King from scratch

Because the curse of the land of the gods will make the creatures who step into it lose control of the ether, so mages can't go directly to the kingdom through the shortcut of opening the space door, and can only walk honestly.

Before the strange combination of mages and demons arrived in the kingdom, the feedback of Aizhijin arrived in the kingdom first.

Neither the Aizhijin nor the Arcane Academy belonged to the traditional political structure. The former was composed of merchants, while the latter was composed of scholars. The particularity of these two professions meant that they would not be as slow to respond as normal kingdoms.

As a businessman, Ai Zhijin was even more decisive.

As the last power to leave the kingdom, they make decisions faster than others.

After a few days, the wandering merchants visited the kingdom again. This time, they brought a list of goods and a more detailed cooperation plan.

The lights in the conference hall were on for a long time, and Anuta and Zhe conducted a boring negotiation process on the trade methods, forms and requirements.

This is a real commercial cooperation.

Compared with ambiguous words, businessmen trust the contracts made up of rules and regulations. In this world where the rules of business conduct have not yet been clarified, they have used thousands of years of commercial trade to build the golden brand of Aizhijin's honesty and trustworthiness.

"He Xiangwen," the not-so-young middle-aged man shook hands with He Xingwen: "The other world investigation and development team, deputy team leader."

Of course, anyone with a little bit of common sense knows that the deputy team leader is the one who actually does the work. As for the team leader, he is the big boss.

He Xingwen shook hands with the other party, with a delicate mood, and introduced himself: "Your Majesty the King..." He thought about the words suitable for self-introduction, and felt that none of them were suitable, so he didn't say anything.

He Xiangwen smiled and took the topic past: "The appointment letter is here. If it's convenient...you can let the 'system' take it. Of course, we can also help you express it to any place you designate."

The system reminded He Xingwen at the right time: "A test. Test whether my ability to transfer matter between the earth and this world is limited."

He Xiangwen read out the long-winded job title: "The name of the letter of appointment is, the leader of the special liaison team of the different world under the research and development team of the different world."

He Xingwen reckoned that he, the team leader, could only lead himself, and there could be no other team members.

In other words, this is an appointment that has no practical effect except to show that they now belong to a community of interests and that his actions in the different world are approved.

"Since we already know each other."

He Xingwen didn't have the idea of ​​going back and forth with the other party - after all, from a certain point of view, he was much busier than the other party.

"Your 'players' I have arranged, so about the other part of the cooperation?"

He Xiangwen was a little surprised: "Do you need gold?"

He quickly thought of another functional npc that players had come into contact with before: "Wandering merchant?"

"We have reached a cooperation with the wandering businessman." Although still communicating, He Xingwen has no doubts about the final result.

"I need the equivalent currency to pay for a purchase. So, how are you preparing?"

He Xiangwen: "The country has strategic reserves, which can be mobilized at any time..." He looked at He Xingwen: "How much do you need?"

The system gave him a number, and He Xiangwen didn't show any extra expressions, as if the number didn't have any practical significance.

What he cares about is another thing: "In the previous contract, we agreed that this is a limited supply."

In other words, He Xingwen couldn't always use Huaguo's gold reserves to pay the wandering merchants. He had to find enough money in another world to use it as an equivalent currency before the supply was exhausted.

"I know this very well." He Xingwen glanced at the black blood stone as a display, and said, "This is not a problem."

He Xiangwen then cast his gaze at the Black Blood Stone - anyone who has watched His Majesty's series knows its special nature.

He Xiangwen: "How to effectively use this new energy is another new issue."

It is not a simple matter for any kind of new energy from development to utilization to large-scale promotion.

Especially in the early stage of social formation, this period is often accompanied by social reform, economic turmoil, and technological progress. Finally, on the premise of further technological development, it can smoothly transition to the stage of widespread use of new energy.

He Xiangwen didn't think that he would interfere with His Majesty's decision so soon, which would be detrimental to their cooperation, so he mentioned a sentence and then returned to the main point: "Since gold is mentioned, then the Black Blood Stone... are you ready?" ?”

In exchange for the limited supply of gold, the kingdom provided Hua with a batch of black bloodstones.

As a new energy source, it may not only change the world.

"address?"

