Chapter 310 Book Exchange

Green Pine Street is a street in the wealthy area in the north of the city.

Lindsay thanked the old man in the library and set off to visit the book collector.

When he was hiding in the border and trying to repair the teleportation array, he visited a collector in the town.

Both of these people seem to be awakened.

But in terms of the specific content of the skills, there seems to be a completely different division. Book collectors cultivate skills with the original books they collect, while collectors can inspire incredible power from their collections.

Lindsay walked to the north of the city and began to see different scenes on the road.

And this scenery has something to do with him.

——Stockings.

People in other districts can hardly see stockings.

But among awakened people, rich people, or nobles, this thing has gradually become popular.

After all, women are born to love beauty, and men are willing to pay for it.

After being welcomed by both men and women, this product has been well received as soon as it was launched, and people are not reluctant to show this beauty.

At the junction of the urban areas.

Lindsay also saw a lot of ordinary people, and the clothes on their lower body were also changing.

Awakeners and nobles choose this kind of attire.

Ordinary people will certainly envy and desire it, and naturally imitators will appear on the street.

However, Elini adopts a high-price strategy.

Ordinary people can't afford stockings.

So they use dyed white cloth to imitate the shape of stockings and sew them into stockings. Although the specific details are completely different from stockings, they can also show a good aesthetic feeling after dressing up.

"Now even stockings are out."

"Then when will someone wear knee socks with short skirts?"

Lindsay curled his lips:

"They started imitating in less than a week. These guys are fast enough."

With emotion, Lindsay also thought of the problem.

There are awakened people called craftsmen in this world.

After the fourth stage, craftsmen can gradually create truly extraordinary items. Although they don't have strong skills in the first few stages, it's probably just a matter of time before they imitate stockings.

"So Elini now has a first-mover advantage."

"When the news spreads and craftsmen rush to imitate, the business model will change accordingly."

Lindsay simply calculated.

Jiuwan City should be only three or four months away from Yaoyue City.

This world has messengers to help deliver messages.

If the time is calculated from the round trip, it should be half a year at most before imitations of the same quality begin to be promoted.

Walking all the way to the north of the city, Lindsay also noticed a detail.

There are no strict restrictions on movement between the various districts of Jiuwan City.

But when entering this area, those ordinary people wearing stockings completely disappear.

Ordinary people naturally respect nobles and awakeners.

Especially in such a large city with a perfect order, this class gap is much more obvious than a small town like a hidden border.

Ordinary people don't even need reminders or isolation.

Spontaneously, they will determine a range of activities for themselves. The real impact of power is so clear.

...

Book collectors are not difficult to find.

Lindsay opened the map and asked people he caught on the street.

In less than half an hour, he stood in front of an unfamiliar building.

The book collector's house has almost no yard. It is just a square building covering the entire land, like an apartment with strictly planned space.

Lindsay went forward and knocked on the door.

Soon, a middle-aged man's voice echoed in the room:

"Hello, who are you looking for?"

Then, the door opened.

Standing in front of Lindsay was a man in a yellow pajamas, holding a thick book under his armpit.

Lindsay squinted his eyes, and he could tell at a glance that the other party had source essence.

Combined with this dress, the man in front of him should be the owner of this house:

"Hello, I am Lindsay."

"I want to find Mr. Book Collector here and ask him for some knowledge."

The man looked at Lindsay curiously:

"Awakener?"

Lindsay nodded and admitted:

"Yes."

The man in pajamas immediately made way:

"Then come in."

The book collector took Lindsay into the house.

The lights in the building were dim, and there was a long corridor behind the living room. The air was filled with the unique smell of book pages and ink.

"Just call me Alande."

Only the bibliophile Alande lived here.

He brought Lindsay into the living room, poured a cup of tea in a friendly manner, and then asked Lindsay with a serious expression:

"Mr. Lindsay, what kind of knowledge do you want to find when you come to me?"

Lindsay did not mention his arm injury, but frankly stated his purpose:

"It's like this, I want to find the secret of life in the forest. But the information in the library has been moved away."

"Between the city hall and the bibliophile, I think you are more trustworthy."

The bibliophile smiled:

"Then you have found the right place!"

"Before the library moved, I specially copied a lot of books there."

At this point, Alande changed the subject:

"But I will not give my hard work to others for nothing, you should understand, right?"

Lindsay spoke quickly, raised his hand directly, and signaled the other party to make an offer:

"If you pay, you will be rewarded, of course I understand."

Alande replied:

"Quite simply, I want books."

"As long as it's something I haven't read, or a rare book, I can exchange it for knowledge."

——Bibliophiles need books.

——This request is very reasonable.

Lindsay lowered his head and thought, he happened to have such a thing in his hand.

In the frozen city below the Black Mountain, he harvested a pile of ancient scrolls that had been dusted for a long time; and when leaving the hidden frontier, Lindsay also took away a copy of the expedition's notes.

Both items are unique to Lindsay’s collection.

But the former may involve some dangers;

The latter would expose Lindsay's own origins, and he did not want to lose the memorable expedition notes.

Lindsay weighed it up and decided not to hand over these two things.

I had no choice but to hand over the book "The Merchant and the Dragon Maid" that had been with me for a long time:

"Can you look at this?"

"This is... "The Merchant and the Dragon Maid"?" Aland's expression was a bit baffling.

He wanted to refuse immediately.

But after seeing the old cover of the book that Lindsay handed over, his heart moved and he began to check it carefully again.

Not long after, Alande raised his head, with a hint of respect in his tone:

"This is an ancient copy of "The Merchant and the Dragon Maid" published more than a hundred years ago!"

"No problem, Mr. Lindsay, I am very satisfied with this transaction!"

"Please wait here for a moment, I will go get the information for you right away."

Alan clenched his fists and walked deeper into the room.

Not long after, he returned with books, paper and pen.

The bibliophile did not hand over his collection of books. He put his hand on the table, and the power of the source material turned into a skill and began to take effect.

Snapped--

In the ink bottle, black liquid rose into the sky.

This trickle of water penetrates into the gaps in the pages of the book, automatically forming words and patterns, and the contents of a book are transcribed in the blink of an eye.

In this way, the bibliophile copied the materials he took out before giving them to Lindsay:

"Mr. Lindsay, you can take it back and read it slowly."

"If you encounter any problems, come here again and I will help you for free!"