Wu Xiangwang came back to his senses and looked at the golden wheat fields in the distance with a serious expression.
He adjusted the color of his clothes, blended into the surrounding environment, and sat on a house, looking at the golden wheat fields in the distance.
These golden wheat fields are easy to find and are not located in particularly remote or hidden places. This means that if adventurers want to complete merchant quests, they can easily find these golden wheat fields.
Wu Xiangwang originally thought that the difficulty of the merchant mission might lie in finding energy wheat and successfully trading it.
But now that the energy wheat appeared in front of him so easily, what exactly was the difficulty of this task?
Wu Xiangwang thought so and looked at the golden wheat again.
“…”
At this time, when he looked at the golden wheat again, he felt a little displeased.
How to say it, these wheats look very much like normal plants on Earth, but when he became alert, he felt that these wheats looked a little fake no matter how he looked at them.
Wu Xiangwang let out a sigh of relief.
He still had to go to that place to verify whether his guess was correct.
If the difficulty of the merchant mission is not in finding the energy wheat and purchasing it, then... the problem with this mission may lie in the mission itself.
Just like this city, there are problems.
Wu Xiangwang pulled out a new cloak from the snail shell backpack. After thinking about it, he decided to transform himself into a butterfly beauty and cover his face with a scarf to be on the safe side.
This way, he looks like a female adventurer who doesn't want to show her face. As long as he acts a little cool, no weird humans or other adventurers should recognize him in the short term.
Even if someone specifically wanted to capture him and claim the bounty, it would still take some time to recognize him.
So, Wu Xiangwang quickly descended from the roof and walked on the streets of the city.
Because he had looked down from the sky, he chose the nearest road to the golden energy wheat field.
On the way, he met many people who were traveling with him, and he even saw Shang Chong and Wu Xingyun who were traveling together.
Wu Xiangwang paused for a moment and fell behind them.
Shang Chong was indeed Wu Xiangwang's best friend. When Wu Xiangwang caught up with him, he immediately turned his head and looked at him with some caution. However, when he met Wu Xiangwang's eyes and the veil and cloak that covered his face, he was stunned for just a few seconds before he suddenly realized something.
He immediately winked several times and conveyed the message to Wu Xingyun with his inexplicable eyes, and Wu Xingyun became happy.
Hey, the original trio team is back together again.
"Hey, beautiful sister, you are also going to that golden energy wheat field, right?" Shang Chong pretended not to know her and spoke.
Wu Xiangwang was very cold and didn't answer, but Shang Chong was very enthusiastic.
"We're going there too, along with these three compatriots. We're all going there. We want to see if the golden wheat fields over there are where we're going to do our merchant mission, and whether they're willing to sell us their golden wheat."
Wu Xiangwang nodded to show that he understood but still said nothing.
This time Shang Chong didn't say anything else. He had already told Wangwang everyone's purpose, and everyone would know the rest if they went and took a look together.
It would take about another twenty minutes to walk from their current location to the golden wheat field.
Wu Xiangwang followed behind these twenty or so adventurers with light steps, observing their changes clearly.
At the beginning, everyone was quite interested in introducing each other and telling each other the various news they knew about the strange world and their speculations about the City of Exile.
But after walking forward for about ten minutes, everyone who was still discussing fell silent, as if they had nothing to say to each other, or just didn't want to say anything anymore.
At this time, the mood of the twenty-plus people was much lower than before. Twenty minutes later, when they reached the edge of the golden wheat field and saw the guardian beside the wheat field, their mood became even worse.
Even though I have already thought that the energy wheat fields must be cultivated and guarded by someone, what on earth are these people?
Can you still call him a human being then?
Standing around the golden wheat field were at least hundreds of humans with obvious strange features on their bodies.
But the strange transformations of these nearly a hundred people were surprisingly... very similar. They all had grass growing on their bodies, and their skin had a dry and hard texture like plants.
"Fuck! Is this really turning into grass?! Even if they are weird, they are too similar, right?"
Shang Chong couldn't help but say something, and this sentence also expressed the thoughts of these people.
When nearly a hundred strange humans whose hair turned into dead grass, green weeds or vines looked at them expressionlessly, there really was a kind of silent weird feeling.
Wu Xiangwang also frowned.
He now began to wonder whether humans came to the City of Exile to exile themselves because their bodies had become weird, or... after arriving in the City of Exile, humans began to become weirder at an accelerated rate.
