Wolf King

This thing should have been forced out from the depths of the gap. The overall shape is estimated to be a humanoid creature, because the part that looks like it should belong to the head, and the entire face has been squeezed out of shape... …

To use an analogy, it is like someone wearing a rubber headgear, and then grabbing the ears on both sides and pulling them back hard, the nose is stretched very wide, the eyes and mouth are stretched and slender...

Rosemary opened her mouth into an O shape, turned her head and ran backwards without making a sound, dragged Xiao Yun along, got into the crowd of Snow Wolf warriors, and then stopped in shock, gasping for air: "That's it!" What the hell?!"

"Are you asking me?" Xiao Yun said angrily.

The strange creature that was slowly squeezing out suddenly stopped.

Yu walked a few steps forward, stared at it for a while, and wondered, "Strange, why didn't it move all of a sudden?" Turning his head, "Ah Yun, let's pull this thing out to have a look?"

Rosemary & Baron looked at Yu in horror.

Xiao Yun stared at dead fish eyes: "Uh..." To be honest, he wouldn't think the things in the crevices of the rocks were scary, but would something solid be scary?But this thing is really too weird, just looking at it makes the SAN value go crazy, let alone let the clansmen touch it with their hands, "Forget it, poke it to see if you can poke it back, it looks disgusting."

Yu nodded, then raised his spear and poked it into the crevice of the stone... Then he was surprised: "Hey, this thing is shrinking in by itself."

can run?Xiao Yun's expression changed, and he immediately changed his words: "Get caught!"

Gao Yuyi is bold, never afraid of anyone, he stretched out his arm and grabbed the white creature: "Hey, oops, I can't catch it! It's slippery!"

"I'll come, I'll come!" Ah Shan rushed up, flicking his tongue, squatting down and stuck his arm under the crack of the stone, grabbing the opponent's foot...

Ah Shan: "You can't use your strength?"

Yu: "Can't you hold on to the bottom?"

Ah Shan: "Yeah, old skater, slipperier than soap."

Yu: "I got to the place where it looks like a nostril, but I released it as soon as I tried hard..."

More snow werewolf fighters surrounded them, some tried to get stuck but stretched out their hands to grab them, some had big brains and wanted to widen the stone wall, and some couldn't squeeze in just to catch up...

Rosemary & Baron: "..."

Xiao Yun was very calm, operated normally, and sat down.

A few minutes later, the snow wolves sadly sat back by the campfire and continued to eat.

"It's a shame to let it go."

"That damn place is too narrow, even the shoulders can't fit in."

"What the hell is that?"

After eating and drinking well, he continued to search in the surrounding passages, and after wandering around for a long time, Ah Shan stumbled into a particularly brightly colored mushroom bush that was poisonous at first glance, only to find a downward secret passage; The poisonous mushrooms got into the secret passage, and the snow wolves discovered the gray dwarf village living in a secret room-like cave...

Needless to say, they negotiated an attack and kidnapped the third company of quality, then blocked the secret passage and destroyed the evidence of the crime, assigned a manpower to escort the gray dwarves to the road, and the others returned to the main force to continue "lost"...

A few days later, the Snowwolves "finally" delivered the first batch of vermicelli to the dungeon, explained the reason for the delay with apologetic smiles, and accepted the first payment from the dark elves. ...

On the way here, I found six gray dwarf villages successively, and packed them back with 2000 people. When I went back, my luck seemed to be exhausted. I didn’t meet a single gray dwarf village, but I met a few useless lizardmen and devilman settlements. .

The lizard people are low in IQ and ugly, Xiao Yun used dried meat to negotiate with the girls, but they didn't eat it... After finding out that these people actually eat bugs for a living, Xiao Yun was going to tie a few back to look at the fields, and found that this Asian The human race has a terribly low IQ, so they gave up.

The not-so-ugly demons are not useless, but it's a pity that all the racial skill points are spent on combat, and the Fire Department is temporarily useless.

Halfway there, Baron the Goblin found traces of his kind's activities.

"It's not wrong, these worm legs are not leftovers from the lizard people. The lizard people eat all the worms, and there will be no leftovers." Baron excitedly pulled the worm leg shells from the ooze monster's lair to Xiao Yun Zhan said, "Look, Ah Yun, the outer shell has traces of being roasted, and the meat inside has been eaten. This must be my kindred who was buried in the soil and was found by the slime monster to build a nest!"