He Xiangwen passed the detailed coordinates to He Xingwen.

In fact, this is a bit unnecessary. After all, the range that the system can observe is different from that of humans. Humans are limited by their body organs, and the way to obtain information is extremely low, and the processing organs that filter information are still in the development stage, so human perception is extremely limited.

But the system is different. The way he perceives the world is the feedback given by the world itself, and there is no possibility that his perception is so limited that he cannot receive information.

In other words, the system has known this coordinate for a long time, just to avoid causing unnecessary vigilance and panic to the other party, it waited until this moment to complete the exchange of materials between the two worlds.

He Xingwen glanced at the coordinates, nodded, and said to the other party: "Then, happy cooperation."

He Xiangwen suppressed his surprise calmly, nodded to He Xingwen, paused for a while, and brought up a new topic: "So, next, you are going to trade with wandering merchants?"

He Xingwen heard the meaning of his words, he glanced in the direction of the conference hall, and didn't mind satisfying the other party's curiosity.

"If you're not busy..."

"In fact, I have reserved enough time for this meeting."

"Then I'd be happy to take you to watch the scene of our conversation with the wandering trader."

He Xingwen took the other party out of the room and walked towards the conference hall.

The conference hall was ajar, and the intense conversation could be clearly heard even outside the door.

Occasionally, the npcs passing by the square did not cast their eyes on it. They maintained their usual indifferent attitude and were busy with their tasks.

He Xingwen stretched out his hand and opened the door, and the two people sitting at the long table came into their sight.

The revisit of the wandering businessman did not use a mechanical body. After confirming that he had obtained the king's permission to be immune to the curse of God's Fallen Land on the kingdom's territory, the wandering businessman visited the kingdom in person.

As a mimetic creature, the Wandering Merchant's form would instinctively resemble the vast majority of intelligent beings in the area, and in the Kingdom, they would undoubtedly assume a human form.

Whether it is touch, vision or light perception, it is impossible to distinguish the true face of the other party, just like they are human beings.

At this moment, although there are only two people in the conference hall, they are still noisy—to be precise, they are not quarreling, they react too quickly to argue one after another, forming a situation that seems to be noisy.

In fact, both parties were very calm during the whole process.

He Xingwen listened, found a place to sit down, and motioned to He Xiangwen to the side.

Unexpected scene.

He Xiangwen remained silent and listened quietly to the conversations between the negotiating parties. Their negotiations were very direct, with almost no detours and temptations. contract.

Until an agreement was reached and the debate came to an end, Anuta took out the small black box from the space. The blue diamond-shaped gemstone was inlaid in the center of the small black box, shining brightly, like flowing water slowly following the fluctuations of the ether. float.

Anuta activated it in a low voice, and the frequency of etheric fluctuations changed accordingly. A ray of light was reflected from the blue gemstone, suspended in the air, and densely packed characters emerged.

The treaty they discussed just now became these words, which appeared in this light.

He read the contract, confirmed that it was correct, and pressed the gemstone, and a part of the rhombus turned red, while the other part remained blue.

After completing these steps, he handed the box to He Xingwen.

He Xingwen looked down at the box in his hand. It was almost weightless, and there was no place to open the box. It was solid.

He Xingwen didn't act rashly: "What is this?"

Knowing that He Xingwen doesn't know much about this world, Anuta explained in great detail: "The unique contract method of wandering merchants, under the witness of ether, leaves the ether fluctuations of both parties to the contract."

He Xingwen looked at the sapphire. Under the light, the sapphire was extremely clear, free of impurities, and exuded an expensive atmosphere.

"General contracts should also be signed with it?" Even if a wandering merchant has money, he shouldn't consume a sapphire of this quality when he meets a partner, right?

"The kingdom's potential is enough to make us more sincere."

"Is it binding enough?" For example, if you violate the contract and die on the spot...

Anuta expressed sincere regret: "Although we very much hope that it can have a substantive effect, so far, its only function is to inform us of the ether fluctuations of the partner who violated the contract."

He Xingwen looked sideways at Anuta.

Anuta slowly continued the first half of the sentence: "Then register, Ai Zhijin will not cooperate with the existence that betrayed the contract for the second time."

If the contract is betrayed, Ai Zhijin will always remove the other party from the list of collaborators and refuse to provide any services for the other party.

