Chapter 11 Tracking

"I thought you knew!"

"You know I don't have to watch here." I quickly asked Ye Ying to pull over, then took back Ye Ying and pulled Yin Xue to hide behind the tree on the roadside. "How do you know what's inside is the colorful magic crystal?"

"That's not easy. Just smell it!"

"Can you smell it?"

"Can't you smell the meat?"

"Of course!"

"Then it's over? All high-level magical creatures can accumulate strength by eating magic crystals. Of course I am no exception. If you can't even smell the smell, then where can you find magic crystals? Having said that, you There are a lot of magic crystals in Isengard. Last time I just passed through them in a hurry and didn't take a good look at them."

"You haven't visited Essinger yet?"

"Yes!" Yinxue nodded and said: "The last time I returned to this era with you, I went to help Biling and Tianqing arrange accommodation. That time I entered the city because I wanted to borrow Essinger's teleportation array. But we didn’t stop on the way, we just saw a street, and things kept happening after that, and I didn’t even officially live in Essinger!”

"No wonder you want to come here to play!" Generally, people who have played Essinger are rarely interested in visiting other large cities. The reason is naturally that it was once difficult to find water in the sea. Essinger's buildings are too majestic and huge, and the appearance The design is extremely gorgeous, and anyone who has been to Essinger will never take similar buildings seriously. Therefore, people who have been to Isengard will appreciate the landscape or small town scenery, but will not go to big cities, because there is no large city that can compare with Isengard. "Yinxue? Otherwise, I can just take you back to visit Essinger. You don't have to play here."

"No, since I'm here, I have to see enough. By the way, you just said this is called France, right?"

"This is Paris, the capital of France."

"That's right."

"What's wrong?"

"Rose said this is the world's fashion clothing distribution center. I'm going to buy clothes."

"Isn't it?" What do you mean by shooting yourself in the foot? This is called shooting oneself in the foot. When I returned to the prehistoric era through time passage, I abducted a large number of high-level female NPCs through various exquisite costumes. Although Yinxue came back with me not entirely because of the costumes, it was also one of the reasons. Next time she wants to buy clothes, I won’t even have a chance to quibble!

"You promised us a place!" Yinxue saw that I didn't seem to want to go and became angry again.

"I didn't say not to go! But I can't let you do whatever you want. I have a few conditions that you must agree to."

Yinxue nodded quickly: "Well, as long as you can buy clothes and visit, there are hundreds of conditions, no problem."

"You don't need that many. Just two. First, I want to investigate the matter of these colorful magic crystals."

"You want these colorful magic crystals? I'll just grab them for you."

"Stop." Yinxue is a creature that came back from the prehistoric era, and her values ​​are different from ours. In her opinion, it is natural for the strong to possess the things of the weak. Anyway, the magic crystal was not made by anyone, it is a natural product, and whoever is strong enough to grab it belongs to him. But I can't be so reckless. Our guild will continue to develop in France in the future. Stealing things like this will ruin our reputation! You don't have to do things like robbery yourself. It is in the interest of our guild to find some people to help you.

When Yinxue saw my organization, she also remembered the values ​​of this era that I once told her. She was also smarter and understood what I meant immediately. "Since you can't steal them openly, how do you want to get these magic crystals?"

"There are many ways. But it depends on the situation. In short, I will investigate by the way. All you need to do is make trouble with me."

"No problem, I can also help you kill people who stand in the way. You should know. No one will know how many people I kill."

Yinxue's words are not a big deal. With her strength, she can defeat all creatures below level 7,000 with one move. And I, the highest among players, am only level 999. In front of her, I can definitely destroy them with a snap of my fingers.

"Anyway, I will give instructions later. If I don't let you move, just don't move. If I need your help, I will naturally call you. My second condition is that you can't cause trouble when I go shopping for clothes. If someone asks you for trouble, Just bear with it for a while and let me handle it."

Yinxue thought for a moment, and then said: "What if someone teases me like that guy just now?"

