drinking and bragging... then go to the tavern.
There is no bar on the edge of the snow mountain. This is the result that Zheng Yichen got after walking through several places. The places he walked were basically those large existences on the edge of the snow mountain. This is already a 'big family', like the place he is taking now, except for some mercenaries and adventurers, the rest are those snow mountain people with a strong snow mountain style, and their clothes are basically Homemade, snow-white snow beast fur looks extra...beautiful and full of camouflage!
When doing activities in the snow field near the snow mountain, it is difficult for others to find out wearing such clothes. The snow beast is different from the ice beast that Zheng Yichen once encountered when he was active in the snow mountain. Those wild beasts or monsters that are active, ice beasts are magical creations like ice.
Some of the Snow People active in the tavern are watching those mercenaries or adventurers. This is not to be vigilant, but to find targets. Heck, the same kind of behavior is not for killing people and taking goods. The Snow Mountain people think that they can have a surplus. Life is the protection of the Lord of the Snow Mountain. Trying to use the protection of the Lord of the Snow Mountain to get more by killing and extorting goods is an offense to the Lord of the Snow Mountain. The Lord of the Snow Mountain is not an accomplice of robbers!
Of course, it’s not okay to kill people to get more goods, and they won’t do nothing rigidly. For example, it’s natural for them to get more through normal trading methods. Therefore, their search for targets at this time is more of a guide looking for tourists. Those mercenaries or adventurers who come to the snow mountain are nothing more than looking for some snow beasts or ice beasts. The snow mountain is rich in resources. When the snow beasts are active in the snow mountain, besides the normal biological chain, they have one other beast that does not possess ability...
Eating snow, uh, mainly because the environment of the snow mountain or the snow field close to the snow mountain has a special power of ice elements. To put it simply, it is easy to digest and absorb. People will definitely not be able to bear it if they eat it, but snow beasts are so powerful. The body can digest it. Although the taste is very ordinary, it can at least ensure that the snow beasts will not starve to death when they are hungry. Therefore, the snow mountain is a place with plenty of food for the snow beasts. As long as the taste is not considered, they Eat snow to survive.
However, because of the taste, snow beasts prefer blood food, and only eat snow as food when they have no choice. Snow beasts can bear the burden of living in snowy mountains and eating snow, but it is definitely not an act of enjoyment. Eating snow or something, Only ice beasts would like it. Even so, with no worries about food, there are quite a lot of snow beasts in the snow mountain. The people of the snow mountain are often attacked by snow beasts, let alone the mercenaries or adventurers who come. They don't know much about snow mountains, and if they are not careful, they will find that they seem to have broken into an incredible place, and there are dozens of ferocious snow beasts around them for no reason.
With enough lessons, most outsiders who come here like to look for one or a few snow-capped mountain people to act as guides. The mountain people who can be guides here will definitely not be ordinary people. The environment of the snow-capped mountains is very dangerous. If you don't pay attention a little bit, you will enter some places covered by special cold air, where ordinary people can't hold on at all, even wearing thick cotton clothes is useless.
Even professionals can hardly resist that kind of penetrating cold air. Only the snow-capped mountain people who often live in the snow-capped environment have innate resistance to that kind of cold air. Only local people can safely ignore some dangers, either... the ultimate fire attribute physique, relying on their unique physique to resist the cold, in short, it is either resistance or adaptation.
As for relying on foreign objects to keep out the cold, it doesn't exist in that environment.
The mountain people who often move in this snow mountain have already figured out where they can go and where they cannot go. With them as guides, the safety factor here is directly increased several times. One more thing about the mountain people is that they can fight. Maybe not many of these people can use magic, but as fighters, both their fighting spirit and magic power have the characteristics of ice... well, although they are not very useful here in the snow mountain.
Well, not all the snow-capped mountain people like to live here. Every year, some of them leave the edge of the snow-capped mountains to become mercenaries, adventurers, and other types of professionals. Their characteristics and advantages are sufficient in the outside world. played out.
While Zheng Yichen was observing the situation, several snow mountain residents had already discussed with the adventurer team in the tavern. From the tavern where the team left, Zheng Yichen was holding a magic soldier summoning book to communicate with Danmarina remotely. , learn as much as possible about the customs here on the edge of the snow-capped mountains through her, such as asking for news or something...
"Just ask!?" Zheng Yichen couldn't help being stunned for a moment when he saw the super simple reply given by Dan Marina. Isn't this too much?
