In a shantytown, in front of Fang Cheng's rented room.

Xiang Jun felt something was strange today. A young man in his early twenties came to his military supply store to buy a mechanical crossbow, and the most bizarre thing was that he actually agreed.

You must know that Xiang Jun has been in this business for several years. Relying on the connections he accumulated from his life-and-death experiences in the army, he was able to obtain some scarce goods.

However, he has always sold these things to acquaintances, not strangers.

The reason is simple: to avoid trouble. After all, these goods are controlled items. Although the management is not as strict as firearms, if they really investigate you, you definitely won't be able to escape.

Xiang Jun sighed. Business is getting harder and harder to do. Otherwise, he wouldn't have thought of selling these things to a stranger.

Including the crossbow, Fang Cheng spent a total of more than 40,000 yuan in his store.

You should know that the entire store's turnover last month was less than 40,000 yuan. If this continues, he won't even be able to pay the rent. Could it be that he really has to close the store and go out to work as a bodyguard? But at his age, how many more years can he fight?

Xiang Jun felt a little melancholy.

"Knock, knock, knock."

Hearing the knock on the door, Fang Cheng was a little surprised.

It's here so soon? Fang Cheng rushed forward and opened the door.

What came into view was Xiang Jun's signature fierce face. Children who didn't know him would definitely be scared to cry. However, Fang Cheng was too excited at the moment and completely ignored these things.

"Where's the stuff?" Fang Cheng asked quickly.

Xiang Jun lifted a large black bag from behind him, filled with the items Fang Cheng had selected.

"Handsome, are you transferring the money or...?" Xiang Jun hesitated.

"Transfer," Fang Cheng said immediately.

After transferring the money, Fang Cheng saw Xiang Jun off and immediately returned to the house, slamming the door shut.

Fang Cheng carefully checked the items he had prepared: a military crossbow, a dagger, a multi-functional engineer shovel, a bulletproof vest, a stab-resistant suit, and a wilderness survival kit.

Fang Cheng then looked at another bag, which was filled with the goods he had prepared: twenty bags of salt and six fist-sized transparent glass beads.

Fang Cheng's mind moved, and he looked at the intelligent learning machine panel in his mind.

The energy option above was less than half charged, which meant he had to wait another night.

Fang Cheng suppressed his anxious mood and opened the virtual learning function, preparing to continue familiarizing himself with the Northern Continent Common Language. Learning an alien language in two days would probably shock everyone.

However, Fang Cheng, who was in the virtual learning space, felt it was normal.

According to the intelligent learning machine, the virtual learning space can maximize the host's potential to learn knowledge.

Moreover, with Fang Cheng's current mental strength, he can only study for three hours before he can't hold on and falls asleep.

With Fang Cheng's current mastery of the Northern Continent Common Language, although he can communicate normally with the people of Morton City, there is still a relatively obvious difference in accent.

Inside the virtual learning space, the surroundings were all silver-white walls.

Fang Cheng was now learning the Northern Continent Common Language over and over again in the virtual learning space.

As long as the intelligent learning machine records the data, it can perfectly simulate it, and it is exactly the same as the real thing. Anyway, Fang Cheng can't detect any difference.

Fang Cheng practiced the Northern Continent Common Language over and over again. If the residents of Morton City were here, they would find that Fang Cheng's pronunciation was no different from that of a native Morton City resident.

The night passed quickly.

After Fang Cheng woke up, he checked the charging situation.

Seeing the energy displayed above: 100%, Fang Cheng felt a burst of excitement in his heart.

Fang Cheng took a deep breath and calmed down.

"Transcend."

Fang Cheng issued an instruction to the intelligent learning machine.

A flash of light.

The next moment, Fang Cheng had already appeared in the Morton City inn in another world.

Morton City, in an inn near the north of the city.

Fang Cheng was pondering in front of the door that he had sealed.

It seemed that the room Fang Cheng was staying in had been sealed tightly by him, but he couldn't guarantee that no one would knock on his door for so long. He also couldn't guarantee that no one would enter this room the next time he came back.

It seemed that he had another task this time: he had to find a safe place to live.

He could no longer live in this kind of inn that provided services to sea merchants and traveling merchants.

Morton City is a very open commercial city.

Unlike other nobles' territories, where nobles oppress the common people to death, Count Morton has a very good reputation in his territory.

Morton City was not called this name decades ago. This name was changed by Count Morton after he inherited his father's title.

Count Morton is a very visionary nobleman.

The first thing he did when he took office was to abolish the various laws of the nobles that exploited and oppressed the common people. He also built ports and vigorously developed maritime trade.