"With your skills, people can't even 'touch' your clothes. It's not a big deal, right?"

"Okay, then I'll try my best to hold it in."

"That's pretty much it." I nodded and said, "Okay, come with me now, I'll take you to pave the road."

Although it is not as good as Essinger, Paris is a world-famous city after all, not to mention that it has been beautified in the game. It's less modern but more harmonious. Just like in reality. Paris is also a clothing distribution center in the game, and it specializes in selling useless clothing. in Europe. If you want to choose good equipment for fighting monsters, it is best to go to the Czech Republic or Berlin, the capital of Germany. You can buy the most beautiful fashions in Paris, but if you wear them to fight monsters, you will probably die. The purpose of fashion design is to look good, and all other issues are put aside.

Unlike most cities in the world in the game, Paris does not have city walls, but it does have city gates. There are nine triumphal arches in Paris in the game, only one of which is modeled after the real monument. The other eight are located in the eight directions of the city. They are the eight main city gates of Paris. The eight main roads leading to the city center pass through these eight gates, and finally meet under the Eiffel Tower in the city center. Together, they form the main traffic in Paris. Of course, it doesn’t matter if you don’t go through these eight doors. There are no city walls in Paris, there are roads everywhere, and it doesn’t matter where you enter.

Yinxue wanted to visit, so naturally I couldn't take her on the trails, but Yinxue wasn't very interested in the Arc de Triomphe. Although the Arc de Triomphe in the game is much larger than the real one in reality, Yinxue has been to Essinger. Although it was only a rough trip, the overall architectural style of Essinger was there. Well, compared with the super gate with ten two-way lanes like Essinger, the two-way six lanes of the Arc de Triomphe is nothing. In fact, width is secondary. The most important thing is that there is too much height difference between the Arc de Triomphe and Essinger. The first city wall of Isengard is 500 meters high. Standing under the wall and looking up, you will feel that the city wall has been inserted into the clouds. Although the Arc de Triomphe is not short, it just feels taller and has not yet reached That kind of towering into the clouds.

After passing the Arc de Triomphe, there are ordinary buildings. In the game, these five, six or even ten-story buildings can already make most cities awe-inspiring, but after staying in Essinger for a long time, it feels like you are looking at a miniature model. The first floors of Essinger's buildings are all above eight meters high. Only the upper floors will return to normal height, and all buildings are above ten floors. If placed together with the buildings here, it will basically be the difference between a Titan and a dwarf.

However, not everything in Paris is not worth seeing, at least the Eiffel Tower is very spectacular. The Eiffel Tower in the game is more than a little taller than in reality. The height of more than 2,500 meters is almost one-third of the Juling Tower, although it is still far away. But it is definitely a super-large building that is not found in other cities.

Yinxue was not in a hurry to see the Eiffel Tower, but instead rushed into other fashion stores on the street. There are very few catering industries in these five or six-story buildings on the streets of Paris. They are basically clothing buildings of various sizes, and they all use hyperspace inside, so the area is much larger than it looks from the outside. However, there is one thing about "Zero" that has always been praised by the majority of male compatriots. That is, stamina points are not consumed in the mall. Many men are afraid of going shopping with girls, and regard it as an activity that consumes more energy than a marathon. In "Zero", shopping in the mall does not consume stamina, and you will not feel tired after shopping. in addition. In order to prevent the majority of men from feeling too hard while waiting for girls to try on clothes, any player can apply to play some mini games in the mall, and the system will help you open a small window that moves with you, which is absolutely convenient and practical. Of course, the system has also made some improvements for girls, such as the fitting system. There is no need for a fitting room here. The system can automatically generate a full-scale model of the clothes you like, and you can walk around them to see if they fit you.

Although Yinxue is an NPC. But the merchant doesn’t care who the buyer is. As long as you want to buy it and can afford to pay, the merchant will only treat you as God. Let Yinxue go in to pick out clothes, and I would stand at the window or door and observe the carriages passing by on the road. Judging from their number and frequency of exchanges, these guys transport quite a lot of colorful magic crystals.

