For An Jianyou, getting a divine crystal for free was just a small episode, which passed with a little happiness.
Mrs. An simply waved her hand and took care of today's shopping.
They have been away for two or three months and are preparing to return to Blue Star. Today is a day for them to take a vacation and to buy some specialties from the Broken Sea to bring back for their relatives and friends.
There are indeed many strange and unique specialties here, especially those from foreign ethnic groups.
"This one is for my dad, and this one is for my mentor."
"This one is for Ilohi, and this one is for the mentor."
"This one is for Instructor Black Blade, and this one is for the instructor."
"This one is for Yi Yue Luxi, and this one is for the instructor."
"This one is for Miss Yinling, and this one is for the instructor."
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After shopping for a whole day and filling the two storage rings on his index and middle fingers, An Jianyou finally stopped this shopping trip with a sense of unfulfilled desire.
At this time, it was already late at night, but Dayilun City was indeed a huge city, and the sky did not show the lateness of night.
There was a sky full of stars hanging overhead, and the light that came down was not as dazzling as the sunlight during the day, but it illuminated the entire city. The scenery seemed even more desolate than during the day, and there seemed to be more wealthy businessmen and nobles coming and going.
As the night deepens, District 10 becomes more lively.
Although today is a day off, An Jianyou has not forgotten her earliest goal - the research report.
She was completely free from thoughts while shopping, and didn't observe carefully, let alone spread her mind - spreading her mental power and mind to scan everywhere was a very taboo behavior. Although it couldn't see through things, it was just like a pair of eyes looking around randomly, but if she stared at a strong man with a bad temper, being beaten up would be the least of her worries.
Although An Jianyou is a legend and few people can detect her mind scan, she would not do such impolite behavior.
However, the memory and observation abilities of mythological beings themselves far exceed ordinary limits.
Even if she didn't pay much attention, when she started to recall, the scenes stored on the edge of her memory could be presented as detailed as a movie replay.
This is a combination of leisure and work.
However, when An Jianyou began to recall, he found something strange.
"It seems that the prices in Dayiluan City have gone up a bit?"
"Not all of them. The main ones that have increased are the strange weapons and potions, which have increased by about 30% compared to a month ago."
Such fluctuations are normal in some large oasis cities.
Depending on the frequency of caravan traffic, it is not uncommon for the price of some imported materials to fluctuate several times from one month to the next.
However, this is the chaotic city of Dayi. Supply and demand of all kinds have long been stable, and the prices here can be said to have been stable for hundreds or thousands of years. Let alone a 30% change, even a 10% change is not normal.
"Has there really been a change? We haven't been to many weapon stores."
Liuying scratched his head, his eyes filled with confusion.
They were only at the Inhuman and Commander levels, and their memories were much better than those of ordinary people, but not to the point where they could remember everything at a casual glance, not to mention, she didn't even pay attention.
Who cares about these when going out shopping?
"Um...I...I just wrote something down. The price has indeed increased."
Liuying was surprised when she saw Xu Yun speak weakly and take out a small notebook from her arms, which was filled with densely packed numbers.
When did you remember it?
Taking notes while shopping is too cool!
The remaining person, the burly Xiong Tianshuang, also spoke thoughtfully, "I just scanned some armor and strange weapons, so it seems that they are a little more expensive."
Firefly: “???”
It turns out you are all involved!
An Jianyou took over Xu Yun's notebook, which had been filled with information, and quickly scanned through it. "The prices of potions have increased the most. Well, to be more precise, the prices of recovery and combat potions have increased. The prices of cultivation potions like the Blood Snake Body Tempering Potions are about the same as before."
"The price of potions that have increased are not limited to high-level potions. White-grade stamina recovery potions, strength enhancement potions, etc., are also increasing, but the increase is slightly smaller... The profit margin of these low-level potions is very low, so why would the price change? It's strange."
An Jianyou fell into deep thought.