Therefore, compared to other viscount territories, Count Morton's territory is quite prosperous in commerce.

This can be seen from the hundreds of thousands of permanent residents in Morton City.

In less than ten years, Count Morton's territory became a well-known viscount territory in the Eastern Holy Empire, both economically and militarily.

Fang Cheng learned all these things from the merchants in Morton City when they told him in a jumble.

Fang Cheng moved away the last cabinet blocking the door and wiped his sweat.

Inside the inn.

Harry was sitting at the front desk, receiving the guests who were checking in. He was the owner of this inn, and he usually made a lot of gold coins from these constant merchants.

Harry saw Fang Cheng walking downstairs and immediately trotted over enthusiastically.

"Sir, would you like to extend your stay?" Harry used the Northern Continent Common Language.

"No," Fang Cheng smiled kindly and spoke in fluent Northern Continent Common Language, "Morton City is a beautiful city. I want to buy a manor here and hope to live here in the future."

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Hearing Fang Cheng's praise of Morton City, Harry revealed a happy and proud expression.

"Sir, you must be a successful businessman," Harry immediately flattered him.

Fang Cheng smiled and waved his hand, saying, "So, how much is my room fee?"

"A total of fifty copper beads, respected sir." Harry bowed slightly. He didn't want to neglect this great merchant who lived in the highest-class room in their hotel.

Fang Cheng took out a silver lang from his pocket and handed it to Harry.

"Keep the change."

After speaking, he left the inn amidst Harry's gratitude.

At the beginning, Fang Cheng exchanged ten gold coins with a sea merchant for glass beads. After exchanging nine gold coins, he only had ninety-seven silver lang left in his pocket.

In the Eastern Holy Empire, the purchasing power of gold coins is quite strong.

The average family does not spend even one gold coin, which is 100 silver lang, for all expenses throughout the year. The average family here is not a simple family of three, but often has more than a dozen people.

From this, it can also be seen the purchasing power of gold coins.

Fang Cheng wanted to buy a manor based on this.

Outside the city, a small manor covering more than ten acres usually costs less than 100 gold coins to purchase.

If you want to buy a manor, you must first sell the goods in your hand and exchange them for enough gold coins, Fang Cheng thought to himself.

Morton City, north of the city.

Compared to the south of Morton City, the north of the city is obviously a lively place. Less than twenty miles outside the city is a huge seaport, which not only connects several huge noble territories around it, but also has commercial exchanges with the legendary Seven Star Island.

Every day, countless cargo ships come from the noble territories of the Eastern Holy Empire to trade with the merchants of Morton City.

These foreign merchants have a characteristic: most of them are official merchants of the noble territories. Even if they are merchant teams composed of common people, they are often backed by some big figures.

Morton City is different. As long as they are legal commoners in the territory, they are allowed to do business. As long as they pay taxes, they are legal merchants in Morton City and are protected by the city guards.

Therefore, foreign commoner merchants and adventurers who come to Morton City to settle down are in an endless stream, forming the prosperous situation of Morton City today.

Although the nobles in other territories are quite dissatisfied with this matter, no one dares to be the first bird because of Count Morton's power.

In less than a moment.

Fang Cheng came to the front of a commercial bank.

The Seven Star Chamber of Commerce, the four big characters came into Fang Cheng's eyes.

The entire commercial bank is composed of a huge square building that is five stories high. The building is made of vermilion giant stones, which looks solemn, noble, and grand.

The merchants or customers entering and leaving the entire commercial bank are in an endless stream. Some come to purchase goods, some sell goods, and the commercial bank itself also participates in it.

In short, large and small merchants form a huge chain of interests around the commercial bank.

However, there are seven such commercial banks in Morton City, and the Seven Star Chamber of Commerce is only one of the larger ones.

As soon as Fang Cheng stepped into the commercial bank, some sharp-eyed merchants recognized him.

There was no way, Fang Cheng caused a sensation in this commercial bank a few days ago.

Of course, it was a negative sensation. Everyone laughed at the Seven Star Chamber of Commerce for having a fool. They actually sold a priceless bead for ten gold coins.

Now that Fang Cheng appeared here again, these merchants naturally surrounded him like jackals smelling blood.

"Fang Cheng."

The merchant in front of him had a round face with a smile, wearing bright yellow embroidered silk, with precious pearl jewelry hanging on his chest and a green gemstone ring on his middle finger. He was Roger, the merchant who traded with Fang Cheng last time.

Although the smile on Roger's face was extremely sincere, Fang Cheng did not intend to pay attention to him.

Who told this bastard to rip him off so badly last time?

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