Chapter 23 Oysters
Gervis did not give up and began to observe the trees around him, but still found nothing.
"Oh my god, this can't be a scam! There's nothing here, even a gold coin should have been found by now!" Gervis became increasingly anxious. He had been searching for so long and still hadn't found anything. If there was something special, he should have found it long ago.
Gervis was extremely depressed and began to doubt whether this search function was reliable.
"Do I need to come at night? Forget it, I'll come back later and see if there is anything different!" Gervis was a little unwilling to give up after searching for a long time with nothing. He started to imagine it in his mind. After looking around carefully again, he was sure that there was really nothing new to discover, so he prepared to turn around and go back.
Gervis felt very disappointed, just like the long-awaited lottery. Before the draw, he fantasized about all the possibilities and how he would spend the money after winning. But when the prize was drawn, all his previous fantasies were crushed to pieces and he was ruthlessly brought back to reality.
Wow...
Gervis was full of anger, so he raised his foot and kicked the pebbles beneath him hard.
Huh?
Suddenly, Gervis' eyes lit up. A brown transparent stone suddenly rolled out from the stone that he had just kicked away. Gervis let out a light exclamation, immediately bent down to pick up the unique stone, and held it in front of his eyes to examine it carefully.
"Is this the amber before the elf worm appeared? Could the red dot represent this thing?" Gervis looked at the brown transparent stone in his hand and found that there was an elf worm-like creature in the middle of the stone. Although it was motionless, it was very lifelike.
Now Gervis dared to conclude that if this transparent amber stone was really the amber crystal that gave birth to the elf worm, then the thing shown by the red dot should be it!
"I'm rich!" Gervis was secretly delighted in his heart. If the search function could always find the elf worm amber, then he would definitely be rich.
Whether selling the Elf Bug Amber or waiting for the Elf Bug to be born and then signing a contract, it is a great joy. Especially if you can get a mutant type like the royal blue Elf Bug, you can sell it for 1,000 gold coins, which is equivalent to five years of tax revenue for Gandalf's territory. If you keep it yourself, you can train at least three title knights.
Gervis held the amber stone in his hand, and was excited just thinking about it. He looked around and made sure that nothing was missing, then he strode back in the direction he came from.
The people waiting on the roadside were a little worried when they saw that Gervis had not returned for a long time. They looked up in the direction of Gervis from time to time, but unfortunately Gervis' figure was blocked by the small tree and they could not see anything. Just when they were about to go forward to check, Gervis finally came out from behind the small tree. Seeing this, they breathed a sigh of relief.
"Sir, what you have in your hand is... is... elf insect amber?" But just when they breathed a sigh of relief, they suddenly found that Gervis was holding a brown transparent stone in his hand. They were a little bit unbelievable and shouted excitedly.
It's no wonder they lost their temper. In this world, the nobles spared no effort to search for the elf bugs, and offered huge rewards to those who could find the elf bugs. This also made everyone in this world sensitive to the elf bugs and the elf bug amber crystal.
"Haha! Yes, it's an elf worm amber crystal!" Gervis came back with a smile. He was very excited, so he didn't pay attention to the guards' inappropriate shouts. Picking up an elf worm amber is like winning the first prize in the lottery on Earth. Both the winner and the onlookers will be excited.
Besides, they didn’t know that they found it with the help of the golden finger. Instead, they thought they just went to the toilet and picked up a piece of elf insect amber.
An ordinary green elf worm, the cheapest one, starts at 50 gold coins, and if you sell it directly from amber stone, you can at least double that.
This meant that Gervis had picked up several million just by going to the toilet, which left the guards stunned.
"Sir, you must be shrouded in the glory of a knight!" After being stunned, several people came to their senses and took this opportunity to flatter Gervis.
In this world, except for the church, the nobles basically believe in and worship chivalry. The noble knights believe that as long as they can gain the recognition of chivalry between heaven and earth, the recognized person will be accompanied by good luck. For such a person, people will praise that person as someone who is shrouded in the glory of chivalry.
Only a knight surrounded by the glory of chivalry can be invincible and victorious, so many times, servants would often quote this sentence when patting the noble masters' horses, and the noble masters also liked to receive such compliments the most.
"Haha!" Gervis did not comment. He was happy to let these people metaphysicalize and believe that they were extremely lucky, so that he would not be at risk of exposing his golden finger, no matter what they said was to flatter him or they really believed it.
The amber stone is half the size of a fist. It would be very inconvenient to carry it directly on the body. Fortunately, Gervis took out the backpack in the saddle and put the elf insect amber crystal directly into it. Then he sealed the opening of the backpack tightly. After making sure that everything was correct, Gervis hung the backpack around his waist. This represents at least 100 gold coins. If he lost it, he would not even be able to cry.
Sitting on horseback, Gervis opened the panel. The radar circle on the left side of the panel had disappeared, and the search function button had also turned black at this moment because his only energy value had been used up.