He Xingwen, who never thought of breaking the contract, reached out and pressed the sapphire, and the other half of the sapphire turned red. To be precise, this gemstone should be called a ruby ​​now.

"Pleasant to work with."

Anuta showed a commercial smile, and then non-stop mentioned the next business: "Dear King, about the list of building materials you need..." He glanced at Zhe: "These things themselves are not expensive, but due to Due to the special geographical location of the kingdom, the transportation price may be even more expensive."

The system has already recorded this: "This point may be resolved after the mages arrive in the kingdom."

"After all, when it comes to the exploration and use of ether, they are the best."

He Xingwen skipped this point: "I'll talk about this later, about your product list?"

Anuta took out a paper list, handed it to He Xingwen, and explained to him: "Dear King, on the white page are products that we can supply unlimitedly, on the yellow page are products with limited supply, and on the red page are Special merchandise only for your kingdom."

Everything you need may not be an accurate description. The last time He Xingwen saw such a complete catalog and detailed product list was on a large online shopping platform.

What's more than this large-scale online shopping platform is that wandering merchants even provide various services - including but not limited to recruitment, dialogue with a specific force, killing and extorting goods, cleaning up the death scene, digging treasures to form a team, and cleaning up a certain area, etc. , such as services that can be provided for anything as long as money is available.

He Xiangwen, who was sitting next to He Xingwen, glanced at the type of service noted in the product list, and frowned slightly.

However, no one paid attention to him at the scene, and everyone's attention was focused on He Xingwen.

He Xingwen flipped through the entire catalog at random, and the system presented the optimal solution on his retina.

"For now, we only need the basic items..." He Xingwen scratched out these product names and said to Anuta: "And some reagents."

These basic reagents that have the effect of replenishing ether can be sold to players under the name of "primary blood recovery medicine", and those with better effects are called "intermediate blood recovery medicine". Tonic pills".

As for those in limited supply, such as space rings, alchemy weapons, ether storage, etc., their prices are enough for He Xingwen, who has not yet found the hard currency belonging to the kingdom, to even look at it—because he can't afford it.

Not to mention the special merchandise of the red pages.

He Xingwen took a quick glance, "Tailored construction of the basic ether system", "Hand in hand to help you establish diplomatic relations with other races", "Basic economic system adjustment plan", "Advanced race deployment plan", "Tailored plan for immortality" are all stunned. It made He Xingwen dare not look at the specific amount and content.

This is not a businessman in He Xingwen's conventional concept, but a businessman who will be born in the background of this world. They have met enough civilizations and races. Under the premise of the existence of ether, enough existences beyond common sense can become tradable commodities.

It's just... I can't afford it.

He Xingwen made a poor voice, pretending he didn't see anything, and calmly ignored these luxuries.

Anuta glanced at the list drawn by His Majesty the king. Some very basic commodities that could be supplied indefinitely, without a single luxury, were very rare and extremely restrained, which was in line with his perception of the king.

Anuta would not think that He Xingwen chose to restrain himself because he couldn't afford it - based on his understanding of the kingdom's system, the king controls the entire kingdom, and among all the kingdoms, His Majesty the king undoubtedly has the most control over the kingdom. The thorough one.

Such a king definitely has enough rights to pay for the luxury goods he wants to buy.

Restraint is one of the human virtues, but it doesn't often appear in those with power. After all, the greater the power, the less need for restraint.

Therefore, when it rarely appears on a king, it can only be said that the pretender of the new world order is about to enter.

"The payment method we have determined is the equivalent precious metal payment..."

He Xingwen stood up, led the other party around and went to the warehouse next door.

In each grid of the warehouse, there are golden hills piled up with gold, even in the dim environment, they still sparkle, full of the breath of money.

Is there a gold mine in the Land of God's Fall?

Anuta's gaze stayed on the golden mountain for a few seconds before falling to other places in the warehouse.

He scanned the neatly arranged other materials, glanced at the rough manufactures filled with the beginning of civilization, stopped for a while on the black bloodstone piled in the corner, and finally landed on the sharp bone blade.

Anuta's gaze didn't pause for too long, almost in the blink of an eye, Anuta's consulting gaze fell on He Xingwen again.