Xiao Yun, an excellent miner and quarry worker like the goblin, was appointed not to let go, and the snow wolves immediately searched around...

However, goblins are better at hiding than gray dwarves. They don't put their tribes in places where they can be blocked by people, and their residences are hidden underground. Even if outsiders walk over their tribes, it is difficult to detect them. For most of the day, only Ah Shan Found a hole hidden in the back of the rock.

Ah Shan couldn't get in the goblin's burrow, so he quickly called Baron over.

Baron squatted down for a little observation and said: "The soil at the entrance of this cave is covered with moss. It should be one of the backup exits. We usually leave five to six entrances and exits in the residence. Except for the usual exits, the other entrances They are blocked when they are not needed, and they will be dug up when they are needed... and the holes will be scattered far away, even if you dig along this hole, you probably won’t be able to find my kin.”

Xiao Yun shook his head: "Your safety awareness is also absolutely utterly insignificant, and it is appropriate for you to designate the espionage safe house..."

Baron scratched his scalp in embarrassment: "In the cave where our tribe lived before, the tunnel entrance was not dug there, they were all dug to other places. Uh... By the way, sometimes we will use the ventilation The mouth is dug into a rock crevice or a place where no one else can get in, so it is relatively hidden."

"Air vent?" Xiao Yun's eyes lit up, and he immediately greeted everyone, "When you see crevices in rocks and places that people can't pass through, pay attention to see if there are any places that are disguised as natural holes, and if you find them, use smoke!"

Baron was shocked...

After another half-day of searching, Rosemary found a small cave in the lower part of a stone forest that was very close to the rock wall, which was disguised by overgrown vines, and immediately called everyone to scrape moss, dig grass roots and tree roots to light a fire and set off smoke... …

The smoke produced by the damp moss was fanned into the cave, and after a while, the snow wolves who listened intently with bated breath heard a vague cough...

The snow wolves, who had been busy for a whole day and didn't see it, were excited. They scattered around without command, and deployed manpower within a mile radius, keeping a close eye on any place where goblins might appear.

Rosemary accompanied Xiao Yun squatting in the stone forest to smoke, while Ashandu Stone Forest and Yudu Stone Forest looked at all suspicious corners in the stone forest.

Xiao Yun was very satisfied with everyone being so resourceful, so he stood up and looked around, pulling up the vines hanging like spider webs between the stone walls and the stone forest, to see if those cunning goblins had hidden the exits in these places.

After searching through a large area of ​​densely-grown and entangled vines, Xiao Yun suddenly felt that something was wrong.

He immediately went back to the place he had just looked at, pulled away the messy vines, and pulled out a vine with huge leaves.

The largest leaves of other vines are two slaps together, but this one is very different, the largest leaf is at least as big as a lotus leaf; there is a particularly smooth break at the end of the vine, as if cut by a sharp knife.

Grabbing the rattan with particularly large leaves, Xiao Yun moved his gaze upwards to the top of the stone wall.

At the top of the stone wall, a pink-white flower bud about the size of a human body emerged from a deep gap that was split from top to bottom but did not reach the bottom.

Xiao Yun: "..."

Rosemary, who was busy fanning a cigarette, looked over strangely: "Ah Yun, what are you doing?"

Xiao Yun stared at the pink and white flower bud with wide-eyed eyes: "Well... I was thinking about a philosophical question——Rosemary, you said that in a world where white wolves, big cats, buffaloes, and tigers can become spirits, can plants become spirits? Refined?"

rosemary:"??"

Xiao Yun grabbed the cane and pulled it hard, but it didn't move at all, so he simply wrapped the cane around his hands, trying to use his strength to climb up the stone wall.

He had just climbed two times when the vines loosened suddenly, almost throwing Xiao Yun to the ground, he grabbed other vines and then hastily stabilized his figure.

The cane he was pulling quickly retracted, trying to break free.

"Sure enough! Nima is still playing this trick with me!" Xiao Yun quickly wrapped the cane around his arm, "Maomao Ashan is here to help, drag this grandson down!!"

Yu came over in a daze, looked at Xiao Yun who was struggling with the vine in a strange way, and also pulled the vine and exerted all his strength before realizing something was wrong: "Huh?"