"I hope this broken system will release the tasks soon. It's always keeping me hanging and making me jealous." After looking at the left side of the panel, Gervis glanced at the exchange mall on the right, praying eagerly in his heart.
Whether it is the search function or exchanging fruits in the mall, the effects are amazing. However, the conditions for issuing tasks by the golden finger seem to be random, and energy points can only be obtained by completing tasks. This makes him very uncomfortable, as if he is guarding a treasure mountain but cannot get it.
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The seaside mountain village is not far from Binhai Town. After walking and stopping for an hour, Gervis and his party finally arrived at the village. The village is built on the mountainside, facing the sea and backed by the mountain. To enter the village, you need to walk along a dirt road along the sea. Below the dirt road is a wide beach, which is about two or three kilometers long. At the end of the beach is a steep cliff.
When Gervis and his party just arrived at the entrance of the village, they found several children gathered together, busy around a pottery jar.
"Hey, kid, go call your village chief and tell him that Lord Gervis is here!" When they arrived in front of the children, the guards behind them immediately stepped forward and shouted loudly to the children.
"ah……"
Several children were busy around the clay pot, adding firewood and fanning the fire. When the guard shouted, they turned around and saw clearly how the guard and Gervis and his companions were dressed, especially the man tied up in the carriage behind them. So the children immediately scattered with strange cries, and although they were barefoot, they ran very fast.
"Bah, you little brats!" The guard was almost mad to death, but seeing that the kids had already run away, he could only say something awkward, and then turned back to say to Gervis: "Baron, please wait here for a moment. The road ahead is not easy to walk on. I will go find the village chief here."
"Go ahead, we'll wait for you here!" Gervis nodded. He saw that the roads around him were indeed difficult to walk on, as they were all narrow roads with steps. It would be better to let the guard go find the village chief and stay here himself.
"Okay, sir!" The guard took the order and left.
After the guards left, Gervis became curious about the pottery jar in front of him, so he jumped off his horse and walked to the pottery jar.
The pottery jar was placed on a simple stone rack, with a fire lit underneath. However, because no one added new firewood, the fire was about to go out. Only a small amount of charcoal that had not yet been extinguished was still emitting heat, and wisps of green smoke were drifting everywhere in the sea breeze.
Gervis found a small wooden stick that the children had placed on a stone. One end of the stick was still wet. It was obvious that the children had just used this stick to dig in the pottery jar.
Gervis stuck the small wooden stick into the pottery pot. As there was not much charcoal left and the boiling soup in the pot had subsided, Gervis lifted the wooden stick from the bottom of the pot and found that there were quite a few good things inside, including lobsters, crabs, oysters and some seafood that Gervis could not recognize.
Gervis didn't mind the heat, he fished out a shell that looked very similar to the oyster in his previous life, then put it in his mouth and started eating.
These kids must have cooked these seafood directly with seawater without adding any seasoning. Although the oysters did not have the garlic flavor and spicy taste like those in the barbecue restaurants in the previous life, they were authentic and juicy, with a unique taste.
Of course, Gervis didn't eat the children's food because he was greedy. He just wanted to confirm whether there was any difference between the oysters in this world and those on Earth. After eating them, Gervis found that there was basically no difference, both in texture and taste. The only difference was that the oysters in this world were much larger than the ones Gervis had seen on Earth.
"I greet my lord! Please don't blame me for not welcoming you the first time." Just as Gervis was smacking his lips, feeling unsatisfied, a panicked voice came from behind him.
Gervis turned his head and saw an old man with gray hair, who was kneeling on the ground, trembling.
The village chief couldn't help but be afraid, so he asked Gervis to wait for him at the entrance of the village. If Gervis, as the lord, was a mean and petty person, and got angry and wanted to deal with him, the guards next to him would not even blink an eye and would take action immediately. No matter whether the village chief lived or died, there would be no trouble.
Although no one informed Gervis of his arrival in advance, since it was Gervis's territory, all preferences were decided by the Lord Gervis.
"It's okay, get up! We won't be there long!"
To the village chief's surprise, Gervis seemed to be easy to talk to. Unlike other nobles, Gervis spoke in a gentle tone, not as condescending, stern and harsh as he had imagined.
"Thank you, Lord! What instructions do you have for me?" The village chief, whose hair was already gray, dared to stand up tremblingly, bent over and asked Gervis in a low voice.
"I'm here to inspect the territory today. Please call all the villagers who haven't gone to work here!" Gervis smacked his lips and looked at the steaming pottery jar. An idea suddenly came to him, but he didn't know if it was feasible. So he needed to ask the village chief to call more people. He would then have a clear idea after asking them himself.
"Okay, my lord, please wait a moment, I will call them right away!" After saying that, the village chief bowed deeply to Gervis, then ran quickly towards the village. He ran so fast that he didn't look like he could be blown down by a gust of wind.
Gervis was a little speechless. It turned out that the noble lord had his own weakening BUFF. As long as these serfs came in front of him, no matter how strong and agile they were, they would become trembling and weak.
(End of this chapter)
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