"Hey, what do you think of this?" Yinxue shouted for a long time and found that I didn't hear it at all. She ran over to me angrily and asked, "What are you looking at?"

I frowned and said, "Don't you think the situation is a little strange?"

"Strange?" Yinxue looked down at herself. "Am I looking weird in this outfit?"

"I'm not talking about your clothes. I'm talking about those carriages. I've been observing them for a long time. The number of things these carriages are going back and forth seems to have not changed. In other words, they are not transporting things outside the city at all, nor are they transporting them in Transporting it to the city. Instead, it’s pulling the goods in a circle. Isn’t that strange?”

"You mean them? It's really weird. But I'm just better at fighting, so don't come to me if you have any questions. I'll choose clothes, and you can study it yourself." After speaking, Yinxue jumped back to the clothing rack. Start trying on clothes like crazy. It is said that there is always one piece of clothing missing from a woman's wardrobe. It seems that this range should be expanded to include all female humanoids, and it is not just one piece that is missing, but a shopping mall.

I continued to observe the carriage on the road, and deliberately sent a few ghost bugs over to let the carriage crush it. The ghost bug can turn itself into diamond. Of course, the carriage cannot be crushed under this hardness, but I can use this to judge the weight change of the carriage. It turns out that they did not unload the goods, and the weight of the carriage was basically the same when it went back and forth.

I was thinking about the reason when Yinxue suddenly called me again. "Stop looking, let's go to the next store."

"Oh." I turned around and looked at a few clothes on the shelf, then leaned on the cashier and started to pay. "These are the lands you want to buy, right? I'll pay for them."

"No, I don't want these."

"What about the ones you bought? Didn't you buy anything after taking so long to choose?"

"No! What I mean is that if you don't want these items, buy all the others."

boom. I slid from the checkout counter to the floor. "What did you say?"

Yinxue stood in front of the clothes rack and said with a smile: "From here to over there, these are all the ones I want to buy. The ones I don't want have been picked out and thrown away."

I took a look at the clothes rack that was longer than the train platform, then swallowed my saliva, turned around, smiled and asked the manager who had been standing aside for a long time: "Can buying so many be counted as wholesale price?"

"No problem." The manager's mouth almost reached behind his ears. I asked why I kept seeing this guy with a manager badge hanging around us. After a long time, Yinxue actually bought so many clothes. Such a big customer. If he doesn't show up, he should get out.

The manager gave me a series of discounts at lightning speed, and finally gave me a diamond VIP card, claiming that I could enjoy a 40% discount next time with the card. Yinxue is not interested in any of this, she only cares about her clothes. She packed up all the clothes and stuffed them into her storage space without any help from the salesperson. I reluctantly swiped the magic card on the trading machine. Fortunately, there is a banking system in the game, otherwise Yinxue would have spent a lot of money to buy these clothes. Even with crystal coins, it would take several boxes. After all, she emptied someone else's building. I keep comforting myself that the maintenance cost of high-level NPCs is relatively high, which is also one of the maintenance costs.

Yinxue has been relatively excited since leaving the building. Now no one would have thought that she was just an NPC, because her fashion was more exaggerated than the fashionable female players. No one would have thought that an NPC would dress like this.

"Let's go over there." Yinxue pointed to a clothing store not far away and tried to rush in. I was so frightened that I quickly stopped her.

"Stop it. Let's make an agreement first. It's okay to buy clothes, but not to book a hotel room."

"Don't worry! I have bought most of the styles just now. From now on, I only need to buy a few special styles from each store. Oh, by the way, do you know where to buy cosmetics here? I heard The perfume here is very famous.”

"Miss, do you want to buy perfume?" A French player approached from the side. "I recommend you to go check out Elaina over there. The cosmetics there are very comprehensive."