Ah Shan also ran over, following along in a tug of war...

rosemary:"??"

After staying for a few seconds, Rosemary finally realized... How strong is the adult snow werewolf?Maomao, Ashanjia, and Ayun by the way, can't pull the vine? !

Xiao Yun found that brute force was not enough, so he shouted at Rosemary: "Get that flower down, the biggest one on the top!"

"Oh." Rosemary peeled back her skin, and she was still reliable in her work. She immediately grabbed the densely grown vines on the stone wall and climbed up.

Just halfway through the climb, the rattan on the other side, which was pretending to be dead, pulled over with a "huh" and slammed it to Rosemary's side abdomen with a "snap". fall down.

"The stinky bastard is quite capable!!" Rosemary was furious, protruding her claws, grabbed the stone wall and jumped up, hugged the huge flower fiercely, and flicked outward again, with the help of Its own weight dragged the giant flower down.

Big cats are not afraid of falling to the ground...

Yu let go of the rattan, suddenly squatted down and jumped up, embracing Rosemary with one hand in mid-air; coupled with his weight of more than 200 kilograms, the giant flower couldn't hold it at all, and was fragilely pulled from the stone wall by buds, stems and leaves. Being pulled down from the gap...

This weird giant flower obviously didn't want to sit still, a dozen vines hidden in various places moved together, some clung to the same kind on the stone wall, and some attacked Rosemary and Feather, and showed unknown signs. The hammer fruit that was hidden somewhere earlier...is much smaller than the last time I encountered it.

"Is it a battle tree?" Seeing this familiar attack pattern, Yu smiled easily. He protected Rosemary behind his back with one hand, and swung his spear with the other. Brush to knock down the hammer fruit.

Ah Shan jumped out from the side, grabbed the rattan and hugged him in his arms, braiding the thick rattan into braids with extreme carelessness...

The soldiers outside the stone forest also came up to help. The giant flower that had escaped from the cover of the stone wall was not an opponent at all. After more than a dozen vines were tied up, it stopped completely...

"This is a battle tree, right? Does the battle tree hide the fruit? I didn't see it at all before." Ah Shan squatted down and picked up the hammer fruit that was cut off by the feather, "Wow, this fruit is so small."

"Battle Tree still uses canes to whip people?" Rosemary grabbed the "neck" of the giant flower with one hand, and rubbed the side of the belly with the other, "It hurts me to death... Damn it, a big piece of it was green!"

Xiao Yun's arm was also strangled by the rattan, and he walked up to look at the giant flower that Rosemary was holding, and reached out to pat the bud. The petals looked crisp and tender, but they felt like touching a tire: "Hi, Are you still pretending to be dead? Where is the energy to hate people just now? Come back alive, or burn you to sacrifice to the goblin!"

Baron who hid aside: "??"

"Are you talking to it?" Yu looked at Xiao Yun strangely and then at the buds of the battle tree.

Xiao Yun showed Yu the broken cane: "This is not an ordinary battle tree, it is the one we met before. Look, this place should be cut off by Ah Shan and me."

"The battle tree can run?!" Yu & Ah Shan & the soldiers were shocked.

"That's why I said this is not an ordinary battle tree." Xiao Yun was dissatisfied, "Come to Rosemary, take that flower bone to the fire and burn it. I'll see how long this guy will pretend to be dead."

Rosemary dragged the giant flower over in a daze, and obediently pressed the huge buds onto the fire...

"It's not burning like this. Remove the moss and add more firewood to make the fire bigger." Xiao Yun said.

Rosemary groaned, and the giant flower that was stuck around his neck suddenly struggled and almost missed her hug...

Yu hurriedly stretched out his hand to pinch the stalk of the giant flower, and backhanded the tip of the spear to the receptacle.

The giant flower became honest at once... Yu's spear was specially made, and he had already experienced the sharpness of the spear tip and did not want to experience it again.

"Is it really alive?" Yu exclaimed.

"Well, yes, this flower is indeed the body of the girl. No wonder I put the flower on a high place and closed it up to pretend not to recognize it." Xiao Yun smiled, no matter which way the "face" of the giant flower was facing, he lifted the rattan He gestured at it, "Listen well, now I'll give you a chance to show off and redeem your sins. If you do well, let you go, if you don't do well, you will be burned to sacrifice to the goblins, do you understand? Nod if you understand, and burn you if you don't understand." Sacrifice goblins."