"You can just ask directly. Although some people born in Xueshan will not be able to bear the 'gift', as parents, they will not just watch their offspring die for no reason. They will also find ways to solve their offspring. Most of the mountain people who choose to leave the snow mountain have such reasons.”
Do you want to make money... Zheng Yichen muttered in his heart, and he almost understood what Danmarina meant. It is very easy for people who cannot bear their own cold physique to solve their problems. Just use some fire-attribute potions on a regular basis to ensure their health. Stablize.
Let's put it this way, the monthly household expenses of civilians in other worlds are at most a few silver coins, and the savings are less than a single silver coin, and a bottle of fire-attribute potion, even the lowest level, costs twenty silver coins to start...
Twenty silver coins are just a bottle of low-level potion. Even if it is a long-acting type, it can last for a few days. Under the effect of a cold physique, the duration will at least decrease by one-third. If it is purer, the duration may even be one-fifth of the original or even completely ineffective, then more advanced potions are needed, and ordinary people simply cannot afford them.
Even though the mountain people on the snow mountain side live affluent lives, normal families can't spare so much money to continue to buy related potions.
Regarding this phenomenon, Zheng Yichen did not plan to jump out and conduct a big science popularization. Doing so would cause trouble for himself. If he really wanted to change this phenomenon, the mountain people in the snow mountain would have migrated a long time ago. How could they live in the same place from generation to generation? here?
From the perspective of people on Earth, migration is good, but the problem is that people from other worlds are not people from Earth, and they don’t have the kind of awareness that people on Earth have been influenced by various cultures and knowledge. Zheng Yichen thinks It is a very simple and easy to accept thing, but it is another matter for the snow mountain people. Zheng Yichen's behavior can't help but instigate them to deviate from their clan. If they don't beat him, who will they beat?
After learning about the situation on the edge of the snow-capped mountains, Zheng Yichen knew...he had got a very good and simple start, and with so many prerequisites, it couldn't be easier for him to find a suitable target here, so he took In the simplest way, you can do it by throwing money at it!
As long as Zheng Yichen is willing to spend money and promises to find a suitable symbiont that can live well, he doesn't need to look for it at all. As long as he sits here, there will be teams of parents bringing their sick children here to look for him .
Zheng Yichen's identity should not be exposed, so it is indeed the easiest way to do it, but now he is a celebrity, an 'Internet celebrity', his every move is watched by someone, and he can be taken away, so how to deal with it later is a bit difficult , it is impossible to send it directly to Bilan Fury. After sending it over, even if the person who becomes the symbiont lives well, what kind of explanation will he make afterwards? As long as there is a loophole, he will use more The energy to fill these holes!
Therefore, in order to avoid subsequent troubles, it is better to eliminate the hidden dangers early and find out by yourself!
"Hi, may I help you?" Zheng Yichen's thoughts were called out by his voice. Zheng Yichen looked up and saw a young man with the typical snow-capped mountain folk style. This was a soldier. !
"Well, has your identity been exposed?" Zheng Yichen whispered, not covering his voice.
"Uh...Your Excellency, you haven't concealed your identity." The young man said with some shame, the snow mountain people have contact with the outside world, and those who leave the snow mountain environment to go to the outside world will come back regularly, and when those people come back, it will be natural It brought back information about the outside world, and now, with the magic soldier summoning book, the snow mountain people's understanding of the outside world has further increased.
Among them is Zheng Yichen's deeds. Even in some clan associations, the village chiefs of various villages are discussing one thing. They want to give Zheng Yichen a commission, a commission about the fact that newborns in the clan cannot bear the special constitution, No one wants to watch the death of their descendants. Although the people of the Snow Mountain are already accustomed to what happens to those clansmen who cannot bear the cold physique, this does not mean that they can accept it completely indifferently.
If it can be changed, they also want to change all this!
It's just that the snow-capped mountain people's talents in potions are not very good. Even if someone wants to specialize in potions, there haven't been any potions masters so far. As for commissions, they have done such things before, but those The potion master can only make potions that treat the symptoms but not the root cause, and still need to burn money continuously to ensure that the potions are not interrupted...
This is not what they want, and the snow-capped mountain people can't afford such consumption. Among the snow people born every year, at least one-fifth of them have cold physiques, and more than half of them have cold physiques. It is impossible to bear such a physique! Although the double reduction, it seems that not many snow-capped mountain dwellers will have problems, but if they add up, at least close to hundreds of snow-capped mountain dwellers die every year.