It's like there's an unknown undercurrent surging beneath the calm sea surface.
Could it be that the Great Miluan City is about to start a full-scale war with some overlord? There is no news!
Thinking of this, An Jianyou didn't have much energy to continue shopping, and hurried back to Oasis No. 3. This oasis has not been named by the mentor yet, but it is already the intelligence network center set up by Xinhuo in the Broken Sea, and data and information from all over the world are transmitted to it every moment.
These messages are big and small. The small ones are just the brief mission process submitted by some mercenaries when handing over the mission - this is the requirement of the Mission Guild and affects the mission evaluation.
For the mercenaries, it didn't take much effort. Those with good writing skills would write more, while those with poor writing skills would just pass it over in a few sentences. But for the Mission Guild, these subtle messages could be integrated into a lot of intelligence.
However, it is not an easy task to filter and summarize this fragmented and massive amount of information.
An Jianyou boasts that her brain works very fast after she was promoted to a myth, but she would go crazy if she had to process so much information. It would take at least a hundred An Jianyous.
Who is processing this information?
The information gathered in Oasis No. 3 has undergone preliminary processing. There is no spam, and various types of information are stored in different categories.
There are no computers in the strange world, but there are still crystals and strange devices to store information.
It was stored in the newly built underground databases under the magnificent tower. With An Jianyou's authority, she could enter and exit anywhere at will. After saying goodbye to Liuying and the others, she walked into the database, took the crystal stone that stored the information, scanned it with her mind, and put it back in place in a moment, then picked up the second crystal stone, and repeated it over and over again.
Her eyebrows gradually furrowed.
"No, it doesn't look like a full-scale war is about to break out in the Great Miran City."
If something big is about to happen in the Broken Sea, a superpower like the Hidden Killing Pavilion will definitely be able to know the news long in advance.
But the Mission Guild is not the Hidden Killing Pavilion after all. It has only been in operation for two and a half months and does not have the complicated relationships that the family behind the Hidden Killing Pavilion has built up over hundreds of years.
The guild has a wide coverage, but the depth is far from enough. Currently, it only cultivates "grassroots mercenaries". Those strong men who came from noble families and top wealthy families would not bother to mix in low-level circles such as mercenary circles and killer circles.
Therefore, the guild had almost no contact with the upper circles of the Broken Sea.
There is no way to know the secrets that are only circulated among the upper class.
but,
After An Jianyou read the intelligence from various places in the Broken Sea, she was surprised to find that "the prices of war materials in the Seven Star Alliance, Red Lotus Empire, Ancient Moon Dynasty...are also rising! The increase is about the same as that in Dayi Luan City."
"But it's impossible for the four major human overlords to fight each other, and it's also unlikely that they will go to war with alien life."
In the city of Dayiluan, the shops backing onto the Siren Palace and Fengling Island are all operating as normal.
There was no sign of nervousness.
So what exactly is causing the price increase?
An Jianyou's brows were furrowed. She was thinking hard, supporting her chin with one hand and waving an invisible hand with the other hand to capture the intelligence information and read it without interruption.
Suddenly, just like a fish breaking free from its restraints and jumping out of the sea, An Jianyou's eyes suddenly lit up, as if reflecting a gorgeous bright moon.
She came to a room where a large amount of old information was stored and found the secret that she had vaguely heard before.
——The historical roots of the Broken Sea, and the intermittent catastrophic outbreaks!
This kind of disaster frenzy was recorded in the Hidden Killing Pavilion, and it originated from the war of evil gods a long time ago. The war of gods at that time shattered several or dozens of large domains, and some of the remaining fragments evolved into the Broken Sea today, and some of the terrible power of the evil gods remained to this day.
Perhaps it was the intermittent eruption of the residual power of the evil god, or perhaps there were fewer evils on the sea surface, so more and more accumulated beneath the sea surface... The real reason was unknown, but it was known that in about a few hundred years, the Broken Sea would usher in a wave of disasters that would affect the entire region.