If they came here to die because their bodies had become strange, this consistent strangeness is too coincidental.
"Want to buy energy wheat?"
While everyone was still looking at this group of weird humans with a conflicted mood, suddenly, these nearly one hundred weird humans spoke at the same time and asked questions that made people feel creepy.
Obviously, this question should be easy to answer, and it is also the purpose of their coming here, but looking at the questions asked by this group of "people" who are neither human nor weird, no one answered their questions for a while.
"Want to buy energy wheat?"
Once again, these are likely questions asked by those who grow and guard the energy wheat.
When Wu Xiangwang looked at them, he felt that their expressions seemed... to have become more anxious than when he first asked.
Wu Xiangwang hadn't yet decided whether to answer when one of their fellow adventurers suddenly responded directly: "Buy. How? How much?"
After he finished speaking, he added, "I don't have many energy coins on me... If it costs too much, I won't buy it."
After he said this, Wu Xiangwang clearly felt that his tone seemed to be a little depressed.
However, Wu Xingyun turned his head abruptly and looked at the person who answered, with a somewhat horrified expression on his face.
He probably wanted to stop the man from answering the question, but he couldn't speak beforehand.
Then Wu Xiangwang saw that the nearly one hundred half-weird humans actually raised their mouth corners at the same time, and their lifeless expressions became excited.
"No money! No money!"
"Just go to the fields and cut as much as you need!"
"Yes, go cut it off yourself.
However, due to its unique variety, energy wheat releases some energy that is not very beneficial to the body and may stimulate the increase or outbreak of strange toxins in your body."
"So, it's up to you to choose."
"That's right. The choice is up to you. We were the ones who chose to harvest wheat before, and you can see what we are like now."
A half-weird man with dead grass growing in his hair grinned at everyone and said, "I needed 100 kilograms of energy wheat. But I only cut 30 kilograms of energy wheat and my hair has become what it is now."
"If I wait until I've harvested a hundred kilograms of energy wheat, I might just become completely weird."
"So I stopped. Although I really wanted to complete the mission and leave, completing the mission would make me unrecognizable! Then why would I do the mission? Wouldn't it be better to just wait here and die?!"
"You guys! Think carefully about whether you want to do this mission or not! If you do, you'll become a half-demon, half-human, half-ghost. If you don't, you won't be able to leave this city!
"I can't leave anyway, it's the same outcome! Why bother struggling? Wouldn't it be better to just lie down?"
"Anyway, most of the people in this city are people like us, so we're all the same and no one looks down on anyone else. Isn't that pretty good?"
The strange human with dry grass in his hair stared at Shang Chong and Wu Xiangwang while speaking, with a rather complicated smile on his face, waiting for their choice.
At this time, these human adventurers who were originally determined to complete the mission suddenly became anxious and indecisive.
Should I do the merchant mission or not?
This mission seems to have almost no obvious danger, but there is actually a huge pit inside.
Those golden-looking wheats can actually stimulate the outbreak of strange toxins in the human body. If they choose to harvest wheat, will the strange toxins in their bodies also...break out, and then they start to become strange?
If the merchant mission is so dangerous, it would be better to do the brave mission.
More than 20 human adventurers fell silent in front of this golden energy wheat, and then more than a dozen of them changed their expressions and turned around.
They never want to appear to be neither human nor weird.
So, let’s go and do the brave mission.
When the dozen or so people turned around, those weird humans all smiled in unison, which didn't look very nice.
That’s right, give up. If you keep giving up, you will become like us.
But their smiles didn't last long and became stiff in an instant.
Suddenly, a figure rushed directly into the golden energy wheat field. In his hand, he had an extremely sharp kitchen knife that he got from somewhere. Wherever he passed was like a gust of wind. With lightning speed, he chopped down a field of golden wheat in three seconds, and in three minutes he gathered the wheat ears into his arms and took them out, piling them into a golden hill.
Shang Chong: “…6666!”
The dozen or so adventurers who had already turned around and were about to leave: "????"
This slap in the face and the wheat harvesting came so fast, it was almost like a tornado?!
Wu Xiangwang: "Don't worry. As long as I'm fast enough, that kind of negative energy won't be able to catch up with me!"
"Even if it's affected, we can still harvest some and purify it quickly. It's not like we have to produce 100 kilograms of wheat in a day."
“This job is still doable!”
Other adventurers: “!!”
This job can actually be done this way!
A half-weird human with grass growing on his head: "..."
Isn't this how this job is done?!
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