Sword and Magic and Taxi

Let's do this, Mr. Not Human. You give me a thousand gold coins and I will guarantee you. Zhao Mai's vocabulary is not large and he can only use such simple sentences to express his meaning.

If compared with the overall profit that salt production can bring, one thousand gold coins is not enough to exchange for the secret recipe. If the hype is right, the big bag of salt Zhao Mai is carrying can be sold for so much money.

But people cannot be blinded by gold coins and become unable to see the true value of a thing. Filtering with densely woven fabric, adsorbing with charcoal, and then cooking. It only took Zhao Mai three minutes of reading time to learn these. How much is it worth? Moreover, Zhao Mai did not agree to exclusively authorize the dwarf to use it, but just sold a copy of this secret recipe. When the dwarf learns it and is ready to start production, maybe Zhao Mai has found ten other businessmen willing to pay the price.

In Zhao Mai's mind, the best way is to drive a taxi and sell a secret recipe in every village along the road. It doesn’t take much, just one or two hundred gold coins. If you meet a lord, sell it for five hundred. When everyone was so proud of themselves, Zhao Mai had already sold thousands of copies of the secret recipe. He can make super profits without even getting his hands dirty.

And in the end, everyone can afford salt, and even if the elf wants to settle the score with him, it will be too late.

Ranger Carl calculated in his mind and thought that one thousand gold coins was really not expensive. He lives a simple and self-sufficient life and is not sensitive to money. In other words, making money never takes up space in his mind. But this does not mean that he does not have the ability to distinguish right from wrong and make judgments. The request made by the dwarf has hurt his authority as the owner of this place, just like invading territory, but if this matter can be resolved with Mike's proposal, then he will respect Mike's idea.

But the dwarf didn't think so. He didn't have a thousand gold coins, and he was even less willing to pay for it. No, you can only leave here if you leave the secret recipe as a guarantee. There is no other way to choose.

Zhao Mai only understood the word no, while Karl took a step forward, shrank his left hand behind his back, and grabbed the hilt of the dagger on his waist. All the animals near the Ranger tree became alert and converged on the dwarf with fierce looks on their faces. Dogrou quietly began to circle behind the dwarf, while the python crawled on the branches. After arriving directly above the dwarf, it hung itself by its tail and began to slowly descend.

This is my territory, you cannot restrict his freedom. Ranger Carl warned the dwarf: You'd better get out of the way, lest this matter becomes unmanageable.

Wow, a fight is about to begin? Zhao Mai was more excited than anyone else, and stood beside Karl with all his might, defending his own interests with the same hatred. Unfortunately, the dwarf was not a fool. After rolling his eyes, he recognized the situation, turned sideways with a cold face, and got out of the way.

This is not good for Zhao Mai. He hoped that the dwarf could use his brains and start fighting if they disagreed, so that he could use the power of the ranger to solve this problem. Since you have chosen to be a robber, please stick to it. What does it mean to get out of the way? A career that was originally quite promising suddenly became hard to get up and down, hanging in the air with no real problems solved. How can I feel so unhappy?

Going into the forest now will inevitably face risks, and maybe the dwarf will not give up. But if he just turned around and dug into a tree hole with his reserve grain, Zhao Mai would feel too embarrassed. If you walk halfway but don't leave, isn't that just like a dwarf?

The road has been paved, and the bumps in the soil have been smoothed out. It is not like a man to be timid. Zhao Mai picked up the still noisy reserve grain from the ground, put it under his armpit, and then walked past the dwarf with his middle finger raised.

The dwarf seemed to turn a blind eye. He just flicked his fingers on the side of his legs a few times, and there seemed to be little flashes of light. Reserve bared his teeth at the dwarf and barked twice. Zhao Mai touched its head and comforted softly.

Don't worry, it's all within my expectations.

He swaggered into the woods and started to speed up. Although the copycat version of walking through the forest consumes some physical strength, it can indeed increase the movement speed. The short legs of a dwarf would definitely not be as convenient as running in the forest.

Zhao Mai ran while thinking about how to deal with it. From the brief contact, Zhao Mai has analyzed a lot of things. Without any armor, only wearing a light short shirt, and with no muscles on his body, this dwarf is most likely a spellcaster. If he uses a wand instead of a holy symbol, then both mages and warlocks are possible, 50% each. If he could know whether he had brought a magic book, then Zhao Mai could determine the dwarf's profession.

The entire race of dwarves is most likely to produce illusionists. Although this does not guarantee that the other party is definitely an illusionist, Zhao Mai also needs to be alert in his heart. There are many categories under illusion, including sensory hallucinations, psychic hallucinations, phantom hallucinations and shadow hallucinations. Sensory hallucinations affect the five senses, while psychic hallucinations project signals directly to the brain. The phantom hallucination is even deeper. By affecting the subconscious mind, the subject can brain the plot. Shadow illusion uses energy to create semi-real objects to simulate the feelings of the real world.

However, Phantom Illusion and Shadow Illusion are more complicated to cast and can only be mastered by more skilled casters. If the dwarf could cast a spell of this level, Zhao Mai would surrender immediately.

In fact, Zhao Mai didn't want to lose his life for a salt-making method. If the dwarf could fly and throw fireballs, he would have decided to surrender immediately and offer him the method of making salt. Maybe when the two people cordially communicated about the three-year plan for the salt industry, a new opportunity appeared?

But I think such a crisis will not happen. Although Zhao Mai has little practical experience, he is extremely familiar with various messy settings in fantasy worlds. So far, whether they are old rangers or half-orcs, their strength has been within Zhao Mai's expectations, and there have been no phenomena that he cannot explain. As long as this situation can be maintained, Zhao Mai will have the confidence to fight back.

First of all, you must choose an environment that you are familiar with, and then keep every plant and tree in mind to avoid being deceived by illusions. In fact, there are often loopholes in illusions, and you can always find them if you calm down and slowly, but there are rarely conditions for calming down. The best battlefield is actually next to a taxi, where you are absolutely safe. Unfortunately, it would take at least more than a day to get back to the lake, and he couldn't make it before dark.

Counting from the time he left, Ranger Carl could hold off the dwarf for at least two or three hours, and then the pursuit might begin. Before parting, the dwarf must have cast some kind of spell on himself to track him, so he couldn't place his hopes on his opponent not being able to find him.

The most suitable travel spell in the current environment is undoubtedly flight, which means switching to a false surrender tactic. If he believed that his luck would not be so bad and the dwarf could not fly, he would definitely summon a mount to help him on his way.

Horses can't run in the jungle, but riding dogs are fine, and the small size of dwarfs is just right for riding dogs. This has completely turned into a pursuit problem. A starts first and moves at a speed of XX; B moves in the same direction after it, and its speed is YY faster than A. Find out when the two will meet...

Zhao Mai calculated the results, and then it was time to find a place to arrange the battlefield.