By then, countless evil spirits will emerge from beneath the sea, and their intensity will be ten or a hundred times stronger than the ordinary evil spirits attacking the city.
"So, the skyrocketing prices of war materials are probably caused by large forces purchasing them in large quantities?"
"The Overlords must have foreseen that the evil tide was coming!"
"I don't know how much time is left. If the evil tide comes, how will our organization cope?"
An Jianyou's pretty face became serious. She kept flipping through the relevant information from the past and suddenly stopped at a newer file.
The last evil wave was... 113 years ago.
Hmm, just over a hundred years?
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"The Broken Sea is about to usher in a terrifying evil tide that will affect the entire region?"
Panel - Apostle List, An Jianyou’s avatar is blinking.
Seeing the urgent message she sent back, Fang You also took it seriously and immediately asked Xiao Huan to retrieve the relevant intelligence information. After a comparison, he was 99% sure that a strange and evil craze was about to come!
Once you have a guess, and then look for clues based on the guess, confirmation will be close.
The only doubt is...
"In the past, the evil craze would only break out every two or three hundred years. How come this time it happened so quickly, only 113 years? Isn't it a billion times faster?"
"Xiao Huan doesn't know how to provoke~"
She was constantly searching the database, but if something didn't exist, it didn't exist, and she couldn't create information out of thin air.
Although he felt it was strange, Fang You was not overly worried.
This frenzy is very harmful, but the local dominant forces in the Broken Sea are the "tall guys" at the forefront. Even though he doesn't like the passive response strategies of those dominant forces, he can only choose to defend at this time.
Fortunately, our family is small and the only place that needs to be defended is Oasis No. 3.
Those offices and bases are actually located in big cities, so their safety is generally guaranteed. When the time comes, the guild will issue more tasks and call on mercenaries to resist the tide.
Apart from this, even if he wanted to do something, he couldn't do it.
His purpose is to ensure the safety of his family first, and then do things within his power.
"However, the remaining influence of the war between evil gods that took place a long, long time ago can cause such a big wave today. How powerful is that indescribable evil god?"
He is also someone who has seen the battle between evil gods.
However, this so-called seeing was, firstly, in the fragments of Xitina's memories, and secondly, the battle with the evil god that Xitina saw was also a reflection formed by the aftermath of countless large domains.
But even though he was so far away, he was still terrified by the terrifying power revealed in the picture.
Seven-awakening myth, eight-awakening demigod, ninth level, tenth level.
It seems that the tenth level is a god, but the evil god is above the gods.
Fang You shook his head and decided not to consider things that were too far away for the time being, otherwise it would only undermine his self-confidence.
He switched to Qianmian's perspective.
In the gloomy environment, he did not find Thousand Faces' figure. Instead, he saw many hideous and terrifying monsters, a scene of demons dancing wildly.
There are creatures with thousands of demonic eyes, humanoid aliens made of maggots, cockroach-type, octopus-type, and so on.
Although there are some native fantasy creatures in the strange world, such as the fish-human alien race with a huge fish head and dead fish eyes, whose aesthetics are very different from those of humans, they are countless times kinder in appearance compared to these minions of evil gods.
Being in this kind of environment, Qianmian must be under a lot of pressure.
It would be better to not bother Thousand Faces’ clone with the matters concerning the Broken Sea, and let him/her concentrate on dealing with the matters concerning the Bloody Emperor.
After two months of undercover work, Qianmian gained a lot.
He/she has now climbed to the top of the Scarlet Moon Camp and the Bloody Emperor Faction. He/she is a well-known strong man under the myth, and is also the big boss who is responsible for commanding the minions on a daily basis.
Of course, Qianmian can only command within a certain range and cannot violate the grand strategy set by the mythical being.
After being promoted to this position, he naturally learned a lot of secrets.
