Chapter 411 Cheated?

Ten gold coins may not seem like much to you, but in fact it is enough capital for a well-to-do family to live for a year. Of course, the premise is that you don't go out to restaurants or buy luxury goods.

Spending ten gold coins to buy this unknown black stone was really a bit of a mistake, but if I just let it go without buying it, I was still a bit unwilling to do so. I went back and forth, so I decided to take this stone and White Beard with me. Let’s go to the Adventurer’s Base together with the old man to appraise it and see what the price of this stone is.

So I said: "Ten gold coins are not impossible, but you have to agree to one condition."

"What conditions?"

"Come with me to the adventurer base to appraise it and see how much this stone is worth."

The expression of the old man with the white beard was obviously hesitant. He thought for a while and said, "Yes, yes, but you have to pay me first before I will go with you."

Just pay, why are you afraid that an old man with a white beard like you will run away?

After thinking about it, I opened the money bag, took out ten gold coins in his greedy eyes, weighed them, put away the pebble first, and then put the ten gold coins in the palm of the grandfather's hand.

The white-bearded old man's eyes were shining, showing countless greedy looks, which was very similar to the money-grubbing goblin.

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but take a closer look at the old man in front of me: I can't say that he has a short stature, but he is definitely not tall, only reaching my waist. His body shape is a bit thin, but his proportions are very good. If he stretches or grows up, he will become taller. When he is thicker, he will be just like an ordinary human grandfather.

The figures of Princess Aurora and Milulu suddenly appeared in his mind. Their proportions were the same as those of ordinary people, but they seemed to have shrunk a few times.

So. He is also a dwarf?

Watching him put away the gold coins, I said, "Can you leave now?"

He nodded.

So the two of us walked towards the adventurer base one after another.

When I was approaching the base, I snorted in my heart: If this stone is not valuable, I will ask you to spit out all ten gold coins and return them to me.

When I came to the identification counter, I took out the black stone and handed it over. I said, "Help me identify it, thank you."

The "ok" staff member took the stone, put it on the identification instrument, and started operating it.

I curled my lips, turned around, and was about to speak when I suddenly discovered that the old man with the white beard was missing!

Holy crap?

What's happening here?

Just because he wasn't paying attention, let him run away?

I stared around the hall and searched for several times, but I couldn't find even a hairy one. This was too exaggerated. An old man who was declining in the world just slipped away under the eyes of a lively young man like me. ?

And the time before and after this adds up to less than ten seconds.

Immediately afterwards, another not-so-good thought came to my mind: Could this stone be fake?

I hurriedly walked back to the appraisal station. The staff had completed the appraisal, and sure enough - there was the sound of a copper coin.

When I paid, the staff even smiled and said to me: "Sir, although this stone does have some monster scent on it, no matter how you identify it, it is just an ordinary stone. Even so, It’s not great, but I still have to remind you that even if it’s a pebble or a piece of toilet paper, you still need to pay if you get it here for appraisal.”

I nodded: "I know, thank you for your hard work."

As he spoke, he took back the stone and held it tightly in his hand.

But in my heart, I kept cursing the white-bearded old man just now: You are so shameless, but in the end, you still sold me a fake, and then he ran away and meowed. It was really annoying!

I bared my teeth and showed a very unhappy expression. I wished I could crush the pebbles in my hands into powder, or throw the pebbles hard and break them into pieces.

However, my rationality tells me: It’s better not to do this. This is a public place and is subject to confinement. Moreover, your vigilance is too weak. It’s a good thing that you were fooled this time. You will learn a lesson from the experience. Keep it and do it. A sign of your innocent life.

Sighing, I walked back dejectedly.

Still passing by the foodie girl's counter, she called me softly from a distance.

I was deceived and had no energy at all. Seeing the enthusiastic expression on the foodie girl's face, I couldn't ignore it, so I walked over helplessly and sat down.

The foodie girl said hey, "What's wrong with you? You look listless?"

"Why"

I just sighed deeply.

"Let's do this. I'll tell you a joke. If you hear it and it's funny, cheer up, okay?"

The foodie girl said to me like she was coaxing a child.

"Ah, thank you then." I was still listless: "You can tell me."

"Let me tell you, a relative of mine was deceived and spent ten silver coins to buy a useless stone. Hahahaha, do you think he is stupid?"

I suddenly didn't want to listen to her anymore, glared at her, turned around and left.

Behind him, the foodie girl murmured: "Why didn't he laugh? That's not right. This is quite funny."

Haha, buying a stone for ten silver coins is called stupidity. Then I spent ten gold coins to buy a stone with the same price, what do I call it?

Dasha? Stupid? Or a huge fool?

Meow meow, don't let me catch that old man, otherwise I'll beat him every time I see him.

Feeling all sorts of unhappy, I headed home.

After entering the house, no one had come back yet. I took off my knife, took off my clothes, and put on my yukata, ready to enjoy the private bathroom alone and release the discomfort in my heart.

After putting the water in, I immersed my whole body in the water and took off the layers of bandages on my left arm.

Most of the time, I don’t take a shower with other people, and even if I do, I always wrap a waterproof bandage on my left arm.

Billy once laughed at me because of this: You should be past the age of second grade, why are you still wearing bandages to play cool?

I was dismissive of this.

In the guild, except for the three Phoenix girls, no one knows about the mysterious rune on my arm. Moreover, the more people know about this thing, the more random guesses will be made and the more troubles will naturally arise.

I'm more afraid of trouble, so I'd better keep them in the dark.

While taking a shower, I held the washed stone in the palm of my hand and took a closer look - except that it was a little transparent, it was really an ordinary stone!

I laughed at myself, then lay down, holding the stone hard with my left hand, paddling the water with my right hand, humming an unknown tune depressedly, and closed my eyes.

I don’t know how long it took, but suddenly someone yelled at me twice, and when I opened my eyes: it was Zach.

"Uh, are you back?" I sat up and wiped my face covered with water drops.

Zach had already taken off his clothes, hung his yukata aside, and sat in the water, saying, "Well, I just came back, and I was soaking in sweat when I took a bath, and then I saw you lying in it."

While Zach was talking, I had already wrapped my left arm with a waterproof bandage, and then continued to soak in the bath calmly.

At this time, I suddenly felt that something was not quite right.

After squeezing his hands and making a fist, he suddenly discovered that the pebbles bought for ten gold coins were missing!