The snow wolves looked innocent.

Baron came back from the side: "??"

rosemary:"……"

The giant flower seemed to shrink back a bit, aggrieved... placing flower buds left and right.

Xiao Yun picked up the rattan and squatted down to the vent of the goblin's burrow, and stretched out his claws to open the hole slightly: "Go in and grab the goblin inside, don't hurt the goblin, or you'll be burned."

Baron & Rosemary: "..."

The rattan of the giant flower is only as thick as a wrist, so it is not a problem to stretch it in. After a while, a strange goblin with a gray face and black face was dragged out...and stuck at the entrance of the cave .

"Can't you come out?" Xiao Yun got down on the ground and approached the terrified goblin, and used his fingers to spread his belly to observe the width of the cave entrance. "The cave wall is really too thick...Forget it, Baron!"

Baron ran forward and squatted down to negotiate with his fellow clan...

The nest of goblins who were smoked didn't intend to run away from other exits, but were busy moving soil to block the passage on the side of the vent, which was already blocked by half; Xiao Yun asked Baron to threaten them when they heard this, and there was a fight. The tree is here, they want to block it is not very capable~!Either come out to negotiate honestly, or wait to be smoked to death...

Threats and lures were used both ways, and this nest of goblins finally chose to obey... After all, if Xiao Yun pinched the giant flower's neck and forced the giant flower to stick all the vines in to cause trouble for them, they would have nothing to eat.

More than 60 goblins, big and small, tied their hands with thin vines, put them into the panniers of the snow wolf warriors and pulled them away. The battle tree for "meritorious service" was not picked up, and it was tied up like rice dumplings...

"Uh... Ah Yun, it has helped us anyway, how about letting it go?" Yu was a little impatient, "Besides, it has no fruit now..."

"If you think about it this way, Maomao, we only picked the fruit ten days ago, and a batch of it grew. If you take it back and plant it, wouldn't you have the hammer fruit to eat every few months?" Xiao Yun said with a smile. He patted the giant flower that was sluggish, lazy to close, and blooming like a piranha, "In exchange, we can provide it with a safe place to live, so it doesn't have to work so hard... It's a plant anyway, Weak, pitiful and helpless, we are doing a good deed."

Yu tilted his head and thought for a while: "Although I always feel that something is not right... well, I will take it back."

Xiao Yun said kindly to the giant fighting tree flower again: "Do you have any relatives, friends and neighbors who can run around like you? If you have any, take them with you along the way. You can also have multiple companions, otherwise you will be alone as a single flower." How lonely is it?"

Without saying a word, the giant flower slowly closed its petals.

Rosemary, who was sitting on Ah Shan's back, turned her head, twitched the corners of her mouth and said, "Really, Ah Yun, I always feel that you are a villain, and we are all your minions..."

"How did you talk?!"

Across the Inner Sea, Valentine.

Valentine is the first commercial city in the Kingdom of Cronin, and most of its food is purchased from outsiders. In the first half of the year, Countess Laura Phillip of Bolton Land sold half of the vermicelli purchased from the cursed land to Valen Man.

The export price of snow wolf vermicelli is six copper coins per catty. The transportation department of the Adventurer's Association in charge of transportation earns half a copper coin per catty for transportation, and Laura who resells it earns two and a half copper coins per catty. , In the hands of the new owner of Valentin, the retailer is dismantled, and the profit per catty is three to four copper coins... It can be said that every store on the line can make a profit.

The new castellan Valentine tried to buy vermicelli directly from the Snow Wolf Clan to save Countess Philip's transfer fee. Of course, Xiao Yun couldn't waste his disciple's money... But he would not reject the hand extended by the new castellan Valentine: We handed over vermicelli to the third disciple as the sole agent, we can still do non-staple food business like pork and rabbit meat~~!

Several large ships of goods were pulled to the port of Valentine. Isaac, the grassroots patriarch and others were busy for two days to unload the goods, and then received an invitation letter from the Lord Valentine.

For this business trip, Xiao Yun hopes to train his team, but it is impossible to designate 10,000+ catties of fresh pork and hundreds of thousands of catties of rabbit meat to be sold sporadically by his own team. The profit—especially the rabbit meat, cannot be consumed by Valentine's market alone, and must be transported to other cities in Cronin.