The Bloody Emperor's blockade was quite tight, and as time went on, more and more rituals were set up. Different from the rituals commonly used by the Oasis forces, the rituals set up by the minions could directly borrow the power of the indescribable evil god, and their power was much more terrifying.
Back then, the incarnation of a six-sense blood-bearded priest was able to set up a ceremony on Blue Star to refine tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of people.
The ritual materials are very simple, which shows how terrifying the evil god camp is.
With these horrific rituals, and at least four or five mythological figures and the demigod-level Blood Emperor in charge, that area can be described as a den of dragons and tigers.
Fang You gave up the idea of possessing Xiao Huanlang again.
“I wonder if he/she can pretend to be a minion of the evil god and be promoted after Thousand Faces is promoted to a myth. If so, he/she will be able to truly become a high-ranking member of the Red Moon camp.”
The information provided by Qianmian was written in the dialog box in the form of a message.
Not many words, but a lot of content.
In addition to numerous rituals, Qianmian also provided an important message.
It seemed that the Crimson Moon camp was about to have a war with a certain evil god camp. No, maybe it had already happened. Qianmian found out that dozens of tribes had been transferred to unknown places, and there was no way to know more.
Under the myth, no matter how outstanding one is, in the eyes of beings like the Bloody Emperor, he is just a tool.
"It's good to fight, it's wonderful to fight!"
As a pure human being, Fang You wished that the two evil god camps would go into an all-out war, and that the indescribable evil god would also get his brains beaten to pieces.
He will be happy no matter who wins or loses.
If both sides suffer losses, it will be double the pleasure.
After all, no matter how hard the fight goes, it is beneficial to oneself and not harmful. This is the happiness of the spectators.
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As undercurrents surged in the Broken Sea, the Falling Star Caverns and the Burning Mall became increasingly bustling.
Two months ago, this oasis was just the exclusive store of the Ranhuo Chamber of Commerce, but now, most of the shops have moved in, and many large chambers of commerce use it as a transit point for transactions.
Here, specialties from several major regions are gathered. Although the scale is far from comparable to Dayiluan City, it has its own unique features.
The Gilded Chamber of Commerce is a top chamber of commerce from the Eternal Frozen Realm.
The Eternal Frozen Domain produces many ice materials, which can be sold at dozens of times the price when transported to the outside world. However, not to mention the long journey, traveling to the outside world is extremely difficult. Even if you can reach other domains, it is difficult to contact the local oasis if you are unfamiliar with the place.
The Gilded Chamber of Commerce made an agreement with several top chambers of commerce to trade their respective specialties in the Burning Oasis. This way, they could avoid the danger of traveling long distances to unfamiliar areas and save time. With the powerful Burning Chamber of Commerce acting as the middleman, they didn't have to worry about being robbed by other pirates.
It’s a win-win-win situation!
This was also due to the previous auction. The various chambers of commerce thought that now that the trade routes had been opened up, they would make good use of it, so more and more chambers of commerce used this place as a place for trade notarization.
Naturally, the Burning Oasis developed rapidly.
But today, the leader of the Gilded Chamber of Commerce frowned, "Strange, it's been thirteen days since the agreed time, why haven't the people from the Daytime Chamber of Commerce arrived yet?"
Traveling across a large area involves uncertain risks, so it’s okay to be late for two or three days.
But more than ten days is a bit long.
Could they be in danger? But the Bairi Chamber of Commerce had taken this trade route at least twice before, so they were familiar with it, but they wouldn't run into any danger.
On the fourteenth day, the leader of the Gilded Caravan finally met the team from the Daytime Chamber of Commerce.
However, more than half of the daytime caravan that entered the oasis suffered casualties, and the carriages were covered in blood, looking extremely miserable after a bloody battle.
"What's going on?"
"The evil spirits are going berserk. The evil spirits in the wild have become extremely powerful. They are all...all rushing towards us!"
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