This number is still slowly increasing.
"Just kidding, I'm just here to find some materials, I don't need a guide." Zheng Yichen said to the young man.
The young man hesitated for a while: "Can you talk in private?"
It was rare to see Zheng Yichen himself, of course he didn't want to miss this opportunity, but on weekdays, even Zheng Yichen's people would not be found, although Zheng Yichen seems to be active in many places, in fact his identity is not something ordinary people can easily got in touch.
"Where are you going?" Zheng Yichen thought for a while, then nodded slightly. Since he was acting, he would do the whole thing. He was also curious about what this person wanted to do when he was looking for him.
The young man led Zheng Yichen to a secluded room. After a brief self-introduction, he got to the point. His name is Lei Wo, a member of the Snow Mountain People, and he is considered one of the most outstanding youths among the Snow Mountain Mountain People. The purpose is to discuss a business with Zheng Yichen.
The Snow Mountain Man wants to entrust Zheng Yichen to make a potion that can solve the sequelae of the Mountain Man. Even if he can't get a bottle that lasts a lifetime, it is enough to get a bottle that can last for a few years. The Snow Mountain Man appears The proportion of people with cold physiques is not high, otherwise they would have been extinct long ago, and there is no need to talk about maintaining the ethnic group.
It is because of this reason that the proportion is not high, so they think that they cannot bear the gift, not the curse. If a bottle of potion can be used for several years, even the price of more than dozens of gold coins is acceptable. ...Well, this is the limit that the people of the Snow Mountain can afford.
Higher... Even the support from within the clan is hard to bear. Of course, even so, it is better than that kind of potion that needs to use a bottle of dozens of silver coins every few days.
"Sorry... We know that the conditions are a bit harsh." Lei Vo said helplessly. He has been in the outside world for several years, and now he is here, just in time for the Snow Mountain Clan meeting, so he came back here, and here again After meeting Zheng Yichen, Lei Wo, who knew the family affairs through the magic soldier summoning book, didn't want to miss this opportunity, so he took the initiative to talk to Zheng Yichen first.
"It's not harsh anymore." Zheng Yichen shook his head slightly, how many years has a bottle of potion been kept? Let alone a few years, I have thought too much for a few months. The power contained in potions is not self-contained. Once used, it will start to be consumed continuously, even if a special formula is used to delay consumption. time, but this time will be exhausted after ten days and a half months at most... Well, it also has a certain relationship with the body's metabolism.
So there is no magic potion that lasts for several years! !
"It's simply impossible!"
"Is that so..." Lei Vo nodded slightly, and exhaled softly: "Thank you for your information."
Things that can't be done at all, it means that they want to find a breakthrough from the potion is a wrong route. Although they know it later, they are not without gains. At least now they know that this way will not work. , then there is no need to continue drilling dead ends.
"In short, let's talk about the compensation first." Zheng Yichen said with a smile on his face. He really wanted to know what the Snow Mountain people had in their hands. The future entrustment price of the ethnic group will not be low in any case.
"!? Your Excellency Connor has a solution?"
"Always let me see something and see how I can contribute."
"I see, can... wait for me for two days?" Lei Vo asked nervously.
Zheng Yichen shrugged: "That's no problem. I'm going to look for things in the snow mountain these days, and I'll probably come back here at night. You can just look for me at that time."
"We can provide enough manpower for Your Excellency..." Zheng Yichen interrupted Lei Vo before finishing his sentence.
"My body is fake. Even if something goes wrong, it's just a loss of money. There's no need to bring other people to take risks together." Zheng Yichen's words made Lei Vo feel a little complicated... Human life is priceless... This statement It's just like a joke. Strictly speaking, it's like this on the earth, and it's the same in other worlds!
Let alone a gold coin, in some places a dozen or even a few silver coins can make a person have evil thoughts and murderous intentions, and even take action. What Zheng Yichen said now... is really a good person!
Levo can only think of this word now. There are not so many rules and regulations in the foreign world. There is no irony in saying that he is a good person. In the foreign world, it is a pure compliment to whoever is called a good person: "Thank you very much!"
"Okay, I've wasted a little too much time, let's go here first." Zheng Yichen said and left the room. He had done enough acting, and the rest is for some interested people to investigate casually. As for What happened two days later, it should be regarded as an additional episode, the solution?
Of course he has!