Cold storage in this world relies on ice cubes, and fresh meat can be stored for a while in winter. If you don't sell it quickly, it will rot in your hands.

Talked with Margaret, an official from the Ministry of Transportation, and sold several thousand catties of pork and [-] catties of rabbit meat to the Adventurers Association at a friendly price. Others have a meeting and talk about what to do next.

Isaac spread out his notepad and showed everyone the prices they investigated: "We visited a total of 36 markets in the Midtown and Lower Town of Valentine. The fish here is very cheap, only a few copper coins per catty .Other meats are more expensive. Since the beginning of winter, mutton has risen to [-] copper coins per catty, and beef is more expensive, one silver coin per catty. There is basically no beef in the downtown area, and occasionally there is very little mutton. The entire market has only fish Chickens, ducks, geese and other poultry are priced within the range of twelve copper coins to eighteen copper coins."

"The price of rabbit meat is not stable. The main reason is that our human race country does not have the concept of raising rabbits. We rely on sporadic capture of wild rabbits. Generally, the price of rabbits weighing one or two catties is within [-] to [-] copper coins, and the unit price is slightly more expensive than poultry. Our rabbits are bred intensively, with a thicker fat layer and a larger size. The human concept of meat is that the more fat the better, I think the unit price of [-] for wholesale and [-] for retail is more appropriate."

The grass-roots patriarch nodded. A few years ago, she also liked to eat fatty meat. After a few years of life, she is willing to eat more lean meat.Anyway, the rabbits raised in the Huoyan Department are fed with alfalfa bean dregs eaten by cattle, sheep and pigs. The cost is not high, and they can earn as much as they sell.

"Where's the pork?" The grassroots patriarch asked after marking down the price of the rabbit meat.

"There are very few places where pigs are concentrated in the countries of the human race. Pigs are generally kept at home by rural farmers, farm serfs, or small town residents. The serfs feed the farmer's pigs, and the pork that appears on the market when the farmer slaughters intensively It will be cheaper, about 25 copper coins a catty. The pigs of the town residents will be fed relatively cleanly, and the unit price will be around [-] copper coins." Isaac smiled bitterly, "For rural farmers who account for the majority of pig breeding... generally not Pigs are killed in winter because their families need to sleep next to the pigs to keep warm."

The grassroots patriarch, Harris and others nodded silently, they really didn't know this.

"In this case, the price of our pork should also be in the range of 25~22." The grassroots patriarch said, "Our pigs are all castrated and fed, which should be more expensive than uncastrated pork. Starting at 25 copper coins, how do you feel about selling them loosely for [-] copper coins?" (No matter how fat rabbit meat is, it cannot be fatter than pork, so it is not as expensive as pork.)

Isaac brought Alex to the meeting. Alex heard this and couldn't help whispering: "We're not going to open a raw meat retail store in the lower city. If you sell it by the catty, some residents in the lower city may not buy it." Get up."

"Tell me what you think, Alex." The grassroots patriarch raised his hand as a gesture of invitation.

Alex was a little nervous. He glanced at Isaac and said, "When I was young, I lived in the town. Our butchers would sell the meat in strips, each weighing two taels and five copper coins. Those who have no money will wait a while. I can buy it once, at least I can taste some meat."

"It's a good idea, and it saves you the trouble of weighing when selling loose." The grassroots patriarch nodded.

Isaac was very happy and looked at Alex with encouragement. Alex was encouraged, licked his lower lip, and continued: "If you want to let the world know the friendliness of the grassland race without losing money and making money... We can also boil pig bones into a big pot of thick soup and sell it to the residents of the lower city at the price of a few full spoonfuls of copper coins, and let them bring their own bowls or pots. We can save the time of washing dishes and recycling tableware. In this way The price is affordable for most people.”

"Good idea!" The grassroots patriarch patted his thigh and praised with a smile, "Pork bones can't be sold for much, and cooking broth can't waste much time. Alex, you are so smart!"

Just do it, the grassroots patriarch immediately took Isaac and Harris to Valentine's new city lord's mansion to discuss a big deal, and other snow wolf clan, snake clan and adventurers in Isaac's group organized them to send The returned female workers from monosodium glutamate factories and textile factories went to various places in the lower urban area to survey road sections, rented large or small shops facing the street, and prepared to open shops.