He Xingwen nodded slightly.

Anuta took a step forward, reached out and took out a small steelyard. It was so small that it was inconspicuous when held in Anuta's hand.

The dense pattern is carved on the black surface, which is difficult to distinguish because there is no activation.

Anuta handed out the scale to the golden mountain in front, the two ends of the scale shook slightly, and the light quickly lit up from the bottom of the scale, followed by countless complicated patterns.

The golden mountain made a rustling sound, like the sound of gold rubbing against each other, and a small golden mountain was slowly piled up in one end of the balance.

The raised section falls slowly until both ends are equal in weight.

Anuta looked down at the numbers on the steelyard, then turned to confirm with He Xingwen: "The amount for the first batch of goods has been paid."

The gold mountain is a circle smaller, and on the steelyard in Anuta's hand there is a gold mountain that is only a few centimeters from the visual point of view.

Of course, its actual weight and quantity are obviously not what it seems visually.

As expected of a wandering merchant, he looked like a Doraemon with a different-dimensional pocket.

Anuta took the steelyard back to the space and returned to the empty-handed state before continuing: "I have a basic reserve of these unlimited supplies of goods, which can be supplied at any time, and there is no need to restock them."

According to the contract they established before, Anuta continued: "Then I, go to Xinshou Village now?"

He Xingwen turned his head to look at He Xiangwen, and reminded him: "The 'game' will be updated soon, you should go offline."

When He Xiangwen left the warehouse and went offline from the altar, the notification issued by the system jumped out in front of all the players almost at the same time.

[Game update reminder:

The internal test version 1.0 is about to undergo a major update. All players are requested to log off immediately. Players who cannot log off will bear their own losses.

After a 10-minute countdown, the game will forcibly end. 】

Seeing that he was about to arrive in the kingdom, but because of the sudden update, Ye Quan could never return to the kingdom with a question mark floating on his head.

Theoretically speaking, he is the only player who is unable to log off now, right?

I suspect the system is targeting me, and I have proof!

No matter what the players were doing, as soon as this notice came out, everyone rushed to the altar and prepared to go offline one by one.

Ye Quan was the worst hang. He got off the line by forceful death in a flash of white light at the end of the final countdown.

Duoti, who had just stepped into the kingdom, paused, and looked at the demon who was carrying the leaf dog delicately.

The devil's hand was empty, and he was also taken aback, but when Duoti's eyes drifted over, he immediately raised his head: "It doesn't matter to me what to look at."

It's you who said the most embarrassing words in the most ruthless tone!demon!

The hill-like demon didn't even notice that the leaf dog disappeared without a sound. He poked Kenti: "I informed Nubida, and he said he was coming to pick us up."

Kenti rolled his eyes: "Why did you notify him? That guy is a liar! It must be no good if he asked us to come, and you are still rushing to be cheated by him?"

"Ah? Since there is nothing good, why are we here?" the demon as tall as a hill asked slowly.

"As long as there are more useful things in your mind, we won't have to mess up so badly." Kenti jumped up and kicked him: "We're here to beat him!"

"Oh~" The hill-like demon responded: "Then we wait for him to come over, and then beat him up?"

Kenti froze on the spot, went through this train of thought a few times, but couldn't find any logical problems, and finally became angry with embarrassment, impotent and furious: "I can't listen to him anyway, let's go quickly..."

He glanced at Duoti: "Don't you know the way to the kingdom? Hurry up and go."

Duoti looked at the other party with a strange look for a while, he had never seen anyone rushing into the tiger's mouth, especially a demon known for his tricks.

The mage and the demon group hurried towards the main city of the kingdom, but Nubida, who had rushed over, naturally missed it.

"Where are people?" Nubida turned around in place, and his gaze fell on the main city where the ether fluctuated violently.

"How did they run so fast? I haven't pointed them out yet." Conscience of heaven and earth, Nubida asked the demon to stop and wait for him, entirely out of the little brotherhood left.

But obviously, his credibility with other demons has been completely bankrupt.

Nubida sighed, and was not in a hurry to hurry. He pretended to pray for his compatriots for a few seconds, then turned around and went back to Xinshou Village.

As for those demons who were tricked by him?

Hope the devil is ok.