"Oh, thank you." Yinxue didn't even give me a chance to speak, and pulled me away. If she were an ordinary girl, I would still be able to hold her back. It's a pity that she is not an ordinary girl. I feel like I am being pulled by a locomotive. No matter whether I cooperate or not, I can't affect her speed at all.

I was dragged into the cosmetics store. The decoration here is quite elegant, but in my opinion, what they mean is that the products here will be very expensive. I heard a long time ago that French cosmetics cost tens of thousands of dollars a bottle. It’s probably not much cheaper in the game. A woman's desire to buy cosmetics is as uncontrollable as a child's desire to buy toys. They only care about what they want to buy. As for the price of this thing, that is a matter to be considered later.

I have to admit that the owner of this store is very discerning. This middle-aged woman first glanced at Yinxue's clothes, and then noticed the equipment on my body. At that moment, I saw a flash of light in her eyes, and followed her with 120,000 points. The enthusiasm rushed towards Yinxue. Why didn't you attack me? Do you even need to ask? Men only have one thing to do here - pay money. The real people to serve are the ladies.

Yinxue basically didn't understand anything except that makeup could beautify herself. The shop owner understood Yinxue's situation in a few words. Then they started to help Yinxue put on makeup and change her look. What makes me very depressed is that in addition to selling cosmetics, this store also does image design, so they not only have cosmetics, but also hairstylists and various costume designers who can change your look on the spot. Yinxue was obsessed with it almost immediately, and more than a dozen staff members were busy surrounding her.

The shrewd store manager did not forget about me and asked the doorman to bring me a sofa. He also brought me a variety of drinks and even a bunch of magazines that men liked. Obviously prepared. Anyway, I can’t leave if Yinxue doesn’t enjoy shopping. Just sit back and continue studying those transport vehicles. During this period, I tried to send ghost bugs on the car to conduct reconnaissance, but the other party welded the body of the car to look like a watertight box. Not even a hole could be found, and a magic barrier was drawn inside, so even the penetration skills of the ghost beetle didn't work.

Although the other party sealed the car very tightly, I knew that there was one thing that was definitely not sealed tightly. I pointed my finger at the guard next to me, and he immediately ran to me and waited for my instructions. "Don't be nervous. Sit down first. I'm bored waiting, so I can just talk to you about something."

"Oh." This doorman is just an ordinary NPC employee, and I have super high NPC affinity and mental pressure. Therefore, he admired and feared me at the same time, and seemed particularly submissive to me.

After he moved a stool and sat down, I asked casually: "How long have you been working here?"

"It's been more than half a year."

I nodded. "Then do you just stand at the door and look at the street every day?"

"Most of the time, yes, but sometimes I have to help the store manager deliver goods."

"Then you must be familiar with this street?"

"Of course, I spend most of my day looking at the streets!"

When we were talking about this, a carriage happened to pass by. I pretended to be very casual and asked: "By the way, I saw a lot of these carriages along the way. Do you know who they belong to?"

"Oh, are you talking about these carriages? They are the transport fleet of the Silo Chamber of Commerce. They have been running around in the past few days, and I don't know what they are transporting."

"Has this ever happened before?"

"That's not true. Their chamber of commerce is not a big chamber of commerce, and they don't do a lot of business. They have never transported such a large amount of goods."

"That's really weird! I don't know what they sell that requires so many trucks to transport!" I said, pretending to be talking to myself.

The guard immediately answered: "Their chamber of commerce is actually a mining company, mainly engaged in iron ore. As you may also know, there are no large-scale iron mines near Paris, and there is not much demand for steel, so their business has not been very good. I guess I may have discovered a large mineral vein recently. But it doesn’t seem right.”

"What's wrong?" I asked.

"Things like steel are mined and smelted outside the city. Buyers place orders at sales points in the city before they are shipped into the city. But I haven't heard of any big projects recently! Besides, look at those cart pullers The horses obviously don’t carry much stuff on the cart. If they are pulling a cart full of steel, these horses shouldn’t be able to move so easily.”

"So you don't know what they're doing?"

"have no idea."

I thought for a moment. Then he asked: "Do you know where the office of Siluo Chamber of Commerce is?"

"The Silo Chamber of Commerce has only one headquarters in Paris, and its offices are only found in small cities."

"Headquarters is fine too."

"That place is not easy to find. But if you want to go there, you might as well follow the convoy."

Wow, I actually forgot such a simple thing. Of course their convoy is going to them. You can naturally find the headquarters by following the convoy. I rewarded the guard with a crystal coin and asked him to go back and stand guard. It seems that the silver snow styling option will be available for some time, but I can’t wait that long. He stood up, walked to her, and whispered in her ear: "You play here for now, I'll go out for a while, and I'll be back later."

"Then you have to hurry up. What if I finish early and have no money to pay the bill? How embarrassing would it be?"

I wanted to give her the crystal card, but after thinking about it I decided not to. Afraid that she would buy the whole street and take it home. "If I don't come back, you can take your time. As long as you don't act like you're leaving, they won't ask you for money."

"Oh well."

After appeasing Yinxue, I left the store first. Another carriage happened to pass by outside, but I didn't follow it immediately. Instead, I found a deserted place and changed into a set of ordinary equipment before following. The magic dragon suit is too eye-catching. It's fine in the wild, but if you try to follow it in the city, it's basically a waste of time.

The horse-drawn carriage cannot move very fast in the city. I followed slowly as if I were going shopping. Now I have a regular, average outfit. It shouldn't attract anyone's attention.

After not going far, the carriage turned off the main road and turned into a side street. I quickly followed in. Although there are fewer people here, the main road is narrower and more crowded than the main road. Unlike the large shops on both sides of the main road, the shops here are basically small shops, selling a variety of things. I didn't want to go shopping, I just hung the carriage from a distance.

When the carriage reached the middle of the street, it suddenly made another turn and entered an alley that was only slightly wider than the carriage. Not far from this alley, a similar carriage drove out of another alley. At the entrance of the alley where the carriage entered, you can see an arrow pointing inward, and the name of Siluo Chamber of Commerce and its main business projects are written on the arrow. It seems that this is the target location.

I did not enter the alley immediately, but walked around for a while and inquired about the situation of the Silo Chamber of Commerce. Because they are relatively close, the people here obviously know more about the Silo Chamber of Commerce than the guard, but what they said is almost the same.

Siluo Chamber of Commerce is just a small chamber of commerce. Its main business project is an iron mine, and it basically sells ore. They also have smelting equipment, but the technology is not very high. What they smelt is just basic iron ingots, and there is no way to process and produce steel. In addition to this iron mine, they also deal in asbestos and sell white magic spar in small quantities. Based on this information, I can roughly analyze the situation.

This Silo Chamber of Commerce has white magic crystals for sale. Although the quantity is not large, it at least shows that they have magic crystal mines. Since there is a magic crystal mine, it is understandable to dig out colorful magic crystals. However, the only thing I don't understand is why are they dragging the colorful magic crystal around? Ordinarily, normal people would lock such valuables in a safe rather than letting them appear on the street. No matter how strong those carriages are, there is still nothing you can do if someone robs you of the carriage. Moreover, since we can discover the colorful magic crystals inside, it does not mean that others cannot discover them. Thinking of the value of this thing, even some large guilds may openly rob it regardless of face. After all, even I was attracted, and there probably won't be anyone with a bigger appetite than me.

Carrying these things around the streets is obviously an attempt to attract people who want these things. But I'm surprised that it seems illogical for the weak Silo Chamber of Commerce to do this. If they are a powerful chamber of commerce, they may use this to attract customers, but they are so weak that they can't do anything even if they are robbed, so this reason obviously does not make sense. Unless...I suddenly thought of an unlikely, but now seems to be the only reasonable explanation.